Swati pointed out to me – I have been avoiding coming to the office just because I am forced to work on a Winduhs machine.

Must agree that it is true and a bit childish. But on the flip side there is a lull in work and I am spending some time away from the computer which is not such a bad thing.

Not that I am doing anything productive am currently addicted to solving nonograms on my Palm (as in M505 😉 am also catching up with my sleep deficit and cricket… …

Ancient Greeks used sea sponges to pad their helmets and leg armor.

Most of yesterday was spent lazing around and building an Exo Toa for Aasim. There seems to be some problem with my site so cant upload the pictures 🙁 Today for lunch had gone to Tuli and had some fabulous sizzlers. Evening is planned with Swati’s mum making pani-puri, yum yum, slurp… On work front

The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.

Things that I most miss about my Linux Desktop (not in order) 1) Virtual desktops – I like to keep my apps organised with one category to one desktop, admin tools on desktop 1, browser desktop on desktop 2 and so on 2) Copy by selection and middle button paste 3) Clipboard history 4) KNewsTicker,

The frame buffer hack on of setting it to 8mb in BIOS for 845glly mobo does not really work too well. Have been unable to get more than 1024×768. Anitaliasing not working in KDE, Sound not playing Also the GRUB screen takes unduly long to come up… … So it is back to winduhs till

ESPN, a total sports network, made its debut on cable in 1979

Yesterday we managed to setup the cable internet for the network, though it is not as per the book it is working. I will have to read more about MASQ Vs NAT etc The speeds are between 6 to 8 Kb/sec which is pretty acceptable to me, the best part is no limits on bandwidth

Happy B’day Sweetheart No, No special plans really. No special gifts either. The one which I really have/will given will take till July to shape up! Guess – I will let her write about it.

May I, your majesty? You were the highest class ofyour time, and you still expect to get your waywithout any fuss. Who were you in your past life? brought to you by Quizilla Duh! No wonder I am feeling so frustrated stuck without my computer, Vinay fried his mobo so I had to surrender mine

Update

Yipee!!! We finally have Cable Internet, connects are not great BUT its there. Thanks to sidcarter, zoneee and shankarbalan for helping sort out the netmask issue on Linux, In the process we once again discovered that things on Linux work as they are expected to work and Winduhs setup are misleading

The three-toed sloth spends about 18 hours a day hanging upside down from a tree, asleep.

Too many things seem to be hanging midway for my comfort. Projects – Commercial and Non commercial waiting for feedback Aasim’s PC – Still not delivered after 2 days the MoBo I want is out of stock. Swati’s table – Vendor says there is no one to assemble it Cable Internet – The cable has