... but a giant leap for the man involved!
Done with the pre-synopsis seminar today. After a little less than five years and a half, the PhD is in its final lap now. Four months to submit the thesis, and then I get to change the title before my name!
It's …
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After spending a tense 2-3 hours trying to track down a segmentation fault, here's what I found. The explanation is subtle and obscure enough to be documented in every text book that ever claims to teach "proper" C/C++ programming practices! Maybe they already do that, and I didn't happen …
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If you receive an email claiming to be from HDFC bank, be careful. I just received an email that asked me to click on a link. The image below is a screenshot of the email as it appears in thunderbird.
Note that in the screenshot, the text "Netbanking Log-in …
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I thought I liked XKCD for its wittiness. I think I still do. But here's something that managed to pull back some of the pretty dressing from XKCD :)
http://plover.net/~bonds/asdf.html
As always, the last word is in the tooltip! :))
PS: I have no idea what "meretricious …
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I got a reply from ICICI ... imagine the warm fuzzy feeling I experienced to know that they "regret the inconvenience" caused to me! The email I sent got submitted twice ... so waiting for a second dose of that warm fuzzy feeling.
Note to fellow ICICI sufferers: If you file a …
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Here's a follow up to the previous post. Just one correction: the HDFC Bank website works quite well with Firefox ... it's the HDFC Securities website that sucks. Here's a reply to the reply from ICICI over my complaint:
I had filed a service request regarding the complaint tracking system, which …
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I had been ranting about how the HDFC website sucks, for actually asking you to use IE and not working with any other web browser. But recently discovered that even the ICICI bank website suffers from this stupidity. Lodged a complaint with them, which I intend as an open letter …
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