General conversation sitting on the KReSIT lawns turns towards aliens landing on planet Earth:
"If aliens land here, won't the laugh at us? Considering all those foolish depictions of aliens in Hollywood flicks"?
"Wonder if that's really true ... even they would have had similar concepts once upon a time ... woh …
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Life would have been so easy if there was no need to install Windoze on the machine! But can't do without it, since
some software is available only on the Windoze platform.
Had started out with a Debian unstable installation with properly planned out partitions and all that. Along comes …
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While the rest of the world goes into the terabyte age, I make a small move for myself ... shifting from a 20GB hard disk to a 40GB one. Tried out PGI aka
piggy, the cute little GUI installer for Debian. But it doesn't seem to have an option to use …
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The photos from the Visapur trek are up! (here) These were taken from Abhijit's digital camera ...
That was one nice trek - very easy to climb, so easy in fact that we spent a lot of time just roaming along the way, and of course, having a great time in the …
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Returned today from a general trip to Pune, that included a trek with the Veritas guys. Shantanu, Raghu, Ashish and I left for Pune on Friday evening in Raghu's car and returned today pre-lunch after a rather interesting stay for two days.
After a lot of indecisive discussion, we went …
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"Overheard" this in an email "conversation" in KReSIT, that I was dragged into, without consent.
I say bah to world peace! The sooner we screw up this planet the sooner we move out. Europa! here I come.
UPDATE: Raghu insists that I acknowledge him for that excellent(?) quote(??)
Interesting to …
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Consider a situation where two guys make a pact, that they will stop doing something that they normally enjoy doing. Now depending how this pact came about to be, one can't really know which one of them, or both, is actually joking about the whole thing.
So naturally, since they …
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