thoughts, articles, ideas of nikhil thomas james

I should have posted this last Sunday - August 10, to be precise. But I couldn’t. Anyway, I am doing it now, munching on a bar of chocolate. Actually two bars of Amul Almond Bar…

I had a lousy start to the day, as was expected by everyone at home. I had promised Mom that I will pay all the bills and buy some vegetables today. It was raining like hell outside - as if the rain Gods were punishing us for blaming them for the droughts this year. Whatever be the case, I had to go!

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Happy 61st Independence day to you all!!!

On this occassion our office was closed and not just that, our Boss Swapneel decided to treat us all for a movie… Bachna Ae Haseeno - here we come! Ketan, somehow finally got the tickets (stall) for the first-day-first-show. Just as we were about to enter the cinema hall, something really strange happened. Swapneel locked himself out of his car! Ok, nothing much funny about it coz the door locks of his TATA Indica tried to play fool today - after all it’s Independence Day!

About the movie - I won’t review it coz I think you can find it easily on any of the major sites on the net - it was an ok-ok kinda movie. Ranbir Kapoor was charming in the movie. Among the (three) ladies, Bipasha was the best. The overall movie was so-so. Watch it only if you have nothing else to do. That’s all about the movie.

Update : I stumbled upon this too : http://www.cricketnext.com/news/india-celebrate-independence-day-with-yuvraj-fireworks/33538-13-single.html

Hmmm…. the one-day series is starting. So a new way to waste our time…

Seen near a dhaba on the way to Sambra.

Update : On further enquiry, I found out that the ad was for a shop available on rent. There was no plot (or polt) for sale!!!

As previously mentioned on 17th, I went ahead and successfully installed Fedora 9 (Fedora release 9 Sulphur - as it is known as) on my machine. I still have my Windows XP on my C: partition (still vary of Linux!). May be I will fiddle with linux for some time and then decide whether to completely washout Windows. Any suggestions to aid my Linux experience will be appreciated.

The installation process was good. After selecting the desktop system as my system configuration, the packages started installing. 933 packages!!! I was like - OMG! those many? And I thought, only Windows Vista was a bloaty OS!

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After much fiddling and thinking, I have come to a ground breaking decision (for me, that is!!!).

I have been breaking my head over my system running Windows XP from quite sometime now. Even after setting up so much protection using the Big3 : Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Internet Security, my PC succumbed to a bunch of viruses and a dozen trojans and it finally crashed!

Then followed the famous procedure >> Format HDD >> Reinstall OS >> Update OS (Oh! SP3 is released) >> Find (or rather ‘Hunt’ would be the right term for a 7 year old machine like mine!) and Install Drivers >> Install the Big3 >> Update the Big3>> Restore Backups. Phew!!!

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