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[Mar. 31st, 2003|08:33 pm] |
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| | Shringara (Kumaresh-Ganesh ) | ] |
The Python Software Foundation is asking for donations.I wonder if this is reflective of the state of a lot of open source companies.Sometime back a company called VA Linux systems was touted as the next big thing.Now there is very little heard about the company.I wonder if this is symtomatic of a greater malaise in the open source community.I am sure companies like SuSe and Red Hat are raking in the big bucks , but can anyone tell me how companies like Active State,Sleepycat software and O'reilly are doing?.
I am doing ok-just got back from a trip down memory lane. |
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| Remains of the day |
[Nov. 25th, 2002|09:19 pm] |
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| |  indescribable | ] |
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| | Various-(Tull, mostly) | ] |
From now on till I get really busy I am going to make this a daily activity ..come to think of it ..I am not really bound to keep updating this journal regularly, am I?.No I am not,but yes ..end of day everyday, its going to be;
Last week was a blur.If I thought I was finished with the "port" I couldnt have been more wrong."Ugly" is probably the best way to sum up the whole week.I even started doing my CV in order to look out for another job.There was no way I was going to work in a company like this.With CAT looming large on sunday, I wanted some time off,ended up working till the wee hours of morning on every single day of the week.Had asked for a day's leave on Friday,they made me come even on that day.Maybe if I said I was sick or something they wouldn't have minded,but I dont want to work in an organization that encourages you to lie.
CAT went off..well just went off, you know, like a bus that arrives when you are halfway throuh a ciggarette.I was , still am strangely disaffected by the whole process, a big change from the last time when my hands were shaking in nervousness an hour before the exam
Am really looking forward to this week,there should be a lot of time for reading and those kind of things ..have just started on a super book of detective stories ..am ashamed to count reading as one of my hobbies when I am reading my first G.K Chesterton at ripe old age of 22
Its my brother in law's birthday tmrw.Had planned to go along with the "I dont believe in birthday's attitude" , but lately that isnt going down well with family, so will be suitably bounc y and cheerful tmrw....
aah ..the end of the day ,23C, a bored conductor, bright neon lights , nearly empty roads , children sleeping blissfully in their mother's arms, the walk home ...
good night, peaceful day |
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| ho hum |
[Nov. 16th, 2002|10:07 am] |
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| | casey jones | ] |
Several things prevented me from coming here more often.Primarily a small green display at the bottom of my screen that for the past few days has been running at close to 100%.Today it runs at 15%, so here I am .Its been a really nice period ..these past few days, a lot done and a lot learnt.Worked close to twelve hours at a stretch yesterday to complete the port from solaris to NT..and its finally over."Management" finally got the message- NT sucks.The next port is onto Linux and I _just_cant_wait_.
Been here for six months now.I can now say things like "give me a buzz on my cell" and "we need to take a call on that" etc without flinching .I have come to enjoy the duplicity that is always there.I can aim correctly at the ash bowl from about a distance of ten feet.A lot of people here wont have anything to do with me, unless they can really help it.Most of the days I go home happy.There is going to be no keeping me away from a comp for a long long time.
I am on my way.
wills now comes in a slightly different packet.The fonts and the design have become slightly more refined.There is a hint of gold all over it.It tastes the same and costs just as much.There is even a small promo inside on the "new improved taste" and all that,in english.How many wills smokers read english?
There is no place like a temple at six on a foggy morning |
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| mid-day blues |
[Nov. 12th, 2002|02:06 pm] |
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| |  apathetic | ] |
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| | Ginny Come Lately | ] |
nothing,just like that..half the day is over.for all I know half my life might be over too.Is the other half worth going through,do I look forward to the rest of this?Why do I keep asking myself so many questions?
I choose to write this now at this time because today has been a typical day..one of those when you just "do" things.Once upon a time I had a life outside these things,these inane conversations,the glorified babudom called software developement.Or developmend,as it is called here.No,I am not kidding, the dir where we put all our codes is called "DEVELOPMEND".I can almost see that life now, in hazy shades, in the occasional mail.Sometime later,in the evening perhaps,they will be gone...uh oh ..this sounds too much like comfortably numb ..doesn't it?
could I be the next syd..sid barret?? |
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| ahem..mike testing 1..2..3 check |
[Nov. 11th, 2002|12:13 pm] |
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| | Din dhal jaye (my own version) | ] |
Hello world ..
I am in, finally.Thought for sometime on getting an account especially since most everyone on this seems to be dead passionate on it.Didnt want this to be a use and throw thing..The other thing being I dont really dig talking about myself , and I wondered how honest and complete this journal is going to be.Then I realized that none of that really matter,its just a great way to have fun ...so here I am..thanks to a certain 2fargon |
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[Mar. 8th, 2002|06:07 pm] |
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| |  pensive | ] |
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| | Sugar Magnolia | ] |
Hello,I must be one of those people who check other people's LJs twenty times more often than I check my own.The last post where I said I would everyday was..well written in a moment of inspiration.I cannot do that.I have my reasons.I have been ok ..a couple of months older.I discovered my first greys sometime back.Other than that my life goes on pretty much the same everyday..aah before I forget ..psasi, there is a concert in in chennai on the 22nd of March.U Srinivas and Michael Brookes are going to be playing along with a few other jazz musicians.It'll be nice if you can get here and bring the rest of the brigade along with you.If that doesnt interest you,maybe I shall throw in a trip to pondichery on bike for good measure too..what say?
why am I posting now ...because of this ..no I dont know how to provide links to the article and I dont want to learn either .and anyway most of you must be regular at slashdot..and must have read the torrent of comments on the SCO lawsuites against IBM over Unix/Linux patent infringements...take a look at ..those who havent.The whole thought of it is pretty disturbing.
saturday evening ..heres to those who shared the platform outside the cafti and those who came back from their outings with loads of camera print vcds.. |
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