Published on
February 17, 2010 in
Tech.
I have my Ubuntu installed in Virtual Box. The very first thing that I needed to do was to setup my Ubuntu to recognize Windows drives. I setup two bash scripts to run at startup and shutdown. The following is what I have done.
anu@sw:/etc/init.d$ sudo vi vboxStartup
#!/bin/bash
# Mount the Win virtual drives - MyDocument, CShared, PidginWin
sudo mount -t vboxsf MyDocuments /mnt/MyDocuments
sudo mount -t vboxsf CShared /mnt/CShared
sudo mount -t vboxsf PidginWin /mnt/PidginWin
# Sync the files from PidginWin/logs to purple/logs
sudo rsync -azv /mnt/PidginWin/logs/ /home/anu/.purple/logs/
anu@sw:/etc/init.d$ sudo chmod +x vboxStartup
anu@sw:/etc/init.d$ sudo update-rc.d vboxStartup defaults
This way my ubuntu pidgin logs are in sync with my windows pidgin logs. Next, I also wanted my Windows pidgin logs to get sync with the Ubuntu pidgin logs whenever I log off. So I create yet another script
anu@sw:/etc/init.d$ sudo vi vboxShutdown
#!/bin/bash
echo "Anuvrat Shutdown Script -- vbox"
# Resync files from purple/logs/ to PidginWin/logs/
sudo rsync -azv /home/anu/.purple/logs/ /mnt/PidginWin/logs/
anu@sw:/etc/init.d$ sudo chmod +x vboxShutdown
anu@sw:/etc/init.d$ sudo update-rc.d vboxShutdown start 80 0 6 .
The funny thing though is that I haven’t yet tested it. I hope it works.
Oh crap! It did not run at startup. Need to check.
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Published on
February 13, 2010 in
Miscel.
This news surprised me just as much as the launch of Google Buzz. I have used Aardvark, and I cannot imagine why it interests Google. Vark has a completely different concept to that of Google Search.
The idea in both the case is to find an answer to a users query. Google uses its advanced crawling, indexing and fast searching technologies to quickly answer the search query typed by its user. Aardvark on the other hand believes that the best way to get a question answered is by putting it across to real people. See, completely different approach.
In Aardvark, you type in your question (it could be quite lengthy), give it a few tags (just like you would select keywords for a Google search) and submit it. The tags are used to find a suitable user to put the question to. When an user answers the question, you can revert back and engage him in a conversation getting more out of him. But obviously, there is a considerable time lag as you have to wait for someone to answer your query.
Here is a screen shot of a question I asked. I got back replies from three people. If I want, I can ask the Aardvark to get me more answers.And of course, it also has a GTalk bot that you could add and ask questions to.
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Published on
February 9, 2010 in
Miscel.
I am a man who values honesty and truthfulness above all else. But unfortunately, the world is made up of successful liars, and their foolish superiors who cannot see beyond the boot-licking, pig-shoving acts. And for this, I hate the latter more than the former.
I realized this only after getting into IIT. I was appalled at some of my friends behavior. A normal bragging would go about like this -
Yaar, I was sleeping in the first row of the class, assuming the the professor will not notice. And then in the end, just to make sure that the professor does not get any doubts, I asked him a few questions. And sadly, the same professor feels that I am a good student and has given me some extra work to do.
Who are you fooling? Everybody can see through your lies. It was always your intention to get the attention of the professor. You wouldn’t have dressed up neatly and sat in the first row if you wanted to hide in plain sight. If you tell me a story wherein you were jumping down the professors neck with your hands raised just to escape his attention, then please, go find a better listener. I am sick and tired of listening to such attention-seeking stories.
Else, do the right thing and actually owe up to your actions. Confidently declare that you truly wanted to get noticed and are pretty happy about it. Grow up. And the professors, please, a good Yes Man is not necessarily the best student.
And if you are reading this post, I hope you realized that IIT, professor and student are just metaphors.
If I ever go on to become a manager, these Yes Men shall live the hardest time of their lives. I shall eliminate them from my department even if it means removing the top best brains and settling with the second best. I am a stickler for my principles.
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Published on
February 8, 2010 in
Miscel.
Oh God!!
what this place has done to me ?
I don’t resemble me anymore.
lemme stay here a bit more,
I don’t wanna go anymore.
Looking through window 4 years back,
I was no-where in this huge human map,
what……………………..
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This is the place, where I lived on my own,
principles, rules, decisions all were my own.
what…………………………………..
I had the best and worst days of my life,
challenged the strongest and still I survive,
what…………………………………..
I’ll definitely forget the formulas and derivations,
but never my first sutta and daru party with friends.
what…………………………………..
untill unless I would have destroyed myslef,
I could have never explored myslef.
Oh God!!
what this place has done to me ?
I don’t resemble me anymore.
lemme stay here a bit more,
I don’t wanna go anymore.
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Regards,
Monish Salhotra
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Published on
February 3, 2010 in
Anu.
To what I have already desired in my previous Will, the one where I wrote about wanting to have A Tout Le Monde played for my funeral, I would like to make another addition.
I have always considered myself to be a student of science. I am an atheist, not influenced by any religion, and do not want my body to be either cremated, or buried. I would rather desire my body to be donated to some medical research institute. That way, even after my death, my body shall be made better use of than being reduced to ashes.
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PS: Both the posts that I have written as My Will, I have done so with utmost seriousness. Mentioning such desires under a formal name of Will makes me happy. I feel glad to have formed these thoughts into sequences of words. I shall keep adding stuffs to my Will. I just hope that if I don’t get a chance to formally document my Will, people take these pieces of electronic articles seriously enough.
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