Thank You

A HUGE thanks to Rajesh and Om for all the help in getting my new machine - prtty much certain that I would not have been able to get such a nice machine or the deal that I got if it not was for these two !
(I do owe them a lot from the past 4.5 years , but that is a different story)
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Some corrections/additions to the specs ,
* It is actually a Audigy 2 card - my error.
* Creative inspire 5.1 speaker system.
It looks pretty sad the way it is placed now ... all bunched up on the table :-)

In other news , continuing to have a very hectic deadlines at work .... hopefully all that will abate from this weekend !
Can you believe that I still have not got time to install an OS on my box ?! The very thought would normally be sacrilegious !!

Build is done , back to testing my tls code people ....

New arrival

This is to announce a new arrival to my house.
Please welcome the latest member whose details are as given below :-)

Athlon X2 4200
Asus A8N premium
XFX 6800 XT 256MB
4GB RAM
Creative Audigy
Seagate 160 GB SATA
19" monitor , dvd writer , keybd , mouse , etc.
Also getting an 8 port Linksys switch (yep - for lan parties ;-) )
I will be getting possession of all this tommorrow ! ... busy week ahead :-D

Now to get hold of 64 bit ubuntu :-)

Comment wars and other things

I have seen quite a bit of flaming ... from newsgroups to mailing lists.
But the war through comments seems to have been taken to a new high at Scott Adam's blog.
It all started with a simple post here.
It pretty soon escalate into full blown flaming ... both sides shouting at him :-)
People getting all serious about it and missing the obvious and subtle puns in his posts.
The comment's are as entertaining as the post themselves (though a bit tedious to wade through the crappy ones).
Check this out btw , funny ;-)


In other news , got my stuff here finally !
Not getting enough time to use them though ... so my comp is in running condition with me not being able to use it much - same for the tv :-(

The speed at which things are becoming obselete is alarming now ... I got my comp about 3+ years back , and I had a decent graphics card (GeForce4 440MX 64 mb ram AGP 4.x) at the time I got it.
Got Black and White 2 this weekend and tried to run it , and rats - it needs pixel shader 1.x or so .... so no luck , cant play it :-(

Outdated in less than 4 years !
Thankfully , I can still play Quake4 - though barely : turn off all effects , shadows off ... and play at the bare minimum.
I guess this is just one more reason pushing me towards a new dual core comp ...

Singularity

A new OS in the works at Microsoft ? Check out Singularity.
Will be interesting to see where they take this effort.
Some of the ideas sound interesting - though past efforts (from what I know of) have not been very sucessful in implementing them efficiently (like software level isolation of processes , etc).

Not sure to what extent they want to take the notion of 'dependability' ... should be interesting to keep tabs on this project.

Hope it does not turn out to be a OS on C# for C# ;-) - I mean , pushing the language concepts and semantics into the OS layer ...