Well…

After my RAM had passed away a few weeks back, my 2 year OLD comapnion was left at snail’s pace, forced to do complex things with only half a GB of RAM.

Now, as if to give me another blow, my HDD butt-fcuked itself I wasn’t able to access my C: Drive, neither was I able to boot into WinDoze ( for the same reason ). Not only this, but my DVD Writer refused to open the tray with the Eject button ( No no Its not a Samsung Optical Drive that would give me Tray problems )

Both these things were ( and have been ) taken for replacement. So here I am left with Only a Cabinet, Mobo, Procc Monitor..

No HDD to Install an OS to, neither a CD Reader to run a Live CD.
Anyways, I had to stay 3 days without the Internet. But I coudn’t, any longer. I had to get online. So I borrowed a Samsung CD-Rom ( Yeh Yeh ) from a friend and plugged it onto my system. And thus, I could run Ubuntu Live CD. And thus, thanks to Ubuntu’s Live CD, I am able to atleast surf the internet, and logon on my Y! and MSN Accounts.

Although, since I have no HDD, I cannot save any files. Because of this, I won’t be able to update Accha?’s skin as I had originally intended, for the New year.

That’s it for now.

Till next time…

Ciao

//Update 2

Acchablog has been flooded with SPAM Comments. But thanks to Akismet, I can delete all with the click of a mouse.

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www.ubuntu.co.in - A site dedicated to help the folks in India who run Ubuntu and its variants..

Well, i came across the site back in the days when I was crazy about Orkut ( ) The guy who runs it has definitely put in a lot of efforts.

They recently have upgraded from SMF to vBulletin and Sanjay sure has taken pains to change the skin ( theme ) into something that resembles the Ubuntu Flavour..

Hats off to him..

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Dear Car Lovers,

A car-advt war in South Africa :

In South Africa there’s been an advertising war among the top end car
Marketers.
Make sure you open each attachment in sequence from first to last.

Look at the pictures in order!!!

01. BMW starts an advertisement
02. AUDI answers.
03. The Japanese want to say something as well.
04. The CEO of BENTLEY starts an advertisement to answer all the other
advertisements

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Well,

Just wisshing all of Acchablog’s readers a very Merry Christmas !

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I just noticed this on my replacement keyboard - Apple made a typo while making their keyboards?

read more | digg story

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Or or or…

So Dude, watcha doing this New year’s Eve, huh ?

or even

Hey, where’s ya butt gonna be this 31st ?

Sounds familiar ?

These probably ( or alike ) are the questions we probably ask ( or we are asked by ) our friends this time of the year. Everyone is excited about the year end, and everyone is hoping to have a blast on the NYE.

However, it sometimes gets really annoying finding out about the happening parties or the ones that suit you. Even if you do find out about a place, things like the entry price, what’s included, where exactly is it, etcetra are left aside.

Well, to make things easier, the folks at Burrp! have come up with a list of some of the happening parties in the town ( Unfortunately only Mumbai and Bangalore this year ).

Here, have a look.

New Year’s Parties Mumbai ( Live )

New Year’s Parties Bangalore ( Coming soon )

Burrp! which went live on 15th August, 2006 launching its Mumbai Portal, has been getting a great media coverage lately after they launched their second city portal recently, Bangalore Burrp.

Both the city portals now feature an enhanced UI with a lot of new exciting features. You _have_ to see it.

Here’s wishing them All the Best.

Ciao

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Well,

Finally its the time… The time where tension, books, annoyance, papers all come together. Yea, its examination time. Something that I hate deep throughout.

I mean, I am not against examination. But rather, I hate THEORY examinations. Like, whats the use. I know about a dozen students who just rattofy each and every word from the book for the exam and score like 90-95%. One even got 100% marks in a non-math subject. Like, WOAH.

But that’s about it. That’s where their “academic excellence” ends. ZERO understanding and ZER0 Practical knowledge. Like say, they’ll by heart each and every word from a certain chapter, but ask them to explain it and they’ll go “Errr…… Ummm…. Aaaaa…..: ( Moth%&^& 5)(*&$#$ )

Whereas, there are others ( like me ) who instead understand the point rather than just blatantly studying whats printed. We practically try things out. Hands-on experience !!! And whats the value of this ??? Not much…

Yea, practical marks don’t matter THAT much as much as theory marks… WHY ?
Thus, the students who know nothing about a particular subject, come out with “flying colors”…..

What’s the use ? Are these really the “brains” that India needs for tomorrow ? Are these who will build India 2020 ?

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MARKETING ACUMEN

A keen immigrant Indian Marwari lad applied for a salesman’s job at London’s premier downtown department store. In fact it was the biggest store in the world you could get anything there.

The boss asked him, “Have you ever been a salesman before?”

Yes, I was a salesman in Rajasthan”, said the lad. The boss liked the cut of him and said, “You can start tomorrow and I’ll come and see you.”

The day was long and arduous for the young man, but finally 5:00 pm came around. The boss duly fronted up and asked, “How many sales did you make today?”.

“One” said the young salesman. “Only one?” blurted the boss.

“Most of my staff make 20 or 30 sales a day How much was the sale worth??”

“Three hundred thousand, three hundred and thirty four pounds” said the young marwari.

“How did you manage that?” asked the flabbergasted boss.

“Well”, said the salesman “this man came in and I sold him a small fish hook, then a medium hook and finally a really large hook. Then I sold him a small fishing line, a medium one and a huge big one. I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast. I said he would probably need a boat, so I took him down to the boat department and sold him that twenty-foot schooner with the twin engines. Then he said his Volkswagen probably wouldn’t be able to pull it, so I took him to the car department and sold him the new Deluxe Cruiser”

The boss took two steps back and asked in astonishment, “You sold all that to a guy who came in for a fish hook!”

No” answered the salesman, “he came in to buy a box of Sanitary napkins for his wife and I said to him,” Your weekend’s screwed, you may as well go fishing.”

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Well,

The UNIX Syllabus in the college is on the Roll. They’re hell bent to finish it off ASAP not bothering whether the students are getting the know-how or not. ANd well, they couldn’t care less anyway. If you go ask them for a doubt, you get zapped back saying,

Now you go, you perform command, you see result and you come back to me and tell me the result.

Anyways, I’ve been following the UNIX Commands and I feel an urge to learn more and more of UNIX/Linux. I even updated Dapper Drake to Edgy Eft ( Not really a big thing, just letting ya’ll know )

I’ve been looking for The Official Ubuntu Book for quite a while now but the bookstores have no clue about it.

I hope I lay my hands on a Good Linux book soon.

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Well

Yea, that’s how long it is taking for my system to boot. I’m already .5 gig short off my RAM. And I think even the remaining .5 is about to DIE.

The system has become dead slow. Today when I started the system, i took 37 minutes to boot. It stuck at the loading XP screen. After that, I received the error saying Windows cannot find the locally stored profile. Then it said that Windows is loading a temporary profile and that changes made will not be saved ( ). I finally see my desktop. But hey wait, its not mine ( ). SHIT.!! Everything’s gone. All customizations are nowhere to be seen.

What could have gone wrong ?

/////Edit:

Update 1: If I try to start any installed software, everything is taking upwards of 300 seconds to show up. ( ) Add to that, all the softwares are behaving as if I’m running them for the first time

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