Tag: Milestones

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Life

Campus placement, cracked!

This valentine I did not find love, but I found my first job offer with L&T Infotech.

After a week-long process of clearing 4 rounds viz. written, GD, technical interview, and HR interview, I am happy to find myself amongst the 16 selected students out of 360 who sat for this campus placement drive. I would like to congratulate all of my fellow-mates who’ve got through this test. For others, I wish them luck for the future.

While there’s a lot of time before I’d even be able to take this job, this small success has certainly taken off some. Right at this moment, I can visualize a quote,

“If you think you can, you can. But if you think you can’t, you’re right! “

I am probably going to Hyderabad to attend Sun Microsystem‘s 3-day International conference!  Know more about it here. I am also excited to see my friends in the city. More, later!

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Tech

Switched to Linux!

Just moved to Linux. After several ups and downs, hassles and solutions, problems and fixes, I finally have Ubuntu as the default option on the Grub boot loader.

It was an all day workout for setting up the box, differentiating between Debian and Red hat based packages (.deb and .rpm), understanding apt-get, et al.

Updating the sources.list file repeatedly to get the latest packages is a bit tiring. May be I started off with wrong initial steps, but then, it was a fun experience overall.

I have finally managed to  connect to internet  using my ADSL modem and BSNL’s broadband connection over my Linux machine. I have successfully installed xmms {equivalent to winamp for windows!} and VLC player for GNU/Linux.

I also ordered for the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. If you feel like trying, you may order or download it from here.

Will keep posting my experience of using Linux with time. Ta!

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Life

Goodbye 2006!

Today is the last day of an eventful year. This year saw many happenings which shall never happen again! It was full of joys and sorrows, just like every year since I was born. It made me an year older, a more experienced person by an year. But more importantly, this year saw me as a blogger. But as it is said, growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!

Its already noon and I had been working on a technical paper since yesterday night. Today shall be a busy day with parties and people around, so I thought to complete my work before stepping out of my home!

Yesterday was fun as I went for some shopping with friends. The way the market and streets at Lajpat Nagar were mobbed reminded me of the old Sunday market at Shaktinagar! heh 😉 I got few sweat shirts for myself. Search for a jacket or a coat is still on. I hope something pleases me soon!

I pray that the year 2007 brings happiness, joy and prosperity for one and all.

The next post shall be in the following year, so till then, happy reading and blogging!

Goodbye 2006! 🙂
Welcome 2007! 😉