Life

I don’t really understand whats wrong with my ability to remember people. I am not able to recollect names when I see people and end up in really embarrassing situations.

Situation 1

Last month when I was in my village. I went to a shop. I lived in that village for almost 4 years. Had a few friends there. I saw a person approximately of my age, approaching towards me. I suspected him as one of my friends. The face looked familiar but I couldn’t recollect his name. Even after trying my best, I couldn’t.

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Yesterday, a team for five (four people from administration and me) visited Dr. Reddy’s Labs in Hyderabad for a live demo of two security products Linkproof and DefensePro from Radware. DefensePro is a firewall kind of thing (for lay man) which protects your critical servers and Intranet from internal as well as external attacks. Linkproof is a load balancer for outbound as well as inbound traffic in case of multiple (<= 3) ISPs. Linkproof also manages traffic in case one of the ISP fails.

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We had three days with totally fluctuating internet. The fluctuation was almost like a sine wave. Nobody could really figure out what went wrong and where the problem was.

NOTE : This post is not just another ‘masalla’ post. I am writing down the actual experience I had.

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I got a chance to visit Bangalore last month. Actually Google announced a small meetup for all the GSoC students from India at its Bangalore office on July 28th. As I was returning to IIIT on July 25th, I thought of joining others in Bangalore on my way back. Canceled my reservation (Delhi -> Hyderabad) and re-booked a ticket for Bangalore and back to Hyderabad.

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Well, this is not really a want. This is my need. My room is damn hot these days. Why??? See the pics below.

Click the pics to have a clear look. I have these three machines which are continuously injecting heat in my 12×10 feet room. I can’t keep windows open to stop theft.

I am not sure if I’ll have a data center in my room by the time I’ll complete my b.tech.

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All this started after returning from dinner at around 8:00PM on August 19.

August 19 – 08:30PM – 10:30PM : Slept.

I woke up at 10:30PM and started browsing random stuff. Gave a finishing touch to GSoC project – IntelligentMirror and announced the release for testing.

August 19 – 10:30PM – 12:30PM : Browsing + Blogging + Browsing.

After that its time for some refreshments.

August 20 – 12:30PM – 02:00AM : Snacks + Toasts.

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My 200GB Seagate Sata has suddenly started making a lot of noise. I hope it is ok and won’t crash in the middle of something. Though I have taken backup of all important stuff, still its painful to restore everything in case of a crash.

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