First, the France telecom guys showed up (after their crazy SMS to me two days ago that they will come on the 9th of November at 00:00hrs!).
Turns out that the wire was disconnected in the circuit box outside my apartment. They attached it, and my Internet works! :)
The Second (and perhaps the biggest) piece of news was that my journal paper to the IEEE Transactions on Computers, which was under minor revision, has finally been accepted without any more changes. Now just a week more to upload all the files, and it will be done :).
Thirdly, I realized that neuf now allows free phone calls (using the VoIP phone that comes as part of my DSL plan) to INDIAN LANDLINES also!
Fourthly, I finally installed 64-bit Ubuntu Linux on my new desktop, (pre-assembly picture here) and can properly use its 4GB of RAM and 500GB Harddrive. And yes, portal is running well on it :). See screenshot below.
And the final good news came last night, when I realized that the free channels that come with my IPTV (again, part of my DSL plan), include Zee Music! Finally, auto-playing new bollywood video songs in the background :).
Life, in short, is good.
-A
P.S. Tonight is nuit blanche, and I will be meeting Barman and Dalal from my ITBHU days. More good times :)
Awesome! I love all of it.
ReplyDeleteHey Animesh!! Great to hear all is GREAT!!! I was just saying to Alex this a.m. - "We haven't seen Animesh in awhile now." Hey... and we're even neighbours now!! We'll have to get together sometime... Problem is for me that I work until the evening during the week and then I'm tired afterwards!! Maybe on a weekend?!!
ReplyDeleteHave fun tonight!!! Leese
Wow, never knew Ubuntu could run Steam :D
ReplyDelete@Justin: Thanks a lot to you for your tech guidance.
ReplyDelete@Leese: Definitely. How about meeting up on Sunday?
@David: yeah, and it is SUPER easy. Basically, install wine, install the proprietary windows fonts, and then just go to the steam website and click "download". Wine captures the .msi files and runs them automatically. It has been a very very painless experience.
And with 64 bit OS, I can fully use my 4GB of RAM and 512MB of Video RAM :)
ur system seems awesome! 4GB ram is super cool..
ReplyDelete@Khanna: Thanks. A picture of the raw material is at http://ap-pic.appspot.com/i/8001
ReplyDeleteThat's an overwhelming amount of good news. Congrats!
ReplyDeletehi dada, great post.
ReplyDeleteBy the way tried installing Portal on 32bit Ubuntu 8.10, everything installed like a charm.But the crosshair was not showing up, any ideas ?
@asl: Thanks
ReplyDelete@kunal: I am using 9.40 (Jaunty Jackalope). Send me an email with your h/w and s/w config. Also, try running it with your video settings set to lowest, and see if the crosshair becomes visible.
cheers,
-A
Nuit Blanche was fun but long ... and now I want my Sunday back!
ReplyDeleteYour post makes me say this - You seem to be KING OF GOOD TIMES :)...hahaha
ReplyDeletedalal and barman...sahi hai...
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