DISQUS

S · 2 years ago

Wowww !! The first one to comment.. at last :))
Nice one !

Arun · 2 years ago

that was hilarious :D
esp. the bit about Unix maestros and fingers :) LOL

AAA · 2 years ago

blink blink

Estranged · 2 years ago

Though I graduated in 2003 from NITC, can relate to everything you said! I too hope to make my peace with Unix someday!

Sayon M · 2 years ago

some good things that you can do with unix ...just go to commandline and type
"who am i"(just in case you are in a identity crisis), it will give ur name...thats kinda cool

anyways great blog, me being a avid unix user/lover loved it a lot.. some great highlights of the blog

"...cancer stick"
"Why were there backslashes everywhere? Why was vi editor such a cold-hearted bitch? ..." -- it seemed that backslashes backlashed on you

>Sayon M

Gourav · 2 years ago

"Can someone just finger me right now" :D ... So I guess now u r gonna try to replace XP with Vista?? :)

SEV · 2 years ago

Now set up Compiz Fusion/Beryl as well.

I'm just being evil :)

Harish Kumar N · 2 years ago

Extremely hilarious. Yeah, it's true that these Unix/Linux people enjoy the 'power of command line' and extremely-long-keyboard-shortcuts. I too, at one point, was such a person. Then the truth dawned on me.
Ubuntu is comparatively better but you have to do a lot downloads to get even some of the basic softwares.

Sajiv · 2 years ago

Even I have got Ubuntu and Win Xp as dual boot, faced the same issue with my Sify broadband connection.

Dunno which ISP you are using, in may case I connected in Win XP and restarted in Ubuntu.

It worked !!!

The pain is that every time I have to login to Windows get connected and restart, but its better than having no connection.

Bullshee · 2 years ago

Hilarious and humourous harangue on Houston! Hurray!

I Had to give it a go! :D

Ravi · 2 years ago

Nice one. Really hilarious. I too have put up a story on Linux and open source here. Do visit:
http://it-evolution.blogspot.com/
http://it-evolution.blogspot.com/

TMaYaD · 2 years ago

ROFLOL,
Nice one, though I might be one of those GNU/Linux geeks. My PC is dual boot as well, though it has Gentoo Linux(primary OS) and Mac OSX(just for the heck of it). and I use BSNL data one without a hick up. hint: Configure the modem to auto connect; doesn't hurt if you have unlimited plan or you have to switch it on and off on your powersupply as required instead of using connect and disconnect on your lapi. :P

wifi is a hell though. But ultimately I got it running (and then forgot how)
sound is a cinch, if thats the word I'm looking for :) if you get the net working first.

Do ping me if you need any help. Would be glad to pay back for your regular dose of comedy.

veejnas · 2 years ago

"The threat loomed large that I would have to give GRE and then do an MS and PhD because I couldn’t get a job."

Very true. I am one of those losers.

Gammafunction · 2 years ago

Awesome post! Took me back to those 'preparation for recruitment' days,even B-grade colleges dont care abt Infy,TCS,wipro these days..... Tanenbaum is actually a great(funny-one of the few readable ) book and the port-finger thing!! LMAO!!! :)

Chetna · 2 years ago

I so relate to this FatCat!!! Just picked up the MacBook and now have a dual OS on it....chuck the hi-funda hassles you've been facing..i just die swinging the cursor from right to left coz the minimizing and closing options are on opposite ends in both systems!!! talk about being different for the heck of it!! my poor lil cursor is gonna pop out of the screen, ell its guts out and refuse to budge however much i might move the mouse!!

Krishna · 2 years ago

Reliving the old days... During my days in NITT, a Linux User Group (LUGT) was started, and there were mass fingering sessions on new moon nights and human sacrifices on full moon nights (I remained away from them, conservative me)

Recently, recommended by a friend I installed ubuntu 'edgy' on my laptop.. It pushed me over the edge.. By the time I got the wifi working, I felt morbid... like i have lost all happiness in my life and am still not fully recovered (my laptop neither)...

Good for you that you bore it afterall. maybe i should try fiesty and throw a party...

Ajith · 2 years ago

After college, I havnt gone near this linux installation thing..Even though , its great as a learning OS, it makes things really difficult if u want to do some practical work from it..Unless ofcourse if u know the nitty-gritty and 'fingering' issues :)

Ajith

Sandeep · 2 years ago

Rule #1 - never use ppoe . Get the ethernet thinggy for your DSL modem, set ur username and password in the web-based configuration itself and be in internet nirvana (call up ur DSL support dudes, they'll help you do this. If Airtel, actually tell them ur using linux and want to put ur modem in ethernet/lan mode)

Question - kobolds?? World of Warcraft or Dungeons and Dragons by any chance

Priya · 2 years ago

4 yrs at NITT, I never set foot in the Unix Lab at Octa.. never. So good for you, that you tried. :-)

sameera · 2 years ago

really good stuff
i dont want to bother going back and commenting nd citing bits nd pieces but u basically rock!

ubuntu · 3 months ago

I have found out what I belive the source of the bug. Something happened to the rp-pppoe.so module in the latest versions, as seen in Dapper (and btw in ArchLinux), so that now NIC names are specified without any kind of prefix in /etc/ppp/peers/ files.
That is, if my network interface is defined as nic-tap0 in Breezy's /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file, I have to edit it by hand in Dapper to read tap0. The problem is that pppoeconf generates the nic- prefix.

sidin · 3 months ago

Thanks Abdul. Since then I've moved to an iMac which worked
immediately out of the box. It was awesome indeed. Still mighty
surprised you took the trouble of leaving a comment. Gracias.