GRUBing ;)

I was thinking about configuring my Ubuntu machine to a “build” machine for a long time ;).Since my new found ( old actually ) companion is C language, i thought i should go the gcc way of doing things ;)

When i came to my native for a 3 day break , i ran into trouble first of all. I had to re-install, better to say INSTALL my XP machine once again ( reminds me of the phrase “Ohh No..Not again!!!” ) as it was infected with viruses of God-knows-what types..After doing that i came across another issue, which ofcourse is as simple as am typing now.Hehe

Problem/Context:

I had a dual boot PC with Ubuntu 8.04 and Mecashaaft XP.

The MBR was written with GRUB.

Now when i reinstalled XP , the boot loader was re-written with the XP one.

I wanted my old GRUB to be the bootloader .. ( As i am used to it u see :P )

Solution:

Thinking about the solution to this problem.. I knew i had already made a post regarding this in my blog ( Yes i have done this before ). So what i needed was a Live-CD to login to Net. Yes, you saw it/ read it right . LIVE CD TO LOGIN TO NET.

I had my copy of Granular Linux with me ( zillion thanksssss to Justin , He gave me that. I owe you man) and with no hesitation i popped in my Granular. Seriously that is one gem of a distro.

And once the Granular was up, i merrily opened the Firefox and logged into the ISP account. Then searching through the older posts, i found the much needed post.Also a google gave me a genuine result. I would better explain the steps once again.

Step 1 : Open a Terminal/ Console window.

Step 2 : Type in “sudo grub” [Note: Super user mode is necessary].

Step 3 : Once you are in the grub ,Enter find /boot/grub/stage1 . This would yield an output,

similar to “root (hd?,?) “ . This is where your GRUB would get installed.

Step 4 : Now enter “setup (hd0)”

Step 5 : Quit.

Thats it... Now you have your GRUB instead of the Win XP bootloader as well your existing Linux distro would become accesible.

More about the build venture in the next entry. Happy Linuxing. :)

HUMANS

It’s been 2 months since I have blogged. Now am back home for yet another holiday, I think I should take this opportunity to scribble down something.

This Xmas holiday, I believe would be the turning point in my life. This one year which would pass of in another week’s time has been a memorable year in my life with so many downs I should say.

I always used to say “HUMANS” with a variety of meanings according to the situation. I have seen may people in this life span of 22 years. (well exclude the first 6-7 years) . Many have influenced my life a lot. Like my mom , my grandma , dad and some close friends. But this last year has been remarkable in my life with people coming in and going out of my life so easily. Sadly all of them were my good friends. If one had her own problems, ways of solving things another had attitude issue. Another…it continues.

All these incidents have one way or other disturbed me a lot. Infact affected my peace of mind like anything. They were not ready to listen to me as they had their points to be made. Well I was helpless. During all these mayhem what was so helpful was the support from my mom. No one would be as perfect a patient listener than she (All moms are like that ). And also concentrating on work gave me enough pressure that I dint get time to think about any other issues.

I hope by god’s grace everything would get well in the coming year and hope it would bring me peace of mind and most importantly success in my activities.

Merry Christmas.

Bumpy Ride......

It was a bumpy ride from HYD to Bangalore as the infamous highways was full of gutters, humps etc etc making the word infamous apt: P. …..The time was 6:50 in the morning when I woke up from the sleep, well , I should say being throw up the berth of the sleeper coach bus in which we were traveling.hehe.

I’ve always people complaining about bus routes ruining there journey especially as they wake up after a night long ride to find that they can’t go @least to the stinky Railway urinal. But on that day I joined the club as I was desperately trying to hold all such emotions: D..Around 10 AM we reached the Hebbal flyover. I was supposed to join my friend who would be staying @ a place called Marthahalli. So we boarded the bus which would take us to Marthahalli and seriously the walk to the bus stop with that entire luggage….it was horrible.

Upon reaching there, we were given a sumptuous lunch and that lamb fry was superb. We kept some of our luggage there and left the place to his friend’s place. That night we went to a multiplex nearby for a film, Taare Zameen Par , the directorial debut of Aamir Khan.Am not stretching this much like a diary instead I’d quote some events that occurred during this first 10 months of my stay in Bangalore. Well one thing I should say keeping in mind the heterosexuals you find in HYD, the ones here in Bangalore are not that harmful. May be I haven’t had the experience but then as far as I have seen them , they seemed to be OK. I often find them near the Madiwala Ayyapa temple and I know one of there route too hehe... Starting from Madiwala temple till Forum. There are many things in Bangalore that have amazed me, but till now I’ve been careful not to visit any pub ;). Drinking is injurious to health you see. Also in Forum an attraction for me is the Landmark and their collection of books.

I’m staying @ the right place keeping my conveyance to my office in mind. 14 KM by bus and I reach office quite early. I should say unlike people who does the calculation and make it 9.5, I have an average of 10 – 11 per week. Of course not the entire time am productive but 90% of it.
One more important thing is the changes that have happened to my life. I made numerous new friends during this short time and also some of my college friends are here also. I admit that I wasn’t able to keep in touch with ALL of them and on the RIGHT time as some others could do, but I don’t repent.

Many good as well as bad things have happened in my life and thank God for everything .Seriously speaking I enjoy my work. Also the technology which I’m working always thrills me. So I try myself to be as focused as I can and this is my sincere request to all my colleagues. I shouldn’t conclude this epilogue with out a mention of my MS. So far so good and I look forward to finish it off neat and clean J . Let the life be prosperous for you my reader as well for me the writer. J . Enjoy MaadiJ.

Last days in Hyderabad

Its been a "long" time since i have come to Hyderabad. The city has been nice to me, with the people speaking some strange language s far as am concerned, but it gave me its surprises in the form of "hijadas". I had this one of a kind experience with this people .I was on my way to office one day , and 2 hijus came upto me. I gave them some 20 Rs and hurried from the spot before something "unexpected" happened.



The city is so nice, nicer than Bangalore i would say. It has all the facilities, be it transportation or electricity. The city serves its people well. But the only disheartening thing are the kids. Even a 7 old child starts his early days of cycling on a bike and they end up crashing in the roads.I pity them and their parents.





I got the wonderful opptnty to visit some highlights of HYD like iMax, Ramoji Film City, NTR Gardens,Birla Mandir and also have wonderful Hyderabadi Biriyanis from good hotels like the Paradise in Secunderabad.Next week by this time,il be packing my bags for my journey to Bangalore or in the office attending one of those last sessions in Wipro Tech , Manikonda.

Definitely the last 3 months had been so memorable in my life that it would remain in my heart forever.



Thank you hyderabad.

NIITians always..........

Last week i got a mail from my dear friend Justin, informing me about the much awaited departure to Bangalore to join the NIIT centre there and continue the 3rd semester of GNIIT.It is indeed a happy news for me also because I would have been a part of that if i hadn't joined Wipro Technologies now. Iam also happy to understand that all my batch mates are moving to Bangalore with Justin and if am lucky enough, my posting location would be Bangalore and I would be able to meet them there.

All the best to all my mates...

Finally......

One and a half month is indeed a lonnnng gap. As i see, my last post was on 13th of September,just 3 days before i left my home for a journey which i would like to call it an EPIC one , as it is THE important jounrney in my life. Yes, i left home to join WIPRO, where i would be working as a Student-Computer Applications along with pursuing an MS from BITS ,Pilani. What am into is a Work-integrated MS programme at the end of which i would get a full time MS degree from BITS.

[Well there are some conditions which i dont want to even think about . Hehe.]

I reached Hyderabad on 18th of September.That was an overnight journey from Banglore where i had to stay for a day and a half to do some bank procedures. On reaching hyderabad, renjith picked me up and dad and I do feel extremely lucky to stay with Renjith , as he is someone who i know.In other cases , its really difficult to find a good accomodation.

So i joined the office on Sept 21st. The next monday, Sept 24th, officially it all started with the FRp training. FRP is a 10 day training program where we were taugtht C and Data Structures (advanced level one can say). After that there was a test. The cut off was 70% , but for us it was made 60.( i do believe its because of the small strenght our batch is having).

It was an unfortunate day that i could clear the test in the first attempt. So we had to attend one week of mentoring classes for the same . Seriously our faculty Mr.Mohan is an EXCELLENT teacher. Hes send here from NIIT. ( The standard always shows naa???? ).During his one week of mentoring, i revised what all i had to. But the feel of not clearing th test was still haunting me.But as always i changed. And one week later, i wrote the retest and cleared the test with 76%(which i personally feel isnt that good :( ). Meanwhile , we had our BU Induction as well as CRP (Corporate Readiness Program). We had some excellent sessions handled by Mr. Reddy , Mr.Sai Diwakar, Ms Pragya etc etc. So once i cleared the test, i was on cloud 9. I couldnt express my happines. But amidst that happiness, was there the sorrow of one of my close friend not making it in the 2nd attempt also. But i do see her scoring good marks in the coming TRP.

Now after a break of 2 days, our TRP started today with C++. Talking about my domain, its called Telecoms Product Engineering and my stream is Systems Programming in Windows. Lets see how it goes as i would be learning quite a lot of new things like MFC,Win32SDK Programming etc etc. In this one month i went out for shopping twice to a place they call BF (BrandFactory) where one would get branded products with offers worth it.And yes , for a movie last week (Bhool Bhulaiyya).

Well to conclude, i didnt get this much time to sit infront of a system and update my blog. Sorry for that. My present location has been shifted from my palacial shack in Trivandrum to a place called Toli Chowki in Hyderabad. But IM HAPPY. Everyday i pray to God that let my next four years be as good as it can be and hope nothing worse/disasterous happens to my life.

YeYE.!!

Granular Wows!!

I guess the screen shots speaks more than the words