Thought for the day

Read this just now and i think its worth a mention ....

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"

CAP_UNIX_PROGRAMMER

Hey all

Finally i got CAP_BLOG to write this entry. ;)( read this if u wanna understand the statement)
I am vey very tired today as i write this post but more importantly i am very happy as well for being so tired. Finally i am done with my project Combined Capabiltiy and RBAC.

The project was one of the best experiences(i m bluffing it was my first so ;) ) i have had all my life with regards to system programming in C. The project involved implementing RBAC on minix3 operating system. It took us more than a month to build this system, starting from design to implementation to fixing bugs, facing system crashes, machine hang and what not. We must have seen the term kernel panic and fs died for many times during this one month. And each time we saw it sent shivers down my and my partner's spine for we had lost considerable amount of work we had done in probably the last 4-5 hours or maybe even a day.

Though not complete and perfect in its truest sense we are proud to have got this far as well. We were done with 85% of the requirements before we went for the demo today afternoon. I became very nervous during the demo as the stakes were big bcoz dr.du gives huge importance to the salesmanship u put in ur presentation during the demo and being my first demo in grad school i knew i was going to suck at that part and i did. My fingers were trembling when i was writing on the keyboard, even did a lot of typos during the demo. We have a weeks time to complete the rest of the 15% but i don think with OOD final project lined up i can get back to RBAC in the next week or so. So i guess i shall have to be content with 85% though i certainly dont want to be and i regret that m forced into such a decision.

Ohh just now Dr.Fawcett has revoked CAP_BLOG from me :( so i guess i wont be blogging again for quite some days. At least till 8th may.

c ya all then

P.S. Finally i have decided that i qualify to be called as a unix programmer.
Vote of Thanks to Dr.Du,Karthick,Nishesh,Ravi,Gagan,Varun.


Shantanu

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Tub Full of Hot Water and a Bacardi bottle in your hands --Nothing beats it

Jus got out of the shower and i can say with confidence that it was the best bath i ever had. I had wanted to do this for quite some time and today i got the opportunity and the time and of course the enthusiasm and patience to wait for 15 minutes in my towel for the tub to get filled.

I was trying all the time to float in that hot water but as expected never succeeded. At one point i also felt the desire to have some toys in there and play with them like an aqua-man(yeah m still a boy).

Halfway through it i felt kinda thirsty and that was the best part because as i was getting into the towel it struck me that why not bacardi instead of plain old H2O. And i am glad i got that bottle as it was the best experience ever.

The bath left me so relaxed after so many days of stress(stress part isnt over,have 2 submissions ahead).

Everybody who has a tub in their bathroom should definitely try it out. I am sure it would be
one hell of an experience.

C ya soon,m going off for a long good night sleep.

Bacardi Boy

God please give me back college

C

Code
Coke
Chicken
Computer
Chocolate
Cocaine
Canon
Casio
CD
Cologne
Coffee

And someone said i don't "see" enough in life.

Update 2: My New Toys

Hello ppl

Recently i added another tinee tiny weapon to my arsenal though this one shoots damn fast and can capture u within seconds .No its not a gun but a Canon Powershot S2IS digicam ,had wanted one for a long time. Waited all thanxgiving deals to get a decent bargain but in vain and then finally i quit waiting on dec 4 and ordered this toy on amazon.com.For the tech-savvy readers here are the captures and its tech specs.Tech Specs

Product Features

• 5.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 13 x 17-inch prints
• 12x optical zoom; 1.8-inch vari-angle LCD display
• Records VGA film at 30 frames per second with stereo sound; includes wind filter and adjustable levels for sound
• MovieSnap feature allows you to capture a 5.0 MP still image while recording a movie; also features digital zoom and manual focus options for movies
• Powered by four AA-size batteries; stores images on SD memory cards

Technical Details

• Type of camera: Compact digital camera with built-in flash and 12x Optical / 4x Digital / 48x Combined Zoom
• Image capture device: 5.0-megapixel, 1/2.5-inch type Charge Coupled Device (CCD)
• Total pixels: Approximately 5.3 megapixels
• Effective pixels: Approximately 5.0 megapixels
• Lens focal length: 6.0-72.0mm, f2.7-3.5 (35mm film equivalent: 36-432mm)
• Digital zoom: 4x
• Focusing range: Normal: 1.6 feet/50 centimeters to infinity (wide), 3.0 feet/90 centimeters to infinity (telephoto); macro: 3.9 inches to 1.6 feet/10 to 50 centimeters; super macro: 0 to 3.9 inches/0 to 10 centimeters; TTL sutofocus (continuous/single)
• Optical viewfinder: 0.33-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD
• LCD monitor: 1.8-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD with variable-angle function
• LCD pixels: Approximately 115,000 pixels
• LCD coverage: 100%
• Maximum aperture: f2.7 (wide) to f3.5 (telephoto)
• Shutter speed: 15 seconds to 1/3200 second; slow shutter speed of 15 to 1.3 seconds is only available in select modes
• Sensitivity: AUTO, ISO 50/100/200/400 equivalent
• White balance control: Auto, pre-set (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Flash), custom flash
• Built-in flash: Operation modes: Auto, Red-Eye Reduction ON/OFF
• Flash range: Normal: 2.3 to 17.1 feet/0.7 to 5.2 meters (wide), 2.3 to 13.1 feet/0.7 to 4.0 meters (telephoto); macro: 1.0 feet to 2.3 feet/0.3 to 0.7 meters (when sensitivity is set to ISO 100 equivalent)
• Shooting modes: Auto; creative zone: P, Av, Tv, M, C; image zone: Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Special Scene (Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Indoor, Night Snapshot), Stitch Assist, Movie, My Colors
• Photo effects: Off, Vivid, Neutral, Low Sharpening, Sepia, Black and White, Custom
• Language display: 21 display languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, simplified/traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish

And here are some pics i clicked with this cam in Washington DC

WHITE HOUSE

Believe me its damn small for a president house and that too president of USA or may be thats what the illusion is but it seems to be really small.

Some Ducks at THE MALL

Washington Monument
Winter Blooms

Nice na ?

Ciao for now