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A Power-cut

Looks like I’m back again after a long break. The place where I’m currently in, there’re hardly any power-cuts, and very brief ones. But, today was different, it was just like that one which had taken place at around the same part of last semester. A black-out just before the Chemistry exam, and the next day just before the chem. exam a boy from our hall had committed suicide.
Anyway, this time the power-cut was during the day time so there isn’t any need for me to think of things like that happenning again.
Things are getting humid here. And, soon it’ll get a lot hotter too. Kanpur is known for it’s extreme temperatures during the summers and the winters. People have died.
This place is nothing like me home town Bangalore. It’s just paradise on it’s way to destruction (well, in a way). Bangalore’s geography if you notice is kind of unique. It’s located right in between the coastal cities of Chennai and Mangalore. We’re affected by climatic changes in both the seas. Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian sea on the west. And, more importantly, Bangalore is kind of situated at a higher altitude compared to the other cities in the southern country (apart hill stations of course). All in all temperatures do not vary as widely as it does in other inland-cities of this country.

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Windows and others…


The first operating system I ever laid my hands was fortunately or unfortunately Microsoft Windows.
I don’t understand why this was so. This was in my early days at school. No wait, it wasn’t windows… it was something else… I don’t recall its name… it was something like DOS I think… I wrote my first LOGO program there and then some BASIC. And, in my later stages some PASCAL. Then it was the end of non-Windows operating systems. Then it was Windows all along until I came to this place.
It opened my eyes to a whole new world of computers and operating systems. All this time I didn’t even know that the windows I had been using all this time was a pirated copy! It was time for me to experience GNU/Linux. We had this course called Elements of scientific computing 101. We were taught to compile and run simple Java programs with console commands like ‘javac’ and ‘java’.
We also had a dozen Sun systems running Solaris 6. At this time I still wasn’t aware of supposedly more powerful systems like FreeBSD. Ending todays entry with a screenshot.