Summer Holidays....the first month in review

1. Long time since i wrote my last post. It was during the exams and was more of a stress buster. That contained a lot of "I will do this , I will do that" kind of sentiment.

2. My project is getting my a$$ kicked. Kannan keeps handing me papers to read. It takes a week to get the background of the paper and why the damn paper was even written. I seriously question the wisdom of forcing incapable/uninterested people to do research :(


3.Arsenal Vs. Barcelona. Arsenal has a lot of money riding on this match. Victory here could be worth upto 30 million pounds to Arsenal (prize money for this year+participation in next years competition.) So guess they just cant afford to lose.Hope boro can land the UEFA cup.

4.I had mentioned in the previous post that i had managed to get a deal for a HP laptop. That deal got cancelled. I got something better :D
Dell inspiron 1705 Dual core processor 1.8 Ghz,1 GB RAM, 80 GB 7200 RPM SATA, Ge Force 7800GT with 256MB Video memory(dedicated mem no shitty turboCache), Sound blaster xi-fi,DVD writer,tv-tuner,17" tft widescreen with a refresh rate of 85 hz. This was all purchased for an indian equivalent of 57K.

I will get the laptop sometime in july. This is one gaming monster. It had a 3dMark 05 score of nearly 5000(5031 to be exact got 5879 with overclocking). To give you an idea of how good that is...A PC with the following config ....
AMD 2800+ (64 bit),512 MB ram,160 gb sata,radeon 9800 pro(not overclocked) has a score of 2100(This was rathi's PC when he had his 9800). It might seem like I am unnecessarily bragging. But i am excited to death to get such a laptop. I wonder how much the best pc's in CVIT would score?

5. I tried to sell my room PC to raise some cash. config is...
AMD 2800+(64 bit),512 mb ram,80 gb sata,17" monitor,16x DVD writer,tv-tuner,nvidia 5200 with 256 MB VRAM. plus the usual stuff.....Some person(i will not name him for his sake) wanted to buy this PC for 12K. Now, are people ignorant or are they just idiots? After seeing nobody was willing to offer even 20k i decided not to sell the pc. It will just be sent home. Getting such a PC for the price i was asking(25k) seems pretty reasonable. Dumb people.

6.Rooney broke his foot,Totti his ankle,Cafu his knee,Ronaldo doubtful,Owen unfit, Raul stupid, all the important people are screwed. World cup ki maa ki....

7.It's sooooooooooo humid this summer. This is baaaaaaaaaad. I have been in hyderbad for 15 years now and it has never been so humid in the summer.

8.Pramod Mahajan died. Sad. He was a good leader. I think the whole episode was stupid. He died, his brother will surely get life in prison or the death penalty. two lives wasted without reason.

9.My Heartfelt sympathies to the ECE people. They are getting some pretty bad grading. I know the faculty may read this part of the post someday but, Both the director and the guy who took the course(i think it's some ADC or DSP course) should get a kick on their a$$. The guy who took the course deserves a kick for doing such stupid grading and the director for not protecting the interests of his students by not fixing these dumb grades. Dean is a non-existant player(why should we pay for his salary if he is of no use?). Have no idea what is going on. Not giving A grades in a relative grading system is technically wrong. There must be a topper who must get an A grade. As apocalypse wrote in one of his posts the facluty doesn't follow any rules when it comes to grading. Very bad on the part of the faculty members.