Manish’s Scribble Board

So finally have reached Hyderabad on Thursday itself, joining is on 2nd of June- Monday. Microsoft has arranged a guest house for our stay for the next 15 days. Am speechless at the facilities provided here- AC, Plasma TV, wi-fi, Fridge etc.

Our office is too far off from this place. Firstly we have to walk 2 kms from guest house to get to the nearest bus stand, from where Gachibowli is more than 10 kms. Bus service is too cheap at this place. Yesterday we went to central mall, where we watched Chronicals of Narnia- Prince Caspain at PVR. Did a lot of shopping and returned back late at night.

At present am relaxing at the guest house, (mis)using the wi-fi connection at the most. Only sleeping eating and TV is out routine. Who knows what is in store of us from Monday?

Check out some pics Here

Dont have much to say, after all its a scribble board! Me leaving for Hyderabad today 27th May for the Internship which starts next week, 2nd of June. I will be reaching there on 29th morning at Secundrabad which is quite near to my destination.

My journey has a break at Bangalore, means I will be boarding bus to Bangalore which reaches at morning tomorrow and then again train from B’lore to Hyderabad. Train (Rajdhani Exp. ) departs B’lore at 8PM and reaches its stop at 7 morning next day. The people to Microsoft will arrange for 15 days of accommodation at their guest house after which we have to arrange for ourselves.

I have fixed my laptop completely from all the problems except that the partition’s (sda9) file system (jfs) on which I installed “Hardy Stable” is giving a lot of problems. I hint some problems with the file system itself. The XSever hangs and I have no other option other than a hard-reboot. Next time, the Xserver fails to start and drops me to shell. Problem doesnt end here, whatever I try to do is blocked since / is mounted read-only.

P.S: Exams finished yesterday, nothing left to comment as it was completely messed up. Lab grades out, am satisfied except below expectation in one of the three.

I dont know how much people would be able to understand this comic strip, but hope those with knowledge of linux may find it quite easy. Just stumbled across it while surfing, I want to say only one Line, XKCD Rocks!

If you still cant guess what it meant, have a look at this link, then compare it with the above strip.

Have Fun

Finally I received my Shipit CD of Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, am running a Beta version of this OS presently and the only word which I can say is that “It Rocks”!! This is the first time Bluetooth is working out of the box without any configurations, no Wireless Network Detection still

The Gnome 2.22 version is quite satisfying as first time I got a thumbnail preview while selecting files.
I hope to install the final stable release sooner I get time, I even hope to install Fedora 9 in the other partition to replace Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty which is running horribly after I had played a lot and experimented. I think I first need to reinstall my windows system before trying out with these two.
We have our second paper on Monday- Financial Management, say Best of Luck to me, I need it badly.

And Yeah, Mrinal is now an MIT Ubuntu Ambassador, if you dont believe, check out this pic. Rock was the first person to achieve this status. Check Here

After a long wait, finally campus placements starts off with TCS first to enter this mighty campus.

Its a three day programme, one day written test, one and a half day interviews and then results. I never saw people preparing more seriously than this event, not even for the semester papers. Aptitude,English and Maths were the three sections for the written test and interview covered Technical, HR and MR rounds. Some people faced only the first two and managed to escape the third.

Short approximate statistics reveal the following (as published by placement dept). Total students eligible for the written test were 720 which included people like me who registered but didnt give the exam. Out of this 470 people got shortlisted, who faced interviews today. Just heard that some 60 HR people came from TCS to interview which included technical and non-technical members. Students of Computer Science and Electronics were the main target and they took rigorous rounds asking deep questions about DBMS, Web Technology and other unexpected stuff.

The HR round consisted of two common questions- “Tell me about yourself” and “Why you want to work for TCS?“. Guess these two questions are not so simple, even simple looking questions become tough sometimes. I just hope that they select some 300 students out of this huge number of 470.

P.S: Sorry for my bad english, am half asleep now