Any Answers?

Do you dream?

Do you have a dream?

Do you have someone as your idle?

What are your Goals?

Do you want to achieve something specific in life?

Where do you WANT to see yourself in say 1 year or say 3 years time?

Why are you in college?

What is the meaning of your existence?

Have you ever done something you dremt of, and felt as if on seventh heaven?

Have you made any positive difference in someone else’s life?

Would you be doing the same thing that you are doing now, if it were the last day of your life?

 

If you have answers to a large fraction of the above questions, then you are more or less on the right path?

But what, if you don’t. I don’t know. However the fact, that I too don’t have any answers, might make you feel better.

I have too much lives, flowing through my veins, going to waste.

Reflections

There’s nothing more frust than,

downloading and watching Indian Idol & Saregamapa

There’s nothing more frust than,

believing in someone else’s dream

There’s nothing more frust than,

not having your own dream

There’s nothing more frust than,

having to live with somebody, knowing that we both hate each other

There’s nothing more frust than,

going to US for PG’s because everyone else is doing so

There’s nothing more frust than,

doing a “job”, just because they pay

There’s nothing more frust than,

when someone asks who your idle in life is, and you go into while(1)

There’s nothing more frust than,

when you feel like quiting, but don’t have the guts to..

There’s nothing more frust than,

living, but just living.

 

But there’s certainly one thing thats not frust and that is

Staying hungry and Staying Foolish.

 

Current Song: You are Beautiful, By James Blunt. It seems the song will slowly immerse me in itself and turn me into free air.

Finally something’s right!

After a gloomy fortnight , which brought Google rejection and also the news that I won’t be allowed to sit in the campus to be held in December, things seem to have come back to track.

What man ek job nahin mila tu doosra mil jayega, kya load hain. And I am not going for apping right now. Peace hain.

But whats right?? Actually Kgp is a place where it seems to me that internet is the lifeline. To access this internet you are required to go through a proxy server. But when you don’t work on Windows at all then it becomes difficult to check the fastest proxy and change the firefox settings. Checking the proxy now and then and then actually changing the firefox settings requires a lot of clicks(read work).

Solution1: Put up a proxy changer extension in firefox. But this requires you to manually check the fastest proxy running. Also since I have a small monitor, putting up the extension takes up an extra row in firefox which I certainly hate. Also installing an extension might increase thememory consumption of firefox, which already tops the charts. So extension is out of bounds.

Solution2: I found a Script on KLUG(Kharagpur Linux Users Group) which could query a list of proxies to find the fastest one. So I extended this script to also change the firefox proxy to the fastest one. Done!. But it had a problem. Firefox had to restart ever time the proxy was changed. This causes a lot of trouble, since if you are reading something the firefox has to restart.

Solution3: Some one on Mutter suggested to run a local proxy server, have a consistent local proxy in firefox and change the settings of the local server when ever the proxies change. Cool! So I set up squid and configured it to talk to the institute proxy servers. The proxy in my firefox corresponds to the local squid server, and a cron job regularly checks the fastest proxy changing the squid settings, if the fastest proxy has changed. Thus only the background squid server has to be restarted and the firefox remains static. And I am done.

All Hail to the Penguin!

Sometimes you need to

sing this song:

Zaara naazar uthake dekho
Baithe hai hum yahi
Bekhabar mujhse kyon ho?
Itne boore bhi hum nahin

Zamane ki baaton mein uljho na
Hai yeh aasaan janana
Khud se jo agar tum poocho
Hai hum tumhare ke nahi
Teri aankhon ka jaadu
Poori duniya pe hai
Duniya ki iss bheed main
Sabse peeche hum khade

Mehfile aayi aur gayi
Log aaye aur gaye
Tum jo aaj aaye ho
Dil mein ho bas gaye

Muskurake baat taalo na
Phir miloge jo kahin
Dekhana yahi kahoge
Itne boore the hum nahi

Teri aankhon ka jaadu
poori duniya pe hai
Duniya ki is bheed mein
sabse peeche hum khade