Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Little Core dump - 1

* I like the LPG buses that ply in the campus here [as most know, any such cheap transport is invariably called a "Tam-Tam" or "Tuk-Tuk", here it's the former]. They are pretty quiet and don't seem to be polluting the hell out of our lungs. At 3 bucks from src to dest, good.

* We were treated to an impromptu singing performance by some random "aaji" in the bus today. It was her first time on such a bus and she broke into song about that and how the driver was going past hillocks and spiced with commentary on his speeds. From her words (marathi verse, so I could comprehend), it seemed spontaneous, so that was quite mini/major-spectacular.

* Academic office comps have Linux on them. So does the PC in the security office at KReSIT (on which he plays a variety of simple PC games). I hope they find the interfaces good. Not sure if they had operated Windows before and whether there was resistance to the move.

[BTW, if you don't know what a "core dump" is, read the Wikipedia entry. I don't use the term in the usual symptom-of-error/frustration sense. "core" essentially refers to when computer memory was essentially magnetic cores, so this is more of a "memory dump" to blogpage (sad funda alert flag goes up)]

1 Comments:

Blogger Solzaire said...

3 is too much considering it used to be 2 :)
security guys are stud at dangerous dave and mario so i suppose they have novel netware. i have seen windows there too unless this is a brand new move to linux.

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