Archive for the ‘Experience’ Category

This was the first time that I was staying away from my home for such a long time. For the mere purpose of garnishing my above quote, I would say that that was the first time that I would have been away from the city in which I was born and brought up. Indeed, Pune [...]

My last email as a PM

Posted: May 10, 2011 in Experience

DVSSS, expanded as Design and Verification of Secure Software Systems was indeed a memorable course which was successful in inculcating the security values in me and which gave a lifetime experience of being a Student Project Manager! Following is the mail that I had sent on the last day of the course, when we all [...]

This post contains detailed steps for installing and configuring Bugzilla Version: 3.2.5.1-2 Current releases do not follow the same traditional approach of configuring the files, they are altered. In the documentation presented below, I have highlighted the differences in the steps of installation and presented the steps for installing current versions of Bugzilla on Ubuntu [...]

References: http://digitizor.com/2010/06/28/how-to-use-tata-photon-plus-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/ http://linuxers.org/howto/how-set-tata-photon-huawei-ec1261-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx Special Thanks to Shweta Shinde, for sharing these useful links with me. This post does prove Abhijit sir’s statement: “If a company wants to sell its products, then it has to add support for Linux”.

An inspirational poem that our Director Sir used to recite at the assembly hall. Really its almost six years now, and “today” *  I understand the true essence of this poem. Missing school days, when everything used to be : JuSt FiNe. When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging [...]

2010′s Teachings

Posted: January 9, 2011 in Experience

2010 has been a year which will always stay vivid in my memories. A year which has shown me most of the colours of life.(and also true colours of others ) Happiness! Joys! Sorrows! Relationships! Dilemmas! Traumas! It has indeed taught me: – The excitement of riding a Honda Unicorn, – The joy of being [...]

Many a times it happens that we want to reduce the count of unread mails in Gmail, and whilst doing the same, seldom it happens that the Inbox shows that still there are some unread mails, and you are unable to spot them. Here’s  a simple and lame trick for it : In the search [...]

A box full of joy and excitement

Posted: September 22, 2010 in Experience

20th Aug, ’10: After a brief spell of illness, I had given my first aptitude test. 25th Aug, ’10:  Suddenly Swap calls me up and informs about, me getting shortlisted for interview. Then started the preparations. Nervousness, fear, joy, excitement started creeping in. 26th Aug, ’10: The day of interviews. Those 2 technical rounds followed [...]

After the summer lab course, the academic year commenced. Lab Administration,  Meetings, Preparations, CoFSUG Inaug, etc. were some of the events which gave loads of experience and taught different work genres. Following this, came a vacation of SWINE FLU ! Rumours & panics took grip and then home sweet home. In a short time the [...]

The Psychologists’ Stories.

Posted: December 22, 2009 in Experience

Recently happened to meet a psychologist from Mumbai. While having a talk with him, he told me following stories: Story 1: We all know the story of the hare and the tortoise. Just to have the blog post a complete article, I ll just recall the story in short. A very common start…… Once upon [...]