Mera Windows Shaheed hogaya

Refer the blog below......grrrrrrr..........

7 times I had to switch Linux Versions....Ubuntu Edgy, Mac (attempted, not a Linux),Ubuntu Edgy (again !)...Ubuntu Edgy (yet again , the previous one had developed some malfunction), Sabayon (could not configure the network settings), Ubuntu Edgy (yet yet again, my pet Linux), Ubuntu Fiesty, Ubuntu Edgy (by now can install edgy with eyes closed :p).......and enfin all this had a toll on my beloved Windows :( ......
.....trying to get my Windows back...........

My recent ordeals with Linux.....(and my penchance for getting tortured anyways)

Of Open Source, unearthly commands and Idiot Friendly OSs (read Windows)

Being a Windows user since the Jurassic age, it is that uncomfortable feeling one gets out of using other OSs that drive people like me away from them, Computer Geeks seem to love those billions of Linux and Unix variants.....seem to be one for each letter of the English alphabet...Ubuntu, Gentoo, Knoppix, BSD, Fedora, Red Hat Linux, Mandriva, Vlos, Sabayon, Slax, Lg3d, Kororaa.......You pick a letter mate and I will tell you the name of the OS......

So drawing HUUUUUUUGE inspiration from Ananya Pareek (my wingmate from the Electrical Engineering Deptt whose sole aim in life i guess is to keep on installing Linuxes and playing the guitar; it is rumoured that he once installed 10 in 3 days; all he seems to be doing is changing his OS, not using them but changing them; anyways that's a metter for some other post for some other day) and from CSEwala obsession with Linux ( strictly in that order) I decided to give it a try myself, so off went my HP recovery partition (only way i could allocate space) and in came Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 ( It is considered impolite not to mention all the versions and the numbers :P)....with Beryl.......and trust me it looked awesome....Beryl I mean looked just fabulous...all Linux look drop dead gorgeous for that matter... the beauty for idiots like me end here (except that they may have real nice sounds...Sabayon for example)....then there is this dreaded thing called the console, terminal..with its oh so lengthy and those fizzler commands (look at an example HERE) that make you realise that apart from the dog, Google is man's best friend....trust me if you got a problem in Linux, i mean any kind of problem trust me someone has encountered it earlier, and someone else has solved it :P......
.....True and being open source and free ( my friend ordered 50 Ubuntu CDs and got them free of charge !!) Linux is definitely the future, its because when you have a problem you fix it yourself because you know the code, you dont have to be dependent upon anyones service center for that matter, and because it s modifiable by the user it is best suited for their use by definition ......
....As for me i write this blog out of my frustration, for the nth time the grub has acted stargely....just after copying some linux files in ubuntu and shutting down proerly, ubuntu does not boot properly, what's more neither does windows.....that is being too lenient...it just goes POOF just before coming to the login screen (...encountered a similar problem while installing Mac OS X 10.4.7 (as again a different story for a different date..)........so there i went again (and as before) installed Ubuntu all over again, looked plain this time ( no beryl )...then went on to Sabayon...now thinking to switch back to Ubuntu..(couldn't configure the network settings in Sabayon :P)..Ubuntu is much simpler...
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I would like to quote Varun in the end
"Linux is user friendly not Idiot friendly..."

I would like to quote myself
"I am an idiot" (all kinds of pun intended)

Of Wardens, the Queen's English, and Irony all over.....

Below is an actual sequence of mails exchanged between me the three wardens and the rest of the HEC, HEC for the uninitiated is the Hall Executive Committee the body of elected students in a hostel which govern it, with ofcourse due "advice" from the wardens......
The backgroud : A HEC Meeting wanted soon.

My First Mail:

Respected Sirs,
we would like to have a HEC meeting with you and the new HEC so that it may be easy for them to dispense their duties for the next term.Please let me know your availability for 6pm on Friday the 18th.

Thanking you

Afroz Mohiuddin

--
We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.



The next mail came as shock for some one with "..over 35 yrs of experience in the professional industry..."

The Warden's mail (all details leading to the discovery of his identity have been curtailed form the mail;lest he be passed of as a man from some Dharm Satsang Sabha with a blind faith luck, charms etc etc(in short all crap which science squarely dismisses) and not a man from the IIT)


Friday is a bad day. I suggest saturday any time.
--
Dr **************
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur-208016 India


My next mail (after recovering from the shock of the above mail, quite literally:

Saturday 3pm how would that be ?


.....normally a mail in reply to the above means unavailability on somebody's part ...then happens the Mahabharata.....as it happens no one replies back and none of the wardens turn up.....the warden who in all earnesty had quite something against me right from day 1.....

Look at my next mail framed to be Algorithmically compact, to-the-point, dealing with all cases, no loopholes left, no chances taken, "ab to meeting karvake hi chhodunga"

My mail:
Sirs,
we would like to have an HEC meeting at 5pm on Sunday the 20th of May. If anybody has any objections about the time and the date please mail me at the earliest failing which the meeting is scheduled for the above mentioned time and date.
The agenda is as follows

1)regarding proposal discussion
2)water coolers of B-mid and E-mid
3)permission to photocopy vendor for stationary items
etc.
4)mess coolers
5)any other matter with the permission of the chair

Thanking you
Afroz Mohiuddin

--

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

Afroz Mohiuddin


You bet i patted my back after writing that one(ke isse to nahin bachega kalia)

The reply from the warden was a shocker, was a reply to all, (as was the "Friday is a bad day")

Warden:

Dear Afroz,

I think, 5 PM is okay but the tone of the email reflect arrogance on your
part, possibly unintentionally. I think, as a professional, one needs to
be more courteous.

Best wishes,
--
Dr **************
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur-208016 India


:( <-ME plus the smiley (what have i done ??!!) (i am bad at smileys, help)

My next mail was a toned down version of my angry self, framed in beautiful Queen's English which has caused quite some problems to us poor indians

Sorry Sir for the perceived impertinence on my part, but i think you read a bit too much into the mail, I only think that tone could have been a byproduct of writing a crisp and to-the-point mail in order to compensate for the folly of my last mail, and the confusion caused due to it.
Thank you for correcting me, and i hope you continue to do this in the future

Thanking you
Yours Truly


After that the fellow shouts at me in the meeting, which i don't attend due to this anti....some crap and some irony.

I leave you to judge whether i was rude and unprofessional or he was being uneducated and high handed.

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