3:47 AM on Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Closer to the ultimate desktop experience.
Well, I cribbed about my hard disk issues and about the garnome build failing.... but on Saturday, I still persisted with the same process for almost half a day with the breaks and halts (read: broken dependencies) that are somewhat typical of compiling stuff on Linux. To be fair, the whole process is much more organized this time though since the readme has the answers to most of the compilation failure and workarounds. Finally, the point I was coming to is.... the result is sweet. Gnome 2.8 is up and running in its full glory on my laptop and a visit to art.gnome.org (after a looooong time) has given loads of eye-candy to these eyes that had gone sore with the repeated sky blue screen... Best icon theme seen in recent times: Gartoon. Its a must see for those who liked Noia earlier. Kreski lines is interesting too.... though it does not have enough icons for the Gnome start menu yet. Yay!!

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11:25 AM on Saturday, September 18, 2004
Here we are now.... entertain us.
Before you wonder: I am not a follower or a fan of Nirvana.... but I like the sound of these words. Its the weekend again and there is not much on my mind. So it looked kind of appropriate too. There is a balloon festival some place quite close to our apartment. In case I get my camcorder delivery (yes, I ordered this one!) before I reach there, we should see some interesting pics (and videos) later. Plus, the Fair Park still intrigues me and I am very keen to see the tallest ferris wheel in North America if we can get the time to do it. So watch out for this space!

Office has been going okay so far.... testing times are here now (quite literally speaking) since the code looks ready for action. Once that is done I am 'good to go' :)

On the Linux front, I wish I could use Gnome 2.8 and switch to Linux full time on my laptop.... This machine seems to have some weird problems that we cannot yet place a finger at. Windows gives blue screens at least 4-5 times a day! (Even by Windows standards I find that amazing!!) I tried a Garnome install thrice today only to find it stalled at different stages. Each time it was some fault that can only happen with a corrupt tarball download (since a clean re-install got me past that same step without any new RPMs or libraries). I gave up on that since I did not have time to look at it in detail. Would have been nice to just leave it for compile and see the system ready to use in the evening. That's the beauty of Garnome.... on a working system and an ideal world :)

On the friends and family front, its really nice to get to talk to so many people here that I rarely could do in India. I'll miss that a lot when I return to India. Mangu and Shashi (my friends from BITS) should be coming over next weekend to Plano. (Jeeku cancelled as per latest news). Looking forward to that especially.... I'll be meeting Mangu after something like 4 years!

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10:29 AM on Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Updates from my side
Its been more than a week since I made a post. Things have been carrying on okay at my end. Not much to write about work as such. Went to Fry's electronics yesterday evening. Had a lovely time surrounded by gadgets on all sides. Getting tempted to acquire a camcorder before I leave from here.

Last weekend
Went to San Antonio and Austin this weekend with my apartment mates and Parag Dada. Was an awesome trip! Some pics are uploaded at my other blog.

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