My chacha (Ramesh) (father’ brother) owns a pharmaceutical company. Another chacha (Ravi) is good programmer and system analysist. Ravi chacha made a software for this company. The software was sort of ERP software and completed all major needs. He kept increasing functionalities to it, and it grew like anything. Finally Ravi chacha found it hard to keep it updated (the software was DOS based). So, we started looking for a proper commercial ERP solution for our needs. We bought a software, but it finally didn’t work out good. For that software we *bought* Windows Server 2008.
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Last week I went to Hyderabad to this “IIT Hire Meet” of Microsoft. It sort of sucked. They called all IIT students hired by Microsoft Indian Development Center. Yes, they had hired me as well. In December when placements started in IITK, Microsoft was the first CS company to hire students. I didn’t plan to sit for their first exam, but my friend woke me and asked me to take the test for the sake of practice. I did that. Though I was sure I wouldn’t get selected (considering that I had a bad fight (about Open Source community infringing some patents) with them just 1 months back when they came here for Microsoft Day, and the same HR lady came for placements as well.). Anyways Arun called me (otherwise I wasn’t very keen to know the result) and informed that I have cleared first round. The next round was just after 15 minutes and I didn’t have clothes and hadn’t had bath. That was a fun day. I was finally selected. I was 1 of the 4 selected from UG students. I then wanted to join Microsoft. I think it would have been cool to have an experience to see them working. And anyways since I am fan of some of their products it would have been cooler.
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2007 was overall good. I got to learn lots of things, and got to do lots of things. Got to talk to lot of cool people. Though I wouldn’t forget that it also brought 7th semester which was like the most difficult semester I ever had. This semester probably took my anxiety level to top. Some of the highlights of 2007 are below:
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I have been thinking about business models for open source softwares. Though I couldn’t come up with proper answer. Lets see, let me try to start with different software people make and use.
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So, these guys they have collected some logos of some free softwares. Checkout http://raro.oreto.inf-cr.uclm.es/apps/stickers/ . It’s a cool collection. Right now, on my laptop I have got 5 stickers. (more…)
So, most of you must be knowing about the “The quick brown Fox Jumps over the lazy dog” bug. There is another real cool hack in Windows. So, if there is a guest account in your friends computer, open the guest account and open command prompt. Then in command prompt write “net user <username> <passwd>”, it will change the <username> password to the <passwd> you give it. Such a simple thing. Isn’t it?
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