Praveen’s Journal

Pretty shocked to see the news that 3 MIT sudents got suspended for ragging.

Colin Charles released a PDF, showing us what’s new in Fedora Core 3.

I got a mail from Mr. Krishnan (36317), Joint seceratary of MITAA, Chennai chapter yesterday on the MITAA website. MITAA is MIT Alumni Association. These guys are planning to redo the wesite from scratch and they are in the progress of collecting the Alumni data. I am going to help them as much as I can. It is so nice that the site has got attention after quiet a long time.

One of my signatures in MS Outlook today read …

Boss or Leader? A Boss creates fear; A Leader creates confidence. Bossism creates resentment; Leadership breeds enthusiasm. A Boss says:I; A Leader says:We. A Boss fixes blame; A Leader fixes mistakes. A Boss knows how; A Leader shows how. Bossism makes work drudgery; Leadership makes work interesting. A Boss relies on authority; A Leader relies on co-operation. A Boss drives; A Leader leads. - Anonymous

PS: Random signatures; courtesy: Quotes 2002

To fix the crashing problem at level 26, I tried out the following.

* Download and install the latest nVidia drivers.
* Download and install DirectX 9.0c.
* Download and apply NFSU lastest patch from EA games.

Nothing have solved the problem. Still the game crashes at level 26. I need a solution for this. Atleast, I should know the reason for this issue.

I was playing Need for Speed Underground this weekend. I was able to advance upto level 25. But in the 25th level, the application crashes. I suspected the graphics driver (nVidia GeForce2 IGP) and upgraded it. No luck. Now I downloaded DirectX 9c (I have 9b) and also the latest patch for NFSU. I have to install these two and figure out if it works.

Lot of people who play NFSU come across this problem (quite a few friends of mine). But there is no information about this problem on NFSU site. EA Games guys are crazy.

This is a junk entry to bring the page up in search engines.

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Humans please ignore this post.

I am back to work after a long weekend. Yesterday was “Krishna Jeyanthi” (B’day of Lord Krishna; belated b’day wishes to him!) and was a holiday to me.

Today I found out the reason for the wierdfd behaviour of IE6. There was an adware called 180Search was installed on my computer. I am not sure how this one got in. I have removed it completely (Courtesy: Norton Antivirus).

MKS wrote a detailed review on GMail at his blog.