Finally I have decided to put an end to all my frustrations with Nokia 5500 Sport. I have given it to the Nokia Care center to get the keypad replaced. It is going to take 20 days for getting it back. I have decided to sell it off once I get it. In the meantime, I grabbed a Motorola ROKR E6. I chose this one because it runs on Linux and supports a lot of mods. This is my first move out of Nokia to any other mobile vendor. It is going to take some time for me to get familiar with the new device. Thanks to Nokia 5500 that shattered my love for Nokia!
It was an embarrassing moment for Indian cricket when they were knocked out from the initial round of World Cup. On records, India has one of the most strong and experienced batting line up. But the reality is totally different. Indian cricketers once again proved that they can’t deliver when badly needed. A lot of Indian fans are showing violent responses. I don’t quite agree it. We are the ones who made them heroes. Indian cricketers should try to concentrate on the game with at least one tenth of the interest that they are showing towards advertising.
I have decided to boycott all the products that are advertised by Indian cricketers as the response to their poor performance in the World Cup. The initial round of products that I started boycotting right away are
- Pepsi
- Boost
- Indian Oil Extra Premium petrol
- Parachute hair cream
- ITC cookies
Anybody who are not happy with Indian cricketers can follow this method, that I think would directly impact their future performance.
After a long break, today I planned to hang around on some of my favorite channels on IRC. I normally use xchat to do IRC. But this time, my xchat was replaced by xchat-gnome. It inherited all the settings from my previous xchat configuration. When I invoked xchat-gnome, it tried to use one of the proxy servers that I have configured before. I was wondering where xchat-gnome is picking up that proxy server setting from! It was not obeying the gnome proxy settings. It doesn’t have an UI to configure the proxy settings. It was a bit of strange behavior. When I searched about this problem, I found that xchat-gnome has proxy support. But there is no UI to configure the proxy. Here is how you do the proxy setup in xchat-gnome.
Most of the settings of xchat-gnome are stored as variables. It gives an option to edit the variables to configure various settings through the /set command. Here is the list of variables that are related to the proxy configuration.
net_proxy_auth - Toggle proxy authentication.
net_proxy_host - Proxy host to use.
net_proxy_pass - Password to use if proxy authentication is turned on.
net_proxy_port - Port to use for proxy host.
net_proxy_type - Type of proxy to use (0=disabled, 1=Wingate, 2=Socks4,
3=Socks5, 4=HTTP, 5=MS Proxy (ISA).
net_proxy_use - What to use proxies for (if set). (0=all, 1=IRC Only, 2=DCC Only).
net_proxy_user - Username to use if proxy authentication is turned on.
For instance, if you want don’t want to use any proxy, issue the command /set net_proxy_type 0.
More list of xchat-gnome configuration variables are available here.
Last week I returned from a short business trip to Manila. I couldn’t visit any places due to the tight schedule/budget.
This time I flew on Singapore Airlines. Singapore Airlines is much better than British Airways in terms of service, quality and comfort of the flight. The worthy mention is their inflight entertainment system that is capable of delivering on demand (near) videos compared to the broadcast videos in British Airways. Singapore airport is one of the best airports I have seen. Plenty of shopping options.
I was staying in Makati. The traffic in Makati is 10 times worse than the traffic in Bangalore. The climate is much like the typical Indian climate. The overall stay experience was very good apart from my dislike towards the food. I managed to find a couple of Indian/Afghan restaurants around my hotel. But they were quite expensive.