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Monthly Archives: February 2006

MIT World - Lectures from MIT on Video

27-Feb-06

MIT World, a free site, provides videos of its public events. These videos cover a wide range of topics, and are quite educational. Yet another knowledge sharing site from MIT, after its hugely popular OpenCourseWare.

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Linux for older hardware

26-Feb-06

Have a PII (Pentium 2 - The ones which typically ran at 233 MHz, about 10% the speed of the about-to be-obseleted hardware) ? Thinking of selling it off for scrap, as “nothing” works on it ? Don’t worry: Install Linux
Here is an article which disproves recent claims by the MS spin doctors [...]

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First (New) Post

23-Feb-06

I had installed and started a MovableType blog yesterday, but Noufal mentioned that Wordpress seems to have AJA X, and is supposed to be pretty cool. Tried it out, and liked the clean interface and really simple 5-step install - a far cry from the histrionics required to get an MT blog up.
As far as [...]

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Moving on…

22-Feb-06

… to a Wordpress blog, hosted here.
See you there !

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GMAT Yesterday

20-Feb-06

Gave GMAT Yesterday. Got an average score .. 710 (94 %ile) (Math 48, Verbal 40). That’s more
than what to expect after studying for just about over a week, with a couple of random weekends thrown in. Sure, I would have loved a better score (who doesn’t ? ), but the present score should serve [...]

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