switching to the dark side

I have always admired the Apple hardware, though i don't agree with the premium consumer has to pay for getting that half eaten apple on their gadgets.

Mac OS X , in my opinion is a bit better than windows, nobody can beat Steve jobs in the eye candy department, but all the talks about mac being more secure as compared to windows is just marketing bull.

Having just finished reading "Masters of doom" for the third time, i was really intrigued by the praises heaped on objective-c development environment by John Carmack.

So i went ahead and bought an iPod 4G, which is almost same as iPhone 4G without the gsm and gps chip.

Am experimenting with the ipod , having already jail broken it, but that deserves a separate post.

BTW, N900 still beats the craps out of anything any day :)

harry potter -- end of an era

Hi,

Although I haven't liked all the Harry Potter movies, but I have been a big fan of the novels.

Saw the last one today, Loved it.......
If anybody looks closely enough they can find faults with anything, this movie, at least for me , is a befitting end to an era.

And for the people who think that Harry potter movies are for kids, they are the ones with an emotional equivalent of a bug. As one of the guys i sorts of know had very correctly said, its about death..........

Regards,
Ishan

Harry potter : it all ends

Hi,

Am so excited, the last potter movie is released and tomorrow i am going to watch it.

Hope it does justice to one of the most memorable franchise.

Regards,
Ishan

Rails on ubuntu 11.04

Hi,

Was trying to setup rails on my ubuntu netbook, installed nicely but when i tried starting the server from with the Aptana studio IDE which i am using for both Django and Ruby/Rails development, i returned an error about sqlite gem not installed.

To solve this gem installation problem the command to run is "bundle install", that too didn't solve the problem.

Then after 2 day of going through stackoverflow and google search results, i found the solution and as usual it was simple :)

libsqlite3-dev package was missing, installed and everything is running fine now.

Regards,
Ishan

ssh connection into my n900

Hi,

I recently had my workstation formatted, since then i am facing a weird problem , in cannot ssh into my n900 through usb networking.

It works fine over wifi, but that is not too secure.

The setup works fine over at my place.

Have reinstalled the nokia pc suite and then tried it, with no success.
Have even tried reinstalling the nokia connectivity cable drivers separately but that too failed.

It seems to be one of those weird problems which occur when the system get a mind of its own :)

Regards,
Ishan

a novel i would recommend

Hi,

If you are in any way interested in reading and computers, should should do your self a favor, pick up "the blue nowhere", It mixes the hacking stuff with crime suspense drama.

And it is miles better than "the digital fortress", the tech in the novel is plausible and to an extent real world.

Just loved it.

Regards,
Ishan

Transformer 3 -- hollywood awesomeness

Hi,

I am a movie buff , and am proud of it, Since the past 3 years almost every weekend i have seen a movie.
So keeping up with the tradition i went for the recently released "Transformers 3" , and man i was something. Just loved the movie. Yes, it was a bit longish and would have done wonders with some tight editing but still it beats the crap out of the other hyped movies released recently hands down.

If you haven't seen it , take my word go for it, u'll love it.

Regards,
Ishan