It has been sometime since I wrote my last blog, a few stuffs have happened since then.I have endured two hard disk crash, change in broadband connection, and change of manager.
Hard disk crashes as random but they seemed in perfect agreement in my case.First my external 500 GB Seagate free agent goes berserk sometime in January ,So I submitted it for replacement but the person recording serial no. made mistake and wrote o instead of a 0(zero) which resulted in some phone calls and further delay of a week. Seeing this as right opportunity my internal 500 GB Seagate hard disk decided to betray me. Note that these are both new hard disk not older than 6 months. My older hard disk have not given me any problem like this ,touchwood. So I was reduced from 1 TB to 2 GB pen drive of read only Xubuntu Linux live CD for about a week, till I got my external hard disk.
I decided to install windows 7 on my external USB hard disk but to my dismay I found it cannot be achieved. So I installed Ubuntu on external drive and worked on it for a week, the experience with Compiz effects was good once I was able to install my display driver.Then I got my internal hard drive which I struggled to fit in the slot (I just pushed in slot and was not able to screw it to case) and I was finally able to install Windows 7 . Well Windows 7 has been a delight at least.
After getting through this hard disk fiasco, my ISP decided to give me hard time. I was witnessing slow connection for a few days after which I decided to complain. The Airtel call center guys were unaware of problem. It was only when technical guy came to my home I was informed of ‘Fair Usage Policy’ which dictates that unlimited connection of 384 kbps seize to be 384 and will become 256 once you have crossed upload + download limit of 25 GB. The sites were not updated still and Airtel help guys were not clear of details. It took a week to get clear details of this policy and sites were updated. So I decided to change my ISP, I contacted beam cable which never called me back . So I called Reliance Broadband which resulted in Wimax guy and broadband guy coming to my home. I refused Wimax guy as I didn't hear good reviews about it . After some documents ,emails and 500 rupees I was able to apply for reliance. I am not sure about exact days but after few days I got my reliance 1mbps connection(I decided to upgrade to see how this affects my net life). I had asked Airtel guys for disconnection immediately but they have still not taken their equipments. Well with this sorted out things are fine finally.Although I have to solve reliance disconnection issue after some idle hours of connection which results in re-entering of password.
After changes at home were over, I got the news about change at work . So My manager has changed and my team has moved under new manager after some re-org. This change doesn’t requires much effort from my part at least.
I witnessed weather pattern change also with summer coming early at Hyderabad. It was not even Feb. and mercury had already risen. I thought Pune would be nice change from this hot weather but to my surprise Pune was no different than Hyderabad on my short trip.
Well things have settled for now. Lets see how long that lasts in these turbulent times.
