Too long.
Got here (== UP) a couple of weeks ago. Getting monstrously slammed in Math, but studies are interesting, and being done far closer to right than under the aegis of the much venerated bastion of education of which I am but a chipping.
Rooms are decent, food is decent (except that I’ve transferred my malignant swearing from the peacocks to potatoes).
Turns out the audio on my laptop uses a Conexant chipset (Intel HD Audio using a Conexant codec chip for audio/modem). I hope I have better luck with getting it to work (with reasonable volume, now) than the last time. For what it’s worth — the codec’s a PCI ID 14f1:5047, which is, I believe, a CX20551-22 chip (not documented in their literature even).
Other news … I got way too many books (heh … there is no such thing, I realise) here. Slow progress. some Nabokov, some Amanda Cross, and Stephen Donaldson. Formal update to booklist when time permits. Currently, the Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
Yahoo(exclamation-and-all) Mail Beta sucks. If I want Outlook, I’ll use Outlook. Except I won’t want Outlook.
Now to get some lassi and ponder in vain some “elementary” problems in probability (… and whiner, too).
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How does it feel to be back in the class ?
yup… yahoo beta sux big time. got so fed up within a few minutes of its usage.
btw, I just remembered. you mustve been to those stalls just outside the back gate of the campus. (not the gate across the railway track (main entrance), but the other one at the back, where there are two gates a few meters from each other on the same line. at least thats how much I can remember). I just loved the jalebi and curds and samosa and curds. I dont know what all I ate there. I think I also ate parota/poori and curds. the food was just great there.
the golghar kind of canteen inside the campus was ok ok… but he had a good variety of sandwiches when I had been there. how are these two places now? and the lassi at kanpur was so awesome. my first authentic lassi. A tall steel tumbler of lassi topped with cream. my god, thats breakfast in itself.
Hey.. Good to know you are enjoying it there :)
Audio worked like a breeze for me. I installed (k)ubuntu. :-D Need your xorg.conf if you’ve gotten the widescreen to work perfectly – mine can use some tweaking.
whoa could you send me the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec* ?
Are you using the nv driver or nvidia binary drivers? I didn’t really do anything special.
Quite nice, actually. Will need to see how it feels when the crunch begins, but it’s totally different from before.
Need to go a-explorin’. :) You know more about this place than I probably will in 2 years.
The canteen in my hostel is really good, so we hardly venture out for now.
mail to arunissatan?
I got the nvidia driver binaries from apt-get. Am able to set 1280×800 screen res but it still looks slightly contorted.
yay
Grin ???