Walk Alone

There’s this girl I know. …pretty, even beautiful. Seen her smiling. Never seen her angry. She’s real helpful if anyone asks her for help. Pity though… nearly everyone tries to set her up as a trophy - or they fear others will think that way if they act close with her. So the guys are real diffident when dealing with her. Those who are friendly get labelled - and the labels are not complementary at all. Her friends are all in other class-groups. She’s alone, I guess, in her own class-group… mingling with whosoever accepts her in their group when performing lab experiments - like a feather riding a zephyr. When the zephyr drops, the feather floats down…

I read somewhere that some girls are like pearls… pearls inside oysters. She’s someone’s pearl for sure.

Why am I writing this? A friend has fallen for her. It was like nearly everyone liked this lady. But guess one guy finally turned out to be man enough to create trouble for himself by revealing all, eh?

Got this delightful article from Freedom Computing - a group started by a guy from Delhi, Ankit Malik and like minded friends - about Linux, ofcourse. Ankit contributes to LFY regularly. You can read his blog too.

Here’s the link. Quite good, I think.

Right on. Its on 17th of Feb. Have to get the site up and running. And sort out the problems that occurred in technobreak. Busy time.

Having problems on the Linux front too. Grrr… but then the final victory would be even better to experience.

Now I’m confused. Anyone reading this is welcome to help me out. I’m interested in coding - just enough to solve problems that crop up in my engineering course. Preferred - Linux and C/C++. Also I’m interested in creating small websites with simple databases. Preferred - Apache and MySQL.

Now the dilemma. I’ve learnt C/C++ on DOS Turbo C and stopped at simple function templates. No GUI, system I/O or file handling. Basic Apache with Perl runs happily on Fedora. How do I rig it for a database and some other scripting language?

Do I go for Qt or KDevelop or Anjuta in Linux? And PHP and MySQL in Linux? I’m not going for heavy duty stuff. Basic familiarity and ability to do some home-projects is all I’m aiming at.

PS: I would love PHP, MySQL, KDevelop - what say?

Finished with our intra-college festival. Its a rehearsal of sorts for the inter-collegiate festival we’d be hosting in Feb. Learnt a lot of things - some good, some bad.

One, don’t suggest solutions or ideas if you don’t know the tools. The execution goes into someone else’s hands, you don’t have any control and the final product is always different from your concept. Thats why I’ve added MySQL and Perl to my “to learn” list right along with C/C++ and Qt. Python is out. Though not completely out.

Second, Mr. Murphy does exist and his laws are true. Lots of things got screwed up - just so that we were not doing anything on an enterprise scale.

Third, squabbling and fighting occurs everywhere - even in tech. Tech Team people are human after all.