Contrary to rumours that no one is spreading, this little journal of mine is not dead. Indeed, it was only taking a nice, long and well-deserved nap from the rigours of the Internet. Meanwhile, a lot of things have been happening. I started playing this computer game called DotA or Defence of the Ancients (which is basically a custom map for Warcraft III) and when I came back to Stanford, I basically spread it around the dorm like some virulent disease. We have games almost every day and they're not 1v1 or something; we have 4v4 and 5v5 games. Immense. And immensely fun too.
Apart from DotA, the Winter quarter here is coming to an end, with Dead Week at an end (today's the last day) and Finals week next. I have four Finals. Bad times. But I'll be over with them next Thursday. The maths I have taken this quarter is killing me. Really. Multivariable Integration is just not my piece of cake. Nope, not at all.
Meanwhile, my dear brother came all the way from far away New York to visit me and stayed here awhile. We had some good times and he got some good movies from the "City that Does Something Interesting" (I couldn't remember any other good phrase-name for New York City except the Big Apple).
Mac News
So, some people did get Windows XP booting on a Mac and the best thing I like about it is the boot menu which is done extremely elegantly, is really pretty and I've tried it out on my own iMac. The installation hasn't worked out for me yet because the installer freezes at a particular point. However, people are seemingly aware of the bug and are working on it, I've heard, furiously. There are a lot of driver issues though thanks to the fact that the Macs use EFI instead of BIOS and no one has got the ATI Radeon X1600 drivers to work on the Macs yet.
In other not-so-interesting news, I discovered the first Hindi localized program for Mac OS X, which is the Translation widget.
Translation Widget in Hindi
I was quite amused to find this out and I've kept Hindi as my first choice of language for the user interface just in case I stumble upon another Hindi localized program. Additionally, I should say that the translation widget seems to be localized in many other languages as well because I know there is a Tamil version and I've seen it.
Hindi set as the language of first choice for UI
Some more DotA-related news: tonight we played a 4v3 game with my computer acting as the host. However, it was the most "technologically advanced" game we've ever played and three out of four of my computer's communication ports were being used. We were connected as follows:
As much as most people won't care as to what our network topology was, I really got kicks out of the fact that we were playing on a network comprised of Wireless (orange, dotted), Wired Ethernet (grey) and FireWire (orange, solid) connections. The only network thingy my computer was not using at the time was Bluetooth. I think next time I'll have someone join over Bluetooth just for the heck of it, since Warcraft requires only about 500B/s of data transfer. It's the latency that really matters.
Until the next time.
Apart from DotA, the Winter quarter here is coming to an end, with Dead Week at an end (today's the last day) and Finals week next. I have four Finals. Bad times. But I'll be over with them next Thursday. The maths I have taken this quarter is killing me. Really. Multivariable Integration is just not my piece of cake. Nope, not at all.
Meanwhile, my dear brother came all the way from far away New York to visit me and stayed here awhile. We had some good times and he got some good movies from the "City that Does Something Interesting" (I couldn't remember any other good phrase-name for New York City except the Big Apple).
Mac News
So, some people did get Windows XP booting on a Mac and the best thing I like about it is the boot menu which is done extremely elegantly, is really pretty and I've tried it out on my own iMac. The installation hasn't worked out for me yet because the installer freezes at a particular point. However, people are seemingly aware of the bug and are working on it, I've heard, furiously. There are a lot of driver issues though thanks to the fact that the Macs use EFI instead of BIOS and no one has got the ATI Radeon X1600 drivers to work on the Macs yet.
In other not-so-interesting news, I discovered the first Hindi localized program for Mac OS X, which is the Translation widget.
Translation Widget in Hindi
Hindi set as the language of first choice for UI
Some more DotA-related news: tonight we played a 4v3 game with my computer acting as the host. However, it was the most "technologically advanced" game we've ever played and three out of four of my computer's communication ports were being used. We were connected as follows:
As much as most people won't care as to what our network topology was, I really got kicks out of the fact that we were playing on a network comprised of Wireless (orange, dotted), Wired Ethernet (grey) and FireWire (orange, solid) connections. The only network thingy my computer was not using at the time was Bluetooth. I think next time I'll have someone join over Bluetooth just for the heck of it, since Warcraft requires only about 500B/s of data transfer. It's the latency that really matters.
Until the next time.
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