Shifts....

Within a week of landing @ Trinfy, i knew that I made a mistake by getting a transfer from Mysore. Initially i thought tht it was because of the campus. Mysore had everything...Trinfy is just a typical office building, with almost zero campus!! But later I realized tht it was not just the campus. It was the team... Somehow, i couldnt feel good about the way in which the team worked!!!

And now, adding salt to my wound, there will be a 7 Day work plan!!! :( Mon-Thursday, it is normal working plan. Then, the team is split into 3, each one coming to work on either friday/sat/sunday. This has effectively spoiled my weekends... Weekend trip with Anand and divakar. It will mostly(read: almost every time) to shangumugham, have some chaaya/kadi followed by a dinner @ some hotel. Still, the weekends were good. But now, this plan might spoil everything!!!

Need to plan something devilish to convince the 'Big Shots' to remove this '7 day' stuff...

Windows 7 rocks...

To be frank, I was happy that Vista was a failure. I mean, I was stuck with XP for almost 6 years and when Vista came, it needed all these hardware upgrades. 2 GB RAM, 20 GB HDD blah..blah..blah.. And when it failed big time, I was actually smiling :)

But now, after I've upgraded my machine, I've found out that it is XP which actually sucks!! :) I mean, it dosent support 64 bit processors and 4 GB RAM. I mean, why can't a OS switch from 32 bit to 64 bit? The developers should have added an additional attribute in some config properties file and voila... upgrade over after a system restart :).

Anyways, the point is that when windows 7 was launched, I was waiting for it. The initial reviews were all gr8. and when I saw someone selling genuine windows 7 in ebay for a really...really low price, I couldnt resist.

So, I got the Windows 7 DVD on friday evening, and within 24 hrs. my machine was up and running with 7. The OS absolutely rocks... :) It is fast, it looks really nice and the new aero feature is just the icing on top of cake. The best thing which they have done is the way they have designed the new taskbar. It looks really simple and un-cluttered. And for someone who has been seeing XP for nearly 6-7 years both at office as well as at home, this switching is like watching a color movie after watching b/w movies for his entire life :)

I would really recommend this OS for everyone... This is gonna be the successor to PX :)

Ciao..