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Thermal And a Quarter were playing today at the Gurunanak Hall and Mrinal, Sony and myself went for the show. What can I say about the show? Hmm… the first half of the concert primarily had new tracks from their forthcoming album which I personally found boring. The second half had stuff from their older […]
Just back from a shopping spree on SJP Road. We bought 220 blank CDRs. 100 Mitsubishi Golds, 20 Samsung colored CDRs and 100 Frontech unbranded spindle. 220 numbers is a personal best for me 😀 The Frontech unbranded costs just Rs. 11 a piece. Oh, there is this place on SP Road which sells pirated […]
After all the talk about GNOME2/Gtk2 and stuff at the last LUG meet, I installed the complete GNOME2 environment from ports. GNOME still sucks but Gtk2 sure looks fabulous with Anti Aliasing. Very nice. Gaim recompiled with Gtk2 is gorgeous. While I was at it, I gave e17 from CVS a shot. This thingy is […]