Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

Pretty shocked to see the news that 3 MIT sudents got suspended for ragging.


Colin Charles released a PDF, showing us what's new in Fedora Core 3.


I got a mail from Mr. Krishnan (36317), Joint seceratary of MITAA, Chennai chapter yesterday on the MITAA website. MITAA is MIT Alumni Association. These guys are planning to redo the wesite from scratch and they are in the progress of collecting the Alumni data. I am going to help ...


One of my signatures in MS Outlook today read ...

Boss or Leader? A Boss creates fear; A Leader creates confidence. Bossism creates resentment; Leadership breeds enthusiasm. A Boss says:I; A Leader says:We. A Boss fixes blame; A Leader fixes mistakes. A Boss knows how; A Leader shows how ...

To fix the crashing problem at level 26, I tried out the following.

  • Download and install the latest nVidia drivers.
  • Download and install DirectX 9.0c.
  • Download and apply NFSU lastest patch from EA games.

Nothing have solved the problem. Still the game crashes at level 26. I need a ...


I was playing Need for Speed Underground this weekend. I was able to advance upto level 25. But in the 25th level, the application crashes. I suspected the graphics driver (nVidia GeForce2 IGP) and upgraded it. No luck. Now I downloaded DirectX 9c (I have 9b) and also the latest ...


I am back to work after a long weekend. Yesterday was "Krishna Jeyanthi" (B'day of Lord Krishna; belated b'day wishes to him!) and was a holiday to me.


Today I found out the reason for the wierd behaviour of IE6. There was an adware called 180Search was installed on my computer. I am not sure how this one got in. I have removed it completely (Courtesy: Norton Antivirus).


MKS wrote a detailed review on GMail at his blog.


I saw the Tamil movie "Vasoolraja MBBS", staring Padmashree Kamalahaasan on Friday at Satyam cineplex, Chennai. I had a great expectation for the movie when I entered the theatre. The movie is yet another branded "Crazy" movie (Courtesy: Crazy Mohan). The movie was entertaining; but was not upto the mark ...