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Aha - SP Jain results…

April 11, 2008 in Babble me more, I read here..., India, Life, Opines of mine, Ramblings

Well, just as I had finished accepting the T-bird offer, the SP Jain results finally came out and well, I got through! Now, SP Jain vs Thunderbird, the battle is on…

An Indian MBA vs a Global MBA. I am penning down my thoughts on this and that should hopefully be a post on a new blog that I am concentrating on!

A lot of new things are waiting to happen

1. Blogging @ Graduate School Guide
2. Blogging @ Life as T-bird

Both of them should happen in a few days. Check out Graduate School Guide for the various resources I utilized to gain an admission to an MBA school, including GMAT material, School reviews, Essays help, TOEFL preparation materials, yada yada yada…

Life as a T-bird, would officially start only by beginning of August, where I am planning to write about the daily activities of an MBA student and hopefully the change in perspective that I should be gleaning!

Let’s see what will happen! But, before that an Indian MBA vs Global MBA - the battle is on..!

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I am officially a T-bird

April 9, 2008 in Babble me more, I read here..., Life, Musings, Opines of mine, Ramblings

Today, I accepted Thunderbird’s invitation to join them for the Fall 2008 session with a 50% tuition waiver. They have acknowledged my response and my booking of seat and I am officially a T-bird!!

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A Reinstall Later…

March 28, 2008 in Babble me more, I read here..., Installation, Internet, Life, Musings, Opines of mine, Ramblings, Techno Mime, apple
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Of late, OS X just didn’t work on my MacBook. The keyboard used to stop responding and only the applications currently running used to respond. No Application used to launch. I tried going through many forums, but in vain. The problem was unique and from my Windows experience, I did what I think would work best - REINSTALL.
Well, I was dreading the fact that I would have to reinstall everything from scratch and well even more worried that some of the applications, which came bundled would be a pain to port to Leopard, considering that I got a Tiger DVD with the laptop.
However, much to my surprise, the whole process was a breeze. I reinstalled Leopard from scratch on the MacBook. OS X itself took about 20 minutes to install. Another 10-15 minutes for the bundled package of iLife and iWork and Office from the original set of DVDs. Pack it up with software updates that I had already downloaded off the net (else it’s going to take a humongous amount of time, considering the speeds of broad band in India).
The process started yesterday evening and with Time Machine backups (yeah I regularly backed up my Mac), the transition is done and I am back to working and with 100% efficiency. No late night sleep loss, no need to sit and install every single driver for every single component in the computer and most importantly, I am not back to the same problem that I wanted to get rid off.
There are somethings that Mac OS X does right, but at the same time, like the problem I faced earlier, when things take a bad turn, they are going down the wrong wrong wrong lane!!

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Vista(ed)…

March 22, 2008 in Babble me more, I read here..., Microsoft, Musings, Opines of mine, Ramblings, Rantings, Windows

Here’s a new word that I am creating. It’s called Vistaed.

Definition:

vistaed: Verb The act of pawning your computer by installing software that breaks your perfectly working system.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904946

Why oh why? Why can’t Microsoft do things right? I still remember looking at the XP desktop in awe and going, “I want that!”. And the only thing that has done something like that after XP is Mac OS X.

Sigh. Microsoft has got to learn to make things right!

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