September 2011

Last 20 hours were hectic

Yesterday I was trying to get over the weekend hangover. Till afternoon I was sleepy and didnt really do much productive work. The day was going no where. Then I got one call from a potential client. I am in touch with him for the past 1 month. He seems to be very much interested in getting his company website plus online ticketing system developed by me. Few weeks back I sent him sample designs too but he is not very much happy with the price that I quoted. He thinks I am charging more than 5 times! Well I dont know. There are companies that charge 5 times more than me and they treat their customes like any other customer. Not the case with me, I give all my clients personal attention and always stay in sync with their thoughts. Sometimes it costs me extra effort but when you are working with good people you dont mind stretching yourself.

Anwyays, so I went to meet him again. He tried to convince me to reduce the price, but I was firm. Yesterday I also received a call from some cyber lawyer, he has two interesting projects, lets see how it goes with him. Around evening time, one of my oldest client called me again to deliver some graphics to him by morning. So yesterday I worked till late night and also worked in the morning today. I have sent him all graphics and I hope he likes it.

So far very hectic but I am happiest when I am busiest.

Right now it is almost noon, let me take some rest and I will get back to work. Cool!

Good Morning (yeah it is 11:20 AM)

More people are choosing Drupal now!

In the last couple of days I have received few calls from people and the first thing they said to me - I need to get a website developed in Drupal. I need a Drupal website. Mujhe Drupal mein site banwani hai. I was so happy to hear that. More people want to get their website developed in Drupal now. I think people these days search on the net and learn about various web technologies and Drupal of course offers amazing features over other CMS. I am not saying that other CMS are not good but Drupal has its own advantages and that is why at Sparxsys Solutions we only work on Drupal. Also I have noticed that their are many companies now who are shifting their base to "Drupal Only". More competetion for us for sure, but it is in a way a good thing for us. The price, service and the value we give to our client, I am sure no other company can do that, at least in Delhi

and NCR region (shameless self promotion) :)

Also good to know that people are migrating to Drupal too. Either they want to get their website moved to Drupal or want to re-develop

it again in Drupal.

Cool!

Trying to install Fedora 14 on repaired computer

I got up early at 3:55 AM in the morning today. It took me around 20 mins to get out of the bed. You know when you open your eyes in the morning the time you take to get out of the bed is inversly propotional to thing you achieve. The more time you take, less you achieve. May not be true for everyone but certainly true for me. Getting out of comfort to take new challenges is certainly not an easy task and I feel tempted to stay in bed and enjoy every bit of dreams I could.

After waking up I sat on my computer and collected all the company documents for annual tax filling purpose, yeah I hate to do all this but you can't really escape from it. You have to do mundane tasks. Good that I did that in the morning. Remember eating the frog :), doing the most difficult thing first thing in the morning, so you feel charged up for rest of the day.

[Wife]: I need a Solo Microwave!!
[me]: Ok, le ayenge.
[Wife]: Mera phone bhi theek karwao
[me]: Aj hi jakar karwata hoon

back to work..

Yeah, so after collecting all the company documents, I did biceps today then took the bath.

Then I fixed my old computer, took me some time to figure what is wrong. I cleaned RAM, removed every connection and finally it was the loose power supply connection. Not sure but it worked!!

Now I am trying to install Fedora 14 in it. First the computer didnt recognized the DVD drive, I removed the drive from another computer and it worked. When I tried to install F14, it asked me to choose installation source, I think it booted the installation but didnt recognize the DVD ROM during the installation. I think the old mobo doesnt support DVD, even in the BIOS it is mention CD ROM everywhere. Not sure but at least the F14 DVD boots!

I am now copying the F14 iso to another HDD and I will boot F14 DVD and install Fedora from that HDD. I hope it works! It should work I have done it in past. Let me try it!

Chal Jayio yaar!

Oh btw Good Morning!

Damn I inserted SIM wrongly in my mobile, thanks Vinod for reminding me that my phone is off!!!!

Linux workstation repaired!!

Just repaired another pc and I will install fedora in it. Also upgraded the RAM!! Cool!
Ravi Sagar
9811787069

Lazy day again

Got up at 3:55 AM sharp today but felt tired and headache in the head but I wanted to get out of the bed, it took me some time to get

up. The headache was killing me but I was determined not to go back to bed. I went to my office cum drawing room, turned on my

computer that I fixed yesterday. The headache didnt allow me to do much thinking. I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed the

beard on my face and dont know what happened I just felt like shaving! Yes. I was half asleep by then, I washed my face and started

the shaving procedure, when I shave it normally takes around 30 mins. Yes thats long but thats how I shave. My beard is so hard that I

need to shave twice! Funny I know. After shaving I spent another 10 mins trying different hair styles on my growing hair :)

It was almost 6 by then, I dressed up, recharged my camera battery, ate two bananas and left home for participating in the Cycle Ride. I didnt actually took part in it, I went there to click some pictures of the participant. I went there by metro, reached Patel Chowk Metro station, Vinod also came there with his new bicycle.

The ride was nice and organized properly. I clicked some good pics, I will upload them soon. I came back home, the head ache was still bugging. After breakfast I took disprin but the headache is still there. Anyways.

Overall the day was ok but little bit on the lazy side. Thats second day in a row, yesterday also I felt lazy. Not good. I guess I need to take some rest. I will sleep little early today. Tomorrow is Sunday but gonna be busy running around. On Sundays I just feel like staying at home and rest completely, but doesnt happen.

Let me now check out some gadgets on ebay. Bye Bye. Good night.

Plan for tomorrow

Ok so weekend is finally here. Overall the week was above average as per my standards. I am happy but I could have done better. Anyways. Whole week I was thinking of lot of thinks that I wanted to do for the weekend. I need to go to Saraswati Vihar in Pitam Pura to get brochure samples for a printer. I has been two weeks now and I am delaying it. Not anymore. I should go there tomorrow.

My desk today

I clicked this because I want to test something on my blog :)
Ravi Sagar
9811787069

Weekend Mood

Ok so weekend is here and to be honest I am feeling not to work today. I generally work 7 days a week and I normally dont follow Monday to Friday work pattern but I still feel casual on Friday. In fact most of my important work of meeting people happen on Weekends only! so this feeling is not good. It certainly make me feel nice but it takes my mind to a casual state. No No, I need to focus.

Installed nVidia geForce FX 5200 graphics card

Ok so today I updated the RAM in my system to 1.5 GB and I also installed 128MB nvidia graphics card. I know it is not much but that what I have right now, may be I will overclock the processor to get more performance later. I have asked vinod to get 1GB DDR 333 RAM for me, there are 4 slots in the MSI mobo and the processor is also 64bit so I think the machine is quite capable.

After increasing memory I will add more HDDs and I think I will be done. I am thinking of buying a display too.

I only get time in the morning for this project, tomorrow I will be at home and I will work more on it, now I only need to setup softwares in it.

Have a nice day!!!!
Ravi Sagar
9811787069

Overall a very nice day

I got up fresh today after whole day yesterday's headache. The first thing I did today was to repair my old PC. I installed windows xp on it because I need to run some softwares that run only on windows :) To my surprise the PC got fixed and the day started really well. I was very happy to see the computer running again.