I was randomly surfing the net today when I came across this blog. While the content was interesting, what was more interesting is that "important shock" was an anagram of the author's name.
It got me thinking, what kind of anagrams would my name generate. Googling for "anagram generator" took me to wordsmith.org's 'Internet Anagram Server'. I fired up the generator and here are some of the anagrams it generated for my name (Ajeya Sharma):
Maharaja Yes
Maharajas Ye
A Hearsay Jam
A Rajah Seamy
Area Ham Jays
...
Yeah, yeah, I have way too much time to kill :-)
Thursday, December 25, 2008
ajeya.net is now live
I finally got around to registering ajeya.net today. It is live now !
I also took godaddy.com hosting services. I figured I could use some web space for experimenting with PHP and what not. So, I paid for the 150 GB Linux plan which set me back by $125.00 for 2 years. After a couple of hours of trying very hard and failing to convince myself that I needed all that space, I called godaddy.com customer support and canceled the hosting plan. I am glad I did because all I needed was to enable Google Apps for my domain which came with everything I want for now.
Setting up Google Apps for ajeya.net was a breeze and I had it working in less than 10 minutes. Google required me to confirm that I did own the domain. I did so by creating a CNAME host entry for a random string (provided by Google) and pointing that to google.com. With the domain ownership confirmed, the services were enabled immediately.
I then wanted to activate Gmail and was given instructions on setting up the MX records for my domain. After I updated the records at godaddy.com, it took an hour or so for the DNS records to propogate across the internet and for Gmail to work (I could login and compose a message but I could not send the message).
I now have Gmail for my own domain, along with Chat, Docs, Sites and Calendar. I am not really sure if I will ever use the other services but I enabled them anyway. The final step was to setup the landing page for my domain and for now it will be this blog.
So, welcome to ajeya.net!!
I also took godaddy.com hosting services. I figured I could use some web space for experimenting with PHP and what not. So, I paid for the 150 GB Linux plan which set me back by $125.00 for 2 years. After a couple of hours of trying very hard and failing to convince myself that I needed all that space, I called godaddy.com customer support and canceled the hosting plan. I am glad I did because all I needed was to enable Google Apps for my domain which came with everything I want for now.
Setting up Google Apps for ajeya.net was a breeze and I had it working in less than 10 minutes. Google required me to confirm that I did own the domain. I did so by creating a CNAME host entry for a random string (provided by Google) and pointing that to google.com. With the domain ownership confirmed, the services were enabled immediately.
I then wanted to activate Gmail and was given instructions on setting up the MX records for my domain. After I updated the records at godaddy.com, it took an hour or so for the DNS records to propogate across the internet and for Gmail to work (I could login and compose a message but I could not send the message).
I now have Gmail for my own domain, along with Chat, Docs, Sites and Calendar. I am not really sure if I will ever use the other services but I enabled them anyway. The final step was to setup the landing page for my domain and for now it will be this blog.
So, welcome to ajeya.net!!
Monday, December 22, 2008
What's in a name
I had a very rough night yesterday. I wanted to register a domain name for myself. This would be my online identity.
I popped open the browser and went to godaddy.com and began the hunt for the perfect domain name. I wanted something catchy, something intelligent, something geeky.
I tried everything from rwxrwxrwx.com to ls-al.com to logn.com. Taken, taken and taken again. I got one or two names which were available like onlogn.com (O(nlogn)). But come on, that wouldn't serve the purpose. I wanted people to know I was a geek without me telling them.
So, after spending close to 5 hours searching for a perfect name, I am settling for ajeya.net. Something unimaginative, unoriginal, so cliché.
P.S: I came across this article in PC World. Interesting read.
I popped open the browser and went to godaddy.com and began the hunt for the perfect domain name. I wanted something catchy, something intelligent, something geeky.
I tried everything from rwxrwxrwx.com to ls-al.com to logn.com. Taken, taken and taken again. I got one or two names which were available like onlogn.com (O(nlogn)). But come on, that wouldn't serve the purpose. I wanted people to know I was a geek without me telling them.
So, after spending close to 5 hours searching for a perfect name, I am settling for ajeya.net. Something unimaginative, unoriginal, so cliché.
P.S: I came across this article in PC World. Interesting read.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Boot Camp
I have been a mac user for about two years now but never used 'Boot Camp' to install Windows on a Mac Book Pro because of some not so popular corporate security policies.
After I got the new machine, I didn't waste too much time.
The experience was not really smooth for me. I wanted to install Windows XP Professional on a FAT32 partition so that I could easily access the partition from Mac OS X. I started by allocating 32 GB for the windows partition using BootCamp and and the installation started after a reboot. I could not get the bl**dy installation alway failed after the initial setup screen.
Microsoft recommends a maximum of 32 GB for a FAT32 partition. During installation there is no way to get around this. After a bit of Googling, I decided to format the windows paritition with NTFS. But that did not work either. The initial installation would go through but after that I would get a 'bad disk' error.
I changed gears and made a backup copy of the XP install CD (before I get yelled at, I confirmed that this is legal since my original CD could be faulty). I tried the installation again with an NTFS paritition. This time I got 'could not find 'hal.dll' message.
After a bit more googling, I saw several explanations for this including a corrupted boot.ini file. So, with a renewed gusto, I tried installing again. But this time I created a 20 GB FAT32 parition and continued. Lo and behold the installation went through fine.
After the installation, I just popped in the Leopard CD that came with the Mac and in less than 10 minutes I had everything working.
The trackpad did not work well even after the driver installs. This was a known issue and a software update fixed it.
I am not really sure if I really want to use XP but it is good to know I do have an option. When I have some time, I will install VMWare Fusion and check how well I can run XP off the boot camp parition.
Instructions for boot camp install are available here.
Friday, December 19, 2008
The new Mac Book Pro
It has been a while since my last post. I have been wanting to write a few reviews for quite a while but there were other things happening in my life which took precedence.
I got a the new MacBook Pro and I am already in love with it. The design is much better than the earlier version. The screen is bigger and the gesture support on the trackpad make things more interesting. You can find a good in-depth review on Ars Technica (Part1, Part2).
I got a the new MacBook Pro and I am already in love with it. The design is much better than the earlier version. The screen is bigger and the gesture support on the trackpad make things more interesting. You can find a good in-depth review on Ars Technica (Part1, Part2).
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