Pre Exam Scuffle

OK! My exams are up in a coupla days. . . What do you expect? Hard day slogging the subject, sleepless nights [and the few hours' sleep, dreams of flunking in flying colors], exam-fever, light speed phone calls clarifying seemingly intractable doubts . . .?? Well, all that's so very NORMAL. Lets have a look at my own case. My sem exams' on november. And model exams start at college in a coupla days. We can, obviously, leave the college once the exam's over. So, 6 subjects, 3 practicals add up to 9days. And then, 6 days of actual semester exams. That's a total of 18 days. And then vacation till Dec26. That's more than two months from now. So more than half of the time, i'll be sitting home pretty jobless. So folks, learn to look at the bright side of everything, even EXAMS :).


PS: This post is, i know, horrible. Its just being written for whiling away time, and to waste YOUR time, if your reading this :D.

At The Speed Of Light

Light travels about 30000km a second. That might sound great for us earthlings, for light'l take only 0.051s to travel from Tokyo to London[i.e.20times back and forth]. Lets think outside the box, or rather the globe. It takes light 1.28s to travel to the moon....so NASA scientists had to wait for at least 3s before they could recieve replies to their queries to people on orbit around the moon. Half an hour for a light pulse to reach Mars!! And yeah, light rays from sun take two whole days to reach pluto! And if thats not enough, you travel at light speed for 4.3 years and only then can you reach the star nearest to the solar system, The Proxima Centauri!! 100,000 years to travel across the width of the galaxy, and 100 billion years to travel across the observable universe.So, face it.....the speed of light is snail's pace for the Universe is REAL BIG!!

The Case of the Missing B:

Ever wondered what happened to the B:?

I got curious about and decided to solve the Case of the Missing Drive. After a rather short session on Google, I hit upon the answer.
First, a bit of history. When computers were first making waves in the home market, they weren't supplied with native hard drives, as they are today. Instead, they had two floppy drives. Don’t forget, the time am talking about is when 640K of main memory was a luxury. So, back to the point, two floppy drives, A: and B:. While A: usually contained the disk with the OS on it, the second one was used to store other data and files. As technology caught on, hard disks became the de facto standard, having enough and more space to store both the OS and the users' files. Thus, the B: became outdated. The A: survives, as its still the default primary boot device on most systems, and it really helps in diagnostics. And naturally, 'C' would be the first letter that could be assigned to Hard Disk Drives, as A and B were reserved. Though the three coexisted for a while, a second floppy drive wasn’t at all necessary, and B: lost to the other two forever, and the letter B was probably left unused to attribute for its martyrdom and legacy =P.