Loading... Born a day after the American Independence in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, I've spent most part of my life there. Studied till 5th standard in St. Joseph's Convent School, Jalandhar, and later had to join Apeejay School, Jalandhar as, perhaps, the former school decided boys could be troublesome in a girls' school after 5th. After completing schooling in APJ (till 12th), joined National Institute of Technology [NITJ] (again, in Jalandhar) as a Computer Science & Engineering student in 2005. During the worst period of downtime (recession), got an on-campus placement in Accenture in 2008. Graduating from college took another year after that, and finally joined Accenture in mid-2009. This is my story so far... Btw, you can find me at: twitter last.fm github librarything granular
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Jun 16

Eleven Things to Note About Man of Steel

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1. Hank and Dusty were different dogs. Some people wondered by the name of Kents’ dog changed.

2. There was a truck repair shop called Sullivan’s; perhaps to honor the character of Chloe Sullivan in Smallville?

3. Amy Adams also appeared in a guest role in Smallville.

4. Henry Cavill looked like Tom Welling (Clark Kent in Smallville) in some poses.

5. Smallville water tank was shown in a fight scene, the only reference to the name of Superman’s childhood hometown.

6. Superman’s suit was from Krypton, that’s why it didn’t wear.

7. There was Dr. Emil Hamilton. Hamilton was an employee of the Queen Industries and a key figure in the the later seasons of Smallville.

8. We could see a LexCorp branded truck-trailer being thrown by Zod onto Superman. Lex Luther coming up in sequel?

9. Too fast paced. Could have (should have) split the story into 2 movies.

10. Zero chemistry between Lois and Clark.

11. Too much destruction. The Clark who rushed from nowhere to save falling unknowns didn’t care about destroying entire buildings full of people (we could easily see that not all buildings of Metropolis were evacuated).

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May 03

I don’t care… I love it

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I Love It by Icona Pop is the song that features in an ad commercial of the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S4. From the ad, you may be compelled to believe that the name of the song is “I Don’t Care”, but it actually is “I Love It”.

It’s a nice, lively song. :)

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Jan 28

The Exciting New Puppy

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LXPUP -- Puppy with LXDE

LXPUP — Puppy with LXDE

A couple of days back, I got myself a new puppy. Nope, not the dog sort. It’s a variant of Puppy Linux, and comes with LXDE. The most wonderful aspect of Lxpup is that it is a perfect fusion of an ultra-lightweight feel (of Puppy) and a more usable (and beautiful looking) desktop environment (LXDE). Really, Puppy works so amazingly out-of-the-box and is so incredibly damn fast that it is pretty hard to resist. Add to it its binary compatibility with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise), and that makes it nothing short of legendary. In short, that gives users the ability to download apps from one of the biggest package repositories on planet.

Puppy’s default window manager, JWM, is kinda annoying to say the least. LXDE is a decent mix of usability and small size, and blends so well with Puppy. In fact, Lxpup’s default customization of LXDE is pretty enough to make you want to keep using it for long.

I’m currently loving my Puppy experience. It runs completely off my USB pendrive. And needless to say, I’m making this post from within Puppy. :)

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Jan 09

The mighty impressive Slax 7

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Slax 7 Desktop

Slax 7 Desktop

I was so impressed with the latest iteration of my oldest favorite mini distro, especially its KDE implementation, that I immediately wanted to make Granular’s next release look like and as fast as Slax. Slax 7 comes loaded with all the bare essentials that actually make sense. Plus its ability to run from a USB drive without much efforts makes it a winner to me.

Everything just works, very straightforwardly. It has a lot of stuff packed in a small size of 220MB, which is a marvelous feat (made possible by use of compressed/packaged modules). But it may or may not detect all of your hardware correctly. For me, it didn’t recognize my WiFi module, which I got working by installing the necessary firmware files (look here for instructions). My laptop’s (Synaptics) touchpad performed fine, but its vertical edge scrolling didn’t. I corrected that using the command synclient VertEdgeScroll=1.

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