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  1. Android troubles

    September 5, 2010 by Sunit Nandi

    So it has been quite a time. So I must write about it. I have been looking for Android 2.2 on my HTC Tattoo. There isn’t any official build, so I naturally looked for custom builds. But most of them were half done with Camera and FM radio not working. So I went back to the official 1.6 build which had a major problem of lack of bluetooth support. So for now I am abandoning the Tattoo.

    Worse yet, I am having no luck running Android on HTC HD2. The Haret.exe would get stuck in “jumping to kernel..” and would go no further. Poor day today. But I will keep trying.

    Even worse is that I am having my exams at Brilliant Tutorials on Sunday. And Half Yearly Exams in School next month. Life is getting really tough. Lets see what happens.

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  2. My school's starting up tomorrow

    August 8, 2010 by Sunit Nandi

    So finally, my school is going to re-open tomorrow, as our month-long summer holiday is over. Just a matter of few hours, and we all will be able to see our friends again after a long pause. But I am quite worried, because I will be again busy in studies and may not get enough time to spend online. But again I think it doesn’t matter as most of the websites have been properly designed and served.

    Right now I have done quite a lot of Mathematics and Physics lessons during these holidays, thanks to the gruelling competition in Brilliant Tutorials. I might drop dead soon when school starts, hehe!

    And a good news. BSNL 3G has been launched in our area. Before this launch, we were unable to access 3G even if we had a 3G plan. We only got access in the city area. Now that 3G is in the home as well, I decided to test it. The results were quite unexpected and shocking. Despite good speed and bandwidth, the latency is horrible and the packet rate is very bursty and lossy. Pingtest.net gave it a poor rating, i.e, D. Also it passes through a lot of firewalls and accelerators, slowing the system even further. BSNL must realise that the days of GPRS are over and 3G guys do not need accelerators at all. Well, for now I can only say that it is good only for uploading and downloading data, but totally inefficient for real-time applications like TV and video-calling. I just hope that they improve this service and drop prices when private operators join the bandwagon. I am now still sticking to the IIT’s home network.

    Well, so something good happened at the end of the day. All’s well, that ends well. And holiday homeworks? I completed that on Monday. So don’t bug me….!

    Anyway, see you guys soon.

    Have a nice day and enjoy the rest half of the year. Hope you had a nice holiday. 😉

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  3. After a long pause

    August 1, 2010 by Sunit Nandi

    So guys, I was away for a very long time because I did not get time to do most of my activities on the web. My holidays started at the beginning of this month, but preparations for exams at Brilliant Tutorials took up half of the month. Then the rest half of the month was used up by catching up with Brilliant syllabus. The exams results were not good. So the entire holidays appear to be wasted up to nothing. No travelling, no shopping, blah blah blah…..

    Just a week is left for the school to start. Hopefully, something nice may come up. I have completed building the family website and also put a new and simple theme on my blog which looks great with my verbose typing.

    At this moment I am eagerly trying to get my HTC Tattoo to get access to the web, without any appreciated results. Just hope that it will be fine in a couple of days. I have tried transparent proxies but they are hard to set up and I am at it.

    I also wanted to set up a networking site for my school friends, but my partner in this venture is not responding to my requests and his phone isn’t working as well.

    All in all, everything is in a mess. Just hope that everything will be fine soon.

    Ok time to go. Will write again.

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  4. Studying in Brilliant Tutorials

    May 23, 2010 by Sunit Nandi

    Currently, I am studying in Brilliant Tutorials. The materials are good, but I am tired of the teachers who are unable to explain properly. I am waiting so that I get adjusted to them. Hopefully, I will be ok.

    Also, I am migrating the main site to website baker. So it will take some time for me to make the site again. So hang on and wait. It will be out with a whole load of new stuff.

    Anyway, see ya soon!

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  5. Back after boards

    April 15, 2010 by Sunit Nandi

    So it has been ages since I last wrote here. I was away because I was giving my Class X board exams. But since I am back I am going to tell you what has been happening today.

    Boards

    So the dreaded boards finally came. However, I prepared for them beforehand by giving up all my luxuries, including my computer and concentrated on my exams. I have done all my exams very well. But, I am afraid that there was a printing mistake in the science paper where I have a chance to lose 3 marks. But my parents say I could get full there as it was their mistake not mine.

    Now I plan to study for IIT-JEE and am going to take coaching for the very same. I have joined Brilliant Tutorials.

    My relatives visit us

    Just a few days after my exams were over, my relatives came to visit us. They were my Uncle, Aunt, Grandmother and Cousin (all maternal). We visited Hajo with them. It was my 3rd visit to Poa Mecca and one more time can make me equivalent to have gone to Mecca. (Hehe!)

    We also went to several spots and even went shopping with them. However, the shopping session seemed absolutely boring.

    After spending a good time, they left us on Saturday.

    Got two new PDA phones

    The lifetime of the motorola phones got over so soon that we were forced to buy two new PDA phones. One is HTC Tattoo and the other is HTC HD2. I am not going to explain their features here because you can get to read about them in Wikipedia. They are pretty expensive ones but the features they are loaded with far outweighs their costs. Dad has even switched his BSNL mobile connection from 2G (GSM) to 3G (WCDMA/HSPA) to get high-speed data connection on the go. And even 3G is very costly in India. It will take time for the prices to come down. Yet we are happy.

    The Tattoo however has issues with Wi-Fi connections. So it is a must that we use 3G on it. I am currently looking for ways to solve this problem.

    Site building in progress

    Currently I am building the main site. I am still looking for a lightweight CMS to run it because I don’t require all the features a standard CMS has. I want a solution that allows me to add/edit pages and change themes. Nothing much. I settled with Zimplit, but because of its bugs, I am about to try Get Simple. Hopefully, it will be back in place soon. If you can then please suggest me one that I can use.

    I am also thinking of moving our photo gallery to Photobucket. The lack of proper service in PhotoApe is hurting me a lot. Since, I am still under 18 and have no pocket money, I am looking for free services to suit my needs. Please suggest me some good photo hosts with free and unlimited storage.

    Anyway, I have work to do now. Will be posting soon after I host my site. Cya!

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  6. Meeting Michael Fincke

    September 15, 2009 by Sunit Nandi

    So, last Monday, I met Michael Fincke. He had come to Guwahati for a seminar on his last space mission. About 100+ schools had come to attend the programme with over 1000+ students. Each school was allowed to ask one question to Michael Fincke and he could answer each and every question wonderfully. Also, our school too got a chance to have a photo session with him and I am expecting the photos soon.

    Life gives you a chance to fulfil your dreams. But it sometimes fulfils such chances that are beyond our dreams.

    I think this is what happened to me! Hehe!

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  7. Hey, I am gonna meet Michael Fincke!

    September 6, 2009 by Sunit Nandi

    Hello everyone! I have a great news to tell you all. I am going to meet Michael Fincke, a NASA astronaut who spent more than a year in space. News is that he had married an Assamese. So he was visiting his wife’s place, which is in Guwahati city. Incidentally, he was labelled to be the State Guest of Assam and he was welcomed warmly. Other than spending his time here, he will also be holding several interactive sessions with different institutions across the state. Our school is one of those and I am one of those students selected to meet him in order to represent my school.

    Well, I am already getting excited and am looking forward meeting him. I think I will have a nice time and one-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

    Seeya soon! Will be telling you all how I had enjoyed there.

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  8. Lots to do, lots to say!

    July 23, 2009 by Sunit Nandi

    Hello everyone! I am back after a long time to write something. So my post today will be quite long, you see.

    Relatives visit our place!

    In the middle of June, my relatives came to visit us. We had quite a nice time with them and went on an outing to nearby destinations. I went with them to Hajo and had fun visiting the same places again! However, my digital camera started malfunctioning and I could not take any photos on the return journey. Other than that it was great fun.

    1st Practice Test comes up

    After my relatives left, the practice tests came up and had to study a lot. I gave my exams very well and hope to make a good score. The results shall be given in August.

    Yay! Summer Holidays!

    Now summer holidays are going on. This summer I have lesser homework because I am in class 10 and the teachers want us to put our holidays to study. So be it! I am feeling happier.

    Also, we went to our hometown on 13th July. I enjoyed a lot there. It was raining almost every day there and I was having fun getting wet. I also went to stay for a few days in my mom’s cousin’s place. She is pretty good cook and I sat on the chair licking my fingers after wonderful meals :P. My dad did not wish to stay disconnected with his workplace, so he bought a Photon+ wireless broadband service to stay connected. It wasn’t that fast in my hometown, because its a tourist location. But when I was back home, it seemed to be faster than my DSL line.

    Now I am back home, writing this stuff and trying to complete all my homework. I have updated the main web site and I am trying to put a new blog theme. I plan to finish all my homework and make a little discussion forum for my school friends.

    Important Info:

    By the way, how are you all, readers? I wish to notify that our site URLs have changed. The Nandi Family site is now available at http://nandi.uni.cc/ and Sunit’s Life at http://sunit.nandi.uni.cc/

    I think its enough for today. Have to go back to work.

    Take care. Will write again soon!

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  9. Today is my birthday!

    May 6, 2009 by Sunit Nandi

    Hello everyone!

    I am back to write again here. Well, today was my birthday. Before I tell what happened to me today, I would like to say what I was doing the days before.

    I was busy with my day to day activities, tackling homework and preparing for the boards. On Saturday, I went for an eye checkup and found that my myopia had increased by -2 in both eyes. I asked the doc how I could get rid of it, she only replied that I can do so only when I turn 18. There is a long time…

    And today was a very good day for me. I had bought about 200 chocolate bars to distribute among my friends and teachers in the school. I distributed everything and was left with none. However, my classmates kept demanding for more and more! The other section was planning to give a me a gift (god knows what!). Also, my friends were giving me so much attention, that I had never got till this day. We were busily cracking jokes about various people right under the nose of the teacher, and forgot how the day flew by.

    Whatever it is, as I am writing this entry sitting at home. I do feel a little sad as it is a day when I have finished up 15 years of my life. We all do not live forever.

    Anyway, take care and enjoy yourself!

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  10. Exams are over

    March 22, 2009 by Sunit Nandi

    Hello everyone,

    I am back after the exams are over. Holidays are going on. However, I still have to submit my Social Science Lab Manual and this is causing a great deal of trouble.

    Other than that, it is a wonderful holiday. Day before yesterday, my friend in Singapore, Manuel’s Dad, came to IIT my dad’s workshop. This was pretty good because my lost contacts we restored … almost!

    Yesterday, we went to visit Shillong. However, there was nothing good to see as the city was in a bad shape due to water scarcity. We wasted our energy in trips only.

    Also, the Nandi Family site fixing is underway and I hope to complete it soon..

    Will post again when it is done.

    Cya!

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