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CBSE Class XII Physics Practical Activities Manual

The whole problem with our school physics department is that even though they create manuals for our use, they keep just one copy – from which every dork is expected to take to the school photostat shop and get it Xeroxed. Maybe it’s an evil scheme to make money, maybe it’s just plain dumb – and I really can’t say which one it is because BOTH are quite likely. I asked our physics teacher once if she had a soft copy, she said yes but…

…I have seriously no idea where it is…

That, in a school which is investing in ‘state-of-the-art’ (my quotes) database system to file such stuff. So anyway, I got one copy made, and with my heart full of compassion to do good to others (and get many more hits), I decided to scan ’em and put ’em up for download. It’s a zipped file containing individual scans of different pages. Don’t enjoy.

Download the CBSE Class 12 Physics Practical Activities Manual (it’s a biggie – approximately 18 MB in size)
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Sify Boo Boo

Who says Indian companies (especially tech ones) don’t have a sense of humour? A few days ago, I was trying to upgrade the version of the Sify Broadband Linux client on my computer…

Sify Broadband dialer page
To be fair, I already did have the tarball with me, but just for fun, I decided to download the RPM version too, and see later if I wanted to use it via Alien. Here’s what happens when you click on the link for download (RPM version)…

Sify boo booA custom page. Not the placeholder error page. Wow, it seems they might not spend that much time on their network, but they DO spend time on their fucking error pages.

Ah, one more nugget. I’d recently called them up to renew my pack, and put me on hold. Quite some time passed, so I snapped back. Here’s what the call centre guy said…

Sify call centre guy: I’m sorry sir, but I’m experiencing slow speeds on my LAN. It’ll take some to get your pack renewed.

Well, I guess THAT answers a lot of questions. Anyway, you might be wondering why I’ve stuck to Sify and keep cribbing about it. Well, I have spoken to my parents about it…

Me: Dad, why don’t we change our ISP? I mean, it stops work at quite a few times; and I can’t go online – it hurts for a comp junkie like me…
Dad: [with a smug smile] That, my son, is the whole POINT, you see…