it
is past midnight over here – there is some bit of confusion about
the time; about that later.
I
was dozing off till after midnight and got up an hour or so back and
had my rice gruel and pulses – poocha madam
came in and had the same stuff as I had; she must have been starving
for otherwise she would not have eaten the stuff - the trick is to
put some oil.
After
that I switched on the modem of the adsl connection that I am
supposed to be having. Interestingly now a days the adsl light is not
playing that hide and seek game – it has been steadily glowing ever
since it came on the first time – I am keeping a watch on it to see
if the hide and seek factor has come back; NOT yet.
And
it is the same system, the same modem, the same telephone line and
the same exchange and the same isp – then how come the problem with
the adsl has disappeared for so long ?
What
exactly is it ? Is there a change of guard ?
Most
unlikely; it could just be a change of tactics.
All
is not well and here is why :-
I
am using a template for my blogs and it has a date and time stamp
that the system inserts. I opened the template and interestingly the
time stamp was one hour ahead of the actual time in GMT - my
puter as well as my wall clock has the time in GMT and that is by way
of becoming a universal citizen for a beginning.
The
time on my clock was 07.30 pm gmt while what was inserted by the
system on the template was 08.30 pm gmt!
Could
be that the template had the time in the document is manually
entered. So I tried deleting it and the whole time got deleted en
block, typical of a system inserted time.
I
tried re-inserting again and it again came up with the time 8.31 pm.
So
I opened date and time adjustment facility of my puter; there the
time was exactly one hour behind past seven thirty, the same as the
one on my clock.
I
usually do not check the option for the daylight saving time. All
the same I checked up and reassured myself.
So
I tried ticking the option and the time on my system turned to past
08.30pm same as the one shown on the document template.
Then
I took off the check and this time it came as past seven thirty pm.
So that was the problem.
Now
I tried inserting the time again on the document template and it
inserted the time past 7.30 !
Any
idea how come the system was inserting a time an hour ahead of the
time on the system that I am using ?
Becauge,
the system that is in control of the document, that is the pimp's
system has opted for the daylight saving time option.
So
all is not well.
Does
it matter ? Well, it does.
But
there are positive aspects to it – I can convey my messages to the
hiding opposite party in whichever language I please;
punjabi/hindi/tamil/malayalam and even angrezi - and all that they
can do about is sweet eff all.
Also
I am going to make as much hay as possible while it lasts; for the
first time since I got the bsnl bullock cart of nedumangad installed
here I was able to down load a few 12 mb files this month. That is a
real something – some four podcasts from the bbc.
incidentally
I tried copying it on to a cd this evening the basic idea is that
once on the cd I can play it on my vcd player which does not have a
usb slot and listen to it as I do my cooking without switching on the
computer and all that happened was I got another of my blank cds
damaged.
None
of the cd writing softwares work on my puter and so I had been using
the windows cd writer facility of the win XP and till recently it was
working. I am afraid that has also been compromised since, as per
technical advice received from the “white” spies.
