Computer Ass(es)ociates

As usual and as always, another eventful day at C.A.(officially :- our company for our final year project ; unofficially :- our getaway from the boring and sick lectures of our college;-))

We reach early (9 am) knowing a lot had to be done....finishing the first module (never seems to get over
:-( )...documentation....starting the second module.....
We start off well, deciding the agenda, delegating work....we even get a presentation from Ansih regarding the database schema ;-)

But now things take a turn for the bad.....

It is past lunch time...and all we have done is exhaust the vast ocean of information, knowledge, data and a host of other things.....GOOGLE ;-)... And to make matters worse....the three computers that we are workin on are rendered useless....one has the software but not ASP...other has ASP but not our software...and the third one has neither....urghhh!!!! (software:- is the product we are workin on...ASP:- we are using it to develop our solution)
I finally decide to install ACCESS on one of the machines which had ASP workin..so that we can atleast do somethin....others warn me( read Neha)...that Ashok (our guide...and may i add the best guide ever) was very skeptical of ours even using the 'production' machines, let alone installing something on them....

We however decide to install and if things wernt bad enough..this is what happens
I insert the CD...and WHAM!!!!.. The drive gets stuck...The cd could not be read...and even the eject button stops functionin.....We press and press...but the goddam cd wouldnt come out.....We even get hold of some lever to try and manually eject the drive.......The sight of Anish trying his best to open the drive...reminded us of someone trying to push a car.....it was hilarious............
Finally, one of the person working there...came to our rescue...As it turned out nothing was wrong with the drive...just that...linux was also on on the same machine...and the cd-drive was mounted.....whatever the case..we really looked like fools..(read Computer Asses) when the person ejected the CD with just a click of the mouse...........

It was evening now...and still no progress......then finally as a bolt of lightening.....we found some method that would be helpful...We implemented it...(by now we had installed ACCESS ;-)...and most of it ran...There were of course a few bugs and there still are....and of course there are still some issues which need to be resolved.....however, when we finally left the C.A. office...we, as always, felt a feeling of having done somethin..of having achieved something..no matter how small......a feeling that had been missing for the past three years