Won a photo contest

It's amazing that for the first time in my life, won a photo contest.  Also I won in the category which was judged by a professional photographer.  Not only by the sheer number of votes.  So there were three categories...1.  Most number of votes 2.  Choice by a professional photographer 3.  Most relevant photo.  Being chosen as the best by a professional photographer was really special.  Also the contest organizers shared my photo when announcing the results.  I am really happy.  After a rejection from a conference where I was really hoping, it's good news for me :-)

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Christmas season in Zurich

So I have been capturing some photos for the christmas season, which is just phenomenal in Zurich.  Here are some photos for your enjoyment!!

Weekend fun..tried my first time-lapse video

I shoot all the images for a star trail picture..with my newly bought used 5D.  Thought of making a time lapse outta it.  I love cosmic time-lapse :-D

Dual Boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in Dell Laptop

So I was given a new laptop by Torsten yesterday because I used to use Mac that was really not a good platform of doing real *work* of a computer scientist.  And my old Ubuntu platform laptop was becoming really slow for my purposes.  As the new Dell laptop came with Windows 8, I had to install Ubuntu along with it to make my work going.  I was really having trouble installing it because recently they have updates the BIOS firmware of laptops which they call UEFI. They keep the previous setting of BIOS in a mode called Legacy.  First, as the UEFI mode was not allowing to make a choice for the boot order selection, I went to Legacy mode and installed Ubuntu under it.

But turned out that if Windows 8 is installed under UEFI mode and Ubuntu is under the Legacy mode, your laptop will not allow the enlisting of the two OS-es to make a choice.  You have to install the two OS-es under the same mode.  Thus I found out the most legit way to do it:

After installing Ubuntu,you have to update the grub to detect the installed Windows 8 as well.

For that run the commands described here from Ubuntu.

Probably you will end up having a lot more options that usual, you can delete the extra options by editing