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Buford dam park near Lake Lanier - Address and hours

2008-08-30T06:13:00.000-07:00

This is a really good park. Most of the information about this park can be found online. However, two pieces of information are missing -

1. There is not precise address for the park. If you are driving on buford dam park rd from north, keep an eye on the left side. The board for buford dam park is pretty small and could be missed. The board also reads Lanier Park management in bigger font.

2. When we enter the park a wall on the right hand side reads that the park closes at 4:30pm. However, this is not correct. If you go inside to buy the parking permit you will know that the park closes at 10pm. The good thing is that the beach is pretty much empty after 4:30pm. (based on one visit to the park in August.)

ANSYS - avoiding of the verify prompt - trick

2007-12-25T07:09:00.000-08:00

A way to simulate multiple cases with varying parameters in ANSYS is here!

I wanted to use a simple *DO loop for those but everytime I /clear the database and start a new one, ANSYS would ask me to verify it. Searching the internet and the help did not help. ANSYS seems to have no simple way to get rid of it.

This is the solution I came up with -
1. Initialize the file with /clear in the beginning, ANSYS asks for verification for the very first time (you have to say "yes" for the very first time)
2. Then save this initial database by SAVE,DATA,....
3. Introduce parameters and code the loop
4. Before ending the loop, use PARSAV,... to save the parameters to some file (your results can be parameter arrays; use *GET to save the results as parameters).
5. Then resume the initial database by RESUME, DATA,... (This virtually deletes your database)
6. Now, resume the parameters by PARRES to recover the loop parameters and result parameters.
7. *ENDDO the loops and run the simulation. After the simulations are done, just open the file where the parameters are saved and you have all your results there.

Hope it helps!!! Enjoy ANSYSing!!

How many people visited my website?

2007-07-23T18:44:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, I wonder if people visit my website at all. The "look, what I have done"- feeling is common to every art, and even science, I guess. One who writes wants others to read it, one who composes a piece of music wants others to listen to it, one who discovers something publishes it. A creation is nothing if it is not appreciated. Internet is a very effective tool to publish one's work. (A good prelude for a SSC English paper ends here :D)

Let me come to the point. While surfing on the web, I found the sitemeter on one of the good marathi blogs (मी अनु). This meter may be technically very simple (for the techies) but is very useful. It tells you who's logged on, which sites they came from, where on earth they are located, how many times is the page visited in last so many days/hours etc. And its free! Its pretty amazing.

Disclaimer - I am, by no means, an expert in this field. Use it at your risk. Happy counting!

First time experience with Greyhound

2007-06-07T06:25:00.000-07:00

Last week we traveled from Atlanta to Greenville and back by Greyhound bus. We had heard many different things about greyhound and were a bit worried but the experience was quite pleasant.

The bus from ATL arrived 70 minutes late for no good reasons, though ATL was the first stop. We were standing in the queue for a long time with no information about the status of the bus. The station was very crowded with people from all around the world. The customer service was working at its slowest, boosting frustration.

However, after we got into the bus everything went smooth. The crowd was good and quiet. Bus was clean, even the bathroom was clean. The driver was friendly. And we arrived at Greenville sharp 70 minutes late.

While coming back, the bus was on time and the journey was even better. It was raining hard and we felt good that we did not have to drive.

Line Rider

2007-05-26T20:20:00.001-07:00

Just a few hours back I came across this game called line rider. It is very simple looking game, very cleverly designed to give some food to your creativity. What you need to have is some common sense and a little bit of basic physics.

I was amazed to see what simple lines can do. Let me not explain it here in detail because its a good surprise. I was hoping that I could somehow share my design but I have not figured it out yet. But it is lots of fun if you like making and breaking things.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/linerider

Have FUN.

गूगलशोध

2007-05-18T06:50:00.000-07:00

एकदा मराठीत लिहिणे जमले की बर्‍याच मजा मजा करता येतात. बराहा चा वापर करून नोटपॅड वर लिहिता येते, इंटरनेट एक्स्प्लोरर मधे लिहिता येते. आणि गूगल मधे मराठीत शोधता पण येते. ’सहीच’ की नाही. बघा - तुम्हीच प्रयत्न करून. (म्हणजे मी इथे एक दुवा देणार होतो शोधाचा पण गूगल शोधाचे दुवे जरा जास्तच मोठे आहेत.)

How to write in Marathi or devnagari?

2007-05-17T18:41:00.000-07:00

If you can not see the Marathi text below, please try to open the page in IE6 or higher!

आधी एकदम मूलभूत प्रश्नाकडे - मराठीत कसे लिहावे

उत्तर एकदम सोपे.

खालीलपैकी कुठलेतरी सॉफ्टवेअर संगणकावर चढवायचे आणि आपण जसे मेल मधे किंवा चॅट करताना मराठी लिहितो (mhaNaje mee kaay mhaNatoy te tumhaalaa kaLalech asel :) ) तसेच लिहायचे.

http://www.baraha.com/BarahaIME.htm
http://www.var-x.com/gamabhana/

आणि तुम्हाला माहित आहे का?? - मराठीत शुद्धलेखन चिकित्सा पण करता येते ते... ’सहीच’ आहे की नाही... या घ्या त्यासाठीच्या लिंक्स !

लिहिणे आणि शुद्धलेखन चिकित्सा (spellchek) येथेही उपलब्ध आहेhttp://www.manogat.com/

आणि हो - Firefox मधे वगैरे कधी कधी काना-मात्रा उलटे पुलटे दिसाअयला लागतात. अशा वेळी सोपा उपाय असा - control panel -> regional and language options -> languages tab -> select install files for complex script and right to left languages. Install झाले की संगणक बंद/चालू करा आणि वाचा मराठीत व्यवस्थित.

बस आज इतकेच.