/*----Original Post----*/
Title: Orkut is dead
No, not that Orkut is being closed or something. It, however, has died for me.
I have been unable to log into Orkut for 2 days now, and now it seems that my account information was mishandled. I'll tell you what happened, and why I feel the way I feel.
For the past two days, no one I know was able to log into Orkut but this afternoon onwards everybody has been able to log into Orkut; well almost everybody. I tried to log in, but it kept saying Bad, bad Orkut. No donut for you.
I tried to change my Google/Orkut account username and was able to do that successfully (the only success in the whole process, as you'll see shortly) but with the new username also I could not login.
I lost patience and tried to connect my Gmail account to my Orkut account. Now, when I tried that, it asked me to enter my Orkut account info which I did gleefully. Orkut replied, Invalid password!
What adds salt to injury is the fact that when I login into Google Accounts (www.google.com/accounts), it tells me that I am still subscribed to their Orkut service.
I think I'll change my stance.. Google sucks!
Google sucks more than Microsoft, because with Microsoft one can atleast restart ;-)
/*----End of Original Post----*/
/*----Follow Up----*/
Less than 5 minutes after publishing the original post, I tried to login again by clicking on someone's Orkut profile link and ALAS I was logged in.
So, I change my stance again.
Google still sucks, but now it sucks as much as Microsoft because it did the equivalent of a reboot before things started working :-P
/*----End of Follow Up----*/
/*----Follow Up to Follow Up----*/
Amazing! Something weird happening here.
My posts have started to disappear. No that's incorrect. I'll give you a good analogy from the world of my favourite operating system: Linux.
<ANALOGY>
root user, that's me, sets up a repository of all Bryan Adams' songs (okay, Pink Floyd's too) and gives all the users a read permission
[$chmod -r 755 BryanAdamsAndPinkFloydSongs/]
root then enjoys the songs for about 10 minutes, then goes to eat (let's say, cholcolate cake) and when he comes back does not find the songs folder there!! What's astonishing is that he finds a non-root user listening to all those songs from the same folder (not a copy of that folder, not a cached copy either).
While root is pondering over how this happened, that user comes to root and requests the root to share the folder again, which basically means that this non-root user also cannot see the folder anymore. No one now knows where the folder is!
A day later, root realizes he had made a copy of the folder elsewhere and therefore is able to get back the folder. Still, no one knows what happened to the original folder.
</ANALOGY>
Now I'll tell you how this is related to my original post and the follow up to it. So,
| original post | = | the songs folder; |
| root | = | me, i.e. the owner of the blog; |
| non-root user | = | you, i.e. the reader; |
| current post | = | the recovered folder; |
No, I won't change my stance again. Who knows, may be that's the reason behind my dis-appearing posts.
/*----End of Follow Up to Follow Up----*/
My god! You are really very patient.
