Thanks for the advice. I am currently looking into it. The back end development seems to be in demand right now, I am focusing my effort on Python with Django. In the meanwhile, if I do not pay the bond straight away, I will incur an interest of prime lending rate + 3%, which turns out to be about 15% the last I checked. Thank you for the advice anyway.
As a matter of fact, I am not allowed to contribute to open source projects if not officially approved (read : simply not allowed) and whatever I contribute will remain with the agency I am working for and would be classified.
Sir, I am not cribbing. Rather asking for help to focus my effort in more fruitful direction, the foresight of which I lack, so that at the end of it, I have a reasonable chance of coming out on the top.
Well, the government agency involved here is the Department of Space, Government of India. I am currently working for Indian Space Research Organization and did my Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. My certificates and transcripts are still held up and would not be released unless I clear my bond or complete my tenure. If I leave without notification, the money would be demanded from my surety, followed by legal prosecution if not produced. No health excuses here either. And yes, the department will and has in the past pursued such cases in the court of law and as far as I know, all of them are pending so far.
Getting fired on disciplinary grounds would sum up to physical or sexual assault or smuggling components or something of that order. Not very advisable for somebody just starting his carrier, I think.
I cannot get them to fire unless on disciplinary grounds. Under performing would just get me humiliated. And my place of work is a facility where I am not allowed to carry my personal belongings such as my laptop and as such, I can not work my personal projects in the mean time either.
In case, I quit without notice, my bond surety would have to pay for the bond amount.
I intend to continue with my education and as such, banks are not willing to finance my bond which would effectively leave me with no further source of income. My pay scale is non-negotiable and my first review for appraisal would be at the end of 2017.
I tried finding alternate job opportunities but my particular set of skills does not have a requirement in the current Indian industry as of now, but I am still looking.
No, actually, I am from India. I have checked with lawyers and the agreement may actually not be legal, but I do not want to get into a legal mess, given the current state of Indian judiciary along the lawyer's expenses, it may get stretched for years. In the mean while, my prospects for higher education are at stake as I have to save for it as well. Right now, I am looking for somebody who could possibly guide me through a project, website or application that I can possibly develop in the mean while and pay my bond in a year or two.
As far as my experience is concerned, the graphics card drivers tend to give problems, irrespective of nVidia or AMD. The Intel solutions are stable, heat up a lot less and get the job done, in case you are not into some serious graphics processing.
The wireless card may be another issue, Broadcom support has recently been built in into the kernel, but out of box support is still not there(you need to download the firmware, which is proprietary). Rather, go for an Atheros card, which has much better support.
The rest of the hardware should not be an issue.
Had experience with a lot of machines, including Dell, Acer, HP, Asus, MacBooks as well. Have found the systems with Intel graphics to be most stable and usable. One particular system you may want to look into is Dell Vostro, though am not sure of the Wireless Card in it.