KDE 4 @Pengufest – A Curtain “Raiser”

The day finally came when pegufest gt rolling with its first guest lecture..The guy who came as such was looking like some fresh graduate(we had a sort of nice cook up early in the morning whenwe missed out to recieve him in the railway station)… so i thought he wud make the guestlecture interesting He made me remember this age old and boring saying abt gold and glittering… the way ppl   thronged the GL hall really surprised suren and me considering tht it was the day 0 of Pragyan and we were scared tht this guy might talk too techy and scare off the begginers (tht was the least outcome of his GL) … eventually we had a bad outing because of this guy … sort of let down the hopes we had of huge response for pengufest… he had a one and half hour session on some chat games and applications tht he had devoloped for KDE4 … So we finally were done with him and u knw to keep interest in guys sort of convinced them tht u wont have such mokka things from day 1(thanks to suren and anshu who took the pain of waking up several of us sleeping in tht glooomy class room by giving short talks in the due course of  the so called GL)  So Will we have a nice outing at day 123??? lets wait and see .. i am sure we need to put up a good show to compensate for wht he has done

PS : for guys who missed his GL …. congrats u have not wasted an hour attending his GL…

and for guys  who attended it… sorry guys… this aint in ma control!!!

Pengufest@ Pragyan ‘08

to put it in a nutshell pengufest is an event happening during pragyan 08 … as such the event is on promoting GNU/Linux and we hav planned to do some workshops and conduct some guest lectures from some eminent ppl from FOSS chennai …So interested ppl can try out their hand in Linux .. more interested in Linux?? then stay cool and bring ur laptops to us.we will have linux installed in ur comp for FREE !!(as such Linux is free )..

Registration closed!!!!

This is ma sad story of how i missed my first attempt at topcoder this morning….. I thought i got to start topcoding (chumma thought of starting it… must have started ages ago when i started SPOJ) and was prepared for The SRM 391….So i tried my very best to get up at 7 in the morning(after finfishing 3 linux installations in my hostel the previous night…. ) I got up saw tht time was 7.00 already… didnt even brush.. and got on straight to “The I Lab” .. I think this is where my sad part starts… i chose a comp next to akhil and sat down to log in(hold on ilab is the internet lab of NITT and its “very fast!!!”… i gave the machine my user name and xxxxx as my password…. and then waited for two mins…. it said “loading your personal setings.”… i had sme patience (i am not tht patient either)so i waited for another two mins… and this thing kept on saying “loading my personal settings” …. (i thought tht the comp had taken a break!!! but why me:-( )…. so i kept waiting and waiting and tilll it loaded… and then went to topcoder site eagerly and pressed the register tab in the applet.. only to see tht the ****ing registration was over minutes ago…. Actually a bad start if u consider topcoding… so friends …. never trust a comp in i lab…. They have all these 1 gb ram stuff and things.. bt our NITT network server is so fast tht it brings down the comp speed to its own “high speed”…

P.S Please leave your condolenses below…

My First Post

now since this is ma first post i thought i could put something sensible!So here is my first effort.but the only hurdle to cross was the topic on which i am gonna post on… should it be on my recent happennings back home or something like my favs…or something to say on my fav hero kamal hassan and abt jakie chan coming for “dasavatharam” audio realease or something abt ma coll and stuff.. there i gt plenty because thts NITT(well thts the coll where i landed up )i was planning on describing the latest comedy tht Mr Genious(CSE Prof-The one who knows wht really programming is !!!)did….

Students:Sir the lab server has crashed!!

Mr Genious: (after seriously going through the sever)”Oh… i think ‘maybe’ its because of the AC is not working properly”!!!

lol …i gt all those stuff like tht in my dept man… sort of proud to say tht(should i really… well not indeed .. forget it.. NITT comp sci rocks!!!)

So, since i couldnt say something on tht i thought of telling u guys abt my laptop… i call it The Phoenix(hoping tht it comes back alive each time it dies!! it did ofcourse the last time when i installed fedora thirce on a single day )So i am not gonna let down my lappy in front of u ppl…. so the next thing on my mind was abt my college techfest coming up next week -Pragyan’ 08…bt its yet to come and to say abt something before it comes is not my way…. then i thought of telling u guys abt my vetti life at NITT … bt ppl already know me and thts why they have given me a name of vetti Sathya…

And  then i finally , I thought of telling u guys on wht all went in my mind to tell u first…. i am sure i have missed a lot over here (because i gt to keep my blog going… dont want to finish it all in a single shot)… thts it for nw.. and finally thanks to suren for making me blog…. it was his blog tht sort of created an interest in me to blog