Ever crashed your laptop because you wanted to install GNU/Linux ?
Missing out on real tools simply because you think you cant get the installation right ?
We GLUG-T are organizing a Pengufest (Installation fest and workshop ) .
- Bring in your laptop and we will install GNU/Linux for free and also give you a free dvd :-)
- Customize the softwares you want on yout linux distro and we will install those for you .
- Get in to workshop to see whats latest with the linux distros .
- We help you get started with using linux ,be it as a developer,an artist ( yeah GIMP is great ) or just a end user who likes to be perfectly legal .
- Ever felt the lack of internet not letting you install softwares on your fedora or ubuntu ? we sell you full repo DVD’s .
so,what are you waiting for ?
Jump in here http://pragyan.org/08/home/workshops/pengufest/
or register here http://pragyan.org/08/home/workshops/pengufest/registerÂÂ
My first experience asking questions :)
http://nittians.com/2008/02/04/coffee-with-vivek-and-arvind/
BTW coffee talks wont appear on my blog i thought i should keep it NITTIans.com exclusive :-)
Like any premiere college in india ,NITT has its own share of successfull alumni too and what better way for students to learn than from the men who actually did it .
Ever wondered how it should be talk/interact with people who passed out a decade ago and are up their in the ladder where you aspire to be ? better if they went to the same school you are .The flow of knowledge and guidance is almost infinity !.
It is in that desire and an attempt to create such a vibrant community for NITTians ,by them and for them that we have pulled up NITTians.com
While at the outset its going to aggregate all the blog/journals of NITTians we also want to use it a platform to showcase the things that happen in the campus and the things our alumni do in the real world !
It has already arrived and yes its hosted now at my shared hosting and not sure how its going toscale up .It would be great if any our rich :D alumni can sponsor some good space ! .We have built this portal involving quite a few tools from python,php and memcache .We surely expect this site to pull up some bandwidth An ordinary ultracheap wont do the work ! it has to be a host thats good like the mediatemple or such hosts ! ther are surely going to be costly .But where there is a wil there is a way .
Iam sure with time we will find a solution to this as well ,dont panic if the sites goes down for a few hours ( shared hosting has it issues) and we will come out great soon,pretty soon infact !
keep watching NITTians.com .
Special thanks to alagu sundarrajan and suren for their enthusiasm,support and promised support and also the design guys who made up the logo and poster for us :) thank you guys
I love seeing unread mails but today wasn’t a good day .I just recieved the news that Thamarai selvan passed away .No he wasnt my friend but i did get a chance to interact with the team .I wished he lived longer :( not to be though .
I did what i could ,donating a small amount of money and also help spreading the word by blogging on My own blog and At Archie’s . Hehas been under treatment for more than a year for Aplastic_Anemia .
Archir behen anduday bhai were generous enough to donate the money they earned through their blog for a year for his cause and i take this chance again to thank them for this gesture ,it may not have saved him but it atleast tells me ,there are still enough souls alive who don’t mind giving their bit for others.
It makes me feel very sad and upset such things have to happen but also a grim reminder all our days are counted as well .
I convey my deepest condolences to Thamarai selvan and his family and also a word of appreciation for KCG Tech and his friends for making this effort until the last breath .
We might have been unlucky this time around but iam sure some day some other person ,some other place we might be able to save other’s life .
I know i have been away from my blog for some time ,but i this news was too big for me to handle ,so i thought may be i should share it with you guys .
Keep Faith !
Update: you can also follow the same post and comments here
http://archie.lipsmusic.net/archives/2007/10/25/personal/unwelcome-mails/#comments
Do you know a guy who lives in NIT,Trichy,a former google intern ,coder,a guy who was woed by microsoft and google for 48,50 lpa’s , do you know a guy who is the first indian to get in to Google USA ( first time i have heard someone saying Google USA) and also he has a salary of 96lpa and above all someone all the girls drool over ? (ROTFL !!! ) .
If you have not, meet the guy here
http://lifeofkarthik.blogspot.com/2007/08/googleco-in.html
I must tell you even iam yet to meet the described guy although the guy described and myself have been roommates for more than 2 years now and sit on the same benches in classroom most of the time .
Its funny how much msk has imagined,not one of them is true ( alright some are ) ,its true that he has given his interview at Google and is a former google intern but MS and G fighting for him is too much i say :-) and even more is stanford and MIT call ,i know how much he is preparing for GRE :P . I don’t know how long this is going to stay but as long as it does have fun and for those who want to read it ,i have copy pasted it here as well http://theyagar.com/code/iyergoogle96lpa.txt
Add to that ,Prasanna’s google mentor actually commenting on the blog post ;) rumours make college life a lot of fun but this is one was way too much considering that he is still jobless :D .
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