Tecuthsav2008-a technical festival at TCE!

Our college,Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai is stepping in to its 50th year of Academic Excellence. We are celebrating our golden jubilee in a grand manner. Adding to our celebrations we are conducting a national level technical festival Tecuthsav2008 spanning 4 days from feb 13,2008 to feb 17,2008. India's best brains are competing for this 1.7 million event. This multi disciplinary event will provide a way to showcase your technical expertise and skills in various fields to this competitive world.For further details about the contests and other informations visit our official Tecuthsav2008 website.

I m back!

I am glad I am back after a long break. This duration has been with many interesting events and colorful moments. I started my final year project last sem and attended a project review last week. My project is to automate the web-hosting in our college. I will talk more on this in coming days. As a General secretary of our department student's association, organized various tecnical events for our juniors. My final year college life is going great, enjoying every moments with my friends.I am having only 9 hours a week for theory papers and the rest for our project. Having more for project helps us learning new technologies for our project. Got a laptop to blog regularly:-).First ride in our new car TATA Indica on Dec 1,my sister's birthday.Driving TATA now:-).Bought my third mobile in 4 years on Diwali day.This time it is sony ericsson K750i.I will share my views on different things from my college life to my project, views on politics and other things. Anyways, keep visiting:-)

CSEA Inaugural Function...

Yesterday 25.06.2007, we had our Computer Science and Engg Association(CSEA)inaugural function for the academic year 2007-08 presided by our faculty advisor Mr.M.ShivaKumar and with very special Chief Guest Mr.V.RamPrakash, MD, Industrial Electronics. The chief guest is an alumnus of our college and had a great experience in the field of electronics. He delivered a motivating speech and loaded lot of ideas about the current industrial world.
Me and SaiKrishna were officially announced as the GeneralSecretaries of our association(CSEA) and Kokila and SasiSidarth as the JointSecretaries.

"TCENet " - The Most Innovative Project

TCENet,our college intranet portal, got the most innovative IT project award for the year 2007 by the PCQuest, a IT Magazine.
TCENet hits almost all the local news papers. An article about TCENet in The Hindu
I personally feel happy as i am also working in the TCENet team.
This is our TCENet ..

From TCE to TCS...!!!

There were many golden moments for me in TCE. Last week I got another chance to cheer. I got placed in Tata Consultancy Services. I started the Placement training with an unfortune. Got 6th semester results with one mark needed for the next higher grade in 4 out of 6 subjects. Disappointed with the results and my confidence level was also very low at that time. Thanks to my seniors Subramani( special thanks man), Praveen, Senthil who encouraged me a lot during mock interviews. I really worked hard then and acquired TCS:-) . My friends also got good placements. Karthikeyan, Annamalai, Ashok and some others placed in TCS and Vins, ArunPrasaath and others got placed in CTS. We started our placements season with a success and hope this will continue in the coming days also.

My 6th sem at Dusk!!!

Finally i have come to an end of an another edition of my engineering course, my sixth semester working days are over and i have to complete my sem formalities, the final exams:) . This semester brought many things to cheer and few moments to tear.Lot of things started, learnt technically something, disappointed with few failures. This is the first sem i faced few misunderstandings with my friends, some problems from an unknown person, heard some emotional stories among my friends and a lot to remember. Some of the things which left its print in my heart are

* Attended FOSS2007 , a festival on Free and Open Source Software tools in my college
* Participated in Interface07 online events
* Won 3rd prize in GNU/LINUX programming contest in my college
* Attended Plaisir07,an intra dept culturals.Our class team is the overall champion
* Finished 3rd in Poetry writting in Plaisir07
* Got 2nd prize in skit in Plaisir07
* http://alumni.tce.edu released
* Registered for RedHatChallenge competitions with Vins and Balachandran
* My friend's marriage
* Enjoyed Sugirtham07, our hostel day
* I saw my friend crying like a child for his love.. infact i too disappointed after hearing that he had sacrificed many things even his rights as an co-worker for his love
* I was really irritated by a person sending rubbish mails..yet to find his face
* Heard emotional stories among friends and i really felt happy to have such caring persons with me..hope my friendship with such persons come for ever
* My attendance hangs around 75% and i atteneded all the classes on the last working day :-)

DTrace..!!!

As I mentioned earlier I started working in OpenSolaris10..It really rocks like anything..The GUI is amazing and it looks cool..Last week i spent more time with my solaris box trying to learn the things..First i thought of installing GCC and othe GNU tools from outside..Then only i found all those things are available in /usr/sfw/ itself and we need to set path or just copy paste it in /usr/bin and will be fine ..I am compiling in GCC now..The most powerful tool in the world DTrace, anyone can accept this if they started working on it..I spent few days on it and learnt the basics(still need to know many)..It needs more practice to get familiar with and i am working with little action scripts now..it rockzzz.. it will give more knowledge on OS if we practise it properly..Before ending this post i wish to say u "IF U WANT TO KNOW MORE ON OPERATING SYSTEMS, DONT STICK TO UR SYLLABUS ALONE, START WORKING WITH DTRACE"..meet u with my next "Drop!!"..bye

TCE Alumni Portal...

Finally the portal designed by me with my friend is launched to public access today. It is designed using Drupal. In that portal, we have facilities for mailing, groups, forum discussions and blogs for every registered user. I hope the portal will surely make alumni to participate in all college events like placement recruitments, alumni meets,etc.,The link of the portal
http://alumni.tce.edu

finally my prob solved..!!!

In my box i installed OpenSolaris in one hard disk(hd0) and the windows in in another disk(hd1)..
I found difficult in accessing both operating systems from the same grub..Finally i found a solution for this using the grub function map( )
grub> map (hd0,hd1)
grub> map (hd1,hd0)
The map option makes virtual swap between the disks and both the hd0 and hd1 appears virtually as the first disk. Now i can easily enter my windows from the grub without changing the disk every time as i did before..Now i can work in unix environment and see films in windowsXP(what else can we do with windows:-)) without much efforts..meet you with my next "Drop"..bye

FOSS tools-makes programming simple..!!!

Last week i got an opportunity to attend a seminar on FOSS debugging tools by Mr.AnanthShrinivas, an alumnus of our college working in Sun Microsystems.The session was very informative and he showed the demonstration on various debugging tools like GDB-the GNU project debugger, Valgrind, ltrace, mtrace..All the tools are cool to work with. I worked with GDB before the session when my friend introduced it.This session added extra ideas about GDB..The valgrid demonstration was interesting as it pointed errors with memory management in the program with error line numbers.very cool tool..Next i attended a seminar on DBMS and Internet programming tools by Mr.Senthilkumaran,SpikeSource India Limited..He covered various FOSS DBMS tools like MySQL,PostgresSQL,small foot-print databases like SQLite and some informations on the products of SpikeSource..These sessions introduced some interesting tools and i need to work more on it..

See India2006 with me..!!!

India faced lot of important events in 2006. Here i have given some important events in my view

Indo-US Nuclear deal

The Indo-US civilian nuclear deal is the one of the controversial steps faced by India this year. Some people in india supporting the treaty while others are opposing it. The supporters argued that India needs uranium for its energy needs and this treaty is the must for the Indian energy needs. Yeah I accept all these things,but India is the second largest nation in Thorium productions. We can very well use this thorium for the next hundred years and even beyond that for our energy needs. All we need to do is work on our fast breader reactors. In current technology we can meet our energy needs in 3 step process using thorium reactors and it needs uranium in the second step in the process. According to this treaty, we are supplied by US the large amount of uranium for the next 10-15 years. This will affect our investments and serious work in the thorium plants. We will become the permanent customers of Uranium to US. This treaty makes our civil nuclear plants under international study which is not a good sign for India’s security as we are doing research works for our defence in some of these plants.
The India-US deal will bring few benefits but impose high costs, including an inappropriate energy path, which cannot be measured within a purely nationalist matrix. It deserves to be scrapped. However, even more costs lie in what the deal does to the cause of global nuclear disarmament and peace. With what face can India now advocate global disarmament after being admitted to the “Atomic Apartheid” order by the US?
The Americans can dominate the world only by creating unequal alliances and thus eliminating the emergence of the rival. For the past more than half a century, India is one of the major states that is away from the US alliances. Now we too joined the alliance and we now become the US junior ally by this treaty. US treaty with India in another view is to oppose the growth of China as nuclear power in Asia by imposing their ideas in our policies. It is good for Washington but for New Delhi??? –become slaves to the masters.
India would be better off signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), rather than this deal!!! At least the NPT allows a signatory to exit, but the deal will bind India forever to the US, all for a certain quantity of uranium:)

Reservations In Elite Institutions

The another important issue faced by India this year is the strikes and oppose against the OBC reservations. I always support the reservations for the welfare of the nation. For the development of the nation it is essential to develop people of every levels. If we started supporting the creamy layer alone, it will make a wide partition among the people based on the economy which is not good for any of us.
The strikes against this were due to their seniors who had created the wrong assumption among the students. They made them to think that they had lost their oppurtunitues to the lower value students by the reservations. In this issue we should think in a broader sense rather than thinking selfishly.

Industrial Developments

This year showed a good progress in IT industries. Many multinational countries increased their investments in India. Tata started its new car manufacuring plant in west bengal. Many developments were faced in this field other than this.

State Elections

This year, state assembly elections were conducted in Tamilnadu, Assam, Kerala, WestBengal. In Tamilnadu, a dravidian party alliance got the majority to rule the state. In kerala and Wbengal communist parties got the power and in assam,the rule was to congress.

Sports

Indian sports faced different phases in this year. Indians secured nineth place in Asian games medals tally. India dominated in Tennis in the Asian games. Indian hockey showed a bad performance this year. Our national game needs an immediate treatment now to regain our past dominance in this game.meet you with my next "Drop!!"..bye

me and 2006..!!!

2006 leaves with lot of memorable moments. This year’s diary becomes one of the sources of sweet memories.I faced some ups and downs with good experience every time. This year introduced me the OpenSolaris through my senior Mr.AnanthShrinivas. Now I am working in opensolaris environment. I have to learn more in this and working for it. I got an oppurtunity to work with content management systems for my college. In this year we went kodaikkanal for industrial visits. Enjoyed with my friends there. Then I have to say about our symposium Cyber06. Our friends made this a grand success by their dedicated work in all committees. I worked in the paper presentation committee and our team did a good job. Though this year introduced me some technical things, I slipped a bit in my exams compared to my previous years. This may be due to my laziness in the exam halls to write the answers completely:). But I am happy with my results. Though this year bags many sweet memories ,I faced some bitter things towards the end of this year through an unknown friend. He used to mail me frequently without his name and saying some unwanted informations about me and my friend. I did a mistake by replying his mail and he started disturbing my peace in all means. Hello friend,don’t trouble me atleast in the coming year. Come with ur original face. Waiting for u:)

Lee-Hesh,The Great Pair!!!

From Grand Slam glory to Olympic dominance, Leander-Mahesh pair have done it all for India.This pair showed the aggressive side of Indian tennis...they were the best and most charismatic sports persons from India. Anyone can accept this if they have seen the finals at the center court,Doha.After losing the first set to the Thailand twins Ratiwatana,the Indian tigers came back strongly to defend their gold medal. They saved 7 gold medal points against the Thai brothers. Ratiwatana brothers even dont want to forget the way the Indian masters make the gold medals to their packets. Excellent lesson by the two greats. Great commitment by the 'IndianExpress'. But again they expressed their differences in the public.Their relationship has seen many ups and lows. But still, they manage the results. This latest flare-up too, can be resolved..All it will take is two men to sit down and talk. If they don't then it won't be the best ending for a pair who once had the world at their feet.meet u with my next "Drop"!!..bye

Black Hat..!!!

Yesterday my friend's password was cracked and the cracker deleted all the accounts. The password used by friend was very easy to guess as she used a person's name and very weak. The black hats enjoy unethical hacking and they use different techniques to crack the passwords. The Shoulder surfing, Dumpster diving are the common techniques used by the black hats. To avoid the password steal, the passwords should be chosen in such a way that they should be as long as possible, include mixed-case letters if possible, should not be based on any personal information and not be based on dictionary word. Make sure that your passwords are strong and keep your accounts safe. meet you with my next "Drop"!!..bye..

RSVP Friendships and BBB..!!!

I always like to have more friends. Enjoyed a lot with them. Recently i heard from a friend that his friend wanted to talk with him for several hours even during the exams through the cell phone. I am having a doubt whether these persons know what a friendship means!! Do they want to refresh their friendship periodically( once in two seconds so that other can use the other second:) ) by saying "I am your friend" for several hours similar to the RSVP refreshing the soft states:). Yeah i accept that these friends are more possessive towards their friends and I praise them. But they should know that they are spoiling their times unnecessarily during their exams, project times. Dont you believe your friends. Dont you know that your friend is also preparing for the exams. Even the Indo-Pak problems are not discussed more than an hour :). Also using the cell phones continuously will affect the Blood Brain Barrier(BBB), a physiological mechanism that alters the permeability of blood capillaries so that some substances, such as certain drugs are prevented from entering the brain tissue while other substances are entered freely. There are some other physical disorders are also possible. Friends think atleast now and make your presence a valuable one to your friend and dont make them feel bad about you to others..meet you with my next "Drop"!!..bye

Day of Advice...

First day of the last month, my sister celebrated her 22nd birthday today. I thought of wishing her at 12.00 am..got up only at 8.then enrolled my belated wishes through phone.she expected my call from the early morning..In the afternoon, while i was driving my two-wheeler to hotel , I met with a minor road accident. That guy drove his vehicle assuming that he was driving in air. I too didnt notice him as i was busy with my cell messaging my friend in the Theatre. It was fortunate as i landed my foot in a correct place instead of going into their wheels..escaped with only small scratches in my left leg ..but it itself caused pain,loss of blood..again a good experience..as a consequence heard advice from my dad and mom..they used the chance very well :) ..went hospital, again advice from my doctor also..thus today was really a day of advice..:)..meet u with my next "Drop"..bye

Parliament to Duban..!!!

Yeah the defeat at Durban was a debacle. It made all Indians feel sad. But the way the opposition party MPs behaved in the Parliament on this issue was really a painful. They questioned BCCI President Mr.Sarath Powar in the question hour about India's failure in Durban. Is it necessary to discuss this in the question hour??. I am having a sudden doubt whether these members know the Nation's demands and the needs or just simply filling the seats of the Parliament. Dont they remember that Mr.Powar is also our union Agricultural Minister. In most part of the country, farmers are suffering a lot and suicides are becoming common in their families. Why dont they ask questions about their welfare. They should try to understand their responsibilities. Do they really worrying about India's pride or just thinking about the BCCI's wealth and richness. They should atleast remember that they are wasting the moneys of the tax payers (I dont know whether these MPs are paying their tax properly :) ..). If they dont know anything about the Nation other than Cricket, its high time for them to leave their chairs to others thinking about the Nation.meet u with my next "Drop"!!..bye

My next journey..!!!

I have got an oppurtunity to do a project in OpenSolaris through our alumni Mr.AnanthShrinivas. The project is on BusyBox. BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind both to produce small binaries and to reduce run-time memory usage. We are a group of six members working on this. I like this team very much. All are good team workers. I hope we will complete our work with a grand success. meet u with my next "Drop"!!..bye..

Cool Drupal..!!!

I feel pleasurable satisfaction over the way my holiday project ends.We(me and my friends Vins and Bhim) tried to design Alumni portal for our college.We used Drupal CMS to design and completed our work before the college starts.The Drupal is very cool to work with.made our work easy.Enjoyed the features of Drupal,great experience.meet you with my next "drop"!!..bye

It's Over!! Yeehaa!

Yeehaa..!!Exams are over for me.very short holidays but anyway deserve the short break from mess food, slow fan and many.Exams were tough, but fair. Fairness definitely was in everyone's words (with "tough" and "long" quite frequent as well), in the way that there was little surprise on every question paper..meet u with my next "Drop"!!..bye..