One day in heaven, the Lord decided He would visit the earth and take a stroll. Walking down the road, He encountered a man who was crying. The Lord asked the man, “Why are you crying, my son?” The man said that he was blind and had never seen a sunset. The Lord touched the man who could then see …
India’s Biggest Event on Audio & Video Podcasting Date: June 9 & 10 (Saturday & Sunday) Venue: Tidel Park Auditorium, Chennai. Cost: Rs.200 Alagappan designed banners saying I’m Attending Podworks.in and I’m speaking at Podworks.in. You can grab those here. PodWorks is an ideal place to learn how to start your own podcast or to discover the latest tips and …
I love Hello World programs. The reason is simple. Whenever i code a hello world, it means i am learning something new. I once found a huge collection of hello world programs here. And yes, i did a hello world program today. It is related cluster programming using MPI . 🙂 . The code for the hello world #include <stdio.h> …
Life is a beautiful poem with so many pages of lyrics written on every page. It depends on whether you sing a song with it or think it as a greek stupid probability junk and leave it . I am gonna sing 🙂 🙂
Wikipedia says, A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) is a particular error condition that can occur during the operation of computer software. A segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access, or attempts to access a memory location in a way that is not allowed (for example, attempting …
Few days back got a message from one of my friend saying , Hey i sent you many messages but i have not received even a single message from you . So i will delete your number … gud bye … Well i was kind of shocked and surprised to get such a message since she was one of my …
Gifts are always fun 🙂 Finally i managed to give a nice senti gift for alagu. It was a small painting, but a nice one 🙂 But better than the painting is the small C snippet which we wrote for alagu It goes like this #include <lrsl.h> #include <kadalai.h> using namespace freenet; #define work fun #define alagu YAHOO MAN int …
“Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be “ I have admired this quote many a times . 🙂 🙂 . Infact it is one of my fav . Today i got a message saying “Hey..Dulta meeting today.. At 8pm .. Sun Lab ..Every1 must come.. So be there.. ! Being confused about …
This is my blog and i have all rights to crap here . This blog may appear as total crap for few, may mean more to few . I really don’t care what you are gonna think about me after you read this . Read the following two stories Story 1 Once upon a time , there was a crow …
Again i was jobless 😛 googling something arbit , when i saw the “I am Feeling Lucky” button in google. It is one of the features in google which i have never used. I always prefer seeing the list of search results and click atleast 10 of them 😛 But it made me think for a moment . Am i …
This is what www.shutdownday.org says — It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out …
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer —Oscar Wilde Wow , this suits my college cycle tests also . The one and only thing which i hate in my college is CT’s 🙁 :(. Those 3 days , I try to read something and end up sleeping the whole day. I think that i wont go to …
Was checking out the settings of google reader and found this quite interesting . The next bookmark is an innovative way to read your subscriptions. It allows you to use Google Reader through just one link – clicking on it takes you to the next unread item, marking it as read in the process. It is particularly useful for subscriptions …
Recently forgot mysql root password for one of the servers i maintain . Little bit googling helped me to reset the password . Just copy pasted the tutorials i saw so that i need not google again . If you have set a root password, but forgot what it was, you can set a new password with the following procedure: …
If at all if someone gives me the right to scrap three events from pragyan i will surely opt for junkyard wars, technical quiz and udaaan . These three are actually very good events when you are a participant. But when if you are the one who is responsible for the quiz software for these events, that too with all …
The big event is gonna start soon !!! “So where will you be from February 1 – 4 ?” . Thats what the website says :). I am doing bytecode and quiz management this time 🙂 . Bad that i could not do anything for dalal this time 🙁 .
Met a doctor for my sinus problem few days back. He said that a small surgery has to be done, but even before that he wanted to me to take an allergy test so that he can find what all things i am allergic too. All he said was that they will do something to your hand . With my …
Well , seems this is the first time linux hates me. I have seen lots of problems with linux but most of them are generally a software not installing coz of failed dependencies or some file system error which a fsck will solve without any major issue . But this time it really screwed me . The reason why it …
The ACM ICPC 2006 Regional Contest was held on December 16th & 17th , 2006 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, coimbatore, and our team ( me , evo and vasu ) was one of the top 50 teams selected for the onsite contest . The travel to coimbatore was really weird this time. This is the second time i am going …
As usual, was jobless at home with a new broadband connection , so chumma timepassing when i found this site So some of them which i might have now or can develop any time is . Agliophobia- Fear of pain. Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals. Altophobia- Fear of heights. Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions. //Err , cant decide 🙂 Didaskaleinophobia- …
Date :: 23 Dec 06 Time :: 4.00 PMPlace :: Cisco Blore Shagan and evo has already mentioned to me about the great speed at which you can access net at cisco , but i have never taken them that much seriously . But when i sat in shagan’s comp to surf net , MY GOODNESS , was really amazed …
FOSS.IN is one of the world’s largest and most focussed FOSS events, held annually India. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the speaker roster reads like a “Who is Who” of FOSS contributors from across the world. FOSS.IN/2006 will be held on November 24-26, 2006, at National Science Symposium Centre of the Indian Institute of Science …
Sometime back, taggy showed me Google code search where one can search inside the source code. And not surprisingly , the first thing he searched in source code was for “fsck” , “bitch”, and “porn” . Actually both of us were not surprised with the results. Taggy infact went to the extent of creating a graph to compare the occurence …