Happy Birthday To Me
I dont think it deserves any explanation, if you have checked out my previous posts.
Pic Courtsey: Rwik
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Apr 08
Something for Human Beings
Our friend and beloved CR, Ankur Bansal is one of the laziest person on this earth. When he has no work he gets busy with his GF’s. Imagine of the scene what would happened when one of his GF’s messaged him to get online, only when he found that Vikash’s computer had crashed 
This happened a long time back. At that time Rock didnt have his laptop and solely relied on Vikash’s desktop for satisfying the unsatisfied lot (Note: pun intended) 
. Now what can he do? At that time there came an excellent idea in his mind. He just took out an Ubuntu CD which Vikash had ordered long back and booted from it in *Live Mode*. Net works flawlessly out of Box in Ubuntu, which proved out to be a boon.
This story was leaked out by Rwik and he did give an expert comment, which can be well used for publicity of Ubuntu reguarding its ease of use and simplicity. Here I designed the poster highlighting it.
Note: This story is approved by Rock for public display.
12
Mar 08
SE Project Nightout
Have you ever seen killing an ant with a gun? Or fretting hours for getting things done which could be achieved in a few hours? Yeah! We did it. It took us more than 6 hours to do something which can be done in just an hour. This is how we did it 
We had to submit a project on Software Engineering paper. As a perfect engineer we recalled it near midnight. Finally the plan was made to assemble in Swap’s flat and do the needful. The work on project started at 12:30 at night. As usual we felt hungry, so swap ordered pizza, prepared lime juices, shakes etc for the well being of their friends 
I and Rwik put up a lot of effort to get things done. Swap was busy cooking and serving food for these two hardworking people. And Yeah! Anup was deadly busy in watching TV, youp***.com and sleeping! Finally we gave our final touch to project at 6AM. Deadly tired we pleaded swap to take out the printout. Anup got up and asked was it done? We would be a fool, if we didnt make it even overnight.
The main hurdles were avaiabilty of easy net connection at 512Kbps, swap owns 3 computers and Rwik brought his laptop. Total of 4 comps for 4 people. Now imagine what would have happened to our project? Am happy that even after so many hurdles we achieved our aim.
We had lots of fun. Locked Anup outside balcony, Rwik made a video of mine having pizza like an animal (I was too hungry). Swap is camera shy, still Rwik has all the talents to get snaps of people without their notice. Keep it up Rwik, get going!
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Jan 08
Linux Install Fest
So finally our labour bore fruits. LUG Manipal is on its way to development and popularity. We are going to organize an Install Fest where all people can bring their laptops and we will guide them in installing this great OS. In short, we will be making their laptops dual-boot with Windows Vista/XP with Fedora8/Ubuntu. Having two OS on a single computer can be sometimes a problematic feature if you dont know how stuff works. You could even screw up your system badly if you go on playing too much with safety.
The Install fest is a two-day event. First day will be a pre-install event where all people are required to attend to have some basic knowledge what they are going to do. They will be asked to defragmen their hard disk and run a scandisk on all there partitions so that disk splitting software doesnt screw up the filesystems on the partitions.
We are asking them to bring a blank DVD on the first day, they have to get Fedora 8 written on it, or they can submit their blank DVD to us and we will write the stuff on it and return it on the next day. The second day is the main install fest day. It is this day that the installation will be done and all basic setups explained as per requirements. The schedule is as follows:
Date: 23rd January, Wednesday - Pre-install fest
24th January,Thursday - Main Installation day
Venue : NLH 303
Time: 5: 30PM
Registration charges: NONE
14
Jan 08
Destination Manipal
So finally reached Manipal after a tiresome journey of more than 60 hours. Was really not well when reached, missed the class and even the lab (first time in my engineering). So today didnt do anything other than sleeping, net and chatting. This time we have 4 half days and hope to get one more. I know its too much of expectations, but there’s no end. Used to it
This time we have good papers and even better teachers than last semester as far as I know (Didnt went to class today). We have all our classes from 8AM which is surely going to make me mad. The day passed just by getting rooms cleaned and arranging my belongings. I got some new snaps of my room. Will put it up ASAP.
12
Nov 07
Loads to say… :)
It has been ages since I blogged and have Loads to say.
FIrstly, last Thursday and Friday was Diwali. I cant understand why people here celebrated Diwali on Thursday when it was on Friday? Quite amazing ! Well it doesnt matter much when you have company to enjoy. On Friday night was Kali Puja, was in Venugopal Temple till 2:30AM in the night/morning.
I wont forget to mention about the fireworks at KMC Greens and Kamath Circle,MIT. The show was as usual excellent as we enjoyed a lot. Not much to say, just check out the pics for have your jaws dropping
11
Sep 07
Mission: Birthday Bumps
Yesterday was the bday of one of my friend -Ankur Bansal aka Rock. The day marked lots of incidents. On the bday eve we went to a restaurant to have dinner. Well dinner is nothing special, being together was special. After returning the real game started. All Tom,Dick and Harry gathered at our friend Mrinal’s room to give him some memories which he cannot forget throughout his life. Surely, he got a lot of bumps, those golden moments were clicked so we have the snaps too to presnet. Want to check out the gallery. Some pics are given here, rest check out at Picasa Web Album.
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Aug 07
Rakshabandhan and “The Edge”
First of all a Happy Rakshabandan to all of you! May be bond of trust and love between brother and sister last ever! Oops! One more news, till now I havnt received all the rakhis! One of my sis had sent it two weeks back by speed post, still its undelivered One more rakhi missing sent through speed post but posted only a week back. Bad Luck!
Between, India lost badly to the English team, though Ganguly and Dravid showed up a good fight, still we lost by 42 runs. England is leading this 7 match series by 2-1. If India truly wants to come back, it should win the next match at Manchester on 30th August. Good Luck Team India!
Today at night, “The Edge” is gonna rock. One of my class friend Rahul has invited me to his bday party. Dance, music and excellent food will be center of attraction. I havnt went to Edge before but heard a lot about it. Three of them are giving the combined party. So we can hope of getting a view of girls from EnC
Finally before concluding I would like to disclose that tomorrow is my birthday! I know that the bumps are going to be really hard. Have to be prepared, atleast mentally (physically I cant help). Its a bad luck that my friends are more excited about my birthday than myself. I can only hope that they get tired of dancing in Rahul’s bday party and may get less bumps
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Aug 07
Ravi’s Bday Party
I know am posting after a week, life is going on smooth without much workload. There’s not much tension of studies at present. Nothing much from college’s side except from the world of cricket where we lost badly to the English Team.
On Tuesday,21st was the bday treat of our friend Ravi aka Jazzy. What an excellent bday party!! Enjoyed a lot, excellent food and company ( except for the bill ) Here below are some of the pics which we took on that day. NJOI!!!
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