Events....Code for freedom...
Hey guys sessionals have a way of ruining plans don't they...
The week after the sessionals we are planning to hold 3 workshops namely a Solaris install fest, a basic Solaris demo (including some basic unix commands for those who have little or no idea about them) and a Netbeans 6.0 demo. Thereafter time permitting we might as well show you guys some sample desktop applications or plugins that you might be able to develop using JAVA (and illustrate how easy it is to do such stuff on a Netbeans IDE).
Well, we have given out DVD's of the SXDE and we have showed a few guys how to get going...Hope some of you have already started experimenting as well
Moreover I would like you guys to register for the Code for Freedom contest and request for a mentor or start contributing for the competition asap...
Register on the following link...
http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/
Cheers..
Posted at 04:42PM Oct 24, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Personal | Comments[0]
Sorry guys!!!!
Hey as you all know we had initially planned to hold the install fest for Solaris this week but due to availability of labs it won't be possible to hold it this week.
(Our Technical fest Techtatva - www.techtatva.com is going on... ) So go ahead and take part in Techtatva...loads of competitions there to keep you busy....and next week we shall introduce you to the solaris OS....
Posted at 06:42PM Oct 10, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[0]
LIFE :: A fight back!!
The morning shone bright,
Life was beckoning me with all its might,
Nature proclaimed its imperial immensity,
And every thing was brilliant in the city,
Happiness was all around,
There was no reason to be bound.
Success I thought had already been achieved,
Was I a fool to accept the fallacy of the deed?
To be complacent was a big mistake,
Joy and elation - my work - made me forsake,
The danger so great, my body did ache.
The harsh reality, seriously, made me shake.
I was all lost in a deep, deadly lake.
I was in the gloom of the despairing journey,
It was like existence on a gurney.
The excruciating pain of a spineless expedition,
To come was failure, defeat, and agitation.
Survival was a burden and life but a complication,
How do I get out of this was the most pertinent question.
Acceptance drove the fear away,
To confront was the only way.
Life is a pillar, absolutely vertical on ascent,
So difficult it gets, I feel my body dent.
My sinews crack and perseverance seems to lack,
The effort so immense, I am taken aback.
Life without a purpose is to dance in a trance,
A meaningless voyage in a wide expanse.
It might be like losing my head,
Hard work and dedication ensure a good night sleep on the bed.
To rest is a cardinal sin,
Relaxing would throw my efforts into a bin.
A small mistake may well be a blunder,
I might slip off with the sound of a thunder.
No doubt the weak do squander,
Iron mettle makes one part of the remainder.
The fruit of Eden keeps my motivation high,
To doubt my caliber, would make my mission die.
Not to rest until I reach the sky,
Is the reason-
I shall one day scale that high.
Posted at 01:57AM Oct 08, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Personal | Comments[0]
Sun Grand Challenge!!!
Well all the CA's of South Indian Colleges in Bangalore had a discussion about something called a SUN Grand Challenge.
It was the brainchild of Abhishek Kumar from BITS, Goa (u just have to be specific with 3 abhisheks anwering to the call of abhishek :D).
Anyhow the basic idea was to hold competitions aimed at Solaris/Netbeans/Java etc. These competitions would range from small quizzes, trivia, simple hacks for an OS, some treasure(read: bug) hunt using Dtrace, obfuscation/tricksy C codes or even some coding competitions in C/C++/JAVA....well the competition is still in the budding phase so ideas are plenty....
So the idea is to hold such competitions in every several college in India and thereafter invite the winners to the host college (which for the first time could be BITS, Goa). Thereafter it can be held on a rotational basis in different colleges in and around India.
Now, the challenges that lie in front of the CA community in India is to advertise this event and chalk out deadline based schedules for the prelims and the finals. Arrange sponsorship of prizes(read:: SUN HR department :P) and to get as many good students educated in this field to compete (that is hold a few workshops before holding the competitions).
So I wanted to get initial reactions from CA's and our own college students regarding SGC (Sun Grand Challenge)
Posted at 06:12PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[1]
The power of silence
Her ebullient spirit, enervated with the taste of freedom,
Caressed her lifeless body for the one last time,
The blood splattered furniture and her innocent chirpy self,
Forming a gory spectacle of an unheard rhyme,
The ear splitting silence following the shattering noise of the reverberating bullet;
Had for once and for all laid her strife stricken soul into the cuddly abyss of time.
The malevolent stunt to smite the divine gift of life,
Had muted the cacophony of confused voices in her head,
And the small town home leading a not so average life;
Was ushered into a disdainful reality of torturous red
Her past was blown to smithereens;
Though her recent ghastly wounds remained
The spectacle complete, undeniable, irrevocable
For her mortal suffering which blatantly bellowed a story of marital torment,
Had made an ironical tale of silent coercion; completely reliable
The reality, made sonorous with time,
Had burst with the vengeance of a brewing volcano,
For the thunderous revelation that followed years of unvoiced anguish,
Had the law apprehending a violent sadist with a brief swish
Her child. The diminutive eyes behind the silent stare; were shocked!
The pain in her life was begging a vent which it never found
For, a despairing moment had but rocked,
The violent story that had been her life,
Her mother was laid to rest, her remains razed to ground.
She grappled for support, but she found none
Her head spun with remorse and she only wanted to run,
She wanted to kick, punch, hurt the lifeless image in front of her,
But a cold silent stare was all that she managed.
Her breath was heavy and her heart beat with violent madness,
The anxiety of being alone,
The responsibility of proving that weak sacrifice wrong
Had obsessed her waking dream
She wondered at the reasoning for that adrenaline rush;
Why did her mother have to leave her alone, was she happier now?
“Does my pain make her happy”, she wondered.
Conjuring answers and questions and replies and counter-questions, she felt her tender infancy as a detached part of her soul.
She had simply grown into another role.
The sombre relatives were a distant reality,
The consoling voices went past her ears with silent beckoning
Tears; they never came.
The pain was bound in the strongest knot in the wildest corner of her determination;
She could never be weak,
She had to prove her mother wrong.
In another corner of the same room, laden with guilt and remorse stood a perplexed soul.
She stood by the lighted fire, with horror in her eyes,
Staring at the oblivion;
A glance at her grandchild- gaping at the void, on the other side, made her guilt manifold.
The mother of the slain, cursed herself for her shortsighted mistakes,
She had lost a daughter to the hands of silent suffering.
Perhaps it was to be blamed on the single mother’s upbringing;
Who couldn’t make her daughter strong enough
Perhaps she herself wasn’t strong enough,
But time had given her another chance, another shot to set wrong; right,
For in that moment of hushed contemplation
She awoke in the tranquility of this rhyme.
A generation had passed and that silent moment of vivid thought,
Made her resolve taut
Her purpose was clear, crystal to extent of clarity
For she had to be the shoulder for that little angel,
She had to fill the ringing void in her sullen strife
She had to be strong against the firmament, once again to shape her child’s life…
Posted at 04:52PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Personal | Comments[1]
Go visit these links.....
BigAdmin : www.sun.com/bigadmin
Blogs : blogs.sun.com
Glass Fish : glassfish.dev.java.net
Download Java : www.java.com
Java : community.java.com, javapassion.com
Java Developers : forum.java.sun.com
Netbeans : www.netbeans.com
Open JDK : openjdk.dev.java.net
Open Office : www.open.office.org
Sun Developer Network : developers.sun.com
Soaris : www.opensolaris.org
Sun Academic Initiative : learningconnection.sun.com (please be patient we'll give you an id password for this in a few days.)
Posted at 01:40PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[0]
Voila !!!
Well those of you who have no clue of a UNIX platform (1st years...etc) or have never used a solaris platform i would recommend you go through some tutorials on shell programming on a UNIX platform. We will be holding an install fest where we'll install a Solaris OS on your computer. The core development world of programmers outside live in a world of open source and without basic understanding of that you will be lost in the race to greater learning.
Google again for some tutorials; and these links should also help ::
www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
www.unixtools.com/tutorials.html
solarismadeeasy.com/tutorials.htm
Probably you can install the latest release of SXDE or BELENIX (Live CD or Live USB) to get a feel of the OS. We are also humans and can go so far as installing such OS/Softwares for some machines. It'll be great to see some interest from you guys and you taking an initiative to learn such technologies (btw no one taught us how to do it....we too did it out of our own interest...so plz go ahead test these OS' crash your systems and learn from the entire process). And we are always there to help you out if you need some help.
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/
www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=download
belenix.sarovar.org/belenix_download.html
http://developers.sun.com/sxde/download.jsp
We all use torrents so go ahead find yourself a version of the OS you want to install and go ahead and download it. Burn an image of the ISO file using nero et al. and voila!!!
Posted at 01:17PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[1]
ECE guys!!!
Well first of all my apologies to everybody from ECE. There was little of interest in a code for freedom workshop. However there is a wonderful open source resource that we talked little about during our workshop that you can benefit a lot from. OpenSPARC is an open source FPGA maintained by an online community and you guys can go ahead and join this community. Learn more about the open source architecture and perhaps go ahead and contribute more to its end. Google to learn more about OpenSPARC and here are some of the resources that might be helpful to you guys. Perhaps if some of you go ahead and learn something interesting and want to hold a workshop; we can facilitate that too. www.sun.com/processors/opensparc/ www.opensparc.net/
Posted at 01:08PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[2]
Code for Freedom Workshop 6/10/2007
We began October in full swing with propagandas about Solaris/Netbeans/Code for freedom and information about our future workshops and demos. The response was immense. We received more than 250 e-mail registrations in our group and TONS AND TONS of questions. The interest in the campus with these technologies is immense. Mr. Ganeshram Nagaraj from Sun Microsystems came over to our campus on 6/10/07 for a workshop on Code for Freedom. More than 150 people turned up. A few were a bit zapped(1st yrs and some Electronics guys) with all the information about Dtrace, ZFS, the various open source technologies et al. but the guys came back and fired us with just more questions. I would say the workshop was an immense success considering the turnout amidst 3 more workshops on the same day (on Ubuntu, ethical hacking etc). Caching in on the interest we will be holding an install fest of OpenSolaris where we will install it one of our labs and as many volunteer machines as possible. Those who are apprehensive about screwing their machines; we'll give them a belenix liveCD to test and get a feel of the OS. Later in the day we plan to hold a Netbeans workshop where we'll give demos as to make Desktop applications et al.
Posted at 12:55PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[0]
Manipal Campus Talk 29/9/2007
Our college has very few Linux users and fewer still Solaris users (people prefer to use windows and the open source awareness is also less) Today I gave my first talk on our Campus. Around 30 people turned up of which we had some 15 professors/ lectures of our related departments(CSE,IT,ECE). We did this event on a very short notice, if we publicize it more probably we'll get a better turnout. Basically with this talk I wanted to introduce our future activities and evangalise our professors so that they could go back and encourage students to use Solaris. I gave an introduction to the various Open Source projects that are currently underway with special emphasis to the Code for Freedom(India specific). I gave a brief introduction to OpenSolaris(talking a wee bit about ZFS, Dtrace and Zones :: just to catch some of the professors' attention) Also talked about Sun Studio 12 and Netbeans 6.0 ; both the IDE's generated certain amount of interest. A major breakthrough was that I got permissions to install Solaris in our labs and infact our profs were keen to create an OSUG for the campus.
Posted at 12:50PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[0]