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Tuesday Feb 05, 2008

OpenSolaris Take-2

Hi,

As I wrote in my previous  entry that on my institute staff's demand I had to take the session again. So on 31st Jan I took the session again.


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Posted at 08:04PM Feb 05, 2008 by Ajay Kumar in Personal | Comments[0] | Permalink

Maiden Tech Talk

Hi friends,
On 24th Jan, I organized my first tech talk on 'SAI' and 'OpenSolaris' in my college. The session started at 5:30 PM with 20 odd students (good no. for my college) attending the talk. My college gives only PG diploma, so all students were either B.Tech. graduate or MCA post-graduate.
The talk started with me briefing about what Sun Academic Initiative is all about and how we(students) will get benefited by it. After discussing the SAI course and the discount offers we moved on to openSolaris. I began with a brief history of solaris & how it went on to become open source i.e. openSolaris, explaining all the cool features of openSolaris (ZFS, Dtrace, Zones etc). Told them that all needed softwares are preinstalled in the Developer Edition (JDK, Netbeans, Staroffice, Sun Studio etc). Then compared it with windows and linux, stating enough points to prove that openSolaris is superior in every aspect related to performance.

(Now the fight begins as most student are Ubuntu fans, for its GUI interface & drivers support).
Almost 80% students use Ubuntu and were inquiring that can openSolaris provide that much user friendliness and support for device drivers ? Actually they are using Linux more for fun than work (listening music, watching movies etc). I told that the GUI interface of openSolaris is as good as of any other OS and it  supports most of the device drivers but still you can checkout the Sun Device Detection tool to figure out exactly which device drivers are supported on your laptop. I also told them to check out for the Project Indiana as it will
match most of their expectations. Lastly mentioning that all softwares are available in the Sun Library and on our internal storage server for direct access.
In the end we had a short quiz based on the presentation, just for fun (to check out that they were not sleeping in the class) :-)   . I also asked  few questions regarding the latest news like 'which company was acquired by Sun recently in 2008', and the students responded in chorus
"MySQL" !!! Well, what less you can expect from PG students ;-)
After the session we had refreshment. Just to tell you, few students attended the session only for free refreshment  :-D
On staff's demand  I have to take this  session  again because most of them missed  it  on 24th. So that's when we say "Double Dhamaka" !!!

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Posted at 07:24PM Feb 05, 2008 by Ajay Kumar in Personal | Comments[1] | Permalink

Wednesday Dec 19, 2007

Introducing ...

Hi friends !!! This is ajay and yes you figured it right that I'm also a great fan of Sun Microsystems & crazy enough about its technologies that people around call me a dangerous geek :D I'm CA from Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala. Friends I'm pursuing MS from IIITMK. Right from B.Tech. days I fancied about Sun and finally got the opportunity. Lets see what future holds for all my dreams :)

Posted at 07:25PM Dec 19, 2007 by Ajay Kumar in Personal | Comments[3] | Permalink

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