Follow the SUN ... Ajay - The Main Event, The Headliner, The Showstopper (^_^)

Full Photo Album - http://picasaweb.google.com/ajay.iiitmk/IMSECOsumMeetup

On 21st April, IMSEC Osum Group organized its first Osum Meetup. The Osum Leader, Prakhar Bansal, invited me for the introductory talk. Due to the approaching exams, the turnout was very low (only 27 students). Still it was nice, as those students were lively.They were interacting with me & asked all the doubts that they could think of. We started with an introduction to FOSS, how it is changing world and how students can be benefitted by it in their careers. Even before the session could begin, lot of questions were raised. IMSEC is having a FOSS Group in which students are helping each other by teaching whatever each of them knows. Satyamitra is the leader for that group. So I explained how OSUM is of use to the students and provide the infrastructure to the FOSS group of the college. Explained the various features of Osum via a live-demo.

After explaining  the various features of Osum, I told about Sun Academic Initiative. IMSEC registered for SAI in March 08, but due to lack of communication nobody among the present students knew about it (which I expected). I gave a live-demo of how to register on SAI Skillport website, how to register for online web courses and how to avail the SAI-Discount vouchers. Meanwhile various students asked some really good questions for which they were awarded with Osum Goodies(Osum Aero Bag + Sun Pen + OpenSolaris CD + Sun Studio CD + Netbeans CD).

Finally I started with a Quiz session on FOSS. I asked 15 questions and 11 were correctly answered by the students, which was really good. The winners were awarded Osum Goodies (Osum Aero Bag + Sun Pen + OpenSolaris CD + Sun Studio CD + Netbeans CD). All students were given OpenSolaris CD & Data sheets of SAI & OpenSolaris:

Then Satyamitra (the IMSEC FOSS group leader) and  Prakhar Bansal (IMSEC Osum Leader) introduced the core-team members of the IMSEC Osum Group and assigned each one of them duties. Satyamitra explained what difficulties he faced as there was no infrastructure to support the FOSS Group activities and that OSUM gives the perfect infrastructure and resources to help/encourage the students.

After the session, I had a discussion with Head of Depts (CS & IT), Mr. Chitale & Mr. Khan regarding Osum & SAI. They pledged to encourage students to participate in IMSEC Osum Group. The director gave approval to install OpenSolaris & Netbeans in the IT-Lab having 60 computers. Currently the IMSEC Osum Group has 35 members and I feel it will catch up pretty fast as the college reopen after the university examinations. All in all, a nice experience at my Alma mater

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Hi All,

I'm back with bang...an exciting news for all student developers of India.

Sun Microsystems Inc, India is running a Code JavaFX Contest. This is targeted primarily for students and developers in India. There are lots of exciting prizes to be won. We have also created a group in Osum as a kind of an advertisement for the contest.

We encourage all of you to participate in this contest and  also  request you to help us spread the word about the contest in the short time available.

If you would like to put up a Poster of the contest in your college campus, you can take a print out of the Promotion Posters from here.

Importanat Dates:
Registration Deadline - By March 1st.
Contest Submission Date - By March 31st.
Contest URL - in.sun.com/codejavafx

The time is here...the result is out and here comes The Main Event, The Headliner, The Showstopper (^_^) with 2nd prize in the Global OpenSolaris/Netbeans Review contest in the campus ambassador category. Wanna see the results !!! Shoot this  : http://blogs.sun.com/students/

Checkout for more contests in the near future on that blog

Hi fellows

Its been a nice sailing with Sun sice last november when I joined as a campus ambassador. Time really flies so fast, it feels just the other day when I embossed my name on Sun's blog. I'm very thankful to my institute (IIITM-Kerala) to support  me every time I came up with some initiative. I thank Sun to provide me so great opportunity & platform to showcase my talent to world

My new address is : http://ajay-1985.blogspot.com/

 

On 09 June 2008, IIITM-K Sunclub and Computer Association, College of Engg. Trivandrum organised the first ever Corona - Sun University Day in Thiruvananthpuram, Kerala ...[Read More]

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Hi !!! I'm back to blogging and ready to give you something to laugh, learn and entertaining

Since last month when Sun released OpenSolaris 2008.05 at CommunityONE (international conference), OS I mean OpenSolaris is making waves all over the world. Attracting users from all background ... developers, students, teachers...everyone. Like everyone I was also waiting for the release. Due to exams now only I got chance to install it in my laptop and here is how I felt about it ...[Read More]

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Yeah !!! Its tech-a-break time here at Technopark, Kerala. The Tech-A-Break 2008 kicked off yesterday with a mind blowing rally from Park Center. All IT professionals of technopark wait for this annual 7-day mega event and enjoy it to the maximum. The theme for rally this time was "Halloween Season" and my god you can't believe what all companies came up with. Everyone was going nuts. I'm posting here only few of the photos. For rest of the action browse this link.

Photo courtesy : Tittoo Alex Thomas

A dancing 'Mummy'  !!!

"Cause its a thrilleeeeeee.....thriller Day"

 

 

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On 17-04-08 I took a session on SunSPOT. There were 10 students and 1 faculty member (Dr. Raj Mathew). As end-semester exams are around the corner, so only 10 students came to attend the session. But anyway the strength was enough to motivate me and give a nice presentation & demo of the amazing SunSPOT kit. The session became very interesting when I showed the demo and the students were spellbound. I showed two demos - Bouncy ball and Airtext. I also discussed regarding my project (Automatic weather monitoring and reporting system for application in Agriculture) using SunSPOT kit. After the end-semester exams I'll retake the session.

I guess I don't write that bad. Take a look :D
These are  today's hits, and still counting :

 

Want to know your developer quotient ? Try Netbeans Fun Quiz !!! Take a look at the prizes

All these amazing prizes to be won every week till June end. Just answer few simple objective questions. Read the FAQs first, to clear any doubts. I've already attempted the 1st quiz (only 4 simple questions). You just need Netbeans (get it from Netbeans.org) then get the quiz plugin, install it.After that take the quiz. Isn't it simple ? So what are you waiting for ? Good Luck

Log on to http://www.netbeans.org/quiz/  for more info.

 

 

On 12th April here in Trivandrum (Kerala, India) the Gnu/Linux Users Group - Trivandrum, Free Software Foundation of India, Space-Kerala and Zyxware Technologies together organised the First GNU/Linux Install Fest of kerala.

9th Std. kid came to me & asked "Can I have a DVD of OpenSolaris ? I want to try it out".

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Hey !!! wanna take a look at my new solaris desktop ??? Its MacOS theme. Just follow this procedure :

 

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Here in India Sun CAs under Road Show Program are going to colleges and giving presentations about openSolaris, SAI, openSPARC etc thereby encouraging students & teachers to use Sun's open source technologies. Recently I visited my home in Ghaziabad (National Capital Region, India) and during the 10 days I stayed there I covered four engineering colleges. I could have covered more but I've to return kerala ASAP to complete my internship project. I was in ghaziabad for almost 5 years & know lot of things about the colleges & students in that region. The colleges were :

1. Krishna Engineering College

2. Institute of Technology and Science

3. Raj Kumar Goyal Institute of Technology

4. IMS Engineering College (My B.Tech College)

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It was hard time for me to get my audio driver working in solaris. To remind you again, I did this in 32 bit mode.

I referred to this link : http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opensound/

First I downloaded the source code of OSS from here : http://www.4front-tech.com/developer/sources/stable/cddl/
You also need  to GAWK installed, so executed this command :

# pkg-get -i gawk

Also download the 'Read me' file from the above link as it will contain the instructions. I downloaded OSS v4.0

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As I mentioned in my previous post, I've configured everything, in 32 bit mode.

I followed this link : http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/ 

After installing the drivers, maybe you have to do this :

Start==>Administration ==> Networks ==> Wireless ==> properties ==> enable this connection, select the Network from the available networks, keytype- hexadecimal, configuration-DHCP If you want to auto-enable this wifi connection then check 'enable on boot'.

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Hi friends, I'm here again with few solutions. Here I'm sharing my experience on configuring broadcom bcm4401 NIC in solaris.
Please keep in mind that all I've tried on my laptop is in 32 Bit mode. My laptop config is as follows :

HP nx6315
Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08
AMD Sempron 1.6 GHz
1.5 GB RAM, 40 GB HDD
SoundMAX HD Audio
Broadcom Ethernet NIC bcm4401
Broadcom WLAN bcm4310

In next posts I'll share how I configured WLAN, sound etc in my laptop. So stay tuned. 

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To boot in 32 bit mode. Follow the procedure.
Edit '/boot/grub/menu.lst' ,add a 32-bit entry something like this :

#-------------------------------------------------------
title Solaris 32 Bit
kernel /platform/i86pc/kernel/unix
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
#-------------------------------------------------------

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Hi everyone,

Great news !!! Sun has gifted to our college its wonderful experimental technology, SunSPOT kit. SunSPOT is a development kit for wireless sensor development based on Java.

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Hi guys !!!

Finally I managed to access my NTFS partiton from solaris. Frankly telling, its really easy. But I have to mount the drive every time I boot in solaris. So I'm searching for how to automount the drives & as soon as I do it, I'll post it. For now you can access by the following way...

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