Jashan '08

The party was on ,Jashan '08.(The annual IEC meet)
It was one cool party at Grand Ashoka.
Me as a CA was extremely elated to be a part of this amazing event, although I managed to sneak out of participation
Will let the pictures script out the moments!

Our CA community performing a Skit.Was hillarious..Will upload the Video as well(as soon as i can find it)

Laser show.It was stupendous .See the dancing roof!!!
More pictures ,on their way.

Sun University day in PESIT

So there comes another day of enjoyment .And so we are here in PESIT for the "Sun University Day".
It was an action packed event (in every sense!).I was totally amazed by the enthusisam that was shown by 300-350 PESITians.
As usual we had problems setting up the projector and being accustomed to it, a quick check reveled that there was a Windows lappy that was using OpenOffice and from there starts the presentation.

The event started with the Introduction to what Open Source is, and why Open Source?.From what I could see, that was enough to spur people on so much that there were disussions poppin up everywhere!.(Handling crowd can get a lot interesting sometimes)
I was extremely happy to see such enthusiastic faces as I got into my stride.We then proceeded with a talk on Solaris basics .From what I could see, they were all pros at it.So it was then that I  decided to give them a taste of technology on Solaris and  see some jaws drop
But unluckily there was not a single box with Solaris on it. Just then a couple of folks started shooting issues that they had during installation.

So there it struck, as unprepared as I was with that, I popped in a disc and showed them the Installation demo as well. The event turned out to be a Installation experience that they will remember!( all their doubts were resolved as well).
Lucky for me , the question was so aptly timed that we were breaking for lunch and just before it, I was able to salvage some time and take the system up to the installation screen at least .
Post lunch was the perhaps the best time yet for the inflow increased a lot,which is generally not the case. PESIT rocks!!!!!
Settling down after lunch, there was still about 15-20mins of install time remaining so thought we could have a quiz and with lots of good stash up for grabs and 300odd people fighting for it, It was some experience!!!

After the Installation was over,students had their time to play around with it for a while before I took over for an exhaustive session of Dtrace, and am not feeling bad that I did it.
Dtrace was run on the onboard calculator and I could just see jaws drop one by one!This should probably sum it all up as to how they felt!
By now it was almost 4:30pm and I had to wind it up.This was my first University day apart from my college so it goes down to be a special one, and indeed it was!
Then began my second favorite part, the photo session , will let these speak for themselves!

Without whom it would'nt have been possible.
From left(Sushma, your truly, Rupayan).