The love of a friend

The love of a friend islike no other.

This kind of love is notthe kind that smothers.

It teaches us that we needto give more than get.

And that friendship is notsomething to forget.

The love of friendship willgrow with time.

And will continuethroughout your prime.

The love of friendship isunselfish and kind.

It is truly a treasure tofind. [...]

Mystical Ball

Have you ever seen this website before: www.MysticalBall.com?
If you haven’t, then go there now and take a look. See if you can figure out how that “crystal ball” can “read your mind”.
I must have tried this 20 times until I finally figured it out…I don’t wantto spoil the answer by putting it here, so when [...]

Report of a bug in solaris – splash image missing

I recently installed the Solaris build 79 and found a small bug in it.
During the installation part of solaris, a few splash images as slides come up.
The images are given below :

Just check the last picture.
The slide image is not shown at all!!!!!!
Please do check this out.

Chaos Theory – Nitin Nagaraj

Nitin Nagaraj Sir had come down here from Bengalooru and spoke to us about Chaos Theory…He just finished his talk about this.
Nithin NagarajSchool of Natural and Engineering SciencesNational Institute of Advanced StudiesIISc. CampusBangalore 560 012
Well…I will tell you how this started off…
Yesterday, we had a small discussion on “Purpose of life”. This was given by [...]

Google visits Amritapuri

Google’s Head of Marketing & Monetization, Mr. Gopi Kallayil visited the Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus this day.
He gave a small, powerful and a very interesting talk (it was more of a discussion/a session) on how Google originated, the Google’s inside story, technologies from Google and how it functions. He also spoke about how [...]

Contributing to OpenSolaris Source code – Mini How to

Contributing to OpenSolaris Source code – Mini How to
Updating the files…..

Easy install bundle for compiz fusion 0.6 + emerald 0.5.2

Easy install bundle for compiz fusion 0.6 + emerald 0.5.2
Thanks to Albert’s port, updated version of compiz and compiz-fusion are available in the spec-file-extra repository
You’ll find below a new easy install bundle of compiz 0.6.2, compiz-fusion 0.6.2 and emerald 0.5.2 for Solaris build 75a (and later) based distro.
You can check if [...]

3D desktop : Compiz fusion 0.5.2 easy install for Solaris

3D desktop : Compiz fusion 0.5.2 easy install for Solaris
Information from: http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/
Compiz 0.5.2 and compiz fusion 0.5.2 are now available as a one step install script for solaris x86.

Compiz fusion is the result of the compiz-beryl merge. It includes all the extra plugins available for 0.5.0 plus many many more !
Compiz fusion also delivered a [...]

What is Compiz?

What is Compiz?
Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE.

Window management has never looked so enticing: Through OpenGL accelerated compositing, Compiz provides tons of new visual effects. It’s also flexible [...]

From FOSS.IN

Here are my photos from the FOSS.IN Conference.
Photos from the FOSS.IN conference held at JN TATA Auditorium, Bangalore. Conference held over the period: 4th Dec to 8th Dec. Website: http://foss.in/

FOSS.IN Sponsor list
Archana, Anil Gulecha, Avinash
CSE 2005 batch

My Clasmates
Amrita Students with Simon Phipps
Nagarajan Sir, Faculty Accompanied

Firefox
Some Posters
Amrita Students with Naba Kumar