So Dont Miss This One!

Friday, September 26, 2003

Who wouldn’t like to have a dot com or dot net of their own? (Rhetorical question - do not answer)

3 YEAR FREE webhosting - 500 MB space, 5GB/month transfer

Thats right, 1 and 1.com, now offers 3 year free webhosting for free. the company in question seems to have a good reputation, I found articles about it in microsoft’s website and in a newspaper. I have been closely following the discussions at fatwallet and AnandTech forums and did some research otherwise, looking for user opinions and all that jazz, and this one’s a winner.

What’s the catch? Yeah, clue in on this - they will not let you transfer the domain name if you registered it through them. Workaround - get your domain name from some other registrar, I would suggest the cheapest out there..RackShack and then have the domain point to 1and1’s nameserver. Rackshack charges $5.41, tax included for a year, for the domain name. Dont even try to register your name using 1and1.com

I tried it out to the end, and got my webspace, without getting a new domain name, ’cause I dont want to spend $5.41.
The space I got is at s86941641.onlinehome.us, but that cryptic address is there just because I haven’t paid for a domain name, not that $5.41 is too much - Hell! Thats what I pay for one lunch!!

This one’s for real, and its good. Get it before its gone, all ye faithful.

So, friends, who wants a website?

Addendum..

what kind of junkie are you?

As if I didn’t know…

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Update

Monday, September 22, 2003

So what have I been doing lately?

* I have started playing soccer(football) everyday. I even went and bought Soccer cleats (football boots). I wont play today, sicne my legs are complaining.

* We are working on the second stage proposal, since the first stage proposal submitted to NASA went through and we managed to get a “high-priority” rating. So now we have to come up with a detailed, long proposal with some initial results. Now, for initial results, we need to work towards some experiments. I am in charge of formalizing the mathematics and writing up the literature survey. The proposal is due on the 17th of October.

* My Ph.D. qualifiers are on the 7th of November. I need to study 4 subject. If I start now I will have a week for a subject. High time I started studying in earnest.

* Me and sumant () have been working on the side as amateur web developers, helping small companies have a “presence on the web”. Work on the second job is on now. He does all of the work, i just help with the CSS and some arbit work, like adding page borders and formatting stuff.

* my desktop is now with , since I dont get free ethernet at home and she does at her dorm room. She could use a computer, I could use the one I have in my office. Since I dont have the computer at home now, I am leading a good, computer-less life. The initial tedium of the days have given way to a good life, with Soccer, cooking and cleaning (self and the room).

Thats it for now.
Thats it for now.

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Firebird

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

How would you like to have a Internet browser that can…

1) Let you move around from this page to the previous page, or the next page, by just clicking your right mouse button and moving the button left or right?

2) Clear all cookies, and other such privacy related files with just one click, so no one can filch your passwords or other critical info?

3) Download an entire website, with just one click?

4) Download all the images on a page with just one click?

5) Allow you to use different skins, winamp style?

6) search on google, just by typing “gg “, or alltheweb by typing “atw “, and change the gg or atw to whatever you want?

7) select a word on a webpage and lookup its meaning just by right clicking and clicking again?
8) stop pop-ups, just the ones you choose, using just the browser?

Oh I could go on forever, for now, let me say that Internet Explorer sucks, and its been removed from my computer.

Check out the mozilla site, and download and use Firebird. You could also check out all the extensions for firebird which will allow you to surf better.

I love it when technology works. Nothing works better that mozilla, or my latest crush, firebird. :)

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Me, an IIT graduate?

Sunday, September 14, 2003

Have I told you about my failure to get into an IIT, and how, at times, I really feel bad for not having worked hard enough to have made it? Every engineering graduate in India must have, at one point of time or the other, envied the IITians…

With any luck, I should be able to say in a couple of years that I graduated from an Institution that is now an IIT!!

R.E.C. (Regional Engineering College), Warangal, which was renamed as NIT (National Institute of Technology), Warangal last year, is among the front runners for promotion to an IIT!!
My heart filled with joy as I read this article in Deccan Herald …


Article from Deccan Herald:: www.deccan.com
Warangal NIT inches towards IIT status

Warangal, Sept. 10: It is now official that the National Institute of
Technology here is among the five NITs in the country to be upgraded
as an Indian Institute of Technology under a two-year time-bound
plan.

The Board of Governors’ meet of the NIT held here on Tuesday for the
first time on the campus has discussed the strategy to ensure that
the premier institute gets IIT status in the first phase.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, NIT Director D K Tripathy
said that the governing body members were highly optimistic about the
institute’s upgradation to IIT. According to him, the Ministry of
Human Resource Development had decided to upgrade five of the 17 NITs
in the country as IITs and the Warangal NIT stands a good chance to
be the first NIT to be upgraded as an IIT.

In order to be first in the race, the Board of Governors’ meet had
endorsed sweeping changes in academic schedules and curricula in tune
with the IIT module, initiated by Tripathy, the newly appointed
Director.

Among the major changes initiated at the institute are a change to
the grading system from the present marks system, introduction of the
semester system in place of the annual exam system and introduction
of new courses like Rural Development, Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

The Director stated that the institute had attracted top rankers of
the All India Engineering Entrance Examination. He said the
preference of the top rankers indicated the academic standards of the
institute. Chairman, Board of Governors, Dr Hari Narain said that top
companies like Infosys, Oracle, Wipro and Satyam Computers recruited
around 200 NIT students as part of campus recruitment during the last
30 days.

He said that support from institute alumni would be explored in
developing the campus. “The sponsored Research and Industry
Consultancy cell would be strengthened to make its services available
on a larger scale,” Hari Narain said.

I google-news-ed and got a confirmation.

Me, an IITian? In my dreams. You can change all the names you want to, but I dare not claim I am in any way related to an IIT. After all, that is one thing that has been right, so far, with India. I am afraid that this latest move to promote other institutions to IITs will dilute the reputation of the IIT brand. I know what goes on in REC Warangal. After all, besides studying there, I was also a Lecturer there, albeit for a short period of time.

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Research Question

Tuesday, September 9, 2003

I thought it must be pretty obvious to have a website/page that lists
1. All the conferences that are to take place in Electrical/ Computer Engineering in the near future.
2. All the “call for papers” in the different fields of Engineering
3. All the “solicitations” for proposals in the different fields of Engineering.

You can extend that you other fields of research, such as the humanities.

After a relatively extensive search, I find that there is no such page, at least for electrical/computer engineering.

Say I have an interesting idea I want to write a paper about. How do I find the conference to publish it in? And also, if the paper is not that great, you know, to merit being published in a leading conference paper (IEEE/ACM in my case), how do I find the other conferences/journals I can send it to.

Basically, if I want to use conferences/seminars as an excuse to visit some city/country, and get reimbursed by my university, how do I go about it?

Need to ask the advisor, but he might just laugh at me, ’cause I dont have any papers worth publishing right now, but hell, this is a good source of motivation. If there was a conference in Crete I could attend if I had a paper, then the paper shall be written, for sure :)

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I feel this buzz in

Monday, September 8, 2003

I feel this buzz in my head which says I must take a nap, but I love this quasi-drunk feeling (unmathavastha).

I hope my friends are all doing fine today.

Nonsense. Waste of Bandwidth. Clutter.

Its no wonder I am not listed as one of my friends.

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Trepidation

The last week was bad. There was the tummy upset, which meant I missed my favourite class. I also haven’t been efficient at my research work, due to unexpected diversions. Dad’s friend’s son and his friend dropped in for a couple of days, and that meant taking them around a bit - not that I mind, but I wanted to work on those days. Then there was the Indian student association “back to school” celebration on saturday, for which I sang(last minute preparation), acted in drag, and on the whole, was busy. Now its early morning on Monday, and I still am grappling with 4 papers in my mind, trying to compare them, and get some tables out of them. I have read each of those papers at least thrice, but I haven’t yet been able to “see” them, in the same frame, in my mind, so I can’t yet compare them. When there is the will and yet there in no output, you begin to doubt your mind. Such doubts notwithstanding, its time for some serious thinking, and writing. My biggest motivation is the fact that I have a good man to advise me, to guide me, and I want to meet his expectations, nay, exceed them.

Perhaps this is what people meant when they said a Ph.D. can be “painful”. Mental constipation - bad comparison, since the output of research is good, and useful too.

October 17th is the next deadline, so I will have to imagine a deadline on the 12th.

I am fresh now, and just that little bit tense, and so everything should work fine. I am a researcher, and with a little imagination, one could say I am a scientist! That certainly gets me going, that very thought.

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Excuse me while I post a Quiz.

Sunday, September 7, 2003

Yeah, I hate quizzes too, but this one was’nt over the top. I hope no one removes me from their friends lists for posting a quiz.
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