Harsh J

Combine the power of such high inflation rates with the power of large prime numbers as prices of various products and you might just have the best mathematicians coming from Zimbabwe soon. “That’ll be the 1565927th prime or 24999983 dollars please.”

Why do they do this?

Of course, Somalia would need more focus first. That country badly needs prosperity if it is to have any citizens left over the next few years. The plight of these countries sometimes makes me think colonialism is not bad at all. War, poverty, hunger, gah.

There are days where you wake up normally, read about some violence, politics and gossip. There are other days where you wake up to stuff like this.

Anyways, my semester exams are nearing and here are the announced dates for B.Tech IT (The course I am in)

Anna University Timetable for U.G. (B.Tech IT) 5th semester

• 06/11/08 - Telecommunication Systems
• 10/11/08 - Database Management Systems [DBMS]
• 13/11/08 - Object Oriented Analysis and Design [OOAD]
• 17/11/08 - Operating Systems [OS]
• 20/11/08 - Computer Networks
• 24/11/08 - Environmental Science and Engineering [EVS]

The resulting pattern is oddly nice, 3-2-3-2-3 day gaps.

I’ve been busy being lazy lately, and very lazy indeed. Though I managed to finish up my lab work and other things, I’ve not written down even a small function for self’s sake. While resolving that now, I’ve also moved from Gentoo to ArchLinux having learnt enough and wanting a functional distro now rather than a testing one.

Arch is very fast at installing things, too fast to even compare it with something! But I could be wrong, having not used any other distro for like 8 months now. But comparing to how apt, yum and smart had behaved on my system earlier, pacman is the creamy layer on the cake!

I need to do some serious studying on system calls and the memory management parts of Operating Systems, else this semester would seem a total waste for me. Telecommunication Systems didn’t turn out to be bad at all, its very interesting, being application-oriented. OOAD and DBMS passed by without notice since they are more necessities to learn than something you can ‘try and experiment’ with. Networks has me in a puzzle with so many header formats, but it was great to finally learn something in that field. I’ve got to implement programs to understand the standards more, which I haven’t till date. The EVS class ender with ‘An Inconvinient Truth’ being played was a fantastic way. That pretty much sums up my current semester. The semester where I literally fell asleep in class twice.

Now onto implementing some system calls in C, for the OS lab examinations.

@having fun with microblogging, status-blogging, whatever twitter is.

Though am not totally addicted to it, its good to post short thoughts or replies at Twitter. I still find the place a bit weird to browse through but I’m beginning to get a hang of it, unfortunately not while I’m mobile. I think that’s the best point of Twitter, a scribble pad to post upon as you travel.

Twitter - Cause birds "tweet"?

I’ve had many nice ideas, thoughts and such while travelling but never have I cultivated the so-said good habit of carrying around a small notebook to scribble them upon. I find that quite odd to do, non-wash-proof kind of odd. Twitter, however, with the advance of the mobile devices into every man’s pockets, promises to help cultivating the same habit in a digital way. I need to setup the texting feature and give it a spin, and also try some gprs methods while am at it.

On my desktop I use Ping.fm for “tweeting”, as they like to call it, and I use it along with Bitlbee. Nice integration into one single irssi IRC interface. Ok I got a bit off the topic there, admitted. I’m turning quite the jargon guy here I notice, but I can’t really help changing that back, but yes I can dumb stuff down a bit maybe.

So, more tiny updates at my Twitter account - QwertyManiac

Results for all even semesters B.E. and B.Tech (Engineering Degrees, for IT, CSE, ECE, EEE, ME, etc.) (2nd (First year), 4th, 6th and 8th) will be out this week/month, as most ‘rumours’ go.

UPDATE: Results are out as of July 3rd/4th. Check the links below for acquiring them.

(Not sure when’s the date for other semesters, most say its 23rd)

Here’s a list of websites you can check for your results. Add in the comments if you know some other ones!

1. Anna University Official Website (Results Page) for 2008 Even Semester (B.E./B.Tech)
2. Anna University Official Website Links (Site O,  I, II, III)
3. SivajiTVAnna University UG and PG Apr/May 2008 Result.
4. Ellamey Results for UG and PG Anna University 2008 Even semester and First Year
5. WorldColleges Results for UG and PG Anna University Examinations 2008 Even Semesters.
6. Square Brothers UG Anna University results (Server 1)
7. Square Brothers UG Anna University results (Server 2)
8. ICQ Results for Anna University UG 2008
9. Get Free Source Results for Anna University UG results
10. Webdunia Anna University results for UG
11. Chennai Online Results for Anna University UG 2008
12. India Results results page for Anna University UG 2008

More will be added once results get out.

(Its a pity most sites don’t even update their pages and some like ICQ stopped doing it now.)

Good luck to all, if you need it that is.

Found that GTK’s Aurora engine is pretty better at theming than any other engine.

You can look for the package gtk-engines-aurora in your distribution and install it. I loved the tooltips shading and other nice bluish things it had to offer, and also liked the dark theme that accompanies the package. Pretty neat stuff.

Back from mars, I haven’t been doing much lately, and have moved my residence. The downtime of internet due to that also rid me of my internet addiction strangely and I feel like cooking in the evenings. Yes, very scary!

And about scary, 11:37 doesn’t follow me as often as before but I do notice it every other day. But do notice the post’s time.

Watched Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the theaters and found it to be very bad. I did not like the alien touch given to it, not to mention the legend of the crystal skull. Previous movies (With the possible exception of temple of doom - but hey it had great action!)  had better artifacts more historically popular than the crystal skull and that’s why I like em more. This one was meh.

Iron Man was a total mechanical candy, it was sweeter than Robocop, much sweeter. The boss fight not counting, the movie satisfied my interests with just the scene where he first wears his Mark III suit. It was the smoothest thing I’ve ever seen on CGI. I’d watch it on the big screen repeatedly for that sequence alone. Heck, maybe get a HD copy of it too, when its out.

Finally, saw Forbidden Kingdom today. It was good too, if not great. But I do hope there’s no sequel to it. It ended well for once, I don’t wish a sequel to spoil it up. Well unless Jet Li decides to return somehow. The best moments in the movie were only when Jet and Jackie do their attacks against one another. Rest, including the vengeful girl and the monkey king, were sort of meh but did not spoil the fun much. Though there could have been lesser oriental decors and make up. Jackie ought to do a Splinter role in any Turtles movie, he would totally suit Splinter.

Now getting back to the interstellar space, the place where most of you never bother (Bother, not dare) to go, it feels good to have settled down to a distribution and even better to know its Gentoo, of all Linux variants there are. Sure, configuring it took around a week (Only and still my first try) but the system now no longer needs to update via those ISO methods, like Ubuntu or others need for a better experience. I’m rolling with it as it goes!

Beginning to respect cross-platform-ness, I have jumped down into the Qt/KDE river, though I still haven’t managed to get KDE 4.1 installed (Yeah Gentoo does have SOME bad points about it, but otherwise its the best for settling down upon, no version numbers nothing, you are what you’ve got.)

Programming with Qt is quite a pain for someone not used to Object Oriented stuff, but the stuff it can do does not make you give up and let go. Have started a blog on the same, and you will find the link here and content there when its ready enough.

Sorry am I getting too random here? I’ll continue over in another post then.