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IISc to start Under Graduate programs!

August 26th, 2010

The Indian Institute of Science, a leading institution of higher learning with a strong tradition of research for over a century, is opening its portals to undergraduate students by launching a four-year Bachelor of Science (BS) Programme. The programme is designed as a balanced blend of core science and interdisciplinary topics, to serve as a launching pad for research and doctoral studies in cutting-edge areas in science and technology. The graduates will also be ready for attractive career opportunities in academia and industry.

Major Disciplines Offered would be:

  • BIOLOGY
  • CHEMISTRY
  • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
  • MATERIALS
  • MATHEMATICS
  • PHYSICS

The inaugral batch will begin classes from August 2011 and graduate in June 2015.
Admission will be based on national exams like KVPY and other channels to be announced soon.
Eligibility: 12th standard or equivalent with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics as main subjects.
Applications will be accepted from January 1, 2011, till March 31, 2011.

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Ship or a raft?

August 20th, 2010

“I guess the moment you transform from a raft to a ship, the sailing becomes smooth, sometimes too smooth for those in it for the thrill.”

This was a reply to my mail to one of my cousins. I was telling her how spending one year in Yahoo! has been a dream like. Almost everything the way you want it. However still something being amiss. The urgency, the pressure, the hand twisting is somehow amiss. And today I came across the blog of a five year old veteran of Yahoo!, who will be an ex-Yahoo! in another eight hours about his one year in Yahoo!

One of the lines from his post:

But I seem to crave for real work pressure. At the end of the day I just want to go home feeling happy that I made a difference.

And I can empathise with this condition. For me, that level of despair came in two steps. Despair is too strong a word in here but still.
The first one came in some three months after joining. It was too much like sunlab. For those who know me, you know what it means. The complete freedom to do whatever you want. Wrap up your work the way you want it, the way you like it.

And then, another six months down the lane, the realisation that I am getting too comfortable. There is absolutely no pain in here, no worries. But then, down the lane, it can’t be good.

Yahoo! is too good a company. A dream to work with. It takes care of its employees the way your parents take care of you in college. You ve to work and yet you can have all the fun. See, how many students claim they managed to pass out of college without studying? Yet we know that they did study though maybe not to the full extent. They underperformed and yet graduated. Y! is a bit like that. Its resources are under-utilised. Unfortunately, the financial resources are a bit strained.

Maybe I am saying words I shouldn’t. Lets see how things turn out few months down the lane.

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2012 – How much truth is in there?

August 9th, 2010

This post is just a conjunction of my thoughts, my beliefs. I don’t know why but ever since I came to know about 2012 phenomenon, I ve been an astute believer in it. I am no believer in conspiracy theory. But somehow when I hear all the happenings around, and by that I mean mostly the actual natural disasters, some of which are man caused (the BP oil spill, the various disasters). The volcano erupting out of iceland. The flash floods. The rising temperatures. The floods in Europe.

I’ll be posting more of my thoughts on this, all under the tag 2012.

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Yahoo! OpenHackDay 2010

July 23rd, 2010

Finally I’ll be attending the Yahoo! Open Hack Day 2010. I wanted to attend this event ever since my college days but unfortunately the dates always clashed with onething or the other :!

This time its being organised on July 24th and 25th, 2010.

And this time I’ll be attending as an organiser. That means I can’t participate as a hacker (well not eligible for prizes atleast :! )

hit http://openhackindia2010.pbworks.com/ for more details!

Open hack Day 2010

Open hack Day 2010

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Etherpad setup on Fedora 12 slicehost.

July 16th, 2010

I ve been trying to setup etherpad on my slicehost slice running fedora. I managed to get all the dependencies fulfilled yet it would fail compiling. (I let it run for 36+ hours and then did Ctrl+C when I realised its not really working.) Then I came across the newly released rpm for fedora 12:

http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/etherpad/

This still is buggy. For example,

[root@deltacore etherpad-0]# etherpad-rebuildjar.sh
/usr/bin/etherpad-rebuildjar.sh: line 32: ../infrastructure/bin/compilecache.sh: No such file or directory

Ofcourse, because the original script has just been moved to /usr/bin without even changing the source :!

Anyways, I just tried running the etherpad server and thats when I got my major roadblock :!

[root@deltacore etherpad-0]# etherpad-run-local.sh
Using config file: /etc/etherpad.localdev-default.properties
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap

So next, I am gonna run it on my private server with better memory and see how it works.

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The making of Yahoo!’s Its Y!ou Campaign

July 11th, 2010

I know its kinda late to let you know about the making of It’s Y!ou campaign by Yahoo!, but still. I still am inspired and moved by this making! Enjoy!


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A parcel with registration code DHL442354Di – The latest in spam mails!

July 8th, 2010

Just got this spam mail in my gmail inbox. The subject of the mail is so realistic! Only the content was a dead give away that its a spam!

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DO NOT EVER REPLY TO SUCH EMAILS!

THSESE ARE FRAUDULENT SPAMS!
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SPAM!

A parcel with registration code DHL442354Di
Inbox X

Reply to all

from DHL
reply-to claimsdeptdhl@gmail.com
to
date Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:07 PM
subject A parcel with registration code DHL442354Di
mailed-by telusplanet.net

hide details 7:07 PM (8 minutes ago)

A parcel with registration code DHL442354Di was yesterday deposited in our courier company for delivery to you.The parcel contains a universal cheque worth $897,000.00.

Your Email ID was among the lucky ones that emerged in the Honda Online Award.

Please send the below information to Mr.Tony Bruce (delivery officer)for immediate attention;

FullNames…..
Age…..
Sex….
Country….
State….
Occupation….
Martal Status……
Telephone/Mobile no…..
Next Of Kin……..

Send the above information to the delivery officer
Email: claimsdeptdhl@gmail.com

Online Coordinator.
DHL COURIER SERVICE.

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When wordpress went down…!

June 11th, 2010

The early morning of June 11th (or June 10 evening for the folks in US west coast) saw wordpress.com going down! This is the first time that I remember such a big outage ever since I started with wordpress. It was just giving an error message saying “WordPress will be back shortly!”. Millions of blogs hosted on wordpress were affected because of this. Also non-wordpress hosted blogs using wordpress were affected for their stats. As the stats plugin uses API keys issued by wordpress.

WordPress.com goes down, affects wordpress stats as well.

WordPress.com goes down, affects wordpress stats as well.

Majority of wordpress blogs are up now and rest are slowly crawling back to normalcy. The main site is yet to be restored.

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Scuba Diving at Netrani Islands, off Murudeshwar!

June 5th, 2010

I went for a Scuba diving trip at Netrani Island, 10 nautical miles off the western coast of India from the city of Murudeshwar, KN. It was a weekend trip. The trip was organised by Bangalore Mountaineering Club BMC. We started at 10 from bangalore and reached Murudeshwar by 9 next morning. In between we stopped at Jog falls which was mostly reduced to a stream. There were 8 of us including the event co-ordinator. 2 more folks joined us later in Murudeshwar itself. We landed up at the RNS Highway , a good hotel 5 minutes drive from the beach. The charge is about Rs.450 for a non-AC double room whereas it is INR 1250 for an AC double room. After some initial freshening up and a light breakfast, we went for a training session in a pool. We spent some 3 hours in the pool learning various tips and related hand signals about scuba diving. After that we had a good lunch at an eatery called Park Groves nearby. Then we retired back to the hotel. We left for the beach in the evening. We visited the Shiva temple at the beach that boasts of the tallest shiva statue in the world. Its 123 feet or 37mts high. We also went atop the nearby 20 story Gopura, another tallest in world. The lift takes you upto 18 story. After that we spent some time off at the beach, had a good dinner at Kamath and then went back to hotel and hit the bed.

Next day we were up and on the beach by 8 am. After a light breakfast, we boarded the boat to Netrani Islands. There were two boats, one with us and the other with the scuba gear. We reached the island in around one hours time. There after we raced to go in for scuba diving followed by snorkelling in the calm waters. When you are in the deep sea, then only you really understand the meaning of a real deep blue sea!
The snorkelling and scuba diving were my first experience. Its simply awesome and amazing.

We started back for land around 3 and were back on dry grounds by 4.30. Thereafter we went back to hotel, freshened up and hit the road again after light snacks, We had dinner in the evening the city of sagar and we reached Bangalore by 7 early next morning!

It was an awesome weekend and a time to remember!

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URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL FOR ASSISTANCE

May 31st, 2010

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THIS IS A SCAM MESSAGE. DO NOT EVER REPLY TO SUCH EMAILS!

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Message from Jannifer Jean Kekouri.
Lot 339 Lebalon Street,Abidjan.
Cote D’Ivoire.

Dearest One.

Many thanks for your response to my message, I appreciate your kind gesture to find time to give reponse to my message to you. First and foremost and brief self introduction,I am Jannifer Jean Kekouri,24years old and the only daughter of my late parents Mr.and Mrs. Jean Kekouri.

My father was a highly reputable busnness magnate-(a cocoa merchant)who operated in the capital of Ivory Coast during his days It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad year 12th.Feb. 2003.Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time.But God knows the truth!

My mother died when I was just 4 years old,and since then my father took me so special. Before his death on Febuary 12- 2007 he called me and disclose to me that he had a sum of $4.5 million US DOLLARS (Four Million Five hundred thousand USD) deposited with one of the local banks here in Ivory Coast.

He also said he used my name as his next of kin to the fund with the bank as his only daughter, as well as the next of kin. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business assocaites, That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money to and use it for investment purposes. I want you to assist me in clearing this fund into your account overseas as a beneficiary of the fund,and also use it for an investment purpose.

I am just 25 years old and a high school and really don’t know what to do.Now I want an account overseas where I can transfer this funds. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast.The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life. Dearest one,I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:- 1. Can you honestly help me?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the money is in your account?

Please,Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible, as well I will like you to reply to me with your private email address if you are willing to have the relevant documents to confirm the existence of the fund for verification from the bank and to confirm the authenticity of my proposal to you also for easy communication.

Above all I’m corresponding with you from my country here in Cote D’Ivoire West Africa and moreso there is great political war going on here in my country, that is the main reason why I contacted you to help me in getting me and my only inheritance out of this country so that I may not loosed my life and the inheritance to war in this country, infact I’m facing hard difficulty at the moment in this country,Thank you so much. N.B: SEND YOUR DETAILS TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: janniferjean@hotmail.fr, jean.jannifer@yahoo.com , janniferjean79@yahoo.com.hk

Yours,
Jannifer Jean Kekouri.

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