How I let in 6 goals in my best performance :(

For the uninformed i'm referring to our football game at the inter university tournament in Madras. Yes we got beat 6-0 by the university of Madras. The scorline suggests that we got thrashed but i think it was the best performance I have seen our college team put in. We played for 90 minutes for the first time. And 4 of the goals came in the last 20 mins. Considering we play football primarily for recreation thats a pretty decent performance. I know some ignorant a$$holes may think differently and say that the team must really suck to get beat 6-0 but then they are a$$holes so they can go to hell. I'm sure we'll put up a much more credible performance in the ICFAI thing(I wont be there though :(( ).

ps1. Mess Food really really SUKS
ps2. Somebody really flamed zulu in the compilers feedback form. looks like some body from vizag
ps3. Wtf is wrong with liverpool! How can they be so incosistent :(
ps4.Unable to find linux drivers for my gfx card i have a go 7800. A treat to anybody who helps me get working drivers
ps5. Firefox told me that rapidshare has been blocked. The sysadmins are now officialy a$$holes

Is the Faculty accountable for anything??

Back to blogging after a long time. Unfortunatley the events that have compelled me to write this blog were actually really avoidable.

Some of the faculty members in the institute are the finest academicians around. But when it comes to administration i find a lot of things hard to digest. IIIT has lots of vague rules(attendence, PT, Jeevan vidya....) Most of these rules were implemented without giving any importance to student opinion. But somehow the students accepted all this. But there are some things that i find hard to understand.....things that show a lack of transparency on the part of the faculty....

1. The first "instance" of this high handedness were the last elections held in the campus. The election reuslts were nullified without any valid explanation. Effectively the faculty disregarded our votes.

2.Allotment of computers is a touchy issue right now. Institute claims that there is a 2:1 student computer ratio. I can count and that ratio is wrong. We pay about 3~3.5 lakhs as fee for the b.Tech course. A resonable PC would cost u about 25K. That is not even 10% of our fees. And our labcom was informed by the server room people that even though there is a shortage of infrastructure there would be no new purchases. No wonder all surveys by magazines say the college has poor infrastructure.


3. The sysadmins...... I have absolutely no frigging idea about why,when and who came up with the brilliant idea of getting rid of student admins. The new guys suck and end up asking nirnimesh to do their trouble shoting. This is more then anything shameful for a place like IIIT which has a decent number of people capable of doing he job.

4.FSIS... I have been to a reasonable number of FSIS/SFIS sessions and i swear i have never seen a greater wastage of time. I dont remember a single FSIS where any Popular descision has been announced. it's more of a press confrence by the faculty to announce the new ideas they are going to implement. And to anybody who says "nobody turns up for FSIS".... nobody is interested to attend a session where descisions are announced and the discussions are merely a formality.

5.Ragging.....Some people from UG2 and UG3 were implicated by a DIS-committee. I think each and every word of the discussions that went on behind those closed doors should be made public. And i mean everything right from the students statements to the questions asked by the faculty. If the DIS-CO investigated everything in a Impartial and dignified manner i see no reason why things should not be made public....unless the faculty has something to hide.

The thing is i'm not saying the faculty is right/wrong. The point I am trying to make is that when descisions that affect the entire student community are taken things should be transparent so that we know why the descision is being taken. I'm sure by working in the open the faculty can form a much better relationship with the students.


PS 1. No wonder the govt tried to ban blogs. People like us use them to flame everybody .... :D
PS2. I hope I get a new room I'm still stuk on the 3rd floor :((
PS3.New mess OBH gf is reasonably good. hope it continues that way.

Summer Holidays....the first month in review

1. Long time since i wrote my last post. It was during the exams and was more of a stress buster. That contained a lot of "I will do this , I will do that" kind of sentiment.

2. My project is getting my a$$ kicked. Kannan keeps handing me papers to read. It takes a week to get the background of the paper and why the damn paper was even written. I seriously question the wisdom of forcing incapable/uninterested people to do research :(


3.Arsenal Vs. Barcelona. Arsenal has a lot of money riding on this match. Victory here could be worth upto 30 million pounds to Arsenal (prize money for this year+participation in next years competition.) So guess they just cant afford to lose.Hope boro can land the UEFA cup.

4.I had mentioned in the previous post that i had managed to get a deal for a HP laptop. That deal got cancelled. I got something better :D
Dell inspiron 1705 Dual core processor 1.8 Ghz,1 GB RAM, 80 GB 7200 RPM SATA, Ge Force 7800GT with 256MB Video memory(dedicated mem no shitty turboCache), Sound blaster xi-fi,DVD writer,tv-tuner,17" tft widescreen with a refresh rate of 85 hz. This was all purchased for an indian equivalent of 57K.

I will get the laptop sometime in july. This is one gaming monster. It had a 3dMark 05 score of nearly 5000(5031 to be exact got 5879 with overclocking). To give you an idea of how good that is...A PC with the following config ....
AMD 2800+ (64 bit),512 MB ram,160 gb sata,radeon 9800 pro(not overclocked) has a score of 2100(This was rathi's PC when he had his 9800). It might seem like I am unnecessarily bragging. But i am excited to death to get such a laptop. I wonder how much the best pc's in CVIT would score?

5. I tried to sell my room PC to raise some cash. config is...
AMD 2800+(64 bit),512 mb ram,80 gb sata,17" monitor,16x DVD writer,tv-tuner,nvidia 5200 with 256 MB VRAM. plus the usual stuff.....Some person(i will not name him for his sake) wanted to buy this PC for 12K. Now, are people ignorant or are they just idiots? After seeing nobody was willing to offer even 20k i decided not to sell the pc. It will just be sent home. Getting such a PC for the price i was asking(25k) seems pretty reasonable. Dumb people.

6.Rooney broke his foot,Totti his ankle,Cafu his knee,Ronaldo doubtful,Owen unfit, Raul stupid, all the important people are screwed. World cup ki maa ki....

7.It's sooooooooooo humid this summer. This is baaaaaaaaaad. I have been in hyderbad for 15 years now and it has never been so humid in the summer.

8.Pramod Mahajan died. Sad. He was a good leader. I think the whole episode was stupid. He died, his brother will surely get life in prison or the death penalty. two lives wasted without reason.

9.My Heartfelt sympathies to the ECE people. They are getting some pretty bad grading. I know the faculty may read this part of the post someday but, Both the director and the guy who took the course(i think it's some ADC or DSP course) should get a kick on their a$$. The guy who took the course deserves a kick for doing such stupid grading and the director for not protecting the interests of his students by not fixing these dumb grades. Dean is a non-existant player(why should we pay for his salary if he is of no use?). Have no idea what is going on. Not giving A grades in a relative grading system is technically wrong. There must be a topper who must get an A grade. As apocalypse wrote in one of his posts the facluty doesn't follow any rules when it comes to grading. Very bad on the part of the faculty members.

Post Exam musings

1.Exams finally over gfx lab left

2.Very Very hot on the 3rd floor esp during the afternoon

3.DVD writer not working :( driver is corrupted (wonder how that happend?)

4.Got algos paper today. have a grand total of about 60. Going to get a B- :((

5.Waiting for the next India-Eng match. can't remember india thrashing 3 teams in a row like this

6.Dad agreed to but me a laptop. Now i have to wait for some relative/friend to come to india and give it. But it's a cool laptop from Hp. Intel Dual core 1.8ghz,1gb ram, nvidia7400 256mb,80gb sata,16x dvd writer,17" tft with side lamps,tv tuner :D,creative audigy4. All this for $1300=60K=awesome deal

7.Having nightmares with the agrids lab server. The damn thing just wont work with linux. Open invitation to all those champions of linux to make it work :P

8.my cell phone is on it's death bed. (dont worry it's a moto c131 yuck....) Will get a new phone by next sem

9.looking forward to the summer. Have a cool project with kannan and kamal guiding me. Will have a lotta work but then it's not everday that u get to work on things u want to work on. Also got the world cup coming up. But somehow the world cup doesn't quite appeal to me. Prefer the champions league. coz the overall quality is better.

10.Finished with The OC. have watched till 320. waiting for more episodes. Also would like to thank Firefox(manan from ug2) for his dedication to dloading stuff. U rock firefox.

11.Finally the sem is over. It has been a horrible sem becoz of the workload. But i also made my blogging debut this sem and intend to put up a last post on 12th.

Counter Halley post

About 2-3 months ago Halley wrote a pretty long and debate triggering post about the state d'affairs in IIIT. He raised more hell then good points in my opinion. I thought of writing a counter view to each issue raised. But Nirnimesh already did it. But recently Halley rewrote the whole thing(i found it only now !) so i decided to write a counter blog instead of counter comments.

1.Research: Do you expect miracles in research from UG students? The "research" work we do here is like a small taste of what research is like. It's like a "Intro to reserach" course or something. I have read people saying that honors and MSBR are useless. Well own their own they are but that's not what these things are meant for. They are supposed to put you on the track to research. And there is a limit to the amount of research and new ideas that can come up in a year so it's natural for the same things to be repeated in XoR or R&D though mind u things that are repeated are always improved models of the previous year.

2.Faculty suks: This sem i have had Prosenjit, Kannan, Kamal, PJN, and Sanghal teach us courses. I don't think any institute in India can do that. And sometimes we have Faculty members straying outside their areas of expertise to teach us courses(eg OS, ITWS) so they are bound to look dumb. But that doesn't mean they are hopeless.


3.HSSM suks:I have taken just one HSSM till date. (Industry n Society) last sem. I went to most of the classes had cool discussions with the prof(Dr.Janardhan from HCU) and enjoyed the course. i think taking a HSSM is like taking a course. You don't take dumb courses and similarly u don't take stupid HSSM's like fine arts.

4.Mess suks:If u employ private caterers this is going to happen. The institute should have it's own cooks who are like employees. This is the sytem followed by most colleges like IIT's

5.Canteen will commit suicide: This canteen is reasonable and it will survive coz the quality is ok. Honestly i think it's difficult to have a fancy canteen coz people aren't willing to spend money to eat in it.

6.Mag team suks: I have never seen the college magzine. I think the collection of blogs in IIIT does a good job of replacing the magzine. Blogs are the new age journalism tools. Blogs rock

7.Campus Life suks: Everything is in the hands of the students. We form the councils and even control the budget. But what do we do nothing? Faculty can't help us on this.

8.IIIT as a university: I agree with u. I also see IIIT as a corporate college. To be a university the institute has to sincerely encourage other acivities. This includes Cultural, Sports and social acivites. The present management sadly, doesn't see beyond academics

9.Misuse of resources: As far as computer resource allocation is concerned whoever is incharge of computer stuff deserves to get his a$$ fried. I dont have a lab PC. When i really pestered the labcom he said i have a room pc so i shouldn't demand a lab pc. Ballz. Institute is supposed to give us atleast a pc. Finally got a pc but it had no ram, no hdd and no drives. UG2 had a meeting with the director last sem to discuss the situaton with regard to pc allocation. He said he would do something but then again....this is IIIT nothing happened

10 Grading system suks: I agree. But isin't this a risk u are taking when u make ug students tutors? and by the way 70% tutors are honest. It's some guys who do some "hera pheri" but dishonesty is dishonesty.

11. Democracy suks: Well when we have elections we vote for people we know won't work once elected and then we complain how the parliament suks. The parliament is only as good as those that are a part of it. We all know how hard Pranav works for campus life issues. But i think this is the first time he is part of the parliament. This shows how irresponsibly the students vote.

I have nothing against Halley. Personally i admire u for standing out among the crowd and speaking ur mind. Hope u read this and leave some nice commets :D

The Attendence rule in IIIT :(

Today i saw one of my batchmates pretty upset coz he didn't attend the AI class and now he's gonna lose a grade. I sympathise with him coz i'm one of the student's whose suffered a lot because of the attendence rule. I joined the institute about 15 days late(due to various reasons) and started off with about 6 absents in each subject.At the end of the semester i lost about 1 grade point and ended up with a sgpa of 6 whereas i had actually got about 7.1. I talked to the dean and the dean said that i came late and that i could "get out of his office." Numerous other people from my batch and also others have lost a lot of grades due to attendence.
If you look at the grades and their meanings here it's clear that grades are meant to reflect academic acheivement. Now if i get an "A" grade it means that i've performed excellently in the course. But in that very course if my attendence is 74% i get an "F" which means i "have not picked up any of the basic/required concepts taught in the course and have performed uniformly bad in all the assessments". How contradictory!. Aren't grades meaningless with such policies. I mean you could know everyting taught in the course get full marks in every test, every assignment and still be classified as "F" !
Secondly when a Faculty member gives you a grade he thinks you deserve that grade. Then to alter that grade for non-academic reasons is very disrespectful to both the faculty members opinion and also the hard work of the student.
And to anyone who says "grades don't matter it's about what you learn".....I'm sorry! that's how the system works. Wherever you go any faculty member will ask you your grades. Whenever you apply outside you are asked your grades. I wonder if any faculty member has had their grades deducted due to attendence during their B.Tech.
And i don't understand the need for such a rule. from what i gather senior batches like ug99 and ug2k really abused the no-attendence policy. There were people who didn't attend a single class the entire sem and still got A grades. I agreee that such a situation ruins the discipline of the college but implementing the current rules is way too extreme. Something like a 70 % attendence policy would be reasonable. Surely there must be other possible penalties for low attendence other then deducting grades.
And as for the rule it's a vague rule. And I know everybody says the dean is responsible and blah blah blah. But this is the institute policy. And such descicions aren't made by the dean alone. The director the dean and senior faculty members are all involved in this descision making. So in short all the faculty members without exception are responsible for this. I know some faculty members don't think this is the right way of doing things and but they too can't do anything.
I hope some of my fellow iiit'ians will read this and think of it as worthwhile to discuss this issue. This is a serious issue and deserves atleast a decent discussion. I feel if all students come together we can atleast force the faculty to have a rethink on this issue.

CUSAT to become an IIT

But first wtf is CUSAT?? CUSAT=Cochin University of Science and Technology Anybody who at first sight guesses the meaning of CUSAT deserves a Medal. In fact anybody who even knows that there is something called CUSAT deserves atleast a prize. According to this article cochin university is going to be granted the status of an IIT. For once the Government of India should be serious about higher education. I mean i never even heard about "CUSAT" before i read this article. Now this is an online publication so i don't know how accurate it is but The Hindu is generelly pretty reliable so i guess the news is true. How can a place like CUSAT which never does any creditable work of any kind(never seen or heard of them in any technical/sports competition till date) leave alone research, become an IIT. I mean if this is how IIT's are made an this is there standard then i am sooooooo happy to be in IIIT. People will argue that the facilities will improve. But what about faculty? I'm sure the faculty of "CUSAT" are not upto IIT standard. So are they going to fire the entire "CUSAT" faculty overnight? this is a joke of the highest order. Man somebody needs to kick the governments ass.........

How the half-truth can make everybody look dumb

Today i had one of the parliament members coming up to me and telling me that the director was pretty upset with the parliament and i was largely to blame for that because of some of my comments in a previous FSIS. Now for those of you who didn't attend the FSIS on 23rd or 24th feb (i.e. everybody in IIIT :D and i don't remember the exact date) here's what went down.

The director was cricizing the parliment members for not being active enough. Pranav defended the parliament members and somewhere down the line the issue of the elections came up. I then asked the director why the elections were cancelled in the first place. Dr.Sangal was rather surpised to know that the students weren't informed. The reason he gave us was that the then SLC charperson(Dr.Jayanthi) felt that the election was very regional in nature and some students were "coerced" into giving votes according to their wishes. I don't know how true this is. The point that i raised was that if the election results were cancelled that means that the faculty belives that some of the candidates were involved in some sort of wrong-doing. If that is the case then why were those people who, in the eyes of the faculty were involved in malpractices allowed to be in the parliament, given how strict the faculty is in dealing with "dishonesty". This is a glaring contradiction. On the other hand if the faculty is of the view that the candidates did nothing wrong then why were the elections cancelled in the first place. This is again a very contradicting situation. Either way their was a improper descision on the part of the facluty and the worst part of this was that all the students were kept in the dark about all this which is again very surprising on the part of the faculty. Even some of the candidates present there said that they also knew nothing about this situation.

After listening to all this Dr.Sangal said quote " Well we are very sorry about this situation and sorry that the students were not told about this " unquote.

Now anybody who has a different version of events can personally come and tell me his/her version. I'm pretty sure about what was said and i'm also sure that there is no other true version. This comes up because it seems some other people gave some parliament members a different version of events. That is pretty unfortunate given how crystal clear this part of the FSIS was.
And to the parliament members........I just don't see how i have incriminated you in any way. This was clearly something related to the vague descision making of the faculty. You or your credentials or your integrity or commitment were in no way questioned anywhere. If anything I was making a point that you people should have made for yourselves last year after the descision to cancel the elections was taken. I am really disappointed with the situation and hope for more positive and responsible reactions from people in ther future.

Champions League review....

I had the chance to see the extended highlights of the champions league 2nd round first leg matches...Here's a brief review of the games...

1.Ajax 2-2 Inter
Ajax had the match won but threw it away....they were leading 2-0 at half time and it was some pretty slack defending that screwed up everything. I think Adriano and co will murder them at the san siro..
2.Chelsea 1-2 Barcelona
Man this was a really exciting match.Even though i think chelsea really suck and there are many around better then mourinho they were really hard done by when del-horno was sent off....but honestly...barca just raped them.....they hardly had a shot on target during the entire game...and as the home team they lacked any enterprise....even when they had 11 men...Also lionel messi was awesome ....man people talk about rooney and fabregas and all but this fellow is way ahead of them...as for chelsea they'll get raped all over again at the Camp Nou
3.Rangers 2-2 Villareal
Didn't watch this one properly...just saw the goals ......woeful defending from ranges... Villareal will do enough to go through
4.Wereder Bremen 3-2 Juventus
This was the game of the night.Bremen were a goal down with 5 minutes to go and they scored 2 goals in those five minutes to win 3-2. I saw the entire replay of the game and it looked like juve were playing casually....not something italian teams do...but they'll do enough in the second leg to go through
5.Bayern Munich 1-1 AC Milan
Hmmmmmm......apart from Michael Ballacks goal this game was boring......ands that all you can expect when germen team plays a italian team...But i think(some people are gonna be angry) milan have lost it this season. Not just in the champions league but in all competitions.....and the surprising thing is that they have all their major players fit. Maybe a time for a change of coach in milan....??
6.Benfica 1-0 Liverpool
Ok....this is the important one.....I think Liverpool didn't deserve to lose but they didn't deserve to win either. As for benfica.....Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooring.....I can't understand how they got to this stage......absolutely amzing....i mean they just kept kicking liverpool players....and btw no gerrard,no crouch and no cisse for liverpool....won't be a pleasent night for benfica at anfield
7.PSV Eindhoven 0-1 Lyon
for the uninformed Lyon are(belive it or not!!) the bookmakers third favourite to win the champions league just behind barca and juventus. Didn't watch this one in any detail....but i read that psv were pretty dull.
8.Real Madrid 0-1 Arsenal
Grrrrrrrr........madrid suks.....henry confirmed that with a awesome goal.....and if real madrid think they can go to highbury and win they are joking......k.o. for madrid..

looking forward to barca chelsea
So who will win it??? i think barcelona will win this tie but screw up somewhere else in the competition. They play attacking stuff only and you cant win the CL just attacking. As for Chelski...they may spend a lot of money....but they will never be able to win in europe. Chelski are like a group of mercenaries.......and they may be consistent in the long run but for europe you need to have passion. If you see the chelski line up against barca not a single player in the sixteen has come throught the youth system at chelsea. They were all purchased. All good teams(those that play natural football...) have a lot of players in the squad who are groomed at the club. Even real Madrid are facing the same problem hardly anyone from originally from madrid. But look at barca....in their starting 11 valdes,puyol,oleguer,messi,motta,iniesta and belletti are from the youth system in barca. It's the same for every team...the best players come through the youth system. at liverpool it's owen, gerrard and carragher, at real it was raul and hierro, in the man united team of the nineties the entire sqauad was a youth team,it's del piero at juve, it's maldini at milan,kahn in bayern munich and the list is endless....You can't completely buy success.

2 days in a hospital

I have spent the last two and a half days in apollo DRDO with drips through my hands and a tube to my stomach through my nose with milk going through it. It is stupid to mention this on a public blog but i have no other place to vent my frustration about this.

I was diagnosed with acute gastro *****(donno whats after gastro ..) which translates into food poisoning. how did i get it?? god knows... :(

This post is to describe how life totally totally suks at a hospital. NO TV NO LAN NO MOVIES NO P.R. FOOD NO GOOD LOOKING NURSES (booo hooooo) and a s.o.b. doctor who wanted to keep me there till friday...(can u belive that....) I was lucky that one fo my friends dropped in and had his laptop and cellphone (LAPTOP + CELLPHONE = INTERNET :D ) And if that had not happened i surely would have gone into depression. Man life in a hospital suks... So i decided to get outta hospital...and come to the place where u have it all....(Of course the hospital staff,doctor and my parents think that i am still in the hospital :D )

And that's not all .....this food poisoning episode has really screwd me....below is a report of the damage done

1.Primary problem: Valentine's day ruined...fu*#%d raped :((
2. Grafix assignment screwed
3. TOC assignment screwed
4. missed Cricket match for ug2
5.Missed football match for UG2

Crap....shit......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhh what rotten luck..all this had to happen at this time. Luckily i had attendence....otherwise attendence rules would have totally fried my a$$. Now im on the edge in 2 subjects......And as i write this post i realise what a heaven IIIT is.......LAN INTERNET MOVIES TV SHOWS FOOD(still waiting for canteen) sab kuch hai...... I never felt this happy at IIIT

The truth about Sports@IIIT

Having read a rather interesting post i also decided to get my hands dirty and have a go at the way sports is run and looked at in IIIT. In this post i'll write about some things that may be rather embaressing for some people...but please note, i mean no insults to anybody. The faculty are fine people and i'm sure they try to do what they think is the best for us not that it always is :)

The first part is about general sp0rts and games in IIIT meant even for those who are not into sports on a regular basis.

On IIIT's web page they try to make it look as if they work hard to encourage sports. (they are supposed to do that it's their job :P ) They have made P.T. compulsory. Now i personally think that p.t. at six in the morning is dumb especially when you have to submit assignments at 12 in the night almost every other day(ug1 people have to do it.....remember DSA my friends :O ) Many people come here with the view that sports and games are useless. I belive most people coming here wouldn't have hade these many playing facilities ever before. But the way P.T. is imposed on them makes them revolt at the thought of sports. Instead of introducing sports as a recreation the institute has turned into a forcible boot camp. But the main motive behind P.T. as told by the dean is to make people get up early in the morning.....that was a poor excuse by any standards. When our batch got really fed up of P.T. the faculty agreed to shift the P.T. to the evenings. This was really good as a lot of people even from other batches turned out in large numbers to play. This was a great positive move from the faculty but god knows why that idea was discarded(plzz no wake up early argument......it is ridiculous) So the institute needs to have a better and more thoughtful policy to introduce many people to sports in a positive way.

The second part concerns sports played regularly

When it comes to sports at a slightly competitive level the institute tries to encourage students to participate in inter house/batch competitions. This is where the conflict starts. How do you fit in time to play regular events with the academic shedule? One thing i could never figure out is why classes go on even at 7:30. I think 5 is a good time to wrap up classes for the day. Finishing as late as 7-8 pm leaves the student no time to relax or to even to take part in activities. In this regard i feel the institute is very indisciplined and illogical with regard to the timings of classes and tutes. We even have tutes at 11 pm. This is wrong. The institute urges students to be professional but they should start with themselves. These randomized class timings make inter house/batch competitions hard to conduct(sunday is not the answer to all queries. How much can you play in one day? and is that what you are going to do every sunday....just play and play and play....) The institute has provisions for sport but has no mechanism for this to be feasible. This in my view is the hipocriscy of the mangement at it's very best and surely this reflects poorly on the institute.

Part three of this post deals with going out for competitions.

Before i deal with this issue let me tell you that i will not consider anything regarding the dean here. Understanding his ideas, his concepts and his visions is beyond the scope of this blog(or for that matter any blog :P ) but he is a nice guy and will get the limelight in future posts.
I have learnt that the faculty has strongly discouraged the physical directors to send students to participate in competitions outside the college. According to the unofficial directive sports is for recreation only and not meant to be played at a competitive level. The faculty will deny it but this is the truth. I was sad but not surprised to hear this. It is sad to see the institute stifling the talents of it's own students for what i belive is no good reason. They must realise that this is not a research institute or a software company. I have a theory as to why the faculty loo down upon sports. All the faculty members have been brilliant students in their academic lives. It is unlikely that anyone of them would have ever played any sport at any level. They think that they never needed to have any sport so why should we need it. Further they belong to a generation that look down upon sports as something that is meant for those who are not good at studies. Times have changed but their mindsets have not changed. And the sad thinng is that the faculty does not and in my view will never appreciate the beauty of sport. This is not just a problem in IIIT but in all "good" colleges like IIT's NIT's etc. I hope the faculty will realise that sport is not bad. I hope i see that change or atleast the winds of change in my time in IIIT

Top Ten Food For Though topics in IIIT(in reverse order)

10.Management is of the view that we waste our parents hard earned money in the canteen. So having a canteen is not wise. What better way to address this concern by making us pay a fee of about a lakh per annum(ironic)

09.Projects undertaken in IIIT specially by people in my batch and more specificaly under ramu.....man those projects rock......when will i get one of those projects :0 ???

08.How, when and where do we display/publish the photographs of people pee-ing all over our campus. These are rare pieces of art the likes of which will not be seen for quite some time. All hail rao/su/ruchir/satvik/arpan/meta for this. Proud of you people :)

07.Who is this "Swamiji" ??.......Avik left.......he came.......felicity screwed(no glamour this time ?? ) canteen closed.......jeevan vidya started.....coincidence...???......hmmmmmmm.....never spoke to the guy though....so hard to say anything about him...

06.Sourav Ganguly(these two words are enough to describe the topic!!)

05.Should TV through LAN (read ESPN+STAR SPORTS+MTV+CHANNEL V + ONE PUBLIC Choice ......No Cartoons channels please) be availible???(don't ask me how....... :P)

04.Can UG2K4 make a clean sweep of all the inter batch sports this year??? I think so......What do you think???

03.wtf...who removed quake 3 from zombie zone.....and of all things put FIFA and UT....that was surprising coming from ug3 knowing their passion for FPS's

02.Who is gonna be the next sys admin of IIIT......???(me me me .........please me me me.....)

01.The main topic of discussion(trust me) in the coming days is gonna be the felicity t-shirt....some opinions are out and the shirt isin't receiving any rave reviews.......but saying that i haven't seen the shirt myself......so..........grrrrrr.......let's see......

ps 1.I will eventually get into trouble for this blog.... :(
ps 2.maintaining ShArK TV is driving me crazy....

The Truth about ShArK TV

Considering the cool response to ShArK TV i thought I would dedicate my first meaningful blog entry to it.

1.HOW does it work??
I Have a software(Unreal Live sever) that captures video from my (illegal)TV connection and then distributes the feed to a server(Unreal Media Server) which then streams it to clients using the Unreal Media Streaming Player. A detailed tutorial on how to do this is available here and all the software is availible here

2.WHY Did i Do it??
Watching the match at neck wrenching angles suks. Combine that with people's stinking socks and a dirty carpet(ug2 people hardly get to sit on chairs!!) and u get a repulsive recipie for nausea. All that plus I had nothing to do :)

3.WHAT is the future??
Hmmm.......firstly the faculty shouldn't find out(dont worry some asshole will eventually tell the faculty).Secondly I'm working on improving the quality of the transmission and finally i'm trying to make some sort of an arrangement for people using linux. Wonder why a linux client is the last thing on my list?? No I'm not anti linux.......No i'm not busy.........No i'm not lazy.........then wtf is wrong?? I have absolutely no f***** idea how to do it :( seniors/linux bonds please help me.....


P.S.1 Please dont't IM me on to change the channel during the match

P.S.2 Please dont IM me to Change the channel when M TV is running. It is the only thing that seperates us and geekland

P.S.3 Don't demand slots for Tv. All people are equally entitled to watch it. Don't expect special favours. I'm not being all goody goody and righteous and crap like dat. It's common sense. If u wanna take connections all day long and deprive other people the very same thing may happen to you. So from 2 moro onwards you will be disconnected every 45 mins and can rejoin only after 30 mins or whenever a free slot is there whichever comes first. This is temporary till some proper setup comes up so chill out people

Remember this service is voluntary and experimental. So i request you to be patient. Any constructive suggestions are welcome

My First Post

It's been almost 4 sems in IIIT and unlike most of my friends i didn't have a blog. Honestly i was of the opinion that blogs are useless...I mean I never even read anybodys blog till i was in my third sem :O which begs the question .....do I need a blog even now?? Well only time will tell.......

p.s. 1.I read Shibens blog on being "cool". Wonder what a categorization of our batch would look like...

p.s. 2.Lost my cap :[ sad.....very sad.... :(

p.s. 3. Going to write a lot of posts today