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