Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Chandrayan

Today is a proud day for India. For a country that was incapable of manufacturing pencils 60 years ago, sending probes to the moon as a great acheivement. I salute the people at ISRO.

Jai Hind

Monday, October 13, 2008

The Truth about Pranav Kumar Vasishta

We all know pranav as the elderly IIIT thinker that he is. This post will expose the evil behind the mask of innocence that he puts on.

The victim was mythalez (a.k.a Ramachandra :O )

The year was 2006. Rama had just checked his mail on Dilip(also from ug2k2) room PC. After he checked his mail, he exited the room without logging off. Enter Pranav. Seeing rama's console open, the devil inside Pranav took over. Encouraged by Dilip, pranav  changed the title of the putty window (putty window bar->right click->change settings->window->behaviour->window title) to vasishta@students. This was followed by a change to the prompt(the .bashrc file) to make it look like [vasishta@students ~]:

So we have Ramachandra's putty session looking like pranav's session.

Thus the trap was set for Rama. In some time Rama entered the room and saw a putty session titled vasishta@students . Ramachandra eyes lit up like 1000W bulbs. Encouraged by Dilip and sensing a once in a lifetime opportunity, Rama quickely composed a tullu mail to his batch from that putty session. Rama then went to pranav and with a big smile on his face asked pranav to check his mail. Pranav opened his mail box and lo and behold there was a mail:

Ramachandra  Sub: I am the greatest tullu of IIIT. 

And that is the story of how Ramachandra was *pawnd* by Pranav Kumar Vasishta. I have seen lots of tullu mail in IIIT. But this has to be the mother of all tullu mails.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Rats

Yes Rats.... They chewed up the link between the NBH-GH and the rest of IIIT. 

PS1. At times working in the server room is a real education as to the flexibility of the protocols of TCP/IP and the amount of abuse cisco hardware can take.

PS2. I am happy ganguly and dravid managed to get some runs.

PS3. After a long time(6~7 years) I played four continuous days of badminton. It felt good.

PS4. I saw kulbir saini's cam. The auto click(when you smile) thing either doesn't work or I don't have a happy enough smile :(

ps5. Played far cry all over again. Not in the mood for "research" these days.

ps6. My gfx card(7800gtx) is totally and utterly useless. I need a new machine. Donations please :)

ps7. I think most of your batchmates leaving makes for a very lonely and boring existance. I think the life in the OBH is kinda dull these days. No longer see people out in the corridors BC'ing. 

PS8. Somebody download some good series .............