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Joking ??

Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2008 | 18 Comments »

B. Tech Student : (To himself) What??! Who has set up this experiment? Voltmeter in series and Ammeter in parallel ? Standards of the insti are falling monotonically. Sigh.
Ph. D Teaching Assistant : Hey why are you fiddling with the circuit? I have got everything ready for you. You just have to take readings and [...]

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Night Skies ..

Posted in Astronomy, IIT, tagged , , , , , , on February 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Can you guess the time of the day when the above photo was taken? (Click on the photo for a bigger version). Would you believe it if I said 2 AM? Oh yes, 2 AM it is! Maybe the stars in the photo can convince you
We, Astronomy Club, IIT Madras held a session [...]

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Scary?

Posted in IIT, tagged , , , , on February 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »

We share our hostel with the man below.

And him too??

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Hackergotchi Tutorial

Posted in Tutorials, tagged , , , on February 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I’ve put down few steps to make your own Hackergotchi in less than 10 minutes. I’ve used the GIMP. Nevertheless, it should be easy to use these steps in other Image Editing Softwares as well. (Click on the thumbnails to view full size)

1) Find a good photo of yours, preferably with a plain background. If [...]

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Guess Where?

Posted in IIT, Random, tagged , , on February 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Any idea where this photo was taken ?
Update: Photo taken at the IIT Madras Oxidation Ponds, not a beautiful lake

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Naakka Mukka

Posted in Random, தமிழ், tagged , , on February 15, 2008 | 16 Comments »

‘நாக்க முக்கா’ வா! அப்படின்னா ?
சமீபத்துல ஒரு நண்பன் சொல்லி ‘நாக்க முக்கா’ என்ற பாட்டை கேட்டேன். அட! என்ன சொல்ல்றதுனே தெரியல. கேட்ட உடனே ஒரே டான்ஸ், கூத்து தான்! அதை பாடிய பெண்மணிக்கு அப்படி ஒரு குரல்! அப்போதுலேர்ந்து மனசுக்குள்ள நாக்க முக்கா ஒடிட்டே இருக்கு. ஆனா நாக்க முக்கா – னா என்னவா இருக்கும்னு ஒரு கேள்வி எழும்பியது. அதுக்கு விளக்கம் எதுவும் இல்லை என்பது தெரிஞ்ச விஷயம் தான். இருந்தாலும் ஒரு [...]

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Type in Indian Languages

Posted in Linux, Tutorials, tagged , , , , , , on February 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ வணக்கம் सुस्वागतम्
Recently I got this urge to type in Indian Languages on my comp. And so I came across SCIM and m17n. I use Debian GNU/Linux and the GNOME Desktop Environment. Getting this to work was a cakewalk!
Here are the steps to follow.

Open a terminal. And install the following packages.
sudo [...]

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Hackergotchi

Posted in Random, tagged on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Reward to myself for getting over with an AM110 Quiz – My own Hackergotchi !
Thanks to inspiration from Sup3rkiddo’s Blog.
Watch out for a tutorial on How to create your own Hackergotchi coming up soon

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Small is Beautiful

Posted in IIT on February 12, 2008 | 12 Comments »

(11th Feb 2008, Mugging Session for Quiz 1)
Well, we constitute the only branch of engineering at IIT Madras that can fit into a single hostel room – Engineering Physics
Now who can beat that?
You were right, Mr. Schumacher. Small is indeed Beautiful.

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Magic Cookies ?

Posted in Linux, tagged , on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There exist all sorts of weird things in computer jargon, cookies, for instance. But how about ultra cool Magic Cookies ? Sounds great right ? But did you know that the term cookies itself is derived from the term Magic Cookies?
Why would have these been christened Magic Cookies? Maybe because they just work! Or [...]

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