Monthly Archives: August 2004

Tech Edge 2004 at Birla Vidya Niketan

We participated in only three events out of a total of five as we neither had a participant for Group Discussion nor a software to submit for software Display. The events which we did participate in were Gaming, Web Designing and Senior Programming. Souvik could not make through the qualifiers of the Gaming event due to keyboard problems. The game was Unreal Tournament and the frag limit was just 10. Vansh and Rasagya were declared third in the Web Designing event. Swati and myself won the Senior Programming. We did not think we could have won the programming event as the last (fourth) question we had to do was to make an analog clock with the hour, minute and seconds hand. The clock had to work i.e. show the time. Neither of us (me and Swati) had any idea about graphics in C++, but with the C++ help file we were able to make a pretty nice clock which worked! As we were the only ones who had got all the questions right, we won. I don’t think there was a trophy for the overall winning school.

iPods and Billboard

The Sleeping President has Specially woken up to give you this news… Get Up you Morons!!!!

iPod Mini Has Been Launched in India. Price : Rs 21000 approx. The 4th generation iPods cost about 23k and 27k respectively. The site is not updated so dont bother going there. So who is going to buy one and lend it to me ?

Project Billboard is still alive but due to some really ineffecient senior programmers(seems they are following my example) , the project is stalled… All those who have any knowledge of ASP.. Contact me . You might just be a part of one of the most successful ventures of Exun after Exun (The Event) and DomainSquare

Zzzzzzzzz….

Domain Square (unofficial)

Hello Fellow exunites. this is an unofficial post on Domain Square-2nd aug

I do not know who the winner was. I dont even know who cleared the first round. But i have found out that we have a new computer teacher, Mr. Ankit Wadhwa.

well i shall tell u how. well u see that we had the domain square competition for class 10 today and who wouldn’t like to fire a few rounds? so we had this extremely irritating guy, who is also in my class, wanting to play games. He asks Ankit, the one who hath the 6600, if he can play or not and Ankit allows.

We received certain complaints that somebody is playing without registering, looking into the matter we found out that it was that same person. On being interrogated he replies that he has asked the teacher.

WHICH TEACHER????????

answer: Mr. Ankit Wadhwa, who was happily chatting on his phone a few minutes later.

I hope Karan posts an official entry on Domain Square

thank you

Facts about IT

Did you know that Intel EEs(Extreme Edition) are based on the Galatin core , that is,they are Xeons in the disguise of P4s.

Also,they have 2mb l3 cache,512kb l2 cache , so that accounts to 2.5mb cache(we all know that intel cpus don’t have much l1 cache,so that is neglible).

Amd officially announced that the prices of the amd athlon xp will be raised from 10-30% depending upon the model and the prices of the amd 64 to go down by the same , globally.

Sessions@Exun: PHP by Mukul Update 3

OK, rescheduling again, this time because of dear old TechEdge. So, we have two tentative dates now, which are Thursday the 5th and Friday the 6th (same time : 1.30pm). I would like comments from the people who want to attend so that we can decide on the most favourable date.

A recap for those who haven’t read about Sessions@Exun or more specifically PHP. The idea of Sessions@Exun was conceived so that interested people may learn a specific skill in computers from people who have already learnt that skill and are experienced in it. This helps because reading big, fat books is tedious and sometimes if the book is technical, then confusing as well. Teachers are always better than books anyway.

More specifically PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is an HTML-embedded scripting language, which means that it is used for serving dynamic content on web pages, just like ASP. The only difference (usage-wise) between ASP and PHP is that ASP is a Microsoft product and needs a Windows Server to run on while PHP is Open Source and can run on any OS. And since Linux is being more widely deployed these days, it makes more sense to learn PHP if you’re doing Server-Side Scripting. I am told that PHP is tougher than ASP, but since I have no knowledge of PHP (I’m counting on this Session myself), I can’t say anything about that.

About Mukul: Many people have asked me who Mukul is, so let me introduce him. Mukul is an Exun alumnus, currently studying at Iowa State University (US). He is here in Delhi for his summer break and has found time to give us an introduction to PHP, which he says is his mother tongue.

Please comment away people. We want to know who’s coming and what day is more favourable – Thursday or Friday.

–Karan

PS: Any student of DPS RK Puram can attend, not just Exun members.