Hi from Chennai! The final (national level) round of the Young Talent Search In Computer Programming organised by The Computer Society of India took place today at Rajlakshmi College, which was 55-65 kms away from Chennai.The final comptetion was very well organised. Although the bus ride to the engineering college was not a very pleasant one, the computer labs were good and so was the event. The questions, their submission and correction was also co-ordinated in a very orderly manner. Our team(Swati, Souvik and myself) were awarded the second prize out of about 11 teams – 4 from Delhi, 1 each from Kanpur,Kolkata and Durgapur etc. We will also be representing India along with the team which stood first(Kolkata) in two upcoming International Competitions, one of which is at IIT-Madras on the 20th of Nov. and the other one is during the second week of December at Singapore. Chennai is very hot.

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Detailed rules will be posted on Tuesday. Till then, comment away.

–Karan

Exun Web Designers include, but aren’t limited to, the following people on the basis of participation in Web Designing competitions, want to participate in such competitions, Recruitment criteria and Presidential whims:

1. Gursartaj S. Nijjar
2. Abhishek Suri
3. Dhruv Kumar
4. Varun Khetarpal
5. Rasagy Sharma
6. Manas Gautam
   
7. Abhijit Das
8. Vansh Muttreja
9. Digvijay Singh

These 9 must make a website (either individually or as a team of 2) and post it on lnexun.com as a link or show it to either of the Presidents by 21 November 2004 (one week’s notice). Only those members who make and show a website will be allowed to go for any web designing competitions in the future. Members not mentioned in this list are also welcome to make and show their websites.

–Karan

Hi

THis is really a tough quiz.Let us see how many can score greater than 60% without any help from any one else.

Easy-e

Medium-M

Tough-t

Acronyms: 5 marks

NNTP- t

GNOME- m

GNU- e

FDISK- e

KDE- m

What is the simputer? Which company made it?Who is the CEO of that company? 3 marks

e tt

Which graduate student helped in the invention of plasma(screens),he was a student of which university? 2 marks tt

915 and 925:Grantsdale and Alderwood::875: 1 mark t

What is Songpro? 1 mark t

What is Geforce 4500,relate it to WMP(expand it) and give a reason for it to emerge? 3 marks ttt

What is FUYL,also,expand it? 1 mark t

Give 2 acronyms and definitions of HT? 2 marks e m

Simputer is meant to compete Desktops or PDA,True/False? 1 mark m

Life Uncommon , is punch line of what ? 1 mark m

Overall-t

SCORE INTERPRETATION

Avg(In computing but not a quizzer)-4+

Above Avg(Minimal Quizzer)-6+

Good(Quizzer)-10+

Excellent(VG Quizzer)-14+

Mail the answers @ akshaytalwar@yahoo.co.in

Hope you all enjoy.

We’ve been talking of the firefox logo, and and the DPS RKP logo. What of the Exun 2004 logo? Is that not of more significance than the Firefox logo? After all, lnexun.com is a part of exunclan, and without the exun logo, it doesn’t play it’s part very well.

We should have the exun logo on lnexun.com, then we can think about Firefox.

The domain name of a country was thought to be of interest to doctors. Name the country and cTLD.

Note: Persons with the name Gursartaj Singh Nijjar are not allowed to answer.

Acronyms: (5 marks)

MXM-

MMRPG-

TCS-

SPOOL-

ABC(the computer)-

Define: ((1/2+1/2)*5 marks)

SLI-

RISC-

PCX-

3GIO-

HT(not hyper threading)-

Executive: (5 marks)

Who is the CEO of ATi?

Who founded nVidia(any 2)?

Who founded Digital?

Who founded AMD and co-founded Fair Child Semi Conductors?

Who is Hector Ruiz?

Other: (3+2 marks)

Who coined the term Virtual Reality?

What is T&L?

What was Vanta?

Which is India’s first video game(the real/massive one) that has its independent gaming(graphics) engine and is developed by about a douzen game makers in Bangalore?What is the company making the game called?

Fact for the Day:

Did you know that India’s share in the global software industry is just 1.4%.

SCORE Interpretation

12-Fair

14-Good

18-Excellent

Firefox is Exun’s Official Web Browser.

All Exun members should download and install Firefox 1.0 (released on 9 Nov ’04) as their default browser.

–Karan