This is an appeal from the junior coordinator of EXUN

It has come to my notice that several exun members loiter around in the eGurucool Lab without any reason

I would like to request these people to please not to waste time in the lab unless you have a reason or if u have been called.

Also, I would also like to ask the president to look into the matter and see what best can be done

This entry specially refers to the juniors i.e. 9thies and 8thies who are constantly seen in the lab when they have any free period

I don’t know the programming results yet, but we won the Quiz, came third in Crossword and Web Designing and second in Gaming. I will be posting all the Quiz finals questions but first…

Intersection Quiz for Class X

Exun has to organize an Intersection Computer Quiz for Class X next week, this week is preparing time. Now, the Class X Exun members (according to Manisha Ma’am and Mukesh Sir) cannot take part because they are the ones who will be organizing the Quiz. So, right now these are: Gursartaj Singh, Dhruv Kumar, Abhishek Suri and Mohit Taneja. Abhisheyk Gaur, Karan Misra (me) and Maanick Nangia will help in making the questions for this event. Manas Gautam (IX) has agreed to help in the organization of the quiz.

So, let’s see, this week is preparing time, and next to next week we have to do the Quiz on either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Tomorrow, we shall prepare the plan of action. Members whose names have been mentioned please take note and meet in the eGurucool Lab in the Break tomorrow.

–Karan

Today was the big day, The Columban Open Quiz Finals. The Columban Open Quiz, this year for us , had been great. In the prelims,we came first, thanks to some computer related questions which came , which Karan had earlier asked me. In The quarters and the semis, we had the same result,1st. We had obviously shocked everyone, as no one had expected a team like ours(comprising of me, Ishaan, Aakash,Akshat), to reach the finals with a continuous winning streak.But today , disappointed befalled on us , as we couldn’t even manage to get in the first three.We came fifth, ahead of Bhavya’s team but behind ‘DADA KI ARMY’ , another DPS RKP team, which came 2nd. But I think it was quite a good experience, as I am quite young and reached so far ,and I encourage EXUN members to particiapte in this quiz as it consists of many many computer related questions, ought to come in Computer Quizzes.eg:- We were asked

‘ Which country’s domain name is .ch’ and ‘.pt’ and what does Error 405 signify etc.

I’m quite distressed with the quality of logos being posted.

Have a look at this one i created.

final_logo.JPG

just forget the old logo, i dont think its a good idea anymore.

the chinese-take-away thing really put me off 😛

heres the new one, plain simple and “professional”

~R

Technologists (“computer people”) like to use this word ‘powerful’ in peculiar ways. Compared to BASIC, C++ is more powerful and compared to a 266 MHz computer, a 2.66 GHz computer is more powerful. Today, I say: PHP is not simply powerful, PHP is Power (with a capital P that is).

Mukul used to talk about PHP a lot, how he loved programming in PHP and how it was so generally fantastic. I never really understood. After all, I said to myself, it’s a programming language… what can be so great about a programming language? Today I found out. PHP is the most flexible language I have ever seen (I have not seen much, but still). ‘Flexible’ is just the right word, because you will find the same power in C++ as well. Of course then C++ is not used as a Server Side Scripting language, so you can’t make a fair comparison. I won’t explain here how it’s flexible because that’s what the Session@Exun was about.

Mukul was disappointed that he did not get much done, and didn’t really go into the ‘good stuff’, but we all (me and some friends) expected this, especially because not everyone there knew C++ (which would have meant easily skipping about half the topics we went through). The small gathering was an enthusiastic one, many doubts were asked and all were answered. It could be easily seen that everyone thoroughly enjoyed the Session as a) no one wanted to leave and b) those who had to leave 20 minutes early begged to stop the class and continue it some other time.

If Mukul finds free time next week, we can arrange a second Session in which perhaps we can apply some of the power of PHP. However, if there is to be a next Session, Mukul has advised that everyone should know about PHP syntax, so that that does not have to be explained [again]. If there is another Session, information will be posted on this blog.

–Karan

It’s no secret that a lot of people have been trying to get into Exun these past few days because of an unexplained surge in publicity. We’ve decided that we will state in a lucid manner what we are looking for and what we are not looking for. This log entry shall get a permanent link on the sidebar so that we can easily point people to it. Let me get to the point now.

We want members in the following categories:

• Senior Quizzing (Class X to XII)
• Debating, Declamation & Group Discussion (Public Speaking – Class IX to XII)
• Software Display (Programmers in VC++, VB who have made some kind of software)
• Junior Programming (Class VI to VIII, knowledge of QBASIC)

Senior Programming (Class X to XII) applicants please read:

We have many good senior programmers in Exun already and quite frankly we’re saturated at the moment. Our priority right now is to send the existing programmers for events and competitions. Taking new programmers at this stage will do nobody any good. You may still apply for Senior Programming but be assured that unless you’re really brilliant, your chances of getting in are low.

Junior Programming

Since QBASIC is no longer taught at Class VIII level (instead Visual Basic is taught), the Programming Department of Exun is planning to conduct a Logic Test for Class VIII very soon, from which promising students will be trained in QBASIC.

Software Display

Students who have made software in Visual Basic or Visual C++ (any software with a GUI) are invited to come and show their software to us (see below). We’re looking for good software that can be sent for Software Display competitions.

Senior Quizzing

The toughest amongst them all. Hop along if you think you know about computers and we’ll test you (see below).

Other categories are:

• Digital Imaging
• Flash Animation
• Web Designing

For these three, students are expected to bring a piece (or pieces) of original work and show it to us. We can judge you then. Again, see below.

See belows

Wherever See Below has been mentioned: Exun members are present in the eGurucool Lab (F-Block) during Break time everyday. Look for the Presidents (Maanick Nangia or Karan Misra) and if you can’t find them, try to locate Mr. Mukesh Kumar. You can also email at exunclan@gmail.com or comment on this post if you have any queries (or if I forgot to mention something).

–Karan

Hello,

This is to let people know of an artificial intelligent bot that runs on MSN, and talks to people.

OSI (initially) meant – Online Status Indicator. I undertook the project about a week ago, when something Aurojit Panda said, sparked my interest in making this bot. It has gone beyond reporting status for people who have added OSI to their contact lists.

It now uses the ALICE engine to generate AI responses over the MSN network. Feel free to add her to your list.

The MSN id is “osibot@hotmail.com”, minus the quotes ofcourse. You can enjoy OSI’s benefits as soon as you add it to your contact list!

Enjoy.

linux has tux

pixar has luxo

GNU has a gnome

exun should have something too!!!

i mean, i think its a cool idea to have a little exun mascot , doesnt has to be something real .. could be anything, uhmm.. nice!

i stumbled upon the idea while collecting some fonts from www.1001fonts.com the font is called creatures , though it has been discussed earlier in my batch with the very obvious conclusion that exun mascot HAS to be a panda…*ahem*

anyways coming back to the font, it has a collection of cartoon-type-little-critters for every alphabet…kinda cute..maybe we could have one of em … otherwise there’s always the mystical legendary drooling panda 😉

Ah! The final battle. Competition was fierce and we even got our first female participant for Unreal Tournament. Where there is a battle, there is a victor and this victor scored exactly 100 frags in 20 minutes (with only 18 deaths):

    Arnab Deb (XII-I)

This is me, signing off from Domain Square… forever.

–Karan