Hey!
Good to see EXUN keeping up with the latest trends on the web. The blog is a really good idea to keep in touch with people, and a very effective means of getting ideas, and information across! Kudos to EXUN.
As many of you are aware, EXUN has its own community on Orkut. Anyone who hasn’t joined it can do so, and if you don’t know what Orkut is, well.. (contact Karan for details).
Cheers!
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vIkSiT
Hello,
exunclan.com will be going through a server transition on July 7th 2004, at 9PM IST.
In case anybody is using the current IP to connect to the website, you will require to update your records, or just be smart and use the domain name.
However, no other significant changes will be made. Karan will still be able to leave the current settings for Blogger (i.e. FTP).
An important change however is how email will be handled on the exunclan.com domain. Most exun members are entitled to getting an email address, and can request the names they would like. There is obviously a limit on how many users the system can accomodate, hopefully everybody gets atleast one address.
In an ongoing effort to make Exun members more net savvy (woah!), most of you (if not everyone) will be able to get a personal URL in case you need.
I haven’t decided what it’ll be, but I’m likely to attend the meeting on the 7th of July to discuss some possibilities.
Just a thought : http://members.exunclan.com/~username
Anyhow, Cheers.
All Exun members must attend the meeting on Wednesday during Break time in Computer Lab IV. Any change in meeting time and venue (if there is any) shall be posted right here.
Questions in the Comments shall be answered at the earliest.
Senior and Junior Co-ordinators please inform the populace.
–Karan
ExunWe take printouts
This is your President. Listen up.
There’s a competition on the aforementioned date. Here are the details.
They have four events (highly convenient):
Events are taking place starting at 9.30 am and ending at 2.30 pm. One day only, again highly convenient. My calendar tells me that 28th is a Wednesday.
Download the Details of Computer Symposium here
Download the Details of Quiz, Gaming, Web Designing here
Download the Schedule here
Since they don’t have a website, I’ve had to scan the letter they sent us. If the files that I’ve posted aren’t readable for some reason, leave a note in the comments, I shall clarify doubts. One highly noticeable omission from this event is that of any programming event. I shall say no more. There are more eyes on this log than I’m comfortable with.
Those who wish to participate, please leave a note in the comments (with email address).
Have a good day and best of luck with the exams,
–Karan
PS: They’ve given a contact name and number for clarifications: Mrs. Simmi Kher Ph: 25814084 Email: springdalespusa@vsnl.com
Read this article http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/hoax.html for informative humour.
–Karan
Today, Apple has previewed Mac OS X v10.4 codename “Tiger”. Many of these features were supposed to be included in Microsoft’s next version of Windows codenamed “Longhorn” due in 2007, but unfortunately Microsoft has withdrawn plans for some of the most salient features. To my surprise, Apple has managed to conquer the goal that Microsoft declared as too tough to make it even by 2007 – this was the searchable File System (also known as WinFS). Apple touts its new Search backbone as “Spotlight” and like Exposé was for Panther, Spotlight will be for Tiger. I shall not mention much more than what you can find out from Apple’s Tiger Website. However, it should be duly noted that Spotlight will be using metadata as one of its many criteria for searching.
Other important improvements in Tiger are Dashboard and Automator. Do check out Apple’s website for more information if you so desire. In other important announcements, the most important is the announcement of a 30″ LCD screen by Apple which would run at a resolution of 2560 by 1600 (very very very very big) and would need not only the most powerful graphics card available for the Mac platform but also two DVI connectors instead of one to feed it with the graphical data it so hungers for. Notice that it towers above the Power Mac G5 (which is much bigger than a normal tower PC itself).
–Karan
Tonight, comes the Tiger…
Click on the pictures to enlarge
–Karan
I hope all of u are aware of 8 queens problem on the chess board ..
IF NO!!!
8 queens problem is – to place eight queens on a chess board i.e. on a 8×8 matrix in such a way that none of them clash each other.
(those who dont know how to play chess – queen can move in all the directions horizontal/vertical/diagonal)
So, now I am looking forward to a program written in any language – C++/Basic/VB/Pascal to provide all possible places on a chess board where 8 queen’s can be placed.
Please do not submit downloaded program (from Web)! Only original entries will be entertained!!
Hi folks! and Congrats karan for becoming the president!
Its nice to see such an active exun blog. By the way, when’s EX04 happening, can u update me on that from time to time.
thanks guys.
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ANKIT
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Acronyms
The Real Questions
Special Thanks to Aurojit Panda for help with the answers.
–Karan
