Date: 30-October-2007
Time: 09:00 to 13:30 hours

1. mCode C++ Programming [2 Participants]
2. mQuiz [2 Participants ]
3. mToon Flash+Photoshop [2 Participants]
4. m3D 3DS Max 5.0 [2 Participants]
5. mPlay Gaming [1 Participant]
6. mLogo Photoshop [1 Participant]
7. mPresent Powerpoint/Flash – Topic: “Artificial Intelligence:Rise of Robots [3 Participants]
8. mTalk Group Discussion [1 Participant]
9. mPod Tractor DJ Studio 3.0 [2 Participants]

The final result of the symposium at DPS NOIDA that was held on 18th September are as follows:-

Quiz and Crossword- 1st Position

• Manas Gautam
• Kunal Singh

Programming- 2nd Position

• Anant Jain

Gaming- 3rd Position

• Digvijay Singh

It was not very long ago that I was reading iCon, a book on Steve Jobs ( though unauthorized, I thought it might kjust be good past-time ). Well it seems the past is not all goody-goody for him. He has had the most eventful life I have ever seen. Now it is kinda true that Steve Jobs wasn’t into programming and stuff but he has done a wonderful job marketing the software that Apple made. His attitude towards technology is nothing but infective. You listen to him and you want to do something great. He is and was a figure that would get whatever he wants and would exopect only perfect results, and I am not criticising him. His persuassion powers did wonderful things for Apple in those early years. Though Steve Jobs has marked iCon as an unauthorized version of his biography, it is surely worth a read. He is the ultimate source of passsion and motivation. OK so he didn’t design the Mac but he was the driving power behind it and has made it what it is today. So hats off to you, Steve !

So… here it goes … my very first post on the Exun blog. I could have done it on my experience and feelings on getting in, but Shubham already did that and it would be very lame to do another similar article.

Now we all know about the war that has been on for almost three decades, Mac vs. PC. OK, true Apple made the GUI, Windows copied it. But note this down people, Bill Gates with all his cheap business tactics made it popular. It is also an established fact that more people are using Windows as compared to Mac (Though I can swear Mac is way better than Windows). I guess one very important reason for this is that Apple lost out on many of the important years that mark the GUI’s growth (Thanks Sculley!). Maybe Apple could have used those years to gain a wider a market base.

Another very important reason is PIRACY. Almost every kind of software that Microsoft makes is available at much cheaper prices in areas I can’t name. Why don’t we have Mac software being sold on such a wide scale? Well, basically because in terms of compatibility Mac is not all universal. So what if Mac OS Leopard is gonna cost only $129 whereas Windows Vista Ultimate costs $416? Leopard isn’t gonna install on your PC. I am a true Apple fan, but if I can’t run Leopard on my computer ( and boy I can’t afford an iMac) , I have to do with what Microsoft has to offer ( which is not much ).

So what Apple should do (I can bet they won’t do it) is to make Mac more compatible. I hope in the distant future I will be able to run Mac on my computer and won’t have to do with a version that needs a patch file, a whole lot of changes, etc. C’mon Apple, you made the iPod a phenomenon, can’t you do this much? (Do it for all your fans Apple, those who can’t afford your products, whose prices are apparently decided by “Idiots”€)

The Exun eLite results are as follows:

Programming

• Shashwat Gangwar (XI-K) / Ananth Goving Rajan (XI-L)
• Sajal Jain (XI-G) / Shikhar Srivastav (XI-G)
• Sachin Gupta (XI-K) / Rahul Bhatnagar (XI-K)
• Abhinandan (X-D) / Ankush (X-D)
• Souvik Bhattacharya (X-L) / Anamitra Bose (X-L)
• Aman Gupta (X-L) / Achal Shah (X-L)

The First Three Positions are the Winners.

Quiz

First

• G. Sidharth (XI-I)
• Shubham Prakhar (XI-J)

Second

• Nikhil Goyal (XI-K)
• Abhishek Mallick (XI-K)

Third

• Aditya Grover (IX-H)
• Vishesh Kumar (IX-H)

Group Discussion

Winner

• Samarth M. (XI-E)

Congratulations to all Winners!