This might come in some kind of quiz. So I’m posting it.
“What did Mozilla Foundation do to celebrate Firefox’s 50 millionth download?”

How obvious. They issued COINS. Just like any normal person would, of course.

Here’s a summarized version of the article from BBC:

Firefox, the open source web browser, has been downloaded 50 million times since its official launch in November. To celebrate, the Mozilla Foundation, which led its development, is giving away commemorative coins to people who have done the best job promoting it. The 50 coins were specially designed by one of the Foundation’s volunteers.

Firefox is Microsoft Internet Explorer’s (IE) main rival. Many like it because it is easily customised, while others like its tabbed browsing. This means that instead of opening a new browser window for each page a user wants, it opens a new tab in the same single page. Although Firefox has been downloaded 50 million times, this does not necessarily mean it has the same number of individual users. IE still has a grip on more than 86% of the browser market, according to web analytics company OneStat.com. But Firefox has clearly gained ground on IE. It has so far not had as many security problems as IE, and when there has been a problem, it has taken less time to fix because it is an open source piece of software. This means that anyone with the right skills can access and modify the code. It also means people are free to adapt the software’s core code to create other innovative features, such as add-ons, RSS news feed readers, or extensions to the program.

The coins were designed by volunteer Jamey Bojé

make a program in any programming language which takes input from the user in the form of x,y and x1,y1 where x,y and x1,y1 are location of points on the screen
E.g. 10,20 and 20,30
the program has to give output in the form x2,y2 where x2,y2 is the location of any third point to which if the other two points are joined gives an equilateral triangle on a grid of any size.
All such possible points should be given by the program.

E.g.
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Input:
2,5 and 4,5

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Output:
3,3.3 and 3,6.7

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where 1,1 is the top left corner of the grid

Note: this is a very simple question meant for junior programmers only .Please post answer/queries in comments.

Today was the auspicious day when domain square 2005 for classes vi-ix was to take place. We installed the games via the lan connection as the cd roms where disabled in Lab 6. Anyways, as registeration was accepted only via the net or by personally giving me or bharat the names, we expected only 40 students to come, but we were worng. You see, students hardly follow the insructions given to them and such can be the case seen in the break today. More than 100 students flocked in front of lab 6 and the whole basement was filled with students, none wanting to listen to anybody and maintaing any decorem, there was utter chaos. It was more of a stampede, but with the help of Mukesh Nagpal sir and a few d2 members we finnaly managed to disperse the crowd. Also the students of class ix had gone for some trip, therefore the event for them had to be postponed.After that we came up with a decent strategy. Students now were called from there sections personally by us. We even allowed the unregistered members to participate. After many rounds, the winners from classes VI, VII, VIII were finally chosen. 75 or so students participated and out of them the firsts from classes VI,VII,VIII are as follows:-
From VI-Dipanker VI-F
From VII-Shreshth VII-J
From VIII-Mannan VIII-A
This competition although had a chaotic start came out rather smooth,decent and fair. Nobody was left out and we had a good time hosting it. I would also like to apologize for the horrendous beginning but well all’s well that ends well. I would also like to thank the following people for making Domain Square 2005 a success:-
Mukesh sir
Mukesh Nagpal sir
Bharat
Abhijit
Rasagya
Gaurav Mishra
Mannan
Digvijay
Aviral
Shubhajit
Ananya
I apologize if i have missed out any names.

Thanking you

Manas Gautam

p.s. competition for class ix and x-xii will be held later.

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The new Dashboard hosts nifty mini-applications called widgets that appear instantly and keep you up to date with timely information from the Internet. View stocks, check weather forecasts, track flights, convert currency and units of measure, even look up businesses in the phone book. Similar to Exposé, the Dashboard zooms across your Desktop at the click of a function key. Your favorite widgets appear with up-to-the-second information, then disappear just as easily, so you can get back to what you were doing.

Spotlight illuminates every corner of your Mac, searching across the Finder, System Preferences and Mac OS X applications including Mail and Address Book. Perform a Spotlight Finder search that goes beyond mere filenames and location to scour content and metadata. Find the location of setting controls in System Preferences by running a Spotlight keyword search. Set up Smart Mailboxes according to Spotlight queries – email with specific contacts, email about a particular keyword – and Mail files away your messages automatically. Create Smart Groups in Address Book using Spotlight searches on card content including birthdays, anniversaries and location. Everything on your Mac gets a chance to shine.

….And Guess what? We got Tiger running on our school’s iMac.

Cliquez ici for complete details

SENIOR QUIZ

DPS R.K. PURAM – Abhisheyk Gaur and Aditya K. – I PRIZE (wweeeeeeeeeeeeeee)
MANAV STHALI – SHARAD AND AMAN – II PRIZE
BAL BHARTI PITAM PURA – ROHAN YUYUTSU – III PRIZE

SENIOR PROGRAMMING

APEEJAY PITAMPURA – I PRIZE
DPS RK PURAM – II PRIZE (Nikhil Aggarwal and Dhruv Aggarwal) (wweeeeeeeeeeeeee)
MAHAVIR SR SEC SCHOOL – III PRIZE

JUNIOR QUIZ

MONTFORT SCHOOL – I PRIZE
DPS ROHINI – II PRIZE
DPS RK PURAM – III PRIZE (Sakshi Gupta and Aditya Jain) (wweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)

For complete updated results CLICK HERE

JUNIOR QUIZ

MONTFORT SCHOOL – I PRIZE
DPS ROHINI – II PRIZE
DPS RK PURAM – III PRIZE (Aditya Jain and Sakshi Gupta, well done)

SENIOR PROGRAMMING

APEEJAY PITAMPURA – I PRIZE
DPS RK PURAM – II PRIZE (Nikhil Aggarwal and Dhruv Aggarwal)
MAHAVIR SR SEC SCHOOL – III PRIZE

SENIOR QUIZ FINALISTS
DPS RK PURAM – ADITYA K. AND ABHISHEYK GAUR
DPS MATHURA ROAD – MOHIT AND ANKIT
MANAV STHALI – SHARAD AND AMAN
BAL BHARTI PITAM PURA – ROHAN YUYUTSU

HARDWARE ASSEMBLING/TROUBLESHOOTING
MATA JAI KAUR PUBLIC SCHOOL – I PRIZE
SAHIL
ANKIT

DPS ROHINI – II PRIZE
KARSAN
HARSHIT

JASPAL KAUR PUBLIC SCHOOL – III PRIZE
SUKHMANDAR
KAWARBIR

CADET QUIZ RESULTS (Class-V)

KULACHI HANSRAJ MODEL SCHOOL – I PRIZE
Devanshu
Abhineet Jain

MATA JAI KAUR PUBLIC SCHOOL – II PRIZE
Harjas Singh
Dhruv Gupta

St. XAVIERS SCHOOL-III PRIZE
Sankrant
Shushant

DIGITAL ADVENTURE RESULTS(Class-VIII)

APEEJAY PRITAM PURA -I PRIZE
Rupinder
Ayush

MATA JAI KAUR PUBLIC SCHOOL – II PRIZE
Harkiran
Naman

RUKMANI DEVI PUBLIC SCHOOL- III PRIZE
Anuj
Aryan

DRAW N PAINT
MAHAVIR SR MODEL SCHOOL – I PRIZE
GOPESH AND VAIBHAV

APEEJAY PITAM PURA – II PRIZE
YAMINI AND SANCHITA

SPRINGDALES SCHOOL DK – III PRIZE
LAKSHAY AND RAJASI

Details for the event at MJKPS

Class IX – XII

Senior Quiz
There will be a written elimination round. 2 students forming 1 team wil have to solve a single question paper. 6 teams will be selected for the final round. Attractive prizes for audience too!

Linux Programming
30 minutes will be given to solve 3 programs. Best of Luck!

Interface Designing
Participants will be required to design an interface for any application (eg audio/video player). The topic will be given on the spot.

Class XI-XII

Senior Programming
Each team of 2 students will get a set of programs. Programmers can choose Visual Basic or C++ to solve the programs.

Mobile Website Designing
Each team will be required to create a website that can be accessed on a mobile phone. Participants will be given a text editor and a WAP browser. Topic will be given on the spot.

Class IX-X

Hardware Troubleshooting
Each team will be given a fixed time to assemble and resolve hardware problems.

Create Mobile Ringtones
One team of 2 members can participate. MAGITH software will be provided to create the tones. Ringtones must be created based upon a theme given on the spot.

Class VI-VIII

Junior Quiz
There wil be a written quiz only. 2 members can form 1 team.

Digital Ad Venture
Students are required to creatively design an advertisement. Topic will be given on the spot. Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Flash will be provided

Class V and Below

Cadet Quiz
There wil be a written quiz only. 2 members can form 1 team.

Watch n Present
All participants will watch a multimedia CD. They will be required to create a PowerPoint Presentation based upon the topic shown. Some picture files and sound clips will also be provided.

Draw n Paint
Participants will be required to draw and paint using any given drawing and painting software.
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Click here for the schedule.
SP and Hardware Troubleshooting are on the 26th while the SQ finals & Linux Prog are on the 27th.

To the Abhisheyk and Ishita – We were all waiting for a post on this, but it never came. Please, do your job. We still don’t know who’s going for what.

There will be a meeting of all members on April 21,2005(Thursday) in Lab 4 right after the 3rd period.We have quite a few things on our agenda.Firstly,the teams for CyberFest 2005, being held on April 26th-27th,2005 have to be finalized.I will be posting the details of the event soon.

I would like to put a stop to all the rumours and answer a few prayers.
Domain Square 2005 is gearing up and is ‘Coming soon’.
Therefore fasten your seatbelts.
If you are feeling restless you may register now by sending a mail to domainsquare@gmail.com and a seat will be reserved.
But if you think you can wait a little longer, do wait.
The Competition dates will be finalized, posters will be put up etc. and the registeration time will be aplenty.

P.S. Domain Square is a divine group started by Master Karan Misra for avid gamers and I might add that gaming isn’t just for fun. It is an important part of interschool compute symposia.

Thanking You
Manas Gautam(Tell ppl to stop bugging you Abhisheyk!!!)

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