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The Phoenix is set! Get ready for the ultimate The Phoenix experiment design contest. Authors of the experiments found suitable to included in the Degree/PG course will be given the setup they have developed along with a Phoenix kit. In addition to that a Rs. 10000/- cash award goes to the best experiment.Idea dead line is 31st of Aug-08. More at link

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Read loud, http://swatantran.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-letter-to-my-hod.html Congrats to Shyam for his efforts!

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My laptop is one year old now. She is still beautiful and the most done thing over the laptop was watching movies. I have watched hundreds movies through this laptop, Most of them where Malayalam, Tamil and English, as I don't know and love Hindi films. Here is some movies that I could remember and I suggest as best movies that I have seen among the non Indian film category. Here is the set of

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The day hence came! We become the seniors of the institution. The college formally gave sent off to the 2008 batch seniors from college, branch wise and from hostel and we made our registration for the last two semesters.The seniors. While looking back, I can see some smiles, some laughs, some one digit internals, a dozen of mark list I have obtained and some sad moments. Nothing more!

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Some more images, nearly ten, which I took in the last few months, mostly using my mobile is uploaded to my classic shot collection in picasa, have a look and do comment opinion! images under CC by-nc-sa

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തൃശ്ശൂര്‍ വിദ്യാ അകാദമിയിലെ ആദ്യ വര്‍ഷ ഇലക്ട്രോണിക്സ്സ് എഞ്ചിനിയറിങ്ങ് വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥിനിയായ ബീബിജ അര്‍ബുദരോഗത്തെ തുടര്‍ന്നു സി.എം.സി വേലൂരില്‍ പ്രവേശിച്ചിരിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. Bone marrow transplantation ആണ് വിദഗ്ദ്ധര്‍ നിര്‍ദേശിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള ചികിത്സ. മേല്‍പറഞ്ഞ ചികിത്സയ്ക്ക് പത്തു് ലക്ഷത്തോളം രൂപയുടെ ചിലവു് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. നിര്‍ധനരായ മാതാപിതാകള്‍ക്കു ആ ചിലവു് വഹിക്കാന്‍ സാമ്പത്തികമായി

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I was feeling bored to day, actually had nothing to do. No one on line, no mood to compute and no cash in mobile. Hence for the time pass, I made a new look logo for Hiran Effect, the blog title using my own Perizia font. The design is modification to one from FinalSence. Logo designed using Inkscape. Check the design and do comment. Old logo was designed using GIMP and Inkscape.

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I had some issues with my laptop speakers, touch pad and keyboard and i mailed them to dell support. The remaining was magical and unbelievable! Time line : Tuesday 9.00AM : Mailing to dell support Tuesday 11.AM : A call from dell asking issues Wednesday 9.00AM : Call asking location and address and appointment Thursday 11AM: Call from Dell engineer Thursday 4PM : All things replaced with new

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അമേരിക്കയില്‍ നിന്നും പ്രവീണ്‍ വന്നപ്പോള്‍ അതു് നേരിട്ടു് പാലക്കാടേയ്ക്കായിരിക്കും എന്നു കരുതിയില്ല, എത്തിയതിനു് മൂന്നാം പക്കം ഞങ്ങള്‍ തമ്മില്‍ കണ്ടു, പാലക്കാട്ടിലെ കോട്ടയില്‍ വച്ചു് N S S കോളേജ്ജിലെ സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ് വെയര്‍ വമ്പന്മാരെ കാണം എന്നു് തീരുമാനിച്ചതാണു്. മഴകാരണം കോട്ടയിലെ ഇരിപ്പു് മോശമാവും എന്നുറപ്പിച്ചു, പിന്നെയെവിടെയിരിക്കാം എന്നായി ചിന്ത... ആ കാണുന്നതു് മിഷന്‍ സ്കൂളല്ലേ... എന്നെ ഈ

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Film : Big Buck Bunny (English, 2008) Theatre : My own laptop Time : 16th June 2008, 11PM I was slightly disappointed after watching Dasavatharam, and was siting in front of my laptop doing nothing. Being bored that time I decided to see the Big Buck Bunny, the latest Blender Open movie project. Anivar had given me a good print and hence my job was simply to watch the film. As like the Elephent

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Film : Dasavatharam (Tamil, 2008) Theatre : Aroma, Palakkad. Time : 14th June 2008, 5PM Ticket rate : Rs.20 (First Class) A man in ten roles, none another than Dr. Kamalhaasan. I was thrilled to see the cinema, not just to watch the make up or actors talent, but to know the story and the message what its going to transfer to the viewers. The story simply lies inside the standard Tamil film

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This Monday and Tuesday I had my University labs. I was expecting something big and cool, as the lab papers are my luckiest things. I was able to get wonderful marks above 90% in C programming lab and Data Structure lab, the labs so far and thought of happening the same over this time too. This time for the fifth semester, we labs are two - hardware and programming paradigms. Hardware contains

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I am much disappointed over the news telling that my favorite actor Shri. Bharath Mammootty is going to be the new brand ambassador of Microsoft. Let's hope that Mammootty will understand the real facts and will withdraw his support. Here is an Open Letter to Mammooty from Free Software Users in Kerala. Mammooty, don't join the hands with Microsoft.

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After a long time I had fever. As the fever was accompanied by cold, body and eye pain, I celebrated it completely, though it came along with Vishu. I was able to get out of bed on the day of Vishu by noon and came to read the newspaper. I am not used to reading newspapers these days. Some of the feeds that I subscribed over the Internet are my resources for news. Some crazy things went over my

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ഈ മാസമിറങ്ങിയ 'ലിനക്സ് ഫോര്‍ യൂ' മാസികയില്‍ സന്തോഷ് തോട്ടിങ്ങലുമായി അഭിമുഖം. ഈ വര്‍ഷത്തെ ഫോസ്സ് ഇന്ത്യാ അവര്‍ഡ് നേടിയ ധ്വനിയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടാണ് വാര്‍ത്ത. പേജുകളുടെ സ്കാന്‍ അടങ്ങിയ സിപ്പ് ഇവിടെ ലഭിക്കും. സന്തോഷിനു് അഭിനന്ദനങ്ങള്‍. പേജിനെ സ്കാന്‍ ചെയ്തു് അയച്ചു തന്നെ ദേവശില്‍പിക്കു് നന്ദി.

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It was great to be a NITC for the third time attending FOSSEvent@NITC. I was confused and mad completely on Friday and I along with Syam reached there at NITC before Kiruba started his talk. My talk was on Friday at 9AM and my strategical approach made me it parallel with Praveen's talk on Open ID. Still some number of audience where there, though not a house full one and was one good, even

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I was waiting for being at FOSSMeet this year, since I saw its webpage. As we planned to have a SMC meet along with it, and a school students workshop by Pramode sir, I confirmed my place there. It was unexpected thing that the exam came in between, and what to do, should I miss the thrill? I planned NOT to go, but when I saw the poster in my college bills - I can't wait more. I am comming there,

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As a part of Document Freedom Day 2008, Fossers of Vidya, the Free Software Users Group, Vidya Academy submitted a request to Principal of the institution requesting ODF as the institute standard. The request suggested for making ODF the default standard for all academic requirements such as project submission and seminar presentation making and for all institutional document archiving. The FoV

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I made it, as I forgot the passphrase of the old one! (which I have used twice or thrice). The public key is here. Thanks to seahorse and documentations at GnuPG. I am using FireGPG for sigining Gmail using firefox and its working well.

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I had a session at GEC Sreekrishnapuram last Thursday. It was for the first time I am getting second innings, as a free software promoter in a college. The talk started by 1 PM, after a wonderful experience of well packed travel for 2+ hours. (I was standing the whole time, and due to rush inside the bus, it was even impossible for me to take my mobile when Sujith called me!) The talk was simple,

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It was an unexpected call that I received in monday morning from Praveen, telling me to do a session on font designing at some college in banglore on thursday. I was ready, without any more thinking I confirmed the one. Than my expectation, the session was at R V College of Enginnering and for the students of MCA. Seeing a hyper active person, Mr. Renuka Prasad, who was a lecturer their (I

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പെരിസിയ ഞങ്ങള്‍ വിചാരിച്ചതിനെക്കാളും ഗംഭീരമായി നടന്നു. ഈ സന്ദര്‍ഭത്തില്‍ ഞാന്‍ എല്ലാവരോടുമുള്ള നന്ദി പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. പെരിസിയയുടെ തലക്കെട്ടിനായി ഞാന്‍ ഇങ്ക് സ്കേപ്പില്‍ തീര്‍ത്ത "സംഭവം" പലര്‍ക്കും ഇഷ്ടപെട്ടതായി ഞാനറിഞ്ഞു, എന്ന പിന്നെ അതിനെ ഒരു ഫോണ്ടാക്കികളയാം എന്നു വിചാരിച്ചു. ഗ്നൂ ജി.പി.എല്‍ (GNU GPL) വേര്‍ഷന്‍ മൂന്നാണ് ഈ അക്ഷരരൂപത്തിന്റെ ലൈസന്‍സ്സ്. അക്ഷരരൂപം ഇവിടെ ലഭിക്കും. വിമര്‍ഷനങ്ങള്‍

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The Perizia, was huge and hit than all our expectations. Thanks to all, who supported us, who rejected us - both where our energy boosters. All our thanks goes to the delegates of Perizia, who where completely with us, each and every moment. Thank you all. While I made the logo, it was just a trail to make an asymmetric font over a standard typographic design. The tool I picked for making it

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സിയയും ശശിയും കാമുകി കാമുകന്മാരായിരുന്നു. ഒപ്പം ജനിച്ചു ഒപ്പം വളര്‍ന്നു ഒപ്പം ജീവിക്കാന്‍ തീരുമാനിച്ചവര്‍. എന്നാല്‍ വിധി അവരെ ഒന്നിക്കാന്‍ സമ്മതിച്ചില്ല. അവരുടെ വീട്ടുക്കാര്‍ എതിര്‍ത്തു. അവരെ എതിര്‍ത്ത വീട്ടുകാരെ അവരും എതിര്‍ത്തു. അവര്‍ സ്വന്താമായി ഒരു ജീവിതം തുടങ്ങാന്‍ തീരുമാനിച്ചു. അവര്‍ ഒള്ളിച്ചൊടി. അറിയാത്ത വഴികളിലൂടെയുള്ള അവരുടെ പ്രയാണം അതീവ ദുര്‍ഘടങ്ങള്‍ നിറഞ്ഞതായിരുന്നു. അവര്‍ അറിയാതെ

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Finally after a three week trial, I got my gnuttaappi's (laptop) camera in working condition! It was done using luvcview, thanks to Tuxmaniac for telling me about it. Thus my Dell XPS M1210 can do Wi Fi, Blue tooth, Sing, Record with Mic, Take Pic with Ubuntu and Debian! I am still confused - how this small thing can capture such a huge face? :)

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