Amrita University & TIFAC CORE in association with VeriSign proudly present InCTF’10, India’s First National Level “Capture the Flag” Style Ethical HACKING contest.
InCTF’10 is from February to March 2010 and is focused exclusively on the student community. You can participate from your own university and no travel is required. No prior exposure or experience in [...]
After the Success of FOSSTER ‘09 that was conducted on 28th and 29th of March, 2009; FOSSTER ‘10, the National Level FOSS Conference at Amritapuri Campus is back. It will be held on 20th and 21st of February, 2010.
FOSSTER now has an official website http://fosster.co.in [we we not able to reserve fosster.in - which is [...]
This is just awesome. My Mom is the most creative person I have ever met!!!
When my Dad returned back home (from his office at around 4 p.m.), he saw my Mom carrying out the Ganesh Pooja in a small way, in the house.
God idols can not be brought / displayed there in the country (where [...]
Hi all. I have updated my resume.
I am writing this post so that I can get some feedback from my viewers about my resume. I a open to any kind of feedback. So, please do go through my resume and if you find any mistake (grammar, sentence phrasing, English, Better way of writing a point [...]
I was just sitting on my seat at Sun Microsystems’ India Engineering Centre (Sun Office), Bangalore after the JavaOne Conference, when Ganesh sir comes in and says “Avinash, you have an interview tomorrow and you will have to tell about your experiences at J1″…
I seriously did not know what to say! I was like “Ok… [...]
Attending JavaOne 2009 Conference at San Francisco was a wonderful, learning experience. As a part of Sun Microsystems’s Campus Ambassador Program, they nominated five CA’s from all over the world who would get an opportunity to attend the JavaOne 2009 Conference, fully sponsored by them. Let me now share my JavaOne 2009 experiences with you [...]
Sun Campus Ambassadors Talk about OSUM Clubs and student communities.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/globalcommunities/
David Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Check out my mom’s post on Scooby…
My Pet’s Photo:
April 6, 2009
Amritapuri Campus
When
NASA decided to build Mars Exploration Rovers at a cost of several
hundred million dollars, it chose free and open source software to
power the robots. Launched on the Martian surface in 2003, the rovers
are still going strong today. When Amrita decided to build a complex
ERP software solution for its 1300-bed specialty hospital [...]
Let me introduce you to FOSSTER ‘09, a FOSS (Free and open source software) workshop and conference on 28th and 29th March 2009 at our campus (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus).
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a contributor to the Open Source movement since 2003 and has developed AmritaVPN that is being used widely. Amrita was awarded [...]
I have added a new page: http://avinashjoshi.co.in/users-speak/
Here, I will be posting (in reverse chronological order), my blog users, visitors and Friends experience with FOSS and generally with my blog.
So, If you like my blog and would like to put up your comments on that page, mail to mail at avinashjoshi dot co dot in and [...]
I had posted yesterday (http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2009/02/11/amrita-university-receives-a-grade-from-naac/) that my University (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) is now NAAC accreded with an A grade.
To celebrate this, our chancellor, advisor and a loving Mother, our beloved AMMA had announced an icecream party for all students and faculties of our college!! The icecream party was at 4:30 p.m and it went on [...]
!Ubuntu Rocks!
Introduction:
Today morning as I got into my class, my little friend Aswathy (I call her achu) bounced up and asked me for help. On enquiring, what the matter was, she told me that she wanted to install IBM RSA for her projects; but she was having vista!! Ok now I knew that RSA works [...]
Source: http://amrita.edu/news2009/univ-news/naac.php
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) awarded an A grade to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. “It was perhaps one of the most complex accreditation exercises undertaken by NAAC,” said Assistant Professor Prashant R. Nair, who was appointed as a university-wide coordinator. “Over a hundred people in the university were directly involved with the accreditation [...]
Students and faculties of my College (Amrita Vishwa vidyapeetham) are busy with the Amritakalotsavam, our College annual fest.
Well, to be frank, I am also taking part this time in a group dance. Surprising right? I know. We are having our practice sessions going on – basically having great fun! (The song is good old “Hai [...]
The Sun Club at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus conducted the first ever fossquiz ‘09, a college wide FOSS contest.
To start with, we had the registration on 21st and 22nd of January. Registration desks were placed in the College corridors. The first day, we had 50 teams registered and on the second day, it shot [...]
Join Amrita university’s OSUM today!
Amrita OSUM
The Open-Source University Meet-Up (OSUM) is a student developer organization that educates its members about the latest open-source technologies in a fun and engaging way.
Through its on-campus activities, Sun sponsored OSUMs will receive access to technical information that can be shared with OSUM members via technical demonstrations. Additionally, online web [...]
Yesterday, I gave a talk on “Current Trends in Communication”. My talk mainly focused on Blogging, how blogging can help you in the current scenario of “Recession”. This talk was mainly focused for students so as to give them an awareness on Blogging and its importance. I have attached my presentation in the Amrita-SunClub’s website.
Resource [...]
I keep telling my friends – “There is no place like 127.0.0.1″
To me, this means there is no place like LINUX/UNIX!
You will ask me “Isn’t 127.0.0.1 there in windows?”
Ans: Yes it is there, but when i do a ipconfig, it will not display the loopback interface. But it does get displayed in LINUX/UNIX on typing [...]
