Avinash Joshi

The Red Ribbon Express organised by NACO – National AIDS Control Organization – will aim at spreading awareness about HIV, promoting safe behavioural practises and fighting the stigma and discrimination against AIDS.
Emphasising on the urgent need of fighting social discrimination against those affected with AIDS, Gandhi said, “It is a battle which can and must [...]

“Dipped in hues of love and trust has come the festival of Holi. ”

March winds are coming in and winter begins to bow out. Holi is the festival that carries the country into the bright days of summer…
Holi – the festival of colors – is undoubtedly the most fun-filled and boisterous of Hindu festival. [...]

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 [...]

How has the nation fared since we gave ourselves the gift of democracy? Vikram Raghavan, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Gyan Prakash,Nandini Sundar and Pamela Philipose look back at the Republic’s often-troubled journey….

Photo: The Hindu Photo Archives

On a cold winter’s morning 60 years ago today, 271 men and women huddled together 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 [...]

Slowly but surely, we’re getting an idea of what Google’s Chrome OS will look like. We know that it will be Linux-based and that the primary interface will likely be the Chrome browser. Still, the search giant was not content to simply turn a Web browser into an operating system. Soon Google was launching a [...]

This is a nice video that I found today. Explains Sun in a nutshell.

India is a land of festivals where you will see at least one major festival each month. Deepavali (or Diwali) which literally means “rows of lamps” is one of the four main festivals of India. Throughout the world all Hindus celebrate Deepavali or Diwali with great pomp and enthusiasm.
The celebration of Diwali lasts six days, [...]

Indians greet each other with namaste. The two palms are placed together in front of the chest and the head bows whilst saying the word namaste. This greeting is for all – people younger than us, of our own age, those older than friends, even strangers and us.

There are five forms of formal traditional greeting [...]

I have been thinking about this for a long time… I always ask and wonder for myself, “How do I get a fancy progress bar in the terminal (i.e., using C/C++ code)???” I got this thought when I was coding for my huffman lab program. I was thinking “If we input a large file > [...]

I was just surfing on the internet. As you all would have known by now, I am a FOSS lover and promoter. This little thing never struck my head! Why? Just have a look. It has to change!!!
Source: http://www.gendershouldntmatter.org/

Gender balance, global:

In the ICT sector:

In the Free Software community:

Seriously,
Is the free/open-source community missing something?
 

Richard St. John tells us the Secret of success in just 8 words!!! This is actually a 2-hour presentation cut down to 3 minutes. Very powerful presentation. Kudos to tedsters :)
There is another good video availablea at Mr Richard’s site http://www.richardstjohn.com/download/Richardstjohn_at_TED.zip
Happy Success :D

I was sitting in the “Internet Coding Lab” and writing the C code for Huffman encoding. I always use Ubuntu and vim as it is the best for coding in any language. Please do not forget to download the book “A byte of VIM” (Details at the end of this post)
 
Some VIM Tips and tricks
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PS: [...]

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… [...]

This is a story about chickens and one very confused eagle. As you read it, think about life from the eagle’s perspective. Can you relate??? [ Please do see this video before reading ]
 

 
        One day, a naturalist who was passing by a chicken farm was struck with curiosity.  He noticed an eagle, the king of all [...]

Organizer: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and University at Buffalo-SUNY
Key Dates
Conference begins: August 19, 2009
Conference ends: August 21, 2009
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and University at Buffalo-SUNY jointly present a joint conference and workshop on “Cyber Security, Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics”. This program will have tutorials, and workshop sessions aimed at bringing eminent researchers from both academia and [...]

Many of us who love to work on Linux enjoy the privilege of using a plethora of commands and tools. Here is an effort to introduce you to a few very simple- to-use, yet enormously effective commands. The intended audience may belong to all classes of Linux users and the only requirement is to have [...]

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/