Things are up and running @ BOJUG

So, we have got things going on BOJUG. We are planning a meeting soon. In case, you want to get involved. Please visit us and join in. This is a image mosaic, adelaider.com generated for me. It is a really cool site. Give it a try, usually images with a lot of contrast make good image mosaic. I am sure Pi will dig this.

BEA to run Java sans operating system!

It makes some sense, really. Increased performance because of running natively, no OS hassles. Very interesting idea, have to wait and see how the market responds.



http://news.com.com/BEA+to+run+Java+sans+operating+system/2100-1012_3-6142172.html

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Sreesanth, the man!

Andrew Nell, the local madman in the SA cricket team, did his thing on Sunday, he started shooting his mouth off when our dear Sreesanth came in to bat at the fag end of the Indian second innings. The madman bowled a bouncer to Sreensanth and shouted out that Sreesanth did not have the heart to face Nell's bowling (or something to that effect). OurDearSreesanth impolitely asked him to get back and bowl the next ball. I was thinking, "Oh, no Sreesanth is going to make a fool out of himself, when has a 10th man , a former 11th Man, faced a madman and won the contest, tchtch".OurDearSreesanth had other plans, the next ball he made room for himself and heaved the ball over the ropes for a SIX. For all you guys who missed it [losers].

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its out, its out

JDK 6 is out. With scripting support and Monitoring and Management API . It has got a great feature set. I hear that the UI has been pimped up! Watch out for my experiments with JDK6.

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krec

Surathkal is home. I spent the most important four years of my life there. Situated on India's west coast it is the home a fine engineering school. The National Institute of Technology Karnataka, formerly Karnataka Regional Engineering college, is my alma mater.

Naturally, when my company offered an opportunity to visit KREC, I jumped at it. We went there and talked about some great technology that Sun had to offer. Here are some pictures from there. Sanjay Manwani, manager @ Sun India, wrote a nice article about it [here].

National Institute of Technology, Surathkal Karnataka(NITK) is one of the premier technical colleges in India and is rated even higher than some of the IITs in some of the surveys.

NITK has 5 streams of Comp. Science - BTech CS(undergrad course) - intake of 60

students for 4 years, M.Tech(postgrad) - Intake of 60 students for 2 years, BTech IT intake of 60 students for 4 years, MCA (postgrad) - intake of 60 students for 3 years, PhD - intake of 10-15 students for 4-5 years.

After a long phone association of almost 6 months with between NIT Surathkal and Sumitha Prashanth from Sun; 3 engineers and me went to NIT Surathkal on 10th and 11th Nov 2006.

The planned agenda was:

• Sanjay Manwani - Talk to Dr.Shet and HOD about Sun and Universities and work with them to identify Campus ambassadors
• Sun and Participation Age pitch - Jeevan (an alumnus of NITK 2005)
• Introduction to OpenSolaris - Moinak Ghosh
• Introduction to Project Glassfish - Varun Rupela.

The main agenda of the trip was to make the students and teachers of NITK aware of the Sun contribution to opensource and solicit their support. Also to get 3-4 names of students for the Sun ambassador program from NITK.

Though most of the sessions were planned only for 11th Nov. We were able to organize 1 formal and one informal discussion between Sun and NITK.

We reached and were received at the University by one of the student volunteers and an active participant of the Open club - Dhaval. Dhaval is a 3rd year student and has done a project at IBM and is scheduled to join IBM at the end of his studies. His interest is in Linux kernels and he is currently involved in a project related to that. The Open club is a group of students and a lecturer (M/s Vani ) who are actively working on open source projects with a lot of them being Linux enthusiasts.

Dhaval introduced us to Mr. Annappa who is one of the lecturers at NITK with interest in distributed systems. Mr. Annapa was very enthusiastic about the Sun visit and immediately organized a meeting with the lecturers of the Computer Science (CS) department.

During the meeting which was attended by the Professors including Dr. Vinay (HOD), Dr. Shet, Mr. Annapa, and M/s Vani, some PhD students including Mr. Jose; whose interest is in the area of compilers and some M. Tech students. We went over the canned presentations that we had planned to share with the students. There was interest in the gathering and some decent questions were asked. The Mtech students informed us that this was good learning for them. After the meeting Dr. Vinay informed that he had already sent 3 names to Sun to choose a student ambassador. He also informed us that the attendance may be less in our session due to the end semester exams in 2 weeks.

Dhaval organized a impromptu session for students to talk about projects. about 7-8 students attended and most were interested in how to get projects. All of us informed about the power of open source and how they could easily contribute. It was a very open session with lots of questions about Sun and open source.

On 11th at 9 AM we began our formal session. there were about 30-35 students and slowly the whole classroom with the capacity of 40-45 students filled up. Dr. Shet introduced the session and mentioned that he had recently become aware of the open sourcing of Solaris. M/s Vani and Mr. Annappa were also in attendance. It was a very interactive session with lots of demos and questions. At least 20 students had worked on Linux and many of the questions related to open source were answered.

There was no flagging of interest till the 3.5 hours of the session when we broke for lunch with the promise of D-trace demo after lunch. 30-40 SDN memberships were signed up and more forms distributed for people who could not attend. Lots of Netbeans CDs and Belenix DVDs were distributed, with 5 of each given for the library to be borrowed by students.

Conclusion

It was a very fruitful trip to learn about such an open and enthusiastic community of teachers and students interested in open source not too far from IEC. We have a lot of leads to continue our association thru students and lecturers for the SAI. We need to keep up this engagement to make sure that it bears the results that we want from our academic initiative.

-- Sanjay Manwani

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krec

Surathkal is home. I spent the most important four years of my life there. Situated on India's west coast it is the home a fine engineering school. The National Institute of Technology Karnataka, formerly Karnataka Regional Engineering college, is my alma mater.

Naturally, when my company offered an opportunity to visit KREC, I jumped at it. We went there and talked about some great technology that Sun had to offer. Here are some pictures from there. Sanjay Manwani, manager @ Sun India, wrote a nice article about it [here].

National Institute of Technology, Surathkal Karnataka(NITK) is one
of the premier technical colleges in India and is rated even higher
than some of the IITs in some of the surveys.

NITK has 5
streams of Comp. Science - BTech CS(undergrad course) - intake of 60
students for 4 years, M.Tech(postgrad) - Intake of 60 students for 2
years, BTech IT intake of 60 students for 4 years, MCA (postgrad) -
intake of 60 students for 3 years, PhD - intake of 10-15 students for
4-5 years.

After a long phone association of almost 6 months
with between NIT Surathkal and Sumitha Prashanth from Sun; 3 engineers
and me went to NIT Surathkal on 10th and 11th Nov 2006.

The planned agenda was:

• Sanjay Manwani - Talk to Dr.Shet and HOD about Sun and Universities and work with them to identify Campus ambassadors
• Sun and Participation Age pitch - Jeevan (an alumnus of NITK 2005)
• Introduction to OpenSolaris - Moinak Ghosh
• Introduction to Project Glassfish - Varun Rupela.

The
main agenda of the trip was to make the students and teachers of NITK
aware of the Sun contribution to opensource and solicit their support.
Also to get 3-4 names of students for the Sun ambassador program from
NITK.

Though most of the sessions were planned only for 11th
Nov. We were able to organize 1 formal and one informal discussion
between Sun and NITK.

We reached and were received at the
University by one of the student volunteers and an active participant
of the Open club - Dhaval. Dhaval is a 3rd year student and has done a
project at IBM and is scheduled to join IBM at the end of his studies.
His interest is in Linux kernels and he is currently involved in a
project related to that. The Open club is a group of students and a
lecturer (M/s Vani ) who are actively working on open source projects with a lot of them being Linux enthusiasts.

Dhaval
introduced us to Mr. Annappa who is one of the lecturers at NITK with
interest in distributed systems. Mr. Annapa was very enthusiastic about
the Sun visit and immediately organized a meeting with the lecturers of
the Computer Science (CS) department.

During the meeting
which was attended by the Professors including Dr. Vinay (HOD), Dr.
Shet, Mr. Annapa, and M/s Vani, some PhD students including Mr. Jose;
whose interest is in the area of compilers and some M. Tech students.

We went over the canned presentations that we had planned to share with the students.

There
was interest in the gathering and some decent questions were asked. The
Mtech students informed us that this was good learning for them.

After
the meeting Dr. Vinay informed that he had already sent 3 names to Sun
to choose a student ambassador. He also informed us that the attendance
may be less in our session due to the end semester exams in 2 weeks.

Dhaval
organized a impromptu session for students to talk about projects.
about 7-8 students attended and most were interested in how to get
projects. All of us informed about the power of open source and how
they could easily contribute.

It was a very open session with lots of questions about Sun and open source.

On
11th at 9 AM we began our formal session. there were about 30-35
students and slowly the whole classroom with the capacity of 40-45
students filled up.

Dr. Shet introduced the session and
mentioned that he had recently become aware of the open sourcing of
Solaris. M/s Vani and Mr. Annappa were also in attendance.

It
was a very interactive session with lots of demos and questions. At
least 20 students had worked on Linux and many of the questions related
to open source were answered.

There was no flagging of
interest till the 3.5 hours of the session when we broke for lunch with
the promise of D-trace demo after lunch.

30-40 SDN
memberships were signed up and more forms distributed for people who
could not attend. Lots of Netbeans CDs and Belenix DVDs were
distributed, with 5 of each given for the library to be borrowed by
students.

Conclusion

It was a very fruitful
trip to learn about such an open and enthusiastic community of teachers
and students interested in open source not too far from IEC.

We have a lot of leads to continue our association thru students and lecturers for the SAI.

We need to keep up this engagement to make sure that it bears the results that we want from our academic initiative.

-- Sanjay Manwani

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"International relations ain't just about havin a Bangladeshi cousin" - Ali G

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photography thought!

I am a hobby photographer,[mywork]. I love taking pictures of people most of the time. I try to capture moment of emotion, the problem is the harder you try to grip it the faster does it disappear, like love :). The hardest thing to photograph is suffering, I have tried it once and felt very guilty. I believe it is totally heartless to take pictures of suffering and not do anything about it. Many photographers argue that by taking pictures of poverty they are showcasing to the world 'What a shitty place this world is , and how nobody cares', but, the fact is that they themselves are part of the world and just taking pictures isn't going to cut it.

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It is coming

India twenty/10 win?

I felt good when India won. Very thrilling I ,must say. My *@$#$ cable operator choose to carry out repairs during the same time India was batting, so had to depend on cricinfo.comand messages from friends. It is not really a win when the best players of the opponent team aren't playing. Nevertheless, a win is a win.

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Contemparory Indian cricket

The Indian cricket team lost a crucial one day international. Again! The Indian Cricket team's form takes a nose dive every time they play abroad. The fact is they are too used to playing on slow spinning tracks, similar to the kind available at home. More importantly most of players in the current team, lack commitment. Loosing on the bouncy and fast tracks because of the lack of exposure to them at least can be understood, if not condonable. But, the morons didnt even put up a fight with the exception of a few lower order batsmen none of the others tried to keep their wicket. The way many of the top order batsmen got out was laughable. It is obvious that the Indian cricket team filled with over-confident, self-centered, greedy, arrogant fools who do not care about the team.
Examining the individual batting performances, one sees a blatant lack of commitment. Jaffer, Sehwag, Tendulkar, Karthick and Dhoni threw their wickets away, perhaps they were giving catch practice to the slip fielders. This is not an isolated case, but an exercise from the previous matches. I wonder how long will it take for the batsmen to realise that they have getting out in a similar fashion for the past two innings, make that three. The ever persistent South African bowling line up, studded with stars like Shaun Pollock and Ntini, bowled accurately and the Indians promptly gave in. Barring Irfan Pathan (he should be bowling though) and Rahul Dravid the Indian batting lineup is in shambles.
The bowling attack (sorry, make that lineup, 'attack' is far to strong) is in a sorry state. Ajit Agarkar, the supposed fast bowler, has lost his ability to bowl his one and only lethal weapon, the off cutter. For a long time he has been hole in the bowling attack. Irfan Pathan, the erstwhile wonderboy, has lost his vigour, if I were him I would take pages out of Zaheer Khan's book. Zaheer Khan, who had been out of the team for various reasons, has come back to form by working hard at county cricket.
In all there is more to it than that meets the eye. All the fat slobs (read players in the team) in cricket have paid bribes to the selectors and they obviously expect to be in the team despite their pathetic form. Some very talented players like Vijay Bharadwaj, even after having proved his worth, has been forced to give up cricket. I feel very dejected looking at the sad state of affairs, I can only hope that some sane person gets to head the BCCI.

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