Memorable Splashes at Tengumaratha

On Sun, the 12th of Feb, we got a handsome opportunity to visit a place concealed in the Sathyamangalam forests .
Jus have a look at the anticipations , one of our faculty told us the following were available at the spot.
* White Water Rafting
* Elephants & Bisons
* Fish Fry & Hot Bajji to munchchchch...
* Presence of a river to have bath

Such a spot & we never noticed it, thought we !

The entire trip was as a part of the Alumni Meet 2006 conducted by our department, the DOMCA Regiment ! Saturday was the meet (with colorful culturals and other events) followed by the trip on Sunday.

We started at 8 in the morn and reached Tengumaratha by 11. The journey on the way was majorly in the forest on worn out,muddy roads and our driver had a tough time maneuvouring the bus through. Tengumaratha attracted us by its enormous water resource .
There was a river flowing down and we instantly entered its waters . Then began a game that never seemed to end , splashing and playing in water !
We found a raft there and climbed on to it crossed the river, though it was shallow and explored the other side of it.
Refreshment beckoned us after some time, we had "hot-Bajji's" made at the river bank.
Then we got into the water again until it was time for lunch. Lunch was really relishing , partly coz we were deadly worn out and also coz it indeed tasted good !
At 5, we departed from the spot and on the way were lucky enough to spot few elephants, deers and peacocks . .

This ended up as another exciting trip after the Porthimund !

Beagle-ing again !

Its quite a long time since I last had a feel of Hacking BEAGLE , with my NOSIP getting over.
Rarely found time to pull the work on ! (Devilish Semester-5 literally snarling at us)
Thought its time to begin again, working on some real core stuff of it.
My Mentor at Novell, Veerpuram Varadhan is infact one man who really loves hacking Beagle.
Assistance from him and few othes on Dashboard will surely help ..

Few events stand out distinct and memorable in my NOSIP that indeed drive into me the essence of hacking into OpenSource.

Outline of our Project NOSIP

To kick off required tremendous temperament, with the entirely new kind of Project I had taken. NLD(Novell Linux Desktop) was my OS and Building Beagle, Testing Filters were some terms entirely strange to me.
As outlined in the Project schedule, i struggled right through the first month installing the pre-requisites for Beagle and Building Beagle.
The first sight of BEST (Front-end GUI tool for Beagle) appearing on the System-Tray made a chill run into my nerves , marking the first doorstep towards our Project.
That was a day unforgettable for me.

Then i had to do the basic examination of our Search-Tool and report bugs it had.
I came in touch with Varadhan who was assigned my Mentor.
He gave me a basic html-document to parse through and that gave me a feel of the working of Beagle. Beagle Discussions on Nosip Channel

Then i got into the hacking part of the stuff studying the Beagle-Filters and fixing few of them.
Thanks to jess, our student-coordinator for NOSIP, for her endeavour in this.
She mailed us the certificates at the end of my project. My Work

It was a wonderful experience to have been a part of Beagle-Team ...

Sanskrit: Machine Language of the Gods

I ve been for long marvelling the languistic flexibility and richness of this language
so fondly christened "Language of The Gods..".
Neverthless, felt extremely delighted to look at the usefulness of it in today's world.
Sanksrit is supposed to be one language that is capable of talking to a computer in its natural way, reasons for this being many.

Let's probe ..
http://www.amritapuri.org/education/sanskrit/artintell.php

An ancient language,yet so powerful ...