I am posting this from HIT (Human Interface Technology) Lab NZ, where I am on an internship as part of my final year Bachelor’s project. The internship is called the Winter of Code, and is a fully paid one by the University of Canterbury. Along with my friend Akhilesh, I arrived here about two days … Continue reading »
Yet again, Amrita University & TIFAC CORE proudly present InCTF ’12, National Level “Capture the Flag” style Ethical Hacking contest. InCTF’12 is from November to January 2012 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 cyber security … Continue reading »
Last week, some of us had attended the placement process for SAP Labs India. To give you an idea of the company, SAP Labs India is one of their four Labs world over (others being in Germany, US and Israel). More about the company could be found here. The selection process included 3 rounds. First … Continue reading »
Amrita University & TIFAC CORE proudly present InCTF ’11 National Level “Capture the Flag” Ethical Hacking contest InCTF’11 is from February to March 2011 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 cyber security needed to participate. What … Continue reading »
Today was the final day of a 3-day workshop on POSIX threads (pthreads) and Network programming, organized at the Ettimadai (Coimbatore) campus of Amrita. The past three days were extremely useful for all of us. The session was taken by our beloved Adinarayanan sir, who, with his eloquence and clarity of subject gave really deep … Continue reading »
First of all let me thank the Haiku community for providing great support, esp, Matt Maddia (Manager of BeZilla project) To give you some idea about BeZilla, it is the browser (equivalent to firefox, or Bon Echo, as the newer version is called) that runs on Haiku. Let me tell you at the outset that, this … Continue reading »
I am currently working on contributing to Haiku (http://haiku-os.org). Its an exciting community to work with. While I was trying to download the source code of Haiku, which was maintained through a subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) system. I was using it for the first time. Subversion (svn) works like this : When you need to download the … Continue reading »
Our team of volunteers from FOSS club, just came back from the CAD lab, after successfully conducting Gyan-Open Source Quiz ’09. Gyan is a program initiated by Sun Microsystem, through their portal OSUM (Open Source University Meetup). The quiz had a single online round consisting of 50 questions which needed to be answered in 30 … Continue reading »
I have been working on various FOSS projects for over an year now. I found the concept of “community” really refreshing and encouraging. The whole idea of community involved software development gives students (like me and many others) a great opportunity to work on live projects. It has helped me understand what the software industry … Continue reading »
