z3d's blog: September 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Drop folder for section 5

http://drop.io/p4efa2010_sec5
password : token

Drop folder for section 2 lab 7

http://drop.io/dcnfa2010_sec2
password: true

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Late submissions

The drop folders have been opened for late submission. Any submissions made from now on will have an additional penalty. the folders will remain open till Sunday 23:59.

Drop folder for section 6

http://drop.io/p4efa2010_sec6_lab7
password: boolean

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Submission deadline 12 am today

Drop folder

drop.io/dcnfa2010_sec1_lab7
pass: socket

drop.io/dcnfa2010_sec2_lab7
pass: thread

drop.io/dcnfa2010_sec3_lab7
pass: pipes

code with error handling

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try catch.odt (17 KB)

code with error handling

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try catch.odt (17 KB)

Sample socket code

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Untitled 2.odt (18 KB)

Sample thread code

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Untitled 1.odt (16 KB)

Saturday, September 25, 2010

FYI

http://www.ntt.co.jp/news2010/1003e/100325a.html

I am impressed :)

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Lab 6 - Socket Programming Basics (support material)

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Socket programming.pdf (395 KB)

Lab 6 - Socket Programming Basics

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lec6.pdf (289 KB)

Monday, September 13, 2010

Updated Drop Folders

Important: Before you submit make sure the filename is your roll number. If you have multiple files compress them and rename the archive to your roll number.

Sec 1 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/p4efa2010_sec1_lab6
Password: el1

Sec 2 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/p4efa2010_sec2_lab6
Password: el2

Sec 5 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/p4efa2010_sec5_lab6
Password: el5

Sec 6 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/p4efa2010_sec6_lab6
Password: el6

Notice the naming convention, you should be able to guess the name of the submission drop for the next lab.

Updated Drop Folders

Important: Before you submit make sure the filename is your roll number. If you have multiple files compress them and rename the archive to your roll number.

Sec 1 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/p4efa2010_sec1_lab6
Password: el1

Sec 2 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/p4efa2010_sec2_lab6
Password: el2

Sec 5 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/p4efa2010_sec5_lab6
Password: el5

Sec 6 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/p4efa2010_sec6_lab6
Password: el6

Notice the naming convention, you should be able to guess the name of the submission drop for the next lab.

Updated Drop Folders

Important: Before you submit make sure the filename is your roll number. If you have multiple files compress them and rename the archive to your roll number.

Sec 1 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/dcnfa2010_sec1_lab6
Password: el1

Sec 2 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/dcnfa2010_sec2_lab6
Password: el2

Sec 3 drop folder
http://www.drop.io/dcnfa2010_sec3_lab6
Password: el3

Notice the naming convention, you should be able to guess the name of the submission drop for the next lab.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

I had just been wondering where things start going wrong. Here is a list of courses for A-Levels.
Compare this to the subjects available at our intermediate level. Does a bell ring?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Advanced_Level_subjects

And we just cant build a simple highway! :s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_highway

Mechinical, electrical or should i become a doctor???

Now there are two things to do:
1. Laugh about it, that they are nuts doing all these specialized courses. We dont need such education, it does not matter that we dont have technology, so what we will have what they have eventually!
2. Be concerned, we can think of nothing more than dactar, engineer or those who are left commerce or accounting. What are our career options??? With the education system that we have the best we can hope for is become a technician! Sadly even at Masters level we have course like Masters in Electrical Engineering!! WOW!!!
3. OOPs! i forgot, there is a third option too which i forgot and is i guess the most valid one. You did not get what is being talked about here. Dont worry, we after all live in a country where people find it hard to find averages! Studying, hard work, dedication and motivation is a remote concept. We dont have time to waste for all this, we have facebook to use, friends to talk to, seasons to watch, movies to download and ofcourse porn (its a fact). Why study?
And yes we have a plan for the future, loot and plunder, thats the norm of the day! I used to wonder why we are in such a state, now its obvious, we have got nothing else to do :D

Our fake sense of technological advancement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths here is a clue, notice the dates, latest 2008. And if you follow the trends you can figure out what must be about to come. And well here we are boasting about EVDO rev B.

I feel there are two worlds, the one we live in and the other one where for some reason people appear to have a vision and a brain. We here are slowly adjusting and adapting a 7 year old technology adsl2+. And we feel that WOW!

Coming to Iphones and all the smart phones etc. Well i think they are the biggest waste of time an money atleast the way we use it. We see no more utility of it other than watching movies where ever we go, music, facebooking, msging. How many of us use it for presentations, demonstartions or anything else useful. How many of us have any e-reader software installed?? The use we have for it i think we dont need it. So i guess it doesnot matter that we have high speed internet, all we ever do is ....

And a fact, i had been talking to a PTCL official, he seemed very pissed, he was quoting figures, almost 90% of our bamdwidth is multimedia related, movies, youtube, facebook and mostly the "p" thing! He was of the idea, is this the extent to where our brain goes??

If you have a resource use it for something useful. But sadly in our universities students dont even know how to use google!!! All the ever want is the teacher to spoon feed us. The little cute toddlers us!

Friday, September 10, 2010

Installing Virtual Box guest additions on CentOS5 and Scientific Linux 5 (x86)

First step have the proper libraries installed

yum install gcc-c++ kernel-devel kernel-headers

Next navigate to the folder where your kernel source is located

export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/bla bla bla

cd into the VBox guest additions folder then run

sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

Enjoy, you are done :)

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Our fake sense of technological advancement

Mechinical, electrical or should i become a doctor???

Firstly have a look at the following links
http://search.ucas.com/cgi-bin/hsrun/search/search/StateId/Q3MCXoiFLrmiekdjug...
http://search.ucas.com/cgi-bin/hsrun/search/search/StateId/Q3MCXoiFLrmiekdjug...

Now there are two things to do:
1. Laugh about it, that they are nuts doing all these specialized courses. We dont need such education, it does not matter that we dont have technology, so what we will have what they have eventually!
2. Be concerned, we can think of nothing more than dactar, engineer or those who are left commerce or accounting. What are our career options??? With the education system that we have the best we can hope for is become a technician! Sadly even at Masters level we have course like Masters in Electrical Engineering!! WOW!!!
3. OOPs! i forgot, there is a third option too which i forgot and is i guess the most valid one. You did not get what is being talked about here. Dont worry, we after all live in a country where people find it hard to find averages! Studying, hard work, dedication and motivation is a remote concept. We dont have time to waste for all this, we have facebook to use, friends to talk to, seasons to watch, movies to download and ofcourse porn (its a fact). Why study?
And yes we have a plan for the future, loot and plunder, thats the norm of the day! I used to wonder why we are in such a state, now its obvious, we have got nothing else to do :D