When this Professor was a student

The 40 year reunion of my class (Annamalai University, 1966-1971) is to be held shortly in Chennai. I discovered something dramatic -- a bunch of fotos made at that time. I have uploaded it all on Picasa. .

Take a look. You will like it. You may even recognise some faces.

And, if you want a closer look, or want to download the pictures, here is the URL::
http://picasaweb.google.com/drpartha/Memories#

partha

How to buy a Linux friendly laptop

Recently, I bought a DELL-- Vostro1014 laptop. It was not easy to locate a Linux friendly laptop. I got the right clues and pointers from my young friends and students.

I have not found any major stumbling blocks with my laptop, till now. But I discovered some cheap and filthy tricks which DELL, and almost all major vendors play. So watch out for my next posting about these dirty tricks. When will our Indian vendors learn some basic ethics and honesty ?

I also found a neat writeup on how to buy a Linux friendly laptop. Take a look at ::
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-laptop.html .

Good luck,

partha

Eureka -- a small discovery

I found a solution to a minor but irritating problem. I have friends all over the world (lucky me), many of them speak French. Sending mail to them in French involved keying in diacritical marks (accent marks). I finally found out one easy way to do this in Firefox : Zombie keys.

The Zombie keys website is ::

http://zombiekeys.bolay.us/

I tried it, and it works. Here is proof:

"Le café français est très bon a cause de son goût. A Noël tout le monde
boit du café noir."

partha

An Indian student does it .......

Today's Google will show you a doodle created by a student from India. Well done Akshay. We are proud of you.


partha

Public key cryptography

This is a request for comments ::

I have uploaded a report concerning public key cryptography.

The report is available at ::

http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/publications/publikey.pdf

Request you all, to send your comments and criticisms.

Thank you,

partha

For lovers of mathematics

Lovers of mathematics will

love this.

Take a look.

partha

Goldmine again !

I stumbled upon one more goldmine today. I found a site which gives away a huge number of e-books on discrete maths. I found some excellent titles ther. No registration, no silly questions asked, no strings, just go there and download.

Here is the URL:

http://phoenixalley.com/ebooks/?dir=./Discrete%20Mathematics

Enjoy !

partha

And the loser is .....

About two months ago (2010-08-20), I posted an entry called "And the winner is ...".

On that day, I had had 262 visitors who were Linux users, and 131 visitors who were Win XP users (just 50% of Linux users).

Today, I notice that I have had 280 Linux users, and just 121 Win XP users. The number of Linux users has gone up. Win Xp users are fading out.

The writing on the wall is clear and loud.

You can make your own conclusions !

partha

Computer history

Visit this museum of omputer history ::

http://www.computerhistory.org/

Spend your time in a worthwhile fashion.

Learn.

partha

Command line goldmine

Linux/Unix command lin fanatics will enjoy this goldmine ::

http://www.thoughtdeposit.net/category/linux-unix-command-line/

You will find lots and lots of tips and tricks here.

Enjoy !

partha