It's hard to say goodbye

It is hard to say goodbye,
to a land where nature is in full bloom,
where the hills are so inviting,
where people know how to smile,
where Buddha was born,
where Siva reigns as Pashupatinath,
where the snow is warm and the sun is cool,
where my students live, and learn,
where my daughter has her nest,
so, let me just say:
THANK YOU , NEPAL.

There is hope for Nepal

As long as there are colleges like NEC and teachers like Daya Ram Budhathoki, there is hope for Nepal. Wish them good luck and success.

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Dear Dr. Partha,
Thank you very much for your wonderful and expert presentation in Foss for educational institution at Nepal Engineering College. I think your lecture definitely gave some rays of hope on migrating to Linux from pirated version of Windows and other proprietary software.

I hope, NEC in coming days,will be using:
1. GCC compiler instead of Turbo C for C and C++ lab.
2. KOHA for Library Management System
3. Scilab for Matlab
4. OpenOffice.org instead of Micorsoft word.
5. Mysql or Postgresql instead of Oracle
6. Moodle for For Course Management System
7. iTALC for intelligent Teaching and Learning with Computers.
8. Latex for Documentation, Thesis and Report writing.
9.Linux System instead of Microsoft
I would like to appeal all the faculty members, students, management committee and non teaching staff to promote open source movement in Nepal Engineering College. Really, there is no doubt you will feel the liberty in Linux that you will never experience in Microsoft Windows.

Thank you.

--
Lecturer. Daya Ram Budhathoki
Nepal Engineering College
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Changunarayan, Bhaktapur
Nepal
Contact:
Mob. no:977-1-9741213794
+977-1-5090721(O)
Email: dayaramb@nec.edu.np

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Indian impact

Spent a day today (2011/11/17) at Nepal Engg. College, (NEC) Bhaktapur, Nepal. Showed them why colleges like NEC should adopt FOSS more vigorously. I think I created a good impact. Let us wait and watch.

partha

India does it again !

Today's (14 Nov. 2011) Google doodle is from India !

I understand that this Children's Day (14 Nov.) Google Doodle is Drawn by 7 Year-old Girl "Varsha Gupta" from Greater Noida, Congrats Varsha Gupta.

CRYPTO-V2 COURSE CHRONICLE

Crptography Course- V2 (KU2011-COMP560) website ::

http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/cryptoKUv2.htm

Class #	Date	Events (Each lecture is for 2 hours)
99	2013/01/13	Lab session Recursive use of gpg for encrypting an entire partition or entire drive contents.
20	2013/01/11	Lab session. Creating a fortress. Recursive use of md5 and digital signature.
19	2012/12/30	Lab session . Key signing party. KU web of trust KUWOT.
18	2012/12/30	Lab session . Use of md5sum and sha1sum.
17	2012/12/30	Guest lecture by Prof. PR Adhikary. Algebraic systems.
16	2012/12/30	PGPNET review. Briefing on lab. sessions.
14, 15	2012/12/28	Guest lecture by Prof. P. R. Adhikary. Overview of Algebraic systems. SSL explained. X509 certificates. SSL protocol
	2012/12/25	LaTeX hands-on Workshop Day 2/2
	2012/12/23	LaTeX hands-on Workshop Day 1/2
13	2012/12/21	RSA overview. Overview of network security tools. IPV4 vs IPV6. Firewalls, IP chains vs IP tables. IPSEC. SSL/TLS. Root certificate.
11,12	2012/12/16	(09-hashmd5) Hash digests. md5 and sha family. Applications. Digital signatures. Use in creating a secure CDROM (How to build a fortress). {08-cryptstandards.odp}Crypto standards. DES, 3DES, AES. Elgamal, DH Key exchange.
10	2012/12/14	Review of GPG exercise. (07-numbertheory.odp)Number theory principles. Interruptions due to power failure.
08,09	2012/12/09	(06-pgp97.odp)PGP/GPG. Use of Konqueror, Kleopatra. Keys creation and management, encrypt, sign, verify, decrypt. Class interrupted due to power failure. (05-keys.odp)Keys management, Use of key server. Key strength. Video by Terrence Spies. (07-numbertheory.odp)Number theory principles.
07	2012/12/07	(06-pgp97.odp)PGP/GPG. Use of KGPG. Keys creation and management, encrypt, sign, verify, decrypt. Class interrupted due to power failure.
06	2012/12/02	(04.secure97odp) Cryptography contd. Using vi and zip for symm. key crypto. Extending Caesar's cipher. Viginere cipher. XOR cipher. Feistel networks.
05	2012/12/02	Invited lecture -- Dr. K jha. Principles of algebra.
04	2012/11/30	(04.secure97odp) Cryptography essentials. Sita and Rama in cryptography. Symm. key crypto. Caesar's cipher. Asymm. key crypto. Trapdoor functions. Factoring problem. Discrete logarithm problem.
03	2012/11/25	(03-linuxsecu.odp) How Linux does it. Security tools in Linux.
02	2012/11/25	(02-bewarealways.odp) Information security, basics, issues, threats, remedies. Internet fraud.
01	2012/11/23	(00-takeoff.odp) Course inauguration by Dean (Engg.). Take off lecture. Course Overview. Security awareness questionnaire.
xx	2013/01/20	Scheduled end of course.
xx	2013/01/24	Scheduled Final exam
xx	2013/01/27	Scheduled declaration of results

Dennis Ritchie RIP

After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), father of Unix and an esteemed computer scientist, died last weekend at the age of 70.

Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best known for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson.

All of us Linux/Unix lovers owe a lot to this genius who gave us so much.

His death follows that of another prominent figure :: Steve Jobs of Apple computers fame. Perhaps the best tribute to Dennis and Steve is the one which says :: Dennis Ritchie: The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on.

May their souls rest in peace and guide us.

partha

A lovely quote

A lovely quote I found on the maths blog I mentined a few minutes ago ::

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Dream on. I wished that I could travel back in time. To the year 1914 for example. I would go to Cambridge, England. I would take Number Theory lectures from G.H. Hardy and would make friends with Srinivasa Ramanujan. On the way back to 2011 I would stop the clock somewhere in the midst of World War II, to meet Alan Turing to watch him cracking the Enigma code.


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Another matho clock

Thank GOD, they don't make clocks like this.

Maths lovers will love this clock

I found this clock on the web, while I was looking for material for my course on cryptography. How many of the numbers on the clock can you recognise and explain ? Have fun.

The clock was found in a graetly interesting maths blog ::


http://mathematics-diary.blogspot.com/2011/02/mathematical-clock.html

Cryptography with vi

A small discovery I made today::


http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/publications/crypto-vi.htm

Could be useful for many of you.

partha