One more cryptography overview (very good)

I found a very good overview of cryptography at ::

http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/GLOSSARY.HTM

Please take a look.

partha

The penguin in the court

QUOTE The Supreme Court of India has directed all courts across the nation to switch over to Ubuntu 11.04 as their pimary operating system. A free SMS channel has also been created to increase awareness about the features and functionality of Ubuntu Linux OS among judicial officers, technical personnel, and other members of the court's staff. UNQUOTE

(Linux for You, November 2011)

partha

PS: This is in addition to the amazing list posted in my earlier blog entry.

Amazing list of Linux users.

Here is an
amazing list of Linux users worldwide.

How much more of dilly dallying do you want to do ?

At least, take a look at this list, and see for yoursel what you have been missing.

partha

PS: I felt proud to notice that India is listed twice --Tamilnadu state (my birth place), and Kerala state )I taught there).

Interesting property of Fibonacci series

When we take a look at Fibonacci series, through modulo arithmetic, we get some interesting observations :

http://www.math.temple.edu/~renault/fibonacci/fib.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisano_period

Maths is interesting, because there is so much beauty to discover.

partha

PS: This was a question in my exam for Kathmandu Uiniversity students.

How good is your password ?

To all my students who attended my recent course on cryptography and e-security, at Kathmandu University ::

Remember my long discourses on using strong passwords ? I found a cute tool which helps you visualise how good/strong your password is. IT gives you individual scores on various parameters which decide the strength of a password, and also an overall score for your password.

Great tool. Try it. Use it every time you choose a password.

The tool is here ::http://www.passwordmeter.com/

Never take chances with security.

partha

Cryptography and e-security questions

I just finished delivering a course on cryptography and e-security, at Kathmandu University. The end-term question paper is here.

The suggested solutions will also be posted on the web, soon.

Watch this space !

partha

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.

QUOTE

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

UNQUOTE

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.