Praveen Arimbrathodiyil blogs here

Today after a long time I woke up at 7 and attended all 4 hours, thanks to Tojin’s advice to go to bed yesterday when I was thinking of coming to cc. Power system we had discussions about over voltage and lightning. She asked us to refer lightning. Then Economics was like always but today I sat in the first bench with Shankar. I guess I’ll be sitting there for some time, surely not for iDrives or iSysstems.

In NSS meeting we discussed about Tsunami relief and our possible involvement. Also we might have to postpone Garland to some other date because on 30th we have Campart, an intra year competition for cultuarl events by college union.

I’m trying to get Dilpu’s NVIDIA card working. Shyam also couldn’t get it done before with 2.6 kernel because debian dvd from pcquest does not comes with 2.6.8 source. So he now went with 2.4 kernel and he told us to try downloading 2.6 kernel.

Now Tojin is also started supporting Linux openly. It is a very good morale booster and it may help some others also to come up. We had heated argument as every day about Microsoft and Linux.

Tomorrow we are going for our job treat. Last time our class gave the biggest treat with ppl from all branches coming up.

Today I burned two cds of GNU win Nov 30 edition, which has windows versions of free softwares. It is intended as starting point to GNU/Linux migration.

Tojin and Dilpu had heated arguments as always. This time over Dilpu’s comment about Evolution in ANN class and the discussion there after. Dilpu wanted to discuss about Evolution and he told Tojin is not supporting evolution. [Tojin has been reading about evolution for a long time and he wanted me to download answersingenesis.org] Tojin didn’t say anything about it in the class (later he reasoned that he feared he might lose his sessionals had he objected Padma Kumari madam’s views). Barath had a stong view against evolution. He argued that ‘My father is not a monkey, nor my fathers’s father nor his and so on. There should be some point at which both co exist and still there are monkeys’. It seemed a strong argument. Later Shreeni pointed out that he believes in a hybrid theory where both can be included. I don’t believe that humans evolved from monkeys but I do agree that humans are subject to changes over a long time. But humans are evolved from humans only.

That’d be for today.

Today I woke by around 10 and attented ANN hour (Infact me and ksp[Kiran S Pillai] was first to reach the class, we used to keep same timings for class and sleep Now he has two bunks more than me he is at 23 and I’m just behind him by 21 but VR is way ahead with 34, but he was out of station for some days me and KSP were here all the days and manged this figure.

After the class me and KSK[Kiren SK] went to meet Jaikumar sir to discuss NSS programmes. He went to meet project guide and I went with Shankar, Tojin and MS to meet Suresh Kumar Sir [He is the best teacher our department has got and arguably one of the best in our college or even absolutely, and I have manged to write his two subjects two times ], our project guide. Diplu could not come because of a cycle accedent. He fell down from a cycle and it’s not serious but manged with some three or four wounds. We started with discussion of our project and we moved to various other topics. We discussed about books and softwares. He told he was convinced about the need of Free software and its importance. He was in doubt about the violation of law made every day. He pointed out the software piracy and its implications. We are trying hard to bring him to the Free Software community. He pledged his support for our efforts to spread the message of Software Freedom.
He discussed about the book reviews and his plan to write a book.

Then I mailed some Firefox tips to some of the free software groups. We are moving ahead with our palns for FOSS conference on Jan 29. Today we’ve Birthady treats of Karthik and Titto.

Bye then
Signing off