പ്രത്യേകിച്ചൊന്നുമില്ല, ഫോട്ടോ എടുത്തതു് ആഷിക്കാണു്. അവനേയും ഇതില്‍ തിരുകിക്കയറ്റി. ഗിമ്പ് ഉപയോഗിച്ചു്.ഒറിജിനല്‍ ലോ ലവിടെ. ]]> http://hiran.in/blog/%e0%b4%b8%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%b5%e0%b4%a4%e0%b4%a8%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%a4%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%b0-%e0%b4%ae%e0%b4%b2%e0%b4%af%e0%b4%be%e0%b4%b3%e0%b4%82-%e0%b4%95%e0%b4%ae%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%aa%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%af%e0%b5-2/feed 0 http://hiran.in/blog/logo-for-swathathra-malayalam-computing http://hiran.in/blog/logo-for-swathathra-malayalam-computing#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:34:00 +0000 hiran http://hiraneffects1.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/logo-for-swathathra-malayalam-computing/ The logo for Swathathra Malayalam Computing, the free software localization and language based software development team based on Malayalam language is now ready. The logo is designed by Ravi Sangamithra along with Hiran Venugopalan and the design is based of the Malayalam letter ഋ [U+0D0B], which is supposed to be the most beautiful glyph in Malayalam language. The glyph is rarely used these days and is not present in any other South Indian language. The logo is designed in two patterns – asymmetric hand generated one and symmetric one. Also a traditional way of writing Swathanthra Malayalam Computing in Malayalam is designed as a part of logo.



The designers thank Nicu, a wonderfully talent artist for his valuable helps for designing the logo and also the SMC team who shared ideas and criticized the design. More details on logo here.

Extra Bit: Unluckly, the news came to Media!

Authors of the experiments found suitable to included in the Degree/PG course will be given the setup they have developed along with a Phoenix kit. In addition to that a Rs. 10000/- cash award goes to the best experiment.Idea dead line is 31st of Aug-08.

More at link

Congrats to Shyam for his efforts!

I was slightly disappointed after watching Dasavatharam, and was siting in front of my laptop doing nothing. Being bored that time I decided to see the Big Buck Bunny, the latest Blender Open movie project. Anivar had given me a good print and hence my job was simply to watch the film.

As like the Elephent Dream, the film was only about 10 minutes, designed only with 5 characters. The story base lies with a simple revenge formula, and its neatly presented. The design, especially the angle of photography is done with amazing perfection resembling the angles of Hollywood classics and is done with much professionalism. The story is straight and simple represented without any dialogues.

The character design, title card, background music and all seems to be a wonderful patterned thing and the artificiality and exaggeration over screen play makes the whole a wonderful treat, especially for children.

For the last 24 hours of my initial view, I had hosted more than 5 shows and have shared it with more than 20 friends and the reaction was high, thought that statistics is silly when compared to original download rate. So if you are having an Internet connection, just download from its home page and watch, else see it from you tube! Its never a waste of time. Do share it with others, its under creative commons!

The complete music score is also available.

This time for the fifth semester, we labs are two – hardware and programming paradigms. Hardware contains simple MASM works and some interfacing and PP had C++, Java and LISP. It was PP on Monday and MASM on Tuesday.

It was on Sunday evening I started to work along with Java, and after a couple of hours hardwork to make do the basic programs (helloworld, factorial, inheritance, quicksort) I came to understand a fact, its not my cup of tea. One among us Java or myself is stupid. I was conviced on that theory and came to conclude by making myself stupid. For the first time I saluted three persons Praveen the Javaman, Rakesh my neighbour who works with Sun and my own sister who tells Java as something cool, funny and great. They are genius!

Being a computer specialist in others veiw, I had some calls by night asking doubts over clisp. As to answer the question installed clisp . The first program I took was quicksort and I tried to play with it for an hour and more, keeping both my speakers and mouth shut. It was awesome and result was negative. On 11PM I again started with lisp, I was able to get the concept after moving through the notes provided by pramode sir. Within 10 minutes I was able to see the output of helloworld, quicksort,gcd and lcm. It was great. I become so mad over the thing – keeping myself engaged over the lisp for next 3 hours!

I wake up at early morning by 9.30AM and had exam at 11. The question was to find least common ancestor using JAVA. Making an algorithm that does not work is a simple task for me. I did it and acquired the externals signature for further proceedings. Within 10 minutes, I was able to make my hello world work. Its the fastest ever time I took to write and run helloworld.java and as the time moved, I was able to make a workable algorithm, with could do the work it is supposed to. I got the output and for the first time I started to feel that java is good for me.

The evening I spent completely with java and lisp. I started loving lisp than any other things in the world. The hardware lab is something always bad for me. It runs on windows, creepy MASM and I always bunk the lab. As I am not having windows over the lappy I was not able to do a trial and what I could was understanding the code. The lab started at 11AM and by the time I did some things over lisp and java and some in fontforge. The MASM question was luckily simple, to find factorial and I did in the same way what I had learned. The commands where not by heart to me, but the procedure was more or less by heart. With in a quarter hour I obtained the output, and showed to external. A small error was found and he requested me to correct that – to make 0 factorial 1. Its simple I started with a smile in face and an algorithm in mind.

It was not simple as I expected and within a minute I confirmed my failure. I can’t do the thing. The experiments the computing and the energy what I got from the free software community made me to work again, to think again. I was not ready to repeat the lab – I need to work over the windows machine again. After some simple thoughts and applying the concepts exactly what I had in my mind, I was able to obtain the output, making an excitement. My romance with the programming is now at its height, what I had never so far.

It’s not syntax that rules the computing, its merely the logic and algorithm!

പേജിനെ സ്കാന്‍ ചെയ്തു് അയച്ചു തന്നെ ദേവശില്‍പിക്കു് നന്ദി.