Hated this book...the only book in the history of my book reading which I left half way (apart for some Math books of course). Not only was it full of grammatical mistakes, but also a lot of stupid crap. Felt so strongly abt it that I had to put up this comment here.
I saw the Fireox extension to work with Live Journal today. I'm seriously thinking of migrating to LJ now. Though one great advantage with blogger is that you can mail your posts.
The Life of a Hacker
Atul (The Shaolin) posted a poem on his blog titled - 'The Life of a Programmer'. You can read it here -
http://the-shaolin.blogspot.com/2005/01/life-of-programmer.html
Here is my version - 'The Life of a Hacker'. I wrote this one to bring forth the two contrasting attitudes of people in the software industry.
I start my day by sitting on a chair,
Giving my console a nice warm stare.
By evening I'm done with some more hacking,
Oh! This life is getting so exciting.
Like many, I entered this world of hackerdom,
Opportunities are many and there is plenty of freedom.
Dreams of joining the likes of Stallman and Wall,
And to be hailed as hacker by one and by all.
Thus, I entered the world of bytes
And realised the reality of copyrights.
And that the world of patents isn't all that nice,
Behind the trademarks, lie deceit and lies.
Seeing beyond the monitor,
Bringing...
The IIT techfest was beyond words. The best technology from the country was at display and the lecture series was also amazing. The best part was perhaps the laser show. Then there was the 'Robo-cup' - dog like robots playing football match and then dancing in synch to "Who let the dogs out". There were so many amazing things that it would require a full fledged report to describe them
all. Maybe www.techfest.org would be much better. One thing that 'stood' out was a 6 foot tall, six legged walking robot (Natraj). It's manufacturing price is about 13 lakhs ... compared to $2 million of its US couterpart with the same functionality. There was a lecture by RMS (teleconference from Boston). Thankfully, he spoke not on free software, but on current copyright laws and their ill effects.
It's sort of sad that the space shuttle had to crash during the event though. Maybe NASA should have thought about an abort after something went wrong during the launch.
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