I wud like to dedicate this poem to all my sweet friends in college..
Adios..
The things we did, the things we said
Keep coming back to me and make me smile again
You showed me how to face the truth
Everything that's good in me I owe to you
Though the distance that's between us
Now may seem to be too far
It will never separate us
Deep inside I know you are
Never gone, never far
In my heart is where you are
Always close, everyday
Every step along the way
Even though for now we've got to say goodbye
I know you will be forever in my life
Never gone
I walk alone these empty streets
There is not a second you're not here with me
The love you gave, the grace you've shown
Will always give me strength and be my cornerstone
Somehow you found a way
To see the best I have in me
As long as time goes on
I swear to you that you will be
Never gone from me
If there's one thing I believe
I will see you somewhere down the road again
Never gone, never far
In my heart is where you are
Always close, everyday
Every step along the way
Never gone, never far
In my heart is where you are
In case u ppl thot that i had written that poem.. LOL.. This one is one of my favourite backstreetboy's song.. from the album "Never gone"..
Thursday, July 27, 2006
History of C & C++
During 1950-1960, all computers used only high level Languages. FORTRAN was used by engineers and researchers. And COBOL for buisness. In 1960 ALGOL came into existence. It was too abstract and too general. And it was very difficult to understand. So in 1963 a new language called "CPL" (Combined Programming Language) was invented. Then Mr.Martin Richard, did some modification and made it simple and named it as "BCPL" (Basic Combined Programming Language) .It did not satisfy the programmers. In 1967,Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritche created a new os at Bell Laboratories. That OS was called UNIX. Meanwhile Mr.Ken Thompson also created a compiler for FORTRAN. At that time a new language grew. That was called "B". B was depended upon an Interpreter. that is, a translator was required to translate B.
In 1972, Dennis Ritche found a new language called "C" which was remake of "B". Then In 1980,Bjorne Stroustrup added some new concepts to "C". There was a lot of confusion in naming the new language. There were 2 groups. One said that "After C there is P in BCPL,So we name it as P". The other group said that, "After B and C, D is placed alphabetically. So we name it as D".
After consulting these 2 groups they decide to name it as "CDP"(C Double Plus).
So, C Double plus was written symbolically as C++.. And eventually people was started calling it "C plus plus"..
Hows that ??????
( Taken from one of the Orkut communities... )
In 1972, Dennis Ritche found a new language called "C" which was remake of "B". Then In 1980,Bjorne Stroustrup added some new concepts to "C". There was a lot of confusion in naming the new language. There were 2 groups. One said that "After C there is P in BCPL,So we name it as P". The other group said that, "After B and C, D is placed alphabetically. So we name it as D".
After consulting these 2 groups they decide to name it as "CDP"(C Double Plus).
So, C Double plus was written symbolically as C++.. And eventually people was started calling it "C plus plus"..
Hows that ??????
( Taken from one of the Orkut communities... )
Monday, July 24, 2006
Orkutting !!!!
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Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes.
It's likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server's lack of consideration for others.
This is probably one of the most frequently seen orkut page in case u login after 10 at night.. Every boy, girl who knows how to operate a system and has "very fast" broadband connection at their home login into Orkut to increase their circle of friends..
In a way, Orkut is a revolution in the making.. No one wud have dreamt of a method to get in touch with so many people across the globe.. Yahoo ! chat was quite popular for sometime.. But the entire Orkut database is so well structured.. it hardly takes u 10 mins to find a long lost friend of urs..
Some of the popular scraps..
"Hi there.. Do you remember me ?? I was ur class mate from 5th til 8th.. "
"Hi. I am XXX studying in YYY. I am currently recruited by ZZZ and wil be joining there next year. From ur profile i understand u are working in ZZZ too.. Can u pls tell how the working place is.. Scrap me back.. Regards.."
Ya, this is what orkut is all about.. It gives u the freedom to interact with people.. No restrictions.. No formalities.. It is not always easy to speak to a new person.. But very easy to scrap an unknown person and get acquainted wit them.. On the whole, the Orkut idea is a success in every sense of the word.. Unlike many other website, from my understanding, Orkut cud be easily handled by the administrators too.. There are very few security related issues as every thing is pretty much "open" in Orkut..
There is a popularly known concept..
"You can link two different people at different parts of the globe merely through a chain of 4 to 6 people"..
I hope u get the point.. Thats how simple this complicated world is.. And thats the principle behind Orkut's phenomenal success..
There are of course few funny things happening inside Orkut..
People have decided to throw away their last name.. Instead they use that particular column to flash news..
XXX placed in ZZZ
or
YYY leaving for chennai on 7th
Of course, yours truly has been following such practises right from its inception.. I wonder who invented such "innovative" practises.. But i am sure the person shud be an Indian.. Cuz only in India u get such "Out of the Box" thinking..
Worse.. People have started using their "about me" column to describe the news in detail.. Its really funny how such practises get accepted globally..
Some people get excited at the first look of Orkut.. then subsequently lose the interest.. But continue to use Orkut.. They dont just drop it.. Therefore the interest levels drop down considerably.. but not below a certain level that prevents them from using it..
The whole idea of community is excellent.. Ppl of similar interests get to meet each other..
There are few things which are rarely used.. For instance the Orkut mailbox.. Ppl hardly use such services.. The scrap book is frequently used..
Hats off to the creators of Orkut..
Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes.
It's likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server's lack of consideration for others.
This is probably one of the most frequently seen orkut page in case u login after 10 at night.. Every boy, girl who knows how to operate a system and has "very fast" broadband connection at their home login into Orkut to increase their circle of friends..
In a way, Orkut is a revolution in the making.. No one wud have dreamt of a method to get in touch with so many people across the globe.. Yahoo ! chat was quite popular for sometime.. But the entire Orkut database is so well structured.. it hardly takes u 10 mins to find a long lost friend of urs..
Some of the popular scraps..
"Hi there.. Do you remember me ?? I was ur class mate from 5th til 8th.. "
"Hi. I am XXX studying in YYY. I am currently recruited by ZZZ and wil be joining there next year. From ur profile i understand u are working in ZZZ too.. Can u pls tell how the working place is.. Scrap me back.. Regards.."
Ya, this is what orkut is all about.. It gives u the freedom to interact with people.. No restrictions.. No formalities.. It is not always easy to speak to a new person.. But very easy to scrap an unknown person and get acquainted wit them.. On the whole, the Orkut idea is a success in every sense of the word.. Unlike many other website, from my understanding, Orkut cud be easily handled by the administrators too.. There are very few security related issues as every thing is pretty much "open" in Orkut..
There is a popularly known concept..
"You can link two different people at different parts of the globe merely through a chain of 4 to 6 people"..
I hope u get the point.. Thats how simple this complicated world is.. And thats the principle behind Orkut's phenomenal success..
There are of course few funny things happening inside Orkut..
People have decided to throw away their last name.. Instead they use that particular column to flash news..
XXX placed in ZZZ
or
YYY leaving for chennai on 7th
Of course, yours truly has been following such practises right from its inception.. I wonder who invented such "innovative" practises.. But i am sure the person shud be an Indian.. Cuz only in India u get such "Out of the Box" thinking..
Worse.. People have started using their "about me" column to describe the news in detail.. Its really funny how such practises get accepted globally..
Some people get excited at the first look of Orkut.. then subsequently lose the interest.. But continue to use Orkut.. They dont just drop it.. Therefore the interest levels drop down considerably.. but not below a certain level that prevents them from using it..
The whole idea of community is excellent.. Ppl of similar interests get to meet each other..
There are few things which are rarely used.. For instance the Orkut mailbox.. Ppl hardly use such services.. The scrap book is frequently used..
Hats off to the creators of Orkut..
Sunday, July 23, 2006
I am in pumphouse da..
"hi da.. i am in pump house.. dint study for the exam.. heard that u have studied 5th unit.. can u come half an hour prior to the exam and teach me that particular unit.."
for all those guys from my college and for those who had mobile phones, this msg wudn't be a surprise..
Probably the most frequent msg sent wud have been..
"Dai.. i am caught in this railway gate da.. has the class started ???"
Of course the time this msg normally sent is between 9 - 9.15 am.. after the first hour has started..
You know, i wudn't call my college "the best college in tamil nadu".. Neverthless, it proved to be a gud place in more than one way.. I am pretty sure there wud be bloggers who feel the other way around.. Ya, the coin has two sides and so does our college.. But this is my blog and i write the things i feel..
More than the college leaving an gud impression, its the students studying here make the college a wonderful place to be.. You get all sort of guys here.. The techies.. The "to be MBAs".. the annoying characters.. and of course, the road side romeos.. the "gud for nothing" banda parties.. name it and u'll find a sample in my college..
The entire college life had a brand new color with the invasion of mobile phones.. Communication had never been easier.. Of course, the majority of the msgs flew between the two hostels.. :)
I really dont understand why administrations ban mobile phones inside college campuses.. I mean, using mobile during the class hours cud be banned.. but why ban the "carrying of mobile phones" inside the campus.. for god sakes, i studied communication engineerin for 4 damn yrs and ppl who teach actually ban the usage of mobile phones !!!!! no wonder there have been numerous pre placement trainings with GDs titled "Should mobile phones banned inside college".. Its time ppl put an end to this and start looking at the broader spectrum..
Coming back to the golden memories of the college days, the first thing that wud come to one's mind are the Industrial visits.. Ha ha ha.. Industrial visit.. It shud be called a tour or something.. where the hell do v visit industries.. It is all abt screaming in the bus, singing in the bus, and to some extent dancing in the bus... taking a digital camera along wit u and taking 'n' number of snaps wit ur friends.. Of course, there wud b that great discussion of which place to visit.. If two classes were going together, all hell breaks loose on deciding the city.. the girls point to a city.. the boys point to a city.. and finally come to a conclusion and decide on the city, the college intervenes and says "try some other city".. the representatives of the class wud have the worst part of his lifetime tryin to convince the students and the college.. Finally when the city has been decided, then comes the problem of taking a staff along with us.. All these and more, make an industrial visit an adventorous and memorable one..
The canteen and the pump house are the spots to hang out.. the place where u can kill time in case u have bunked a lab.. the official place for u to write records, observations and to copy assignments.. Speakin of records and assignments, its time ppl put an end to the whole "observation, record and assignment" stuff.. Ppl copy observation from senior's record and eventually copy it in their record.. Any person on earth can do it.. whats the great fun in doing it.. Long has been forgotten the fact that, "education shud refine people".. Education in college just requires you to aimlessly take notes of whatever is taught in the class.. Take xerox of the prescribed book 3 days before the internals.. Do some group studies the day before the internal.. write records and observations week after week.. Copy down assignments week after week.. Download some paper from the net and present under ur name in intra college and inter college events.. Where has the whole concept of "originality" gone ???? I entered into college with the whole desire to prone my skills.. But where wud i find time for proning my skills, if records and assignments eat all my time.. This is why we Indians are "Jack of all trades and king of none".. V push in the working of an optical directional coupler when v hardly understand 9th grade optics... Sometimes one never understands why v ever learn such things..
Then there is ofcourse the concept of throwing treats.. the truth is, no one actually throws a treat.. But there is always everybody to ask for a treat.. Ppl ask a treat for winning a prize in an inter departmental comp in which only 10 ppl participated.. Ppl ask for a treat when u buy something new.. Ppl ask for a treat on ur birthday.. the worst part comes when girls ask a treat for wearing the same color.. "same same sweet, give me treat"..
You know, u get a beautiful mixture when u put bubblin youth, mobile phones, IVs, birthday parties and stern education system together.. Thats the color of college life..
Further color has been added with the inclusion of websites such as orkut.. Guys and gals take it again as a opportunity to "interface" wit each other.. Funny.. and of course, the management wud always be there to ban it.. And our "young and brilliant" students wud prove themselves by finding websites such as Kproxy and continue wit their orkutting.. It is always fun being a part of it.. But looking from the outside, one gets the feeling "something somewhere is going wrong"..
there r ofcourse many more things that make college life greater.. Thanks to my poor memory am not able to recollect them.. Pls feel free to comment..
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for all those guys from my college and for those who had mobile phones, this msg wudn't be a surprise..
Probably the most frequent msg sent wud have been..
"Dai.. i am caught in this railway gate da.. has the class started ???"
Of course the time this msg normally sent is between 9 - 9.15 am.. after the first hour has started..
You know, i wudn't call my college "the best college in tamil nadu".. Neverthless, it proved to be a gud place in more than one way.. I am pretty sure there wud be bloggers who feel the other way around.. Ya, the coin has two sides and so does our college.. But this is my blog and i write the things i feel..
More than the college leaving an gud impression, its the students studying here make the college a wonderful place to be.. You get all sort of guys here.. The techies.. The "to be MBAs".. the annoying characters.. and of course, the road side romeos.. the "gud for nothing" banda parties.. name it and u'll find a sample in my college..
The entire college life had a brand new color with the invasion of mobile phones.. Communication had never been easier.. Of course, the majority of the msgs flew between the two hostels.. :)
I really dont understand why administrations ban mobile phones inside college campuses.. I mean, using mobile during the class hours cud be banned.. but why ban the "carrying of mobile phones" inside the campus.. for god sakes, i studied communication engineerin for 4 damn yrs and ppl who teach actually ban the usage of mobile phones !!!!! no wonder there have been numerous pre placement trainings with GDs titled "Should mobile phones banned inside college".. Its time ppl put an end to this and start looking at the broader spectrum..
Coming back to the golden memories of the college days, the first thing that wud come to one's mind are the Industrial visits.. Ha ha ha.. Industrial visit.. It shud be called a tour or something.. where the hell do v visit industries.. It is all abt screaming in the bus, singing in the bus, and to some extent dancing in the bus... taking a digital camera along wit u and taking 'n' number of snaps wit ur friends.. Of course, there wud b that great discussion of which place to visit.. If two classes were going together, all hell breaks loose on deciding the city.. the girls point to a city.. the boys point to a city.. and finally come to a conclusion and decide on the city, the college intervenes and says "try some other city".. the representatives of the class wud have the worst part of his lifetime tryin to convince the students and the college.. Finally when the city has been decided, then comes the problem of taking a staff along with us.. All these and more, make an industrial visit an adventorous and memorable one..
The canteen and the pump house are the spots to hang out.. the place where u can kill time in case u have bunked a lab.. the official place for u to write records, observations and to copy assignments.. Speakin of records and assignments, its time ppl put an end to the whole "observation, record and assignment" stuff.. Ppl copy observation from senior's record and eventually copy it in their record.. Any person on earth can do it.. whats the great fun in doing it.. Long has been forgotten the fact that, "education shud refine people".. Education in college just requires you to aimlessly take notes of whatever is taught in the class.. Take xerox of the prescribed book 3 days before the internals.. Do some group studies the day before the internal.. write records and observations week after week.. Copy down assignments week after week.. Download some paper from the net and present under ur name in intra college and inter college events.. Where has the whole concept of "originality" gone ???? I entered into college with the whole desire to prone my skills.. But where wud i find time for proning my skills, if records and assignments eat all my time.. This is why we Indians are "Jack of all trades and king of none".. V push in the working of an optical directional coupler when v hardly understand 9th grade optics... Sometimes one never understands why v ever learn such things..
Then there is ofcourse the concept of throwing treats.. the truth is, no one actually throws a treat.. But there is always everybody to ask for a treat.. Ppl ask a treat for winning a prize in an inter departmental comp in which only 10 ppl participated.. Ppl ask for a treat when u buy something new.. Ppl ask for a treat on ur birthday.. the worst part comes when girls ask a treat for wearing the same color.. "same same sweet, give me treat"..
You know, u get a beautiful mixture when u put bubblin youth, mobile phones, IVs, birthday parties and stern education system together.. Thats the color of college life..
Further color has been added with the inclusion of websites such as orkut.. Guys and gals take it again as a opportunity to "interface" wit each other.. Funny.. and of course, the management wud always be there to ban it.. And our "young and brilliant" students wud prove themselves by finding websites such as Kproxy and continue wit their orkutting.. It is always fun being a part of it.. But looking from the outside, one gets the feeling "something somewhere is going wrong"..
there r ofcourse many more things that make college life greater.. Thanks to my poor memory am not able to recollect them.. Pls feel free to comment..
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