Kamal-Proved his best in Dasavathaaram

Last week i saw Kamal’s blockbuster movie “Dasavathaaram” in which kamal has appeared in 10 avathars. I was really impressed by his performance in that movie.Only kamal has that guts to take a Hollywood like movie in tamil.The interpretation of the main theme of the movie may vary from individual to individual.This film is about re-incarnation, karma, chaos theory and Butterfly effect.But i came to know about these physics theories only after watching the movie.He has put down all his efforts in each and every avathar to make the film complete.The interlinking of all the avathars were simply superb which is a most difficult stuff.i.e, None of the 10 faces had a separate track out of the main theme of the movie.The avathar that i liked most was the Krishnaveni patti(very tiny kamal).Other avathars Fletcher(the villan) and Govind(Scientist who discovered the BIO weapon) made the film to move fast. The computer graphics plays a main role in this movie right from the 12th century part in the beginning till the Tsunami scene in the end.Kamal Ravikumar partnership rocks.This movie is a differs a lot from usual movies mixed with comedy,masala,romance,sentiments etc etc ..

Kamal Hassan is a man of dedication, hardwork and he is a perfectionist.But thing that is itching me is that Rajni- a man of only styles is a great mass puller compared to kamal. People get impressed by styles rather that acting.Kamal acts,dances,sings and does everything well as an actor even at this age.Its only due to his passion on his job.Kamal really deserves the title “Ulaga Nayagan”. Longing to see the movie once again.

Click here to read the entire story of the film

Click here to read on the interpretation of the film

A short journey came to an end!!

A short journey of 4 years that I attempted to become an engineer has now come to an end as the road that I traveled led me to the destination. Now I am an Engineer!! .

The most memorable part of my life – college life has reached the end point. It’s a place that brought me out of a small circle which I had around me and made a big transformation in me. It taught me what life is and learnt a lot about different characters around me. Lotz that I learnt from my experiences (good, bad, memorable, embarrassing) in college. I have been equipped with some knowledge and made to think. Lot of gud frnz who made my life beautiful and colorful. I am gonna miss them all. We enjoyed, shared, fought, cried, made fun,lotz and lotz to say. Some memories that are captured deeply in my heart will remain evergreen in my mind as sweet memories. Some of the memorable things are,

Cyber’07, tecuthsav’08, FStival 07,Glugot & Sunclub meetings,

PP lab where I was exposed to some technologies. It was a place where I gained more knowledge.

Daily dinner in mess with all my frnds having funny talks, Tea parties in the first semester,

Watching movies especially Bomirillu-more than a dozen of times,

Hell lot of fun with my friends in class,

Sugary sweet room-mates every year,

Our group study before exams,

Frequent visits to hotels (Aarthy drive inn, Bell, JB) along with friends,

Final year project,

Birthday celebrations (especially surprise arrangements made by my frnds for my b’day in Chennai…) thank u dears..,

IV(to kodaikanal,trivandrum)

Our dept aalamaram, CCC, Satellite canteen, Ladies restroom, B11 (first semester class room), college canteen, Z0 (class in second and final semester).

My friends visit to my home,

Photo sessions in hostel and college,

Hostel stores aunty,

Hostel days, Placement preparations. etc etc…

I am happy that I have met lot of good characters who are caring and lovable and many of them have been appended to my list of friends. I got acquainted to few ppl only in the final year but the journey has ended up soon.But feel happy that i got their contact at least rather than not forever.I got Got to know many ppl who have like thoughts as me.Hope every one of them will be in touch forever.

Thanks to the college management,staff members,friends,seniors and juniors who have been a part of my college life.Now I am leaving this wonderful world.

Dono how the world of corporate sector gonna be for me.The next journey to the next world will start soon.

Tecuthsav’08 came to an END

At last our tech fest the TecUthsav’08 came to an end today.The five days event has reached its end point today. Though the strength of the delegates who participated this time is less compared to Cyber it was successful.Its for the first time we conduct such a mega event in which all the departments of our college work together for a common symposium.Any way it was good experience. i was one of the event co-ordinators of Pradharsan(Paper presentation contest). The best paper award was banged by the students of MIT. Some third year girls helped us in screening the papers and thanks to those girls and to the whole pradharsan team

An unique contest of our department was “The Lord of the Rings” which is a five stage event.The first stage was Maze which was beautifully designed by our juniors.All other stages like Obfuscated code,google wars, programming in new language,code completion were also so challenging for the participants.Most of them felt that it was a different contest.Other contests were OLPC, Web designing,Tech-quiz and Walk the plank(Crypt-analysis).

Our Juniors played a huge part in this event and hats off to those guys and girls. Especially the decoration by the third year girls was splendid. They did every thing with lot of interest and eagerness.The kolam before the main-building and also the decoration in the octogon was so good.

Thanks to the sponsors TCS, CTS, Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Aricent and finally Radio Mirchi The General secretaries, joint secretaries and also the treasurers worked hard to make it a success.

After the valedictory function of this technical festival we friends filled our tummies in Hotel Bell and had fun It was memorable day

Admin Scripts in pgdb

In my project there was need for writing few admin scripts in python to create database account and database for a user.
In case of MySQL we connected to mysql database (admin database) and then performed the DDL queries like create database.The connection string we used is
conn=mysql.connect(host=”localhost”,user=”username”,passwd=” “,db=”mysql” ).
It worked well.In the same way we wrote code for creating database in postgres is as follows:

import pgdb
conn=pgdb.connect(‘localhost:postgres:postgres:password’)
cursor=conn.cursor()
cursor.execute(‘create database test’)
cursor.close()
conn.close()

here postgres is the admin database.
But the create database didn’t work. The following error was thrown.

ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: May not be called in a transaction block

ie., we are not allowed to create database in the transaction block. Later found that doing a commit will end or close the current transaction and hence after a commit we performed create database.It worked then. In order to do that we just included a line

cursor.execute(‘COMMIT’)

before the line cursor.execute(‘create database test’)

Thus we can just do a commit before issuing any statements that PostgreSQL cannot execute within a transaction and perform such statements outside the transaction block.

Tecuthsav’08

As a part of golden jubilee celebration of our college Thiagarajar College of engineering,Madurai,there is gonna be a mega event “TECUTHSAV” to be conducted in our college. It is a National level technical festival starts on 13^th of February and continues till 17th. All the departments of our college together conduct this event.Many interesting and attractive contests are to be conducted in almost all the disciplines of Engineering. Tech minds can have a great tech feast in this grand techfest.

Confused!!! -Dot blindness

Are Gmail usernames dot sensitive or not? I had this confusion.

If there is a gmail id say geetha[dot]krish@gmail.com and if by mistake if some one sends mail to geethakrish@gmail.com (without dot) it is getting delivered to geetha[dot]krish@gmail.com. I wondered how that is possible. Then Gmail’s help center told me that u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com is same as username@gmail.com.So there cannot be gmail ids like username@gmail.com,user.name@gmail.com,u.s.e.r.name@gmail.com.So gmail usernames are not dot sensitive and only single registration of a particular username is possible.ie., if user[dot]name@gmail.com is already registered we cannot register username@gmail.com(without dot).This is Gmail’s dot-blindness

Logging into gmail is possible only as user[dot]name@gmail.com and not possible as username@gmail.com (without dot) though the mail delivery is possible when TO field is username@gmail.com if the registered id is user[dot]name@gmail.com.

Gmail doesnt allow users to create an account with underscore where as other email services like yahoo allow underscores.I couldn’t get the reason why they dont allow underscores and why they gave the option of using dot alone in usernames though they doesnt recognise dot as a character during mail delivery.And i dont understand the purpose of dot.Does dot replace the purpose of underscores used in other mail services?

My Ambigrams

Suddenly i got interested in trying out some ambigrams and here are those that i have done:

priya:                                 cyber:

linux:                               tux:

Glugot:                          apache:

latex:                             php:

I m back

Hello folks,

I am blogging after a very long span of time. There is no big reason for it. It may due to the fact that there were no much interesting things happen in my life to blog or I was bit lazy to blog. But it really doesn’t mean that I was busy.

I have entered final semester. Very few days to end up my college life. Hope this semester will be good and will enjoy last days of college life with my friends. We have lot of free hours this sem. So we will have lot of fun. I had a trip to Chennai with my friends. Enjoyed like any thing. There was a surprising birthday celebration for me. Had lot of fun in beach, train, hotel, city center, shopping etc etc …

Some of my friends got placed dually in companies like Motorola and Honeywell. My hearty wishes to them.

A Fortune for ppl interested in Paintings and Artworks

My anna’s close friend Senthil working at SiRF Technologies,Bangalore. He is a person of different thoughts and my anna use to say lot of stories about him. Now this anna with couple of his friends have started a new venture called varnathoorigai. The idea of this venture is to sell the paintings and artworks done by people at their leisure time. Thus they do a service of bringing out the hidden talents of the people who are interested in artwork to the external world. To know more about it visit here People who are interested in it can contribute to it and get benefited.

FStival’07-a Software Freedom festival

Today(September 15th) we celebrated a festival FStival’07 in our college which is a part of Software Freedom Day celebration. The function started around 10 am. The foss enthusiasts and our alumni Mr. Praveen, Mr. Senthilkumaran, Mr. Subramani also participated in it and made it a successful celebration.

The welcome address was given by Mrs.Shalinie, HOD of our department. Then the presidential address was given by Mr. Rajaram, Dean of Computer Sciences. Then the report on GLUGOT and GLUG-Madurai was given by my friend Keerthi. The next was a talk by Mr.Praveen an alumnus of our college who is now working in HP, Bangalore. He gave a wonderful talk on what is FOSS, said how it differs from the proprietary software and how it is useful in educational institutions, industries and listed the companies using GNU/Linux. That was continued by Ubuntu installation demo and a demo on looking glass and compiz fusion showed by Mr. Subramani – another alumnus of our college. After few minutes break there was demo on various GNU/Linux tools in the stalls in our department. Some of the tools that were demonstrated : GCC , LAMP, CMS (Drupal) , LaTeX, GIMP , Emacs , Databases , Open Office , Debuggers , GTK/Glade , KDevelop , Beryl(one of the stalls that attracted many ppl), VIM, Games(Supertux). These demos were done by our second and third year students. They really did a good job and hats off to them. I and my friends just visited all the stalls and enjoyed it.

All the stalls were closed around 1.30 and there was a little photo session. Then the hunger started killing us as we didn’t have the breakfast also and we started to Bell hotel where there was a treat by our seniors(Praveen,Senthil and Subramani). We filled our tummies and had lot of fun there. Then on return, myself and Keerthi went to vinayagar temple in our college and reached hostel.Thus it was a wonderful day