Relocated
Aha, there was nothing much to share since last post. Finally found something to share only after getting a bit of excitement and energy from my new place. Update specially for all my friends that they can catch me at Vaishali, Ghaziabad.
Still the bags are to opened, desktop to be hooked and rest to create a list of things to be shopped.
I don’t know that what’s next in future and where will i move, but presently thinking of settling down here.
tweet from command line
If you are a command line bot, find a simpler way to post your tweets to the famous micro-blogging site twitter.com from the console. Two open source command line tools available, provide a way to post directly to twitter : curl and wget.
curl
curl -u uname:pswd -d status="tweet" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
wget
wget --keep-session-cookies --http-user=uname --http-password=pswd \ --post- data="status=tweet" \ http://twitter.com:80/statuses/update.xml
Also found a video for tweeting using curl on Ubuntu 9.04 …. watch.
And rest finding answers to use shades of twitter, start playing with twitter API .
Graduated
Graduating from a university, a true feeling comes when you attend the Convocation. Hanging robe and with batch-mates gathering, it becomes memorable for all those who turn up as recipients and are awarded degrees.
It was a great feeling for me too, to be there at RKGIT, Ghaziabad and being awarded the Degree.
One thing that will remain memorable other than the ceremony was the speech by Prof. Prem Vrat, Vice Chancellor, UPTU.
He talked about the imbalanced technological development due to imbalanced intake/streams in technical colleges. You can merely find private colleges with intake for streams like Leather, Civil, Plastic, Paper, Paint but every other college has high intake of Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, Information Technology.
In my words “It’s more of a business, than imparting education”.
Next, he simply pointed out the teaching and studying trend in private colleges. There is no advantage in just reading books and getting marks in the examinations, though it’s good but without implementation, it’s a full waste. In addition to this, the required professional, technical as well as the communication/soft skills are the areas where the students struggle as they don’t get the required level of teachers/training/environment in college. More to add was that teachers are also struggling for the same skills.
I had a different perception for the University, but it changed to some extent after hearing those very meaningful words from Prof. Prem Vrat.
Other than all this, had a good time with some old chaps, which revived college days.
Ending this, i missed some of my friends who couldn’t attend it due to different reasons.
Rest Cheers to all!!!
Sign FOSS Manifesto
Below is a copy of an e-mail that i received from a mailing list, i am pasting a copy of it, because it was very well written and seems meaningful.
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Hi All, The FOSS manifesto has been put up as a petition - http://www.public-software.in/FOSS-manifesto Please go ahead and view the petition and endorse it. The idea is to collect as many signatures as possible and then submit the petition along with the list of signatories to various political parties. Hence, more the number of signatures, greater the weight of the petition. Please also pass on this message to anyone else you know outside of the community, who might be willing to endorse the petition. Thanks to Deeproot Linux for helping put this up!
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Click here to sign the petition
