Played around with gzip, gcc. Wana meet the person who created these software gizmos? This event is for you then. Vellore Institute of Technology is organizing a symposium on Free and Open Source software technologies titled Swatantra(6th - 7th Feb, 05).
Founder of GNU and the man responsible for coining the term Free Software, Richard M Stallman will be there to deliver the keynote address of the symposium and to answer all the questions that you have always wanted to ask about these amazingly simply yet inherently complex programs. The event will also feature various competitions to kindle your nack for Linux tweaking and tuning such as:- LINSTALL-- The Linux installation challenge. Anaconda !! YaSt !! familiar with all these name? Have been installing on your system for a long time and you find it fun?? making the X server run?? configuring the boot loader?? ..YES??..One event where apply all your skills which you developed over the years by trying to install GNU/Linux on your system. WEBMINISTER-- The Apache web server Challenge Love Apache because of the customizability it offers while deploying your website? Love fiddling with httpd.conf and think you are best at it? This is one event to prove yourself! Come and demonstrate that your are the best at the best web server that there is and ever was..... CORE WARS-- Challenge the memory This event will feature an old game called core wars which involves destroying your opponents programs by overwriting the memory in which this program is stored. It will kindle the nerves of memory geeks with pointers and direct memory references expertise being the norm. Watch out for cool demonstrations on MONO, Linux Cluster, Linux from scratch and much more.... Regards, Anurag For further details log on to: http://swatantra.info or mail us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/anuragvit/fest.htm --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20050111/fbbd6f7e/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 13 17:47:13 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (anoop alias) Date: Thu Jan 13 17:47:38 2005 Subject: [Mailinglist] IOSN Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> United Nations is taking initiative in the FOSS front register at www.iosn.net they are ready to help you for any FOSS initiative send this mail to all the people in yur address book anoop. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony
