[Technology]:
ORBITSKUT
Note: The proxy is no more working.I have deleted the URL due to some personal reasons.

This thing came to my mind this very morning , I thought that I have been supplying orkut proxies daily to numerous people , why dont I do such a thing , which would reduce my workload and allow others to surf without wandering around in search of proxies.Ofcourse the URL can be accessed in other institutes too , but titling it "Just for BITSians" made it more penetrating in the minds of people.Some information on how it works:

• There are circumventors on the net which believe in internet freedom of each individual surfer and thus supply proxies to let people surf whatever they intend to, these proxies somehow reach us in the hostels (at BITS) , and the IPC people block it , then we are in wait for more proxies ....
• So what I did was , take one primaryURL , which redirects your browser to another secondary URL which is a proxy the circumventor supplies.Now as the circumventor provides new proxies , I manually get them and redirect to them through the primary URL which is "currently" www.orbitskut.coz.in
• Now , IPC people may just block this primary URL of mine too , but I have taken precautions , as in inserted the word "bits" in it ..I guess you get why I did that ...

Problems that may happen : Circumventor may stop working , the URL may get blocked somehow , delay in next proxy supply by the Circumventor...

I guess thats it , but I am in the process of making it more foolproof as of now , till then enjoy the meat...

-Bandan

Reservation Issue Back in News

This morning's TOI diverted a good amount of attention , especially , when it had something to do with BITS,Pilani .

"In a major setback to the antiquota campaign , private unaided institutes like BITS Pilani , Manipal and Symbiosis on Thursday unanimously agreed to implement the 27% reservation for OBC's "

-Times Of India

This is what I got from http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=41203 .. :

"A group of deemed universities including some prestigious ones today backed HRD Minister Arjun Singh's move for reservation in unaided institutes but BITS, Pilani, strongly opposed it................However, opposing the move, BITS said they were not part of the meeting convened by the HRD Ministry....................................According to BITS, merit must be the only criteria for admissions, he said adding so as to ensure homogenous input into the higher education system. "

Well , the above few extracts do present the true picture as compared to the TOI one . Talking to many of my friends , this news has come as a shock to us , thus violating the age-old BITS tradition of admission strictly on merit-basis . The reservation implementation will take some time before it is fully part of the admission process as several factors like the fee structure have to be taken into account.

I could have been the guy on TV burning Arjun Singh's mannequin , but only for these tests and quizzes , I must confess I can do nothing except write about it...

Half Life...

Well , the wait finally came to an end...I am finally into the the Half-Life phenomena ...!!! ...The best PC game of The Decade took its time to get into my hands...but better late than never...!!! , I am into the fifth Scenario of this highly acclaimed PC game ...and believe me the game rocks!! , I was fedup of run-of-the-mill types where you enter an environment and get to kill a bunch of gonemad freaks , the more you kill the more you advance....but HL was hmm...more intelligent I would say , reaching the ceiling through Air-drift or demolishing a Four-Tentacle Monster which only responds to sounds , and cant see ...was damn fun!!! ...

You are Gordon Freeman , Ph.D Theoretical Physics ,MIT , and at the start of the game you find yourself in Black Mesa Research Lab .....and you actually 'LIVE' the game rather 'game' through it , you wear a hazard-suit which helps you cope up with Black-Mesa Lab which is now all covered up by radioactive materials .... (due to a failed experiment , n you r partly responsible..) ...throughout the game you get to deal with genetically gone wrong bodies and some human-scientists , security guards who help you out during the process....

Graphics are really good , and really innovative enemies(the barnacles..!!..) , and highly intelligent methods to solve the problems...this game is highly addictive ...

I am only at the fifth Scenario which is the 'Blast Pit' and I am stuck there...till then I am hooked to the game ...and will keep updating my progress .. :)