November 20, 2004
Victor Hugo!
Today I recieved two books both by the author Victor Hugo!! I finally get the chance to read his works. The books I got are "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables".
Looking forward to some fascinating reading!!
Posted by Dinesh at 06:05 PM | Comments (0)
It's Been a While
It's been a while since I last posted. Lots of great things have happened in the last 3 months. The course at C-DAC is going real good, learnt quite a few things out here. Will write more on it later.
Posted by Dinesh at 02:38 PM | Comments (0)
June 15, 2004
The Objectivism Research CD-ROM
I recieved today my copy of The Objectivism Research CD-ROM!! Finally I get to read the remaining works of Ayn Rand, those which I could never before get my hands on. Especially looking forward to read "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" and "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology". I'm going to truly enjoy the rest of my vacations!!
Here's to Ayn Rand, for the person she was and for the invaluable gift she left behind for all of us, Objectivism!
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - Ayn Rand
Posted by Dinesh at 10:20 PM | Comments (4)
June 09, 2004
N-queens Solution
Heard about the 8-queens problem? I think most CS guys are familiar with it. I was generally trying to brush up with my C++, so I thought I'd try to generate the solutions to the 8-queens problem (there are 92 of them). Then I thought if I'm going for a solver might as well make it a generic one and so I wrote the following code to solve n-queens for any given n.
The source code can be found here : Windows & Linux
If you want some R&D, that is the ones in which I tried to find all possible permutations (which resulted in duplicates), then those can be found here: Windows & Linux. These programs are much slower than the previous one's.
Have fun with the code!!!
Posted by Dinesh at 11:46 PM | Comments (0)
June 05, 2004
Gentoo Linux
Just installed Gentoo Linux on my machine a few days back. So now, I have a dual boot of Windows XP Professional and Gentoo. I was earlier using Red Hat 9.0, but I got really bored of it and hence decided to go for Gentoo.
Their installation uses the Knoppix concept of LiveCD and is pretty cool. I wrote a script which can help newbie users install Gentoo using the Stage 3 tarball. The script can be found here. This particular version of the script is not tested, I used a more machine specific script for myself. Once I installed Gentoo and updated the system, I converted the script to it's present form, hence it may contain errors. If you find any, please inform me about it.
Gentoo's package management system "Portage" simply rocks!! All in all, since I'm still in a R&D sort of a phase with GNU/Linux, I have to say that Gentoo has been a lot of fun to work with and learn.
Posted by Dinesh at 04:45 PM | Comments (0)
June 01, 2004
Off to Bangalore!!
Well, today turned out to be a very good day indeed. I was greeted early in the morning with the news that I had got into the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore. It's a one year Full-Time Post Graduation Diploma in Software Technology (FPGDST). The course starts in the second week of August!!
Here's to Bangalore and a challenging year ahead!
Posted by Dinesh at 09:27 PM | Comments (1)
May 25, 2004
List of Books
In my two months of vacation, I'd like to read/re-read the following books. I say re-read 'cause some of them have been read by me before, I just need to brush up.
1) The C++ Programming Language - Bjarne Stroustrup
2) Mathematics for 3D Game Programming & Computer Graphics - Eric Lengyel
3) OpenGL Game Programming - Dave Astle
4) 3D Game Engine Design - David Eberly
5) Artificial Intelligence - Russell, Norvig
Long list eh? I hope I can go through all of them, 'cause I'll be soon recieving the "The Objectivist Research CD-Rom". And I just know I won't be able to put that down.
Productive two months? HELL YEAH!!
Posted by Dinesh at 10:55 AM | Comments (2)
Free at Last!!!
Yesterday marked the end of my Engineering course!! One more year of college through a Post Graduation in Software Technology and then I'll be out in the real world!! Can't wait for it!!
Well, here's to even more productive years ahead and to the two months of well deserved rest that begins today. I finally get to finish all those computer books!
Posted by Dinesh at 09:31 AM | Comments (2)