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GLOSS gets the First Feel of Second Life!

Posted Thu, 10/07/2008 - 09:01 by Abhishek

On 9th of July, 450 members of GLOSS got to experience one (or I should say two) of the most amazing things of our ages! It was the OpenSolaris in Second Life!

The GLOSS Newsletter

Posted Fri, 04/07/2008 - 00:49 by Abhishek

GLOSS has its newsletter out!!!!

The past academic year was very eventful at GLOSS and we decided to put the major events in form of a newsletter. So here we are, with the first issue of OpenView ! Get your copy here!

OHAC talk at GLOSS

Posted Tue, 01/07/2008 - 00:01 by Abhishek

After almost a month long vacation, when college reopened, we at GLOSS could not wait to do something exciting!! And what could be more exciting than Open High Availability Clusters (OHAC). I attended a talk on OHAC by Tirthankar during my recent visit of Sun India Engineering Center at Bangalore. I was completely taken by the technology and I knew I am going to do something with it, the moment I get a chance. Anyways... the day I landed in college, I sat down to set up a one node cluster on my laptop!

Now let me tell you what we did last summer :-)

Posted Mon, 09/06/2008 - 08:09 by Abhishek

I got a secret to share Tongue When everyone around the globe was impatiently waiting for OpenSolaris 2008.05 to release, on April 13, 2008, we at GLOSS got lucky!! Thanks to Micheline and Charlie, I could obtain a copy of OpenSolaris Release Candidate 0!!! Yes! we were one of the first one's to see OpenSolaris 2008.05 (exactly the way you see a baby through the ultrasound Laughing out loud) and we got our hands on RC0 before any other group outside Sun Smile And then how could we wait to find out how the new desto has come out!! We did and we did it with lots of passion and zeal.

And that's how GLOSS celebrates technology!

Posted Tue, 13/05/2008 - 07:21 by Abhishek

Everyone was celebrating the release of OpenSolaris on May 5th, and at GLOSS, we have been busy planning the same for quite some time.. It was no doubt one of the most awaited event since Project Indiana was declared. So.. as I told everyone before.. we celebrated May 5th as Opensolaris Birthday... Smile There was cake.. there was decorations.. there were people with celebration mood and there was the latest Technology!!!

Its gonna be a festive day on May 5th!

Posted Wed, 23/04/2008 - 07:26 by Abhishek

May 5th is the most sought after day in this calender year! And do I need to tell you why is that?? Its Birthday of Opensolaris!! On May 5th, the much awaited Project Indiana will mature and would come out in open as the brand new OPEN SOLARIS!!

What it Feels Like Being a Sun Campus Ambassador!

Posted Fri, 22/02/2008 - 02:48 by Abhishek

Today I complete full FIVE MONTHS as a Campus Ambassador for Sun Microsystems! Ask me how it feels to be a CA??? I can say only one thing... "Man.. You got the be a CA to know how it feels to be one!". I always believe that examples are the best, in fact the only way, to get your point across in a conversation. But unfortunately nothing I have ever come across matches the excitement which have been experiencing while working as a CA at Sun. Thats why.. no examples or comparisons.

GLOSS LAB SESSIONS - Getting the feel!

Posted Mon, 18/02/2008 - 18:15 by Abhishek

Feb is a hectic month with so many works to do!! But then, GLOSS is always good at finding quality time with latest technologies! Smile So on Saturday 16th of FEB, I organized a Lab Session for GLOSS where the agenda was really tight! OpenSolaris-Netbeans-Web technologies with PHP and MySQL!! We had more 5 hours at hand so I thought we can complete everything but then.. People loved Solaris so much that I had to show it to all for more than 2 hours!! Then we came to using netbeans!!

Our present day challenges!

Posted Wed, 09/01/2008 - 15:19 by Abhishek

Open source is a beautiful concept! And surprizingly, unlike many idealistic concepts, it is feasible too. Its sustained presence and unprecidented acceptance are testimony to this fact. Here at SASTRA, we have been trying for quite a long time now to grab a large share of the unexplored Open Source arena of India. But then, we have our own problems.. inadequate knowledge of technology is ofcourse the biggest issue! The traditional model of learning which we follow, hardly leaves any room for developing skill sets to become a hardcore contributor. But this can be solved..

GLOSS in FEB

Posted Wed, 09/01/2008 - 03:49 by Abhishek

At GLOSS, we spent most of our time in Jan, in getting acquainted with netbeans! And now in just 8 days it looks to be that already most of us GLOSSers are having an affair with netbeans! Smile

Anyways as university will be closed for most of the time for the pongal holidays next week and then will come the most dreaded mid-sem examinations, so I though it was high time thinking what to do in FEB... well in FEB GLOSS with try to have a good stab at Open Solaris!

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