Nice Math Links

Mathematics lovers will love this:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

On top of the world!

Perhaps after a long time I feel relieved. Relieved from all the pressure of the planet. Relieved that I have proved myself once again. Relieved at not having failed.

Winner (3rd) at IIT Guwahati gave me the impetus and courage I really needed for a long long time. By jove! It's an IIT! And I narrowly (only I know how narrowly) missed the top honor. Silly for me!

And then if that was not enough, I become one of the 3 teams from West bengal (yes, including IIT Kharagpur's teams) to qualify for the ACM-ICPC 2009 India Finals to be held at Amritapuri, near Chennai.

And perhaps the icing on the cake was the expected (??) win IEM, Kolkata.

Now what? I guess success makes you crave for more success. IIT-M, Frugal is on Sunday and IIT-M OPC is on 27th. Lets see.

My First Blog

This is just a test

Slackware Repositories

Slackware Linux is perhaps the best Linux OS for a hacker. I've been using it for 2 months now and felt that it's repos are grossly un-used.

Slapt-get, the apt-get clone for Slackware isn't quite the killer app, but it is swell! There is also a synaptic-like GUI for it too... GSlapt. So the first advice from me would be to get this wonder and add these awesome repos:~


ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/
ftp://ftp.slackware.pl/pub/gnomeslackbuild/gsb/gsb-2.22/
http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/slackware/addon/slacky/slackware-12.1/

Just one more thing. The caches are arranged in

/var/slapt-get/packages

folder in neat directories describing what they do.