New Room!

Got a new room alloted.
Pranjal (Bordia) tells me I'm in 254 (H3, of course)!
"First Wing, right side..."

See you around, then...

Another SHP story

Dear mates,

The other day, I and an IITD friend had to talk with SHP. As courtesy demands, and especially because there was a queue of two elderly, seemingly, professors, before ourselves, to meet SHP, I asked him on our turn,

Me: (Walking down the corridor with him, from where he adieu-ed one of the seeming-professor)
"Good afternoon sir."
SHP: "Good noon! It's noon. Check!"
Me: (Baffled) "Good afternoon, sir..."
SHP: "Good noon!"
Me: "Ah! Good noon!" (It was exactly 12!)
"Sir, do you have time? We just wanted to talk to you for a few minutes...?"

(Now it was his turn to be baffled. He genuinely seemed to be!)

SHP: (Freezing his walk down the corridor, and after a gap of about two seconds.)
(In his peculiar voice...)
"What is there to have? Time exists."
"There's nothing for one to have! There's always plenty for all!"

(He then motioned us to his room...)

Just made me wonder why I crib that there's no time to do this or that! "There's always plenty for all!"
:)

Cheers,
Y

PD, IITB, UG Comp Lab, OS Installation

Here's a guide for the to-be sysads and comp-secys of the PD, IITB.

This document (PDF) gives an outline for upgrading the Linux/ Windows OS on the UG Comp room comps.

Cheers,
Y

LAN settings in H3

This document details the LAN settings that you should modify to connect to the H3 network; to get the internet connection up and running when you are in H3.

Go to the LAN Settings (Network settings in Linux; IPv4 Settings in Windows)
IP Address: 10.3.2.95 (Room number 295)
Subnet: 255.255.0.0
Gateway: 10.3.250.1
DNS: 10.200.1.11
Alternate DNS: 10.200.11.1

DC connections at IITB

The following are some of the hubs at IITB...

10.3.203.63
10.6.202.40
10.13.234.26
10.129.167.5

Doubt in electrodynamics

Refer David J Griffiths' Intro to Electrodynamics, Third Edition.
Page 305-306. Griffiths has claimed that we may split the electric field as E1 and E2 where E1 is due to the charges, and E2 is due to the changing magnetic field. He's referred to E2 as G in the footnote. He then says that as far as G is concerned, divergence of G is zero. Why is it so? He's claimed that it is due to Gauss' Law. But Gauss' Law is defined for E1, right. Or is it that this is something like Extension of Gauss' Law to include E2, i.e. G?

Oh seeker of Beauty...

The following was put up by our Maths professor (an excellent one at that; Prof. Gopal(a) Krishna Srinivasan) in one of his lecture notes, which are used to teach in class. He taught us MA 108, Differential Euqations, during Spring Semester 2008.

'Oh seeker of beauty,
Come, take a walk in my Garden,
But curse me not if you do not find flowers,
For beauty sometimes sleeps upon a blade of grass!'

It might make more sense if you consider that this was put up after a comfortably lenghty sum, which involved quite some racking of the best branis a IITB!

The First Post

Hoping that the besst of thoughts come through this post. See you.