I am working behind a proxy in Ubuntu. Many softwares doesn't work properly behind the proxy in my Campus (IIT Kharagpur) . The best solution is to use them through a socket connection using tor. 1. Vidalia can be installed from the command line or synaptic or USC. I prefer to use the terminal for installation. For installation additional repositories or PPA are not needed.  If privoxy is already installed in the system then it needs to be removed as it will interfere with working of polipo. sudo apt-get install vidalia polipo tor sudo apt-get remove privoxy 2. The config file of torr needs to edited (replaced) with the following text. Run the command in terminal gedit ~/.vidalia/torrc and paste the following : s# Set the Tor Circuit Build time to find faster tor servers, increments of seconds CircuitBuildTimeout 2 # connections while Tor is not in use. KeepalivePeriod 60 # Force Tor to consider whether to build a new circuit every NUM seconds. NewCircu...

I am an Ubuntu user from 6.06 release. Now I am using Ubuntu in my laptop (x64) and lab desktop (x86). After a fresh installation of Ubuntu 11.10 the major things I did was. 1. Setting up Local repositories:      IIT Kharagpur has local repositories of ubuntu. I replaced my /etc/apt/sources.list with a custom one containing the local repository information. # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 11.04 _Oneiric Ocelot_ - Release i386 (20110427.1)]/ oneiric main restricted # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free lice...

This is the time of everyones serious preparations for Interview. For all those who cleared GATE I guess this post may help them to some extend atleast. I attended interview  for IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur in 2010. That was a first time interview experience for me.  Important things I found may be useful: 1. Try to remember the list of subjects studied during B.Tech. Different universities are having different course pattern and hence this will be one of the first questions asked by all  interviewers. Always try to tell the list of subjects you are more confident. 2. There will be questions about your project. So be well prepared to explain them what you did and what results you got. Also be ready with your interpretations your result. 3. Be confident on what you are telling. Most of the interviewers will ask "are you sure?". Most of the times that question asked just to check you are confident with answer not because you are wrong. More detailed interview ex...

Its a great experience being at IIT Kharagpur. I came here yesterday afternoon(19th). Buses of IIt were waiting for freshers at Kharagpur railway station. We reached the campus and entered in through the main gate. The we went to Hall Management Center(HMC). HMC is an organisation of Iit which decides the Hall of Residence(Hostels) for students and other Hall related things. I was alloted the hall called Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Hall of residence. I got room in fourth floor of Daulut singh Kotari Block(E). My room mate is from kolkatta. There are a lot of malayalees around here. Today I met with many. I have got a friend from my nearby place kottarakkara. He is in civil engineering department here. He studied in TKM. There are 3 or 4 more students from kollam district itself. I met with one of the student of my class also student. He is from tamil nadu. Today there was registration process which consisted of depositing fees (0ny 13 counters for more than 1000 students), verif...

I have accepted the offer letter from iit kharagpur. I have send rejection of offer email to iit kanpur. I am going to kharagpur on 17th july. I will be going by shalimar express. My parents are coming along with me. As per schedule, will reach there on 19th by 12 noon. Registration to first semester is on 20th. Classes will start on 20th.

We (me and father) went to Kanpur on 18th from home. We went to Kollam railway station and went by Kerala express. We were on RAC and were allotted upper and lower births at window side. The journey through Kerala and Tamil Nadu was pleasant even if there were large number of stops. Andhra Pradesh had only a stop at Vijayawada. The journey was through hot areas and the wind blowing into the train was also hot. The journey through Andhra was almost one day long. Later the train passed through Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and finally reached Uttar Pradesh on third day morning. Jhansi was the first stop. Train reached Jhansi by almost 7 am(20 may). We were not aware at that time Kanpur was nearer to Jhansi. We alighted at Agra Cantonment station by 11.30. Gwalior was only station between Jhansi and Agra. We got a ticket for Toofan express which left station by 1 pm. We reached Kanpur central railway station at 8pm. We went to IIT by hiring a prepaid auto-rickshaw. IIT is almost 15km from r...

My interview was on 13th may 2010 at GATE OFFICE, IISC Bangalore. My reporting time was at 1:30. The interview was conducted by the interview board B3. There were two interviewers in the panel. They were friendly and welcomed me with a smile. The interview was inside a class room. They occupied the front bench of class room. I was offered a seat at teachers table and chair (there was no platform as in our college). They asked me to submit the call letter and self attested verification form (Both were provided from site to all who were called for interview. It was downloaded on 5th May itself and had it filled by me.). They asked me the name of college, university and year of degree. They showed me list on the blue-board (instead of blackboard in our college) asked if they were the subjects we exactly studied. But some subjects were alien to me. I informed that all those subjects were not in our curriculum. The list was written by one candidate who was interviewed by them. So I ...