At my college, our internet lab does not allow me to use MSN or Yahoo messengers. This meant that i was not connected!! 🙁

Luckily for me Microsoft released it Webbased MSN Messenger. Though a bit too slow on dialup, its rockin when you have a 2 MBPS leased line.. So all you fellows who hate ur college or ur office for now allowing you to use MSN, check http://webmessenger.msn.com..

Go and show ur professors/bosses the RIGHT ATTITUDE of a software professional!!!

PS: If you have a dialup connection, i suggest you all use http://www.e-messenger.net.

DevCon as the name “speaks” means “Developer’s Conference“. DevCon is a developer event organized by the developer community for the developer community. The objective is to enable developers to request for topics which they wish to be educated about and delivery of such content is by developers who are expert speakers. It covers topics which are of interest to developers chosen by developers themselves. It was first held at Trivendrum, India, in 2003. Approx. 200 professionals attended it and was a HUGE hit!!!

Following this event, we had DevCon happening last week at Mumbai. Last year, it was only for Developers, and the topics too were developer related. Student’s are not only the future of any Country, they are also the people who will carry this technology forward. Hence this year, we had two tracks, one for the professional and the second for students.

DevCon 2004 was or ganized by INETA, MumbaiUserGroup and PuneUserGroup. It was held at Thakur College of Engineering, Mumbai, India. We had a total of 100+ people who attended the developer track and 100 who attended the academic track. This is good considering it was a weekend. All our speakers got a minimum rating of 4 out of 5 and above which is excellent.

Plannings are goin on to roll out DevCon at Ahemdabad, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad. This was the largest volunteer led community effort in this country and it feels awesome to be a part of this group.

Problem Faced:

Last year I upgraded from girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that thenew program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of spaceand valuable resources. No mention of this phenomenon was included in theproduct brochure. In addition, Wife 1.0 installs itself into all otherprograms and launches during system initialization, where it monitors allother system activity.

Applications such as Smoking10.3, Boozing2.5 and Saturday Night Pubs 5.0crash the system whenever selected. I cannot keep wife1.0 in backgroundwhile attempting to run some of my other favorite applications like NightClub 4.3, Dance Drunk 2.0 and Bachelor Party 7.77. I am thinking aboutgoing back to Girl Friend 7.0, but the un-install does not work on thisprogram. Can you help me, please !!!!!

Reply from Technical Support:

This is a very common problem that male users complain about, but it ismostly due to a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend7.0 to Wife1.0 with the idea that Wife 1.0 is merely a UTILITY &ENTERTAINMENT program. Wife 1.0 is actually an OPERATING SYSTEM and isdesigned by its creator to run everything.

It is impossible to un-install, delete, or purge Wife 1.0 from the systemonce installed. You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 isnot designed to do this. Some have tried to install Girlfriend 8.0 or Wife2.0 but end up with more problems than the original system. Look in yourmanual under “Warning-Alimony Child Support” which was given to you at thetime of registration with Wife 1.0. Having wife 1.0 installed myself, Ifeel the best course of action will be to enter the command C:APOLOGISE.In fact I would suggest that you use this command every time Wife 1.0crashes on your system. Wife 1.0 is a great program, but very highmaintenance.

Consider buying additional s/w to improve the performance of Wife 1.0.I recommend Flowers 2.1 and Chocolates 5.0 or even Movies 4.5 which willimprove the performance of Wife 1.0. Do not, under any circumstances,install Secretary with Short Skirt 3.3.

This is not a supported application for Wife 1.0 and is likely to causeirreversible damage to the OPERATING SYSTEM.

Best of luck, Tech support

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Well this might sound funny to ppl who know me closely. I attended the first UG meet of LINUX (we have Linux as a part of our syllabi)at my college. It was held on 31st July.

One of my college’s x-student, who is now teaching us LINUX presided over the meet. Well when asked about who would manage the group, pat came the reply at Devendra (he is a LINUX freako at my college). So he is gonna be d so called president of the group…

Then came d part to choose the person who will make a proper meeting kinda agenda and write it down and share it on d group.. And guess what!!! PPL shouted my name !! 🙂 So from that day onward i knew it was a problem when ur polular in the class!!!!! 🙂

One of the latest and the hottest technologies from Microsoft, for web development is called ASP.NET. We, PUG, on behalf of INETA, had organized a 4 hours session on this technology at MIT college of Engineering on 11th July 2004. The speaker for this event was Saurabh Nandu. Saurabh is a Microsoft MVP and he has his own software consultancy firm in Mumbai and is into the software business for the past couple of years and had specially come down to Pune for conducting this event. The following sessions were covered in this event:

1.Introduction to ASP.NET: Saurabh briefed everyone on the basic and core concepts of ASP.NET technology.

2. ASP.NET tips and tricks: Unlike other tech-events organized by some of the commerical institutions, in this session Saurabh actually introduced everybody to real-life issues that a software professional faces while developing software projects in earlier Microsoft technolgies or other web development technologies and how those issues can be solved using the latest ASP.NET technology using the Microsoft .NET platform.

This session was followed by a 20 minutes break. Free sandwiches were distributed to all the attendees.

3. The event resumed with a session on “Security“. Again Saurab managed to demonstrate real-life situations, where most IT enabled firms compromise on securtiy aspects, thus allowing malicious users to take advantage of the loopholes which should have ideally been blocked. He also demonstrated various ways in which such loopholes can be tackled and avoided.

4. Lastly we had an INETA briefing where the attendees were made aware of the objectives of INETA.

The attendees comprised of students and professors from various educational institutions and professionals from various software firms.

After this highly moral boosting event, the PUG has decided to hold such an event at-least once in a month, along with the usual Microsoft .NET technology seminars that are conducted twice a month.