SVN

I have been using Subversion lately to commit code to my project and to checkout code from various other open source projects.

A few days ago, to my surprise, the proxy server of our university was giving 403 (access forbidden) error for any svn requests I made (subversion is mostly referred to as svn). Initially I thought it was due to something else but yesterday when I tried only svn, I got the same response and more over the internet connection was blocked for about half an hour. Completely baffled by this (I mean WTF right?), I put this as the status message of my chats:

When did svn become illegal?!

This conversation followed it shortly:

7:21 PM (h@!tu: wht is this??
u thr??
7:22 PM saideeeep...
sleepin??
7:23 PM me: yeah
not sleeping
what is what?
(h@!tu: istatus??
status??
me: what about my status?
7:24 PM (h@!tu: emiti adhi?? (translation: what is that?)
me: google for svn... or look in wikipedia
(h@!tu: k
7:25 PM lol
me: whats funny?
(h@!tu: so wht is this i thought??
hahha
7:26 PM me: what did you think it was?
(h@!tu: my name became illegal..
me: hahaha :D

Disclosure: His full name is SVN. Chaitanya.

As I soon found out, svn can mean a lot of things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVN

Personal Achievements.

Now is the time for placements. Since the resumes are constrained to only 2 pages, a lot of people are finding it difficult to write their real personal achievements.

We are more than glad to help our fellow DA-IICT students by providing a free space for their achievements right here:

Chaitu:

• Stick cricket master (unbeatable; run rate > 30)
• High jump
• Continuously spoke for a whole day
• Exploited Andhra Mess to the fullest
• Caused price rise in Andhra Mess
• Ruined futures of many cricketers (success rate > 95%), tennis players(100%), actors (100%), actresses (100%), movies (100% - Pirates 3, 300, Sainikudu etc.)
• Death of one author (Sidney Sheldon)
• Ruined holidays of at least one person (Venky)
• Ruined computers of at least 4 (Vihary, Sidhu, Sharief, Siva Karhik)
• Ruined phones of at least one person (Adarsh)
• Ruined pop quizzes of at least 15 persons

KRC:

• Good health regime: Eating only once a day.
• Sleeping for 13-14 hours every day.
• Spider Solitaire and hearts champion. Plays them throughout the night
• Got praised by Anish Mathuria for thinking too much.
• Specs more DotA games than the players themselves.

Lingam:

• Reading for 20 hrs a day.
• Reading for 20 hrs a day.
• Reading for 20 hrs a day.

Vihari:

• Got all common diseases
• Second place in running race (from last)
• Saw the naked back of Praneeth.
• Crying
• Sulking
• Went to catch a bird instead of the ball while playing cricket.

Venky:

• Super fast bowler.
• Successfully tuned his body to sports (computer sports).
• Just missed a exam and then its re-exam.
• Tearing exam papers

Sai Deep:

• Surfing net for a complete day
• Could disturb a whole wing (E-wing, by arguing loudly during exams)

Vijay:

• OMG from V. Sunitha.

Kunal:

• Critique of user comments in IMDB.

Siva Kathik:

• Record sleep of 18 hours a day.
• Excellent coding conventions.

Praneeth:

• Implemented a complete user login system in PHP by using just one function - strlen
• Undertaking a major initiative to write a research paper.
• Exposed a lot in the 3 years in DA-IICT.
• Roughest hands in DA-IICT (or maybe the whole world).

Chandrashekar Movva:

• Absorbs and emits more radiation than anybody else in DA-IICT.
• Provides excellent company for his roommate.
• Bought a knife worth Rs. 10 to kill a leopard (in rural internship). Now it is successfully being used to cut mangoes.
• Could fool a lot of people into thinking he is a road side vendor (also in rural internship).

Ganachari:

• Reading for 24 hrs a day.
• Watching all released Telugu movies (only cam prints).
• Watched Ghazni for more than 10 times.
• Successfully maintaining the same timetable he had in his intermediate.

This list is no way complete. Please tell us of yours and your friends' personal achievements and we'll be more than glad to include them here :)