Author: akshay
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A Smartphone in ₹2000 – What is Firefox OS?
Mozilla is all set to sell Firefox OS smartphones that costs $25 (~₹1500) in India. Who is Mozilla? Mozilla is to Internet what WHO is to world’s health. Mozilla is a community of “Mozillians” from all over the globe with a common mission – to build a better internet. Most of us know Mozilla as…
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Organzing a fest
The work on saMMsCRIthi ’14 started already. The website is here: saMMsCRIthi.in The facebook page: fb.com/saMMsCRIthi The twitter profile: twitter.com/saMMsCRIthi Sponsorship committees are starting their work. We, Malayalis are going to all the hotels and restaurants. It was a good start today.
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How and Why To Switch to Zsh from Bash
Ubuntu comes with Bash as its default “shell”. So, when you’re running `gnome-terminal` (the default terminal emulator) it actually sends the commands to ‘/bin/bash’ which interprets your command and displays output. What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal? Zsh is an improvement on bash. It adds more functionality, and better ways of doing…
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One Day Discussion on Developing Curriculum for Masters in Human Rights in Mental Health
Introduction Dr Narendra about Dr Vijayaraghavan about child psychiatry Dr Krishnaprasad talked about his interest in providing affordable child mental health. Dr Muralikrishna about his interest in old age mental health. Dr Sumanth about Diabetes, Hypertension, Chronic Diseases. Dr Manjunath about education in general, and medical education in particular. Prof Niranjan, from University of Mysore,…
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Looking Back
Today I went through some of the first posts in this blog. I do not think I have changed a lot. But a lot of things have changed. Curiosity has given way to boredom. Anxieties have dissolved into indifference. And the way I look at people has become more sceptical than the optimistic it was.…
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A Eulogy to Orkut and an Introduction to the Importance of Social Networks
“Orkut is dead. Facebook murdered it” – read the name of a facebook page which had millions of likes around the time I started using facebook. If we can fall in love with social networks, Orkut was my first love. And like all firsts, Orkut was very special to me. Everyone on Orkut had a…
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Mysore Medical College & Research Institute Admission 2014 – Documents Required, Fees Structure, etc
Hello future student at MMC&RI, Mysore. It is quite possible that you’ve been searching all around for details of admission procedures and fee structure of Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, Mysore for the year 2014. But trust me, as a student of MMC&RI myself, you’ll find it hard to believe that “skmediaworks.in/mmcri” is the…
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Why I Love Telegram Messenger and Love Not Whatsapp Messenger
Whatsapp is huge. There is no argument against that. Everyone who has an Android phone is using whatsapp. And this post is not about why you should stop using whatsapp. This post is about why I love Telegram Messenger. Open Source Telegram Messenger is open for anyone to crack, or hack, clone, and improve. This…
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First Thinks First – a workshop on first aid
The Academic Society and St John Ambulance gave this workshop on first aid in the Anatomy lecture hall on 6th June. Schedule — Behind the scenes Dr Abeer, Bhavika, Dr Chandrakumar, Dr Gurudatt, and Dr Manjunatha (possibly more or less people) shaped this workshop. Volunteers (who were present while we were practising the skits at…
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CME on dissertation and synopsis – a statistical view
The Department of Community Medicine, MMC&RI organized a CME on statistics today in the P&SM lecture hall, which was being renovated all this week for just this occasion. The first talk was on the importance of statistics in medical research. I missed the second talk about synopsis. Then Dr Ganagaboraiah talked about which statistical tests…