Communicason lab!

“Yahan communicason kaha ho raha hai??”

If Lalooji visits our communication lab and asks such a question, we really don’t have any answer!! Coz, no actual communication takes place here. Only different steps of communication are studied here.

Whenever I was in our communication lab I had great experiences. Some times I thought there must be a relationship between communication and communism! Most of the communist principles must have generated in communication lab only. Concepts like modulation, keying, multiplexing…etc are common in communication and communism. Naxalites have very effectively used radio communication!

Whenever some interesting cricket matches were going on, televisions that are kept on the racks of communication lab have laughed at me. Though we have antennas like dipole antenna, yagi antenna, loop antenna (and a special horn antenna) no one till date has helped us in receiving any TV signals!! [Once I thought of giving a proposal to make the lab as part time TV room!].

Microwave section of the communication lab is the rarely used section. Students (even the instructors) were afraid of entering it. Knowledge of microwave hazards have made them to think that microwave is more dangerous than x-ray, gamma ray etc. Gunn diode was treated like AK -47. [One day I realized that they are not afraid of microwave rather tough microwave experiments]. I strongly recommend that there should be a microwave oven in the lab which can be used for heating the food (In our department itself there are around 10 faculty (including me) and some students bring food from home. The reason is obviously the very high quality food that is available in Nitte).

Students are more interested in digital labs than the analog labs. Sitting in A.C. and typing a known program (most of the time copied) is much easier compared to rigging the circuit and struggling with AFO and CRO to show the output. Since software jobs are less, I thought at least now E&C engineers will concentrate more on communication subjects. Though the mobile communication is a hot area, I find students are more interested in writing the software for the mobile rather than “communication”.

The only communication that takes place in communication lab is “wireless communication” between different batches when they don’t get the output. Kabhi kabhi mere dil me khayal aata hai “Yahan communicason kaha ho raha hai??”

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ಪರಿಪಕ್ವತೆಯ ಕನಸು ನಿನಗೆತಕೆ?
ಕಷ್ಟ-ನಷ್ಟದ ಹಾದಿಯಲಿ ದುಃಖಿಸುವ ನಿನ್ನ ಪರಿ
ನೆನಪ ತರುವುದು ಬಿಸಿಲಿಗೆ ಬಾಡಿದ ಹೂಗಳನ್ನು!!

How to boost XP speed by by changing real time clock priority?

I read about this trick the other day over Internet.
Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT.
Navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl].
If you see an entry by the name IRQ8Priority set it to a value "IRQ8Priority"=dword:00000001
if you don't then click on the right pane and add a new dword entry with given name.
IRQ8 is typically reserved for real time clock in most of the computers.
Make sure thats the case (by going to device manager -> system devices -> system COMS/realtime clock -> properties -> resources tab , if it is set to another number try adding an entry with that number N as IRQNPriority) . Generally realtime clock priority boosting helps most but you are free to try others as well.

ನನ್ನ ಸಾಫ್ಟವೇರ್ ಮಿತ್ರನ ಪಾಡು....ಅವನ ಬಾಯಿಂದ

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ಪರಿಚಿತರೊಡನೆ ಸ್ನೇಹವ ಹೊಂದುವುದು ನಮ್ಮಿಚ್ಚೆ
ಸ್ನೇಹದಲಿ ಪ್ರೇಮವ ಕಾಣುವುದು ನಮ್ಮಿಚ್ಚೆ
ಪ್ರೆಮಿಯಲಿ ಸಂಗಾತಿಯ ಬಯಸುವುದು ನಮ್ಮಿಚ್ಚೆಆದರೆ ಜೊತೆಯಾಗಿ ಬಾಳಲು ಬೇಕು ಅವನಿಚ್ಛೆ

ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ

ಚುಮು ಚುಮು ಚಳಿಯ ಮಂಜಿನ ಮುಂಜಾನೆಯಲಿ
ಭಾಸ್ಕರನು ಮೂಡಿಸಿದ ಚೆಲುವಿನ ಚಿತ್ತಾರದಲಿ
ಮತ್ತನು ಬರಿಸುವ ಸುಗಂಧದ ಹೂಗಳ ತೋಟದಲಿ
ಮಕರಂದವ ಹೀರಿ ನಲಿಯುತಿದೆ ದುಂಬಿಯು ಸಂತಸದಲಿ

Brilliant Fat Guy!

I was doing masters in Mysore. One day I received an e-mail from one of my students, “Sir, Finally I cleared Fields Theory in my 4th attempt. It was possible only because of you Sir. That day if you have not given me the average, it was impossible to complete my engineering degree. Thanks a lot sir…..”
I went to my flash back. That time I was teaching Field theory. One day a fat guy was begging for average. He was absent for the first sessional . in the second he scored 10 marks and in the third again absent due to Malaria. He was still suffering from fever and said “Sir, I can’t write one more sessional please give me some assignment otherwise my average will be 5 and It is impossible to score 45 in Fields. “
Very next day was the last working day and I was in an ambiguity whether to give marks or not. I was not sure that he will submit the assignment. His innocent face gave me the confidence and I gave him 15 marks. After a week he came with the assignment. He had solved some 20 problems!!
Next year I came to Mysore and forgot the incident. Now his mail brought back my memorable teaching experiences. After my masters I joined back and one day Fat guy came with 3 of his friends asking for a project. I gave them an idea to build a portable device which analyses ECG. After a lot of struggle one day they were able to see the ECG in a computer using LABVIEW interfacing card. That day they called HOD also to show the running ECG waveform. He also impressed and said, “after completion of your project you can take my ECG and can analyze it!!”. The project got the “Best project of the year” award. Even now when I meet the fat guy, he doesn’t talk about the project, he still remembers that 15 mark. Only VTU student knows the importance of 15 and 35!!
--ESKE

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