Today I got a letter from HOD that I have been accepted as a proper PhD student. Did not expect anything different, but it is nice to know anyway. No questions asked. I don't even have to sit in on any lectures as people predicted.
Letter is here .
I also modified some dude's perl script to make nice indices of directories containing only pictures. Like this one. Added some links on the main page. I can explain that 'C' in adv. I think it actually does promote Linux instead of bashing it.