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Indian Biz Families - so called arch rivals

2008-11-07T11:21:00.000+05:30

Relaince :
The company was founded by the legendary Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual revenues are in excess of US$ 34 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India.

Backward vertical integration has been the cornerstone of the evolution and growth of Reliance. Starting with textiles in the late seventies, Reliance pursued a strategy of backward vertical integration - in polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics, petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production - to be fully integrated along the materials and energy value chain.

The Group's activities span exploration and production of oil and gas, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics and chemicals), textiles and retail.

Reliance enjoys global leadership in its businesses, being the largest polyester yarn and fibre producer in the world and among the top five to ten producers in the world in major petrochemical products.

The Group exports products in excess of US$ 20 billion to 108 countries in the world. Major Group Companies are Reliance Industries Limited (including main subsidiaries Reliance Petroleum Limited and Reliance Retail Limited) and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited.

Tata:

The Tata Group is a multinational conglomerate based in Mumbai, India. In terms of market capitalization and revenues, Tata Group is the largest private company in India. It has interests in steel, automobiles, information technology, communication, power, tea and hotels. The Tata Group has operations in more than 85 countries across six continents and its companies export products and services to 80 nations. The Tata Group comprises 98 companies in seven business sectors, 27 of which are publicly listed. 65.8% of the ownership of Tata Group is held by the charitable trust of Tata.[2] Companies which form a major part of the group include Tata Steel, Corus Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Tea, Titan Industries, Tata Power, Tata Communications and the Taj Hotels.

The group takes the name of its founder, Jamsedji Tata, a member of whose family has almost invariably been the chairman of the group. The current chairman of the Tata group is Ratan Tata, who took over from J. R. D. Tata in 1991 and is currently one of the major international business figures in the age of globality. The company is currently in its fifth generation of family stewardship.

Open Source

2008-07-16T22:39:00.001+05:30

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A presentation given to the Web21C SDK team on the contention between the "customer" in Agile development, community in Open Source development, personas and Designers product development.

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IBM India develops Desktop Hindi recognition technology

2007-11-22T16:16:00.000+05:30

IBM India Research Laboratory has developed a IBM Desktop Hindi Speech Recognition technology, which can be used to integrate the speaker independent continuous speech recognition of Hindi to edit the translated text through Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha in the MANTRA-Rajbhasha System.

The IBM Desktop Hindi Speech Recognition technology understands and transcribes human speech with little use of keyboards. So it helps people, who are unfamiliar with computers or the Hindi language. The speech recognition technology eliminates the need to learn different keyboard mapping.

The technology has been tested and trained for variations over a large number of speakers from different regions of the country. The technology could be also useful in voice- enabling ATM kiosks and in car navigation systems. Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha has been integrated with a number of other user-friendly features such as the facility for conversion of Text to Number , Date and Currency format. It also converts Unicode text into ISFOC fonts to enable a user to import the text to any Windows based application.

Myth of the fastest computer

2007-11-17T21:55:00.000+05:30

India may have launched itself on the world’s map of raw computing power with the Eka supercomputer from the Tata group, but even the world’s fastest supercomputer cannot match the processing speed of your brain.

While your computer, on an average, can execute around 100 megaflops (million of calculations per second), it can barely handle dictation.

For instance, it will take a single PC more than a few days to weeks to calculate a weather map — a task best left to a supercomputer.

Your brain, on the other hand, is able to understand multiple languages, process complex visual images, control your entire body, understand conceptual problems and create new ideas.

Scientists reveal that the brain is made up of about one trillion cells with 100 trillion connections between those cells. Estimates put the brain as capable of handling 10 quadrillion instructions per second.

Now compare that to the processing speed of the world’s fastest supercomputer from IBM at over 475 teraflops (or 475 trillion calculations per second).

What’s more interesting is that the world’s truly fastest supercomputer — RIKEN’s MDGrape-3 — will probably never be officially crowned with that title, simply because it is so specialised that it can’t run the software (the Linpack benchmark) used to officially rank computing speed.

MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier — that is 1 quadrillion calculations per second — and is three times faster than the currently-ranked fastest computer in the world, IBM’s BlueGene/L. IBM’s BlueGene/P is soon slated to achieve the petaflop distinction, though, with its machine nicknamed ‘Roadrunner’.

“Getting to the petaflop stage is a Herculean task. It involves increasing the processing speed by over 10 times, besides scaling-up in a non-linear fashion. The efficiency falls as you add central processing units (CPUs). You require to radically upgrade the architecture,” says N Seetha Rama Krishna, project manager of Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. The Tata supercomputer has been ranked the fourth most powerful in the world.

RIKEN developed the supercomputer along with Intel, and SGI in 2006 to carry out molecular dynamics simulations. In developing drugs, pharmaceutical companies have to analyse thousands of chemical compounds to find out how they will affect the protein-bonding structures in the human body.

What takes most computers hours or days to analyse takes MDGrape-3 a few seconds. The functionality is invaluable in drug research since it can drastically cut research time involved in the development of new cures. A subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Merck has already booked time on the machine.

Construction of supercomputers is an expensive task. To get a machine from the laboratory to the market may take several years.

In Tata’s case, however, it was done in a record six weeks. The most recent development costs of supercomputers varied between $150 and 500 million or more.

However, the Tata supercomputer cost around $30 million while the Riken one was reportedly around just $9 million. That’s partly because MDGrape-3 relies on fewer chips and less circuitry than its competitors.

Besides, Hitachi, Intel, and SGI Japan supplied the hardware and absorbed part of the cost of building the machine. One measure of the MDGrape-3’s ultra-efficient computing muscle is its cost per gigaflop (1 billion floating-point calculations per second), which Riken puts at $15. By comparison, BlueGene/L’s is $140 per gigaflop.

Also, while BlueGene/L contains a whopping 130,000 processors distributed over 65,000 nodes, Riken’s closet-sized machine needs only 4,808 chips to achieve four times its speed for certain applications. The Tata supercomputer used 15,000 processors over 2,000 nodes.

Using a supercomputer is expensive as well. As a user, you are charged according to the time you use the system what is expressed in the number of processor (CPU) seconds your programme runs, says Krishna.

In the recent past, Cray (one of the first supercomputers) time was $1,000 per hour. The use of this “Cray time” was a very common way to express computer costs in time and dollars.

Meanwhile, the next generation of supercomputing — with DNA and Quantum Computing — is already being talked about. Of course, it will take at least another decade before the new technologies will hit the work floor.

Author - Leslie D'Monte, Business Standard Online

back to night outs

2007-09-03T01:47:00.000+05:30

Dont worry this night outs..... are not about partying and boooozing......its about project work and studing.
Well curently i dont have to study, or to even count my breathe, there is this lots of project work pending.

really the time management skills are at test. I am pretty nostalgic right now...... remembering of my engg days......we used to project the same way.....all grp members on instant chat messengers and sending files as when completed to compile it to a final report......

but i am fed up doing this night outs........probably there is some solution to this.........

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2007-08-30T18:34:00.001+05:30

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2007-08-17T00:41:00.001+05:30

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about Dow Jones

2007-06-14T09:31:00.001+05:30

Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Licensing Services, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

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The best sites for Open Source

2007-05-15T11:34:00.001+05:30

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/industryinfo.php
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

Please bookmark these sites.

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useful Mainframe Links

2007-05-10T11:46:00.001+05:30

1 - http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=home
2 - http://www.xephonusa.com/index.cfm
3 - http://mainframeweekly.blogspot.com/

O for Orissa

2007-05-04T20:38:00.000+05:30

01 - Mahanadi, Brahmani and Baitarani
02 - "Cathedral City of Idia"
03 - Hirakaud Dam 4th Largest in World
04 - Chilka largest Brackish water inland lake in Asia.
05 - Largest Lion Safari in India
06 - Only white tiger safari in World, outskirts of Bhuvaneshwar.

How Digital Rights Management Works

2007-05-03T16:15:00.001+05:30

n 2005, Sony sold millions of "special" music CDs to consumers who thought they were getting regular old compact discs. When people played these CDs on their computer, what happened in many cases was the equivalent of a spyware nightmare: Programs froze up, applications slowed and a series of hidden files that were the source of the problem proved to be nearly impossible to uninstall. Why would Sony do this to its customers?

Full story : http://computer.howstuffworks.com/drm.htm

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Open Source Licensing and Governance

2007-05-03T14:55:00.001+05:30

Earlier this year, arguments and debates raged about whether the open source model was doomed to fail in the 21st century economics of Software As A Service (SAAS). One thread of these discussions centered around the creation of a new type of license that could effectively preserve source code availability and author attribution while denying licensees some of the freedoms enjoyed by the authors, particularly the freedom to present a user interface distinct from so-called attribution.

I have weighed in on the question raised by so-called attribution licenses on license-discuss@opensource.org, but I have always been meaning to write down some thoughts on the flipside of those arguments, namely, how one existing license has brilliantly and effectively protected the three parties to the license--the authors, the users, and other developers--in spite of everything.

Full story : http://www.opensource.org/node/135

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Major Free Software websites

2007-05-02T16:23:00.001+05:30

Slashdot.org, major community and news site with forum
Freshmeat.net, major software release annoumcement site
Advogato.org, the advocate site for free software developers

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Major organizations for Free Software/Open Source

2007-05-02T16:21:00.001+05:30

Free Software Foundation
Free Software Foundation Europe
Free Software Foundation India
Software Liberty Association of Taiwan

Software in the Public Interest and its Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd projects
Linux International
The Open Source Initiative
The XFree86 Project
The Free Standards Group, parent of the Linux Standard Base
The Apache Software Foundation
The GNOME Foundation
The KDE League
Affero, a company enabling fundraising for projects and causes in open source/free software.

Major personalities in the Free Software/Open Source community

2007-05-02T16:19:00.001+05:30

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. Profiled in Steven Levy's 1984 book, Hackers: the Heros of the Computer Revolution as the Last True Hacker, he started the Free Software movement in the 1980s and is considered by many to be the father of Free Software/Open Source.

Linus Torvalds, initial author and top maintainer of the Linux kernel, and possibly the most respected figure in the community.

Larry Wall, author of the popular Perl language.

Eric Raymond, author of the famous paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and responsible for the popularization of the name Open Source

Bruce Perens, editor of the Debian Free Software Guidelines and the Open Source Definition, the former considered by the community as the basic law.

Alan Cox, active contributor and maintainer of the Linux kernel.

Guido van Rossum, author of the Python language.

Miguel de Icaza, founder of GNOME.

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The hottest salaries | 1 | Business 2.0

2007-04-30T16:38:00.001+05:30

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Father of PlayStation ends his fatherhood

2007-04-30T16:10:00.000+05:30

The father of PlayStation, Ken Kutaragi, last week announced his intention to retire from his executive role at Sony Computer Entertainment.

Today Screen Play pays tribute to a man who has made one of the most significant impacts on the video games industry in its 30-year history.

Read more on : http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives/005976.html

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N for Nagaland

2007-04-27T20:36:00.000+05:30

01 - Dec 1st, 1963
02 - Largely a mountainous state
03 - Christianity is the predominant religion of Nagaland

Indian Linux Version

2007-04-27T09:52:00.001+05:30

Its a great news guys.
Probably not for many of them, but certainly for me.
Finally our government has funded an Open Source project and is developing a local version of Linux.
Of course it will be having Hindi and Tamil language support later on.
Currently as far as the OS is concern its in English.
But it is having various Indian Language support and conversion facilities at the document creation level.
For this they using Smart Common Input Method (SCIM)

Read more on : http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/12/1631206

Father of Computer Consulting

2007-04-26T10:08:00.001+05:30

His name is Joseph Glickauf.

Accenture originated as the consulting division of Arthur Andersen. Its origin goes back to 1953, when GE asked Arthur Andersen to undertake a feasibility study about payroll processing and manufacturing automation using computers (GE had bought the first U.S. business computer for the Appliance Park manufacturing park, in Louisville). Joseph Glickauf was Arthur Andersen's project leader for the GE engagement and was responsible for the payroll processing automation, launching the era of data processing. Considered to be the father of computer consulting, Glickauf headed the Arthur Andersen administrative services division for 12 years

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Google beats Microsoft to become top brand

2007-04-24T13:46:00.001+05:30

Guys finally it has happened.
Considering the brand value and some other points Google has caught up with Microsoft.
The rsearch was done by Millward Brown

For complete coverage see the link below:
http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=162096

Mizoram

2007-04-20T20:34:00.000+05:30

01 - Land of Mizo
02 - Mizo : Highlader
03 - 23rd state, Feb 20, 1987
04 - Known as Land of Enchanting Hills

Meghalaya

2007-04-13T20:27:00.000+05:30

01 - Meghalaya means "The Abode of the Clouds"
02 - Megh means cloud in Hindi[Devanagari Script]
03 - State : Jan 21, 1972
04 - Shillong "Scotland of East"

Manipur

2007-04-06T11:08:00.000+05:30

01 - 1972 state
02 - Handloom biggest industry
03 - First to introduce SERICULTURE (Oak Tussar Industry)
04 - Termed as "Jewel of India" by Nehru
05 - Keibul Lamjao only floating National Park in world
06 - Kaibul Lamjao National Park in Loktak lake is the natural habitat of the rare and endangered Brow antlered Deer (Cervus eldi eldi). Locally known as Sangai, it is one of three species of Elds deer in the world confined to South East Asia.

Maharashtra

2007-03-30T18:45:00.000+05:30

01 - Godavari , Bhima and Krishna
02 - May 1 1960
03 - Indias' largest harbour
04 - Mumbai has 50% of the harbour traffic
05 - Sports University, Asia's first, in Pune, Jan 1996

M for Madhya Pradesh

2007-03-23T18:21:00.000+05:30

01 - Famous Places : Chambal, Betwa, Sindh, Narmada, Tapti, Mahanandi and Indravati
02 - Nov 1, 1956 Under State Reorganization Act.
03 - Pithampur : "Detroit of India"
04 - Rau-Pithampur 1st private sector infrastructure project .
05 - Khajuraho, Ujjain

Kerala

2007-03-16T00:05:00.001+05:30

01 - 1956 State reorganization Act Nov, 1 1956.
02 - India's 92% Rubber producer.
03 - India's 70% Coconut producer.
04 - Almost 100% of Lemon Grass Oil.
05 - Largest producer of Banana, Ginger, Tea and Coffee.

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help unicef

2007-03-12T13:42:00.000+05:30

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K for Karnataka

2007-03-09T00:25:00.000+05:30

01 - Karunadu : Lofty Land
02 - 85 % of Raw Silk
03 - 59 % of Coffee
04 - 47% of Ragi
05 - Formerly known Mysore
06 - Tourist Place : Jog Falls

Telepresence - a new light on the communication horizon.

2007-03-05T19:41:00.000+05:30

Hi friends,

Just consider this scenario: decades back, we had the birth of telephone and the world started getting connected. Then came wireless communication and the world became still shorter. Afterwards came in the video conferencing and we thought, "Wow!"

It's time to say, "Wow!" again as we have a new technology called "Telepresence". Imagine not only talking with your friend in the US, but also feeling the new iPod he has recently bought. Or feeling the texture of his new and original ManU jersey. Surprised? This is exactly what telepresence has to offer.

Wikipedia says, "Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location."

Imagine the plethora of opportunities it can open to the new world, where communication is crossing barriers hitherto unknown. Do a Google or visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_segment_home.html for more.

Himanshu.

J for J&K

2007-03-02T20:41:00.000+05:30

01 - Famous Cities : Pahalgam, Gulmarg, Sonmarg, Srinagar.
02 - Pilgrimage : Amarnath, Vaishno Devi.
03 - Jammu and Kashmir consists of three divisions: Jammu the Vale of Kashmir and Ladakh.
04 - Srinagar is its summer capital, and Jammu its winter capital.
05 - The Vale of Kashmir, also known as Kashmir Valley, is famous for its beautiful mountainous landscape.

J for Jharkhand

2007-02-16T08:49:00.001+05:30

01 - India's 28th state.
02 - Became state on Nov 15, 2000.
03 - Separated from Bihar.
04 - Produces 32.4% of India's Coal.
05 - Produces 23.3% of India's Iron Ore.
06 - Produces 33.9% of India's Copper.
07 - Produces 46.6% of India's Mica.
08 - Independence Fight stated by Jaipal Singh
09 - Folk Dance : Paika, Sohrai, Chau, Karma, Nachini, Natua, Agni, Choukara, Senthal, Jamda, Ghatwari, Matha, Lurisayro.
10 - River : Mayurakshi, Barakar, Koyal, Sankh, Son, Auranga, More, Karo, Bansloi, South Koel, Kharkai, Subarna Rekha, Ganga, Gumani, Batane.

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Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference - Mumbai, India, March 11-13, 2007

2007-02-14T18:29:00.000+05:30

Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference - Mumbai, India, March 11-13, 2007

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convergence 2007

2007-02-13T18:39:00.000+05:30

Convergence 2007 is a two day research exposure workshop that aims to be your "Gateway to Networks Research". The workshop will features talks on various advancements in networks research. This is organised by the IT Association of the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology (KReSIT).

Convergence is KReSIT's annual flagship event that brings academics, students, and corporate citizens together in an effort to provide perspectives on recent research trends in technological fields of common interest. From 2001 onwards, the workshop has seen themes such as Wireless Communications, Data Mining, Computing Infrastructure in Enterprise Networks, and Databases. This year, we focus on research in Networks.
KReSIT has an active group of faculty members and post-graduate students doing research in the field of Networks. Through this workshop, we attempt to explain recent trends in this challenging technology area, give details of the specialized domains and discuss the future of network research. The lectures will be delivered by researchers from top-notch academic institutes, research labs, and leading companies.

source : http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/convergence07/

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for all quiz buffs : tata crucible

2007-02-13T18:37:00.000+05:30

'Tata Crucible - The Business Quiz' seeks to bring together sharpest young minds in India to take on the heat of the toughest business quiz in India. Youth is a key audience cluster which the Tata Group is focusing its communication at and Tata Crucible is one of the key initiatives towards this engagement.

Tata Crucible was started as a key initiative in 2004, a year which was christened as the 'Century of Trust' year to commemorate the death centenary of the Founder of the Group - J.N. Tata and the birth centenaries of two of its illustrious leaders - J.R.D. Tata and Naval H. Tata. It generated huge response as a high quality business quiz in the very first year and has now become an annual event. In a commissioned research Tata Crucible Campus Quiz has been judged highest rated ground quiz by the students of participating colleges.

The Tata Crucible Quiz is a team based contest (2 participants per team) and is held in 3 parts. Two back to back tracks - separately for Tata Corporates and Non-Tata Corporates, are held in June-July each year, consisting of Regional Rounds in 8 cities, followed by National Finals. The third track is held for Campus students in January / February of each year also with 8 Regional Rounds followed by a National Final. Three editions of Crucible Corporate version and two editions of the Crucible Campus version have been held so far to enthusiastic response. Over 1700 teams participated in the three tracks of the quiz held in calendar 2006.

source : http://www.tatacrucible.com

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Himachal Pradesh

2007-02-09T10:35:00.001+05:30

- Jan 25, 1971
- Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Yamuna
- Shimla, Dalhousie, Dharamshala (Dalai Lama), Kulu, Kasavli, Solan, Chail, Kufri
- Kharijar in Chamba : "Mini Switzerland"

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is SRK doing good?

2007-02-06T10:44:00.000+05:30

Hey guys, are u guys watching the episodes of KBC.
How is srk performing.
I think, anyways, we cannot compare him with Big B.
But it would have been better, if he would have remained natural in his acting.
It seems to me he his overacting for a show like this.

What do you people think.
Just leave a comment on this.

Category : Discussions

car pool india[click me]

2007-02-06T10:42:00.000+05:30

Carpooling (also known as ride-sharing, lift-sharing), is shared use of a car, in particular for commuting to work, often by people who each have a car but travel together to save costs and in the interest of other socio-environmental benefits mentioned below. There are sometimes special facilities for carpoolers, including designated pick-up points and high-occupancy vehicle lanes which are also at times opened up to designated cars with multiple riders. Carpool projects have been around in fairly structured form going back to the mid-seventies, and in recent years have begun to make much more extensive use of the internet and software support systems. With the recent advent of mobile phones and SMS, there is a push to integrate these technologies into more flexible systems on the web. Ride sharing is an alternative to get to and connect with people at other large events, such as music festivals and conferences.

Carpools may be formed through word of mouth by friends and colleagues, or through online carpooling services. There is also another system, car sharing, which is often mistaken with carpooling.

so visit the india version. click the title

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpool

H for Haryana

2007-02-02T15:15:00.000+05:30

01 - name means Bharata Dyansty Home (Bharat was a King of INDIA)
02 - famous place : Kurukshetra (the place where the battle of MAHABHARTA was faught)
03 - Reorganised from Punjab Nov 1, 1966
04 - First to introduce Crop Insurance in INDIA
05 - known as "The Milk Pail of INDIA"
06 - upcoming town Gurgaon
07 - First state to electrify all its villages

Gujarat

2007-01-31T14:39:00.000+05:30

01 - rivers : Sabarmati, Mahi, Narmada, Tapti.
02 - formed : May 1, 1960 under Bomaby Reorganisation Act 1960.
03 - Highest producer of Cotton and Groundnut.
04 - Second highest producer of Tobacco.
05 - First Integrated Horticulture District in India : Valsad.
06 - Largest Petro-chemical Complex.
07 - Accounts to 65% of infant Milk.
08 - Produces 60% of India's Salt.
09 - Leading producer of Biogas(28000 plants)
10 - First Expressway of India : Ahmedabad-Baroda
11 - Game Sanctuary of Gir : World's last habitat of Asian Lions
12 - Tourist place : Dwarka, Palitana, Udwada, Akshardham.

G for Goa, the beach state

2007-01-20T16:46:00.000+05:30

01 - Became 25th state on May 30th, 1987.
02 - Goa - Gomuth (Land Of Cattle).
03 - Portugese Rule : 1510-1961.
04 - First CM : A.P.Bandokar.
05 - Divided into three regions : North, Central, South.
06 - Prominent River Mandodari.
07 - Population : 14 and a Half lakh.
08 - Goa Medical Coll : One of the oldest(probably the oldest) Medical College in Asia, started in aroud 1800.
09 - Capital : Panjim (5 Castle) in 1843, Population 90,00014
10 - Cidade De Goa (City of Goa) : One of the Best Hotels of Goa, Seven Stared
11 - 415 km from Manglore
12 - 600 km from Banglore.
13 - 380 villages.15.
14 - 30 Towns.
15 - 3 Main Cities : Panjim, Vasco, Margao.
16 - Per Capita Income : RS 74,000.18.
17 - Main Source of income : Mining and Tourism.
18 - 82% literacy.
19 - 70% Hindus.
20 - 20 % Catholics.
21 - 120 km Coastline.
22 - Known for its world heritage architecture including the Basilica of Bom Jesus.

Note : The above figures are of 2005.

My first post....

2007-01-16T20:24:00.000+05:30

A warm hello to all readers,

To start off with, let me post a poem of mine and then I'll continue with other posts that might qualify as gyan! Apart from all techie stuff, we all require something nice and warm like poetry. :)

Over six months ago
When I was feeling so lost,
You arrived just like springtime
And covered me like the morning frost.

Your sweet voice, your cute smile
Brought me back to life
That was when I sat and wondered
Would you really be my wife?

For four years, love eluded us
Now it bonds us so tight
That I think just about you
All day and all night!

Oh darling, you make me feel so special
When you shower me with your care
Never will I take for granted
The love that we both share

I'll always treasure and keep
The moments we spent together
I still remember each and every one
And always look forward for another

You've changed my life so much
I want to thank you aloud
You've taught me so gently
What love is all about

It hurts me so much
To see us both miles apart
But you're mine and only mine
So says my lover heart.

I've died a thousand times
In my dreams, searching for you.
But I'd die again if needed to
Just to let you know I love you!
Just to let you know I love you!

Himanshu.

P.S. : Can you suggest a title?

http://incognito6174.googlepages.com

C for Chattisgarh

2007-01-13T13:13:00.000+05:30

1 - It is the 26th state.
2 - Declared as a new state on Nov 1, 2000
3 - Separated from Madhya Pradesh
4 - It has a Steel plant at Bhilai
5 - It is called as "Rice bowl" of India
6 - Dr Khubicahnd Baghel initiated the idea for a seperate sta during mig 1960

yet another socio networking site [click me]

2007-01-11T14:18:00.000+05:30

some MBA bookmarks

2007-01-10T10:18:00.000+05:30

Genereal info sites :
1 - mba.com
2 - indiamba.com
3 - coolavenues.com
4 - ascenteducation.com
5 - indiabschools.com
6 - pagalguy.com
7 - indiamba.org

Indian MBA entrance preparation institutes :
1 - career launcher
2 - career forum : cflogic
3 - ims : imsindia
4 - mbadreams
5 - pinnacle : ptindia (updated jan 13 11:19[GMT + 5:30])
6 - time : time4education

All entrance :
1 - winentrance.com

B for Bihar

2007-01-09T10:13:00.000+05:30

- named from Vihara : Buddhist Monastery
- home state of Mauryan Empire (Emperor Asoka dynasty)
- Bengal bifurcated from Bihar on March 22, 1912.
- Orissa bifurcated from Bihar on APril 1, 1936
- Jharkhand bifurcated from Bihar on Nov 2000.
- Bihar is the birthplace of several religions, including Buddhism and Jainism
- Buddha attained Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, a town located in the modern day district of Gaya
- Its under Bodi tree Gautam Buddha attained Nirvana.
- Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, was born in Vaishali
- At Lauria NandanGarh stands the ancient brick sepulchral mound thought to be the stupa where the ashes of Lord Buddha were enshrined.
- There also is a pillar with the edict of Ashoka exquisitely carved.
- Nalanda university is located Bihar, one of the earliest universities of India dating back to the fifth century

Assam

2006-12-29T15:41:00.000+05:30

- in 1963 Nagaland was carved out of it.
- Jan 21st 1972 Meghalaya was carved out of it.
- Mizoram was also a part of Asaam earlier.
- Mizoram was a Union Territory untill Jan 21st 1972.
- In 1987 Mizoram was declared a state.
- Highest rain fall 178-305 cm.
- Biggest river Brahmaputra.
- Tourist Place : Kaziranga National Park.
- 15.6% of world's and 50% of India's Tea production.
- First state where Oil was struck.
- It was struck at Digboi
- Assam also produces natural gas.
- Assam is the second place in the world (after Titusville in the United States) where petroleum was discovered.
- Asia’s first successful mechanically drilled oil well was drilled in Makum (Assam) way back in 1867
- World's Largest producer of Golden colored "Muga" silk.

Arunachal Pradesh

2006-12-22T22:54:00.000+05:30

1 - Land of Dawn-Lit Mountains.
2 - Originally known NEFA(North East Frontier Agency).
3 - It was a Union Territory from January 20, 1972 to February 19, 1987.
4 - It was declared a state on February 20, 1987.
5 - India's largest Buddist monastery at Tawang.
6 - Separated from Asaam.
7 - In 1913-14, the British administrator, Sir Henry McMohan, drew up the 550-mile McMohan Line as the border between British India and Tibet during the Simla Conference, as Britain sought to advance its line of control and establish buffer zones around its colony in South Asia.

web site : arunachalpradesh.nic.in

aukad wale[within limits] mobiles

2006-12-20T12:15:00.000+05:30

Want a mobile haandset?
Searching for which to buy?
First fix a budget and here is the solution.

1 - Mobile Phones under 5K

2 - Mobile Phones Around 5k

3 - Mobile Phones Around 10K

4 - Mobile Phones Around 15k

Still in a problem, here is the compiled solution

5K -12K: The Mad Mobile Market Segment

From some kind of geeks Mobile now-a-days is no more of a communicating device. Its a kind of a Gadget or some sorts of a computer. Dont worry guys, you SMART people have lots of choice for your kind of SMARTphones.

1 - Smartphones Under 15k

2 - Smartphones Under 20k

Note : Well i think this list is specific to india.

hmmmmmmm, actually i am a first time buyer of these hi-fi electronic gadgets. I am not used to it, feeling very confused. I am wondering why should i need a DigiCam, Mobile etc... Does such questions match with mine, i have solution for that. Below are three buying guides for various products.

1 - Basic Phone Buying Guide

2 - Smartphone Buying Guide

3 - Basic Digital Camera Buying Guide

4 - Graphics Card Buying Guide - Version: 10.04

migrate to Indians, support Indians to reach the APEX

2006-12-19T12:20:00.000+05:30

Ok my point here is, weren't we fascinated when first time we came across Orkut. And for that matter Flickr, Blogger.com. We quickly participated in this Web 2.0 sites. Or rather people even migrated to these popular sites.

Its enough that we are using this International sites. We should switch over to indian sites that provide these experience. By indian sites, i mean sites started by Indian Borns or NRIS etc... Just support this guys to make it big to the most hit sites on the internet. Heres the list

Flickr version of India(by IITians) : Picsquare
Orkut version of india : Fropper
Blogger version of India : RediffBlogs or RedifIland.

Actually if u all are using fropper.com u dont have to go anywhere else.
It provides u blogging service, photo album service, social networking service, dating service embedded in your web page.

I am not promoting fropper. I was really fascinated when i saw all these service in one site. Its really handy to use.

cheers

A for Andra Pradesh

2006-12-18T10:08:00.000+05:30

Sorry guys, i coudln't make it on friday.
So here i am. I will be listing the states in alphabetical order.

A - Andra Pradesh :
1 - Andhra means "leader in battle" and Pradesh means "region" or "state".
2 - Andhra Pradesh is the fourth largest state in India by area and fifth largest by population.
3 - The majot rivers are Krishna and Godavari.
4 - It is also considered the Rice bowl of India.
5 - It was under Mauryan Empire.
6 - Major crop is Tobacco.
7 - Specialises in Virginia Tobacco.
8 - Andhra Pradesh is the home of many religious pilgrim centres. Tirupati, the abode of Lord Venkateswara, has the richest and most visited Hindu temple in India.

note : if ppl have some other fantastic facts, just leave a comment. I'll surely update the post.

Indian State info.

2006-12-13T11:47:00.000+05:30

hello world!!!
I will be starting a series of posts on our 28 States.
This will mainly contain their popular tourists place, their crops, their rivers and some important facts. I will be listing them as point wise and it will not be too long. Actually this came into my mind, while studing Genral Knowledge for my entrance exams. I was shocked to learn some fantastic facts abour our very own country. I was not aware of these, before. So i thought i should share with you people. I'll probably updating it every friday.

So if you are an indian, or somehow related to our Motherland just be proud, or else it will add to your grey matter.
Cheers.

REVERSE BRAIN DRAIN. Cheers!!!

2006-12-09T01:37:00.000+05:30

Let me start with what is this brain drain, for those whose brain has not come across this phrase. No!!! It’s not a psychic disease or some kind of disorder. Well brain drain is phenomenon where in students from a country gain most of their education goes abroad for work or Post graduation. They obviously turn to live their and become citizen of that country.

So what is the catch here? The catch here is specifically for Premier Indian Institutes. Government of India pours lots of money in creating such names. Also these funding goes in turning this normal Indians, into multinational brands. Don’t we should think of our country? It’s not that i am criticizing them, but it’s still our major concern. At times even though they want to contribute, but they can not.

Thanks to globalization that our government has opened up. Also according to me the major credit goes to IT. Now more and more are turning back to India. They are coming here with their experience, and venturing into new start ups. Which (Entrepreneurship) is the best way to PAY BACK.

Here are two of the companies, which everyone might know, but whose board members are worth a watch. After going through this websites and their management profiles we just fell proud. At last after the long run of Service Industry, some innovation is happening. Innovation is the key component to flourish the industry and to make it self dependent.

1 - cleartrip
2 - ugenie
update 1 : dec 18 2006, 10:51[GMT+5:30]
3 - peoplegroup
4 - blogeverywhere
update 2 : dec 19 2006, 12:22[GMT+5:30]
5- picsquare

note : if you people out there know such ventures, just leave a comment, i'll update the list

News Sites

2006-11-06T10:56:00.000+05:30

www.reuters.com
www.bloomberg.com
www.slashdot.com
www.digg.com
www.siliconvalley.com
www.wired.com

White Paper Links :

2006-11-06T10:54:00.001+05:30

www.bitpipe.com
www.ITpapers.com
www.itmanagersjournal.com/

software download links:

2006-11-06T10:54:00.000+05:30

www.softpedia.com
www.portableapps.com
www.download.com

open source, Unix, linux Links

2006-11-06T10:51:00.000+05:30

opensource:
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/
www.freesoftwaremagazine.com
www.eosj.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/
http://www.onlamp.com/
Opengroup : http://www.opengroup.org/ - maintains Unix
Open Source Initiative : http://www.opensource.org/ = for open source
Object Management Group : http://www.omg.org = maintains interoperable objects.
OSTG :
Gnu, FSF, free-soft.org = same, for GNU funded by FSF under GPL
FOSSFA

Unix/Linux

http://www.unitedlinux.com/
http://www.desktoplinux.com/
http://www.desktoplinuxconsortium.org/
http://www.tldp.org/
http://distrowatch.com/
http://www.li.org/
www.freestandards.org/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/
http://www.linuxforums.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#RPM-based_free_distributions

tutorials links :

2006-11-06T10:50:00.000+05:30

http://w3schools.com
http://www.tutorialized.com
http://www.olate.com/

some important links

2006-11-06T10:49:00.000+05:30

for general information :

www.en.wikipedia.org
www.whatis.com
www.howstuffworks.com
www.about.com
www.webopedia.com
www.acronymfinder.com
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/

PC less Portable life

2006-11-05T22:35:00.000+05:30

The scene is : We were having our final engg project demo. There were two hings we need to show to the exernal professor. First is the presentation and Secon is our Project demo. What i did is, i went the day before the D day, and installed all my required software for my project. Also i stored a copy of my presentation. This was aroun 11:oo am. I was relaxed that i completed the installation beforehand, coz most of the time it creates problem at the final movement. After returning from college, all of a sudden i got a thought, what if there some crisis during the DEMO. So what i did is i made a copy on my CD, made backup on my Pen drive, and finally uploaded the content on the internet on my email account. Again i was relaxed, that i had done my backup considering all possible worst case.

Next morning i went to college, and fortunately i got the first chance to Demo the project. So here i was at the PC alloted to me, and were i had done my installations the previous day. But suddenly he sky was falling on my head. To my surprise nothing was there in that PC. I tried the CD, but it didnt work. I tried to download i from the internet, as there was no USB slot for the pen drive on that PC. But The files were too large to be downloaded in that span of time. I was like, I AM DEAD. The efforts being put were blasted. But suddenly our network admin recollected that the PC had a USB slot at the rear end of the cabinet. To my relief i copied all the content on the PC.

Now all the prblem started. I had to setup all the applications on the PC from the scratch. Fotunately again, before the external came, i was done with all this and i completed my DEMO with no more hiccups.

Sign of releif ins't it. I was really lucky, but you people may not be.
So here is the Best possible solution to such a crisis. With onlly one condition that the PC should have a USB slot, which currently all cabinets have. Here is the list of all apllication that can run on your Pen Drive, without the help of your computer. These all applications directly execute on your pen drive. It only needs a PC for the drive purpose.

List of portable software

some hindu gyan

2006-10-31T20:12:00.000+05:30

HINDU	WESTERN
Kali Yug	3012 BC
Vikram Samvant	57 AD
Saka	78 AD

for more : click on the title

juggerNet

2006-10-19T00:18:00.000+05:30

Guys, guys, guys, i wish if you people can see me jumping around. For all the developers out there, or any one who envisage themselves a dev geek, here is thing that will have a gyration allround. No matter if you are an amateur or a pro, this think is sure for everyone.

Ever wondered how will you make an application that will have a space for technology like .NET or JAVA. Which will have employment for all these technology, which are currently for their survival.
Imagine that, no one will have o face a dilemma, of selecting which technology to make a career with. All these queries and much more ends here. The name is CODEMESH.

check out for yourself and read the WHITEPAPER : click the title.
or visit : www.codemesh.com

Techtree.com India > News > Gadgets > First 10 MP Cam-Phone by Samsung

2006-10-11T18:25:00.000+05:30

Techtree.com India > News > Gadgets > First 10 MP Cam-Phone by Samsung

Rediff.com India Limited [REDF] - 10/9/2006 on NASDAQ

2006-10-11T18:23:00.000+05:30

Rediff.com India Limited [REDF] - 10/9/2006 on nasdaq

Techtree.com India > News > Internet > Google Acquires YouTube

2006-10-11T18:22:00.000+05:30

Google Acquires YouTube

help for editing Wikipedia

2006-10-10T12:07:00.000+05:30

Wikipedia:How to edit a page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

enter the world of PORTABLITY

2006-09-25T10:39:00.000+05:30

Techtree.com India > Guides > Software Guides > Plug 'N' Play: Part I

internet a boon or a bane

2006-09-01T10:36:00.000+05:30

http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/youtube-star-quits/2006/08/28/1156617251368.html

basis for nokia tune

2006-08-29T14:27:00.000+05:30

Nokia Tune based on 19th century guitar work named "Grans VAls" by Spanish musician Francisco Tarrega.

for apple fans

2006-08-29T14:13:00.000+05:30

folklore.com
landsnail.com
apple-history.com
http://www.appletvads.com/
http://www.tuaw.com/

Google's answer to Yahoos' Photo and Flickr

2006-08-18T09:49:00.000+05:30

Google finally puts Picasa albums on the Web - Alpha Blog - alpha.cnet.com

News for bloggers and rest

2006-08-13T23:08:00.000+05:30

hey ppl.
Now on if you cannot post from Blogger, for some reasons, there is a reason to smile.
What ever you have, can bemailed on :-> shahamol.suchna@blogger.com, and it will be posted on the blog.
so try it and enjoy.

Look Good, Feel Good

2006-08-12T10:25:00.000+05:30

MEN		WOMEN
height(inches)	weight(Kgs)	height(inches)	weight(Kgs)
5.2	58	5.0	52
5.3	59	5.1	53
5.4	61	5.2	54
5.5	63	5.3	56
5.6	64	5.4	58
5.7	66	5.5	60
5.8	68	5.6	92
5.9	70	5.7	63
5.10	73	5.8	65
5.11	76	5.9	66
6.0	78	5.10	70
6.2	80	5.11	71

software war

2006-08-07T10:04:00.000+05:30

unix timeline

2006-08-07T10:00:00.000+05:30

feel proud

2006-08-02T19:26:00.000+05:30

This is really a moment of joy at least not for us, but our future generations.
The Zinc magnet Anil Agarwal, is setting up a university in orissa on the lines of Stanford.The university is named after the organisation Vedanta.

follow here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanta_University.

Parallel and Distributed Databse

2006-07-21T16:35:00.000+05:30

- In Parallel database the distribuition is governed solely by performance consideration.

- In Distributed databse distribution of data is governed by factors such as local ownership nad increased availability, in
addition to performance issues.

JDBC and ODBC are called GATEWAY PROTOCOL.

Architecture of Parallel DB :
1 - Shared Nothing
2 - Shared Memory
3 - Shared Disk

Architecture of Distributed DB :
1 - client Server
2 - Collaboration Server
3 - Middleware.

Types of Distributed DB :
1 - Homogenous
2 - Heterogenous

Fragmentation types :
1 - Vertical
2 - horizontal

a bit about Distributed System

2006-07-21T13:19:00.000+05:30

Requirments of DS :
- Availability
- Reliability
- Maintainablity
- Security

Goal of DS:
- User Connectivity
- Openness
- Transparency
- Scalability
- Atomic Multicast

1 -Initally all things were consolidated.
1.1 - Disadvatage :
a - Single point failure
b - Performance bottleneck

1.2 - Solution : Remove centralization/consolidation
a - By Sharing Or Mirroring Or Replication Or Caching Or Distributing for
a.1 - PERFORMACE and RELIABILITY
a.2 - AVAILABILITY and SCALABILITY [achieved by Replication, Caching and Distribution]

3 - But with Sharing, Replication and Distribution comes
3.1 - Security Problems
3.2 - Consistency Problems. Solution : Synchronization
3.3 - Fault Tolerance Problems. Solution : Replication

4 - Also With Scalability comes LOSS OF PERFORMANCE.

random gyan

2006-07-21T11:13:00.000+05:30

A software system can be categorize as open if it specifies and publishes interface between its system components.

Colors	Waveelength(nm)	Frequency(x10^14)
Violet	380-450	6.6-7.9
Blue	450-490	6.1-6.6
Green	490-560	5.4-6.1
Yellow	560-590	5.1-5.4
Orange	590-630	4.8-5.1
Red	630-760	3.9-4.8

Color is described by
1 -brightness
2 -hue
3 -depth of color

The resources where information objects are stored so that they remain sharable across the network are called SERVERS.

Types of Compression :
1. Lossless
1.1 - RLE
1.2 - CCITT Group 3 1D
1.3 - CCITT Group 3 2D
1.4 - lEMPEL ZIV & wELCH aLGORITHM [LZW]

2. Lossy
2.1 - JPEG
2.1 - MPEG
2.1 - Intel DVI (Digital Video Interface)
2.1 - CCITT H.261
2.1 - Fractals

A model is an abstraction of the information objects and the functions
Models are buuilt for a variety of Designs.
A good design helps in achieving optimum performance.

Topology option depends on:
1 - Application
2 - Size of Organisation
3 - Topology and Distributed System
4 - Location of various data servers

something about Security

2006-07-21T11:07:00.000+05:30

The principal mechanism for ensuring secure communication is that of a secure channel.

A security policy descibes precisely which actions the entities in a system are allowed to take.

Security means Dependibility. i.e.
1 - Reliability
2 - Availibity
3 - Maintainablity
4 - Trust(Security)
  4.1 - Confidentiality
  4.2 - Integrity

Factors for Security
1 - Confidentiality
2 - Integrityy
3 - Availibility

Threats For Security
1 - Interception (unauthorized x confidential)
2 - Interruption (unavailable x available)
3 - Modification (unauthorized x integrity by authentication)
4 - Fabrication (modification of data)

Basic Security Mechanism :
1 - Encryption
2 - Authentication
3 - Authorization
4 - Auditing

Things/Assets to be protected
1 - Data
2 - Hardware
3 - Software

Controlling levels :
1 - User level : Software - Authentication and Encryption
  Hardware - Smart Card etc.
2 - Program level : Writing Secure Code, by OS, Policies,   Administration, Auditing
3 - OS level : Memory, File, user Authentication(PWD OR Challenge Response), AccessControl
4 - Network level : Hardware - Firewall, Caling, IDS
        Software - Encryption.
5 - Database level : Query, Recoed, Storage Media
6 - Admin Level : Organize, Authorize, Manage, AccessControl, Audit
7 - Legal, Policy, Ethical

Just a single click

2006-07-14T12:30:00.000+05:30

Please visit this site only once a day...bhookh.com
http://www.bhookh.com/

Ecological footprint

2006-07-08T14:47:00.000+05:30

For every kind of energy or matter we consume to maintain our lifestyles, some natural resource, somewhere, gets used up, and waste is produced. The city is an ecosystem, with inputs in the form of land, water, energy, food and materials from the hinterland which, after being utilised, become waste, the output.

The Ecological Footprint is a measure of the load imposed by a particular population or economy on nature. It represents the land (and water) area necessary to sustain current levels of resource consumption and waste discharge by that population. It is an accounting tool that allows us to estimate the resource consumption and waste assimilation requirements of a particular human population or economy in terms of corresponding productive land area.

My Ecological Footprint was:

Food 0.3
Mobility 0.3
Shelter 0.6
Goods/Services 0.2
-------------- ---
Total footprint 1.5

Please make a visit at www.myfootprint.org.. to calculate ur ecological footprints and read the comments!!
"js chkout aap kitne dharti par boj ho" hehe...

renaming the blog

2006-07-04T01:44:00.000+05:30

guys i was just thinking of renaming the blog.
this is because its no more an e news blog.
it has became a discussion blog.
so plz suggest some names.
start commenting.

social networking war - from my point of view

2006-06-30T01:56:00.000+05:30

hmmm what should i start with now. The thing is, there is someting going on in my mind this days. There is THIS type of sites which help us to stay in touch with each others. I mean friends and relatives. And i swear it really helps. I really met some of my old friends, thnx to a web site which provides this kind of facility. Now this type of sites are called Social Networking WebSites. I am here not to favor any of them, but its a discsussion of whats goin in the web market.

Well i will not name the name of the Sites, but let me name the biggies who are behind this projects. Currently i am only focusing on theBIG THREE as i term them "Microsoft, Yahoo and Google".

OK so it all started with the BLOG war. Google acquired Blogger.com. Yahoo started yahoo 360. Microsoft started spaces.microsoft.com.

Well yahoo 360 is not a core blog concept, but currently lets assume it as a blog site. This is because yahoo doesnt have a site dedicated to WEB LOGGING(Blog)

Oh Ghosh!!!, let me be back on the topic, otherwise i will reach on to some other discussion. So after bloging came this image posting sites.Here yahoo was first to buy out Flickr, which is currently the best in this market.Ofcourse there was images.yahoo.com, but nobody bothered to look at it.Fortunately Microsoft and Google doesnt need this kind of site, since their blogging counterpart already supportes image posting.

All this and many other sites were acquired, to reach to a final goal of what is think is THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES. Google was affiliated with Orkut. Yahoo acquired Del.icuo.us and Upcoming.org. There were also some contenders who probably pioneerd this concept. Likewise we have Ringo, Birthday alarm, HI5 etc. Somehow these sites doesnt clicked. They were bulky, very very slow in operation. But the concept was awesome.

Beware, we are now at the start of the war between the BIG THREE on this concept. Orkut is currenlty leading the three. Orkut is the best of these. Though it was not a child of those Googlers, but the way it was made, is perfect to get affiliated with google. It has those caharacterstics of Google: Simplicity, Fantastic Interface and Navigational Facility. Also the site is very quick. Kudos to ORKUT, the guy who created this genius. But one thing you people can relate him is, he is also from Stanford, Gotch ya!!!. These stanford people are going to rule the world in near future, hahaha!!!. Now is YAHOO's turn. It has integrated all of its acquisitions and sites to yahoo 360. Also the blog in yahoo 360 can be directly integrated to your geocities account. So all thing comes to a single point Yahoo 360. Now this have many features of a social networking site other then just blogging.Very nicely organised, ofcourse its yahoo, the ppl who pioneered the INTERNET.

Hence comes the turn of the GIANT. Yes you people guessed it right. THE NAME IS "microsoft". How can it be left behind. Microsoft has way behind started a site named WALLOP.com. It was just a simple blogging site, but with some unique features of connecting with friends. This site was one of the best because it was totally on MACROMEDIA FLASH. The interface was mind blowing. But now after a long time when i went to this site, there was nothing. Only there is meassage for the people, that they are getting ready for the war. JUST visit the website its FANTASTIC. Now only GOD can predict how will microsoft will turn this whole concept into. WAIT and WATCH.

Above article is just my floow of thoughts on the topic. Its not supporting any side. The article its just my perception and assumptios. So some of the facts may be worng or uncomplete.

If you people have read this whole article completely, thank you very much for taking time to read it.Well the thank should be more for bearing my mistakes if any.
I will be very obliged to improve on your positive comments/suggestion. just fell Free to comment on any aspect, since this my first article of any type and od such a lenght. THANKS A LOT in advance.

you ppl can even mail me on email2amol@gmail.com

OPERA launches a new version 9.

2006-06-25T17:13:00.000+05:30

Hi guys, my first post on this blog. Being a technology enthusiast and an internet freak, I have always been exploring new software being introduced to the internet community. With reference to the previous post that discusses about the free software, I would like to comment on an important part of the internet users life - the internet browser. Previously, like all software, browsers were bundled with Oses. But with Firefox and a host of others giving free downloads of their feature-rich browsers, users are now faced with a plethora of options to choose from.
Arguably, Microsoft Corpn.'s Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox have been on the forefront. Internet Explorer, now available in version 7 and Firefox in it's 1.5 version have taken up most of the market. But a long time player has now come up with it's new version in a bid to capture a chunk of the browser pie. This new entrant is Opera v9.

The next part of the post has been taken from the News.com website - http://news.com.com/Opera+releases+beta+of+latest+browser/2100-1032_3-6063153.html?tag=nl

Opera Software on Thursday released a beta version of its free browser, Opera 9, which offers features such as small Web applications and content blocking.

The beta for Opera 9 will include six new features ranging from Widgets, or small Web programs, to support for download technology BitTorrent to customization of search engines.

"Opera 9 brings powerful new features to enhance the Web browsing experience and empower Web 2.0 developers," Jon Tetzchner, Opera chief executive, said in a statement. The small Web applications will range from streaming news to games to multimedia capabilities and allow developers to also create their own and share them, without regard to the operating system.

Opera 9 also aims to allow users to click a torrent file and begin its download without having to rely on a separate BitTorrent application for downloading large files. Users will also have the option of customizing which search engine to use with their browser and the ability to block content, such as certain ads or images, on a particular Web page. Other features are designed to enable users to open a number of tabs at once in Opera 9 and view the contents via a thumbnail preview or image.

Users are encouraged to try put this version of the software and post their reviews here.

What is Free Software

2006-06-21T12:16:00.000+05:30

Free software is defined as software that respects four fundamental freedoms:
(0) freedom to run the software as you wish,
(1) freedom to study the source code and modify it to do what you wish,
(2) freedom to make and redistribute copies, and
(3) freedom to publish modified versions.
Only programmers can directly exercise freedoms 1 and 3, but all users can exercise freedoms 0 and 2, and all users benefit from the modifications that programmers write and publish.

DOS Flavours

2006-06-21T12:15:00.001+05:30

DR-DOS Caldera DOS (Previously Digial-Reseach, then Novell DOS)
FreeDOS Freeware DOS Project (in beta)
MS-DOS Microsoft's DOS
PC-DOS IBM's DOS
PTS DOS 2000 Paragon Software's DOS
ROM-DOS Datalight's DOS PC-DOS clone for ROMs
RxDOS DOS by Mike Podanoffsky

Linux Flavours

2006-06-21T12:15:00.000+05:30

-Corel Linux For desktops, GUI install
-Debian Linux Stable Workstation or Server
-Gentoo Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized
-Immunix All-in-one workgroup server
-Knoppix A run directly from CD Linux
-Linspire/Lindows GUI Workstation.
-Linux OS Professional Extensive Slackware package with 14 CDs, 2000 pages of docs
-Linux-Mandrake Workstation and Server, w/StarOffice
-LuteLinux Workstation and Server with Office like suite (as of 2003, the site does not seem to have changed since late 2000 and the company may be inactive)

-Minux A very compact OS which is perfect for educational situations
-OpenLinux Caldera Workstation and Server
-Red Hat Linux Workstation and Server and other editions
-Slackware Linux Non-commerical Linux
-Stampede Fast and easy Linux (development stopped in March 2002)
-Storm Linux Linux based on Debian (inactive since Apr-2001)
-SuSE Linux Workstation and Server, GUI install
-TurboLinux Workstation, Server and Multiple Cluster Server editions
-Xandros Workstation and Server

OPERATING SYSTEMS SCORECARD

2006-06-21T12:12:00.000+05:30

386BSD
A/UX - Apple Corporation
AIX - International Business Machines (IBM)
ArchBSD - 4.4 BSD for Acorn RISC Platforms
AT&T System III
AT&T System V
BTOS
BSD/OS - Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
CLIX - Intergraph Corp.
Coherent
CTIX
Darwin
DC/OSx - Pyramid
DELPHI
DG/UX - Data General
Digital Unix (OSF1)(TRU64) - Digital Equiptment Corp. (DEC)
Domain/OS
DSR/NX
Dynix - IBM's enhanced enterprise class operating system.
ESIX - Esix Systems
FreeBSD - FreeBSD Organization
FreeBSD/Arm - 4.4 BSD for the Acorn RISC Platforms
HP-UX - Hewlett Packard (HP)
Harris' CX/UX
Helios
HEP-UPX
Hurd - GNU
IDRIS
Interactive Unix - Sun Microsystems
Irix - Silicon Graphics (SGI)
Linux
LynxOS - Lynx Real-Time System Inc.
MachTen - Tenon Intersystems
MacOS X
Minix
Motorola Unix R40
Motorola Unix V/88
MV/UX - Data General
NCR SVR4 MP-RAS - NCR Corporation
NetBSD
NeXT/OPENSTEP
NonStop-UX - Tandem
OpenBSD
OS/MP - (Solbournes - Operating System/Multi-Processing
POSIX
PTX (Sequent)
QNX - QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Reliant Unix - Fujitsu Siemens Computer
Riscos
RT - Encore (Real Time Unix)
SCO ODT - Santa Cruz Operation
SCO Open Server - Santa Cruz Operation
SCO XENIX - Santa Cruz Operation
SINIX - Siemens/Nixdorf
Solaris - Sun Microsystems
SPARC64/OS
SPP-UX - Convex
Stellar(?) (Stardent)
SunOS - Sun Microsystems
Topix - Sequoias Enterprise Systems
TRU64 (DUNIX) - Digital Equiptment Corp./Compaq
Ultrix - Digital Equiptment Corp. (DEC)
UMAX V R/T
UNICOS - Cray Research
UniSoft - One of the first widely-used commercial UNIX ports.
Unixware/Univel - Novell and Unix Systems Laboratories
USG
UTS - Amdahl Corporation
VENIX - VenturCom, Inc.
Version 5
Version 6
Version 7
Windows 95/NT
Xenix

BeOS Desktop OS optimized for video and sound
FreeBSD UNIX specifically for x86 platform, and a few others.
NetBSD UNIX for many different CPU platforms including x86.
NextStep Predecessor to OpenStep - No longer available. (Based in part on BSD 4.3)
OpenStep Purchased by Apple, but no longer available or supported.

SCO Open Server Caldera's Desktop and Server OS
Solaris Advanced UNIX for Servers and Desktops from Sun Microsystems.
UnixWare Caldera's Unix

Real Time OS

2006-06-21T12:11:00.000+05:30

RTOS:

Linux.
Unix.
Windows.
Vxworks.
pSOS.
Embedded Linux.
WinCE.
QNX.
Nucleus.
iTRON.

about Chuck Jones - The great Cartoonist

2006-06-20T12:59:00.000+05:30

Winner of three Academy Awards for his animatedfilms and a fourth Oscar for Lifetime achievement, Chuck Jones directed Warner Bros.' greatest stars and kept audiences laughing all over the globe formore than sixty years.

He is one of the five fathers of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd

Prsonally created the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepe le Pew, Marvin Martian, Gossamer, Michigan J. Frog, Hubie & Bertie, Junyer Bear of the Three Bears, Witch Hazel, Hugo, Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog.

He also directed Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who, The Dot and the Line, The Phantom Tollbooth, A Cricket in Times Square, Kipling’s Rikki Tikki Tavi, The White Seal, and Mowgli’s Brothers to name just a few.

Along with Winsor McCay .(creator of the first cartoon) and Walt Disney, Chuck Jones was the first inductee into the Animation Hall of Fame.

And he is the most famous and most collected animation artist in history.

Factors Affecting Fuel Economy

2006-06-20T12:56:00.000+05:30

1. Frequent stopping and short distance travel consumers more fuel.
2. Needless idling at traffic lights affect fuel consumption e.g. ten minutes idling wastes 100cc of fuel
3. Driving at higher speed consumes more fuel than driving at steady speed of 45 to 55 Km/hr. in top gear.
4. Changing of gears at the speeds mentioned below enhances the fuel efficiency.

Gear Recommended Apeeds
1st to 2nd - 10 Km/hr.
2nd to 3rd - 20 Km/hr.
3rd to 4th - 30 Km/hr.
4th to 5th - 40 Km/hr.

5. Try to drive in 5th gear as much possible.
6. Adultered or less quantity of fuel dipensed by petrol pumps would indicate poor fuel efficiency too.
7. Less tyre pressure increase fuel consumption.
8. Clogged air filter, worn out clutch, badly turned engine and high pollution levels increase fuel consumption.
9. Do not unnecessary race the engine.

source : Maruti

A SURVIVAL KIT FOR EARTHQUAKE

2006-06-20T12:47:00.001+05:30

*BE PREPARED*

1.Assume that an earthquake can occur at any time.
2.Have priodic checks done toyour building and repair cracks, weakened walls, etc.
3.Ensure that a torch in working condition is always kept ready and accessible.
4.Keep a first aid box, preferably on the door, because doors do not normally collapse during quakes.
5.Wooden or steel cupboards should be placed against the wall or beams to ensure minimum damage.

WHEN DISASTER STRIKES*

1.Do not panic.
2.Listen to the radio/TV instructions.
3.While moving out of the house after a quake hld a pillow or gunny bag over your head to prevent injury.
4.If you are outside the house at the time of the quake, stay away from walls.
5.Switch off gass regulator.
6.While travelling, stop immediately if you feal the tremors.
7.If dwelling is not constructed to withstand quakes, rush out the moment tremors are felt.
8.Do nottry to escape through narrow lanes.
9.In case of highrise buildings, residents must stand below the door frames or beams of the building.

*THE AFTERMATH*

1.Do a through check-up of the house before entering it after the quake.
2.Wear some protective headgear while entering the house after a quake.
3.If major cracks are visible in the walls, vacate the place.Even samll tremors may cause such buildings to collapse.
4.Do not light gas immediately after the quake. Check cylinder and burner before use.
5.Falling debris may have damaged the cylinder. Be sensitive to the smell of leaking gas and throw open all doors and windows and leave the house.
6.If smoke emanates from electric wiring,switch off the mains immediately.

Useful scripts for ORKUT

2006-06-20T11:06:00.000+05:30

Skiddies have come up with cool ideas like changing the colour, crazy writes for scrap n manny more.. jus to make our orkut more interesting

To start with .. u need 2 things
1. Mozilla`s Firefox!!
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
2. Grease Monkey ( It allows to install your scripts.. jus 1 click n script is installed)
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

Once u done all this next is scripts..few of them are ...

1.** Crazy Write **
http://www.tenisclubeassis.com.br/crazy_write.user.js
adds option for writing styles

2. **Creamkut**
http://www.orangekut.xpg.com.br/creamkut.user.js
Gives your Orkut a creamy look

3.** Bluekut**
http://www.vsrdesigner.com/bluekut/bluekutmod.user.js
changes your orkut to blue...

Classification Of Cryptography and Key

2006-06-20T09:11:00.000+05:30

1.) by Algorithm
- Substitution
- Transposotion

2.) by Key
- Symmetric
- Asymmertric

3.) by Plain TExt Processing
- Block Cipher
- Streak Cipher

4.) by Algorithm Mode
- EBC : Electronic Code Book
- CBC : Cipher Block Chaining
- CFB : Cipher Feedback
- OFB : Output Feedback

1 - Key management :-
FIRST TYPE :
1 - Key Generation
2 - Key Exchange
3 - Key Storage
4 - Key Revocation

SECOND TYPE :
1 - Non Linera Key
2 - Transaction Key
3 - Verifying Key
4 - Using Key
5 - Updating Key
6 - Storing Key
7 - Dstroying Key

2 - Key Distribution :
1 - Public Announcement
2 - Public Available Directory
3 - Public key Authority
4 - Public Key Certificates

firefox rocks

2006-06-17T16:01:00.000+05:30

there is an add on or plugin or theme for firefoex.
where in, u can directly log in to any of ur blogs directly from firefox, just type is your message from its editor and publish directly from the browser.
and for this you dont need to go to the bloggers website.
isnt it gr8.
so all the bloggers out there, just try it

news worth posting [click me]

2006-05-24T21:52:00.000+05:30

hey guys its time to rejoice.
This is the first time, that any gaming console is being launched in india so near with global launch.
According to Reuters(india), Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to launch its popular Xbox 360 gaming console in India, where an economic boom has boosted incomes and spurred spending.

Microsoft hopes to offer the Xbox 360 console, its controller alongwith a game for 19,990 rupees ($439). In the United States, it sells the Xbox 360 and a controller at between $299-$399, while a game costs another $50-60.

Why name : Torjan Horse.

2006-04-27T16:37:00.000+05:30

According to Greek legend, the greeks defeated the Trojans by an act of trickery. Led by the soldier Odysseus, the greeks constructed a giant wooden horse and left it outside the wall of Troy. The torjans pulled the horse into the city, not knowing that greeks soldiers were hiding inside the horse. That night, the greeks crept out of the horse and took the city by surprise.