A for Andra Pradesh

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.

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!!!

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

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

White Paper Links :

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

software download links:

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

open source, Unix, linux Links

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 :

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

some important links

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

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