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Mtech st syllabus

2011-11-19T08:33:00.000-08:00

2011-10-14T00:11:00.001-07:00

Everyone ignored when Prashant Bhushan actually said something on J&K. Its only day before yesterday they asked..." what did he actually say"?

2011-10-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

Girls: Realize that If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

how fast are your reactions

2011-10-14T00:08:00.001-07:00

play this to know more

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf

not a nice way to take delivery of your brand new car !!OMG

2011-10-14T00:04:00.001-07:00

2011-10-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

SRK also tweeted about Rajni "Garu's" health. Again, I have no idea why he uses Telugu to address a Maharashtrian Tamil star from Karnataka!

@twit sk
people above hyderabad are considered to be north Indians by south Indians and down side vice-versa

What is in the west ,that's not in India?

2011-08-29T22:41:00.000-07:00

The west is always ahead ,why there must be a reason ??,is it climate,people ,natural resources,attitude ,policies or what?from my prespective its the people (even Indians are doing their best in the western countries ,but not in their country:) .All the people of the developed countries primariry have or at an early stage develop a passion .towards what?towards something.it might be talking ,writing ,dancing or driving.it might be about sex or rocket.the passion doesn't end with a list but thier interest are never limited nor bounded.after an amateur stage of the passion they study ,browse ,learn or ask about the skills and through it out with an expert and they themselves come with an demanding idea.Their story doesn't end there.they indeed make the passion as a saleable project or a patent or in to a monetary benefit and live a life with thatYour earning .how nice it will be ,when your living is through passion and the work you do is out of your interest.Then eventually work will become workship.isin't .so will have have a passion today or will make my work more passioable and enjoy it throughly.do a separate yoga or meditation needed ,when what you do is yoga itself.

Online file storage and backing up MB

2011-07-17T07:32:00.000-07:00

Dropbox.com is primarily a free service that helps you to upload several formats of file.The usage of it is not restricted to windows and it works totally well on Ubunthu versions.It is applicable for usage with mobile also.

FilesAnywhere.com offers the best online file storage, with cloud storage solutions for Internet backup, file sharing, secure FTP hosting, and web folders .It has an option of free account as well as paid option.both the options has SSL security topup

Box.net let you store and share your content with confidence. 99.9% up-time guarantee, SSL encryption, redundant storage, configurable permissions, and more.Its a cloud based answer to your storage

yahoo briefcase is a typical option too

ADrive.com offers 50GB of free online storage and backup for all file types. Store your files with ADrive and access, manage and edit them from any computer .

Even mozy.com sounds good for backup .

Software Engineering Proverbs courtesy: multicians.org

2011-07-12T09:23:00.000-07:00

Software Engineering Proverbs

collected by Tom Van Vleck

Drawn by Angus Macdonald

A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.

-- Einstein

André Bensoussan once explained to me the difference between a programmer and a designer:

"If you make a general statement, a programmer says, 'Yes, but...'
while a designer says, 'Yes, and...'"

No matter what the problem is,
it's always a people problem.

Jerry Weinberg

Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm:

Choose two:

Good
Fast
Cheap

Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

Tom DeMarco, rephrasing Einstein, who said

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

"There's no time to stop for gas, we're already late"

-- Karin Donker

Deming's 14 points

Create constancy of purpose.
Adopt the new philosophy.
Cease dependence on mass inspection to achieve quality.
Minimize total cost, not initial price of supplies.
Improve constantly the system of production and service.
Institute training on the job.
Institute leadership.
Drive out fear.
Break down barriers between departments.
Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and numerical targets.
Eliminate work standards (quotas) and management by objective.
Remove barriers that rob workers, engineers, and managers of their right to pride of workmanship.
Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.
Put everyone in the company to work to accomplish the transformation.

We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer -- and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.

-- Tom Van Vleck

When somebody begins a sentence with "It would be nice if..." the right thing to do is to wait politely for the speaker to finish. No project ever gets around to the it-would-be-nice features: or it they do, they regret it. Wait for sentences that begin "We have to..." and pay close attention, and see if you agree.

-- Tom Van Vleck

The Troops Know

The schedule doesn't have enough time for maintenance in it.
A lot of bugs get past the tests.
Most old code can't be maintained.

To go faster, slow down. Everybody who knows about orbital mechanics understands that.

-- Scott Cherf

Everybody Knows:

Discipline is the best tool.
Design first, then code.
Don't patch bugs out, rewrite them out.
Don't test bugs out, design them out.

Everybody Knows:

If you don't understand it, you can't program it.
If you didn't measure it, you didn't do it.

Everybody Knows:

If something is worth doing once, it's worth building a tool to do it.

Your problem is another's solution;
Your solution will be his problem.

Everybody Knows:

If you've found 3 bugs in a program, best estimate is that there are 3 more.
60% of product cost comes after initial shipment.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

-- Albert Einstein

On the radio the other night, Jimmy Connors said the best advice he ever got was from Bobby Riggs:

do it
do it right
do it right now

It is not enough to do your best: you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.

-- W. Edwards Deming

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."

-- Lao-Tzu

You must be the change
You wish to see in the world

-- Gandhi

Experiment escorts us last,
His pungent company
Will not allow an axiom
An opportunity.

-- Emily Dickinson

when the cart stops
do you whip the cart
or whip the ox?

Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: QA testers don't change anything. They just report that it's dark.

Kerry Zallar

Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Just one. But the house falls down.

Andrew Siwko

One test is worth a thousand opinions.

"If you didn't write it down, it didn't happen."

This saying is popular among scientists (doing experiments), but I believe it applies to software testing, particularly for real-time systems.

--Larry Zana

We reject kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in rough consensus and running code.

--Dave Clark (1992)

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming---or buying software---on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

-- Ted Nelson

Software is Too Important to be Left to Programmers, by Meilir Page-Jones.

"If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture."

-- Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder

... while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery, we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces. We simply do not know yet the limits of disentanglement. We do not know yet whether intrinsic intricacy can be distinguished from accidental intricacy.

-- E. W. Dijkstra, Communications of the ACM, Mar 2001, Vol. 44, No. 3

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt ax. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

-- E. W. Dijkstra

Abraham Lincoln reportedly said that, given eight hours to chop down a tree, he'd spend six sharpening his axe.

-- TidBITS 654, quoted by Derek K. Miller, via Art Evans

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) " The Man who was Orthodox", via Paul Black

Here is a great page about some kinds of management actually observed, and some insights on quality processes, by Joseph Koshy, via Robert Watson

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What to recover a lost files(shift+deleted) in windows

2011-07-12T09:14:00.000-07:00

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application.

For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from. Important: As soon as a pic or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pics or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that while using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.

PhotoRec runs under

DOS/Win9x
Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7
Linux
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
Sun Solaris
Mac OS X

and can be compiled on almost every Unix system.

File systems

Photorec ignores the file system, this way it works even if the file system is severely damaged.
It can recover lost files at least from

FAT,
NTFS,
EXT2/EXT3 filesystem
HFS+

ReiserFS includes some special optimizations centered around tails, a name for files and end portions of files that are smaller than a filesystem block. In order to increase performance, ReiserFS is able to store files inside the b*tree leaf nodes themselves, rather than storing the data somewhere else on the disk and pointing to it. Unfortunately, PhotoRec isn't able to deal with this - that's why it doesn't work well with ReiserFS.

Media

PhotoRec works with hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards (Compact Flash, Memory Stick, SecureDigital/SD, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, etc.), USB memory drives, DD raw image, EnCase E01 image, etc.
PhotoRec has been successfully tested with various portable media players including iPod and the following Digital Cameras:

Canon EOS300D, 10D
Casio Exilim EX-Z 750
HP PhotoSmart 620, 850, 935
Nikon CoolPix 775, 950, 5700
Olympus C350N, C860L, Mju 400 Digital, Stylus 300
Sony Alpha DSLR, DSC-P9
Pentax K20D
Praktica DCZ-3.4

Known file formats

PhotoRec searches for known file headers. If there is no data fragmentation, which is often the case, it can recover the whole file. Photorec recognises numerous file formats including ZIP, Office, PDF, HTML, JPEG and various graphics file formats. The whole list of file formats recovered by PhotoRec contains more than 390 file extensions (about 225 file families).

How PhotoRec works

FAT, NTFS, ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems store files in data blocks (also called clusters under Windows). The cluster or block size remains at a constant number of sectors after being initialized during the formatting of the file system. In general, most operating systems try to store the data in a contiguous way so as to minimize data fragmentation. The seek time of mechanical drives is significant for writing and reading data to/from a hard disk, so that's why it's important to keep the fragmentation to a minimum level.

When a file is deleted, the meta-information about this file (file name, date/time, size, location of the first data block/cluster, etc.) is lost; e.g., in an ext3/ext4 file system, the names of deleted files are still present, but the location of the first data block is removed. This means the data is still present on the file system, but only until some or all of it is overwritten by new file data.

To recover these lost files, PhotoRec first tries to find the data block (or cluster) size. If the file system is not corrupted, this value can be read from the superblock (ext2/ext3/ext4) or volume boot record (FAT, NTFS). Otherwise, PhotoRec reads the media, sector by sector, searching for the first ten files, from which it calculates the block/cluster size from their locations. Once this block size is known, PhotoRec reads the media block by block (or cluster by cluster). Each block is checked against a signature database which comes with the program and has grown in the type of files it can recover ever since PhotoRec's first version came out.

For example, PhotoRec identifies a JPEG file when a block begins with:

0xff,0xd8,0xff,0xe0
0xff,0xd8,0xff,0xe1
or 0xff,0xd8,0xff,0xfe

If PhotoRec has already started to recover a file, it stops its recovery, checks the consistency of the file when possible and starts to save the new file (which it determined from the signature it found).

If the data is not fragmented, the recovered file should be either identical to or larger than the original file in size. In some cases, PhotoRec can learn the original file size from the file header, so the recovered file is truncated to the correct size. If, however, the recovered file ends up being smaller than its header specifies, it is discarded. Some files, such as *.MP3 types, are data streams. In this case, PhotoRec parses the recovered data, then stops the recovery when the stream ends.

When a file is recovered successfully, PhotoRec checks the previous data blocks to see if a file signature was found but the file wasn't able to be successfully recovered (i.e., the file was too small), and it tries again. This way, some fragmented files can be successfully recovered.

online guitar tuner

2011-07-11T04:27:00.000-07:00

ultimate-guitar-tuner

Step by step tuning:

Requirement – You need to install Flash 10.1 or later.
Choose microphone – To be able to tune your instrument you need to allow access to your microphone. Just press the green “Allow-button” in the popup window to use the built-in microphone. To use an external microphone click here. At this link you can also make your settings if you plug in your guitar to your sound card.
Pluck the string – The tuner will tell you the current pitch.
Start to tune – To be in tune the needle should be vertical. If the needle is on the left side of the center you need to tighten the string. If the needle is on the right side of the center you need to loosen the tension. Remember to just make small changes while tuning.
Start playing – Start playing and tell your friends about this free guitar tuner site.

Book publishing through POD

2011-07-11T04:21:00.000-07:00

Print On Demand with digital technology is used as a way of printing items for a fixed cost per copy, irrespective of the size of the order. While the unit price of each physical copy printed is higher than with offset printing, when setup costs are taken into account digital Print On Demand provides lower per unit costs for very small print runs than offset printing methods.

While the unit cost of a book or print produced using POD is usually higher than one produced as part of a longer print run, POD does bring some key business benefits: 1) large inventories of a book or print do not need to be kept in stock, 2) the technical set-up is usually quicker and less expensive than for offset printing and 3) there is little or no waste from unsold products. These advantages reduce the risks associated with publishing books and prints and can lead to increased choice for consumers.

Online E-mail to FAX Service :have your own fax number

2011-07-11T04:04:00.000-07:00

Need your own fax number to print in your visiting card.

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Marriage nostalgia

2011-07-11T03:56:00.000-07:00

Happen to visit light story in FB ,nostalgia....

The site happens to be one to upload marriage photos and videos ,many like minded couple share their memories in stories ans photo-talk.

The tiredness but happy look of the couple reflected the sign of true love in their faces and the ecstasy in the body language.

The silk,mangal sutra ,turmeric ,heat,smoke,sweat,loud noises ,melam,people,meaning less croud shout,sambhar,rasam ,appalam,payasam,green leaf,pandal are together forms the essence of the site.

Older couples looks at the SITE and will love their togetherness,will give more impact to their married lives.

So,upload your marriage photos to lightstory.in

When women will be men?

2011-07-04T08:30:00.000-07:00

When women will be men?

Bunch of newspaper write-up, blogs, twit talks shout about women’s freedom and empowerment, their role in the family, society and development. Women are out there in all the fields and domains (heard, Indian air force has a proposal wired to employ women cadres to fly fighter flights in coming years.)

Women are seen in parliament, pubs, auto’s (in driver seat), as butlers and butchers, even as murderers and con artists where once (may be a couple of decades before) only men took position. Most of the software companies have an equal ratio of men is to women.

Women have got the freedom to live with any human being (male or female) who they like to be with, without the prominence of attributes like caste, religion, region, and sex taking high stake.

Women enjoy the freedom of good lifestyle than men (huh!! What men can wear other than shirts and trousers ,women have a whole junk of dresses, shirts, skirts, pants ,trousers ,midis, perfume ,head to toe make up and more..)

But, why women are not like men, they still talk about women independence and freedom, while men don’t even think about. Why is that in almost all the houses women goes to job as well cooks and cleans, while her husband does work selectively. Why homemakers are not given salary by her husband? If given for each of the errand she does, the husband will have to pay more than what he earns, isn’t.???

Anyway I know the answer, women will be men only when

a) Men deliver

else

b) Women stops delivering.

That is the beginning of the loop.

The Pomodoro Technique-for research writing

2011-06-05T09:24:00.000-07:00

Is there any method you need to undergo to write a technical paper or an article within a stipulated time ,without interference or deviation of the topic r your scope of writing.

here is a method called pomodora 's.

try this one

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down periods of work into 25-minute intervals called 'pomodori' (from the Italian word for 'tomato') separated by breaks. Closely related to concepts such as timeboxing and iterative and incremental development used in software design, the method has been adopted in pair programming contexts. The method is based on the idea that frequent breaks can improve mental agility.

There are five basic steps to implementing the technique:

decide on the task to be done

set the pomodoro (cellphone timer) to 25 minutes

work on the task until the timer rings; record with an x

take a short break (5 minutes)

every four "pomodori" take a longer break (15–20 minutes)

The technique is available as an application to be downloaded here

Free PDF of Francesco Cirillo's book

want to plan your technical paper writing process

2011-06-05T06:28:00.000-07:00

I always use to ask ,why is PhD not a course in an university.with the I semester and II for course work .III for analysis and review paper writing and the fourth coming semesters for thesis paper writing .the problem with the slow process of most Indian doctoral degrees is lack of deadlines .

you don't have the forecasting and bird's eye planning for the next few years ,as in B.tech and M.tech.Most of them(excuse the few's) write paper not for the deadline ,but search conferences and journals for their papers.

To plan your paper process you have a web services .Give your start date and end date and it will give you the entire hops ,you have to be on.

go here papercalendar

like.....

Starting on 06/05/2011, ending on 06/31/2011 . . . You have 25 days to finish.

1	on Sun Jun 05, 2011: Be prepared: run through a practice session with the writing and research software you will need.

2	on Mon Jun 06, 2011: Read through, and make absolutely certain you understand the assignment

3	on Tue Jun 07, 2011: Research the general subject -- browse the internet, search a few online databases

4	on Tue Jun 07, 2011: Select a topic that is appropriate to the length and type of assignment

5	on Wed Jun 08, 2011: Identify research materials, and write a Reading List.

6	on Wed Jun 08, 2011: Compose a working thesis, start reading.

7	on Mon Jun 20, 2011: Research Phase Completed - by this date you will have read through the research materials you've listed, collected your research notes, and recorded bibliographic information needed to cite your sources

8	on Mon Jun 20, 2011: Print out and review your notes

9	on Tue Jun 21, 2011: Outline - define the overall structure of your discussion, and begin writing

10	on Sat Jun 25, 2011: FIRST DRAFT COMPLETED, with a revised thesis statement and a tentative title

11	on Sat Jun 25, 2011: Any follow-up research you need to do to fill in gaps in the written paper should now be completed

12	on Thu Jun 30, 2011: Edit, make final revisions, and run spelling checker

13	on Thu Jun 30, 2011: Write the bibliographic references for the works you have cited in the paper.

14	on Fri Jul 01, 2011: Hand in the finished paper!

our internet routine

2011-06-05T06:17:00.000-07:00

courtesy:labnol

Meditation for the techies-

2011-06-05T06:12:00.001-07:00

A geek meditation session in progress. Comic is courtesy the very awesomeJoyOfTech.com.

Indian-Americans hold meetings, fast in support of Baba Ramdev

2011-06-04T10:37:00.000-07:00

Threat to fast unto death= Threat to commit suicide, Fast unto death = Committing suicide, by Act 8 of 1882…

One more Indian kid wins the Spelling Bee. Go, Sukanya Roy!!

2011-06-04T10:04:00.000-07:00

ask your children to play the site

spellingbeethegame

China vs India

2011-06-04T09:59:00.001-07:00

"China will grow because of their Government; India will grow despite their government"

Do you have extended mobile phone warranty-Indiawarranty.com

2011-06-04T09:09:00.000-07:00

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Who is going to pay for repairs each time your mobile phone gets damaged?

What if your mobile phone is not repairable? Who will pay to replace it?

How quickly can you get your mobile phone repaired or replaced so that you can start using it again?

How do you ensure that the whole process of repair and replacement of your mobile phone is quick and hassle free and ideally, FREE OF COST?

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End of libya war

2011-06-04T02:03:00.000-07:00

Chinese teen sells his kidney for an iPad 2-Real gadgets freak

2011-06-04T01:56:00.000-07:00

How many of us own a ipad, not many (we actually own a bigger device than that).

Its okay, what you would do to get one, maybe…

Q: Walk on broken glasses

A: Nope (maybe with my Italian shoes on)

Q: Will you donate your girl friend to someone

A: Not till I get a new one

Then

Will you give your kidney Yes!,its not me .but a young chap from china was so desperate to acquire the new iPad 2 that he sold one of his kidneys for just £2,000 to pay for it, according to reports.

report

When do they sleep

2011-04-22T09:07:00.000-07:00

In order to find the sleeping pattern of the popular or the cattle class like me.you can run an inbuilt algorithm ,which calculates their online active hours and the time range of offline hours and gives the result in a chart.
mine was correct
check yours with your twitter username
sleepingtime.org

Get Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 on a DVD

2011-04-22T09:01:00.000-07:00

Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 earlier this year and it includes several security and performance related enhancements for Windows 7 all rolled into a single installer.

The easiest and quickest way to install this service pack on your Windows 7 computer is using Windows Update. However, if you have two more more computers running Windows 7, you may download the standalone SP1 installer from microsoft.com and apply it to all your computers even in offline mode.

There’s a third option as well. You may order Windows 7 SP1 on a DVD and Microsoft will deliver it to you via snail mail. They won’t charge anything for the media but you’ll still have to pay shipping charges that vary depending on your country. For instance, if you are in North America, the shipping cost for the DVD is around $6 while Windows 7 users in India will have to pay around $11.

Obviously, a very small number of people would probably take the DVD option but if you are one, pull out your credit card and click your region name - Asia, Europe and Africa, North America or South America - to begin the order process. As you may have noticed in the screenshot, you may order up to three Windows 7 SP1 DVDs in a single transaction.

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Why the New Opera is Perfect for Slow Connections

2011-04-19T21:08:00.000-07:00

One of the best features of Opera is the built-in Turbo mode that lets you browse the web faster even on slow connections. The feature can also help you save money when you are on a metered Internet connection, like that hotel room, where you have to pay per byte.

Let me explain. When you request a web page - say time.com - your browser will connect directly to the time.com servers to download all the images, text, and other associated files. However, in the case of Opera Turbo, the same request is routed to Opera servers – the web page is downloaded on Opera servers first, it is then compressed and served to you.

The content and layout of the page doesn’t change after compression though the quality of images is often reduced. But since your browser now has to download lesser number of bytes for the same web page, it will load a lot faster on your computer.

Opera Turbo with Google's WebP

The Turbo mode has been part of Opera since version 10 but with the new 11.1 release, that’s due today, Opera servers are now using Google’s WebP image format, instead of JPEG, to compress images. As a result, the byte size of the compressed images is reduced even further without much degradation in the visual quality.

I ran a quick test comparing the size of these photographs as served through regular Opera, Opera Turbo (JPG) and new Opera Turbo with WebP based compression. See results:

The quality of compressed images is quite acceptable. In some cases the images compressed with WebP look better (or smoother) than the ones that have been compressed using JPEG.

And when every byte matters, the savings are obviously huge with Opera 11.1. The other innovative feature of Opera is Unite that turns your computer into a server with a click.

Send Pictures from the Digital Camera Straight to your Phone with Eye-Fi

2011-04-19T21:01:00.000-07:00

Eye-Fi memory cards let you wirelessly transfer pictures from the digital camera to your computer without cables. They are compatible with most digital cameras and, other than transferring pictures to the computer, Eye-Fi cards can also upload photos to sites like Flickr and Facebook straight from the camera.

There’s one limitation though. Eye-Fi memory cards use Wi-Fi to transfer photos from the camera to the computer and thus your camera needs to be within the range of a wireless network for you to push the image files out of the camera.
From the Digital Camera to the Mobile Phone

If that is holding you from getting an Eye-Fi card, here’s some related news that might interest you. Eye-Fi cards now let you upload photos and videos from the camera straight to your mobile phone without requiring a wireless network. Mobile devices that are currently supported include the iPhone, the iPad and all Android mobile phones.

You still cannot send photos from the camera to the computer without a Wi-Fi network but the new upgrade still solves an important problem. Say you are on a beach without Wi-Fi - you can capture a high resolution shot with your digital camera, transfer the picture to you phone wirelessly using the Eye-Fi card and then email it to friends using the phone’s data connection which could be EDGE, 3G or Wi-Fi.

The Direct Mode feature is available as a free software upgrade to all existing Eye-Fi card users or you can get one from Amazon.com.

@labnol

How to Make Money on the Internet

2011-03-14T03:05:00.000-07:00

Bring Facebook to your Desktop [Windows and Mac]

2011-03-12T22:09:00.000-08:00

If you have that constant urge to check Facebook after every few minutes, switch to Facebook Desktop and never launch the browser again.

Facebook Desktop is a light-weight client that sits in your system try, like any other messenger software, and will alert you as soon as some new activity happens in your Facebook stream. The alerts are presented as unobtrusive pop-ups on the desktop that automatically fade after some time.

Facebook Desktop is written in Adobe AIR and will work on Windows as well as Mac OS X 10.5. It displays notifications for status updates, new wall posts, friend requests and messages from Facebook friends but nothing related to Pages that you may have liked on Facebook.

I have had it running on my desktop for almost a week now and the alerts from friend’s activity on Facebook almost appear in real-time. There’s also an official client for Facebook they seem to have abandoned it.

@labnol

The World’s Most Blocked Websites

2011-03-11T20:20:00.001-08:00

As a Geek, What gives you the Greatest Satisfaction?

2011-03-11T20:16:00.000-08:00

courtesy:digital(0,1) inspiration

Laurel and Hardy-nostalgia

2011-03-11T20:09:00.001-08:00

Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives

2011-03-11T20:03:00.000-08:00

Hidden inside the skeletons of high-rise towers, extra steel bracing, giant rubber pads and embedded hydraulic shock absorbers make modern Japanese buildings among the sturdiest in the world during a major earthquake. And all along the Japanese coast, tsunami warning signs, towering seawalls and well-marked escape routes offer some protection from walls of water.

These precautions, along with earthquake and tsunami drills that are routine for every Japanese citizen, show why Japan is the best-prepared country in the world for the twin disasters of earthquake and tsunami — practices that undoubtedly saved lives, though the final death toll is unknown.

In Japan, where earthquakes are far more common than they are in the United States, the building codes have long been much more stringent on specific matters like how much a building may sway during a quake.

After the Kobe earthquake in 1995, which killed about 6,000 people and injured 26,000, Japan also put enormous resources into new research on protecting structures, as well as retrofitting the country’s older and more vulnerable structures. Japan has spent billions of dollars developing the most advanced technology against earthquakes and tsunamis.

Japan has gone much further than the United States in outfitting new buildings with advanced devices called base isolation pads and energy dissipation units to dampen the ground’s shaking during an earthquake.

The isolation devices are essentially giant rubber-and-steel pads that are installed at the very bottom of the excavation for a building, which then simply sits on top of the pads. The dissipation units are built into a building’s structural skeleton. They are hydraulic cylinders that elongate and contract as the building sways, sapping the motion of energy.

Of course, nothing is entirely foolproof. Structural engineers monitoring the events from a distance cautioned that the death toll was likely to rise as more information became available. Dr. Jack Moehle, a structural engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, said that video of the disaster seemed to show that some older buildings had indeed collapsed.

The country that gave the world the word tsunami, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, built concrete seawalls in many communities, some as high as 40 feet, which amounted to its first line of defense against the water. In some coastal towns, in the event of an earthquake, networks of sensors are set up to set off alarms in individual residences and automatically shut down floodgates to prevent waves from surging upriver.

Critics of the seawalls say they are eyesores and bad for the environment. The seawalls, they say, can instill a false sense of security among coastal residents and discourage them from participating in regular evacuation drills. Moreover, by literally cutting residents’ visibility of the ocean, the seawalls reduce their ability to understand the sea by observing wave patterns, critics say.

Waves from Friday’s tsunami spilled over some seawalls in the affected areas. “The tsunami roared over embankments in Sendai city, washing cars, houses and farm equipment inland before reversing directions and carrying them out to sea,” according to a statement by a Japanese engineer, Kit Miyamoto, circulated by the American Society of Civil Engineers. “Flames shot from some of the houses, probably because of burst gas pipes.”

In one town, Ofunato, which was struck by a major tsunami in 1960, dozens of signs in Japanese and English mark escape routes, and emergency sirens are tested three times a day, Mr. Eisner said.

Initial reports from Ofunato on Friday suggested that hundreds of homes had been swept away; the death toll was not yet known. But Matthew Francis of URS Corporation and a member of the civil engineering society’s tsunami subcommittee, said that education may have been the critical factor.

“For a trained population, a matter of 5 or 10 minutes is all you may need to get to high ground,” Mr. Francis said.

That would be in contrast to the much less experienced Southeast Asians, many of whom died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami because they lingered near the coast. Reports in the Japanese news media indicate that people originally listed as missing in remote areas have been turning up in schools and community centers, suggesting that tsunami education and evacuation drills were indeed effective.

These precautions, along with earthquake and tsunami drills that are routine for every Japanese citizen, show why japan is the best-prepared country in the world for the twin disasters of earthquake and tsunami — practices that undoubtedly saved lives, though the final death toll is unknown.

In one town, Ofunato, which was struck by a major tsunami in 1960, dozens of signs in Japanese and English mark escape routes, and emergency sirens are tested three times a day, Mr. Eisner said.

“For a trained population, a matter of 5 or 10 minutes is all you may need to get to high ground,” Mr. Francis said.

ObCom 2011

2011-03-11T09:01:00.000-08:00

OBCom 2011
This International Conference is a major event to be conducted following the grand success of series of ObCom conferences during 2003, 2004 and 2006, which were audited by a good number of participants from Academia and Industry across the World. The past ObCom conferences received good contributions from academia, industry and research organizations. Our sponsors included governmental and non-governmental agencies like DRDO, ISTE, DIT, CSIR etc.

Information and Communication Technologies are critical to India’s future and to realize the Vision 2020 especially in the socially relevant and strategically important sectors such as education, healthcare, agriculture, law-enforcement & security and to modernize sectors of public interest such as energy, transport and environment.

In pursuant to the above, VIT University has been keeping pace with emerging technologies of modern times, which stimulate scholarly research and debate in many disciplines. The objects/components- based development is one such aspect which has paved a way to design and develop market-driven information and communication technologies, systems and products. Foreseeing importance and impact of above, the VIT University has been organizing ObCom series of conferences since the year 2003 which received overwhelming response from academia and industry.
Call for Papers

Need to poto u'rself

2011-02-06T20:20:00.000-08:00

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Upcoming changes to PayPal User Agreement for India

2011-02-06T20:17:00.000-08:00

As part of our commitment to provide a high level of customer service, we would like to give you a 30-day advance notice on changes to our user agreement for India.

With effect from 1 March 2011, you are required to comply with the requirements set out in the notification of the Reserve Bank of India governing the processing and settlement of export-related receipts facilitated by online payment gateways ("RBI Guidelines").

In order to comply with the RBI Guidelines, our user agreement in India will be amended for the following services as follows:
Any balance in and all future payments into your PayPal account may not be used to buy goods or services and must be transferred to your bank account in India within 7 days from the receipt of confirmation from the buyer in respect of the goods or services; and

Export-related payments for goods and services into your PayPal account may not exceed US$500 per transaction.
We seek your understanding as we continue to employ our best efforts to comply with the RBI Guidelines in a timely manner.

We regret any inconvenience caused to you and hope the advance notice will enable you to plan your future use of our services accordingly. For further information, click here.

If you have any questions, please contact PayPal customer support by logging into your PayPal account and clicking on ‘contact us’ at the bottom of the page. We sincerely thank you for your patience and continued support.

Sincerely,

The PayPal Team

IBM Developer SuperStar Contest.

2011-02-06T20:15:00.001-08:00

Show the world the way ahead
ibm.com/developerWorks/superstar

IBM developerWorks invites you to jump-start your career and show the world that you are in a different league, one of India's top IT Professionals, by accepting the challenge of the IBM Developer SuperStar Contest.

You'll develop your own idea into a working reality and gain worldwide recognition. Whether you're developing a new system that includes mechanical, electrical, and software components, or you're focused on the design and delivery of a software system to automate a business process, you'll have a chance to take center stage and demonstrate how an idea can make a difference.

Submit your idea today.

Grand prize: Win an IBM-sponsored "Business Leadership Skills" course from eCornell University.

Get to know more about this exciting contest.

Join the active community of developers on facebook

Please add SuperStar2011@in.ibm.com to your address book to ensure that you receive further communications without any trouble.

The Entrepreneurship Summit 2011 : IIT Bombay

2011-02-06T20:11:00.000-08:00

E-Cell, IIT Bombay brings to you the annual entrepreneurship extravaganza, The Entrepreneurship Summit to be held on the 6th of February on the IIT Bombay campus. Besides seeing the presence of some heavyweight personalities, E-Summit will feature initiatives that will be of immense help to you in your entrepreneurial endeavours. Some of the major initiatives are listed below:

Networking Arena:
Networking arena has been designed to allow people to interact efficiently with people of similar interest.
The arena will feature six different sectors, each comprising 3-4 experts who have 20-25 years of experience in the field. The initial talk would include latest innovations happening in the sector, the upcoming opportunities and avenues from where people interested in the sector can get support. It would be followed by a q/a session and a breakaway session where you will get the chance to interact with the experts and to know about what other people are doing currently.

Start-Up Expo:
E-Summit will see the presence of some extremely exciting start-ups, handpicked from across the nation. In addition to these some start-ups from IIT Bombay will also be showcased.

International Workshop:
E-Summit will also feature an International Workshop on Business Modelling organized by the Belgian Company "Board of Innovation". The workshop will focus on building innovative business models that can

help a company/start up escalate it's chances of success and optimize it's earnings from it's resources.

Confluence of great minds:

Some of the India's most known entrepreneurs and innovators will be present at the Summit, to share their experiences and ideas with the participating audience. A few names are:

Mr.Tulsi Tanti, Founder, Suzlon
Mr.Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India
Mr.Shailesh J.Mehta, Founder, Providian Financial Corp.
Mr.Sudhakar V.Shenoy, Founder, IMC-USA
Mr. Dilip Chhabria, Internationally Acclaimed Automotive Designer
and many equally respected names.

Make sure you do not miss this opportunity that might define your
future as an entrepreneur!

Register for the Summit here:
http://www.ecell.in/esummit/register.php

!!!!!

2011-01-18T02:54:00.001-08:00

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself." - Muhammad Ali.

Teenage

2011-01-18T02:49:00.002-08:00

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

!!!!

2011-01-18T02:49:00.001-08:00

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. That is when you would overcome any constraints in life!

!!!

2011-01-18T02:46:00.001-08:00

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

How to Get a free US Phone Number from anywhere in the world

2011-01-10T20:34:00.000-08:00

This tutorial describes how you may easily get your own US phone number from anywhere in the world without spending a penny.

Once you have a US local phone number, your friends and relatives in the US will be able to dial you from their landline or regular cell phones without paying international rates. The calls can be forwarded to your mobile phone or desktop based VoIP softphones (also see: Make phone calls over the Internet).

Skype also offers a service called Skype-In (also known as Online Number) where you can get a local phone number for USA but it costs around $18 for 3 months.
Getting your own USA Phone Number – Step by Step

Step 1: Sign-up for a free account with CallCentric.com and click continue. CallCentric will send you a confirmation mail to verify your email address.

Step 2: Once you’ve verified the email address, provide your city and country code, agree to the terms and conditions and click “Sign me up.”

Step 3: CallCentric will now provide you with a virtual tour of their websites. Skip it and choose – “Go to My CallCentric.” The next screen will list your CallCentric # in the format 1777** – copy that number to the clipboard.

Step 4: Open a new browser tab and go to phone.ipkall.com. Set the account type as SIP and paste the CallCentric # from the clipboard into the field that says SIP Username. The hostname is in.callcentric.com and choose the same email address and password that you used while setting up your CallCentric account.

[*] The default area code for your local US phone number is 253 but you may choose a different one from the drop-down. For this example, I’ll go with 425.

Step 5: Within a minute, you should get an email from ipkall.com with your new local phone number. Keep the email handy as you’ll need it while configuring the SIP client.

Step 6: Now that we have got ourselves a US phone number, let’s activate it.

6a. Download and install Express Talk on your computer. The trial version is good enough for our task. Make sure that you don’t install any of the “optional components” like toolbars, etc. during the setup.

6b. During installation, choose the default options for all the wizard screens. When you are on “SIP Setup,” choose “Yes, I already have a SIP account” and click Next. Fill the SIP details as in Step 4 above. Finish the setup.

6c. Once the setup is complete, go back to your My CallCentric page and refresh it. You should see a notification saying – “your phone is registered.” Done!

Next steps – You can now grab a SIP VoIP client for your mobile phone and configure it with your new CallCentric /ipKall number. Most Nokia Symbian phones can be configured for SIP without external apps or just search for “SIP phone” in iTunes or the Android marketplace.

Popular mobile app Fring is free and also supports SIP but for some reason, I couldn’t get it to work with CallCentric’s SIP server.

WWF for Printless PDFs – Now Available on Windows

2011-01-10T20:29:00.000-08:00

The WWF file format, in case you missed reading about it before, is just a regular PDF file except that you can’t print the content of that document. This format was developed by WWF Germany to prevent unnecessary printing.

You may download the WWF software for free from SaveAsWWF.com and it’s now available for both Mac and Windows machines.

The WWF software will install as a virtual PDF printer and you can then convert documents or emails to the WWF format by simply printing them with this new printer.

Once installed, the software will also associate the .wwf extension with the default PDF reader on your machine but if you are sending that file to someone else who may not have the WWF software, just change the extension from .wwf to .pdf and they won’t even notice the difference –

The Total Number of Web Domains

2011-01-10T20:25:00.000-08:00

The total number of domain names registered worldwide has recently crossed the 200 million mark (201.8 million to be precise) according to a VeriSign report.

These numbers reflect “domain name registrations” and therefore the total number of websites on the Internet would be much higher.

To give you an example, 16 million blogs are currently hosted on WordPress.com – these are separate websites but since they are all part of one domain, they won’t have any effect on the overall VeriSign numbers.

The most popular Top Level Domains (TLDs), in terms of registrations, were .com, .de, .net, .uk, .org, .info, .cn, .nl, .eu and .ru in the same order.

The Marriage Aptitude Test

2010-11-01T08:27:00.000-07:00

It was always going to be hard for Neo to convince Mrs. Neo of his marriage-readiness, but it would have been quicker had Mrs. Neo made Neo take the following test:

1. Write a snark-free essay on two of the following (3000+ words):
1. My dad (your would-be father-in-law)
2. Your emotions right now
3. Foreplay
2. Describe the appearance of your ideal woman, starting with her shoes. Actually, just the shoes—the rest, I know.
3. Critique the outfits I wore on our last 7 dates (skip the 3rd and 5th most recent dates; add more detail about the 6th.)
4. Write a hypothetical conversation between you and any one of my girl-friends, where she will find you cute, endearing, sexy, funny and attractive, but not flirty; she should feel herself attracted to you, while realizing that she is definitely not your type.
5. Draw a dinner fork, a teaspoon and a tablespoon. To scale.
6. List (all questions compulsory):
1. 10 colors that are not in the rainbow, or in a box of crayons.
2. 10 things you can do that my mom will find cute (bonus points for listing things that I haven’t told you).
3. All our anniversaries and important days (use additional sheets if necessary).
4. All festivals when you are not permitted to discuss religion, or give any variant of your “how 99% of the world’s religions are already extinct” speech.
5. 10 friends—besides members of your “band”—that you think you will need to phase out of your life, once we’re married. (Do not include friends that have already been phased out.)
7. Write the last joke you will ever make about my brother’s writing, clothing or preference for drinking warm water.
8. Describe your favorite book of all time, and discuss how it could be improved to match Gone With The Wind.
9. Describe in brief all your ex-girlfriends. Attach their pictures. All the pictures. And gifts, etc. Basically everything that’s in “the box.” Just attach the whole box.
10. Under what circumstances are you permitted to lie to me ? (One word or less.)
@neoindian

Fun for Fun

2010-11-01T08:22:00.000-07:00

Raju Raju sat on the wall
Raju Raju had a great fall
Balance sheet died
Shareholders cried
Raju Raju made a fraud

Raju Raju
Yes baba
Cheating us
No baba
Telling Lies
No baba
Open the balance sheet
HA HA HA

@raagavihaari

Parents take the high tech info route for school analysis.What DNA says

2010-11-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

“Is the school at a walkable distance from my home?
Are the teachers good?
Can a child cope after four years of alternative education in a traditional school?”

These are just a few of the many queries that pop up on the interactive forums on admission/parenting websites today. As school admission dates draw closer and parents try and make important decisions about which school is best for their children, their top source of information now is the interactive website.

Forums like parentree.org, zeeksha.com, schoolsearch.in, onlineschooladmissions.com are a great help to parents who need instant information or if they want to interact with other parents across the city. Though some schools have put up their own websites on the Internet, it is these interactive forums that parents find most helpful.

Says Reena Sofiya, programme manager, Target and parent, “I work all day and I just don't get the time to call up schools for information. And so I use the help of interactive websites that give me all the details I need. I get to know what other parents are talking about and though I would not make a decision based solely on these opinions, at least I get the primary information. I find it best to talk personally to the parents I find on these sites. My favourite site is parentree.org . My son is only one year nine months now and attends a Montessori toddler's programme now, but I am already planning ahead to when he joins a school.”

According to another parent Dhanya Menon who is a corporate lawyer, a website can only be a starting point. “Though I use the Internet for a lot of purposes when it comes to something major like school admissions, I would not rely on it entirely. But it is a point where you can get started and something that will supplement my other efforts. Also I don't look at schools that are heavily publicized, and I would not go by the number of hits that a site gets. I rely completely on content. For example if a blog says a teacher was very mean to a child, I would be put off immediately as I am a very cautious person.”

Some parents search the websites for specific information. Says Chaitali Sarkar, stay at home mum, who has a 22 month old daughter. “Many schools do not have enough information on their websites; so if I need dynamic info like opinions about a school, I would go to an interactive website. I like to know more about the schools and I try to get to know the parents too. If I want to speak to them in person I call them up. I also go through the blogs in detail. Unfortunately, many of these blogs are only available on alternative school sites, not on traditional schools. Once I have got the information I need, I usually go and check out the school itself, and observe the attitude of the principal and the staff.”

For Anuradha Banerjee, parent,who works in a leading bank, location is of prime importance. “These forums are very good for working couples and we get to know more than what is available on a school's website. I also like to see if the school has a good listing and this would be my primary research. The reviews on the Internet forums, however, have to be taken with a pinch of salt however as people's personal opinions keep varying. I also like to see how many children have gotten into noted institutes like the IIT from these schools. I also like the fact that you can put up posts and connect with other parents too.”

Heads of schools feel that parents should look at any website objectively. Says Santosh Gnanakan, director of communications, Acts Group that runs various schools and educational institutions across the country, “It is a good idea to be able to check out websites as a lot of parents are at office and would like to look for information. No parent will, in any case go entirely by a website. An internet forum therefore plays a small but important role when a parent is selecting a school. It is also good that parents are blogging because that keeps schools on their toes and this is the age of information so people will blog and express their opinions.

But parents should be intelligent enough not to dismiss a school just because one parent has had a bad day with a teacher. There is always another side to the story.”

@chitra Aiyer

found this letter in ACM portal,funny and eyeopening for researchers

2010-10-25T01:55:00.000-07:00

Editor's Corner

A letter from the frustrated author of a journal paper Editor's Note: It seems appropriate, in this issue of JSS containing the findings of our annual Top Scholars/Institutions study, to pay tribute to the persistent authors who make a journal like this, and a study like that, possible. In their honor, we dedicate the following humorous, anonymously-authored, letter!

Dear Sir, Madame, or Other:

Enclosed is our latest version of Ms. #1996-02-22-RRRRR, that is the re-re-re-revised revision of our paper. Choke on it. We have again rewritten the entire manuscript from start to finish. We even changed the g-d-running head! Hopefully, we have suffered enough now to satisfy even you and the bloodthirsty reviewers.

I shall skip the usual point-by-point description of every single change we made in response to the critiques. After all, it is fairly clear that your anonymous reviewers are less interested in the details of scientific procedure than in working out their personality problems and sexual frustrations by seeking some kind of demented glee in the sadistic

and arbitrary exercise of tyrannical power over hapless authors like ourselves who happen to fall into their clutches.

We do understand that, in view of the misanthropic psychopaths you have on your editorial board, you need to keep sending them papers, for if they were not reviewing manuscripts they would probably be out mugging little old ladies or clubbing baby seals to death. Still, from this batch of reviewers, C was clearly the most hostile, and we request that you not ask him to review this revision. Indeed, we have mailed letter bombs to four or ®ve people we suspected of being reviewer C, so if you send the manuscript back to them, the review process could be unduly delayed. Some of the reviewersÕ comments we could not do anything about. For example, if (as C suggested) several of my recent ancestors were indeed drawn from other species, it is too late to change that. Other suggestions were imple-mented, however, and the paper has been improved and bene®ted. Plus, you suggested that we shorten the manuscript by ®ve pages, and we were able to accomplish this very e€ectively by altering the margins and printing the paper in a di€erent font with a smaller typeface. We agree with you that the paper is much better this way.

One perplexing problem was dealing with suggestions 13±28 by reviewer B. As you may recall (that is, if you even bother reading the reviews before sending your decision letter), that reviewer listed 16 works that he/she felt we should cite in this paper. These were on a variety of different topics, none of which had any relevance to our work that we could see. Indeed, one was an essay on the Spanish-American war from a high school literary magazine. The only common thread was that all 16 were by the same author, presumably someone whom reviewer B greatly admires and feels should be more widely cited. To handle this, we have modified the Introduction and added, after the review of the relevant literature, a subsection entitled ``Review of Irrelevant Literature'' that discusses these articles and also duly addresses some of the more asinine suggestions from other reviewers.

We hope you will be pleased with this revision and will finally recognize how urgently deserving of publication this work is. If not, then you are an unscrupulous, depraved monster with no shred of human decency. You ought to be in a cage. May whatever heritage you come from be the butt of the next round of ethnic jokes. If you do accept it, however, we wish to thank you for your patience and wisdom throughout this process, and to express our appreciation for your scholarly insights. To repay you, we would be happy to review some manuscripts for you; please send us the next manuscript that any of these reviewers submits to this journal.

Assuming you accept this paper, we would also like to add a footnote acknowledging your help with this manuscript and to point out that we liked the paper much better the way we originally submitted it, but you held the editorial shotgun to our heads and forced us to chop, reshu‚e, hedge, expand, shorten, and in general convert a meaty paper

into stir-fried vegetables. We could not ± or would not ± have done it without your input.

R.L. Glass

Computing Trends, 1416 Sare Road

Bloomington, IN 47401 USA

E-mail address: rglass@acm.org

The Journal of Systems and Software 54 (2000) 1

www.elsevier.com/locate/jss

PII: S 0164-1212(00)00020-0

JOB Openings in VIT University vellore# Lab Staff Positions

2010-10-10T04:59:00.001-07:00

S.No	Post Name	No of Vacancies	Minimum Educational Qualification	Required Skill set / Certifications
1	Lab Assistant: Hardware	1	Diploma in CSE / ECE / EEE	Basic Electronics Knowledge, Microcontroller, Board Level Knowledge, Assembly Programming Knowledge
2	Lab Assistant: Operating Systems / Networking	1	Diploma in IT/CSE (or) B.Sc. (CS)	Certifications like Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) & Cisco Certified Network Administrator
3	Lab Assistant: DBMS	1	Diploma in IT/CSE (or) BCA & B.Sc. (CS)	Certifications like Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Oracle Certified Administrator (OCA)
4	Lab Assistant: Software Engineering Tools	1	Diploma in CSE (or) BCA & B.Sc. (CS)	STQC - Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification from Department of Information Technology

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its sunday in INDIA

2010-10-10T04:56:00.001-07:00

yeah!!!

My Mission 10X experience -past and post.....

2010-10-02T08:07:00.001-07:00

How it started

I got a mail in our university mailbox, stating that a training program, by wipro is to be held for a week, and that was the first time of that kind-of training program in the University. There were no competitions for the seats, which was limited with constraints. I got it, actually we got it ,as we three of our faculty friends resistered.Little we know that the training program “Mission 10X” by Corporate giant “WIPRO” is going to change our professional Life.

Day 1

We were all asked to be in the auditorium at 9.00 am for the inaugural function. As usual we were there by dot 09.10(our mind time is set in that pattern ,that we do go to any inaugural ten minutes late to find out that we were already 15 minutes earlier.) ,possessions were all set in correct fashion ,and eventually got over in the stipulated time frame.

The first glimpse of the resource person was not very attractive in the perspective of agedness, we usually are in a standpoint that somebody old with salt and pepper head are worth a teacher (that IIT, IISC, kind-of).The lady in our auditorium was introduced as so and so and most of the participant are bytes older than her. But the minute she opened her mouth, we were all out of thought, several questions raised in our minds, eventually as her talk got sank in our brains.

Day 2

The resource person was trying to disapprove several of our teaching skills, which we were hundred percent sure that, it was optimal. Videos of our teaching explained properly where we lagged, was it body-language, English language, subject or lag of passion for teaching. On watching there own two minute videos, Self-consciousness rose among all the participants and later transformed itself in to competition and confidence, filling the room filled with professionalism. I saw with my own eyes forty plus professors, expressing their feeling and objections for the first time officially and openly.

Day 3

The timeliness and punctuality of the participants was also altered in to a better state, the treatment is with a dose of embracement (whenever a participant comes to the learning centre after a break, he will be welcomed with a huge round of clapping).

Day 4

The one thing that needs to make a person perfect, complete and composed is his book-keeping manners. Mission 10X flaunted the way we need to write our course file, technical descriptions and lesson plans .that was eye –opening and we saved a lot of time after that forever.

Day 5

Though all the teachings of Mission 10X are exempts for Cambridge international certification, all the scenarios and methodologies was indianised, as India teaching learning scenario is entirely different.

The overall one –week process was clear and clean and each one of them absorbed it like a sponge, still using it in our career.

Mission 10 x –enlightens every teaching soul.

Back to classroom (The Plot)

The class room was as usual, the students were little dull, as it was the last but not the least period in mid day (maybe they were happy for a week, and I am in today so they are like this).I decided that I need to make use of all the techniques, tricks and magic thought to me to improve the teaching –learning process. I personally feel that my University was the best plot to play this post mission 10 x games, as students were from different latitudes and longitudes and each of them had different moods and reactions. Someone wants the teacher to teach for all the fifty minutes, someone at the last, don’t want the class itself (will go for so called self realization, that’s self learning).The best teacher is the one who fulfills all the extremes .I had got the training to be a best teacher at ease.

I started the class with a round of huge applause, with the class co-operating for it little with less decibels. They asked what for I asked them to clap their hands; I said that is thanking me in advance for what they are going to get from in for the whole semester.

I asked the students to move out of their comfort zone, by replacing them from their existing seating positions. Told them to “change their views”. Little more alert they were in their newer seats ,little more conscious .The class was divided in to several segments ,time frames for teaching,learning,activity based learning,experimenting,and so on to get through over what we were doing.

The fifty minutes class was not so enough for us this time. Anyway I felt happy about it.

The mission 10 x program taught as to notice each and every activity of the students, that too who doesn’t have the property of getting concept faster, or the slow learners. I used to traverse to loop and corners of the class (not standing only with front benchers) to grab their attention.

By this implementation, I personally came to know about each and every one in the class, starting from their unique register number and first names.

Results came, all was good, as forecasted, and the hypothesis was right, not null.

I still was going on with the magic of mission 10x to my classroom, looking forward for the next class always. (One secret to share, I got 93% feedback on that semester)

All my blog followers were in thoughts, about me un-blogging all that week. “Yes” I got locked in myself in another world, called mission 10X and came out with an real experience on the teaching-learning process .Mission 10x is Wipro’s initiative to improve the quality of the Engineering teachers, who were never trained formally ,How To Teach. Students finishing their post graduation degree, just enter an engineering college or a University, chalk in hand. Thinking the fact, the fate of the Future India also lies in the hands of engineers. Azim Premji’s this initiative Mission 10X, is to train the trainers, who in fact will train the prospering students. It’s a win-win situation here at this mission. The Five days will never be forgotten by anyone, attending with his/her full hearten involvement. The proper completion of the five day training will lead to dale Carnegie’s certification .following the methodologies in the classroom for a month and submitting an assignment and going through an assessment will give you mission 10 x certificate .Further involvements and sending a full throttle written document to Cambridge will deem you with Cam bride international certificate. The way the resource persons enacted the subject in the class was a class. I still remember my otherwise very shy colleagues enacted dramas as a king and queen of drama world and as if they did it for years.

The primary vitality of the training to my experience was not with the different approach to teaching –learning paradigm, but with the application of the same in order.

They focused on the issue of University teacher (like the word more than Professor) perspectives on the students. Mostly Every One of them always thinks the students as someone ready and born to fool them. True in some case, but due to wrong perception of the student dimension, things get worse. It was a eye-opener, when they taught as how to deal with last benchers and late comers (class claps for them, another students writes his/her name on the board, late coming students gets embarrassed and ultimately never comes late again).
The training focused on facial expression and hand movement to be done by the teacher while lecturing training a student to understand a complex topic. The 30 registered university faculty were video graphed for all their actions and was reviewed. It was nice to see oneself teaching to himself, more than self evaluation and thereby evolution.

The post sessions

The portal that have been dedicated to the teaching community by wipro is buzzing with activities .various innovations in the teaching learning process are being done by technical teachers ,across the country. It gives newer perspective for a professional to look at the problems. Subjects are not restricted to numbers and it has all domains of engineering and science. The basic principle of mission 10x of making teachers from rural and back staged arts of the country to get the knowledge of cutting edge is fulfilled.

The portal carries different representations of a same concept in varieties like charts ,diagram, picture ,puzzles,games,illustrations,program ,analogy and lot more.It a big think tank.

I still follow their teaching; I dedicate this article to them, who were behind the mission plus to their mentor Azim Premji.

Disclaimer:-This is not a friction.

2010-09-26T05:13:00.001-07:00

Via: The Steel Method

Junior Research Fellow - I opening @ VITUniversity

2010-09-25T23:00:00.001-07:00

Applications are invited for the Post of Project Fellow for DRDO funded project in School of Advanced Sciences (SAS) VIT University, Vellore.
Project Title : "Investigations on Cr and Co doped CdTe Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors for Room Temperature Ferromagnetism"
Number of positions: One
Qualification & Experience : : M.Sc First Class in Physics / Materials Science. Knowledge in the field of Crystal Growth and Thin films is preferred.
Fellow Ship         : Rs.7,000 per month (Expected to be revised)

Tenure of the Project       : Three years
Nature of appointment    : Purely temporary.
Age limitation                     : Maximum age limit is 25 years
Send your curriculum vitae with details of qualifications, experience with latest passport size photo to the Registrar, VIT University, Vellore-632014 by post or email: registrar@vit.ac.in. on or before October 10th , 2010. Specify the post applied for.

Junior Research Fellow - II

Applications are invited for the post of Junior Research Fellow to work in a DST project in School of Bio Sciences & Technology
Project Title : "Investigation of solubility and catalytic properties of substituted hydroxyl, fluoro and oxyapatite ceramics"
Qualification : M.Sc chemistry with first class. NET/GATE qualified candidates are preferred.
Stipend         : Rs. 16,000/- p.m

Duration       : 2010-2013
Send your Resume with details of qualifications, experience and latest passport size photo etc., along with relevant documents to the Registrar, VIT University,Vellore-632 014 by post or email:registrar@vit.ac.in. The cover should be super scribed clearly the post applied for & Name of the Project.

Project Associate opening @ VIT University

2010-09-25T22:59:00.001-07:00

Applications are invited for the post of project associate to work in a DRDO project in School of Electronics Engineering Project Title : "Track level Neyman Pearson based Data Association in MSDF" Qualification : M.Tech (Applied Electronics/Communication Engineering/ Communication Systems) interested in working on statistical signal processing. Interested 2nd year M.Tech project students can also apply.

Stipend : Rs. 15,000/- p.m

Duration : 2010-2011 Send your Resume with details of qualifications, experience and latest passport size photo etc., along with relevant documents to the Registrar, VIT University,Vellore-632 014 by post or email:registrar@vit.ac.in. The cover should be super scribed clearly the post applied for & Name of the Project.

VITEEE-2011 will be held on 16'th April 2011 saturday

2010-09-25T22:57:00.001-07:00

VIT University was established with the aim of providing quality higher education on par with international standards. It persistently seeks and adopts innovative methods to improve the quality of higher education on a consistent basis.

The campus has a cosmopolitan atmosphere with students from all corners of the globe. Experienced and learned teachers are strongly encouraged to nurture the students. The global standards set at VIT in the field of teaching and research spur us on in our relentless pursuit of excellence. In fact, it has become a way of life for us. The highly motivated youngsters on the campus are a constant source of pride.

Our Memoranda of Understanding with various international universities are our major strength. They provide for an exchange of students and faculty and encourage joint research projects for the mutual benefit of these universities. Many of our students, who pursue their research projects in foreign universities, bring high quality to their work and esteem to India and have done us proud. With steady steps, we continue our march forward. We look forward to meeting you here at VIT.

Microsoft Security Essentials Now Free for Businesses

2010-09-24T22:41:00.001-07:00

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will offer its Microsoft Security Essentials product free to small businesses, starting in October.

Since its debut in September 2009, Security Essentials has been available free of charge to consumers for single-PC use, but not to the enterprise crowd. Starting next month, however, small businesses will be able to add the security product on up to 10 PCs at no cost.

"[It's] no secret that most small businesses today do not have a dedicated IT professional on staff to manage their IT resources," Eric Ligman, Microsoft global partner experience lead, wrote in a blog post. "Small business owners and employees are focused on running their business, not managing complicated IT infrastructure."

"When we launched Microsoft Security Essentials last year, small businesses kept telling us that it was exactly the type of thing they need at work too," Jeff Smith, director of marketing for Microsoft Security Essentials, said in a statement.

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection from viruses, spyware, and other malicious threats, Ligman said.

It is powered by the malware protection engine that drives Microsoft's enterprise solutions, he said. The product also uses a scanning and removal technology to collect threats from more than 600 million PCs monthly, which are then assessed by the Microsoft Malware Protection Center. New signatures are written and deployed daily, he wrote.

While Windows 7 machines are not necessary to use Microsoft Security Essentials, Ligman did advise businesses to consider upgrading.

"With Windows 7 Professional, we prioritized speed, reliability, compatibility, and connectivity to keep their systems up and running," he wrote.

In July, Microsoft said that it had started making available the beta version of the next version of Security Essentials. The next version, Microsoft said, would be more tightly integrated with Internet Explorer as as way to secure the PC against Web-based threats. In addition, the software will also protect against network-based threats for both Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, whose PCs include the Windows Filtering Platform Service inside those operating systems.

From Road traffic Accident to Tasmac

2010-09-23T10:01:00.001-07:00

One of my friend on the other day was riding in his two wheeler from our university to his home .There is a stretch of road from our University to Chitoor bus stand ,which is a hub for diversion to different places ,this length of road has small villages between like old katpadi and others .as usual the roadsides are more populated with shops ,people and stray dogs.

My friend was riding usual in 40 miles per hour.there was a dog fight going on on other side of the road ,when a dog started chasing a weaker one of them , it crossed from one side of the road and ran in to his bike ,between wheels,he was met with an accident and luckily escaped with mere scratches and torn pants.

the next day ,at tea time ,he was complaining about the dog and mentioned that ,the blue cross cares about dogs and there no such organization for human and told of complaining to the municipality about the attacks of stray dogs.another friend ,interrupted and said that the dogs are because of the temporary shops on the road side ,which sells beefs and chicken ,the friend also told that the road side shops were because of the TASMAC -alcohol shop.

all problems starts and end at a point.

In-Depth: A Line-by-Line Look at Facebook’s Updated Platform Developer Policies

2010-09-22T21:39:00.000-07:00

As part of its game-focused product updates, Facebook changed a wide range of policies around what developers can and can’t do on the platform. The company has broadly grouped its dozens of changes into three main areas, with the overall move being to make many more options available to developers.
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Eureka!

2010-09-22T21:35:00.000-07:00

About the competition

Eureka! is the biggest Business Plan Competition in Asia as recognized by CNN in terms of participation, prizes and resources. It is intended as a platform to encourage youth from across the globe to flesh out their ideas in business terms and form global enterprises that combine technology,vision and business acumen.

Over the years, Eureka!'s unique format comprising mentoring with a transparent judging process has become a model for the similar competitions held in India and elsewhere. Moreover Eureka! as a competition has evolved a great deal over the years to accomodate the changing preferences of a budding entrepreneur.

Eureka! provides teams who enter with valuable resources in the following areas crucial to successful entrepreneurship:
1. Prizes worth of $50,000.
2. A chance to pitch in front of Mumbai Angels.
3. Networks of world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and potential partners.
4. Mentorship by successful and seasoned professionals.
5. Financial and Legal Consultancies.
6. Incubation opportunities in various Incubation centres.
7. Content rich feedback on their business model from world class entrepreneurs, investors, and professional service providers on our Judging Panel
8. Broad media exposure and PR buzz.

The biggest students technical fest ,vellore,sep 17-19.

2010-09-12T19:42:00.000-07:00

Check this out!!

Are We Training Too Many Scientists-The New Scientist reports

2010-06-23T04:38:00.000-07:00

After three years of postdoctoral work at the Mayo Clinic, Crystal Icenhour was ready to embrace the life of an independent researcher in a tenure track position. But after more than a year of job searching, and only a couple of job interviews, she was bitterly disappointed. The first job was lost to another more qualified applicant. The second institution was hiring two faculty: one senior, one junior. "I thought I had that one ... I was ready to pack my bags because the interview went so well and they asked for start-up requirements," says Icenhour. But after the senior faculty hire negotiated his compensation, there were insufficient funds for the junior position. "He offered me a postdoc in his lab... I didn't take it."

hey ,its VIT again on the top,

2010-06-20T23:57:00.000-07:00

All people smile in the same language. - Proverb:-)

2010-04-07T22:41:00.001-07:00