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www.scour.com.... New search engine......

2008-08-01T22:31:00.000+05:30

Did you hear about Scour? It is the next gen search engine with Google/Yahoo/MSN results and user comments all on one page. Best of all we get paid for using it by earning points with every search, comment and vote. The points are redeemable for Visa gift cards! It's like earning credit card or airline points just for searching! Hit the link below to join for free and we will both get points!
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I know you'll like it!

iPhone is coming soon in India...

2008-08-01T22:18:00.004+05:30

The iPhone price has been announced. For 4GB its 8000/- Rs and for 8 GB, its 12500/- Rs only !!!!

iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device.. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

Technical Specifications

Screen size3.5 inches

Screen resolution320 by 480 at 160 ppi

Input methodMulti-touch

Operating system -OS X

Storage -4GB or 8GB

GSM - Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)

Wireless data -Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0

Camera -2.0 megapixels

Battery - Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing

-Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions -4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm

Weight -4.8 ounces / 135 grams

iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.

Protect pen drive (USB) from the virus

2008-08-01T22:04:00.004+05:30

Friends many of your PC/laptop's normally gets virus because of Pen Drives or USB devices (Even PC's who are not connected to network ). Some Virus like Ravmon Virus , Heap41a worm which are not detected by anti virus normally spreads mostly by the Pen Drives .. In such a case what can you do to prevent your PC from getting infected with Virus that spreads through USB devices or Pen Drives ?

You can protect your PC by just following the simple steps below . It won't take much time. Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer .

Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the options as shown in the above figure .

Don't choose any of them , Just simply click Cancel.

*Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window ..

*Now go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive. ( E.g. If it is written Kingston (I:) , then I: will be the drive letter ..)

*In the Command Window ( cmd ) , type the drive letter: and Hit Enter ..

*Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter *You will get a list of files . In the list , search if anyone of the following do exist

1. Autorun.inf

2. New Folder.exe

3. Bha.vbs

4. Iexplore.vbs

5. Info.exe 6. New_Folder.exe 7. Ravmon.exe 8. RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension .

If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.

Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del autorun.inf ) .

That's it . Now just scan your USB drive with the anti virus you have to ensure that you made your Pen Drive free of Virus ..

This virus is very very common now...To know whether ur system is infected just type C:\heap41a in the address bar...if there is a folder named heap41a, then ur system is infected...(AVAST antivirus is the best solution for this worm...) Symantec also works.

Easy guide to BIA-Bengaluru International Airport

2008-05-22T08:15:00.003+05:30

Easy Guide to Bengaluru International Airport

Bengaluru International Airport, the gateway to South India,
is situated to the north of Bengaluru on the National Highway 7 and is
40kms from the city’s central business district.

This Easy Guide will give you a snapshot of the airport and how to get there.
GETTING TO AND FROM BENGALURU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

AIRPORT TAXI SERVICE

Easy Cabs and Meru Cabs operate professional and reliabletaxi services to and from Bengaluru International Airport.

The taxis wait on the inner curb right in front of the Terminal Building as well as in the
designated taxi area.

There is no need to purchase a voucher. You pay at the end of the journey based on the
metered fare.

All journeys are tracked by GPRS.

You can pay by credit card also and receive in any case, a printed receipt in the car.

In case of a taxi requirement to the airport, you can call the following All India Call Center
Numbers given below:

LIMOUSINE AND CAR RENTAL

Apart from the airport taxi service, passengers can also rentpremium cars.

This service is provided by Akbar Travels and Hertz

4343-4343 4422-4422

PORTER SERVICE

Porter Service Rates:

• Rs. 70 minimum charges for upto three bags

• Rs. 25 for every additional bag

• Rs. 250 for group baggage (12bags)

• No tips

OTHER FACILITIES:
• 4 Lounges

• Business Center (Opening in July)

• Free Wifi facility

• Postal Service

• 21 Airline Counters

• 8 ATM machines

• 4 Baby Care Rooms

• 3 Foreign Exchange Services

AIRPORT SHUTTLE SERVICE

Airport Shuttle Service connects various locations in the city with the Airport.

Shuttle Routes

Route - 1: Whitefield

Route - 2: Electronics City

Route - 3: HAL Airport

Route - 4: Jeevan Bhima Nagar

Route - 5: Koramangala

Route - 6: J.P. Nagar 6th Phase

Route - 7: M.C.T.C. Bus Station

Route - 8: Hebbal

Route - 9: Kempegowda Bus Station

Indicative rate to M.G. Road: Rs. 120

Cars with drivers as well as self driven cars are available.

Indicative rate upto 25 km: Rs. 1200 (e.g: Innova, Honda City)

PARKING
Bengaluru International Airport provides parking facilities for 2000

vehicles at various rates as follows:
Parking Rates:

A variety of shopping and dining options and various services are available at the airport.

P1 - Long Term Parking :

- Rs. 50 per 4 hours

- Rs. 300 for the first day(24 hours)

- Rs. 200 for every additional day

P2/P3 - General Parking:

- Rs. 40 per 2 hours

- Rs. 20 per every additional hour

Drop-off and Pick-up Area:

- No charges for the first 10 minutes

- Rs. 50 for every additional 15 minutes
Premium Pick-up Area:

- Rs. 50 for first 15 minutes

- Rs. 50 per every additional 15 minutes

Valet Service:

- Rs. 150 for the service

- Valet parking charge is as per the rates charged]for P1 - Long Term Parking (refer above)
www.bengaluruairport . com

A User Development Fee of Rs. 1070 will be collected from all outbound international passengers using the Bengaluru International Airport.

The User Development Fee is towards the cost for construction and operation of the airport and has been approved by the Ministry of Civil Aviation of India.

Departure before or on 30 June, 2008?

International Passengers traveling out of Bengaluru International Airport before or on 30 June, 2008 will have to makepayment of the User Development Fee at the counters provided in the check-in hall or on the first floor beforeemigration check counters. Passengers should produce the receipt of payment at the time of emigration check.

Payment can be made by cash, debit card or credit card (Visa/Mastercard only).
If you are paying by cash you are requested to provide exact change for quicker processing.
Please allow 10 minutes for the transaction during peak hours between 2200 hrs and 0300 hrs. And about 3-5 minutes at all other times.

Departure on or after 01 July, 2008

For passengers traveling out of Bengaluru International Airport on or after 01 July, 2008, the User Development Fee will be included in your ticket.
Exemptions:Infants under the age of 2 years and Airline Crew on duty are exempted from User Development Fee.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS
For more information, log on to
www.bengaluruairport.com For any feedback, email feedback@bialairport.com

BIA-Bengaluru International Airport- Land mark map,traffic/parking map,Transportation map

2008-05-22T08:10:00.003+05:30

Modern Maths

2008-05-19T07:08:00.002+05:30

Equation 1

Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoyDonkey = eat + sleep

Therefore,

Human = Donkey + work + enjoy

Therefore,

Human - enjoy = Donkey + work

In other words,

Human that don't know enjoy = Donkey that work

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Equation 2

Men = eat + sleep + earn money

Donkeys = eat + sleep

Therefore,

Men = Donkeys + earn money

Therefore,

Men - earn money = Donkeys

In other words,

Men that don't earn money = Donkeys

====================================================

Equation 3

Women = eat + sleep + spend

Donkeys = eat + sleep

Therefore,

Women = Donkeys + spend

Therefore,

Women - spend = Donkeys

In other words,

Women that don't spend = Donkeys

=====================================================

To Conclude:

From Equation 2 and Equation 3

Men that don't earn money = Women that don't spend.

So,

Men earn money not to let women become Donkeys! (Postulate 1)

And,

Women spend not to let men become Donkeys! (Postulate 2)

So, we have...Men + Women = Donkeys + earn money + Donkeys + spend money

Therefore...from Postulates 1 and 2, we can conclude

Man + Woman = 2 Donkeys that live happily together!

Something All Software Professionals should know

2008-04-11T19:43:00.000+05:30

Six software professionals under the age of 33 have died and 2 top executives from renowned software companies have become paralysed because of stress-related heart ailments in the last six months in Chennai, says a study by Mitran Foundation, a Bangalore-based voluntary association of practising doctors.

"All the six who died, and the two who became invalid, had no family history of heart attacks or any pre-history of heart ailments or paralysis. They were all in their prime, between 27 and 33 years, and handled challenging projects at work in their respective companies. They worked long and continuous hours. The end struck them very suddenly, and it looked as if their hearts refused to take any more stress ," said Dr Dwarakanath, director of Mitran Foundation, who has studied stress components in 40 software companies in Chennai during the last six months.

The study, conducted at a cost of Rs 45 lakhs, covered more than 4,000 software professionals from 80 companies who were in service for a minimum of three years. The email responses were scientifically tabulated and the findings were ready in 2002. Dr Dwarakanath, who was the late Dhirubhai Ambani's personal stress management consultant, said questionnaires extracting every minute detail were sent to the respondents. The personal background, family history and personal characteristics of these individuals were assessed and it was found that the stress in these professionals was only due to work pressure. All other factors were eliminated.

"Our study confirmed that the number of suicides, divorces, heart ailments, BP and diabetes patients and mental depression are the highest in the software industry. The fancy salaries of software professionals are no longer something to rejoice about ," Dr Dwarakanath said.
" We found that the software industry has simply no routine. Deadlines hang before them and every day they chase new problems. During weekends more than 60 per cent of the vehicles are found parked in the office complexes. There is no physical exercise and new food habits favoured by pizza culture fuel the problem. Cervical spondilitis and wrist problems due to uncomfortable handling of the computer mouse, eye problems and discomfort in bowel movements are common.
The stress for couples where both are employed in the IT industry is the worst. The simple step of taking time off from work for three months allowed an IT couple wanting a child for years to conceive one," Dr Dwarakanath said.

M.T.R. Venukopalan, senior training coordinator, Covansys India, acknowledged that IT professionals were the most stressed individuals. "Even if the company sponsors a movie or self-care lecture, not many attend them," he said. Jyothsana, a travel coordinator for Temenos India Pvt Ltd, expressed concern for the young employees who complain of back and knee pains. She acknowledged that IT professionals require a specific eating and physical exercise routine to ease their stress. "Our lives are becoming mechanical, guided only by deadlines ," she said.

So think again if you are staying late in the office regularly. Think again about your family. Think again about your social life and health.

Work is essential. Your contribution to the goal should be great .

But, please don't make it a habit to stay late.

Don't skip your Break Fast /Lunch/Dinner. None of these are equated by Pizza, Biscuits / Wafers / Chat items

PC Illusion

2008-04-10T07:00:00.004+05:30

Can u find the grey dots in between the squares in the above figure??

Purple lines are straight or bent???????????

Computer Illusion

2008-04-10T06:50:00.002+05:30

If you take a look at the above???picture , let me tell you it is not animated. ???Your eyes are making it move. ???
To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving. ???Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop mov ing. ???But move your eyes to the next black center and the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it.... ???Weird ???

INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS)

2008-04-05T18:59:00.002+05:30

INFORMATION SYSTEMS
An information system (IS) can be any organized combination of people, hardware,
software, communications networks, and data resources that collects, transforms, and
disseminates information in an organization.

Components of An Information System

An information system model expresses a fundamental conceptual framework for the
major components and activities of information systems. An information system depends
on the resources of people, hardware, software, data, and networks to perform input,
processing, output, storage, and control activities that convert data resources into
information products.

The information systems model outlined in the text emphasizes four major concepts that
can be applied to all types of information systems:
· People, hardware, software, data, and networks, are the five basic resources of
information systems.
· People resources include end users and IS specialists, hardware resources consist of
machines and media, software resources include both programs and procedures, data
resources can include data and knowledge bases, and network resources include
communications media and networks.
· Data resources are transformed by information processing activities into a variety of
information products for end users.
· Information processing consists of input, processing, output, storage, and control
activities.

Information System Resources:
The basic IS model shows that an information system consists of five major resources:
· People resources
· Hardware resources
· Software resources
· Data resources
· Network resources

Information System Activities:
Information processing (or data processing) activities that occur in information system
include the following:
· Input of data resources
· Processing of data into information
· Output of information products
· Storage of data resources
· Control of system performance

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Can U guess who's resume is this...????

2008-04-04T18:35:00.002+05:30

RESUME
EDUCATION /Qualification:

1950: Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics, Punjab University, Chandigarh ,
1952; Stood first in MA (Economics), Punjab University , Chandigarh ,
1954; Wright's Prize for distinguished performance at St John's College, Cambridge,
1955 and 1957; Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge ,
1957; DPhil ( Oxford ), DLitt (Honoris Causa); PhD thesis on India 's export competitiveness

OCCUPATION /Teaching Experience :
Professor (Senior lecturer, Economics, 1957-59;
Reader, Economics, 1959-63;
Professor, Economics, Punjab University , Chandigarh , 1963-65;
Professor,International Trade, Delhi School of Economics,University of Delhi,1969-71 ;
Honorary professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University ,New Delhi,1976 and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi ,1996 and Civil Servant

Working Experience/ POSITIONS :
1971-72: Economic advisor, ministry of foreign trade
1972-76: Chief economic advisor, ministry of finance

1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India ;
Director, Industrial Development Bank of India;
Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, Asian Development Bank;
Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD
November 1976 - April 1980: Secretary, ministry of finance (Department of economic affairs);
Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission; Member,finance, Space Commission
April 1980 - September 15, 1982 : Member-secretary, Planning Commission
1980-83: Chairman , India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study committee
September 16, 1982 - January 14, 1985 : Governor, Reserve Bank of India .
1982-85: Alternate Governor for India , Board of governors, International Monetary Fund
1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister
1985: President, Indian Economic Association
January 15, 1985 - July 31, 1987 : Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
August 1, 1987 - November 10, 19! 90: Secretary-general and commissioner,
south commission, Geneva
December 10, 1990 - March 14, 1991 : Advisor to the Prime Minister on economic affairs
March 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991 : Chairman, UGC
June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996 : Union finance minister
October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket
June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the ministry of finance
August 1, 1996 - December 4, 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee on commerce
March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha
June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance
August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on rules
Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges 2000 onwards: Member, executive committee, Indian parliamentary group
June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee

BOOKS:
India 's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth -
Clarendon Press, Oxford University , 1964; also published a large number of articles in various economic journals.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge , 1956
Padma Vibhushan, 1987
Euro money Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;
Asia money Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:
1966: Economic Affairs Officer
1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section, UNCTAD
1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on
International Monetary Reform
1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings
1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting
1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting
1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus 1993: Human Rights World Conference, Vienna

RECREATION :
Gymkhana Club, New Delhi; Life Member, India International Centre,
New Delhi

PERSONAL DETAIL:
Name: Dr Manmohan Singh
DOB: September 26, 1932
Place of Birth: Gah ( West Punjab )
Father: S. Gurmukh Singh
Mother: Mrs Amrit Kaur
Married on: September 14, 1958
Wife: Mrs Gursharan Kaur
Children: Three daughters

Our Prime Minister seems to be the most qualified PM all over the world.

Some folders that cant be created in windows..

2008-04-02T18:40:00.002+05:30

Try to create a folder in Windows with either of these names--

"con" or "nul" or "Aux" or "Lpt1".
Windows will not let you create ....
This is because these refer 2 some well known ports....
-con corresponds to the console
-Lpt1 corresponds to printer and so on....

well that is common but what about this ? Try these more

CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

Make "Mozilla" 10 times faster..

2008-04-02T18:04:00.001+05:30

THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE TRICK.....NO SOFTWARE REQUIRED......NO DL REQUIRED

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

NOTE:this trick only works for broadband users not for dialup

Very interesting. enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-04-01T22:14:00.001+05:30

http://www.subservientprogrammer.com/main.aspx

Connect to this link. u will c a person sitting in front of the computer.

Type the words like "LAUGH" in the dispatch…..the person will do that action Like that u type "CRY, DANCE, RUN, THROW,BREAK,STAND,WHAT,VOMIT,EAT,DRINK …etc..whatever u like. But it should be a single word,

ಯಾವುದೋ ಪಯಣ, ಎಲ್ಲಿಗೋ ದಾರಿ ......?

2008-04-01T22:08:00.002+05:30

Mera Bharat Mahan-Proud to be an Indian

2008-04-01T21:36:00.004+05:30

Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp)?

A. Rajiv Gupta .

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?

A. Vinod Dahm.

Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?

A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th position now.

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?

A. Sabeer Bhatia

Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?

A. Arun Netravalli

Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?

A. Sanjay Tejwrika

Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?

A. Victor Menezes , Rajat Gupta , and Rana Talwar .

Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America , even faring better than the whites and the natives.

There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,

38% of doctors in USA are Indians.

12% scientists in USA are Indians. 36% of NASA scientists are Indians.

34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.

28% of IBM employees are Indians.

17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.

13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.

Some of the following facts may be known to you.

These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA .

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Pr! ofessor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi .

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

13. Chess was invented in India .

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC. Quotes about India .

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

-Albert Einstein .

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.

-Mark Twain .

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India .

-French scholar Romain Rolland .

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

- Hu Shih (former Chinese ambassador to USA )

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.

BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA .

Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.

Bill Gates....

2008-04-01T21:26:00.005+05:30

Family and Early Childhood

On October 28, 1955, shortly after 9:00 p.m., William Henry Gates III was born. He was born into a family with a rich history in business, politics, and community service. His great-grandfather had been a state legislator and mayor, his grandfather was the vice president of a national bank, and his father was a prominent lawyer. [Wallace, 1992, p. 8-9] Early on in life, it was apparent that Bill Gates inherited the ambition, intelligence, and competitive spirit that had helped his progenitors rise to the top in their chosen professions. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peer's abilities in nearly all subjects, especially math and science. His parents recognized his intelligence and decided to enroll him in Lakeside , a private school known for its intense academic environment. This decision had far reaching effects on Bill Gates's life. For at Lakeside , Bill Gates was first introduced to computers.

First computing Experience
In the Spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers [Teamgates.com, 9/29/96]. Computers were still too large and costly for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fund raiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year. However, Lakeside had drastically underestimated the allure this machine would have for a hand full of young students.
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and a few other Lakeside students (many of whom were the first programmers hired at Microsoft) immediately became inseparable from the computer. They would stay in the computer room all day and night, writing programs, reading computer literature and anything else they could to learn about computing. Soon Gates and the others started running into problems with the faculty. Their homework was being turned in late (if at all), they were skipping classes to be in the computer room and worst of all, they had used up all of the schools computer time in just a few weeks. [Wallace, 1992, p. 24]

In the fall of 1968, Computer Center Corporation opened for business in Seattle . It was offering computing time at good rates, and one of the chief programmers working for the corporation had a child attending Lakeside . A deal was struck between Lakeside Prep School and the Computer Center Corporation that allowed the school to continue providing it's students with computer time. [Wallace, 1992, p. 27] Gates and his comrades immediately began exploring the contents of this new machine. It was not long before the young hackers started causing problems. They caused the system to crash several times and broke the computers security system. They even altered the files that recorded the amount of computer time they were using. They were caught and the Computer Center Corporation banned them from the system for several weeks.

Bill Gates, Paul Allen and, two other hackers from Lakeside formed the Lakeside Programmers Group in late 1968. They were determined to find a way to apply their computer skills in the real world. The first opportunity to do this was a direct result of their mischievous activity with the school's computer time. The Computer Center Corporation's business was beginning to suffer due to the systems weak security and the frequency that it crashed. Impressed with Gates and the other Lakeside computer addicts' previous assaults on their computer, the Computer Center Corporation decided to hire the students to find bugs and expose weaknesses in the computer system. In return for the Lakeside Programming Group's help, the Computer Center Corporation would give them unlimited computer time [Wallace, 1992, p. 27]. The boys could not refuse. Gates is quoted as saying "It was when we got free time at C-cubed (Computer Center Corporation) that we really got into computers. I mean, then I became hardcore. It was day and night" [Wallace, 1992, p. 30]. Although the group was hired just to find bugs, they also read any computer related material that the day shift had left behind. The young hackers would even pick employees for new information. It was here that Gates and Allen really began to develop the talents that would lead to the formation of Microsoft seven years later.

Roots of Business Career
Computer Center Corporation began to experience financial problems late in 1969. The company finally went out of business in March of 1970. The Lakeside Programmers Group had to find a new way to get computer time. Eventually they found a few computers on the University of Washington 's campus where Allen's dad worked. The Lakeside Programmers Group began searching for new chances to apply their computer skills. Their first opportunity came early the next year when Information Sciences Inc. hired them to program a payroll program. Once again the group was given free computer time and for the first time, a source of income. ISI had agreed to give them royalties whenever it made money from any of the groups programs. As a result of the business deal signed with Information Sciences Inc., the group also had to become a legal business [Wallace, 1992, p. 42-43]. Gates and Allen's next project involved starting another company entirely on their own, Traf-O-Data. They produced a small computer which was used to help measure traffic flow. From the project they grossed around $20,000. The Traf-O-Data company lasted until Gates left for college. During Bill Gates' junior year at Lakeside , the administration offered him a job computerizing the school's scheduling system. Gates asked Allen to help with the project. He agreed and the following summer, they wrote the program. In his senior year, Gates and Allen continued looking for opportunities to use their skills and make some money. It was not long until they found this opportunity. The defense contractor TRW was having trouble with a bug infested computer similar to the one at Computer Center Corporation. TRW had learned of the experience the two had working on the Computer Center Corporation's system and offered Gates and Allen jobs. However thing would be different at TRW they would not be finding the bugs they would be in charge of fixing them. "It was at TRW that Gates began to develop as a serious programer," and it was there that Allen and Gates first started talking seriously about forming their own software company [Wallace, 1992, p. 49-51].

In the fall of 1973, Bill Gates left home for Harvard University [Teamgates.com, 9/29/96]. He had no idea what he wanted to study, so he enrolled as prelaw. Gates took the standard freshman courses with the exception of signing up for one of Harvard's toughest math courses. He did well but just as in high school, his heart was not in his studies. After locating the school's computer center, he lost himself in the world of computers once again. Gates would spend many long nights in front of the school's computer and the next days asleep in class. Paul Allen and Gates remained in close contact even with Bill away at school. They would often discuss ideas for future projects and the possibility of one day starting a business. At the end of Gates's first year at Harvard, the two decided that Allen should move closer to him so that they may be able to follow up on some of their ideas. That summer they both got jobs working for Honeywell [Wallace, 1992, p. 59]. As the summer dragged on, Allen began to push Bill harder with the idea that they should open a software company. Gates was still not sure enough to drop out of school. The following year, however, that would all change.

The Birth of Microsoft
In December of 1974, Allen was on his way to visit Gates when along the way he stopped to browse the current magazines. What he saw changed his and Bill Gates's lives forever. On the cover of Popular Electronics was a picture of the Altair 8080 and the headline "World's First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models." He bought the issue and rushed over to Gates's dorm room. They both recognized this as their big opportunity. The two knew that the home computer market was about to explode and that someone would need to make software for the new machines. Within a few days, Gates had called MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), the makers of the Altair. He told the company that he and Allen had developed a BASIC that could be used on the Altair [Teamgates.com, 9/29/96]. This was a lie. They had not even written a line of code. They had neither an Altair nor the chip that ran the computer. The MITS company did not know this and was very interested in seeing their BASIC. So, Gates and Allen began working feverishly on the BASIC they had promised. The code for the program was left mostly up to Bill Gates while Paul Allen began working on a way to simulate the Altair with the schools PDP-10. Eight weeks later, the two felt their program was ready. Allen was to fly to MITS and show off their creation. The day after Allen arrived at MITS, it was time to test their BASIC. Entering the program into the company's Altair was the first time Allen had ever touched one. If the Altair simulation he designed or any of Gates's code was faulty, the demonstration would most likely have ended in failure. This was not the case, and the program worked perfectly the first time [Wallace, 1992, p. 80]. MITS arranged a deal with Gates and Allen to buy the rights to their BASIC.[Teamgates.com, 9/29/96] Gates was convinced that the software market had been born. Within a year, Bill Gates had dropped out of Harvard and microsoft was formed.

DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH

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It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven a its value. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:

Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.

METHOD OF TREATMENT

1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water

2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minute

3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.

4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours

5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.

6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.

The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/reduce main diseases:
1. High Blood Pressure - 30 days
2. Gastric - 10 days
3. Diabetes - 30 days
4. Constipation - 10 days
5. Cancer - 180 days
6. TB - 90 days
7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards - daily.

This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.
It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life.
Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.
This makes sense .. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals ..not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain...
For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.
It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion.
Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks: Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.
Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.

Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.

60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to everyone they know, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.

Water therapy

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Drink six (6) glasses of water (1.5 liters) everyday and avoid medicine, tablets, injections, diagnosis, doctor fees, etc.
You can never believe before practicing.
List of Diseases That Can Be Cured By Water Therapy

1 Blood Pressure / Hypertension
2 Anemia (Blood Shortage)
3 Rheumatism (Pain in joints / muscles)
4 General Paralysis
5 Obesity
6 Arthritis
7 Sinusitis
8 Tachycardia
9 Giddiness
10 Cough
11 Leukemia
12 Asthma
13 Bronchitis
14 Pulmonary Tuberculosis
15 Meningitis
16 Kidney Stones
17 Hyper Acidity
18 Dysentry
19 Gastroenteritis
20 Uterus Cancer
21 Rectal Piodapse
22 Constipation
23 Hostorthobics
24 Diabetes
25 Eye Diseases
26 Ophthalmic Hemorrhage & Opthalmia (Reddisheye)
27 Irregular Menstruation
28 Breast Cancer
29 Laryngitis
30 Headache
32 Leukemia
33 Urogenital Diseases

Therapy Procedure

1.Early morning, after you get up from bed, (without even brushing your teeth) drink 1.5 liters of water i.e., 5 to 6 glasses. Let us all know that ancient Indians termed this therapy as "Usha Paana Chikitsa" . You may wash your face thereafter.

2 Here it is very essential to note that nothing else, neither drinks nor solid food of any sort should be taken within 1 hour before and after drinking these 1.5 liters of water.

3 It is also to be strictly observed that no alcoholic drinks should be taken the previous night.

4 If required, boiled and filtered water may be used for this purpose.

5 It is difficult to drink 1.5 liters of water at one time, but you will get used to it gradually.

6 Initially, while practicing you may drink four glasses first and to balance two glasses after a gap of two minutes.

7 You may find the necessity to urinate 2 to 3 times within an hour, but it will become normal after quite some time.

By Research and Experience
The following diseases are observed to be cured with this therapy within the indicated days as below:

Ø Constipation - 1 day
Ø Acidity - 2 days
Ø Diabetes - 7 days
Ø Cancer - 4 weeks
Ø Pulmonary TB - 3 months
Ø BP & Hypertension - 4 weeks

Note:
It is advised that persons suffering from Arthritis or Rheumatism should practice this therapy thrice a day, i.e. morning, midday and night, 1 hour before meals for one week; and twice a day subsequently until the disease disappears.

How Does Pure Water Act?
Consuming ordinary drinking water by the right method purifies human body. It renders the colon more effective by forming new fresh blood, known in medical terms as " Haematopaises". That the mucous folds of the colon and intestines are activated by this method is an undisputed fact, just as the theory that the mucous fold produces new fresh blood.

If the colon is cleansed then the nutrients of the food taken several times a day will be absorbed and by the action of the mucous folds they are turned into fresh blood. The blood is all-important in curing ailments and restoring health and for this water should be consumed in a regular pattern.

Life is Short, Just go for it
Please spread this message to your friends, relatives and neighbors. It is a great service to the cause of humanity.

Take care of urselves and your loved ones

Advice to young programmers(This is the summary of speech Given by Alex Stepenov (Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems) at Adobe India on 30 Nov 2004. )

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1. Study , Study and Study

- Never ever think that you have acquired all or most of the knowledge which exists in the world. Almost everybody in US at age of 14 and everybody in India at age of 24 starts thinking that he has acquired all the wisdom and knowledge that he needs. This should be strictly avoided.

- You should be habituated to studies...exactly in the same way as you are habituated to brushing teeth and taking bath every morning. The habit of study must become a ‘part of your blood’. And the study should be from both the areas: CS, since it is your profession, and something from non-CS...Something which doesnot relate to your work. This would expand your knowledge in other field too. A regular study, everyday, is extremely essential. It doesnot matter whether you study of 20 minutes of 2 hours, but consistency is a must.

- You should always study basics and fundamentals. There is no point in going for advanced topics. When I was at the age of 24, I wanted to do PhD in program verification, though I was not able to understand anything from that. The basic reason was that my fundamental concepts were not clear. Studying ‘Algebraic Geometry’ is useless if you donot understand basics in Algebra and Geometry. Also, you should always go back and re-read and re-iterate over the fundamental concepts. What is the exact definition of ‘fundamental’? The stuff which is around for a while and which forms basic part of the concepts can be regarded as more fundamental. Of course, everybody understands what a fundamental means.

- Here are few books which I would strongly recommend that every CS professional should read and understand.

i. "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Albenson and Sussman
I personally donot like the material present in this book and I do have some objections about it but this is the best book I have ever seen which explains all the concepts in programming in a clear and excellent way.
This book is available online at http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

ii. Introduction to Computer Architecture: by Hennessy and Patterson.
How many of you have shipped the programs by writing them in assembly? A very good understanding of basics of how a computer operates is what every CS professional must have.
H&P Wrote two books on CA. I am talking about their first book, the introductory text for understanding basic aspects of how a computer works.
Even if you feel that you know whatever is written in that book, donot stop reading. It’s good to revise basics again and again.
iii. "Fundamentals of Programming" by Donald Knuth.
The core of CS is algorithms and Data structures. Every CS professional must have the 3 volumes of Knuth’s Book on programming. It really doesnot matter if you take 30 years of your life to understand what Knuth has written, what is more important is that you read atleast some part of that book everyday without fail.
iv. Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest
This book should be read daily to keep your concepts fresh. This is the best book for fundamental concepts in algorithms.

2. Learn Professional Ethics

- As a CS Professional, you are morally obliged to do a good job. What this means is that you are supposed to do your job not for your manager but for yourself. This is already told in Bhagwatgeeta : Doing duties of your life.

- The direct implication of this is: never ever write a bad code. You don’t need to be fastest and run after shipping dates; rather you need to write quality code. Never write junk code. Rewrite it till it is good. Thoroughly test every piece of code that you write. Donot write codes which are "sort of allright". You might not achieve perfection, but atleast your code should be of good quality.

- Let me quote my own example in this context. You might have heard about STL, The Standard Template Library that ships in with C++ compilers. I wrote it 10 years ago, in 1994. While implementing one of the routines in the STL, namely the "search routine", I was a bit lazy and instead of writing a good linear order implementation of KMP which was

difficult to code, I wrote a best quadratic implementation. I knew that I could make the search faster by writing a linear-order implementation, but I was lazy and I did not do that. And, after 10 years of my writing STL, exactly the same implementation is still used inside STL and STL ships with an inefficient quadratic implementation of search routine even today!! You might ask me: why can’t you rewrite that? Well...I cannot, because that code is no more my property!! Further, nobody today will be interested in a standalone efficient STL ...people would prefer one which automatically ships out with the compiler itself.

- Moral is, you should have aesthetic beauty built inside you. You should "feel" uneasy on writing bad code and should be eager to rewrite the code till it becomes upto the quality. And to the judge the quality, you need to develop sense regarding which algorithms to use under what circumstances.

3. Figure out your Goals

- Always aspire doing bigger things in life

- "Viewing promotion path as your career" is a completely wrong goal. If you are really interested in studying and learning new things, never ever aspire for being a manager. Managers cannot learn and study...they have no time. "Company ladder aspiration" is not what should be important for you.

- You might feel that you want to do certain things which you cannot do till you become a manager. When you become a manager, you will soon realize that now you just cannot do anything!

- You will have a great experience as programmers. But if you care for people and love people, you will never enjoy being a manager...most good managers are reluctant managers. If you see people as people, you cannot survive at management level.

- Always aspire for professional greatness. Our profession is very beautiful because we create abstract models and implement them in reality. There is a big fun in doing that. We have a profession which allows us to do creative things and even gives nice salary for that.

- The three biggest mistakes that people usually make are aiming for money, aiming for promotion and aiming for fame. The moment you get some of these, you aspire for some more...and then there is no end. I donot mean that you shouldnot earn money, but you should understand how much

money would satisfy your needs. Bill Clinton might be the richest person in the world; he is certainly not the happiest. Our lives are far better than his.

- Find your goal, and do best in the job that you have. Understand that what is in your pocket doesnot matter...what is in your brain finally matters. Money and fame donot matter. Knowledge matters.

4. Follow your culture
I have seen the tradition that whatever junk is created in US, it rapidly spreads up in the rest of the world, and India is not an exception for this. This cultural change creates a very strong impact on everybody’s life. Habits of watching spicy Bollywood or Hollywood movies and listening to pop songs and all such stupid stuff gets very easily cultivated in people of your age...but believe me, there is nothing great in that. This all just makes you run away from your culture. And there is no wisdom in running away from your culture. Indian culture, which has great Vedas and stories like Mahabharata and Bhagwatgeeta is really great and even Donald Knuth enjoys reading that. You should understand that fundamental things in Indian culture teach you a lot and you should never forget them.
Finally, I would like to conclude by saying that it’s your life...donot waste it on stupid things...develop your tests, and start the fight

Future Cell Phones... Already Launched...

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Things To Say If You Get Caught Sleeping At Your Desk

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15. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."

14. "This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in the last time management course you sent me to."

13. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper"

12. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission Statement and envisioning a new paradigm!"

11. "This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!"

10. "I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance"

9. "Actually I'm doing a "Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan"(SLEEP) I learned it at the last mandatory seminar you made me attend.

8. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work Related stress."

7. "Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."

6. "The coffee machine is broken...."

5. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot."

4. "Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off!"

3. "Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!"

2. "I wasn't sleeping, I was trying to pick up contact lens without hands."

AND THE #1 BEST THING TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING AT YOUR DESK:

This is a collection of leave letters and applications written by

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1. Infosys, Bangalore : An employee applied for leave as follows:Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife,please sanction me one-week leave.

2. This is from Oracle Bangalore:From an employee who was performing the "mundan" ceremony of his 10year old son: "as I want to shave my son's head, please leave me for two days.."

3. Another gem from CDAC. Leave-letter from an employee who was performing his daughter's wedding:"as I am marrying my daughter, please grant a week's leave."

4. From H.A.L. Administration dept:"As my mother-in-law has expired and I am only one responsible for it,please grant me 10 days leave."

5. Another employee applied for half day leave as follows:"Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clock and I may not return, please grant me half day casual leave"

6. An incident of a leave letter"I am suffering from fever, please declare one day holiday."

7. A leave letter to the headmaster:"As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I request you to leave me today"

8. Another leave letter written to the headmaster:"As my headache is paining, please grant me leave for the day."

9. Covering note: "I am enclosed herewith..."

10. Another one:"Dear Sir: with reference to the above, please refer to my below..."

11. Actual letter written for application of leave:"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at home I may be granted leave".

12. Letter writing: -"I am in well here and hope you are also in the same well."

13. A candidate's job application:"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ' Typist and an Accountant - Male or Female'...As I am both(!! )for the past several years and I can handle both with good experience, I am applying for the post.

Dont pick calls form these numbers- 9888308001,9316048121,9876266211,9888854137,9876715587

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It is very important news for all.

Not to pick up calls from the Under-given numbers . 9888308001, +91 9316048121, 9876266211, 9888854137, 9876715587 ,

These numbers will come in red color, if the call comes up from these numbers.

Its with very high wave length, and frequency.

If a call is received on mobile from these numbers, it creates a very high frequency and it causes brain haemorrage . It's not a joke rather, its TRUE. 27 persons died just on receiving calls from these numbers. Watch Aaj Tak (NEWS), DD News and IBN 7 . Forward this message to all u'r friends and colleagues, and relatives

Orkut story..

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A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up and became IT technical architect in his late 20 'S, achievement in itself!
He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make software where he could search for his girlfriend through the web...Things went as planned...and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!
It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy and took over this application,This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year,which we today know as ORKUT .

You can see the guy's photo attached.The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN. Yes it's named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He isexpected to b the richest person by 2009.

ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 tomonitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day &about 85,000 scraps!!!

Some other Cool Facts abou t this guy:
* He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.
* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
* He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.
* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
* He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.
* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend's friend-list.

"Moral of the story"?LOSE U R GIRLFRIEND AND MAKE BILLIONS!!!!

Do some thing nice for some one else

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A man was walking down the beach at sunset. As, he walked along, he saw another man in the distance. He noticed this man kept leaning down, picking up something and throwing it out into the water, again and again.

As, he approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach. He was throwing them back into the water, one by one.Puzzled, he approached the man and said,"Good Evening. I was wondering what you are doing.""I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If, Idon't throw them back into the ocean, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."

"But, there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possible get to all of them. And, don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"The man bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and threw it back into the ocean.

With a smile he replied, "Made a difference to that one !!!"

Just remember, no matter how small the deed it really does makes a difference.Make a difference today.Do something nice for someone else.

ATM pin

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If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine,

you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse.

For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321.

The ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine.The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber,the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.This information was recently broadcasted on TV and it states that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists.

Heart attack and warm water..

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This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about heart attacks.

This makes sense.. the Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals...not cold water...maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain...

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.
It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer.
It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks:

You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.

Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.

Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.

60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep.

Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

Mail sent by Narayan Murthy to all Infosys staff

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It's half past 8 in the office but the lights are still on... PCs still running, coffee machines still buzzing... And who's at work? Most of them ??? Take a closer look...
All or most specimens are ??
Something male species of the human race...

Look closer... again all or most of them are bachelors... And why are they sitting late? Working hard? No way!!!Any guesses???

Let's ask one of them...Here's what he says... "What's there 2 do after going home...Here we getto surf, AC, phone, food, coffee that is why I am working late...Importantly no bossssssss!!!!!!!!!!!"

This is the scene in most research centers and software companies andother off-shore offices.Bachelors "Time-passing" during late hours in the office just bcoz they say they've nothing else to do...

Now what r the consequences...
"Working" (for the record only) late hours soon becomes part of theinstitute or company culture.With bosses more than eager to provide support to those "working" late in the form of taxi vouchers, food vouchers and of course good feedback, (oh,he's a hard worker... goes home only to change..!!).

They aren't helping things too...
To hell with bosses who don't understand the difference between "sitting" late and "working" late!!!Very soon, the boss start expecting all employees to put in extra workinghours.So, My dear Bachelors let me tell you, life changes when u get marriedand start having a family... office is no longer a priority, family is... and
That's when the problem starts... b'coz u start having commitments at hometoo.For your boss, the earlier "hardworking" guy suddenly seems to become a"early leaver" even if u leave an hour after regular time... after doing the same amount of work.
People leaving on time after doing their tasks for the day are labeled aswork-shirkers...Girls who thankfully always (its changing nowadays... though) leave ontime are labeled as "not up to it". All the while, the bachelors pat their own backs and carry on "working" not realizing that they r spoiling thework culture at their own place and never realize that they wuld have toregret at one point of time.

*So what's the moral of the story?? *
* Very clear, LEAVE ON TIME!!!
* Never put in extra time " *unless really needed *"
* Don't stay back un-necessarily and spoil your company work culturewhich will in turn cause inconvenience to you and your colleagues.

There are hundred other things to do in the evening..Learn music...Learn a foreign language...Try a sport... TT, cricket.........Importantly Get a girl friend or boy friend, take him/her around town...

* And for heaven's sake net cafe rates have dropped to an all-time low(plus, no fire-walls) and try cooking for a change.Take a tip from the Smirnoff ad: *"Life's calling, where are you??"*
Please pass on this message to all those colleagues And please do itbefore leaving time, don't stay back till midnight to forward this!!!
IT'S A TYPICAL INDIAN MENTALITY THAT WORKING FOR LONG HOURS MEANS VERY HARD WORKING & 100% COMMITMENT ETC.
PEOPLE WHO REGULARLY SIT LATE IN THE OFFICE DONT KNOW TO MANAGE THEIRTIME. SIMPLE !

Regards,
NARAYAN MURTHY.

www.airtel.com

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Infosys in Kuwait

2008-04-01T18:35:00.002+05:30

Commands in Hindi

2008-04-01T18:33:00.001+05:30

Bill Gates was in India last year. He announced that Microsoft plans to release a Windows version in Hindi. Here are some ofthe Windows related terms that have been approved by Bill Gatesto be used in the Hindi version of...

Atyant Mulayam Khidkiyan 2005

Atyant Mulayam = Microsoft

Khidki = Window

Phaail = File

Bachao = Save

Aise Bachao = Save as

Subko Bachao = Save All

Mujhe Bachao = Help

Madad Pe Madad = Help On Help

Dhoondo = Find

Firse Dhoondo = Find Again

Hilao = Move

Chaara = Options

Bura sandesh yaa phail naam = Bad command or file name

Garbh girao, Firse koshish karo, Naakaamyab = Abort, retry,fail

chhavo = Tile

Aadmi Bhejo = Send Mail

Daak = Mail

Daakiya = Mailer

Bhaago = Run

Chhaapo = Print

Dekh Ke Chhaapo = Print Preview

Chipkao = Paste

Khaas Chipkao = Paste Special

Mitao = Delete

Kagaz Uper = Page Up

Kagaz Neeche = Page Down

Anth = End

Saaf karo = Clear

Sab Kuch Saaf Karo = Clear All

Makan = Home

Topi Ka Tala = CapsLock

Hathiyaar = Tools

Khuli Chaadar = Spreadsheet

Futaas Ki Goli Kha = Exit

Ped = Tree

Chooha = Mouse

Chooha Chalak = Mouse Driver (Software)

Tik-Tik Karo = Click

Idhar-se-Udhar, Udhar-se- Idhar Wala Danda = Scrollbar

Pardha = Screen

Pardha Bachanewala = Screen Saver

Krimi = Virus

Tika = Anti Virus

Karo = Do

Galthi = Error

Ghusao = Insert

Pahle Ghusao = Insert Before

Beech Mein ghusao = Insert Between

Baadhme Ghusao = Insert After

Chabi Phalak = Key board

Choohha Ka Bisthar = Mouse Pad

Avaaz Phodney Wali Cheez = Sound Blaster

Antarjatiya Jaal = InterNet

Baath Cheeth Dabba = Dialog Box

Chale? = Exit?

Programming paradigms

2008-03-20T21:16:00.008+05:30

Programming Paradigms

Programming paradigms is a new way of thinking about the programming languages.

we attempt to trace the basic discipline and the idea behind each of the main 4 programming paradigms.

Imperative paradigm
logic paradigm
functional paradigm
object-oriented paradigm

1. Overview of imperative programming
First do this and next do that
The 'first do this, next do that' is a short phrase which really describes the spirit of the imperative paradigm. The basic idea is the command, which has a measurable effect on the program state. The phrase also reflects that the order to the commands is important. 'First do that, then do this' would be different from 'first do this, then do that'.
In the itemized list below we describe the main properties of the imperative paradigm.

Characteristics:
· Discipline and idea : Digital hardware technology and the ideas of Von Neumann
· Incremental change of the program state as a function of time.
· Execution of computational steps in an order governed by control structures
· We call the steps for commands
· Typical commands offered by imperative languages :Assignment, IO, procedure calls
· Language representatives : Fortran, Algol, Pascal, Basic, C
· The natural abstraction is the procedure
· Abstracts one or more actions to a procedure, which can be called as a single command.
· "Procedural programming"
We use several names for the computational steps in an imperative language. The word statement is often used with the special computer science meaning 'a elementary instruction in a source language'. The word instruction is another possibility; We prefer to devote this word the computational steps performed at the machine level. We will use the word 'command' for the imperatives in a high level imperative programming language.
A procedure abstracts one or more actions to a procedure, which can be activated as a single action.

2. Overview of the functional paradigm
Functional programming is in many respects a simpler and more clean programming paradigm than the imperative one. The reason is that the paradigm originates from a purely mathematical discipline: the theory of functions. The imperative paradigm is rooted in the key technological ideas of the digital computer, which are more complicated, and less 'clean' than mathematical function theory.
Below we characterize the most important, overall properties of the functional programming paradigm.

Evaluate an expression and use the resulting value for something

Characteristics:
· Discipline and idea : Mathematics and the theory of functions
· The values produced are non-mutable
· Impossible to change any constituent of a composite value
· As a remedy, it is possible to make a revised copy of composite value
· Atemporal : Time only plays a minor role compared to the imperative paradigm
· Applicative : All computations are done by applying (calling) functions
· The natural abstraction is the function
· Abstracts a single expression to a function which can be evaluated as an expression.
· Functions are first class values
· Functions are full-fledged data just like numbers, lists, ...
· Fits well with computations driven by needs
· Opens a new world of possibilities

3. Overview of the logic paradigm
The logic paradigm is dramatically different from the other three main programming paradigms. The logic paradigm fits extremely well when applied in problem domains that deal with the extraction of knowledge from basic facts and relations. The logical paradigm seems less natural in the more general areas of computation.

Answer a question via search for a solution
Below we briefly characterize the main properties of the logic programming paradigm.

Characteristics:
· Discipline and idea : Automatic proofs within artificial intelligence
· Based on axioms, inference rules, and queries.
· Program execution becomes a systematic search in a set of facts, making use of a set of inference rules

4. Overview of the object-oriented paradigm
The object-oriented paradigm has gained great popularity in the recent decade. The primary and most direct reason is undoubtedly the strong support of encapsulation and the logical grouping of program aspects. These properties are very important when programs become larger and larger.
The underlying, and somewhat deeper reason to the success of the object-oriented paradigm is probably the conceptual anchoring of the paradigm. An object-oriented program is constructed with the outset in concepts, which are important in the problem domain of interest. In that way, all the necessary technicalities of programming come in second row.

Send messages between objects to simulate the temporal evolution of a set of real world phenomena
As for the other main programming paradigms, we will now describe the most important properties of object-oriented programming, seen as a school of thought in the area of computer programming.

Characteristics:
· Discipline and idea : The theory of concepts, and models of human interaction with real world phenomenon
· Data as well as operations are encapsulated in objects
· Information hiding is used to protect internal properties of an object
· Objects interact by means of message passing
· A metaphor for applying an operation on an object
· In most object-oriented languages objects are grouped in classes
· Objects in classes are similar enough to allow programming of the classes, as opposed to programming of the individual objects
· Classes represent concepts whereas objects represent phenomena
· Classes are organized in inheritance hierarchies
· Provides for class extension or specialization
This ends the overview of the four main programming paradigms.

Dont use the function gets( )

2008-03-19T23:26:00.004+05:30

Never, never, NEVER use the function gets(). It is the most dangerous function in the entire C standard library because there is there is no way to use it safely!
Consider this example:

int main(void)
{
char name [25];
printf("Enter your name: ");
fflush(stdout);
if (gets(name) != NULL)
printf("Hello %s\n", name);
return 0;
}

What will happen if the user types fifty characters into twenty-five character array?
The answer is that gets() will fill up array and then keep on going, trying to write to memory past the end of the array which the program does not have the right to access. A program crash is likely.

You might also have heard that you should use the fgets() function, with stdin as the FILE * parameter, instead of gets(). Most people stop after saying that, but that doesn't actually give you the same result. gets() removes the '\n' character from the input but fgets() does not. That means you must manually remove the '\n' before passing the string to fopen(), or for many other uses.

Here is getsafe() function. Like gets() and fgets() both, it returns a pointer to char. This is either the pointer which was passed to it, or NULL if end of file or an error occurred. Like gets(), it removes the '\n' at the end of the string, if there is one. The prototype is:
char *getsafe(char *buffer, int count);
Here is the function:
char *getsafe(char *buffer, int count)
{
char *result = buffer, *np;
if ((buffer == NULL or count <>result = NULL;

else if (count == 1)

*result = '\0';

else if ((result = fgets(buffer, count, stdin)) != NULL)

if (np = strchr(buffer, '\n'))

*np = '\0';

return result;

}

That's all it takes to safely get input strings from the standard input with the '\n' removed.

Why int main( ) ? but not void main( ) ?

2008-03-19T21:28:00.000+05:30

The ANSI/ISO standards for C and C++ define the languages.
ANSI's International Standard For C
The function called at program startup is named main.
The implementation declares no prototype for this function. It can be defined with no parameters:
int main(void) { /* ... */ }
or with two parameters (referred to here as argc and argv, though any names may be used, as they are local to the function in which they are declared):
int main(int argc, char *argv[ ]) { /* ... */ }

This function shall not be overloaded.
It should have a return type of type int.

Practical Reasons To Return An int from main()
On many operating systems, the value returned by main() is used to return an exit status to the environment. On Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows systems, the low eight bits of the value returned by main() is passed to the command shell or calling program. This is often used to change the course of a program, batch file, or shell script.
Many compilers will refuse to compile a source code file containing a definition of main() which does not return an int.
On some platforms a program starting with void main() may crash on startup, or when it ends.
A program which contains a main() function that is not defined to return an int is just plain not real C or C++..

What should my "int main()" return?
As pointed out in the section above, it is extremely common for a program to return a result indication to the operating system. Some operating systems require a result code. And the return value from main(), or the equivalent value passed in a call to the exit() function, is translated by your compiler into an appropriate code.
There are three and only three completely standard and portable values to return from main() or pass to exit():
The plain old ordinary integer value 0.
The constant EXIT_SUCCESS defined in .
The constant EXIT_FAILURE defined in .

If you use 0 or EXIT_SUCCESS your compiler's run time library is guaranteed to translate this into a result code which your operating system considers as successful.

If you use EXIT_FAILURE your compiler's run time library is guaranteed to translate this into a result code which your operating system considers as unsuccessful.

C++ Note
In a C++ program you do not have to return anything from int main()! The language standard guarantees that if your int main() function "falls off the end" by reaching the closing brace, the compiler will automatically return 0 for you indicating success.
Warnings
It is not good programming practice to take advantage of this C++ feature. Programs should always specifically indicate a return status.
C++ does not provide this automatic return for any function except int main().
C does not provide an automatic return value for main() or any other function. It is up to the program to specify a return value or the status returned to the operating system is undefined.