Srividya

Mind blowing one

2007-01-11T05:15:00.000-08:00

Read this. It is a 100% challenge that u will have a wrong answer to the question asked in the passage.

Once there was loving couple traveling in a bus in a mountainous area. They decided to get down at some place. After the couple got down at some place the bus moved on. As the bus moved on, a huge rock fell on the bus from the mountain and crushed the bus to crumbs. Everybody on board was killed. The couple upon seeing that, said, "We wish we were on that bus" Why do u think they said that?

Of course, it’s not a stupid answer -------- purely logical

------------------- Answer!!!! -------------------

If they had remained on the bus instead of deciding to get down, the resulting time delay could have been avoided and the rock would have fallen after the bus had passed...!!! Think positive in life always and look for opportunities when u can help others...... Many times in life, the opposite of Success is not Failure, its Quitting.

Never expect things to happen. Struggle and make them happen.

Indians come up with 'Kosmix' to challenge 'Google'

2006-02-09T19:37:00.000-08:00

Kosmix is one out of many search engines available that has to battle the giant Google. Kosmix creators, Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, do however have a lot in common with the creators of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin. All four namely went to Stanford University and developed their search engines as a school project during their time at the the university. The rest is history, but despite that Kosmix hasn't really reached out in the same way as Google has they have kept improving the service. Kosmix will according to its creators be a more precise search engine than Google and thus give more precise results. At least these guys have an advantage over the other search engines out there as the creators share some of the same experiences as the men behind Google, but if that is enough remains to see.

Source

Google Talk everywhere: Open federation

2006-01-18T06:20:00.000-08:00

Google has just announced open federation for the Google Talk service. What does that mean, "Open federation" is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other. For example, email is a federated system. You might have a .edu address and I have a Gmail address, but you and I can still exchange email. The same for the phone: there's nothing that prevents Cingular users from talking to Sprint users.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with many IM and Internet voice calling services today. You can only talk to people on the particular service you have an account on (so you need an account on every service to talk to everybody, which is pretty cumbersome). With open federation, you get to choose your service provider and you can talk to people on any other federated service (and vice versa).

This means we can now talk to millions of users around the world all with a single account on the service provider of our choice. it will bring us one step closer to making IM and Internet voice calling as ubiquitous as email.

Related links:
Open federation
What is libjingle????
XMPP federation
libjingle home

Kids to write new chapter in Indo-Pak peace initiatives...

2006-01-17T19:58:00.000-08:00

A bird's eye view of the 'World's Largest letter' aimed at building bonds of friendship between India and Pakistan at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Monday, 16-01-2006.
The letter is painted with the message ''Dear Friends in Pakistan, Let's join hearts in friendship. Together we can make a better world. --The Children of India.'' Surrounding this letter is smaller tarpaulins signed by school children from around the country.

supplemental result...

2006-01-09T19:34:00.000-08:00

Today, as usually when i started googling, i got different search result for my search string...
only one search result i got, that too 'supplemental result' and also the title for that result is not at all relavent to my search string......i was surprised...... this is what the text i got as the result....

Hello visitor,

Soory, google smashed my webspace with indexing this file containing
some thousand words with ranking and order and giving this 3MB txt
as search result for hopeless search queries.

If you are still interested in that wordlist please download
wordlist_2004-03-14.txt.bz2 in this directory or place your browser to

http://rabe.uugrn.org_(slash)_scripts_(slash)_google-news_(slash)
_wordlist_2004-03-14_(dot)_txt_(dot)_bz2

Regards
rabe

I didnt observed this never b4. It might b coming b4 also.....
Yes...
the supplemental result is the feature to augment the results for obscure queries. This is a new technology that can return more results for queries that for example have a small number of results. So it might not affect the results for a popular search, but for a researcher doing a more specific query, it can improve the recall of the results. The supplemental collection of pages has been collected from the web just like the 3.3 billion pages in Google's main index

Six degrees of Separation

2006-01-08T20:29:00.000-08:00

Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called Chains.

Source: wiki

She is Human calculator...

2006-01-06T02:50:00.000-08:00

January 24, 1977 . A cold and windy Monday afternoon at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas .

A beautiful young lady smartly clad in a sari, walked up to the stage. She sat down on a chair smiling at the hundreds of students and professors assembled in the hall. A scholarly professor wrote a 201 digit long number on the black board at her side. The number occupied 10 lines and took four minutes to write. After finishing the number, the professor took out a stopwatch from his pocket and with a nod at the lady he started the timer. There was absolute silence in the hall.

The young lady took one long look at the number and closed her eyes. Seconds ticked by. In deep concentration she appeared to have gone into a trance. At the fifty-second mark, the lady opened her eyes and slowly pronounced the answer, '546372891'. The professor then checked it with the result given by the computer. Yes, she was correct. The number given by her is the 23rd root of the 201 digit long number. Earlier that day, the fastest computer of the time, Univac 1108, had taken 62 seconds to give the answer.

Every member of the audience jumped to their feet and applauded the genius who beat the computer.

She was born in Bangalore, and that lady was Shakuntala Devi...........

source: wiki

Kalam’s list of must-read books for children

2006-01-05T18:57:00.000-08:00

Addressing the 13th National Children's Science Congress on Wednesday, the President said, "I want you all to finish this homework in 2006. You should read five books - Journey into Light, Life and Science of CV Raman by G Venkataraman, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Empire of Mind by Denis Waitly, Parallel Worlds by Michao Kaku and The Best of Indian Physics by Dr Siddharth."

The Braille Alphabet

2006-01-04T20:57:00.000-08:00

Why do we need to type characters from a picture....

2006-01-03T01:57:00.000-08:00

We will b asked to type characters from a picture in most of the online transactions starting from creating accounts to change passwords etc.. I always having a doubt y do we need to type like that... what security they r achieving with that...
here z the reason...
You must type the numbers and letters you see in the picture to confirm that a person is trying to access the page, rather than an automated program. This helps keep automated programs from creating fraudulent accounts or misusing accounts, for example, to send large amounts of unsolicited e-mail.
In most cases, automated sign-in programs can't recognize the numbers and letters in the picture.

Cuuuuuuuute puppy, isn't it!!!!!!

2005-12-29T22:35:00.000-08:00

This is our cuuuuuute puppy johny.

New Year a second late

2005-12-28T19:28:00.000-08:00

The new year will start a second late in 2006. The delay is due to a "leap second", which is to be added on December 31 to correct change in time due to a "wobbly" earth.

Sources:
The Hindu
The Times of India
Physorg: Space news
Innovations report

vedio web logging:vblog

2005-12-23T01:45:00.000-08:00

Here's your new vocabulary word for the day: vlog. A vlog is a video weblog. And here's a new site for you to look at, Vlogmap http://www.vlogmap.org/. This is a site that maps the location of vlogs.
More info here

Web sites let users send e-mails to the future

2005-12-23T01:33:00.000-08:00

http://futureme.orgThe site is one of a handful that let people send e-mails to themselves and others years in the future. They are technology's answer to time capsules, trading on people's sense of curiosity, accountability and nostalgia.
other sites that allow such services:
http://www.lastwishes.com
http://mylastemail.com

Looking @ 2005

2005-12-23T00:29:00.000-08:00

This is the time of year when people ponder the past as they anticipate looking ahead. Here's Google's annual concoction: the 2005 Year-End Google Zeitgeist. They chose a few key events and phenoms to study, and predictably found the patterns to be amusing or bemusing, challenging or heartening -- kind of like the year itself. Enjoy the view from here.

The life of Helen Keller

2005-12-12T20:57:00.000-08:00

About the life of Helen Keller, the deafblind woman who became a role model for millions of people....

The story of Helen Keller is the story of a child who, at the age of 19 months, suddenly lost her hearing and vision, and who, against overwhelming odds and with a great deal of persistence, grew into a highly intelligent and sensitive woman who wrote, spoke, and labored incessantly for the betterment of others. So powerful a symbol of triumph over adversity did she become that she has a definite place in the history of our time and of times to come.
Biography of Helen Keller
http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=129

Life of Helen Keller
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp

A magic on numbers

2005-12-12T20:53:00.000-08:00

111/(1+1+1) = 37
222/(2+2+2) = 37
333/(3+3+3) = 37
444/(4+4+4) = 37
555/(5+5+5) = 37
666/(6+6+6) = 37
777/(7+7+7) = 37
888/(8+8+8) = 37
999/(9+9+9) = 37

The Organs of your body

2005-12-09T01:15:00.000-08:00

The Organs of your body have their sensory touches at the bottom of your foot, if you massage these points you will find relief from aches and pains as you can see the organs are on right and left foot, the heart is on the left foot.This time, it put organs on the feet as they are. Typically they are shown as points and arrows to show which organ itconnects to. It is indeed correct since the nerves connected to these organs terminate here. This is covered in great details in Acupressure studies or textbooks. God created our body so well that he thought of even this. He made us walk so that we will always be pressing these pressure points and thus keeping these organs activated at all times.

Gtalkr- gtalk in the browser

2005-12-08T00:34:00.000-08:00

Go anywhere, to any computer, and have access to your Google Talk account via Gtalkr. No more hassling with upgrades. With Gtalkr you get the features in your browser as soon as they're available.
http://www.gtalkr.com/

To set new root password if u foret one

2005-11-28T20:32:00.000-08:00

The method i know for this is....
1) While booting at 'bootrecord', press 'e' to edit.
2) You can see the kernal-hd0 by moving the arrows.
3) Highlight that and then press enter.
4) Now press the space bar once and type single and then press enter.
5) Press b to boot.
6) You will get sh#
7) Type passwd root
8) And retype the password.
9) Then type reboot to boot again.

Good problem

2005-11-25T21:31:00.000-08:00

An integer array of size 101 contains 51 numbers between 1-10000.
50 nos are stored twice.

how can u find the no which is stored once??
The solution might be very simple. Get an algorithm of the time complexity O(n) and the least utilization of memory.

One Solution is...

Find out the XOR of all the numbers. The result of this is the required answer, which also takes O(n) and one extra memory location for storing the result.

nice C-puzzle

2005-11-25T20:31:00.000-08:00

void fun(void)
{
/*Do something here so that the printf stmt in main function prints something other than 20 */
}

int main()
{
int i = 20;
fun();
printf("%d", i);
}

One Solution is...

void fun(void)
{
#define printf(a,b) printf("%d",10);
// we can also use
// #define fun() i=10
}

int main()
{
int i = 20;
fun();
printf("%d", i);
}

Program to print 1 to 100 numbers without using any of the control structures

2005-11-16T02:57:00.000-08:00

One solution:

#include "iostream.h"
#include "conio.h"
void print( int );
void print ( int i )
{
try
{
printf("%d\n",i);
int j = i/i;
i--;
print(i);
}
catch( ... )
{
printf("%d\n",i++);
throw;
}
}
main()
{
try{
print(100);
}catch(...)
{
cout<<"Mission Accomplised :))";
}
}

Another Solution:

void Print1toN( int N )
{

(N-1 > 0) &&amp; Print1toN( N -1 ); // 1, 2, ... N
printf("%d\n",N);
}

void PrintNto1( int N )
{
printf("%d\n",N);
(N-1 > 0) &&amp; PrintNto1( N -1 ); // N, N-1, ... 2, 1

}

Arthur Ashe

2005-11-15T03:24:00.000-08:00

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of CANCER. From
world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed:

"Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"?

To this Arthur Ashe replied:

The world over -- 5 crore children start playing tennis, 50 lakh learn to
play tennis, 5 lakh learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the
circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbeldon, 4 to semi final,
2 to the finals.

When I was holding a cup I never asked GOD "Why me?" And today in pain I
should not be asking GOD "Why me?"

A story tells that two friends

2005-11-13T07:38:00.000-08:00

A story tells that two friendswere walkingthrough the desert During some point of thejourney they had anargument, and one friendslapped the other onein the face.The one who got slappedwas hurt, but withoutsaying anything,wrote in the sand:TODAY MY BEST FRIENDSLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.They kept on walkinguntil they found an oasis,where they decidedto take a bath.The one who had beenslapped got stuck in themire and started drowning,but the friend saved him.After he recovered fromthe near drowning,he wrote on a stone:TODAY MY BEST FRIENDSAVED MY LIFE.The friend who had slappedand saved his best friendasked him, "After I hurt you,you wrote in the sand and now,you write on a stone, why?"The other friend replied"When someone hurts uswe should write it downin sand where winds offorgiveness can erase it away.But, when someone doessomething good for us,we must engrave it in stonewhere no windcan ever erase it."LEARN TO WRITEYOUR HURTS INTHE SAND AND TOCARVE YOURBENEFITS IN STONE.They say it takes aminute to find a specialperson, an hour toappreciate them, a dayto love them, but thenan entire lifeto forget them.Do not value the THINGSyou have in your life. But value WHO you have in your life!

1000 GB mail space

2005-11-11T20:05:00.000-08:00

This mail server provides us with 1000GB i.e. 1 Terabyte of mail space and the account creation is free

http://www.mailnation.net/

SUCCESS

2005-11-11T00:36:00.000-08:00

S- Set your goal
U- Understand the Obstacle.
C- Clear the doubts.
C- Create the positive mental picture.
E- Entertain the challenge
S- Stay on the track.
S- Show the world what you can do for it.

Honest labour and proper approach leads to success.

Instant messenger on demand

2005-11-06T22:18:00.000-08:00

Instant messengers for emergency. If you in a net center and they
don't have the software installed. Don't worry and don't take the pain
of downloading your brand of instant messenger.

Just login to: http://www4.meebo.com/

Something special for Google's 7th birthday...

2005-09-28T23:07:00.000-07:00

Google opened its doors in September 1998, and we’ve been pursuing one mission ever since: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index that is 1,000 times the size of our original index.

I’m proud of everything we’ve accomplished in the years since Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up the first Google data center in Larry’s dorm room at Stanford. Today, along with web search based on Larry and Sergey’s original BackRub search engine, we offer specialized search for everything from satellite images to academic papers, local business info to your own computer. We’ve also built software for email and mobile services, photo management and computer-to-computer voice calling, to name just a few things.

But search remains our heart and soul, so I’m especially pleased by this latest expansion of our index, which makes Google more than 3 times larger than any other search engine. See for yourself how effective the new Google search index can be. Come up with a search query that's special to you (your name, your elementary school, and your favorite animal, for example) - a combination of words that is likely to exist on just a few web pages out of the billions we've indexed, a few needles scattered in the Internet’s endless haystack.

Hawking's Photos: Stephen Hawking and his wheel chair

2005-09-19T21:20:00.000-07:00

Cosmological Star.... Admirable person

2005-09-19T21:06:00.000-07:00

The British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (1942-) has devoted much of his life to probing the space-time described by general relativity and the singularities where it breaks down. And he’s done most of this work while confined to a wheelchair, brought on by the progressive neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a post once held by Isaac Newton.

In the late 1960s, Hawking proved that if general relativity is true and the universe is expanding, a singularity must have occurred at the birth of the universe. In 1974 he first recognized a truly remarkable property of black holes, objects from which nothing was supposed to be able to escape. By taking into account quantum mechanics, he was able to show that black holes can radiate energy as particles are created in their vicinity. But perhaps his most impressive feat was writing the international bestseller A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME. The book spent more than four years on the London Sunday Times bestseller list—the longest run for any book in history.

New Google search engine boosts 'Blogging'

2005-09-19T20:55:00.000-07:00

A new Google Inc. specialty search engine sifts through the Internet's millions of frequently updated personal journals, a long-anticipated development expected to help propel "blogging" into the cultural mainstream.

The new tool, unveiled at http://blogsearch.google.com, focuses exclusively on the material contained in the journals known as Web logs, or "blogs."

Mountain View-based Google, the Internet's general search engine leader, first set its sights on blogs with its 2003 acquisition of a small startup called Blogger that makes software to publish and manage the journals.

Since that deal, Google had been expected to build a blogging-focused search engine — a mission finally accomplished by a group of by developers in the company's New York office.

Nice Quotes

2005-09-19T03:27:00.000-07:00

Aim above the mark to hit the mark

If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.
---- Robert Kaplan, The nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero.

A computer with as many vaccum tubes as a man has n;eu;rans in his head would require the Pentagon to house it, Niagara's power to run it, and Niagara's water to cool it
---- Warren S.McCulloch, 1956.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment
---- Philippe Muller

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent,
doing what is imposible for talent is genius.
---- Henri-Frederic Amiel.

A man not thinking for himself isn't thinking at all.

---- Oscar Wilde

It is sad that the fools are so self-confident and
the clever ones are full of doubts.

---- Bertrand Russell

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
---- James Thurber

3 days of meaningful life is far better than 100 years of meaningless existence
---- Amithb (in Amrithadhare)

Trouble shared is trouble halved--joy shared is joy doubled.

We should know something of everything and everything of something.

Humiliating failures are potential steps to success.

Nothing is easy and whatever is easy its nothing....

Leaders don't go thru life, they grow thru life.

Rain drop falling from the sky has nothing in mind except to hit the earth. No matter how tough the drop is, it still reaches its destiny!

First post

2005-09-07T02:31:00.000-07:00

Hey this is my first posting to my blog