Rediff Guide to the Net: Features: It's A Snap!:
"Nikhil Goel, an amateur photo enthusiast and software programmer at Smart Bridges, says that he puts pictures online primarily to let his pals know that he's got a better camera and has managed better shots than them! Goel has a digital camera and hence finds emailing friends quite simple. However, he admits, 'I would recommend people to use online photo album services as email space is premium these days!'"
"When one is in a difficult situation, it is very hard to think straight. One encounters, what I call, paralysis by analysis. Because one is smart (too smart for ones own good), there is a tendency to keep analysing the situation replaying events and getting lost in an infinite maze of what-if scenarios. The need of the hour is for tough decisions and surgical actions, but thats the last thing one makes, because of the belief that there has to be a logical way to remove the bugs one-by-one from the system. This inaction compounds the problem. I went through such a phase for many months. Outwardly, I had to act normal and optimistic because of the other people who looked up at me for direction and guidance. Inwardly, I was coming apart. "
Well, Cringeley does it again. He's got a piece over here on Linksys Router and how its disruptive technology nature would send ripples across different networking and internet companies. Via Lockergnome
One of the cheapest Linux computers you can buy brand new (not at a garage sale) is the Linksys WRT54G, an 802.11g wireless access point and router that includes a four-port 10/100 Ethernet switch and can be bought for as little as $69.99 according to Froogle. That's a heck of a deal for a little box that performs all those functions, but a look inside is even more amazing. There you'll find a 200 MHz Intel processor and either 16 or 32 megs of DRAM and four or eight megs of flash RAM -- more computing power than I needed 10 years ago to run a local Internet Service Provider with several hundred customers. But since the operating system is Linux and since Linksys has respected the Linux GPL by publishing all the source code for anyone to download for free, the WRT54G is a lot more than just a wireless router. It is a disruptive technology.
According to this article at Forbes.com:: Being young and male puts you in a lower mortality group, who knew about this. My only concern is we have a higher percentage of people in CELPEC who are affected by this. So guys do something ;-)
One reason for the difference is as old as time, Kruger said. Men --indeed, males of all species -- 'compete for status and resources to attract attention and partnership of women,' he said. 'The higher degree of mating competition among males is the evolutionary reason why females live longer on average in most animal species.'
'Not all men successfully get a partner,' Kruger added. 'Because of this, men are willing to take a higher degree of risk. Women's behavior is shaped by the needs of child care, so they have a decreased tendency for risk-taking.'
Nilesh asked me about this and I wrote a reply to him which I am publishing here
Here is link to good introduction to weblogs, don’t forget to also read part 2
http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002399.html
There are links to very good articles on blogging just in the beginning of part 1.
I will also try to explain it in the context of CELPEC.
What do we do on CELPEC:
Talk about any thing and every thing, more on technology and related stuff. Idea is to have some form of conversation where one starts by saying “Hey dude did you hear about this, or you know what happened” But this thing happens in the virtual world.
With weblogs in picture, idea will still remain the same. But we are opening our conversation to the whole wide web. So be sure that you don’t want to put some thing like my company sucks. As it would be viewable to everyone, would be indexed by google, tracked and pinged by you don’t know whom. But consider putting something like hey I have this neat theory about how India’s population can be reduced ;-) Or I read this book. You get the idea.
How do we do it:
With the CELPEC mailing list, it is a real simple interface, you send an email to a particular address, mailing list host accepts this email from certain predefined addresses, which were put there when we subscribed to it.
With CELPEC weblog, the most simple interface would be to visit the site http://blogger.com or whatever. Login to make a new entry and post to your heart’s desire. This is the basic one.
Now onto more exotic ones, almost all blogging systems provide something like “Blog This”. Idea is to have a link to your browser toolbar. You would see this orange symbol on google toolbar. This is really neat. You might be reading a website and you feel the urge to blog. You select some text of your interest on the webpage and click the “Blog This” link on your tool bar. This would popup a window with the selected test and the link to it. Now you can enter your comments on this and publish this. It would be posted to your weblog.
Third and most widely used by regular writers is to have clients like w:blogger (http://wbloggar.com) etc. These are your regular applications you give your server address and your credentials in the beginning. Then write stuff inside this client and once done press publish. Just like the above “Blog This” interface your post is published and ready to pleasure world’s eyes.
Interaction:
On the mailing list we simply reply if someone feels like and everybody gets the reply. Idea is limited to our selected group. But with weblogs your post is opened to the whole world and anybody can comment on it. Another nice and powerful feature is trackback. Let us say you read a post somewhere and you want to write about it, or you mentioned it in your blog. By using the trackback feature you can let the author of that post know that you have published an entry that references his post.
How do we get it or syndication:
With mailing list we get in our inbox. With blog, you can goto the site regularly to check if there is something new. But there is no fun in it. For this almost every weblog publishes a feed. For example celpec feed is at http://celpec.blogspot.com/atom.xml So there are weblog feed aggregators like SharpReader(http://sharpreader.net) where you can specify which weblogs you are interested in reading and just like your email client check this regularly to see if anyone has something new to say. There are online aggregators like http://www.bloglines.com/ also.
Hope this helps. I am posting this on my blog at http://pnarula.com/blog as well as celpec blog.
A lecturer was giving a lecture to his students on stress management. He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, "How heavy do you think this glass of water is?"
The students' answers ranged from 20g to 500gm. "It does not matter on the absolute weight. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance. It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." "If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier."
" If you HAVE to hold the glass of water, but should not feel the pain from that, what you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again." We have to put down the burden periodically, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on.
So before we return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it back home. We can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens we have now on our shoulders, let it down for a moment if we can. Pick it up again later when we have rested... And attend to it Successfully! Rest and relax. Be happy and make others happy!!
Came across this article via FutureSalon. This is about the ongoing new things happening in EDA. Haven't gone thru all of it but I know some of you will be delighted to read this. Especially people on islands :D
EDN - From the ashes: The next stage of EDA: "From the ashes: The next stage of EDA
Moore's Law is not dead, and the EDA industry is challenged with keeping it profitable. This task requires a change in focus from designing silicon structures to producing systems"
And here is Mark's ,founder of Future Salon, take on it
...it gives a good overview of "Where we are now" -- where we are in the ongoing Moore's Law saga, the current problems facing the semiconductor industry, and the surprising ways people are changing what they are doing in response. (The figures are in annoying PDF files, but still worth checking out.)
For example, we keep hearing about how all the hardware design jobs are going to India. But this article talks about the increasing difficulty of digital design, and if this article is to be believed, those jobs going to India are the "dumb" digital design jobs -- jobs done by some guy who went to college and learned Verilog or VHDL, and who understands very little of the underlying semiconductor physics.
Niks check this out, remember we used to talk about this, paln was for you check dirt cheap manufacturers in Singapore area and at that time our price barrier was Rs 10,000.
Om Malik on Broadband: "At $300 a machine, the market is going to split wide open. In India alone nearly 55 million such machines could be sold to schools, colleges, government, and small businesses, estimates Netcore Solutions, a Mumbai, India-based company. Multiply this many times, and you see the numbers add up. The total market opportunity for the lower priced machines is upwards of $16 billion. (This is a concept championed by Rajesh Jain.) "
"[B]y the way, we rank 10th amongst the industrialized world in broadband technology and its availability. That's not good enough for America. Tenth is 10 spots too low as far as I'm concerned."—Minneapolis, Minn., April 26, 2004
How can you not love this guy
Rahul I took the liberty of posting your email over here
Indeed it is a great idea, just that the rozana naukri and saare din ki daud dhoop, left not enuff time yesterday for me to rant.
I wanted to talk about wht my company does, Intellectual Property Research, Market Research and Business Research, why was I (we?) not aware of this field about 5 days before I got recruited, what do we @ cel-pec think about this field and its potential.
I'm ready to be shot down right here!
Check Dristikona, a blog by a senior engineer. I am amazed after reading his wake up time.
Indra's Drishtikona (Viewpoint): Indra's weblog: Individual Archive: "Normally I get up any time at 3 to 4 in the morning (AM). My grand father inculcated in me this habit of early rising. Time and again, he used to remind me in my student days- 'early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise'. I do not know whether I got all that it claims to bestow, but it became a way of my life. Even when I worked for 12 to 16 hours going to bed very late, I got up almost same time always. I never had to take the help of alarm or wake up calls. Today when I do not have any professional obligation, it has become easier. Even if I feel like, I can not sleep for more number of hours. Nowadays, when I get up and go for surfing the news sites as a hobby, I get a real feel of 'good morning'. It gives me a feel of 'India shining' almost every day in plenty. I mention some from a single day in this week."
Beta Thoughts - Beta Testing or beta-teasing: "While the importance of Beta Testing phase cannot be denied, but it seems to me these days this phase is also serving as another marketing tool. To be successful in the competitive While the importance of Beta Testing phase cannot be denied, but it seems to me these days this phase is also serving as another marketing tool....
Keeping all this in mind I believe this beta testing phase could very well be called beta-teasing. So next time someone tells you their product is in beta, think they might be pulling a beta-tease on you"
WE NEED TO REVISE THIS
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