Sunday, December 28, 2008
What To Do With Your Old Laptop?
Find a "Do It Yourself" guide below;
http://tech2.in.com/india/videos/tips-tricks/tech-toyz-transform-your-old-laptop/54271
Well I guess I'll have to wait a while, for something in my laptop to go kaput :D
If you want to get rid of your laptop and unable to find any takers, you can try converting it to a Panel-PC as shown below. You just have place the motherboard between two panels (how abt glass?), screw the monitor to one of the panels and finally solder all the wired connections. If your laptop supports Bluetooth, you just have to pick up a wireless keyboard and mouse.
Find a "Do It Yourself" guide below;http://tech2.in.com/india/videos/tips-tricks/tech-toyz-transform-your-old-laptop/54271
Well I guess I'll have to wait a while, for something in my laptop to go kaput :D
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
All About Google
I came across this brilliant presentation which discusses Google's competitive strategy along with their business model, take a look......
I came across this brilliant presentation which discusses Google's competitive strategy along with their business model, take a look......
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
SOA Security Model for Enterprise Application Integration
This is my final presentation (see below) of my project work at a company called Agresso. The project work explores in detail, the security issues in a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) environment and also describes the various approaches to these issues. The different approaches to SOA security (i.e. message level security, security as a service and policy driven security) are not standalone solutions, but can be deployed as mix and match solutions. Finally the project work describes a generic SOA security model which acts as a reference model to identify security vulnerabilities in enterprise application integration (EAI). These vulnerabilities can then be addressed by the different approaches to security.
SOA Security Model For EAI
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Swades
This is a brilliant movie which helps us understand some of the issues and congruities that confront India. It has to be agreed that it's sensibilities lies with that of rural India.
The only drawback is the running time of over 3 hours 20 mins, but it certainly has its moments which are funny and at the same time heartfelt and touching. It is indeed contemporary, cutting across clichés and definitely worthy of a watch.
I love the BGM composed by ARR, especially the ones below and the patriotic song in the finale...simply amazing!
The only drawback is the running time of over 3 hours 20 mins, but it certainly has its moments which are funny and at the same time heartfelt and touching. It is indeed contemporary, cutting across clichés and definitely worthy of a watch.
I love the BGM composed by ARR, especially the ones below and the patriotic song in the finale...simply amazing!
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Peopleware
This is considered as one of the best books in software engineering. Peopleware looks at the many facets of human issues in the software development process. It is a book you should read if you desire your business team to reach its full potential regardless of the industry you are in (must read for IT professionals).
The book spends a lot of time focusing on teams, and making you appreciate the value of teams. Another important aspect it teaches is to recognize the value of people in the software development process. A brief summary of this book can be found in the link below;
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~kkangas/docs/Peopleware.html
This is considered as one of the best books in software engineering. Peopleware looks at the many facets of human issues in the software development process. It is a book you should read if you desire your business team to reach its full potential regardless of the industry you are in (must read for IT professionals).
The book spends a lot of time focusing on teams, and making you appreciate the value of teams. Another important aspect it teaches is to recognize the value of people in the software development process. A brief summary of this book can be found in the link below;
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~kkangas/docs/Peopleware.html
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Quotes From C&H
Attitude -- You know what we need, Hobbes? We need an attitude. Yeah, you can't be cool if you don't have an attitude.
--Calvin
Best Friend -- Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
--Calvin
Enjoy Where We Are -- Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
-- Calvin
HW or Snow -- I should be doing my homework now. But the way I see it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life - procrastinating and rationalizing.
-- Calvin
Job Badly Enough -- If you do a job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.
-- Calvin
Killing Time -- I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
-- Calvin
Lucky Underpants -- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
-- Calvin
Mind Wander -- I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.
-- Calvin
Never Die -- I was put on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die.
-- Calvin
What I Want to Know -- I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
-- Calvin
Principles -- I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
-- Calvin
Reality -- Reality continues to ruin my life.
-- Calvin
Stories With No Point -- I'd hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
-- Calvin
Tests -- I understand my tests are popular reading in the teachers' lounge.
-- Calvin
Weekends -- Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
-- Calvin
Work for Everything -- Why should I have to work for everything? It's like saying that I don't deserve it.
-- Calvin
Writing -- I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
-- Calvin
Dream -- I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can play together all night!
-- Hobbes
Smug -- The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
--Hobbes
Childhood is Short -- Childhood is short and maturity is forever.
-- Calvin
No Adventure -- I haven't had any adventures! My life has been one big bore from the beginning.
-- Calvin
It’s Sunday -- It's Sunday. I've just got a few precious hours of freedom left before I have to go to school tomorrow.
-- Calvin
Greatest Man -- -I've been thinking. Suppose I grow up to be one of the world's greatest men of all time. Suppose my name will be an inspiration to humanity for eons to come.
-- Calvin
Hiccup Cures -- I think most hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
-- Hobbes
Jelly Doughnuts -- Jelly doughnuts gross me out. They're like eating giant, squishy bugs. You bite into them and all their purple guts spill out the other end.
-- Calvin
Dog-Eat-Dog World -- It's a dog-eat-dog world, so I'll do whatever I have to, and let others argue whether it’s "right" or not.
-- Calvin
Jungle out of Tiger -- You can take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the tiger.
-- Hobbes
Super Genius -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
-- Calvin
Only Human -- The problem with people is that they are only human.
-- Hobbes
Stupendous Man -- Yes! It's ... Stupendous Man! Friend of freedom! Opponent of oppression! Lover of liberty!
-- Stupendous Man
Rudeness and Disrespect -- A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
-- Calvin
Green Knees -- I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
-- Calvin
Skills Patient to Learn -- The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
-- Calvin
Nothing You Want -- There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
-- Calvin
Intelligent Life -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
-- Calvin
Up to Something -- People pay more attention to you when they think you're up to something.
-- Calvin
Not Responsible -- Life is a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions.
-- Calvin
Bad Day Worse -- To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
-- Calvin
10 Seconds -- If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
-- Calvin
Never Children -- People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
-- Calvin
Make Me Care -- You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
-- Calvin
Reality I Accept -- It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
-- Calvin
Common Sense -- I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
-- Calvin
Peace with the World -- I'm at peace with the world. I'm completely serene. I've discovered my purpose in life. I know why I was put here and why everything exists... I am here so everybody can do what I want. Once everybody accepts it, they'll be serene too.
-- Calvin
Price So Low -- I don't know which is worse... that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low.
-- Hobbes
Minute At College -- Everytime you make a deposit, you can think, "Oh boy, another two minutes at college."
-- Calvin’s Dad
Blame Things -- It's a lot more fun to blame things than to fix them.
-- Calvin
Airplane -- When you think how well basic appliances work, it's hard to believe anyone ever gets on an airplane.
-- Calvin
Coexist -- It's hard to co-exist with things that want to kill you.
-- Calvin
Mail -- The longer you wait for the mail, the less there is of it.
-- Calvin
Vicariously Living -- Dad are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched?
-- Calvin
Girls and Bugs -- I imagine girls and bugs have a dim perception that nature played a cruel trick on them but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the magnitude of it.
-- Calvin
Girls Go On Living -- It must be awful to be a girl. I'm sure it's frustrating knowing that men are bigger, stronger and better at abstract thought than women. Really, if you are a girl, what would make you go on living?
-- Calvin
Bed Poem 1 -- At night my mind does not much care
If what it thinks is here or there.
It tells me stories it invents
And makes up things that don't make sense.
I don't know why it does this stuff.
The real world seems quite weird enough.
-- Calvin
Bed Poem 2 -- Now I'm in bed,
The sheets pulled to my head.
My tiger is here making Zs.
He's furry and hot.
He takes up a lot
Of the bed and he's hogging the breeze.
Behavior is Addictive -- My behavior is addictive functioning in a disease process of toxic co-dependency. I need holistic healing and wellness before I'll accept any responsibility for my actions.
-- Calvin
Calamity -- Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then
suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. But it is too late to change anything.
-- Calvin
Van Gogh -- Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he put tigers in them.
-- Hobbes
Life can Get Worse -- That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse
-- Calvin
Good Compromise -- A good compromise leaves everybody mad.
-- Calvin
Essence of the Male Mind -- Idiocy is the essence of the male mind.
-- Calvin
Laugh at Senselessness -- I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
-- Calvin
Humor -- In humor, timing is everything
-- Calvin
Complete Pandemonium -- Do the words 'complete pandemonium' strike terror in your heart?"
-- Calvin
Have Something -- When you get something, it's new and exciting. When you have something, you take it for granted and it's boring.
-- Calvin
Calvinball Poem -- Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great cause it's named after me!
-- Calvin
Resource Consuming Kid -- I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in and overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak.
-- Calvin
Calvinball -- Get out the time-fracture wickets, Hobbes! We're gonna play Calvinball!
-- Calvin
How Things Oughta Be -- Nobody asks me how things oughta be! I've got tons of ideas!
-- Calvin
Lemons -- I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!
-- Calvin
Wishful Thinking -- I guess there's no harm in a little wishful thinking.
-- Hobbes
Interesting Times -- These are interesting times. We don't trust the government, we don't trust the legal system, we don't trust the media, and we don't trust each other! We've undermined all authority, and with it, the basis for replacing it! It's like a six-year-old's dream come true!
-- Calvin
Bitter and Cynical -- Now, a lifetime of experience has left me bitter and cynical.
-- Calvin
Warped Values -- If warped values are the price of a vicarious thrill, so be it!
-- Calvin
Whims into Principles -- Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!
-- Calvin
Cannobilism -- Miss Wormwood, could we arrange our seats in a little circle and have a little discussion? Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders since it is less wasteful.
-- Calvin
Ignorance is Bliss -- If ignorance is bliss, this lesson would appear to be a deliberate attempt on your part to deprive me of happiness, the pursuit of which is my unalienable right according to the declaration of independence. I therefore assert my patriotic prerogative not to know this material. I'll be out in the playground.
-- Calvin
Full credit to the chap who compiled this list and Bill Watterson for writing them!
--Calvin
Best Friend -- Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
--Calvin
Enjoy Where We Are -- Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
-- Calvin
HW or Snow -- I should be doing my homework now. But the way I see it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life - procrastinating and rationalizing.
-- Calvin
Job Badly Enough -- If you do a job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.
-- Calvin
Killing Time -- I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
-- Calvin
Lucky Underpants -- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
-- Calvin
Mind Wander -- I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.
-- Calvin
Never Die -- I was put on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die.
-- Calvin
What I Want to Know -- I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
-- Calvin
Principles -- I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
-- Calvin
Reality -- Reality continues to ruin my life.
-- Calvin
Stories With No Point -- I'd hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
-- Calvin
Tests -- I understand my tests are popular reading in the teachers' lounge.
-- Calvin
Weekends -- Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
-- Calvin
Work for Everything -- Why should I have to work for everything? It's like saying that I don't deserve it.
-- Calvin
Writing -- I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
-- Calvin
Dream -- I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can play together all night!
-- Hobbes
Smug -- The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
--Hobbes
Childhood is Short -- Childhood is short and maturity is forever.
-- Calvin
No Adventure -- I haven't had any adventures! My life has been one big bore from the beginning.
-- Calvin
It’s Sunday -- It's Sunday. I've just got a few precious hours of freedom left before I have to go to school tomorrow.
-- Calvin
Greatest Man -- -I've been thinking. Suppose I grow up to be one of the world's greatest men of all time. Suppose my name will be an inspiration to humanity for eons to come.
-- Calvin
Hiccup Cures -- I think most hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
-- Hobbes
Jelly Doughnuts -- Jelly doughnuts gross me out. They're like eating giant, squishy bugs. You bite into them and all their purple guts spill out the other end.
-- Calvin
Dog-Eat-Dog World -- It's a dog-eat-dog world, so I'll do whatever I have to, and let others argue whether it’s "right" or not.
-- Calvin
Jungle out of Tiger -- You can take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the tiger.
-- Hobbes
Super Genius -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
-- Calvin
Only Human -- The problem with people is that they are only human.
-- Hobbes
Stupendous Man -- Yes! It's ... Stupendous Man! Friend of freedom! Opponent of oppression! Lover of liberty!
-- Stupendous Man
Rudeness and Disrespect -- A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
-- Calvin
Green Knees -- I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
-- Calvin
Skills Patient to Learn -- The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
-- Calvin
Nothing You Want -- There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
-- Calvin
Intelligent Life -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
-- Calvin
Up to Something -- People pay more attention to you when they think you're up to something.
-- Calvin
Not Responsible -- Life is a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions.
-- Calvin
Bad Day Worse -- To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
-- Calvin
10 Seconds -- If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
-- Calvin
Never Children -- People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
-- Calvin
Make Me Care -- You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
-- Calvin
Reality I Accept -- It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
-- Calvin
Common Sense -- I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
-- Calvin
Peace with the World -- I'm at peace with the world. I'm completely serene. I've discovered my purpose in life. I know why I was put here and why everything exists... I am here so everybody can do what I want. Once everybody accepts it, they'll be serene too.
-- Calvin
Price So Low -- I don't know which is worse... that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low.
-- Hobbes
Minute At College -- Everytime you make a deposit, you can think, "Oh boy, another two minutes at college."
-- Calvin’s Dad
Blame Things -- It's a lot more fun to blame things than to fix them.
-- Calvin
Airplane -- When you think how well basic appliances work, it's hard to believe anyone ever gets on an airplane.
-- Calvin
Coexist -- It's hard to co-exist with things that want to kill you.
-- Calvin
Mail -- The longer you wait for the mail, the less there is of it.
-- Calvin
Vicariously Living -- Dad are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched?
-- Calvin
Girls and Bugs -- I imagine girls and bugs have a dim perception that nature played a cruel trick on them but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the magnitude of it.
-- Calvin
Girls Go On Living -- It must be awful to be a girl. I'm sure it's frustrating knowing that men are bigger, stronger and better at abstract thought than women. Really, if you are a girl, what would make you go on living?
-- Calvin
Bed Poem 1 -- At night my mind does not much care
If what it thinks is here or there.
It tells me stories it invents
And makes up things that don't make sense.
I don't know why it does this stuff.
The real world seems quite weird enough.
-- Calvin
Bed Poem 2 -- Now I'm in bed,
The sheets pulled to my head.
My tiger is here making Zs.
He's furry and hot.
He takes up a lot
Of the bed and he's hogging the breeze.
Behavior is Addictive -- My behavior is addictive functioning in a disease process of toxic co-dependency. I need holistic healing and wellness before I'll accept any responsibility for my actions.
-- Calvin
Calamity -- Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then
suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. But it is too late to change anything.
-- Calvin
Van Gogh -- Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he put tigers in them.
-- Hobbes
Life can Get Worse -- That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse
-- Calvin
Good Compromise -- A good compromise leaves everybody mad.
-- Calvin
Essence of the Male Mind -- Idiocy is the essence of the male mind.
-- Calvin
Laugh at Senselessness -- I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
-- Calvin
Humor -- In humor, timing is everything
-- Calvin
Complete Pandemonium -- Do the words 'complete pandemonium' strike terror in your heart?"
-- Calvin
Have Something -- When you get something, it's new and exciting. When you have something, you take it for granted and it's boring.
-- Calvin
Calvinball Poem -- Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great cause it's named after me!
-- Calvin
Resource Consuming Kid -- I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in and overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak.
-- Calvin
Calvinball -- Get out the time-fracture wickets, Hobbes! We're gonna play Calvinball!
-- Calvin
How Things Oughta Be -- Nobody asks me how things oughta be! I've got tons of ideas!
-- Calvin
Lemons -- I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!
-- Calvin
Wishful Thinking -- I guess there's no harm in a little wishful thinking.
-- Hobbes
Interesting Times -- These are interesting times. We don't trust the government, we don't trust the legal system, we don't trust the media, and we don't trust each other! We've undermined all authority, and with it, the basis for replacing it! It's like a six-year-old's dream come true!
-- Calvin
Bitter and Cynical -- Now, a lifetime of experience has left me bitter and cynical.
-- Calvin
Warped Values -- If warped values are the price of a vicarious thrill, so be it!
-- Calvin
Whims into Principles -- Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!
-- Calvin
Cannobilism -- Miss Wormwood, could we arrange our seats in a little circle and have a little discussion? Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders since it is less wasteful.
-- Calvin
Ignorance is Bliss -- If ignorance is bliss, this lesson would appear to be a deliberate attempt on your part to deprive me of happiness, the pursuit of which is my unalienable right according to the declaration of independence. I therefore assert my patriotic prerogative not to know this material. I'll be out in the playground.
-- Calvin
Full credit to the chap who compiled this list and Bill Watterson for writing them!
Friday, May 23, 2008
Life of Pi
This is an incredible book which is impossible to put down once you get going. As any other great adventure book it goes well beyond the story itself. It has a message which can be understood at different levels by different readers. At times it resembles a fable, at times a hallucination and at times just breezy.
The core part of the book describes Pi's journey across the Pacific Ocean in a lifeboat with an injured Zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger. Eventually their numbers are reduced to two - Pi and the tiger (the rest of the book is a 227 page ordeal for survival). The best part of the book is the choice of an alternate ending, which challenges and leaves you in contemplation.
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction in September 2001.
The core part of the book describes Pi's journey across the Pacific Ocean in a lifeboat with an injured Zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger. Eventually their numbers are reduced to two - Pi and the tiger (the rest of the book is a 227 page ordeal for survival). The best part of the book is the choice of an alternate ending, which challenges and leaves you in contemplation.
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction in September 2001.
Friday, March 21, 2008
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