Here is something I experienced this week, from the previous posts u would have come to a conclusion that my VIVAs are on, so I would be pretty busy with studies and all. In reality, I have been wasting my time, on useless crap stuff like going to college and giving VIVAs.
You must be pretty confused thinking, wtf is this guy talking about, besides it wouldnt seem too much, if you think i am on drugs or something, coz once u listen to what I have to say, am sure you will be pretty much like my mental condition.
Day 1 ---> AMUP VIVA
I went to college and reached at 10:30AM, VIVAs were scheduled at 10:00AM (yeah the notice had the words "10:00AM sharp" writtern in bold and underlined with full effect). After reaching I found out, the external hasnt come as yet, so we waited till around 11:30AM, then this bald guy comes and says "Come 4 people for VIVA". And so it began, the thing that was scheduled at 10:00AM started at 11:30AM, typical Jondale like. The first batch that went in, came out and said "Bhaari Bhaari questions puuch raha hai undar, yeh pad voh pad aur voh bhi padd". Hearing that people started digging holes into their books and reading even more. I think one guy even started remembering the page numbers of some concepts that he studied. Later, after 4 to 5 batches went and came, we came to know all the different types of questions that were asked inside. So now come the smart students, who's (by god's grace) roll numbers were at a later stage, they read only those questions that were asked inside, thus saving lots of time.
I was part of this group of smart student, who wasted the entire nite doing nothing and read only those questions which were asked inside, within the 2-3 hours that he took. Now came my turn, as soon as I went in, this external asked my other patner "Accha Boss, Kya pada hai bolo", he said SPARC architecture. As soon as he heard this, his eyes twinkled like as if he was unemployed, and was given an opportunity to work in an MNC. The first bouncer he put was "Tell me, we have SPARC architecture but not a SPARC processor why???", he pointed his finger starting from the other end where I was sitting (we were sitting in a single row and i was very much close to the external), everyone of them shrugged their shoulder and said "No idea" (which is the best way to say, "YEH kya puucha hai aapne???"). As soon as he pointed onto me, I was determined to say something or the other, so I started of by saying "Sir Architecture, is nothing but a design, whereas processor is the implementation of this design, hence SPARC is just a architecture". This was purely instinct based answer, I had no idea of what SPARC was, I didnt even touch that topic. As soon as the external heard my answer he was stunned for a minute or two and sat there staring at me as if I had uttered some verses from some kind of damned and banned book. I think it was because he didnt expect an answer for his question he put, in the way I had given or something like that. Later he himself sat and explained why no processor is made for SPARC. As he was explaining, I caught a glimpse of sweat falling from my friends forehead, from the corner of my eye. They were all terrified by the kind of question this guy was firing at us. Then came the next dreaded question,(dreaded because he was in a mood to fry us alive in a big cauldron with not a single drop of oil, lol), it was something like this "If the SPARC architecture was implemented, that is if SPARC processor was made, which operating system would be used". This question just blew away the remaining courage in our hearts to attend the viva, it was as if we were in some torcher chamber, he then started pointing his dangerous finger one by one, atlast he showed his finger towards me with some hope, and I (who was determined to say something or the other) said the following "Sir, SPARC is made by SUN microsystems (I dunno from where i came to know that) so we can use their Operating System called Solaris". This came as a double surprise, after this big one, I was never asked a single question again in the Entire VIVA for AMUP. So as i told you, I was saved once again for my street smart brain, which picks up junk faster than a magnet picks up iron pins in a hay stack.
The second VIVA of Intelligent System, I will update it when i get time, and the energy to do so, coz rit now am busy with many stuff coming up, like my cousin's wedding etc.... Till then CYA
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Are you a Bucket Filler or a Bucket Dipper
You have heard of the cup that overflowed. This is a story of a bucket that is like the cup, only larger, it is an invisible bucket. Everyone has one. It determines how we feel about ourselves, about others, and how we get along with people. Have you ever experienced a series of very favorable things which made you want to be good to people for a week? At that time, your bucket was full.
A bucket can be filled by a lot of things that happen. When a person speaks to you, recognizing you as a human being, your bucket is filled a little. Even more if he calls you by name, especially if it is the name you like to be called. If he compliments you on your dress or on a job well done, the level in your bucket goes up still higher. There must be a million ways to raise the level in another's bucket. Writing a friendly letter, remembering something that is special to him, knowing the names of his children, expressing sympathy for his loss, giving him a hand when his work is heavy, taking time for conversation, or, perhaps more important, listing to him.
When one's bucket is full of this emotional support, one can express warmth and friendliness to people. But, remember, this is a theory about a bucket and a dipper. Other people have dippers and they can get their dippers in your bucket. This, too, can be done in a million ways.
Lets say I am at a dinner and inadvertently upset a glass of thick, sticky chocolate milk that spills over the table cloth, on a lady's skirt, down onto the carpet. I am embarrassed. "Bright Eyes" across the table says, "You upset that glass of chocolate milk." I made a mistake, I know I did, and then he told me about it! He got his dipper in my bucket! Think of the times a person makes a mistake, feels terrible about it, only to have someone tell him about the known mistake ("Red pencil" mentality!)
Buckets are filled and buckets are emptied ? emptied many times because people don't really think about what are doing. When a person's bucket is emptied, he is very different than when it is full. You say to a person whose bucket is empty, "That is a pretty tie you have," and he may reply in a very irritated, defensive manner.
Although there is a limit to such an analogy, there are people who seem to have holes in their buckets. When a person has a hole in his bucket, he irritates lots of people by trying to get his dipper in their buckets. This is when he really needs somebody to pour it in his bucket because he keeps losing.
The story of our lives is the interplay of the bucket and the dipper. Everyone has both. The unyielding secret of the bucket and the dipper is that when you fill another's bucket it does not take anything out of your own bucket. The level in our own bucket gets higher when we fill another's, and, on the other hand, when we dip into another's bucket we do not fill our own ... we lose a little.
For a variety of reasons, people hesitate filling the bucket of another and consequently do not experience the fun, joy, happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction connected with making another person happy. Some reasons for this hesitancy are that people think it sounds "fakey," or the other person will be suspicious of the motive, or it is "brown-nosing."
Therefore, let us put aside our dipper and resolve to touch someone's life in order to fill their bucket.
A bucket can be filled by a lot of things that happen. When a person speaks to you, recognizing you as a human being, your bucket is filled a little. Even more if he calls you by name, especially if it is the name you like to be called. If he compliments you on your dress or on a job well done, the level in your bucket goes up still higher. There must be a million ways to raise the level in another's bucket. Writing a friendly letter, remembering something that is special to him, knowing the names of his children, expressing sympathy for his loss, giving him a hand when his work is heavy, taking time for conversation, or, perhaps more important, listing to him.
When one's bucket is full of this emotional support, one can express warmth and friendliness to people. But, remember, this is a theory about a bucket and a dipper. Other people have dippers and they can get their dippers in your bucket. This, too, can be done in a million ways.
Lets say I am at a dinner and inadvertently upset a glass of thick, sticky chocolate milk that spills over the table cloth, on a lady's skirt, down onto the carpet. I am embarrassed. "Bright Eyes" across the table says, "You upset that glass of chocolate milk." I made a mistake, I know I did, and then he told me about it! He got his dipper in my bucket! Think of the times a person makes a mistake, feels terrible about it, only to have someone tell him about the known mistake ("Red pencil" mentality!)
Buckets are filled and buckets are emptied ? emptied many times because people don't really think about what are doing. When a person's bucket is emptied, he is very different than when it is full. You say to a person whose bucket is empty, "That is a pretty tie you have," and he may reply in a very irritated, defensive manner.
Although there is a limit to such an analogy, there are people who seem to have holes in their buckets. When a person has a hole in his bucket, he irritates lots of people by trying to get his dipper in their buckets. This is when he really needs somebody to pour it in his bucket because he keeps losing.
The story of our lives is the interplay of the bucket and the dipper. Everyone has both. The unyielding secret of the bucket and the dipper is that when you fill another's bucket it does not take anything out of your own bucket. The level in our own bucket gets higher when we fill another's, and, on the other hand, when we dip into another's bucket we do not fill our own ... we lose a little.
For a variety of reasons, people hesitate filling the bucket of another and consequently do not experience the fun, joy, happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction connected with making another person happy. Some reasons for this hesitancy are that people think it sounds "fakey," or the other person will be suspicious of the motive, or it is "brown-nosing."
Therefore, let us put aside our dipper and resolve to touch someone's life in order to fill their bucket.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Top 20 Unconventional ways to use Wikipedia
-By James Yeang
Started only in 2001, Wikipedia has grown to become the single most comprehensive information ever created. As of now, there are more than 75,000 active contributors working on some 5,300,000 articles in more than 100 languages.
It has earned the distinction of being the 9th most popular site in the world according to Alexa, and has become so pervasive in our lives that scientists are even using it to help computers think smarter.
Here is the first installment of 20 creative ways to use Wikipedia
1. Read Wikipedia as a comic book
Bored of reading conventional articles? Greg Williams picks Wikipedia articles and ?converts? them into small comic books. Don’t expect to find a large amount of comic articles here, but be entertained as seemingly boring topics turn into light reading.
2. Navigate Wikipedia as a mindmap
Presented in a visual form, Wikimindmap helps you browse through related articles and ideas really quickly. Using mindmaps, you can get a structured view of any topic available on Wikipedia.
3. Have Wikipedia as a part of Google Earth
Want to dig deeper about a certain location on Google Earth? You can now tap into Wikipedia’s vast information resources. Just download the latest update to Google Earth, then go to Layers -> Geographic Web section in Google Earth and tick the Wikipedia box.
4. Go offline with Wikipedia on DVD
Useful as an offline reference tool, or for distribution in areas with slow or non-existent Internet access, Choice articles from Wikipedia is available for free download as a DVD, or you can buy it at $13.99.
Articles were chosen based on criteria for quality and importance set by the Wikipedia community. Topics covered include, among others, geography, arts, literature, science, history, and natural sciences. Users can browse articles using a built-in search engine or by surfing navigational pages.
5. Search Wikipedia and Google at the same time
This awesome Firefox extension shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results. To top it off, clicking links in the wikipedia article will trigger new Google searches, making it a very useful research tool indeed.
6. Stumble Through the Wikipedia articles which are fine tuned to your taste
StumbleUpon has got to be the easiest way to rate websites and discover others which match your tastes. Clicking one of the links on the StumbleThru page restricts your toolbar and returns pages only from that domain. This gives you the chance to discover Wikipedia articles which were highly rated by people of the same tastes as yourself.
7. A better way to search Wikipedia and its sources
The contents of Wikiseek are restricted to Wikipedia pages AND only those sites which are referenced within Wikipedia, making it an authoritative source of information less subject to spam and SEO schemes.
On top of that, it comes with a powerful AJAX interface for search-as-you-type functionality.
8. Get Wikipedia’s ‘Featured Article’ in your email
Learn something new everyday with the best of Wikipedia delivered to you.
Featured articles are considered to be the best articles in Wikipedia, as determined by Wikipedia’s editors. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style. To give you an idea about it’s exclusivity, currently only one in 1,270 articles is listed here. Get a daily dosage via email with this subscription link.
9. Find out which Wikipedia Articles are the most popular
The Google Trends hot keywords list shows you the search terms which are gaining momentum, which is good, but Wikicharts goes one step further by providing all Wikipedia stats by topic, and quantifying them. Because Wikipedia is so widely used, you can safely assume that it truly represents how interested people are about a certain topic.
10. Optimize Wikipedia for your mobile phone
Everything from the screen aspect as well as the content loaded has been optimized for mobile usage in this Mobile-Wikipedia project. What does this translate into? Faster loading time for on a phone, a better viewing experience, and information literally at your fingertips.
Bonus tip #1: Check out Uncyclopedia - the Wikipedia clone where practically nothing is true, but pretty funny
Bonus tip #2: One of the weirdest Wikipedia categories ever
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Sorry dear Friends
I know some of you must be wondering where I disappeared, well to start off, my HDD (Hard Disk) just went into COMA, due to some Bad Sectors, have been without a PC for the past 4 days. Have to buy a new one, will be buying it pretty soon. Rit now I just blocked those frustrating Bad sectors and did some Jhol, so can be online, but i dunno how long this will last.
Also, my VIVAs have started, that means loads of studies and Ratta Patti for me now. So wont be able to Update my blog regularly. Also all my engineering friends who are reading this, our 7th semester Examinations for Mumbai University are confirmed from 3rd Dec till 10 Jan. Yeah I know, pretty shitty time table. Official notice was put up at Shah and Anchor College of Engineering. The time table, well I dunno the schedule, but I am pretty sure that its going to be a pain.
And as an added bonus, I am down with some strange type of FLU. My entire body aches, am feeling tired as if I ran the marathon or something, I am feeling very cold and feverish, and my nose is full of scum (a.k.a. Shembud in marathi). I dunno how in the world am I gonna prepare for the upcoming VIVAs and Exams. The first VIVA is on 26th and the subject is Advanced Microprocessor. As i used to say, the stuff is very much advanced, have go byheart some stupid Block Diagrams of Pentium Processor and all. Its times like these I wish, IBM didnt invent these Pain in the Ass microprocessors. Wish me good luck. Cya!!
Also, my VIVAs have started, that means loads of studies and Ratta Patti for me now. So wont be able to Update my blog regularly. Also all my engineering friends who are reading this, our 7th semester Examinations for Mumbai University are confirmed from 3rd Dec till 10 Jan. Yeah I know, pretty shitty time table. Official notice was put up at Shah and Anchor College of Engineering. The time table, well I dunno the schedule, but I am pretty sure that its going to be a pain.
And as an added bonus, I am down with some strange type of FLU. My entire body aches, am feeling tired as if I ran the marathon or something, I am feeling very cold and feverish, and my nose is full of scum (a.k.a. Shembud in marathi). I dunno how in the world am I gonna prepare for the upcoming VIVAs and Exams. The first VIVA is on 26th and the subject is Advanced Microprocessor. As i used to say, the stuff is very much advanced, have go byheart some stupid Block Diagrams of Pentium Processor and all. Its times like these I wish, IBM didnt invent these Pain in the Ass microprocessors. Wish me good luck. Cya!!
I met GOD!!
There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with cupcakes, several cans of root beer and started on his journey.
When he had gone about three blocks, he saw an elderly woman. She was sitting on a park bench watching the pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed the lady looked hungry so he offered her a cupcake. She gratefully accepted and smiled at him.
Her smile was so wonderful that he wanted to see it again, so he offered a root beer as well. Once again she smiled at him. The boy was delighted!
They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling without saying a word.
As it began to grow dark, the boy realized how tired he was and wanted to go home. He got up to leave but before he had gone no more than a few steps, he turned around and ran back to the old woman, giving her a big hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever.
When the boy arrived home his Mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face. She asked, What has made you so happy today He replied, I had lunch with God. Before his mother could respond he added, You know what She's got the most beautiful smile in the whole world!
Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant with joy, returned to her home. Her son was stunned by the look of peace on her face. He asked, Mother, what has made you so happy today She replied, I ate cupcakes in the park with God. And before her son could reply, she added, You know, he is much younger than I expected.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring; all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Take no one for granted and embrace all equally with joy!
This Explains why certain stuff in our life, let it be the simplest things, make us happy and content.
When he had gone about three blocks, he saw an elderly woman. She was sitting on a park bench watching the pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed the lady looked hungry so he offered her a cupcake. She gratefully accepted and smiled at him.
Her smile was so wonderful that he wanted to see it again, so he offered a root beer as well. Once again she smiled at him. The boy was delighted!
They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling without saying a word.
As it began to grow dark, the boy realized how tired he was and wanted to go home. He got up to leave but before he had gone no more than a few steps, he turned around and ran back to the old woman, giving her a big hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever.
When the boy arrived home his Mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face. She asked, What has made you so happy today He replied, I had lunch with God. Before his mother could respond he added, You know what She's got the most beautiful smile in the whole world!
Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant with joy, returned to her home. Her son was stunned by the look of peace on her face. He asked, Mother, what has made you so happy today She replied, I ate cupcakes in the park with God. And before her son could reply, she added, You know, he is much younger than I expected.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring; all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Take no one for granted and embrace all equally with joy!
This Explains why certain stuff in our life, let it be the simplest things, make us happy and content.
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