As you are aware, ships have long been characterized as being female (e.g., “Steady as she goes” or “She’s listing to starboard, Captain!”) Recently, a group of computer scientists (all males) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female. Their reasons for drawing this conclusion follow: Five reasons to believe computers are female: 1. No one but...

Last year a friend of mine upgraded from GirlFriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it’s a memory hog leaving very little system resources available for other applications. He is now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other...

Please read the mail, as per you’re current your positions… A conversation about the process of selecting a software bridegroom… Enjoy reading… Vidhya: Hey! What is the matter you have called up all of a sudden? Nithya: Do you remember that my parents gave my horoscope, to search for a suitable match, to many people? So many horoscopes of the groom have come… In that 4-5 seems...

Azhwarkadiyan Nambi and Eesaana Bhattar presumably had descendants. And perhaps they lived in the New Thanjavur Sector of the Pegasus Beta Settlement, and perhaps they went to the same school, and played on the same zero-gravity slide. Perhaps both grew up to be cyberpriests on interstellar spaceships. Perhaps they chilled out at the Galactic Spaceport bar. Wonder what sort of “I am better than you”...

Many users are using WordPress and they have a question, “How to display all the posts in the sidebar?”. I got an answer for this. I had to do the coding myself but when I used the default WordPress looping functions it had some issues on the category pages and the loop to show all posts interfered with the main page loop and so I had to do a new looping. The below code will not interfere...

Bangalore: Microsoft has announced that the new internet explorer will have many features supporting HTML5, which will make browsing internet a speedy experience. “HTML5 will enable a new class of applications,” says Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer General Manager, speaking to the press at the company’s Mix10 conference in Las Vegas, according to The Register. But...

Here are five quick tips to enhance your Firefox 3.6 experience. 1. Open links in the tab bar far right In Firefox 3.6, links opened from a web page (middle-clicking on them or from the context menu) open to the right of the current page to keep related content closer by default. To restore the previous behavior, access the advanced preferences by visiting about:config, then look for preference...

The problem of weightless writing was not solved by either Soviet central planning or good old American sub-contracting, but by a private investor and a good idea! « SPACE PEN: The AG-7 original space pen, pictured above, used pressure instead of gravity to make a specially formulated ink flow. During the height of the space race in the 1960s, legend has it, NASA scientists realized that pens could...

Gandhinagar: The second phase of the placement process at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is going on well with over 20 offers made, and Deutsche bank setting the pace, with record offer of Rs. 1.44 crore plus package, reports Economic Times. IIM-A started its placement process on February 13 and so far, companies have come to the campus under two clusters for the placements which...

Washington: Engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibres that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles. The nanofibres can convert energy from mechanical stresses into electricity, and could one day be used to create clothing that can power small electronics, says a new study, conducted by University of California, Berkeley (UCB) researchers. “This technology could eventually...

Seattle: To take on Apple Inc’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, Microsoft which makes operating systems for phones made by HTC, Samsung Electronics, Motorola and others, are planning to introduce its new mobile phone software. The company is all set to regain its momentum in the fast-growing sector after a lackluster update to its mobile software in October. Mainly Microsoft’s...

Dhaka: The one billion-dollar credit line India pledged to Bangladesh last month will be “costlier” than what Bangladesh gets from elsewhere, a newspaper Sunday claimed. It also said the “supplier’s credit” will “force” Dhaka to purchase Indian goods. The newspaper quoted unnamed officials, experts and past advice from multilateral donors like the World Bank...

London: With just around a month to go for the re-launch of the East India Company – the world’s first multinational whose forces once ruled much of the globe – its new Indian owner says he is overwhelmed by “a huge feeling of redemption”. It’s been a long, emotional and personal journey for Sanjiv Mehta, a Mumbai-born entrepreneur who completed the process of buying...

The 3 Idiots has touched the people of IIM-A. Inspired by the movie, the faculty members at IIM-A are teaching students to learn about life from beyond the textbooks and curriculum in an elective course called ‘Learning What is Not Taught (LWNT)’. The course took off on Saturday. Executive director of Tata Sons Ltd R Gopalakrishnan who is the lead instructor of LWNT said, “What the students learn...

New Delhi: The Government of India believes that Internet hackers can’t stop attacking the country’s cyber networks, but the country is all set to tackle such type of threats in future. Talking to Media on the sidelines of an event in New Delhi, Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju said, “It will be foolishness to think that such cyber attacks will not happen in the future....

New Delhi: With the improving global economic conditions, the recruitment drive in the IT space is led by biggies such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys. Indian IT players will hire nearly one lakh people in the coming months. Diptarup Chakraborti, a Principal Research Analyst at global IT research firm Gartner said that the industry is back on track with many projects lined up for completion....

New York: Cell phone maker Motorola said that it aims to split into two independent and publicly traded companies in the first quarter of 2011, which would help improve its position in the different markets. Out of the two firms, one will focus on cellphones and television set-top boxes, and the other on enterprise networking, reports Reuters. Motorola shares rose 2.3 percent to $6.80 in extended...

Bangalore: With Notebook computers (or laptops) are getting more popular, that too at the expense of desktop computers, the sales of laptops have surged ahead. Notebooks and netbooks have recorded a consumption of 11 lakh units for the first half (April-September) of the financial year 2009-10, growing 43 percent over the same period last year. However, sales of desktops stood at 26.1 lakh units,...

Pune: In the first major terror strike since the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, at least nine people, including a foreigner, were killed and 32 injured when a powerful bomb ripped through the landmark German Bakery in Pune’s upscale Koregaon Park Saturday evening. The blast occurred around 7.30 p.m. after a waiter at the bakery-cum-restaurant, a popular haunt of foreigners, noticed an unattended packet...

Bangalore: Calling the boss H – Hitler, A – Arrogant, R – Rascal and I – Idiot caught everyone’s attention in Naukri’s TV commercial, would you do the same if given an opportunity? Even though it was just an advertisement, it did reflect the plight of employees in the IT industry. After receiving interesting comments on “10 reasons why people quit jobs in IT...

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Styling Apache directory listings In this post you will find how to make stylish listing generated by the Apache server. This is not just another CSS solution. The trick is in configuring Apache to generate XML directory list and to use browser (IE, FF, Opera, Safari …) to transform XML to the HTML. You will have full freedom to modify and style auto generated directory listings. Contents 1....

Mumbai: With an expected compounded annual growth rate of 15 percent in the next 10 years, the Indian IT and ITES sector could touch $285-billion by 2020 from $71.6 billion in 2009. According to a report by KPMG and Asia Oceanic Computing Industry Organisation, which represents 15,000 companies in Asia and Australian continents, India would continue to lead in global sourcing activity, reports Business...

Bangalore: Ask CEOs to pick their favorite color and what they select will often be very different than what most people would pick. A personality test conducted on CEOs recently has revealed that on average, they are ‘more sensitive and private than the typical person, and more likely to be emotionally unstable.” For the personality test conducted by USA Today, the CEOs were asked to rank...

New Delhi: Tata Consultancy Services plans to hire 28,000 employees in India and 2,000 abroad in the financial year 2010-2011 and about 70 percent of recruitment will be freshers. The company is currently seeing an 8-10 percent growth in revenue from domestic operations and is eyeing a double-digit growth in the next two years. TCS CEO and MD N Chandrasekaran said that the company will hike salaries...

New Delhi: Young researchers struggling to muster funds to establish their startups have reason to smile – the government Monday set up a corpus of Rs.55 crore to help scientists convert their prototypes to tangible commercial products. “This (venture capital) fund will now help researchers become entrepreneurs,” Science Minister Prithviraj Chavan said Monday. The Rs.55 crore fund...

Ahmedabad: After the successful discovery of water on moon, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan – 1 has made another startling discovery and has found large caves on the lunar surface. Scientist believe that these can act as human shelter on moon. “We have discovered a natural tunnel near the equator of the Moon which is even bigger than that discovered by the Japanese. This is a empty volcanic...

Mumbai: Indian Software giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) became the first private company to be a target of hackers in India when the company’s website was hacked and domain name was put up for sale. Usually, government website like telecom regulator’s trai.gov.in and other such websites have been targeted by hackers. The company’s official website www.tcs.com displayed the message...

New Delhi: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) Thursday said Mumbai topped the list of electronic waste producing cities in the country. Delhi was placed second in the list. The board predicts the country’s annual e-waste production to increase to 800,000 tonnes by 2012. “During 2005, 146,800 tonnes of e-waste was generated in the country, which is expected to increase to 800,000...