Ashith Raj Blogs

Namma Annovru - Dr. Rajkumar.

2006-04-24T16:44:00.000+05:30

Here are some Facts about Dr.Rajkumar's achievements... No wonder he is one of the Greatest Actor in the World...

- The First Actor in the Indian Film Industry to get Doctorate for acting (Mysore University)

- Only Indian Actor to get "Kentuky Colonel", a prestigeous award given by the Kentuky state, USA (previously recieved by British Prime Minister & Russian Prime Minister)

- The only Actor to have acted in only One language (Kannada) over a period of 50 years

- Only Actor in the Indian Film Industry, in whose name the State Government is giving an Award when he was still alive, every year to a person who has given outstanding contribution to the Film Industry
- Only Actor to have around 5000 fans Association across the world
- Only Actor to recieve Nation Award for both SINGING & ACTING
- First Actor whose first film itself won the National Award for Best Movie
- First Kannada Actor to win "Dada Saheb Phalke Award", prestigeous award given by Indian Govt. for the achievement in the Film Industry
- Only Actor to have more than 10 Titles given by the Government & other Associations (Karnataka Rathna, Kannada Kanteerava, Kala Kausthuba, Rasikara Raja, Padmabhushana, Nata Sarvabhouma, Kentuky colonel, Annavru, Gana Gandharva, Nithya Noothana Nata Shreshta, Doctorate, etc...)
- Only Kannada Actor to recieve "Padmabhushan" award for achievement in the Film Industry
- Only Actor in the Indian Film industry to recieve 9 State Awards for acting, 10 Film Fare Awards, 2 State Awards for Singing
- Only Actor ever to Act in 14 Films in a single year twice, once in 1964 & other in 1968
- Only Kannada Actor to Act as Hero with both Mother & Daughter in the Kannada Movies
- Only Kannada Actor to win the "NTR Award" given by Andhra Govt. for the person giving outstanding contribution to the Film Industry
- He is the Hero of the Longest Running Kannada Movie ever
- Bangarada Manushya, which ran for 2 years in one of the theatres in Bangalore & 1 year in 5 centres
- The Success Rate of his Movies is 95%, highest ever than any other actor in the Indian Film Industry No one else in the world may ever achieve what he has achieved... Hats off to Raj Kumar...

Dr Raj Abhimani

Dr. Rajkumar - A Legend in Indian Cinema, has passed away

2006-04-13T11:26:00.000+05:30

The Matinee Idol, Emperor of Acting, "Annavuru", Dr. Rajkumar died on 12th April 2006.

Facts n Figures about this Great Kanndiga :

1. Born on 24th April 1928. In Gajanur, small village of Karnataka.
2. Educated till 3rd Standard in the village.
3. Entered the field of entertainment though Gubbi Veeranna Theatre Company.
4. Act in Bedara kannapa,
5. The only actor in indian Film history to be awarded 9 times Best Actor and Once best Playback Singer. - this is greatest achivement in many centuries to come.
6. Humble, Simplist - can say that is a personification of Simplist.
7. The most powerful Man in Karnataka's history ever to be acquired by his charisma.
8. He is the person who have built the Kannada Industry from single brick to a giangatic Industry.
9. Rajkumar is the only second person to get "Karnataka Ratna"
10. He gained more popularity in the "GOKAK" movement, which has saved much of the parts of Karnataka from Annexure in the states border disputes.
11. With all his powers, popularity, Charisma, He never entered POLITICS, RajKumar is considered the Powerhouse of any Karnataka government.

An Incident from 1970-75, Rajkumar was the only Non-Congressman, most Popular activitists NOT be arrested by Indira Gandhi government, Because he is no powerful, and down to earth that the most powerful Indira Gandhi never tried to put him behind bars.. because that would create a Massive Havoc, the Indian government at that time could not bare.

After, the Emergency, The Whole of Karnataka supported Rajkumar to Stand opposite to the Desperate Indira Gandhi. The BJP and JD, George Ferandes + Millions of Kanndigas requested him to oppose Indira Gandhi. But he refused to enter to politics. If at all, he had accepted the offer and without doubt he would win against Indira Gandhi.. He would have Created history in Indian Politics and Rubbed the Nehru families name from Karnataka politics...

Rajkumar always maintained simple life and punctuality in his work for 50 years. that he will never leave the hearts of millions of Kanndigas.

Awards after awards have flown to him, but yet he remained untouched my the fame and power.

he never used his popularity to take any Brands, political party.

He never portaryed himself in the movies with cigar, alcohol.
he is a very disciplined Man..

Dr. RajKumar, passed away, survived by millions of Kannda Fans..

TRY IT NOW , IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER.

2006-02-27T12:00:00.000+05:30

YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS !!!!!!!! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!

TRY IT NOW , IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER.

IITians in Indian Politics - Join BJP

2006-02-02T09:42:00.000+05:30

Seems like Mani Rathnam’s Yuva is getting off the reels. Five IITians, all in their 20s, have decided to take up mainstream politics. The youths, based in Jodhpur, will be in the city to campaign for their national party, “Paritrana’’, which was launched in Jodhpur on Friday.
“Giving up handsome pay packages, comfort of family and support of friends wasn’t that easy,’’ says Tanmay Rajpurohit, the national president of the party and B Tech in aerospace from IIT Bombay followed by an MS from GeorgiaTech and double masters in arts.
“But my inner voice told me that I should invest my efforts in my country rather than making my pockets heavier,’’ said Ajit Ashwalayan Shukla, vice president of the party.

Visit the link below and u will find that only a selected few politicians can match their credentials. I salute them for having taken such a bold and patriotic decision. Let us all extend our full support to them...try n fwd this 2 all ur frnds.. as by the swami Vivekananda words...” a country's fate is in the hands of youth"...hats off 2 the guys..'n gudluk 2 them..

I strongly Feel that they should join a national party, which gives them freedom to work at the grassroot level. then they will have much broader reach and there ideas will be nutured.
Join BJP.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1384411,curpg-1.cms

How Friends Break?

2006-01-05T14:48:00.000+05:30

How Friends Break?

Both Friends will think the other is busy and will not contact thinking it may b disturbing. As time passes both will think let the other contact. After that each will think why I should contact first. Here ur love will be converted to Hate. Finally without contact the memory becomes weak. They forget each other.

One fine Day they will meet n blame one another.

So here I am to say u Hi,,,,take care keep in touch....

Indian Cricket team for the 'Deaf and Dumb' has won this year's World-Cup.

2005-12-30T17:29:00.000+05:30

One great news! that we all should be very proud of. The Indian Cricket team for the 'Deaf and Dumb' has won this year's World-Cup.
This great feat has gone un-noticed thanks to the careless media who kept on focusing on the worthless Ganguly.The captain of this team was Mr. Vivek Malshe.

Forum spamming

2005-12-12T19:12:00.000+05:30

What is Forum Spam?
If unrelated posts and link to other materials are posted on the discussion is a Forum Sapm.
Now a days, I see Forum Spam being used as Mode of advertisement. I believe People can do this, subjected that the post is relevant to the topic. also the likn to their products and services should be accompained with brief explanation on how the link solves or assists them in the problem they are facing.

if, We don't follow these rules then I think, Hanging out in forums will soon become a bad user experience.

Keep the Internet and Communities going..

Start of ideal Days in my Life

2005-12-06T11:02:00.000+05:30

I'm starting one of the unforgettable times in my life. My Wife Deepa and myself have got a beautiful Home and started one of the bright days in our lives.

Love the place and I feel I'm starting the days how I've dreamt about.

I Decided to Quit

2005-11-10T20:54:00.000+05:30

One day I decided to quit...I quit my job, my relationship, my Spirituality... I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. "God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?"

His answer surprised me... "Look around", He said.
"Do you see the fern and the bamboo?" "Yes", I replied. "When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo."

He said. "In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit."

He said. "Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."

He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots?"

"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you." "Don't compare yourself to others." He said.

"The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful." "Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high" "How high should I rise?" I asked. "How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return. "As high as it can?" I questioned "Yes."

He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can." I left the forest and bring back this story.
I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you.

He will never give up on you!

Social Networking on the Web..

2005-10-25T20:00:00.000+05:30

Social Networking is a great concept in the IT. it is all about your presence on the web and interactions with your peers, friends, bloggers etc.

There is a huge market in the Social Networking. and equally enormous Tools for the User to use.
Here is the almost famous tool in social software
wiki
blogs
podcasting
feeds -> RSS, atom, RDF etc..
XFN -> social relationships
Feedburner
del.icio.us
technorati
odeo
videoegg
blogroll
bloglines
skype
google Talk
forums
writely
EVDB or aka eventful
activewords
NextPage
......

It is interesting to see when Microsoft responds to this call.

Let's celebrate a New India

2005-10-04T13:14:00.000+05:30

Dear Friends, Here is a personal experience, as well as a moment of national pride, which I want to share with you. Hope you find it worth the time you put in reading it : "In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friend of Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember "PL-480"?).

For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri (Greatest PM of India) went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat.
As a school boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food. Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.

It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassador in Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt, two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let's celebrate a New India!"

Ultimate Reality

2005-09-27T13:48:00.000+05:30

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer.

The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.

The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves.

When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups."

"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."

"Concentrating on the cups, we won't have time to enjoy & taste the water in it."

My Wedding Card

2005-08-09T16:32:00.000+05:30

Hi All,

I invite each one of you for my Wedding on 11, 12 AUGUST 2005.

Please Come and bless Me and Deepa.

Your Presence at the occasion would bring cheers to our Friendship memories.

Venue : MS Ramaiah Memorial Hall,
Gokula, MSR Nagar, Near Marthikere.
Bangalore.

Reception : 11th August 2005, 7:00 PM onwards
Murutham : 12th August 2005, 5:30 AM onwards

Find My Wedding Invitation in this mail.

Thanks and Hope to See in my Wedding Day.

Mobile blogging with Mobylog

2005-05-19T14:26:00.000+05:30

Mobile blogging with Mobylog
Mobile blogging offers camera phone users the opportunity to instantly transfer their pictures to their own personal presence on the net.
Through Mobylog, a camera phone user can readily be a part of the online photo journal phenomenon without downloading any additional software or going through a long drawn registration process. All the user needs to do is click a photo, tag a message / comment through MMS and send to his personal Mobylog page, enabling instant viewing and sharing online.
www.Mobylog.com
Visit http://AshithRaj.Mobylog.com

Friendship Quotes

2005-05-17T11:36:00.000+05:30

Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days.
But the family and friends we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
Come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than into our own family, an unwise investment indeed, don't you think?

Make a heart which never breaks.........make a smile which never hurts..........
make a touch which never pains.....make a relation which never ends........
Keep the lamp of friendship burning with oil of love
b'coz sun rises in east and sets in the west but friendship rises in the heart and sets after death...................

sometimes misunderstood u,
sometimes scolded u,
sometimes learnt from u,
sometimes praised u,
sometimes laughed at u,
but i in anycase wanted u as my friend
so plz do not betray me and do keep in touch.without u my friend,
the days of the week are... sadday... mournday... tearsday... wasteday... thirstday... frightday... and... shatterday...
thanks 4 being my friend... keep smiling

What is Service Orientation

2005-04-29T15:40:00.000+05:30

What is "service-orientation"?
Service-orientation describes a new method for architecting connected systems, and is based upon three simple concepts:

A service is a program that other programs interact with using messages.

A client is a program that makes services usable to people.

A connected system is a collection of inter-connected services and clients.

What is a Wiki

2005-04-22T10:54:00.000+05:30

TERM OF THE WEEK: wiki

(n.) A collaborative Web site comprised of the perpetual collective
work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows
anyone to edit, delete, or modify content that has been placed on the
Web site using a browser interface, including the work of previous authors.

In contrast, a blog, typically authored by an individual, does not allow
visitors to change the original posted material, only add comments to
the original content. The term wiki refers to either the Web site or the
software used to create the site.

Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created by Ward
Cunnigham in 1995, currently working with Microsoft

Why J2EE Firms Are Considering Microsoft .NET

2005-04-20T12:54:00.000+05:30

When you meet with customers who cite portability or the vendor neutrality aspect of Java as an advantage over the Microsoft platform, you can demonstrate that this simply isn’t true in practice.
April 11, 2005
With the impending release of the 2.0 version of the Microsoft .NET Framework , I’ve started receiving some unusual requests from die-hard J2EE companies for briefings on Microsoft’s vision for .NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005 , and beyond. What makes them unusual is that previously these companies wouldn’t even accept an invitation to lunch to discuss Microsoft development technologies.
Based on my conversations with people from J2EE companies, I conclude that these requests are emerging because many companies have started to discern that Sun’s hopes of establishing "one Java" are not being realized. Originally, Sun promoted the concept that Java would provide the ability to "Write Once Run Anywhere." Then the portability of the J2EE enterprise application platform became the watchword. In an August 2001 article in SD Times, Judith Lilienfeld, a Sun senior product manager at the time, said that "Portability is the cornerstone of J2EE."
The idea was simple and compelling to corporations. Through the Java Community Process (JCP), Sun would specify Java application programming interfaces (APIs). This would allow vendors to build independent but interoperable implementations of those APIs. Vendors could compete on the merits of their implementations. Ostensibly, this would provide vendor independence for users of the technology. For example, you could write an application on Vendor X’s platform, and then, if you wanted to, move your application to Vendor Y’s platform. But the reality is much more complicated. In fact, except for very simple demonstration applications, that kind of portability has never really been achieved.

It’s a little too simple to dismiss the recognition of the failure of the JCP to deliver “one Java” as "Java bashing" by Microsoft.
This Is Not Java Bashing
It’s a little too simple to dismiss the recognition of the failure of the JCP to deliver “one Java” as "Java bashing" by Microsoft. Actually, most of the dissatisfaction with the standardization efforts is coming from the same experts who first promoted J2EE as the future of enterprise development. For example, in an October 2004 analysis and report entitled "J2EE: a Standard in Jeopardy," the Burton Group cited the complexity of implementing J2EE and the length and complexity of the JCP process as key challenges to the continued success of J2EE. And in a December 2004 column in SD Times, Allen Holub, a Java expert and one of its staunchest defenders, questioned the relevance of the JCP, saying, "Just look at created-by-committee junk like EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans Technology) and JSF (JavaServer Faces). I personally believe that EJB has been responsible for the failure of more companies than almost any other single technology. EJB is too expensive at every level."

Vendors Are Taking Matters into Their Own Hands
As customers demand quicker solutions than the JCP can provide, vendors are responding with J2EE implementations with extensions specific to their platform. These implementations help customers in the near term by providing support for deficiencies in the J2EE standard, but ultimately they undermine the portability premise of J2EE. Using a vendor’s extensions creates the vendor lock-in that the JCP was supposed to eliminate. Every major vendor has announced and implemented plans for their own extensions.
IBM’s WebSphere: In the recently released version 6 of the WebSphere Application Server, IBM added several "IBM-only" interfaces, including WorkAreas, Asynchronous Beans, Last Participant transaction optimization, and many others. In Gartner’s October 2004 review of the new version of WebSphere, the title says it all: "IBM WebSphere 6.0 Adds J2EE 1.4, but Users Risk 'Lock-In.'"
BEA: It promotes the WebLogic Workshop Framework, which became Beehive. Although BEA donated their Beehive framework to Apache, it remains to be seen whether users will use Beehive instead of their vendor-specific framework. And BEA still has other “BEA-only” frameworks covering such things as security providers, integration, and portals.
Oracle’s App Dev Framework (ADF): Oracle defines an uber-J2EE implementation. The company takes a different approach, however, by licensing its API layer for use on other application servers. But this is simply a different way to make customers dependent on Oracle. For example, a customer still has to build solutions by using either Oracle + Vendor X or Oracle + Vendor Y.
JBoss: JBoss defines several JBoss-only frameworks and interfaces. These include both an Aspect-Oriented framework and the new JBoss Remoting framework, introduced last month. In recognition of the growing dominance of .NET, Marc Fleury, the CEO of JBoss, LLC, acknowledged in a June 2003 InternetNews article that “We are closer to .NET in philosophy than to the J2EE spec with JBoss 4.0."
Sun Microsystems: Sun admits that J2EE is little more than a specification and will require some level of vendor implementation. More specifically, Sun defends the need for an additional layer in its documentation: "Although J2EE is a solid foundation for an application framework, it is not one itself. The J2EE specification avoids recommendations in the application development space. J2EE leaves architects and developers the significant task of designing (or adopting) an application infrastructure that suits their application development needs. J2EE alone cannot suffice." Of course, Sun’s implementation of this application framework is available only on Sun’s own application server.

The dissatisfaction with the JCP standardization process isn’t just causing vendors to implement vendor-specific implementations of J2EE application servers. It’s causing portability chaos with Web services implementations, management and administration interfaces, and any other area where vendors are being forced to create interim functionality for standards that aren’t completed or for areas that weren’t anticipated. In fact, about the only thing most of the vendors have agreed upon (except Sun) is that Eclipse should be the de facto programming environment. But Eclipse is an incomplete development environment that makes it necessary for enterprises to adopt third-party plug-ins to design Web applications, smart client applications, schema, EJBs, portals, or database logic.

An Enterprise Opportunity

Here’s the bottom line: When you meet with customers who cite portability or the vendor neutrality aspect of Java as an advantage over the Microsoft platform, you can demonstrate that this simply isn’t true in practice. While the JCP continues to bicker over standards, innovation is continuing at the vendor level. As a result, customers will commit to a vendor-specific set of platform technologies or they will pay a huge cost in lost productivity. Once the vendor lock-in issue is addressed, you have an open door to discuss how the Microsoft platform can meet their business needs better than a Java-based platform. The productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2005 and the Web services standards work in Visual Studio 2005 and Indigo create a compelling argument for a switch to .NET now.

Visual Studio.NET 2005 Beta 2 released...

2005-04-16T09:48:00.000+05:30

This new is made my day...
Currently Visual Studio.NET 2005 Beta 2 is available for MSDN Subcribers

I'm lucky I have one. It is Really a great News for lot of developers

Being productive when working

2005-04-13T17:46:00.000+05:30

Recently I read an article about being productive when working.

Hope the following tips will help you too.

Close all the messanger applications. [i.e. MSN, Yahoo, ICQ]

Close your email client application [i.e. Outlook]

Close your office room door and hang a notice "Do not disturb"

Have some cool music playing in very low volume.

Ask your assistant or the answering machine to pickup the phone.

Just try to follow the rules atleast for 3 hours continuously and take a break.

Belive me it works!
Enjoy your work!

2005-04-13T12:33:00.000+05:30

Jokes On men

What is the thinnest book in the world?"What Men Know About Women"
What's the difference between men and government bonds?
Bonds mature
How do you save a man from drowning? Take your foot off his head
What do men and beer bottles have in common?
They're both empty from the neck up
How can you tell if a man is happy?
Who cares
How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper?
We don't know... it has never happened
What's a man's idea of helping with the housework?
Lifting his leg so you can vacuum
What's the difference between a man and E.T?
E.T. phoned home
What does a man consider a seven course meal?
A hot dog and a six pack of beer
What do you call a man with half a brain?
Gifted !
What did God say after he created man?
I can do better
What are two reasons men don't mind their own business?
1. No mind
2. No business
What do you call an intelligent man in America?
A tourist
Did you hear about the man who won the gold medal?
He bronzed it
How do men sort their laundry?
"Filthy" and "Filthy and wearable"
Only a man could buy a $400 car and put a $4000 stereo in it

Why did God create man?
He needed to practice

Why is it good that there are female astronauts?
When the crew gets lost, at least she will ask for directions

Warning !!! Mobile Users

2005-04-12T11:36:00.000+05:30

If you receive a phone call on your mobile from any person, saying that,he or she is a company engineer, or telling that they're checking your mobile line, and you have to press # 90 or #09 or any other number. Endthis call immediately without pressing any numbers. There is a fraudcompany using a device that once you press #90 or #09 they can accessyour "SIM" card and make calls at your expense. Forward this message toas many friends as you can, to stop it.

Taurus in 2005

2005-04-04T11:39:00.000+05:30

Taurus in 2005 - Tenacity
"Diligence" is the key word for you, Taurus. With hard work and focus, you will attain at least one important aspiration that has been on your agenda for a long time. This is the year you'll want to take stock of your career and ask yourself if you're doing the work you want to do for the rest of your life. As the year progresses, the more impressive your ideas and works become. As a result, your finances improve - and your newfound confidence could attract new love into your life. By the end of the year, you will have a whole new network of friends and group activity, stimulating new ideas and taking up your social life a notch or two.

Libra in 2005 - Expansion
Flex your muscles, friend Libra, and prepare for a relatively easy ride. With beneficent Jupiter in your sign, this is definitely your year, especially where your social life is concerned. Happiness and enjoyment lie ahead. If you're not presently married, and want to be, you just might wed by the end of the year. This is the year you're going to be doing a lot of travel and learning about your world, as expansion is the theme. The one department of life that may not quite be as hopeful as you'd like could be your career, where advancement may be slow and satisfaction rare. By year's end, you may find yourself seriously considering a major change - all for the best.

business links

2005-03-22T13:15:00.000+05:30

http://www.clpgh.org/locations/business/smallbusiness/bplansindex.html
http://happiness.hit.bg/bear/bear.htm

Red Line Reviews: A method to gauge real project progress

2005-03-17T19:16:00.000+05:30

Definition and Purpose
The purpose of a red line review is as follows:

To determine the true degree of project completion

To insure the project is being done to spec

To find spec lines that are implied by but not cover by the spec or places where the spec could be in error or not understood, these are called SPEC GAPS

To make sure all parts of the spec are assigned or at least verify what has yet to be assigned

To identify areas of scope reduction or scope creep

To allow estimate of person power actual vs estimated effort

In short to insure the project is on track and on time.
Steps

The spec should be numbered.

As spec lines are added to the spec the numbering should not be modified, instead the spec lines should receive new numbers. Numbering in the spec is designed to make the requirements traceable, the sequential order is not important

If spec lines are "deleted" they should instead be stricken and be counted as being done for the purposes of calculation

If an item is modified, it should receive a new number, the old number should be treated as deleted above this has the effect of increasing the number of spec spec lines with modification and is desired

Using the actual product as it is delivered at the time of the review e.g. do not accept a statement of completion, verify it visually, go thought the spec scoring each requirement and counting the number of requirements

Compute the doneness statistics as below

Scoring Criteria

Degree of Doneness	Score	Note
Not Done At All	0
Partially done and looks to match spec	1/2	Any degree of doneness less the 100% done
Done to Spec	1
Done (all or partial) not to Spec	-1	Anything wrong is 100% wrong

Formulas for calculating project progress
Computed by person leading the Red Line

Total Spec Lines: The count of all lines in the spec Total Score: The sum of all the scores for the criteria

% Done = Total Score / Total Spec Lines

Total Undelivered spec lines: Sum of all spec lines with a 0 score
Total Under Delivered spec lines: Sum of all spec lines with a 1/2 score
Total Mis-Delivered spec lines: Sum of all spec lines with a -1 score
Total Delivered spec lines: Sum of all spec lines with a 1 score

Scope Creep %: (Total Spec Lines) / (Spec Lines at last review) * 100

Computed by the schedule keeper

Effort

Estimated Project Hours: From COCOMO or other LOE estimate at project start
Actual Project Hours: The number of hours expended on the project from the effort system
Revised Project Hours: (100 * Actual Project Hours) / ( % Done)
Project Drift (Effort) %: (Revised Project Hours) / (Projected Estimated Hours) * 100

Schedule

Estimated Project Finish Date: The date the project was supposed to finish
Estimated Number of Project Days: The estimated duration of the project
Revised Project Days: (100 * Estimated Number of Project Days) / ( % Done)
Revised Finish Date: Estimated Project Finish Date + (Revised Project Days - Estimated Number of Project Days), Adjusted for work days (best done by MS project)

Results Processing

This section addresses what the results are and who should receive them

Result Types

Result Type	Contains
Initial Red Line Statistics	Total Spec Lines Total Score% Done Total Undelivered spec lines Total Under Delivered spec lines Total Mis-Delivered spec lines Total Delivered spec lines List of Spec GapsList of Lines Added/Modified Since Last Red LineScope Creep %
Schedule Update	Estimated Project Hours Actual Project Hours Revised Project Hours Project Drift (Effort) %Estimated Project Finish Date Estimated Number of Project Days Revised Project Days Revised Finish Date
Spec Document Revisions	New Spec Lines Changed Spec Lines Deleted Spec Lines

Bold: Minimum required items

Recipients

Result Type	Recipients
Initial Red Line Statistics	Developers Manager of Development Team Scheduling Team Product Management
Schedule Update	Manager of Development Machine Scheduling Team Product Management Scheduling Subscribers
Spec Document Revisions	Developers Product Management

COCOMO Notes

2005-03-17T18:46:00.000+05:30

COCOMO Notes

I have gotten a fair amount of interest lately in the Micro-COCOMO model available for download on this site, condensing many of the questions and feedback, I have the following advise.
If you have not COCOMO'd before you should read the book first. The co-efficients and scalars used in the micro-COCOMO spreadsheet are obtained by doing projects of varying size and using analysis of variance and his techniques to "fine tune" the constants used.
Comment: a first pass accuracy with the tool of +/- 10% is VERY GOOD.
Comment: This assumes a requirements doc + an ERD + a site map.
The current Micro-COCOMO is for ASP (classic). We are building a worksheet and co-efficients for ASP.NET and .NET rich client UIs but do not have enough data points yet. (If you have some, then share, please!)
Worksheet columns and what they mean

Pages/Reports are the number of ASP Pages or Reporting Tool Reports needed by the component you are estimating

Tables: SQL Server tables assuming proper 3rd normal form (this can be estimated from the ERD)

Controls: The number of individual controls used on the form/page

SP: SQL Stored Procedures (as estimated from the requirements)

Code: An estimate of the number of lines of code (outside of the other things) you estimate (using function point or some other estimating mechanism).

Comment: COCOMO is driven off of lines of code. This may sound daft, but assigning a scalar quantity to other things (like pages and reports) allows us to estimate using a worksheet that is more directly connected to the requirements, ERD and Wire frames.

COCOMO Notes

2005-03-17T18:40:00.000+05:30

Pages/Reports are the number of ASP Pages or Reporting Tool Reports needed by the component you are estimating

Tables: SQL Server tables assuming proper 3rd normal form (this can be estimated from the ERD)

Controls: The number of individual controls used on the form/page

SP: SQL Stored Procedures (as estimated from the requirements)

Code: An estimate of the number of lines of code (outside of the other things) you estimate (using function point or some other estimating mechanism).

COCOMO Notes

2005-03-17T18:39:00.000+05:30

Pages/Reports are the number of ASP Pages or Reporting Tool Reports needed by the component you are estimating

Tables: SQL Server tables assuming proper 3rd normal form (this can be estimated from the ERD)

Controls: The number of individual controls used on the form/page

SP: SQL Stored Procedures (as estimated from the requirements)

Code: An estimate of the number of lines of code (outside of the other things) you estimate (using function point or some other estimating mechanism).

A Love Letter - .NET Way

2005-03-15T16:32:00.000+05:30

I have a managed heap of memories regarding you - none of which are IDisposable. Therefore I am compiling my references, and persisting them to you in this file, which is ISerializable and will last for generations (at most 3).
I remember how I met you... heartbroken over java (how slow that old relationship was). When I first heard of you, I heard you were COOL. Then I found out how diverse you were in so many languages. You marshalled right over to my world. How easy it was for you to communicate over so many platforms! You understood my profile, and now I could see sharp-ly into your IIdentity.
You took me to your visual studio - it was RAD. So many views and hidden regions! You were so organized with your task list. I love how everything was color coded. It was in that environment when I broke down and stated: "You auto-complete me..."
We had our bugs to work out - we were not the exception. One time you thought we had a break-point. But we would continue to try. Nothing went unhanlded. We caught everything, and finally we come to this moment.
How do you do it? You stay true to so many standards, yet manifest so much. You have such class! There is no other type like you. As I reflect about you, I see that you have many methods - some very internal, some private, and some very protected. Some of your ways are too abstract to know. But what is public about you, anyone can see why you encapsulate so much inside. From what I derive, we can override anything (unless we sealed it).
Let's not box ourselves into the typical cast. We should look to the future - is it generic? I don't know - I may be partial. I will have to iterate over this until I yield.
How long will we survive?
while (this!=null){ continue; }

I can't get this sample to compile - I believe you forgot the using System.RomanceModel; namespace declaration.
I wish I was the .NET framework, so you could live me just as much.
That wanton floozy .NET - I never knew I was in a many-to-one relationship. I was even planning on a decorator. But it was just a facade all along. I would have been better off remaining a singleton. And to think of all those times I was unsafe...! As he mindlessly gazed into the now-empty INamingContainer, Michael groggily climbed back to the ragged precipice of sobriety and realized just how IEnumerable the TimeSpan he spent JITting his ode to .NET was... :)

.NET Web Services using WSE

2005-03-09T12:37:00.000+05:30

.NET Web Services using WSE
.NET makes creating or using a web service easy, but it's not always exactly as described in the documentation.

This article covers using the Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) in Visual C# .NET. I'm assuming you're relatively "au fait" with C# and the .NET framework, and are interested in writing web services.
There are several ways of writing web services available to programmers using Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET environment, and several programming languages to choose from. Whilst variety may be the spice of life, it does also make it a little difficult to know where best to begin. To compound such problems, the web services scene is changing fast. No sooner have you got your head around using the .NET framework and the web service support available, than yet another set of libraries comes out which purports to "make life easier" in one way or another. I am, of course, referring to the latest Web Services Enhancements library shipped by Microsoft.
Whenever a new class library comes out, I always ask myself whether it's really worth the effort of learning it, or will the library either (a) just add a layer of unnecessary complication to the current development project, or (b) be superseded by another "later and greater" class library in the not too distant future. In order to answer such questions you are immediately landed in a Catch-22 situation, since you have to learn something about the class library before you can decide whether to "go the whole hog" and learn it fully. The purpose of this article is to make you familiar enough with the WSE library that you can answer such questions for yourself.
Looking at requirements
One of my current architectural tasks is to look at turning a classic n-tier web-based application that is driven by a browser GUI front-end into a programmatically distributed system. That is, one instance of a server (I like to think of it as a "server atom") can programmatically talk to another server atom somewhere on the Internet (that's correct: not intranet but Internet). I could design our own, private and proprietary data exchange mechanism, operating (probably, but not necessarily) over HTTP. I'm inherently suspicious of anything that's private and proprietary, on the basis that it's almost guaranteed that someone, somewhere will have been confronted with the same task. In any case, it looks like distributed web services are a good bet for a first look at meeting the requirements, but how to communicate between the distributed web services? I could use a fully proprietary design but I dismissed that idea straight away. How about XML RPC after all, I'm looking primarily at an RPC-type environment? Seems fine for connectivity but... the XML documents that I send and receive are once again a proprietary format for XML RPC. The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) addresses this proprietary XML RPC format quite nicely by providing a standard XML format for the messages. So it looks like SOAP is the way to go, at least for the moment. Let's explore this path a little further.
The kinds of operations I need to support are synchronous and asynchronous calls of remote services, with either type of call possibly returning data either immediately as a result of the call or at some future point.
I conclude that I need to use SOAP for exposing web services. As the data I return potentially contains sensitive information, I need to look at security of the data transfer. I need to look at the possibility of sending binary data back (e.g. a bcp bulk copy utility query result from a database in native database format).
This brings me to the heart of this article: Microsoft recently released the WSE library to extend the web service support already provided in .NET. WSE provides me with an implementation of three recently released web service specifications: WS-Security, WS-Attachments and WS-Routing. The question facing me now was whether using WSE would help me in reaching my goal.
What WSE provides
Web Services Enhancements, as the "Enhancements" part of the name implies, are extensions to the SOAP specification. That always makes me nervous. The word "extension" implies "non-standard", and non-standard is something I definitely want to avoid. However, the facilities provided by WSE use the SOAP extension model and are also based in some cases on existing Internet draft documents (e.g. WS-Attachments is based on work on the DIME Internet draft). There are other standards out there too. For example, the XACML security specification drafted under the good auspices of OASIS provides a standard for applying a security policy in a web services environment. The parallel to XACML in the Microsoft world is the WS-Policy specification.
The three WS facilities provided by WSE come under the general auspices of Microsoft's Global XML Web Services Architecture, commonly abbreviated to GXA. It is intended that GXA is an umbrella concept that will use one or more of the WS facilities plugged together by an architect to achieve a final design goal. For example, WS-Routing provides the fundamental services that WS-Security can use to ensure privacy of information. Both WS-Routing and WS-Security are component services of the GXA. WSE is an implementation of the WS-Security, WS-Routing and WS-Attachments specifications. I won't look at how WSE achieves what it does, but will simply focus on how you can use WSE.
The outline development plan for this article is as follows:
Write a web service using WSE to expose, say, a factorial calculation
Write a client to consume that web service
Re-work (1) and (2) to use security
Re-work (1) and (2) to send an arbitrary binary attachment, both to and from the web service
Re-work (1) and (2) to send a binary attachment that is encrypted.
Getting started
This section will look at providing a simple web service to expose a factorial calculation and how to configure the server-side web service to use WSE. Once that is done, I will generate a client program to call the web service. The client program will be generated in part by using a proxy-generating tool in Visual Studio .NET. The generated code will need slight modification to use WSE and I'll detail what needs to be done there for the client to use WSE. By the end of this section you should be up and running with a web service and client that use WSE but don't do much with WSE at all. After all that, you'll see in the next section how to start getting WSE involved in helping meet the requirements of a secure web service that can transmit and receive arbitrary length binary data.
First of all, you'll need to ensure you have IIS up and running. Secondly, you'll need to install WSE.
The particular version of WSE I'm using is WSE 1.0 SP1. While you're at it, you may as well get hold of the WSE Settings Tool for Visual Studio .NET.
Start Visual Studio .NET and create a new Visual C# ASP.NET Web Service project. The name I've given the web service in this article is
http://localhost/FactorialService
A short pause ensues while Visual Studio .NET creates a virtual directory called FactorialService on IIS and marks it as an application. The source files are then placed within this virtual directory. Whilst this is fine for development, you may wish to exclude the source files when deploying the web service to your production web server!
From Solution Explorer, select the Service1.asmx file and rename it to something a little more meaningful. I chose to rename this service to FactorialService by right clicking on the Service1.asmx file and choosing "Properties". In the property inspector, I changed the file name from "Service1.asmx" to "FactorialService.asmx". Now switch to the Class View window in Visual Studio and expand the tree until you can see Service1. Right-click on this and rename it to Factorial.
Server-Side
Browsing the C# source, you should find that a commented-out "HelloWorld" method has been provided, prefixed with the [WebMethod] attribute. To modify the web service to provide a factorial function:
Add two constants for max and min factorial range somewhere in the class
private const int minFact = 0;
private const int maxFact = 12;
Replace the HelloWorld commented-out method with the following method (leaving the [WebMethod] attribute in place)
public int Calc(int n)
{
int factVal = -1;
// use -1 as out-of-range indicator
if(n >= minFact && n <= maxFact)
{
// factorial by iteration
factVal = 1;
// 0! and 1! are both 1 by
// definition
for(int factCnt = 2; factCnt
<= n; ++factCnt)
{
factVal *= factCnt;
}
}
return factVal;
}
As far as programming goes, that's it! You now have a web service. To hook into WSE, however, you will need to change the application's Web.config file.
In order for your web service to hook into WSE, you need to add some XML to the Web.config file to tell IIS how to invoke WSE. Select the Web.config file in Solution Explorer and add the required XML entries. This is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1
The element is used with the "type" attribute, which is set to point to WSE by its assembly name. For display purposes, I have had to wrap the "type" attribute so you can see what the value should be. In the actual Web.config file, of course, the type attribute should be one line with no newlines in it. I have omitted the rest of the Web.config file in Figure 1 as it remains as-is.
You should be able to build the web service now.
The client
I'll create a real basic console application in C# to talk to the web service in order to demonstrate that you don't need any heavyweight client code to use a web service. First of all I'll generate a basic client and use Visual Studio .NET tools to generate the required proxy class to talk to the web service. I'll then show how you need to modify the generated proxy file to use WSE. That will complete the basic web service and client configuration.
In Visual Studio .NET generate a new Visual C# Console Application. I called mine FacClient. You can place the client in the same solution as the web service if you wish, but I chose to keep my client completely separate from the web service project in its own "solution" space. Skeleton code will be generated for you. The first thing you'll need to do is a reference to WSE for your client program. You do this by going to the Solution Explorer and right-clicking over References. From the context menu that opens, select "Add Reference". The resulting dialog is shown in Figure 2, which also shows Microsoft.Web.Services in the list of .NET assemblies.
Figure 2
If the assembly does not appear in the list, you will have to use the "Browse" button on the dialog. By default, the DLL is located at:
%Program Files%\Microsoft
WSE\v1.0.2312\Microsoft.Web.
Services.dll
Once you have located the assembly, click on "Select" then on "OK". In order to use the assembly in your client code you will need to either explicitly reference each instance using the full path name or place the following using directive at the top of your client program: using Microsoft.Web.Services;. You can change the class and file name (as detailed in the section "Server-Side Coding") if you wish, but I chose to leave the class name as Class1 (and filename as Class1.cs) for this simple client.
Next we need to generate the proxy class to talk to the web service. You do this by right clicking over References in Solution Explorer again - but this time selecting "Add Web Reference" from the context menu, which results in a dialog being displayed. You need to enter the URL that points to the FactorialService.asmx file. Figure 3 shows the URL typed in at the top and the resultant output.
Figure 3
Click on the "Add Reference" button at the bottom of the dialog. This adds a proxy class to your project and some more references. Figure 4 shows the "Class View" panel indicating that two proxy classes have been generated in the localhost namespace.
Figure 4
The proxy class Factorial is the standard SOAP HTTP proxy class. The other proxy class, and the one we're more interested in, is FactorialWse. The Wse is appended to the name to show that it is using WSE. The difference between the two comes down to the fact that the basic SOAP proxy class derives from the SoapHttpClientProtocol class and the WSE proxy derives from WebServicesClientProtocol, which provides the hooks into WSE.
Note: the WSE documentation talks about editing the generated proxy class file and changing the inheritance. This documentation point is out of date and you do not need to do this any more. Simply use the "Wse" version of the proxy class.
In order to use the proxy class add the using directive using FacClient.localhost; somewhere near the top of your client program source and implement Main as follows:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
FactorialWse fs =
new FactorialWse();
int val = 6;
int fac = fs.Calc(val);
Console.WriteLine(
"Web service called
successfully!");
Console.WriteLine(
"Factorial of {0} is {1}",
val, fac);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(
"Error with web service: "
+ e.Message);
}
}
You should be able to build and run the client and, all being well, you should find out that the factorial of 6 is 720. Nothing too earth-shattering about that, I agree but what you have done is successfully implemented a web service and client that use WSE albeit at a very basic level. On this foundation, I'm now going to look at using the facilities provided by WSE to see if it can meet my original requirements, which, after all, is the point of the exercise.
Web services enhancements and WS-specifications
The WSE .NET library provides an implementation of the WS-Security, WS-Attachments. I'm going to look at WS-Security and WS-Attachments.
There is no point pursuing the use of WSE if a reasonable degree of data privacy is not achievable using WS-Security. The security mechanism that WS-Security can use is not fixed. For demonstration purposes I will use a simple "shared secret" symmetric encryption process. The major advantage of WS-Security over other security implementations is that WS-Security is implemented on the SOAP packet, whereas other security mechanisms take place at the transport layer (e.g. HTTPS, SSH) and provide a point-to-point encoding. With a distributed web service you don't necessarily know the route a SOAP packet will take, so WS-Security applies security measures at the SOAP packet level rather than the transport level. The WSE documentation contains instructions for building a WSE WS-Security web service that can decrypt a SOAP message and a WSE WS-Security client that can encrypt a SOAP message. I'm going to use the instructions provided in the WSE documentation as a starting point in part because it fulfils one-half of my encryption requirement and in part because the documentation is incorrect in several places and I will show you the correct version in this article. Let's go for building the web service first, then writing the client and generating the proxy class using Visual Studio.NET.
I'm going to modify the FactorialService and client so that the client can send an encrypted request to the web service to generate the factorial of the encrypted value. Add a reference to Microsoft.Web.Services and System.Security by choosing Add Reference from the context menu on the References node in the Solution Explorer window. You can add both references in one hit in the Add Reference dialog by first choosing "Microsoft.Web.Services" and clicking "Select", followed by choosing "System.Security" and clicking "Select" again. Click on "OK" to complete adding the references. Add the following using directives somewhere near the top of your C# source file:
using Microsoft.Web.Services;
using Microsoft.Web.Services.Security;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Security.
Cryptography.Xml;
using System.Security.Permissions;
Notice that the WSE documentation in Point 9.b is missing the using System.Security.Permissions; directive.
In order to decrypt the incoming message, you need to provide a DecryptionKeyProvider in the form of a class. WSE will use your class to decrypt the SOAP message at the point of reception and then pass the decrypted message to your web service. As far as your main web service is concerned, it knows nothing about the encryption of the call it is all handled by WSE and your own custom class. Point 10 in the WSE documentation describes the method of adding a class to be used for DecryptionKeyProvider, but it's unfortunately out-of-date in stating that your class needs to implement the IDecryptionKeyProvider interface. This is no longer true your class should inherit from a WSE base class called DecryptionKeyProvider. Given that the example in the WSE documentation calls its own class DecryptionKeyProvider, if you also inherit from a class called DecryptionKeyProvider then you have a circular inheritance loop and the code will no longer compile. In summary, you need to change the inheritance and also call the class something different to the one in the WSE documentation. I called my class DecKeyProv and declared it as:
public class DecKeyProv :
DecryptionKeyProvider
The security attributes for this class are the same as in the WSE documentation, although the WSE documentation version will not compile due, firstly, to the missing using directive (dealt with above), and secondly in part due to the fact that the method as given does not compile!
If you do try to compile the method GetDecryptionKey as given in the WSE documentation you will get an error to the effect of "not all control paths return a value". The easiest way of fixing this is to add return null; just after the close of the foreach loop as the last statement in the method that will fix the error. Now on to the warning: a warning is issued about your GetDecryptionKey method hiding the base class GetDecryptionKey method. What you need is to override the base class implementation so the declaration for your GetDecryptionKey method becomes:
public override DecryptionKey
GetDecryptionKey(...).
This is what an outline of the class and method should look like:
public class DecKeyProv :
DecryptionKeyProvider
{
public override
DecryptionKey
GetDecryptionKey(
string algorithmUri,
KeyInfo keyInfo)
{
// body as per WSE document
// (plus corrections)
// or exactly as in the code
// sample for this article
}
}
The DecKeyProv class can be added to the FactorialService namespace. For ease of writing, I placed the class in the same source file as the main web service, although you could place it in a separate file if you wish.
XML web service life just wouldn't be the same without editing an XML file somewhere or other, so I'll look next at what you need to do to the Web.Config file to get the WS-Security functionality up and running.
The first thing you need to configure is the server-side to use the WS-Security implementation in WSE, so it's back to the Web.config file. I'm working on the basis that you've already added the standard WSE blurb as detailed in "Server-Side Configuration" above. A couple of things need to be in place in the Web.config file to cater for security. The first is to add a that gives a name to the WSE library (we'll call it microsoft.web.services as per the WSE documentation). The second step involves using the microsoft.web.services section you've just defined to pull in your security class for decryption. You can add this directly beneath (not inside!) the element. Both these steps are shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5
The "type" attribute of the section tag (in ) is exactly the same as the "type" attribute as shown in Figure 1. I didn't re-format it here for display purposes to emphasise the fact that the type attribute should be on one line in the Web.config file.
All the pieces are now in place and you should be able to build the web service successfully.
Client Security
Using the earlier client, add a reference to System.Security via Solution Explorer. Add the following using directives to the top of the source file:
using Microsoft.Web.Services.Security;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Security.
Cryptography.Xml;
The procedure for encrypting your request follows a simple pattern:
Generate an EncryptionKey object
Modify the SOAP proxy class's requestContext to use the EncryptionKey
Call the service
The WSE documentation for "Encrypting a SOAP message Using a Shared Secret" gives an implementation of a method called GetEncryptionKey, which uses TripleDES as the encryption algorithm. We'll run with this version, so all you need do is add the GetEncryptionKey method to your client code. I made a slight modification to the visibility of the GetEncryptionKey that is made private in the WSE documentation. I turned it into a public static method to facilitate ease of use from my console application's Main method.
The complete procedure for the client console app is reproduced here to show how the above three steps are executed. The code forms the body of Main.
// proxy class
FactorialWse fs = new FactorialWse();

// encryption key
EncryptionKey key =
Class1.GetEncryptionKey();

// modifying requestContext to encrypt
SoapContext requestContext =
fs.RequestSoapContext;
EncryptedData enc =
new EncryptedData(key);
requestContext.Security.Elements.Add(
enc);
requestContext.Timestamp.Ttl = 30000;
//30 secs, avoid replay hacks

// actually calling the web service
int val = 6;
int fac = fs.Calc(val);
Console.WriteLine("Factorial of {0}
is {1}", val, fac);
WS-Attachments
I need to send arbitrary binary data, and I may need to send it encrypted too, as it may contain personal or commercially sensitive information. WSE supports arbitrary transfer of binary attachments using DIME.
To enable the web service to send an attachment using DIME, add the following using directive to FactorialService.asmx: using Microsoft.Web.Services.Dime;
To actually send a binary attachment all you need do is add a DimeAttachment object to the Attachments collection of the SOAP response context. The DimeAttachment object wraps the binary data you wish to send. A code sample illustrates sending a GIF image file (roughly taken from the WSE documentation):
// 1. Get response context
SoapContext ctx =
HttpSoapContext.ResponseContext;

// 2. Create the dime attachment
// object, wrapping the image file
DimeAttachment att =
new DimeAttachment(
"image/gif", // MIME type
TypeFormatEnum.MediaType,
// media type enum
@"c:\myimage.gif");
// filename of image

// 3. Add the DimeAttachment object
// to the response
ctx.Attachments.Add(att);
That's it. In terms of our factorial web service, you can add a method that will return some binary data, call it, say, GetBinData. For the sake of consistency with the WSE documentation, let's stick to sending a binary image file for now. Add a public web services method to the factorial service like so:
[WebMethod]
public void GetBinData()
{
// body as above for sending GIF
// image via DIME
}
To obtain some test data, just copy any GIF image you have locally to the root directory of the C drive and rename it to myimage.gif so that the web service can locate it. The client needs to be able to get the binary attachment from the SOAP message, a process that turns out to be relatively simple. The client looks at the Attachments collection of the ResponseSoapContext object exposed from the client's WSE proxy class. The WSE documentation shows a simple C# client application displaying the image in a picture window. The WSE sample application meets all the requirements of proving that WSE's WS-Attachments is working fine, so I won't produce a separate client for this article.
Summary
This article has looked at a readily available implementation of the two web services standards (WS-Security and WS-Attachments), and has hopefully given you a starting point from which you can expand your web service implementations on the .NET platform using WSE.

Indian boy tops NASA examination

2005-02-22T12:55:00.000+05:30

Saurabh came top of 200,000 students worldwide

A 17-year-old boy from an obscure village in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state has topped an international exam run by Nasa.

Saurabh Singh beat 200,000 students worldwide to top the prestigious International Scientist Discovery exam conducted by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration.
The other two Indians who passed the exam are President APJ Kalam and the late Nasa astronaut, Kalpana Chawla.
President Kalam was seventh in 1960 and Chawla 21st in 1988.
Dingy study
Now politicians, administrators, social workers and teachers are all vying to fete the boy from Ballia district.
"All this attention is so funny," says reticent Saurabh.

His study is a dingy corner in a dilapidated house

Saurabh's feat is all the more impressive because he hails from a backward district, with few passable roads and irregular electricity, in one of India's poorest states.
His father is a teacher while his mother is a health worker with the local government.
His study is a dingy, poorly-lit corner in a dilapidated house in obscure Narhi village, 55km (35 miles) from Ballia town.
After scoring 72% in his school leaving exam, Saurabh left for Rajasthan state to prepare for his engineering school papers.

He read about the Nasa examination in a newspaper and decided to take it.

"I had never even heard of Nasa before I saw the newspaper advertisement. I realised I was familiar with the subjects as they were part of my school syllabuses. So I decided to take a chance," says Saurabh.
Grit and determination
He says he studied up to 18 hours a day preparing for one of the world's toughest exams.

Father Ram Keshwar Singh and son attend many ceremonies

He was put on a 100-strong shortlist to appear for the final papers.
When the results came in, the reticent young boy from Ballia had excelled in all five subjects - scoring A++ in four and A+ in one.
Saurabh has now met President Kalam and cannot wait to go to Nasa.
"After reaching Nasa there will be no looking back for me. I will devote all my time to science and would love to return to India and work for my country," he says.
For the moment, his father takes him from one ceremony to another in Uttar Pradesh.
"Everyone wants him to celebrate his success," says Ram Keshwar Singh.
Even the state's legislators have decided to donate a part of their wages this month to set up a prize fund for Saurabh.
Saurabh's recipe for success is simple - "Where there's a will, there's a way," he says.
"Of course, honesty and determination should never be lacking."

New disc to store one Terabyte of Data

2005-02-07T19:39:00.000+05:30

Six leading technology companies have formeda consortium to make an optical disc that could storea few hundred movies.
The Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance, whichincludes Fuji Photo and CMC Magnetics, will letconsumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of data onto a single optical disc, reports Cnet news.com.
The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at overone gigabit a second, or 40 times faster than a DVD.HVD is a possible successor to technologies such asBlu-ray and HD DVD. Single layer Blu-ray discs holdabout 25GB of data while dual layer discs hold 50GB.Ordinary DVD discs hold about 4.7GB.
HVD technology will be pitched at corporations and theentertainment market, the HVD Alliance said.The technology behind HVD is based on holographytechnology from Japan's Optware, one of the sixfounders of the consortium. A technical committee wasformed in December to flesh out HVD standards.
Sony unveiled a home server with 1TB of storage forthe Japanese market last year. Half the capacity wouldbe enough to record six channels of TV for five and ahalf days non-stop, Sony said.

The consortium, however, is looking at firstdeveloping discs with lower capacities. The firstassignments of the technical committee involve comingup with standards for a 200GB recordable disc and a100GB read-only disc.

2005-02-02T10:52:00.000+05:30

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BE INDIAN BUY INDIAN

2005-01-13T11:57:00.000+05:30

Please spare a couple of minutes here........

I got this article from one of my friends , but its
true , i can see this from day to day life,small example ,
when i came to canada ,
1 CAN $ = IND Rs 32
after 5 months . now it is
1 CAN $ = IND Rs 37
i dont think so Canadian Economy is booming, so Indian
Economy is Going Down.

Our Economy is in u r hands
Do u know this, Indian economy is in a crisis - As you are all aware India like many other Asian countries, India is undergoing a severe economic crunch. Many Indian industries are closing down. the Indian economy is in a crisis and if we do not take proper steps to control those, we will be in acritical situation. More than 30000 crore rupees of foreign exchange is being siphoned out of our country on products such as cosmetics,snacks, tea, beverages...etc which are grown, produced and consumed here.

A cold drink that costs only 70/80 paise to produce is sold for nine rupees, and a major chunk of profits from these is sent abroad. This is a serious drain on Indian economy.
Did you know that "Coca Cola" and "Sprite" belong to the same multinational company,"Coca Cola"?

On one hand coke advertisements say that 'Jo chaho hojaye, cocacola enjoy'
(i.e. whatever the hell, let it happen, you drink coke) ; and on the other hand,
Sprite says that 'Bhujao only pyas, baki all bakwas' (i.e. drinks can just quench
thirst all other claims are false).What can you do?
You can consider some of the better alternatives to aerated drinks.
For that matter Pepsi is also the same

You can drink lemon juice, fresh fruit juices, chilled lassi (sweet or sour), butter milk, coconut water, jaljeera, enerjee, masala milk..........

Everyone deserves a healthy drink, including you!

Over and above all this, economic sanctions have been imposed on us. We have nothing against
Multinational companies,but to protect our own interests we request everybody to use
Indian products only for next two years. With the rise in petrol prices, if we do not do
this, the rupee will devalue further and we will end up paying much more for the
same products in the near future.

What you can do about it.
1. Buy only products manufactured by WHOLLY INDIAN COMPANIES.
2. ENROLL as many people as possible for this cause.

Each individual should become a leader for this awareness. This is the only way to
save our country from severe economic crisis.You don't need to giveup your
lifestyle. You just need to choose an alternate product. All categories of
products are available from WHOLLY INDIAN COMPANIES.
List of products.

Bathing Soap:
Use - Cinthol & other Godrej brands, Santoor,Wipro Shikakai, Mysore Sandal,Margo, Neem, Evita, Medimix, Ganga, Nirma bath, Chandrika.
INSTEAD OF - Lux, Lifeboy, Rexona, Liril, Dove,Pears,Hamam, LeSancy,Camay,Palmolive
Tooth paste:
USE - Neem, Babool, Promise, Vico Vajradanti,Prudent,Dabur Products
INSTEAD OF- Colgate, Close up, Pepsodent, Cibaca,Forhans, Mentadent.
Tooth brush:
USE - Prudent, Ajanta, Promise.
INSTEAD OF - Colgate, Close up, Pepsodent, Forhans.
Shaving Cream
USE - Godrej, Emani.
INSTEAD OF - Palmolive, Old Spiice, Gillete.
Shaving Blade
USE - SuperMax, Topaz, Lazer, Ashoka.
INSTEAD OF - Seven-O-clock, 365, Gillet.
Talcum Powder
USE - Santoor, Gokul, Cinthol, Wipro baby powder,Boroplus
INSTEAD OF - Ponds, Old Spice, Johnson baby powder, Shower to Shower.
Milk Powder
USE - Indiana, Amul, Amulya.
INSTEAD OF - Anikspray, Milkana, Everyday milk,Milkmaid.
Shampoo:
USE - Lakme, Nirma, Velvet
INSTEAD OF - Halo, All Clear, Nyle, SunSilk.
And above all, CLOTHES.

Do you know that the cotton is produced in the indian villages, threads are produced in the indian towns, dresses are stitched in indian cities and clothes are purchased by indian customers. But it is BRANDED as MANUFACTURED BY A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY for which we LOSE PRECIOUS FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

THE POINT TO NOTE:THE MONEY IS GOING TO SOME DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES. It is TRUE. PLEASE go to the remote areas of cities AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THE TRUTH.Thousands of poor innocent Indians are working as tailors for stitching the WORLD'S POPULAR READYMADE CLOTHES. BUT THEY ARE PAID A POOR AMOUNT.THIS IS HAPPENING BECUSE OF OUR IGNORANCE INDIA IS ONE OF the MAJOR TEXTILE EXPORTER IN THE WORLD. OUR TAILORS ARE FAMOUS EVEN IN COUNTRIES LIKE US AND UK. THEN WHY SHOULD WE BLINDLY
GIVE IN TO THE ATTRACTION OF FOREIGN BRANDS? PLEASE THINK ABOUT IT.

Every Indian product you buy makes a big difference. It saves INDIA.

Let us take a firm decision today.BUY INDIAN TO BE INDIAN we are not
against of foreign products.

WE ARE NOT ANTI-MULTINATIONAL. We are trying to save our Nation. EVERY DAY IS A STRUGGLE FOR A REAL FREEDOM . ... WE ACHIEVED OUR INDEPENDENCE AFTER LOSING MANY LIVES. THEY DIED PAINFULLY TO ENSURE THAT WE LIVE PEACEFULLY. THE CURRENT TRENDIS VERY THREATENING. MULTINATIONALS CALL IT GLOBALISATION OF INDIANECONOMY. FOR INDIANS LIKE YOU AND ME IT IS RECOLONISATION OF INDIA. THE COLONIST'S LEFT INDIA THEN.

BUT THIS TIME THEY WILL MAKE SURE THEY DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKES. WHO
WOULD LIKE TO LET A"GOOSE THAT LAYS GOLDEN EGGS" SLIP AWAY.

PLEASE REMEMBER : POLITICAL FREEDOM IS USELESS WITHOUT ECONOMIC
INDEPENDENCE. RUSSIA , S.KOREA, MEXICO........THE LIST IS VERY LONG!!
LET US LEARN FROM THEIR EXPERIENCE AND FROM OUR HISTORY.
LET US DO THE DUTY OF EVERY TRUE INDIAN.
FINALLY: ITS OBVIOUS THAT U CAN'T
GIVE UP ALL OF THE ITEMS MENTIONED ABOVE,SO GIVE UP ATLEAST ONE ITEM TO
FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COUNTRY.LITTLE DROPS MAKE A GREAT OCEAN.

BE INDIAN BUY INDIAN
Jai hind

check these links

2005-01-05T23:46:00.000+05:30

http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/VirtualPC2004FAQ.html
http://roudybob.net/articles/927.aspx
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/
http://blogs.msdn.com/jochens/archive/2004/11/05/253126.aspx
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/using/Columns/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnreal/html/realworld12012004.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/distapp.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvsent/html/vsent_enterprisetemplatesbk.asp

2005: Taurus Overview

2005-01-05T11:16:00.000+05:30

2005: Taurus Overview
After months of what feels like treading water, Taurus, you'll be able to make some very definite changes this year -- but you may need to use that world-famous patience of yours for a few months. Winter will be full of interesting changes, especially after January 10th. If you're due to make a career change, wait until then. The best part is that once you set your determined little mind to something, there's just no way you won't have it. So when you decide who and what you want, you have only to focus your considerable energies on it, and you can rest assured that you'll reach all those goals -- and more.
Spring will be fun and sociable, and your worst problem may be deciding which wonderful offer to accept, and which to reject. A relationship could change quite suddenly at the end of April, thanks to the lunar eclipse of the 24th. This bright event will spark up your relationship axis, asking that you turn your attention to one-to-one encounters.
But it's summer that will bring you the most exciting changes. Right up until the very end of July, fiery Mars will keep things passionate, but urge you to keep quiet, too. Once August arrives, however, Mars will take all that passion and aggression into your own sign, turning up the volume on your level of assertion. That means this summer definitely won't go by without you making a stand -- a serious stand -- on behalf of someone or something that you want.
Come fall, you'll make some changes, and they'll all be positive. If they don't feel that way at the time, think about this: There's a silver thread that connects everything that's every happened to us to where we are right now. If you're happy with yourself, you should be grateful for every little thing that's come your way -- whether you thought of it as positive or negative at the time. If there are things you want to change, make new choices and get your new show on the road. 'Tis the season for new beginnings, after all!

2005: Taurus Career
You're a machine early in the year -- take a week or two to get yourself into gear, and then you'll be unstoppable. If you've set your sights on a new job or even a promotion, it should come to you before the ice starts melting. The events that seem like setbacks in the second week of February will quickly turn around and become advantageous. Stay focused and you'll have no serious problems getting where you want to go. The Ides of March should be especially good to you, too.
Springtime is all about cultivating new relationships. Your new status should have people seeking you out, but you might want to go out of your way to attract even more attention. A spot of lunacy around the 24th of April could shake up some long-standing client or colleague relationships, but you'll have a sizable safety net if you play things right. Working on your own or as part of a two-person team will be most rewarding after that.
Mars is all about work, and this summer is all about Mars. June and July will be whisper-quiet as long as you keep your task list up-to-date and your in-box clean, but come August you'll find yourself restless and eager to take on new responsibilities. It could be that you throw yourself into volunteer work, or that you demand a more palatable workload. In either case, you've got the strong red planet backing you up.
You might not like it at first, but the change in weather come September will also bring changes in the way you relate to your career. That doesn't necessarily mean you'll drop everything and write the Great American Novel, but you're definitely in for some serious choices in the months leading up to winter. The very end of October will be the best time to start putting those new plans into action, but take your time. You'll see the start of some very real changes around the holidays.

2005: Taurus Romantic
You're nothing if not patient, and in 2005 your calm, cool and collected style gets rewarded in the realm of romance in just the ways you've been waiting for. Your underlying smoldering sexiness sets something very much on fire around the 22nd of January -- fan the flames by speaking your feelings in a way that seems scary but will have splendid results. Keep the communication coming; you'll need it to ward off a little jealousy (on your part or theirs) at the outset of February.

March 18th marks the beginning of your personal spring; you're a hot number and a perfect package, so don't be afraid to sing your own praises a little. If you do, suitors will flock -- or if you're coupled up, you can take your relationship down a sweet garden path at the end of April. Your combination of rock-steady loyalty and alluring appeal gets recognized big-time; then it's your decision from there.

Summer starts out simmering -- the weekend of June 3rd's already hot to the touch -- and sizzles onward from there. Your passion nearly explodes in mid-July, but your innate caution makes you barely (just barely) keep the lid on it until August, that is. By then, you'll know what you want and you'll know how to get it, and you'll characteristically take a back seat to no one. If anyone tries to play games with you now, they'll be the loser, as you demand all the respect and honesty you deserve.

Autumn's the time to take your love life back to school, learning some lessons (some challenging and some fun, of course) and looking toward the future. The middle of September offers a different perspective on romance that makes a great deal of sense, as well as enlightenment about a partnership (potential or otherwise). As you incorporate your revelations in October, you're able to finally let something go -- and embrace something (or is it someone?) new. Thanksgiving finds you with lots to be thankful for in the realm of romance, and the weekend of December 16th holds gifts for your heart, providing you're not afraid to actively snoop around for them. At New Year's, your love karma's looking very good indeed.

Microsoft Solutions Framework - MSF

2004-12-29T14:20:00.000+05:30

The Microsoft Solutions Framework: An Integrated Approach to Agile or Formal Software Development Process

Granville G. Miller, Program Manager, Visual Studio 2005 Team System

It would certainly be nice if there could be one way of building software. However, the truth is, there are many different types (e.g. embedded, packaged application, web service, three-tier client server, or web) of applications and so there must be just as many ways to build them. Compound this with the different software development cultures and the different types of competitive environments (hyper-competitive to regulated) and you can reach only a single conclusion. There can be no single software development process for all software development projects. This is the central philosophy behind the Microsoft Solutions Framework.
What every software veteran learns is that the way to adapt to all of the different project climates is to develop a set of good techniques for dealing with all of the different challenges that they might face. In an agile environment, these tools can be used at any time to meet these challenges. In a formal environment, the goal is to pick the correct set for the project and refine them over time.

Each of these approaches has merits.The trouble is that these techniques are divorced from the tooling that they use. The techniques are often shoe horned into a set of disparate tools that were never meant to support them. These tools do not share a common meta-model. Hence, information has to be manually moved from one tool to another. Worse, during the move, the semantic meaning of this information is lost.

The Problem with Process
Most people see the problem with software development processes being a constant struggle between productivity and repeatability. When project schedules get tight, and we rarely have room to spare in the schedule, the process goes “out the window”. But does it really? Even when we go “out-of-band” on our processes, we continue to use our configuration management system and our bug tracking systems so some elements of process remain. These elements are those that are ingrained in our culture and supported by necessary tooling.
When process is divorced from tooling, it creates an impedance mismatch. Ask yourself, when I make a change to the process, do I make a change to the tooling? No? Why not? This illustrates the impedance mismatch precisely. We expect our developers to translate our process on to our tooling. This translation requires unnecessary effort which is often seen as unnecessary when the project schedule gets tight.
The fact is, most processes are disconnected from the tooling that is used to enact them. Tooling is built to support multiple processes (because there can be no single software development process) but it is built to the least common denominator. In other words, it handles the things that all software development processes require but fails to handle the elements that provide the value in differentiating a process. The result is that we fall back to this least common denominator instead of holding on to the parts of the process that provide competitive advantage.
Introducing Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) version 4.0 Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) version 4.0 is a combination of a meta-model (or framework) on which processes are built, and two instantiations of that metamodel. One of the instantiations is an agile software development process and the other targets a more formal environment.
Both are scenario-driven, context-based software development processes for building and improving .NET and other object-oriented applications. Each directly incorporates practices for handling quality of service requirements such as performance and security. They use a context-based approach to guide the operation the project. This approach helps create an adaptive (agile) or refinement (formal) process that governs the overall project.

Both processes are highly customizable, scalable, and fully integrated with Visual Studio 2005 Team System. The tooling and processes work together to provide a more productive user experience than the process or tooling could provide alone. This is because both tooling and processes are built using the same meta-model.

In other words, MSF harvests proven guidance from inside and outside of Microsoft and provides a seamless experience with Visual Studio 2005 Team System for process automation and guidance within the software development life cycle.

Swadesh - Inspired by Real Story

2004-12-21T11:14:00.000+05:30

The Recent Bollywood Flick - Swadesh is inspired inpart by a Maryland-based Association of India'sDevelopment (AID) effort that saw two of their 'jeevansaathis' - Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi - quit their jobs in the US and return toIndia to work on micro-hydel project in Bilgaonhttp://www.aidindia.org/projects/illus/pedal.htm

Director Ashutosh Gowariker visited their project andacknowledges them in the credits.The 2.15 KW Bilgaon Micro-Hydro Project lights everyhouse of a tribal village.Two metre check dam diverts water to the turbine.Remote tribal villages on hills with waterfalls havenatural energy to rotate a turbine and generateelectricity, without displacement or environmentalcosts.

Bilgaon, a village in Nandurbar District,Maharashtra with 12 hamlets, 180 families and aboarding school of 300 children has been in darknesseven after 55 years of independence. Thanks to AID support (Rs 12,00,000), support from theschool (Rs 50,000) and 2000 person-days of voluntary labor (shramdaan) put in by the villagers, they nowhave tube-lights in every house and school. Day time electricity will be used for pumping drinking water, creating a grain bank through community agriculture,nursery for aforestation and livelihood generationthrough small-scale enterprises.

The projects was designed by People’s School ofEnergy, approved by the Chikali Gram Panchayat andimplemented by Bombay Sarvodaya Friendship Centre. The village people inspired by the Narmada Bachao Andolan(Save Narmada Movement) did not accept any funds for the enormous voluntary work they did from May 2002 toJan 2003. It was inaugurated on the Sankranti day of Jan 14,2003 and has received congratulatory messages from the Rural Development Minister of Maharashtra.

Words of Wisdom

2004-11-30T16:21:00.000+05:30

I live in my own little world. But it's OK. They know me here.

I don't approve of political jokes, I've seen too many of them get
elected.

I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing
section in a swimming pool?

Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend
will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"-

I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting
clothing. If I HAD any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed
up in the first place!

Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply
press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over?

Stress is when you wake up screaming and then you realize you haven't
fallen asleep yet.

My husband says I never listen to him (at least I think that's what
he said).

If raising children was going to be easy, it never would have started
with something called LABOR!

Specification Sheet for a Perfect Woman

2004-11-25T13:45:00.000+05:30

By the time the Lord made woman, he was into his sixth day of working
overtime. An angel appeared and said, "Why are you spending so much
time on this one?"

And the Lord answered, "Have you seen my spec sheet on her? She has to
be completely washable, but not plastic, have over 200 movable parts, all
replaceable and able to run on diet coke and leftovers, have a lap that
can hold four children at one time, have a kiss that can cure anything from a scraped knee to a broken heart-and she will do everything with only two hands."

The angel was astounded at the requirements. "Only two hands!? No way!
And that's just on the standard model? That's too much work for one day. Wait until tomorrow to finish."

"But I won't," the Lord protested.

"I am so close to finishing this creation that is so close to my own heart. She already heals herself when she is sick AND can work 18 hour days."

The angel moved closer and touched the woman.

"But you have made her so soft, Lord."

"She is soft," the Lord agreed, "but I have also made her tough. You have no idea what she can endure or accomplish.

"Will she be able to think?" asked the angel.

The Lord replied, "Not only will she be able to think, she will be able to reason and negotiate."

The angel then noticed something, and reaching out, touched the woman's
cheek. "OOPS, it looks like you have a leak in this model. I told you that you were trying to put too much into this one."

"That's not a leak," the Lord corrected, "that's a tear!"

"What's the tear for?" the angel asked.

The Lord said, "The tear is her way of expressing her joy, her sorrow,
her pain, her disappointment, her love, her loneliness, her grief and her pride."

The angel was impressed. "You are a genius, Lord. You thought of everything! Woman is truly amazing."

And so she is!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Women have strengths that amaze men.

They bear hardships and they carry burdens, but they hold happiness, love and joy.

They smile when they want to scream.

They sing when they want to cry.

They cry when they are happy and laugh when they are nervous.

They fight for what they believe in.

They stand up to injustice.

They don't take "no" for an answer when they believe there is a better solution.

They go without so their family can have.

They go to the doctor with a frightened friend.

They love unconditionally.

They cry when their children excel and cheer when their friends get awards.

They are happy when they hear about a birth or a wedding.

Their hearts break when a friend dies.

They grieve at the loss of a family member, yet they are strong when

they think there is no strength left.

They know that a hug and a kiss can heal a broken heart.

Women come in all shapes, sizes and colors.

They'll drive, fly, walk, run or e-mail you to show how much they care about you.

The heart of a woman is what makes the world keep turning.

They bring joy, hope and love.

They have compassion and ideals.

They give moral support to their family and friends.

Women have vital things to say and everything to give.

HOWEVER, IF THERE IS ONE FLAW IN WOMEN, IT IS THAT THEY FORGET THEIR
WORTH.

Signatures.... what do they mean.?

2004-11-25T13:36:00.000+05:30

SINGLE UNDERLINE BELOW THE SIGN!!

These persons are very confident and are good personalities. They are
a little bitselfish but believe in "Happiness of human life".

TWO DOTS BELOW THE SIGN !!

These persons are considered to be Romantic, can easily change their
fiancees as if they change their clothes. They prefer beauty in other
persons & they thenselves try to look beautiful. They easily attract
others.

SINGLE DOT BELOW THE SIGN !!

These persons are more inclined towards classical arts, simple & are
very cool. If you loose faith with them,then these persons will never
look back at you. Hence its always better to be careful with these
people.

NO UNDERLINES OR DOTS BELOW THE SIGN !!

These persons enjoy their life in their own way, never pay attention
to others views. These are considered tobe good natured but are
selfish too.

RANDOM SIGN, NO SIMILARITY BETWEEN NAME & SIGN !!

These persons try to be very smart, hide each & every matter, never
say anything in straight forward manner, never pay attention to the
other person of what he is talking of.

RANDOM SIGN, SIMILARITY BETWEEN NAME & SIGN !!
These persons are considered to be intelligent but never think. These
people change their ideas & views as fast as the wind changes its
direction of flow. They never think whether that particular thing is
right or wrong. You can win them just by flattering them.

SIGN IN PRINTED LETTERS !!

These persons are very kind to us, have a good heart, selfless, are
ready to sacrifice their life for the sake of their near & dear. But
these seems to think a lot and may get angry very soon.

WRITING COMPLETE NAME AS THEIR SIGN !!

These persons are very kind hearted, can adjust themselves to any
environment & to the person they are talking. These persons are very
firm on their views & posses a lot of will power.

u belong to which category??

To realize The Value Of Things In Life

2004-11-22T11:40:00.000+05:30

To realize
The value of a sisterAsk someone
Who doesn't have one.

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.

To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.

To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize
The value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to Meet.

To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident...

To! realize
The value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend:
Lose one.

The origin of this Message is unknown,
But it brings good luck to everyone who passes it on.
Do not keep this Message... PASS IT ON.

A True Indian Male Mentality

2004-11-08T13:58:00.000+05:30

Hats off to all Indian men who thinks like this GUY!!! :)

This letter was written in response to an article in the NY times:
(with no harm meant to anyone in particular)

Dear Editor:

I'm sorry but I would like to challenge some of your Indian male readers. I am a White female who is engaged to an Indian male, good-looking, educated and loving. I just don't understand a lot of Indian female's attitudes about our relationship.

My man decided he wanted me because the pickings amongst Indian women were slim to none. As he said they were either too fat, too loud, too mean, too argumentative, too needy, too materialistic or carrying too much excess baggage. Before I became engaged, whenever I went out I was constantly approached by Indian men, willing to wine and dine me and give me the world. If Indian women are so up in arms about us being with their men, why don't they look at themselves and make some changes. I am tired of the dirty looks I get and snide remarks when we're out in public. I would like to hear from some Indian men about why we white women are so appealing and coveted by them. Bryant Gumbel just left his wife of 26 years for one of us.
Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, the model Tyson Beckford, Montell Williams, Quincy Jones, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, Sydney Poitier, Kofi Anan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Don Cornelius, Berry Gordy, Billy Blanks, Larry Fishburne, Wesley Snipes...I could go on and on.
But, right now, I'm a little angry And that is why I wrote this so hurriedly. Don't be mad with us White women because so many of your men want us. Get your acts together and learn from us and we may lead you to treat your men better. If I'm wrong, Indian men, let me know.

Disgusted White Girl, Somewhere in VA.

The Response:

Dear Editor:
I would like to respond to the letter written by A Disgusted White Girl.
Let me start by saying at I am a 28-year old Indian man. I graduated from one of the most prestigious universities in Atlanta, Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Management. I have a good job at a major corporation and have recently purchased a house. So, I consider myself to be among the ranks of successful Non-White men.

I will not use my precious time to slander white people. I just want to set the record straight of why Indian men date white women. Back in the day, one of the biggest reasons why Indian men dated white women was because they were considered easy. The Indian girls in my neighborhood were raised traditionally. They were very strict about when they lost their virginity and who they lost it to. Because of our impatience to wait, brothers would look for someone who would give it up easy without too much hassle. So, they turned to the white girls.

Nowadays, in my opinion, a lot of Indian males date white women because they are docile and easy to control. A lot of Indian men, because of insecurities, fears, and overall weaknesses, have become intimidated by the strength of our Indian women. We are afraid that our woman will be more successful than us, make more money than us, drive nicer cars and own bigger houses. Because of this fear, many Indian men look for a more docile woman. Someone we can control. I have talked to numerous Indian men and they continuously comment on how easy it is to control and walk over their white women.

I just want to set the record straight. I want A Disgusted White Girl to know that not all successful Indian men date white women. Non-Whites like Ahmad Rashad, Denzel Washington, Michael Jordan, Morris Chestn! ut, Will Smith, Blair Underwood, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Samuel L. Jackson, and Chris Rock all married strong Non-White women. And, to flip the script, there are numerous white men, in and out of the spot light, who openly or secretly desire Non-White women over white women. Ted Danson, Robert DeNiro, and David Bowie to name a few. I just don't want a disgusted white girl to be misinformed.

Stop thinking that because you are white that you are some type of goddess.
Remember, when Non-White Egyptian Queens like Hatsepshut and Nitorcris were ruling Dynasties and armies of men in Egypt, you were over in the caves of Europe eating raw meat and beating each other over the head with clubs.

Read your history! It was the Non-White woman that taught you how to cook and season your food. It was the Non-White woman that taught you how to raise your children. It was Non-White women who were breastfeeding and raising your babies during slavery. It is the Non-White woman that had to endure watching their fathers, husbands, and children beaten, killed, and thrown in jail. Indian women were born with two strikes against them:
being Non-White and being a woman.

And, through all this, Still They Rise!

It is because of the Indian women's strength, elegance, power, love and beauty that I could never date anyone except my Indian Queen. It is not just the outer beauty that captivates and draws me to them. It is not the fact that they come in all shapes, sizes, colours and shades that I love them. Their inner beauty is what I find most appealing about Indian women.

Their strong spirit, loving and nurturing souls, their integrity, their ability to overcome great obstacles, their willingness to stand for what they believe in, and their determination to succeed and reach their highest potential while enduring great pain and suffering is why I have fallen in love with Indian women. I honestly believe that your anger is geared more toward jealousy and envy than snotty looks. If this were not so, then why do you continuously go to tanning salons to darken your skin? If you are so proud to be white, then why don't you just be happy with your pale skin?
I think that your anger is really a result of you wanting to have what the Non-White woman has.

BOTTOM LINE: If I were looking for a docile woman, someone I can walk over and control, I would give you a call. But, unfortunately, I am looking for a Virtuous Woman. Someone that can be a good wife and mother to my children. Someone who can be my best friend and understands my struggles. I am looking for a soul mate and; unfortunately, you do not and CANNOT fit the bill.

No offense taken, none given.

Signed,

Indian Royalty

New mini petrol engine

2004-10-11T10:34:00.000+05:30

By JOHN SCOTT

SCIENTISTS have built the smallest petrol engine - tiny enough to power a WATCH.
The mini-motor, which runs for two years on a single squirt of lighter fuel, is set to revolutionise world technology.

It produces 700 times more energy than a conventional battery despite being less than a centimetre long - not even half an inch.

It could be used to operate laptops and mobile phones for months on end - doing away with the need for recharging. - Wow I wish to have one of this or wait for it.(Ashith Raj)

Experts believe it could be phasing out batteries in such items within just six years.
The engine, minute enough to be balanced on a fingertip, has been produced by engineers at the University of Birmingham. Dr Kyle Jiang, lead investigator from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, said: “We are looking at an industrial revolution happening in peoples’ pockets.

“The breakthrough is an enormous step forward. Devices which need re- charging or new batteries are a problem but in six years will be a thing of the past.”
Other applications for the engine could include medical and military uses, such as running heart pacemakers or mini reconnaissance robots. At present, charging an ordinary battery to deliver one unit of energy involves putting 2,000 units into it.

The little engine, because energy is produced locally, is far more effective.
One of the main problems faced by engineers who have tried to produce micro motors in the past has been the levels of heat produced.
The engines got so hot they burned themselves out and could not be re-used. The Birmingham team overcame this by using heat-resistant materials such as ceramic and silicon carbide.

Professor Graham Davies, head of the university’s engineering school, said: “We’ve brought together all the engineering disciplines, both materials, chemical engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering.

“What better place to have the second industrial revolution - in nano-technology - than where the first took place, in the heart of the West Midlands"

PUT UR Problems DOWN TODAY

2004-09-30T11:54:00.000+05:30

Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it.
He held it up for all to see & asked the students,' How much do you
think this glass weighs?'
'50gms!' .... '100gms!' ......'125gms' ......the students answered.

'I really don't know unless I weigh it,' said the professor,

'but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?

'Nothing' the students said.

'Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?'
The professor asked.

'Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the students.

'You're right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?' the professor asked.

'Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress &
paralysis & have to go to hospital for sure!' ventured another student & all the students laughed.

'Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?' asked the professor.

'No' the students told.

'Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?'

The students were puzzled.
'Put the glass down!' said one of the students.

'Exactly!' said the professor.

' Life's problems are something like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK. Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache. Hold it even longer & they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.
It's important to think of the challenges (problems) in your life, but EVEN MORE IMPORTANT to 'put them down' at the end of every day before
you go to sleep. That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day
fresh & strong & can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!'

So, as it becomes time for you to leave office today,

Remember to 'PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY!
'

FACTS TO MAKE EVERY INDIAN PROUD

2004-09-20T14:22:00.000+05:30

Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
Vinod Khosla

Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
Vinod Dahm

Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is AZIM PREMJI, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th position now.

Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
Sabeer Bhatia

Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
Arun Netravalli

Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
Rajiv Gupta

Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
Sanjay Tejwrika

Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives. There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,

38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

You may know some of the following facts. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

01. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

02. India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented 'zero.'

03. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

04. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

05. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

06. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

07. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

08. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians.

09. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

13. Chess was invented in India.

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Quotes about India.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Albert Einstein

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.

Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Hu Shih.

(Former Chinese ambassador to USA)
HOPE MOST OF YOU KNOW THIS, ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS. BUT,

if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an ever shining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA.

Wanna Hoist Our Indian Flag Goto

2004-08-16T11:32:00.000+05:30

Wish u a Happy Independence Day. Wanna Hoist a flag then just go to this site, write ur name and submit.

http://203.199.70.158:1256/flag/index.html

Indian National Facts

2004-08-16T11:18:00.000+05:30

Indian National Facts

A flag symbolising the Indian people's aspiration to nationhood was hoisted in Paris in the early l9OOs by Madame Bhikaiji Cama and her group of exiled revolutionaries. In 1921, during the session of the All-India Congress Committee at Bezwada - now Vijayawada - a student presented Mahatma Gandhi with a flag of red and green, the colours representing the two major Indian communities, the Hindus and the Muslims. Gandhi suggested the addition of a white stripe to symbolise the rest of India's communities, and a charkha (spinning wheel) to symbolize the masses of India.
The tricolour, officially adopted as the national emblem by the Congress at its 1931 Karachi session presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, held no communal undertones. On July 22, 1947 three weeks before Indian Independence, the Constituent Assembly adopted the tricolour as India's National Flag, but replaced the charkha with the Asoka Chakra. Today, 57 years after Independence, the flag continues to stir profound feelings of nationalism.

Here's a look at the other national symbols of India.

NATIONAL GAME- Hockey

The Golden Era of hockey in India was the period from 1928 - 1956 when India won 6 consecutive gold medals in the Olympics. During the Golden Era, India played 24 Olympic matches, won all 24, scored 178 goals (at an average of 7.43 goals per match) and conceded only 7 goals. The two other gold medals for India came in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

NATIONAL FRUIT- Mango

Mangoes, have been cultivated in India from time immemorial. The poet Kalidasa sang its praises. Alexander savoured its taste, as did the Chinese pilgrim Hieun Tsang. Akbar planted 100,000 mango trees in Darbhanga, known as Lakhi Bagh.

NATIONAL TREE- Banyan

Indian national tree is the fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, whose branches root themselves like new trees over a large area.The roots give rise to more trunks and branches. Because of this characteristic and its longevity, this tree is considered immortal and is an integral part of the myths and legends of India.

NATIONAL FLOWER- Lotus

Lotus, prized for its serene beauty, is delightful to behold as its blossoms opens on the surface of a pond.In India the sacred lotus is legendary and much folklore and religious mythology is woven around it.
NATIONAL ANIMAL-Tiger

NATIONAL BIRD- Peacock

The Peacock represents the whole country. Poaching of these birds is strictly prohibited throughout India.

NATIONAL PLEDGE

India is my country. All Indians are my brothers and sisters...

NATIONAL SONG - Vande Mataram

Composed by Bankim Chandra, the National Song of India, appears in the Bengali novel Anand Math. The English translation of this "Vande Mataram" rendered by Shree Aurobindo, is considered to be the official and best. The first stanza of this song has been given the status of our national song.

NATIONAL ANTHEM - Jana Gana Mana

NATIONAL EMBLEM - The Lion Capital

The National Emblem of India is a replica of the Lion of Sarnath, near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The Lion Capital was erected in the 3rd Century BC by Emperor Ashoka to mark the spot where Buddha first proclaimed his gospel of peace and emancipation to the four quarters of the Universe. The National Emblem is thus symbolic of India's commitment to world peace and goodwill. The four lions (one hidden from view) - symbolising power, courage and confidence, rest on a circular abacus.The abacus is girded by four smaller animals - guardians of the four directions: the lion in the north, the elephant in the east, the horse in south and the bull in the west. The abacus rests on a lotus in full bloom, exemplifying the fountainhead of life and creative inspiration. The motto 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below the emblem in Devanagari script means "Truth Alone Triumphs".

NATIONAL FLAG It is a horizontal tricolourflag. The ratio of the width to the length of the Flag shall ordinarily be 2:3. The cloth for the manufacture of the flag is generally handspun and handwoven khadhi, cotton, woolen or silk.The flag is tricolour panel made up of three rectangular panels or sub - panels of equal widths. The colours of the top panels is saffron - kesari, and that of the bottom panel is green, the middle panel is white bearing at its centre the design of Ashoka Chakra in navy blue colour.

How to get PROMOTED

2004-08-16T10:55:00.000+05:30

People who do lots of work...
make lots of mistakes

People who do less work...
make less mistakes

People who do no work...
make no mistakes

People who make no mistakes...
gets promoted

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY

2004-08-02T11:29:00.001+05:30

"The rain may be falling hard outside,But your smile makes it all alright.I'm so glad that you're my friend.I know our friendship will never end."

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY !!!

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY

2004-08-02T11:29:00.000+05:30

"The rain may be falling hard outside,But your smile makes it all alright.I'm so glad that you're my friend.I know our friendship will never end."

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY !!!

5 Important Lessons to Learn in Life

2004-07-30T11:32:00.000+05:30

Here are few Lessons ..Quite Useful....

First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady.

During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name?I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade. "Absolutely," said the professor. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.

Second Important Lesson - Pickup in the Rain

One night, at 11.30 p.m., an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rainstorm. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her, generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. The man took her to safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxicab. She seemed to be in a big hurry, but wrote down his address and thanked him. Seven days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, a giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached.

It read:

"Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes, but also my spirits. Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband's bedside just before he passed away. God blesses you for helping me and unselfishly serving others".
Sincerely, Mrs. Nat King Cole

Third Important Lesson

Always remember those who serve. In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. "How much is an ice cream sundae?" he asked. "Fifty cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied the coins in it. "Well how much is a plain dish of ice cream?" he inquired. By now more people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing impatient. Thirty-five cents," she brusquely replied. The little boy again counted his coins. "I'll have the plain ice cream," he said. The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began to cry as she wiped down the table. There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were two nickels and five pennies. You see, he couldn't have the sundae because he had to have enough left to leave her a tip.

Fourth Important Lesson - The obstacle in Our Path.

In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear,but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way. Then a peasant came a long carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded.

After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand. Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.

Fifth Important Lesson - Giving When it Counts.

Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at a hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies, needed to combat the illness. The doctor explained the situation to her little brother and asked the little boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes, I'll do it if it will save her." As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheek. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I Start to die right away?" Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought the was going to have to give his sister all of his blood in order to save her. Yet he was willing.

Do not expect anything in return when you help others because you might get disappointed.....Life is always a game, when you least expect God would reward you in the most astounding way...........By the way, does it matter whether anyone notices you doing a good deed? What really matters, is He knows !!!!

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

2004-06-16T15:44:00.000+05:30

Most Valuable Quotes

Money is not everything

There's MasterCard & Visa.

One should love animals

they are so tasty.

Love thy neighbor

But don't get caught.

Behind every successful man, there is one woman

and behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Every man should marry

after all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Wise never marry

and when they marry they become otherwise.

Success is a relative term

It brings so many relatives.

Never put off the work till tomorrow

what you can put off today.

Love is photogenic

It needs darkness to develop

Your future depends on your dreams

So go to sleep

There should be a better way to start a

day than waking up every morning

"ALCOHOL KILLS SLOWLY"

So what? Who's in a hurry?

"Hard work never killed anybody"

But why take the risk! (I don't want to be an exception!)

"Work fascinates me"

I can look at it for hours!

God made relatives;

Thank God we can choose our friends.

When two's company,

three's the result!

The more you learn, the more you know,

The more you know, the more you forget,

The more you forget, the less you know

So. Why learn.

2004-06-04T17:05:00.000+05:30

The technology behind Google's great results
As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.

Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.

2004-06-04T15:55:00.000+05:30

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.

Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

2004-06-03T15:37:00.000+05:30

Latest About RFID

The world of RFID is moving fast -- so fast, in fact, that we're changing the way we deliver news to you in order to keep up.

From now on, we'll be posting articles and news on the RFID.org website as soon as they're available, bringing you the most timely information we can. The "RFID Connections" newsletter will contain a summary of the articles posted in the previous month (along with appropriate links).

Some of the articles will be reserved for subscribers only so if you've been receiving this newsletter as a pass-along, be sure to register (it's free).

And be sure to visit the website www.rfid.org frequently for up-to-date news and information on RFID.

2004-06-03T15:35:00.000+05:30

The Email Account Size rises again

Well after the Gmail 1 GB hysteria, an email provider now giving 2GB of space (heard that it is free for use, but then check well before signing up). Maybe I will wait a few weeks to get my 1TB space email account...:-)

Looks like they are now down due to the large number of hits..

2004-05-31T16:20:00.000+05:30

On 28th May, I've successfully cleared the XML Web Services and Enterprise Services.
I thank the BDOTNET community to help get the Exam's Materials to study.

I've Now Very Little Time to Prepare for the next Exam (70-229).
Not Feeling in good Health.. But I'm Determined to Write it on 6th June.

2004-05-26T10:59:00.000+05:30

What is Meant by "Marketing"?
People often ask what is meant by Marketing. Perhaps the following analogies will help clear it up:

You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I'm fantastic in bed." That's Direct Marketing.
You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says, "He's fantastic in bed." That's Advertising.
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day you call and say," Hi, I'm fantastic in bed." that's Telemarketing.
You're at a party and see a handsome man. You get up and straighten your dress. You walk up to him and pour him a drink. You say, "May I," And reach up to straighten his tie brushing your breast lightly against his arm, and then say, "By the way, I'm fantastic in bed." That's Public Relations.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says, "I hear you're fantastic in bed." That's Brand Recognition.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You talk her into going home with your friend. That's a Sales Rep.
Your friend can't satisfy her so he calls you. That's Technical Service.
You're on your way to a party when you realize that there could be gorgeous women in all the houses you're passing. So you climb onto the roof of one situated in the middle and shout at the top of your voice, "I'm fantastic in bed!". That's Spam.
You hear about women like this but never meet one. That's False Advertising

Posted By ManKIND

2004-05-21T17:49:00.000+05:30

Blogs are an effective way to have a Online Presence.
Blogs can be created using some Blogs Providers. Like Blogger.com
Steps to do It:
1. sign for an account at blogger.com
2. create a blog using one their blogs server like blogspot.com.
3. go to the dashboard of your blogger account and start create new Posts.

One limitation of these type of blogs service providers is that they don't let other users to login to ur blogs. Even No Public postings..

Ashith Raj..

2004-05-11T12:57:00.000+05:30

Yesterday, I've Cleared the First Exam of the MCP for .NET .
I thank all the .NET Community People and especially the BDOTNET group on MSN.com

The Exam was 70-316 - Developing and Implementing Windows-based application using VC#.Net and VS.NET 2003

2004-05-06T15:16:00.000+05:30

Today, I've succesfully Created my first Blog Site