Windows Vista : SP2

Microsoft was claiming big while releasing the Vista.

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New technology in Windows Vista makes your PC significantly more responsive while you are performing everyday tasks. Improved

startup and sleep behavior helps both desktop and mobile PCs get up and running more quickly. Greater efficiency in managing both memory devices and input/output (I/O) devices

helps your programs run more smoothly and consistently. And as your computer ages, a

number of features in Windows Vista work together to help keep it as responsive as the day it arrived.

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But unfortunately as per my experience with Vista Home Premiu

m and Ultimate is concern; I am quite unhappy with the system boot up, memory management and responsiveness of the OS. The security features and inbuilt admin tools are great innovation. And also the graphics (aero specially) were ultimate though this is one of the big reason for this version of windows to become a big flop.

After a long long wait the SP2 is released on 25.05.2009.

The download size is approximately 340 MB and with a 1-2 MBPS connectivity it should not take more than 1.5 - 2 hours to download and install

the SP.

SP2 is easy to manage as it comes with bundle o

f Vista sp2 and windows server 2008 sp2. As per my research SP2 would definately help to improve the system performance to some extent. Definately recommended from myside !!

SP2 is a must for those who want to hang around with Vista for some time.. and a must too who want to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 ... (Business customers with Windows Vista will find that the transition from Windows Vista to Windows 7 will be significantly more straightforward due to the high degree of compatibility between Windows Vista and Windows 7.) ..

You could download the Service Pack 2 from the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a4dd31d5-f907-4406-9012-a5c3199ea2b3&DisplayLang=en

Article: 3rd October 2008 , Author Joy:: OLD POST

Article: 3rd October 2008 , Author Joy

There is a recent panic building on the global economic analysts and investors with the falls of many Investment banks in series. More than the fact the rumors are spreading across market especially in brokerage fields. We have seen recent dips in NASDAQ and also NSE, BSE in India. Of course the fact is that the Economy is playing ugly and as the US Banks are declaring bankruptcy but certainly there is no valid reason to put the Stock Market index in red across the globe. This is happening because the short term panic in the market as the market is mainly driven by emotions in short run.

We have to understand one basic point that the market has not collapsed over night and there was significant evidence in year 2007 that the market would go bearish in future, we have seen one of the world’s largest bank Citi under great cyclone. After restructuring itself Citi could not greatly recover its financial crisis till date. It is proved concept that the long term performance of any institute is based on the strategy and the execution of the plans and hence different kind of industries and different countries would not behave in the same manner as the global economy or US crisis.

We have heard various CEO’s talking about transformation in their business models; the services sectors can really utilize the transformation to put the market condition favorable for them. Due to the money crunch in huge investment sector the liquidity flow is hampered and the new investment on R&D would be less and in fact the new startups would face a strong resistance. Unlike the other sector the services sector can turn the condition in their stride, may it be IT services or Pharma or Engineering services division.

Let’s take the focus back on India and how Indian companies are going to behave on this. Indian transformation which briefly started 15 years ago is mainly built on the pillars of services sector. As we have already reiterated that the service sectors could transform the business, Indian Corporate can make the situation favorable for them. The behemoths like US and EU countries are hit with the economy crisis and the only way for them to overcome the crisis is to reduce the expenditure and increase the cost effectiveness across the verticals. With the recent bailout plan the institutes are in huge pressure for performing and fighting for their survivals. The wave has created a new space for Indian IT sector where Indian Companies have bagged some straight outsourcing deal of end to end IT Infrastructure Management. We have to understand that the offshore onsite model is gradually moving towards more cost effective offshore execution schema which means lesser margin for the Indian companies but this exposes a point of improvement for them to achieve more effectiveness.

The global situation is a bit alarming and all the achievers have to play safe as they also have a pressure of keeping their position safe and grow. Indian companies may pose threat to themselves if the growth is inorganic in this phase as the cash crunch could also be felt in near future. Though the trends of overseas acquisition has increases, Indian private firms should again relook their financial sheets as most of the liquids available came from exponential growth in 2005 to 2007 time. In contrast to this the chances of Indian Banking sectors to sustain in respectable stage is high due to an outstanding control of RBI on it.

The way the market would see itself is not profitability but the market capture in terms of long term client commitments thus if the economy bounces back the face value of the business automatically would be inflated. Though the Chinese firms have a little inflexibility as most of the business firms are still strictly controlled by Governments, it has a huge potential to harness the possibilities.

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Starting up a new Organization/Business:

1) Basic Challenges to come up:

Coming up with a simplest idea of initiating even a tiniest thing is infact an arduous challenge to cope up with!

It’s a major hurdle to let your mind speak up and then to let your heart listen to it accordingly. The creation of a tug of war situation between your heart and mind is really difficult to tackle. But coming out unanimously with a synchronized decision is the ultimate paving step of your Aim. There’s a lot of issues to be thought of, and it badly increases if someone is unaware of the following facts:
1) What he is capable of?
2) What he is up to.
3) His Ambition and target.
4) His Current and future Prospects.
4) His length of optimization.


At least he should know, what will give him maximum satisfaction. His current profile or the one which he is choosing to opt for!
At this instance a person may step back with many excuses:
1) Lack of Time.
2) Responsibilities and Dependencies on him.
3) Lack of support.
4) I will think later!!!

Do you think with such a mentality anyone can precede further?? You have the answer. Right!!!

One thing we should always keep in mind, that everything you want can't come together. Sometimes one or the other, you have to either ignore or leave behind at least for the time being. May be with a hope that after you realize your dreams, you can revert back to catch up with those. But obviously it's too bookish to think like that. Time & tide never waits for anyone. That's also true. Hence, ultimately it's all up to you to decide - which one to choose and which stands top in your priority list.



2) Fear of loosing:

Making up your mind for starting up a new venture is never easy, if you are not from a class where business is in blood. You can't just choose blindly like a cookie with the sake of a trial. Its your dream, your passion. You need to invest a lot of money and time on to it. More importantly some of your relationships are also on stake. You have to become a machine.

There's no second chance - either loose or win. Win everything or Loose everything.

But does it give enough reason to pull your leg back? Don't you have confidence in you and all those who love and care about you. Would you spare there blessings and wishes just like that? If the answer is yes, then you are cheating them as well as yourself. The next time you say, "Everything is going to be fine", you will be cheating them, because they dream for your success, achievement, satisfaction and happiness, and if you are not happy, even they can't be.



3) Coming up with the idea:

The next step is to come with the type of business you want to chase :

There can be two broad classifications:
1) Profitable organizations
2) Non profitable organizations

1) Profitable organizations:
These are solely for the purpose of making legal profits viz. starting up a new factory, shop, dealership, educational institutions etc.

Most of these are at high risk. Either this end or that end. It can bring you treasures and at the same time can pull you down to Nil.

2) Non profitable organizations:
These organizations are basically charitable organizations with a sole aim of providing help for the poor and the needy people viz. charitable educational institutions, orphanages, old-age homes etc.

These have a lesser extent of risk. Profit making is never their goal. there main aim is to increase the number of members and money inflow to stand strong and to reach more needy people.



4) Planning your strategies and demands:

Every organization needs proper planning from the grass root level. Its definitely includes all possible pro's and con's (problems & consequences).

The best way is to listen to others. Try one to one communication, internet, books and all sort of like minded ways. This will let you see a better prospect and provide you an ease with planning. The ultimate decision will always be yours. So make sure you analyze everything you listen, and then only you come up with your own.

You can always take others help too to get newer and better ideas, but here also first analyze, think about the pro's and con's and then decide you will implement it or not. Further implement it now or afterwards.

Your initial Planning should at least include the following:
1) Capital - investment
2) Monitory inflow - income
3) Monitory outflow - expenditure
4) Miscellaneous - initial size of the organization and its regulation
5) Profits & loss - Dealing with the profits and Recovery of loss
6) Growth - Ways and prospects

Your further Planning should at least include the following:
1) Expansion - man power, offices, top level executives.
2) Increasing of profits.
3) Marketing.
4) Opening newer scopes.
5) Scope for creative ideas.
6) Catching up the nerve of the market.
7) Aiming for the top.

While planning you always need to be clear and straight forward. Remember vague ideas can hamper your growth.



5) Marketing:

Never ignore marketing. It's must and it should always be proper. Whether yours is a profitable or non profitable organization, it has to get ample of marketing exposure.

Better marketing ensures better monitory inflow and exposure of the company/organization, its achievements and products. It’s very important that people should know about your organization, as it will boost up its reputation further.

There are definitely several other factors and points to be considered, but these are only the basic ones. Obviously it never ends here. It’s only the beginning of a far more extensive world.

If I have forgotten to mention any basic point, which you find equally important or much more important, then I regret. I would definitely look forward for such better ideas, constructive comments and active participation.

Thanks for bearing me :)

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Life a Redemption !

Drowning with everyday's ease
Flying with every flay.
Persuasion may not be defined in the dictionary
Carrying the coffin of life
Ascertaining surroundings in ecstasy.
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One of my Dev Project : C and VB : A brief

This documentation was created 5 years back ..... :) contents and contacts may not be relevant now ;)

SECURE STORE

 

Brief Introduction:

 

This application helps in the storage of files in a secure way by providing encryption at different levels which is very difficult to break. It also provides authentication to user with different privileges which helps in dividing the functionalities provided to the user.

 

Main functionalities

• Storage of files.
• Different ways to store the files depending on the convenience of the user.
• Downloading them to the local system
• Previewing the files using different views (e.g. tree view…)
• Storing different information like Bank passwords, e-mail passwords etc.
• A very user friendly tool to backup and restore the database and also to maintain the versions.
• A utility for merging two database of the same type.
• A user friendly interface for administrating the users on the system.
• Excellent Application Usage logging.
• Previewing a file without creating any temp file.
• Merge Different database and importing documents of different users.
• Application is highly secured from unauthorized installation and usage.
• Storing files/documents with different folder structure.
• Excellent search functionality.
• User can use short text to identify or search a file (short text is not the file name).
• Well documented help.
• Empowered with its own document viewer to ensure more security.

 

Portability

• A user may need to move the data he has stored in one system to another system. This can be done in a very simple way by just copying the database from one system to another manually.

 

 

How Security is ensured????

 

• The file content is encrypted using a robust encryption algorithm before storing and is decrypted on fly when displaying.
• Different algorithms are used for storing different kind of files.
• There are different privileges given to the user like Super User, administrator and normal user.
• The files are stored depending on the user and hence except for the super user, no other user can view the files stored by a different user
• The application will automatically prompt the user for changing the password after 1 month. Everyday it notifies the user of how old the password is.

 

Installation and Availability:

 

If you want to use the product please send a mail to secure_store@yahoo.co.in . You would receive the installation package along with the product key. Please note that the key is valid only for a year and you would need to request for a new key after that. The key provides a way to prevent users from distributing the pirated copies of the software.

 

SOME SNAPSHOTS:)

CO2 DRAGSTER :

We all love to race and imagine driving a car faster than any one can. I don’t know how many of us can do it right now but of course we can make our little dragster race like crazy :)






DRAGSTER: -
CO2 Dragsters are miniature cars used for racing and powered by carbon dioxide cartridge. They are used by students to analyze various mechanical and aerodynamics design and effect on moving body. In schools students are often seen competing with one another and improving their car designs.






Things to be considered while designing:-
1. Painting your car will reduce aerodynamic friction.
2. Lubrication of the axels can reduce friction. Use light but effective lubricants. Heavy and greasy lubes may not be a good stuff for lighter moving bodies.
3. The wheel plays a key role here so care must be taken to design the wheel with less ground contact.
4. Avoid unnecessary extensions and ornaments that add weight to your car.
5. The lighter you design your car, the more power will be used out of your CO2 cartridge.
6. Make sure that your drill holes are straight and accurate to reduce extra forces acting on your car.
7. Avoid flat upright surfaces in the front of your car to reduce turbulence.
8. Avoid flat upright surfaces in the back of your car to reduce rear suction.
9. Shield as much air at the bottom of your car to maintain traction.
10. Keep the surface area exposed to oncoming air to a minimum.
11. Place the cartridge parallel to the ground.
12. Axel design is important to reducing friction.

COMPLETELY OUTSOURCED !!!

Let's talk about why America is so-far so successful and well admired nation. Undoubtedly it has taught us how the open economy is, what is outsourcing and how to book profit with virtually no hard cash in your hand. This is a critic of the policies recently administered by the country who have outsourced almost everything proudly.

During cold war we have seen sharp discrimination between the policies of two arch rivals USSR and USA. America with moderately open policies and Russia with a close and so called self sufficient market. The rest is history. The aftermath was a sharp inclination of the US farms towards outsourcing jobs and work to achieve better maturity.

Why I have termed this "MATURITY"?

Big giants like HP and IBM scrapped many of their lovely products and started using more competitive products from their competitors and gradually they started calling them partners. This helped them creating an excellent synergy between the organizations minimizing the risk of competition and saving huge cost without compromising the quality. Even several automobile and manufacturing industries started to follow the same trend. They started to assemble rather than invent from the scratch. They have also found out a new way of improving product by simply re engineering or shuffling. An era of out sourcing started.

Last two decade was a maturity period for Banking, Financial systems and IT because we started to believe that the organizations have achieved a certain maturity worth following and they have optimized their operations.

So if we go back another thirty years we could see it started from a closed market and gradually it started showing more openness.

Recently Obama has coined many solutions which have raised the eye brows of many analysts.

One of them is the Tax reforms. The tax reforms (announced Tuesday) have only been proposed and there will be an extended debate on these before they can be implemented, as they require existing laws to be changed, according to software body Nasscom.

This would definitely help US to gain more cash is Govt .fund. The current law in the US states that 'any income that is earned outside the US is not taxed until such time it is brought back into the US.

But for the time being the companies and countries completely dependent on the outsourced work may have some kind of impact. Although there are different views as well.. 'The current proposal, as we understand, is to close corporate tax loopholes for US multinational corporations. We do not believe it has anything to do with IT outsourcing done by US corporations,' India's second-largest IT services provider, Infosys Technologies, said in a statement.

Whatever may be the case, behemoths like HP, Microsoft, Oracle, GM would be majorly impacted. Now we are talking about only American firms!

The answer is simple, they should ask those firms why have you outsourced 80-90 % of your work outside? It may sound great to create a closed supply chain in a country. You tend to keep everything within them. But the supply chain is not complete without the buyer and no doubt US goods have a huge market outside their country. The conservativeness may provoke the buyer countries to take hostile steps also.
Moreover we are talking about a model which we have scrapped 30-40 years back and now we are trying to place it back ???

Those policies may help US to revive their economy in the short term, but special care needs to be administered to see that those do not do any harm in the long run.