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3D printing kindles up a new industrial age

2014-06-16T13:02:00.002+05:30

3D printing kindles up a new industrial age (via InformationWeek India)

In today’s intense competition and rapidly changing customer preferences, it has become difficult for businesses to sustain for a longer period. Industries are always looking for new ideas in order to innovate continuously, to keep the customers engaged…

Social networks: Balancing identity and privacy

2014-06-10T18:00:00.003+05:30

Social networks: Balancing identity and privacy (via InformationWeek India)

With the rapid growth and remarkable adoption rate of social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, we are now more concerned with the growing risks associated with social networks that implicitly give rise to exposure of…

Security as a Service: Evolutionary or revolutionary?

2014-03-06T12:25:00.001+05:30

Security as a Service: Evolutionary or revolutionary? (via InformationWeek India)

Cloud computing represents one of the most substantial shifts in the IT industry. This is reaching to the point where computing functions as a utility, encouraging innovations still unimagined. Yet the major roadblock to the adoption of cloud has been…

2014-02-20T13:43:00.001+05:30

How your data center is managed - "Designed" or "Grown"? (via InformationWeek India)

Imagine If I'm a new CIO and you are an IT manager. I ask you, “So, have you ever managed a data center or done infrastructure design work?” You would say ‘Yes – for past many years I am working in a role of an IT manager and involved in building…

Which version of Office 2010 should I use 32 bit or 64 bit?

2010-09-24T20:32:00.002+05:30

Office 2010 is first version which is shipping in both 32 bit and 64 versions and most of

users and organizations are wondering which one to use?

About half of deployments of Windows 7 are on 64 bit to unleash the processing power and RAM (usually more than 4 GB) and seems obvious that you also install 64 bit version of Office 2010 to get more power. But that doesn't work always as a best approach.

If you are using any ActiveX controls ,COM Addins or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that are 32 bit they will not support 64 bit version.

With 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010 a new version of Microsoft VBA is released

known as VBA 7.0 to work with both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

To get techy details check this article at MSDN - Compatibility Between the 32-bit and 64-bit Versions of Office 2010

Another reason is support of social connectors on 32 bit version – Microsoft introduced Outlook Social connectors for various networks – by using them you can connect to your favorite social networks – and track your contacts activities in People pane.

Currently connectors for 4 social network providers for Outlook
– Facebook , LinkedIn, MySpace and Windows Live Messenger and list will be growing.

But the problem is only two connectors are available of 64 bit versions and the reason might be that the partners are first building social connector for 32 bit version (to tap the market of older versions – Office 2007 and 2003)

Advantages of using Outlook 2010 64 bit version – Because of 64 bit this enables you to work on larger set of data, this is especially true when working with very large Excel spreadsheets (Over 2 GB in size) and Microsoft has introduced PowerPivot for Excel to do powerful analysis on your desktop.

So if there is not a specific need to install 64 bit version of Office 2010, you should stick to 32 bit version even on 64 bit operating system to ensure compatibility by default and to get more social network providers for Outlook.

Funny thing with Internet Explorer 9 beta

2010-09-20T14:57:00.000+05:30

I was trying to open this site in IE9 beta and I got this cute message :-)

Trying to convince me that I should upgrade to IE8?

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Released today

2010-09-15T23:11:00.002+05:30

Microsoft released beta version of long awaited Internet Explorer 9 today. Check the picture above.

You can download latest version from here :bit.ly/cDOpQS

With this release browser war is again started!

I also ran a test drive of this page - http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/FishIE%20tank/Default.html
in various browsers and got following results:

Internet Explorer 9 - 51 FPS

Google Chrome 6 - 10 FPS

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 - 11 FPS

Inscriptions

2010-09-04T00:04:00.002+05:30

Many years earlier I read this book and still reading it:
http://www.flipkart.com/mera-daghistan-rasul-hamzatov-part-book-935000352x
http://www.flipkart.com/mera-daghistan-rasul-hamzatov-part-book-9350003538

Still every-time I read it I found like a breath of fresh air.

Just stumbled on this site of Rasul Gamzatov (Why name is changed in English?) and found many new आलेख (Inscriptions)
http://www.gamzatov.ru/nadpiseng.html

Maybe I will put some translated one for Hindi lovers.

ON DOORS AND GATES

*
Unknown friend,
Come and stay—
Though it’s out
Of your way!

*
Come, hillfolk, please knock!
Rest here with assurance!
We’re well. If we’re not,
Your coming shall cure us!

*
Don’t knock, don’t rouse the household,
You who pass this way!
If good you bring us, enter!
If mischief, go away!

*
Here you’ll find a place to rest.
Your troubles here you’ll mend.
Enter as a welcome guest,
Depart a lasting friend!

*
Note, outsider, I’m a rider
And one rule enforce:
If you enter here, remember—
You must praise my horse!

ON TOMBSTONES

*
He was no sage,
No superman.
But bow to him:
He was a man.

*
Life he enjoyed but for the briefest span;
Address and occupation are unknown.
All that we know is that he was a man
Who, being born, did cry and, dying, moan.

*
This horseman drew his sword
To conquer ill,
Which does still walk abroad
While he lies still.

*
Hey, coward! By this hero’s grave
Forbear to raise a cheer.
Although bereft of life, he left
His gun and dagger here.

*
The hillman lying here below this mound
Amassed no gold, no sheep, nor anything;
Wherever people meet, his songs resound,
Wherever people meet, of him they sing.

*
She had to choose, young lady of the house,
Between a gravestone and a grave old spouse.

*
Don’t curse your fortune, passer-by!
You are more fortunate than I.

*
A thousand roads you build, but one thing’s clear:
Whichever road you take, you end up here!

*
Here lies a rider brave—
His bravery lives on.
And here’s a coward’s grave—
And cowardice lives on.

*
A bard of earth, I died
And now lie here.
Who’s lying at my side?
I’ve no idea!

ON DAGGERS

*
My friend, if ever you bequeath
A dagger, don’t forget the sheath!

*
However hot the sun on high,
Blood on this blade shall never dry.

*
Of men who bear a knife ‘tis said:
More than their hand they need their head.

*
A fool draws
In a trice.
A wiser man
Thinks twice.

*
Your knife has neither ear nor eye
And, if it misses, you must cry!

*
When I have killed, I will
Bewail my victim’s fate.
When I’m about to kill,
I only hate.

*
Swear thou wilt
By my hilt!
Keep thy pledge
By my edge!

*
Wherever human blood be shed in feud,
It whets a knife and bloodshed is renewed.

*
Pause and ponder, please,
Ere my hilt you seize!

*
Despite its rust,
A spirit brave
Shall with this blade
Both cut and thrust.

*
Taunt me not with truth or rumour—
Daggers have no sense of humour!

*
Trim your whiskers with a razor,
Fell your timber with an axe,
Do not be a trouble-raiser—
Sheathe your dagger, and relax!

*
Spring-feverish and wild,
Or keen and cold as ice,
A knife begets no child
But orphans in a trice.

ON WINE HORNS

*
Praise water, that may gratify
A shepherd’s thirsty flocks!
But it was not for water I
Was wrested from the ox.

*
Men drank and died, still drink—and die
But shall Death pass non-drinkers by?

*
Though you withdraw and lock the door
To drink your wine alone,
Ere dusk shall fall, to one and all
Your secret shall be known.

*
All that is said when good wine flows,
Better than God, the wine horn knows.

*
Drink your fill of fragrant foam
But don’t forget the way back home!

*
A ban on drink won’t stop a drinking man,
Nor does it stop the authors of the ban.

*
A wise man drank, a fool he grew.
The opposite has happened, too.

*
You pour the wine and drink it like a king,
But soon discover you’re its underling!

*
Come drink, procrastinator,
We’ll find a reason later!

*
Rain swells the stalk,
And wine—our talk.

*
Full of wine? Then swill it!
Empty? Swiftly fill it!

*
Here’s to the drinkers of wine,
Who pour it, adore it,
Explore all the lore of the vine—
Or blithely ignore it!

*
Wine suits all men! It’s such
A pleasure to consume!
But you must know how much,
Why, when, where, and… with whom!

ON HEARTH STONES

*
However far abroad you roam,
You bear with you the warmth of hearth and home.

*
Woe befalls a friend
Whose heart is still.
Woe befalls a hearth
Whose ash is chill.

*
Don’t pity me, if here
You find no flame,
But those who many a year
For comfort came,

*
Warm hands and knees
Your heart to ease.

*
Never in vain
Are fireside stories told
About invaders slain
By heroes bold.

*
Tales from the past
Shall come to you
As you sit here
And think of stories new.

*
You’ll never feel a warmer glow
Than from the hearth which saw you grow!

ON WALKING STICKS

*
When your horse you cannot ride.
I’ll go jumping at your side.

*
Though with inlay bright I’m clad,
Those who walk with me are sad.

*
Honour is due and reverence
To you whose weight I shoulder,
For you are well advanced in years
Or else a wounded soldier.

ON SADDLES

*
Sit on your horse, until your fingers fumble.
Or from a blow or mortal wound you tumble.

*
Seek a brave man on his horse
Or asleep beneath the gorse.

*
Before the girth you loosen, rider, pause:
I shall not fit a horse that is not yours.

*
Here shall you grow, become a man:
Your cushion and your bed I am!

ON CRADLES

*
No sage weeps here. No fool here laughs from folly.
No coward and no hero—just my lodger.

*
May happy dreams appear to you,
And just as happily come true.

*
The child won’t let you sleep
For tears and merry laughter?
You, too, did howl and cheep—
It’s you the child takes after.

ON ROCKS

*
Weep, stricken hero, weep
And have no fear!
A rock, too, has been seen
To shed a tear.

*
An eagle, or a horseman who’s in love,
Will never ask how high the rock above.

*
Courage reached the summit,
Despair leapt from it.

Lost in Translation

2010-09-03T23:51:00.000+05:30

Just checked my daughter's blog - http://bhuvijain.blogspot.com and tried to translate in English. I got these interesting results:

My God you're happy and our whole family happy Dijiye Go. And we Dijiye fix. Dijiye our mother and father are happy. We wish to bring a gift for you, that we hand you are adding.

ECM Maturity Model Grows to v2, Adds More Community Feedback

2010-07-07T16:59:00.001+05:30

ECM Maturity Model Grows to v2, Adds More Community Feedback

Unscramble

2006-07-01T14:52:00.000+05:30

This is one of the unique page where one can unscramble a word, a crossword finder, to find words that rhymes and to find words with letters from beginning, end or middle.

Word Unscramble

cogito ergo sum

2006-05-03T17:59:00.000+05:30

Well I can think so I can write. This is my debut entry.