How to write a resignation letter

posted by   goofer (192)   18 months ago (www.rediff.com)

Many of us have written one or more resignation letters. Often you are struggling for the right words to put in. Here is a sample letter, which is Humble and To_The_Point.

Five great Malayalam movies Bollywood should make

posted by   goofer (192)   20 months ago (specials.rediff.com)

Have you counted the number of Malayalam movies that have been recently remade in Hindi?

Hera Pheri (Ramji Rao Speaking). Chup Chupke (Punjabi House). Hungama (Poochakkoru Mookkuthi). Hulchul (Godfather). Kyunki (Talavattam)... The list seems endless

Want to know your values? Follow the money.

posted by   prashant (257)   25 months ago (www.gettingfinancesdone.com)

Looking at your spending can be a great way to reflect on what you really want. After looking at where your money goes, do you think it reflects your real values? If not, maybe you can get some insight into what trade-offs you can make to align your spend.. more »

18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work

posted by   prashant (257)   25 months ago (www.davecheong.com)

Dave Cheong, has a good article on how to stay focused at work. I agree, sometimes it is difficult to stay focused in office environment - hallway chatters, and shoulder tapping distractions etc. Dave gives it all and provides 18 ways to stay focused... more »

AllPeers almost ready to launch!

posted by   sams (94)   25 months ago (www.techcrunch.com)

AllPeers get positive comments from Techcrunch.
"I’ve been testing the product with co-founder Matthew Gertner - this is going to be a very popular application. Very large (video) files transfered in my tests without difficulty, including after repeatedly shutting down the browser mid-transfer. Like other bittorent clients, the transfer picked ..... more »

India's 'monster eater' retires

posted by   mblaster (216)   25 months ago (news.bbc.co.uk)

Restaurant owners in the town of Trissur in the Indian state of Kerala can breathe a huge sigh of relief - the "monster eater" is retiring. That is because Rappai - the man with the giant appetite - has been warned by medics to curb his food intake... more »

Your Personal Weather Station

posted by   ruchir (1089)   25 months ago (www.sciam.com)

Davis Instruments, a company based in Hayward, Calif., had introduced a personal weather station that could wirelessly send continual updates on the conditions outside, even in the crowded canyons of Manhattan. Although similar devices have become quite common among weather hobbyists, the Vantage Pro2 is the first to combine powerful transmission ..... more »

India’s farmers switch faith to mobile phones

posted by   sams (94)   25 months ago (business.timesonline.co.uk)

Technology is coming to the aid of farmers whose livelihood depends on the quality of the heavy rains that fall periodically between June and September.
Under a pilot scheme to be launched this week by Reuters, the news and data provider, farmers will be able to receive accurate weather forecasts and local price information direct to their mobile ..... more »

The Art of Computer Programming, Volumn 4

posted by   mblaster (216)   25 months ago (www.cs.utsa.edu)

Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4: Combinatorial Algorithms is in preparation. The link has the pdf of the draft version... more »

Tim Bray On Ruby

posted by   mblaster (216)   25 months ago (www.tbray.org)

"For people like me, who are proficient in Perl and Java, Ruby is remarkably, perhaps irresistibly, attractive. Over the last week I’ve got an unreasonable amount of work done in a ridiculously short period of time, with lots of interruptions, in a language I previously didn’t know. It’s intuitive enough that I’ve often found myself ..... more »

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

posted by   prashant (257)   25 months ago (www.ranum.com)

Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security. What are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the braindamage that makes your $100,000 firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality." ..... more »

How to Bypass BIOS Passwords

posted by   ruchir (1089)   25 months ago (www.uktsupport.co.uk)

There are a few known backdoors and other tricks of the trade that can be used to bypass or reset the BIOS password on most systems. Also a list of common default-hidden BIOS passwords for major vendors... more »

Bookmarklets Every Blogger Should Have

posted by   ruchir (1089)   25 months ago (www.micropersuasion.com)

Here's a bunch of bookmarklets that I use every day in Firefox. I highly recommend them. To use these, drag each one individually into your Favorites or Links toolbar (in IE), or your bookmarks folder/toolbar in Firefox... more »

Wired News: Meet the Remote-Control Self

posted by   ruchir (1089)   25 months ago (www.wired.com)

Hiroshi Ishiguro is a busy man. Between his two jobs, countless meetings and presentations, his demanding schedule was eating up all his time. So he built an android version of himself to pick up the slack. A robot that looks and moves exactly like him. It sits on a chair and gazes around the room in a very humanlike fashion, just like its creator. ..... more »

NASA : Cassini finds land on Titan

posted by   ruchir (1089)   25 months ago (www.theregister.co.uk)

New radar images sent back from the Cassini spacecraft have revealed an Australia-sized land mass on Saturn's moon, Titan. The region is riddled with geological features very reminiscent of Earth. The surface has been shaped by weather - winds, rain and a flowing liquid, most likely liquid ethane or methane... more »

Why Internet on Mobile (Smart Phones) is a non-starter

posted by   ruchir (1089)   25 months ago (www.theregister.co.uk)

"In five years of using mobile data, it's failed the 'Real Life' test every time. I've never found a situation where mobile browsing could get the information I wanted faster than by asking someone - usually a stranger - nearby. So much for 'Smart Mobs'. Someone relying on mobile data through their phone is, for the forseeable future, going to be ..... more »

MalariaControl.net : Spare computing power used to tackle malaria

posted by   ruchir (1089)   25 months ago (www.nature.com)

MalariaControl.net, a new project involving several research institutions in Europe and Africa, and coordinated by the particle-physics lab CERN. The organizers are asking members of the public to download software on to their computers that runs while machines are idle. This type of distributed computing is already being used to search for ..... more »

Sci Fi Tech Blog

posted by   phani (188)   25 months ago (blog.scifi.com)

The best science fiction news blog.. more »

The web command line editor

posted by   phani (188)   25 months ago (www.yubnub.org)

This is revolutionary web application that is making waves around the globe.. more »

Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools - Lifehacker

posted by   sunil (135)   25 months ago (lifehacker.com)

Lifehacker picks the best free and cheap productivity tools. "We've reviewed thousands of time-saving applications and gadgets here at Lifehacker over the past year and a half, but a handful of really shine when it comes down to getting your stuff done, and most of them are simple, widely available, free or almost free.".. more »

Scientific American: Does Globalization Help or Hurt the World's Poor?

posted by   sams (94)   25 months ago (www.sciam.com)

Scientific American's take on globalization and poverty. Verdict: It is not so simple.
"Simplistic antiglobalization slogans or sermons on the unqualified benefits of free trade do not serve the cause of alleviating world poverty. An appreciation of the complexity of the issues and an active interweaving of domestic and international policies ..... more »

Chinese Military Model of Disputed Indo-China Border Hacked using Google Earth

posted by   prashant (257)   25 months ago (www.theregister.co.uk)

Google Earth Community member correctly identified the model as representing this disputed area on the Chinese/Indian border. It's clear that a huge amount of time and resources has been invested in this perplexing scale model, which incidentally represents an area of around 450 by 350 kilometers. The big question is: why? The only sensible ..... more »

Visualizing the Fourth Dimension Using Color

posted by   prashant (257)   26 months ago (www.rdrop.com)

Assigning color to every point on a surface is a way to envision higher dimensions. In particular, this page, full of very beautiful images, uses that device to show how to unknot a knot using 4 dimensions... more »

Sorry businesspeople, but you need techies to build technology - Membox.com

posted by   prashant (257)   26 months ago (www.membox.com)

The dot-com boom was largely about "genius" MBAs coming up with brilliant ideas for online companies, for example. They spent ages in meetings blowing hot air, drawing up financial charts, and coming up with marketing plans. The actual technical implementation was considered so unimportant. The reality was that the techie-implementation was where ..... more »

Team Invents Fast, Flexible Computer Chips On Plastic

posted by   prashant (257)   26 months ago (www.sciencedaily.com)

New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials.The techniques could allow flexible semiconductors to be embedded in fabric to create wearable electronics or computer monitors that roll up like a window shade... more »

Stanford University honours A R Rahman

posted by   ruchir (1089)   26 months ago (ia.rediff.com)

B S prakash writes at rediff, "Rahman being honoured or eulogised is frequent, I suppose. But this was at Stanford University, one of the most prestigious and affluent universities in the world, with only a small sprinkling of Indian-American students, not with a preponderance of them.".. more »

How To Bypass Internet Censorship, a tutorial on getting around filters and blocked ports

posted by   ruchir (1089)   26 months ago (www.zensur.freerk.com)

A tutorial on how to bypass Internet Censorship using Proxies, Shells, JAP e.t.c. Different ways to beat the filtering in schools, countries or companies (blocked ports e.t.c)... more »

Scalablity of Computer Programming Languages

posted by   ruchir (1089)   26 months ago (www.cs.caltech.edu)

Mike Vanier writes, "I want to show that the notion of scalability is every bit as valid when applied to programming languages as it is when applied to programs or algorithms. I'll also discuss several well-known and not so well-known programming languages from this perspective and give some concrete recommendations, as well as discuss some of the ..... more »

Science Facts that People Get Wrong

posted by   prashant (257)   26 months ago (www.mcrosolv.demon.co.uk)

Some of the common science facts, which people often get wrong. Eg There are five body senses, There are four tastes, There are seven colours in the rainbow etc. Check out the correct answers... more »

The Myth of Treating All Customers Equally

posted by   dinesh (30)   26 months ago (www.businessknowhow.com)

It goes without saying that you should treat all your customers fairly, but that doesn't mean you should treat them all equally. Going out of your way and bending the rules for your best customers is just good business sense... more »