Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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Keeping KYCEAN in your signature

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:55 AM PST

Hello CEans, I have a suggestion to those guys who has featured on KYCEan to put their page in their signature so that even also the thread became old and not in latest posts, a new member who wants to know about particular CEan can directly go to his KYCEan page

what u say guys!! :cean::happy:

All about artificial intelligence

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:14 AM PST

Let us discuss about artificial intelligence here

Please share anything you know about this topic .It may include definition even

Persistent Acquires Info Spectrum

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 09:00 AM PST

Persistent Systems Ltd. a leading outsourced product development company based out of Pune India has acquired Nagpur based Info-Spectrum India Private Limited (IIPL) – a leading product engineering & services company. Check out our exclusive Small Talks with the CEOs of both these companies: Small Talk with Dr. Anand Deshpande – Persistent With Persistent & [...]

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Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results?

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 08:59 AM PST

A very very interesting topic, thought of sharing the same with you all....

Official Google Blog: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it

Whats your take on this?

-CB

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Power Amplifier

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 07:41 AM PST

we are designing power amplifier of frequency 1-30MHz , 1000 watts output ! its actually for weather space monitoring so for its simulation which software we should use either ADS (advance designing system) or Multisim ? and why?

Indian Monks Would Soon Buy The Ferrari

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 07:20 AM PST

India is a very fast growing car market. In Asia, India has a very large number of millionaires. It’s obvious that Indian upper class has got a lot of cash at hand to spend on luxurious super cars. For some time now, Ferrari has been present in out neighboring country China. This summer Ferrari has [...]

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TCS Campus Recruitment: Is it so easy to get a job?

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 07:10 AM PST

The Campus Interview session in nearby colleges in near to an end. TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) recruited hundreds of final year engineering students this year.

I was talking to some final year students who recently received an offer letter from their respective companies and I was a bit amazed listening them talk.

Most of the students who got placed were not asked any technical question in the interview.
Some ended up returning from the interview within 10 minutes and had no hopes of getting placed, but still landed up with a job in hands.

The most shocking part of the discussion was, people who did not know the meaning of "#include" secured a job! :o

What is your opinion about this?

Why do we become entrepreneurs? - Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan TED Talk [Must Read]

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 06:51 AM PST

I was recently invited by TED as speaker. I met the most amazing people who are doing game-changing stuff. I spoke on Why do we become Entrepreneurs and this was the text of my speech. Of course I used some very interesting visuals that were developed by my team to go with it.. The videos will be streamed shortly.

Why do we become entrepreneurs? This question fascinates me. Why do we let ourselves be drawn by this Circe, this enchantress, who tempts us, beguiles us, captivates us ? Whether we actually end up seducing her or not depends on our wherewithal, but attracted we certainly are.

Over these past five years I’ve mentored more than 500 entrepreneurs. And I’ve heard all kinds of excuses as to why they became entrepreneurs. Please note, like Lawrence of Arabia, I’m making a distinction here between excuse and reason. Excuses have been many, some commonplace ones like : I like being my own boss or I like making loads of money. Some uncommon ones such as : I want to define my identity or I want to create meaning in society. Some bizarre ones like that’s the only way I can avoid getting married or I can ask for dowry without feeling guilty. Some passionate ones like : not being an entrepreneur is not an option at all. Some touching ones like this 67 year old woman who came to me four years ago, and said I’m barely literate, I’m the wife of a very big industrialist and I want to be an entrepreneur because before I die, I want to see respect for me in the eyes of my husband and two sons.

All excuses that converge into one and one reason only, that we want to leave a footprint behind and in leaving a footprint behind, we are seeking immortality.

In the past we sought immortality through our sons. The Sanskrit word putra, which means son, comes from the word puth, which means hell, so putra means one who saves you from hell. In other words, one who makes you immortal. In the annual death ceremony, the son makes offerings not just to his father but to eight generations of his forefathers. This certainly was a clever way to be immortal.


Times and climes have changed. Now we seek immortality by becoming entrepreneurs. Again, look at this beautiful Sanskrit word, Antarprerna. it means inspiration from within. That’s who we are, entrepreneurs, inspired from within, magical thinkers, like Prometheus who stole fire from the fire gods. And look at this sheer coincidence, both words look similar but their pronunciation is similar too, entrepreneur/antarprerna!
If entrepreneurs are inspired from within, does it mean they are born and cannot be made? I refuse to believe anything as profoundly impacting as this can be left to the caprice of a DNA. Can leaders be made or are they all born? I think both. Some are born others are made. So too with entrepreneurs. How do you make them? By giving them knowledge, by up-skilling them and in doing both you are vesting in them the confidence to develop the right attitude. It’s like swimming right, you’re afraid of water till you learn about the pool, till you learn how to move your arms and legs, how to kick, how to hold your breath, how to stay afloat. Once you’ve learnt all of this, fear goes away and a water baby is born.

Why do we become entrepreneurs when we know that the lows are so abysmally low? Even at the risk of sounding facetious, I’d say it is because the highs are so intoxicatingly high that anything else is less and unacceptable. I mentor women in Afghanistan and Ethiopia in building micro enterprises and to say that life has been unkind to them is an understatement. In becoming entrepreneurs, they have now discovered the language of empowerment and the way they see it, nothing will make them give it up. The women in Afghanistan became entrepreneurs when their husbands went to war over a decade ago. They haven’t seen them since. So one day I asked them : what happens if your husbands come back now and the answer was: Oh, we will shoot them! Not because they don’t want their men back but because they don’t want their old life back.

The first time I went to Afghanistan, it was for audit purposes, my client had disbursed micro finance and although the payments had started coming in, he was worried that the money hadn’t gone where it was meant to. After a couple of visits, it dawned on me that if I did not mentor these women, they may return the loan, but one or the other would happen. They would either lapse below the poverty line or remain livelihood entrepreneurs forever. I’m proud to say many of these women today have transformed their businesses from livelihood to opportunity based enterprises.

Why then aren’t more and more of us in India becoming entrepreneurs? I’ve figured it is because we don’t know how. It’s a strange paradox, the education system in India is such that it decimates creativity and independent thinking. To survive, you have to conform, and conforming means doing mindless, endless streams of activity by rote. And then suddenly when you’re done with your engineering or MBA and decide to become an entrepreneur, everyone tells you : Aaah, you have to be creative! So many challenges now, you have to be creative when they have killed your creativity, you have never worked in an organization but you’re expected to build one, you’ve just come out of school and you’ve not only no money but a hefty student loan, and you’re supposed to bootstrap your company, and you simply have no clue how to go about it. All you have is an idea in your head, passion in your heart and song on your lips, so what do you do?You find yourself a mentor.

Who’s a mentor? To me it’s someone who can bridge the inexperience gap, who can open doors, who can hand-hold you, with responsibility, with accountability. There are times when my mentees call just to hear my voice. There are times when they call just so I can hear their voice. Nothing earth-shattering but just the comfort of knowing that there is someone whom you can go to, whose experience you can benefit from, whose insights you can make use of, someone who is on the same side as you, shares your vision, your passion, someone who will not say : your company, someone who will say, our company. And most important, someone who’s so well-connected that you get access to pretty much everything and everyone.
That’s why we founded our company CARMa, which is an acronym for Creating Access to Resources and Markets, so we can connect entrepreneurs to their natural habitat, thereby change their karma. I’ve figured when there are more mentors in India, the head count of entrepreneurs will automatically go up.

Why did I become an entrepreneur? Let me tell you a story. There was this village school in Orissa that had introduced English language for the first ever time in class 5. The teacher was taking no chances so she had prepped her students for the final examination.. The question was: write an essay on the cow. So the teacher wrote the essay for them and asked them to learn it by heart. By some quirk, on d-day the question was : write an essay on the tree! Everyone was seen struggling with it. One creative kid decided to beat the system. He drew a cow and a tree, tied the cow to the tree and wrote : this is a cow. It is tied to the tree and my essay will be on the cow that was tied to the tree!

That’s me, my whole theory of entanglement is that everything in my life is to do with entrepreneurship. I spent twenty years in the corporate sector, pretty much on all inhabited continents and came back home five years ago. That’s when one of the biz schools invited me to teach and I thought, a little cockily if I might add, given the diversity of my experience, I should be able to teach pretty much anything. That’s when someone asked : why don’t you teach entrepreneurship, we never get anyone to teach that! And I said : why not. Even as I said it, believe you me, it was just another word in the dictionary. Little did I suspect that one day it would consume my whole being.

Why do we become entrepreneurs? So we can embark on this incredible journey of learning and discovering, not just of the world around us but of ourselves, of who we are, of strengths we’d never acknowledged, of weaknesses we never knew we had.

Why do we become entrepreneurs? So that when the white coats come to take us away, we can look them in the eye and say, hey! we’re the good guys, may our tribe increase!

Tough Times Ahead For Asimo

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 06:30 AM PST

The world watched with eyes wide open when the Japanese Giant Honda presented their first humanoid robot "Asimo".* This little child sized, astronaut like robot which can run at a speed of 6km/h and is able to climb stairs became very famous all over the world in no time. Asimo was created by Honda's R&D [...]

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Know Your CEan-Deepika Bansal

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 06:29 AM PST

Hello CEans,

Continuing our journey to Know your CEan..This time we have a CE-Ace which is going to complete an year very soon here,she is one of the active CEan, none other than CEan-Deepika Bansal

Read the following interview to know more about her.

Hi Deepika, you are a Crazy Computer Science engineer, tell us more about yourself.
Deepika: Hello CEans over the world. This is Deepika Bansal, final year student of Computer Sci Engg. Fortunately after few months I'll be proudly using Er. before my name. I'm a resident of a town named Ferozepur, a place very close to Indo-Pak border in Punjab (India). I belong to a business oriented family so entrepreneurship is in my blood. I am the elder most and the only daughter child of my parents. So I've received lots and lots of love from my family.

I'm a very girly girl who is very simple at heart. Yes I am very talkative that is why you might found my answers very lengthy. I am very thoughtful also and want to improve till the last breath of my life. I'm a natural optimistic. I love to make friends and interact with new people. I am very empathetic.
Oh I love talking about myself. But I guess I should stop now.


How did you get introduced to CrazyEngineers (CE)?
Deepika: The credit goes to my friend and CE guru Manish Goyal aka goyal420. He introduced me to this place. During last 6 months ie during my training session, I was pretty free and got enormous time to explore and understand CE. Since then I feel myself an indispensable part of it. Thank you Goyal.

Why did you take up this particular engineering trade? What do you like the most about it?
Deepika: Oh I love Computer (my only love till date..!!). I love every thing, every area of it may it be programming section, databases, networking (although I'm very weak at it), artificial intelligence, etc etc… Though I'm fond of other things also like art, psychology but only an engineering college was accessible to me so I opted to a B.Tech graduate.

What is your favorite pass time?
Deepika:Definitely something on computers (may it be net surfing for any reason, building programs, exploring this black beauty called my desktop system etc etc). Other than this analyzing myself, sketching (I'm really good at portrait making, drawing landscapes and pencil shading), listening soft and folk music, studying Hindu mythology, understanding human mind and thinking (graphology is one part of it) and the list goes on. This means I'm seldom free.



Who are your idols or inspirations?
Deepika: I'm a girl full of positivity. So everyone on the earth (or in my imagination) is the source of my inspiration. I learn something or the other from everyone I meet while living this beautiful life. I'm like a sponge who can absorb good qualities of others. But to mention, my father from whom I learn to be practical and be a leader ( be a boss of self), my mother who taught me to love everyone, my grandparents who taught me to have a soft corner for everyone and my two younger brothers.



What is the biggest achievement in your life so far?
Deepika: I've achieved lots of things in my life. I consider every small success in my life as an achievement because this encourages me to work even more. You see I'm very greedy and my greed for success will never end. I've topped almost every year and had won the hearts of almost everyone I've met. I've made my family feel proud of me and probably this will continue forever.


The CE Quickies aka Rapid Fire:

1. Who are the best CEans according to you?
Deepika: Every CEan is the best. Proof is that they are CE members, what else is required. But Big-K is worth mentioning. He's adorable. He's the best admin we people at CE can have ever.


2. If you are granted 3 wishes, what would you ask for?
Deepika: Wish.. Hmm..

a) May every person on the Mother Earth has love and respect for every other person in this world without any mean. The world would then automatically turn into heaven and then even God would be jealous of us. This is the only thing I'll ask God if I ever meet him.

I don't know. I don't wish much, I believe in setting goals.


3. If you were not an engineer, you would be?
Deepika: May be someone who plays with numbers probably a Chartered Accountant. Till my 10th standard, I loved maths and now has started avoiding it from the day I had started studying the engineering maths.


4. Your biggest blooper till date is?
Deepika: Nothing like that. (Lucky no..!!)


5. A moment you can never forget.
Deepika: Every moment when I've been appraised (by someone or by myself) and every moment when I've made my family feel proud of me is special for me. A pat on my back means a lot to me.

6. 5 years from now, you will …
Deepika: An entrepreneur owning my own company with nationwide recognition and aiming for worldwide respect. Living a balanced professional and personal life.


If you were a politician, what will your 5 year plan look like?
Deepika: I don't have any political view. Its vague for me.


What do you want to say about CE?
Deepika: A mini world. Whenever I'm online on CE, I feel like an engineer (otherwise my college has
never made me feel like this). It made me to visualize things from a different angle and explore new things. Got very good friends over here. I feel emotionally attached with it. CE means a lot to me.

Thank you Admin for this wonderful place.

Getting Closer To Flying

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 04:40 AM PST

Who says only kids follow super heroes, actually we the grown ups put all efforts to bring the fictions put up by these super heroes to reality. I am talking about the movies like Iron Man, Batman Superman etc. These movies not only amuse us but have also made many to work over the unreal [...]

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AMD launched ALU in India

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 04:24 AM PST

AMD launched APU (Accelerated processing unit) range of fusion microprocessor in India. Here AMD combines central processing and graphical processing capabilities in a single chip and bring a supercomputer like performance in notebooks, netbooks.

AMD introduce new E series "Zacate' ans C series 'Ontario'. The new APUs offers DirectX 11Graphics,UVD3 video Graphics, 1080p HD playback, 2D conversion to 3D and up to 10 hrs battery life depending on system.

Communication Walkie Talkie

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 04:23 AM PST

Dear Engineers:

Actually I am working in a huge factory (70 000 m2) I want to make employees (at least 6) to communicate easily using small communication devices...
What systems (choices) I have?
I was surfing the net and I found a Motorola P185 2 ways radio device...but does this need a station for 6 devices ....every1 would listen to what's any1 is transmitting...
Do I have any other choices?like wireless POP...

file management

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:40 AM PST

please tell me the meaning of supporting primitives for manipulating files and directories with respect to the operation of operating system in file management .......

Water water every where.........

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:22 AM PST

How many glasses are needed so that all water in world can be contained in them?

You have 30 sec to answer........
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