Saturday, April 2, 2011

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CrazyEngineers Forum


Congratulations India!

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 11:16 AM PDT

Well done to India on becoming cricket world champions. It was well deserved and shows what can be accomplished when one is committed to a goal and when one gives everything to attain that goal. Those guys worked hard and they have given India the biggest prize in cricket. Respect to the players and congratulations to them and the fans of the great game.

I am Ramani, an ordinary multi-discipline engineer that just enjoys Engineering

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 10:45 AM PDT

A warm hand shake to all the Crazy Engineers here from Ramani Aswath. I do hope that we will have a great time getting crazier by the day.


Name: Ramani Aswath (Pushing 72 years. Born: 1939)

*Engineering Trade: Multi-disciplinary Engineering R&D

Location: Bangalore, India

*Occupation: I am a full time R&D Engineering Scientist

Work Experience: Working full time in teaching, R&D, and Technology Development in diverse fields of engineering since 1960.

Chemical engineering, food technology, Electro chemical engineering, advanced materials, non-traditional machining and forming technologies, solar heat collection, bio medical device development, consumer goods development are some areas where I work.
Most of my time now is spent in developing artificial internal organs.

*Hobbies & Interests: Wide ranging. Reading, writing, classical music (Indian and Western), bonsai, sylviculture, astronomy, gardening, and environment are some areas of active interest. I have completely stopped watching TV years back.

*Aim in life: To find the answer to: "Who am I?"

*I joined CrazyEngineers because: Obvious, isn't it? I joined because I am a crazy engineer. I have been crazy about engineering since my school days way back in 1951. I am still crazy about it in 2011.

Bioramani

Will My Academic marks creates Problem

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 09:46 AM PDT

10th = 69%
12 = 60%
Btech CSE = 71%

I am planning for cat this year. I saw the Academic marks of people who called by IIM and other top B-Schools. I am scared about my marks. :cry:

Google-Nightmare to our privacy?

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 04:47 AM PDT

The Google Master Plan:

Just check out this video and post your comments below.

Start Faster-Firefox 4 add-on

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 04:27 AM PDT

I think today I'm working a lot to customize my favorite browser Firefox's newer version 4 and thus adding many new add-on.:cool:

One very useful add-on I found is Start Faster. As the name states, this add-on helps the browser to load much much faster than earlier. :)

Explaination as provided:
A large proportion of the startup time is spent on loading the Firefox library(.dll, etc) files. Earlier when firefox people tried to speed up the browser start up by loading the Firefox binaries more efficiently on Windows, further testing revealed that to not be true in all cases and that the Windows Prefetch service was still killing the startup speed..
There is a DIY way to opt out of prefetch by gaining Administrator privileges and deleting files out of the prefetch directory. The plan is to provide a Windows service to handle Firefox updates. Additionally the service would be able to do useful things like delete prefetch files, defragment Firefox databases(or at least help report on fragmentation levels). This is all tricky stuff.

After installing the extension, "Faster Firefox" shortcut on the Desktop should result in up to 2x speed up in Firefox startup. This addon does not yet work on XP.

Download "Start Faster" from here.

Source: Mozilla Blog

Future of Screen Technology-A Geeky video.

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:56 AM PDT

:p

Firefox 4 anti aliasing tuner addon

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:13 AM PDT

Mozilla Firefox has released its newer version Firefox 4. In this newer version, many new features and addons have been added. One such addon is Firefox anti aliasing tuner addon. Using this addon, the browser becomes capable of using the computer hardware's capability of offer better text rendering features. We can even customize various parameters for optimal and better results.
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Available Customization Options :
* Enhanced Contrast
The darkness of text. Valid value range is from 0% to 100%. Zero means no contrast enhancement. Default is 50% typically, but depends on your environment.
* ClearType Level
The degree to which the red, green, and blue subpixels of each pixel are treated differently. Valid value range is from 0% (meaning no ClearType, which is equivalent to greyscale) to 100% (meaning full ClearType). Default is 50% typically, but depends on your environment.
* Anti-aliasing Mode
Don't Care: use firefox native mode
Default: automatically, according to Rendering Mode
ClearType: sub-pixel anti-aliasing
Greyscale: black-and-white anti-aliasing
Aliased: no anti-aliasing
* Rendering Mode
Default: automatically, based on the font and size
Aliased: no anti-aliasing
GDI Classic: glyphs can only be positioned on whole-pixel boundaries
GDI Natural: same as GDI Classic, but metrics are closer to ideal
Natural: anti-aliasing in the horizontal dimension only
Natural Symmetric: anti-aliasing in both horizontal and vertical dimensions
Outline: bypass the rasterizer and use the outlines directly
* Threshold
You can apply different settings to different size fonts.
The addon requires a installation of Windows 7 or Vista with Direct2D/DirectWrite enabled Firefox 4.0b10 or later version to work.:)
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Better Ads in Gmail - Fewer irrelevant ads Coming Soon

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:56 AM PDT

  • Fewer irrelevant ads
  • Gmail's importance ranking applied to ads
  • Offers and coupons for your local area

Facebook removing underage users

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:47 AM PDT

Facebook is booting around 20,000 underage users per day.
According to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly half of all 12-year-olds in the U.S. are using social network sites, despite not meeting the minimum age requirements for sites like Facebook. And such popularity only balloons once the teens grow older: roughly 64% of 13-year-olds are social networking; between the ages of 14 to 17, that figure jumps to 82%, says Pew. Read more...

India Vs. Sri Lanka Cricket Match Mumbai: April 2: Who Will Win?

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:42 AM PDT

The game has begun.

Surface finishing process-Lapping

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 12:44 AM PDT

Lapping is a surface finishing process used to give a surface finish to articles. It is essentially an abrading process. Very less material can be removed from this process only around 0.005 to 0.01 mm is removed. This is a low efficiency process and is used only when a required amount of surface finish is required.

In this process, the laps i.e.; lapping shoes are charged with abrading powders like emery, iron oxide, chromium oxide. Laps are made from any material like soft cast Iron soft steel, brass etc. These laps are made to rub against the surface so that the irregular surface erodes. For better surface finish, the laps can be given reciprocating motion etc. In short two types of motions can be combined


The lapping machine is available in three types.
1.Vertical axis lapping machine
2. Center less lapping machine
3.Abrasive belt lapping machine.

Stribeck Curve for lubricant comparison

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 12:28 AM PDT

I need to plot a Stribeck curve for a lubricant over all regimes of lubrication. I have access to a pin/ball on disk machine. However, in most literature pin on disk is performed only for Stribeck curve plotting of boundary/mixed lubrication regimes. Is there a particular reason for not being considered for EHD and HD regimes? The possible sliding speeds are in the range of 0.75m/s to 7.5m/s. The range of load is 5-200N(6 mm pin diameter).

i really need help..

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:44 PM PDT

im a student in electrical course.
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i cant understand the circuit given to me.. the function of the transistor, the NAND gate and why they placing the capacitor and resistor like that... im in an exam this monday.. and i cant understand it.. can someone help me?

khaparkheda power plant

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:41 PM PDT

On 31st march at 8:29 pm the 500 MW plant at khaparkheda was synchronised and produced 82 MW. this is a boon to the people as it will meet the peak demand during the month of may. it will be the 3rd largest of its kind when it produces to the fullest after chandrapur and dabhol which have an installed capacity of 1340 MW. Great work mahagenco!! :happy:

Google's new feature!!

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 06:03 PM PDT

Hi Ceans,

I recently came accross a new feature in gmail and its really amazing and thought of sharing it with you guys!!

Google has been recently bringing up new features and they are really brilliant!! this time they have come up with a new feature in gmail called gmail motion. just Goto GMAIL and you will see the working and new feature as shown in the screen shot bellow:

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And the best part is they have explained how it works!! just hit on learn more and you will also get the option to install the new feature just hit install and you can use the feature!!

Hope you enjoy the new feature from google as I did ;)

-Arvind
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