The department of telecom (DoT) is learnt to have issued an ultimatum to Canada’s RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, that it will have to provide monitoring solutions either in the form of encryption keys, or by shifting servers to India, if it wants to continue operations.
In simple terms "Open code or shut shop".
more details here..
Friday, May 30, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Lot More to Do with Webcam with Free Tools
Webcam along with a computer can be used for lot more things apart from video/web chatting.
You will be surprised at the amazing things which can be achieved using a webcam and some free utilities.
A few are mentioned Below :
1. Keep In Touch with Friends and Family
2. Turn Your Webcam into a Motion-Sensing Security Camera
3. Login to Windows with Your Face
4. Snap Pictures of Would-Be Thieves
5. Create Time-Lapse Videos
6. Turn Your PC Into a Photo Booth
7. Chronicle Your Face
8. Document the Weather
9. Set Up a Birdfeeder Webcam
10. Repurpose Your Cell Phone as a Webcam
Details of how to work it out are here.....
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
I liked the below quote from Steve Yegge's blog ..................
When I read this book for the first time, in October 2003, I felt this horrid cold feeling, the way you might feel if you just realized you've been coming to work for 5 years with your pants down around your ankles. I asked around casually the next day: "Yeah, uh, you've read that, um, Refactoring book, of course, right? Ha, ha, I only ask because I read it a very long time ago, not just now, of course." Only 1 person of 20 I surveyed had read it. Thank goodness all of us had our pants down, not just me.
So, I started reading it ... Don't want to keep my pants down around ankles anymore.
When I read this book for the first time, in October 2003, I felt this horrid cold feeling, the way you might feel if you just realized you've been coming to work for 5 years with your pants down around your ankles. I asked around casually the next day: "Yeah, uh, you've read that, um, Refactoring book, of course, right? Ha, ha, I only ask because I read it a very long time ago, not just now, of course." Only 1 person of 20 I surveyed had read it. Thank goodness all of us had our pants down, not just me.
So, I started reading it ... Don't want to keep my pants down around ankles anymore.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Data from Hubble cheaper than (SMS)texting
A British space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Calculations made by the University of Leicester's expert Nigel Bannister, who worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble and compared that with the five pence cost of sending a text, were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches programme 'The Mobile Phone Rip-Off'.
The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only seven bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5 pence."
"There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's one million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5 pence each, that's £374.49 per MB or about 4.4 times more expensive than the 'most pessimistic' estimate for Hubble Space Telescope (HST) transmission costs."
He said it had been difficult to work out exactly how much Hubble data transmission costs. So, he contacted Nasa who gave him a firm figure of £8.85 per megabyte (MB) for the transmission of data from HST to the Earth.
"This doesn't include the cost of the ground stations and the time of the personnel along the way, but it is an unambiguous number for that part of the process."
Calculations made by the University of Leicester's expert Nigel Bannister, who worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble and compared that with the five pence cost of sending a text, were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches programme 'The Mobile Phone Rip-Off'.
Bannister said: "The bottom line is texting is at least four times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that.
The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only seven bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5 pence."
"There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's one million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5 pence each, that's £374.49 per MB or about 4.4 times more expensive than the 'most pessimistic' estimate for Hubble Space Telescope (HST) transmission costs."
He said it had been difficult to work out exactly how much Hubble data transmission costs. So, he contacted Nasa who gave him a firm figure of £8.85 per megabyte (MB) for the transmission of data from HST to the Earth.
"This doesn't include the cost of the ground stations and the time of the personnel along the way, but it is an unambiguous number for that part of the process."
Friday, May 9, 2008
A PRE-SCHOOL TEST FOR YOU
A PRE-SCHOOL TEST FOR YOU
Which way is the bus below travelling?
To the left or to the right?
They answered:"Because you can't see the door to get on the bus."
Which way is the bus below travelling?
To the left or to the right?
Can't make up your mind?Look carefully at the picture again.
Still don't know?
. . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Primary school children were shown this picture and asked the same question.
90% of them gave this answer:
"The bus is travelling to the right.."
They answered:"Because you can't see the door to get on the bus."
How do you feel now???
Thursday, May 8, 2008
An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup discusses the evolving C++0x standard, the education of programmers, and the future of programming.
Very Interesting article, check it out....
Very Interesting article, check it out....
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
195 Free Online Programming Books TechToolBlog
In Case you, like I , always keep on looking for tech books .... better if FREE
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