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Open a Microsoft Word File and type like below,

=rand (200,99)

and then Press "ENTER"
...now wait 'n' watch..

This is something pretty cool!
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At Microsoft a big team of professionals couldn't
answer why this happened and they announced a prize of
$1,00,000 to the person who could answer this. So here
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the reason.

Try it out and try to find the answer.

Bill Gates still doesn't know why it happens, it was
discovered by a Brazilian.

If you got the solution please send that to me also...

With Regards,
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----- Original Message -----

From: Akshit Panwar

To: rk@...

Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 4:39 PM

Subject: hello

  hello sir.

how do u do?

well we are having our internal exams over here.

can u help me out for my project? i am working on serial port and need help in it. can u suggest me any link, resource or reffrence from where i can get some good info on serial port?

also have u send rai sir the jobs that u were saying? i couldnt meet him as these days i am very busy with my project and my spare time is spend on it only. plz do let me know when ever u send job links.

Akshit Panwar
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Hello friends,

"TRY THIS OUT"

Open a Microsoft Word File and type like below,

=rand (200,99)

and then Press "ENTER"
...now wait 'n' watch..

This is something pretty cool!
Worth a check! Try it!
At Microsoft a big team of professionals couldn't
answer why this happened and they announced a prize of
$1,00,000 to the person who could answer this. So here
is a chance to make some money, if you can find
the reason.

Try it out and try to find the answer.

Bill Gates still doesn't know why it happens, it was
discovered by a Brazilian.

If you got the solution please send that to me also...

With Regards,
Pratik




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US software major Sun Microsystems Inc. will double its India workforce to over 2000 in the next two to three years, besides focusing on building products to tap the booming local market, company officials said on Friday.

"We are doubling our India workforce from 1,000 to 2,000. India and China are emerging as the biggest and fastest growing markets. They are adopting technology unbelievably faster than traditional (developed) markets," Sun global engineering division senior vice president Steve Pelletier told reporters in Bangalore.

He said India R&D hub, the company's largest outside the US, has contributed to building software for all of Sun's products in the global market. "You can say Sun's software products are made in India," he said.

Sun invests $1.9 billion on R&D, he said, but declined to give investment details for India, China, Russia and eastern Europe, which the company sees as the fastest growing R&D hubs.

"We have overinvested in the US, while we have under invested in all the other centres. Our growth will be in these four geographies," Pelletier said.

Besides Bangalore, Sun has R&D hubs in Prague in Czech republic, St Petersburg and Beijing.

----- Original Message -----

From: yogendra rathi

To: rk@...

Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 11:02 PM

Subject: resume_rathi

Respected Sir\Madam,
I am writing this application for in this belief that my qualification
fits for the suitable post at your esteemed and reputed organization .I am enclosing herewith my resume for your kind consideration and hoping the same will meet your requirements.

I have done MCA with 73% marks  from S.I.E.T Meerut.My studies include Computer Languages like C, C++, Java,javaservlet,rmi,Jsp, DBMS like Oracle9i, Web applications, database etc.

I understand the position also requires a candidate who can work in a team, can work well under pressure, and is able to deal with situations with a positive state of mind.

I assure that the chance given to me in your esteemed organization will prove my worth through my work and ability. I request you to kindly consider my candidature and expedite your reply at the earliest.

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• Does the marks obtain in career(for a fresher),makes a difference?
• The skills set we learn in our courses are enough?
• Does the attitude of student and teachers are to learn and evolve or to the pass out and just going into the class for sake of completing the course?
• Did we(student) really spent quality time at college?

And several other issues that concern more to College management rather than student issues.

Well Sir,The question are not for you to answer it's my friend and my juniors who had to  find the answers.As early they can get answer the more fortunate they will be in preparing themselves for Tech industry.I hope they find a real blunt and honest guide in you who can guide them to their Zenith in life.I call you guide as you can really make them strong up in their minds to fight and not give up.

one such example is Saifee(MCA/2004 /Siet) he struggled never gave up .Now working in KAMYAAB Infotech.that's the best feeling I had for long to see him succeding in his endeavour.

Best of luck and effort.(To all friend and juniors)

Take care

Bye

With Sincere Regards

Amit Upadhyay

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----- Original Message -----

From: amit upadhyay

To: Dhanvada Sir

Cc: upadhyayamit_siet@...

Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 7:55 AM

Subject: On Job search the Intelligent way?

Sir,

      With all due respect,I don't feel you understand the frustration and remorse the pupil felt.I am 2004 passed out  MCA/SIET.I am not pointing any finger towards anybody but I surely feel we need to address few facts very seriously if we need to grow as being a student of the institute with motto "Turning potential into reality".

 

• Does the marks obtain in career(for a fresher),makes a difference?
• The skills set we learn in our courses are enough?
• Does the attitude of student and teachers are to learn and evolve or to the pass out and just going into the class for sake of completing the course?
• Did we(student) really spent quality time at college?

And several other issues that concern more to College management rather than student issues.

Well Sir,The question are not for you to answer it's my friend and my juniors who had to  find the answers.As early they can get answer the more fortunate they will be in preparing themselves for Tech industry.I hope they find a real blunt and honest guide in you who can guide them to their Zenith in life.I call you guide as you can really make them strong up in their minds to fight and not give up.

one such example is Saifee(MCA/2004 /Siet) he struggled never gave up .Now working in KAMYAAB Infotech.that's the best feeling I had for long to see him succeding in his endeavour.

Best of luck and effort.(To all friend and juniors)

Take care

Bye

With Sincere Regards

Amit Upadhyay

 

 

 

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In 1992, I wrote a book titled Towards Globalisation. I did not realise at the time that this was going to be the history of my family.

Last week, we celebrated the wedding of my daughter, Pallavi. A brilliant student, she had won scholarships to Oxford University and the London School of Economics. In London, she met Julio, a young man from Spain. The two decided to take up jobs in Beijing, China. Last week, they came over from Beijing to Delhi to get married. The wedding guests included 70 friends from North America, Europe and China.

That may sound totally global, but arguably my elder son Shekhar has gone further. He too won a scholarship to Oxford University, and then taught for a year at a school in Colombo. Next he went to Toronto, Canada, for higher studies. There he met a German girl, Franziska.

They both got jobs with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, USA. This meant that they constantly travelled on IMF business to disparate countries. Shekhar advised and went on missions to Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Kyrgyzstan and Laos. Franziska went to Rwanda, Tajikistan, and Russia. They interrupted these perambulations to get married in late 2003.

My younger son, Rustam, is only 15. Presumably he will study in Australia, marry a Nigerian girl, and settle in Peru.

Readers might think that my family was born and bred in a jet plane. The truth is more prosaic. Our ancestral home is Kargudi, a humble, obscure village in Tanjore district, Tamil Nadu. My earliest memories of it are as a house with no toilets, running water, or pukka road.

When we visited, we disembarked from the train at Tanjore, and then travelled 45 minutes by bullock cart to reach the ancestral home. My father was one of six children, all of whom produced many children (I myself had three siblings). So, two generations later, the size of the Kargudi extended family (including spouses) is over 200. Of these, only three still live in the village. The rest have moved across India and across the whole world, from China to Arabia to Europe to America.

This one Kargudi house has already produced 50 American citizens. So, dismiss the mutterings of those who claim that globalisation means westernisation. It looks more like Aiyarisation, viewed from Kargudi.

What does this imply for our sense of identity? I cannot speak for the whole Kargudi clan, which ranges from rigid Tamil Brahmins to beef-eating, pizza-guzzling, hip-hop dancers. But for me, the Aiyarisation of the world does not mean Aiyar domination. Nor does it mean Aiyar submergence in a global sea. It means acquiring multiple identities, and moving closer to the ideal of a brotherhood of all humanity. I remain quite at home sitting on the floor of the Kargudi house on a mat of reeds, eating from a banana leaf with my hands. I feel just as much at home eating noodles in China, steak in Spain, teriyaki in Japan and cous-cous in Morocco. I am a Kargudi villager, a Tamilian, a Delhi-wallah, an Indian, a Washington Redskins fan, and a citizen of the world, all at the same time and with no sense of tension or contradiction.

When I see the Brihadeeswara Temple in Tanjore, my heart swells and I say to myself “This is mine.” I feel exactly the same way when I see the Church of Bom Jesus in Goa, or the Jewish synagogue in Cochin, or the Siddi Sayed mosque in Ahmedabad: these too are mine. I have strolled so often through the Parks at Oxford University and along the canal in Washington, DC, that they feel part of me. As my family multiplies and intermarries, I hope one day to look at the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona and Rhine river in Germany and think, “These too are mine.”

We Aiyars have a taken a step toward the vision of John Lennon. Imagine there's no country, It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too.

My father's generation was the first to leave the village, and loosen its regional shackles. My father became a chartered accountant in Lahore, an uncle became a hotel manager in Karachi, and we had an aunt in Rangoon.

My generation loosened the shackles of religion. My elder brother married a Sikh, my younger brother married a Christian, and I married a Parsi. The next generation has gone a step further, marrying across the globe. Globalisation for me is not just the movement of goods and capital, or even of Aiyars. It is a step towards Lennon's vision of no country.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope one day you'll join us. And the world will be one.

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Microsoft Corp has unveiled a new version of its Windows operating system for mobile devices that adds such features as PowerPoint viewing while making it easier for gadget makers to equip phones and handheld computers with typewriter keyboards and iPod-sized hard drives.

Windows Mobile 5.0, introduced by Chairman Bill Gates at the company's annual conference for mobile software developers in Las Vegas, also marks an about-face in marketing by eliminating the distinct Pocket PC and Smartphone brands of the operating system.

Other feature enhancements include updates to the mobile versions of Microsoft Word and Excel that better maintain the formatting of documents created on a computer and allow charts to be created from a spreadsheet.

The elimination of the five-year-old Pocket PC brand for PDAs and the separate Smartphone label puts Windows Mobile on the same page as rival mobile device platforms such as Symbian and BlackBerry.

It also marks another change of course in Microsoft's long-evolving strategy to extend the dominance of its Windows computer platform to mobile devices.

Those efforts began with a single platform based on Windows CE, short for consumer electronics, but then fragmented into three custom-made flavors: Pocket PC organizers, 'smart' cell phones, and then Pocket PCs equipped with phones.

While the underlying software code for those platforms remain about 90 per cent identical, Microsoft has now decided to emphasize the familiar Windows name.

But beyond separate brand names, the new Windows Mobile does remove certain technological distinctions that gave the phone and PDA platforms different capabilities.

One of these is integrated support for Wi-Fi short-range wireless connections, now available for smart phones rather than just Pocket PCs. Another is so-called 'persistent' memory storage, which preserves basic user information, contacts and personal settings when a device's battery runs out of power. This capability was previously available for smart phones but not Pocket PCs.

The updated version of Mobile Windows also serves as another example of Microsoft seeking to barge into a hot new sector where it's late to the party -- much as it responded to the Netscape Navigator Web browser with Internet Explorer and to the Palm Pilot with Pocket PC.

This time, by adding support for internal hard drives, Microsoft is enabling device makers to design phones and organizers with enough storage capacity to compete in the portable music player market dominated by the iPod from Apple Computer Inc.

Windows Mobile accounts for a tiny fraction of Microsoft's business. Combined, software revenue from mobile and embedded devices, such as auto dash systems, and totaled $80 million in the first three months of 2005.

Hyderabad-based Satyam Computers has come up with an ingenious strategy to ensure that its strategy of using China as a market for sourcing software developers works.

India's fourth largest software exporter and one of the first to enter the China market, Satyam's development centre in glitzy Shanghai's newly developed Pu Dong area, has something called an English Corner.

The English Corner according to Raghavendra Tripathi, Satyam's regional manager (Greater China), is one of the factors that ensured that Satyam's strategy of 'synch and source' worked.

"When we came to China we were sure about a couple of things. We wanted to treat this as a market to offer our services (synch) and also wanted to source developers from this market to serve at client locations outside China," Tripathi points out.

"Today we have a sourcing strategy in China and we have about 25 odd people from China working on Satyam client locations abroad, " he says.

Tripathi gives the example of how Mexican authorities refused to give work visas to Satyam engineers from Hyderabad for a project and then Chinese software engineers from Satyam's Shanghai centre had to be deployed in Mexico.

"The Mexican authorities do not issue such visas to Indian nationals but Chinese nationals are allowed and we were lucky that we had the requisite numbers in China who could then be deployed elsewhere," Tripathi explains.

Satyam is using its China base to ensure that the company's human resources can be distributed globally wherein the domicile factor becomes redundant. But serving abroad means garnering fairly good English communication skills, especially spoken English and this is where Chinese engineers could come unstuck.

Chinese education in the past had laid more emphasis on writing and reading skills than on spoken skills. "Oral communication has been less emphasised," he admits.

To make up for this lag, Satyam China came up with what it calls the English Corner --  which covers the entire staff that the company has in China and includes the on-bench consultants and the engineers to improve their oral English skills.

The English Corner gets going every Monday afternoon between 1700 and 1800 hours. The content varies frequently and the employees are encouraged to speak and think in English.

Presentations are made again only in English and a couple of Satyam's Indian colleagues, exposed to the nuances of the language, dole out a couple of American slangs. This generally ensures that the level of comfort with the English language goes up. Employees are often required to make power point presentations in English.

Yet another method adopted by the company to promote internal English usage is through incentives. Any employee whose article is published in the company's internal newspaper MySpace (which is distributed globally) is awarded a bonus. That apart, employees are encouraged to watch China Central TV 9 to improve their listening ability.

China Central TV 9 is a homegrown Chinese-English channel that reports news and doles out information on different provinces of China and the Chinese culture. According to Tripathi, the English Corner has ensured that associates and consultants have more confidence when speaking in English in public.

The move to impart English skills is important because Satyam plans to ramp up its China operations from about 180 odd employees at the moment to about 1,000 people by the end of 2006, and to 2000 by the end of 2007.

This apart a recent report by Chinese authorities has pointed out that the country lacks special institutions to train managerial staff for software development. Thus software students do not find suitable employers, while companies have difficulty in recruiting qualified programmers.

Satyam also has made a smart beginning in snagging accounts in China and today has 20 customers in the three years that it has been there. Some of the marquee customers in China are Alcatel and Astra Zeneca for which it has done SAP implementation.