Saturday, September 29, 2007

My Experiences With Raging Period

hello friends,
Now I am going to write some interesting events that have happened to me.
These are the days of my my graduation period when I was the first year student of
B.Tech. (computer science and engineering).My college is situated in Etawah which is widely famous for education as well as ragging.
After taking admission I went for hostel accomodation and fortunately I got a room. I was very happy at that time and I was completely unaware of what happens with new entrants in the professional colleges.I even remember those days it was just the first day in my college when some seniors came and said to me as well as some my collegues to stand in a queue.they were really in a humourous mood.they said to us act as actors and actresses.They choose me as hero and one of my collegue and said
that act as heros of 70 to 80 decade sang song and heroien takes a round trip of a tree or somethigelse.We acted same because we were to much scared of seniors.They were entertaining within their group.
One more interesting thig took place after some daysof admission.They caught somr me and some of my friends.they choose two of us and said them that today you have to marriage with each other and one my senior said me that act as a pundit.
But I was very naughty when they were torturing me physically or mentally then I were in search to find a way so that I might do something so that thay have tospend money on me. For the fulfillment of my objective,whenever I saw that my seniors on the shop of juice or shop of bakery,then I usually rush to that shop and order the shopkeeper to give me a lot of food stuffs.I always did it and seniors have to pay for it.
I really enjoyed my ragging period without any apprehension.The seniors did these type of activities so that hesitation could be removed to some extent.Initially it happens that seniors are our enemy but in reality there is a different paradigm they are also very helpful in every aspect of life.
When you are outside your home then you need someone that could help you in difficult situation and it is completely fulfilled by seniors.They help you in choosing a right carrier.They also tell you how to prepare yourself in this competative environment.
In spite of these ragging should occur in a confined way and senior should understand
the mental status of juniors.It should happen in a way so that everyone could enjoy
their ragging period.

Before And After cracking 4th MGPA

It was the day friday dated 28th october.It was a very crucial day for me because I needed to clear 4th MGPA to reach in safe hands.And the MGPA dated on 28 october was the 9th attempt for me.So I was aware the impotance of it.I was taking it seriously because It was known the difficulty level is incresing mgpawise and I was very curious to clear it as soon as possible because my counter was hanging on three and I wanted to make my counter 4.
I recieved a message in which it was clearly mentioned that this mgpa will contain any of the self assessment assignment whcih is a collection of near about 16 tricky questions.I had already completed 9 to 10 problems of that due to these reasons I did not want to miss this mgpa at any cost,because hurdles were more intensive after that.Keeping these points in view I decided not to leave any of the assignments so that I might not be in trouble.
Fortunately I got 3 to 4 days for the preparation of it.I utilised it properly and almost did every assignments.
On the day of test I went to lecture hall on time and I was in very enthusiastic mood.When the hands of clock were at 10.10 then I got the paper.After getting the paper my excitement came down I read the question paper quickly.After that I again read it with less acceleration.I made the logic correctly . The question was based on a matrix problem in which I have to remove that rows and columns of the matrix that contained all the elements zero.
After writing the logic I went to lab to implement it on the system where i typed it on the vi editor and after writing it when I compiled it ,it compiled successfully I was very happy but i could not maintain it , because when i tested it for the inputs jvm throwed an arrayoutofboundexception.Any way I got my fault and corrected it and I got all y's in the parikshk environment.It was really a pleasant moment for me.
My pleasant moments were more catalysed when I heared that almost all my friends have cleared this mgpa.After clearing it we decided to go outside for enjoyment.We decided to go to forum and watch a movie in multiplex. But here time played a deciding role , we reached there when the show time was over.So we hane to adjust ourselves without watching movies.We wandered here and there near about every corner of forum.We enered some garments shop but due to lack of money we have to leave the shop without purchasing anything.
We enjoyed to much that day we were copletely fatigued so we went in a restaurent and after taking our dinner we returned back to our hostel.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Introducing my friend circle

Now I am introducing my friends, friends around whom I passes my days.
First of I want to introduce you with my room partner. The name of my room partner is Mr. Akhil Tripathi . He belongs to Allahabad .He has completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engg. He has a good knowledge of computer Programming . He has also command over C and C++ programming languages. He is very humorous by nature.He has also very helping nature . His respectable nature for everyone is really very appreciable.He is also a very hard worker.Always he do his work by himself and that is good in a professional carrier.His hobbies are wathing movies , listening songs , watching cricket matches on television. There are
5 to 6 friends who are very close to me and each have some different names and my room partner has also an imaginary name , which is an ID for everyone in my friends.
My second friend is Mr. Sandeep Singh . He belongs to Chhapra which is situated in the eastern region of Bihar.He has completed his Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
from a government engineering college of Uttar Pradesh.He is a very itelligent person.He has the ability to develop logic of good programmes , but he does it in a complex way and now he is improving himself with the practice of programming.It is very unfotunate for him that he has cleared only 3 MGPAs out of 7 . He opened his account from 5th MGPA and since then he has cleared all the MGPAs and I hope that in near future he will do much better tha it.He is so intelligent that in his first attempt he got near about 90 percentile in CAT.He has entered in the final round of many recruiting companies but unfotunately he could not clear it.Now he is satisfied with his performance . His hobbies are watching movies and singing songs.He is also a very good player of table tennis.
My third friend is Mr. Bhartendu Singh Senger. He has also completed his bachelor of technology in Information and Technology in the year 2006.He has a very good academic record
but in spite of it he could not obtained a good job. He searched for a job in the year 2006 , but due to various pros and cons he did not join any of the jobs.Now he is going good in CDAC and he is satisfied with his performance.I hope in near future he will astonish everybody with his talent.We also called him compiler because everbody says him to check their errors in their programmes and he succesfully find them.He has most humorous nature in our group. Everyday he says that he will not comment on others but he did not fallow it.He has a good communication skills , which play an important role in professional carrier.
My fourth friend is Mr. Mayank pal Singh . He has also completed his B.Tech. degree in
Information Technology in the year 2006.He is a very good coder. He could not clear some MGPAs due to his silly mistakes, but now he has learnt many things form his faults.
That's all about some of my friends.

21st september :a very unfortunate day for me

hello friends
now, I am writing something about my very unfortunate day. The day was 21st of september.It can also understood by 11st sep + 10 = 21st sep.
Before that day means on 20st sep. it was everythig fine.I spent near about 4 to 5 hours in lab on that night & returned from lab at 11.30 pm. and saw some songs on television in the common hall and finally went to sleep because there was 7 th MGPA (Machine Graded Programming Assignment) on 21st of sep.
I got up early in the morning & read some basic concepts of java programming. At 10:45 pm I went to my lecture hall for MGPA.There I got A problem based on arrays in which I hve to convert a decimal numbers into binary numbers wihin certain range and then find numbers where it changes from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. Although problem was not difficult but at that time I could not develop a logic for it.I tried many times to solve it , but finally I could not solve it and my all efforts went into vain.
When I came outside the lab then I came to know that many students had cleared that problem successfully.I was pleased to know it.Then I asked about logic that was involved in that problem.I recognized my problem.where I was wrong?
Then I heard some students were talking about the result of TCOM. They were talking
that result is very disappointing . I rushed towards notice board to see my result .I was thinking
that the result will componsate my anxity to some extent . But when I saw the original result then I came to know that I was wrong and this result is not minimising my problem but it is more disappointing than the previous one. In this result I was declared fail.
The reson was that It was mentioned that I had copied the matter from a website.It was true I copied some part of it from the website due to lack of time and failure of gnayn server.Although it was not pleasant to me but I accept it because if ma'm has done it then I am
sure she had thought about it.
There was a sequence of unpleasant things on that day.I did not know what it is happening but it was happening. Suddenly somebody told me that there is also result of MFCS
on the notice board.I thought surely it will be fine for me . But disappointing event again repeated itself and here I also got the less marks than the expectation.Really it was to much for me .I pray to Almighty God to do something better for me . And I returned to my hostel ,I decided not to repeat my faults .

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Computer Hacking

Unlike most computer crime / misuse areas which are clear cut in terms of actions and legalities , computer hacking is more difficult to define. Computer hacking always involves some degree of infringement on the privacy of others or damage to computer-based property such as files, web pages or software. The impact of computer hacking varies from simply being simply invasive and annoying to illegal. There is an aura of mystery that surrounds hacking,and a prestige that accompanies being part of a relatively "elite" group of individuals who possess technological savvy and are willing to take the risks required to become a true "hacker".
Even attempting to define the term "hacker" is difficult.
A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
A person capable of appreciating hack value.
A person who is good at programming quickly.
An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it.
An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example.
One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence 'password hacker', 'network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
Even within hacker society, the definitions range from societally very positive (dare I say characteristic of gifted and talented individuals) to criminal.
The belief that information sharing is a powerful good and that it is the ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources whenever possible.
The belief that system cracking for fun and exploitation is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism or breach of confidentiality.
Ways to Minimize Potential for Hacking........
There are a number of ways for schools to minimize potential for hacking.
Schools need to clearly establish acceptable use policies and delineate appropriate and inappropriate actions to both students and staff.
Students and staff need to instructed regarding hacking, the mentality associated with it, the consequences of various hacking actions and possible consequences of interacting and forming online relationships with anonymous individuals who claim to be proficient in invading others' privacy.
The use of filters may be considered in reducing access to unauthorized software serial numbers and hacking-related materials, newsgroups, chatrooms and hacking organizations.

Friday, September 14, 2007

The Ozone Layer

The ozone layer is essential for protecting society from harmful UV radiation by acting as a filter. However, this protective layer has been thinning due to three main sources: human activity, natural sources, and volcanoes. Human activity is responsible for the most damage to the ozone layer, thus, society should recognize that much can be done to prevent ozone layer damage.
In 1985, in a region over Antarctica, the yearly polar vortex had caused the ozone layer to deplete so greatly, that it could be classified as a hole. In 1996, this hole was large enough to cover Antarctica.
The depletion of the ozone layer does not come without problems. Scientific research has suggested the probability that increased UV-B radiation as a result of the thinning ozone layer leads to increased cases of skin cancer, immuno-suppression, cataracts, and “snowblindness” due to radiation damage of the DNA. Additionally, experiments have shown a correlation between increased UV radiation and crop damage due to UV radiation damaging the plants DNA. Some scientists, however, feel that this will not be a problem in the future due to the possibility of breeding UV resistant crops and plants.
When the topic of the ozone layer arises, many people immediately think of the hole over Antarctica, but few know why the hole is actually there. In 1985, British scientists discovered this hole. A special condition exists in Antarctica that accelerates the depletion of the ozone layer. Every Arctic winter, a polar vortex forms over Antarctica. A polar vortex is a swirling mass of very cold, stagnant air surrounded by strong westerly winds.Since there is an absence of sun during Arctic winters, the air becomes incredibly cold and the formation of ice clouds occurs. When the sun returns in the spring, the light shining on the nitrogen oxide filled ice particles activates the formation of chlorine. This excess of ozone destroying chlorine rapidly accelerates the depletion of the ozone layer. Finally, when the polar vortex breaks up, the rapid dissolution decreases. It is evident that the effects of the polar vortex are dramatic.For about two month every southern spring, the total ozone declines by about 60% over most of Antarctica.
Many national governments and agencies recognized the problem of ozone depletion, and therefore, united in 1987 to sign the Montreal Protocol. This agreement was implemented to decrease CFC levels in order to help protect the thinning ozone layer.
Clearly, ozone depletion is a dangerous problem due to possible disease outbreaks and famine as a result of increased UV-B radiation. However, society can collectively attempt to combat this problem by relatively simple means such as education and the practice of “ozone smart behavior. For if society acts now, future generations will be handed a safe and healthy planet.

Monday, September 10, 2007

The Great Albert Einstein

Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on Mar. 14, 1879. Einstein's parents, who were non observant Jews, moved from Ulm to Munich when Einstein was an infant. The family business was the manufacture of electrical parts. When the business failed, in 1894, the family moved to Milan, Italy. At this time Einstein decided officially to relinquish his German citizenship. Within a year, still without having completed secondary school, Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to pursue a course of study leading to a diploma as an electrical engineer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He spent the next year in nearby Aarau at the continual secondary school, where he enjoyed excellent teachers and first-rate facilities in physics. Einstein returned in 1896 to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he graduated, in 1900 as a secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics.
When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions about the general theory of relativity, the popular press bombarded Einstein. Einstein's personal ethics also fired public imagination. Einstein, who after returning to Germany in 1914 did not reapply for German citizenship. He was one of only a handful of German professors who remained a pacifist and did not support Germany's war aims. After the war, when the victorious allies sought to exclude German scientists from international meetings, Einstein--a Jew traveling with a Swiss passport--remained an acceptable German envoy. Einstein's political views as a pacifist and a Zionist pitted him against conservatives in Germany, who branded him a traitor and a defeatist. The public success accorded his theories of relativity evoked savage attacks in the 1920s by the anti-Semitic physicists Johannes Stark and Philipp Leonard, men who after 1932 tried to create a so-called Aryan physics in Germany. Just how controversial the theories of relativity remained for less flexibly minded physicists is revealed in the circumstances surrounding Einstein's reception of a Nobel Prize in 1921--awarded not for relativity but for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect.
Until the end of his life Einstein sought a unified field theory, whereby the phenomena of gravitation and electromagnetism could be derived from one set of equations. After 1920, however, while retaining relativity as a fundamental concept, theoretical physicists focused more attention on the theory of quantum mechanics, as elaborated by Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and others, and Einstein's later thoughts went somewhat neglected for decades. This picture has changed in more recent years. Physicists are now striving to combine Einstein's relativity theory with quantum theory in a "theory of everything," by means of such highly advanced mathematical models as superstring theories.

Taj Mahal - A Tribute to beauty

Agra, once the capital of the Mughal Empire during the 16th and early 18th centuries, is one and a half hours by express train from New Delhi. Tourists from all over the world visit Agra not to see the ruins of the red sandstone fortress built by the Mughal emperors but to make a pilgrimage to Taj Mahal, India’s most famous architectural wonder, in a land where magnificent temples and edificies abound to remind visitors about the rich civilization of a country that is slowly but surely lifting itself into an industrialized society.
The postcard picture of Taj Mahal does not adequately convey the legend, the poetry and the romance that shroud what Rabindranath Tagore calls "a teardrop on the cheek of time". Taj Mahal means "Crown Palace" and is in fact the most well preserved and architecturally beautiful tomb in the world. It is best described by the English poet, Sir Edwin Arnold, as "Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones." It is a celebration of woman built in marble and that’s the way to appreciate it.
Taj Mahal stands on the bank of River Yamuna, which otherwise serves as a wide moat defending the Great Red Fort of Agra, the center of the Mughal emperors until they moved their capital to Delhi in 1637. It was built by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan in 1631 in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, a Muslim Persian princess. She died while accompanying her husband in Burhanpur in a campaign to crush a rebellion after giving birth to their 14th child. The death so crushed the emperor that all his hair and beard were said to have grown snow white in a few months.
As a tribute to a beautiful woman and as a monument for enduring love, the Taj reveals its subtleties when one visits it without being in a hurry. The rectangular base of Taj is in itself symbolic of the different sides from which to view a beautiful woman. The main gate is like a veil to a woman’s face which should be lifted delicately, gently and without haste on the wedding night. In indian tradition the veil is lifted gently to reveal the beauty of the bride. As one stands inside the main gate of Taj, his eyes are directed to an arch which frames the Taj.
The dome is made of white marble, but the tomb is set against the plain across the river and it is this background that works its magic of colours that, through their reflection, change the view of the Taj. The colours change at different hours of the day and during different seasons. Like a jewel, the Taj sparkles in moonlight when the semi-precious stones inlaid into the white marble on the main mausoleum catch the glow of the moon. The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines. These changes, they say, depict the different moods of woman.
Different people have different views of the Taj but it would be enough to say that the Taj has a life of its own that leaps out of marble, provided you understand that it is a monument of love. As an architectural masterpiece, nothing could be added or substracted from it.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

The Ganges

In a country where practically everything in nature is venerated, the Ganges is most holy. Considering the magnitude of her life-sustaining force, it’s no wonder: her mighty course from the mountains to the sea creates a river basin 200 to 400 miles wide that supports nearly half a billion people. According to Hindu mythology, the Ganges was once a river of heaven that flowed across the sky. Long ago, she agreed to fall to earth to aid a king named Bhagiratha, whose ancestors had been burned to ash by the angry gaze of an ascetic they had disturbed during meditation. Only the purifying waters of Ganges, flowing over their ashes, could free them from the earth and raise them up to live in peace in heaven. So that the earth would not be shattered by the impact of her descent, Lord Shiva caught Ganges in his hair as she cascaded down from heaven to the Himalyas. Ganges then followed Bhagiratha out of the mountains, across the plains to the sea, where she restored his dead ancestors and lifted them to paradise.
Winding 1560 miles ,across northern India, from the Himalaya Mountains to the Indian Ocean, the Ganges River is not a sacred place: it is a sacred entity. Known as Ganga Ma—Mother Ganges—the river is revered as a goddess whose purity cleanses the sins of the faithful and aids the dead on their path toward heaven. But while her spiritual purity has remained unchallenged for millennia, her physical purity has deteriorated as India’s booming population imposes an ever-growing burden upon her. The river is now sick with the pollution of human and industrial waste, and water-borne illness is a terrible factor of Indian life. But the threat posed by this pollution isn’t just a matter of health—it’s a matter of faith. Veer Badra Mishra, a Hindu priest and civil engineer who has worked for decades to combat pollution in the Ganges, describes the importance of protecting this sacred river: “There is a saying that the Ganges grants us salvation. This culture will end if the people stop going to the river, and if the culture dies the tradition dies, and the faith dies.”
The tremendous life that the Ganges supports is also the source of its greatest threat: pollution. The majority of the Ganges’ pollution is organic waste—sewage, trash, food, and human and animal remains. Over the past century, city populations along the Ganges have grown at a tremendous rate, while waste-control infrastructure has remained relatively unchanged. Sewage systems designed near the turn of the 20th century today do little more than channel waste into the river.
In contrast to the shortcomings of the government’s Ganga Action Plan, the citizen-based Sankat Mochan Foundation, started in Varanasi in 1982, has made great strides toward a lasting clean-up of the Ganges. With a dual identity as Hindu priest and civil engineer, the organization’s founder, Veer Bhadra Mishra, has approached the problem from both a scientific and a spiritual perspective. In collaboration with engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, Mishra has proposed an alternative sewage-treatment plan for Varanasi that is compatible with the climate and conditions of India. The advanced integrated wastewater oxidation pond system would store sewage in a series of ponds and use bacteria and algae to break down waste and purify the water, so it wouldn’t need electricity.

About Goa

hello friends
I am going to write some inersting facts about the history of Goa.
Goa is one of the smallest states of India , comprises a mainland district on the country's western coast and an offshore island, it is located 400 kilometers south Mumbai.It is sand witched by the states of Maharastra on the north and Karnataka on the east and south by the Arabian sea on the west. The total area is3702 square kilometers. The capital is Panaji . Formerly Goa was a Portuguese possession. It was annexed by India in 1962 and statehood in 1987.
The ancient Hindu land of Goa , of which hardly a fragmant survives , was built at southernmost point of island. Known as Gove , Govapuri and Gomant in the Puranas and certain inscriptions, Goa was famous in early hindu legend and history. The medieval Arabian geographers knew it as Sindabur or Sandabur,and the Portuguese as Velha Goa.
In the 1510 the charm and the geographical location of Goa attracted the
Portuguese to the land.Their aim was to control the spiceroute form the east and also carried a mission to spread Christianity.St Francis Xavier with his Jeesuit missionaries , arrived in 1542. Portuguese control had axpanded beyond
Old Goa to include the provinces of Bardez and Salcate , by the middle of the 16th century.
Apart from Portuguese , the parts of Goa had captivated many from the west - the Turks,the British , the French, the Dutch. The most prosperous times
of Goa happened with eventual ousting of the Turks, who controlled the trade routes across the Indian Ocean , and the resultant fortunes made from the spice trade. The colony became the viceregal seat of the Portuguese empire of
the east , including various East African port cities, East Timor and Macau.But
rivalry between the British , French and Dutch in the 17th century,combined with Portugal's lack of ability to service its distant empire , led to their decline.
The Portuguese were nearly overthrown by the Marathas in the late 18th
century. However the Portuguese clung on till 1961,when they were finally ejected by India. Goa remained a union territory for 26 years and gained full flegged statehood on august 12th 1987.