Tuesday, October 28, 2008

ehow.com

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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Making Of Microsoft

Child Prodigy Turns Programmer
How did Bill Gates made his Empire

The Book is :Making of Microsoft, The - Danniel Ichiban and Susan L. Knepper



Ok just to start with, i found this book while checking through the books in a reading library near my house. I always wondered how the ’’MICROSOFT’’ thing happened :). Actually tried a lot to search on the internet, but was not satisfied with he content. Ofcourse with such a long history, computer is not a medium on which we can read this. But thanks to the Government (the library i mentioned is Municipality owned), due to which i got this blessed(exaggerated) chance to read the book.


Let me tell you this is a very old publications and I am not able to find this book anywhere. This book is translated from french language by the authors. France and Japan were a very big market for Microsoft in its early years.


Now about the book. It is very very well written book. Neatly organised into 16 chapters. It takes of from the birth of the genius, to how he wrote his first software, and finally ends at the launch of Excel for Windows. This book covers only upto 1980s. And yes, thats what is needed, after 1980s as the cliche goes ’’is History’’ and everybody knows it.

There is only one outcome after reading this book, you will become a fan of Bill Gates. If you already are, then you will worship him(again exaggerated). It covers all the early event from the personal front to the corporate front. It also covers Microsoft working culture. How the Name was derived. Reading this book, anyone can make a short documentary, by just following the script.

So if you are a normal human being, even non techy, you will like this book from each and every perspective. Rather you will like this normal(exaggerated) human being named WILLIAM HENRY(bill) GATES III.

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All New Mustang



About Mustang :
The Ford Mustang is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. It was initially based on the Ford Falcon, a compact car.[1] Production began in Dearborn, Michigan on 9 March 1964 and the car was introduced to the public on 17 April 1964 at the New York World's Fair.

It was Ford's most successful launch since the Model A

Executive stylist John Najjar, who was a fan of the World War II P-51 Mustang fighter plane, suggested the name.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

India’s first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 launched

Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) home-grown rocket PSLV-C11 lifted off at 6:22am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Sunday, October 19, 2008

How To Think Like The World's Greatest High Tech Titans



Do Tech Titanic Sink?
How the did the CEO(Titans) of big companies saved their Titanic(Companies)



Hello everyone. Well i was fortunate enough to get this book. So, i thought completing this would make me a tech titan, or similar to that. But to be a titan, i first need to complete my degree. hahaha!!!

Doesn't matter, what your degree is, this book will create a titan in you. See the thing is, it goes same for each and every vertical of business. To be successful we need a mantra. And it is not necessary that it should be derived from one of our role models. Role models only provide us with brightness, on our way to success. No one is born with a high class business acumen, excluding some people if we think so. Each and everyone of us learn through experience. Now it is upto us, from whose experience we want to learn. I think basically it is better, at least to have some gain from others struggle. So that we never make big mistakes.

Ok let me cut it out, am i going offtrack? This book basically give us a brief idea how do these Titans run their business. And if you read this book you will find majority of them are not from tech background, not even in education. So see, as i mentioned, running a business is totally a different ball game. Reading this book, is nothing but a case study, of how do they won the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Yes, I compare the current competition as a F1 match. There is not time for errors.

Each chapter explains how do these people have rose to the top, with their respective organizations. It starts with Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Carly Fiorina, Steve Jobs, Naveen Jain and John Chambers- to name a few. These chapters is divided into headings, from their personal life to work life. How do they play a role of great Visionaries. so read ON


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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

List of MINIRATNA Companies

Miniratna Category - I CPSEs(Central Public Sector Enterprises)

Miniratna 1. Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited
Miniratna 2. Bharat Dynamics Limited
Miniratna 3. BEML Limited
Miniratna 4. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Miniratna 5. Bongaigaon Refineries & Petrochemicals Limited
Miniratna 6. Central Warehousing Corporation
Miniratna 7. Central Coalfields Limited
Miniratna 8. Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited
Miniratna 9. Cochin Shipyard Limited
Miniratna 10. Coal India Limited
Miniratna 11. Container Corporation of India Limited
Miniratna 12. Dredging Corporation of India Limited
Miniratna 13. Engineers India Limited
Miniratna 14. Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited
Miniratna 15. Goa Shipyard Limited
Miniratna 16. Hindustan Copper Limited
Miniratna 17. Hindustan Latex Limited
Miniratna 18. Hindustan Newsprint Limited
Miniratna 19. Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited
Miniratna 20. India Tourism Development Corporation Limited
Miniratna 21. Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited
Miniratna 22. IRCON International Limited
Miniratna 23. Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited
Miniratna 24. Mazagaon Docks Limited
Miniratna 25. Mahanadi Coalfields Limited
Miniratna 26. Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Limited
Miniratna 27. MMTC Limited
Miniratna 28. MSTC Limited
Miniratna 29. National Fertilizers Limited
Miniratna 30. Neyveli Lignite Corporation
Miniratna 31. NHPC Limited
Miniratna 32. Northern Coalfields Limited
Miniratna 33. Numaligarh Refinery Limited
Miniratna 34. Oil India Limited
Miniratna 35. Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited
Miniratna 36. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited
Miniratna 37. RITES Limited
Miniratna 38. Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited
Miniratna 39. South Eastern Coalfields Limited
Miniratna 40. State Trading Corporation of India Limited
Miniratna 41. Telecommunications Consultants (India) Limited
Miniratna 42. Western Coalfields Limited

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

IACOCCA An Autobiography



Leadership Means Setting an Example.
How did Lee Iacocca set an Example of Leadership




Let me talk straight; this book is all about automobiles, automobiles and automobiles. What I mean by that is, it all revolves around GM, Ford, Chrysler and not to forget some Japanese giants. It is truly an autobiography, not a case study. It starts from his birth, to schooling, getting a job in Ford, being fired from Ford, joining Chrysler and rest as they say is History.

It will be most useful from management point of view, but also if, you are somehow related to manufacturing or auto industry. So! what I as an under grad computer science engineer have learned from this book is more then the above mentioned beneficiaries. We as an undergrad always wondered how such corporate ’’honchos’’ are able to do such great things in life. All we try to know is how are their persona, what are their daily routines, how do they interact and of course how do they make a balance between their social and work life. No book is going to tell us this in detail. For that we need to be present with them like a shadow :). What we should learn from this book is how should we maintain our calm and composure at times when we are facing the worst phase of our life.

People are no GOOD or BAD. Its the situation that makes them and as the cliche goes ’’Time changes everything’’. Even people which are closest to our heart can not help us, and enemies can become best friends. How should we face the government and their laws ? How we should keep all the strings attached ? We should sometimes break the convention of business , and for that matter anything in life, when we have one leg in grave. Change is the only thing that is constant. Even Bill Gates is follower of Change.The top(opposite to bottom) line is : its all about management and priorities. But during stress it is very important to maintain confidence/courage, faith, tolerance/temper and patience/perseverance. I term this as the CFTP protocol . The main thing is, it affects our life and family. Hence it boils down to maintaining a universal Balance.

THIS BOOK IS A COMPLETE PACKAGE.

Excerpts :

01 - You’ll never really know what happiness is unless you have something to compare it to. -If someone is bigger than you are, don’t fight back.

02 - Use your head instead of your fists.

03 - Life isn’t always going to be fair.

04 - The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in
business-or almost anywhere else,for that matter.

05 - If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.

06 - Establishing priorities and using your time well aren’t things you can pick up at the Harvard
Business School.

07 - Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

08 - Mistakes area a part of life; you can’t avoid them. All you can hope is that they won’t be too
expensive and that you don’t make the same mistake twice.

09 - The dealers are really the only customers a company has.

10 - If you screw up, don’t give me any excuses-- go look at yourself in the mirror. Then come see me.

11 - When the product is right, you don’t have to be a great marketer.

12 - Whenever you’re trying to promote a brand name, your first task is to make clear where the brand is available.- As everyone knows, there are only two ways to make more money: you can sell more
goods or spend less on overhead.

13 - Styling and value are what sells cars, but QUALITY is what keeps them sold.- Leadership means setting an example.

14 - If everybody is suffering equally, you can move a mountain.

15 - Gasoline is the blood of the car industry, an interest rates are the oxygen.

Most important - Always think, first, in terms of the other person’s interest.



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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

List of MINIRATNA Companies

Miniratna Category-II CPSEs(Central Public Sector Enterprises)

Miniratna 43. Educational Consultants (I) Limited
Miniratna 44. Engineering Projects (I) Limited
Miniratna 45. Ferro Scrap Nigam Limited
Miniratna 46. HMT (International) Limited
Miniratna 47. HSCC (India) Limited
Miniratna 48. India Trade Promotion Organization
Miniratna 49. Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited
Miniratna 50. Manganese Ore India Limited
Miniratna 51. M E C O N Limited
Miniratna 52. National Film Development Corporation Limited
Miniratna 53. P E C Limited
Miniratna 54. Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Limited
Miniratna 55. Water & Power Consultancy (India) Limited

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The Free Dictionary

The Free Dictionary.com is an online dictionary and encyclopedia which gathers information from a variety of sources. The Free Dictionary cross references the contents of Wikipedia, Columbia Encyclopedia, Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Acronym Finder database, several financial dictionaries, legal dictionary, and other content.

The site also has a feature which allows a user to preview an article while positioning the mouse cursor over a link. One can also double click on any word and look it up in the dictionary. The site is run by Farlex, Inc..

In January 2006, The Free Dictionary released a home page which can be personalized by the user. The website used Ajax to provide individual users with a personal window to the web.

Farlex Inc. also maintains the companion title TheFreeLibrary.com, an online library of out-of-copyright classic books and a collection of periodicals of over two million articles dating back to 1984, and Sex-Lexis.com, a dictionary of sexual slang and other terms.

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Monday, October 06, 2008

Sholay - Film of the Millennium





Sholay is an Indian Hindi film by Ramesh Sippy. Sholay is the biggest hit in the history of Bollywood, India's Hindi film industry. Sholay released on August 15, 1975, Sholay starred Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan. Sholay's, set in the lawless and rugged terrain of central India, is the story of two hired hands, trying to capture a ruthless dacoit by the name of Gabbar Singh.

Sholay is the highest grossing film of all time in India. It has earned Rs. 2,36,45,00,000, equivalent to US$ 60 million, after adjusting for inflation.When first released, Sholay was declared a commercial disaster. Word of mouth convinced movie-goers to give the film a chance and soon it became a box-office phenomenon. Sholay ran for 286 weeks straight (more than five years) in one Mumbai theatre, the Minerva. Sholay racked up a still record 60 golden jubilees across India and doubled its original gross over reruns during the late 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. Sholay was the first film in the history of Indian cinema to celebrate silver jubilee (25 weeks) at over a hundred theatres across India.[1]

In 1999, BBC India declared it the "Film of the Millennium"; Indiatimes movies ranks the movie amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films. In that same year, the judges of the 50th annual Filmfare awards awarded it with a special award called Filmfare Best Film of 50 Years.


Director:
Ramesh Sippy
Writers:
Javed Akhtar (writer)
Salim Khan (writer)
Release Date:
15 August 1975 (India) more
Tagline:
The greatest star cast ever assembled.......The greatest story ever told
Plot:
Sholay means fire. In this particular movie, a Police Officer, who family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh... more | full synopsis

Read more on : Sholay the Brand of Bollywood


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Sunday, October 05, 2008

ODYSSEY PEPSI to APPLE

Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple - John A. Byrne

Colas to PCs
A Journey from Pepsi to Apple



First let me correct my mistake on the authors. This book is written by John Sculley and John Byrne. John Sculley was the then CEO of the company

The Halo Effect!!! What I felt while, I was reading this book. Well a true management book. But can be read by a true computer jerk. Why jerk!!!, anyone who knows about Pepsi and Apple. You will just fall in love with all the people mentioned in the book.

Well this is the first time i am writing a review for a book, which is fourth in my read list. The best part is, it compares the conventional company and a modern one. John Sculley mentioned it as Second and Third Wave company. It all starts with a brief preview of how Pepsi works. The rest of the book, as they say, "is history". It focuses at a point where John enters Apple. How he rode a roller-coster ride at apple.

Actually what made me read this book is Apple. Now that everyone has heard of i Pod, and someone may even possess it, apple doesn’t need any introduction. It is one of the most innovative corporation of time. Though i Mac is still costly, but it is the most sort for by ’’Desktop Publishers’’. In fact the term Desktop Publishing was born during the time of Macintosh.

One of the torch bearer for the company STEVE JOBS is most synonymous to APPLE then anybody else. The best part of this book is, it tells how only ideas don't make a company. Management is equally important, or sometimes more important, to put this ideas to reality and this is where Steve lacked. Also how fundamentals of one company(Pepsi) doesn't work for other(Apple), especially with a generation gap.

What made Apple fall is the emotional bondage between John and Steve. This made John reluctant to pull off Steve from its mistakes, which later was out of control. Steve began to spoil the company like anything. Well spoil here means he was not good at management. So everything he did, which he thought was right, took the organization towards hell. Only because of friendship Sculley was not able to control this. But later to save the company Sculley had to take a strong action against Steve.

Hence briefly what Sculley is trying to tell is, though the basic fundamentals remain the same, running an organization changes according to different verticals. Also emotions does not play an important role while you are the leader of the company. If things go wrong you have to correct it that moment.


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Finally will write my own content

Hello people.
Its high time I start writing my own content, though reformed from other sources.
End of the day uniqueness pays, and is always being loved by THE AUDIENCE.

But yes, writing your own content even once in a week, requires a lot of effort.
Now I can understand what does it take to write daily content of once own thoughts.
Not that writing of formation of your thoughts is tough but putting it in Blog Friendly form is a Pain.
Plus it requires that no matter how much tired your are, you have start your PC, Connect to the Web, Login to the Blog site and than Write.
Doing this everyday is really gruesome, as one of my friend call it in worst cases.

So trying on the lines of great bloggers, or great web journalists, whatever you may call them, I have planned to start writing my own content once in a week.

For this I will need all of your help, at least from the feedback point of view.

Till the time I form the theme for writing, let me start putting my earlier written reviews on MouthShut.
This will be posted every Sunday, so that people can read it at leasure with a coffee

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SAMSKRITA SAMMELANAM

SAMSKRITA SAMMELANAM
a Great Samskrita Convention of all Samskrita Lovers,


Highlights-

  • A Special Lecture and exhibition on Science in Samskrita
  • An analysis of condition of Samskrita and its relivance in modern world
  • A short Samskrita-Drama in easy Samskrita
  • Publication and Sale of new Samskrita-books
  • Samskrita-Kreedotsava (games)
  • An environment charged up with Samskrita-Sambhashanam
and much more....

Dates- 1st and 2nd November 2008

Venue- Pendharkar college, Dombivali.

Fees- Rs 100 only inclusive of food and stay.

For registration and details contact Neeraj Dandekar- 9820256996.

Please pass on to all your like minded friends and relatives.


Organised by Konkan team of SamskritaBharati

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

List of NAVRATNA Companies

Navratna CPSEs (Central Public Sector Enterprises)

Navratna 1. Bharat Electronics Limited
Navratna 2. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Navratna 3. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
Navratna 4. GAIL (India) Limited
Navratna 5. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Navratna 6. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Navratna 7. Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Navratna 8. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited
Navratna 9. National Aluminium Company Limited
Navratna 10. NMDC Limited
Navratna 11. NTPC Limited
Navratna 12. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited
Navratna 13. Power Finance Corporation Limited
Navratna 14. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
Navratna 15. Rural Electrification Corporation Limited
Navratna 16. Shipping Corporation of India Limited
Navratna 17. Steel Authority of India Limited

    Miniratna Category - I CPSEs(Central Public Sector Enterprises)

    Miniratna 1. Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited
    Miniratna 2. Bharat Dynamics Limited
    Miniratna 3. BEML Limited
    Miniratna 4. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
    Miniratna 5. Bongaigaon Refineries & Petrochemicals Limited
    Miniratna 6. Central Warehousing Corporation
    Miniratna 7. Central Coalfields Limited
    Miniratna 8. Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited
    Miniratna 9. Cochin Shipyard Limited
    Miniratna 10. Coal India Limited
    Miniratna 11. Container Corporation of India Limited
    Miniratna 12. Dredging Corporation of India Limited
    Miniratna 13. Engineers India Limited
    Miniratna 14. Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited
    Miniratna 15. Goa Shipyard Limited
    Miniratna 16. Hindustan Copper Limited
    Miniratna 17. Hindustan Latex Limited
    Miniratna 18. Hindustan Newsprint Limited
    Miniratna 19. Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited
    Miniratna 20. India Tourism Development Corporation Limited
    Miniratna 21. Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited
    Miniratna 22. IRCON International Limited
    Miniratna 23. Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited
    Miniratna 24. Mazagaon Docks Limited
    Miniratna 25. Mahanadi Coalfields Limited
    Miniratna 26. Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Limited
    Miniratna 27. MMTC Limited
    Miniratna 28. MSTC Limited
    Miniratna 29. National Fertilizers Limited
    Miniratna 30. Neyveli Lignite Corporation
    Miniratna 31. NHPC Limited
    Miniratna 32. Northern Coalfields Limited
    Miniratna 33. Numaligarh Refinery Limited
    Miniratna 34. Oil India Limited
    Miniratna 35. Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited
    Miniratna 36. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited
    Miniratna 37. RITES Limited
    Miniratna 38. Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited
    Miniratna 39. South Eastern Coalfields Limited
    Miniratna 40. State Trading Corporation of India Limited
    Miniratna 41. Telecommunications Consultants (India) Limited
    Miniratna 42. Western Coalfields Limited

    Miniratna Category-II CPSEs(Central Public Sector Enterprises)

    Miniratna 43. Educational Consultants (I) Limited
    Miniratna 44. Engineering Projects (I) Limited
    Miniratna 45. Ferro Scrap Nigam Limited
    Miniratna 46. HMT (International) Limited
    Miniratna 47. HSCC (India) Limited
    Miniratna 48. India Trade Promotion Organization
    Miniratna 49. Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited
    Miniratna 50. Manganese Ore India Limited
    Miniratna 51. M E C O N Limited
    Miniratna 52. National Film Development Corporation Limited
    Miniratna 53. P E C Limited
    Miniratna 54. Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Limited
    Miniratna 55. Water & Power Consultancy (India) Limited

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