Finally Dream Comes True - To Become an IITian

Since my childhood i have been seeing IIT Kgp on my way from Kharagpur railway station to native home. I always use to admire the huge IIT campus . I also used to hear that its the best engineering college in the country. So from my childhood days i had the dream to become an IITian and study in one of country's best college.

To fulfill my dream i started preparing for IIT-JEE in class XI and XII. Its the toughest exam in the country and i knew that getting through it will be very difficult . But i still decided to give it a try so that in future i dont have to repent for the fact that i didnt even try to achieve my dream. I did better than what i expected in the exam , but it wasnt enough to make me an IITtain. After the results i was upset , but i had the satisfaction that i did try my best.

After that i decided to take admission in a private engineering college - "Techno India" in kolkata. At that time i decided that though i failed to do the under graduation from IIT , i will try my level best to do post graduation from IIT. Also my cousin inspired me a hell lot to pursue Mtech from some IIT.

And finally the moment arrived when the result of GATE (All india test for post graduation in Engineering) was announced. I expected to get an IIT and i was over joyed. Finally it looked like that i will become an IITian. The preparation for GATE was easier than IIT JEE but the number of seats for MTech are also lesser than BTech.

After the results started a tedious job of applying in the IITs. It was an extremely tiring phase for me. I had to apply in several IITs. Making DDs and speed posting them was a very tedious job for me to do. Also i had to take admission in IITD first because i was uncertain whether i will get my preferred IIT(IIT Bombay) or not . Lots of critical decisions had to be taken during this time. It took a hell out of me. I found out that i had to work harder in the post result/examination phase than pre-examination phase (ie .. preperaing for the exams) !!

Finally i got the IIT i wanted. My name appeared in the second list in IITB. I was overjoyed and was over the moon. I got the IIT that i targeted and aspired to study in.Its the best in the country and every engineer dreams to study there.Two my friends also got in IIT Bombay. That makes it even more sweater. We all are going to study Mtech with each other!! Now i can relax because the Admission process is finally over for me.

I know its going to be very difficult for me to study in IIT. I will have to work harder than my capabilities to survive there but my dream of becoming an IITian suggests me to join the IIT.

Looking forward to my education @ IIT Bombay..................

Chrome and Firefox are safer and more secure than safari , opera and IE 7 , Reason - Frequent Updates

A new study has revealed that users who use Google's Chrome or Firefox are more "secure" than folks who use other browsers like Safari or Opera.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

and Google Switzerland have revealed that the built in update mechanisms which keep the browser up to date by automatically downloading and installing updates, offer a far more secure browsing experience as compared with products that need a user prompt to initiate an update.

The study noted that only about 45 percent of Internet users were using the most secure browser version when visiting Google's servers

. It also revealed that as much as 83 percent of all Firefox users were using the latest version of the browser. As for Google Chrome, just 21 days after an update, a very high (97 percent) percentage of users were on the latest version.

On the contrary, a dismal 53 percent of users had updated to the latest version of Safari after three weeks of its release. As for Opera, the figure was even lower at 24 percent. Imagine! 76 percent of Opera users remain vulnerable to threats posed by the security holes that were plugged by the latest updates.

While expert users may scoff at the study, automatic forced updates are one of the best ways to remain protected. However, those who wish more freedom to control their "updates", it's just a matter of designing user friendly preferences that lets the user choose how frequently or when he wants to update.

Most Frequent Virus Attacks are done using PDF

For all those who rely on PDFs for most of your work or studies, here is something you should be careful about. Security software maker F-Secure has discovered that PDF is the most common file type in targeted attacks.

F-Secure conducted a comparative study of file types which were the most vulnerable during 2008 and 2009. The study discovered that Adobe Acrobat Reader was 28.61 percent vulnerable to target attacks in 2008. However, this figure almost doubled to 48.87 percent in 2009.
In 2008, it identified about 1968 targeted attack files. The most popular file type was DOC, i.e. MS word representing 34.55 percent.
So far, in 2009, F-Secure has found 663 targeted attack files and the most popular file type is now PDF. Why has it changed? Primarily because there has been more vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader than in the Microsoft Office applications.

News for Infosys ( Infy ) Joinees 2009

We had a seminar for Infosys joinees 2009 in our college . One of the Infy HR personal told us that the benchmark for performance will be higher this time. That means we have to work harder in this time of recession . Also he said that the training period will be between 4-6 months . The first phase wiil cover the basics(the length of first phase will vary for CS and non-CS students). After the first phase both the CS and non-CS students will be considered same. 2nd and 3rd phase will foucs on specific technology like .NET , Java , Mainframe etc. He also said that Campus connect students(CCP) find it easy during the first phase. And the performance in the CCP online test wouldnt affect the joining dates etc.

Its going to be extremely tough for Infy joinees this time. Not only infy but all the companies are going to make it very difficult for us in this time of recession . Already TCS has decided to layoff many of its employees and infy has also done the same. So things not looking too bright for us.:-(

Microsoft's Bing to Compete with Google

Back in March, a screenshot of Microsoft's new search engine Bing was Leaked on the web. John PaczKowski of Digital Daily mentioned that Microsoft will unveil its new Bing search engine at D: All Things Digital conference which will kick-start on May 26. Looks like search engine wars will get interesting as Wolfram Alpha is already here and now Microsoft is going to bring Bing.

At the D: All Things Digital conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to unveil and talk more about new search engine dubbed Bing. Recently, at the TechEd 2009 India, Ballmer did give some hints about Microsoft prepping to challenge the existing search engine leaders - Google and Yahoo.

Microsoft has been testing Bing since months. As Ballmer stated at TechEd 2009 India, search results should be presented in a more organized manner so that users don't waste more time looking for links. Hence, the search results are grouped for effective representation. For instance, a particular Mobile phone model will show links of reviews, technical discussion forums, addresses of the retail shops, repair shops, videos and so on.



The software giant will battle search engine giant Google. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal Reported that Yahoo plans to improve its Web search queries with specific data like addresses, photos and other 'real world information' rather than merely showing other web-links. Google's search engine is constantly Op to come up with smarter results.

Undoubtedly, Google is leading the search engine market share currently, with Yahoo following it. So, it's obviously that folks over at Microsoft are still looking to ink a deal with Yahoo on ad marketing on Yahoo's search engine markets.

Like we said earlier, in the coming months, search engine wars between Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and the new player Wolfram Alpha will get exciting. But will the purpose to offer best and user-friendly search results be served?

India one of the best in Tackling Recession !

India has been ranked as third best country that will tide over the global economic crisis by a worldwide survey among business persons to understand the business morale and impact of the economic downturn.

According to the Servcorp International Business Confidence Survey, India has been ranked as the third most promising country to survive the economic crisis. Australia has been voted as the best place to be during the recession times by international business people, followed by China.

The third position is held jointly by India and Singapore while Hong Kong and Canada are in the fifth and sixth place respectively.

Interestingly, developing nations have emerged favourites among international businessmen as places which are best placed to tide over the recession as 21 of the 36 countries listed by the Servcorp International Business Confidence Survey are emerging market economies.

Source :- Times of India

Lecture Videos by IIT professors

Few months ago the seven Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) Launched many of the lecture videos by eminent Professors in their college into the internet through Youtube. Also Various courses and notes are available in the internet.

The IITs have taken up an initiative of starting on-line teaching and thus have started offering course materials on-line for every engineering stream.The main objective of NPTEL program is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses. This is being carried out by seven IITs and IISc Bangalore as a collaborative project. In the first phase of the project, supplementary content for 129 web courses in engineering/science and humanities have been developed. Each course contains materials that can be covered in depth in 40 or more lecture hours. In addition, 110 courses have been developed in video format, with each course comprising of approximately 40 or more one-hour lectures. In the next phase other premier institutions are also likely to participate in content creation.

Many professors from all the IITs have provided course materials for each chapter and each subject.

One has to register at the link provided below and can access the course material free of cost.

Every Chapter has been described with diagrams and charts. Please spread this message to everyone, as many can benefit from this program taken up by the government and IIT.

This is just a trial period going on and hence they requested everyone to register at the link given.

1] Type the following address on internet explorer http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in

2] Click on Courses
3] sign up as a NEW USER
4] And one can access any course material.

One can also see the lecture videos online using Youtube . The URL for this is - http://youtube.com/iit

I have personally seen some of these videos and they rock!

So if u guys need some help on some topic then take a look at these videos and courses

Amazing Keyboard ! - Optimus Maximus keyboard

Keyboards are some of the most heavily abused components of any computer. Yet the abuse and torture they go through in our hands gets no consideration, and people usually head for the cheapest. Finally a keyboard has spoken up, and proven that keyboards can do more than just be hit on.

Presenting the Optimus Maximus keyboard, a keyboard so wonderful that you’ll probably give up typing, just so it doesn’t get spoiled. This 113 key monstrosity has an OLED display embedded in each key! The keyboard is capable of changing what is displayed on each key, and no, not so you can watch a movie while you type.

The keyboard supports changing its layout on the fly, so you can actually choose a different key layout for each application you use! So a keyboard layout in Photoshop could show the icons for the action you are going to perform rather than show alphabets, a layout for a music play can show the media controls. Furthermore you can create your own keyboard layouts, by editing a template, and painting right onto the keys! Otherwise you can edit the font, and styles of each key individually.

The keyboard is capable of showing immediate responses to key presses, such as capitalizing the letters on the keyboard when you have caps lock pressed, or showing the extended keyboard when your press alt+ shift.

This presents a huge advantage to gamers, or people who type in multiple languages, or in fact anyone who uses different applications that use the keyboard differently. The keyboard is currently in its design stages, and doesn’t work as well as expected, but manages to impress nonetheless.