Saturday, April 23, 2005

YOU think We are the 'BEST' Techies in IT

For those of us who think Indian's are the world's best software
engineers, heres an eye opener. The ACM (association of computing
machinery) conducted a world level programming competition in which
all universities from around the world took part

http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Finals/


Now many INdian colleges took part too - but the only 2 in the top 100
list were IIT Chennai (62nd position) and IIT Bombay (72). For those
of our friends in Ontario Canada, one of their colleges kicked butt -
the Univ of Waterloo came in third (congrats guys). Iran came 10th.
China had many colleges in top 10. Russia ofcourse was the topper.
Argentina came 35th, Singapore (Nat Univ) 36th and Bangladesh came in
40. Here's the hard truth - We show up on everyone's radar, not
because of quality, but because of volume. Indian consulting companies
charge dirt low prices and thats how they get projects. Its time we
got our shit straight.

Note: Snippet is taken from my Friend's mail !

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Happy Tamil New Year ( Iniya Puthandu Vazhathukkal )

The Tamil calendar is a derivative of the old Hindu solar calendar and is based on the sidereal year (i.e. the time taken for one revolution of the Earth around the sun, or the mean time taken by the sun to return to the same position relative to the background of the fixed stars in the sky). In contrast, most other languages of India (Telugu, Hindi) use lunar calendars. The Tamil Year names follow a 60-year cycle. (The number 60 represents five
Jovian periods i.e. it takes Jupiter about 12 years to orbit the sun).

Name in English Year

1 Prabhava 1987--1988
2 Vibhava 1988--1989
3 Sukla 1989--1990
4 Pramodhudha 1990--1991
5 Prajorpati 1991--1992
6 Angirasa 1992--1993
7 Srimukha 1993--1994
8 Bhava 1994--1995
9 Yuva 1995--1996
10 Dhatu 1996--1997
11 Isvara 1997--1998
12 Vehudhanya 1998--1999
13 Pramathi 1999--2000
14 Vikrama 2000--2001
15 Vishu 2001--2002
16 Chitrabanu 2002--2003
17 Subanu 2003--2004
18 Tarana 2004--2005
19 Parthiba 2005--2006
20 Viya 2006--2007
21 Sarvajit 2007--2008
22 Sarvadhari 2008--2009
23 Virodhi 2009--2010
24 Viruti 2010--2011
25 Kara 2011--2012
26 Nandana 2012--2013
27 Vijaya 2013--2014
28 Jaya 2014--2015
29 Manmatha 2015--2016
30 Dhunmuki 2016--2017
31 Hevilambi 2017--2018
32 Vilambi 2018--2019
33 Vikari 2019--2020
34 Sarvari 2020--2021
35 Plava 2021--2022
36 Subakrit 2022--2023
37 Sobakrit 2023--2024
38 Krodhi 2024--2025
39 Visuvasuva 2025--2026
40 Parabhava 2026--2027
41 Plavanga 2027--2028
42 Kilaka 2028--2029
43 Saumya 2029--2030
44 Sadharana 2030--2031
45 Virodhikritu 2031--2032
46 Paridhabi 2032--2033
47 Pramadhisa 2033--2034
48 Ananda 2034--2035
49 Rakshasa 2035--2036
50 Nala 2036--2037
51 Pingala 2037--2038
52 Kalayukti 2038--2039
53 Siddharthi 2039--2040
54 Raudri 2040--2041
55 Dunmati 2041--2042
56 Dundubhi 2042--2043
57 Rudhrodhgari 2043--2044
58 Raktakshi 2044--2045
59 Krodhana 2045--2046
60 Akshaya 2046--2047

Monday, April 11, 2005

Finally sunnetwork.in is working


Fwd: Does SUN network and DMK web URL change domain names to"co.in"!!!!!!!!! ( Thanks WWW.SUNNETWORK.IN WORKING ) Inbox

Senthil Kumar to queries, shammi
More options 8:09 pm (3 minutes ago)

Dear Sir,

I have been checking your www.sunnetwork.in URL once I sent the mail about the problem. The DMK org was quick to reply and they linked thedmk.org to dmk.in which is fine. Thanks once again for DMK party.. !

I was little disappointed as I did not receive any reply from SUN Network and the same time www.sunnetwork.in was also not functional. Whenever, I see www.sunnetwork.in URL at the end of your program telecasts I got much frustrated as the non-functional web site was being shown without much botheration.

Atlast, NOW it is working and you have made the difference by not just linking to any 'in' domains, it seems the contents are being maintained in the same URL which is really a professional one..

Thanks for doing it.. I am poor guy thinks that I was able to send my views to you !!!!!!!!!!
Whether you did read or not I just vent my feeling this way to many orgs and big personalities in the public life..

Jai Hind

NKS