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Tuesday, December 30, 2003
nethaji's birthday celebrations !
Yesterday is Nethaji's birthday. We went out to Arasappar, Saidapet. The dinner was nice! (ofcourse nothing different from the earlier ones I have attended!!). Hotel business also seems nice. These guys are also making a lot of money but very simply! Need to think of this business. Read somewhere that Sachin is also running a hotel in Mumbai! He has plans to open a few more hotels in other countries (chain of hotels). Seems to be a very profitting business! Today is last day of year 2003. Let me do something useful today!
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Friday, December 19, 2003
Challenge to Open Source Innovate, Don't Copy
Challenge to Open Source : Innovate, Don't Copy
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Google Abuses Search Leadership
Google Abuses Search Leadership : http://www.ftponline.com/weblogger/forum.aspx?ID=1&DATE=12/15/2003
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AdventNet Web NMS 4.5 Release Celebrations : Team Outing to MGM Resort!!
We (nms4-engg) went to MGM beach resort today. Nothing special, it was very usual : two buses - started late by an hour - events - lunch - events again - return by 6.45 to office! I spent sometime in beach and a lot of thoughts came to my mind! (this too was as usual!!) These guys are earning a lot in this resort business. There are 111 rooms each costing Rs. 2, 800 per day! There around 300 people working in this resort (50-60 of them in catering dept - most of them from other states like Bihar) and the areas spans around 2000 acres. Polaris guys also came today. Tomorrow HCL people (1500 heads!) are coming. The resort rooms are full on all weekends! Also, most of the people stay there are foreigners and they stay for weeks together! (As always, our Chithu was talk of the town today!!)
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Thursday, December 18, 2003
imdb
Our rajanna uses this site to select the movies from this page to screen in Raj Talkies : http://www.imdb.com/
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
"Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Mandrake" - Israeli Government 'Just Says No'
http://linuxworld.com/story/38223.htm
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Friday, December 12, 2003
Wipro - Applying Thoughts Hi Sara & frends, how'z things goin'. Y no body else is posting messages here?
Friday, December 05, 2003
Origin of Famous Brand Names There are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances. Mercedes This was actually the financier's daughter's name. Adobe This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apple Computers It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock. CISCO It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco. Compaq This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object. Corel The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory. Google The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia (Indian) came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing. Hewlett Packard Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Intel Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics. Lotus (Notes) Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Microsoft Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on. Motorola Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola. ORACLE Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larrymin and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company. Sony It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster. SUN Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
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Servlet 2.4, JSP 2.0, EJB 2.1 specs (final versions) were released last week!
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