Saturday, November 6, 2010

Take a Look at September 1752


Take a Look at September 1752 





Have u ever seen the calendar for September 1752???

If you are working in Unix, please try this out. At $ prompt, type: cal 9 1752 - Surprised????


not only in Unix, we can also search it in Google
Explanation for what you see: 
Isn't the output queer? A month with whole of eleven days missing. This was the time England shifted from Roman Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, and the king of England ordered those 11 days to be wiped off the face of the month of September of 1752. (What couldn't a King do in those days?!) And yes, the workers worked for 11 days less, but got paid for the entire 30 days. And that's how "Paid Leave" was born. Hail the King!!!

Before that April is the first Month of the year. Even then people didn’t agree to use the Roman Julian Calendar and celebrated 1 st April as a New Year then the King announced that, those who celebrate April as the New Year are fools… ( April fools…) 
Histories are really interesting!!!
Regards,
Nag.MVS.


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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Milestones just don't stop

He is the marathon man and the milestones just don't stop as far as Sachin Tendulkar is concerned. The first to get 12,000 runs in Tests, the first to cross 13,000 runs and now, inevitably the first to cross 14,000 runs. The 15,000 run mark beckons as inevitably as night follows day. Allied to this is the hundreds milestones – the first to cross 35 centuries, the first to cross 40, then 45 and now again the 50 century landmark beckons as surely as 100 international hundreds.


To make predictions about records staying for any length of time is fraught ith danger what with the proliferation of Test matches, but Tendulkar has climbed a summit which does seem to be beyond the reach of lesser mortals. There was a time when a galloping Ricky Ponting appeared to be a serious challenger for both the main records.

In keeping with his reputation as Australia's best batsman since Don Bradman, Ponting's average soared past 59 and seemed headed to the 60-mark. He had also scored 33 hundreds to Tendulkar's 35 and moved to within about 1200 runs of Tendulkar's world record aggregate.

Nagesh.Mvs

Tendulkar at new heights as World Cup nears

Unruffled composure over two decades, in the face of the world's most hostile attacks and the frenzied demands of a celebrity-fixated society, confirms the true greatness of Sachin Tendulkar.

For a man in his 38th year, Tendulkar's appetite for runs remains unsated and his unrelenting determination to keep wringing the utmost out of the gifts so lavishly bestowed on him at birth is phenomenal.

So, too, is his ability to remain unaffected either on or off the field by the relentless glare of public adulation which makes a private life impossible in his native India.

No hint of scandal has touched the man who last weekend became the first person to pass 14,000 test runs in the second test against Australia and he remains the complete team player.

"It is about what I want to do for my team," he said after scoring his sixth test double-hundred in 171 tests and his 11th century against the team who have dominated cricket during his career. "And I will not compromise on that."

Tendulkar has shown unqualified commitment to his team and his sport since Pakistan's Waqar Younis bloodied his mouth with a short-pitched delivery in his debut test in 1990 at the age of 16.

Eight days later he became the youngest man to score a test half-century and 20 years on he holds the records for most test and one-day runs and the most test and one-day centuries, a scarcely believable 95 in total.

BRADMAN ACCOLADE
The ultimate accolade came from Don Bradman, whose test average of 99.94 dwarfs all his rivals before or since, including Tendulkar whose current mark is just under 57.

Towards the end of his life Bradman, the first celebrity cricketer, whose run-scoring feats for Australia in the depths of the 1930s depression bolstered an emerging nation's morale, called his wife into the room to watch Tendulkar on television.

"I never saw myself play but I feel that this fellow is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on the television and said, yes, there is a similarity between the two," recalled Bradman, who was no more inclined to make unconsidered statements that he had been to play rash shots.

"To me his compactness, his technique, his stroke production, it all seemed to gel as far as I was concerned."

Tendulkar scored his first test hundred at Old Trafford at the age of 17 and he had still to celebrate his 20th birthday when a century off the Australians at Perth won the unstinted praise of cricket's fiercest competitors.

The West Indian, Pakistani and South African fast bowlers at the start of his career held no terrors. His later duels with Shane Warne became the stuff of legend.

Tendulkar, who overtook compatriot Sunil Gavaskar's world record of 34 test centuries in 2006, has reserved his best for Australia.

Under Steve Waugh, Australia fielded a side comparable to Bradman's 1948 Invincibles or Ian Chappell's swaggering buccaneers of the 1970s.

WARNE TAMED
They met their match in India in 1998 when Tendulkar launched a sustained and successful assault on Warne, generally regarded as the best spinner of all time, to average 111.50 in a 2-1 series win for India.

On Tuesday, while Warne fumed via Twitter on Ricky Ponting's field placings, Tendulkar was still Australia's nemesis, scoring the winning runs to give India a 2-0 series victory which consolidated their place at the top of the world rankings.

Unsurprisingly the relentless demands of modern cricket have taken their toll and Tendulkar was troubled by injuries to his elbow and his shoulder and a slump in form in the middle of the last decade.

He rebounded to such effect that this year he was named the International Cricket Council's (ICC) cricketer of the year for the first time, after averaging 81.84 in 10 tests during the review period and 65.28 in 17 one-day internationals.

Tendulkar intends to play next year in the first World Cup to be staged on the Indian sub-continent for 15 years, a tournament which all India fervently hopes will give their team the trophy for the first time since their upset victory over West Indies in 1983.

That unexpected triumph sparked an explosion of one-day cricket in India accompanied by a commercial boom which has helped to make Tendulkar a wealthy man by any standards.

Wealth and fame, though, seem to have scarcely affected a man whose work ethic has been a constant since he accumulated prodigious scores as a schoolboy.

He was predictably named man-of-the-match and man-of-the-series after the second test against Australia but preferred to praise his team mates rather than talk about himself. When he did it was with humility and respect for his sport.

"I've played 20 years but that doesn't mean that I know everything about cricket," Tendulkar said.

"It's important to be a student of this game. That's when you can actually learn and get better. Learning never stops."
Nagesh.Mvs

Amazing facts about India



The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat. INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya yuga ( Golden Age ) More
                                   INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT India

-->The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
-->The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
-->The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero. More facts after the break...


-->Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ).
-->Chess was invented in India.
-->Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.
-->The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
-->The first six Mogul Emperor's of India ruled in an unbroken succession from father to son for two hundred years, from 1526 to 1707.

-->The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
-->India is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old).
-->The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.

-->The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
-->India has the most post offices in the world !
-->The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people !.
-->The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
-->Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
-->Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake.

-->The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
-->Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.

-->The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
-->Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).
Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. ( Source . Gemological Institute of America )


-->The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
-->Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.

-->Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

Nagesh.Mvs

Definition of Mather and Responsibility

Mrs. Licia Ronzulli, a 35-year representative in the EU Parliament from Italy, took her little daughter Victoria to a vote in Strasbourg.






Nagesh.MVS

Thursday, January 28, 2010

10 reasons why people quit jobs in IT industry

Bangalore: With the worst behind and signs of positive demand for outsourcing and offshoring from the U.S. and European markets, which account for about 80 percent of Indian software exports, the IT industry is gearing up for a gradual recovery in the new year. But Indian IT industry still continues to face the problem of attrition, especially when companies are now offering strong pay packages to make up for the lost ground. What really drives employees to jump jobs? Is it only due to bad bosses or there are other reasons involved as well ?



SiliconIndia surveyed people from the IT industry to find out top 10 reasons why people quit their job in IT industry. While we were sure that organization and management play a crucial part in the decision, there were many other reasons as well which may have become more relevant in recent times. "While most people including the managers are of the opinion that majority of people leave because they are unhappy with their compensation, nothing could be farther from the truth. There has been enough research done globally and across industry segments to prove that unhappiness with compensation is only one of the many reasons that people think about quitting," said Puneet Jetli, Senior Vice President and Head - People Function, MindTree.
1. Mismatch between the promised job and the situation on hand

Employees are often promised certain things on what exactly the jobs consist of but after joining the company they find out a completely different picture. It becomes painfully clear to the new hire that the company played a bait-and-switch game and now they are trapped in doing something that they don't want to.


2. Limited opportunity for personal growth and skills


"Every ambitious person is looking to further their career in the shortest possible span of time. Hence despite being in a high growth sector if there isn't ample opportunity for reasonably quick vertical or lateral growth; then it is usually time to move on," says Pradeep Thomas Abraham, Managing Director of Paytronic Networks limited. The most successful employers find ways to help employees develop new skills and responsibilities in their current positions.


3. Boss too much to handle


Prashant Hannovar, Manager of Human Resource of NextBiT Computing has had a fair deal of experience in dealing with different kinds of candidates. He says, "Employee leaves the organization because of a manager's leadership style or bad management style. Employee leave because of managers who puts the blame on the other employee, making others a scape goat, a Micro manager-who is known for having no trust/confidence in self and on the team."


4. Lack of recognition of the good work being put-in


Individual accomplishments should be considered by the company and should be pointed out in praise that will help to further increase productivity, make the employee feel appreciated, and create an example for other employees to follow, knowing that they will be rewarded. "Many employees who have quit and answered the exit interviews have revealed on not getting recognized despite of hard work/good Performance," says Hannovar.


5. Management freezes raises and promotions


Money is not always a very important category for people to quit, but it definitely ranks high. Many employees quit the Organization as they get better compensation/salaries with the competitors. Also with the salaries, many of the Techies (engineers) today are offered Onsite opportunity too. This is the normal phenomena in the IT Industry which nothing much can be worked out.


6. Poor work culture/work ethic


Another important factor that results in undesired attrition is the bad work culture. Bad work culture constitutes unhealthy political work environment where you can find lot of rumors/grape wines, partiality, favoritism, lack of trust, lack of good HR best practices like restrictions imposed on the employees on clothing, leaves and many more.


1. Mismatch between the promised job and the situation on hand


Employees are often promised certain things on what exactly the jobs consist of but after joining the company they find out a completely different picture. It becomes painfully clear to the new hire that the company played a bait-and-switch game and now they are trapped in doing something that they don't want to.


2. Limited opportunity for personal growth and skills


"Every ambitious person is looking to further their career in the shortest possible span of time. Hence despite being in a high growth sector if there isn't ample opportunity for reasonably quick vertical or lateral growth; then it is usually time to move on," says Pradeep Thomas Abraham, Managing Director of Paytronic Networks limited. The most successful employers find ways to help employees develop new skills and responsibilities in their current positions.


3. Boss too much to handle


Prashant Hannovar, Manager of Human Resource of NextBiT Computing has had a fair deal of experience in dealing with different kinds of candidates. He says, "Employee leaves the organization because of a manager's leadership style or bad management style. Employee leave because of managers who puts the blame on the other employee, making others a scape goat, a Micro manager-who is known for having no trust/confidence in self and on the team."


4. Lack of recognition of the good work being put-in


Individual accomplishments should be considered by the company and should be pointed out in praise that will help to further increase productivity, make the employee feel appreciated, and create an example for other employees to follow, knowing that they will be rewarded. "Many employees who have quit and answered the exit interviews have revealed on not getting recognized despite of hard work/good Performance," says Hannovar.


5. Management freezes raises and promotions


Money is not always a very important category for people to quit, but it definitely ranks high. Many employees quit the Organization as they get better compensation/salaries with the competitors. Also with the salaries, many of the Techies (engineers) today are offered Onsite opportunity too. This is the normal phenomena in the IT Industry which nothing much can be worked out.


6. Poor work culture/work ethic


Another important factor that results in undesired attrition is the bad work culture. Bad work culture constitutes unhealthy political work environment where you can find lot of rumors/grape wines, partiality, favoritism, lack of trust, lack of good HR best practices like restrictions imposed on the employees on clothing, leaves and many more.




7. Inability to maintain/achieve a healthy work-life balance


In the light of the recent trend of laying off huge number of employees, many employees (who are not fired) feel the heat of too much work. Sometimes they find themselves doing the work of more than two people which often result into work taken home and extended office hours. Too much work often creates stress which can force the employee to quit.


8. Lack of Feedback Mechanisms


Lot of managers don't provide the proper feedback at regular intervals on the employee performance. Many employees look for feedback which helps them to grow in their career. Lack of feedback makes an employee or the team members frustrated, feel out of the team or lost, which leads to the rise in the attrition level in the organization.


9. Lack of decision-making power


A lot of managers simply do not know how to delegate effectively. This results in undue micro management by the immediate superior that shakes the faith and self confidence of the employee. A manager should empower employees and allow them the freedom to make suggestions and to take decisions.


10. No fun or enjoyment in job/ unchallenged


Two scenarios can fit into this. One is when employee becomes dull of the daily routine. Same job, with same skills and everything becomes dull, then it's time for employees to move on. The second scenario can be when employee don't feel challenged with the current job. Employees sometime need more responsibilities and work to challenge their skills or they leave in hunt of another job for fresh challenges.


There are many more reasons which may be valid from person to person but these are the top ten reasons which the IT industry must really look upon to improve on to reduce attrition. "The only way to work on retention is to pro-actively focus on establishing policies, practices, systems and culture that help reduce triggers on these counts," said Jetli.






Reference: Posted in siliconindia on 27th jan.


Regards,
Nagesh.MVS


Wednesday, January 20, 2010

What Websites Does China Block and Censor Online?


As you know, one of the most favorite pastime of China Government is to censor those websites and blogs which are considered “harmful” for its politics and status-quo. But what are the websites and the keywords which are censored? What follows is a nice visualisation of what China consider dangerous for itself and its users.


Regards,
Nagesh.MVS