Indian Elections

I read this article from a mail.. Avery good article.. i wanted to share..

THE INDIAN ELECTIONS-NEW YORK TIMES  

                            

NEW YORK TIMES, April 15, 2009

                                    

It is truly the greatest show on Earth, an ode to a diverse and democratic ethos, where 700 million + of humanity vote,providing their small part in directing their ancient civilization into the future. It is no less impressive when done in a neighborhood which includes de-stabilizing and violent Pakistan , China , and Burma . 

              

Its challenges are immense, more so probably than anywhere else, particularly in development and fending off terrorism -- but considering   

these challenges and its neighbors, it is even more astounding that the most diverse nation on Earth, with hundreds of languages, all religions and cultures, is not only surviving, but thriving.                             

The nation where Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism were born, which is the second largest Muslim nation on Earth; where Christianity has existed for 2000 years; where the oldest Jewish synagogues and Jewish communities have resided since the Romans burnt their 2nd temple; where the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile reside; where the      

Zoroastrians from Persia have thrived since being thrown out of their ancient homeland; where Armenians and Syrians and many others have to come live; where the Paris-based OECD said was the largest economy on Earth 1500 of the last 2000 years, including the 2nd largest only 200 years ago; where 3 Muslim Presidents have been elected, where a Sikh is Prime Minister and the head of the ruling party a Catholic Italian woman, where  the President is also a women, succeeding a Muslim President who as a rocket scientist was a hero in the nation; where a booming economy is lifting 40 million out of poverty each year and is expected to have the majority of its population in the middle class, already equal to the entire US population, by 2025; where its optimism and vibrancy is manifested in its movies, arts, economic growth, and voting, despite all the incredible challenges and hardships; where all the great powers are vying for influence, as it itself finds its place in the world.  

                   

Where all of this is happening, is India , and as greater than 1/10 of humanity gets ready to vote, it is an inspiration to all the World.

            

— V Mitchell , New York , NY           

Tech-No-Media

Hi all,
Many(why many, thiyagu) feel that my blog contains much of technical stuffs. But my intention is only to share some information to others and nothing else. So await for more tech-no stuffs
Dheena

Hyper-V

The most notorious draw back in Microsoft Vista is the non availability of the backward compatibility for XP applications, even in compatibility mode. But what is the change that Microsoft have made in Windows 7 to solve this issue?. The answer is Hyper-V

So what is Hyper-V?

Hyper-V is a hypervisor based virtualization system for windows new operating systems like Windows server 2008 and Windows 7. The basic architecture of these operating systems will be,


So the Hyper-V layer sits between hardware and HAL and routes the system calls and responses to the various kernels, knowing from which kernel the call came from.For example, if the call has come from linux VSC(Virtualization Service Client) it will route the responses to linux kernel.

The Windows 7 has a default XP VSC installed. It means what, You'll get a XP SP3 free with Win7. I'll not guarentee the same speed when you run apllication in XP natively. But it was a good try for MICROSOFT. The sad thing is not all processors support this hardware level virtualization. You need to check the Hyper-V compatibility for your PC

Intel processors use this tool to check the compatibility: Intel® Processor Identification Utility

For my beloved AMD users:
AMD Virtualization™ Technology and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ System Compatibility Check Utility

My processor supports Hyper-V and yours???

JOKE

Teacher : "Three beautiful women walking in the beach". Change it to Exclamatory sentence.
Student : "Wow".

An Unknown Battle

Hello all.... this time I'm here with a very different topic and also should i say that a very interesting topic too.. We all know about the war of browsers where browser application from various companies try to outsmart the other. When we say internet browser the first thing comes in to our mind is Internet Explorer. Ya its true that much domination they have made in the browser battle. The one reason is the Operating system, Windows that has been used by majority of people. So they are almost compelled to used the IE. But for how long they can monopolize the browser business. That's why they are now having a very huge competition from companies like Google, Mozilla, Apple, Opera and so on. But this is not the battle I'm gonna speak about.


PDF files are almost very essential in our day to day life. But do we ever mind what kinda reader we use for reading PDF files. I guess most of the answer s are No. But you may ask is it really mandatory for knowing about the performances of PDF readers. Ya your question is valid and it may not make any difference for us. But for companies and developers whose application relies on high end PDF processing capabilities and PDF search filters, it is very important.

I use Foxit reader for PDF reading since my college days. The reason is slow loading and absence of tabbed interface in Adobe reader. But i was thinking that time that the foxit was yet another PDF reader and it's no way a competitor for Adobe. But now there was a heavy competition for providing PDF IFilter to Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services. The major competitors were Adobe and Foxit and foxit PDF IFilter has been selected by microsoft for its search indexing services.

According to Microsoft Blog,"Foxit 32bit PDF IFilter is more than 4 times faster than the Adobe one.On average, Foxit x64 PDF IFilter is still 5 times faster than the Adobe one. So if PDF indexing is the key to your business, go with Foxit to get a much better performance". Finally my favorite PDF reader had won the Giant Adobe in this battle.

So whats the moral of the story: "You don't need to worry about who's your competition is. But you need to worry only on how you are gonna beat your rival, that's what important".

So try Foxit reader it is very light and I'm sure that you'll really gonna love it.
Bye all! will cya soon ..