Do you know? alpha-numeric....

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 (Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred).

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 (Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand).

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999 (Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion).

And the letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of the entire English Counting.

Silence's Sound

“Well, How can Silence have a sound when it literally means absence of sound” is the very first thought that used to come to my mind (and perhaps to your mind also) on reading this line earlier. Not anymore.

I first got a mobile phone about 8 years ago, primarily for communication purposes and also as an alternative to my existing landline. But soon came a mobile phone with FM radio, internet, e-mail, gaming, Bluetooth, MS Office, MP3, dual SIM, calendar, camera with video recorder and MMS. It was pretty much an alternative for my laptop.

Despite such oceans of features available in my new gizmo, the one basic feature that has enthralled me and kept a tab on my wallet while I effectively communicate is the missed call. Today it has become an important part of my (and I am sure yours too :-) ) life. I receive my day’s first missed call at 6.00 in the morning from my friend for our cricket game signaling ‘Wake up Buddy! Let’s play’. I may miss a few cover drives or leg glances in the game but never forget to give a missed call to my mom at the fag end of the game to keep my breakfast ready.

While having lunch, my colleague gives me a missed call, reminding me that there are only minutes left to catch the company cab. I can’t afford to miss the missed call for dinner from my buddies at office, because it is as good as missing their company at the dinner table, along with some interesting and important (you know what kind of important) conversations. During the fag end of my shift my Cab driver throws a volley of miscalls to me to let me know that he is waiting for us, making me think sometimes as to “Who is serving whom ?“. And did I forget to mention the one missed call I (not only me but everybody) literally can not afford to miss. Yeah, you guessed it correct, girlfriend.

In between all the day’s schedule, a missed call from her means, call me back! The most important of all the missed calls one gets during the day, one cannot afford to miss it, or else be ready to pay heavy penalty both psychologically and economically. I have become so habituated to the missed call that when my friend called the other morning to tell me he wouldn’t make it for the match; I ignored his call assuming it to be his regular missed call!

One survey done by some firm says the most commonly used application on mobile phones is SMS text messaging, with 74 per cent of mobile phone users vouching for it. I feel, however, that if a missed call application ever existed, it would certainly have trumped messaging by leaps and bounds. While my mobile phone bills are plummeting, my inter-personal relationships are soaring; thanks to the “heavenly” missed call. The missed call communication involves a very simple yet powerful protocol of mutual understanding and trust and is extremely effective in saving precious talk time making you more productive(which we hear more these days, no prizes for guessing why :-) ).

While attending a soft skill session, I was recently told about non-verbal communication where messages are exchanged through facial expression, body language, posture, gesture or eye contact. I fully agree with the list, but of course I still feel though that the missed call is still missing its true place over there. I hope you also agree........

By Raj

You should get to know all these......

1. Ants don't sleep.
2. Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
3. A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
4. The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
5. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
6. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
7. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
8. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
9. A baby bat is called a pup.
10. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
11. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
12. Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
13. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
14. Snakes are immune to their own poison.
15. Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
16. The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
17. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
18. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
19. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
20. The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
21. A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
22. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
23. A black panther is really a black leopard.
24. Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
25. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
26. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

7 Reasons Why Computers Run Slower As They Get Older

It never fails - awhile back, perhaps it was a few years, perhaps it was only a few months, you bought a new super-fast, top-of-the-line desktop or laptop computer. At first it ran fantastic - there were few software crashes, browser pages visually popped onscreen, and games ran smoothly at high frame rates.

Unfortunately as the computer got older, problems started occurring. Crashes became more frequent, web pages took longer to load, games appeared slightly jerky, and the overall computing experience lost its luster. Why did this happen? Is there a conspiracy among computer and software manufacturers to make computers run slower so you'll give up and buy a new machine? While conspiracy theories are questionable, here are seven valid reasons why your computer may start to run slower as time passes:

1. Slower boot due to installed software

If you install software, device drivers, or other applications that request to be loaded upon a computer's boot, naturally your computer will start up slower. Security software such as firewalls and antivirus applications must start up immediately to help increase your security. Some software partially loads at boot so when you launch applications they seem to start faster. Plus, device drivers and helper software for printers, multimedia devices, and other peripherals may require being loaded at boot to make using such devices in a plug-and-play environment as seamless as possible. All of this increases your overall boot time.

2. Slower overall experience due to installed software

Just as loading these applications slow your computer's boot time, they also may require additional CPU cycles, causing your main applications such as web browsers or word processors to run slower. Plus, more tasks require additional RAM, requiring your computer to use your hard drive as virtual memory. Paging information to and from your hard drive increases the disk thrashing, slowing down your computer further.

You can help offset this somewhat by installing additional RAM if supported by your computer.

3. Uninstall software doesn't always work well

While most applications support an uninstall procedure, these don't always work perfectly. Uninstallers may leave temporary files, items in the Windows Registry, startup tasks to now non-existing files, device drivers that now are not needed, etc. Install and uninstall many applications and the leftover garbage can drastically slow your computer's overall speed.

4. Hard drive fragmentation

As you write and delete files on your hard drive, the locations of files become scattered throughout, and files themselves can become fragmented. This causes longer times to seek for and load individual files, slowing down your computing experience.

This is more of a problem on Windows computers, and while it comes with defragmentation software, it may not automatically run by default and need to be executed manually. Plus, it is debatable how well it actually works. Third-party software claim to do a much better job in defragmentation, potentially increasing your computer's performance.

5 Updates require more power

Updates to your device drivers, software, and operating system just may require more computing power than older versions. This can be due to sloppy programming or the addition of newer features. Plus, as security holes are fixed and workarounds created, such software may require more CPU cycles, RAM, and overall storage space on your hard drive.

Security is one reason why an older version of Windows may run much faster than a newer version. While the older version may seem to work fine, its lack of protection features can expose your computer to all types of security risks. 

6. Possible hardware problems

In some circumstances, failing hardware may be to blame. Bad sectors can form on hard drives, and if the drive repeatedly tries to access a file on a failing sector or has to block off certain sectors as unusable due to minor failures, this can increase file access time. Other problems such as software that never used to crash but now aborts continuously can be linked to malfunctioning RAM. Diagnostic programs found on the Internet can help confirm either of these problems if they are suspect.

7. The dreaded malware

Of course, viruses, spyware, and other malware may be to blame. These create additional processes that put more strain on a computer and can increase its overall boot time. Other users may be lurking around your PC via an open port, causing all sorts of nastiness. Malware may be running in the background using your computer to relay e-mail messages, attempt to shut down websites via denial of service (DoS) attacks, and more. Thus, while security software may decrease your computer's overall speed slightly, not having such software (and keeping it updated) can cause an even worse situation.

As you can see, perhaps the debated conspiracy theory of hardware and software makers teaming up to slow computers down as they get older may not be accurate. Installing and updating software can increase your boot time and decrease speed of other applications. Faulty uninstallers leave junk behind that can slow your computing experience. Hard drive fragmentation causes increased file seek and read time. Hardware failures may be to blame for other problems. And of course, there's always the possibility of a malware infection slowing the machine. By understanding the true reasons computers may slow down with age you can take steps to offset these problems.

Src : malektips.com

 

Some facts may not useful for you

You wanted to know...

1)      Giraffe sleep requirements vary between 5 minutes and 2 hours.(Ask me)

2)      Hippopotamus fart through their mouth (eeks!! How weird)

3)      The amount of Carbon present in human body, altogether can form 900 Pencils ( and we complained that we don’t have pencils)

4)      The amount of Iron present in human body, altogether can form 3 nails (enough to nail us)

5)      Most tigers live in India. Most are actually kept as private pets in the United States. There are estimated to be 12,000 kept as pets, 4,000 in Texas alone (now that’s what you call dare (d)evils)

6)      Like humans who are typically right- or left-handed, elephants are usually right- or left-tusked. The dominant tusk, called the master tusk, is generally shorter and more rounded at the tip from wear (is out prominent hand shorter)

7)      Everest is not the tallest mountain. This is true if one measures from base to peak: then Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the tallest. However, most often, when people speak of Everest as the tallest mountain, they are referring to it being the highest point above sea level. (now that’s called relativity)

8)      An adult elephant can consume 140–270 kg (300–600 lb) of food a day. 60% of that food leaves the elephant's body undigested (what a waste)

9)      Elephants gestation (pregnancy) period lasts about 22 months (630–660 days), the longest gestation period of any mammal (so sad)  

Mobile phones- With or without?

It's close to 10 years now that mobile phones have made their way in India. Every one of us has become so dependent on it now. I often wonder whether the burst of mobile phones are good or bad. So this just an article is neither speaking for it nor against it.

Many years ago when I was 15, I had to travel overnight on a bus and reach Mysore to a relative's house. That was my first long journey alone. All I had was the postal address of my destination. My bus tickets were bought much in advance and the intimation of where my cousin should pick me up from bus station was intimated by post card. And believe me it worked like charm. I reached safely.

Recently I went to Mysore, this time to meet a friend. We were not sure where we will meet or what time we will meet. We had the convenience of what we call "the mobile phone". We could plan the meeting as late as possible, as convenient as possible. And at last we did come to a conclusion and decided where to meet and when to meet. The directions to get there were discussed. We made at least 10 phone calls and on reaching the place, we still called each other to exactly find out where we are. We finally made it to the meeting after about 10 odd phone calls! Cool huh?

But honestly I liked what I did many years ago much more! There was a thrill in doing it that way, there were surprises.

Going on, many times I go to shopping mall stand in front of the shopping racks of my favorite retailer. I then call up my wife who will stand in front of the refrigerator and we shop what we want thru' a phone call. But what about those good old days where we used to make a list of items on paper, review it, go over it again. I definitely miss them!

We were a bunch of college friends meeting after many many years. The meeting went on, except that any point of time at least two of them would be on their mobiles talking something more important (I hope?)

There was a robbery in Jayanagar, Bangalore last month. Reportedly mobile phones were used effectively to coordinate the activity, finding out when the house will become empty etc. And how about 26/11 Mumbai attack? How about those satellite phones used by the terrorists?

I won't even want to write about driving while talking on mobile phones on one hand. It will save the length of this article considerably!

My cousin who is studying has a fancy mobile rate plan, all his SMS are free. Off late, I see him more with heads bowed down, stressfully working the mobile keys to type his messages and trying to make best use of this rate plan.

And then came bluetooth. At least a dozen times I have spoken to guys with Bluetooth/hands free, only to realize that they were speaking on the phone and not with me.

I don't remember when I attended a meeting where that irritating phone call from one of the members disturbed everyone else.

I don't remember when I saw a full length movie without being buzzed by the phone
Sometimes when I am on a bus, I hear people giving the exact whereabouts of the bus. Is that needed? What were they doing before mobiles came into their lives? I cannot sleep in the buses anymore.

I am mostly happy where we are with the mobile phones today. But sometimes I wonder whether our life was just as good without them!

byAdige

* Stars, Beeps and Realities *

     Stars have made me wonder since childhood and so is the situation even now except the change, that earlier it was when gazing at the night sky and now at the idiot box. Given above are the samples which could switch on your brains to guessing mode. Well the last three stars are “etc”. Others are left to you for figuring. 

Yes. This is the current scenario about the various reality shows currently on air in our TV sets; Sub-titles, with most of the words concealed by STARS and the Results given by judges, with BEEPS dubbing in the actual words. The interesting and unfortunate part is that such shows have a high TRP! 

Take the instance of a TV show where Youngistan (oh! Not a country, but Young + Hindustan) flocks to DATE and Romance using all the abusive language to seduce. The shocking ones are those used by the Judges (or the so called moderators) which are new to our lexicon. These shows have been designed in such a way to be the breeding grounds to create betrayal, hatred and loss of our culture. 

Leave alone the youths; even children are not spared by these shows! Agreeing on the point that the shows create many opportunities, I regret that the young minds are misguided by these shows. A child speaks of looking sexier! I neither understand where they pick up such words nor do I know if they understand what they mean. The child is often over-loaded by their parents in the name of such competitions hindering their normal growth. 

NEWS and quizzes have become sparse. Reality shows are occupying those slots. Moral and Ethics are at Cross-fire. There is an urgent need to get things straight before this turns into the loop for our own destruction. The silver-lining is that there are still a few programmes like “Mission Navy” which inspire youth. 

This is the awakening alarm for each one of us before those stars and beeps are removed to display the uncensored. Things should change. But this requires joint effort of the entire society. Would it turn into a REALITY! 

 by Kumar