Friday, September 11, 2009

Subex Azure- Does anyone know about it?

Hello, Does anyone know about Subex Azure? I have no idea about the company. Just visited company's website and other forums, couldnt gather much information. They dont hire people in bulk. By chance if you visit my blog and you work for Subex Azure, please leave a comment here or you can mail me: vidhilikitha@gmail.com

Thanks and good morning. :P

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Output of Independence Day Program

Wondering what that program with crap filled for loop does? Well this is the output...




Cool aint it?

Independence Day Program

Well, I am not talking about Independence Day celebrations. I just got a cool C program just copy and execute it. Jai Hind. Sorry for wishing a bit late.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
int a,b,c;
int count = 1;

for (b=c=10;a="- FIGURE?, UMKC,XYZHello Folks,\
TFy!QJu ROo TNn(ROo)SLq SLq ULo+\
UHs UJq TNn*RPn/QPbEWS_JSWQAIJO^\
NBELPeHBFHT}TnALVlBLOFAkHFOuFETp\
HCStHAUFAgcEAelclcn^r^r\\tZvYxXy\
T|S~Pn SPm SOn TNn ULo0ULo#ULo-W\
Hq!WFs XDt!" [b+++21]; )

for(; a-- > 64 ; )putchar ( ++c=='Z' ? c = c/ 9:32^b&1);

//system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

Friday, July 31, 2009

Adios Brother, All the best

One big advantage of being younger son is that you get pampered a lot :P. You don't have to worry about taking any responsibility. The disadvantage: You will find it difficult later. You will be groping in darkness.

My brother yesterday left for US, Purdue University to pursue his Masters. Congratulations for getting admit in of one of the top 10 univs. Till now he and my father bore all the responsibilities. Now he is gone, everything lies on me. I now realize how difficult it was for my brother to manage the whole thing, even though he had a comfortable job(@ AMD). Seriously speaking I would have buckled under pressure if I had been in his place.

I am in 7th sem, still no placements, HP is coming on 12th. Thats an opportunity I would not like to let go. If I can clear written and tech rounds, then I can see a glimmer of hope. Anyway I have a good MHRD Haptic project in my kitty and also a technical paper submitted to IEEE Humanitarian Challenge Conference and HAVE, Italy. That adds a lot to my resume now. But I should not rule out others.

My short term plans are to prepare for HP, prepare for HP, prepare for HP :P. Wish me good luck.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Why Microsoft's Bing is better than Google...

Hey all,
This is what happens when you try to "over-exceed" your competitor. The whole thing backfires.

Open Google and search "Bill Gates sucks". This is what you get



You get 448,000 results in Google.

Now try Microsoft's Bing. Search for "Bill Gates sucks". This is what you get.



757,000 results. I don't wish to bring any profanity in my blog, but look at the first result in Bing. Efff YOU BILL GATES. :D :D :D. See Bing is better than Google.

These screen shots were taken on Monday afternoon. The same day in the morning at college while doing project we tried this. Google gave the same number of results now and Bing gave 17,15,000 results. In the afternoon Bing gave less number of results. Yes, its obvious that Microsoft Bing developers had to save their jobs and reduced the number of search results.
What do you say? Try this once and see. Till then adios. We have a project demonstration tomorrow through video conference with State University of New York. Need to prepare a lot. Wish us good luck. We need lots. :P. Anyway tomorrow I will upload all the conference pics.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Ratan Tata's NANO is nothing compared to that of Sam Anderson's

For all those who don't know Sam Anderson, let me introduce him to you. Sam Anderson is superstar of Tamil film industry. He has made Vivek, Vadivel etc run for their money with his acting skill (I think I am exaggerating). His movies are awesome. Some people who watched his movie are still in NIMHANS. Just goto youtube and search "sam anderson tamil", you will get hell lot of videos.

Here is one scene from Sam Anderson's movie Yaarukku Yaaro (Yaarigagi yaaro). He is an automobile engineer in this movie. He develops a small sized car for middle class people for just 70000 Rs. Ratan Tata has a stiff competition now. Watch the video at your own risk.




For those who dont know tamil, let me translate:

Background music ting ting tong tong tadaaaa pa pa pa paa paa.

Heroine: Hi daddy.
Daddy: Hi.
Heroine: He is David.
Daddy: Welcome. Please have a seat.
Sam aka David: Thank you.
Daddy: Mr.David, you saved me from a big trouble that day. I wanted come to your house personally and thank you .
Heroine: Daddy he wants to talk to you about business.
Daddy: Oh sure.
Sam aka David: Saar, I yam yan yautomobile yengineer.
Daddy: I know, my daughter told everything about you. I heard that you have modelled a small sized car.
Sam aka David: Yes sir I came here to talk about it. This is the car which I modelled.

(Sam shows a car drawn on KG cardboard. I seriously doubt that it is his design. I think he copied from Deccan Herald's Open Sesame additional for children) :)

Daddy: You designed it on your own?
Sam aka David: Yes saar.
Daddy: But you should invest crores of rupees on this. Do you have money?
Sam aka David: I don't have that much money, but i will build a model and take loan from bank and start a factory.
Daddy: Oh ok. You are taking loan.
Sam aka David: This car is for middle class people. If this car is introduced in our state it will be popular.
Daddy: What is the cost of this car? Any estimate?
Sam aka David: 70000Rs.
Daddy: 70000Rs !!!
Sam aka David: Yes saar. Instead of buying 6-7 lakh Rs car, this car is 10 times cheaper.
Daddy: Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

For your info, there is an Orkut Sam Anderson fan community.

Before and After

I was watching ಎದೆ ತುಂಬಿ ಹಾಡುವೆನು(I consider this show as best). A small kid sang vishnuvardhan's ತುತ್ತು ಅನ್ನ ತಿನೋಕ್ಕೆ beautifully. I don't know from which movie it is, but the song has a very good message and it is meaningful. I assume that the movie was made 30 years ago. It describes the needs of a man at that time. The song goes something like this:

ತುತ್ತು ಅನ್ನ ತಿನ್ನೋಕೆ

ಬೊಗಸೆ ನೀರು ಕುಡಿಯೋಕೆ

ತುಂಡು ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಸಾಕು ನನ್ನ ಮಾನ ಮುಚ್ಚೋಕೆ

ಅಂಗೈ ಅಗಲ ಜಾಗ ಸಾಕು ಹಯಾಗಿರೋಕೆ...

This song can be modified taking into consideration needs of a man nowadays. Maybe something like this:

Pizza burger ತಿನ್ನೋಕೆ

Pepsi coke ಕುಡಿಯೋಕೆ

ತುಂಡು ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಬೇಕು ಈಗ fashion ಮಾಡೋಕೆ

60 80 site ಬೇಕು ಮನೆಯನು ಕಟ್ಟೋಕೆ.

What do you say?

Monday, June 1, 2009

Tag clouds or Label clouds in Blogger

Hey all. I wanted some blogger tweaks badly and found one. Tag clouds are amazing, eye catching cloud like formation of labels or tags.

The first use of tag clouds on a high-profile website was on the photo sharing site Flickr, created by Flickr co-founder and interaction designer Stewart Butterfield.

Tag clouds in websites rely on the frequency of words appearing. The algorithm excludes commonly occurring words like is, an, you, we etc. The improbable words or keywords are taken into account and accordingly a visual cloud is formed.

In Blogger, the labels act as keywords thus reducing the work of the algorithm(It's a big javascript). It just manipulates the labels. Checks how many posts were written under a particular topic/label. In fact you can change the javascript, but please save your old blog template before doing any changes.

Play with your blog appearance and make it more attractive and appealing for readers. You can check out top left side of my blog for the label cloud.

Click here to add Label clouds to your blog.

Click here to know more about tag clouds.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Breaking News: (Ad)vani meets (Ad)am.

Both the IPLs viz, Indian Premier League and Indian Political League have come to an end. One had a nailbiting finish while other saw a comprehensive victory for one of the political parties.
A battered and bruised Advani met Golden Player of IPL Adam Gilchrist at a hotel in Hyderabad.
Here goes the conversation between the "Ad"s.

Advani: Congratulations. Did you enjoy Bangalore Beer and Hyderabadi Biryani in the finals?

Adam: Thanks mate, I enjoyed it. At the same time I really feel sorry for you.

Advani: Yes. Sab uparwala ka khel hai. Accha tell me your secret of success. How did you turn the points table around? It's amazing.

Adam: Well mate, we learnt a lot from mistakes which we consistently repeated last season. We dropped Laxman who was looking out of sorts in initial ties. But you were stuck with Ram.

Advani: You mean I should drop myself from the team?

Adam: Don't worry, anyway you are retiring. But Laxman gave his inputs.

Advani: I am happy that the Left parties were routed in Bengal.

Adam: Just like Kolkata Knight Riders. :)

Advani: MNS in Maharashtra hurt us a lot.

Adam: We had no problems with Mumbai Indians.

Advani: Shilpa Shetty's Rajasthan Royals lost badly.

Adam: Just like Vasundhara Raje. Am I right?

Advani: Tell me how did you beat Delhi Daredevils? We didn't even win a seat in Delhi.

Adam: Yup. But Gautam Gambhir(read it as Shiela Dixit for her consistent performance as CM) was the key. Delhi also missed McGrath.

Advani: Just like we missed Pramod Mahajan.

Advani: Kings XI Punjab also lost. Even our alliance with SAD couldn't save us in Punjab.

Adam: Oh... That's SAD mate. KXIP lost because Yuvraj, the key player was not fit. He sustained hell lot of injuries everytime Priety Zinta jumped on Yuvi when KXIP won matches. Bubbles are light but not this Bubbly said Yuvi once to me.

Advani: Hmmm, how about Chennai Super Kings? We virtually have no presence in Tamil Nadu. DMK won handsomely.

Adam: Beating CSK was difficult. Very much. We had good plans for tackling DMK of CSK,
D - Dhoni, M - Matthew Hayden, K - Krishnamachari Srikanth's rubbish.

Advani: We are very happy that we performed well in Karnataka, just like RCB.

Adam: Thats good. But they were dissapointed because Katrina was at the backstage rehersing for closing ceremony. I even heard from Beer Baron Mallya that during the semis against CSK, Virat Kohli and Ross Taylor had a bet that if whoever hits more "DLF maximum" towards Katrina will win 500$. That's why they were attacking Murali and Raina. Unfortunately one of the ball hit Mallya's belly and he started dancing like a bar dancer.

Advani: Nice meeting you mitr(Advani way of saying 'mate'). Thanks for sharing your experience. I will write second volume for my first voluminous book My Country My Life.

Adam: All the best mate. Nice meeting you.

Disclaimer: This post is not meant to hurt anyone or anyone's sentiment.