Gate 2011 update...

Hi,

GATE 2011 notification is out. Sale of Application forms will commence 21st September.

The pattern of questions remains the same, as well as the marks. We have 65 Questions, 100 marks,

Two more papers have moved online this time, so we have MN, TF, AE and GG online.

One more change -In GATE 2011, the OFFLINE examination will be conducted in two sessions on Sunday, February 13, 2011. The OFFLINE examination in AR, BT, CE, CH, CS, ME, PH and PI papers will be held in the forenoon session from 09.00 hrs to 12.00 hrs. The OFFLINE examination in AG, CY, EC, EE, IN, MA, MT, XE and XL will be held in the afternoon session from 14.00 hrs to 17.00 hrs.

The syllabus of the papers can be found at http://gate.iitm.ac.in/gate2011/structure.php#papers

Pattern :There will be a total of 65 questions carrying 100 marks.

Q.1 to Q.25 (25 questions) carry one mark each (sub-total 25 marks). Q.26 to Q.55 (30 questions) carry two marks each (sub-total 60 marks). Questions Q.56 - Q.65 belong to General Aptitude (GA). Questions Q.56 - Q.60 (5 questions) carry 1 mark each (sub-total 5 marks) and questions Q.61 - Q.65 (5 questions) carry 2-marks each (sub-total 10 marks).

Questions Q.48 - Q.51 (2 pairs) are common data questions. and Qquestion pairs (Q.52, Q.53) and (Q.54, Q.55) are linked answer questions. The answer to the second question of the linked answer questions depends on the answer to the first question of the pair. If the first question in the linked pair is wrongly answered or is unattempted, then the answer to the second question in the pair will not be evaluated.

For details on where you can buy the forms, visit http://gate.iitm.ac.in/gate2011/forms.phpYou are advised to go early, to avoid probable issues such as shortage of forms etc.

We wish you the best for the GATE exam preparation!

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Its really hilarious, thought i must put this on my blog. Have the taste of Un-Motivational Posters of the Century.. :)

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Credits: Ajay Menon, Pictures at: Picasa

Humor Heaven on Web.. The Oatmeal..

Yes, you heard it right.. :) Its The Oatmeal!!.. Well past last many months, i have searched the web in all ways i could and as you know i am going-to-be a computer engg. next yr june, so when i say i "searched" it would so mean that i did.. And i came up with this sie called The Oatmeal.

It's just so awesome stuff, that u just cant believe it. Such original content, hilarious comic, and a brand new awesome idea of putting it online is just unmatchable guys!!

Lets talk abou the creator, the God of oatmeal.com.. Matthew Inman He is a 27 year old web designer, web developer, and online marketer from Seattle, Washington. Samples of his work are published on his own site oat.org, anyone of you can checkit out and be at peace at once! He has also built a networking websitein 2007, by enormous effort of 66.5 hrs.. Wellthats what i can nice..!!

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GATE 2010 explained..

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Apple's Snow leopard wiping out user account data

These are bad times for data it seems, with the failure of the Microsoft/Danger servers leading to a loss of data for T-Mobile SideKick customers, and a new Apple bug which causes data loss.

This Mac OSX Snow Leopard bug seems to be rather deadly as it leads to a loss of all user account data. Apple's support forums describe the problem as occurring if a user logs into a Guest account on their Snow Leopard computer, and then logs back into your regular account.

The solutions are few, but the good news is that Apple has declared that they are indeed aware of this issue and are working on fixing it. They also state that the bug is extremely rare, although the severity should count towards the quick release of a fix.

Currently if you have a Snow Leopard computer, it seems it is best to disable your guest account, or atleast disable and reenable it if you need to actually use it. For those with backups on their Apple Time Capsules, CNet has a way to recover your account.

If you thought that would be a good reason to be an Apple Time Capsule, think again. This touted backup device seems to have random failures where the devices just dies after over a year of operation, something which is quite obviously undesirable in a backup device.

Our condolences to those SideKick customers with Snow Leopard backed up on a Time Capsule. The universe has just sent you a message, switch to a notebook, pen and carbon-paper.

Credits :- Kshitij Sobti

Reliance brings first Windows Mobile 6.5-ready phone to India, the HTC Touch 2

HTC and Reliance Communications today launched the new HTC Touch2, the company’s and India’s first touch phone embedded with Microsoft's newly released Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system.

“The HTC Touch2 is a compact Windows Mobile device which delivers a familiar touch experience that our consumers relate to, have experienced in the past, and expect in the future from the house of HTC,” said Mr Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India. “The Touch2 expands HTC’s portfolio of touch-based phones and will deliver an advanced touch experience to a broader group of people whether it’s making a call, chatting with friends on Facebook or simply responding to an important email, the HTC Touch2 gives you an immense sense of control.”

Touch and Navigate Better

The HTC Touch2 ensures that everything is at your fingertips in an attractive design that fits comfortably in your hand. HTC Touch2 comes equipped with the upgraded TouchFlo user interface that presents another enjoyable experience including 11 color icons and the weather clock on the home screen for you to intuitively get the local time and weather. The Touch2 is also equipped with an internal GPS antenna that can support satellite navigation solutions including Google Maps.

Superior mobile internet experience

HTC Touch2 Opera Mobile and IE Mobile provide you an accurate display of desktop style Web pages, allowing you to view pages conveniently. The Zoom Bar (see image gallery) allows you to easily swipe your finger on your browser page or photo to view contents in an optimum size.

Life made easy with latest Windows Mobile goodies

Powered by the new Windows Mobile 6.5, the HTC Touch2 is enhanced with a wide variety of applications that enables powerful messaging, browsing and productivity capabilities. With efficient synchronization of Outlook, Calendar, Contact and Work into the Touch2, you will have the ability to manage both work and play with ease. You can also download innovative games and practical applications all from the Windows Marketplace. In addition Microsoft’s new My Phone service enables you to automatically back up and synch photos, music, contacts and text messages for free from the Touch2 to the web.

Pricing & Availability

The HTC Touch2 (detailed specifications here) will be available at a market price of Rs. 24,490 in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and Rs. 22,490 for the Rest of India at all leading authorized HTC resellers across the country.

Special offer from Reliance

The HTC Touch2 comes with a special and exclusive offer for Reliance Mobile customers. “As part of our value proposition, we are bundling six months Free Data Usage of 200MB per month. This bundled offer can be availed by the users of HTC Touch2 smartphone on Reliance Mobile network. Through this cutting-edge device, our customers will be able to enjoy a host of Windows Mobile Applications on our 3G ready network,” said Mr Vrajesh Shelat, Head - Wireless Data Business, Reliance Communications.

[Rumour] Cloudboard: Google’s upcoming Web-based clipboard

A leaked internal feedback form and other data from Google suggest that the Internet search giant is getting ready to roll out a new Web-based clipboard manager called Cloudboard.

The Google Operating System blog stumbled upon the feedback form for internal testing purposes, and it gives out quite a few interesting details.

Calling it a ‘server-side clipboard for Google Apps’, the Cloudboard is kind of a replacement for Google Notebook, making it easy to paste excerpts from Google Spreadsheets to Gmail, copy multiple images from Picasa Web Albums, copy YouTube videos, copy an event and pasting it into Google Docs or Gmail, paste copied items from Google Image Search, copy maps into Google Docs, etc.

One of its coolest features seems to be an ability to automatically format the data you are copying to play nice with the app you paste it to. The form cites an example that if you copy a formatted cell in Google Spreadsheets onto the Cloudboard and then paste it into Google Docs Writer, the Cloudboard would transform the data into a comparably-styled HTML table.

This seems like it would be quite a useful app, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see Google integrate it in some way into the Chrome browser too.

Credits:- by Mihir Patkar

Office 2010 to come in Ad-supported version

With the coming 14th version of Office, Microsoft is introducing new models for people to try out and buy the suite, which include a web-based Click-to-Run approach and an Ad-based model.

No doubt Microsoft Office is popular, and a large number of its users, especially in India, use unlicensed versions. Few here can afford even the cheapest Home and Student Edition which comes for around Rs. 300 after spending 5,000 to 10,000 on a Windows license (if they even bought that).

According to Mcrosoft's statistics, 500 million people around the world use Office, and that the last two years have seen s boost in sales of their entry-level product, the Home and Student edition of Office.

Now they plan to introduce another edition of Office, the Starter Edition. Much like the starter editions of Windows, they plan to have this product available only on new PCs. This version will be ad-supported, and will only include Word 2010 and Excel 2010, and offer "basic functionality for creating, viewing and editing documents."

Till now new laptop or PC buyers often found themselves with either a trial version of Microsoft Office, or a Microsoft Works, which is another office suite by Microsoft which has a rather poor workflow with the Microsoft Office suite. The new Starter edition of Office will replace Microsoft Works and eliminate the need for a trial by straight away giving people a version of Office which doesn't expire.

This is a smart way of raking in money from those who are uninterested or uninclined to purchase a full copy of the Office suite, and to get some money from an audience which would otherwise have just installed a pirated version.

Another new optimization in Microsofts approach towards Office is the introduction of a new "Product Key Card". It is essentially just the serial key you need to activate the version of Office bundled with your PC, and does away with everything else which is inessential, such as the DVD itself!

These new models are mostly to the benefit of those buying a new PC bundled with Office. For the people who already have PCs, Microsoft will offer a new Click-to-Run Office 2010 version, which will allow people to install and run a trial of Office 2010 with ease, and in fact it even uses virtualization technology which allows you to try Office 2010 even with an older version installed.

It is nice to see Microsoft realizing that piracy will not stop no matter how much protection you add, as people will find a way around it. The answer lies instead social engineering, providing people with something they need or want is such a way as to still make a profit, but Microsoft still needs to cater to those not buying new PCs, and provide a downloadable version, we're sure it'll end up on the web anyway.

Credits:- by Kshitij Sobti

Google: We will never be evil like Microsoft

At a press conference in New York on Wednesday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin fielded a lot of questions from the media about everything from Bing and Chrome OS to the recent Gmail outages and never being as evil as Microsoft.

Peter Kafka of AllThingsD was at hand to transcribe most of the event. Here are some of the most interesting aspects of the talk:

On Microsoft Bing, its innovations and whether it’s really different:

Brin: Competition is healthy. But many of the tweaks in Bing we’d already seen from Microsoft Live earlier in the year.

Schmidt: I agree!

On the recent Gmail outages:

Brin: We are focusing not only on outages, which we don’t like, but recovery time. The second outage could have been resolved in five or ten minutes, but we made errors in handling it, and it extended over an hour. But if you look at a typical enterprise today, those outages tend to add up to more than even these kinds of outages that we had. Also, we’re working on the number of people affected by outages, trying to group people into pods so that if one goes down, it doesn’t affect others.

On Google Books and persisting with it despite its controversies:

Schmidt: It’s not a particularly good business for us. We’re going it because we think it’s the right thing to do.

On the Google Chrome browser:

Schmidt: It’s being adopted a lot more than it seems. I see a lot of Macs in this room, and a lot of very sophisticated people are using Macs now and we need to get a version of Chrome out for that, which we’ll have in a couple of months. Key to browser strength is speed.

On hardware and phone OSes:

Brin: Hardware is getting amazing with regard to cost. Used to be that displays were expensive, but now they’re cheap, and so are chips. Now, the main cost is broadband connection, or cellular, or however you get to the Internet. That’s why wide broadband availability is important to us. Think about how much you spend on access costs compared to the amount you spend on your handset. The phone cost is negligible. I think it’s better if hardware isn’t locked down to specific platforms.

On the clash or overlap between Android and Chrome OS

Schmidt: Currently, we define Android as being for mobile, delivered via a telecom store and heavily integrated with the telco’s offerings. Chrome is designed for a 10, 12-inch form factor, like that of netbooks. They both use Linux, but they’re designed for different uses. May be some overlap there…

On Google News and getting into journalism/media:

Schmidt: We have to be very very careful not to favor one media organization over another, with regard to speed or latency. We are staying out of the media business. You guys are very good at it, and we’re not.

On reasons they will never be like Microsoft with regard to anti-trust:

Schmidt: Culture, for one. Another reason is that majority of users are one click away from moving away from us. Third: If we went into an “evil room” and had an “evil light” shined on us, and we then behaved in an “evil way”, we would be destroyed. There is a fundamental trust between Google and its users.

Credits:-

Mihir Patkar / Oct 08, 2009 15:21:10 IST / Tags: Google, AllThingsD, Google News, interview, Gmail outage, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, press conference, Microsoft anti-trust, Google Books, Microsoft Bing

What is a Browser??

I've been trying to explain to my mom for months what a web browser is, with little luck. After a few rounds of failed attempts, I grew curious about people's general understanding of web browsers. So I decided to conduct a highly-scientific (read: not scientific at all) survey of my friends and got the following results:

As it turns out, my mom's not the only one who is confused about web browsers — even though the browser is one of the most-used programs on computers.

For my mom, my friends and everyone else who may be wondering about web browsers, I created a one minute video to help explain what they're all about about

I've also created a simple site, WhatBrowser.org, that gives even more information about browsers. On this site, you can see which web browser you're using, explore links to browser diagnostic tests and read some useful tips for getting the most out of your browser.

Lots of our time each day is spent online, and every page on the web is experienced through the browser. Unfortunately, most people don't realize that there are many browsers out there, which differ on features like speed, security and extensibility.

So, the next time you find yourself as the informal tech support for your family and friends, make sure to explain why their browser matters — and of course, what it is!

Credits:- Jason Toff, Associate Product Marketing Manager and son of Alla Toff

What is the Most User Friendly Linux Distribution?

Linux is an open-source operating system designed to compete with Microsoft Windows for a share of the ever-growing computer market. Because Linux is an open-source OS it has been developed by many different groups into several different incarnations. Some flavors are free, others are not. Some are designed for UNIX geeks while others are geared towards the average user. So which Linux distribution (“distro”) is the most user friendly? Online opinion polls and reviews as of mid 2007 narrow it down to two clear and very popular choices.

First up for friendliest Linux distribution is Ubuntu. This OS comes with a built-in suite of applications including a word processor, spreadsheet program, graphics editor, email client, FireFox™ Web browser, games and more. Ubuntu is 100% free and the website promises free updates every six months to keep your system current. This Linux distribution has a built-in catalog of software applications that are also free and available with the click of a button. To make Ubuntu even more attractive users can exchange, open and edit many common Window file formats with friends, such as Word documents and Windows music or graphics files.

Neck-and-neck with Ubuntu is the Linux distribution PCLinuxOS. Aside from matching Ubuntu in areas previously mentioned, a nice feature of this OS is that it is available as a Live CD, bootable without installation on to the system. When used as a Live CD, user configuration files can be saved to a memory stick. Alternately, PCLinuxOS can be installed to the hard drive. Both Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS have familiar point-and-click interfaces with solid reputations for recognizing and installing drivers for most common hardware. Users with advanced graphics cards might find themselves doing a bit of Googling for support.

Despite progress towards friendlier versions of Linux, one complaint common among inexperienced users of Linux is difficulty with installing new software. While Linux distributions come with programs pre-installed, ability to load new software is of course, key. Users might find this more challenging than what they’re used to.

Another Linux distribution, Linspire, aims to address this issue by providing a special plugin that should allow a user to visit a specific website, click on the desired Linux software package and sit back while the site performs the installation process for the user. This Linux distribution OS is not free, however, priced at just under $50 US Dollars (USD). Linspire is based on a different business model than free flavors of Linux, offering what it hopes to be a hassle-free OS at a lesser price than Windows operating systems. Whether the plugin will be successful and serve as a persuasive selling feature for Linspire remains to be seen, as the feature was still upcoming as of mid-August 2007.

There are many sources for support if you are curious to try a Linux distribution package. Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS are both free to download. If you would like to try a Live CD there is typically a minimum charge for materials and shipping. If you have a dial up connection you might want to request a CD be mailed to you, as distribution files are quite large.