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?Nonstop movies this week end,right now Im watching 'Se7en' starring Morgan Freeman & Brad Pitt on TNT.Before to this,'Along came a Spider' starring Morgan Freeman & before that 'The Negotiator' starring Samuel Jackson.huh..full of movies,enjoying it..all the way..

Being alone is boring & that too on week ends,its too much.Dint had idea to cook had Quiznos Sub this after noon & dinner ? thinking where to go but have to watch my health so have to cook.Cooking n the hotel is just rice,nothing cant be done :(

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Reliance Infocomm offers TV news channel on mobile phones in India.
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http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=15420&hed=India+Debuts+Mobile+TV+Channel&sector=Industries&subsector=Communications

  • Reliance Infocomm introduced a full-fledged English TV news channel on mobile phones in India Monday through its wireless carrier Reliance IndiaMobile
  • The channel, called Times Now, is a joint offering from Times Group, South Asia?s largest and most profitable media conglomerate, and Reuters. The streaming news will be available through Reliance IndiaMobile?s R World service.

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I have been listening to Shyam Radio for the past of 2 - 3 months,they are doing a good job in Internet Radio service.They are based out of Chennai,atleast the whois records shows TNagar address.

Domain Name: SHYAMRADIO.COM

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??????? Rs. Mani domains@axe.co.in
??????? AXE Networks Private Limited
??????? 41, Karpagambal Nagar, Ist Floor, Mylapore,
??????? Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600004
??????? IN
??????? Phone: 98405 41771
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Nice part is you dont have to download any software for listening to the radio,just launch the shyamradio.com & music streams direct to your PC.(Direct link : mms://st.malargal.com/shyamradio)

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Completed my taxes this year,got some good refunds from Federal as well as State?btw,I used a PC to file my taxes,it might not be the same case for everyone.Lets look at the following :
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MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18005181-13762,00.html

  • "My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers," he said at a Microsoft conference held in Lisbon
  • Gates's fortune is put at $US47 billion ($62.88 billion), according to the latest list of the world's rich published by Forbes magazine.

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An owner of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player filed a federal lawsuit against the computer maker, claiming the device causes hearing loss in people who use it.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/01/financial/f154219S22.DTL&tag=iLounge

  • The portable music players are "inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss," according to the complaint, which seeks class action status. The suit, filed on behalf of John Kiel Patterson of Louisiana
  • Apple was forced to pull the iPod from store shelves in France and upgrade software on the device to limit sound to 100 decibels, but has not followed suit in the United States, according to the complaint.
  • White headphones commonly referred to as ear buds, which ship with the iPod, also contribute to noise-induced hearing loss because they do not dilute the sound entering the ear and are closer to the ear canal than other sound sources, the complaint states.

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Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/05/business/email.php

  • America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from a quarter of a cent to 1 cent each to have them delivered. The Internet companies say this will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk e-mail, identity-theft scams and other scourges of users of their services.
  • AOL and Yahoo will still accept e-mail from senders who have not paid, but the paid messages will be given special treatment.
  • In a broader sense, the move to create what is essentially a preferred class of e-mail is a major change in the economics of the Internet. Until now, senders and recipients of e-mail - and, for that matter, Web pages and other information - each covered their own costs of using the network, with no money changing hands. That model is different from, say, the telephone system, in which the company whose customer places a call pays a fee to the company whose customer receives it.

In future if you have to be sure of the delivery,you have pay quarters!

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The system will display photo-quality views of the route instead of the line drawings found with most GPS devices.

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=178601913&subSection=

  • Google Inc. and Volkswagen of America Inc. are developing an in-car navigation system that displays a photo-quality view of a route, instead of the typical line drawings found in current systems.
  • Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. is also part of the project, which has produced a prototype that was shown in last month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev.
  • Using the system's touch screen, a driver could search for the closest gas station, for example, and get back a list of several on a photo of the surrounding area, along with the price of gasoline at the different locations.

Once this is deployed,we dont have to print maps,it will all be available in car.

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Yesterday (10-Feb) was my last day @ PHI,I went around all the places to say "bye" to everyone whom I know.Got gifts from PHI people,it was so good that I worked with PHI.
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Got up today morning & packed 85% of the things,Im ready to fly tomorrow afternoon?Hopefully,I should not get hit by weight limitations or any other hassles during my return trip.

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Google is introducing a new service that will allow organisations to use their own domain names as a customised front end to Gmail. The service is expected to be particularly popular with small to medium sized business which have their own website and domain but are not able to operate or afford a managed email service of their own.

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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/83499/gmail-goes-the-company-way.html

  • The announcement by the search engine giant follows a similar move by Microsoft Windows Live Custom Domains beta service. The Microsoft service offers up to 60 e-mail accounts within the domain and up to 250Mb of storage space for the inbox for each account. And, being web mail based, users can check their email from any Web-enabled PC.
  • Yahoo! has offered a similar service offering a bulk rate for custom domain Yahoo! Mail accounts for some time.
  • The badged Gmail service is similar although of course it offers Google's 2GB storage limit while many Microsoft users will be limited to the Hotmail 25MB capacity.
  • For taking part in beta program visit,https://www.google.com/hosted/

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Old news for Ramco but its made officially made today : The global provider of enterprise solutions and services Ramco Systems Ltd on Wednesday said its Maintenance & Engineering (M&E) software solution has been selected by a new US-based start-up airline, Virgin America.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1626402,0002.htm
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The company's selected aviation solution offers end-to-end enterprise aviation software crafted exclusively for fleet operators and Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) providers.

"We are pleased to have the opportunity to provide Virgin America with Ramco's global solutions to address their unique business process, collaboration requirements and their need to manage constant change," the company's senior vice president, Global Aviation Solutions Jim Fitzgerald said.

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After say 3+ months,Im taking out my Splendour for an drive to GREAMS road from my house(in Adyar).Firstly my bike had some issues coz its not being used for the last 3 months & it had very low fuel,so went to my official petrol bunk to refuel & to fill up air.Then my bike is back n action.
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Driving in Chennai Roads is adventure,I really enjoyed it after driving in US or enjoyed 2 wheeler driving.

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In the basement of Phoebe Hearst Hall at Oglethorpe University in Georgia, there is a stainless steel vault door which was welded shut over sixty five years ago. Behind this door lies a 20' x 10' waterproofed room containing a menagerie of once-modern artifacts and microfilm records, placed there by men and women in the years between 1937 and 1940
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http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414

  • The contents of this vault will remain unseen and undisturbed for the next 6,107 years. This ambitious project, which began in the dawn of the Second World War, is known as the Crypt of Civilization; it represents the first concerted effort to collect and preserve a snapshot of human civilization and technology. Though the term had not yet been coined at its inception, it was the first modern time capsule.
  • By 1940, the crypt was complete, and filled with stacks of sealed containers and objects representative of the time. On May 25 of that year, the crypt door was ceremoniously sealed in the presence of the city Mayor, the state Governor, and the U.S. Postmaster General among many others.

Further reading : http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/crypt_of_civilization/inventory.asp

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Today is my first day in Ramco,India office after 3 months.No work,just getting time to settle in my new place.First off there is no place is to sit in Aviation team (since there are new recruits for oncoming projects),finally on the afternoon got a place to sit & getting my system is another big story.
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After I left India at Nov 12th,RAM was stolen from my system & my system was putoff back to stores,since Im back,have placed a new request but the investigation of how the RAM stolen was underway, it took time & my PL intervention to settle down.Finally got the system?on late evening & after that its time to install?all the required softwares,then?internet access?huh?..not there,placed a separate request.
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huh....huh..full of forms/requests/approvals..tired so much..why r't we trying online approval form? this would cut down some time!

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At my office,Im evaluating Microsoft's InfoPath for building data gathering portal.
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Sometime back I have used InfoPath but the way I looked at it on & now is different.I have placed a request for installation,may be tomorrow I will get it & play with it.
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My PL was expecting a custom development based out of ASP/SQL but after seeing the overview of InfoPath,she is excited abt the InfoPath's features.Hopefully,it should work as explained in the documentation.
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Product Guide : http://www.microsoft.com/office/infopath/prodinfo/guide.mspx
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FAQ : http://www.microsoft.com/office/infopath/prodinfo/guide.mspx
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Demo : http://www.microsoft.com/office/infopath/prodinfo/demo.mspx
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My Next project is going to be in MS SQL Server 2005 & .NET,so working hard on reading the new concepts,migrating the old database (which is in 2000).I have worked with SQL Server 2000 earlier so 2005 is nothing new,but on looking at the features,most of the concepts are looking like Oracle (read on the following).
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Features :

  • SQL Server Management Studio - Enterprise Manager of 2005,some new features added looks like the old enterprise manager packed in new covers.
  • Database Mirroring - New concept but old for Oracle,transaction log shipping to destination server
  • Table and Index Partitioning - New concept for SQL but old for Oracle,capability for the partitioning of tables across filegroups in a database
  • Support for 64-bit System Itanium 2 and x64 - No comments
  • Transact-SQL Enhancements - Lots & lots of new syntax & some of them are deprecated
  • Business Intelligence Development Studio
  • Reporting Services - server-based enterprise reporting environment, managed through Web services

Features : http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/overview/whats-new-in-sqlserver2005.mspx#EFAA

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Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.

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Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.
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I have created a team to translate it to tamil language,if anyone interested please contact me at KARTHI dot NET at GMAIL dot COM
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Screenshots : http://www.ubuntu.com/screenshots
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Downlaod Link : http://www.ubuntu.com/download

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