FEEL THE SPIRIT OF RUSSIA

December 27th, 2008

Russia is country having a culture of goodness and people with a good spirit to be helpful to all. A visit to Russia will be any ones dream to feel this spirit of people. Russian tour can be more enjoyed with a good knowledge of various places and monuments in Russia. This can be obtained with the help of a good Travel Stories on Russia. A Russian tour always start from the capital Moscow which is a wonder full place to be in. most of the countries have a direct flight to Moscow. By having gone through a well specific Tourism Articles you can get idea of what are the fares for various flights. The hotels and monuments have the communist touch that is they all shows some features of the communist rule in Russia. This is a place where great philosophers and thinkers have got birth who bring great change to the world politics and made a land mark in history. The sovient time had made Russia to a different culture than any other country this culture is must watch one. The Russian people like to make their guest happy and feel at home, they will help you with any of your needs so that you don’t need to worry about going through Russia. There are lot of cash and ATM counters in Russia where you can get the Russian rubies for the transaction in Russia.
Russian drink Vodka is also world famous if you visit Russia you must never miss a chance to drink it. Russian Tourism can be made a very nice experience by proper planning. You must also know some most used words in Russian language so that you can make to conversation with the people. Now most of the people in Russia knows English so that it wont be a difficult talk to find some one who knows English.

Cancer and Treatment

December 27th, 2008

Cancer is the deadliest disease in the modern era it is the killing disease which have killed many people and made many family poorer. It’s a common belief that there is cure fir cancer this is false now for each cancer according to the area it affect the treatment are also different. Take the case of Prostate cancer their are many cure available for it. we can go for a radiotherapy, Hormone therapy etc but these type of treatment have many side effects. Some loose their hair, some become times these side effects will bring severe change in the appearance of patient.

To avoid this a modern treatment called HIFU (High Frequency Focused Ultrasound) This a revolutionary method with no side effect. It is a highly precise method which uses sound waves so that it won’t bring any harm this also avoids need of any surgery. Now there is no need of worry to male patient as this type of cancer is seen in male patient. Having no radiation will make body strong because radiation may make body week due to high effect radiation.

Another important treatment for prostate cancer is Cooled Thermo Therapy it takes only very little time and is highly efficient. It heats the enlarged prostate tissue and shrinks it so that it will remove the defective cells.

Another revolusionary treatment is No Scalpel Vasectomy it uses local anesthesia and helps in rapid recovery of the patient so that their wont be any discomfort. It is done through two small holes so that their wont be no need of any stitches. This will make the patient body look like no surgery had been taken place this is a highly efficient treatment. A key hole surgery will also be highly precise as only that part of the body will be affected where surgery is needed. So the deadly era of cancer is coming to an end.

Inflation

December 27th, 2008

While inflation is a common phenomenon, there is no single theory or cause that explains it. Some economists attribute inflation to the excess in money supply which is a direct consequence of ever increasing deficit financing and rise in demand for goods and services. Some others believe that inflation arises from supply in flexibilities, macroeconomic structural constraints and imbalances, etc. Inflation is seen as a result of combination of all these results.inflation is a sustained rise in price levels as a result of an increase in demand without a corresponding increase in supply.

Price instability is a common feature in any economy - developed, developing or under developed. Fluctuations in prices lead to an uncertain and unfavorable economic atmosphere. Such an atmosphere does not lend itself to any kind of development activity. Stability in prices is an important condition for efficent and stable economic activity.

Two major pull factors include pressure of rapidly rising population and widespread speculation and hoarding in the case of many essential goods. Fastly occurring inflation  will lead to slash in the purchasing power of money. That is the value of money comes down. Some economists attribute inflation to cost push factors like volatile fluctuations in output upward revision of administrated prices and external factors like oil prices and global inflation.

Lawrence J. Ellison: Software Oracle

December 27th, 2008

Lawrence J. Ellison, more popularly known as Larry Ellison, has been Oracle’s Chief Executive Officer and a Director since he co-funded the company in June 1977. Oracle Corporation, the world’s Largest relational database provider, is also the world’s leading provider of application software,  application server tools, & support services. Oracle operates in more than 145 countries, with over 200,000 customers, including 98 of the Fortune 100.

In Forbes’ 2007 annual list of top executive salaries, Larry Ellison finished in first place, with a total compensation on $192.9 million.

Ellison was born into a lower middle class family in Chicago in 1944. He went to the University of Chicgo to graduate, but left the school without a degree. Largely a self-taught programmer, Ellison then moved to California where he took up a job with Amdahl. After stints with a few software companies, Ellison established Oracle Corporation along with three of his friends.

As a personality, Ellison has many facets worth emulating. Far from being a run-of-the-mill businessman, Ellison inspires many, purely because of his Character. He says that he was inspired by Japanese to pursue market share aggressively.

A sailing enthusiast, Ellison won the match racing event to RC44 cup. He also owns the fifth largest yacht in the world named “Rising Sun”.

Health and disease

December 27th, 2008

Health and Disease- the two stages in our life. We are passing through these two stages. Disease – dis-ease. It is the absence of ease as the name indicates. Health means the normal stage in which we are in comfort. Health includes both mental and physical comfort.

In our modern life style, we have many problems like cold, constipation, acidity, cough and dental problems. These problems will reduce our comfort. Also there are serious problems like heart attacks, diabetes, high cholesterol and pressure etc. because of our fast-paced lifestyle.

Diabetes is a disease characterized by excessive thirst and hunger, weakness, excessive urination, weight loss and diminished immunity. If this disease is treated properly, the patient can lead a normal life. The treatment of Diabetes consists of three modalities: Diet, exercise and Medications. Oral medications and insulin injections are used in its treatment. The diet and exercise are more important. The patients must take regular blood/urine tests to maintain good control over this disease. If proper treatment is not done, the patient gradually deteriorates and succumbs to infection.

We can do many things to prevent this type of diseases. By good eating habits, regular exercise and regulated life style we can prevent many diseases. All diseases can be treated with the help of a good doctor. Regular balanced diet exercises can control blood pressure, high cholesterol and fat and diabetes. There will be no chance for heart attack if these are controlled.

Head-spinning experience

December 23rd, 2008

After being surrounded by geeks and mind-boggling technologies right through the week, and with deadlines squeezing every ounce of life out of me, I was left desperately seeking a weekend. Though the weekend seemed light years away, it finally arrived, though it seemed to me it was I who rushed towards it with lightning speed!

Whatever the case was, all that matters is once Friday beckoned, I was out of the office in a jiffy. I wanted to run away from the clutches of technology and sink in the serenity of nature. But when one is so used to the maniacal demands of city life, getting away from it is a tad difficult; also nature seemed far far away.

So it struck me that the perfect thing to do would be to hang out with friends, who were free men unlike me-a faithful slave to technology. But this seemingly temporary detour from this world of technology proved to be an unforgettable and enlightening experience.

20 GB PATA + 60 GB = 80 GB SATA!

I met this friend (whose identity I dare not reveal, since I don’t want to risk personal injury), an engineering student with a tech handicap. He recently shifted his loyalty from Intel to AMD. The new PC he purchased has an AMD Athlon 64 processor while the old one had an Intel Pentium 4 processor. When I heard about it, I couldn’t resist asking him about his PC’s configuration. While he answered most of the obvious aspects like brand of the monitor and speakers, answering queries about the internal components made him a tad uneasy. The blank look on his face was discouraging; so instead of bothering him, I decided to take a look at the computer myself.

I fi gured that an 80 GB SATA hard drive was installed in his computer; so I asked him what he had done with his older 20 GB PATA hard drive. I of course had an ulterior motive here. My hard drive was brimming with data and getting a second-hand drive for a friendly price would be a blessing. But his reply left me dumbfounded. His exact words were, “The computer assembler f added 60 GB of space to the older hard drive, which resulted in a new 80 GB disk”. I concealed my laughter and explained to him calmly that a hard drive cannot be upgraded to a higher capacity; it needs to be replaced. The appreciation I received in return was equivalent to the accolades a person would receive had he managed to avert the Third World War!

Head-spinning experience

The next day, the same friend who by now regarded me his Gadget Guru, urged me to accompany him to purchase a Discman he so wanted to possess. I agreed. We checked out a reputed electronic store in our vicinity.

The sales personnel at the store were so presentable that I got an inferiority complex. Forget about being immaculately dressed, I looked like something the cat dragged in. Anyway, I inquired about the various brands of Discman available, in the most impeccable manner possible.

After browsing through a fairly large number, we narrowed down to a Panasonic Discman featuring a transparent panel and capable of reading audio CDs, MP3 CDs, and VCDs. My friend noticed something peculiar about the Discman-when the music played, the disc would rotate for a brief period and then come to a standstill even though the music continued playing. So he inquired about this rather odd feature. Before I could explain that the music was buffered in a RAM chip from where the music was played even though the disc did not rotate, the salesman’s prompt reply made my jaw drop. His masterpiece quote, “While playing the disc, initially the disc is spun and later the lens is spun and that explains why the CD is stationary after a while.” Before yours truly- crusader of technology could strike the salesman in frustration, I decided it would be wise to pay for the Discman and get out of there.

When we stepped outside the shop, a Motorola banner caught my attention. It proudly proclaimed, ‘Intelligence everywhere’. I looked at my friend next to me and thought of the tech-challenged salesman and sighed. To me, only ‘Intelligence nowhere’ seemed more apt

Chat security

December 22nd, 2008

Hey, I’ve found a picture of you.” If you were conned int clicking on this link, then yo won’t get an image file instead an I-Worm NewPic file instead. Any guesses what kin of a file this is? A classic backdoor spoof, it prepares an entry point for hackers to retrieve data from victims.

The Internet mafia has made instant messenger applications its new target an has started spreading malicious programs through them. According to research conducted by ‘FaceTime Security Labs’, th number of attacks on chat programs have increased 20-fold in the last year alone.

The hacker’s current favourite is Microsoft’s MSN Messenger although ICQ, Yahoo, and AOL are all experiencing increasing attacks as well. A poll recently revealed that nearly 50 percent of online chatting via instant messaging is done in the office, thereby allowing attackers to slip through enterprise networks, firewall and other available protection. CHIP has tested six instant messengers, including the latest Beta versions from Microsoft and Yahoo. We bombarded test accounts with infected links in an attemp to penetrate firewalls and exploit chat sessions and the results were astonishing. The security holes left open by instant messengers were extremely dangerous. Worse still, not one messenger managed to offer protection for child users. In this article, we discuss the methods used by Internet hackers and how you can avoid potential threats while chatting online.

Testing a hard drive

December 20th, 2008

Partition and image tools were installed on a logical drive in Windows XP professional. We connected another external USB drive to a 2.55 GHz P4 computer.

Mentioned below are some of the few factors we kept in mind before going ahead with our tests.

Images

Till now, saving and restoring was never as simple as this. The programs must support backups on the USB and network drives. The process of incremental image saving should exist on the feature list. Additionally, we took the stability factor into consideration-the programs must secure the system and not cause it to crash or create faulty backups.

Functionality

Compression and safety of the images are two crucial factors. Besides that, it was important for us to know whether a backup process can run in the background and whether it can be compatible with the system capacity. The Hot-backup feature is of great importance especially in case of new versions of image programs. In this case, the tool saves the data in an image during a Windows session. The programs should also have an image explorer.

Ergonomics

The programs should be easily functional, must be efficient, easy to find and operate easily beginners. Above all, we focussed on the assistant features, because beginners, in particular, should be able to work with the tools without any problem. Programs with detailed descriptions of jargon were given additional marks.

Alternative backup

December 15th, 2008

Anyone who has lost data once knows exactly how it feels when a doctoral thesis or your only tax return sheet that you had taken so much time and effort to prepare is irretrievably lost. According to a survey conducted by Maxtor (now Seagate), about 73 percent of users suffered due to hard disk failures at least once. The survey revealed that users are generally not in the habit of taking regular data backups. In several case, the hard disks were not even partitioned. Therefore, a virus attack or a system crash invariably resulted in a complete data disaster.

The only way of arming yourself against such disasters would be using a hard disk suite that comprises a partition tool and a drive image program. The drive image program is your insurance against data loss while the partition tool provides for the logical formating and administration of the hard disk. Unfortunately, there is no single package that boasts both these features but what

we do have are individual products. After testing the latest programs, we bring you a selection of the best out there. We did not limit ourselves to simple test scenarios like creating partitions and images. Instead, we used the example of a power user who uses networks and runs Windows XP Professional. We looked out for special features such as image encryption and backup over LAN. The partition tool should also recognize external USB drives. In case of special file systems used in Windows 2000 such as software-based RAID controllers. In the following test you will find out whether these tools support special features like these.

Symbian Mobiles

December 12th, 2008

All smartphones usually need some additional application to spice it up in some way. It could be a visual feature or some application that increases your productivity. I came to realize the potential of these third party tools through a series of events that I am going to share with you. Two years ago, I owned a Nokia 3350 and at that point in time it served my purpose, which was namely, to be reachable at all times of the day, set reminders and use the stopwatch during hardware reviews. As time went by, the phone started to seem a little outdated in the palm of my hand. I gave in to temptation and opted for the ‘candy bar’ Sony Ericsson T630. It looked good, fit my budget and had enough features to keep me happy. Unfortunately, it turned out to have a mind of its own so it would momentarily lose control of its ‘motor functions’ and vibrate incessantly until I physically removed the battery. I exchanged it for a Nokia 6600 (I had to cough up extra, of course) hoping this would future-proof my phone for a while

I was doing quite well with the phone until the day I had to run a printer test. I took my phone out to use the stopwatch only to find out that there is no such tool in the 6600! The phone has image editing software and a wireless presenter but no stopwatch. This made me scour the Internet for an alternative solution. The search resulted in my installing “Pocket Counter” - a free timer tool. While searching for a Symbian stopwatch, I came across many other applications that allowed the phone to do much more than just remember notes, buzz at a particular time and send multimedia messages. Here are some of the tools available for download, both free and shareware.

All these tools will work across a range of Symbian Series 60 phones. It also depends on the Symbian OS version your phone uses.  If you receive an error while trying to run a newly installed application then it could be because it is loaded on the memory card. Uninstall the application and install it on the phone memory.