Well the news is out the Govt. of India is derecognizing 44 so called deemed universities in India due to lack of infrastructure facilities. Finally some one in the Education department recognized it and blew the whistle.
Although I didn’t study in any of these universities but I have visited some of them during my UG time and they weren’t gr8 even then so I’m gonna assume world didn’t become flat in last 5 years.
An example for the so called deemed university standard is when some universities awarded doctorates to some south indian actors just like a freebie (Google it).
So will these actors return the so call doctorates since these universities are no more universities?
I hope at least from now on people think twice before accepting any kind of doctorates just for the fun of it. I’m sure actors work hard as well but Please don’t mix academics and acting it doesn’t go well keep them separate.
Well I have always wanted a irony series with news that I have read or instances of my blog posts or anything that contradicts each other and finally I’m starting it today.
I just want to point out the ironies nothing more than that and probably what I consider as Irony might not be the same for everyone.
Here are 2 slide shows from The Hindu(Chennai edition) online news paper
Just read the news that the mighty Google has released its own URL shortener toolhttp://goo.gl which is available with Google Toolbar and FeedBurner according to press release.I’m sure the tool will slowly be used by all Google products and may be ship with Android and Chrome OS which would be cool.
Pretty much every IT companies have started their own URL shortener web apps. The next question is when Microsoft(http://bi.ng/) and Apple(http://ap.pl) are going to release their URL shortener tools?
I recently got a new laptop Lenovo ideapad Y550 which was supposed to come with Windows 7 but came with Vista instead but I already decided that I would use Ubuntu 9.10 to avoid all windows nightmare and started using Kubuntu 9.10 (KDE graphic environment of Ubuntu). I can do a whole podcast on the lenovo issue but I have made my peace.
Setting up an running Kubuntu was the easy part since the installation was seemeless and every thing ran out of the box except
Nvidia GT240m graphics card for which I found the drivers from Nvidia site and spend like another 2 days figuring out how to install them during which I crashed the ubuntu when I removed some packages.
My Audio isn’t audible as vista and my HDMI port doesn’t output audio in Kubuntu which works fine in Vista. Looks like a driver problem.
I have searched through out the net for the audio issue and no one seems to have the right answer that would resolve my issue so I’m actually considering moving to Windows 7 even though I haven’t gotten my hands dirty with it.
I pretty much use this laptop as my home entertainment system which would need the HDMI audio function. I still have 3 more weeks before Lenovo sends me Windows 7 disk to figure out the issue. If not then I guess I will be back to Windows world once again until then I will switch between Vista/Kubuntu.
Believe me Ubuntu is a monster once tamed it’s a pretty good dog and I like it a lot.
BTW Vista sucks pretty bad how the hell can I kill a process from task manager? I’m not even sure how people worked with vista.
I’m a novice in the linux world so if any one has better ideas to fix this issue it would be gr8.
I was always under the impression that my country India was well developed culturally/socially and still developing economically.
Its not more than a year since 26/11/2008 Mumbai attacks happened and already my country(India) government has totally forgotten about it. The Prime minister of India is on whirl wind tour of USA during 26/11 this year and talking about the US – India relationship/climate change/nuclear deal which is good though but not @ the cost of missing out on paying respect to the fallen people on 26/11/2008.
May be
they lost count of days to pay respect for the dead due to bomb blasts or
practically the head of government is back in India . you know it
Just think about it would any of the developed countries head of states would have accepted the invitation to vist a foreign country that too on the first anniversary of a bomb blast itself?
Looks like we are trying too hard to develop economically and loosing the social part of it. I do know the PM is taking care of business as a professional weighing on the benefits but still it could have been handled in a better way. Just my thought..
Well who ever has used Orkut are aware the blog post title message which shows up when Orkut’s server are too busy to respond.
But this time no donuts for the whole Orkut team since they have set a hard limit of only 250 video links per profile which I hate personally hate and I’m not even a heavy user of Orkut. Here is the message I get when I add a video:
You can only add upto 250 favorites. Please remove some favorites in order to add new ones.
Looks like the Orkut network is going backwards instead of moving forward by implementing this kind of limit. Considering India being one the major market for India this is a really bad move since Indian music industry is driven by the film industry with each having 5 songs minimum. Don’t ask me why we need 5 songs in middle of a movie that’s a whole different story.
The reality is every orkut user bookmarks(embeds) all kind of youtube Indian film songs and this limit is going to make the users move to a different network. Wake up Orkut..
Here are some suggestions Orkut might do to improve the videos section which I personally used to like:
Will it be too hard to create a playlist of all videos so we can listen to all of our favorite song.
Has it even considering enabling search for the videos? It makes me wonder if this product is really from Google.
If a youtube video has been disabled can it at least remove them by default instead of occupying my limited video library limit.
Considering all this downfalls of Orkut I do think may be I should join Facebook but I use these social networks to keep in touch with friends which Orkut does it ok for me.
May be I should depend more on my blog running on WordPress more where I control my app/data than letting them control me what I can and can’t do.
In a world where each mobile phone from same manufacture have different chargers working this is a welcoming sign.
I also hope ITU gets in to and standardize the chargers for all portable devices as well. I’m tired of carrying individual chargers for my mobile, Blue Tooth headset and mp3 player. If we can standardize the laptop chargers that will be awesome too..
The only reason I’m worried is it wont happen soon enough. Since this is something driven by a branch of UN and we all know how long it would take for all countries to accept these protocols. Lets hope all the manufactures fall in line and accept it soon…
At least I’m happy that some where in distant future that there will less chargers lying around in my house.
I was caught unaware, unprepared and without guard when it bit me.
Yes, today I was bitten by a huge bill of 120$ of data charge for 12,000KB of data for my ATT wireless phone service. So thats roughly a penny per kilobyte which is one of the costliest KB that I have ever paid for in my life.
Probably my new phone N85 should have connected to the internet without my knowledge during the initial days of buying it.
If you don’t intend to use data over wireless please call your provider immediately and block/opt-out of it A.S.A.P because one day or the other you will be bitten by this bug and it will be painful.
BTW my friends have warned me about this for a some time but I didn’t care about it much but today I feel the pain.
You have been warned !!!!!
BTW this wouldn’t happen in India because data plans are too cheap then here.
Its been quite a while since I switched my wordpress theme to a different one. I changed some time in march and there were some issues with IE browser so reverted.
This time I have decided not to change the theme for IE issues alone. I’m done playing games for IE.
As far as the new theme its still boring as the old one but this blog is ain’t for some media blog so I will live with this one for some time.
Too much of rambling for a simple theme change.. so the 1 or 2 users who read this boring post please leave a comment if you have any UI issues other than IE seriously..
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What happens to the Doctorates?
Well the news is out the Govt. of India is derecognizing 44 so called deemed universities in India due to lack of infrastructure facilities. Finally some one in the Education department recognized it and blew the whistle.
Although I didn’t study in any of these universities but I have visited some of them during my UG time and they weren’t gr8 even then so I’m gonna assume world didn’t become flat in last 5 years.
An example for the so called deemed university standard is when some universities awarded doctorates to some south indian actors just like a freebie (Google it).
So will these actors return the so call doctorates since these universities are no more universities?
I hope at least from now on people think twice before accepting any kind of doctorates just for the fun of it. I’m sure actors work hard as well but Please don’t mix academics and acting it doesn’t go well keep them separate.
Oscar looks good with A.R.Rahman than with Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. Doesn’t it?