Don't be serious, be sincere

Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.

“Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. ……………….

One thing about nurturing the spark – don’t take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? …………….
It’s ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices………” 🙂

“Don’t be serious, be sincere.”!!

From: Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis

Don’t be serious, be sincere

Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.

“Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. ……………….

One thing about nurturing the spark – don’t take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? …………….
It’s ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices………” 🙂

“Don’t be serious, be sincere.”!!

From: Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis

Smart Answer 1

A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened.
A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, “twelve.” The member replied, “six” and was let in.
A second member came to the door and the doorman said, “six.” The member replied, “three” and was let in
The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said, “ten” and the man replied, “five.”
But he was not let in.  What should have he said?

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Ans: – 3
The man had to reply the number of characters in the word the Doorman was asking.
He should have replied “Three” instead of “Five”.

Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s Maemo Platform

Firefox is now available for Nokia’s Maemo platform. Starting today, Nokia N900 owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile device.

Bringing Firefox to mobile devices is the next step toward fulfilling Mozilla’s mission of providing one Web that everyone can access, regardless of device or location. Secure, powerful, and customizable, Firefox is the most modern mobile Web browser available and is optimized for a mobile experience. Key design principles are at the heart of the mobile browsing experience including minimal typing, seamless synchronization with desktop Firefox and the ability to take your Firefox with you, to name a few.

Firefox for mobile is packed with the favorite features, including:

• Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites in just a couple of keystrokes with intelligent and personalized searching
• Weave Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience
• Add-ons – Customize your Firefox by adding small pieces of functionality, like games and news readers, that help make the mobile Web browser your own
• Location-Aware Browsing – Get maps and information relevant to your location
• Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next
• Safe Browsing – Get an Instant Web Site ID and easily access and edit security settings
• Available in more than 30 languages and counting

Firefox is the first mobile Web browser to support add-ons. With add-ons, you can customize your Firefox by adding features that help make your browser your own. Add-ons like AdBlock Plus, URL Fixer, TwitterBar, language translators, and geo guides become especially handy when you’re out and about on your mobile device. You can both discover and install add-ons directly from your Nokia N900. There are currently more than 40 Firefox add-ons available for mobile and the number is growing every day.

Firefox strongly recommend that you install the YouTube Enabler add-on from within the Add-ons Manager.  Tap on the install button, restart Firefox, and you’re all set to watch YouTube videos.

Just as Firefox does for the desktop, Firefox for mobile provides a platform for developers to create rich applications. Developers can use the latest Web technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to improve, modify and customize the browser. Visit the Develop for mobile page to learn more.

Firefox is currently supported on Nokia’s Maemo5 platform and is available for download on the Nokia N900. Users can download and learn more by visiting Firefox.com/mobile. Visit the FAQ for more information.

This is an exciting entrance into the mobile ecosystem and Firefox for Maemo5 is just the beginning – look out for lots more to come from Firefox for mobile this year.

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Sony Ericsson New Mobile Phone ( Xperia X2 officially announced )

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 officially announced

Sony Ericsson today officially introduced the long-awaited communicator Xperia X2, running Windows Mobile. X2 is the successor of the line Xperia, the first smartphone from which went on sale late last year. Like its predecessor, Xperia X1, X2 will use interactive panels for work, entertainment, Internet surfing, travel and much more. Results are pre-14 panels and 16 more are available for download. The main differences Xperia X2 from X1: X2 is running the operating system Windows Mobile 6.5 (in X1 was used by version 6.1) Display X2 has a diagonal of 3.2 inch (diagonal display in the X1 was 3 inches) Permission integrated camera X2 – 8-megapixel (in X1 – 3.2-megapixel) X2 has a built-in accelerometer and TV-out (in X1 these opportunities did not exist) In X2 loud stereo speakers built-in 2 (in X1 speaker was only one) The new user interface, 3D-panel, GPS-navigator. The device will come with operating system Windows Mobile 6.5. I recommend to continue to see 2 videos + live photos.

Main specifications Sony Ericsson Xperia X2:

• Touch-sensitive TFT-LCD 3.2″ with a resolution of 480×800 pixels
• 8.1-megapixel camera with auto and manual focus, 16-fold magnification, image stabilizer and flash
• QWERTY-keyboard
• A-GPS – WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• USB 2.0
• TV-out
• 3D-Games
• Built-in 110 MB of physical memory
• Support memory cards format microSD (up to 16 GB)
• Dimensions 110 x 54 x 16 mm
• Weight: 115 grams

The device will be available in 2 colors – black or silver. Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 will go on sale this autumn.

Oracle buys Sun, becomes hardware company

Oracle announced Wednesday it completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in a deal valued at more than $7 billion, a move that transforms the database and business-software giant into a hardware company as well.

Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle has acquired several large companies in its drive to out-consolidate rivals in the business computing technology market, sometimes launching hostile takeovers and sometimes prevailing over regulatory objections. This time, the difficulty was persuading European antitrust regulators who were concerned about the fate under Oracle of the open-source MySQL database software business that was part of Sun.

For more info, DIGG HERE .

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Google Chrome 4.0 Released, Download Available

Today Google has introduced the next major release of its web browser ‘Chrome’. The stable channel of Google Chrome has been updated with v4.0.249.78 for Windows.

Chrome v4.0 comes with significant changes, new features like Extensions and Bookmark Sync.

Extensions provides a great way to add more features and functionality to Chrome web browser and let you customize with features you like, while keeping your browser free of clutter that you don’t use. Now Chrome users on PCs can access over 1,500 new features, through our new extension system. Here are the different types of extensions that you can find in the extensions gallery.

With Bookmark Sync feature, you can keep your bookmarks synchronized on multiple computers, using your Google Account. This can be handy if you often need to use the same websites on different computers. To know more on bookmark sync, check out this handy guide.

Baum says-
Lastly but certainly not the least, we’ve improved performance (as measured by Mozilla’s Dromaeo DOM Core Tests) by 42% over our last stable release and 400% since our first stable release last year.

If you are Linux, go for latest beta channel available for Linux. And for those using Google Chrome for Mac, hang tight Google is working on bringing extensions, bookmark sync and more to the beta soon.

You can download the most stable version for Windows 7/Vista/Windows XP: [Web Setup] | [Offline Setup]

How to turn on the Drupal site from maintenance?

If you encounter ‘site off-line’ message while accessing a Drupal driven website, you can turn it on by running the following query in the database:

UPDATE variable SET value = 's:1:"0";' WHERE name= 'site_offline';
DELETE FROM cache WHERE cid = 'variables';

The orthodox way to turn it on via Admin panel is:

Go to administer » settings (admin/settings)
Then, Administer » Site configuration » Site maintenance (admin/settings/site-maintenance).

On the page, set Site status to Online.

Source: http://drupal.org/node/56995 .