15 GREAT THOUGHTS BY CHANAKYA

1) "Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves!!"

2)"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first."

3)"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

4)"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."


5)" Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."


6)"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."


7)"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."


8)"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."


9)"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."


10)"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."


11) "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."


12) "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."


13) "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."


14) "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."


15) "Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected Everywhere. Education beats the Beauty and the Youth."
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Samsung Captivate: cyanogenmod installed

Problem:
Galaxy S (I) started shutting down randomly [I rambled about it here]. The worst part was that it was out of the 1 year warranty period [link]. I Updated it from 2.1 to 2.2. Did not solve the issue.

Solution:
Well, I first rooted it  [link]. However, I did not install backup.
Well, after little bit of nailbiting excercise, I was able to install cyanogenmod 7.1 into Captivate.
Here are the helpful links:

http://androidforums.com/samsung-captivate/123644-captivate-usb-drivers-links-here.html 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBPu-GqM9RE

Taking screenshot is a piece of cake.

Cheers!

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Microsoft's take@Social: so.cl

I had written about the importance of social search some time back (http://ajabgajab.blogspot.com/2011/03/search-is-dead-time-for-social-search.html). Search is more relevant when it can be combined with social search.

Microsoft is trying to combine the social with search.
It is: http://www.so.cl/
(... and it crashed in chrome, multiple times!)

What is So.cl?[from their page]

So.cl (pronounced "social") is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning.

• So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web pages in the way students do when they work together.
• So.cl helps you create rich posts, by assembling montages of visual web content.
• To encourage interaction and collaboration, So.cl provides rich media sharing, and real time sharing of videos via "video parties."

We expect students to continue using products such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other existing social networks, as well as Bing, Google and other search tools. We hope to encourage students to reimagine how our everyday communication and learning tools can be improved, by researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives.


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Food for Thought

Bitter but true.

Here's some awesome advice once offered to high school students by the founder of a ridiculously successful software company.

~ Rule 1 ~
Life is not fair—get used to it!

~ Rule 2 ~
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

~ Rule 3 ~
You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

~ Rule 4 ~
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

~ Rule 5 ~
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity.

~ Rule 6 ~
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault. So don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

~ Rule 7 ~
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forests from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

~ Rule 8 ~
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you need to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

~ Rule 9 ~
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

~ Rule 10 ~
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

~ Rule 11 ~
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. ---

Circles into your Gmail

Google has inserted circles into your mailbox@Gmail.

This is nice as it bridges the gap between the social circle and the Email. It seems to filter out the  communication with the people from  circle.
With this attempt, Google has clearly shown its intention to link social life with Email. I should say this is the second attempt of Google to insert Gmail into social circles. Facebook already integrated message system into the social networking, making message as one of the activity.   The only thing is that Gmail was accepted as an Email service, whereas facebook started as something else.

What amazes me is how people are confortable with the ole' style communication of sending one-to-one Email. Although Facebook has changed it a bit, Sending Email is regarded as one of the formal ways.

Here is a hacked list of how people have been communicating over time:

• Birds, Telephones, Radio, Letters
• Letters, Emails, Text/SMS, Messages

There are communications which need to happen over the circle, versus one-to-one. Both are important. What we share in circle is different than what we communicate in personal Emails.
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Rings the Bell?

Does it ring the bell??

I found this sound on youtube, and brought back some memories.



Dear dial up, RIP.

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