You probably meant it as a joke but if you navigate to google.com with IE7 you will be asked if you want to download a plugin or something to change the search box to Google. You really can't miss it; The page has a bright red arrow pointing to the search box on top.
I don't remember it very clearly but I had seen it when I was doing a test run of IE7 at work.
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That is the best one can do. Chasing a new skillset as soon as you enter the market can be dangerous for some.
Once you have understood how programming languages work (the usual combo of C/C++/Java ought to teach you most of it) you will have a fair idea of what to expect from other programming environments. Once you have that you can pick up any new programming language/environment with fair ease.
I haven't done much Ajax programming at all (I've used a combo of javascript and iframes once. Does that count?) but from what I've heard it is simply a pickle of javascript+xml+iframes. So I guess as far as the code language is concerned it shouldn't be a problem.
USD 13k/yr = INR 590k/yr gross income (INR 49k/month)
Income tax (1/3) will make it a net income of INR 33k/month.
You can make such an outright deduction only if you don't aim to invest anything. I have known of people with over INR 1200K salaries not paying a single paisa of tax due to their savings/relief in home loans, mutual funds, etc.
The cost of living in New Delhi (India's capital city) is very high and rising fast.
I stated facts based on Bombay where I live (born and brought up here btw). Bombay is just as expensive, if not more, compared to Delhi when it comes to real estate.
Buying a car is within reach but buying a decent 2+ bedroom apartment/condo will cost at least INR 3.5 million (USD 80k+) which is about 10X the annual net income
Again, you're thinking outright buys. There's a rare few who buy homes outright these days. The INR 3.5 million house that you just mentioned could be yours in a salary of INR 350K-400K on a 20 year home loan.
I know a person who recently bought a spacious apartment in a hiranandani complex (one of india's best known builders) for INR 3.6 million when the foundations were being laid. So if you invest in your home smartly you can have a princely home in your modest salary of INR 400K as well:-)
As a rough of comparison, a loaf of bread which costs $2.50 in the US costs a little less than 25 Indian Rupees ($0.50).
Actually, it's 10 Indian Rupees. 600K in India is a very good salary. IT Professionals start out of campus with salaries of around 200K-250K per annum and thats excellent pay if you're single and good enough to live if you have a family to support.
600K is something that can get you a great apartment and car on top of all that.
I'm not so sure about that. HTML is a markup language that defines what the data is and how it is to be placed.
True, you need to have the concept of code but that doesn't make it a programming language. If HTML is a programming language then Tex would also be a programming language. But it's not.
Among the many things HTML falls short in being a programming language, here's a few:
* It does not support branch conditions
* It does not have the concept of variables (you have tag ids and names but those are used by javascript/perl/php/asp for processing, not by html)
* Data manipulation is not possible. Only display can be manipulated.
You'll be better of calling it a Markup Language (language to define/present the data rather then use/manipulate it in any way) rather than a programming language;-)
Well you're perfectly right about the 16 hour days. But I beg to differ on the "their jobs are being outsourced to China" bit.
The fact here is that there are enough "mushroom companies" that are coming up in India that are taking care of any inflating costs to the larger outsourcing companies. They simply outsource the smaller assignments to these small companies or to smalltime freelancers and save a bounty.
Even today, as I speak (not exactly, its 1 in the night here;) ) IT services companies, big and small are in the constant lookout for employees; the supply for IT professionals is much lower than the demand.
The IT sourcing to China will not be in full swing anytime soon as Chinese lack one necessary quality; communication in English. They are gaining major foothold in the back-office outsourcing area where communication is not a big criterion. But when it comes to IT tech support or development, India still has them beat and will keep doing so for a few more years atleast.
Most developers in India come into this field only because of the money. So its a really big deal that they turn up any code at work at all. People want to become a ".Net programmer" or a "J2EE expert" just cos its the current hot technology. Then there are the more "computer literate" kinds who know that there's more money in the ERPs and hence go there. Rarely would you find a person who's in there for the love of it.
There are many though, who do contribute to open source in India. Much of the effort is into localization of distributions so as to bring them closer to rural and government applications. Apart from those there are developers from India who contribute to projects as well (ayttm, xmmsmplayer come immediately to mind). But not too many I guess
To want to contribute to OSS projects you need to love programming in the first place.
Experts Exchange doesn't ask you to register all the time. They have some random nag wherein you are asked to register to view their answers only once in a while. Quite often their answers are available in the first go.
Either ways, its a very good place to get questions answered; well worth the registration.
The feature will let users direct questions to a specific universe, such as a group of friends, rather than to get automated lists of results from a generic search engine.
Not sure what search engines are trying to accomplish here.
This database of PAQs (Previously Asked Questions) becomes a reliable knowledgebase that search engines can index to provide quality content as responses to searches, thus increasing relevance (and quality) of search results.
As of now experts exchange has the largest database of such "questions". Somehow google answers just doesn't seem to be generating as much furore (neither is yahoo answers) compared to experts exchange.
I'm guessing that's because experts exchange is free.
I'd enter this industry just to compete with this knucklehead.
Well I don't think you realize but he's actually provided a great answer to one of the biggest problems prevalent in Indian IT services companies today; employee attrition. And believe it or not, even customers have a problem with that as they have to face the delays caused due to training the new guy.
I think this idea is extremely marketable as well, apart from being very good from an employee retention point of view. Reason being that I can actually quote my extremely low attrition as a cost cutting and quality raising factor.
I'm guessing most of these statistics are collected from participating sites; i.e. sites that have volunteered to give their visitor logs. I'm not sure if this is foolproof as:
* Yahoo Messenger opens a web page in a "start window" (forgot what it's called) after every messenger login
* RealPlayer opens its home page in a window below the player everytime the player is loaded
* MSN is the default home page on IE for most people. Many don't bother to change that. They are content to just start the browser, stop the page from loading and type in the url (or search for it in the address bar dropdown).
And where's the pron sites? Pretty sure they should be somewhere near the top;-)
I can't apt-get install mod_security because of their licencing issues.
You're probably looking in the wrong place. libapache-mod-security is the package you're looking for. It's only in stable, not in testing and unstable.
It's all a lot of faffing around. Have 2 repositories. One for people that want only the most GPL'd, clean packages. And another one where they put the same packages, as well as the ones that people want.
They already do. The proprietary software is in the non-free branch.
Unlikely, there's always bittorrent, freenet, etc to float everything without the DRM. And thats not likely to go away that easily. Infact i would hazard to say that DRMing would push more users towards Linux.
put an amorphous mass of "scientific knowledge" into a big fat RDBMS and let it churn for a while, it would somehow spit out new scientific knowledge
Unfortunately that is how many people seem to perceive data mining. Managers/decision makers seem to search for scientific technologies that will help them reduce their dependence on the scientists (experts); and perceive data mining as just that.
True, thats because most product/service providers see this as an opportunity to spy on their customers to find out every intricate detail about them so that they can "serve them better".
Surely there must be many other applications of data mining which would change the way of life for many people and do not require them to divulge their SSN at the same time. Out of the top of my head, collecting seasonal data to be able to discover some patterns in natural calamities. Its probably being done, but not very visible.
I guess that what Negroponte was really trying to say is: "KDE an GNOME are too fat for a 500MHz computer with 128MB RAM and only 512MB of storage". And, lets face it, hes right.
Use XFCE. XFCE is a very fast desktop environment; I use it on my old system which has the following specs:
Celerom 500 MHz
128 MB RAM
10 GB HDD
Thats around the same specs as the $100 laptop isn't it? The storage is very low but XFCE is barely 40-50 MB so that's ok too.
Or just put in Blackbox as the window manager for a completely stripped down Gnome or KDE subsystem. The whole point of the $100 laptop is to provide basic computing power for those who cannot afford it. So in that sense if the hardware is tuned down, even the software needs to obviously be tuned down.
t's important for enterprises to be aware of such issues and implement anti-virus tools for protecting non-Windows operating systems if they haven't done so already, Ullrich said.
So is that the real intention of the entire article? The original report is at viruslist.com, which is again a Kaspersky owned site. So take a guess...
Also, at the end of the story on SANS they have put up an update saying that the virus will have to run as r00t to be able to do any real damage. Kinda like most proof of concept virii developed for *nix in the past isn't it?
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You probably meant it as a joke but if you navigate to google.com with IE7 you will be asked if you want to download a plugin or something to change the search box to Google. You really can't miss it; The page has a bright red arrow pointing to the search box on top.
I don't remember it very clearly but I had seen it when I was doing a test run of IE7 at work.
That is the best one can do. Chasing a new skillset as soon as you enter the market can be dangerous for some.
/environment with fair ease.
Once you have understood how programming languages work (the usual combo of C/C++/Java ought to teach you most of it) you will have a fair idea of what to expect from other programming environments. Once you have that you can pick up any new programming language
I haven't done much Ajax programming at all (I've used a combo of javascript and iframes once. Does that count?) but from what I've heard it is simply a pickle of javascript+xml+iframes. So I guess as far as the code language is concerned it shouldn't be a problem.
Minor correction: TeX really is a programming language
:-)
Hmmm... my fault. I always thought of tex as a formatting language. Probably should do a bit more research before I cite examples
USD 13k/yr = INR 590k/yr gross income (INR 49k/month) Income tax (1/3) will make it a net income of INR 33k/month.
:-)
You can make such an outright deduction only if you don't aim to invest anything. I have known of people with over INR 1200K salaries not paying a single paisa of tax due to their savings/relief in home loans, mutual funds, etc.
The cost of living in New Delhi (India's capital city) is very high and rising fast.
I stated facts based on Bombay where I live (born and brought up here btw). Bombay is just as expensive, if not more, compared to Delhi when it comes to real estate.
Buying a car is within reach but buying a decent 2+ bedroom apartment/condo will cost at least INR 3.5 million (USD 80k+) which is about 10X the annual net income
Again, you're thinking outright buys. There's a rare few who buy homes outright these days. The INR 3.5 million house that you just mentioned could be yours in a salary of INR 350K-400K on a 20 year home loan.
I know a person who recently bought a spacious apartment in a hiranandani complex (one of india's best known builders) for INR 3.6 million when the foundations were being laid. So if you invest in your home smartly you can have a princely home in your modest salary of INR 400K as well
As a rough of comparison, a loaf of bread which costs $2.50 in the US costs a little less than 25 Indian Rupees ($0.50).
Actually, it's 10 Indian Rupees. 600K in India is a very good salary. IT Professionals start out of campus with salaries of around 200K-250K per annum and thats excellent pay if you're single and good enough to live if you have a family to support.
600K is something that can get you a great apartment and car on top of all that.
Yet only one led Apple Inc. ;-)
*ducks*
Yes, HTML is a programming language.
;-)
I'm not so sure about that. HTML is a markup language that defines what the data is and how it is to be placed.
True, you need to have the concept of code but that doesn't make it a programming language. If HTML is a programming language then Tex would also be a programming language. But it's not.
Among the many things HTML falls short in being a programming language, here's a few:
* It does not support branch conditions
* It does not have the concept of variables (you have tag ids and names but those are used by javascript/perl/php/asp for processing, not by html)
* Data manipulation is not possible. Only display can be manipulated.
You'll be better of calling it a Markup Language (language to define/present the data rather then use/manipulate it in any way) rather than a programming language
simply remove all the web browsers
Meh... I use netcat anyways...
Well you're perfectly right about the 16 hour days. But I beg to differ on the "their jobs are being outsourced to China" bit.
;) ) IT services companies, big and small are in the constant lookout for employees; the supply for IT professionals is much lower than the demand.
The fact here is that there are enough "mushroom companies" that are coming up in India that are taking care of any inflating costs to the larger outsourcing companies. They simply outsource the smaller assignments to these small companies or to smalltime freelancers and save a bounty.
Even today, as I speak (not exactly, its 1 in the night here
The IT sourcing to China will not be in full swing anytime soon as Chinese lack one necessary quality; communication in English. They are gaining major foothold in the back-office outsourcing area where communication is not a big criterion. But when it comes to IT tech support or development, India still has them beat and will keep doing so for a few more years atleast.
Most developers in India come into this field only because of the money. So its a really big deal that they turn up any code at work at all. People want to become a ".Net programmer" or a "J2EE expert" just cos its the current hot technology. Then there are the more "computer literate" kinds who know that there's more money in the ERPs and hence go there. Rarely would you find a person who's in there for the love of it.
There are many though, who do contribute to open source in India. Much of the effort is into localization of distributions so as to bring them closer to rural and government applications. Apart from those there are developers from India who contribute to projects as well (ayttm, xmmsmplayer come immediately to mind). But not too many I guess
To want to contribute to OSS projects you need to love programming in the first place.
You can smash 'em with a baseball bat...
;-)
or post a link to it on ShashDot
My old computers would have joked
;-)
*sigh* My old computer never does... probably cos it's running Linux
Experts Exchange doesn't ask you to register all the time. They have some random nag wherein you are asked to register to view their answers only once in a while. Quite often their answers are available in the first go.
Either ways, its a very good place to get questions answered; well worth the registration.
4 ;-)
The feature will let users direct questions to a specific universe, such as a group of friends, rather than to get automated lists of results from a generic search engine.
Forums anyone?
Not sure what search engines are trying to accomplish here.
This database of PAQs (Previously Asked Questions) becomes a reliable knowledgebase that search engines can index to provide quality content as responses to searches, thus increasing relevance (and quality) of search results.
As of now experts exchange has the largest database of such "questions". Somehow google answers just doesn't seem to be generating as much furore (neither is yahoo answers) compared to experts exchange.
I'm guessing that's because experts exchange is free.
I'd enter this industry just to compete with this knucklehead.
Well I don't think you realize but he's actually provided a great answer to one of the biggest problems prevalent in Indian IT services companies today; employee attrition. And believe it or not, even customers have a problem with that as they have to face the delays caused due to training the new guy.
I think this idea is extremely marketable as well, apart from being very good from an employee retention point of view. Reason being that I can actually quote my extremely low attrition as a cost cutting and quality raising factor.
And I don't think you know it but HCL has been named as the best IT services firm in India and the best speciality offshore infrastructure service provider.
I'm guessing most of these statistics are collected from participating sites; i.e. sites that have volunteered to give their visitor logs. I'm not sure if this is foolproof as:
;-)
* Yahoo Messenger opens a web page in a "start window" (forgot what it's called) after every messenger login
* RealPlayer opens its home page in a window below the player everytime the player is loaded
* MSN is the default home page on IE for most people. Many don't bother to change that. They are content to just start the browser, stop the page from loading and type in the url (or search for it in the address bar dropdown).
And where's the pron sites? Pretty sure they should be somewhere near the top
FDISK ;-)
I can't apt-get install mod_security because of their licencing issues.
You're probably looking in the wrong place. libapache-mod-security is the package you're looking for. It's only in stable, not in testing and unstable.
It's all a lot of faffing around. Have 2 repositories. One for people that want only the most GPL'd, clean packages. And another one where they put the same packages, as well as the ones that people want.
They already do. The proprietary software is in the non-free branch.
Unlikely, there's always bittorrent, freenet, etc to float everything without the DRM. And thats not likely to go away that easily. Infact i would hazard to say that DRMing would push more users towards Linux.
put an amorphous mass of "scientific knowledge" into a big fat RDBMS and let it churn for a while, it would somehow spit out new scientific knowledge
Unfortunately that is how many people seem to perceive data mining. Managers/decision makers seem to search for scientific technologies that will help them reduce their dependence on the scientists (experts); and perceive data mining as just that.
Privacy concerns stopped a lot of data mining.
True, thats because most product/service providers see this as an opportunity to spy on their customers to find out every intricate detail about them so that they can "serve them better".
Surely there must be many other applications of data mining which would change the way of life for many people and do not require them to divulge their SSN at the same time. Out of the top of my head, collecting seasonal data to be able to discover some patterns in natural calamities. Its probably being done, but not very visible.
Use XFCE. XFCE is a very fast desktop environment; I use it on my old system which has the following specs:
Thats around the same specs as the $100 laptop isn't it? The storage is very low but XFCE is barely 40-50 MB so that's ok too.
Or just put in Blackbox as the window manager for a completely stripped down Gnome or KDE subsystem. The whole point of the $100 laptop is to provide basic computing power for those who cannot afford it. So in that sense if the hardware is tuned down, even the software needs to obviously be tuned down.
t's important for enterprises to be aware of such issues and implement anti-virus tools for protecting non-Windows operating systems if they haven't done so already, Ullrich said.
So is that the real intention of the entire article? The original report is at viruslist.com, which is again a Kaspersky owned site. So take a guess...
Also, at the end of the story on SANS they have put up an update saying that the virus will have to run as r00t to be able to do any real damage. Kinda like most proof of concept virii developed for *nix in the past isn't it?