Stress Management at Work

When we feel overworked we tend to lose our confidence and become irritable or withdrawn, making us less productive and effective. If the warning signs of work stress go unattended they can lead to bigger problems thus making it necessary to identify them.

Signs and symptoms of excessive job and workplace stress

• Get moving to de-stress
• Physical relaxation
• Mental Relaxation
• Meditation
• Feeling anxious, irritable, or depressed
• Muscle tension or headaches
• Apathy, loss of interest in work
• Problems sleeping
• Dependence on alcohol or drugs
• Stomach problems
• Social withdrawal
• Anger, Frustration, Fatigue
• Unable to concentrate

Here are some of the basic techniques to help us relieve stress:

• Get moving to de-stress - is the mantra here - Improving physical fitness (which can be achieved by walking five kms. A day, aerobics or yogic asanas,) “tones and hones prevents moans and groans” – So make sure we have a sound body if we want a sound mind.
• Physical relaxation - can be achieved by physical training of muscles (with the help of experts), a nice relaxing body massage, and shavasana (lying like a dead body).
• Mental Relaxation - can be achieved by shavasana, meditation, listening to soothing music, reading humorous literature, or even chanting mantras like “Aum”, or “Hanuman Chalisa”, or saying prayers with beads or rosary.
• Meditation - another important relaxing technique for the mind. “Dharana and Dhyana” also known colloquially as meditation, are very useful in combating stress but are not easy techniques to master.
• Breathing Exercise - Breath is equivalent to 'Prana' or life. When someone gets a brilliant idea, he is 'inspired' and conversely when someone dies; we say he has 'expired'.

Every workplace gives us stress and everyone has various ways to handle stress. Stress can't be controlled but our ways of handling can surely be. It's all in our mind after all..

Memoirs 2011, DMS-IIT Delhi Annual Alumni Meet

Education is not only the driving force for a leader to move ahead in life but also the motivation to take an occasional pause and reflect back, connect with one’s alma mater and share the richness of one’s journey. The Annual Alumni Meet of the Delhi Chapter of DMS, IIT Delhi proved to be that pause.

The alumni meet was held under the chairmanship of the Head of Department Prof. Sudhir K. Jain on 12th February 2011 at Varuna Naval Ground. Members of the Faculty and students also attended the meeting.

It was indeed heartening to see so many alumni, especially from the initial batches. The three hour long event witnessed splendid performances from students. All-in-all, the evening resulted in sharing of reminiscent times, new networks built, rich experience shared and a lot of appreciation conveyed by the alumni to the present alumni committee for such an exemplary event management.

How to resolve blue screen error using just command prompt in WINDOWS7/VISTA?

The very first Question that prompts into mind while reading the TITLE of the post is why use COMMAND PROMPT.Just format or use the CD to repair th OS.

I would like to throw light on the fact that doing it by using CMD is fast.

I recently encountered a FATAL error while defragmenting registry with one of the registry cleaners.Once the defragmenting was over I was asked to RESTART the computer which i willingly did BUT the system crashed showing the blue screen error.As if this was not enough I had also disabled the SYSTEM PROTECTION property of SYSTE

M drive(DRIVE containing operating system) as a result of which i was not able to restore my system to any of the previous dates.

If you are not willing to format your computer and have lost the original CD(or don't have one) then simply follow the following steps ::

STEP 1 :: Select the option system repair and recovery (recomended)

It probably wont detect errors, and if it does it will say that they can't be fixed automatically so what we need to do is go into advanced options so that we can get to cmd prompt.

STEP 2 :: Open the command prompt

STEP 3 :: TYPE 'DISKPART'(without the quotes)

Now when you get the prompt as DISKPART>

STEP 4 :: TYPE 'SELECT VOLUME 1'

STEP 5 :: TYPE 'REMOVE LETTER C'

STEP 6 :: TYPE 'SELECT VOLUME 2'

STEP 7 :: TYPE 'ASSIGN LETTER C'

STEP 8 :: TYPE 'SELECT VOLUME 1'

STEP 9 :: TYPE 'ASSIGN LETTER D'

STEP 10:: TYPE 'EXIT'

STEP 11(optional):: chkdsk D: /F/R (for 5 level check disk to check disk integrity)

STEP 12:: TYPE 'REGEDIT'

The regedit window would pop up.

STEP 13:: Select file -> import from the window.One good thing about Vista and windows7 is that we can copy/cut/move files through any of these windows

STEP 14:: Go to "\windows\system32\config" in the popup window.

STEP 15:: Rename the files SAM, SOFTWARE and SYSTEM by adding the extension ".abc" (just an example)

STEP 16:: Now go to "\windows\system32\config\regback" in the popup window.

STEP 17:: Copy the same files (SAM, SOFTWARE and SYSTEM) to "\windows\system32\config" from "\windows\system32\config\regback"

STEP 18:: REPEAT step 3 to step 10 to revert the drive names.

STEP 19:: TYPE "rstrui.exe"

The result is that the drive letter changing fixes the confusion in your system which doesn't

allow you to do system restore because of the "system protection" problem, and the file replacement puts in a good registry so that we can do the system restore without errors.

In case of any queries/concerns you can contact me via mail.

Can anything beat Facebook??

If there ever has been a symbol that stands for our generation, our interests, values and aspirations, it has to be the “Like” button from facebook.com. As of today this social networking behemoth has more than 500 mn users and is valued on the secondary market at almost 50 billion dollars and seems to have won the war for the social networking as comprehensively as Google won

the search war. There is an increasing group of people claiming that it is not just the battle for social

networking but is in fact the war for internet dominance once and for all.

From the evolution of time, humans have tended to form communities and live in groups & it is this universal reality that Facebook aims to emulate on the web. But it does not take into account one simple fact. All the communities in our life have been defined by us and we would like to keep them separate. E.g. I would not like my relationship status to go to my mother but would like to send it to my friends. Thus as the social networking online evolves, people would like it to

mimic their real world communities and this is not something that Facebook is good at doing. It tried doing a solution of sorts with Facebook Groups but it did not exactly hit the bull’s eye.

Another aspect of user behavior that is going to come into play is that no one wants to spam their friends every time they discover a social network with better functionality and there is going to be an increasing clamor for contact and information portability that is going to substantially decrease switching costs and make it easier for any new start-up to take on Facebook.

Another part of the web that seems to be slipping away from the control of Facebook is the

open web i.e. sites like twitter where people can be heard and can follow anyone. The implicit model of Facebook does not allow it to do this.

Facebook is a great product and definitely a great business but at the end of the day, like any other business it can be defeated and the best part is that it can be done by any one, well nearly anyone

2nd Innings

Well after a very looooooonnnnnnggg time, it took a literary novice like me to reignite our blog with this sensational article :). Since 2009, lots of water has flown under the bridge but I’m very happy that ALL of us have something to cheer about (jobs, higher studies, salaries, etc.). Some of us are very busy personally (‘GARY, SHANXX’, ‘MISHU’), technically (‘BHATIA, PRUSTY’) or professionally (‘KANCHAN & only KANCHAN’). Some of us are still confused about our destiny (SINGH & I)

Which started as a normal 10-12 guys group @ hostels of JIIT is now dispersed worldwide, determined to bring down the respected organisations that we are serving. We always had this talent (ORANGUT, OPERA & JIIT of course), now we are just applying it on a global scale.

Most of our followers!! thought that we might have ran out of ideas that is why we stopped posting articles on our blog. The TRUTH is, we were SMART enough to sense that during the economic meltdown Google will not be able to pay us for the adsense thing. And we didn’t want a company like Google to go bankrupt.

So guys to sum up, it’s time to post more and more sensible articles like this one (BIMMY IS NOT WELCOMED HERE). You can start with sharing your experiences after getting out of college, about your workplace, or just simple writing nice things about me (this topic will be enough to fill pages :)). ALSO please don’t forget to click on the advertisements on a REGULAR BASIS. Let’s all work together in making BHATIA a rich guy (because the account is on his name). Good luck and stay in touch with other in an ungay manner.

Xbox 360 laptop

See this new creation, it has the following features:

1. Digital pushbutton volume control rather than a clunky knob.
2. Two user USB ports.
3. Built-in Ethernet port, finally.
4. Built in WIFI adapter, as usual.
5. Flush-mount DVD door and side panels (such as the memory card slots)
6. IR sensor for the remote control.
7. More air holes!
8. Jasper motherboard.

Bollywood's Inspiration

Top directors,actors encouraging this form of plagiarism ( means illegal copying and presenting as one's own idea)

GHAJINI VS MEMENTO (2000)

Chak De! India' vs ‘Miracle’ (2004)

Krrish vs Paycheck (2003)

'Kaante' vs 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992)

'Hey Babyy' vs 'Three Men and A Baby’ (1987)

'The Train' vs ‘Derailed’ (2005)

'Ta Ra Rum Pum' vs ‘Days of Thunder’ (1990)

'Raaz' vs 'What Lies Beneath'

Aitraaz vs Disclosure (1993)

Jism vs Body Heat (1981)

Raghu Romeo3 vs Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down (1990)

Sauda: The Deal vs Indecent Proposal (1993)

Ek Ajnabee vs Man On Fire (2004)

Chocolate vs The Usual Suspects (1995)

Salaam Namaste vs Nine Months (1995)

Murder vs Unfaithful (2002)

'Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai' vs 'My Best Friend's Wedding' (1997)

'Kasoor' vs 'Jagged Edge' (1985)

'Analyse This' vs 'Hum Kisise Kum Nahin'

Agni Sakshi vs Inspired by Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

'Naksha' vs The Rundown (2003)

Mr Ya Miss vs Hot Chic (2002)

Main Aisa Hi Hoon vs I Am Sam (2001)

The Killer vs Collateral (2004)

Tathastu vs John Q (2002)

Awara Paagal Deewana vs The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

Zinda vs Oldboy

Kyon Ki... vs One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Aabra Ka Dabra vs Harry Potter (2001)

Dhoom vs The Fast and the Furious (2001)

Hum Tum vs When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

Some Facts about Placement....

1. The average domestic salary of IIM Indore dropped from Rs 13.07 lakh in 2008 to Rs 10.29 lakh this year — a dip of 22 per cent as compared to the last year

2. The domestic average salary of IIM Calcutta took a plunge of 23 per cent from last year’s Rs 16.4 lakh to Rs 12.7 lakh this year.

3. The average domestic salary of IIM Ahmedabad has dipped by a massive 32 per cent during this year’s final placement process. The average domestic salary came down to Rs 12.17 lakh this year as compared to last year’s Rs 17.85 lakh.

Now imagine what would the dreadful situation for lower run colleges

Update chocked by New version outburst

These days while working for Sugarlabs, i need to work on their operating system named as sugar.

For ease of my work, i installed sugar on virtual box. Sugar is "fedora" based therefore uses fedora update servers for its own files.

All those readers who are aware of fedora knows command like yum , yum install etc

for all those who are not aware

yum is used to connect to all the server worldwide and installed the required package for the user.

yesterday when i jott down "yum install git" it started checking all the server for git packages but from all the servers an http status of 403 is returned that means forbidden.

when i traced few of the server paths manually i came to know that URL which yum is trying didnt exists

e.g. it was trying to connect http://ftp.jaist.ac.in/..../11/install/... but instead of folder named as 11 they had renamed it to /11-Preview/test/... that was the first time i got frustrated by some open source policy.

For correcting this problem, i tried to poke [* way i poked is confidential *] into the system commands and found a most probable solution that works execellent for me

while installing any package traverse through the complete path of server manually and copy the path.

open the terminal

type

su

yum install

this will correct your problem

after these all steps

type yum install

your package will download itself and get install ... enjoy !!!!

Gtalk : are you blocked or not ??

Its being longtime, since you have chatted with one of your good friend on gtalk.
Your worry let you think that either He/She never comes online through gtalk or He/She might have blocked you.
Now there is a way to know whether you have being blocked by that person or not.
Install : Pidgin

Configure your gtalk account on pidgin, once you get all procedure done, login to yourgtalk account.In your buddy search that person, poke that person with your right click and select getinfo.
If you get the information about the person huraaay you are not blocked and if not then you really must be in a grim situation my friend

Change Registered Owners

One of the features which Windows doesn't have is the ability to change the owners name or the organization that the system was registered to.  A better solution to this problem is Registry hack.

This Registry hack is very simple. Remember to back up your Registry before you make any changes to it. A Registry with errors can cause your system to run slow, crash, or even not boot at all.

1. Go to Start and search for regedit. Windows XP users will have to go to Start, Run and type in regedit then click okay.

2. Expand the following on the left menu tree:
H_Key_Local_Machine
Software
Microsoft
Current Version

3. On the right you should see a registry key that is called RegisteredOwner. Double click this key and you can change it’s value. This will change the owner’s name.

4. If you want you can also change RegisteredOrganization also. You will double click the key like you did RegisteredOwner and change the value.

5. Close your Registry

To check the if the changes have taken place, you can run Winver from a Run prompt or in Vista you can search for this application.

Much awaited office 2010

Earlier this year in January, I posted few pics of office 14 (code name) given to office 2010.Now presently office 2010 comes under black box testing stage and microsoft is planing to release it with windows se7en

Few pics of office 2010











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How to read and write NTFS partitions while using boot camp on MAC OS X Leopard

Users running Mac OS X with Bootcamp Windows may struggle to modify or update your documents and files in the Windows partition - usually it is in NTFS File System format which you can read the drive natively in Mac OS X but not write onto it.

Recently Amit Singh, a Google employee, releases a implementation called MacFUSE which makes it possible to use any FUSE (File-system in USErspace) file systems in Mac. And the most useful FUSE is the NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver, which ables system to load NTFS with read and write capability. This is truly the greatest news for dual booting Mac OS X and Windows XP or Vista.

Without going into great deal of technical details and compilation of the source code, I found out users around Internet already came up with binary version (in DMG) of MacFUSE and ntfs-3g, ready to install (credit to ShadowOfGed at AppleNova). Here are the instructions on how to use MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. It does require a little of administration skills as it involves running commands in the Terminal.

MacFUSE/NTFS-3G works for me, but as this is an experimental software, so back up your data, and try it at your own risk.

Is your computer infected by Conficker??

The worm, Conficker, has infected millions of PCs all over the world and has turned into a nightmare for security experts. But here's a site developed by people at University of Bonn that lets you know whether your computer is infected by the worm just by visiting the site. Click here for the link.

Play CS through HAMACHI

This is a tutorial on how to play Counter Strike online with your friends using the Hamachi software.


1.Download hamachi by going to:https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/list.asp
(Only 989 Kb)

To host a Counter Strike game:
1. Turn off or disable your firewall when you play using hamachi. If you are using the Windows firewall, remember to turn it off from the Control Panel.

If turning off firewall doesn’t work, try setting exceptions for ‘Half Life Launcher’ from within the firewall program.

2. Run Hamachi. Click the last button and choose Preferences. Then click Window and check the Show “Advanced…” peer menu item checkbox and click OK.

3. For every new player who joins your networks you have to do the following steps:
A. Right click the player’s entry in Hamachi
B. Click Advanced.
C. In the Peer VPN alias box enter the first three parts of your Hamachi IP address (example: 5.46.80) and add the last part of the player’s IP address ( example: .190) so that it makes a new IP address.
D. Click OK and then exit Hamachi. Launch Hamachi again.

4. Launch the game. Click Create New Multiplayer Game option and start the game. Other players can connect to you as long as you have set an alias for each of them.

To join a CS CZ game:

1. Download and install Hamachi. The free version is only needed.
2. Run Hamachi and click the Create or join networks button and choose Join existing network.

3. Enter the username and password of the network you want to join.

4. Turn off your firewall (or disable it). Remember to turn it back on after you finish playing.


5. Run CS.

6. Press the ~ key on the keyboard. It is to the left of the 1 key on the top row of the keyboard.

7. Type connect 5.40.30.122 to connect if I am hosting the game. If someone else is hosting the game look at their Hamachi IP address and use that instead of mine.Or you can type the hamachi name instead of the ip address

8. The game will connect and you can start playing.

Errors:
If you get a Class C error, the host has not set up Hamachi aliases correctly. Ask the host to read the section below. If you cannot connect to the game for any other reason it’s a problem with your firewall. Else open CS console and type "ip (your HAMACHI ip address)".

Voice Over : New feature of Ipod Shuffle

Voice Over is latest stunning feature of new ipod shuffle.
The above mentioned feature makes ipod as the first music player that talks to you.
with a press of button voice over tells you about the artist, genre and various other features of the song without interupting your listening.

Fastest Web Browser

Evil Science has published Internet Explorer vs Firefox vs Opera vs Chrome vs Safari, which contains the results of an extensive competitive speed test between five popular web browsers.

The author is an Opera user who discovered that his favorite browser has slipped to the #2 spot for performance.

The author rates each browser in nine different categories. The final totals are given above...

To read full report click here 

Alienware Area-51 m15x VS MacBook PRO

Two giant PC makers are battling for the title “best PC ever built” It’s really hard to decide who’s winning for these two giant competitors has their own killing machine for the user. However, I manage to compare their top-notch notebook and you decide who deserve to bring home the title.

Let’s start with Alienware Area-51 m15x. If you love sci-fi movie then this notebook is definitely right for you, “kidding!”. Personally I love watching sci-fi movie specially if Aliens are involve :D. (enough silly talk). This model from Alienware the Area-51 m15x was release in November 2007. Inside of this amazing notebook lies a powerful Intel Core™ 2 Extreme the first 15′4″ notebook to have this technology. It come’s with NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800M GTX for brilliant gaming experience memory is upgradeable up to 4gigz “thats a lot of RAM” and also I like the Idea of illuminated keyboard and scroll pad. So basically if you like windows application, an avid windows XP or above user, full 3D (human likeness) games and looking for a powerhouse laptop that will knock ordinary laptop then this notebook is right for you. In the contrary, Area-51 m15x has found his match the MacBook PRO.

Now let’s discuss about MacBook PRO and why so many PC users are so tune to it, well probably of the slick and elegant design, MacBook were loved since it went out on the market and every year MacBook will release new model and cool design. Beside of it’s slickness and elegant design Apple has their own standard Operating System the MacOS, and probably the best Operating System out in the market. “Okay enough phrases on the design what matter’s most is the inside”. So let’s examine deep inside and what powers MacOS to operate. MacBook uses a 2.6GHz Intel Core™ 2 Duo known as one of the fastest CPU on the planet buddle with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT enough to play you favorite 3D games. MacBook is not design for gamers unlike it’s rival competitor. MacBook is ideal for Web Designer like me, Video Editing and other multimedia stuff, I would give MacBook 3 thumbs up for it.

So there you have it, You decide which is better than the other, If you ask me I like them both and I cannot decide with one is better because in term of used they satisfy me a lot.

Google Chrome Playing Tricks with Beta

They took beta tag off from Google Chrome last december.
Now this time they have start distributing their own Google chrome in two versions
1. Stable Chrome.
2. Developer Chrome.

They are re-introducing beta channel for early feedback.
Check the graphs which they published as the comparison between their own products.




These graphs clearly shows that this beta version is 25 % more faster then their earlier versions.
Some of the new features you can try out include form autofill, full page zoom and autoscroll and a cool new way to drag tabs out to get a side-by-side view.

Opera: The True Browser Star

A browser prodigy, when Opera debuted in 1995 it could open multiple documents in a single browser window, a precursor of what are now tabs, which it added in 2000. No prima donna, its demands are modest.

When it comes to features, Opera has always been a trailblazer, leaving Firefox and IE to play catch-up. For example, today's Firefox 2 saves your session in the event of a crash, so you can pick up where you left off when you recover. And you can save a group of tabs as a bookmark -- a feature that's new in both Firefox 2 and IE7.

Guess what? Opera pioneered these features back in Version 7, which was released in 2003. Crash or prematurely close Opera and it's no loss, just relaunch for an instant encore. You can also save your browsing sessions under the File menu on the menu bar. And in Version 8, Opera added a trash can icon to the page bar where closed tabs and blocked pop-ups are saved, just in case you need them.

Opera continues to lead the way with every major upgrade. Version 9 introduced thumbnail previews, which make it easy to find your way among multiple tabs -- just hover your mouse over any tab to see a thumbnail image of the Web page. Also new is the content blocker. See something you don't like on a Web page -- an ad or an offensive image, for example? Just right-click and choose "Block content" to make it disappear. Opera remembers your choice, so the next time you visit that page the content remains blocked.

Opera 9 also incorporates Widgets, small Internet applets that run directly on your desktop and can be saved on your system for quick future access. There are games, newsfeeds, reference tools, image tools -- even a text editor. Mac OS X, Windows Vista and Yahoo have similar offerings, but the beauty of Opera's Widgets is that you can run them directly from the browser without having to have a Mac or get Vista or download Yahoo's Widget Engine.