Petrol in Pakistan Rs 17 per liter
Malaysia Rs 18 per liter
In India it's 51 per liter
Why this difference in Asia itself? World Market CRUDE Oil is not the reason for
this. It's all Gain for private owners. As we are the general public, or Common
Man as R.K. Laxman would have said, we have to raise our voice, let's rise thru
Emails.
Forward this to all Indians who care.
IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF
PETROL FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON
THEIR STOCKPILES.
AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OVER 4.6
BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.
THEREFORE '24th JANUARY ' HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED 'STICK IT UP THEIR BEHIND
'DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF PETROL THAT
DAY.
THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS
YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT. WAITING ON THE GOVERNMENT
TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO?
REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF PETROL GOING UP BUT
AT THE SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES,
TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES WHICH AFFECTS
PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED. THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING
SUPPLIES MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE DO!
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.IF THEY DON'T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY, WE WILL DO
IT AGAIN AND AGAIN. MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE 24 JANUARY A DAY THAT THE
CITIZENS SAY 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH'.
REMEMBER: JANUARY 24, 2008 .... NO Petrol Day...!
Please 'Think Of It ...............
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Why does techsupport go crazy???
1. Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to"Press Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is.
2. AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in.
3. Another Dell customer called to say he couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of troubleshooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "Send" key.
4. Yet another, Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his tub with soap and water and soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.
5. A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "bad and invalid." The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses ..... shouldn't be taken personally.
6. A confused caller to IBM was having trouble printing documents He told the technician that the computer had said it "couldn't find printer." The user had also tried turning the computer screen to face the printer -- but that his computer still couldn't "see" the printer.
7. An exasperated caller to Dell omputer Tech Support couldn't get her new Dell Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed o! n this f oot pedal and nothing happens." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the computer's mouse.
8. Another customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand new computer wouldn't work. She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked, "What power switch?"
9. Another IBM customer had trouble installing software and rang for support. "I put in the first disk, and that was OK. It said to put in the second disk, and had some problems with the disk. When it said to put in the third disk, I couldn't even fit it in." The user hadn't realized that "Insert Disk 2" implied to- remove Disk 1 first.
10. A story from a Novell NetWire SysOp:
CALLER: "Hello, is this Tech Support?"
TECH: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?"
CALLER: "The cup holder on my PC is broken, and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?"
TECH: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"
CALLER: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."
TECH: "Please excuse me. If I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotional at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"
CALLER: "It came with my computer. I don't know anything about a promotional. It just has '4X' on it."
At this point, the Tech Rep had to mute the caller because he couldn't stand it. He was laughing too hard. The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder and snapped it off the drive.
11. A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was "running it under windows." The woman responded, "No, my desk is next to the door. But that is a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window and his printer is working fine."
12! . And last but not least:
TECH SUPPORT: "O.K. Bob, let's press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter P to bring up the Program Manager."
CUSTOMER: "I don't have a P."
TECH SUPPORT: "On your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "What do you mean?"
TECH SUPPORT: "P on your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "I ain't gonna do that!" "
2. AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in.
3. Another Dell customer called to say he couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of troubleshooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "Send" key.
4. Yet another, Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his tub with soap and water and soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.
5. A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "bad and invalid." The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses ..... shouldn't be taken personally.
6. A confused caller to IBM was having trouble printing documents He told the technician that the computer had said it "couldn't find printer." The user had also tried turning the computer screen to face the printer -- but that his computer still couldn't "see" the printer.
7. An exasperated caller to Dell omputer Tech Support couldn't get her new Dell Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed o! n this f oot pedal and nothing happens." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the computer's mouse.
8. Another customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand new computer wouldn't work. She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked, "What power switch?"
9. Another IBM customer had trouble installing software and rang for support. "I put in the first disk, and that was OK. It said to put in the second disk, and had some problems with the disk. When it said to put in the third disk, I couldn't even fit it in." The user hadn't realized that "Insert Disk 2" implied to- remove Disk 1 first.
10. A story from a Novell NetWire SysOp:
CALLER: "Hello, is this Tech Support?"
TECH: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?"
CALLER: "The cup holder on my PC is broken, and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?"
TECH: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"
CALLER: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."
TECH: "Please excuse me. If I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotional at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"
CALLER: "It came with my computer. I don't know anything about a promotional. It just has '4X' on it."
At this point, the Tech Rep had to mute the caller because he couldn't stand it. He was laughing too hard. The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder and snapped it off the drive.
11. A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was "running it under windows." The woman responded, "No, my desk is next to the door. But that is a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window and his printer is working fine."
12! . And last but not least:
TECH SUPPORT: "O.K. Bob, let's press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter P to bring up the Program Manager."
CUSTOMER: "I don't have a P."
TECH SUPPORT: "On your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "What do you mean?"
TECH SUPPORT: "P on your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "I ain't gonna do that!" "
Proverbs From all Countries
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Arab Proverb
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
English Proverb
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
Persian Proverb
A cat has nine lives.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Italian Proverb
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb
A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.
Proverb, Chinese
A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master.
Russian Proverb
A drink precedes a story.
Irish Proverb
A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
Persian Proverb
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
A forest is in an acorn.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
A friend in need is a friend indeed
English Proverb
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Irish Proverb
A good denial, the best point in law.
Irish Proverb
A good husband is healthy and absent.
Japanese Proverb
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A healthy man is a successful man.
French Proverb
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
French Proverb
A hen is heavy when carried far.
Irish Proverb
A hound's food is in its legs.
Irish Proverb
A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.
Portuguese Proverb
A hungry man is an angry man.
English Proverb
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
French Proverb
A little too late, is much too late.
German Proverb
A loan though old is not gift.
Hungarian Proverb
A lock is better than suspicion.
Irish Proverb
A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.
Turkish Proverb
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
Yiddish Proverb
A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Yiddish Proverb
A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.
Haitian Proverb
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.
Irish Proverb
A penny for your thoughts.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A penny saved is a penny gained.
Scottish Proverb
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
English Proverb
A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
Hungarian Proverb
A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.
Chinese proverb
A silent mouth is melodious.
Irish Proverb
A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.
Traditional Russian Saying
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible - Proverbs 15:1.
A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Welsh Proverb
A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.
Yiddish Proverb
A teacher is better than two books.
German Proverb
A thief believes everybody steals.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Chinese proverb
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
French Proverb
A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
Irish Proverb
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Quotes on Drinking
"The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid." - Richard Braunstein
"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue." - Samuel Butler
"I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on." - Oscar Levant
Arab Proverb
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
English Proverb
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
Persian Proverb
A cat has nine lives.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Italian Proverb
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb
A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.
Proverb, Chinese
A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master.
Russian Proverb
A drink precedes a story.
Irish Proverb
A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
Persian Proverb
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
A forest is in an acorn.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
A friend in need is a friend indeed
English Proverb
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Irish Proverb
A good denial, the best point in law.
Irish Proverb
A good husband is healthy and absent.
Japanese Proverb
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A healthy man is a successful man.
French Proverb
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
French Proverb
A hen is heavy when carried far.
Irish Proverb
A hound's food is in its legs.
Irish Proverb
A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.
Portuguese Proverb
A hungry man is an angry man.
English Proverb
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
French Proverb
A little too late, is much too late.
German Proverb
A loan though old is not gift.
Hungarian Proverb
A lock is better than suspicion.
Irish Proverb
A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.
Turkish Proverb
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
Yiddish Proverb
A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Yiddish Proverb
A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.
Haitian Proverb
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.
Irish Proverb
A penny for your thoughts.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)
A penny saved is a penny gained.
Scottish Proverb
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
English Proverb
A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
Hungarian Proverb
A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.
Chinese proverb
A silent mouth is melodious.
Irish Proverb
A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.
Traditional Russian Saying
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible - Proverbs 15:1.
A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Welsh Proverb
A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.
Yiddish Proverb
A teacher is better than two books.
German Proverb
A thief believes everybody steals.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Chinese proverb
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
French Proverb
A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
Irish Proverb
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Quotes on Drinking
"The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid." - Richard Braunstein
"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue." - Samuel Butler
"I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on." - Oscar Levant
History behind brand names
Apache:
It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches
to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'
server - thus, the name Apache.
Jakarta (project from Apache):
A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server
handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at
SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.
Tomcat:
The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for
the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.
C :
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it
'New B'. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson
as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife
Bonnie).
C++ :
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then
'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C'
which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick
Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
GNU :
A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard
Stallman liked the name because of the humor associated with its
pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu
Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive
acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Java:
Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that
stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a
substitute, as there was no other language with the same name. Java
was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the
coffee that the programmers drank.
LG:
Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.
Linux:
Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system, which he
replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).
He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax
(free + freak + x). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload
it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a
directory called Linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name
Freax. (Linus's parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner
Linus Pauling).
Mozilla:
When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace
Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer
Godzilla). The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was
re-christened Netscape Navigator.
Red Hat:
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap
(with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He
lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta
version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red
Hat if found by anyone!
SAP:
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4
ex-IBM employees who used to work in the
'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.
SCO (UNIX) :
From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.
UNIX :
When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and
Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project,
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version
of the OS. They needed the OS to run the game Space War that was
compiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and
Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.
Xerox:
The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry'
(as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing
wet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.
3M:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the
material corundum used to make sandpaper.
Interesting facts behind some of the most famous brands.
There are many companies / brands / products whose
names were derived from strange circumstances.
Mercedes:
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
Adobe:
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran
behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers:
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months
late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his
company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a
better name by 5 O'clock.
CISCO:
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq:
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a
small integral object.
Corel:
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It
stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
Google:
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information
the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named
'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100
zeros. After founders Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry
Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a
cheque made out to 'Google'
Hotmail:
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a
computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the
business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending
in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included! the letters
"html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was
initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard:
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the
company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or
Packard-Hewlett.
Intel:
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore
Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had
to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes):
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or
'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation
of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft:
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft! , the '-'
was removed later on.
Motorola:
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time
was called Victrola.
ORACLE:
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for
the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project
was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to
all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use
the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was
terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and
bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS
engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony:
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a
slang used ! by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN:
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for
Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a
microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to
manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!:
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book
'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in
appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang
and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves
yahoos.
It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches
to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'
server - thus, the name Apache.
Jakarta (project from Apache):
A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server
handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at
SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.
Tomcat:
The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for
the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.
C :
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it
'New B'. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson
as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife
Bonnie).
C++ :
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then
'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C'
which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick
Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
GNU :
A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard
Stallman liked the name because of the humor associated with its
pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu
Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive
acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Java:
Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that
stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a
substitute, as there was no other language with the same name. Java
was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the
coffee that the programmers drank.
LG:
Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.
Linux:
Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system, which he
replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).
He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax
(free + freak + x). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload
it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a
directory called Linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name
Freax. (Linus's parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner
Linus Pauling).
Mozilla:
When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace
Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer
Godzilla). The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was
re-christened Netscape Navigator.
Red Hat:
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap
(with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He
lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta
version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red
Hat if found by anyone!
SAP:
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4
ex-IBM employees who used to work in the
'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.
SCO (UNIX) :
From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.
UNIX :
When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and
Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project,
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version
of the OS. They needed the OS to run the game Space War that was
compiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and
Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.
Xerox:
The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry'
(as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing
wet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.
3M:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the
material corundum used to make sandpaper.
Interesting facts behind some of the most famous brands.
There are many companies / brands / products whose
names were derived from strange circumstances.
Mercedes:
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.
Adobe:
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran
behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers:
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months
late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his
company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a
better name by 5 O'clock.
CISCO:
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq:
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a
small integral object.
Corel:
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It
stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
Google:
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information
the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named
'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100
zeros. After founders Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry
Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a
cheque made out to 'Google'
Hotmail:
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a
computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the
business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending
in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included! the letters
"html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was
initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard:
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the
company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or
Packard-Hewlett.
Intel:
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore
Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had
to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes):
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or
'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation
of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft:
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft! , the '-'
was removed later on.
Motorola:
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time
was called Victrola.
ORACLE:
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for
the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project
was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to
all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use
the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was
terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and
bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS
engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony:
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a
slang used ! by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN:
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for
Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a
microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to
manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!:
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book
'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in
appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang
and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves
yahoos.
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I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt ..
Sunday, January 6, 2008
The Game Plan - Movie review
There’s nothing surprising about The Game Plan, in which a quarterback named Joe Kingman, played by Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, learns to love the young daughter, Peyton (Madison Pettis), he never knew he had. But the movie is so likable that it glides over its many plot holes (including the fishy explanation of why Joe never knew about Peyton, and an 11th-hour revelation by the girl that’s even less persuasive).
The film’s direction, by Andy Fickman, is raucous but never crass, and the affable Mr. Johnson is committed to every moment. The screenplay, by Nichole Millard and Kathryn Price, establishes Joe as a man-boy who talks about himself in the third person and has a separate room for his trophies. Peyton puts a tutu on his bulldog, switches his television to a horse program during the final seconds of an N.B.A. game and insists on being enrolled in a ballet class. The class yields a hint of romance for Joe (with Peyton’s elegant, tough teacher, played by Roselyn Sanchez).
And it lets Mr. Fickman stage some lively sequences, including an endearing montage that cuts between ballet and football practice, and a dance recital in which Joe, who’s been pressed into service as a tree, plays his role with such sincerity that he brings his burly teammates in the audience to tears.
The 11th hour - Movie review
Berrabah living in mobile home with Fuller’s mom
Sugababes star Amelle Berrabah is living in a mobile home with her hospitalised boyfriend’s mother. The singer, whose lover Freddie Fuller was almost killed during a terrifying machete attack on Christmas Eve, has left her plush home and moved into the sparse prefab in Aldershot, Hampshire, so she can keep a vigil by Freddie’s bedside.
One neighbour said, “You don’t expect to see a rich pop star living in a mobile home. I have said hello to her a few times and she seems quite nice.” Amelle and Freddie were on a festive pub crawl when he was attacked at around 11.30 pm outside the Queen Victoria pub in Aldershot, Hampshire. Freddie almost lost his left arm and leg in the horrific incident.
The 23-year-old About You Now singer said, “It’s awful to see him lying there so still with his face so pale and his limbs all bound up.
One neighbour said, “You don’t expect to see a rich pop star living in a mobile home. I have said hello to her a few times and she seems quite nice.” Amelle and Freddie were on a festive pub crawl when he was attacked at around 11.30 pm outside the Queen Victoria pub in Aldershot, Hampshire. Freddie almost lost his left arm and leg in the horrific incident.
The 23-year-old About You Now singer said, “It’s awful to see him lying there so still with his face so pale and his limbs all bound up.
After arrest, Barton turns to God for help
Mischa Barton has turned to God following her arrest. The St Trinian’s star, who was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) recently, visited Beverly Hills’ Good Shepherd Catholic Church to seek forgiveness for her sins recently. An onlooker told gossip website TMZ.com, “Mischa came out of the church looking very pious, wearing a white, virginal dress. She was carrying a church brochure.”
The 21-year-old former O.C. star was stopped by police for straddling two lanes of traffic while driving through West Hollywood last week. She was charged with DUI, possession of marijuana and driving without a valid licence and could face jail. The Good Shepherd Catholic Church is the same church Prison Break star Lane Garrison visited in December 2006 after he was involved in a fatal car crash. He is now in prison for vehicular manslaughter.
Natalie to spilt from Johns
Natalie Imbruglia has split from her rock star husband Daniel Johns. The Torn singer announced the pair have decided to end their four-year marriage after “growing apart” due to the pressures of work. In a joint statement they said, “While we are very sad that our marriage has ended, we want to make it clear that our parting is amicable and we remain friends. This mutual decision has not been taken lightly or quickly. However, our career demands and our lives in different parts of the world have brought us to the point where unfortunately this difficult decision was necessary for both of us. We have simply grown apart through not being able to spend enough time together. We have issued this statement to set the record straight and to eliminate any need for speculation.”
Imbruglia, 32, is based in the UK, while 28-year-old Silverchair frontman Johns has been living in their home country of Australia. The pair met in 1999 and married on New Year’s Eve in 2003 in a beachside ceremony in Queensland, Australia.
Lindsay filmed drinking liquor
Lindsay Lohan was filmed drinking champagne from the bottle on New Year’s Eve. The Mean Girls star, who has been in rehab three times following two arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of cocaine in May and July 2007, was filmed glugging the expensive drink straight from the bottle at an event in Italy where she received an award at the 12th Annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival. Lindsay’s lawyer Blair Berk said, “After being handed a champagne bottle while on a dance floor in Italy on New Year’s Eve and drinking from it, the good news is that Lindsay immediately stopped, called her sponsor, and got herself back on track. There is no magic cure here. Unfortunately, Lindsay has to share her ‘one day at a time’ with the entire world.”
Meanwhile, Lindsay, who was recently voted the worst actress of 2007 in an online poll, may face problems with her new movie Dare To Love Me as it is suffering from financial difficulties. Executive Producer Gary Hamilton said, “There’s no problem with Lindsay from our perspective. It’s just trying to finance this film, which is a separate issue.”
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Jackson, Smith, Tupac sued for stealing song
Michael Jackson, Will Smith and Tupac Shakur are all being sued for stealing the same song. Blues musician Syl Johnson, real name Sylvester Thompson, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the three artistes claiming they all used his 1967 tune Different Strokes without paying him for the rights to do so.
Johnson claims Jackson’s Blood on the Dance Floor, Smith’s Who Stole The DJ and Shakur’s Peep Game all illegally sampled his track. The 71-year-old soul singer has also filed papers against the rap group N.W.A. for their song Real N**gaz Don’t Die, and KRS-One for his tune Criminal Minded.
Smith guides SA home
South African captain Graeme Smith blasted 85 off 79 balls to guide his team to a seven-wicket win on the fourth day of the second Test against the West Indies at Newlands on Saturday. Smith’s innings enabled South Africa to square the series with one match to play. Victory with a day to spare seemed unlikely after a heroic effort by West Indian skipper Chris Gayle extended his team’s innings until tea and left South Africa needing 185 to win.
But Smith and AB de Villiers got the chase off to a flying start with an opening stand of 57 in nine overs and the tempo was maintained as Hashim Amla helped Smith add 83 in 17 overs for the second wicket.
Harbhajan hearing postponed until match-end
Harbhajan Singh received a 24-hour break from ICC match referee Mike Procter for his Code of Conduct hearing, which will now take place after the ongoing second India-Australia Test ends at the Sydney Cricket Ground here on Sunday. In a statement released through the International Cricket Council, Procter said: “At the request of the India team manager and under the circumstances I have exercised my discretionary powers to postpone the code of conduct hearing until the conclusion of this Test match. I am satisfied that with a further 24 hours India will have time to sufficiently prepare for this hearing.”
Harbhajan was charged on Friday under Level 3 of the ICC’s Code of Conduct following an alleged incident that took place during the second Test between him and Andrew Symonds. The two clashed Australia’s tour of India late last year. The bowler, quoted in the local media, however dismissed suggestions there was a racial element to his comments. “I did not say anything racist. I do not know what is going on,” he said. “I haven’t done anything, we were just talking. It wasn’t even sledging, it was just normal talk out on the cricket field. I was concentrating on my batting.
“I am here to play well for my country, to bowl well and to win this match. This is an important game and we have a chance to win, that’s what I’m focused on.” The charge was laid by match umpires Mark Benson and Steve Bucknor after the close of play on Day Three of the match following a complaint received from the Australia captain Ricky Ponting after the 116th over of the Indian innings.
The alleged offence falls under 3.3 of the ICC Code of Conduct which refers to players or team officials “using language or gestures that offends, insults, humiliates, intimidates, threatens, disparages or vilifies another person on the basis of that person’s race, religion, gender, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin”. If found guilty, Harbhajan could face a ban of between two and four Tests or between four and eight ODIs.
Said Procter on the Nine Network.on Saturday morning: “They (Benson and Bucknor) reported to me the breach of conduct reported to them by Ponting. I informed both parties that there will be a hearing. It’s a Level 3 which is pretty serious and the hearing has to be within 36 hours. “The umpires didn’t hear anything, they didn’t know anything about it.”
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