History of Valentine

In spite of what you have been told by everyone, the truth is that Valentine's Day originated hundreds of years ago, in India, and to top it all, in the state of Gujarat !!!

It is a well known fact that Gujarati men, specially the Patels, continually mistreat and disrespect their wives (Patelianis). One fine day, it happened to be the 14th day of February, one brave Patelani, having had enough "torture" by her husband, finally chose to rebel by beating him up with a Velan (rolling pin to make chapattis). Yes....the same Velan which she used daily, to make chapattis for him.... only this time, instead of the dough, it was the husband who was flattened.

This was a momentous occasion for all Gujarati women and a revolt soon spread, like wild fire, with thousands of housewives beating up their husbands with the Velan. There was an outburst of moaning "chapatti-ed" husbands all over Anand and Amdavad.

The Patel men-folk quickly learnt their lesson and started to behave more respectfully with their Patelanis.

Thereafter, on 14th February every year, the womenfolk of Gujarat would beat up their husbands, to commemorate that eventful day - the wives having the satisfaction of beating up their husbands with the Velan and the men having the supreme joy of submitting to the will of the women they loved.

Soon The Gujju men realised that in order to avoid this ordeal they need to present gifts to their wives....they brought flowers and sweets. This is how the tradition - Velan time - began.

As Gujarat fell under the influence of Western culture, the ritual soon spread to Britain and many other Western countries, specifically, the catch words 'Velan time' !!! In course of time, their foreign tongues, this got anglisized to 'Velantime' and then to 'Valentine'.

And thereafter, 14th of February, came to be known as Valentine's Day and now you know the true story of Valentine's day.

This is supposed to be a joke

Too busy to write something productive these days, so enjoy this copied joke today.:))

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A capacitor and an inductor - Love Story

One evening, with his charge at full capacity, Micro Farad decided to get a cute coil to discharge him. He went to the Magnet Bar to pick up a chip called Millie Amp. He caught her out back trying self induction; fortunately, she had not damaged her solenoid. The two took off on his megacycle and rode across the Wheatstone Bridge into a magnetic field, next to a flowing current to watch the sine waves.

Micro Farad was very much stimulated by Millie's characteristic curve. Being attractive himself, he soon had her field fully excited. He set her on the ground potential, raised his frequency, lowered her resistance, and pulled out his high voltage probe. When he inserted it in parallel, he short-circuited her shunt. Fully excited, Millie cried out, "ohm, ohm, give me mho". As
he increased his tube to maximum output, her coil vibrated from the current flow. It did not take long for her shunt to reach maximum heat. Now with the excessive current shortening her shunt, Micro's capacity rapidly discharged – every electron was drained off. But that was not the end of it. Indeed, they fluxed all night, tried various connections and hookings until his bar magnet weakened, and he could no longer generate enough voltage to sustain his collapsing field. With his battery fully discharged, Micro was unable to excite his tickler, so they went home. A few weeks later, they were merged in a “tank” forever and oscillated happily ever after.

An attitude story

A short story that I got via email a couple of months ago. I was really inspired by the moral and thought I should share it. Some of you may have read it. For others, its really worth reading.


A soldier stationed in Afghanistan recently received a letter from his girl friend back home. It read as follows:

Dear Ricky,
I can no longer continue our relationship. The distance between us is just too great. I'm sorry. Please return the picture of me that I sent to you.

Love, Becky




The soldier, with hurt feelings, asked his fellow soldiers for any snapshots they could spare of their girlfriends, sisters or ex-girlfriends. In addition to the picture of Becky, Ricky included all the other pictures of the pretty gals he had collected from his buddies. There were 57 photos in that envelope along with this note:

Dear Becky,
I'm so sorry, but I can't quite remember who the hell you are. Please take your picture from the pile, and send the rest back to me.

Take Care,
Ricky

Moral of the story: If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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A Thought

All that is needed for evil to succeed is that decent human beings do nothing.

- Edmund Burke

How to save the videos you watch in YouTube?

All the videos you watch on sites like YouTube, MetaCafe etc. are stored in your computer in the browser cache directory. After watching a video ,if you want to save it in your disk for future viewing, here is the easiest and fastest method. We need not to download the files again from some third party sites, so this method saves bandwidth and time.

Notes

• The video files are stored in brower cache directory. (we'll see where it is)
  
• The videos you see on Youtube are in .flv (flash video) format.
• You will require a FLV player to watch the videos offline.
• Some of the players are Real Player Gold and Applian FLV player.
• Install one of the FLV players

We'll see how we can save the Youtube videos from Mozilla Firefox browser. Below is the path of the cache directory for firefox. C: drive is assumed to be the system drive.

Browser Cache directory path :

"C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\Cache"

Go to my computer and browse to "C:\Documents and Settings\\".

To browse this path further, first enable viewing of hidden files and folders. For this, go to tools > folder options >view >check "show hidden files and folders" . Click OK.

Now go to "Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\Cache"

In profiles directory, there will be only one folder, so don’t care about .

Once you get to the Cache folder showing many weird files with weird names, just copy the path from address bar and make the shortcut to that folder on the desktop. Name the shortcut "Cache_Firefox".

Now starts the real thing,

Launch firefox and go to www.youtube.com, view any one full video or just let the streaming complete. Don’t close the tab in which the fully streamed video is there.

Now, go to the "Cache_Firefox" shortcut on desktop and open cache directory.Go to view menu and select "Details".

Sort the list as the file with maximum size comes first.Mostly the video files are bigger than files of other types. Sizes of the first few files will be more than 1MB.

Select the first biggest file whose name doesn’t contain word CACHE.

(Do not select the file with name like "_CACHE_003_", instead select file whose name is something like "900E5F40d01")

Right click on that file and click "Cut", Go to desktop>right click>paste.

Now rename that file with some meaningful name like "xyz.flv" (!!)

(Remember you can give any name but just don’t forget the extension .flv)

Play that file in FLV player, and whooa , that’s the video you just watched on Youtube.

Now you can close the browser or watch another video.

Enjoy ...

For Internet Explorer:

For IE the stuff becomes even easier.

Browser cache directory in this case will be:

"C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"

You can follow the same steps here and just watch for the files containing "get_video". Select that file and copy it.

NVIDIA CUDA – Future is here…

Are you a tech freak and fascinated by the computational power of your GeForce while playing Crysis?

Wonder if that power can be used for anything more fascinating?

Want something more out of your GPU?

CUDA - Compute Unified Device Architecture

NVIDIA CUDA™ technology is the world's only C language environment that enables programmers and developers to write software to solve complex computational problems in a fraction of the time by tapping into the many-core parallel processing power of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units).

CUDA is a software layer intended for stream computing and an extension in C programming language, which allows identifying certain functions to be processed by the GPU instead of the CPU. These functions are compiled by a compiler specific to CUDA in order that they can be executed by a GPU's numerous calculation units in the GeForce 8 class and above. Thus, the GPU is seen as a massively parallel co-processor that is well adapted to processing well paralleled algorithms.

An enormous proportion of the GPU is devoted to execution, contrary to the CPU

Using this large number of parallel computing cores, applications can run thousands of threads in parallel running in the GPU.

If you have got NVIDIA Geforce 8 series or above and know how to program in C, you can start using it for massive parallel computing right now. CUDA comes with a toolkit and a SDK with a CUDA device driver. CUDA development kit is freely provided by NVIDIA at http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn.html. CUDA SDK comes with a set of libraries and APIs for accelerating Digital Signal Processing and Image Processing applications. This technology gives up to 300x speedups over conventional CPUs in many compute intensive scientific applications.

Some of the applications are:

• Ray tracing
  
• Computational Electrodynamics
  
• Computational Chemistry
  
• Molecular Dynamics of DNA
  
• Accelerated Computer Vision
  
• Large Vocabulary Continuous speech recognition
  
• Statistical and financial computing
  
• Complete list of applications and their APIs.

  The NVIDIA CUDA™ technology is started being taught at universities throughout the world, helping the development of innovative solutions to some of the most complex computation-intensive challenges. Course detail

For Complete Details visit: http://www.nvidia.com