From the monthly archives:

August 2006

Bangla Writing Software

by Nipon on August 27, 2006

Most Bongs must have tried to write in Bangla on their computer at some point of time or other, with or without success. Well Avro is one great software that really makes writing Bangla – on a Windows platform – piece of cake, thanks to its english-to-bangla phonetic typing feature. In fact it is the best software in this segment, a freeware at that. Avro lets you type in Bengali in Unicode. Unicode is the universal standard for writing Bangla.

So if you have long wondered how to write Bangla on your computer your wait has finally ended. Download and start using right away.

Avro

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Kevin Mitnick’s website hacked

by Cinthia on August 24, 2006

mitnickFamed hacker Kevin Mitnick’s website was hacked on last Sunday. Explicit messages were being displayed on his 4 websites defensivethinking.com, mitsec.com, kevinmitnick.com and mitnicksecurity.com . The hackers are believed to be operating from Pakistan.

Mitnick spent five years behind bars for wire and computer fraud after being caught by FBI in 1995. Since his release in 2000, he makes a living as a consultant giving speeches on security matters and writing books about hackers. The film “Takedown”, directed by Joe Chappelle was made on basis of his life-story.

“The Web hosting provider that hosts my sites was hacked,” Mitnick told CNET News.com in an interview on monday. He said that he would switch Web hosting providers only if his site gets hacked continuously.

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Wiki World

August 23, 2006

I don’t know how many of you have already done this…but all of should go to www.wikimapia.com and check it out. It’s something like Google-Earth…basically you can zoom into any part of the world real close. You can identify your house, college…it’s pretty cool! I got so excited the first time I saw it…I [...]

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Yoga: Neti buri Kunji Kore

August 19, 2006

“Neti buri kunji kore, ghuchkun munu tu. Badur bachcha, badur bachcha, nyat ba cha-chang chang.”
I’m sure most bongs in every hemisphere has heard that sometime in their lives. In my family it is used as a mantra of endearment and as I’m a ‘lovely kid’ I hear it almost daily, and get over-doses of it [...]

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Cakes and Ale: Omkara Vs KANK

August 16, 2006

I have recently been very disappointed with the general Indian movie audience.
I watched “Omkara” and was swept off my feet. It is what an adaptation is, in the true sense of the word. To [...]

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SANIA MIRZA in SPRITE AD

August 16, 2006

Sania Mirza looking gorgeous in Sprite ad.

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Zidane’s song: Coup De Boule (The Headbutt)

August 15, 2006

The song coup de boule, inspired by Zidane’s famous headbutt was written by three French fans after France’s failure from world-cup’06. In July month it was listened to 184000 times in France & downloaded 31,0483 times from internet!!!

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Capgemini interview

August 15, 2006

I’ve been placed in CAPGEMINI on 23rd June’2006 through dream campussing from my college. My joining is in next year. I am describing my experience here.
Global website: http://www.capgemini.com

India’s website: http://www.in.capgemini.com
Current technologies: SAP, J2EE, MAINFRAME, .NET etc.
Rank: Capgemini is one among the top three global IT companies. Globally ranked 2 according
to revenue of 2006.
Global status: 70,000 [...]

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OCP 9i Developer track downloads

August 15, 2006

There are three papers in OCP 9i developer track.

Introduction to SQL: Papercode IZ0-007
Program with PL/SQL: Papercode IZ0-147
Oracle Forms,Build Internet Applications: Papercode IZ0-141

Download the PDF of these three papers from the following links
1.Introduction to SQL : Chapter 1 to 10 & chapter 11 to end
2.Program with PL/SQL: Chapter 1 to 11 [...]

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Java by Khalid Mughal

August 15, 2006

Download Programmer’s Guide to Java™ Certification, A: A Comprehensive
Primer, Second Edition written by Khalid A. Mughal , Rolf W. Rasmussen click here

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