Chat Short cuts....

AFAIK
=»

As Far As I Know
AFK =» Away From Keyboard
ASAP =» As Soon As Possible
BAS =» Big A$$ Smile
BBL =» Be Back Later
BBN =» Bye Bye Now
BBS =» Be Back Soon
BEG =» Big Evil Grin
BF =» Boyfriend
BIBO =» Beer In, Beer Out
BRB =» Be Right Back
BTW =» By The Way
BWL =» Bursting With Laughter
C&G =» Chuckle and Grin
CICO =» Coffee In, Coffee Out
CID =» Crying In Disgrace
CNP =» Continued (in my) Next Post
CP
=»

Chat Post(a chat message)
CRBT =» Crying Real Big Tears
CSG =» Chuckle Snicker Grin
CYA =» See You (Seeya)
CYAL8R =» See You Later (Seeyalata)
DLTBBB =» Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite
EG =» Evil Grin
EMSG =» Email Message
FC =» Fingers Crossed
FTBOMH =» From The Bottom Of My Heart
FYI
=»

For Your Information
FWIW =» For What It's Worth
GAL =» Get A Life
GF =» Girlfriend
GFN =» Gone For Now
GMBA =» Giggling My Butt Off
GMTA =» Great Minds Think Alike
GTSY =» Glad To See You
H&K =» Hug and Kiss
HABU =» Have A Better 'Un
HAGN
=»

Have A Good Night
HAGU =» Have A Good 'Un
HHIS =» Hanging Head in Shame
HUB =» Head Up Butt
IAE =» In Any Event
IC =» I See
IGP =» I Gotta Pee
IMNSHO =» In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO =» In My Opinion
IMCO =» In My Considered Opinion
IMHO
=»

In My Humble Opinion
IOW =» In Other Words
IRL =» In Real Life
IWALU =» I Will Always Love You
JMO =» Just My Opinion
JTLYK =» Just To Let You Know
KIT =» Keep In Touch
KOC =» Kiss On Cheek
KOL =» Kiss On Lips
L8R =» Later
L8R G8R
=»

Later 'Gater
LHM =» Lord Help Me
LHO =» Laughing Head Off
LHU =» Lord Help Us
LMAO =» Laughing My A$$ Off
LMSO =» Laughing My Socks Off
LOL =» Laugh Out Loud
LSHMBB =» Laughing So Hard My Belly is Bouncing
LSHMBH =» Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts
LSHTTARDML =» Laughing So Hard The Tears Are Running Down My Leg
LTNS
=»

Long Time No See
LTS =» Laughing To Self
LUWAMH =» Love You With All My Heart
LY =» Love Ya
MTF =» More To Follow
NRN =» No Reply Necessary
NADT =» Not A Darn Thing
OIC =» Oh, I See
OL =» Old Lady (significant other)
OM =» Old Man (significant other)
OTOH
=»

On The Other Hand
OTTOMH =» Off The Top of My Head
PDS =» Please Don't Shoot
PITA =» Pain In The A$$
PM =» Private Message
PMFJI =» Pardon Me For Jumping In
PMP =» Peed My Pants
POAHF =» Put On A Happy Face
QSL =» Reply
QSO =» Conversation
QT
=»

Cutie
ROFL =» Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROFLAPMP =» ROFL And Peeing My Pants
ROFLMAO =» ROFL My A$$ Off
ROFLMAOAY =» ROFLMAO At You
ROFLMAOWTIME =» ROFLMAO With Tears In My Eyes
ROFLUTSROFL =» Unable to Speak
RTFM =» Read The F****** Manual!
SETE =» Smiling Ear To Ear
SHID =» Slaps Head In Disgust
SNERT
=»

Snot-Nosed Egotistical Rude Teenager
SO =» Significant Other
SOT =» Short Of Time
SOTMG =» Short Of Time Must Go
SWAK =» Sealed With A Kiss
SWAS =» Scientific Wild A$$ Guess
SWL =» Screaming with Laughter
SYS =» See You Soon
TA =» Thanks Again
TGIF =» Thank God It's Friday
TCOY
=»

Take Care Of Yourself
TILII =» Tell It Like It Is
TNT =» Till Next Time
TOY =» Thinking Of You
TTFN =» Ta Ta For Now
TTYL =» Talk To You Later
WAS =» Wild A$$ Guess
WB =» Welcome Back
WTH =» What/Who The Heck (or sub an 'F' for the 'H')
YBS =» You'll Be Sorry
YG =» Young Gentleman
YL =» Young Lady
YM =» Young Man
:-|
=»

Ambivalent
o:-) =» Angelic
>:-( =» Angry
|-I =» Asleep
(::()::) =» Bandaid
:-{} =» Blowing a Kiss
\-o =» Bored
:-c =» Bummed Out
|C| =» Can of Coke
|P| =» Can of Pepsi
:( )
=»

Can't Stop Talking
:*) =» Clowning
:' =» Crying
:'-) =» Crying with Joy
:'-( =» Crying Sadly
:-9 =» Delicious, Yummy
:-> =» Devilish
;-> =» Devilish Wink
:P =» Disgusted (sticking out tongue)
:*) =» Drunk
:-6
=»

Exhausted, Wiped Out
:( =» Frown
\~/ =» Full Glass
\_/ =» Glass (drink)
^5 =» High Five
{{{name}}} =» Hug (cyber hug)
{{{{{{name}}}}}} =» Hug (warm cyber hug)
{{ }}:** =» Hugs and Kisses
:-I =» Indifferent
:-# =» Lips are Sealed
:~/
=»

Mixed Up
:-O =» Mouth Open (Surprised or Shocked)
(_) =» Mug (coffee, beer)
@[_]~~ =» Mug of HOT Coffee or Tea
**** =» Popcorn
<<{:}} =» Ice cream
&&&& =» Pretzels
@}--{--{-- =» Rose
:-@

=» Screaming
:-) =» Smile
0;-)-x-< =» The Saint (Thanks to Karey Ennever)
^
=»

Thumbs Up
:-& =» Tongue Tied
:-\ =» Undecided
;-) =» Wink
|-O =» Yawning
c[T] =» cup of tea
c[C] =» cup of coffee
(%>
=»

pizza
,,l, =» the finger
>^-^< =» cat
(_\_)(_|_)(_/_) =» dancing ass off
:-Þ~ =» drooling
=» staring
?€?€ =» hiding, staring in the dark.
{\o/} =» angel
¿~~ =» wink
:-------) =» Viagra smile

The New OS for Mobiles... After Symbian and windows mobile...

Maemo is a software platform developed by Nokia for smartphones and Internet Tablets.^[1] It is based on the Debian Linux distribution.

The platform comprises the Maemo operating system and the Maemo SDK.

Maemo is mostly based on open source code, and has been developed by Maemo Devices within Nokia in collaboration with many open source projects such as the Linux kernel, Debian, and GNOME. Maemo is based on Debian GNU/Linux and draws much of its GUI, frameworks, and libraries from the GNOME project. It uses the Matchbox window manager, and the GTK-based Hildon as its GUI and application framework.

The UI in Maemo 4 is similar to many handheld interfaces, and features a "Home" screen, which acts as a central point from which all applications and settings are accessed. The Home Screen is divided into areas for launching applications, a menu bar, and a large customisable area that can display information such as an RSS reader, Internet radio player, and Google search box.

The Maemo 5 UI is slightly different: The menu bar and info area are consolidated to the top of the display, and the four desktops can be customized with shortcuts and widgets.

At the Mobile World Congress in February 2010, it was announced that the Maemo project would be merging with Moblin to create the MeeGo mobile software platform.

Ajay Bhatt - co-founder of USB

Current

* Chief Client Platform Architect/Intel Fellow at Intel Corporation
* Chief I/O Architect/Intel Fellow at Intel Corporation
* Chief Architect PCI Express Development at Intel

Past

* Intel Fellow at Intel Corporation
* Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel
* Chief Architect USB Development at Intel

* Sr. Staff Architect at Intel
* Principal Engineer at Wang Laboratories

Education

* City University of New York City College
* Maharaja Sayajirao University

Ajay Bhatt

Ajay Bhatt is an Intel Fellow and Chief Client Platform Architect in a Mobile Platforms Group. Ajay leads definition and development of the next-generation Client Platform architecture. He is primarily focused on the novel advances in platform hardware and software by working with key internal and external technology partners to develop the future Client Platform Architectures and Technologies. As a lead Client Platform Architect, Ajay also works with key business and planning groups to be at the forefront of the future Client Platform innovation areas by setting Intel-wide and industry-impacting strategies.

Ajay is an industry-recognized expert in the area of I/O technologies. At Intel, Bhatt has been instrumental in driving definition and development of broadly adopted technologies such as USB, Accelerated Graphics Port, PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and various chipset enhancements. Bhatt joined Intel in 1990 as a senior staff architect on the chipset architecture team in Folsom.
Ajay received his master’s degree from The City University of New York. He holds ten U.S. patents with several in various stages of filing. In 1998, 2003 and 2004 Bhatt was nominated to take part in a Distinguished Lecture Series at leading universities in the United States and Asia. He received an Achievement in Excellence Award for his contribution in PCI Express specification development in 2002. Ajay Bhatt was featured in July 2010 issue of GQ India Magazine, as one of " The 50 Most Influential Global Indians!"

Ajay Bhatt’s Specialties:

Client & Server Platform Architecture, PC Architecture, I/O Architecture

Azim Premji - chairmen of wipro technolgies

Born: July 24, 1945
Achievements: Chairman of Wipro Technologies; Richest Indian for the past several years; Honored with Padma Bhushan in 2005.

Azim Premji is Chairman of Wipro Technologies, one of the largest software companies in India. He is an icon among Indian businessmen and his success story is a source of inspiration to a number of budding entrepreneurs.

Born on July 24, 1945, Azim Hashim Premji was studying Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA when due to the sudden demise of his father, he was called upon to handle the family business. Azim Premji took over the reins of family business in 1966 at the age of 21.

At the first annual general meeting of the company attended by Azeem Premji, a shareholder doubted Premji's ability to handle business at such a young age and publicly advised him to sell his shareholding and give it to a more mature management. This spurred Azim Premji and made him all the more determined to make Wipro a success story. And the rest is history.

When Azim Premji occupied the hot seat, Wipro dealt in hydrogenated cooking fats and later diversified to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products and hydraulic cylinders. Thereafter Premji made a focused shift from soaps to software.

Under Azim Premji's leadership Wipro has metamorphosed from a Rs.70 million company in hydrogenated cooking fats to a pioneer in providing integrated business, technology and process solutions on a global delivery platform. Today, Wipro Technologies is the largest independent R&D service provider in the world.

Azim Premji has several achievements to his credit. In 2000, Asiaweek magazine, voted Premji among the 20 most powerful men in the world. Azim Premji was among the 50 richest people in the world from 2001 to 2003 listed by Forbes. In April 2004, Times Magazine, rated him among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. He is also the richest Indian for the past several years. In 2005,Government of India honored Azim Premji with Padma Bhushan.

Vinod Khosla - co-founder of sun microsystems

Achievement: One of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems.

Vinod Khosla is an epitome of Indian success story at Silicon Valley. He is a venture capitalist and is better known as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems.

Vinod Khosla came from an ordinary middle class background. His father was in army. At the age of 16, Vinod Khosla read about the founding of Intel. This motivated him to nurture dreams of starting his own technology company. At the age of 20, after graduating in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, Vinod Khosla started a soy milk company to cater to those people in India who did not have refrigerators. But his venture failed.

Vinod Khosla went to the US and did his Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. His entrepreneurial ambitions attracted him to Silicon Valley and subsequently he did his MBA from Stanford University in 1980.

After graduating from Stanford, Vinod Khosla founded Daisy Systems with two other founders. Daisy Systems was the first significant computer aided design system for electrical engineers. The company went on to make huge profits but driven by the frustration of having to design the computer hardware on which the Daisy software needed to be built, Vinod Khosla left the company.

In Vinod Khosla, started the standards based Sun Microsystems in 1982 to build workstations for software developers. Sun was funded by his long time friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. At Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla pioneered "open systems" and RISC processors. He left Sun Microsystems in 1985 and joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) in 1986, where he continues to be a general partner of KPCB funds through KP X.

Vinod Khosla also challenged Intel's monopoly by developing Nexgen/AMD. He also conceptualized the idea and business plan for Juniper to take on Cisco's dominance of the router market. Vinod Khosla is also one of the founding fathers of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992. In 2004, he formed khoslaventures to fund knowledgeable entrepreneurs in their new "social impact" ventures.

Vinod Khosla has a keen interest in nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society. Presently, he is looking into practicality of the use of ethanol as a gasoline substitute

Sabeer Bhatiya

Born: 1969
Achievements: One of the co-founders of Hotmail; Named by TIME as one of the "People to Watch" in International Business (2002)

Sabeer Bhatia is one of the poster boys of Indian success story at Silicon Valley. He is better known as the man who co-founded Hotmail. He later sold it to Microsoft for $400 million and today Hotmail is the world's largest e-mail provider, with over 50 million registered users.

Sabeer Bhatia was born in 1969 at Chandigarh. He comes from a humble background. His father was an army officer and his mother worked with the Central Bank of India. Sabeer Bhatia had his earlier schooling at Bishop Cotton's School in Pune and later on at St Joseph's College in Bangalore. After passing out from school he joined the Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) at Pilani. At Pilani, he qualified to try for a transfer scholarship at Cal Tech, considered to be the world's most competitive scholarship. Sabeer Bhatia was the only applicant in the entire world in 1988 to get a passing score of 62.

In 1988 Sabeer Bhatia came to America and completed his B.Sc. with honours and earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. In 1992, while working on his Ph.D., Sabeer dropped out and joined Apple Computers as a systems integrator. He worked for Apple Computer for a year. Then he worked for another startup, Firepower Systems Inc. In 1995, Sabir Bhatia co-founded Hotmail Corporation along with Jack Smith, a colleague at Apple Computers. They launched pioneering web-based e-mail service Hotmail. At the end of 1997, he sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million. Sabeer Bhatia t worked for Microsoft for a year until March of 1999, and then in the middle of 1999 he founded Arzoo.com

Arzoo.com was supposed to be a real-time marketplace for technology related solutions and support. It was envisaged as a platform that would enable engineers, developers and scientists from around the world to monetise their expertise on the one hand, and enable corporations to improve the productivity of their employees on the other. Sabeer Bhatia's vision was to make Arzoo.com, the world's largest human network of intellectual capital. But Arzoo.com failed with the burst of dot-com bubble. In 2006 Sabeer Bhatia relaunched Arzoo as a travel portal. Sabeer Bhatia has also started a new venture called BlogEverywhere with co-founders Shiraz Kanga and Viraf Zack.

Sabeer Bhatia has won several honors and awards. These include: "Entrepreneur of the Year," award by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (1997); and "TR100" award, presented by MIT to 100 young innovators who are expected to have the greatest impact on technology in the next few years. He was named by TIME as one of the "People to Watch" in International Business (2002)

Vinod Dham- Father Of Pentium Processor

Born: 1950
Achievement: Known as the father of the Pentium processor.

Vinod Dham is popularly known as the father of the Pentium processor. Born in 1950 in Pune, he had his initial schooling in Pune. He did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering in 1971. Thereafter he had a brief stint with Continental Devices, a Delhi based semiconductor company.

In 1975, Vinod Dham went to the US and did his Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. After completing his Masters in 1977, Vinod Dham joined the National Cash Register (NCR) at Dayton, Ohio. Vinod was a team member of the NCR's memory design group. He received many patents for his work at NCR.

While making a presentation at the IEEE conference in Monterrey, California on re-programmable memory, Vinod Dham received an offer from the Intel to work with them. In January 1990, Vinod was in-charge of developing the 586 or Pentium processor. He worked relentlessly on the project and the Pentium processor was a big hit in the market. Vinod Dham rose up the corporate ladder and reached the position of the Vice President of the Intel's Microprocessor Products Group. He quit Intel in 1995.

Thereafter, Vinod joined NexGen, a start-up firm as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.. When Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) acquired NexGen in 1996, Vinod Dham looked after the development of AMD's famous K6 Processor, world's fastest personal computer microprocessor. Later on he quit AMD.

Presently, Vinod Dham is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Silicon Spice, a communications technology development firm.

Some More Acronyms....

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Ankit Fadia

The following is a timeline of Ankit Fadia's "career", compiled using information in public sources such as news articles, his web sites and more. This will help explain how someone his age simply cannot be an "expert" by any commonly accepted meaning of the word. Such a timeline also better highlights contradictions and discrepancies he has told various reporters or published in his biographies.


1989 .. 2003 - Delhi Public School, India (2004 resume)

1995 May , 24 - Turned 10 years old.

* "gifted a PC" (indiaPRwire, thehindu), contradicts several other publications where he was quoted saying "gifted a PC at 12"

1997 May, 24 - Turned 12 years old.

* "gifted a PC" (rediff, SWG), contradicts several other publications where he was quoted saying "gifted a PC at 10"
* "developed interest in computer hacking" (indiaPRwire)


1998 May, 24 - Turned 13 years old.

* "wasted on playing games" (several sources)
* "developed interest in computer hacking" (SWG)
* "began writing a website on computer security and started his own Internet forum." (expressbuzz)
* "hacked front page of CHIP magazine" [reference], contradicts claim it was Indian .gov site
* "At the age of thirteen I performed my first hack and defaced the Indian government website." [reference], contradicts claim it was magazine site


1999 May, 24
- Turned 14 years old.

* "started my own web site" (rediff) [Archive], yet site says "Established: 16th February 2001"
* "published first book" (indiaPRwire, expressbuzz)
* "He claims that when he was 14, he trashed the front page of an Indian magazines website." [reference]


1999 June, 28 - Publishes "The Unofficial Guide To Ethical Hacking" (ISBN 0333 93679 5) at 628 pages in 15 days (rediff), yet asks simple questions that an author should know. Some biographies claimed it sold 500,000 copies and was translated into 11 languages.


2000 May, 24 - Turned 15 years old.


2001 - He claims that he discovered links between the Chinese government and the China Eagle Union, a cracker group responsible for defacing many U.S. web sites. [reference]

2001 May, 24 - Turned 16 years old.


2001 June 29
- Publishes guide to defacing web pages. [reference]. This can be easily argued that any claims of "ethical" hacking are invalid.

2001 Nov - "consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent by one of Osama Bin Laden's men (indiaPRwire) and "After the September 11 attacks, the U.S Government found some encrypted mails. The mails apparently had only pictures and no text accompanying them. “The pictures followed the steganography pattern where in photographs with embedded messages are used. I gave a few suggestions on decoding them." (thehindu.com) - The oOnly reference, other than Fadia, is reputedly from Jack Kelley of USA Today who was later fired for fabricating stories.


2002 Aug
- Moves personal site to ankitfadia.com.


2003
- Fadia's site, Ankitfadia.com, was attacked in 2003 by a cracker who self-identified as "SkriptKiddie". Fadia explained that he was using a private web server for hosting his website and they were responsible for the lack of security. [reference]


2003 Apr
- Several biographies claim he spoke at the "52nd International Programme on Auditing Information Technology" [reference]. However, no other mention of this conference can be found, and the liklihood of a 52 year old conference on auditing IT not being more well-known is hard to believe.

2004 May 24, Turned 19 years old.


2004
- Fadia's resume says that two of his books have sold a combined 87,000 copies. This contradicts some biographies that say it sold 500,000 copies.


2004
- Freshman at Stanford University (2004 resume)


2007
- Stanford University '07 Alum (facebook)

2008 May 24 Turned 23 years old.


2008 July 11
- First evidence his site http://hackingmobilephones/ hit by viagra spammers. [reference]


2008 Aug
- "consulted by the Navi Mumbai Police Department to trace the terror email sent just a few minutes before the Gujarat serial blasts" (indiaPRwire)


2008 Dec 16


* "author of 14 pubs" (indiaPRwire)
* "delivered more than 1000 talks in 25 countries" (indiaPRwire)
* "received 45 awards" (indiaPRwire)
* "senior at Stanford University" (indiaPRwire). This may contradict his claims of being "07 Alum" depending on use of word. While generally accepted this is used to mean "graduated", the technical definition includes "or student". However, why would he keep "'07 Alum" on his Facebook page that he actively updates in 2009?


2009 May 24 - Turned 24 years old.


2009 Nov
- "has a degree in information security from Stanford University in the US." (tech2.in.com). His Facebook page in 2009 says "Management Science and Engineering".


2009 Nov 24
- "[The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking] became an international bestseller, sold over three million copies and was translated into 11 languages." [reference]


2009 Dec
- Public notices his site has viagra spam, yet Fadia didn't notice since July of 2008. [reference]


2009 Dec
- "The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking has sold more than 7.5 million copies worldwide and is still counting." (rediff) This makes sales of the book over 4 million in a matter of months, or contradicts previous numbers.


2009 Dec 21
- According to his web site, "His books have sold a record 10 million copies across the globe".

Acronyms We Used Regularly..

ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange / Exchange

ANSI = American National Standards Institute

JPEG = Joint Photographic Expert Group


MPEG = Moving Pictures Expert Group


GIF = Graphics Image Format
GIF = Graphics Interchange Format

TIF = Tagged Image Format
TIFF = Tagged Image File Format

OLAP = On Line Analytical Processing

POSIX = Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments

Some More things You Would Love To Know...

One-third of the world population has never made a phone call.

Computer performance increased by about a factor of a million between 1950 and 1990

There are 6,000 new computer virus's released every month.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computers from parts they got for free from their
employers. They originally approached their employers with their idea for a 'personal computer', but they
were rebuffed. They were actually encouraged to scrounge spare parts from work and complete their project
in their spare time

Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, is sometimes quoted as asserting that the world would probably never
need more than 5 computers. He was referring, of course, to main frame computers, which his company
built.

The recording density for data ( aka capacity) has increased 60,000,000-fold in 50 years.

A picture may be worth a thousand words but it uses up a thousand times more memory

To Start With I'll Start With One Of The Old Fact...

Did You Know !!!

Lynx was one of the earliest browsers from 1992. It was used for text-based navigation.