1. CREATE GROUPS FROM LITTLE ICONS GROW..

2. SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A CELLULAR PHONE…

3. DONT PUT YOUR ALL YOUR HYPES IN ONE HOME PAGE..

4. PENTIUM WISE ; PAPER AND PEN FOOLISH..

5. THE MODEM IS THE MESSAGE..

6. DONT BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN VIEW..

7. WHAT BOOT’S UP MUST COME DOWN..

8. VIRTUAL REALITY IS ITS OWN REWARD..

9. MODULATION IN ALL THINGS.

10. KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT BEFORE YOU CONNECT..

11. SPEED THRILLS

Recently, Cally Ko, the APAC and Greater China, regional director for Microsoft Communities has been travelling across India. She was here at Mumbai yesterday, with good old Abhishek aka. Spiky

So yesterday was a good old run, starting from Morning 8.00 AM, in Sarang’s Indica (for a change he took to Disel Car) along with Mahesh, all the way to a Hotel near Gateway of India at Mumbai. We go to the reception and ask for Abhishek. The beautiful lady directs us to room no 409 where Spiky was “hooked up”

Enter room, and not to get shocked, the complete Mumbai UG Commitee was already present, including Akila, Dhaval and Jignesh. So we rest overselves on Abhi’s bed with his due permission. After about 60 minitues of “Leg Pulling”, every one was kinda hungry. So it was time to ask the “Big Boss” Sanjay Shetty (who hadnt turned up yet cause he wa a bit ill), about a right and nice destination.

So our Ms beautiful Akila, called him up and he said he was on his way to d hotel. And then there was nice lunch at Khyber. What followed up next was a UG meet, where Cally givin a session on the Community Program and Abhishek givin the one on Infopath 2003, the same one which was at Tech.ED 2004.

Following it, was a dinner at Sheesha at Bandra and then back to Pune in Sarang’s car..

Phew.. Its right said Pune to Mumbai in 24 hrs.. 😉

Well as I had mentioned earlier, I had 4 gmail Invites left. If anyone had gmail and if lucky ones got invites, clickin on the invite button will make a new window appear, where in you can send the invite to ur friends.

Well there is a catch out here. I recently had installed a popup blocker on my machine. It blocks all the popups that come on a website. When I clicked on the invite list, as intended, it blocked the invite window.

But then, Gmail is smarter than a stupid-old popup-blocker (or shall i say GOOGLE), as soon as there was a popup-block notification to gmail, there was this saying on the blocker, “A popup Blocker might have blocked the Invite window, kindly disable it in order to send invites”

Now wasnt that smart enough.. Way to go GOOGLE..

Past three days, its like, there have been no lectures happening at the college. Only praticals and then ppl have just gone home..

However there are quite a few “studious” ppl, who actually wait behind and screw us on attendence.. Guys not fair at all. When its common off, it has to be the same.

Today morning, it was officially anncounced in all the Leading newspapers of INDIA, that Longhorn would be released in 2006, without WinFS , the next generation storage and search solution from MS.

Feels cool, to actually look at MS sites and jot it down even before the newspapers officially carry it 😉

Good day today. In the morning, I had 2 Gmail invites!! Gave them off to my close friends. And guess what.. Now in the evening 1900 hrs, I have 6 more of them to give away.

SO any takers???

Microsoft, the worlds largest software giant shocked the computer industry yesterday. It announced that it would deliver its next major Windows release in 2006, but would do so without WinFS (Window Future Storage), one of the original major components of that upgrade.

2004 has been dull for Longhorn. Awash as it is in ever-increasing delays, Longhorn has been the subject of barbs from even the most dimmed-minded computer industry columnists, many of whom have begun comparing the Longhorn release to Cairo, Microsoft’s aborted mid-1990’s object-oriented OS project. And no wonder: Like Cario, Longhorn was to have included the technological equivalent of the kitchen sink, and then some. Clearly, something in Longhorn had to give.

As of now, however, that’s no longer true. On the Friday, August 27, 2004, Microsoft revealed what industry observers had long suspected: The company is now going to pare down its Longhorn release and ship some previously key technologies separately from the massive new OS. But even though the official announcement pretty much lays out this new plan succinctly, there were indications that Microsoft was heading in this direction previously 😛

Office 12.0 : Originally planned as a Longhorn-specific release that would ship alongside the Longhorn client release, Office 12 has been changed dramatically since last year. Firstly, Office 12 would only run on Longhorn. Then, Microsoft announced that it would ship Office 12 for both Longhorn and Windows XP in order to benefit a wider range of users. Now, Microsoft plans to ship Office 12 well ahead of Longhorn. So you all Office Fans, better keep watchin.. Office 2003 may be a passe…

ASSEMBLER:- She is hard and bumpy and is not that pleasant to embrace. She is not beautiful or educated and speaks monosyllables like “MOV”, “JUMP”, “INC”……

FORTRAN:- Your grey haired grandmother. People make fun of her just because she is old, but if you take time to listen, you can learn from your experiences and her mistakes.



C/C++:- A lady executive, and avid jogger, very healthy and not too talkative.

COBOL:- A plump secretary. She talks too much, and most of what she says can be ignored. She works hard and long hours, but can’t really handle complicated jobs.

BASIC:- The divorcee, who lives next door, likes seducing young boys and it seems she is readily available for them. She teaches them amazing things or at least seem amazing because it is their first experience.

I saw you the other day while surfing on a local train platform and realized that you are the only site I was browsing for quite a long time. For a long time, I’ve been lonely, this has bugging my life and you can be a real debugger for me now.

My life is just and uncompiled program without you which never produces an executable code and hence totally issueless. You are not only beautiful by face but all the ActiveX controls present in you are equally attractive as well. Your smile is so delightful which encourages me and gives me power equal to thousands of mainframes processing power.

When you looked at me last evening, I felt all my program modules are running smoothly and giving expected results, which I never experienced before. With this letter I just want to convey to you that, if we are linked together, I will provide you all objects and libraries necessary for human being to live an error free life.

Also don’t bother about the firewall which may be created by out parents as I’ve strong hacking capabilities by which I’ll ultimately break their security passwords and make them agree for out marriage.

I anticipate that nobody has already logged into your database so that my connect script will fail. And it’s all certain that if this happened to me, my system will crash beyond recovery. Kindly interpret this letter properly and grant me all privileges of your inbox.

Byee.. Waiting for u r response

From your browser.

Longhorn is a confusing product. In many ways, it is a drastically revolutionary

operating system, sporting a completely new .NET-based software development infrastructure that provides Windows with core presentation, storage, communication, security, and management features that would be difficult if not impossible to implement on previous Windows versions. On the other hand, Longhorn is very much an evolutionary improvement over Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, offering backwards compatibility with applications dating back to MS-DOS. One of the very real factors behind the success of Windows is Microsoft’s dedication to not completely obsoleting previous technologies. That is, there is little distinction between a “real” Longhorn application–one that is written directly to Longhorn’s new programming interfaces–and a “legacy” Win32-based application that runs today on Windows XP; instead, Microsoft actually provides developers with ways to easily add Longhorn-specific functionality to these legacy applications, without even requiring them to recompile, or recreate, the original application. I don’t intend to delve too far into this aspect of Longhorn’s programming interfaces in this review–after all, there’s already enough ground to cover as it is–but this attention to developer needs is often overlooked, especially by Microsoft’s critics.

Longhorn is a complicated product. Once you get past the immature veneer of the current alpha builds, you discover a wealth of new features, some of which are already implemented, some of which will arrive in later builds. And then there’s the stuff we don’t know about: With two years of development time, Longhorn will likely change dramatically between now and the final release. Fortunately, I think it’s safe to assume that that many of the low-level technologies I present here are pretty much written in stone, and won’t change that much at all.