New words for 2005 :)) forwarded mail :

1. BLAMESTORMING:
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

4. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. (For those in Toronto, it's also Hwy 404... destination can not be located.)

5. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

Sunday Morning Disappointment:

I went to "Eric Emery"(bakery opposite to my apartment) on Sunday morning at 10am to buy breakfast as I was fed up of having cornflakes during weekdays. There was a long queue outside the shop (reminded me of Indian ration shops) and I too happily joined this queue. When my turn came, I was tempted to buy this mini croissants (with dark brown coating in the pale yellow color) and to add the fuel, the lady who stood before me in the queue bought 12 of them. Then I too bought four of them, ignoring my original plan of buying just the normal croissant.
Came home and reheated them in microwave for 10 seconds, and then there was fish smell all around when I opened the oven. No doubts. The smell was from them. The dark brown stuff wasn't chocolate, it was FISH. Anyways, as I DO eat non-vegetarian gulped them with the help of 2-3 glasses of Orange Juice. But, my taste buds which were craving for a delicious breakfast were really disappointed by these fish tablets.

Grid Vs Cluster

Cluster - is a widely-used term meaning independent computers combined into a unified system through software and networking. At the most fundamental level, when two or more computers are used together to solve a problem, it is considered a cluster. Clusters are typically used for High Availability (HA) for greater reliability or High Performance Computing (HPC) to provide greater computational power than a single computer can provide.

Grid computing - is a form of distributed computing that involves coordinating and sharing computing, application, data, storage, or network resources across dynamic and geographically dispersed organizations. Grid technologies promise to change the way organizations tackle complex computational problems. However, the vision of large scale resource sharing is not yet a reality in many areas — Grid computing is an evolving area of computing, where standards and technology are still being developed to enable this new paradigm.

Grid versus Cluster: At a first glance you may think that Grid is just an extension of cluster technology. This is not the case.

Clusters are made up of dedicated components and all components in a cluster are exclusively owned and managed as part of the cluster. All resources are known, fixed and usually uniform in configuration. It is a static environment.

Grids are configured from computer systems that are individually managed and used both as independent systems and as part of the grid. Thus, individual components are not 'fixed' in the grid and the overall configuration of the grid changes over time. This results in a dynamic system that continually assesses and optimises its utilisation of resources.

Hitchhiker till Ulm:

When my hubby was trying to keep our bag in the overhead luggage rack, I was suggesting him to keep it in the opposite seat. I also told him “who is going to come and sit in here when 95% of the seats are free”. Before I could finish the statement he was with us. Strange ?!?

He came and sat in the opposite seat to us, ignoring all the free seats in the compartment. We were inside the German, Bahn train (two weeks ago), which was heading to Ulm from Stuttgart. His attire resembled the ticker checker, though the cap was missing.


He asked us something in German about the ticket. We just stared at him as we don’t speak German. Then he uttered some English words with which we could coin that “his friend, who was to travel with him with the ticket, did not turn up, so he wanted to join us on our ticket”. With a single weekend ticket (in Germany) maximum five persons can travel together, anyway as we were only two we agreed.

As it was too hot, he removed his coat and also his TIE. After sometime, again to astonish us, he asked my hubby to help him make a tie knot. My hubby made it for him and gave him. He put the tie around his neck, and then after seeking permission from us, he then removed the tie. As he expressed his willingness to learn the thing, there was this 20minitues tie-knot demo session and at the end of it, he could make a Knot by himself. He weaved good bye happily at Ulm. And the ticket Checker didn’t come all through our journey till Ulm ;-)

forwarded mail:NEVER Underestimate the POWER of a Women

There were 11 people hanging on to a single rope that suspended them from a helicopter trying to bring them to safety. Ten were men; one was a woman.

They all decided that one person would have to let go because if they didn't, the rope would break and all of them would die.

No one could decide who it should be. Finally the woman gave a really touching speech, saying how she would give up her life to save the others, because women were used to giving things up for their husbands and children and giving in to men.

All of the men started clapping.