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Book review:- "Fish for life"

All books on real life stories are narreted in a manner that gives you a chance to look at some aspect of your own life. And so every time you read a new book you get a chance to explore new things, and with that added learning from the book the next book you read becomes the best book you have ever read and same happens with the next book and so on.... This book "FISH! FOR LIFE" narrates how to make life a happier place to live for those around you with the story of a main character of book, Mary Jane, along with other characters like husband Lonnie and kids Brad and Sarah and few of her best friends. While narrating the story it teaches you the four principles to keep life happy and in this journey getting around (more precisely, solving) the situations that may make the life stressful. The four principles which it names - Fun, Be There, Make Their Day and Choose Your Attitude.     Play - Carry a light heart with you wherever you go.     Make Their Da...

Virtualization Basics

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Virtualization Basics What will you do if you are working in Windows OS and want to use Linux or vice versa? Reboot? Not anymore, virtualization is the solution. Virtualization allows you to boot multiple OS at same time and switch between different OSs in a similar way as you switch between different application processes. To run multiple operating systems simultaneously, an abstraction layer is introduced between the OS and the actual hardware. This abstraction layer provides each running OS with virtualized layer(virtual machine) of underlying hardware so that the OS can run thinking that it is directly interacting with the hardware (Fig. 1). The software which provides this abstraction layer is referred to as Hypervisor or Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). The OS running on top of VMM is referred as guest OS instance or simply as guest OS. Virtualization changes the traditional hardware privilege boundaries where now the hypervisor is coupled with the hardware at most privileged ring ...

Poland-- Few of the Best Pics from my collection.

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Below are few pics from my Poland visit beween Nov'07 to Feb'08. Before having a post on Poland I thought its a nice Idea to share the Snapshots from Poland to give a glimpse of the beautiful place... Just Enjoy! Millenium bank Tower Lezinki Park Warsaw Legend Millenium bank Tower Palace of Culture Coffee at Airport India Hydra Team Members at Namastey India, Warsaw Some Fun at Chilled Night Finance Minister Office Warsaw University Hotel Rialto at Old City

Pachmarhi – The Nature’s Gift To Madhya Pradesh

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Pachmari is called as “verdant jewel” of Madhya Pradesh, and is one of the loveliest hill stations of India . It is a trekker’s paradise and offers nature’s walks, refreshing weather, and lovely views. It is said that Pandavas had spent their part of exile in the caves here and from that Pachmarhi derives its name. Pachmarhi Pachmarhi was discovered by James Forsyth, captain of Bengal Lancers in 1857, and then it also became a cantonment of the British. Even today one finds various monuments and churches of the British era. The best time to visit Pachmarhi is April-July. Nevertheless Pachmarhi can be visited throughout the year. There are not big malls in the center of these places. And they are never very crowded. Such a hill station is Pachmarhi in the state of Madhya Pradesh. While the other hill stations have been hit by development and population growth, this place seems to be holding on to the good times of the past. Me and my friend booked our late night j...