Sunday, September 26, 2010

Establishing a sustainable model for Electrically operated transports

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Bumping an old post - watch. Shai Agassi , ex-President of SAP AG (PTG) spoke at a lecture series organized by NDN in his capacity as ...

Google's unwise spam/bot verification process

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Needed to create an alternate e-mail account to transfer a certain group of e-mail types from an existing account to another to try and end ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

ZERO DAY: United States Air Force website hacked [defaced site]

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The screenshot should tell you all - The United States Air Force had one its website defaced. Click the picture to view a larger-sized im...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Exercise Garuda: Indian Air Force in France [French report]

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The Indian Air Force, in June, embarked on a trip to France to take part in the Grauda series of Air Exercises with the French Air Force. Th...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Dakshin Gangotri Station: Pride of India [Antarctica] [suggested weekend reading]

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India, in 1983, marked its permanent presence on the snow-covered continent  of Antarctica with its first Research station - Dakshin Gangot...
Monday, August 09, 2010

Stumpy, Elephant mascot of 2011 Cricket World Cup - making a statement

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Not much of a cricket fan, least of all the utterly dull, languorous 5-day Test match format [ its connoisseurs are stuck in a time warp - t...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

MMRCA Aircrafts in flight [weekend YouTube watching]

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With the results of India's MMRCA acquisition programme just about a year away from being announced, it would not be a bad time to watc...

Know your Jammu & Kashmir [suggested weekend reading]

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The recent eruption of riots, arson & mob violence in the Kashmir valley of the Indian State of Jammu & Kashmir evoked an interest ...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

1945-1998: 53 Years, 2053 Nuclear detonations, 14 minutes

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Came across an interesting work of animation prepared by a Japanese named Isao Hashimoto. Starting from the first Nuclear test detonation in...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Easy and hassle-free downloading from file-sharing sites [software]

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As an Internet user, downloading a file from one of the innumerable file-sharing websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload etc is quite unavoidab...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Aviation reading [suggested weekend reading]

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Some aircraft-related articles and reports of interest to read this weekend. F-22 Design Evolution, Part I F-22 Design Evolution, Part I...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Carbon Dioxide powered Engine for Space travel [India connection]

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Scientists and Engineers are working to develop a propulsion system utilizing Carbon Dioxide, CO 2 ,  as an oxidizer to generate energy. A d...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Sardar and his tenacity

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My respect & admiration for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel gets reinforced every time I read about India's struggle for independence, esp...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Nukes in Space: Rainbow bombs [Documentary]

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Just finished watching an interesting documentary. Nukes in Space: the Rainbow bombs chronicles America's race to develop a working Int...
Friday, July 02, 2010

Install & run Unigraphics NX4 (or older) in Windows 7 and Vista

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Warning/Disclaimer ityadi: Assuming that you, the person facing this problem, owns a licensed, legitimate copy of the software. You got no ...
Thursday, July 01, 2010

Warbird in Pune: MiG-23 MF Flogger Aircraft [Updated]

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Had nothing to do this morning. So we decided to pay the bird another visit. More so, as I found that the other memory card which had some...