Friday, December 28, 2007

Pulsar 200cc starting problem - "Pigtail clutch switch" malfunction

I have a Pulsar 200cc, bought 10 months back. I love the bike. Since last 2 weeks I started getting problems while starting. Sometimes electric start was not working. After 2-3 trials it used to work so I ignored it initially. Yesterday problem became serious and it didn't start after repeated trials for 20 mins. "Dhakka start" was the only option as no kick start (The serious problem with the bike).

I showed it to my dealer(Khivraj Motors, Bangalore) and they told me that its a known issue with pulsar 200cc. The "Pigtail clutch switch" was not working.
While replacing the clutch and fixing starting problem they didn't connected the battery properly and I had to go back to the dealer with a "Dhakka start".

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Sitaron se aage jahan aur bhi hain -- Allama Iqbal

"Sitaron se aage jahan aur bhi hain
Abhi Ishq ke imtehan aur bhi hain
Tahi zindagi se nahin yeh fazayen
Yahan sankaron karwaan aur bhi hain
Qana'at na kar aalim e rang o boo par
Chaman aur bhi, aashian aur bhi hain
Agar kho gaya ek nasheman tau kya gham
Mukamat e aah o faghan aur bhi hain
Tu shaheen hai, parwaz hai kaam tera
Tere saamne aasman aur bhi hain
Isi roz o shab mein ulajh kar na reh jaa
Ke tere zaman o makan aur bhi hain
Gaye din ke tanha tha main anjuman mein
Yahan ab mere raazdan aaur bhi hain"

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Literal Translation
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There is world beyond the stars
Now there are more exams of love
This world is not without bereft of life
There are hundreds of caravans here
Don't be satisfied by knowledge of colour and smell
there are more flower gardens and more homes
If you have lost one nest than whats problem
There are more places for lamenting
You are a falcon, flying is your job
There are more skies ahead for you
Don't get lots in this days and nights
That you have more land and house.
Gone are those days when I was lonely in gatherings,
Now here I have more other friends.
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Meaning
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There is more to life.
Do not get budged by failures,
Look ahead for more opportunities.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Signals in Social Supernets

"Social network sites (SNSs) provide a new way to organize and navigate an egocentric social network. Are they a fad, briefly popular but ultimately useless? Or are they the harbingers of a new and more powerful social world, where the ability to maintain an immense network—a social "supernet"—fundamentally changes the scale of human society? This article presents signaling theory as a conceptual framework with which to assess the transformative potential of SNSs and to guide their design to make them into more effective social tools. It shows how the costs associated with adding friends and evaluating profiles affect the reliability of users' self-presentation; examines strategies such as information fashion and risk-taking; and shows how these costs and strategies affect how the publicly-displayed social network aids the establishment of trust, identity, and cooperation—the essential foundations for an expanded social world."

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/donath.html

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Usability on web


Usability can be defined as the degree to which a given piece of software assists the person sitting at the keyboard to accomplish a task, as opposed to becoming an additional impediment to such accomplishment.


http://stats.bls.gov/ore/htm_papers/st960150.htm

Friday, October 05, 2007

Yahoo! Heck Day .......

It started and I met David Filo ,,,

Christian Heilmann talking about Yahoo heck days ...

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Thukra ke usne mujhko

Thukra ke usne mujhko,
kaha ki muskuraao!
Maine has diya,
aakhir sawal uski khushi ka tha.
Maine khoya woh jo mera tha hi nahi,
Usne khoya wo jo sirf usi ka tha.

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Combining Social Network and personal network as recruiting tool

I've been working in software industry for last 4 years as engineer. Since most work in a software industry is of technical nature recruiting persons with right skills becomes very important.

Strong technical background is fundamental requirement, it can tested much easily because of binary nature of the tests.

Broad areas typically tested in technical interviews are
1. Fundamentals knowledge of technology.
2. Strong problem solving skills.
3. Learning skills.

General question to be answered during any interview by interviewer is
"Would you like to work with this person?"
Now this is the tough question. Several interviewers ask this question to themselves about a candidate and take the decision. While answering this question they have to also answer "whether my teammates would like to work with this person?".
These questions are most difficult to answer as you meet that person only for an hour, lots of chance of making an error of judgment and you may have a false opinion about a person.

Few things that helps us decide about a person are
1. Attitude of person toward other people, life, work.
2. Professional maturity level. (For experienced candidate).
3. Ethical values.
4. Verification of facts stated in resume.

Now how do one can find it about a person.

Few things generally companies do are
1. Ask candidates for reference:
This solution has its own problems. Candidate can easily control the information shared by such a source.
2. Employ a detective agency to do the background work.
This is a very costly option and is surely a overkill.
3. Get in touch with teachers from the processor.
4. Some professional companies do this work as there primary job.

With the advent of phenomenon of "Social Networking" like orkut and linkedin.
We have one more way of finding about a person.
"Through mutual friends", "Finding in which forums the person participate".
Information shared through mutual friend will have more trust value.
Activity partners or people who play some game with candidate can give lots of valuable information about attitude, team spirit, ethics. Old colleagues/classmates can give you more information about professional maturity, smartness, ambitions, team spirit, work and even technical strength.

Out of all sources "Social Networking" phenomenon and use of personal network to find about a person is low cost, easy and trusted way of recruiting right candidate.

Friday, July 06, 2007

Information Extraction Open Source Software

Information extraction is still very big problem in any text-mining application.
Following are the links to various softwares available.

I've not used any of them, but wrote some software for extraction at my work.

http://uima-framework.sourceforge.net
http://www.research.ibm.com/UIMA/

and

http://gate.ac.uk

Monday, April 16, 2007

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Is it a Tree?

Given number of nodes of a directed Graph (n and named from 1 to n),
and all the edges in the graph of the form (a,b) where a is the start and b is the end of the edge.

Can you suggest a algorithm to check its a tree or not.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Probability: 3 pieces of stick can for a Triangle?

What is the probability that a stick (size 10cm) broken into 3 pieces forms a triangle?.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Great lines from "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo

1. Behind every great fortune three is crime behind.
2. When man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.
3. I gave him the offer he couldn’t refuse.
4. Negotiations
Never get angry
Never make a threat. Reason with people.
5. Never let anyone outside family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails
6. Its business, not personal.
7. It’s all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business.
8. Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
9. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don’t try to justify them. They can’t be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.
10. Every man has but one destiny.
11. I’ll reason with him.
12. Man of respect
13. Man of reasonableness.
14. Great man are not born great, they grow great.
15. Lawyers can steal more money with briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
16. There is no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it is to have friend underestimate your virtues.
17. Any profession was worthy of respect to men who for centuries earned bread by the sweat of their brows.
18. That’s life, everyone here could tell his own tale of sorrow.
19. Made his bones.
20. You cannot say ‘no’ to people you love, not often.
21. Revenge is the dish that taste best when it is cold.
22. If I can die saying “Life is so beautiful”, then nothing else is important.
23. Never stand for any outsider against your family.
24. A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Monday, January 08, 2007

6174 - mystery


The number 6174 is a really mysterious number. At first glance, it might not seem so obvious. But as we are about to see, anyone who can subtract can uncover the mystery that makes 6174 so special.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Shared Development: Character encoding detection

In my last project I did lots of similar work.
I wrote about it hear
Following article also provides more similar information.
Shared Development: Character encoding detection