Mumbai, Dec 26 (IANS) With several Bollywood projects in hand, southern beauty Asin Thottumkal is moving lock, stock and barrel to Mumbai from Chennai and has almost finalised a house in Bandra. What’s more, her parents have given up their jobs to look after their talented daughter’s flourishing career. ‘I’ve been travelling non-stop. I had [...]
Off-beat is in. The oft beaten track, not so.One of the most interesting themes at this year’s Pan-IIT event was the session on rural transformation. IITians who have chosen an offbeat career hogged the limelight at the event. In this series, we feature some of the IITians who preferred to be different, rather than get [...]
DNA analysis is considered one of the most accurate tools for determining guilt or innocence. Post-conviction DNA testing is unique in that it allows the criminal justice system an opportunity to fix mistakes, particularly wrongful conviction. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules contain hereditary (genetic) information. The theory on which DNA testing is based consists of the [...]
Even if one drinks an HIV infected blood (or semen) of someone (ingest through Gastro Intestinal track), the virus can not survive in the acidic pH of stomach*. Highest extent of acidity is 0 (practically not possible) so imagine 1 as pH which is in our stomach. (This pH can burn your own finger in [...]
Disable unnecessary or unwanted service, this process Sometimes called “hardening” which is highly desirable for security purposes. Some users may wish to harden their system in order to avoid the need for a firewall. In other cases, a user may wish to perform a temporary hardening in order to safely access the internet for the [...]
The capability of dynamically adapting to distinct runtime conditions is an important issue when designing distributed systems where negotiated quality of service (QoS) cannot always be delivered between processes. Providing fault tolerance for such dynamic environments is a challenging task. Considering such a context, here we propose an adaptive programming model for fault-tolerant distributed computing, [...]
After the release of firefox 3, Opera has also released its latest version 9.50. Opera has been my all time favorite browser since i started using it. Damn the speed of start of other browser, i rate opera top most in the speed of start and faster at loading web pages. It offers speed dial [...]