N-capable Agni-II missile successfully test-fired

India on Tuesday successfully tested the nuclear capable Agni-II missile from a defence base in Orissa.

The surface-to-surface missile with a range of over 2,000 km was test-fired from the Wheeler’s Island near Dhamara in the district of Bhadrak, some 150 km from here at 10.06am.

“It was a user trial, The aim of the test was to give the Army confidence to fire the missile on its own.

The Agni II missile, which is a part of India’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, is 20 metres long.

Weighing 16 tonnes, the missile can carry a payload of around 1,000 kg and its range can also be increased to 3,000 km by reducing the pay load.

“It can be fired from both rail and road mobile launchers. It takes only 15 minutes for the missile to be readied for firing,” the sources said, adding that the Agni II-version of the Agni series of missiles was first test-fired in 1999 from the same location.

Novel vaccine approach offers hope in fight against HIV

A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using gene transfer technology that produces molecules that block infection, the scientists protected monkeys from infection by a virus closely related to HIV—the simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV—that causes AIDS in rhesus monkeys.

Microsoft Tricks — Really amazing — plz try

i tried it, They work !!!

TRICK #1
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER
anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”.
This is something pretty cool and unbelievable.
At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE “CON” FOLDER

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TRICK #2
For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

is it just a really weird bug? Confused?

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TRICK #3
Microsoft crazy facts

This is something pretty cool and neat and
unbelievable. At Microsoft the whole Team,
including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this
happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out
yourself

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER

Enjoy

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The App Store Gets ‘A Good Night’s Sleep’

Mobile Frontiers Ltd., a company whose mission is to enhance people’s lives through mobile technology, has recently announced “A Good Night’s Sleep,” an iPhone app that promises to be “the definitive solution to stress and insomnia.” The application is immediately available for download onto an iPhone or iPod touch running 2.2.1 software update.

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What makes “A Good Night’s Sleep” special is that it uses the process of allowing users to wake up and sleep peacefully and gradually. Besides waking users up gradually, the app is also said to guarantee a relaxing end to every night by allowing them to set a series of sleep sounds or music.

“This is the ONLY application of its kind on the iTunes store; no other application utilizes our unique and exclusive process of gradually allowing users to WAKE and sleep, peacefully and gradually, the way they want!,” Mobile Frontiers Ltd. says.

“We take the health of our team very seriously and found a way to share our experiences with the general public,” Mobile Frontiers Director Simon Garratt describes the breakthrough. “No one can perform at their personal or professional best without A Good Night’s Sleep, so naturally A Good Night’s Sleep is the perfect productivity solution. This application is great for everyone, from busy professionals to stressed out teens to infants who can’t get to sleep, there is no time in a person’s life where sleep is not critical to their daily health,” he pinpoints.

“Our aim in programming this application was to ensure the broadest range of features to allow people to individualize their own relaxation experience,” Technology Development Coordinator Mehdi Akhavein adds. “A Good Night’s Sleep gives users such a varied choice of sleep AND waking modes, there is just nothing that compares to its scope and personalization ability,” he concludes.

The application is now on sale in the App Store, so, if you’re having trouble sleeping, better grab it while it’s still just two bucks.

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Unicode Input Tool/Converter 2.5.6

Unicode Input Tool/Converter description Unicode Input Tool/Converter description A

Firefox add-on that converts character references into Unicode. Unicode Input Tool/Converter converts entities or character references (hex and dec) into Unicode and ; has Unicode lookup and chart view Converts among character references (hex or decimal), HTML entities, and Unicode. Also view Unicode, backvalues, and character descriptions in chart and optionally output to a textbox. Several preferences allow a great degree of customization including adding one’s own DTD for use in entity conversions. Please be aware that in the Unicode chart view, items like question marks (Firefox 2.0) or boxed numbers (Firefox 3.0) may appear in place of a desired character (and some characters will not or cannot be displayed at all). A Firefox add-on that converts character references into Unicode. Unicode Input Tool/Converter converts entities or character references (hex and dec) into Unicode and back; has Unicode lookup and chart view Converts among character references (hex or decimal), HTML entities, and Unicode. Also view Unicode, values, and character descriptions in chart and optionally output to a textbox. Several preferences allow a great degree of customization including adding one’s own DTD for use in entity conversions. Please be aware that in the Unicode chart view, items like question marks (Firefox 2.0) or boxed numbers (Firefox 3.0) may appear in place of a desired character (and some characters will not or cannot be displayed at all).

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Quotes on MANAGEMENT

Quotes on MANAGEMENT

“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings—and put compensation as a carrier behind it—you almost don’t have to manage them.”

— Jack Welch

“Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.”

— Robert H. Johnson

“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.”

— Proverbs 3:27

“Catch someone doing something right.”

— Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

“Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”

— Paul Dickson

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.”

— Peter Drucker

“Don’t equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don’t let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you’d like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.”

— Harvey Mackay

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.”

— Harold J. Leavitt

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it . . . ; Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.”

— David Ogilvy

“When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.”

— John W. Gardner

“The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.”

— Casey Stengel

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”

— John Le Caré

“I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.”

— Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
A Business and its Beliefs (1963)

“Focus on a few key objectives … I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I’m really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.”

— Jack Welch

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

— Peter Drucker

“Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.”

— Henry Mintzberg
McGill University

“If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.”

— R Buckminster Fuller

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

— Agha Hasan Abedi

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