I have been having this question for sometime now with rupee gaining more and more with respect to dollar .

India has been seen as a big hand in IT primarily due to the Infosys ,TCS and CTS and also to the big American companies who have opened up here .One of the main reason behind this being that India is a developing country and hence the cost of human labour or infrastructure .What happens now if rupee gains much more strength against the dollar ?

What reasons will the american companies find to hire more talent here ? and bear the rising cost ? .As most of our IT is about outsourcing iam sure they would be affected too ,their services would become costlier .And as such we don’t have may product companies that can run on .

How do you see this happening ? will our jobs go down and go probably to another developing countries ?

KGB, the cold war era, Stalin through Gorbachev sounds familiar. But, did you know that the KGB had predecessors going all the way back to the first world war and the days of ‘Cheka’ ? That’s right.

KGB was, no doubt, the most successful and durable of all its predecessors but was no more operationally agressive than the previous ones. KGB’s expanded form in russian stood for “the committee of State security” and, like all things of the Soviet era, had a very formal name to a series of ultra-smart covert operations of intelligence gathering, counter-intelligence, protection for heads of the soviet and their military secrets, border security protection and “duty enforcements” (you probably heard the Stalin era) and even maintaining a list of people

You probably heard about Pinocchio and the infamous Whale named “Monstro” that he walks into. For those that did not like me, Pinocchio was Walt Disney’s second masterpiece made in 1941. It won an Oscar for the Best Music, Original Score for the song “Wish Upon a Star.” In 1989, it won an ASCAP award for Most Performed Feature Film Standards for “Wish Upon a Star” again. The story about Pinocchio goes like this:

Pinocchio is a little puppet made by Geppetto, a wood carver, who wishes that the little Pinocchio would somehow magically transform into a real boy! His wishes are heard by the blue fairy who grants them. However, (and here is the catch 122) the blue fairy tells Pinocchio that he can turn into a little boy only if and when he listens to his conscience and becomes “true”. The blue fairy also makes a little cricket, called

A look at the Allahabad court’s  homepage can surprise you . look at the image below

They have RSS feeds for Judgement and News .They maintain openstandards for web publishing ,documents .Amazing example of how FOSS can improve any organization and also the role it can play .You can download all their judgements and news in ODT format and even better news the judge Hon’ble Mr. Justice Yatindra Singh, has a blog and also here . 

That’s not all ,their webmail runs on the popular web client Squirrel Mail ,FAQ sections explain why Open Document formats are preferable  and their success story in adopting to FOSS .

http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/calendar/itemWiseList.jsp?group=12 .

Its worth a read the Judge’s blog .May be its time we bring in people like these in to light about how foss can bring about a change in any domain not necessarily  IT . AT his blog he talks in length about FOSS and open standards .He has also written a book titled  

Author of book titled “A Lawyers World and Childhood Dreams” & “Cyber Law”. This link,thanks to ILUGC

Yes , you heard it right .You can have a conference chat/talk  using your GoogleTalk or basically Jabber server.

You can download the bot from here . Its coded in python and hence you would need python installed ,the rest should run smoothly .

Steps

1 . Create a userid@gmail.com which will act as the bot .Its not a complex code but a very useful once since now all chats get automatically logged and serves for some good record .

2.  unzip the bot.zip ,cd bot , ./bot.py and it will prompt you for the account credentials .I dont have the link for original site since my friend had just passed me on this archive.Anyone who finds the original site,kindly mail me the link so that i can add it here .

3.   now in your GTalk add the userid@gmail.com as friend and it will immediately tell you the status and chat users who are on the list  and enjoy MU ( Multiuser chat) .

Here is the screenshot

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