Daily Vocab

Here is the word of the day-

 

Faux-Pas

Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, clanger, gaffe, howler, impropriety, indiscretion, mistake.

 

Bizarre

Synonyms: abnormal, atypical, baffling, curious, deviant, droll, eccentric,extraordinary, fantastic, freak, freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, incongruous, inexplicable, irregular,ludicrous, mysterious, mystifying, odd, remarkable, ridiculous, strange, unorthodox, unusual, weird

 

Suave

Synonyms- charming,  cool, courteous, debonair, dignified, gentlemanly, polished, well mannered.

Sentence-1.Normally, he looks pretty suave, slightly sophisticated.

2.He is very intelligent but he needs to be a bit more suave if he wants to succeed in the world of business.

 

Magnanimous

Synonyms:  big-hearted,  generous,  merciful, philanthropic,  self-sacrificing.

Sentence- 1. Because he was kind and generous, the magnanimous king was loved by all.

2. How can you be so magnanimous towards life when it constantly puts you down?

CURRENT AFFAIRS

AUGUST 2013

* The Russian tennis player, Maria Sharapova has topped the rich female athletes list for ninth straight year. According to Forbes, Maria Sharapova has earned 29 million dollar between June 2012 & June 2013.

* Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos has agreed to purchase the Washington Post newspaper for $250m. The Washington Post has been owned by the Graham family for 80 yrs.

* Astronomers have discovered the lowest-mass exoplanet, GJ 504b around a sun-like star. The planet is several times the mass of Jupiter.

* Five Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistan in the area of Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

* Rupee hits record low of 61.80 against dollar.

* Raghuram Rajan appointed as the 23rd RBI governor on 6th august 2013.

* Microsoft has launched Office 365 for the part time and full time University Students in india.

* India Won one Gold medal and one Silver medal in the The World Games 2013 that took place in Colombia( cali) from 25 July 2013 to 4 August 2013.

* WhatsApp, an Instant messaging service has introduced a new feature one press voice texting

Famous BOOKS and their Author

A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib

S.S. Kohli

A Secular Agenda

Arun Shourie

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth

Akbarnama

Abul Fazal

An Autobiography

Jawaharlal Nehru

An idealist View of Life

Dr.S. Radhakrishnan

Arion and the Dolphin

Vikram Seth

Arthashastra

Kautilya

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

A Reveolutionary Life

Laxmi Sehgal

Ain – i – Akbari

Abul Fazal

Anandmath

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Area of Darkness

V.S. Naipaul

Broken Wings

Sarojini Naidu

Bunch of Old Letters

Jawaharlal Nehru

By God’s Decree

Kapil Dev

Chandalika

Rabindranath Tagore

Conquest of Self

Mahatma Gandhi

Chitra

Rabindranath Tagore

Coolie

Mulk Raj Anand

Court Dancer

Rabindranath Tagore

Crescent Moon

Rabindranath Tagore

Convenient Action:Gujarat’s Response to Climate Change

Narendra Modi

Devadas

Sarat Chandra Chatterjee

Durgesh Nandini

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Discovery of India

Jawaharlal Nehru

Eternal India

Indira Gandhi

Fall of a Sparrow

Salim Ali

Fortynine Days

Amrita Pritam

Gita Rahasya

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Gitanjali

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Glimpses of World History

Jawaharlal Nehru

Gora

Rabindra Nath Tagore

India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium

Dr A P J Abdul Kalam & Dr Y S Rajan

India-From Midnight to the Millennium

Shashi Tharoor

Indian Home Rule

M K Gandhi

It is Always Possible

Kiran Bedi

Love, Truth and A Little Malice

Khushwant Singh

Meghdoot

Kalidas

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

My Early Life

M K Gandhi

My Experiment With Truth

M K Gandhi

My Life and Times

V V Giri

My Truth

Indira Gandhi

New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy

Atal Behari Vajpayee

Operation Bluestar-the True Story

Lt-Gen K S Brar

Our Films, Their Films

Satyajit Ray

Panchtantra

Vishnu Sharma

Pather Panchali

Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyaya

Post Office

Rabindranath Tagore

Prison Diary

Jayaprakash Narayan

Ram Charit Manas

Tulsidas

Rukh Te Rishi

Harbhajan Singh

Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

Savitri

Aurobindo Ghosh

Tarkash

Javed Akhtar

The congress and The making of Indian Nation

Pranab Mukerjee

War of Indian Independence

Vir Savarkar

We, Indians

Khushwant Singh

We, the People

N A Palkhivala

Women and Men in My Life

Khushwant Singh

How to install LINUX in your computer

LINUX INSTALLATION

Linux installation can be done in several ways……….

Here I am describing the most easy and popular way of installing Linux in your computer using the DVD – media………………..

1: insert Linux DVD in DVD- ROM, making sure that your pc- bios configured to use DVD as 1^st boot device.

2: press enter to start installation.

3: if you want, you may test your install media, but it is not so necessary.(so skip it)

4: the installation wizard started. click next……

5: select the language and then keyboard layout and proceed on.click next……

6: then select the custom layout.

7: Now you have full control on hard drive partitions.

8:- To add new partition – click on new button. Add partition dialog box will appear. Then select mount point (root).

Give the size – 10,000 or 14,000 mb,  then press ok .

9:- Repeat the steps to create following partition:

/boot: – 100 mb; swap: – 2 * system RAM eg:- 1gb =2024; 2gb = 4024;

 / :-10,000 mb; / home :- 10,000 mb.

Then click next button

10:-Then a box appeared signifying that your GRUB boot loader is installed on /dev/hdc (linux directory). Mark it and click next.

11:- now you can change your lan card settings , if you desire, otherwise click next.

12:- select your nearest location and configure the clock. Unmark checkbox ‘system clock uses UTC’ if other OS are installed on your computer. Click next.

13:-Then account box appears, where you must choose a password for root account and confirm it.

14:- then a box appear which helps you to select the number of software packages to be installed with linux.

So marks on customize now and on Desktop-Gnome and Desktop-KDE and then click next.

15:- Then a windows appear , where you have to choose some groups on the left like application, desktop environment, development, servers,etc. and its subgroup on right. Then press next.

16:- the system is ready to install – click on ‘next’.

17:- then the first start- the first boot –wizard appears. Click on forward.

18:- here you can edit the firewall settings if you want.Click on forward.

19:- then the SELinux windows appears, I recommend to deactivate SELinux – it can cause many problems, especially if you are using software from additional repositories. Click on forward.

20:- then finally your Linux desktop appears after your installation .

 CHEERS…:)

Mechanical Engineering: MOTHER branch of Engineering

Definition and Introduction of Mechanical Engineering

In single sentence Mechanical engineering is a branch of engineering that deals with the machines and their mechanism. 

But MECHANICAL ENGINEERING  is one of the oldest and broadest branches of engineering. This field is also referred to as the ‘MOTHER’ branch of engineering. Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principle of physics and material science and involves in the production of heat and mechanical power for analysis,  design,manufacturing,production,operation  and the maintenance of machine & tools.

Mechanical engineering generally depend on the three factors i.e theforce, energy and the motion.

The field of mechanical engineering requires an understanding of core concepts i.e., mechanics, kinematics, thermodynamics, materials science, structural analysis, electricity,robotics, fluid mechanics, software  tools like computer-aided Design engineering (Auto CAD, Pro-E, CATIA),  management engineering to design and analyze manufacturing plants, industrial equipment and machinery, transport systems, heating and cooling systems, watercraft, aircraft, medical devices.

Now a days this field is pursuing developments in  fields like  composites, mechatronics, and nanotechnology. Mechanical engineering also overlapping with some other branches such as  aerospace engineering,, metallurgical engineering, marine engineering,  building services engineering, civil engineering, , petroleum engineering, electrical engineering, manufacturing engineering, and chemical engineering.  Biomedical engineering, specifically with biomechanics, transport phenomena,  bionanotechnology, biomechatronics, and modeling of biological systems, like the soft tissue mechanics.

People who study or works as a mechanical engineer plays a dominant role in enhancing the design, operation, safety,economic vitality and the overall quality of life throughout the globe.

WINDOWS vs LINUX : Comparison, Features and Security of Windows and LINUX

WE ARE ON OUR JOURNEY OF LINUX…….. EARLIER I HAVE JUST  GIVEN AN INTRO OF LINUX, BRIEF HISTORY, SHELL, KERNEL…….. now here I am going to give you some points which tells you about how the Linux differs from other OS(WINDOWS).

As I have earlier discuss on the basics of linux, so here before starting the difference between linux and other operating systems working and their features, i want to tell you some quick review of  WHAT ACTUALLY THE LINUX IS :-

LINUX IS THE KERNEL OF OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT LOOK LIKE AND PERFORM AS WELL OR BETTER THAN THE FAMOUS OPERATING SYSTEMS FROM AT & T BELL LABS. LINUS TORVALDS AND A LOOSELY KNIT TEAM OF VOLUNTEER HACKERS FROM ACROSS THE INTERNET WROTE LINUX FROM SCRATCH. IT HAS ALL OF THE FEATURES OF A MODERN , FULLY FLEDGED OPERATING SYSTEM:- TRUE MULTITASKING , VIRTUAL MEMORIES, SHARED LIBRARIES, DEMAND LOADING, SHARED, COPY-ON-WRITE EXECUTABLES, PROPER MEMORY MANAGEMENT, AND TCP/IP NETWORKING.

THE TRUE MEANING OF LINUX  IS “LINUS”  WHICH MEANS TO SAY “HELLO”

 

 

COMPARISON  BETWEEN LINUX AND WINDOWS:-

LINUX

WINDOWS

1: LINUX IS AN MULTI-USER AND MULTITASKING OPERATING SYSTEM. 2: USERS CAN EDIT , CHANGE THE CODE, THE DESIGN OF THE OPERATING SYSTEMFOR THE BETTER  USING OF THE COMPUTER. 3: LINUX EVOLVED FROM DIFFERENT ORGANISATION OR CAMPANIES LIKE RED HAT, UBUNTU, ETC. 4: IT IS CUSTOMIZABLE. 5: FREELY AVAILABLE FOR OFFICE OR HOME USE. 6: HIGH SECURITY WITH MUCH FEWER AMOUNT OF BUGS. 7: BOOT FROM EITHER PRIMARY OR LOGICAL PARTITION AND FROM ANY HARD DISK IN COMPUTER. 8: IT SEPARATES DIRECTORIES WITH A NORMAL FORWARD SLASH. EG;- /MOUNT 9: LINUX FILES NAME ARE CASE SENSITIVE. E.G:- “cat” AND” CAT” ARE DIFFERENT FILES IN LINUX.

1:WINDOWS IS AN SINGLE USER OPERATING SYSTEM. 2: USERS CAN’T DO ANYTHING AS IN LINUX DUE TO THE MONOPOLY POSITION OF WINDOWS. 3: ALL STAGE BY STAGE FLAVOURS OF WINDOWS COME FROM MICROSOFT. 4: IT IS NON-CUSTOMIZABLE. 5: AVAILABLE BUT EXPENSIVE. 6: ONE CAN LOGIN WITHOUT ANY ID OR PASSWORD.IT IS NOT SO SECURE AND CONTAINS MUCH FEWER BUGS. 7: WINDOWS MUST BOOT FROM A PRIMARY PARTITION AND FROM A 1ST HARD DISK. 8: SEPARATES DIRECTORIES WITH BACK SLASH. 9: FILES NAMESARE NOT CASE SENSITIVE. E.G:- “abc” AND “ABC” ARE SAME FILE IN WINDOWS.

Basics of linux operating system

Now a days linux is getting popularity among many corporate sector and mobiles over microsoft because of its tight security system and multi-user and multi-tasking interface. Here in this article I am going to describe completely about Linux world step by step:

linux an operating system which is not only a free operating system but lots of more…

WHAT IS LINUX ?

Linux is a kernel in short; it is a free operating system which is used
by lots of users all over the world. It is a multi-tasking and multi-user
operating system.

Now lets us proceed step by step to explore and to reach to the

LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM LOGO

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LINUX-

Linus Torvalds introduces Linux in 1991. Linux is developed keeping UNIX as reference
model. We can consider Linux as another UNIX version. Mr. Linus has made the source code of the
Linux kernel explores among the world of education and to develop and change over the internet.
Linux is an open development model. It accepts modification to the kernel core. The core of the Linux is
kernel which controls the resources of the computer and allots this resource to the users and for
different tasks. In simple words kernel allows the user to interact with the hardware.as we cannot
directly access kernel, rather we need an interface to connect to kernel called “SHELL”…

UNIX SHELL

BOURNE SHELL: – original UNIX shell written by Steven Bourne at AT & T laboratory. This is the default
shell for Linux.

C SHELL: – written by bill joy at UC Berkeley.

KORN SHELL (K SHELL) :- written by DAVID KORN at AT & T lab.

X- WINDOWS SYSTEM

The x windows system for x11 is the foundation for GUI (Graphical User Interface) on Linux. The x
server works with graphics hardware (VGA) and the applications requires graphic display is an x client.
Linux provides two desktop environments.

1:- GNOME

2:-KDE

By default Linux has configured 6 virtual console and 1 x console. We can move to any virtual console
by typing ctrl + alt +Fx, where x stands for 1 to 6 and F1 is the x console.

stay connected for more articles on LINUX.. 🙂

What is almond milk?

Hey guys, Do you know about almond milk? Just invest your minute here and you will surely get some great words for the healthy life..

People must need well amount of vitamin and minerals for proper growth and maintenance of the body. There are many sources of nutrients, vitamins and minerals one can take and milk is one of them. Milk is generally taken by the people in their diet and mainly given to the children as a substitute for energy and brain development. Many prefer cow milk, packet milk, and soy or rice milk but among all almond milk is unlike from others as it doesn’t contain any cholesterol or lactose. Many of us are aware of pros and con the almond milk and don’t find it useful in our diet. Here is the question of most of the people that mainly what is almond milk? Is it better than other milk?

Actually almond milk is nothing but a healthy milky drink made from the ground almond and the water. It is healthier than any animal milk and contains more minerals and vitamins than the soy and rice milks. Almond milk got its popularity from the middle ages due to its protein enrichment and ability to keep better than the milk from dairy sources. Almond milk with little to no saturated fat can be made in home, in a quick span of time as per the quantity.

Those who are a lover of cow milk and other milk may hesitate to buy or drink the almond milk, but it is also true that if you will never taste it how you would know how it tastes. It has some natural sweet taste and is lower in calories, but it also has the same amount of calcium as whole milk. In spite of all advantages, almond milk is best for the skin as it helps the texture and complexion of the skin as well.

stay connected. stay healthy…. 🙂 🙂

BASIC INFORMATION AND STRUCTURE OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) :

Nowadays in this computerized world, nothing will be done in a computer without an operating system…… so its important that one must understand this operating system as clear as possible…

so here I am trying to let you guys understand the working of an operating system, very clearly…

Whenever you guys turn on your PC or laptop  it’s great to think that you’re the controller. The computer mouse which you can move everywhere on the screen, play music surf internet and control your settings. Although it’s very cool to feel like a controller in front of your computer or laptop, there’s a lot going on inside of your PC, and the real hero behind the curtain handling all the necessary tasks is the OS or Operating System. The operating system (OS) is the foremost thing loaded onto the computer …. without this your computer is useless.

simple flow diagram of link between user and operating system (OS)

So what is OS and how this stuff works???

An operating system (OS) is basically a collection of software that manages the computer hardware resources & provides common services for programs of computer. The OS is a vital component of the system software in a computer. All the Application programs usually require an operating system to function as it link the user with the hardware.

Some common OS- 

The  popular modern operating systems are Android, iOS, BSD,  Mac OS X, QNX, Microsoft Windows,Linux,Windows Phone & IBM z/OS. 

Working of OS:-

In simple language an operating system is a bridge that connects user with the hardware and it operates the proper functionality of the system, as it is the road where all the applications performs……

The main purpose of an operating system is to control and well organise the software and hardware so that the device it lives in behaves in a flexible but in a predictable way.The user remains behind the curtain which works out of the boundary.

OS understands only English or sometimes any high level language…

Then the application part, which is software, helps to run all the programs and performs several tasks on computer…

The outermost part is the shell which interacts with the user commands, receiving from the application part…

Then the role is played by the essential layer of an operating system “KERNEL” it outputs the basic services or functions to all other parts of operating system on behalf of user commands, queries, or other applications…

 The innermost part is the hardware which understands only the 0, 1 (binary) language…

Now it is totally clear about the basic information about the structure and working of an operating system…..

stay connected 🙂 🙂

BASIC SEO TACTICS FOR LOCAL SEARCH RANKING

 

Do you guys are new in blog writing ? want some basic and starting tips how to start writing with better response from the audiences?  ok , so you are in the right place.

This article is a small but the basic tips for all the newbies who want to write but don’t know how to start and which topic to choose. some know what and how to write but they don’t have any idea that is their niche or keyword selection for the content writing is best or right or not?  if you are new then you are also facing the same problem. Don’t worry its common to every fresh head. Now coming to topic , first of all if you are ready to write and give your new blog a great content with best response of traffic then you have to know the powerful tool in the internet world i.e., the SEO or search engine optimization that describes the process of high-ranking in the search engine. SEO expert’s helps increases a company’s profitability and marketability with various tactics and carries out a good business profit to every company. Search engine optimization (SEO) is mainly the method of improving the volume, popularity, Page rank and quality of visitors to your blog or website from search engines like Google, Yahoo, bing and MSN, via natural search results.

There are numerous tactics used by SEO for the local search rankings but among these the best SEO tactics are:

1.  Keyword research – it is an essential service in search marketing. Every local target market of a local business has its own local keywords. Though anyone has well keyword optimization but without the right keyword research, the page will not still gain an impressive conversion rate on the search engine. you must be aware that your keyword should be in high search and of low competition. For best result Google keyword tools is your great solution.

2. Feed publishing– one should host a new feed containing original news articles. Google and Bing Crawl news feed pages and publish articles on SERPs when ever people search using the appropriate keywords the article will be found.

3. Blog creation– Google places great value on blog content. Having multiple blogs will boost anyone’s SEO. Google map is also great as customers are usually more likely to click on a map listing than a backlink to a website.

4. Share product data – Google, Yahoo and Bing makes easier to upload the product databases to their comparison engines, so no one has to wait for them to crawl product pages.

5. Video promotion – By publishing video screenshots on SERPs, Google attracts the customers to video listings,  one should Create videos that promote their services, and make use of YouTube uploads, video XML feeds and video meta tag optimization .All these tactics will surely boost up the ranking.

6.Social networking– Today the world is totally based on this platform. almost every web marketing and business is nothing without social networking sites. you must share and update you statistics, product, content and plan of your site with the Facebook, twitter,linkedin, flicker and many other high traffic social websites. this tactics will boom your business and you will get the whale traffic and visitor for your website…..

stay connected. cheers… 🙂