Quantum Computing

As per our office rule I had to conduct a seminar yesterday. Lot of things was in my mind but I was little bit busy with other stuffs so I choose the most convenient one. Shehab’s thesis paper was in my table so I had decided why not it is about that? His thesis was about Quantum Computing. My seminar title was Quantum Computing – Bits n’ Bytes. It was great fun because I learned how difficult it is for an ordinary person to visualize Quantum Physics or Quantum Computing. But Wahid Bhai was there, he had completed his M. Phil on Quantum Physics. But others were terrific.

Anyway I had built a presentation; probably it covers all you need to know about Quantum Computing at first glance except physical phenomena. This is most obvious as I am not a student of physics. However I have uploaded my presentation if you are interested you can see them. So have fun with Quantum Computing.

Visual Studio vs. Eclipse

My professional career starts with Java. It has been long time I detached from Java. In fact all of large scale project build by Java or C++. I was familiar with java from my second semester so it becomes quite a long time that I am in this arena. I used Kawa and JBuilder as Development IDE but never eclipse. In fact eclipse is much newer and by this time I become habituated with JBuilder. Last two years I was rambling in Microsoft Arena and detached from Java.

Today, I installed eclipse for an open source java project. As I never use eclipse I thought, why not try this project with eclipse as I heard a lot about eclipse. I knew that it got a tremendous pluggable architecture but what I didn’t know was it’s extend. I installed eclipse classic that comes with few plug-ins (thanks God!!!) but when I opened the IDE and started a project I was really shocked. The number of initial plug-ins is too few to start. Actually anybody comes from Microsoft’s arena will be shocked. Microsoft build their product from dumb people and if start using them, eventually you become dumb as well. You need to know too little to work in Microsoft environment whereas you need to know a lot to work in such environments.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

- Linus Torvalds

So there no wonder that I became dumb over the time and it takes me three hours to open a java file in design mode… lolz… Probably this is a common problem for those who come from Microsoft Visual studio. The most interesting things there is lot of plug-in for the same purpose even when I start downloading them there are lot of mirror sites for the same content :P.

Visual Studio is too friendly and it prepares everything for you whereas in eclipse you have to prepare everything for yourself. It will provide nothing and you have to choose the right one from millions. So life is not easy here for the beginner at the very first time. Anyway you have to struggle initially but surely you will love it over the time.

Google Search History

Have you ever tried Google Search History? It’s pretty cool!!! I like its “Treads” feature. Google is good at generating trends for user so they give this feature in their every product. Anyways as I am online 24/7; it reflects my days very well. Google is my portal to the net.

Usually I search most when I am at office. Why? As a software engineer I need to know where are the codes rather than how to write the code. I can’t remember last time when I wrote an interesting code. Eighty percent of my codes are copied from internet, thanks to codeproject!!! This is why I search most when I am in my office.

My second busiest time is night when I finalize my personal tasks and so on. At that time I search variety of things and topics on my own interest and I spend more time on every result. Usually I spend few of my time with my books before going to bed at that time I googled few items regarding books and relating stuffs.

It's simple; Just enable Google search history and login before any search you will get an idea about your days. There are other cool features too, like suggest!!! They will suggest different items relating your search patterns. You can get idea about anyone by seeing suggested idem to him… lolz… However, all are cool features but one thing, they are tracking you. Sometime Google behave so strangely that it seems they know me better than me. Obviously they doing that from my track record; sometimes it’s helpful, sometimes it’s irritating.

The Manchurian Candidate

“The Manchurian Candidate” - A complete waste of time. I dislike it completely but the man Denzel Washington was as usual perfect. It was released in 2004 but unfortunately I watch it yesterday and it seems like waste of time. It was according to a novel by Richard Condon published in 1959 and it was chosen for movie two times, 1962 and 2004. May be it is a great one for 1962 but not for 2004 and worst for 2008… lolz… Actually I was interested about this movie because I subscribed a blog titled “I am a Manchurian Candidate” and I was interested to know a bit more about the title. And obviously Denzel Washington was also a strong reason.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica subscription is now free for the Blogger subscriber, actually for all web publishers. Web publishers mean every one who has a personal blog or website or any other kind of web portal where he publishes articles regularly. Encyclopedia Britannica is the only source of information at early days and still it is a good competitor of Wikipedia. As anyone can write in Wikipedia many people does not like Wikipedia as a reliable reference but Britannica is free from this blame. No encyclopedia contain detail information about anything this is also true for Encyclopedia Britannica; Britannica’s information could be good appetizer but not more than that.

Encyclopedia Britannica is used as a case study how new technology can disrupt a business. Every thing was great for the nearly 250 years for old privately held company until the internet came around. You can purchase the 32 volume Britannica, which has 65,000 articles and 44 million words, for just $1,400. Or you can access it on the web for $70 per year. Now here is the new site to get free access to Britannica called Britannica Webshare.

Anyway I got a one year free subscription as because I am the owner of this Blog. Remember nothing is worthless. It is not a huge thing but it is something like you.

Seasons In The Sun

Goodbye to you, my trusted friend.
We've known each other since we're nine or ten.
Together we climbed hills or trees.
Learned of love and ABC's,
skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.
Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Pretty girls are everywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the hills that we climbed
were just seasons out of time.
Goodbye, Papa, please pray for me,
I was the black sheep of the family.
You tried to teach me right from wrong.
Too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I get along.
Goodbye, Papa, it's hard to die
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Little children everywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the wine and the song,
like the seasons, all have gone.
Goodbye, Michelle, my little one.
You gave me love and helped me find the sun.
And every time that I was down
you would always come around
and get my feet back on the ground.
Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
when all the bird are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
With the flowers ev'rywhere.
I whish that we could both be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the stars we could reach
were just starfishs on the beach

(Terry Jacks'1974) [YouTube][wiki]

The Eye of The Prophet

I have completed a book titled “The Eye of The Prophet” by Khalil Gibran. He is one of my favorites and this book (1995) is posthumous collection short essays on different human aspects. All the articles are taken from his prose, poetry and letters but this is a wonderful collection articles. If you are familiar with Khalil Gibran then probably you know about his views. It covers almost every item that could come in your head at very first time.

As he is well known for his controversies there is a high chance that you could like him or completely dislike him. However, I like his view so I like this book.

The name might seem misleading at first glance. The title is chosen as “The Eye of The Prophet” which suggests that content should be views of Prophet on different stuffs or other way how things are seen by the eye of prophet. But actually it is a collection of his views and thoughts. So who is the prophet? Actually he depicts prophet differently. “The prophet is known and loved by people around the world, as an inspirational guide to everyday life it has become a source of strength to millions.” So here is the voice which is source of strength and indeed it is.

I have compiled couple of his article in my blog labeled as Khalil Gibran. Those are very selective fews I like to share with you. I suggest this book as must read.

"The perfect companion to Khalil Gibran."

This is how the publisher depicts!!!

Selling idle CPUs

I got an interesting idea today. Probably you would be glad if you could sell your idle CPU, right? Few giants in the software industry recently start selling computing server. This is like they will compute the information from given data and return it back to user. All they do is doing CPU intensive part for you. What if everyone can do the same business? At least if everyone can sell their idle CPU?

Probably you guys know about SETI. This is the largest distributed project looking for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. This is a very CPU intensive task and so that they build a large distributed system and any personal computer can join in this network and donate their idle CPU to compute.

Here we can build a similar type of distributed system which will be able to perform specific task on request and count the total CPU work done. Anyone can join that system and will be paid according to CPU work done by his computer. Your computer participates in this only if it does remain idle. So that normal work will not hamper.

All these tasks will be executed in a different sand box so that your computer is free from any kind of malfunctioning attacks. Computation intensive softwares are the good choices for this system but the bandwidth drawbacks still remain.

St. Martin

This is too late but better than never. Here is the images taken at St. Martin.

Beauty

Beauty is not in the face.
Beauty is a light in the heart.

Have we then never heard it said, or seen it ourselves, that superficial beauty is sometimes responsible for many unknown but terrible calamities, and for so many profound and painful afflictions?
Is that moon which inspires poets not the same moon that breaks up the calm of the waters with ebb and flow?

The most subtle beauties of our life are invinsible and inaudible.

Believe in the divinity of Beauty which inspires your cult of Life and your aspiration to Happiness.