Portable POS station

Printers:
http://www.oneilprinters.com/
http://www.zebra.com/
http://www.symbol.zebra.com/

Devices:
http://www.symbol.com/

Marketting avenue

style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The possible marketing points in the
California, US
(and potentially other international markets):

1. size=2>Print
   Media
   
   
   
   1. size=2> href="http://www.indiacurrents.com/news/view_custom.html?custom_page_id=30">India
      Currents
      
   2. size=2> href="http://archives.aaraamthinai.com/thendral/">Thendral
      
   
   
2. size=2> style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Radio
   
   
   
   1. size=2>Mostly
      Tamil
   
   
3. size=2> style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Television
   
   
   
   
   1. size=2> href="http://www.showbizindiatv.com/SItv/contacts.html">ShowBiz
      India
      
   2. size=2> href="http://www.namastetv.com/contactus/main_contactus.htm">Namaste
      America
   
   
4. size=2>Distributing paper
   pamphlets in Indian events
   
   
   
   1. size=2> href="http://www.temple.org/">Concord Siva Murugan
      Temple
      
   2. size=2> href="http://www.livermoretemple.org/">Livermore
      Temple
      
   3. size=2> href="http://www.sunnyvaletemple.org/">Sunnyvale
      temple
   
   
5. size=2>(Joint) Sponsoring
   events
   
   
   
   1. size=2> href="http://www.bayareatamilmanram.org/">Bay Area Tamil
      Mandram
   
   
6. size=2>On-line
   advertisements
   
   
   
   1. size=2> href="https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=Login&sourceid=AWO&subid=US-ET-ADS&hl=en_US">Google
      
      
   2. size=2>On-line presence
      ( href="http://www.rkestateschennai.com/">http://www.rkestateschennai.com/
      ?)
   
   
7. size=2>Personal
   e-mails
   
   
   
   1. size=2>To friends and
      relatives who are persuaded to send to their friends and relatives (Viral
      marketing) - $$ incentive will persuade folks to pass on… We need to figure
      out the % on how to deal with it.
   
   
8. size=2>e-mail
   (SPAM)
   
   
   
   1. size=2>we got to figrure
      out how to get mail id lists
   
   
9. size=2>Marketing Phone
   calls
   
   
   
   1. size=2>Investigate how to
      get list phone numbers
      
   2. size=2>We can use the call
      center resources in w:st="on">India to do the actual
      marketing
   
   
10. size=2>We can evaluate the
    possibility of exchanging the marketing to other services through your other
    business
    
11. size=2>Other possible
    marketing avenues to be investigated.

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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Let me know how we can take these
ideas to next level.

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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Send me the details of the current
hot projects and I can try to forward them to my friends – in case this is of
their current interest.

Aragalur C Vaiyapuri in News

Increase import duty on starch - The Hindu, Salem, June 19, 2004

Veeranam tank under constant surveillance - Th Hindu, Cuddalore, November 7, 2004

Minority members meet Chidambaram - The Hindu, Chennai, July 11, 2004.

Magic Qquare

This is completed wish as of May 27, 2005.

Wiki seems to have comprehensive info on Magic Square. I need to ensure I get the Dasavadani Ramiah's 4x4 magic square that can solve for all numbers above 34 (35, 36 & 37 are OK too). Even number of squares, singly even, doublly even. How many ways of we can solve for x number of squares.
Mention about Magic Cubes as well.
Ramiah square?? {1,5,12,16}{15,11,6,2}{10,4,13,7}{8,14,3,9}

8 Queen on Chess board solution

There are many ways by which you can place 8 queens in such a way that no queen can kill another queen.
I will enter this placement later.

2010/02/22: Here is goes from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle

12 unique solution (that can generate 92 distinct solutions)

1. 24683175
2. 17468253
3. 17582463
4. 41582736
5. 51842736
6. 31758246
7. 51468273
8. 71386425
9. 51863724
10. 57142863
11. 63184275
12. 53172864

Quick & Practical Quadratic solution

There is an anciant tamil poem / rule.
7/8length + 1/2 height = hypoteneous
This is a perfect match for 2 quadratic ratio sets.
I will plot the error values and it's proof along with it's graph.
I want to put the odia neelanthanai in Tamil on blogspot site.

Large Data / Transactions

Here are some of the large number of transactions..
1. Visa (Plastic Card payment system)
2. NYSE - the stock trading
3. Spam (emails)
4. Computer Generated (and converted) Imagary
5. Gegraphic Information Systems

Quality - 2 schools of thought

My 2 cents on Quality.

Extract from wiki .
Approches to Quality (focused on software here).

1. Measure defects and take corrective action. "Test Quality"
   
2. "Design Quality" a more organic approch.
   

When groups (compaines/projects) are in infancy the quality approch is more like the former - where every one can easily see statistical numbers in terms of bugs found/fixed. This is costly process which includes bug administration cost. This also makes 'people' to look for low hanging fruits (bugs) to claim numbers very good for performance reviews. I used to call finding bugs in software as finding the imperfections in old shirt - looking for oerfections or imperfections. Cost of bug fixing ever day / step later costs exponentially more than if it was not found/fixed earlier. I have known (failing?) projects where coding begins way prior to the coder understanding the requirement. Later, the requirements are adjusted to meet the code. Hey, that's a great way to listen to customer!!

More organized and mature companies (management and the culture as a whole) belive and follow the later process. The product is done right first time and every time. The process (and individual performance review) is based on finding issues (bugs) as earlier in the cycle. Importance is given to issues found/fixed that pose high risk on the project and for the customer.

Related Topics:
Six Sigma
CMM
ISO 9000
Total Quality Management

Curious Question on DNA

DNA is unique for individuals. Fine and agreed. What happens to DNA when organs (Heart/Kidney/Eye) or Blood/bone marrow is transplanted from another person? What is the deal when the transplantation takes place between species?

More...

More blogs to follow on
Microsoft Prefix
White Box Testing
Free WebMails
Domain hosting
Web Counters
Web FAQ generator
Web Forum
Online billing support
Online database support by low cost web hosting providers
Financial Engineering
Federated Wiki - so that different Wiki can talk/cross referance
How about a wiki for interview questions. Already there are many out there.
Wiki of corporate document templates.
Generate the software code/project as wiki. Make requirements/design/testing and code in a single place - this will improve maintainability. Will this make globalization/internationalization a feasibility.
Public Wiki of generic computer software modules in different languages (binary tree..)

Cygwin

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment for Windows. cygwin1.dll is API emulation layer and a whole range of tools to give extensive unix (Linux) like support.
Cygwin can not run Unix/Linux binaries under Windows. Rebuild is required. This is open source and is supported by RedHat.

http transaction

xmlHttp is a cool way of automation either in command line or to be run over web Browser (IE/Netscape). I did not know how to make it work on firefox yet.
xmlHttml can be used under Javascript or VB script and run under wscript or jscript
This can also be loaded in other programming languages.

Microsoft Homer

Performance Testing with the Web Application Stress Tool (Homer)
Nice tools to issue GET/POST on a single site with pre-recorded single set of cookies.
Works only for single IP or computer server.
Helps in record and replay as well (remember to knock off the URLs from other servers).
Homer
Homer Public domain info

Wiki

I read about wiki recently. I am excited about this concept. This is closely simillar to Encyclopedia and the major differance is that it is kind of like open source. I want to see if I can make a personal wiki that is more like a quick encyclopedia of personal knowledge based.

Passport

Nice dream.
Country is purely a political system. It is very recent concept for human race. If I were to give up my passport issued from the country of origin to erase the political boundaries, I would. Don't know how this can happen or how we can make this happen.

Alternately, as a life mission, can I get citizenship of as many countries as possible.

Interview Questions

1. What is the best algorithm to reverse string preserving words in correct order. Example input string "This is a test" output string "test a is This"
2. Two robots having limitted vocablary running the same program got to seek each other. Vocablary: step left/right one/two step. Was this position already traversed?
3. Test cases for unix 'ls' command.

Genome

Genome project

Blog

http://www.blogger.com/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://pinecar.blogspot.com/

Pinecar Derby

Pine Car Derby:
http://www.shopatron.com/index/164.0.950.0.0.0.0
http://www.winderby.com/h-hints.html
http://www.pinewood.schoolreference.com/
http://www.pinecar.com/items.htm/SpeedAccessories
http://www.djhobby.com/
Pinecar parts:
Wooden car
Axial
Wheels
Graphite oil

Halloween Coustume

Halloween costume principles.