Placements in Ettimadai

Cognizant Technology solutions

December 7 and 8 they came here in Ettimadai. First they conducted a Quantitative aptitude test with duration of 1 hour.. Many of them not get enough time to do this test but from 1300 they selected 936 people... And Interview they conducted purely tech interview for tech background. They asked only basic tech questions but many of them dont get time to prepare for that

evdo

if you want additional information visit http://nextdoornerd.blogspot.com/2009/09/making-bsnl-evdo-work-in-ubuntu.html

How to connect evdo in ubuntu

This is for those who dont know how to connect evdo in ubuntu(older
version than 9.04)

connect evdo in your lap's port then take the terminal and type

sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.config
Then a page will open and there you can see some notes there you can
edit your

username and password then save the page and again type in the
terminal

sudo wvdialconfig Then some informations will come and then
again type

sudo wvdial

Then your evdo is connected to your lap

apple

Apple’s decision to not include a camera in the new iPod Touch is somewhat surprising. After all, there is already a perfect camera for the job, and it sits inside the iPhone. That Apple included a video camera inside the iPod Nano makes this more inexplicable still — the Apple of today is clearly happy to put cameras into its media players (unlike the first iPhone, whose camera was so poor we thought it was just a petulant capitulation to cellphone norms).

Leaving the camera out is also a clear signal not to upgrade the Touch, as – apart from a larger 64GB model – the only hardware change is the juiced-up processor, making the iPod Touch run faster like its older brother the iPhone 3GS. Perhaps Apple is putting the Touch on a two-year update plan like the iPhone, letting people keep their pocket computers for a little longer than usual. Had the Touch included a camera, I would be knocking on the store doors right now to buy one, along with 64GB ready to be filled with photos and video.

So the excitement falls to the Nano, which, sports a new shiny coating, a 640 x 480 video camera (no stills) and a larger screen on the outside, and an FM radio on the inside with a Tivo-esque live-pause feature. The radio itself is odd enough, and the first to be included in any iPod. More on that in a moment.

The Nano’s video camera was introduced with reference to Flip’s own tiny, no-zoom camcorder. There are two Flip camcorders at the 8GB Nano’s $150 price: the 2GB Mino and the 4GB Ultra. To get 4GB and 8GB you jump to $200. The 16GB Nano costs $180. Why would somebody buy a Flip? The easy, one button recording, perhaps (with the Nano, you need to go to a menu item to open the video camera application), but that’s it. Take a look at the sample videos at the Apple store and you’ll see that the Nano’s quality is easily “good enough”.

There is another surprise in there, too. The tiny Nano frame has a chip big enough to add real-time effects to video. Gimmicky, but as we guess this is aimed at the teenage market, a nice feature.

US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel

"The New Scientists reports that faced with global warming and potential oil shortages, the US Navy is experimenting with making jet fuel from seawater by processing seawater into unsaturated short-chain hydrocarbons that with further refining could be made into kerosene-based jet fuel. The process involves extracting carbon dioxide dissolved in the water and combining it with hydrogen — obtained by splitting water molecules using electricity — to make a hydrocarbon fuel, a variant of a chemical reaction called the Fischer-Tropsch process, which is used commercially to produce a gasoline-like hydrocarbon fuel from syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen often derived from coal. The navy team have been experimenting to find out how to steer the CO2-producing process away from producing unwanted methane by finding a different catalyst than the usual cobalt-based catalyst. 'The idea of using CO2 as a carbon source is appealing,' says Philip Jessop, a chemist at Queen's University adding that to make a jet fuel that is properly 'green', the energy-intensive electrolysis that produces the hydrogen will need to use a carbon-neutral energy source; and the complex multi-step process will always consume significantly more energy than the fuel it produces could yield. 'It's a lot more complicated than it at first looks.'"