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there are ways to curtail the energy draw, including an application created by Verdiem called Edison. Edison provides a simple means of controlling and monitoring the energy used by your personal computer.
Edison features:

* Energy savings scheduling
* Simple energy savings settings
* See your calculated energy savings
* Available for both Windows XP and Vista

System requirements:

* Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Vista
* 256MB of RAM
* IE 5.01 or better
* 7MB free disk space
* .NET 2.0
Getting and installing

Navigate to the Edison page and download the version suited to your operating system. When that file has downloaded double click the icon to begin the installation. The installation will offer no surprises that would trip up any Windows user. It’s not until you finish the installation that you might see something unusual.

When you do finish up the installation and start Edison a window will open requiring you to register your new software. The registration process is simple. Click on the “click here” link in the window (Figure A) which will direct you to the sign up page. When you have filled out your registration an activation email will be sent to you with a link to click to finish the process. Once you have finished go back to the Edison window and click the “I’m Activated” button.

Once you have clicked the “I’m Activated” button the Edison application will open ready to use.
Figure A


Using Edison
From the Edison main window (Figure B) you can control numerous power saving configurations. From this main window you can configure the power used on your machine while you are working, while you are not working, or scheduled times. As you switch “tabs” within Edison you will notice that both the Work Times and Non-Work Times configuration options are the same, they only apply to different periods of use (or non-use). This is a nice feature because it allows you to set your monitor shut off times differently for when you are working vs. when you are not working.

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The main objective of NPTEL program is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses. This is being carried out by seven IITs and IISc Bangalore as a collaborative project. In the first phase of the project, supplementary content for 129 web courses in engineering/science and humanities have been developed. Each course contains materials that can be covered in depth in 40 or more lecture hours. In addition, 110 courses have been developed in video format, with each course comprising of approximately 40 or more one-hour lectures. In the next phase other premier institutions are also likely to participate in content creation.




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WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) - Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.

The bestowal of one of the world's top accolades on Obama, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success after nearly nine months in office, was greeted with gasps from the audience at the announcement ceremony in Oslo.

Describing himself as surprised and deeply humbled, Obama said he would accept the award as a "call to action" to confront the global challenges of the 21st century.

"I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations," he said in the White House Rose Garden.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," citing his fledgling push for nuclear disarmament and his outreach to the Muslim world.

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Infosys Technologies Ltd., India’s second-largest software exporter, reported second-quarter profit rose 7.7 percent, beating analysts’ estimates, after winning more business from its customers.

Net income increased to 15.4 billion rupees ($332 million), or 26.83 rupees a share, in the three months ended Sept. 30, from 14.3 billion rupees, or 24.97 rupees, a year earlier, Bangalore-based Infosys said today. That beat the 14.9 billion rupee median of 15 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Chief Executive Officer S. Gopalakrishnan reduced prices to retain business from customers in the U.S. and Europe, his largest markets, amid the worst recession since the 1930s. Infosys won orders from Australia’s Telstra Corp. and the U.K.’s BP Plc after the two clients sought to decrease the number of suppliers to cut costs.

“It is a very positive result; the environment is getting much more stable,” said Vaibhav Sanghavi, a director at Ambit Capital Ltd. in Mumbai, who manages funds for wealthy individuals. “We are in for a little uptick; things have stabilized and margins will improve from these levels.”

U.S. technology demand will begin to increase in the three months ending Dec. 31, followed by a global recovery in 2010, research firm Forrester Inc. said last month. White House adviser Lawrence Summers said yesterday there has been a “substantial return to more normal conditions” in the U.S., and cited economists’ estimates that the world’s largest economy returned to growth in the third quarter.

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Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings is an annual publication that ranks the "Top 200 World Universities", and is published by Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The full listings feature on the Times Higher Education website and appear later on the QS website. They have been running since 2004 and are broken down by subject and region.

The ranking weights are:

* Peer Review Score (40%)
* Recruiter Review (10%)
* International Faculty Score (5%)
* International Students Score (5%)
* Faculty/Student Score (20%)
* Citations/Faculty Score (20%).
check the following link out: times uni. ranking 2009

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A senior developer with a programming company commented on this issue as follows:
I believe the days of C++ as a general purpose programming language are quickly ending for most developers. There are still lots of great uses for C++, particularly for OS-level work, low-level work (embedded devices, device drivers, etc.), certain high-performance applications, and applications where the overhead of a system like .NET or Java would be too heavy (like an office suite). Some developers will continue to use C++ for applications that other, less complex languages can handle as well. But for the typical developer, C++ is a big headache for minimal gain.

The performance issues that most developers face are not the kinds of issues that moving to native code will resolve; once you take performance out of the equation, C++ is a fairly unattractive option for application development in most cases.

The handful of C++ developers that I’ve talked to say using C++ in the .NET managed environment is not particularly attractive to them; this takes away much of the opportunity to use it in a Web development capacity, unless you want to use it in the CGI model. There are good things about CGI (less overhead, simple conceptual model) and bad things about CGI (your application has to be “aware” of many more low-level tasks). From what I’ve heard, under the .NET CLR, C++ loses its speed, as well as many of the things that make C++ useful.

This is not to say that C++ is going away any time soon. I see C++ joining the ranks of COBOL and FORTRAN as a legacy language with a massive installation base and a need for people to maintain/extend existing applications for more than 50 years. In addition, a number of new development projects will be started in it for a variety of reasons (familiarity, library support, tradition/habit, cultural, etc.). I also suspect that it will pick up a reputation as a “dead” language (again, like COBOL), due more to a lack of buzz and hype than actual non-usage (also like COBOL).

I don’t want to make the future for C++ sound dismal; if anything, I think there is great potential for C++ developers to do quite nicely for themselves. If you’re a C++ developer, I suggest that you stick with the language. Are the things you’re working on flashy or get the same attention as Web applications in the mainstream publications? No. But with the current salary structures, I feel that experienced C++ developers will see very nice paychecks for some time. In addition, as the remaining C++ work is of higher difficulty and fewer people learn C++ (it isn’t taught as frequently in colleges these days), I expect C++ developers to have more job security and better compensation than .NET or Java developers over the long run.

I believe that C++ will slowly fade into the background, but it will neither die nor will it ever become unimportant. While most developers I know have never touched C++ in a real-world environment, many developers would benefit from learning it, if only to gain some appreciation of various languages, including Java, .NET, and Ruby.

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