Windows 7 - some basics on file sizes and disk sizes
After my supposedly last piece of MBA assignment was done, I felt little bit relieved. There were slew of messages from class mates in facebook about how wonderful it feels to be done after the grueling 20 months of studying( and partying).
Relieved little bit, I was getting on to next project (of course, I still need one more group paper to be done for Corporate Strategy In Practice)I was copying photos in to a directory this morning. There were thousands of photos accumulated over the months. As I was copying tons of photos into the SSD harddisk, I was wondering about the file size limit and number of files in a directory! Started digging around little bit....
Let me make this clear, I'm no fan of Windows OS. However, the damn OS gets work done.
Here is what I found...
Windows 7 (and really NTFS file system), there are practically no limits on number of files and disk space the OS can handle. Here
◦Maximum disk size: 256 terabytes
◦Maximum file size: 256 terabytes
◦Maximum number of files on disk: 4,294,967,295
◦Maximum number of files in a single folder: 4,294,967,295
Really who is going to have a disk that is 256 terbytes? I think we are all good with such a monsterous file system for now. Who knows... in few years we will look back and laugh at these limitations!
SageTV - Up and running
UPS delivered SageTV in the evening. I was surprised to see how small it is compared to HTPC I'm currently running!. It is actually tiny bit bigger than iPhone 4, as the accompanying photo shows. For the last few years I've come to the realization that I don't watch any of the cable channels. The only programs I watch are "Office", "Outsource", "Chase", "The Middle" and sometimes "America Got Talent". My current dish network subscription has been local channels only for this reason. HTPC was supposed to replace my Dish Receiver, but the maintenance and power consumption was a big concern for me. My efforts to switch to HTPC with network based OTA tuner (HDHomeRun) ran into several issues, HTPC hardware fails (HDD failed, graphic card died, Windows 7 corruption etc). It was a constant battle to keep this setup running.
I was looking at SageTV HD200 and SageMC setup for sometime, it looked like a good option. but I wasn't sold on HD200 it looked ugly both hardware and software. Then recently Sage released souped up HD 300 with more capabilities, new hardware design and SageTV MC 7.0. There was no reason not to get this puppy now.
I was looking at SageTV HD200 and SageMC setup for sometime, it looked like a good option. but I wasn't sold on HD200 it looked ugly both hardware and software. Then recently Sage released souped up HD 300 with more capabilities, new hardware design and SageTV MC 7.0. There was no reason not to get this puppy now.
Why is Jimmy Wales staring at you?
Have you noticed wikipedia in the past couple of weeks? You cannot escape founder of wikipedia staring at you with a "personal appeal". I use wikipedia almost everyday for everything from learning about "four loco" to "L'Avion". His stare makes me uncomfortable, I scroll down as soon as I hit wiki page to avoid making eye contact!!. This is the first time I've seen something like this in Wikipedia and did a little digging to find out the reason behind using his face and stare for raising money. There is a fascinating reason behind his stare. Read it here. Now I wonder how can other public services, such as NPR, use this marketing tactic? Is there anyway I can tell Jimmy Wales to stop staring, I did my contribution already? Please?
NetNeutrality - a bad omen for congressmen
There were 95 Democrats in Congress who pledged public support for net neutrality:
http://www.netcompetition.org/Electiontally.pdf
http://www.netneutralityprotectors.com/
http://www.netcompetition.org/Electiontally.pdf
http://www.netneutralityprotectors.com/
Apparently, every single one of them lost in last week's election!
Clearly, net neutrality was not one of the top issues for the election but it did become one of the casualties nevertheless.
http://www.netcompetition.org/Electiontally.pdf
http://www.netneutralityprotectors.com/
http://www.netcompetition.org/Electiontally.pdf
http://www.netneutralityprotectors.com/
Apparently, every single one of them lost in last week's election!
Clearly, net neutrality was not one of the top issues for the election but it did become one of the casualties nevertheless.
Brazil - International Seminar
As part of the program we have option to choose 5 destinations for our international seminar in the 5th term. Paris (New Product Development),Munich (Managing Brands, Identity, and Experiences), Shanghai (Opportunities and Risk in PRC), Hong Kong (Opportunities and Risk in PRC) and Rio De Janeiro (Competitiveness of Latin Economies and why countries grow?).
I've been asked this why I chose to go to Brazil?. Why not Munich? Shanghai? Well, like others I anguished myself over this for many days. And finally chose Brazil for following reasons.
I've been asked this why I chose to go to Brazil?. Why not Munich? Shanghai? Well, like others I anguished myself over this for many days. And finally chose Brazil for following reasons.
- Brazil is one of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries that is going to shape the future of the world in the coming years.
- It certainly has abundant natural resources but struggles to improve its people's living standards.
- It has huge populations, with large middle class. On one hand it has large swath of people with advanced skills and on the other hand there is a large section of population that lack basic skills and education.
- Brazil is one of the countries that is admired around the world for its culture and sports skills. Brazilian samba and carnival are known around the world. Its soccer team is adored by millions of plans in far countries such as Bangladesh and India.
- Its President Lula is respected around the world for the changes he brought in and for his liberal views. I was personal impressed with his offer of asylum to the woman who is sentenced to stoning in Iran.
- Brazil aspires to be a world power in the coming years. It competes regionally with countries such as Chile and globally with India, China and Russia. I want to understand what measures a country such as Brazil can take to compete in global arena. How the firms in the country fight for global foothold (Ex.Embraer). I understand the perspective of China and India, I want to look at Brazil from a different angle. As Ghemawat said, the rules that apply to companies also apply to countries.
- Personally I've been to all other places before (HK, Paris, Munich and Shangahi). Brazil is one place I've not been to.
Globalization Block week
Well it is already fourth day of Globalization block week. It was mostly lectures by Prof.Stiglitz today. I had to send out couple of emails and look at some of the PE documents. I was thinking about sitting in the simulcast room the program setup for auditors. When I went to the room, I was surprised to see around 15 people sitting there. From what I learnt, it consisted of mostly people who are taking the class for credit.
Prof.Stiglitz's lecture was interesting today. He talked about global IP regimes, IMF, SDR etc. He suggested the idea of giving all the countries a certain amount of SDRs and taxing them on the surplus. There were plenty of questions on the topic from students. I couldn't comprehend how this will work? How to divvy up SDRs to countries?
I got a chance to talk to Prof.Greenwald in the walkway. He was waiting it out during Prof.Stiglitz lecture. I got Prof.Greenwald's autograph in his book and also a photo with him.
Prof.Stiglitz's lecture was interesting today. He talked about global IP regimes, IMF, SDR etc. He suggested the idea of giving all the countries a certain amount of SDRs and taxing them on the surplus. There were plenty of questions on the topic from students. I couldn't comprehend how this will work? How to divvy up SDRs to countries?
I got a chance to talk to Prof.Greenwald in the walkway. He was waiting it out during Prof.Stiglitz lecture. I got Prof.Greenwald's autograph in his book and also a photo with him.
Term 4 ended today and... Term 5 started already!!
Today is the last day of the Globalization Block week. I was wondering if Prof.Stiglitz going to be in the class today. Sure enough, it was only Prof.Greenwald discussing the Benetton and Tricon cases. I was under the impression that the class is going to end at 2:30. However, Prof.Greenwald ended the class before noon. We didn't get a chance to discuss Tricon case. He just gave us summary and key learnings from the case. I saw Prof.Stiglitz outside uris hall talking with couple other professors. I had his book "Globalization and its discontents" ready with for getting his autograph. They were discussing something quite seriously. I thought about asking for an autograph but gave up the idea at the last minute.
Received an email from Prof.Goodson with course syllabus and case readings for Block 1 of M&A classes. He has the "world's largest syllabus", his words!.
Term 5 starts now...
Received an email from Prof.Goodson with course syllabus and case readings for Block 1 of M&A classes. He has the "world's largest syllabus", his words!.
Term 5 starts now...
Wave your flag - K'Naan
A great song in every sense. It accurately captures the essence of worldcup, the world coming together and celebraA great song in every sense. It accurately captures the essence of worldcup, the world coming together and celebrating a sport that is played in every corner of the world. K'Naan is a Somali born Canadian, who couldn't speak English till he moved to Canada in his teens.
Here is the original from the album "Troubadour ". You will hear the voice of oppressed but hopeful soul with simple lyrics but powerful message. BTW, this is the first song I ever bought in iTunes, after using iPod/iPhone for the last 8 years!. That speaks for the quality of this song.
Coco-Cola celebration version in English.
Live during opening ceremony of Worldcup 2010.
Arabic (Nancy Ajram is awesom)
Spanish (Love the voice of David).
Here is the original from the album "Troubadour ". You will hear the voice of oppressed but hopeful soul with simple lyrics but powerful message. BTW, this is the first song I ever bought in iTunes, after using iPod/iPhone for the last 8 years!. That speaks for the quality of this song.
Coco-Cola celebration version in English.
Live during opening ceremony of Worldcup 2010.
Arabic (Nancy Ajram is awesom)
Spanish (Love the voice of David).
SPYs in IVY
http://www.nypost.com/iphone/story.php?feed=/export/redesign/www/iphone/rss/news.xml&id=4.2.2835806507&pos=homepage_flash_2
White Face for Hire in China - Hilarious
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/chinese-companies-renting_n_629973.html
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/06/29/intv.china.rent.white.people.cnn
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/06/29/intv.china.rent.white.people.cnn
Tesla's IPO
No profits, declining quarter-over-quarter revenue, a bankrupt founder/CEO, proven manufacturing difficulties and all hopes resting on a $50k sedan that won’t begin production until 2012.
Berkeley-Columbia MBA Students Give Helping Hands
BCEMBA 2012's seem to have started their orientation pretty good. They built prosthetic hands for the Haiti victims.
Violent Death in the Animal World: Stunning Photography | Scienceray
Violent Death in the Insect World: Stunning Photography | Scienceray
Awesome photographies with awesome quotes. This page shows how complex the life is and how wonderful to be a human. This article again proves that food and reproduction are the basic instincts of any life form. Of course both actions could be either construed as gross or beautiful depending on how you look at it.
On the contrary, the following is a disturbing video put out by PETA. Warning: It is extremely graphic.
After watching the above, the following video shows how cruel the exotic animal skin trade makes the animals to suffer. I don't have problem watching gory videos with blood, but this video troubled me a lot. I'll definitely think twice/thrice before buying any leather products. This video makes the above photographs beautiful in retrospect, don't you agree?
Awesome photographies with awesome quotes. This page shows how complex the life is and how wonderful to be a human. This article again proves that food and reproduction are the basic instincts of any life form. Of course both actions could be either construed as gross or beautiful depending on how you look at it.
On the contrary, the following is a disturbing video put out by PETA. Warning: It is extremely graphic.
After watching the above, the following video shows how cruel the exotic animal skin trade makes the animals to suffer. I don't have problem watching gory videos with blood, but this video troubled me a lot. I'll definitely think twice/thrice before buying any leather products. This video makes the above photographs beautiful in retrospect, don't you agree?
eBook - Took the plunge today
eBook Reader was the biggest category of devices in this year's CES 2010 at Las Vegas. We have witnessed tons of companies introducing competing eBook Readers. And if you follow engadget or gizmodo you see there are more and more companies jumping on to the band wagon.
There is also this confusion about what constitutes eBook Reader. Is iPad (Jesus Tablet) an eBook reader? Is iSlate (HPs iPad equivalent) a eBook reader? In my book, if a device has an LCD screen
There is also this confusion about what constitutes eBook Reader. Is iPad (Jesus Tablet) an eBook reader? Is iSlate (HPs iPad equivalent) a eBook reader? In my book, if a device has an LCD screen
Euro Hits 10-Month Low
The headline in WSJ screamed "Euro Hits 10-Month Low" at $1.34. Does not look so good for EU countries. British pound doesn't fare very well either, it is at $1.49. The woes at Greece and now with Portugal heading that way doesn't bode well for EU countries. Portugal's rating downgrade by Fitch weighing heavily down on the Euro over all.
Does God Have A Future?
This is a fascinating discussion between Michael Shermer and Sam Harris on one side and Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston on the other. Highlight of the discussion: A quantum scientist (Leonard!?) asked Deepak Chopra if he would like to have short course on Quantum mechanics to straighten his "misuse" of quantum notations. The scientist went on to say the term "consciousness non-local" is not correct. Deepak's definition of "Consciousness": Super position of possibilities. The scientist replied "all right, I know the meaning each of those words but not with them together".
Is iPad really "Jesus Tablet"?
Apple pushed the shipping date of iPad from March 17th to April 2nd. No body knows the reason, it is one more example of Apple's famous secretive culture. The rumor is that, Apple couldn't source enough components to manufacture for the anticipated demand. Well, is that really true or are there are bugs that apple is trying to resolve? Even if we take the rumor at the face value, is Apple's supply chain that weak not to anticipate the demand? There are also rumors that say iPad pre-orders are not as strong as expected. So is it the case of "wait till we reach" the predicted, impressive pre-order rate? A sort of ego issue for Apple to reach certain number of pre-orders before start shipping them?
I'm not going to buy iPad for three, out of many, reasons:
1. eReader: It is not. In my book, eReader (Amazon Kindle or B&N's Nook) should have e-ink, paper like, display. iPad has traditional LCD display which doesn't qualify as eBook reader. Prolonged reading on this device will have same effect as any prolonged reading in laptop will have on your eyes.
2. iPhone OS: Did any one tell Apple that this OS is single threaded? Except iPhone OS all other OSs, (Android, Windows 7 Mobile, WebOS) in the mobile space are multi-threaded. Why do I care? It is annoying enough in iPhone for me to detest the single threaded OS. For example, let us say If I'm playing a game in iPhone and in the middle of the game I want to look at some information in Wikipedia. iPhone OS closes the game and launches the browser. Everytime I switch between these two the application closes the one that I'm using and launches the one I'm switching to. This means, the wikipedia page reloads everytime and the game relaunches every time. Quite annoying, how many OSs in the world are single threaded now?
3. Over priced: The price of decently featured iPad stands at $900. I could buy a nice multi-touch Windows 7 tablet laptop from Dell,HP or even Lenovo for little bit more. In fact, I already own the Dell XT2 Tablet which is a charm and zippy with the new Intel SSD disk.
I'm not going to buy iPad for three, out of many, reasons:
1. eReader: It is not. In my book, eReader (Amazon Kindle or B&N's Nook) should have e-ink, paper like, display. iPad has traditional LCD display which doesn't qualify as eBook reader. Prolonged reading on this device will have same effect as any prolonged reading in laptop will have on your eyes.
2. iPhone OS: Did any one tell Apple that this OS is single threaded? Except iPhone OS all other OSs, (Android, Windows 7 Mobile, WebOS) in the mobile space are multi-threaded. Why do I care? It is annoying enough in iPhone for me to detest the single threaded OS. For example, let us say If I'm playing a game in iPhone and in the middle of the game I want to look at some information in Wikipedia. iPhone OS closes the game and launches the browser. Everytime I switch between these two the application closes the one that I'm using and launches the one I'm switching to. This means, the wikipedia page reloads everytime and the game relaunches every time. Quite annoying, how many OSs in the world are single threaded now?
3. Over priced: The price of decently featured iPad stands at $900. I could buy a nice multi-touch Windows 7 tablet laptop from Dell,HP or even Lenovo for little bit more. In fact, I already own the Dell XT2 Tablet which is a charm and zippy with the new Intel SSD disk.
Captain "Sully" Sullengerger Retired
Well... This great pilot has retired today. I was inspired by the humility he showed throughout last year. He was a true hero and inspiration to us all.
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