Friday, January 28, 2005

Auschwitz's liberation

I had a chance of reading todays Hindu and was shocked to read the article on Auschwitz's .
The way the prisoners where treated in the Nazi camps . Really a eartshaking comport.

Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is the camp that most people know simply as "Auschwitz". It was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and the murder of over one million people, mainly Jews.For this purpose, the camp was equipped with 4 crematoria with gas chambers; each gas chamber was designed to hold up to 2500 people at one time.

At times, the whole transport would be sent to its death immediately. At other times, the Nazis would perform "selections", often administered by Josef Mengele, to the end of choosing whom to kill right away and whom to imprison as labor force or use for medical experiments. Young children were taken from their mothers and placed with older women to be gassed, along with the sick, weak and old.

Those arriving prisoners who survived the initial selection would go on to spend some time in quarantine quarters and eventually work on the camp's maintenance or expansion or be sent to one of the surrounding satellite work camps.

One section of the camp was reserved for female prisoners. In another section known as "Canada", the belongings of the arriving victims were sorted and stored, to be transferred to the German government.

More can be inferred from some news site .

Monday, January 24, 2005

Regarding Object Desktop

The ppl I have a bend towards chaning looks of the desktop i see. And this free ware is helping me a lot. Addition to just change in looks it adds quite a good features also . Such as window grouping etc.

http://www.stardock.com/products/odnt/

Reading is good for health

I used to hate reading novels. But i feel Jeffery Archer is going good for me.Last two weeks i read three of his novels

Kane and Abel
The Prodigal Daughter
The quiver full of arrows

I do recommend the First one . Worth Reading. Enjoy.

Reading Black Beauty ...these days...will update regarding that in due time.Till then gudbye bibliophiles ;)

Monday, January 10, 2005

Regarding Eshaan and Arjun

I am really happy for these of my two school friends. They have toiled hard in life and I feel they are moving in right direction now. As for Eshaan I would have really wanted he could have done engg from some good college. I think him clearing JMET with a good rank will allow him to get seat in IIT Delhi, which can really shape his future. Regarding arjun whom I have really liked because of his inquisitive nature. His habit of asking “Why? “ generally would piss me off. And I knew India was not the perfect place for him to study. Here people don’t care what you think They want to know what you are: - how much marks, what rank, Which college, which company generally haunts most of the creative people here. I feel his family ability to send him abroad helped him in framing his future. Now he has cleared the Mechanical Engg from a good college and has a great Job. ALL the Best buddies. Have a nice future.

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Mozilla Thunderbird

GEt the new Thunderbird MailEngine now
Features such as spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, etc.
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird&os=win&lang=en-US

Whats RSS

RSS is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on websites you like. Instead of you having to go to websites to see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell you every time they have something new.
In general you need to get hold of a program called a News Reader. This displays RSS information feeds from your chosen websites on your computer. All you then have to do is choose which RSS feeds you want for instance, an RSS feed of all the latest Entertainment stories from RediffNews.
There are a range of different News Readers available. Different News Readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to take this into account when you make your choice.
Whats RSS http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html
RSS Reader http://www.rssreader.com/

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Finally we started our kitchen.

It was a big question on which type of cylinder to buy but at last we had a consensus and we bought one. Now started setting up a kitchen. Now generally we are lucky enough to get decent breakfast in morning and can have Maggi at least :)) . Nice start!!