Recovering lost data

NTFS undelete came to my rescue for the second time. Its a very good tool to have but it works only on NTFS filesystem (?).

While recovering the data, most important thing to remember is to use a new partition or storage as target. Attempt to recover to the same location may corrupt the recovered data.

It worked quite well with USB disk, but took a lot of time on Vista partition... GUI hanged for quite some time ;-)

Becoming lesser by the day

Interesting, got it as a mail fwd

Our communication - Wireless
Our dress - Topless
Our telephone - Cordless
Our cooking - Fireless
Our youth - Jobless
Our food - Fatless
Our labour - Effortless
Our conduct - Worthless
Our relation - Loveless
Our attitude - Careless
Our feelings - Heartless
Our politics - Shameless
Our education - Valueless
Our follies - Countless
Our arguments - Baseless
Our Job - Thankless
Our Salary - Very Very less
Our emails - useless (especially this one)!

Pune Barcamp5

This is my 2nd barcamp @ SICSR, Pune (earlier being BC3). Weather on Saturday was just like pre-monsoon season, more suitable for enjoying long drives than attending tech sessions :-)

Well about BC5... it wasn't as interesting as BC3 barring a couple of sessions. Recession seems to have an impact on BC5 too ..., NO sponsors, NO free T-shirt, NO free lunch ....

Some notes from interesting sessions I have attended

Startups and Venture Capital

• Startups should consider approaching good VCs to seek seed fund, guidance, direction, and industry connections
• VCs generally look for good idea, its scope and market size, motivation of the team, domain expertise, leadership and execution skills in startups

Its advantageous for startups if their idea is backed with patents and has scope for fallback if required (part of the idea may be marketed to serve another purpose or another set of users).

Typically the process of meeting, convincing and successfully seeking funds from VCs last anywhere between 4 - 6 months. On the average, VCs stay invested in startups for about 7 years with typical investment size of $1 to $10 million.

This talk was given by people from headstart...

Guy Kawasaki may have different thoughts on this topic though ....






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Theme: Security is an integral part of IT hence none should take it for granted

Group of enthusiastic people have come together to spread cyber security awareness. The plan is to have regular get-together and share knowledge pertaining to cyber security.


Why you should use Twitter


This is an interesting session. Till I attended this session, I never appreciated twitter and treated it like just another social networkish time waster (of course it is unless one really makes use of what it has to offer as a good communication platform).

The best part of twitter is

• Short messages would do, don't need to worry about composing big post (but at the same time blogs helps improving writing skills :-) )
• Messages can be posted / received through various means to twitter (mobile SMS, messenger, web, standalone apps such as TweetDeck)
• With good network, useful information flows in
• Keep up to date on topics of interest by creating filters? (ex: #bcp5 to get updates related to Pune Barcamp5)
  
• Helping hand can come from any corner of the network, even if you are not connected to them

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