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I have the privilege of managing a bunch of websites. Some of them get a lot of traffic while others get moderate traffic. I was having problems with my webhost from time-to-time which prompted me to look for alternatives. Being a person who works with clouds, I knew cloud computing will come handy. However, cloud hosting is way too expensive than the shared hosting where I was hosting those sites.

When Indian contingent was marching during the opening ceremony of London Olympics, there was an UWO (unidentified walking object) seen next to the flag bearer Sushil Kumar. No one knows who she was, what she wanted, and most importantly how did she get there. I was able to salvage a picture from Internet luckily and here it is.

Science has made so much progress that general public assumes the opinion that everything is taken care of, except the stuff that doesn't matter. How about if I told you that we do not even have a great system in place that can do something as fundamental as map overlay? A map overlay is a system that can crunch multiple maps to churn out useful information; for instance, a map of all rescue shelters in an area and a map of  natural disaster, and can find out which rescue shelters are safe to guide the evacuation operations.

Being an international student in America, I come across a variety of NRAs (non resident aliens) living in USA. Their professions vary from student to some shop owners to motel owners to mechanics etc. One common thing that I have noticed among these people is that a few months after they came to USA, they started believing that American people are stupid. It is not the perception of people of any particular country or profession, but I have heard this from representatives of almost all countries and professions.

It was a steep learning curve for me to get a hold of LaTex but now I am in love with it. If you are unaware of LaTex it is a typesetting tool that you can use for crisp quality text and images. The presentation of text has never been so consistent and so elegant before. I wish I knew about it during my Master's degree or for the first year of Ph.D. I always perceived as a tool that was too cool for me to learn. 

Georgia state university (GSU) provides Cisco VPN client to all the students and faculty members for both Windows and Mac operating systems. I have been using it without a problem with my 10.5 leopard Mac OS. Recently, I bought a bigger MacBook pro that has Mac OSX Lion on it. This is where I ran into my first issue or the dreaded error 51. It took me a little while to figure out the solution. In the hope that my experience will help others I am sharing the solution with you all.

I recently submitted a paper to IPDPS 2012 along with my colleagues Satish Puri, Xi He, our Adviser Dr. Prasad, and a GIS specialist from Georgia Institute of Tecnology Dr. Shi Xuan. The paper discusses the details of our implementation of CRAYONS (A cloud based parallel  the fundamental polygon overlay processing - intersection of two (or more) layers of GIS data to be specific.

Advantech, a global manufacturer of telecom computing blades and multicore network platforms, announced today the expansion of its AdvancedMC product range with the introduction of the AMC-4201, based on Freescale Semiconductor's QorIQ™ P4080 multicore processor. Aimed at further increasing Advantech's presence in Tier-1 OEM equipment, the AMC-4201 is targeted at new infrastructure designs in elements such as base-station controllers, radio network controllers (RNCs) and access gateways for LTE as well as in networking, telecom and broader general purpose embedded equipment.