SOME REAL INTERESTING FACTS

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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2 the most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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3 . The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
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4 . The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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5 . There are two credit cards for every person in the United States .
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6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath ..
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9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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11 . It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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12 . The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
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14 . Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from History. "Spades" - King David; "Clubs" - Alexander the Great; " Hearts" - Charlemagne; "Diamonds" - Julius Caesar.
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15.
11 x 11=121
111 x111=12321
1111x1111=1234321
11111x11111= 123454321
111111x111111= 12345654321
1111111x1111111= 1234567654321
111111111x111111111 =123456787654321
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
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16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
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18. Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
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19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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20. A snail can sleep for three years.
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21. All polar bears are left handed.
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22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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23 . Butterflies taste with their feet.
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24 Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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25 . In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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26 . On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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27 . Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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29. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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31 . The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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32 Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
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33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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34 . The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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36 . Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
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37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
Knowledge is to be shared & enjoyed

Vista V/s Linux(Mephis)

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. DesktopLinux.com columnist has pitted Vista against Linux's fair haired boy Ubuntu (actually Mephis which is 99% Ubuntu) to see how the pinnacle of commercial desktop operating systems stacks up against the free, community-developed Linux upstart.

The aretocle itself is multipart and Steven has completed three parts sofar. I have tracked the publishing since January 24, when he publised the first part.

So far there seems to be no reason for anyone to goto Vista. If you don't like Linux at the moment, stick with your Windows XP. Other than all the bells and wistles, Vista is almost a DRM laden XP.
The Following clipped from the article should give you a little insight.
"With both systems completely idle except for their memory map programs and the screenshot program, MEPIS has a memory footprint of less than 100MB, while Vista is pounding down its foot with over half-a-gigabyte of RAM."

Another insight "My test system's high-end S/PDIF audio port lacks built-in DRM. Without that functionality, Vista won't play music through the PC's speakers with Windows Media Player 11. MEPIS, on the other hand, has no trouble playing online music. In this case, I'm using Streamtuner."

From another article points out that Vista being Longest suicide note! Because instead of concentrating on OS vista tries to be watch dog for RIAA and MPAA. Once people realize those points may be they will change to Linux or go back to XP ;).
why?
"Say you've just bought Pink Floyd's “The Dark Side of the Moon”, released as a Super Audio CD (SACD) in its 30th anniversary edition in 2003, and you want to play it under Vista. Since the S/PDIF link to your amplifier/speakers is regarded as insecure for playing the SA content, Vista disables it, and you end up hearing a performance by Marcel Marceau instead of Pink Floyd."

Both the articles are invaluble if your computer is not a MAC.

Interesting UNIX

list of some actual "funny" responses from Unix when you mis-enter
"appropriate"

$ cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans

$ nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.

$ rm God
rm: God nonexistent

$ ar t God
ar: God does not exist

$ ar r God
ar: creating God

$ make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.

$ sleep with me
bad character

$ got a light?
No match.

$ man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.

$ !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.

$ drink bottle: cannot open
opener: not found

Source:Dont know

Do you know

BMW - British Motor Works


ISKCON (ISKCON Temple) - International Society for Krishna Consciousness


LOTUS (Lotus Temple) - Light Of Truth Universal Shrine.


AMUL (Amul chocolate etc.) - Anand Milk Union Limited.


ORPAT (Orpat calculators etc.) - Omkarnath Raghubhai PATel (owner of the company)


CIPLA - Chemical Indutrial and Pharmaceuticals LAboratory.


ESPN - Entertainment and Sports Programming Network


CNN - Cable News Network


CNBC - Cable National Broadcasting Corporation


MRF - Madras Rubber Factory


ISBN - International Standard Book Number.


PNR (PNR number in rail and air tickets) - Passenger Name Record.


Q- What does PCO mean in STD/ISD/PCO?


Ans - Public Call Office.


Q - What does ZEN mean in Maruti Zen?


Ans - Zero Engine Noise.


Q - What does T mean in T-series?


Ans - Trishul


Q - What does xp mean in Windows Xp?


Ans - Windows Experience.

Ps:Dont know from where i get this

Be proud about our country.

The Measurement of Time or Time Scale

In Surya Siddhanta, Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the Earth to revolve around the Sun up to the 9th decimal place.
According to Bhaskaracharya's calculation it is

365.258756484 days.

Modern scientist accepted a value of the same time as
365.2596 days.

The difference between the two observations made by ancient Hindu sage Bhaskaracharya (in the 4th century AD) and today' scientists by using super computer (in the 20th century AD) is only 0.00085, i.e., 0.0002 per cent of difference.

The ancient Bharatbhoomi had given the world the idea of the smallest and largest measuring units of Time. In modern time, only Stephen Hockings, Cambridge University Professor of
theoretical physics, had the courage to venture into the abysmal depth of the eternity of Time.

Astonishingly, our ancient sages taught us the following units of time:

Krati =34,000th of a second
Truti =300th of a second
2 Truti =1 Luv
2 Luv = 1 Kshana
30 Kshana =1 Vipal
60 Vipal = 1 Pal
60 Pal = 1 Ghadi (=24 Minutes)
2.5 Ghadi = 1 Hora (=1 Hour)
24 Hora = 1 Divas (1 Day)
7 Divas = 1 Saptah (1 Week)
4 Saptah = 1 Maas (1 Month)
2 Maas = 1 Ritu (1 Season)
6 Ritu = 1 Varsha (1 Year)
100 Varsha = 1 Satabda (1 Century)
10 Shatabda = 1 Saharabda
432 Saharabda = 1Yug(Kali Yuga))
2 Yuga = 1 Dwapar Yuga
3 Yuga = 1 Treta Yuga
4 Yuga = Kruta Yuga
10 Yuga = 1 Maha Yuga (4,320,000)
1000 Maha Yuga = 1 Kalpa
1 Kalpa = 4.32 Billion Years.

Therefore, the lowest was 34,000th of a second known as krati and the highest of the measurement of the Time was known as kalpa, which equalled to 4.32 billion years. Is it not amazing?

The Invention of Decimal System

It was the ancient Bharatbhoomi that gave us the ingenious methods of expressing all the numbers by means of 10 symbols (decimalsystems) invaluable and gorgeous idea that
escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest Greek philosophers
and mathematician produced by antiquity (100-130BC).

The highest prefix used for raising 10 to the power in today's mathematics is
"D" for 10 raised 30 (for Greek Deca).
While as early as 100 BC Hindu mathematicians had exact names for figures up
to 10 raised to 53.

a. Ekam = 1

b. Dashkam = 10 (10 raised to 1)

c. 1 Shatam = 100 (10 raised to 2)

d. 10 Shatam = 1 Shahashram = 1000 (10 raised to 3)

e. 10 Dash Shahashram = 10,000 (10 raised to 4)

f. Laksha = 100,000 (10 raised to 5)

g. Dash Laksha = 10,00,000 (10 raised to 6)

h. Kotihi = 10, 00, 0000 (10 raised to 7)

i. Ayutam = 100,000,000 (10 raised to 9)

j. Niyutam = 100,000,000,000 (10 raised to 11)

k. Kankaram = 10,000,000,000,000 (10 raised to 13)

l. Vivaram = 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 raised to 16)

m. Pararadahaa = 10 raised to 17

n. Nivahata = 10 raised to 19

o. Utsangaha = 10 raised to 21

p. Bahulam = 10 raised to 23

q. Naagbaalaha = 10 raised to 25

r. Titlambam = 10 raised to 27

s. Vyavasthaanapragnaptihi = 10 raised to 29

t. Hetuhellam = 10 raised to 31

u. Karahuhu = 10 raised to 33

v. Hetvindreeyam = 10 raised to 35

w. Sampaata Lambhaha = 10 raised to 37

x. Gananaagatihi = 10 raised to 39

y. Niravadyam = 10 raised to 41

z. Mudraabalam = 10 raised to 43

aa. Saraabalam = 10 raised to 45

ab. Vishamagnagatihi = 10 raised to 47

ac. Sarvagnaha = 10 raised to 49

ad. Vibhutangaama = 10 raised to 51

ae. Tallakshanaam = 10 raised to 53

In Anuyogadwar Sutra, written 100 BC, one numeral had been shown to be raised to as high as 10 raised to 140 which is beyond our outmost stretches of imagination.