Unexpected FATE...

Around 450 million years ago, the Earth was devastated by a terrible disaster that annihilated around 85 per cent of all marine species – at the time, the predominant form of life on the planet.

Known as the Late Ordovician Extinction, it was the second most devastating blow to life on Earth during its history – worse even than the notorious impact-related event that forced the dinosaurs in the line of extinction 65 million years ago. Geological evidence points to a sudden plunge in global temperatures, though the cause remains uncertain. But one possibility is the explosion of a death star relatively very close to Earth.

Analysis of the effects of a gamma-ray burst by researchers at the University of Kansas and the US space agency NASA suggests it would have triggered the destruction of the Earth’s protective ozone layer, as it allowing intense ultraviolet radiation from the Sun to reach the surface. This would have wiped out many life-forms in the upper layers of the oceans – including plankton, a key part of the marine food chain.

It’s also possible that the changes in atmospheric chemistry triggered by the blast may, in turn, have it been triggered global cooling – though whether this would be enough to account for the Ordovician ice age is unclear.

What is certain is that the giant stars capable of producing gamma-ray bursts are spread throughout the cosmos. As such, it is not only life on Earth that’s threatened by them. According to research by known Professor James Annis of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Illinois, gamma-ray bursts may be then regularly sterilize their host galaxies; if that’s true, our chances of finding life elsewhere in the very Milky Way would be much reduced.

Windows XP. The End of most user friendly OS from Microsoft.

 The Lone Warrior, will be Long Gone....


All those who are still running Windows XP on their computers will have to upgrade and they should do it now.
However much you may love this operating system the truth is that it is over 12 years old and it is dying.
Microsoft will dump the software on April 8 next year. This means the company will no longer be responsible for any hassles you face on your computer. And those still on it may face severe trouble, from virus attacks to total system failure.
" Windows XP was launched at a time when there were very few cell phones around. There was no WiFi and no Bluetooth. The entire ecosystem of hardware and software has changed completely," says Amrish Goyal, Microsoft India's director of Windows Business Group. Goyal is spearheading the drive to get businesses and individuals to change to Windows 7 or Windows 8 immediately.
He points out Microsoft will stop issuing bug fixes, and security patches for the operating system.
As it is these have already started drying up for those on XP. Businesses, banks and individuals are particularly at risk, says Goyal. He cites a recent report by International Data Corporation ( IDC) that says an alarming 50 to 60 per cent of Windows users in organisations are still on XP. These firms, small or large, run the risk of losing their certifications, as no internal or external audit will ratify them because of stringent data security and privacy laws. IDC is a US- based market research, analysis and advisory firm specialising in information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology. It works in almost 120 countries, including India.
Microsoft commissioned them to find out how prevalent was the use of Windows XP in India.
Many of you will say that your system works fine so why should you replace it. The average life cycle of a PC is five years, after which you should change it. I know many of you bought PCs in the last two or three years and downgraded it from Windows 7 to Windows XP since you were comfortable with it, or were running software that you had become cozy with. Let’s take a look at the risks involved.
Anti- virus and anti- malware are all being reworked for Windows 7 and Windows 8. These will never be able to protect your computer if you are still running an old operating system.
Windows relies on drivers so that a piece of hardware can talk to the software. Drivers will no longer be updated for Windows XP. So if you’re to plug in a newly bought printer to your older operating system, chances are that it will not work at all. You will in all probability get an irritating message saying, " Driver not found, contact your hardware manufacturer". But the printer manufacturer will not be able to help you, and neither will Microsoft.
Plug in your new camera and imagine how frustrating it will be when you cannot transfer the pictures to your PC. Simple tasks like printing, accessing browser- based applications and the like will become difficult to accomplish from a Windows XP– based PC. Those using XP for financial transactions and Internet banking face the gravest threat. They feel that since these applications are browser based they do not need a new machine.
Little can be further from the truth. Using an old browser will increase the risk of your password or banking data being stolen manifold.
IDC feels that some large banks that have thousands of branches and computers in each of these locations are most vulnerable. Bank officers interviewed thought that since they only access the corporate database with their browser there is no need to upgrade their PCs. It warns that such organisations face major disruption in their work and are staring at huge financial losses that they will never be able to justify because of stringent RBI guidelines and amendment to the IT Act.
If you are planning to change your computer now I would recommend that you make sure that it is at least able to run Windows 8. Take a new processor such as i7 and also ensure that it has at least 4GB RAM. This way you will have technologyproofed yourself for at least three years.

Last West Tibetan Dynasty.. LADAKH...

Ladakh in Modern Times....

By the beginning of the 19th century, the Mughal empire had collapsed, and Sikh rule had been established in Punjab and Kashmir. However the Dogra region of Jammu remained under its Rajput rulers, the greatest of whom was Maharaja Gulab Singh whose General Zorawar Singh invaded Ladakh in 1834. King Tshespal Namgyal was dethroned and exiled to Stok. Ladakh came under Dogra rule and was incorporated into the state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1846. It still maintained considerable autonomy and relations with Tibet. During the Sino-Sikh war (1841-1842), the Qing Empire invaded Ladakh but the Sino-Tibetan army was defeated.

In 1947, partition left Ladakh a part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, to be administered from Srinagar. In 1948, Pakistani raiders invaded Ladakh and occupied Kargil and Zanskar, reaching within 30 km of Leh.Reinforcement troops were sent in by air, and a battalion of Gurkhas made its way slowly to Leh on foot from south. Kargil was a scene of fighting again in 1965, 1971, and 1999.

In 1949, China closed the border between Nubra and Sinkiang, blocking the 1000-year old trade route from India to Central Asia. In 1950, China invaded Tibet, and thousands of Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama sought refuge in India. In 1962, China occupied Aksai Chin, and promptly built roads connecting Sinkiang and Tibet, and the Karakoram Highway, jointly with Pakistan. India built the Srinagar-Leh highway during this period, cutting the journey time between Srinagar to Leh from 16 days to two. Simultaneously, China closed the Ladakh-Tibet border, ending the 700-year old Ladakh-Tibet relationship.

Since the early 1960s the number of immigrants from Tibet (including Changpa nomads) have increased as they flee the occupation of their homeland by the Chinese. Today, Leh has some 3,500 refugees from Tibet. They hold no passports, only customs papers. Some Tibetan refugees in Ladakh claim dual Tibetan/Indian citizenship, although their Indian citizenship is unofficial. Since partition Ladakh has been governed by the State government based in Srinagar, never to the complete satisfaction of the Ladakhis, who demand that Ladakh be directly governed from New Delhi as a Union Territory. They allege continued apathy, Muslim bias, and corruption of the state government as reasons for their demands. In 1989, there were violent riots between Buddhists and Muslims, provoking the Ladakh Buddhist Council to call for a social and economic boycott of Muslims, which was lifted in 1992. In October 1993, the Indian government and the State government agreed to grant Ladakh the status of Autonomous Hill Council. In 1995, the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council was created.

The Dynasty simplifies the beauty of its nature and vast enormous rich lavishing panoramic experience.

 A Story of the Dynasty. The Ladakh....

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Land of Predators

AMAZON.. Explore the Unexplored..

The Amazon is the greatest river in the world by so many measures; the volume of water it carries to the sea (approximately 20% of all the freshwater discharge into the oceans), the area of land that drains into it, and its length and width. It is one of the longest rivers in the world and, depending upon who you talk to, is anywhere between 6,259km/3,903mi and 6,712km/4,195mi long.

For the last century the length of the Amazon and the Nile Rivers have been in a tight battle for title of world's longest river. The exact length of the two rivers varies over time and reputable sources disagree as to their actual length. The Nile River in Africa is reported to be anywhere from at 5,499km/3,437mi to 6,690km/4,180mi long. But there is no question as to which of the two great rivers carries the greater volume of water - the Amazon River.

At its widest point the Amazon River can be 11km/6.8 mi wide during the dry season. The area covered by the Amazon River and its tributaries more than triples over the course of a year. In an average dry season 110,000 square km of land are water-covered, while in the wet season the flooded area of the Amazon Basin rises to 350,000 square km. When the flood plains and the Amazon River Basin flood during the rainy season the Amazon River can be up to 40km/24.8 mi wide. Where the Amazon opens at its estuary the river is over 325km/202 mi wide!

Because the Amazon drains the entire Northern half of the South American continent (approx. 40% landmass), including all the torrential tropical rains that deluge the rainforests, it carries an enormous amount of water. The mouth of the Amazon River, where it meets the sea, is so wide and deep that ocean-going ships have navigated its waters and traveled as far inland as two-thirds the way up the entire length of the river.

So, how did the Amazon get to be so big? The first reason has to do with its location - right at the equator. Around the "belt line" of the earth lies a warm, tropical zone where over 400 in/1016cm of rain fall every year. That averages out to more than an inch (3cm) of rain, everyday! A lot of water falls onto the land surrounding the river, what is called the "Amazon River drainage basin". A good way to understand what a drainage basin is to think of the whole northern half of the continent of South America as a shallow dish, or saucer. Whenever rain falls and lands anywhere in the river basin it all runs into the lowest place in the pan, which happens to be the Amazon River. The sheer volume of rain in the Amazon jungle, as well as the slope of the surrounding land, combines to create the enormous river known as the Amazon.

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You don't necessarily have to get rid of a working analog closed circuit TV system in order to modernize to a streaming
video that can be monitored from any internet connected station or 3G phone. Video capture cards can digitally convert the
images for broadcast. Until yesterday, there had been no real attempts to regulate the new IP
cameras; every make and manufacturer functioned a little differently. And when you put web cameras into the
join, finding one software to control them all was heavy.



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The software itself may not be easy, but it can get life simpler for you.

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Web cameras
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I'm using webcam software. I
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