Cheat Sheet for Rock-Paper-Scissor-Lizard-Spock

1 Mar 2010 In: General

Here is a nice cheat sheet/guide to practically playing the famous game of Rock-Paper-Scissor but with a little twist. In this there are five elements (this was demonstrated by Sheldon in Episode 8, Season 2 of Big Bang Theory). I found it confusing at that time but wanted to actually play this game. So, here it goes. Enjoy!

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Latest news coming in: In many cities the entrants have not been able to take the entrance test and have been told that they would have to reappear later sometime. Common Admission Test (2009) for admission to elite Management Institutes in India like IIM etc. was to be held online for the first time. About 3,00,000 students had to take an exam over 10days in different cities.

The contract for conducting CAT exam online was awarded to Prometric for about $40mn!

Interestingly, other blogs have talked about the possibility of CAT servers collapsing on the D-day months beforehand, so it was not something that came as a complete surprise. However, I had expected that the company ought to have taken adequate precautions regarding this.

Some related links: http://www.pluggd.in/cat-online-exam-and-failure-of-ignou-online-297/
http://www.dnaindia.com/academy/report_ignou-seeks-report-from-yahoo-on-collapse-of-online-exam_1306667 (they simply cant learn from past mistakes I guess ;) )

UPDATE1: Kapil Sibal: No rescheduling of CAT for students who were not able to give today. They can appear tmrrw…

PowerMenu in Windows 7

27 Nov 2009 In: General

Ok, I have been trying to figure out why PowerMenu wasnt working for me in Windows 7 for months now. One of my favourite applications. I can see it running perfectly fine in the system tray but the options of “transparency”, “always on top” and my favourite “Priority” werent coming at all when I right clicked any program. Read the rest of this entry »

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