analog and other stuff: November 2007

November 29, 2007

Safety For Girls / Women

One of my friend is a doctor and has done some extensive research in the field of Safety for women and he wanted me to share his ideas on the issues.

•Ladies... In light of the recent rape and murder of
Pratibha Srikanth Murthy, an employee of the
business process outsourcing arm of Hewlett
Packard in Bangalore, I think it is important to
read the following info for your own safety.

•Things women should know to stay safe: Please
take the time to read these pointers. There may just
be one or two you hadn't thought of. After reading
this, forward it to someone you care about. It never
hurts to be careful in this crazy world we live in.

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is
the strongest point on your body. If
you are close enough to use it, do it!

2. If a robber asks for your handbag,
DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it
away from you.... he is probably more
interested in your handbag than you
and he will go for the handbag. RUN
LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER
DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the boot of
a car: Kick out the back tail
lights and stick your arm through
the hole and start waving. The driver
won't see you but everybody else
will. This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get into their
cars after shopping, eating, working, etc.,
and just sit (doing their cheque book, or
making a list). DON'T DO THIS! A
predator could be watching you, and this
is the perfect opportunity for him to get in
on the passenger side, and attack you. AS
SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR,
LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a car park:

A.) Be aware: look around you, look into your car, at the
passenger side floor, and check the back seat.

B.) If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from
the passenger door. Most attackers surprise their victims by
pulling them into their vans while the women are
attempting to get into their cars.

C.) Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle,
and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the
seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the
shop, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back
out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN
SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6. ALWAYS take the lift instead of the
stairs. Stairwells are horrible
places to be alone (and the perfect crime
spot.)

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not
under his control, ALWAYS RUN!
The predator will only hit you (a running
target) 4 in 100 times; and even
then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital
organ. RUN!

8. As women, we are always trying to be
sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you
raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a
good-looking, well
educated man, who ALWAYS played on the
sympathies of unsuspecting women. He
walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked "for
help" into his vehicle
or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his
next victim.

9. Another Safety Point: Someone just told me
that her friend heard a crying baby on her porch
the night before last, and she called the police
because it was late and she thought it was weird.
The police told her 'Whatever you do, DO NOT
open the door." The lady then said that it
sounded like the baby had crawled near a
window, and she was worried that it would crawl
to the street & get run over. The policeman said,
"We already have a unit on the way, whatever
you do, DO NOT open the door.

"He told her that they think a serial killer
has a baby's cry recorded and uses it to coax
women out of their homes thinking that
someone dropped off a baby. He said they
have not verified it, but have had several
calls by women saying that they hear
babies' cries outside their doors when they're
home alone at night. Please pass this on and
DO NOT open the door for a crying baby.

I'd like you to forward this to all the women
you know. It may save a life.
A candle is not dimmed by lighting another
candle. I was going to send this
to the ladies only, but guys, if you love your
mothers, wives, sisters, daughters,
etc., you may want to pass it onto them, as
well.

Send this to any woman you know that
may need to be reminded that the world
we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it's
better safe than sorry. The above is directed
at women but remember, guys you may
also be targeted the same way or your
girlfriend/wife.

Google Maps for mobile with My Location

With this feature we don't even need GSM to the mobile phone still you can find the maps. I am not sure in which countries currently this service is enabled though?

November 28, 2007

Speed Painting with Spoon

This paint was made using spoon and chocolate. Great one.

How to paint the MONA LISA with MS PAINT

Great Video, i believe that it was real hard work.

November 27, 2007

Programmable Logic Controllers

More Information about PLC's at:

PLC

More Information about Ladder Logic at:
Ladder logic

Programmable Logic Controllers
By W. Bolton
Download

Programmable Logic Controllers Programming Methods and Applications
By John R. Hackworth
Download

Programmable Controllers An Engineer's Guide
By E. A. Parr
Download

How to Install RAM to a Desktop Computer

This video shows "How to Install RAM to a Desktop Computer"

Magazine Printing

This video shows "How Magazine Printing Works"

How to Choose the Right Television

This video gives some tips on how to select the right television.

Honda Accord

A customized Honda Accord.

November 26, 2007

How to buy TV (consumer goods) in India?

In this series, today, we will see buying a TV in India. India is very very different in the consumer market. You will find it cheaper on store, than in web, which will be reverse in many countries. Still LCD & Plasma TVs are a luxury items for a common man in India.

Where CRT TV prices are reducing drastically day by day, like wise Flat panels too.

When we tell TV, immediately you will get recommendations from your relatives and friends as SONY. There are other players, who can perform better than SONY for the same price. We will see how to choose between them and what are the key parameters to be looked up on in buying a TV.

1.) First of all, you should decide up on what will be your source material - either it will be your cable TV or DTH like tata sky / Dish TV / DD DTH. This is very important because, these DTH platforms call in for a SET-TOP Box modules, which will make the TV Tuners useless / redundant one. There you can save some money. I have seen sales men promoting a brand saying that it has 200 Channels. If you choose DTH, all these 200 channels are waste - which certainly needs some electronics & engineering involved at some cost.

2.) Look for lots of input options like AV 1/2/3/4 etc, S Video, composite, component & the new entrant a HDMI, so that you can hook up your DVD, Game consoles, DTH, Music player, PMP, Digital Camera, etc. If you choose DTH, its recommended you choose a TV with Stereo speakers (Most of the New sets will have one)

3.) Picture is only 40% of your viewing experience. The remaining 60% is from the Audio. So look for some pretty descent sound out put. Caution: Don’t get cheated away by the PMPO ratting. Always look for RMS WATTS for audio. There is a cheap alternate for you. If you don’t want to invest too much on TV, which makes good sound, you can look at Creative’s 2.1 speakers. The bass, which usually will be missing on Indian TV sets, the add on 2.1 will really rock you.

4.) In cable TV, most of the region will get a very weak signal. So look for TV, which can boost the signal. Go to a big chain shops & you do a comparison by yourself of watching a weak signal channel simultaneously in all the similar sized TVs of different brands.

The hot selling TV Size is 21 diagonal inches to 29 ". Many MNC Giants in this market use India as a Dump -yard for their obsolete products. Say for example, Panasonic officially announced that they are stopping CRT TV Production & Support. You will not find Panasonic CRT TVs anywhere else in the world except in India & other such countries. So, look for service, support & availability in your area.

These companies have invested huge money on their production plants & they got their "ROI" Return on Investments. To do the Research and development they have to spend a lot. They have kept so much money in making the plasma plants. If they continue CRT sets, then very few will buy Plasma, which will result in huge loss for them.

Coming to the technology, we want the robust, reliable, trouble free machines. Unfortunately, all the current consumer products are designed with a life of 3 years in mind. After that its expected you dispose them off and go for an upgrade - saying that you will not get service for those old items. The CRT is time-tested technology, where as plasma, LCD, OLED, e-Ink, SED, are relatively new and yet to prove itself.

The human brain has very unique feature, it remembers very rich and vivid colors. That is the reason, many consumer grade digital cameras enhance the colors like green and blue, which is NOT the real replica of the seen you are trying to capture. The same is very true for TV technology too. CRT will provide you a TRUE Color of the image, where as the LCD, plasma, OLED will give an over cast of the colors.

In the show room, they want to sell the TV, which has higher margin for them. So they will set a high contrast and rich colors, which will immediately attract your attention, assuming that Rich Color means better quality – which is just an illusion to the human brain. Also note that you are watching it in a professionally designed show room, which may have treated acoustics & Special lighting. Once you take that TV and put it in your room, it may look & sounds like a crap.

Hundai – relatively new entrant in the mark just to prove them selves about their reliability, they put their TV in Secunderabad railway station, which runs 24 X 7, with full bright and contrast on. Its been there for more than 2 years, where other major brands can’t survive in harsh environment with train vibration and pollutions.

From the chain store, you will have the option to play around yourself. Then decide upon the Brand and model. Make a note of their prices. Call just dial (+91-40-2444-4444) and look for the dealers who can supply the brand you have chosen in your area. Usually you will get at least 5 to 10 numbers. Call one by one and find out the best price they can offer. Then choose the lowest one of your choice.

BigBazar is NOT a choice to buy the consumer electronics, as they get 2nd quality items or items with minor defects at low cost. It may not have visual artifacts, but certainly the quality will be less.

After all its your hard earned money. Think thrice before you put your money on them.

Disclaimer: We don’t get any money for recommending any brands. It’s my 15 years of experience in buying the consumer goods in the market, which I would like to share it with the readers.

November 25, 2007

Aluminium

The Welding of Aluminium and Its Alloys
By Gene Mathers
Download

Foseco Non-Ferrous Foundryman's Handbook
By John Brown
Download

Plastics Materials
By J A Brydson
Download

Corrosion of Aluminium
By Christian Vargel
Download

Information Security

Hop Integrity in the Internet
By Chin-Tser Huang
Download

Computer Security Basics
By Rick Lehtinen
Download

Information Security Fundamentals
By Thomas R. Peltier
Download

Computer Security Handbook
By Seymour Bosworth
Download

Internet & Intranet Security
By Rolf Oppliger
Download

Yeh Ishq Haaye

Recent Famous Hindi Song.

November 24, 2007

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence with Uncertainty
By Deyi Li
http://rapidshare.com/files/71303240/9781Li584889984.rar

Artificial Intelligence Illuminated
By Ben Coppin
http://rapidshare.com/files/39474196/59564.rar

International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence
By William J. Raynor
http://mihd.net/1.839/0814404448.zip.html

Artificial Intelligence in Education
By Chee-kit Looi
http://rapidshare.com/files/47685700/Looi.rar.html

The Elements of Artificial Intelligence An Introduction Using Lisp
By Steven L. Tanimoto
http://rapidshare.de/files/18708399/0881751138.zip.html

November 23, 2007

Tere Bin Indian Song

One of my fav. Song.

November 22, 2007

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Third Edition
By A R TROTT
http://rapidshare.com/files/53949286/Refri__AC_3E.zip

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
By W. F Stoecker
http://rapidshare.com/files/3419871/Stoecker___Jones_-_Refrigeration___Air_Conditioning_2nd_Ed__McGraw_Hill_.pdf

Handbook of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
By Shan K. Wang
http://rapidshare.com/files/10439932/Handbook.of.Air.Conditioning.and.Refrigeration-0070681678.rar

Heating,Ventilation and Air Conditioning
By Richard Nicholls
http://rapidshare.com/files/38244909/Heating.Ventilation.Air.Conditioning-0953940918.rar

Handbook of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
By Jan F. Kreider
http://rapidshare.com/files/8715092/Krieder__JF_-_Handbook_of_Heating_Ventilation_and_Air_Conditioning__CRC_Press_2001__v2.rar

November 20, 2007

Rare Earth Elements

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
By Karl A. Gschneidner
File Size Around 4MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/70792586/9780444520289-0444520287.pdf.rar

Modern Aspects of Rare Earths and their Complexes
By V.S. Sastri
File Size Around 40MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/46712534/Modern_aspects.pdf

Rare Earth Elements in Groundwater Flow Systems
By Karen H. Johannesson
File Size Around 10MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/28662427/Joh_RaEaEliGrFlSy.rar

Interest Rate Model Theory

Interest Rate Models Theory and Practice
By D. Brigo
http://snipurl.com/1tx6h

Interest Rate Modelling
By Simona Svoboda
http://mihd.net/v8oai3

Interest-Rate Option Models Understanding, Analysing and Using Models for Exotic Interest-Rate Options
By Riccardo Rebonato
http://mihd.net/271uep

How to Use Semi Colons and Colons

November 19, 2007

Oscillators Part-1

The Design of Modern Microwave Oscillators for Wireless Applications Theory and Optimization
By Ulrich L. Rohde

http://www.mediafire.com/?dnn4mzdh9ip
mirror
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Oscillator Design and Computer Simulation
By Randall W. Rhea
http://mihd.net/ztgpy2

Crystal Oscillator Design and Temperature Compensation
By Marvin Frerking
http://mihd.net/6dwquo

High-Frequency Oscillator Design for Integrated Transceivers
By Johan van der Tang
http://rapidshare.com/files/35849999/1402075642.rar

The Story of Thanksgiving

How to write a Resume and Cover letter

How To Tie A Tie

I wish i might have seen this video in 2000 so that i might have not had hard time using Tie.

Funny Video about Bad Day at Office

Football With Cars

Really liked the idea of playing football with cars.

November 17, 2007

Human Rights

Human Rights
By Antho Woodiwiss
http://rapidshare.com/files/64039324/human_rights.pdf

Human Rights and the Environment
By Lyuba Zarsky
http://rapidshare.com/files/44728047/lyza_hrate.rar

Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
By Helaine Silverman
http://rapidshare.com/files/55679311/silve9780387713120.rar

Human Development Report 2000 Human rights and human development
By United Nations Development Programme
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2000/en/

Catastrophe

Encyclopedia of Earthquakes And Volcanoes
By Alexander E. Gates
http://rapidshare.com/files/55433585/Gate0816063028.rar

Tsunamis Case Studies and Recent Developments
By K Satake
http://rapidshare.com/files/29420189/a.rar

Global Catastrophes
By Bill McGuire
http://mihd.net/nzl1s5

The Volcano Adventure Guide
By Rosaly Lopes
http://rapidshare.com/files/67905070/05215Lopes54535.rar

After the Tsunami Rapid Environmental Assessment
By United Nations Environment Programme
http://rapidshare.com/files/45327751/After_the_Tsunami_Rapid_Environmental_Assessment.rar.html

MRI

MRI : Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

More information about MRI at :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRI

Typical Picture of MRI of Brain:

Some Books on MRI:

MRI in Clinical Practice
By Gary P. Liney
http://mihd.net/xzu0fy

MRI Basic Principles and Applications
By Mark A. Brown
http://rapidshare.com/files/31320179/MRI.BPA.by.bloodDR.rar

MRI from A to Z A Definitive Guide for Medical Professionals
By Gary Liney
http://rapidshare.com/files/38977266/MRI_From_A_to_Z.pdf

MRI at a Glance
By Catherine Westbrook
http://rapidshare.com/files/57419659/MRI_at_a_Glance__ISBN_0632056193_.rar

MRI in Practice
By Catherine Westbrook
http://rapidshare.com/files/31041935/MRI_in_Practice.pdf

November 16, 2007

How to beat a lie detector test

Good video about polygraph test.

November 15, 2007

Charge an iPod using electrolytes and an onion

Cant See this video through Podcast or Feed reader you can watch it at:

http://analogstuff.net/2007/11/charge-ipod-using-electrolytes-and.html

Crayon Physics

A Different kind of video i guess you would love to watch this.

November 14, 2007

Renault Car Crashing Test

This advertisement shows the cars from Renault crashing into each other.

November 13, 2007

PHP

Learning PHP and MySQL
By Michele E. Davis, Jon A. Phillips
http://rapidshare.com/files/10615384/Learning_PHP_and_MySQL_-_O_Reilly_2006.chm

Extending and Embedding PHP
By Sara Golemon
http://mihd.net/n6imxu

Advanced PHP Programming
By George Schlossnagle
http://rapidshare.com/files/8377700/advphpprog.rar

Integrating PHP and XML By Amrita Dubey http://rapidshare.com/files/25027600/03.rar

Speed Painting

This is a great video: speed painting of Albert Einstein

Android Operating System

Android is an open source software for mobile phones, this video is a demo of the most followed Gphone.

November 12, 2007

Six months of blogging experience

Its been almost six months that i started blogging. Would like to share my experiences to all. I don't know how got interested in blogging,but some how now a days it became kind of an addiction to me. If i wont post any thing on some days i feel some thing different. I don't know what to call this. I am glad to say that i get around 1000 unique visitors to my blog every day.

What next, after 2-3 months that i started blogging i saw that my Alexa ranking has improved quite a bit.Quite often i read in lots of blogs about Alexa ranking,Search Engine optimization and Google page rank. I have never tried to increase my Alexa ranking and never used any Search Engine Optimization Techniques though. I feel that we need to write or blog for people not
for search engines. That why you wont see any meta tags in my blog. I think having meta tags in the blog might help in improving the audience and i might as well get more traffic out of it but i don't know some how i am not in to that.Recently my blog got Google page rank of 3/10.

When i first started a blog i thought that blog is like we will get more interaction with people with comments etc. I see some comments though but very few, 1 or 2 a day. I wanted to have more interaction with the users of this blog. I think in that way i might get more ideas for new postings and it helps me and others too. Some people have asked me how am i getting this many topics to post, like books on many subjects, actually it was really not easy to say how it happened, i spend most of my time online and when ever i get to know about new technologies etc..will try to read about them. Then eventually will post books on them. Since i blog part time only i wont get more time to write thats why i usually try to search books and post them.

Some times its hard to find some books what users might have asked. I gave my best to respond to emails but some how i am sorry if i might have missed few of you.When i first started my blog the intention was to beat one of my friend. I think i should not reveal his name though. He has about 1000 subscribers through feedburner. I wish i beat him soon. Lately i was not able to post many books because its hard to get new topics all the time but i am still trying to post many new topics, i feel that it would be great if the readers of the blog can suggest some topics, then i can work on the same.

Recent changes to the blog: Lately there was a problem with the template of my blog hence i was forced to change the template to a different one, i am working on the same. As and when i could possibly figure out the issue i will fix the problem and
will make the blog a bit neat, i know its kinda clumsy now :).

You are most welcome to reach me at :

analogstuff@gmail.com

You can subscribe to my feeds through
E-mail or alternatively you can subscribe to my feeds.

Currently i have around 198 subscribers through feedburner. Would like to make it 1000 in a month or so, i know its hard but will try to do that.

Special Functions

LUKE SPECIAL FUNCTIONS THEIR APPROX V2
By Yudell L. Luke
http://snipurl.com/1tixw

Special Functions
By Z. X. Wang
http://rapidshare.com/files/52430534/Wang_-_Special_functions.djvu.html

Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions Computation and Applications
By F. MarcellÃ¡n
http://rapidshare.com/files/6160846/Orthogonal_Polynomials_and_Special_Functions_3540310622.pdf

Special Functions
By George E. Andrews
http://rapidshare.com/files/11261505/0521789885.rar

Asymptotics and Special Functions
By Frank W. J. Olver
http://rapidshare.com/files/1251945/olver.rar

Special functions for scientists and engineers
By William Wallace Bell
http://rapidshare.com/files/5205904/Bell.djvu

Special Functions A Unified Theory Based on Singularities
By Sergei Yu
http://rapidshare.com/files/3835578/Slavyanov.djvu

Spectral Functions in Mathematics and Physics
By Klaus Kirsten
http://rapidshare.com/files/9103029/spectral_functions_in_mathematics_and_physics.158488259x.rar

How to Recharge Batteries

How to Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal

Good Video.

November 11, 2007

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management
By Michael J. Cunningham
http://rapidshare.com/files/7498077/1841122130.rar.html

Data Mining Cookbook Modeling Data for Marketing, Risk and Customer Relationship Management
By Olivia Parr Rud
http://mihd.net/gszo72

Customer Relationship Management How to Turn a Good Business into a Great One
By Graham Roberts Phelps
http://rapidshare.com/files/56854080/Customer.Relationship.Management-complete-1854181149.zip

Customer Management Excellence
By Mike Faulkner
http://rapidshare.com/files/2072268/CustomerManagementExcellence_muyac.pdf

Why Customers Come Back How to Create Lasting Customer Loyalty
By Manzie R. Lawfer
http://snipurl.com/1tgoa

Building Customer Based Project Organizations
By Jeffrey K. Pinto
http://mihd.net/pazwi5

Mass Spectrometry

Pressure Vessel

This post is last updated on July18,2008 added some more books and made sure that no broken links are present. Kindly comment your book requests so that i can try to find them and post the same.

Engineers' Guide to Pressure Equipment The Pocket Reference
by Clifford Matthews
Downloadable 3.58MB Filie

Pressure Vessels ASME Code Simplified
by Phillip Ellenberger
Downloadable 4MB File

2007 BPVC Section VIII - Rules for Construction of Pressure Vessels Division 1
by ASME
Downloadable 75MB File

Pressure Vessel Design Manual
By Dennis R. Moss
http://rapidshare.de/files/20901789/MOSS__D._R.__2003_._Pressure_Vessel_Design_Manual__3rd_ed._.rar

Practical Guide to Pressure Vessel Manufacturing
By Sunil Kumar
http://rapidshare.com/files/10702715/prac_guide_to_press_ves_mfg_by_hashmi420.pdf

Pressure Vessel Handbook
By Eugene F. Megyesy
http://rapidshare.com/files/21888740/pve10.rar.html

Engineers' Guide to Pressure Equipment The Pocket Reference
By Clifford Matthews
http://rapidshare.com/files/4534014/pressureequipment.rar
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Pressure Vessel Design: The Direct Route
By Josef L Zeman
http://mihd.net/lcme0q

Pressure Vessel Design
By Donatello Annaratone
http://rapidshare.com/files/19353036/pressure_vessel_design.pdf

Pressure Vessel Design Handbook
By Henry H. Bednar
http://rapidshare.com/files/9659617/pvdh.rar

Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling Systems
By Center for Chemical Process Safety
http://rapidshare.com/files/18207156/gprfh.rar