So, if you happen to be running such a company in India, what is most suitable for you for internet connectivity? One major problem in India are frequent powercuts. The Electricity department is not good anywhere throughout the country. Corruption, and non maintenance of cables are the only reason. But this situation is changing in several parts of the country. Then again you have got UPS systems installed, if you are in serious business. So power is not something that we  should be worrying about.

BSNL provides you with the worst of services Never go for them. Airtel has got their own trans oceanic cable laid from Chennai to Singapore, so their service is supposed to be very good. Tata Indicom, formerly VSNL too has a good line that is connecting directly somewhere, but there are disruptions in the service. Never make the mistake of getting a connection from Relianc, Hathway is good, but DNS problems occur often.

You need to choose between a leased line and a broad band connection and the data transfer volume that you would require, which would depend on the number of PCs that you might be having at your facility. Instead of getting 1 single 2 Mbps line, you could go for 10×256 kbps lines, which might cost you a bit more, but you will have consistency of data flow to systems without any breakage.

Remember that you would be using a lot of server software to connect to and to monitor remote servers. You need lots and lots of data transfer limit, and a limited 2 Mbps connection would never suffice.

Usually, children born in a huge family having its own business are moulded, brought up, exposed and educated in line with their joining the family business when they are ready. A marble trading family will not let a kid in their family go and learn software engineering and pursue a career in that field while their business is expected to do great for the next few generations and they could use an extra hand from within the family.

The Tatas are a world renowned business family and have been in real big money business for about 2 Centuries, fully successful and never getting themselves into any trouble. Ratan Tata is the current Chairman of the board, and he has been preceded by several others. The Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay was built by one of Ratan Tata’s Ancestors, the world’s first All Jet airline company happens to be Tata Airlines (Now Air India, undertaken by the Govt. of India), was founded by JRD Tata, Ratan’s Predecessor, and Ratan has now produced the cheapest car in the world, that costs about $2500, and he has taken over the Jaguar and Land Rover brands recently. His Steel Factory has taken over Corus, and that wing is now the 5th largest steel producer in the world.

Ratan would have been nowhere if he had started a business of his own. His integrity, his ability to workout such major deals, achieve great goals and moving ahead to the top of the world doesn’t come with just one generation’s expertise in business. The Tata Group owns several companies that include Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors and Tata Steel.

Family business does have its draw backs too. Politics can be very high between cousins and uncles. If there is a difference of opinion, it is far too difficult to handle, and the damages that it might cause to the company could be much higher than what it would be if you were working for some other business. And in family business, succession is always a problem. It always creates disputes. There would be certain people of the later generation who work very hard to prove themselves to the current head of the group so that they get a chance to go on the will of the head and become the successor. At times like this, the cousins that you played with when you were young might act against you just to gain the throne, while you might have been working hard to get to it, or by default you are eligible for it, and this could hurt you a lot. The feeling wont be something like what you get when a similar situation arises at some other workplace. It could devastate you mentally, since its family that is working against you now, and not someone else.

There are good and bad aspects to a Family Business. But it is all in the hands of the head of the business. If he can handle everyone in the family, guide them and direct them so that there are no differences between them till the end, and if he defines his successor, and make the others agree to it, everyone is happy, and the business will have nothing but growth.

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Well, if you really hate paying those huge medical bills, you can always make your insurance company pay it for you. For that ofcourse, you will need a mediacal/health insurance policy.

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No 21, Chamiers Road, Nandanam, Chennai

Here is where you will find Indyahozting and me, Ravi, from now.

This office will be the primary billing and administrative contact for Indyahozting.

I have rolledback completely from my ventures to find out about other versions of unix that are available, and have installed hardy heron on my laptop.

Guess how easy it was to get the wifi working. Real easy. Go to hardware driver manager, select broadcom wifi adapter, and you get your wifi up and running. No windows driver file required. Now thats what linux is about. Open source drivers for the closed source applications and drivers.

Changes and Improvements? Plenty. Graphics is great. System monitor rocks now, and the firefox 3 beta rocks like never before.

Will write more about it soon.

So, I went on a hunt today to get a list of banks that offer 0 balance accounts, I dont need any feature that the bank may boast of. I am just looking for some basic features listed below.

1. NEFT, or National Electronic Funds Transfer that lets us do some inter bank funds transfers.
2. No Cheque Book is required. No ATM/Debit Card is required. When I need the money, I shall transfer it to my main bank account with State bank of India to withdraw funds.
3. Zero Balance account. And absolutely no unwanted charges for this and that.
4. No annoying calls with loan and credit card offers.
5. Decent and super fast services from the staff of the bank for anything I go to them for.

And, I managed to find that Ing Vysya Bank offers an account with a fee of Rs 1000 flat per year, and with absolutely no charges of any sort. They give you chequebooks on demand, allow you to use their own ATMS, and provide internet banking with NEFT

Secondly, HDFC offers the same, called No Frills account, with complete 0 balance, no charges no nothing for anything at all, and everything such as cheque books, ATM cards are chargeable if you want them. Im more than happy if I have NEFT.

Canara Bank insista that you maintain atleast a balance of Rs 1000 per day per quarter, which is around $25, and that is not a big deal. So, right now, with accounts at ICICI, SBI, Union Bank of Indian in Chennai, Canara Bank, Ing Vysya and HDFC, I guess I would be OK for some time.

The hydro electric power station uses gravity. It uses gravity to transport water from a Dam to the turbines, and then turn them to produce power.

Water seems to be indespensable when it comes to generating electricity in huge volumes in most places. Hydro electric plants, as the name suggests uses water, and so does the Thermal and Nuclear Power stations.

Thermal Power Stations

Thermal power stations have huge boilers dedicated for each generator that they have. These boilers are structures made with solid metal made with extreme care and perfection that they can hold steam in pressures equivalent to that of the water pressure that is 5 KM below the sea level. If a live man is put inside it, he would die of the heat first, and then his body would be compressed to a hair strand in seconds.

The bottom of these boilers are pumped with water and recycled steam from the turbines (so as not to waste energy), and the source of heat in these power stations are coal or lignite that burn in a huge furnace built at the bottom of the boiler. The heat in these furnaces can reach over 1000 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt iron. Luckily these boilers are made with alloys that can withstand the heat.

Coal or lignite what ever is used, is ground into fine dust and is sprayed with great force into the furnace with a blower, ideally mixed with pure air that has a lot of oxygen. This produces very high effeciency, and makes sure that each and every particle of the coal is burnt, and the furnace is built so well that the heat is effected fully on the boiler, and the smoke, after loosing most of its heat to the boiler and flows out thru the chimney. Ofcourse, government regulations are in place to make sure that the smoke that leaves the furnace are filtered so well off the carbon so that it doesnt pollute the air.

Thus, the water is boiled and converted into steam, and the steam is held in high preassure inside the boiler, which is something like a massive pressure cooker. The outlet of the boiler is usually at its top, and steam is directed thru pipes controlled by automated regulatory valves, which is similar to the governor valves found in Hydro Electric power plants, and is passed on to the turbine chamber.

The turbine chamber is a highly enclosed areo dynamic circular chamber into which the steam is passed, and made to blow into the blades of the turbine, and after a full rotation, it is let out and is passed back to the boiler where it is recycled.

The speed of the generator is controlled by the valve which controls the flow of the steam.

Contd…….

When Namitha was wearing her Bra outside a piece of cloth that she has used in the picture in the below post to cover her boobies, this joke came to my mind, though I can see that Namitha has done it to project her Boobies to the camera for some extra cash.

I wonder what her Bathroom looks like? Should have good bathroom lighting in place. Why doesn’t anyone place a camera there?