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Is F-1 an insignifacnt sport in India?

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I was watching the news lately and was shocked to hear that Formula -1 was declared as an insignificant game in India by our sports ministry. To quote our sports minister, “F1 is not purely sports. It is entertainment and this venture by JKSP is a commercial initiative. The proposed F1 race does not satisfy conditions which focus on human endeavour for excelling in competition with others, keeping in view the whole sports movement from Olympics downwards."
Now this is something neither I nor anyone who is an F-1 fan will agree to, you cannot classify F-1 as a sport even when you know that it is third only to Football and Olympics in TV viewership. On a single race there are more than 600 million fans watching the race all over the world. Also the sport was considered insignificant in India because of lack of audience and fans. I dont think we are short of fans and there is a large fan following that can build up a descent enough number to match other countries where F-1 IS considered a sport. 
this is an appeal to all fans of F-1 to please submit any comments and reactions to support the advent of this highest class of autoracing in India.

How does an AntiVirus program work?

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An AntiVirus is a software program that detects and removes malicious programs and viruses from a PC. There are two chief ways of the working of an antivirus program. There are two principal ways in which an antivirus works. 
  • It checks up the names and structure of all executable files in the PC and matches those names against a dictionary or database of already known viruses.
  • It checks up all executable files before they start execution for any modification in behavior that is expected normally from it.
Let us understand these two procedures in details. The first one is the most common one in use by most antivirus programs. Though it will not be wrong to say that almost all modern antivirus software use both the above procedures. The dictionary approach begins with a database of all known viruses present and this database is created by the author of the antivirus program. The antivirus examines all files for a match in name or code to be executed with all known viruses. If a match is found the user is alerted and necessary action is taken. These actions may include deletion of the file as a whole, removing the virus from the file, or quarantining the file so that it does not effect the performance of other files on the PC.
The second approach does not depend upon already created database of viruses. It observes all executable files before they start execution. If these files relate to some noted or flagged actions such as they start transferring control to many other executable files simultaneously and instantly or they start modifying or start writing on other executable files at once, they are flagged and the user is alerted against them and the user delas with such programs.
There are several other techniques being used but none of them is declared successful yet.

DeFragmentation

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If you have been using a PC for sometime, you must have come across this term sometime or the other. DeFragmentation becomes necessary when you have almost filled up a partition on your PC, or you have several small chuks or blocks of data spread all over your hard drive. Before going up to DeFragmentation, let us have a look at what is fragmentation; henceforth we will see how to cope up with fragmentation.
FRAGMENTATION: It is a phenomenon when storage space is used inefficiently, and in many cases it results in loss of space and a degraded overall performance of the PC. There are various types of fragmentation and we will discuss all of them here.
EXTERNAL fragmentation occurs when the free stoage on your disk gets divided into several smaller pieces of memory blocks. This happens due to the inefficiency of various storage algorithms where memory is allocated and freed by applications running on the PC. The problem that arises due to such fragmentation is that even though free space is available on the disk, you cannot store a program on it because the free space available is divided into several smaller blocks. This can be understood simply in the following example. You have to store a program of 100 Mb, but the largest blocks of free data are of 20 Mb each. Now Even if you have 100 blocks free, you will not be able to store the data because of absence of a full large free block of memory.
INTERNAL fragmentation refers to allocation of memory to a cause which does not require memory at all. Sometimes memory is allocated to not-required resources. Examples of this include the ASCII character set where the most significant bit is always zero but still it is allocated memory. Such fragmentation is called internal.
DATA fragmentation is the most complex and most frequently observed fragmentation phenomenon. It occurs when a latge piece of data is broken down into several smaller pieces to adjust it into free storage that has already suffered external fragmentation. Those of you who are familiar with linked lists will understand that when links are created thoroughly, the operation is smooth but when memory is allocated dynamically in a free storage that is suffering from external fragmentation, the operation slows down and the performance degrades.

To cope up with fragmentation on our HDD, we have several tools. An external defragmenting software can be downloaded or we can use the tool provided by Windows. We can find the disk defragmenter in sSystem tools and use it to defragment the disks. Sometimes a performance rise of upto 40% is observed. So, what are you waiting for, isn't it time you defragmented your HDD?

Fisichella to drive a Ferrari in Monza

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The biggest news this week has been of Fisichella being transferred to Ferrari. He will drive a Ferrari in the next round Monza and also for the rest of the races this year. Next year, he will remain as the team's reserve driver for the races. Force India have not yet declared who will replace Fisichella but it is almost certain that reserve and test driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will replace Fisichella. Ferrari fans will be pleased to see a better racing driver than Badoer who failed to impress the team and the fans with his bad performance in the F-60 this year in the previous two races. Badoer failed to score any points in the previous two races and since the time Fellipe Massa has been injured due to an accident, Ferrari have emerged strong and Raikonnen has finished on the podium. With Fisichella's confidence very high due to a second place finish in Spa-Francorchamps with only 0.9 seconds between him and Raikonnen, the leader in the race, one and all are expecting Ferrari to emerge strong in the next race at Monza.

Formula-1 in India

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This has been a hot topic of discussion in India and is currently in the news as the progress of Force India motor racing Formula-1 team, reached new heights in the last race held at Spa-Francorchamps circuit.Lately, we were informed that the sport will be arriving India in 2011 and all preparations are already being done but recently, sports minister was heard saying that we CANNOT afford such an expensive means of entertainment and denied from classifying it as a sport. Though we do not have much resources to promote F-1 in India, but the number of fans of the sport can be matched with any other country of the world. We will always welcome the advent of this highest class of motor sport racing in India. Now with a team that is owned by an Indian, we must also look forward to promoting it as a port in India. We have excellent drivers already of the sorts of Narain Kartikeyan and Karun Chandok, who have already proven their worth to the world. Without the support of the masses, we will never be able to get F-1 the sort of recognition that it requires to be promoted in India as a sport. I request you all to support me in this genuine cause of forming a consensus in favor of the advent of F-1 in India.

KERS

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KERS. This is one term that has been in news all through this Formula -1 season 2009. It is a concept that has not been adopted by many teams though it provides extra bit of energy to the car that can be used in the form of a boost to the car's acceleration. To know what exactly is KERS, we will first have to take a look at Regenerative brakes.
 A regenerative brake is not similar to the familiar brakes used in vehicles. Normal brakes will slow down a vehicle by dissipating the vehicles kinetic energy in the form of heat. But a regenerative brake reduces the speed of the car by converting it's kinetic energy into a storeable form of energy which can later be used in a different form.
KERS stands for Kinetic Energy Recovery System.The FIA rules governing KERS are fairly simple but very restrictive. From this season teams are allowed to use KERS to draw 60 Kw of energy from the rear axle on the car, which can be stored up to a total of 400kJ (111 watt hour) of energy per lap, to be reused in the form of a 'boost' button.In effect the system uses regeneration to collect and store energy during braking which allows the drivers to use 60 Kw (82 hp) for 6.6 seconds per lap. The teams are free to choose between either mechanical or electric hybrid systems.
Not all teams participating in the 2009 season have expressed interest in KERS. Only the front runners of last year, Ferrari and McLaren, are using KERS to effect till date.
A problem as spotted out by many experts lies in the overall weight of the car i.e., 605 kgs, which also must include the weight of the driver. There were rumours that drivers were found trying to lose weight to give more ballast support to the car. Some teams also wanted to put up an appeal in favour of increasing the total weight of the car in order to support the new KERS system.