In 1969, UNIX was created at Bell Labs.

For decades, the source of the AT&T dialect of UNIX came from the researches of workers in department 1127.

When the "Baby Bells" split from "Ma Bell," department 1127 survived. When AT&T and Lucent split, 1127 survived.

But the new reorg at Bell Labs finally breaks up what's left of 1127 entirely. Theory people will go to one place, systems people to another, I'm told. I'm not sure what happens to those who fall in neither camp. There was no malice, so far as I can tell — just an administrative reorg forced by recent cutbacks and layoffs and departures that left the whole research area with too many managers and too few researchers.

Ken Thompson retired to California.
Brian Kernighan is a Professor at Princeton.
Doug McIlroy is a Professor at Dartmouth.
Rob Pike and Dave Presotto and Sean Dorward are at Google.
Tom Duff is at Pixar.
Phil Winterbottom is CTO at Entrisphere.
Gerard Holzmann is at NASA/JPL Lab for Reliable Software.
Bob Flandrena is at Morgan Stanley.

To the best of my knowledge, Dennis Ritchie and Howard Trickey remain, enisled.
A former employee at 1127 remarked:

"My take is that 1127 probably reached Schiavo status when Rob, Presotto, et al. fled west to Google.
"But it's still sad to see the final demise, both of a particular institution and as a further nail in the coffin of the sort of research environment Bell Labs once represented."

That may be the worst effect. DEC Labs are gone. XEROX PARC transmogrified into "Palo Alto Research Center Inc." on 4 January 2002. It's a waning of research potential.

Ave atque vale, guys. "And thanks for all the fish."

Vizag- Crash
Finally I landed in Visakhapatnam after a heck of body crunching journey. I watched Mangal Pandey, good screen play.. I observed one goof up in the movie.. In one scene the US of A flag comes up rather than the UK(Company flag)... I was wondering how patriotic our oldies were... fighting with the useless East India Company.

I certainly enjoyed Lagaan more than Mangal Pandey... Performance of AK was much better in Lagaan as it was a double barrel fully loaded character..

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Puranas.
18 Puranas: There are 18 puranas and 18 upa-puranas. The 18 puranas are :

Ma 2 : Matsya and Maarkandeya
Bha 2: Bhavishya and Bhagavat

Bra 3: Brahma, Brahmaanda and Brahma-Vaivartha

Va 4: Vishnu, Varaaha, Vaamana & Vayu (?)

A-Naa-Pa-Lin-Ga-Ku-S (7): Agni, Naarada, Padma, Linga, Garuda, Kurma and Skanda.

(?) Some include Siva Purnam instead of Vayu.

UI Course and HCI Fundamentals need to be evaluated.
Beyond the invisible,the subtle factors that make or break any app are what I need to do a storming session abt.. Well, I know this stuff is not Ian Rand's stuff but then... I need to be tough fellow with mgmt of time,fearing nose dive, MSR wants jus 20 hrs of stuff ... he is at times impractical...All I care is abt my qork for my alma matter....

UI

Apache - I hate ??
All versions of Apache previous to 2.1.6 are vulnerable to a HTTP request smuggling attack which can allow malicious piggybacking of false HTTP requests hidden within valid content. This method of HTTP Request Smuggling was first discussed by Watchfire some time ago. The issue has been addressed by an update to version 2.1.6.



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