Curriculum Vitae V/S Resume

Curriculum Vitae V/S Résumé is one of the hot topic of confusion. When I was working at Penn State, I discussed this topic with one of the English faculty and I am going to add some points from our discussion.

The terms résumé and curriculum vitae are used in different ways all over the world. In United States and in the English-speaking areas of Canada, the word résumé is used principally. In England, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, the word curriculum vitae is used principally. In India and Australia the terms are using interchangeably. This doesn’t mean that curriculum vitae term is not used in United States, people are using alternate word but mainly they are using the particular word, same with other countries also.

Résumé should be shorter (approximately 1 or 2 pages most). Résumé is used for applying in the private sector. Résumé should be more specific skills and achievements.

Curriculum Vitae is also called Vita, but not Curriculum Vita (this is wrong word to replace Curriculum Vitae) and it is acronym as CV. It gives detailed information about you. It includes information about educational and academic background, teaching and research experience, publication, awards, honors and etc. CV is used to apply for internship, fellowship, teaching and etc.

So which is the perfect word for you CV or Résumé???

Dehradun City – A Review

In Nov 2009, I got a chance to visit Dehradun for official work. Here, I am sharing my experience and views about Dehradun city. First thing I want to tell you that, Delhi-Dehradun is a very time consuming journey and I suggest don’t take any private bus to travel. I have a very bad experience of private bus that I don’t want to share. I spend Rs. 852 to travel from Delhi to Dehradun through private and so called luxury bus. Delhi to Dehradun journey by ISBT (state government bus) is cheap but very time consuming. It takes 7 hours to travel only 245 km. I recommend to take rail if feasible, which cost more but takes only 3-4 hours (Shatabdi Express).

I don’t understand why people are so fascinated about the city? Some people may like it because of pleasant weather and some (boys) may like because of cute girls, but are these the criteria to like any city?

Dehradun is not a fast city like Mumbai and Delhi, here life runs very smoothly. Like any, Dehradun has some positive as well as negative points. Rickshaw, breakfast rates are very costly. Worst thing is that, you have to eat Parathas (aalu or muli), Chhole-bhatore, Maggie or Pav bhaji in your breakfast. In an average looking restaurant, I shocked by looking at the rate board; wada sambar – Rs. 30, dosa – Rs. 40, tea – Rs. 6, I exited from that place without eating anything. Rickshaws are terribly expensive. I paid Rs. 140 from IIRS to WII, but I was shocked when I have to pay Rs. 30 for just 1.65 km.

If you want to roam in and around Dehradun, there is not a single pleasing place (except some local attractions). Only options are Mussoorie and Rajaji National Park. I heard that Massoorie is nice hill station. I had a chance to visit Massoorie but I avoided it because of company. It feels very boring to roam alone. I was eager to visit Rajaji National Park but you need own vehicle to get in. So I decided to roam in the marketplace that is near to Ghanta ghar. The market was not so impressive. I think that market is only for women and girls. I found fewer shops, where I can buy for myself. You shall find almost all shops in the market have fixed rates. The interesting fact about market is that, it is closed up to 9 pm.

I heard that, Chat is very good in North India. But in case of Dehradun, I found Band Tikki, Pani Puri and one more item (that I don’t remember). In Maharashtra, you can find a lot chat items. 

In a week, I ate Patta kobi 6 times, but I don’t blame the city because it’s my bad luck that, Patta kobi followed me even at Dehradun, after Jalgaon, Hyderabad and Penn State (USA).

Vikram (tam-tam) is a nice and cheaper option to roam in the city than Rickshaw. I don’t know about city bus but I think their frequency is very low, so people prefer Vikram. You will find a good number of banks (specially nationalized) and ATMs in the city.

Overall, in my view, Dehradun is an average city.

Hard Disk Drive V/S Hard Disk

What is the difference between Hard Disk Drive and Hard Disk?

Most of the people use these words interchangeably, without knowing the meaning of both. Technically, Hard Disk contains the data and Hard Disk Drive which controls the motion of the hard disks. This confusion arises because Hard Disk Drive and Hard Disk are placed at same case, but in case of Floppy Disk Drive and Floppy Disk, they are separate.

Server and Client are really a Hardware???

Technically Not!!!

Server is a software program which gives service to other software programs (clients). Client is also a software program which sends the requirement request to the server.

People are talking about server and client as a hardware, actually they are talking about the server computer and client computer not about server and client. Server computer is the high configured computer which uses the server program to give service to client computer request which sent by client program.

City names changed

Major cities that have been renamed after Independence

Before Now

Cawnpore Kanpur

Trivandrum Thiruvananthapuram

Bombay Mumbai

Madras Chennai

Calcutta Kolkata

Poona Pune

Cochin Kochi

Geographical Information System V/S Geographical Information Science

There has been healthy debate in the past decade or so about GI Systems versus GI Science (or as Wright et al (1997) called it: tool or science?). Today the debate is over and there is consensus about the value of both GI Systems and GI Science and a requirement to use both in tandem. GI Science allows us to consider the philosophical, epistemological and ontological contexts of geographic information and GI Systems provide the infrastructure, tools and methods for tackling real world problems within acceptable timeframes. It is possible to undertake GI science without GI Systems thinking and technology (for example using a pencil and paper, or a calculator), but it is very inefficient and unproductive. Similarly, using GI Systems without a clear understanding of the scientific context and key scientific methods will produce results which are suspect at best and may even be wholly inappropriate or even incorrect.

GI Systems can be used to turn data into information using the many tools and geoprocessing methods common to today’s systems. GI science provides the underlying principles and contextual understanding of when to use the tools, how they work and the way to interpret the resulting information. More importantly, GI science gives us a framework and a workflow for allowing us to turn information into evidence and then knowledge. By applying knowledge successfully over multiple years, we can build our wisdom about the world. GI scientists are interested in examining the fundamental principles that underlie GIS, that is to say the basic models, methods and generally held tenants of geography and geographic information. They are also interested in using GI Systems in scientific investigations to create new geographic knowledge.

Source: GIS development magazine Jan-2010

Emergency Number -- 112

All people are known about emergency numbers 100,101 and 102 for police, fire and ambulance respectively. These numbers are only for India, but 112 is the world wide emergency number accepted by many countries.

From GSM mobile system if you dial 112 then that call diverted to the assigned emergency center. In India call diverted to local police station, in North America the call is diverted to 911.

112 can dial from cellular phone even when keypad is locked. When I was at Hyderabad I tried 112 from my locked Nokia device, the call was diverted to police station.

If you are out of your country and you are in trouble just dial 112.

Note :- Do not trust on Indian 100 number. When thieves attacked on me and I called 100 from my cell phone, the ring goes to some house in nearby city Yawal.