Finally, the autocracy of Shah dynasty in Nepal ends here. Shah dynasty was ruling Nepal from last 240+ years. The last king of Shah dynasty, Gyanendra Shah, not only destroyed the image of entire Shah dynasty but lead to the end of monarchy. His ambitious dream to crash democracy ultimately lead him to loose all of his power and prosperity.
Grandfather of Gyanendra, Tribhuwan Shah and brother of Gyanendra, Birendra Shah were praised by people of Nepal for their commitment and dedication for democracy. Tribhuwan took a very bold step to restore democracy from autocratic Rana families for their hierarchical prime-ministerial system. Birendra on 90s showed his commitment towards democracy and allowed flexible environment for democratic practices. So, these both Shah kings are highly appreciated in Nepal.
But, the latest and last king, Gyanendra came to throne by Royal Massacre in which King Birendra was killed. From the beginning, Gyanendra started to show that he is not committed for constitutional monarchy and wanted to be a part of active political power which Nepalese people never allowed him. Then, he took the power by force. The bloodless coup made him powerful but he did not have any political skills to handle the power. And, the core fact is that Nepalese people never accept autocracy and always believed on democratic exercises. So, people were really disappointed by his active involvement on polities as a king. When he further tighten the people's right and tried limit them as helpless citizen; Nepalese swore to throw him out. When people's voice was heard on the road, he started suppressing the voices. Then, the people committed to dishonor the entire Shah dynasty in order to prevent the growth of another Gyanendra inside the palace. The bullets did not stop the people then. And, today is the day, finally, legally, formally, Shah Dynasty ends from Nepal. Nepal is Republic from today !! Congratulations to all of the Nepalese of inside and outside of Nepal on the day of Republic declaration !! Welcome Republic Nepal !!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Internet Addiction and Online Communities
What engages you most on the Internet? This question is mingling in my mind from last few days. Undoubtedly, Google would be the response of the most of the persons. But, I do believe that except googling, there should be some websites which you surf regularly and more often. It is the website which have been a kind of addiction to you and if you could not manage some time to surf its content for a day, you feel like you are missing something today. There should be some websites which is automatically typed on address bar when you are confused what to surf for. Again, such websites might be a couple of as well. Let me sort out my own:
When I start browsing, I start with Google News. Then I move to BBC News. Now, its time for news related to Nepal. Now it comes, eKantipur, My Sansar, Online Khabar and Himal Khabar. Now emails; GMail, LUT email and Hotmail. Now online communities; Facebook, You Tube. Then, other regular stuffs like study matters, blogs and some occasional stuffs.
But, what repeats the most? hmm... I think, I browse My Sansar, Online Khabar and Facebook more than 10 times a day. I should confess, I will be bit disappointed by Umesh when I could not find any update on My Sansar. He have exams these days, so there are few but fruitful updates. I am really excited by his latest attempt to live broadcast from his blog. Online Khabar, I think, it is one the few online news sites of Nepal to update frequently. Though its news quality is just satisfactory, but, I rely on it for being informed about updates. Facebook is really favorite one online community. I don't know what makes me so attracted towards it, but I really enjoy by showing my presence there. Hanging for a long time in Facebook has been my routine these days. It actually binds me with my friends. Facebook is bridging physical distance with my friends. We are sharing same platform though being on separate continents. I love Facebook.
Web and Internet are a kind of addiction to me. I don't hesitate to declare I am addicted with Internet. And, the newer version of addiction in Internet is Online communities. Whether you talk about Blogs by Blogger and Wordpress or Facebook and Hi5 or even You Tube, Podcast and Flickr; all these online communities are binding us together.
oops, I don't know what I am writing for. I just composed this blog thinking I will share with you about my dependency on Internet, but I ended up piling some boring stuffs. Anyway, sometimes reading boring stuffs also makes fun !! Enjoy !!
When I start browsing, I start with Google News. Then I move to BBC News. Now, its time for news related to Nepal. Now it comes, eKantipur, My Sansar, Online Khabar and Himal Khabar. Now emails; GMail, LUT email and Hotmail. Now online communities; Facebook, You Tube. Then, other regular stuffs like study matters, blogs and some occasional stuffs.
But, what repeats the most? hmm... I think, I browse My Sansar, Online Khabar and Facebook more than 10 times a day. I should confess, I will be bit disappointed by Umesh when I could not find any update on My Sansar. He have exams these days, so there are few but fruitful updates. I am really excited by his latest attempt to live broadcast from his blog. Online Khabar, I think, it is one the few online news sites of Nepal to update frequently. Though its news quality is just satisfactory, but, I rely on it for being informed about updates. Facebook is really favorite one online community. I don't know what makes me so attracted towards it, but I really enjoy by showing my presence there. Hanging for a long time in Facebook has been my routine these days. It actually binds me with my friends. Facebook is bridging physical distance with my friends. We are sharing same platform though being on separate continents. I love Facebook.
Web and Internet are a kind of addiction to me. I don't hesitate to declare I am addicted with Internet. And, the newer version of addiction in Internet is Online communities. Whether you talk about Blogs by Blogger and Wordpress or Facebook and Hi5 or even You Tube, Podcast and Flickr; all these online communities are binding us together.
oops, I don't know what I am writing for. I just composed this blog thinking I will share with you about my dependency on Internet, but I ended up piling some boring stuffs. Anyway, sometimes reading boring stuffs also makes fun !! Enjoy !!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Choosing a good master's thesis topic
These days I am struggling to select a good topic for my master's thesis. I am doing my M. Sc. (Tech) in Information and Communication Technology with Software Engineering major. So, it is the time for me to start my master's thesis but I am still undecided which area should I go for.
I have some ideas on my mind but I am not sure how much effective or feasible are those ideas. So, I approached my professors saying please suggest me some thesis topic for me on Software Architecture related field. I was interested to work with current PhD researchers, so I told him to give me some topic for my master's thesis so that my thesis output would be somehow useful for their researches. Then, he proposed me two areas for thesis, first about relationship of Client and Supplier on Tailored Software development process and another the role of architecture on community based software development. I am not much clear about the ideas behind both topics. But I felt, second one topic is somehow more social topic rather than technical. I might be wrong.
I have much interest on research related to Software Re-usability issues, Algorithm Optimization problems and role of architectures in system development process. Basically, I love innovation based researches. But, I do realize that innovative projects for master's thesis are too risky. It is better to talk about innovation after master's degree. When, I asked him to give me a part of work from existing PhD researches, I mean to some more aggressive or ambitious project. But, at the same time, I was scared too that aggression and ambitious projects lead to failure. My previous unfinished research about re-usability suffered the same. I started too aggressively that my idea almost died before being matured due to lack of enough resources. I realized later that I was behaving much childish and immature to jump in blindly. I do not want to repeat the same. It is about Master's thesis and I don't want to spoil my master's degree.
I don't know why, but my mind is still stuck on the topic around the role of architectures in system development process. I want to focus on process refinement on software development keeping the software architecture on the center of development process and want to analyze the impact and role of architecture during the development process. But, it seems that no one other is doing PhD research on the similar area, at least in my University, www.lut.fi. I found some master level thesis focused on architectural issues, but they are moreover limited to some specific model but no the process itself.
Today, entire day I spend by surfing the website of various SE focused universities, but none of them gave me much confidence to build my confident on my idea. Carnegie Melon, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/, have a wide area of software engineering researches and that gave me somehow idea about what type of architectural issues are relevant for master level researches. But, I am still undecided.
Tomorrow, I have meeting with my supervisor. Let's see how it goes. He told me, he will advise me some topic from above mentioned two projects if possible. I am still hopeful of getting some satisfactory topic from those projects. But, I am sure about it that I am not going to compromise with some kind of ok-type topic for my thesis and the decisive factor will remain, the topic must satisfy me fully. Because I believe that I can explore my potential on the topic which really interests me. Wish me Luck !!
Advertisements:
I have some ideas on my mind but I am not sure how much effective or feasible are those ideas. So, I approached my professors saying please suggest me some thesis topic for me on Software Architecture related field. I was interested to work with current PhD researchers, so I told him to give me some topic for my master's thesis so that my thesis output would be somehow useful for their researches. Then, he proposed me two areas for thesis, first about relationship of Client and Supplier on Tailored Software development process and another the role of architecture on community based software development. I am not much clear about the ideas behind both topics. But I felt, second one topic is somehow more social topic rather than technical. I might be wrong.
I have much interest on research related to Software Re-usability issues, Algorithm Optimization problems and role of architectures in system development process. Basically, I love innovation based researches. But, I do realize that innovative projects for master's thesis are too risky. It is better to talk about innovation after master's degree. When, I asked him to give me a part of work from existing PhD researches, I mean to some more aggressive or ambitious project. But, at the same time, I was scared too that aggression and ambitious projects lead to failure. My previous unfinished research about re-usability suffered the same. I started too aggressively that my idea almost died before being matured due to lack of enough resources. I realized later that I was behaving much childish and immature to jump in blindly. I do not want to repeat the same. It is about Master's thesis and I don't want to spoil my master's degree.
I don't know why, but my mind is still stuck on the topic around the role of architectures in system development process. I want to focus on process refinement on software development keeping the software architecture on the center of development process and want to analyze the impact and role of architecture during the development process. But, it seems that no one other is doing PhD research on the similar area, at least in my University, www.lut.fi. I found some master level thesis focused on architectural issues, but they are moreover limited to some specific model but no the process itself.
Today, entire day I spend by surfing the website of various SE focused universities, but none of them gave me much confidence to build my confident on my idea. Carnegie Melon, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/, have a wide area of software engineering researches and that gave me somehow idea about what type of architectural issues are relevant for master level researches. But, I am still undecided.
Tomorrow, I have meeting with my supervisor. Let's see how it goes. He told me, he will advise me some topic from above mentioned two projects if possible. I am still hopeful of getting some satisfactory topic from those projects. But, I am sure about it that I am not going to compromise with some kind of ok-type topic for my thesis and the decisive factor will remain, the topic must satisfy me fully. Because I believe that I can explore my potential on the topic which really interests me. Wish me Luck !!
Advertisements:
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Application Integration issues in TietoEnator
This post contains a project work done for the course 'Architecture in System and Software Development' with the case study of TietoEnator, a leading IT company of Europe and well known IT service consultant of the World.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
TietoEnator: Enterprise Architecture
This post contains a project work done for the course 'Architecture in System and Software Development' with the case study of TietoEnator, a leading IT company of Europe and well known IT service consultant of the World.
This presentation can be found here: TietoEnator: Enterprise Architecture (http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dc6rq38g_84ddccjccw)
Read the full documentation of this work here: TietoEnator: Enterprise Architecture (http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc6rq38g_95cj4vvtgw)
This presentation can be found here: TietoEnator: Enterprise Architecture (http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dc6rq38g_84ddccjccw)
Read the full documentation of this work here: TietoEnator: Enterprise Architecture (http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc6rq38g_95cj4vvtgw)
Friday, May 2, 2008
After the drama of ISPs to stop ADSL
I was closely watching the drama of private ISPs to stop Nepal Telecom
to launch ADSL service and really frustrated by the acts they
performed in order to stop NT.
NT announced ADSL much before but they could not launch it before
just because of the protest of those ISPs. Worldlink and Mercantile
came in front on protest and used their political power to stop NT.
Unfortunately, they became successful.
Again, this time, NT made another effort to launch ADSL service. This
time, after several efforts to stop NT and failure to convince the
authorities, private ISPs went to court to stop NT.
Private ISPs were charging around 6000-13000 NRS per month for high
speed Internet (but actually, due to bandwidth shaping, you won't get
high speed). But, NT proposed to provide the same with 900-2700 NRS.
And, NT exposes the fact that with this prices, they will make a
profit of 11%. It brought the fact out that how much these private
ISPs are looting the customers. Mr. Pawan Shakya from ISP association
on a press meet presented the logic that, "they are not against the
speed service and price actually, but they fear that Internet might
not be available and users might face the scarcity of the service
exactly as the shortage of petrol which customers faces now due to low
price in comparison with the cost price". I don't understand the
logical link between the shortage of petrol and the slicing of price
on Internet. Neither I understood how they can say that proposed price
is below the cost prices since NT says the price makes profit of 11%
to them.
At the end, NT won the case from the court. Then, the
Telecommunication Authority also mediated among private ISPs and NT
about the service. Previously, NT had taken stand not to share their
cabling infrastructure and resources with private ISPs but after the
mediation of of NTA (Authority), it agreed to share it with local ISPs
as well in return of full support of local ISPs for its ADSL and
further high speed Internet projects.
This issue will make a substantial difference on customer rights as
well. But, again, the chances of monopoly still remains until some
other local ISPs launches similar service. This issue also brought the
fact in front that local ISPs are never serious about services they
are providing, but they are only focusing on their profit margins.
to launch ADSL service and really frustrated by the acts they
performed in order to stop NT.
NT announced ADSL much before but they could not launch it before
just because of the protest of those ISPs. Worldlink and Mercantile
came in front on protest and used their political power to stop NT.
Unfortunately, they became successful.
Again, this time, NT made another effort to launch ADSL service. This
time, after several efforts to stop NT and failure to convince the
authorities, private ISPs went to court to stop NT.
Private ISPs were charging around 6000-13000 NRS per month for high
speed Internet (but actually, due to bandwidth shaping, you won't get
high speed). But, NT proposed to provide the same with 900-2700 NRS.
And, NT exposes the fact that with this prices, they will make a
profit of 11%. It brought the fact out that how much these private
ISPs are looting the customers. Mr. Pawan Shakya from ISP association
on a press meet presented the logic that, "they are not against the
speed service and price actually, but they fear that Internet might
not be available and users might face the scarcity of the service
exactly as the shortage of petrol which customers faces now due to low
price in comparison with the cost price". I don't understand the
logical link between the shortage of petrol and the slicing of price
on Internet. Neither I understood how they can say that proposed price
is below the cost prices since NT says the price makes profit of 11%
to them.
At the end, NT won the case from the court. Then, the
Telecommunication Authority also mediated among private ISPs and NT
about the service. Previously, NT had taken stand not to share their
cabling infrastructure and resources with private ISPs but after the
mediation of of NTA (Authority), it agreed to share it with local ISPs
as well in return of full support of local ISPs for its ADSL and
further high speed Internet projects.
This issue will make a substantial difference on customer rights as
well. But, again, the chances of monopoly still remains until some
other local ISPs launches similar service. This issue also brought the
fact in front that local ISPs are never serious about services they
are providing, but they are only focusing on their profit margins.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)