The global financial crisis might have created an upheaval in the local stock markets, but domestic insurance companies gained a whopping Rs 40,942 crore in the bourses during the one-year period between August 21, 2008 and August 21 this year. During the period, the market capitalisation of bank stocks held by insurance companies increased 103.2% to Rs 43,097 crore on August 21, 2009, from Rs 21,212 crore recorded in the year-ago period. Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) had the highest holding of 81.2% among the 17 insurance companies. It was followed by ICICI (ICICIBANK.NS : 824.6 0) Prudential Life Insurance Co…
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Insurance companies gained Rs 41k crore on bourses in a yr
Software
µTorrent 2.0 beta 16394
micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint It was designed to use as little cpu memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients With BitTorrent you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth nbsp We 39 ve added UDP tracker support uTP has been improved significantly over the previous alpha with many bugs fixed and performance improvements It 39 s no longer hidden in Advanced settings The setup dialog has been overhauled to make it much easier to use and…
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Defcon 17: Badge hacking
Following up on their post about the new Defcon 17 badges, Wired recently posted some of the best badge hacks of the con. Among the hacks featured were an LED frequency meter hack, a sound seeking dirigible powered by three badges, and a wireless geiger counter random number generator that sent random numbers back to a laptop equipped with a zigbee card. Probably one of the most impressive hacks mentioned, the hack that won the badge hacking contest, was the LED equipped baseball cap modeled above by [Joe Grand], Defcon’s defacto badge designer.
The hacked badge is connected to…
Automotive
After The Sale
Enjoy your car… that’s simple huh? Well it’s not really thatsimple. Here is a list of things to think about after the sale.Notify your insurance agent about the new car. Read the entireowners manual. Familiarize yourself with the servicerequirements. Understand when you need to change oil, filters,and other major things like timing belt and driveline fluids.Get used to operating the heatingAC controls and the radio soyou do not have to fumble around and risk an accident while onthe highway. Pop the hood and find the oil filler cap, the oildipstick. If you bought a car with an automotive transmissionthere…
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Homemade regenerative tube radio
There are no microcontrollers in this project. In fact you wont find a single transistor. This classic regenerative tube radio, modeled after an early 20th century homebrew is complete with schematic and additional photos. For those who are not familiar with tube designs and for simplicity, the regeneration circuit can be thought of as feedback though this relation may be argued. Read the rest after the break which includes a crash course in tube operation.
A basic vacuum tube generally consists of a heater, grid, and plate. A current is passed through the heater which as the name suggest,…
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Capacitive discharge spot welder update
It seems one of our commenters took great umbrage with [PodeCoet] not documenting his capacitive discharge cutting properly. [PodeCoet] had been waiting till he got the full spot welder working before publishing, but he’s expedited the work after all our whining. Check out his full writeup of the device in its current state. It uses a 1Farad audio cap for storage. A dsPIC monitors all of the voltage sources and regulates charging. A nice touch is the tactile switch on the electrode.
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How-to: Bus Pirate probe cable
A probe cable makes it easy to connect the Bus Pirate to a circuit and get hacking. Good test clips make quick connections on cramped PCBs without causing short circuits. We made two cables for the Bus Pirate v2, keep reading for an overview of our designs and list of part suppliers.
Friday, July 3, 2009 is the last day to pre-order a Bus Pirate. There’s only two days left to get your own Bus Pirate, fully assembled and shipped worldwide, for only $30.
Overview
We use these cables to connect the Bus Pirate’s I/O pins to a microchip…
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Twitter brain interface
Just in time for the influx of sedentary Oprah viewers, [Adam Wilson] built a brain interface that allows you to post Twitter messages. The electrode cap monitors the user’s brain functions to determine where they’re looking. The display slowly flashes each letter in the alphabet. The user focuses on the letter they want and when it flashes the cap can pick up the resulting impulse. It’s a long process and the average user can only do ten characters a minute i.e. 14 minutes to use all 140 characters in a Twitter post. It’s interesting research and shows how far…
Software
Sysinternals Suite 2009.03.30
Sysinternals Suite By Mark Russinovich nbsp Updated March 30 2009 The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files It does not contain non troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities AccessChk AccessEnum AdExplorer AdRestore Autologon Autoruns BgInfo CacheSet ClockRes Contig Coreinfo Ctrl2Cap DebugView Desktops DiskExt DiskMon DiskView Disk Usage DU EFSDump FileMon Handle Hex2dec Junction LDMDump ListDLLs LiveKd LoadOrder LogonSessions NewSid NTFSInfo PageDefrag PendMoves PipeList PortMon ProcessExplorer Process Monitor ProcFeatures PsExec…
