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13 Dec 2011

  UX engineering and myself


I think there would be a little bit improvement in my English( I hope so LOL), its obvious because am in UK now. I find it worth coming here to study about User eXperience Engineering (UXE). :)

I was always desired to study about interesting stuff and voila UXE is very interesting. I find it very challenging especially when it comes to learn about Users who use the system (whatever system from consumer product to computer applications), because people are really different and their perception differs from each other. But there is always few common things across every human regardless of people who are little bit exceptional in few cases. This sound really weird or obvious . For instance, there are musics which everyone likes (e.g those which gets maximum hits on youtube) and few exceptional people say “that music sucks” , people are different across the world in culture, languages, or whatever. But what makes that music so popular or viral ? (You could guess lots of examples for viral musics – “why this kolaveri ?? ” LOL ) there would be something special about the music, either the music which gets people pumped up(happens across the culture) or the lyrics of the music(people who knows that language) is at its best or both together. It is all exiting when I think about these ! It is quiet interesting to learn about what makes people love things, give them satisfaction , they feel the specialty of the thing, hold strong in the memory, sentimental touch , or whatever that make people comfortable.  Apart from these, there are few other stuff like safety , security, ergonomics, usability, simplicity ,how things are easier to understand, easy to follow and so on. There are many other things like methods to do research , get data about users, how to analyse them ,measure them, design , graphics, etc. All together I can call User Experience Engineering.

However, there are several myth about UXE, people usually misunderstand that it is all about designing UI for the applications. But this is just a small component of UXE, there is lot more including the stuff which I said above.



24 Dec 2009

  Long time no see!


Well, after couple of months I see my wp-admin!  whats the reason ? change in life style , I guess this is the reason, change is need for everyone , else life wont be thrilling. I am a tester now ( at office ) , its been long time opened psp and fla app. Had so much dream to update my wp theme. But my mind not getting back,  as I was before getting real job ( I realise freelancing is a great job for great lazy people! – but its worth, get paid more without TAX).

Getting an IT job is dream for many people , because it is considered as a White Collar job, sitting in a hi fi environment, and hitting the keys of Holy workstations, and people will get paid more, yeah it sounds good. A fresher will join with full of enthusiasm , they will start dressing professionally, think proud and they will be in heaven during the inductions. Then , these people will be shuffled, and thrown to several offices/locations ( people think “WOW new place!! ” ) , and they start working , after some trainings, then change starts to each of them. New life style , it will take time to get set with the new environment and involvement in their work. Once people totally involve in their work, they forget family, friends and enjoyment.  People work in a IT company spend more time in office than home. Anyway there is lots more to share about a life of IT people’s life.



7 May 2009

  Updated my flash website! check out


Hi there, I was a beginner in flash 8 and learnd tweening last year ( Ah thats great! ) – I felt it ! . So I made my first website with flash , in which I used basic Flash techniques, and this year I made a re-touch on my website , and reduced the flash file size from 1.2 MB to 900KB, well thats not so amazing one , but I made it. Changed entire style and bluish flavored flash website has done last night . I guess its not a great post, however thanks for reading !

Have a look , www.srivigneshwar.com/index



21 Jan 2009

  Virus hits the Royal Navy – 75% of system affected


Britain’s Ministry of Defense has been finding this out the hard way lately, as a string of announcements has placed its security under a spotlight. According to a recent report, just 27% of UK MoD computer systems meet current data security standards for holding classified information and personal data, another 31% meet some standards, and the rest are still being evaluated. Now the Ministry of Defense acknowledged that problems with computer viruses had affected email systems and internet access to Royal Navy ships, which are handled by Navystar/ N* systems from Fujitsu. It could be in part with the recent announcement of deploying Windows software in its system. The virus has infected the email and internet services, it was unable to penetrate the secure navigational and weaponry system as a more impenetrable network is used. The virus had affected the performance of its IT systems. The sensitive information was intact. Sailors and crewmembers were unable to use the system to communicate to their family members.However, a majority of the systems had overcome the snag and were working properly. A solution to prevent re-infection has also been tested and implemented to avoid such a disaster in future.

(Source: http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22716&Itemid=53 )



26 Dec 2008

  IBM Roadrunner


A supercomputer based on the Cell processor that is found in Sony’s PlayStation 3 console has rocketed into the latest Top 500 supercomputing ranking at number one to become the most powerful computer in the world.

The IBM-developed machine, called RoadRunner, was benchmarked at 1.026 petaflops (a petaflop is equal to one thousand trillion calculations per second), making it more than twice as fast as the top-ranked computer in the previous version of the ranking. The latest version of the list was published Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

IBM Roadrunner

The machine pulls together the power of 12,240 Cell chips and 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron processors in IBM QS22 blade servers. Announced first for use in the PlayStation 3, the Cell Broadband Engine chip was co-developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. Each chip has a general purpose Power PC processor and eight co-processing elements that are tuned to handle intensive operations such as high-definition graphics .

The computer was commissioned by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration for use at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and cost about $100 million to make, IBM said last week.

The arrival of RoadRunner in the ranking pushes the IBM BlueGene/L system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory off the top spot that it has held since November 2004. That machine is now the second fastest in the world with a maximum performance of 478.2 teraflops. Another IBM system, Blue Gene/P, at the Argonne National Laboratory, is ranked third and a Sun SunBlade x6420 Ranger at the University of Texas in Austin is ranked fourth. Another U.S. government machine, a Cray XT4 Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is in fifth place.

The first non-U.S. machine in the list is the sixth-ranked Blue Gene/P system at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. It was benchmarked at 180 teraflops. The fastest machine in the commercial world is the SGI Altix machine, owned by French oil company Total, benchmarked at 106 teraflops.

Looking through the list, IBM’s domination of the top 10 is repeated to give it 210 of the fastest 500 machines. Its closest competitor is Hewlett-Packard, which has 183 systems in the ranking.

Intel chips are now found in 75 percent of all the machines, an increase from 71 percent in the last ranking, as its quad-core processors gain popularity. More than half the machines in the list are based on such processors.

Supercomputers are one of the first uses beyond the PlayStation 3 for the Cell chip but others are envisaged.

Earlier this year Toshiba demonstrated a televisions with a Cell Broadband Engine. The TV, which Toshiba said should be out by the end of next year, uses the Cell chip for realtime upscaling of standard-definition TV to high-def, and display multiple video streams simultaneously for quick navigation of many TV channels.

Toshiba also plans to launch laptop PCs with a derivative of the Cell chip called the SpursEngine. The SpursEngine is a co-processor that will work with the laptop’s main processor and handle graphics and multimedia tasks. The laptop should be out sometime before the end of March next year.

(Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/18/IBM. . . . . . . . .




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