How did they get their names

One of the better forwarded emails that I have received. Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'server -- thus, the name Apache Jakarta (project from Apache) - A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place. Tomcat - The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN. Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock. C - Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie) C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C. CISCO - its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco. Compaq - using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object. Corel - from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory. GNU - a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humor associated with its pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'. Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ! Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing. HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics. Java - Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank. LG - combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. Linux - Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the ame to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free + freak + x).His friend Ari Lemmke ncouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.(Linus' parents named himafter two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling) Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Microsoft - coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on. Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his Company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola. Mozilla - When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).The marketing guys didn't like the ame however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator. ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company. Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone ! SAP - "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM. SCO (UNIX) - from Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz. Sony - from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster. SUN - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer. UNIX - When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS.They needed the OS to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS.It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX. Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying).The Greek root `xer' means dry. Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos. 3M - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper.

Sanskrit is a blessed language

[Just another Joke of the Day] Teacher : what is the meaning of ' TAMASOMA JYOTHIRGAMAYA ' ? Student : TUM SO JAO MA, MEIN JYOTHI KE GHAR JA RAHA HOON... ---

My Sassy Girl ..

My Sassy Girl !!! What the hell is this !!! - That was my first reaction when I heard the name of this movie... Everybody who saw it was going ga ga over it... I wasn't able to understand ... I was simply puzzled, what is so special about this Korean movie... I didn't even know what "Sassy" is ... Well searched the dictionary.com for it .. and got this result 1.Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty. 3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat. It increased a little curiousity in me and as I recently had a good experience of watching movies with subtitles [I recently saw Amelie]... I thought to give it a try... Well !! It was really worth it.. the movie was too good... I won't say it was very different from the other romantic movies... but it has its own freshness in it... As a typical love story, in this movie too, boy and girl who meet accidently... and become friends ... and finally fell in love with each other... what I liked was that even though the girl tries to boss this boy... the boy lets her do anything .. becoz he feels that she is hurt and to make her happy... he tries to get all her agonies and sorrows in the form of her slaps, her torturous stories :)... Well the another plus point is the heroine .. she looks very innocent and cute ... a must see this movie atleast once for her :)

Another kind of Evolution ...

Gone are the days when only the pcs were the target of attack of hackers and viruses... as the technology has evolved cell phones have taken there place... Just saw this 2 news at google news.. Cell/Hack Cell/Virus

Finally..

These queries show my home page and my blog as the first search result in Google :) http://www.google.com/search?q=rakesh_kumar http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&q=rocky-says+%2B+blogspot -- ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›

Feel Good News...

Pt. RaviShankar is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize... Don't know how much are his chances to win.. but surely this news gives a good feeling... -- ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›

In Xanadu Did Kubla Khan ....

Just saw this draft in my mail client ...I had saved this post some 2-3 weeks back for further edition and just forgot to post it ... Well finally I am posting it.. Dreams... one of the most fascinating and mysterious things that God has ever created... and I am experiencing a lot of it, these days [maybe becoz I am sleeping a lot :) ] Usually I forget my dreams.. but today it was little different ... As soon as I went to bed, I fell asleep .. and some magical and illogical things started to appear in front of my eyes... at first I saw some very senseless dreams (thank god that I don't remember anything of it now), but after some time all that chaos disappeared .. and my dreams started taking sensible shapes.. There I saw myself going toward a big lake ... it was very much like the big pond, back in my village, except one thing that it was surrounded by lots of greeneries ... well I started swimming there... after some time .. I heard a very familiar voice of this girl ... I turned around and saw her [taking her name here, may create a big controversy here :) ]... she too had come to swim there... so we two started swimming... After some time I heard her shouting : Help ! help !! she had gone too far and had started drowning in the water... Well I saved her with my heroic effort but this is not important the most interesting things were yet to come ... so, I saved her and was giving her the artificial breathing; suddenly she opened her eyes... and saw me.. and then like a typical Hindi movie... we got lost in each others eyes :) .. Finally when both of us came to our senses ... we said good bye to each other and went back to our homes... This didn't stop here ... the very same evening one of my friends came to meet me and said that she wants to talk to me [surprisingly he was aware of everything]... So we met near this bridge on the river [surprisingly that lake has turned into a river :) ] We had some formal conversation for some time and then suddenly she said "Rakish, I love you !! " [ ;(( for the first time I heard this sentence from a girl and that too in my dream :(( ] Well, at that time I tried to show a little modesty [basically stupidity] and said her that this thing is not gonna work between her and me [what a big ass I am :( ] and finally consoled her to go back to her home... But after she left, I started have this guilt feeling, that I broke her heart and that I am never going to get another girl like this ... so finally after too much thinking... I called her [ I had the latest camera phone of Niki in my hand :) ]. We talked for an eternity [he he who cares for the cell phone bill in the dream] and finally we fixed a meeting again in the coffee shop near that bridge [How did Batista come in my dreams ??] I was waiting outside the coffee shop when I saw her coming... wow what a scene it was. Very much like the seen of "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander", where that girl comes to meet the bro of Amie in the end of the song "Pehla Nasha"... OK she comes and gives me a gr8 hug... and again both of us see in each others eyes and make a move to kiss each other... and suddenly BANG, BANG... some body from this Zaalim Zamana was banging my door... trying to wake me up for the breakfast... [Yaar, ek minute aur ruk jate to tera kya chala jata] Well, I don't remember the person who wake me up... neither do I remember anything that I did that day... but its almost a month now and I remember that dream as if I have just woken up from the sleep...