interviews tips

This post is about some common tips which one would find immensely useful in interviews :

Be Prepared and Confidant
Be on time
Figure out all possible questions and their possible answers
Do not talk too much or too little
First impression matters most
Be Enthusiastic and positive
Keep your phone switched off
Eye contact
Dress well
Be honest
Be inline with what you have written in your resume

Lots to follow in coming posts..

Recently encountered viruses/trojens

This post is dedicated to a few viruses which messes up might computer a week ago and how I managed to overcome them ( lot of gratitude to norton )

The first one was a process name ROOTDNL.exe which prevented my system from shutting down when connected to internet. Probably it was busy downloading something.

Simple cure : I searched for this exe and deleted . Of course first killed the process from task manager.

Second one was more complicated . there were a trojens .. something named Backdoor something . it was detected by symantec in some temp directories but it failed to repair(delete/quarantine) it. .

Cure: I hd to boot my system in safe mode and then scan the system. Symantec was able to fix one of them but not the other. So to remove the second I had to manually delete the file from cmd prompt and this fixed the problem.

Third one was the autorun virus which caused my drives to open in a new window when doublw clicked. It is basically bec it craetes an autorun.inf file in drives.

Cure: I found out that I had to delete these autorun.inf files ..but how ?? windows dint even show them. I then used cmd promp and I had to do an attrib -r -h -s commnad to remove the readonly, hidden and system file attributed from the file. Then i could delete it.. but it was not that easy. It was created automatically after a few secs. So now what to do ??
Again safe mode worked. I followed the same steps in safe mode and it all worked. the virus disappeared.


Enough for this post.

recommendation letter

A lot of times , I found my self in a situation where I needed to get recommendation from someone say a professor and the professor would ask me to get a draft of reco letter and I was like frm where on earth I know what a professor writes in reco letter. So I googled a lot, consulted a lot of senoiors and came up with a good reco letter which I could use any time any situation .


Sharing it for you...

I have known Mr. XYZ for the last n years as an undergraduate student of in Electronics & Communication Engineering in this department. I had ample opportunity to observe and evaluate his academic potentials during this period.

I have instructed him in the courses of ABC in his junior year, along with its tutorial classes. During this period I have seen that he is open to new ideas & is quick to grasp new concepts. He is among few students who is very focused and has a clear picture of his career objective.

In the Junior Year, I guided him in his summer Project titled “PQR". With his hard work and sincerity he won the prestigious” MNO: award I have found ABC an ability to conduct research both at an individual level as well as a part of the team.

He has a good command over spoken and written English and is able to communicate effectively. He has excellent Analytical and Quantative scores in GRE, which makes him ideal for research in science subjects. With his many abilities, I think, he is eminently suited for higher studies and research and would make a fine research/teaching assistant.

On the above basis, I would rate him among the top 5 % of the students. I strongly recommend ABC for admission to the graduate program at your university with full financial aid so that he can devote himself fully to the pursuit of learning and thus bring laurels to your as well as our Institute.