Archive for October, 2006

Hotel Rwanda and Paul Rusesabagina

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

This is not a review about the cinema Hotel Rwanda, it is about Paul Rusesabagina (Oskar Schindler of Rwanda) and also about how a cinema can influence and bring changes.

The world needed a Schindler’s List from Steven Speilberg to know about the german industrialist Oskar Schindler and the way he saved as many as 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust. Similarly, Hotel Rwanda is about one hotel assistant manager Paul Rusesabagina, who later became a hero by sheltering approximately 1200 Tutsis and moderate Hutus from being slaughtered by the Interahamwe militia.
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Java program source code to solve Sudoku puzzle

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Sudoku is a logic-based placement puzzle or also we can designate it as an classical assignment problem. The object is to fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3×3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid and the unfilled cells has to be filled.
For more information on Sudoku, visit the website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku

Following is a java program (source code) to solve the Sudoku puzzle. I need your comments to improve the efficiency of the algorithm. Source code is free for use, any body can dowload and use it for any purpose free of cost and no licence issues. Test it yourself for the correctness of the program.
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Firefox FTP Extension

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

This is to introduce you about the FTP plugin fireFTP for the free web browser Firefox. It is a free cross-platform FTP client. It provides easy access to FTP servers. Advantage is

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