Monday, July 16, 2012

Largest Tree in the world

The largest single living thing on Earth is a coniferous tree.The Giant Sequoia known as "General sherman" in california is nearly 275 feet high and weighs an estimated 2,500 tons. Usually these trees grow to at least 165 feet.Coniferous trees have thin needle shaped leaves that generally remain on the tree throughout the year. it is the largest known living
 single stem tree on Earth

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Opera House

Opera House Sydney


Opera house shows unusual concrete shells that form the distinctive roofs of the opera House in sydney harbour.

First online delivery

In 1994,pizza Net(owned by pizza Hut)became the first company to offer food delivery over the Internet.The first order is thought to have been for a pepperoni and mushroom pizza with extreme cheese.

Top ten weak passwords

1. password
  2.123456
      3.querty
          4.abc123
              5.letmein
                  6.Monkey
                      7.myspace1.
                          8.password1.
                              9.blink182.
                                 10.(your first name).

Free MIT open course



             MIT's open course ware offers free lecture notes,exam papers and video tutorials for 2000 different academic courses.More than a million students and educators visit the site each month.

Hawlett Packard (HP)

In 1938,two stanford engineering graduates,bill hewlett and Dave packard,began work in this garage.In palo Alto.HP is now one of the largest information technology companies.

yahoo

     In 1994 two stanford university students created a website called "David and jerry's guide to the world wide web."This became yahoo.!which made a profit of $598 million in 2009.