Monthly Archives: December 2008
Philips iPill
A tiny device delivers drugs exactly where they’re needed.
Exun 2008 Fun Tags
Looking @the Same Goal
With Same Point of View
Talking to each other was so difficult without having Walkies!!!
Highlight of Exun 2008
ACCESS 2008 – Overall Winners
The Individual results are as follows –
Senior Quiz – Second Position
- Anuj Bhardwaj
- Ashish Pandey
- Dhananjay Goel
- Tanay Padhi
- Aditya Grover
- Vishesh Kumar
- Aditya Anand
- Manas Jha
- Rishabh Goel
- Utkarsh Agrawal
- Shreyas Padhi
Cadet Quiz – First Position
- Tanay Kothari
- Akshay Gupta
Also a special mention for Adideva Sekhri and Rohan Nagpal for their efforts in the Sub Junior Quiz.
Sorry for the delay in the results.
– Congrats Everyone
To the Programmers..
Well, this is an interesting question and deals with a new (for us) and interesting concept. Have a try..
Santa Claus has lined up a row of bowls, each containing some chocolates. Nikhil has been told that he can pick up as many of these bowls as he wants, provided that he never picks two consecutive bowls.
Your aim is to help Nikhil choose a set of bowls so that he maximizes the number of chocolates that he picks up.
Input format
The first line of the input contains one integer N, the number of bowls. This is followed by a line containing N integers, describing the number of chocolates in each of the N bowls.
Notes
In all cases, N ≤ 100,000.
Output format
Your output should be a single line consisting of one integer, the maximum number of chocolates that Nikhil can collect.
Sample Input
10
30 10 8 20 11 12 25 13 20 19
Sample Output
95
You can post your solution/logic/hints as a comment.
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Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
Virtually all security experts (as well as myself) are counseling users to switch to any other web browser — none of the others are affected, including Firefox, Chrome, and Opera — at least for the time being, though Microsoft has stubbornly said it “cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw.” Microsoft adds that it is working on a fix but has offered no ETA on when that might happen. Meanwhile it offers some suggestions for a temporary patch, including setting your Internet security zone settings to “high” and offering some complicated workarounds. (Some reports state, however, that the fixes do not actually work.)
Expedient patching or switching are essential. Security pros fear that the attack will soon spread beyond the theft of gaming passwords and into more criminal arenas, as the malicious code can be placed on any website and can be adapted to steal any password stored or entered using the browser. It’s now down to the issue of time: Will Microsoft repair the problem and distribute a patch quickly enough to head off the tsunami of fraud that’s about to hit or will it come too late to do any good?
Meanwhile, I’ll reiterate my recommendation: Switch from Internet Explorer as soon as you can. You can always switch back once the threat is eliminated. (To clarify: You don’t need to uninstall IE, just don’t use it for the time being.)
Christopher Null: The Working Guy