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Team Building

In Tuckman’s theory there are four stages to build the team:  forming, storming, norming and performing.

Forming: When teams first get together, members are generally cautious and uncertain about many things. People explore, dabble, try something. During the forming period everyone tries their best to look ahead and think about all the things that need to be done.

Storming: Inevitably the process begins to heat up under the pressures of work and conflicting perspectives. People jockey for influence. Patient and impatient people clash. Trust is tested, and confusions around goals and roles begin to surface. If there are heavy deadlines, this stage can be quite tense.

Norming: As people get to know each other, they reconcile and agree on things like decision-making processes, resources, timing, quality standards. A “norm” is something everyone understands. Norms are the formal and informal rules that make up the operating system of productive work.

Performing: The final stage of team development involve using all the experience and understanding with each other to get results for each other and the organization.

Tags: Decision making, Team building, Team Work

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E-payments grow to Rs. 4.1 trillion in second quarter of 2010

Transactions via e-payment grew to Rs. 4.1 trillion in second quarter of the financial year (FY10), stated a State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) report. In the first quarter report it was Rs. 3.9 trillion.

The State Bank’s second quarterly report on retail, e-payments and paper-based instruments released in February 2010 said that the electronic payments continued to rise as both the volume and value of such transactions increased in the second quarter (Oct-Dec) of the current fiscal year 2009-2010. It further added that the volume and value of e-payment transactions during this quarter reached 46.4 million and 4.1 trillion rupees, respectively, an increase of 0.2 percent in volume and 6.1 percent in value, compared to increase of 4 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively in the previous quarter.

Tags: Banking Services, Financial services, State Bank of Pakistan

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PTCL Launches Largest Data Centre

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd. (PTCL) launched the largest data center in Karachi. The data center has been developed on modem lines, keeping in view the latest development in the global telecom sector.

The center is protected from intrusion and failure with multi-layered security, fail-safe redundancy, diversity measures and rapid response recovery measures. The new center is directly connected to PTCL’s global multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) backbone to offer hosting solutions.

Tags: Data center, Multiprotocol Label Switching, PTCL, Telecommunication

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Facebook Marks Sixth Birthday with New Home Page

On its sixth birthday in early February 2010, online social network Facebook announced that it has surpassed 400 million members, and launched a redesigned home page for its users.

The new design adds more navigation features to the top and left side menus. The top navigation menu now includes notifications, requests and messages, while the left-side menu offers a Photos, dashboard and a Friends dashboard.

Tags: Facebook

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Team Work

Don’t you think we need to do this type of team work to accomplish our tasks in offices as well as in our personal life.

Team Work

V-Formation is another example of the Better Team Work.

5 Lessons in the Above Picture

1. Working as a TEAM
   Sharing the same direction and working as a tam gets them to the destination quicker and easier.
2. Staying in Tune
   By staying in tune and remaining united beside those who are going in the same direction, the effort will be less. It will be easier and pleasing to reach the goals.
3. Share the Responsibilities
   To share the Leadership, there must be mutual respect between us all the time.Sharing the hardest problems and tasks, gathering our abilities, combining our faculties, talents and resources.
4. With courage and encouragement progress will be greater
   When there is courage and encouragement, the progress is greater. A timely word of encouragement, always motivates, helps and strengthens, it produces the best of benefits.
5. Stay Together
   Let’s stay beside each other no matter what the differences, especially, in times of difficulty and great challenges.

Tags: Project Management, Team Work

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Difference Between Ubuntu and Fedora

Ubuntu and Fedora are two distributions of Linux that are being distributed for free as open source software.

Fedora is a very popular linux distribution for desktops but it has been superseded by the meteoric rise of Ubuntu due to its user friendly interfaces. Fedora uses the “Red Hat” style, using RPM packages. RPMs are less standardized, so package breakage is more common. Also, RPMs cannot track their dependencies automatically, so you will experience “RPM hell” easily if you are not careful.

Ubuntu aims to make it easier to switch to a Linux based system for ordinary PC users with minimal problems. It also minimizes the need for typing into a command prompt and moves the majority of operations into a graphical interface like the Synaptic package manager. Ubuntu uses the “Debian” style, with DEB packages.

Although both are linux but Ubuntu and Fedora differ mainly in their package management methods. These are similar but incompatible with each other.

Installation: This is a little bit less important but might impact users is the installer.

Ubuntu has a very small installer as it does not come with a lot of packages. After installation, it prompts the user to check online for additional packages that might be needed for the OS to run at optimum or just any package that the user might want or need.

Fedora, on the other hand,  installers often have a lot of packages that you can choose from during installation, meaning bigger file sizes for the installer itself.

Summary:

1. Fedora is based on Red Hat.
   while Ubuntu is based on Debian
2. Ubuntu is a more popular linux distribution than Fedora.
3. Ubuntu is easier for beginners to learn as compare to Fedora.
4. Ubuntu uses DEB packages.
   while Fedora uses RPM packages and are incompatible with each other.
5. Fedora installers often have a lot of packages while Ubuntu only has a minimal amount and downloads the rest from the internet.
6. It is easier to find packages for servers with Fedora than with Ubuntu.
7. It’s easier to install proprietary software in Ubuntu than with Fedora.
8. Ubantu has friendly user interface. It comes with necessary sofwares to work as desktop OS.
9. Fedora Core is the new version of Red Hat Linux. It is used for server purpose. It has great support also. RedHat is version used for server purposes. It is not that use friendly like Ubuntu.

Tags: Fedora, Linux, OS, Ubuntu

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Cofee may be Good for Chronic Hepatitis C

Patients of chrome hepatitis C, who drink three or more cups of cofee daily, have a 53 percent lower risk of liver disease progression than non-coffee drinkers, says a new study.

The study, led by Neal Freedman of National Cancer Institute (NCI) found that patients with hepatitis C related cirrhosis who did not respond to treatment benefited from increased coffee intake. No effect on liver was observed in patients who drank black or green tea.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects approximately 2.2 percent of the world’s population, including three million Americans, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cities HCV as the leading cause of liver transplantation in US, accounting for 8,000 to 10,000 deaths annually.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that three to four million people contract HCV each year with 70 percent becoming chronic cases that can lead to cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer.

This study included 766 participants enrolled in the Hepatitis C Antiviral Long Term Treatment against Cirrhosis (HALT-C) trial who had hepatitis C related cirrhosis and failed to respond to standard treatment of the anti-viral drugs peginterferon and ribavirin, according to an NCI release.

Participants were seen every three months during the 3.8 year study period to assess clinical outcomes. Liver biopsies were also taken at 1.5 and 3.5 five years to determine the progression of liver disease.

“Results from our study suggest that patients with high coffee intake had a lower risk of  disease progression,” said Freedman.

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