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For the past few weeks , I have been juggling around websites, wikis , forums and what not to find an affordable , simple to configure and especially for my Windows PC at home . Wikipedia documented most of the notable software applications which use SIP as a voice over IP (VoIP) protocol.
Only Minisipserver had a compiled binary for a Windows installation . Some FAQ’s from their site resources.
What’s miniSipServer?
miniSipServer is a professional VOIP server for Microsoft windows system, …
Auto, Green, Technology »
A team of mechanical engineering students of RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, has designed and developed a car that does almost 250 miles to a gallon in test conditions. They have achieved this by making the car aero-dynamic and extremely light weight.The car has a a low power 97 cc generator engine of two horse power.
They are calling this Project Garuda. Thier aim is to build a super milage single person car. Their plan is actually a single person 4 wheeler. This is for the extra safety provided by the four wheels. The driver …
Green, Innovations, Technology »
One of the major contributors to pollution from our “dispose it” lifestyle is the mineral water bottles. Some companies do claim that a majority of their bottles are recycled or disposed of in a safe manner. They have no control over this, what they have control over is the source of the plastic or the type of plastic they utilise for manufacturing this bottle. Added to this we should realise that this is a multi billion dollar industry that is booming even at this time of financial crisis.
Thames Water the …
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World over sewage treatment plants are fighting algae bloom, when this algae can be effectively harvested and processed to obtain valuable oil that can be converted into Bio diesel. The equipment and knowledge required for the implementation of this process is available world over and at nominal costs , which is reducing by the day. The complicated part of this process is the separation of algae from water which currently has been made easy to a large extent.
Sewage treatment is done in different steps and the algae problem comes at around …
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Ravichandra Potumarthi, a researcher in India, has demonstrated and presented his findings at a conference (the International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology) that using the enzyme lipase as the catalyst he can convert vegetable oils into biodiesel. The trouble, of course, with that, conceptually, is that lipase is a complex protein, difficult and expensive to synthesize. Naturally it would not be a significant breakthrough if Ravichandra did not start thinking “outside the box”, so to speak. He saw no reason to go to the trouble of refining the enzyme to …

