MAKING A DIFFERENCE -3

So I’m down to write a series of 5 blogs on some Social organizations and people of pure soul from my hometown Chittagong, Bangladesh who have been relentlessly working to make a change. And today, here’s the third one.

BIDYANONDO FOUNDATION:

My beloved country Bangladesh is still a developing country which clearly indicates that more than 50% of our people still live under the poverty line. There are people who doesn’t even have homes to reside and live in the streets, there are people who barely gets to eat a single meal a day, there are children who are deprived of education. Just for the betterment of these people of the society BIDYANONONDO Foundation was created.

BIDYANONDO Foundation logo

The word BIDYANONDO means to study with happiness and enjoyment. BIDYANONONDO was founded many years back with a view to providing free education to the underprivileged children of the society which mostly includes the street children. BIDYANONDO has been running this program in different regions of Bangladesh with volunteers from different educational institutions. Presently, BIDYANONDO is no less than a school which provides education from kindergarten students to tenth standard students. 

BIDYANONDO school

 

Though BIDYANONDO aimed towards free education at the beginning now it also serves the people with different programs as well. Such a program is the “one taka meal”. One taka meal includes distribution of lunch and dinner for the floating or homeless people just at one taka (0.0125 dollars). 

ONE Taka Meal

Besides, during the running pandemic of COVID-19, BIDYANONDO has been relentlessly working hands on hands with the Govt. for people of all walks. From the very beginning, they have been distributing masks, gloves and hand sanitizers free of cost. Moreover, they are also spraying dinfectants and distributing PPE and other safety materials for doctors in an effort to fight the spread of the corona virus. 

Spraying of Disinfectants

Distribution of PPE

This organization is also providing relief materials like food supplies to the poverty alleviated families all through out the country. During this Ramadan it also started raising money for providing free Iftar boxes to them.      

  

News of Bidyanondo's Relief distribution

Find out more about BIDYANONDO at Bidyanondo facebook page

Read about BIDYANONDO at Article about BIDYANONDO

Send Donations for BIDYANONDO at  Donation for BIDYANONDO 

MAKING A DIFFERENCE - 2

So I’m down to write a series of 5 blogs on some Social organizations and people of pure soul from my town Chittagong, Bangladesh who have been relentlessly working to make a change. And today, here’s the second one.

Humanitarian Organization ‘HONEST’:

Ever thought of doing good to people by selling different sort of products ?

Well, lets get introduced to "HONEST". HONEST is a Chittagong based online shop that sells products of different sorts and varieties. But behind the online shop it is actually a social organization that has been helping people of almost all walks of life.

Logo of  HONEST

 HONEST is such an online shopping company which sells varied items starting from daily essentials to food supplies, clothing, stationery items, cosmetics etc at a cheaper rate than any other shop or market. The reason this is that HONEST makes a very little amount of profit from the products. Thus it becomes easy for people of all walks of life especially the underprivileged ones to buy anything at a lower cost than the usual. 

Volunteers of HONEST

Again, the minimum profit made by HONEST isn’t enjoyed by any individual. Rather all those profits are distributed or spent for the welfare of the society. This profit also reaches different charitable trusts or helpless people. Moreover there is also some free items available for anyone to take. These free items include mostly books and some study materials. One can giveaway any of his books or clothes to HONEST which will be received by anyone else free of cost. But in case of the clothes it has to be fresh or very slightly used.

PPE Distribution by HONEST

Presently, during this pandemic situation of COVID 19, HONEST has got its hands on for the society. Since there has been shortage for safety materials in Bangladesh from the very beginning, HONEST has already distributed a huge number of PPE and other safety gears for the doctors. Even it has also been selling hand sanitizers, mask, gloves at a very low cost whereas these are being a sold at a very high price in other stores or markets.

The volunteers of HONEST have been working for the betterment of the society and ease of the humakind for long. Such initaiatives that are making change in the society are much appreciated and expected by the humankind. Find out more about HONEST at its official facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/320474155006312/

    

MAKING A DIFFERENCE - 1

        So I’m down to write a series of 5 blogs on some social organizations and people of pure soul from my town Chittagong, Bangladesh who have been relentlessly working to make a change. And today, here’s the very first one.

“Nasar: Friend of the anonymous”

With a population over 16 million, Bangladesh finds it difficult to provide proper treatment for all due to lack of enough doctors, nurses and also due to lack of budget. So its a common scenario in many Govt. Hospitals that under privileged people often die of not being treated properly. There’s also a worse situation when victims of road accidents or robbery or abductions get admitted into the Hospitals. They remain unknown or anonymous as long as there’s no family member or attendees for them and thus they remain neglected or untreated.

Article about Md Nasar in a Bengali Daily

Article about Md Nasar in an English Daily

                                     















This situation remained the same for Chittagong until Md Saiful Islam Nasar also known as “Nasar: Friend of the anonymous” showed up. An engineer by profession, Nasar finds it his duty to serve those anonymous patients all at his own until he gets them to their dearest ones. Mr. Nasar has been doing this noble job for the past fourteen years (since 2007) and the beginning was never easy. He had to pass through many ups and downs but never gave up. Many a times he was also misunderstood to be a gang member and was mistreated. But nothing kept him away. He never lost hope and kept pushing his limits. He was true to his ideologies and carried out his noble job passing through all odds. Every day after 8 hours of office he travels all the way to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) just to pamper. Till date he has served about 800 of patients among which 450 have safely returned to their families.   

                                       A documentary on Nasar and his work

Today, after 14 years, Mr. Nasar stands as a successful social worker with a team of 8 members and has found the “Nasar Foundation” which does not only treat the unknown patients but also provides them with foods, clothes and money when necessary. Very recently, Nasar Foundation has also started a free ambulance service that aims to run through all over Bangladesh.

Team NASAR FOUNDATION

After all these good works, Md Nasar still plans to expand his work areas to all the Govt. Hospitals in the country. Recently, with the help of some sponsors a complete new cell just for the anonymous patients was inaugrated at the Chittagong MedicCollege Hospital (CMCH) by Nasar Foundation. 

The new cell for anonymous patients

Even today, in midst of this pandemic Md. Nasar and his team have relentlessly been working for the Covid 19 patients. They are also helping poverty alleviated families with food supplies during the lockdown.

Lucky me with MD Saiful Islam Nasar 

Nasar, the Friend of the anonymous patients dreams big. He doesn’t dream big for himself but for the society, for the people. “I don’t want money or popularity. All I want is a happy and peaceful society where we will be helping out each other at any situation irrespective of cast and religion”, says Md Nasar. Nasar believes in humanity. Money, fantasy, popularity, nothing could conquer him. Because all he wants is the betterment of the world.

Really the world will be a better place to reside if we all think positive with broad mentality like Md. Nasar.  Find out more about “Nasar: Friend of the anonymous” :-

1. Website of Md Nasar

2.  Article about Md Nasar

3. Nasar Foundation 

      

Life during MCO

Just a random pic

DATE: 13.20, April 20, 2020

Hello everyone, this is me again. So, today I’m wearing a navy blue t shirt, just a simple casual t shirt with a trouser (not seen in picture) and safety mask since its an ongoing pandemic right now.

The photo was taken yesterday just after I brought my food from downstairs. The picture says all about my situation right now, too much of depression and worries. And cant wait for this horrible days to come to an end when we can all get back to normal life. And yeah, also don’t wanna die of corona without seeing my parents. MAY ALLAH SAVE US.

  

Covid 19 Flyer

COVID 19 Flyer

Steps for the flyer
1. Download and install the WPS Office.
2. Collect the background image and insert it in presentation slide.
3. Insert automatic shapes, change the colour and add text.
Finally the flyer is ready.

Computer in all its form

From time to time, science has provided us with different surprises one of which is today’s computer. Few years back, Computer had never been the way we see it today. Today computer are present in different sizes and patterns.

Presently computer is of four types depending on the size:

1. Supercomputer: A super computer is a computer that performs at very high operational rates. It is basically used for engineering and scientific works that require very large database. At present there are just a handful amount of supercomputers in the whole world among which Sunway TaihuLight of Wixu, China is the fastest.

Sunway TaihuLight of Wixu, China

2. Mainframe computers: Mainframe computer is almost similar to Super computer in function since its also used for heavy duty works like mission critical operations requiring high volumes of data processing. Its also large in size but yet neither as big as supercomputer nor as fast as it. IBM zSeries,  IBM z13, System z9 and System z10 servers are some examples.

IBM z13

3. Mini Computers: It refers to small computers that intermediate between mainframe computer and microcomputer in size, speed, and capacity, that can support time-sharing, and is often dedicated to single application Control Data's CDC 160A and CDC 1700, DEC PDP and VAX series, Hewlett-Packard, HP 3000 series and HP 2100 series are  some mention able examples of Mini computers.

HP 3000 series

4. Micro computers: The computers we basically use from day to day life like the Desktop, laptops, tablets are categorized in Micro computer. Some micro computers:

A. Desktop: Regular computers that used usually and are easy to fit in on desks or corners.

Desktop

B. Notebook or laptop: Portable and lightweight computers that easily fit into briefcases as well.

Desktop

C. Handheld PC: The smallest computers that include pen input, personal organization tools etc.

Handheld PC

D. Netbook: Almost a same to a notebook with lighter weight, smaller size and cheaper price.

Netbook

E. Tablet PC: Its a highly portable PC whose primary interface is a touch screen which allows to enter data and select command using a pen stylus.   

Tablet PC

Basic and Speical Application

Application Software are of two types:

1. Basic Application: Its also knows as general purpose application software. These are widely used for almost every acts or works. For academic use these are used for assignments, notes, marksheets etc. Some examples are Microsoft word, Wordprocessor, Spreadsheets etc. 

Spreadsheet

Microsoft Word

               

2. Specialized Application: It includes software that are built for any specific individual purpose or any company’s specific needs. In case of academic uses, it includes XOOM, Blackboard etc sites that are created only for study purpose through which teachers can take classes online, provide tests, notes etc.

Online class in zoom

Online class via zoom

Blackboard

   

A brief differentiation on System and Application Software

SOFTWARE: Software is a set of instructions, data or programs that are used to operate computers and carry out different specific tasks. Depending on its use, Software is basically categorized into two:-

1. System Software: The software that interfaces between application software and the system. It also maintains the system resources and gives path for application software to run. Since its a general purpose software, its important that without it system cannot run.

 

IOS 13 = Operating system of Apple.

Windows XP= operating system by Microsoft

System software includes different sort of operating systems in its type.

2. Application Software: Application software is the specialized software that runs as per user’s request. Its a specific purpose software that runs on the platform provided by the system software.

Application software includes Youtube, VLC, photoshop, Uber, facebook etc. 

VLC Media player

Foodpanda

Facebook and Insstagram

DIFFERENTIATION OR COMPARISON:

System software maintains the system resources whereas the application software is built for specific tasks. In case of language, system requires low level language but application requires high level language.

System software is a general purpose software whereas application software are designed for specific purposes.

Without system software system can’t run while system software runs only when the system is on. On the contrary, application software runs only as per the user’s request.

System software includes different operating systems in its type and application software includes Youtube, VLC, photoshop, Uber, facebook etc.    

Ins and Outs of a Computer and its Process

In today’s modern world we all have more or less learned about the ins and outs of a Computer. We all know there are Input and Output devices of a computer which basically execute any task ordered by the user and show up the result.

INPUT: Any data or instructions used by a computer from the user are the input.

These data or set of instructions or orders are taken by Input devices which transform these into a form that system unit can process. Input devices include:

1. Keyboard (Wireless, PDA, virtual, Traditional etc)

2. Audio Input device

3. Pointing device (Mouse, Stylus, Joystick, Trackball, Touch pad etc. )

4. Scanning device (Optical, Card Readers, Barcode Readers etc.)

5. Image capturing device (Digital camera, Digital video camera, Webcam etc. )

Stylus

Trackball

 

PDA Keyboard

Virtual Keyboard

Barcode Scanner

OUTPUT: The processed data or instructions or the result of any command executed are the output. The devices that show the results are the output devices. Output devices include:

1. Monitors (CRT, LCD, OLED, TFT etc.)

2. Printers(Ink jet, laser, plotters, Dot matrix etc. )

3. Audio Output devices (Portable media players)

OLED Monitor

Plotter

The input and output devices are both part and parcel of a computer.Now, the input devices are hardwares used by the user to enter data whereas the output devices use processed data from computer to perform a task.

Again, Input devices only sends data to process but output devices only receive the processed data.

In case of controlling, input devices are user controlled with the output devices being computer controlled.

The output devices are quiet simpler for users since they only see the results. On the contrary, Input have relatively complex coding for user to interact with computer correctly.    

Getting Data into Computer:  The Computer executes any task or command given from the user by the combination of Input and Output devices. Users provide data or command into computer through Input devices (Keyboard, Mouse, Scanner). This data then moves to the CPU (Central processing Unit). Output devices then show the result or perform the task accordingly after the data has been processed. Besides, required information are also saved to the memory from the CPU directly. This process can clearly be understood from the photo attached below since “A picture is worth thousand words.” 

      

SECURITY ALGORITHM USED IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud Computing is the storing and accessing of data in the Internet instead of a computer's hard disk. Since the security is genuinely a concern for the cloud computing, there is growing usage of security algorithm. The common algorithm are RSA ( Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman), AES Algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard), DES Algorithm (Data Encryption Standard), Blowfish Algorithm. Among this, RES is the most common public key Algorithm. Here, AES, RSA, Blowfish, DES are respectively 128,19 2,256 bits 1024 bits 32-448 bits 56 bits. the AES isSecure for both provide r and user, RSA is Secure for user only, Blowfish is  Secure for both provide rs and user/cli ent side and DES applies Security applied to both providers and users.

An incomparable experience

 Travelling to different places, meeting new people, getting accustomed to new culture have always been a favourite task to me. So it had always been my intense desire to study abroad.Thus this desire led me to get admitted to the Universiti of Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).

Evening view of Johor Bahru

Sunrise at Desaru Beach

Though I have always loved travelling I have never been away from home, away from my family for long. So it wasn’t really easy for me to cope with the lonely life. From the very first day I arrived at UTM I was all panic stricken thinking about how I’d survive the next 4 years without my family. Moreover the hectic 5 hours of journey, the stress of enrolment registration, fees payment, searching for dorm all added to my frustration leaving me with no peace of mind. But some how I managed to get back to the travelling passion and started enjoying the scenic beauty that UTM had been blessed with by the nature. The central mosque, the stadium, the UTM lake, the peakest point that is the belai cerap everything seemed to be unreal. The mesmerizing 

UTM Lake 

beauty, the soothing breeze, the polite nature left me speechless. Besides, the city Johor Bahru (where UTM is located) seems to be a paradise designed by the Almighty . Walking by the sea at Danga Bay, taking photos with Singapore at the back at Puteri Harbour, witnessing the sunrise at Desaru Beach all were like life time opportunities to me.

             

Again, the Malaysian cuisine which includes vast variety of delicious and luscious dishes surely makes this a heavenly place to any food lovers like me. The traditional and mouthwatering dishes like Nasi Goreng Ayam, Nasi Lemak, Nasi Goreng Paprik, Mee Goreng etc. are really hard to resist and that might be the reason I have grown this fat.      

Again the people here will never make you feel like a stranger or an outsider. Their hospitality, their humbleness, their politeness, their always happy and caring attitude will urge you to love them.

Besides all of these, UTM has also gifted me with friends from different regions of the world like Nigeria, Sudan, Pakistan who are always there by my side. Moreover, the lecturers, the moderators are no less than guardians. Their constant support are that all one needs while studying thousands of miles away from home.

Me and my friends appreciating the beauty of UTM