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HP Pavilion DV2620US Windows XP drivers.. Forced to use Windows VISTA

I bought a HP Pavilion dv2620us Laptop recently, the laptop came with a preloaded Windows VISTA, Some how I did not find VISTA amusing from day one. I wanted to go back to my reliable windows XP, So went on to find out about drivers fro mXP. To my horror, HP did not provide drivers for Windows XP.

I went on finding the hardware specification for my model ie Sound card Name version..Graphics card details and finally was able to get all drivers for XP  🙂 . Now here comes the sad part. After installation the screen looks pathetic even with proper driver Display aint correct, it simply looks bleak. It looks very good on VISTA. Then Sound is good but non of short cut keys work in XP. Moreover even if i connect headphone jack speaker doesnt turnoff 🙁 .

Not a good XP experience.By the time I realised it is not going to pleasurable, I had gotten used to VISTA, after few pathces and updates VISTA doesnt give me blue screen errors/anything. So HP and Microsoft forced me into using Windows VISTA. A shrewd strategy on part of Microsoft(I hate it).

Im currently eagerly awaiting the arrival of Windows VISTA SP1.

 By the if you want Windows XP drivers for HP Pavilion dv2620us, You can download it here. But Im warning you its a not  a great experience.Some drivers need to be forced, so any help jus mail me.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F3WJJHB3

The Rar file has

HP Pavilion DV2620US  Windows XP Display Drivers
HP Pavilion DV2620US Windows XP  Motherboard Drivers,Chipset Drivers
HP Pavilion DV2620US Windows XP Sound card drivers
HP Pavilion DV2620US  Windows XP WLAN,Blurtooth,wifi,card reader,Modem,Touch pad and Network (LAN)

Download here

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TCS asks 500 to resign and IBM pink slips 700.. whos next?

TCS asking to resign 500 of its employees is over hyped as usual in our news deprieved media. The Media wants anything controversial and they want to predict more. But the fact is this is a usual ritual in TCS during every appraisal.It happened last year also.

Bell curve, Appraisal system in TCS

TCS has a bell shaped apparaisal system, The bell works where 70-75% falls in the average category ie (rating 3 or now band C).

Rating 5 (Band A) – Best

4 – Band B – Good

3 – Band C – Average

2 – Band D – Poor (if u get this rating ur promotion will b delayed, If obtained twice will b considrerd as rating 1)

1 – Band E – Please leave the company

Top people who have performed extremly well(or is close to his/her immediate supervisor, or impressed supervisor by any means 🙂 ) will get Rating 5 (This is usually less than 5% ). Then there is rating 4 and 2. Four is a good performance rating, whereas 2 is the rating which says you are almost near bottom of the group. Then finally there is rating of 1, which says Bye bye u dont deserve to work here anymore.

Typically the bottom rankers might be the one unallocated without a project for sometime or ones who really cant do anything. Even a spat with your supervisor/superiors can earn you rating of 2 or one.

Since employee count has increased over the last few years number of people in the lowest part of bell curve also increased.

But the IBM phenomenon is new, IBM followed TCS and Infy and started herd hunting last few years and as a result has been forced to evict freshers. Whereas TCS eviction is mostly in top/middle level..IBM has done it in the fresher level.

More in the next post.

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TCS gives a pay cut..on back of recession reduces salary..Shocks employees

Friends Thanks for views and comments.. It will be nice if you can post your views in forum instead of comments.

Lets shout/make a voice against all the policies which affect us in Software industry. Please post your voice in the bel;ow forum :

http://forum.dexternights.com/

http://forum.dexternights.com/index.php?topic=2.0 

TCS(TATA Consultancy Services) handed out a notice to employees on Monday about a impending pay cut on basis of Q3 results.Though no specific amount details are announced but just a general announcement on Monday evening(IST) was made by TCS.

Most employees are clueless about this pay cut, but it is going to be like a recovery for salary already paid out for August-Decemeber 2007.The recovery will be happening in Feb/March 2008. This may be 5-10% of the salary on the variable component.

TCS has a Variable component which depends on the rating a individual recieves on scale of 1-5 (D-A). This component also is linked to companies performance and metrics.This component known as VA which was paid in advance for Q3 will be reduced by almost 20-25% on our estimate. Generally VA is 50% of a person’s salary and increases towards top management.

Soon expect similar steps from Infy,Wipro and other Indian major IT companies.This cut is attributed to Appraising rupee value against dollar.