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Siliconeer.com - May 2005 Edition

URL - http://www.siliconeer.com/past_issues/2005/may2005.html

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Santa Clara Adult Education and Mastermind Educational Services have joined hands in providing specialized trainings at non-profit prices to the community. Two unique job-oriented programs at Santa Clara Adult Education launched this spring provide candidates with real-world skills of systems administration and web technologies. The programs have been carefully crafted to enable job seekers understand what it takes to don the role of a systems administrator or a web developer.

The programs have been developed by Mastermind Educational Services Inc., a leading provider of UNIX and network security training. Mastermind CEO Deepak Vyas says that the programs fill the vital gap of providing the practical skills that employees look for.


“Most employers face a common problem while interviewing candidates for systems administration or web development positions, as the candidates do not possess the necessary ‘hands-on’ skills required on the job,” Vyas said. “Though they have theoretical knowledge in the subject, they commonly lack practical hands-on skills which the job demands”


Mastermind’s programs focus on setting up a network infrastructure for a simulated corporate environment that has multiple operating systems and has many different requirements. The training gives real-life experience in dealing with interoperating in such an environment, creating a domain structure, installing and compiling software for the development team, designing the backup strategy, configuring RAID, installing and configuring SAMBA, Email, FTP, DNS, Web services and network monitoring software.


Deepak Vyas, the chief architect of this program, heads the systems administration workshop. Haricharan Ramachandra, who an enterprise application developer who provides Java trainings at Mastermind, heads the Web technologies job-oriented program.

“The web technologies program gives participants an opportunity to develop enterprise web applications as a team working towards a common project, and creates an environment where candidates take up different role as team leaders, developers, test engineers, etc, and develop system specifications, design documents, test plans, to implement and deploy a real-time corporate portal,” says Ramachandra.

Grand Canyon in India !!!

Recently I had been to Mahabaleshwar, located near Pune (Maharastra, India), hardly 100 Km away towards Satara. What I saw was something out of the world. As I was gazing at the divine art work, I was awe stuck and my thoughts started wondering in different directions.

4 years back I was in Grand Canyon, U.S.A, Arizona. I went on a visit to Grand Canyon with my friends and what I felt there was very similar. I had then thought “Grand Canyon” was nature’s master piece and as they rightly say one of the natural wonders. I strongly felt that there can be nothing parallel to it, but here I am standing in disbelief. I felt like a new born sleeping in his mother’s lap for the first time and feeling that there can be no better place in the world and then she takes him in her hands and gently holds him close to her chest, he goes to sleep instantly with the same comfort and thus learning his first lesson of life. “Mother is infinite”.

I was lost in the intricate folds of the canyon walls and again my thoughts started to flow as through flowing through those folds. Nature has blessed all of us with the same beauty, land, sun, stars, mountains and canyons but she left us to shape our vision ourselves. Canyons and mountains are same everywhere , but it’s up to us whether we dig it up to produce cement or admire it with respect.




Growth is essential for a nation or an individual, but it’s a matter of cost. The cost we pay for the growth. With the depleting forest reserves and maddening expansion of polluting cities, Mahabaleshwar and Grand Canyon are still standing as walls against the greed and insanity of humanity. These are treasures of love and beauty which once we had in abundance.