What is the meaning of "Quick Multiple Files Save"?

Quick Multiple Files Save is original save style which is created by GstarCAD. It is also called "Auto and timely backup system" This save style make it possible to record the use's drawing process and can restore the latest drawing when power failure or terminating program. Auto backup system use an original file format (suffix is dwh) which is a new vector drawing format created by GstarCAD. Compared with dwg file it creases the auto backup speed. For example: the backup speed is about 1 second if the file size is within 10M. this make timely backup system be at real time(such as: make a auto backup each 5 minutes)

What are the main advantages of GstarCAD?

Independent intellectual property

Reasonable price

Shortest time to learn how to use

Similar interface with AutoCAD

Compatible with AutoCAD

GstarCAD MC Becomes Bridge between GstarCAD and Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is one of the hottest technologies at present, and it is expected to bring a profound innovation to the society. In the CAD software industry, quite a lot of developers have started to research and develop the product and technology of cloud computing. As the leading CAD software developer, Gstarsoft didn’t only deploy cloud computing systematically, but also upgraded the mobile CAD software -- GstarCAD MC. It may become the Bridge between GstarCAD and Cloud Computing.

GstarCAD MC is a kind of mobile CAD software which assists designers to review, edit and share CAD drawings with each other on their iPad, iPhone or Android devices. Compared with traditional CAD software, GstarCAD MC is more flexible and comfortable. It eliminates the limitations of time and space.

As the bridge of cloud computing, GstarCAD MC corresponds with the requirements of cloud computing: cloud computing need the apps take “cloud network” as the main channel and satisfy users with highly free and high speed information. In the cloud computing, end devices will not be the core concern anymore. “Anytime and anywhere” is the new direction of cloud computing.

In fact, GstarCAD MC meets this requirement of cloud computing perfectly; it can run on any portable mobile devices and transmit the drawings among devices via e-mail attachments. Once the network performance of GstarCAD MC is improved, the more CAD application experience based on network will be brought to users in the future.

Many developers only emphasize on the network application of the network, and neglect the off-line capability. At present, the network environment is not very stable; this kind of solution only disrupts the users’ experience and reduces their acceptance. The idea of cloud computing is perfect, but it needs the support from the amount of users.

GstarCAD MC chose a steady way to cloud computing. Gstarsoft didn’t put too much emphasis on networking of the app because of the limitation of network environment; but put the off-line application in the prominent position. Then gradually reinforce the support of network according to the requirements of users. When user base is built up, the complete cloud computing will be the next natural step.

In the future, Gstarsoft will continue to improve the functionality of GstarCAD MC and develop the collaborative design more deeply, connect every designing step with cloud computing, and realize the data sharing perfectly. The whole working efficiency of the company and industry will be improved when the relevant enterprises, departments design software and end devices can work collaboratively. The cloud computing will create more value for enterprises and users.

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Japa and Meditation - It's Significance

Today lots of people are turning towards meditation & yoga just to get relax and reduce stress from their daily (sombre?) routine. But meditation is not meant for just getting relaxed. Certainly it has some higher dimensions and benefits, other than spiritual, like it steadies the mind, improves efficiency in our everyday work, improves health, concentration, decision making power by better control over mind, etc. Interested aspirants are recommended to read a book "The Mind and its Control" by Swami Budhananda and to go through an article on "Meditation and Concentration" by Swami Bhajanananda....... Let us see what Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and others say about japa and meditation.

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Holy Mother's Words:

• "The mind keeps well when engaged in work. And yet Japa, meditation, prayer also are specially needed. You must at least sit down once in the morning and again in the evening. That acts as a rudder to a boat. When one sits in meditation in the evening, one gets a chance to think of what one has done - good or bad -during the whole day. Next one should compare the states of one's mind in the preceding day and the present. ... Unless you meditate in the mornings and evenings along with work, how can you know what you are actually doing?"


• Do you know the significance of Japa and other spiritual practices? By these, the power of the sense organs is subdued.


• "Repeating the Name of God a fixed number of times, telling the rosary or counting on fingers, is calculated to direct the mind to God. The natural tendency of the mind is to run this way and that way. Through these means it is attracted to God. While repeating the name of God, if one sees His form and becomes absorbed in Him, one's Japa stops. One gets everything when one succeeds in meditation.


• What a lot of work I did when I was of your age! And yet I could find time to repeat my Mantra a hundred thousand times everyday!


• A devotee took a tiny banyan seed and said to Mother, "Look, Mother, it is tinier even than the tiniest seed we know. From this will spring a giant tree! How strange!" "Indeed, it will," Mother replied. "See what a tiny seed is the Name of God. From it in time comes divine moods, devotion, love, and spiritual consummation."


• "Just see the power of habit. By the law of habit man attains realization by continuous practice of Japa."


• One should meditate on one’s chosen Deity as one goes on making Japa. In meditation the face of the chosen Deity of course comes first; but one should meditate on the whole figure, starting from the feet upward.


• One must cast aside indolence and put one’s mind to prayer and meditation at the proper time.


• "One has to suffer the consequences of one's deeds. But by repeating the Name of God, you can lessen its intensity. If you were destined to have a wound as wide as a plough share, you will get a pin-prick at least. The effect of Karma can be counteracted to a great extent by Japa and austerities."


• "The Mantra purifies the body. Man becomes pure by repeating the Mantra of God. ... It is said, 'The human teacher utters the Mantra into the ear; but God breathes the spirit into the soul."


• "The conjunction of day and night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. ... The mind remains pure at this time.


• Do not give up Japa even if the mind is unwilling and unsteady. You must go on with the repetition. And you will find that the mind is getting gradually steadier-like a flame in a windless corner. Any movement in the air disturbs the steady burning of the flame; even so the presence of any thought or desire makes the mind unsteady. The Mantra must be correctly repeated. An incorrect utterance delays progress.

Conversation between Holy Mother and a disciple :

• Disciple: " Some say that one achieves nothing through work. One can succeed in spiritual life only through Japa and meditation."
  Mother: "How have they known as to what will give success and what will not? Does one achieve everything by practising Japa and meditation for a few days? Nothing whatever is achieved unless Mahamaya clears the path. Didn't you notice the other day that a person's brain became deranged because he forced himself to excessive prayer and meditation? If one's head becomes deranged, one's life becomes useless. The intelligence of a man is very precarious. It is like the thread of a screw. If one thread is loosened, then he goes crazy. Or he becomes entangled in the trap of Mahamaya and thinks himself to be very intelligent. He feels that he is quite all right. But if the screw is tightened in a different direction, one follows the right path and enjoys peace and happiness. One should always recollect God and pray to Him for right understanding.


• Disciple: "Mother, why is it that the mind does not become steady? When I try to think of God, I find the mind drawn towards other objects."
  Mother: "It is wrong if the mind is drawn towards secular objects. By 'secular objects' is meant money, family, etc. But it is natural to think of the work in which one is engaged. If meditation is not possible, do Japa. Realization will come through Japa. If the meditative mood comes, well and good, but by no means do it by force."


• Disciple: "Is it of any use to be merely repeating His Name without intense devotion?"
  Mother: "Whether you jump into water or are pushed into it, your cloth will get drenched. Is it not so? Meditate every day, as your mind is yet immature. Constant meditation will make the mind one-pointed. Discriminate always between the real and the unreal. Whenever you find your mind drawn to any object, think of its transitoriness, and thus try to withdraw the mind back to the thought of God. A man was angling. A bridal party was going along the road with music. But the angler's eye remained fixed on the float. The mind of a spiritual aspirant should be steadfast like that."


• Disciple: "Suppose I can't do Japa of the Mantra of my chosen Deity?"
  Mother: "What do you mean? You won't do Japa of your Mantra? What a suggestion! If you don't do the Japa, you lose; that affects me not in the least!"

Swami Vivekananda on meditation :

• Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it. Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.
• Meditation is the one thing. Meditate! the greatest thing is meditation. It is the nearest approach to spiritual life -- the mind meditating. It is the one moment in our daily life that we are not at all material -- the Soul thinking of Itself, free from all matter -- this marvellous touch of the Soul!
  
• There is the whirl of change. Permanence is nowhere except in yourself. There is the infinite joy, unchanging. Meditation is the gate that opens that to us. Prayers, ceremonials, and all the other forms of worship are simply kindergartens of meditation.
• Within there is the lion -- the eternally pure, illumined, and ever free Atman; and directly one realises Him through meditation and concentration, this world of Maya vanishes.
• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation (Dhyana). In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

Swami Yatiswarananda on meditation (from Swami Brahmananda’s Spiritual Teachings) :

• Even the out-and-out Advaita Vedantins go on repeating their ‘OM’ or ‘Soham’. In all schools, and especially in the Bhakti School, great stress is laid on Japam. Japam is one of the most effective practices for all beginners, although one comes to realize its effectiveness and value only much later.


• Faith is most essential before taking up Japam. It does not matter if it, to some extent at least, becomes mechanical. The beginner finds his centre of consciousness is continually shifting, going up, coming down etc. This is a most difficult situation for all aspirants.


• In the beginner there are mostly two states of mind:— one awfully restless, the other mind falling down to the subliminal plane. Both are to be avoided if you want to make real progress.
• You must never allow yourselves to get into a drowsy state during your attempts at meditation or your Japam. This is most dangerous. Sleep, drowsiness and meditation should never be connected in any way. If you feel very drowsy, just get up and pace the room while you are doing your Japam, till this drowsiness leaves you.


• When the mind is awfully restless and outgoing, we should doggedly persist in our Japam even do it mechanically, without giving in to this restlessness. In that way, part of the mind is always engaged in Japam. Thus the whole mind cannot become or remain restless.


• “That which is done with full knowledge becomes more effective,” — says the Upanishadic seer. But mechanical repetition of the name of the Ishtam or one’s Mantram has its effect too. We should always go in for that which is more useful though, but at times, when our mind is very much disturbed, we may just sit in some quiet corner and begin to do our Japam mechanically, but with great doggedness.


• Sri Ramakrishna used to say, “Japam is like a chain. From one link we pass on to the next, and finally we pass on to God.

Shree Danteshwari Mandir at SEARCH, Gadchiroli.

Shree Danteshwari Mandir at SEARCH, Gadchiroli.

Tadoba Trip

24 Dec 2012 was a extra ordinary day for me and my friends. We were in deep contact with nature. Tadoba trip was a dream trip and we really enjoyed it. Tiger Darshan was the most important and satisfied moment of the day. sharing some snaps of the trip.

Motivation – How Great Managers Do It!

Motivation – How Great Managers Do It!

How many people do you know wake up in the morning planning on being ineffective in their job? I haven’t met a manager or executive who doesn’t want to be seen as an effective leader. Yet, we all know there are some people who just seem to get more out of their employees than other people can. They know how to motivate people. How do they do it? Is it a talent that one is born with or something one can learn?

The answer is that it is an art, skill and attitude that one can learn if one works at it. According to the research on executive effectiveness and what I’ve learned coaching executives and managers in all sizes of companies, when one boils it all down there are six important steps to being a high powered motivator.

1. Generate and Sustain Trust

The number one ingredient for becoming a top flight motivator is “generating and sustaining trust,” according to Warren Bennis, in his classic, “On Becoming a Leader.” When I’ve spoken to line personnel I frequently will ask, “What’s the one thing you admire about your boss? Invariably, they will respond, “I respect my boss.” When I dig deeper, they will say something like, “She or he wouldn’t ask me to do something that I know they wouldn’t do.” Or, “I never get the feeling that my boss treats me or anyone as an inferior.”

Great motivators generate trust through leading by example or “modeling the way” according to James Kouzes and Barry Posner, noted authorities on leadership. Leaders model the way through their personal example and their observable dedication. They also act quickly to stop behaviors that breakdown trust and collaboration, e.g., unethical behavior, backbiting and unproductive complaining. In the wake of Enron, leaders are under increased scrutiny. Therefore, walking the talk is crucial, as it should be. When a boss treats people with respect, employees become energized and want to follow in his or her footsteps. They want to excel…for their boss and for themselves.

2. Have the Right People

The second ingredient is to be sure one has “right people on the bus,” according to Jim Collins who wrote the best selling business book, “Good to Great.” While researching what made great companies great he discovered that they all had a particular type of leader at the helm. He discovered that the best CEOs were those who hire highly competent people, people who don’t need to be actively managed. However, one has to be self confident enough to be able to hire people who may well be smarter. If one can do that, then primary task will not be thinking about how to motivate them but how to help them do their job.

Therefore, learning how to interview and assess potential employees well should be taken very seriously. It’s a learned skill. Do not leave picking top people to chemistry. People are easily fooled by their “gut” feelings. Picking top people requires a more rigorous process that helps one avoid “interview bias errors.” If one has not received training in a systematic behavioral interview process… get it! If  company doesn’t use a systematic behaviorally oriented interviewing process….lobby to have one!

3. Inspire a Shared Vision

The third ingredient is “inspiring a shared vision.” Kouzes and Posner found that highly effective leaders see their vision and then they communicate it in a manner that taps into and engages the dreams of their constituents. Effective leaders really do rally the troops.

Inspiring a shared vision can be done at all levels of management. It’s not just the job of the CEO. Line supervisors, who are not responsible for developing the “vision” for the company can, nevertheless, use that vision to inspire their subordinates. It requires helping line employees see that the company is doing is something of value and how what they do fits into the big picture. Top motivators help employees connect the dots between what they do and where the company is going.

4. Enable Others To Act

Fourth, top motivators enable others to act. Top motivators tend to be comfortable in their skins and don’t need others to make them feel important. It’s paradoxical but, the more successful and effective an executive is (those who build great companies that is), the more humble they are. In fact, they make one feel important because they take others seriously. Top motivators don’t cast a large shadow that prevents others from being in the light. They are not publicity hogs (e.g., Donald Trump). They also foster a team effort by promoting collaboration through relationships and supporting personal development.

5. Prepare Successors for Success

Fifth, Collins found that great leaders encourage others by preparing their successors for success. They are not afraid of losing their jobs to an upstart. They do this by giving their subordinates plenty of developmental help (e.g., coaching, training, etc.) and by allowing their subordinates to shine. Kouzes and Posner call this attribute, “management of respect.” Great leaders notice and celebrate their follower’s contributions and achievements.

6. Search for Opportunities

Lastly, challenging the process: Effective leaders search for opportunities, experiment and take reasonable risks to help their organizations. Effective leaders don’t hunker down during difficult economic times…they take reasonable risks. Doing the same thing over and over may be safe but, it doesn’t motivate people very much. Frankly, it gets boring. Top motivators are constantly asking, “Can we do this better?”

The De-Motivators

Keeping these six tips in mind, there are also five de-motivators to avoid or change. Otherwise, one may be doomed to failure. Specifically, Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman, who wrote "The Extraordinary Leader," discovered by analyzing the data from over 25,000 360-degree feedback results for managers and executives that there were five "fatal flaws" that one must avoid or change in behavior and attitude.

These are sure de-motivators and career derailers.

·         Inability to learn from mistakes

·         Lack of core interpersonal skills and competencies

·         Lack of openness to new or different ideas

·         Lack of accountability and excessive defensiveness and

·         Lack of initiative

“What is fascinating about the five fatal flaws is that these traits reflect a pattern of inactivity. It is not the pattern of someone who is doing too much of something, but the pattern of someone doing way too little.”

Excessive defensiveness and having poor interpersonal skills are the most frequently cited issues that cause managers to be referred to executive coaches. And, of those, excessive defensiveness is the most difficult to turn around while being the biggest de-motivator. Employees will stop bringing suggestions for improving processes to any boss who is excessively defensive and shoots the messenger. Interestingly, those executives frequently come across as super confident (they overcompensate) when in fact they are really insecure. Their fatal flaw makes it impossible for them to ask for help much less admit they need it. Whereas, people with poor interpersonal skills often want to learn and can become more adept if they work hard at it.

Any one of these flaws can put the brakes on energizing employees. The best employees will become frustrated and quit while those less competent may stick around because they are afraid to quit. The upshot, poor managers end up with poorly motivated, compliant and less competent employees. Not a recipe for success.

The Next Step

Let’s return to the traits of great motivators. Imagine, if one will, that the 6 traits of great motivators are 6 pistons within the leadership engine. Ask ourselves, am I firing fully on all 6 cylinders? How does one know? Top flight leaders proactively and continuously monitor their performance and make necessary improvements. How? The best practices behind performance management and leadership development are based in the use of objective, scientifically valid assessments e.g., 360 multi-rate feedback surveys and business based personality inventories.

However, taking multi-rater evaluations is not for the faint of heart. If the survey is conducted well (and they are too frequently poorly designed and conducted), one will solicit confidential input (without a guarantee of confidentiality people rarely give accurate feedback) from a wide variety of sources, some of who will probably be critical of performance. In essence, one will need to do what pro athletes do…review your “game tapes.”

With good feedback data one will avoid spinning wheels taking executive development courses / trainings that feel good but have nothing to do with particular developmental needs. Once one gets accurate and useful feedback, one will be able to construct a program to hone strengths, overcome or work around barriers and supercharge effectiveness and performance.

Therefore, if one wants to become a great motivator, be courageous and get an honest and objective assessment of capabilities. Then, fix any fatal flaws and put into practice the six steps of great motivators. 






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The Secret Of Work - Swami Vivekanand

There is one central theme in the Bhagvad Gita regarding work and that is we must work incessantly. All work is by nature composed of good and evil. We cannot do any work which will not do some good somewhere; there cannot be any work which will not cause some harm somewhere. Every work must necessarily be a mixture of good and evil; yet we are commanded to work incessantly. Good and evil will both have their results, will produce their Karma. Good action will entail upon us good effect; bad action, bad. But good and bad are both bondages of the soul. The solution reached in the Gita, in regard to this bondage-producing nature of work is, that if we do not attach ourselves to the work we do, it will not have any binding effect on your soul. We will try to understand what is meant by this “non-attachment” to work.

As the tortoise tucks its feet and head inside the shell, and you make kill it and break it in pieces, and yet it will not come out, even so the character of that man who has control over his motives and organs is unchangeably established. He controls his own inner forces, and nothing can draw them out against his will. By this continuous reflex of good thoughts, good impressions moving over the surface of the mind, the tendency for doing good becomes strong and as the result we feel able to control the Indriyas (the sense organs, the nerve centers). Thus alone will character be established, then alone a man gets to truth. Such a man is safe forever; he cannot do any evil. You may place him in any company; there will be no danger for him. There is a still higher state than having this good, tendency, and that is the desire for liberation. You must remember that freedom of the soul is the teaching of all Yogas, and each one equally leads to the same result. By work alone men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. The difficulty is here. Liberation means entire freedom – freedom from the bondage of good, evil as well as from the bondage of evil. A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. There is a thorn in my finger, if I use another to take the first one out; and when I have taken it out, I throw both of them aside; I have no necessity for keeping the second thorn, because both are thorns after all. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, and the bad impressions to be on the mind should be removed by fresh waves of good ones, until all that is evil almost disappears, or is subdued and held in control in a corner of the mind; but after that the good tendencies have also to be conquered. Thus the “attached” becomes the “unattached”. Work, but let not the action or the thought produce a deep impression on the mind. Let the ripples come and go, let huge actions proceed from the muscles and the brain, but let them not make any deep impressions on the soul.

How can this be done? We see that the impression of any action to which we attach ourselves, remains. I may meet hundreds of persons during the day, and among them meet also one whom I love; and when I retire at night, I may try to think of all the faces I saw, but only that face comes before my mind – the face which I met perhaps only for one minute, and which I loved; all others have vanished. My attachment to this particular person caused a deep impression on my mind that all the other faces. Physiologically, the impressions have all been the same; every one of the faces that I saw pictured itself on the retina, and the brain took the pictures in, yet there was no similarity of effect on the mind. Most of the faces, perhaps, were entirely new faces, about which I had never thought before, but that one face of which I only got a glimpse found associations inside. Perhaps I had pictured him in my mind for years, knew hundreds of things about him, and this one new vision of him awakened hundreds of sleeping memories in my mind; and this one impression having been repeated perhaps a hundred times more than those of the different faces together, will produce a great effect on the mind.

Therefore, be “unattached”; let things work, let brain centers work; work incessantly, but let not a ripple conquer the mind. Work as if you were a stranger in this land, a sojourner; work incessantly but do not bind yourselves; bondage is terrible. The very reason of nature’s existence is for the education of the soul; it has no other meaning; it is there because the soul must have knowledge, and through knowledge free itself. If we remember this always, we shall never be attached to nature; we shall know that nature is a book which we are to read; and that when we have gained the required knowledge, the book is of no value to us. Instead of that, however, we are identifying ourselves with nature; we are thinking that the soul is for nature, that the spirit is for the flesh, and, as the common saying has it, we think that man “lives to eat” and not “eats to live”. We are continually making this mistake; we are regarding nature as ourselves and are becoming attached to it; and as soon as this attachment comes, there is the deep impression on the soul, which binds us down and makes us work not from freedom but like slaves.

The whole gist of this teaching is that you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave’s work. Do you not see how everybody works? Nobody can be altogether at rest; 99 % of mankind work like slaves, and the result is misery; it is all selfish work.

Work through Freedom! Work through Love!