Dr. Watson for Windows XP

Dr. Watson is a debugger for Microsoft Windows. If Dr. Watson is running and a Windows application crashes, Dr. Watson creates a report with technical information that can help developers determine what caused the application to crash.

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Dr. Watson for Windows XP

Basic Dr. Watson information:

Program name:	drwtsn32.exe
Probable Program location:	C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
Probable Report location:	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson
Report Log name:	drwtsn32.log

Dr. Watson is included in the Windows XP operating system. If you want to use it, you must install it as your default debugger. To do this, go to your Windows Start menu, select Run. In Open, type: drwtsn32 -i.

You then see a message telling you that Dr. Watson is your default debugger.

Then, configure Dr. Watson. To do this, go to your Windows Start menu, select Run. In Open, type: drwtsn32. You see the Dr. Watson for Windows Configuration window.

Note these settings:

Log File path:	This gives the location of the log file, drwtsn32.log.
Crash dump:	This gives the location of the dump file, user.dmp, which we don't need.
Number of Instructions	Set to 16.
Number of Errors to Save	Set to 16.
Dump Symbol Table:	Check these.
Dump All Threat Contents:
Append to existing log file:	Uncheck.
Visual and Sound Notification:	Check Visual Notification. Sound Notification is optional.
Create crash dump file:	Uncheck this.

When an application crashes, you see a Windows message such as this: application program has caused a problem and needs to close. If you are prompted to accept or send an error report, check Yes or OK. Usually -- but not always -- a Dr. Watson log is generated.

How to send the reports to us

1. Send the drwtsn32.log as an email attachment to support@1stWorks.com. (Preferably, zip it up before sending.) You may be able to search for drwtsn32.log, then right-click and select Send to to start the email with the attachment.
   
   
2. Include a description of what you were doing with hotComm when it crashed.
   
   
3. After sending the email, rename or delete drwtsn32.log, so that the log files do not grow excessively large. [Editor's note: we recommend that you rename them and keep them for a week or so as backup before deleting them.]

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Dr. Watson for Windows 98 and ME

Basic Dr. Watson information:

Program name:	drwatson.exe
Probable Program location:	C:\WINDOWS\
Probable Report location:	C:\WINDOWS\DRWATSON
Report Log name:	WATSONnn.log, where nn is a number assigned automatically for each new report.

Dr. Watson is included in the Windows 98 and ME operating systems.

If you have continuing problems with application program crashes, consider starting Dr. Watson automatically when Windows starts.

To start Dr. Watson when Windows starts, put a shortcut to DRWATSON.exe in your Windows Startup group. To do this:

1. Open My Computer
2. Go to:
   C:
   Windows
   Start Menu
   Progam Files
   Startup
3. Create a shortcut to drwatson.exe (example: to C:\windows\drwatson.exe).

To choose a location for the Dr. Watson logs:

1. Start Dr. Watson
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Right-click on the Dr. Watson icon in your Windows taskbar, lower-right corner.
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Select Options. It has a place where it puts the logs.

How to send the reports to us

Send the WATSONnn.LOG as an email attachment to support@1stWorks.com.

Include a description of what you were doing with hotComm when it crashed.

Work 4 Green Revolution

Why Green Revolution

The world's worst recorded food disaster happened in 1943 in British-ruled India. Known as the Bengal Famine, an estimated four million people died of hunger that year alone in eastern India (that included today's Bangladesh). The initial theory put forward to 'explain' that catastrophe was that there as an acute shortfall in food production in the area. However, Indian economist Amartya Sen (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, 1998) has established that while food shortage was a contributor to the problem, a more potent factor was the result of hysteria related to World War II which made food supply a low priority for the British rulers. The hysteria was further exploited by Indian traders who hoarded food in order to sell at higher prices.

Nevertheless, when the British left India four years later in 1947, India continued to be haunted by memories of the Bengal Famine. It was therefore natural that food security was a paramount item on free India's agenda. This awareness led, on one hand, to the Green Revolution in India and, on the other, legislative measures to ensure that businessmen would never again be able to hoard food for reasons of profit.


However, the term "Green Revolution" is applied to the period from 1967 to 1978. Between 1947 and 1967, efforts at achieving food self-sufficiency were not entirely successful. Efforts until 1967 largely concentrated on expanding the farming areas. But starvation deaths were still being reported in the newspapers. In a perfect case of Malthusian economics, population was growing at a much faster rate than food production. This called for drastic action to increase yield. The action came in the form of the Green Revolution.


The term "Green Revolution" is a general one that is applied to successful agricultural experiments in many Third World countries. It is NOT specific to India. But it was most successful in India.

What was the Green Revolution in India?

There were three basic elements in the method of the Green Revolution:

(1) Continued expansion of farming areas;

(2) Double-cropping existing farmland;

(3) Using seeds with improved genetics.

Continued expansion of farming areas

As mentioned above, the area of land under cultivation was being increased right from 1947. But this was not enough in meeting with rising demand. Other methods were required. Yet, the expansion of cultivable land also had to continue. So, the Green Revolution continued with this quantitative expansion of farmlands. However, this is NOT the most striking feature of the Revolution.

Double-cropping existing farmland

Double-cropping was a primary feature of the Green Revolution. Instead of one crop season per year, the decision was made to have two crop seasons per year. The one-season-per-year practice was based on the fact that there is only natural monsoon per year. This was correct. So, there had to be two "monsoons" per year. One would be the natural monsoon and the other an artificial 'monsoon.'

The artificial monsoon came in the form of huge irrigation facilities. Dams were built to arrest large volumes of natural monsoon water which were earlier being wasted. Simple irrigation techniques were also adopted.

Using seeds with superior genetics

This was the scientific aspect of the Green Revolution. The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (which was established by the British in 1929 but was not known to have done any significant research) was re-organized in 1965 and then again in 1973. It developed new strains of high yield value (HYV) seeds, mainly wheat and rice but also millet and corn. The most noteworthy HYV seed was the K68 variety for wheat. The credit for developing this strain goes to Dr. M.P. Singh who is also regarded as the hero of India's Green revolution.

Statistical Results of the Green Revolution

(1)	The Green Revolution resulted in a record grain output of 131 million tons in 1978-79. This established India as one of the world's biggest agricultural producers. No other country in the world which attempted the Green Revolution recorded such level of success. India also became an exporter of food grains around that time.
(2)	Yield per unit of farmland improved by more than 30 per cent between 1947 (when India gained political independence) and 1979 when the Green Revolution was considered to have delivered its goods.
(3)	The crop area under HYV varieties grew from seven per cent to 22 per cent of the total cultivated area during the 10 years of the Green Revolution. More than 70 per cent of the wheat crop area, 35 per cent of the rice crop area and 20 per cent of the millet and corn crop area, used the HYV seeds.

Economic results of the Green Revolution

(1)	Crop areas under high-yield varieties needed more water, more fertilizer, more pesticides, fungicides and certain other chemicals. This spurred the growth of the local manufacturing sector. Such industrial growth created new jobs and contributed to the country's GDP.
(2)	The increase in irrigation created need for new dams to harness monsoon water. The water stored was used to create hydro-electric power. This in turn boosted industrial growth, created jobs and improved the quality of life of the people in villages.
(3)	India paid back all loans it had taken from the World Bank and its affiliates for the purpose of the Green Revolution. This improved India's creditworthiness in the eyes of the lending agencies.
(4)	Some developed countries, especially Canada, which were facing a shortage in agricultural labour, were so impressed by the results of India's Green Revolution that they asked the Indian government to supply them with farmers experienced in the methods of the Green Revolution. Many farmers from Punjab and Haryana states in northern India were thus sent to Canada where they settled (That's why Canada today has many Punjabi-speaking citizens of Indian origin). These people remitted part of their incomes to their relatives in India. This not only helped the relatives but also added, albeit modestly, to India's foreign exchange earnings.

Sociological results of the Green Revolution

The Green Revolution created plenty of jobs not only for agricultural workers but also industrial workers by the creation of lateral facilities such as factories and hydro-electric power stations as explained above.