Sanjay Upadhyay

Plan For Munnar?

2012-01-13T22:36:00.000-08:00

http://goo.gl/VzJAf

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/route-travel-queries/43188-bangalore-munnar-route-26.html

http://awaragardi.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/journey-to-munnar-my-first-stint-with-gods-own-country/

Have been earlier there, and this would be second time :)

Java/Oracle/JVM

2011-12-08T04:00:00.001-08:00

I came back to Java some good 5 years later. last I used JDK was in 2006, when I was in my previous company. Java version was 1.6 (also called as java 6). its Java 7 now, and Oracle has bought Sun and own the JVM/JDK.

I went around for downloading JDK and was going through the licencing terms and found it very interesting.

Pidgin installation problem in RHEL 5

2011-11-29T02:46:00.001-08:00

Error: Missing Dependency: libsilcclient-1.0.so.1 is needed by package libpurple

all you need is :

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/libsmbclient-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/libsilc-1.0.2-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm

Ripped off with excessive bills on Airtel blackberry rental plans

2011-11-24T21:35:00.000-08:00

Since last year now, I have been paying bills exceeding 2K on a blackberry enterprise plans. After heckling with the Customer service, I came to know of the following blackberry enterprise plans:

1. 899 (unlimited data plan with browsing)

2. 599 (unlimited data plan with browsing)

3. 299 (unlimited mail plan with no browsing)

surprisingly, when I had moved to the blackberry plan the Airtel folks told me there is only one plan which is 899 plan. This time when I threatened that I am going to move to other service provider, he gave me the other two options.

Interestingly, the 899 and 599 plan has no difference and yet they are 300 Rs apart. Shady company for sure. However, very good network. If they want my feedback, who is on airtel since 2001, please be more open and transparent and honest.

Unable to delete a file in linux

2011-08-19T02:14:00.000-07:00

On a fine day, I found a normal looking file, which I just wanted to clean.

$ ls -l var/t/log/tlog

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2770 Apr 6 14:05 var/t/log/tlog

$ sudo rm -rf var/t/log/tlog

rm: cannot remove `var/t/log/tlog': Operation not permitted

$ sudo rm -rf var/t/log

rm: cannot remove `var/t/log/tlog': Operation not permitted

$ sudo getfacl var/t/log/tlog

# file: var/t/log/tlog

# owner: root

# group: root

user::rwx

group::rwx

other::rwx

then why the hello even if I am root, I cannot delete the file.

#cd var/t/log

# lsattr tlog

-----a------- tlog

# chattr -a tlog

# lsattr tlog

------------- tlog

# rm -rf yinstlog

Done.

Reasoning against Janlokpal, Anna Hazare

2011-08-15T00:01:00.000-07:00

1. Anna Hazare is trying to be Gandhi, and no one can become Gandhi

2. It's a important movement, but comparing it Gandhi is the biggest mistake making this movement nulled.

3. No one looked Swami Nigamananda, who died for Ganga, so why look at Anna now.

4. There is a way to protest, legelative, electoral and making a law, but forcing a law is not correct.

5. What is a fast? non-violent militancy.

6. When the country is at red alert and India is under the terror threat of terrorists, we should not have another protest.

7. Not democratic.

8. Rural and urban divide, Rural India thinks of only feeding themselves.

9. Why not Anna gets himself ellected and come to parliament and make a law.

10. Anna himself is correct and indicted in a court, so he cannot head the anti-corruption brigade.

11. This is undemocratic.

12. Movement does not have masses behind it.

13. Anna Hazare is challenging the parliment and PM.

14. Unconstitutional.

15. Anna Cannot change the laws frivolously.

16. Anna is old and not an elected member, he does not know how the parliament functions.

17. Illegal way of holding ransom the whole country and government.

18. My way or highway, it is like hanging a sword on top of all of us.

19. Who is common man? How he is at your side?

20. Only a handful are supporting it and if you say many are following you or you are representing common man, get elected.

21. Why blame this parliament, when the delay was caused by earlier parliaments.

22. This is blackmailing democracy and a dark day in Indian Constitution.

23. Major constitutional changes are being asked and this cannot be passed in a hurry.

24. How can a law of such significance be passed in a few stipulated days.

25. Government is willing to hear and bring up a discussion, why Anna is wanting only his way.

26. Anna is India and India is Anna, resonated by Kiran Bedi, and it sounds like Dictatorship and Adolf Hitler.

27. Where are the masses which you say you have support. These are people who do not even understand what is lokpal.

28. US is behind this.

29. Sangh Parivaar and RSS are behind this.

30. Anna spent 2.2 lacs of an NGO fund on his birthday, and that makes him very corrupt.

I will keep on adding as I get to hear more.

Dont you think they are funny :)

Is a Catastrophic incident lurking ?

2011-08-05T02:05:00.000-07:00

I do not know. However, an uncanny sense tells me we are pretty close to it. Say 20 years.

just my damn bad senses tell me to blog it here. God, I pray. Bad times are those which makes us closer to the Almighty.

Another lousy ediot, doomsday predictor.

Somehow, I feel the Catastrophe we will see, would have never been envisioned. Sad days are lurking ahead.

A Man said to be mad and homeless beaten to death

2011-08-04T23:28:00.000-07:00

Full article

Important excerpts :

Kelly Thomas was an outgoing child who loved to play the guitar, participated in Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and aspired to be a wildland firefighter, said his father, who raised him alone after he and Thomas' mother divorced.

...

But each time he began to improve, he stopped his medications and wound up back on the streets, moving between Yorba Linda, Placentia, Fullerton and Cypress — all places where he had once lived or had family and friends. One of the hardest parts of his death has been hearing their son described as homeless, the father said.

...

His mother sought a restraining order against him in December 2010 after he refused to leave her front porch, took off his clothes and urinated by the front door, according to court papers. In the same court papers, his mother alleged that Thomas grabbed her by the throat when they shared an apartment, although it was unclear when the incident occurred.

...

A male witness says the man, identified as Thomas, was sitting on a bench when he was approached by two officers and ran from them. The man says police used a stun gun on Thomas six times.

"They caught him, pound his face, pound his face against the curb ... and they beat him up," the man said. "They beat him up, and then all the cops came and they hogtied him, and he was like, 'Please God! Please Dad!'"

...

Inference, the kid may have never got over the fact that his Mother does not love him. Sad and Saddest being its unbelievably true. The entire humanity will suffer from such mothers and fathers who do not care for there children.

Lesson, Please do not desert your kids, whatever may come. Give them love thats all they ask of you.

converting to world date/timezones on linux, with the humble date

2011-07-12T00:48:00.000-07:00

Playing with dates in linux, our humble date is well equipped.

Want the IST date, in case your host is a PDT/UTC one.

#TZ="Asia/Calcutta" date

Want a specific date (older)

# TZ="Asia/Calcutta" date -d "2011-07-10 19:58 PDT"

Mon Jul 11 08:28:00 IST 2011

Other way

# TZ="America/Los_Angeles" date -d "2011-07-10 7:58 IST"

Sat Jul 9 19:28:00 PDT 2011

If you need to find all the valid country specific timezone constants :

# ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/{continent}/{city}

Here is something cool you can do at your bash prompt:

PS1="[\$(TZ=\"Asia/Calcutta\" date +%D-%k:%M:%S) IST, \$(TZ=\"America/Los_Angeles\" date +%D-%k:%M:%S) PDT]"
PS1="$PS1\[\e[36m\]\u\[\e[0m\]"
PS1="$PS1@"

Shows me this

[07/12/11-17:32:24 IST, 07/12/11- 5:02:24 PDT]myname@myhost]$

Trip to leh - Planning Phase

2011-04-26T07:10:00.000-07:00

(The new plan - thanks to Dheeraj, RK and ANup Sir and many more guys from bcmtouring.com)

June 4th - Day 1 - Bangalore -> Virar (NH4 to Mumbai and NH8 to Virar - 1027 Kms - estimated time 14-15 hrs rotated between 2 drivers )

June 5th - Day 2 - Virar->Jaipur-> (NH8 - 1108 Kms - 15 Hrs)

June 6th - Day 3 - Jaipur->Kud/Patnitop (it will be tough drive) by pass Jammu at Chak Dayala or Samba, will save you around 1 hour

June 7th - Day 4 - Kud/Patnitop - Srinagar, Stay near Dal Lake, on Bulevourd Road, good location, and that is the road you will take for the onward journey, and it comparativeky safe too. Also you will reach Dal by 1:00 Pm if you start early around 5:00 Am, so you can think of going upto Sonmarg. That will put you in very good position for next day. And its much more safer. So choose between view of Dal or view of Sonmarg. I would go for Sonmarg :P

June 8th - Day 5 - Sonmarg - kargil, even try to reach Sanko if PWD GH is functional there, Kargil is dumping ground of Kashmir, sadly pretty messed up place, Kargil have a MASS, if required and Petrol pump

June 9th - Day 6 - Kargil - Rangdum relaxed drive

June 10th - Day 7 - Rangdum - Padum relaxed drive

June 11th - Day 8 - Padum - Lamayuru relaxed drive

June 12th - Day 9 - Lamayuru to Leh

June 13th - Day 10 - Move around Leh Palace/Shanti Stupa/Thiksey/Shey/Hemis/Hall of Fame and Permits

June 14th - Day 11 - Leh - Khardungla - Leh, if you start early, you can come back by 3-4 Pm. And if required get the car checked at Druk MASS,

June 15th - Day 12 - Leh -> Pongong Lake -> Tangste, stay at Tanste, you will not have to rush back to Leh and can spend more time at Lake

June 16th - Day 13 - Tangste - Upshi(Petrol) - Mahe - Karzok(Tso Moriri), you will have to keep deisel in Cans as well, From Tso Morir till Tandi

June 17th - Day 14 - Tso Morri Lake -> Sarchu

June 18th - Day 15 - Sarchu Manali

June 19th - Day 16 - Manali -> Chandigarh

June 20th - Day 17 - Chandigarh -> Udaipur

June 21st - Day 18 - Udaipur -> Pune

June 22nd - Day 19 - Pune -> Bangalore

June 23rd - Day 20 - One back up day , in case of any twist

Anna Hazare - fight for right

2011-04-18T04:42:00.000-07:00

Probably from Day 1 we are taught about good and bad. In the light of everything we do we are taught not to do the wrong thing. (Arm chair intellectuals churning debate on what is right and wrong, please excuse me, I have a different thought)

Now, all that Panchtantra, Astrix, Tintin or whatever we read, there was always a right and wrong. ie say for cheating is always wrong and although enough was said, not to cheat, folks used to cheat. I am no Ram, so I am no where to say all of you are wrong and I am right. I am fallible and have fallen more than once for greed, for my selfish requirements.

Are the politician's wrong in amassing wealth through corrupt ways?

probably no!

Since if I was there, I would have done the same!

My honest salute goes to the folks, who are righteous and instill a faith in us to become righteous. I Pray, that Anna you succeed in this world of mortals. May you shine like the polar stars guiding us in our way to become a better human beings.

I pray people shed narrowness guided by their self interest. Please for God's sake understand this is a good move towards the right. We should strengthen the movement by not just vocally joining the movement, but by being ourselves righteous and teaching others to become so. Society needs to change.

Anna Hazare

2011-04-10T07:01:00.000-07:00

In the last few days we have seen a simple, honest man has shaken the common folks to fight against corruption. For 5 days a hunger strike, joined and supported from people all around India and abroad. Unprecedented tweeting and facebook phenomenon, was witnessed.

There are so many counter arguments on the movements, let me list as many as I can recollect.

1. This is black mailing Govt.

2. This is undemocratic.

3. This is unconstitutional.

4. will this solve the problem.

5. Gandhian philosophy did not help us yesterday and it will not help us today.

There are even now reports of Bhushan CD's having transcripts of corruption. Infighting.

Anna Hazare is very small in front of todays corruption. No doubt the society at large is so corrupt and I fear, maybe the Anna will lose to the society. He is not fighting the politicians. No. He is fighting everyone of us, who chose the easiest, safest way to progress and embrace corruption.

I can pray. To this day I Pray, May Lord give Anna the wisdom and the strength to cut across the darkness we have created.

Places I would like to visit

2011-03-31T00:33:00.000-07:00

1. Pollachi - maitreyi vedic village - its a spiitual destination, which is close to Aliyar Dam and Coimbatore.

2. Tranquil tea - after reading hindu article, which is in in Kotagiri close to sims park.

Why I Hate Cricket in India

2011-03-29T23:46:00.000-07:00

Its 30/03/2011 and the semifinals of WC between India and Pakistan is going to be played. The frenzy over the media/newspaper is to be seen. This time around the frenzy is just way beyond I can understand or have a logical clue as to why?

BCCI is a big bag of scams and people who have dirty hands. Cricketers are over hyped sportsman. No Doubt they are sportsmen, but what do we say to the earnest hockey players? Hockey is officially our national game!

:) with a smile I am watching all around - India will win. I pray India looses, just so people can open there eyes and see this is a game a simple game and not carried away to such frenzies.

I read a guardian reports article and looking at it from a foreigners eye, I feel myself not from India. People, I am sure very few will read this ever (thank goodness) please wake up. Sports should be taken as sports and not foolish frenzy. What just happens, is the businessmen and politicians will use every such opportunity to exploit you.

Hardly few people know the money involved in these matches.

A Jew family is stabbed to death, including 3 small children.

2011-03-14T03:02:00.001-07:00

How can someone kill 1 month old girl? and then think he would be able to live happily ever after?
I cannot understand the killers, however its very interesting, as how much angry one can get.

However, angry your are, however, injustice have come upon you, however, grief has stricken you, its inhuman to stoop to such levels. I am sad and bitter after reading this. 3 small childrens severely stabbed to death.

lsof is magical

2011-02-28T03:32:00.000-08:00

Here is a link, which is kind of primer for lsof, since it has examples.

Here are some examples I have come across which are interesting and cool.

kill -9 `lsof -t -c sshd +f -- /dev/md2`
I want to kill all process which connects to my sshd, and are accessing raid /dev/md2. ensures no one is connected via ssh and is using the drive. I can then safely shut down sshd.

lsof -t -c java -a -u -a +f -- /dev/md2
this is a combination of
-c command
-a and
-u userid
-a and (another and)
+f file accessing raid disk.

lsof +f -- /var/log
everything accessing

you send a HUP to all process accessing /var/log, generally daemons accessing logs
kill -HUP `lsof +f -- /var/log`

lsof -i| grep LISTEN
all that your host is listening (-i is for tcp connections)

who is connected on port 6014
lsof -i:6014

lsof -i:22 -a -u
all those connected to port 22 and having remember if you do not specify -a, it becomes an or and that would mean any thing accessed by

# lsof -i:22 -a -u *uid* | wc -l
14

# lsof -i:22 -u *uid* | wc -l
1228

remeber -t is for terse, it understands, that you only are interested in the process id.

# lsof -t -i:22 -u *uid* | wc -l
100

even thoud *uid* user was accessing tons of files etc. he is running 100 process which are the handles to all those activity.

enjoy!

Finally scoll lock on mac (Mac book pro scroll lock)

2011-02-25T00:53:00.000-08:00

I have often pressed the coveted emacs key stroke ctrl-x-s when running vi (dumb me). Unfortunately Mac terminal hangs from there.

Many thanks to Malcom's comment I was able to get it.

On real terminals Scroll Lock sends Control-S to pause text and Control-Q to resume. Try typing Control-S, then Control-Q.

Worst Indian Bank (is it ICICI)

2011-02-19T03:21:00.000-08:00

I do have some experience with a few banks - viz
Indian Bank
Allahabad Bank
State Bank of India
ICICI Bank
Deutsche Bank
Standard Chartered Bank
HDFC Bank
Union Bank of India
UCO Bank

Of all the interactions I have had wether it be loan/credit card/salary account/ etc I felt ICICI is the worst. The customer service is so pathetic that I decided to pen it here. Have any of you lately tried to put a complain? if not then do not even try, its virtually impossible.

I just wish like 'CIBIL', there should be a database of the banks how they operate. The highest complains etc. This central organization should be accessible to general public via multiple means.

I pray ICICI listens to the vows of its customers.

Ok Here comes again a shocker after 3 months :)

Adding a beneficiary and it says oops..

Collection of links collected on monitoring/investigating memory on linux boxes

2011-02-17T08:00:00.000-08:00

http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/analysis.html
http://www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/doc.html
http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/QuickStart.html
http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html

http://stackoverflow.com/about
http://blekko.com/

Perl Library bindings messed up in mac os x (Library not loaded - dyld: Library not loaded)

2010-09-16T06:49:00.000-07:00

I was searching this info for the last 2 days stuck! I had 2 problems.

1. my cdrecord (installed via ports) failed to launch - giving me this error:

[09/16/10:18:31][phudi:~]$ cdrecord -scanbus
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/cdrecord
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap

2. perl would give error on the SSLeasy

[09/16/10:18:31][phudi:~]$ perl ygrid_newnode.pl
Can't load '/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level/auto/Net/SSLeay/SSLeay.bundle' for module Net::SSLeay: dlopen(/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level/auto/Net/SSLeay/SSLeay.bundle, 1): Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libssl.0.9.8.dylib

Both of them was working!!

now #1 was solved via reinstalling cdrtools
why was the error? cdrtools was src installed and hence was referencing a ssl library which got upgraded with port selfupdate. So the lesson is not to src install, do a port install

#2 again the sslleasy libraries were built with system openssl library which is 0.9.8 while when I did a port selfupdate the ports openssl was upgraded to openssl-1.0.0 - which means running a 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' is a big no no. Install via ports :-)

delete /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level and reinstall via ports?
sudo port install p5-net-ssleay

hope this helps.

Online media can be very misleading - however papaya leaves do help in blood platelet counts.

2010-08-22T22:42:00.000-07:00

Hoax or truth: PAPAYA LEAVES NORMALIZES BLOOD PLATELET IN DENGUE PATIENTS

some links which debates/circulates this.
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/papaya-leaf-juice-remedy-for-dengue-fever-252188/
http://voiceofsikkim.com/2010/08/19/dengue-fever-remedy-with-papaya-leaf-juice/
http://www.joewein.net/hoax/hoax-papaya-juice-dengue-fever-cure.htm
http://www.usefultipsforlife.com/papaya-juice-a-known-cure-for-dengue-fever
http://chibilicious.com/myworld/cure-for-dengue/
http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=9005
http://agrasen.blogspot.com/2009/01/papaya-leaf-juice-cure-for-dengue.html

It could be true also, so I tried digging in more for some scientific facts /research done on this.
Bingo! Here which you need to access via password lists the following:

Abstract
=====
Following up a popular use of crude leaf preparations from Carica papaya for the treatment of dengue infections, a suspension of powdered Carica papaya leaves in palm oil has been investigated for its effect on thrombocyte counts in mice, administering by gavage 15 mg of powdered leaves per kg body weight to 5 mice. Equal numbers of animals received corresponding volumes of either palm oil alone or physiological saline solution. Thrombocyte counts before and at 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours after dosing revealed significantly higher mean counts at 1, 2, 4, 8, 10 and 12 after dosing with the C. papaya leaf formulation as compared to the mean count at hour 0. There was only a non-significant rise of thrombocyte counts in the group having received saline solution, possibly the expression of a normal circadian rhythm in mice. The group having received palm oil only showed a protracted increase of platelet counts that was significant at hours 8 and 48 and obviously the result of a hitherto unknown stimulation of thrombocyte release. The results call for a dose-response investigation and for extending the studies to the isolation and identification of the C. papaya substances responsible for the release and/or production of thrombocytes.

Now that does show, significant platelet count increase at least in mice. screen shot here.
the same paper is referred here and you can read without logging etc.

Believe it or not - Assange is being hounded - will it be another sad ending to truth?

2010-08-21T07:46:00.000-07:00

Not again. Whistle blower being hounded, how? read here. Assange is accused of rape. If there comes a day to stand up, its now. I do not know how but I feel very bitter by this sort of politics where the strong go away scot free and the innocent are punished.

Roots of Anger.

2010-08-20T11:09:00.000-07:00

bhagavad gita chapter 2 verse 62

Sanskrit

dhyayato visayan pumsah
sangas tesupajayate
sangat sanjayate kamah
kamat krodho 'bhijayate

TRANSLATION

While
contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment
for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger
arises.

Sanskrit

krodhad bhavati sammohah

sammohat smrti-vibhramah

smrti-bhramsad buddhi-naso

buddhi-nasat pranasyati

From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion
bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost,
and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material
pool.

you can read purport here.

vamandev begs forgiveness from bali maharaj @radhanath-swami

2010-08-18T04:30:00.000-07:00

Bali Maharaj was a great Devotee of Lord, we all have heard of Vamana Dev taking away everything from Bali Maharaj, However, there is a great story in Srimad Bhagavatam, where Vamanadev asks for forgiveness. Read it, its a great reading.

Onam celebration @Yahoo @Bangalore

2010-08-18T04:20:00.000-07:00

Bali Maharaj

Yahoo! Reception Flowers

Sachin & prashant, Onam Flowers Yahoo!

The enthusiasm by the folks celebrating Onam was infectious.

Cheers To Onam and Yahoo! folks to make it a special day.

Sorry state of DND.

2010-08-17T04:41:00.000-07:00

I have already registered on NDND -
==
You are already registered with NDNC. on 14/04/2010. Your reference number for Registration is F1017331222
==
however, still getting calls from all this Credit cards. I feel week in even trying to protest, whatsoever, I compose and reach out to airtel DND complains and here is a screen shot. It does not work!!

twitter catching me!

2010-08-15T11:15:00.000-07:00

of late I have been tweeting a way lot than usual. I guess it's just another of those short lived passions of mine :)

Inner Voice

2010-08-15T01:36:00.000-07:00

Referring to http://bit.ly/dkpOrb -
Well said, however I do have reservations on the word 'internal'. Is the romeo on the road today saying he deeply loves xyz an internal feeling? Ask him. He would be ready to die by their words. Ask the terrorists who killed so many people on 26/11 - they would swear by there inner voice which told them to do what they did. Inner voice is a myth. Its as good as blind faith as the ones chanting mantras. I do not know the answer to inner voice, but i guess God does have an answer, and a seeker might some day get the answer.

beginning django

2010-08-04T23:30:00.000-07:00

So, Here I am trying to install django on a debian lenny.

sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.3 postgresql-client python-psycopg2 python-django

The above should pull in *all* that is rquired.

Nice Sed tutorial

2010-02-10T00:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

Back from Allahabad

2010-02-09T03:23:00.000-08:00

Just back from the Village, tired and weary. Slept a lot and still I feel sleepy. will update the awesome pics in some time :)

mac ports upgrade error 'Problem while installing dcraw'

2010-02-09T03:22:00.000-08:00

refer to discussion here http://trac.macports.org/ticket/23594

do this
sudo port deactivate ufraw
sudo port upgrade outdated

resolved my issue.

Laksh at his naughty Best

2009-12-23T10:50:00.000-08:00

Trying hard to gulp a guava.

Bahut na insafi - guava ka size aur tumhara size.

rhel memtest howto

2009-12-22T23:59:00.000-08:00

http://lopsa.org/node/1644

My HTC Android Pictures

2009-12-21T03:11:00.000-08:00

The HTC

Phone Applications. Nice Home desktop.

my mutt email client over secure shell. COol!

google engineers love the flickr.

2009-12-16T04:37:00.000-08:00

Surprised me.
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/getstarted.html#load

which makes me think they like flickr more than there picasa.

Link of a screen shot, in case Google feels embarrassed.

Smondoville

2009-11-30T05:06:00.000-08:00

So finally I booked a flat!
The name is inspiring and churns thinking. I loved the name it was ringing in my head from the time I saw the advertisement. However, as an ardent skeptic, I first thought another of those which will be overpriced, further from city than they say etc etc and I gave the add a miss. On a routine drive with Wife to another location near Electronic city we were returning, completely frustrated with the price and location. As I was driving back, I saw the 'Neotown' board. It had a sign saying 2 kms on the right, and off I turned my Car.

What was a casual drive to nowhere turned out very eventfull. A broad road, with many bus stops, cranes digging road on the left side, clear sky and a well layout in front. a house in midst of the layout was surrounded by many cars. Off we parked and headed to look at this new project. We were amazed at the crowd inside. Thanks for the economically well off folks in BLR. We looked at the model flats with awe stuck shock. They were exceptional modern looking extremely well designed flats. My sceptical mind for a moment had lost its foothold!

I saw a few checks of 1.25K being crossed by a few folks. The executive said the 2BHK delux is not available. I was shocked! 3 days into the project and they have finished booking for 2BHK deluxe flats which has a balcony and would cost somewhere around 25Lacs. Phew! sad! - spurned the exec receives a call and he says 2 2BHK's have been cancelled. I was skeptical and hence said its a marketing gimmick. So off he took me inside the small office showing a excel sheet, with flat nos and booking names. unfortunately they have 2 delux 2BHK's in each floor, and hence they had run out faster. I booked one at the end. I am still skeptical since the project is slated to complete by 2011 year end.

I have created a few things for cimmunity sharing for the owners of smondoville.
1) neotown-smondoville@googlegroups.com (mailing list)
2) http://twitter.com/smondoville (twitter)
3) http://smondoville.blogspot.com/ (blog)

I have a desire that like minded folks come together and contribute to the above mediums. I am happy to relent all control to someone who is good at moderating groups.

Finally A smart phone -

2009-09-17T22:15:00.000-07:00

Waiting for the delivery of my Google G1. Purchased on Ebay.

Kemmanagundi Day 2

2009-09-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

We couldnt do much, as priority was Lakshya feeling comfortable.

View from our room

I Love this kind of cloudy hills. Its soo relaxing to even breath the air. Mind was all in poetry and thinking best.

Just Another view - Morning at 8 AM. Tea and News paper - alas! I was missing the news paper.

Way to canteen.

enchanting nature.

Pictures from Kemmanagundi Trip (on our way)

2009-09-15T12:26:00.000-07:00

It was 2 days of Green for eyes and heart.
Kemmannagundi was marvelous.

On The Road With lakshya

With His Mother, Lakshya, Behind My trustworthy Esteem.

ON Way A village and the children there, who had fun watching Lakshya having his breakfast.

Esteem - my road pride - bares all and no grudges so far.

Lakshya All in smiles, happy to travel.

Copying Files across networks - in optimized way.

2009-09-08T23:39:00.000-07:00

scenario :
what - a bunch of files in a dir tree
how much - size is above gb
where - across continent

if we have a reliable connection best is to use ssh copy - yes we will tar gunzip on the source and untar/unzip on destination -

#>tar czf - [dir0] [dir1] ... | ssh <destination> 'tar xzf -'

if we have a reliable high speed connection probably zipping wouldnt save that much time

#> tar cf - [dir0] [dir1] ... | ssh <destination> 'tar xf -'

OK now comes unreliable connection :)
we can zip and send it through rsync - which incase connection broken retries only the pieces which were not transfered. Remember a zip file if changed will be transferred again. hence in case source is going to change frequently and there is requirement to sync both ends over unreliable slow speeds best would be to do a rsync of dir as it is

#>rsync -a [dir0] [dir1] ... destination:[path]

wget optimization

2009-09-08T23:27:00.000-07:00

Many a time we want to download something and do something ie unzip untar etc. generally we are not interested in the original download.

wget -q -O - <URL> | <do whatever is necessary>

ie untarring example
wget -q -O - "http://localhost/docs/somedoc.tar.gz" | tar xzf -

Mac Ports Apacha - Perl CGI

2009-09-05T23:26:00.000-07:00

After getting macbook, it has been a learning experience. So far, its been very good.
Documenting here is how I got my environment setup for MAMP (MAC,APACHE,Mysql,Perl/PHP)

first things first.. (before we begin)
setting your mac with basic structure:
http://developer.apple.com/technology/Xcode.html
Download the latest xcode and install that.

Get the Mac Ports
http://www.macports.org/install.php
install that.

we have setup the basic infrastructure. If you have worked with ubuntu apt-get, or gentoo emerge, then mac port is quite a similar tool.
run the following
#>sudo port selfupdate
#>sudo port update outdated
#>sudo port install apache2 mysql5 mysql5-server php5 perl5.8 p5-dbd-mysql

the above installs all that we require.

now remember to change the path on your .profile/.bashrc etc (whatever shell you are running) so as to pick the binaries from mac ports path.

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

Noticed! that $PATH is at the end, because perl, apache etc are there on mac and we dont want them :)

---

configuring apache
we want the apache to be run as nobody - hence change the permissions whereever necessary.
this is what I have done:
sudo chown -R nobody:nobody /opt/local/apache2/cgi-bin/
sudo chown -R nobody:nobody /opt/local/apache2/htdocs/
sudo chown -R nobody:nobody /opt/local/apache2/logs

apache configs:
edit /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
for correct ServerAdmin and ServerName
uncomment Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf ( right at the bottom)

edit Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf ( which is our own virtual Host config )

--
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin sanjayu@queenself-lm
    DocumentRoot "/Users/apache2/htdocs"
    ServerName queenself-lm
    ServerAlias    queenself-lm
    ErrorLog "logs/queenself-lm-error_log"
    CustomLog "logs/queenself-lm-access_log" common
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /Users/apache2/htdocs/cgi-bin/

    <Directory /Users/apache2/htdocs>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
      Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    <Directory /Users/apache2/htdocs/cgi-bin>
         AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
         Options +ExecCGI
         AllowOverride None
         Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
   </Directory>

</VirtualHost>
--

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

2007-08-05T05:28:00.000-07:00

I was getting this error

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

and I did not know what to do.
Yahoo'd and found this link "http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=574006"

needed to create this file "/etc/environment" in my debian etch. I do not know, why this file was not present. I had just bootstrapped and installed debian as dom1 in my xen installation.

within the file you needed this

LANGUAGE = en_US
LC_ALL = en_US
LANG = en_US
LC_TYPE = en_US

Note : besides, I tried to have this dpkg-reconfigure locale.. which ran but still gave the errors. dpkg-reconfigure localeconf, said I did not have the package, when trying to isntall, it said this package does not exist.

So still do not know the details, but I am rid of the issue..

Working with ZOOP (Installing and configuring and a simple Hello World

2007-07-25T06:20:00.000-07:00

Zoop Installation

1) Download the Zoop Library and unzip into the PHP folder
2) Download the Zoop Pear Library and unzip into the PHP/zoop-ver/ folder
3) Edit the php.ini file..
session.save_path = "E:\tmp"
include_path=".;E:\Program Files\PHP\pear;E:\Program Files\PHP\zoop-1.3b1;E:\Program Files\PHP\zoop-1.3b1\lib\pear"

4) Download the zoop-skeleton and copy it inside you htdocs web (root) folder.

Configuring the Zoop

1)

This Insert comes in Handy..

2007-07-20T03:18:00.000-07:00

In Gentoo, the my.cnf, has a default setting of binding the local interface to 127.0.0.1, hence from outside we are unable to connect to the server at port 3306.

Always remember, that before we check all the permissions inside the mysql db, we should check the connection from outside ie. 'telnet romote-address 3306' If this connects and still you get error in connection, then there is an authentication problem..

Check the host table..
if not insert this..
insert into host (Host,Db,Select_priv,Insert_priv,Update_priv,Delete_priv,Create_priv,Drop_priv,Grant_priv,References_priv,Index_priv,Alter_priv,Create_tmp_table_priv,Lock_tables_priv) values ('%','db_name','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y');

% denotes all hosts.. You can mention an IP address to restrict connection from a certain IP address.

PEAR Installation on Windows..

Firstly get PHP installed on your machine.
next go to http://pear.php.net/go-pear, save this page as go-pear.php.

Assuming your PHP was installed nicely, and you had selected to configure the Env Variables, while Installing PHP, go to command prompt.. ie 'cmd'.
F:>php go-pear.php

Progress herewith by selecting the exact path of your PHP installation and continue henceforth.

How To Install Struts4PHP

Now, that Pear installed do the following things..

1) F:>pear channel-discover pear.struts4php.org
2) F:>pear install struts4php/struts4php
Although the above #2 command did not work on my machine..
I had to force install, it said some comflict with lang package ..
2) F:>pear --force install struts4php/struts4php

Thats all..

Now unto understanding the struts4php...

You never know

2007-06-29T07:02:00.000-07:00

You Never know
how And When
The Existence Will Start
Using You For Its Purpose

You Never Know
How And When
You Will Be Filled With
Abundance
And You Will Start Raining
Quenching The Thirst of Many

You Never Know
How And When
You Will Be Full Of
Fruits And Shade
And Travelers Will Take
Shelter And Food From You

You Never Know
How And When
You Will Be Full With
Love And Light
And You Will Start Spreading
The Fragrance of Beauty To Everyone

You Never Know
How And When
The Death Will Come
And Make You Deathless
And Life Will Start
Flowing Out Of You
You Never Know
How & When....Really !

~Sri Sri

Drupal mysql database creation and assigning priviledges

2007-06-29T04:45:00.000-07:00

Archived herein so that I can refer to this, whicle createg databases and assigning privileges.

First, you must create a new database for your Drupal site (here, 'databasename' is the name of the new database):

mysqladmin -u username -p create databasename

MySQL will prompt for the 'username' database password and then create the initial database files. Next you must login and set the access database rights:

mysql -u username -p

Again, you will be asked for the 'username' database password. At the MySQL prompt, enter following command:

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON databasename.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

where

'databasename' is the name of your database 'username' is the username of your MySQL account 'password' is the password required for that username

Note: Unless your database user has all of the privileges listed above, you will not be able to run Drupal.

If successful, MySQL will reply with:

Query OK, 0 rows affected

To activate the new permissions, enter the following command:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

I do not believe in God

2007-06-26T01:59:00.000-07:00

Archived, here, since its just so beautiful, copied from the author's discussion at orkut here, his profile is here..
I went to a barbershop to have his hair cut .

As the barber began to work, I began to have a good conversation.
We talked about so many things and various subjects. When we
eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:

"I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" I asked .

Barber :

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God
exists, would there be so many sick people?

Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.

I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."

I thought for a moment, but didn't respond because I
didn't want to start an argument.

The barber finished his job and I left the shop.

Just after I left the barbershop, I saw a man in the street with
long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and
unkempt.

I turned back and entered the barber shop again and said
to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber.

"I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"

"No!" I exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because
if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair
and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come
to me."

"Exactly!" I affirmed . "That's the point! God, too, DOES
exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look
to Him for help. That's! why there's so much pain and suffering in the
world."

The meaning to look to GOD is not to go to the temple or just rituals. Surrender yourself to GOD, kill your ego completely.
God is within U !

In Service with love
Ritesh Sharma

Tata Indicom are Fraudsters

2007-06-25T22:55:00.001-07:00

After reading the full blog (here and here), I can only feel sorry that I opted for Tata indicom prepaid. My experience is as bad as any of you, when after using the phone for 2 months it died.

I brought it at the Tata true value (fraudsters) shop, and they told me, that I should take it to the Haier service station some 25 Kms away. I bowed to there insists and went there. They took my mobile away for repair asking me to come after 1 week. so long I am having to bear with no mobile. So after 1 week, like a donkey I go, and they give me a replacement certificate, and ask me to collect the new phone from tata true value (fraudsters) shop.

Like a donkey I go to there showroom, sit there for 1 hr for my turn to come. and then the kid, smartly dressed in jeans and yellow t-shirt, bull shits me, that all such replacements happen at nodal office, Ultadanga. which is another 25 Km from there.

After, requesting and feeling like a donkey, I again endure the long journey, to nodal office, and I meet, with Rikta Roy (033-65551181), and she informs me of the way a replacement is made. it goes like this...

"Once you get the Replacement Certificate you have two ways, either, you can deposit the handset at the True Value (fradusters) shop, and after a week you can get a refund, or, you can ask for a replacement, and if they have the same handset available, then they will replace you after 1 week."

I asked, what if they do not have the handset in stock,
she replied, " Then after a week, you can get another headset, provided you are willing to pay the difference."

And she added " We at nodal office, do not replace the thing, you go to the true value (fraudsters shop, and tell them this is the process."

amazed, I was at my wits end of controlling the bhadrolok (gentleman) dying to kill her. anyway, I came back to the true value (fraudsters) office, and told them the process, and they asked me to come next day and it will be solved.

I went back happy, think at last tomorrow will be the day. The next day, my company sent me off to Coimbatore, and I came back 6 days later. yet I remembered the meeting and went ASAP. The lady kept me waiting. then finaly when my turnm came, she asked me to wait, as she was calling the godown people. wait wait wait all she said and 3 hrs passed. I started fuming, and she told me to come after 4 days, that is the time it will take for the headset to come from the godown. I got angry shouted at my lungs limit, and it fell on deaf years and the kids just made a dissapearing act.

so, I went through another 2 of such torments and finally recieved the money of the headset after exactly 37 days.
Now, I will never ever take an Indicom Connection.

Also, I will tell, you, however, cheap the tataindicom may seem to you, stay away from it. They are fraudsters. They supply the worst handsets on earth.

Incase any of you are planning to sue the company, count me in. I can give you good length of materials.

regards

My Guide To LVM

2007-06-04T05:35:00.000-07:00

This is the Logical Volume manager, by default there on Redhat. A nifty tool from redhat, which scores over every other storage system. just because you will run out of space some day.

Firstly..
1) use fdisk to create the partitions. Change the Type to hex 8e (0x8e), on the fdisk (prompt) you need to say '8e' only, when changing type. Remember your partitions ie. /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 etc..

2) use the pvcreate command to initialize the physical volume.
#>pvcreate /dev/hda1
similarly more if you have more partitions.

3) Create a Volume Group, if you want a knew mount point with the new space. or you can also extend an existing Volume Group. First how we create a new VolumeGroup..
#>vgcreate MyVolGroup01 /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 ...
The command takes basically two parts, the first one has to be the new name of the Volume Group and the second has to be the Physical Volume which we have already created in step 1.

Now, How to extend to an existing VolumeGroup
#>vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdc1
which means the existing Volume Group called VolGroup00 will now encompass the Physical Volumes hdb1, hdb2 and hdc1.

4) Create the Logical Volume (this step is the final step, which creates the Logical Volume)
We can also extend a Logical Volume, we will be covering that next.
First before we create a Logical Volume, we should check the Total PE (Physical Extent available in the Volume Group)
#>vgdisplay MyVolGroup01
Note the PE amounts mentioned in 'Total PE' and 'Free PE'.
Now we can create the Logical Volume..
There are two ways.. we can also spell the Max Space in GB or we can also spell the Max PE's wanted.
A) Max PE.
#>lvcreate -l 340 MyVolGroup01 -n usrlv
this will create the device /dev/MyVolGroup01/usrlv block which will have the MAX 340 PE's (eaCH PE is nearly 4KB).
B) Max Space in GB
#>lvcreate -L 1.3GB MyVolGroup01 -n usrlv
this will create the device /dev/MyVolGroup01/usrlv block which will have the MAX 1.3 GB of Space.
Note: Allocating More space than possible will naturally shoot an error. so you can check what is feasible. Refer to vgdisplay command to know what space is available within a Volume Group.

Now How can we Extend an existing Logical Volume.. ? remember, You can only extend a Logical Volume, if its Volume Group has Free PE's left. ie, say usrlv is a Logical Volume for MyVolGroup01, as laid in step4 and we need to resize the Logical volume for it. We can only do that provided there is 'free PE's left in the Volume Group 'MyVolGroup01'. IF there is no space left, you can create the Physical Volumes as said in step 1 and extend it to the Volume Group, and then do the extend.. as mentioned hereafter.
#>lvextend -l 979 /dev/MyVolGroup01/usrlv (will extend the usrlv to 979 PE's which are free )
or
#>lvextend -L 2.5GN /dev/MyVolGroup01/usrlv

5)resize the restructuring of the Logical Volume, if you have done an extending. Or create the file system on the Logical Volume if its a newly created LV.
#>mkfs.ext3 /dev/MyVolGroup01/usrlv
or resize, while the FS is mounted via 'ext2online'
#>ext2online /dev/MyVolGroup01/usrlv
or unmount the LV. and then resize it via
#>resize2fs /dev/MyVolGroup01/usrlv

Hope this helps.. also I will check back when I need to..

The Geek World

2007-04-30T03:41:00.000-07:00

Recovering from overwork. I sometimes have character shift, and feel myself an undefined geek, trying to prove undefined geek-ness. Whatever, I am over that. Mind plays on to make me believe, things which I am not. Its sometimes ok to probably think. But yes, it would have definitely been great, to be a true geek.

Busy

2007-04-29T23:41:00.000-07:00

For some time, I have not posted, because I have been extremely busy.
But my mind had been working..
and here are some of the thoughts which has remained through...
1) feeling of death
2) Drugs abuse
3) relationships
4) finance
5) Exams..

2007-04-04T03:02:00.000-07:00

copied from here

Okay, this is what I do. I only know the basic. But before doing this, please backup your source code, patch wrongly will screwup your source code.

First, how to create patch file?
Patch file is a readable file that created by diff with -c (context output format). It doesn’t matter and if you wanna know more, man diff. To patch the entire folder of source codes(as usually people do)I do as bellow:

Assume Original source code at folder Tb01, and latest source code at folder Tb02. And there have multiple sub directories at Tb01 and Tb02 too.

diff -crB Tb01 Tb02 > Tb02.patch

-c context, -r recursive (multiple levels dir), -B is to ignore Blank Lines.
I put -B because blank lines is really useless for patching, sometimes I need to manually read the patch file to track the changes, without -B is really headache.

How to patch?
First of all, please do a dry-run before really patch it. Bare in mind, patch will be working very specifically. Let say the version 3 Tb03.patch is use to patch from Tb02, if you apply patch on Tb01, sometimes it will corrupt your source code. So, to make sure it works, do a dry run. Dry-run means a fake-test, do it at the directory of the source code targeted to patch.

Doing dry-run like this:

patch --dry-run -p1 -i Tb02.patch

The success output looks like this:

patching file TbApi.cpp
patching file TbApi.h
patching file TbCard.cpp
...

The failure ouptut looks like this:

patching file TbCard.cpp
Hunk #2 FAILED at 585.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file TbCard.cpp.rej
patching file TbCard.h
Hunk #1 FAILED at 57.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 77.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 83 with fuzz 1 (offset -21 lines).
....

At last, if the dry-run is giving good result, do this and enjoy the compilation.

patch -p1 -i Tb02.patch

Namesake

2007-04-02T22:30:00.000-07:00

Nice movie. After a very long time a simple movie. No Masala. It tasted splendid. Irfan and Taboo's acting was marvelous.

Lend a helping hand

2007-03-25T21:36:00.000-07:00

why should I help him ?

because that would bring in a change in this world. Please help others in whatever ways possible.

KB has left QCD

2007-03-23T07:21:00.000-07:00

Well it is sad, but, a long time friend and colleague Kaushik, has left QCD and joined DCPL. I wish him well..

remove spaces and comments (archival purpose)

2007-03-21T23:11:00.000-07:00

cat /etc/squid/squid.conf | perl -e 'foreach (<>) {if (!/^[#\s+]/) {print;}}' > squid.conf

How to Download/Upload File Through a FTP Proxy Server With 'curl'

2007-02-08T01:10:00.000-08:00

This help is for linux machines behind a FTP proxy.. (Note: Squid is not a true FTP Proxy server)

Say the proxy server is squid configured to be running on ' 192.168.0.10' Port '3128'
then some of the things we can do..

* List Files On FTP Server

curl --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 ftp://qcd:onevision@sharethespace.com:21

* Download a file

curl -o STSServerInstaller.exe --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 ftp://qcd:onevision@sharethespace.com:21/STSServerInstaller.exe

* Upload multiple files to the ftp server..

curl --upload-file "{rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz,vmlogo.xpm}" --verbose --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 ftp://qcd:onevision@sharethespace.com:21

Note: We are uploading two files ie. rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz and vmlogo.xpm, similarly we can state more files, with a comma seperated list.

* We can also give the username/ password in options which is much safer than using it on the URL.

curl --upload-file "{rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz ,vmlogo.xpm}" --verbose --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 -u qcd:onevision ftp://sharethespace.com:21
curl -o STSServerInstaller.exe --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 -u qcd:onevision ftp://sharethespace.com:21/STSServerInstaller.exe
curl --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 qcd:onevision ftp://sharethespace.com:21/path/to/file

CURL is a free GPL'ed Utility available on various platforms. in linux it comes by default.. in case its not there, please visit http://curl.haxx.se/download.html and download the version required for your platform. Windows Binary download is here

Note: The normal FTP client (Shell or ftp on dos prompt) does not work with ftp proxy servers.

Delete files by size recursively

2007-01-25T03:01:00.001-08:00

Delete files by size recursively

find /var/spool/squid/* -size +10k -type f -exec rm -f '{}' \;

The command meaning..
find
args1 =
args2 =
args3 =
args4 =
args5 = <-f means files.. we could have mentioned -d (directory) -b (block), -c (character), -f (regular file), -l (link), -s (socket), -p (pipes) >
args6 = <-exec means what action to perform if all the matches are true, so -exec is for action..>
args7..10 = <>

Cheers...
( Besides the above is for my own bad memory :-) )

Delete files by size recursively

2007-01-25T03:01:00.000-08:00

Are we being caught up in the web of google's sinister design ?

2007-01-22T05:01:00.000-08:00

Some of you like myself swear by google, since we cannot imagine living without google search. However some of the discussions on net has made me thinking over an important issue. Will Google control too much of our lives ?

here are the links which discusses an important point on google's future plans ...

Let me add, google has already hired top brains for its (secret project), headed by Robert Pike. It could be soon, the era of booting into a internet harddisk. Otherwise, why is google investing so much into bandwidth ?

There is enough material, above to make the next sci-fi movie, where google controls everything.

I would be glad to hear your inputs..

Note: Irony, that I have to use the google's service to post this.. he he..

Books will Live

2007-01-22T04:54:00.000-08:00

I have been reading books and codes... but I understand better with a book in leisure in the corner of my bed relaxing with a cup of coffee, cigarette. I dont think online reading is optimum.

Yes, Its so much helpful to get the thing done (my belief), however for grasping a new language, or learning something cool really takes, an undivided attention, which comes when you are at ease, with yourself and a book. Net study is good if I could perhaps practice a little bit more of self restraint. There are numerous times, that I get swayed from one topic to another, and never really understanding where I started.

Well.. Books will live..

JOOST TV synonymn for P2P TV (internet TV viewing will never be the same again)

2007-01-20T00:59:00.000-08:00

I hope this is a surprise new technology springing from peer 2 peer architecture. Well so many P2P applications on the block that there is so much to talk about them, some of them are extremely well written code, traversing firewall and NAT . Yes!

Joost is another of such P2P technology, which aims at providing multimedia content. Its designed to traverse NAT and use UDP, it aims to become very fast and very good quality. If this is a company, you can bet its share prices will rise, and look out for google or yahoo to grab it soon. This is the next Kaaza that the firewall engineers will dread. Since its so difficult to block the UDP NAT traversal mechanism they deploy.

There is a beta evaluation version available.. and I would suggest you to go and have a look at it.. the site is www.joost.org.

some news 1 and 2.

I am too excited after I saw the performance. it has limitless possibilities in the future. just think if its available on the mobile, and you could podcast it into joost TV. [ ] I cant think what happens to all the TV soap opera's.

I have a great internal feeling that this concept is going to rock the world.. remember it was me telling you

Its not open source so.. there can be an open source alternative initiated right now :)
yes I am a coder, and I am interested, if you too are you can m a i l m e a t saneax AT p2pconnect DOT astahost DOT com

Why Was Mahatma Gandhi Never Awarded the Nobel Prize

2007-01-19T00:43:00.000-08:00

read this

It bleeds when it shows of discrimination. Whatever reasons may be given, I don't think any awards are fair enough to judge even a single person. How callous the way the world moves ?

Its funny. who gives nobel prize to whom ? and history stands there. Funny 1948.
damn funny.

There are words indescribable to show the feeling I have for this prize, and the people and there culture. Good for me, its a another one of those lessons, that you cannot measure God, and you cannot measure even his servant. Mahatma Gandhi as a human being was far above my intellectual understanding, However I am a damn person, who comments about anything (after all who cares about what I say), so I say.

Even an ordinary beggar has a story. even an ordinary person fights for right and wrong. That is history when the person the age goes. What One should keep in mind, given the situation one is given we will fare much worse than the person. We judge a person superficially, what he says, what he wears, where he comes from, which country he is from... so on.. but we forget.. we will be history, he will be history... God is All_the_story.

May Shree Lord Hari Bless Us All.. (hari means one who steals, since God is also referred as a thief, since he steals our miseries. :) yes. what does a thief do, he carefully enters through the back door when you are fast asleep, and takes away stuff from you home. You wake up to find your valuables are gone, you scream, you scorn at the thief etc. etc... but the things are stolen. Similarly Lord Hari, enters our heart and mysteriously, steals away our hidden valuables, which are rubbish litter to the path of Self Realization. Let us pray, that, That Sweat Lord Hari may please, mercifully bless us)

Psychology :)

2007-01-18T23:58:00.000-08:00

One who lends his shoulders, needs the most.

I thought that out..( from a feeling, which I could'nt understand )

Big Brother role playing people, sometimes cry too badly, is it Alcohol, or from loneliness.
its a lonely planet after all...

squid + squidguard + dansguard (Total Filtering from Unwanted sites)

2007-01-16T22:16:00.000-08:00

Here I wish to put in the knowhow that I acquired from building in a stong firewall, with URL and Content filtering on Suse 10.1, with the help of Squid, SquidGuard and Dansguard.

Another really funny dream

2007-01-07T22:19:00.000-08:00

I just watched a hilarious dream in fact 2 of them.. one day before yesterday and one yesterday night.
Let me start with the one I saw first, and I just cant believe it was such an interesting and funny one.

I am in this weird house, I have a gun and I am hiding from someone. I load the gun, and I am making sure, that my fingers are on the trigger, and wishing the gun works... I am hiding on a staircase in one corner, with no roof. Suddenly, I get a feeling that someone is looking down from the roof edge.. I see no one, but a fear grips me, that someone may find out where I am hiding if he just peeks down from the roof. I dash out of my hiding to find a better one, and lo, I am in front of three policemen, and in my excitement I pull the trigger, it goes straight and hits a police in his heart.

Looking at there guns pointed at me, ready to shoot, I shiver, and happily shout out, "I surrender, please dont shoot". The bring out the handcuffs and put it around my wrist. I notice, without there attention, (since, in background some confusion was there, I guess they were under fire, someone else was shooting, its faintly vivid) that the handcuffs dont fit my hand, my hands are much smaller in dimension, and it can easily squeez out (anyway I have the thinnest wrists you can imagine).

In the milee of gun shots and the policemen being bewildered, I release myself from the handcuff and start running as hard I can. between, I may have forgotten, the police wear white uniform, which is the west bengal state police uniform, and the policement looked bengali too. Anyway, I am running, and the policeman start to run after me, but hed for shelter, since someone is shooting. No Harm, I run and I see, I am running in a station platform no.12. Its some wierd station, but I know where I can get out easily avoiding the ticket checkers and also the policemen. So I run heard and reach that place, its an opening on the wall..

I jump out, head across the street, there are buses, rickshaw, and a tramline in between.. I approach a cab, and tell him to drive fast. He asks " where ", I say straight out of Calcutta. he drives and its a long journey, I check my pocket and I have some money. I remember that I can use the ATM, I have some 4000 Rs there.

I reach a desolate place, I ask the driver to stop. he stops, I pay him the money.

Work ahead

2007-01-03T23:18:00.000-08:00

Another lovely winter day in Kolkata. Winters are just wonderfull. I have heard of stories that the winter here is like summer in london. Whatever.. I guess london has a better climate.. nothing like in Kolkata now.

So a lot of work ahead.. extremely busy day ahead..

Stepped into a new year 2007

2007-01-02T23:08:00.000-08:00

Welcome 2007

After frenzied drinking, competitions and totaly insane parties, back to square one.. working and toiling hard to get to somewhere. 2007 has come. Similarly 2006 had come and its gone. cannot catch up with time, it makes you wait before it comes and makes you remember when its gone. somehow.. it's too fascinating.

Christmas Party Cake with Cherry on top

2006-12-26T04:33:00.000-08:00

This was one of those wilds in me, which hunts me, as I dont see any reason in playing with fire, but yet I became pivotial in organizing a christmas Bash on 25th. It was drinking dancing and festing. Which just turned a memorable sour taste for my life.

We had great dancing, My Mom Danced and was very happy remembering some of his old songs he sang to my mom. One of them was 'ichk dana, ichk dana, dane upar dana, ichk dana", He sang with gutso and great life. I think after many years Dad was in such a good spirit. Offcourse we had 2 something of royal stag. Mom was also in a great mood, she cooked and was also denoted as a good actor. She described the female makeup quite nicely.

My wife did the serpant dance. She was also lively till the end. I had my three "Sali's" (wife's sister) all gorgeous looking and neatly dressed. Most of the credit of the lively party goes to them. They brought in some really nice no.s

KB and his good wife, chaitali was also there, Chaitali surprised me with her dance, and KB even more with his liveliness. We didnt do or try anything wild, because everything happened so suddenly. I was wild anyway. I think my pressure is shooting up, but I dont check it up.

At the end of the day the event was a memorable one for all of us.

Cheers!

A Dream, A new day

2006-12-21T21:54:00.000-08:00

Saw a dream, blogged it at my private blog.
a new day.

Madness

2006-12-20T20:29:00.000-08:00

Madness = the state of being insane.
Insane = Said especially of actions: extremely foolish; stupid.

Madness is also a terminology for people who are mentally sick.
loosing control over action, reasoning etc. I remember, taking bhaang (Indian Opium) one day, and it felt like I was becoming mad. I had lost all control of self, reasoning etc. However I safely reached home. On my way to home, when I was freaking out, and the mind was dancing on I was really scared to hell. Fear had engulfed me from different sorts of thoughts primarily,

from some very deep dungeons a thought of hate was surfacing towards God. I am not clear what it was, I felt like something deep was not OK with God.
from a sense that some one else was entering me. A overwhelming fear that I was unprotected, someone was sitting next to me, to some one overpowering me and trying to enter me.
from a sense of getting mad. while my mind kept on racing wildly, I dont know, what was there which was realizing that I may become mad.

I prayed to God. I dont know how, but I kept on praying to God, to protect and save me from this situation. Some how I was saved. It seems I have excersiced my liberty in getting mad. Madness I suppose is the way of making your mind relent. its a state where you are overpowered by the emotion, and you are unable to deal with it.

when I travel, I look around and I see that there are faces which are traumatized, shallow and mentally sick. I cannot solve everyone's problem, when I havent been able to solve my own problem. But there is a great need of helping people from there mental troubles.

mental troubles invariably start from the situation a person is in.
Well God Does say in Bhagavad Gita, we are not the body, but we are soul, atma. this Atma is engulfed with the false identity of 'Aham' a sense of ego, that I exist as the Lord of all I survey. This 'aham' has some more coverings like 'vivek' and 'man', ie. 'intelligence' and 'mind'. the last and not the least is the body. our real self 'the atma' is engulfed in these different encoatings, and we identify with the body as our selves.

I say the above, because I believe in God 'Lord Krishna'. I also pray, that I may never forget Him 'Lord Krishna'.

There are more things I would like to say, there are probably even more questions, on the mind of the person reading all this. I wish and pray, that all people can come close to God and always remember him. One must understand that he is not this body.

Hare Krishna

Anand Weds Manjushree

2006-12-19T22:30:00.000-08:00

12th Dec. My Brother Got Married, at Roshan Gardens, Kolkata, with Manjushree.

From Left to right

Dad, Mom, Manjushree (the bride), Anand (the groom), Pushpi (my wife), me, Dr. Santosh Maharaj (My elder brother), Mrs Meenakshi Maharaj (Dr.'s wife, and my wife's elder sister)