I thought I have to praise this song

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as sometimes you are touched with a song more than you can say, I am feeling the same right now. God knows the depth of the lyrics and the feeling with which Wadali Brothers can transform it. God bless them.

Reading the wikipedia, I felt like going to Guru ki Wadali, right now and pay my obeisances and sit and hear whatever they have to say for a long time.

Plan For Munnar?

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

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

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

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

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

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 :)