Help Mysql to survive! Its the BEST!

Michael Widenius, the creator of the MySQL server, one of the most widely used and popular open software software, is now asking for everyone's help to keep it that way.

With the imminent takeover of Sun by Oracle, a move which will put the MySQL server in the direct hands of it's competitor Oracle, the future of the MySQL server will be jeopardy. While it is an open source project and the community is free to continue development of a fork, it will have to be under a different name, and names matter.

MySQL is a reputed database server and while there may be many forks of the server available in the community already, many which may offer better features of better speed, the MySQL server is definitely the most widely favoured and used.

MySQL has also supported a commercial license which is attractive for enterprise customers who need professional supported software. MySQL Enterprise makes the server available under a proprietary license and with support.

Michael claims that considering that Oracle is the developer of competing technologies, it has a huge incentive to discontinue further development of MySQL as on open source software. The absence of MySQL as a free open source solution contender which is constantly developed is sure to tilt the scales towards Oracle's own database solutions.

If Oracle does pull the plug on MySQL, Michael believes that simply forking the project will not be enough to keep the project alive, as only the GPL code could be forked, and not the economy around it. In a previous blog post, he mentions two ways that MySQL could be killed:


* If they stop selling licenses of MySQL or price them really high.
* If the development resources of MySQL are drastically reduced. (Considering that most of the development of MySQL is not done by the community but Sun)

He also goes on to explain why simply creating a fork will not work.

While MySQL will continue to exist as on open source software no matter what Oracle does with it, it will no longer be a competitor, which is Oricle's biggest gain. In order for it to survive Oracle he believes they should promise the following:



* To keep (all of) MySQL under an open source license
* Not to add closed source parts, modules or required tools.
* To not raise MySQL license or MySQL support prices
* To release new MySQL versions in a regular and timely manner.
* To continue with dual licensing and always provide affordable commercial licenses to MySQL to those who needs them (to storage vendors and application vendors) or provide MySQL under a more permissive license
* To develop MySQL as an Open Source project
* To actively work with the community
* Apply submitted patches in a timely manner
* To not discriminate patches that make MySQL compete more with Oracles other products
* To ensure that MySQL is improved also in manners that make it compete even more with Oracles' main offering.



He advocates that anyone who has gained from the MySQL project try to stop this acquisition at it's last barrier, the approval from the EU -- which seems to be more wary of the effects this might have. The power of open source is such that it is difficult to kill a project such as MySQL, however it is quite easy to remove its competitive influence, and that is what Michael and the EU are worried about.



If you are worried about the effects as well, do follow his instructions at the end of the post.

in reference to:

"Michael Widenius, the creator of the MySQL server, one of the most widely used and popular open software software, is now asking for everyone's help to keep it that way. With the imminent takeover of Sun by Oracle, a move which will put the MySQL server in the direct hands of it's competitor Oracle, the future of the MySQL server will be jeopardy. While it is an open source project and the community is free to continue development of a fork, it will have to be under a different name, and names matter. MySQL is a reputed database server and while there may be many forks of the server available in the community already, many which may offer better features of better speed, the MySQL server is definitely the most widely favoured and used. MySQL has also supported a commercial license which is attractive for enterprise customers who need professional supported software. MySQL Enterprise makes the server available under a proprietary license and with support. Michael claims that considering that Oracle is the developer of competing technologies, it has a huge incentive to discontinue further development of MySQL as on open source software. The absence of MySQL as a free open source solution contender which is constantly developed is sure to tilt the scales towards Oracle's own database solutions. If Oracle does pull the plug on MySQL, Michael believes that simply forking the project will not be enough to keep the project alive, as only the GPL code could be forked, and not the economy around it. In a previous blog post, he mentions two ways that MySQL could be killed:   If they stop selling licenses of MySQL or price them really high. If the development resources of MySQL are drastically reduced. (Considering that most of the development of MySQL is not done by the community but Sun) He also goes on to explain why simply creating a fork will not work. While MySQL will continue to exist as on open source software no matter what Oracle does with it, it will no longer be a competitor, which is Oricle's biggest gain. In order for it to survive Oracle he believes they should promise the following:   To keep (all of) MySQL under an open source license Not to add closed source parts, modules or required tools. To not raise MySQL license or MySQL support prices To release new MySQL versions in a regular and timely manner. To continue with dual licensing and always provide affordable commercial licenses to MySQL to those who needs them (to storage vendors and application vendors) or provide MySQL under a more permissive license To develop MySQL as an Open Source project To actively work with the community Apply submitted patches in a timely manner To not discriminate patches that make MySQL compete more with Oracles other products To ensure that MySQL is improved also in manners that make it compete even more with Oracles' main offering.   He advocates that anyone who has gained from the MySQL project try to stop this acquisition at it's last barrier, the approval from the EU -- which seems to be more wary of the effects this might have. The power of open source is such that it is difficult to kill a project such as MySQL, however it is quite easy to remove its competitive influence, and that is what Michael and the EU are worried about.   If you are worried about the effects as well, do follow his instructions at the end of the post."
- The Creator of MySQL calls out for your help (view on Google Sidewiki)

Paris for tourist

Where, what & how:

Places MUST see (if you have time) :
Need not to mention Eiffel, Triumph arc, Lourve (Monalisa, Venus statue, many beautiful sculptures & paintings)
Few more special places to see : Nort de dam, Opera, Orsay, Museum, Art de Material Museum, Pigalle (red area), boat trip in seine river from Port Alma (near Eiffel base), Invalides & Museum Army, Grand Arc(La Defence- good place for shopping). There are many more local areas you must visit !

Food :
Good for pizza, pasta lovers. Be careful if you don't want to find uncooked meat in food. You can find plenty of Italian stuff as well Chinese, Korean & Susi restaurants are available.
For veggies : “poulet“ mean chicken, see red, blue mark on food packet before eating. Blue is for fish, red u know.
Never miss to take some perfumes, as France is home of world trade of perfumes.
India restaurants in Paris : Don't expect same too spicy food as people eat in India. Its still like it was 10-20 years before.
Desserts : you 'll find awesome deserts in Paris. Its specialty of France to have yummy chocolates & cheesy cream.

Wine: If you didn't taste it in Paris, you missed the best! Get some Bordeaux wine (don't pronounce in English, just say “bordo” ). There are many more wines you can try out.
Pastis : Another special local drink of France. Its taste very good but be aware of 45% alcohol percentage! It gives nice kick.

if you want to see India in Paris, visit La chapelle ! You 'll get lot of India stuff & brands. Ready made chapati, roti, vegetables, calling cards, ready to eat stuff & rice place. You can easily find some kannada, tamil magazine too. You can figure out how this place is Indian on first sight. Lesser rules & regulation. More shops with names like “Madras, Tirupathi, Balaji, etc etc”. You simply have advantage in bargain or too find places if you use tamil to communicate with locals.

NOTE:
Carry tourist map while traveling, its helpful in worst time.
Get refreshed before you start your journey, as there are very few public toilets & they charge you 40 cents as well as they are open in specific time window.
Always follow ground rules of city while walking, driving & public places.

Few French words you must know :
Merci – Thanks
Pardon – sorry
Excuse me remains same, pronunciation changes.
salut – Hi, bye (Its funny to use same word for hi & bye)
chin-chin – cheers !!
Mind it, In France, g is pronounced as J & vice-versa. Same is for a & e. R,T are always silent !!

Shantaram- Shantaram Kisan Kharre - Gregory David Roberts.

Shantaram - Shantaram Kisan Kharre.

Shantaram is a very lively book and touches vast canvass. It captures Bombay’s life, sponsored terrorism and deals with unified Islamic power also. It deals with refugee problems, it tackles slums, it covers human trafficking, it shows police atrocities and it describes illegal trades also. Mystery, drugs, sex and violence etc are parts of the plot and bounty of human emotions like love, hate, intrigues etc, are also there and faith and miracles also occupy a place in the plot. Its like combining Shidney Sheldon and Paulo Coelho. I think its much more interesting than both of these.
This is a pity that neither any Hindi cinema director could pick up this interesting book nor any big Hindi cinema producer could buy the rights to make a film on this wonderful book. Johnny Depp is doing what biggies of hindi cinema should have done.
To do full justice with this subject one has to have the capability to maintain international treatment of the subject and at same time Indian flavor should not be lost because that is the basic ground beneath the subject.
Right casting is very important in such a vast subject.

0. Main character Lindsay, Linbaba aka Shantaram :
Demands an actor like Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp who could look tough at times and who could also handle emotions well. Johnny Depp is playing the central character. He has vulnerability to do full justice to this role.
The name came after his simple indian mother Rukhminbai Kisan Kharre , mother of close friend Prabhakar.

1. Khader Bhai:
Amitabh Bachchan has rightly been selected to play this character. Khader Bhai basically belongs to a ruler family of an Afgan tribe. He controls the organised crime in Bombay. He is powerful, mysterious and yet so many times he looks so humane whenever he is filled with emotions only, towards his dear ones. Different facets of his character are revealed slowly in the book. His character consists of many twists and its difficult for Lindsay to define him in clear cut black and white category. It has more shades and this character has more relevance in modern times because of his association with Islamic powers trying to make a union. His life, from childhood to his death, demands a separate film.
David might have created character of Khader Bhai , the Mafia boss, on the basis of some real life mafia dons of Bombay but he certainly had kept personality (may be on screen persona) of Amitabh Bachchan in his mind while defining traits of this character. While reading the book, it seems at so many places that Amitabh is present in the book in the form of Khader Bhai.

2. Prabhakar :
He is a young (24-25 years old) Indian tourist guide with whom Lindsay meets as soon as he gets down from the bus after reaching to Bombay. Prabhakar is very important character in the book as he is the first person who introduces Lindsay to India and Indian realities. Prabhakar takes Lindsay to his village in the interior of Maharashtra and where Lindsay actually gets the name Shantaram from Prabhakar’s mother. Prabhakar is first Indian friend of Shantaram. Through Prabhakar, Shantaram’s views about India are formed. He has an emotional relationship with Prabhakar. When Prabhakar dies then this loss is not less emotional than the separation of Jai and Veeru in Sholay, after Jai is killed. Prabhakar’s death leaves a sad void in the plot and in the life of Shantaram also, a void which can not be filled again.
Prabhakar has an infectious laugh. He wants to help Shantaram in any case whether he has capability or not. He first gives him name Lin on the basis of Shivlinga. He calls him Lin Baba.

3 Abdullah Tahiri :
He is an Iranian by birth and basically he is a fighter in the gang of Khader Bhai. A quiet person by nature and he is a devoted follower of Khader Bhai but dangerous for their enemies. Abhishek Bacchan suits well for such roles.

4 Qasim Ali Hussain :
He is a friend of Khader Bhai and manages the slums developed on the grounds occupied by Khader Bhai. He is also a powerful person but he is calm and caring person in nature. He takes care of the people living in the slums controlled by him. He is chief of the slums in every sense. He is not educated but he is sensible and he motivates Lin to do social works in slums and arranges every kind of help he needs. Nana Patekar actors for this character if he has to be shown in age category of Khaderbhai

5 Prabhakar’s parents,
Rukhaminbai & Kisan, typical farmer family from North Maharashtrian village. Story of gunddas/dakeths from near by village had been kicked aways by Rukhaminbai and villages. If scenes of Prabhakar’s village, given in the book, are kept in the film also and scenes when they visit slums in Bombay are also kept then these are good supporting roles and have enough scope for actors to make their presence visible and appealing.

6 Karla:
She is a beautiful European woman. She is always a mystery for Lin. He is attracted towards her but she has always something hidden about her which brings a new facet of hers before Lin and he is left astonished. Kate Winslet (she is quite old not to do the role, can go with make up) fits the role and consideration that she already has enough exposure towards India, closely and living with Indian family there for days might have exposed her more about India and these things may bring authenticity in her performance. Later, during the shooting of Holi Smoke also she had lived in India. In the book, she has been living in India for years and now its her real home and she does not wish to go back.
Karla and Lin’s love story has western shades and its like a regular love story based Hollywood film where characters meet and separate many times before final union or departure. It’s a mini film inside a big film and will bring an interesting watch specially because of the fact that Lin does not know all things about Karla and he even does not know that all this time when she was dating him, she was working for Khader Bhai. But their love story will bring many interesting romantic scenes, specially when they visit Goa.

7. Vikram Patel,
He is son of a rich man. He is highly impressed with Client Eastwood and other western films and always appears in that get up only. He makes friends with Karla and Shantaram and Dildier. He ultimately marries Karla’s friend. He is funny at times but he is not scared in going with Lin to fight with criminals. He is also not a character with single dimension characteristics and an actor needs to show different moods of the character. Govinda perhaps will not do it and Arshad Warsi is other name who will shine in this role. Vikram does many stunts to impress Litty – Letita in love. Finally gets her to settle down.

8. Madam Zhao,
This mysterious madame runs a brothel for rich and powerful in Bombay. Very few people have seen her as she lives in her mansion and does not come out. Many stories are floating there about her. Karla and Lin meet her to take away a friend of Karla who is working as a prostitute in her brothel.
Simi Garewal and Rekha both are capable to play this role if role has to be played by an Indian actress. Madam Zhao in the book is most bad character in book. With Proper make up Kangana may look like the character described in the book. Otherwise many aged Hollywood actresses are there to play this role.

9. Kanu the Bear,
Kanu keeps an important place in the book but its not certain that film will also keep this animal in the film. Not sure if shooting with animals is still allowed in India or not? To keep joy factor intact in the film, Kanu bear, should be there.
Yes, the bear was sent by Abdulla as gift to give a actual bear hug. It was great fun to read around bear story, This bear once goes to jail, finally sent safely outside Maharashtra along with Ganapati statue to avoid trouble.

10. Other characters,
There are many characters in the film and in the international gang of Khader Bhai there are several characters which have importance in the plot like Khaled Ansari, Abdul Ghani – the traitor, Raju bhai, new lads who join the concil after Khader bhai like Sanjay, Salman, Farid, Andrew, Aamir. Nazeer – body guard of Khaderbhai.
Many actors of Black Friday team can be used in the characters living in slums and who are friends of Prabhakar and Lin. It includes characters like Johny Cigar, Jeetendra, Radha (Jeetu's wife), Parvati (Prabhakar's wife), Sita, Anand (man who killed Rafig in hate), Satish- kid, Joseph & Maria, Andhkar (dark black man in seen of Joseph's punishment), Ranjit-medical drug, Ranjeet- Jeet- Karla's bf, Big Rahul – in Jail, Manoj – in jail, Ulla, Medona & his friends rival of Lin, Lettita, African don based in dongari – who disperses dead bodies in hole, Member of Khader bhai's council, blind singers & their story, friends on the way to Afganistan-Kandhar via Quatta (Pak), Lin's friend while running away from Australian jail, Lin's philosophy proff, Khader bhai's scientist connection from Bhabha, spiritual guru fro m Varanasi, Abdulla's love & Farid's cousin from Delhi, Ramesh, Anand- Hotel/Lodge owner, standing babas, Guptaji's den, small kids' selling den, . It goes on :-)
There were other small roles like Habib- the madman, Ahmad, Allaudin, Muzahiddin fighters and helpers.

I think its really difficult task to put whole book in single movie. I don't mind if director make it part-1 part-2. Roberts is busy with writting another book on his next life. That can sure be part-3 depending on movie's box office collection.
Khader Bhai loves his nephew Tariq and role of this child can be played by any of the child actor. They may make this small role memorable.
Lately AB has not been getting challenging roles. Good roles, which could help him to grow further as an actor, have been away from him. All of his present days directors are not thinking beyond the work, already done by him in the past. And in such scenario Khader Bhai’s character brings a golden opportunity before him to show his fine acting skills.
Khader Bhai is the call of Amitabh Bachchan only. He fits very well in the role in every sense. This is not call of any of the actor Pankaj Kapoor, OM Puri or Naseeruddin Shah as book does not contain their influence on the character.

To select AB in the role of Khader Bhai indicates that Mira Nair is walking on right path and it shows that she has understood the character well.

Depp has selected Mira Nair as the director for this project. It will be first of its kind for Mira Nair and perhaps Salam Bombay could have been the basis for Johnny Depp to decide in favour of Mira Nair as her first film deals with slums in Bombay and Shantaram also covers life in slums. We have to see what kind of treatment Mira Nair gives to this big subject. She has adapted books on screen in the past also but first time she will be handling organised crime which covers burning issue of unified Islamic power also. It’s a wonderful opportunity for Mira Nair as a director, as seldom directors get such a subject where they have to cover different kinds of sub plots also.

There are many great quotes from the book :

• Its important to do right thing but reason is more important that thing. Its right to do wrong thing for right reason, but its wrong to do right thing for wrong reason.
• We always need to reach to complexity which ultimately revels to discovery of God.
• Men look away while saying wrong, women do it with deep eye contact. So, difficult to understand whats right or wrong !

Many more said by Karla & Khaderbhai.

Here is link to public website : http://www.shantaram.com/


Date 28/Nov/2009
I was flying back from Paris Charles De Goule airport. While waiting in boarding queue, i found a English guy reading "Shantaram".
I asked him."Hey, have u finished reading shantaram"!
"Not yet, i'll soon finish it. Its nice book"
"Yes. I have read it once. Its really wonderful book with pace & every details"
he accepted, "yeah, right!"
I tried to check how much he remember about Shataram,"So, hows Karla, Khader, linbaba? Do you like them?"
Surprisingly said,"You know all of them!!Good. Karla is good, mysterious beauty & soul. Its good story!"
We discsussed few more thing like, where are you flying & bla bla..

It was good to see someone who knows & think as you are thinking...at such unexpected time :-)

Saving data & config dual boot System

Dear all,

Usually we face backup and OS formatting issues on dual boot systems. Here are few more tricks to make sure you have all mails safe (only for Thunderbird) & same firefox history, bookmarks, themes & plugins.

Case 1: If you have only Microsoft Xp/Vista installed on system, you can just install another linux. Grub will take care of your Xp installation.

Case 2: If Linux is installed already & want to installing Xp without loosing Linux.
Once XP has been installed, it will boot happily into Xp but there's no sign of Linux. To reinstate GRUB as the system bootloader it needs to be reinstalled into the MBR. Use any live CD to go in rescue mode and have your harddisk mounted in /mnt/sysimage/ (usually in Fedora/RHEL)

To enter the GRUB configuration mode, type in "sudo grub" and press Enter. Then type in the following commands after boot with live CD & excute below commands :

Commands to follow :
- sudo grub: This will open grub menu.
- root (hd0,0) : deciding hd0,0 is really important factor ! Be careful, wrong hd selection may format data.
========================================
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       23G  7.7G   14G  36% /
/dev/sda3             190M   14M  167M   8% /boot
tmpfs                 501M  1.3M  500M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2              30G   28G  2.0G  94% /mnt/d
/dev/sda5              20G  6.5G   14G  33% /mnt/c
========================================
It shows /boot mounted on sda3 from hard disk 1 so you need to select (hd0,2) if /boot is installed on sda1 then it'll be (hd0,0). 
- setup (hd0) 
It 'll simply install grub on selected sda partition. It gives clear confirmation saying "Successfully done".

- quit & exit
Reboot system. You will find Linux, Xp is not available. Now open your  /boot/grub/grub.conf , add below line to see your Xp back in position.
============================
title XP
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    chainloader +1
============================
Now grub.conf 'll look like

========================================================
[root@localhost grub]# more grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=c7681502-97bc-4344-b8ff-7c231db6a741 rhgb quiet
    initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img

title XP
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    chainloader +1
========================================================

Reboot the system. You'll get the GRUB bootloader but Vista won't be an option - we need to add this to the boot options.
If Xp is not booting, go back to Linux & add below text in grub.conf :

title Windows XP
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Save the file and reboot. When the GRUB loader launches hit ESC for the boot menu. Windows XP is the last option - select it and XP will load.

If you want to make the GRUB menu always available, boot back into Linux and edit the grub.conf file. Find the hiddenmenu text string and change it to #hiddenmenu.
To increase the menu timeout, change the default timeout 3 to something more appropriate.

To Save your mails :

Just backup your folder  /home//private/jzk0qj4u.default/Mail/Local Folders  from Linux to some FAT or NTFS partition which is also available in WinXp & mounted in Linux.
Now if you boot in WinXp.
Just install Thunderbird and change "Local Folders" path to Xp path to same Local folder  Eg: "C:\private\jzk0qj4u.default\Mail\Local Folders" .
Restart Thunderbird . You'll get all your mails
Matter of fact I drafted half of this mail in Linux & remaining half in Linux !! Its really a great advantage to use :-)

Firefox Plugins & history :

Profile stored at location can be copy pasted and used for Linux. Off course only supported plugin will be seen at respective OS.
Win Xp path: C:\Documents and Settings\Mahendra\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
Linux : /home/uname/.mozilla/..

You'll always have your all bookmarks. You can keep them safe on Foxmark site. Google chrome has released this bookmark sync feature now , which is easily done in Firefox from years !
Its always trouble less while doing any re installations and formating.  All above experimets tested ok on my own machine. Welcome if need any help :-)

Azim Premji's comment on reservation !!

Wipro chairman Mr. Azim Premji's comment on reservation: I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let's start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for Muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by an OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century. We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 km/ hour to an OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal. Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters. There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let's recruit SC/ST and OBC pilots for aircrafts which are carrying t he ministers and politicians (that can really help the country...) Ensure that only SC/ST and OBC doctors do the operations for the ministers and other politicians. (Another way of saving the country...) Let's be creative and think of ways and means to guide INDIA forward... Let's show the world that INDIA is a GREAT country. Let's be proud of being an INDIAN...   May the good breed of politicians like ARJUN SINGH long live... "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Installing module in httpd apache on Linux

We can implement logging option at apache-httpd level to keep record of request and response byte count.
To implement logging modules mod_logio and mod_log_config in to existing httpd, we need to upgrade existing apache by yum update . This 'll automatically install all modules needed by httpd. httpd.conf default logger need to be changes as follows

Procedure to follow :

First check whether mod_log_config module is installed on apache using command
httpd -l
if its present go ahead for installing mod_logio module
if not present install mod_log_config using following method ( change mod_logio.c to mod_log_config.c )

1. Copy the apache-httpd source to /usr/local ( if its not available)

2. Add module mod_logio.c to existing apache-httpd using following commads.
apxs -c $httpd-2.2.3/modules/loggers/mod_logio.c
apxs -i -a -n mod_logio $httpd-2.2.3/modules/loggers/mod_logio.la

3. Load shared object files needed.
ldconfig

This 'll add below line in file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
LoadModule logio_module lib/apache/mod_logio.so

4. Log format in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
By default ( something like this ):
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
should be changed to ( %I %O should be appended ) :
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b %T \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\" %I %O" combined

5. restart apache-httpd
6. Check for access logs for change

We need to make sure while installing new httpd we should use these options to get request , response bytes.
./configure --enable-layout=RedHat --enable-auth-digest --enable-deflate --enable-proxy --enable-rewrite --enable-so --enable-status --enable-info --enable-logio

Its advisable to try the same on local machine before trying out on live server.
Let me know if in issue while installing/upgrading... 

must read...(humor)

good one :-)

At work, Raman and Narayan were chatting:

Raman: Narayan, I've been attending night classes for 5 months now and I have an exam next week.

Narayan: oh!

Raman: For example, do you know who is Graham Bell?

Narayan: No

Raman: He's the inventor of the phone in 1876; if you take night Courses you would know this.

The next day, the same discussion took place:

Raman: Do you know who Alexander Dumas is?

Narayan: No

Raman: He's the author of "The 3 Musketeers", if you take night courses, you would know this.

The next day, once again:

Raman: And do you know who Jean Jacques Rousseau is?

Narayan: No

Raman: He's the author of "Confessions" , if you take night courses, you would know this.

This time, Nac rayan got irritated and said: And you, do you know who is Balakrishnan Kuppuswamy?

Raman: No

Narayan: He's the guy roaming with your wife!! If you stop night courses, you would know.

Rule: There are some things more important in life than Work n General Knowledge

 

--
Regards,
Mahen

Dictionary bot released !

Dear friends,

My pleasure to introduce dictionary service to all with chat bot !

Its available to most of chat profile with below bot id



[EnglishDictionary@bot.im: online] EnglishDictionary@bot.im (Jabber)

[EnglishDictionary: online] EnglishDictionary (Yahoo)

[EnglishDictionary: online] EnglishDictionary (MSN)

[EnglishDictionary: online] EnglishDictionary (AIM)

[EnglishDictiona: online] EnglishDictiona (Twitter)


Enjoy! Its bit slow as perfomance related aspect are yet not considered ;-)

will do it some time later !

Creating a bot!

How to create a simple bot to your service :

Service something like dictionary or movie search is cool on automatic bot. The basic service should be available on line anytime to serve your request. I searched a lot to find good, useful bots around the globe. Here are some which are really interesting to use on daily basis :

url@askme.im

webtoim@gmail.com

googlesms@bot.im

cleartrip.trains@jabber.org

bots@gtalkbots.com

jobs@chat.naukari.com

quotes@askme.im

I've added above bots on my gtalk !

another one I just tried with http://www.imified.com/ is mahendra@bot.im :

You just need to create your own free account on imified.com and host a php, jsp logic URL on some hosting site.

Its pretty easy to create your own bot to do basic operations.

Are you a page addict ?

Something being hobby or use to is kind of okey but "Addiction" is bad !!

Now a days people gets addicted to cellphone, PC, TV . Earlier trend was old with cigar, drinks, gambling, etc

I came across addition of browsing over similar set of page again and again on net. Something like, just visiting google.com even u don't have any thing in mind to be searched. Too frequently checking mails are kind of such additions.

Today's blog is too control Web page addition. Use a simple browser like Firefox. Pretty secured and equipped with billions of plug ins try various things. Get a plugin called http://pageaddict.com/ , available to download in xpi format at http://pageaddict.com/download.html

It supported on Firefox 3.0 & 2.0 so no worry. U just need to install and config it. U can find plugin link in Tools-->Pageaddict

Click on it, it'll take u too its site. U can do required setting on site itself. Its very simple !!

Here are some screen shot to make it more comfortable.

History of visited time along with tags/groups.

Its stores all history from day1 to yesterday.

Another screen shot showing daily config and site browsed.

Gateway of India!!

Recently I had visited CST and Gateway of India to show some great things of Mumbai to my cousin. 
He was happy to see the Arabean sea and The Taj. Location was too much crowded. Still it was okey for any Indian to enjoy the atmosphere. I noticed to shabby things in sea. Location just infront of Taj. Crowd use to eat stuff and throw the waste in sea. Have a look at below pic :



another one with boats and front view

World Environment Day 2009!

The day was June 5th ! We had environment day celebration at office. We had a small kiosk rather just a gardener with handful of small plants for selling. The guy was illerate and wasn't even knowing names of the plant. Every time we ask something .. he always said,"saab, ye accha hai.. ye bhi lo"
Every plant was prices based on how much it has grown and the quality, health of plant. It was average ranging up to 100 bucks.
I took the below one :
 

2 days later, we have celebration of "vad savitri pornima" .. where Ladies- married women tag a thread around tree and ask for blessing for god of tree for their husband ... 
I came across a tree which they use to ask for blessing. It was a small brank of tree somebody brought after cutting from tree..  It was shame of human being to ask blessing from almost dead tree .. what a culture we follow. Can't we save some of geniun plants, trees and our nature to avoid such situation.

So .. its must for all of us to observe World Environment Day !!! 
Save nature ! before it ends !!!

Beautiful memories of school

It was almost 8 years, I left the school. Havn't seen those blue & white uniforms. Regular morning PT with Mulik sir. Vestle still bangs my head. That was final wake up call we had. Still remembers the orders and school bells bangs in head. Dangerous style beating. Specially TPJ (Tejerao Jadhav sir, Hon's in Maths), Prasad sir (English). We use tremble on entering class roon which was labeled as “English Lab”. Guys, can u believe, subject like English too have the laboratory. There were pics of many old authors, poets,etc. Including Shakesphere, HG Wells, Williams Wordworth, bla bla. Who the hell remembers the names of those oldies who wrote those bullshit poems and we need to mug them all.

I reached the school at noon. The only person known to me was Kumbhar mama. I called,"Kai Kumbhar mama, olakhale ka? (Kumar mama, did you recognized me?)
I was damm sure, the old guy must have forgotan things 8 years back.
Mama yelled,"Kai Tipale, tula kai watale. Topi, chashma ghalun aala mhanaje zale ka.. ha ha ha" (What you think, by wearing, spectacle and cap , u 'll fool me.. Tipale I remember you very well...)
To my surprise and happyness. "Thanks god... somebody still knows me here :) "

I visited the whole school. Took pics of those classroom, where we got punishments, got sticks on buttocks, that huge 10 acres ground, where we toiled daily PT (physical training) under honorable command of Mulik sir, that main notice board with very first name "Mahendra Tipale 80.80% , batch pass percentage 95.20%" ... pic attached.



All teachers currently working in JNV, Basmathnagar. Name of district changes but not the teachers and school. 


Nanded Gurudwara :





With old friends :
From left : Angad Bobde sorry Doctor Angad Bobde urf Jangali (nick name in school) , Dr Pramod Rokade, Bhanudas Jadhav & Myself .

 


With few more old friends :
From Left : Dr Gajanan Delmade, myself & Dr Gajanan Pawar .

 

Me with scientist Muralidhar Shinde & Gajendra Jogdand.
 

 

My class 12th batch, it was pilot batch who dared to be work hard and clear class XII th science. It was rather adventure !



My another oldest friend, whom I met after almost 8 years. Mr Sakharam Rede. Who have now started his own Enterprise called “Sai” and doing very well.
 

At last my school class, where we got our all punishments





It actually don't look as horrible it look in pic.

Will never ever forget those days and specially punishments !!! ha ha ha
I miss that all ! and all of us too!

Header Graphics for Mobile with GIMP2.0 on FC

Created own graphics using firefox for my new mobile site header graphics :)
 See this on Mobile

Mr Piraji Watole and his Story!

I was traveling to Parbhani last week. Full rush, some how managed to get a place. Bus stopped at Manjalgoan tehsil. The person from window shouted to keep his handkerchief on empty space next to me. Actually, its custom in buses to reserve your seat in rush hours, typical for State transport buses. I observed same is being followed to book your seat in restaurants in Singapore too.

The guy in late 20s, displined accent, like a teacher came to the place. I was watching around. Somehow I started to discuss, Where are you from, what do u do? Etc

Guys from small family, who could do medical graduation due to poor economy. He had caste certificate of ST to get admission to some good college. He was a teacher and was teaching some basic subject in primary school near tehsil place. I shared my details with him. Told him I 'm traveling to Navodaya Vidyalaya, Basmathnagar. I'm 2001 pass out from that school. Surprisingly, he too was from Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nanded. Located at Shankarnagar.



In fact, we had some of common friends from Shankarnagar. We started discussing how, when and what?

He was senior to me by 2 years. He did his graduation and now trying to get admission for Bed. Which will help him to get in to professors job at some higher secondary school. Being only source of earning for family. He was too busy with family stuff. Piraji also told, his motto is to clear MPSC exam to join civil services for Maharashtra state. We both hate the politics and politicians, so had good thought about things around. The day was deciding day for Politician as it was polling day.

Most interesting fact was he shared his email id. Actually, he had recently purchased a laptop and so he thought to have email id. He asked his friend to open one for him. It was pirajiwanole@yahoo.com . Along with email id, he also shared his mobile number and told me, my password is my mobile number .. ha ha ha ... wohchh.. i told him this is suppose to be secret man! Dont tell anybody about your password. ;-)

Bus stopped at Dhalegoav, small village based on bank of river Godavari. Its famour for Bhel. Most of buses stop here for break. One of Piraji's friend met. He offered us a glass of lussy (thick butter milk with Kaju, Badam-Almonds). It was great. We proceeded the journey. We had long talks on education system, working of systems, etc, etc

Felt happy to meet such a struggling person . :)
 

Indian Marriages !!!

Article on Indian Marriages !!!


Want to know the magic mantra for a smooth and successful relationship? Dr Vijay Nagaswami gives the two-line trick: "Don't work hard on your marriage. Work smart."
Relationship rules have undergone a sea-change thanks to changed socioeconomic scenario and differing expectations. It's more a relationship of equals these days but that has also ironically increased conflicts. So how does one ensure a smooth ride? Nagaswami, whose new book, 24x7 Marriage: Strategies for New Beginnings analyses the modern Indian marriage, lays down the new rules of the game:
OWN YOUR MARRIAGE
Marriage is between two individuals, and not two families. Unfortunately, parents often tend to control their children's marriage. In many families parents even accompany the couple on their honeymoon! They do not give them their required space, and want a say in every matter. If a couple has problems, the entire family turns up at the therapists' office.
Don't let others get a hold of your marriage. Make your own decisions; if you invest in your relationship, you'll value it more. A marriage helps you grow as a person — provided you allow it to happen.
RECOGNISE SPACE
In a marriage, apart from the two sets of personal spaces ('I' space), pay attention to the 'We' space too. If each of you says "don't interfere in my space", there'll be nothing left to do together. It doesn't mean you have to be joined at the hip, but make conscious efforts to spend time together despite super busy careers. Do simple tasks like household chores together. Or go for a walk along the beach. Keep the cell phone off for at least an hour when you are with each other (and don't look at it on the sly!).
HANDLE FAMILY
Relationships with parents and children should be conducted outside the marriage space. Even as you love your family, don't put marriage on the backburner. A lot of couples allow kids to sleep with them until they are grown up. They would not kiss or cuddle because "it makes kids uncomfortable". Where would you find the space to bond with each other then? Just get the message across that while you love your parents and kids, you still love each other.
SEEK HELP IF NEEDED
Don't hesitate to seek professional help when things get sticky for it's not easy to find solutions when you are part of the problem. Admit that certain issues can be resolved only with an objective approach.
A NEW TEMPLATE
Often the template we acquire about marriage are from our parents. A girl might think her father is a great husband for she has seen him do grocery shopping or help with her homework. If her husband doesn't do similar stuff, she gets disappointed. Similarly, a man might feel his mom is a fab cook and when his wife doesn't match up, he gets annoyed. But the couple might not have seen the "other side" of their parents' marriage. Remember that your parents' template is not the best for either of you. You need to make a new one.
THE PARENT TRAP
Don't expect your partner to love your parents like you do. Don't get into the 'Me and My Family Vs You and Your Family' conflict. Instead, get on to the 'We and Our Family' platform. Often your spouse can point out imperfections in your parents better than you. Remember, parents aren't perfect. FAB FRIENDS BUT…
...Don't allow them inside your marriage. Agreed, men adore their boys' night out and girls, their shopping trips. And you'll have friends who will give you tips on everything — from handling in-law problems to tackling wives' tantrums. But friends' advice are often based on their own life experiences; they may or may not work for you. So listen to them, don't always act on them.
THE MARRIAGE BUBBLE
This is a sacrosanct and protective space where only the two of you are allowed to enter. Work hard on the bubble. And don't allow anyone else into this hallowed space.
Work on all these aspects and a marriage can be a truly enriching journey.

Courtesy : Mumbai Mirror !

Regards,
Mahendra

Truth behind Google Chrome Logo

Truth behind Google Chrome Logo


Chrom


hmmm what do you think now ..?

Save earth ! Reduce Global Warming !

Courtesy : http://www.myfootprint.org/en/

Great stuff from Organization !

There are many simple ways to reduce the footprint you leave on the planet. Learn how to reduce your footprint in each consumption category–carbon, food, housing, and goods and services—but don't stop there. Amplify your impact by encouraging others to follow your lead. Engage your friends and community with local and global movements for social change, or start your own movement!

Reduce your Carbon Footprint

Use cleaner transport

• Walk, bike, or take public transit whenever possible.
• Avoid allowing your car to idle. If you'll be waiting for more than 30 seconds, turn off the engine (except in traffic). And don't take the drive-through—park the car and walk inside instead.
• Have your vehicle serviced regularly to keep the emission control systems operating at peak efficiency. Check your car's air filter monthly, and keep the tires adequately inflated to maximize gas mileage.
• Avoid short airplane trips—take a bus or train instead.

Add energy-saving features to your home

• Install compact fluorescent bulbs in all your home light fixtures—but remember, compact fluorescents contain mercury, so look for low-mercury models and be sure to dispose of old bulbs safely through your local hazardous waste program.
• Weatherproof your home. Make sure your walls and ceilings are insulated, and consider double-pane windows. Eliminate drafts with caulking, weather strips, and storm windows and doors.
• Insulate your water heater. Even better, switch to a tankless water heater, so your water will be heated only as you use it.
• Choose energy efficient appliances.

Adopt energy-saving habits

• Keep thermostat relatively low in winter and ease up on the air conditioning in summer. Clean or replace dirty air conditioner filters as recommended to keep the A/C operating at peak efficiency.
• Unplug your electronics when not in use. To make it easier, use a power strip. Even when turned off, items like your television, computer, and cellphone charger still sip power.
• Dry your clothes outside whenever possible.
• Make minimal use of power equipment when landscaping.
• Defrost your refrigerator and freezer regularly.
• Choose green electricity. Many utilities give you the option to purchase electricity generated by wind and solar power for a small rate surcharge.
• Purchase carbon offsets to make up for the energy use you can't eliminate.

Reduce your Food Footprint

• Eat more local, organic, in-season foods.
• Plant a garden—it doesn't get more local than that.
• Shop at your local farmer's market or natural foods store. Look for local, in-season foods that haven't traveled long distances to reach you.
• Choose foods with less packaging to reduce waste.
• Eat lower on the food chain—going meatless for just one meal a week can make a difference. Globally, it has been estimated that 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions are associated with meat consumption.

Reduce your Housing Footprint

Choose sustainable building materials, furnishings, and cleaning products.

• Explore green design features for your building, like passive solar heating, a rainwater catchment or grey water recycling system, and recycled materials.
• Choose efficient appliances, including low flow shower heads, faucets, and toilets.
• Choose furnishings that are second-hand, recycled, or sustainably produced.
• Plant drought tolerant plants in your garden and yard.
• Use biodegradable, non-toxic cleaning products.

Adopt water-saving habits

• Take shorter, less frequent showers—this not only saves water, but the energy necessary to heat it.
• Don't use the garbage disposal. Compost instead.
• Run the dishwasher and the laundry machine only when full.
• Wash cars rarely, or better yet, take them to a carwash. Commercial carwashes use less water per wash than home washers, and they are also required to drain used water into the sewage system, rather than storm drains, which protects aquatic life.
• Avoid hosing down or power-washing your deck, walkways, or driveway.
• Regularly look for and fix leaks.

Reduce your Goods and Services Footprint

• Buy less! Replace items only when you really need to.
• Recycle all your paper, glass, aluminum, and plastic. Don't forget electronics!
• Compost food waste for the garden. Garbage that is not contaminated with degradable (biological) waste can be more easily recycled and sorted, and doesn't produce methane gases (a significant greenhouse gas contributor) when stored in a landfill.
• Buy recycled products, particularly those labeled "post-consumer waste."

New Ten rupee coin of India

New Ten rupee coin of India

 

Its released and now you can have it on your pocket!
RBI is ready to issue a new bimetallic 10 Rupee coin for circulation.

The look: The obverse side has the lion capitol with numeral 10 and year of manufacture.

On reverse side, a double line cross with a dot in each pellet of cross and denomination written in Hindi and English around.

This design has been prepaed by National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with the theme of Unity in Diversity.

The outer side metal is Nickel-Bronze and the inner side metal is Ferrous Steel.

The weight of the coin would be 8 grams and the diameter would be 28 mm.
The coins are being minted at mainly Noida and Mumbai mint.

The coins worth Rs.70 million was already stored in its stock till August 2008.

 

Maitriniche Lagn

Maitriniche Lagn (Girl friend's marriage!)

 

Nice poem on girlfriend's marriage..
One of my friend had forwarded it to me !

Recycle your phone

Recycle your mobile here:

Click here
Another UK Site
Recycle Here UK

I suggest you to always recycle electronics stuff.. Its all non-bio degradable material..

Start of new era!

Test it out . Writing from mobile. . .

050420091057

S60 3rd Edition applications download OTA

S60 3rd Edition applications download OTA - Forum Nokia Wiki

Quick configuration to make sure your OTA installation works fine.

Sample XML dd file : pls see in view source if not seeing xml tags
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my.SISX
7020
x-epoc/x-sisx-app
test
test
Demo app
msg.jsp
notifyi.jsp?ver=my.SISX

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IMP : Make sure you set correct mime type for .dd file

dd
application/vnd.oma.dd+xml


tomcat web.xml entry will look like this. Its really important in OTA based delivery and application download notification. Same holds true for other contents like mp3, amr, photos, videos as DRM based content. Its all digitally right managed content ;)

Report in TOI regarding Uranium leak harms to inborn abnormality:

Uranium deforming children of Faridkot

Strangely No Apparent Source Of Chemical In State

Priya Yadav | TNN

Faridkot: Big heads, bulging eyes, twisted hands that don’t reach their mouths and gnarled legs that can barely support their frail frames. Intrigued by the strange abnormalities visible among children in a pocket of Faridkot, a visiting South African toxicologist, Dr Carin Smit, had their hair samples sent to a German laboratory. The results, which have just come in, are shocking—the deformities were caused by alarmingly high levels of uranium.
“The test results have left us baffled as there’s no apparent source of uranium in Punjab,’’ said Prithpal Singh, head of the Baba Farid Centre for Special Children in Faridkot.
Intent on unravelling the bizarre ailment afflicting about 150 kids, more tests are being organised with the help of a team of German and South African doctors to establish if the traces found are from depleted uranium or natural sources. Dr Smit said, “When I first saw such overwhelming evidence of severe brain damage, I thought it was poisoning. I never suspected uranium.’’
Now she, along with Vera Dirr, another South African specialist, is here to collect urine samples. “Of the 149 children tested, 53 are likely to show more traces of uranium. We are now focusing on them to get more specific evidence.’’
The uranium-induced debility has rendered the kids unable to communicate. “If they get hurt or are bitten by, say, ants, they don’t feel the pain,’’ said Dr Prithpal. Yuvraj Singh, 7, has no control over his body. He can barely stand, eat or speak. “It’s agonising to watch him make futile attempts to reach out for things,’’ says Davinder Singh, a farmer from Mallan Wala village, about 60 km from Faridkot. Sarika, 13, can’t hold her head up, it flops sideways. It’s a struggle for her to eat.
For most parents living in anxiety, the arrival of the foreign specialists has brought a flicker of hope. “We desperately hope that the treatment willhelp my four-year-old grandson stand on his feet,’’ said Paramvir Singh from Korakpura, a village some 35 km away from Faridkot.
So, where could the uranium have come from? One possibility could be negligence while using uranium in heavy water reactors for the making of nuclear weapons. “The nearest nuclear power plant in India is in Kota, Rajasthan. But, Pakistan’s Khushab is not more than 150 km from the Indian border and has a thriving heavy water and natural uranium research reactor,’’ Smit said.
TIMES IMPACT
After TOI carried a report in some of its editions on Thursday, the Punjab government announced the setting up of a five-member committee to probe into the possible causes of the alarming levels of uranium in Faridkot. Shedding its earlier reluctance to look into the matter, the government is now not averse to rope in PGI experts for a scientific study into the issue. Faridkot civil surgeon S S Mahia, who will lead the five-member probe team, said, “We’ve taken five water samples from the town, including the centre where these children with uranium traces have been lodged. We plan to test the water for heavy metals.’’

Link to original article


I still think how it could be Pakistan nuclear wastage or Kota power plant nuclear dump? Either of place is far away from Faridkot ! If its Faridkot than why cities around the place are not affected.
Ideally, nuclear waste is dumped far away in sea or deserted area to avoid any such issue. Its kept under watch. Nuclear content in water & soil could help to investigate the issue further.

Where is Energy?

Recently, i visited govt site which has lot of gyan over energy sources and how Nuclear energy is better in comparison to other orthodox methods. It was all about going ahead with "123" policy !

I strongly feel, putting nuclear waste and accidents like Bhopal gas tragedy and Ukrainian plant explosion are very dangerous to man kind. We should strongly oppose more use of Nuclear power plant.. More than that Nuclear missile production and reasearch should be stooped unanimously all over the world.

Jai Ho !

Stock Watch-Stock Prices-Quotes-Stock Market News-Mutual Fund Portfolio

Stock Watch-Stock Prices-Quotes-Stock Market News-Mutual Fund Portfolio

Great product to watch your stocks on mobile... I work on this product :)
Investing Rs 99/- per month is worth to see my portfolio update
Being Airtel customer I can't avail this service.

Earth Hour 2009

Go Green ! Save Earth !


Lets promote Earth Hour 2009 by following complete switch off electric appliances. I 've taken few decisions to make earth better place to live. Here are few :

1. Switch off electric appliances whenever not needed.
2. Use public, shared transport.
3. No use of heating appliances. They consume huge energy
4. My Linux terminal is with black background with white font color.
5. Brightness to medium
6. Linux Gnome color theme switched to black, low intense
7. Planning to purchase a bicycle so can use in it to travel nearby places. I wake to way my office (Its too close to drive J)

More resources on http://www.earthhour.in/resources.aspx

Aamir Khan is doing. Lets contribute in your own ways to make Earth better place to live...
Not for your own interest but at least think of our next generation and man kind!!!

Reliance broadband bakwaas service too bad

Folks,

Recently I experienced service by India's largest industries : Reliance - Anil Ambani group. I tell u its really bad.

Marketing guy from RIL came to me and offered broadband connections free of cost. Which is added 500/- in very first bill. Bill came 11 days after connection was activated. It was 1000/- bill on 12th day of service. Its included 50/- telephone charges which are said to be free service.

It was total mess up in bill. I asked RIL to disconnect the service.
termination request : 8457 4299 ... which is yet to terminate, i guess
net connection change request:8457 4628 .. don't know what its for
Customer care guy @ 1800 30007777
told me its correct bill


RIL customer care called me 50 times for bill payment. Nobody never updated me on service termination request.
Unfortunately, I also got second bill even though I never used this bakwaas service in that time span.
Anyway, I'm still fighting to close on service with RIL...

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I had earlier experinced similar thing in Reliance Money demat account connection thing... these people will never stop fooling people.

Hope more victims will not fall pray to them...

So, I hate Reliance & its services...

VirtualBox by Sun

VirtuaBox :

Sun took over Innotek VBox. Master class product to use multiple OSs on Linux box. I have became huge fan when I tried it. Most imp thing is no sign up, trial version OR registration headache.. Goes very well as open source.

As Linux user, I had limitation while using Microsoft supported stuff. As company intranet & many websites are still IE crazy. I installed Xp with Vbox on my Linux FC6.
Product site Download Page
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Win Xp on Linux Box :



Its was of great use when I started playing Counter Strike. I can start Vbox & play CS. Only you need to care is space & physical memory allocated should be good enough to do your stuff on VBox.

If you go for multiple OS on Vbox.. Physical memory allowed to allocate reduces as underlined OS need to have enough memory..

Guys you can enjoy all your games, movie, other utils of Win environment which may not work in Linux with WINE. Most of n/w stuff don't work with WINE.

Enjoy !
Keep posted if any issue.

micro emulator on FC6 Linux

Micro emulator :

Tried hands on java-j2me emulator on linux machine. Its also helpful in j2me development & trying out small java apps.

To add micro emulator as command in linux, put below lines in a file named microemulator. change permissions to executable. put the file in system path ie /usr/bin or any bin path

Command can set user-agent as "Nokia6030" same can be changed to any phone. Using proxy to connect net. Assuming microemulator is installed at path /opt/microemulator-2.0.1/
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java -Dhttp.agent="Nokia6030/Nokia" -Dhttp.proxyHost= -Dhttp.proxyPort= -Xms32m -Xmx64m -jar /opt/microemulator-2.0.1/microemulator.jar -cp /opt/microemulator-2.0.1/lib/t/microemu-nokia-120.jar $1
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You can delete RMS data stored by application by deleting midp suite data path : /home/mahendra/.microemulator/suite-*

For more details :

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kudzu FC8 Eth1 Linux

Another post on linux after long time.

My friend Chinmay had issue with RealTek NIC on FC8. This guy had already destroyed 2 NIC on same machine. After opening the box, he placed the NIC on 2nd Ethernet slot on mother board. Rebooting machine didn't showed the eth1.

Followed the below steps to add the device :

1. First command to run after new h/w addition in any linux box : kudzu

2. kudzu detected the Ethernet card and added it in but couldn't show it when seen with ifconfig as eth1 config file was not on place.

3. I checked MAC of card with ifconfig -a , device was with name tmp_sakjdh132 ..
4. Created copy of eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcnf-eth0.conf to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcnf-eth1.conf

5. Changes MAC in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcnf-eth1.conf .

6. /etc/init.d/network restart solved all issue.

ifconfig showed eth1 with valid IP

Thats all !
Chinmay was than back to work. Trying to damage 3rd NIC card on his machine ;)

Ssh on Mobile !

Guys,

Many of mobile phone user wish to access their server through Ssh proto. I got something for you. Only thing you should have is basic midp1.0 supported phone

You can download the app from http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/download.php here . Depending on phone capabilily you should donwload java/midp app.

Only you need is Gprs connectivity to download and connect the server. App has nice functionality like macro, store session, font change.


ps -eaf Screen Shot 2

Here are some screen shots :

Top command o/p on N72 with midp ssh. I even have putty for Symbian client. But I think this is the best ssh client.








TOP Screen Shot 2


Another with dynamic screen. I feel only drawback is connectivity handled by java. S60 Putty work in better manner for connectivity.. Its bit obvious as java has to access native API of Symbian/Proprietor OS of the Phone.

You can download Putty for S60 from here

Download Page S60

If you are facing any connectivity issue.. Let me know. Would like to share some more stuff.. :)

Pls make sure you have unlimited data plan for GPRS access. :) ... Should not get heart attach on seeing mobile bill ;)

Enjoy

Ssh stable reverse tunnel

Many servers are being accessed using tunnels and we are tired of recreating the tunnel again & again. Here is script which can sure the availability of tunnel.
The solution to use ssh command without using the console(tty) is to add -t -t option. Option can be used for remote/local tunnels also.
Eg : ssh -t -t -R 2222:localhost:22 username@

This will create a pseudo terminal which will login to remote server. So, actual terminal is not engaged by ssh proc, which makes the tunnel more stable & consistent. To add on further check, we can check if ssh proc is running & create new ssh tunnel using shell script with a cron job at hourly interval. Shell script can be changed to reset tunnel every hour using kill $PID & recreate tunnel to insure availability.
For further details check man pages. Such tunnels can be configured to allow remote login to office machine. Feel free to ask if have any query. Sample tunnel script attached with mail.

Further suggestion are welcome !

Outing at S'pore East coast

Most memorable thing was roaming testing done with Starhub team. We actually went for outing on east coast. It was great fun. Testing was a nominal thing. Team had planned for lunch in coastal area Indian Hotel. I was accompanied by Sabrina (The lady boss), Rachel (The cute lightweight girl), Fiona (Fairly family lady), Gek Choo (Elderly religious vegetarian lady). All ladies with Chinese origin/look but very caring attitude. We placed the order, I still remember the order :

1. Dal Makhani - Sabrina asked to have bucket full of daal after seeing same on next table
2. Butter chicken- As it was must to have non-veg
3. Naan- 1 Mango, 1 cheese, 2 butter.
4. Veg rice + some spicy sup for Gek Choo.

I went to wash my hands as Indian culture. Ladies were confused, why this guy went away.. when lunch is ready. I started eating with right hand.. cutting piece of naan with fore finger & support of mid finger & thumb.. as typical roti eater does. It was amazing thing for ladies. Sabrina tried cut roti with fingers but couldn't.
And Rachel was cutting her naan with fork & spoon. Some how she managed to finish her stuff but couldn't digest it. As on next day she told she had bad stomach & had to go bathroom many times. Gek Choo had ordered some spicy rice which to too much hot to eat. She keep on drinking water along with sup & rice.

I tell you, I really enjoyed the lunch. I guess, it was very difficult thing to digest for ladies. Before landing to hotel, I was agreed to sponsor the party. Bill was some 80$ = 80X33 = 2640RS which will go for party of 15 people in India. Never mind. Bill was refunded by my company & that lunch was most memorable lunch in S'pore.

Great stuff..
Great people... to keep long lasting memories..

Mangesh-Vrushali kissa

Dear friends,

There was a small dude named Mangesh.. We use to call him "Mong". On his other side...His only love... Vrushali..


They loved each other like anything..

But fate separated them after college days..

The day came in Pune, Mong saw her again near Kothrud and it again started their old affair again!!

They plan to go for date.. place was "Zudpachya mage"

I guess, people understood.. what happened next to it !!!!

b bye

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