Monday, July 31, 2006

2 weeks in Xavient

It`s been two weeks since i joined Xavient ,but amazingly Daily 3 hours Journey to and Fro to office hasn`t affected even a inch to me. Rather i am Enjoying it,



I have learned so much here and amazingly by myself only. I completed Java Core in these two weeks and Right now working on Swing, Big time.

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1.00006, originally uploaded by chanakya_the_master.


Made some Very good friends, to name Bharat, Shiv , Amit, Mustu, Shilpa...

I would again like to Point out , Yaar the Working Atmosphere and Food is really Good, The People are very much helpful here(atleast to me), And getting Linux Installed on my PC doesn`t seems to me a very Big Problem as it would have been in any Organization.

Btw my Mentor name is Mr. Roop Kishore , he got a real good knowledge and Experience, Hope to learn a Lot of things here in next 4 weeks.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

HindiManiac

I have a full nothing to do Saturday tomorrow, Because of some Confusion in my college management, They fired the Main lab admin and Yet no one new haven`t taken his place. So couldn`t work on College Internal server this Saturday.

So what to do ?, Due to Xavient i am too much endrosed in Java and Couldn`t really make a mood to learn something new in Python.
Then there came a Pending Work , Install Hindi and Get Scim working , I was supposed to do this Long before,But u know....;)

Amazingly the whole process just took 2 minutes , last time in Breezy when i Setup the SCIM it was a real Pain . But Dapper had improved a lot in this Area,

For installing i just Selected the Hindi in Language tools and Voila all is Setup, :)
Just fire the Gedit , select the Input method as SCIM and select hindi (phonetic or inscript) and Here u go .......(would be writing a complete Howto soon)

Now i do the Next good thing that can be done , Fired the Launchpad site, login into my account , Selected Hindi as preferred language and Started Translating , No idea how many Strings i have translated , But it was fun.



Would like to point out this great site ShabdKosh a online English -Hindi Dictionary, Helped a Lot During the Translation....

Hope to add more things in Translation in near future , Would love to work in mainstream as i am not very sure that these translations are being updated over the main repository or not.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

I knew That -- Which X-Men are you

You Are Wolverine

Small but fierce, you're a great fighter.
Watch out! You are often you're own greatest enemy.

Powers: Adamantium claws, keen senses, the ability to heal quickly

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

My EQ --People Say i am more emotional

Your EQ is 113

50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!
51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you'd have better luck understanding Chinese.
71-90: You've got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.
91-110: You're average. It's easy to predict how you'll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that.
111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.
131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.
150+: Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Top 5 Reasons why I hate Ubuquity

I don`t have a Bad childhood , So generally i don`t hate things Easily. But the Day from when i am Rejoicing Dapper Release, I really Hate Ubuquity(the Live Desktop CD Installer), And here the Five top reasons i can Quote.


1. I am Poor and I have only 256 Mb RAM of memory , Like 100 others in my hostel, But then Why i hate ubuquity if it says a requirement of 256 MB RAM and i have it.
Ubuquity+Live CD Hogs complete Memory of the System,And you have to wait and wait for next screen to come on, On the Contrary Dapper Runs Fine or Rather i say with perfection. Who will Explain This ?

2. It`s Buggy, Till Date when Dapper has Released We have Done Nearly 100 Workstation Installation attempts on Different PC`S. And the First Time Success Rate is 20%. Now Compare to the Previous D-I Installer, It was fast, Stable and Quite easy (except dumbheads).

3. Not enough Documentation Available, So anyone want to work on Ubuquity had to Study all code from scratch, That`s not bad. But surely not a good option.

4. Soon after Ubuquity is Released The New motherboards with RAID support refused to detect the Hard disk And this is confirmed by Ubuntu , The remedy is to stop two running Processes, But Ubuquity was supposed to for Newbies isn`t it.

5.When you select Manual Partition on Normal Hard disks, Ubuquity Crashed .It`s a BUG and a serious one. Look at here Kubuntu Known Problems

If we really Intended to go for GUI installer . We should look anaconda as option.

Friday, July 21, 2006

My Numereology Report

Found a Nice site free of charge made by a indian numerolgist Bharathwaj Nandakumar, Site URL is NumAstro.com And here is My Numerology Report

Basic Number :
Your basic number is 7. Hence if Monday falls on 2nd,7th,11th,16th,20th,25th or 29th, these days will be good for you.

Number 7 (Ruling planet : Ketu/Moon) :
Number 7 people are idealists, seeking utopia and living in an imaginary world of their own. They are more impractical than practical. They may achieve success spiritually, but are not so lucky in materialistic achievements. They are advised to be more practical. Their positive qualities are intellectualism, spirituality, scientific research, wisdom, and refinement. They are fond of travel and change. They excel in poetry, painting and similar fine arts where imagination is a good asset. They work more by hunch than reasoning and often make good money. They are generous and are inclined to charity and benevolence. They have the power of intuition.

Gemini (May 21 – June 21) :
Persons born under this sign have mercurial qualities. Physically they are nimble but mentally they are alert. They have good speaking and writing abilities. These persons can succeed in any sphere when they are a link between two parties – that is, they make agents, distributors, salesman etc. They also do well in advertising and journalism.

They have latent abilities in the field of scientific research, mathematics and commerce. They are gifted with the powers of imitation, and can also succeed as actors on the stage. Travels and affairs far off from the homeland help in augmenting their finances. These people are adaptable and accommodating. They are honest and noble hearted, but when they intend to withhold facts, they can lead a double life. They, generally, earn money by entering into services or engaging in trade. But their finances are not steady. Sometimes they have money to spare and, at other times, their finances may be so depleted that they do not have enough even for routine expenses.

Gemineans are very versatile, but their lack of concentration makes them more a jack of all trades and master of none. They will have greater success in life if they do not change their occupation, but concentrate on one job or one vocation.

Those born under this sign are religious, and this factor is likely to cause some changes in their life. They will be strongly attracted towards joining a secret religious society. Towards middle age, the natives will meet many obstacles and impediments which will hamper their career and check promotions. These will be caused by enemies and opponents.

The weak side of Geminean natives is to take a quick and superficial view of things and inability to concentrate. They crave frequent change, both physically and mentally in their work environment. If they curb these tendencies by forethought and practice, their indulgence and activity will earn them better dividends in life.

Harmonies Based on Date of Birth
Number Ruling Planet Colours Gems & Stones Metals
7 Ketu/Moon Silver, Opal, Pale Yellow, Light Green

Ban Lifted --Finally

Ban Lifted Finally , It was all goof ups ....

Here is the complete news http://www.ibnlive.com/news/government-lifts-ban-on-blogsites/16155-11.html

Visit the Google Group for more Information

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Blogspot Is Down, Blocked in India

As i write this Blog Entry i knew very well that , no one will be able to read this entry, But this Thing definitely needs a write up, This is Frustating and Insane , The government is Blocking Blog , Because some terrorist are using Blogs to communicate between them ,

Read Complete Article here.

Next time government may ask to put down all Mobile Phone Operators as They also help in Communication between terrorists or Worst ban all satellites so that no one can do any sort of communication .

This is insane and Pure Act of Stupidity Shown by Indian Government, Thousands of Indian Blogs are accessed Worldwide, and Banning them means Letting Down all Bloggers and Worst of all the Reason on putting it Down

"update"

I found a Way to Bypass this Ban , A Blogging gateway system PKBLOGS can be used to access your Blogspot Blogs.

All you wanted to know about the ban Labnol Blogs
"/update"

Friday, July 14, 2006

Salute to Gora

It`s not been a while when I joined The ILUGD , Incidentally it completed a one year this month only.

And Apart from Raju the man from whom i am greatly Impressed is Gora Mohanty, His passion , His Compassion was great and Above all a Blind Person could also tell that this person is Full of Experience and knowledge.

But today something Different Happen, I wanted to mail Gora for some details and as Gmail was block from my Office , I googled Gora Mohanty and Here`s the Result.

Man this Guy was a AstroNomical Scientist , It had made me More excited Why he left US (because according to my knowledge). But according to His commitment seen towards the Indian Language computing , I am damn sure "it`s the Love towards India , That brought Him back".

I would certainly ask him one day

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Day 1 - Xavient Information Systems

My first day in Xavient was rather gone in waiting and Confusion, Rather being the first day , suprisingly I was only 15 minutes late, And to my Bad-luck mine Project Manager was missing , So i did what i do best , Day Dreaming the Next two hours.( Damn I should have Brought along my camera).

Then he arrived and Apolozied ( Yeah he seems to be a good person), and told me to go with my lunch , untill he get my system ready.

Lunch hmm, But from where this office is damn away frm main city and i couldn`t find agood dhaba, Then a programmer (i make friends easily ;) Amit told me he have the recreation centre and cafetaeria downstairs where i could take Lunch , And there came my stupid question " How much it cost", he laughs and said " it`s Free". ( who says there is no free lunch , he he ).

So here i am having some very good cooked food after so many days away form home. Really i should have patted the Cook .Food was really good.

Now came the Show Time, The PM handed me to System Admin, who guided me to my cabin
,And then everyone heard a soft scream, Windows, :(, I asked "I thought i was going to work on Linux based PC`s " , And then came the Excuse " it will provided you by your team leader, Wait untill you get alotted in a Team ", Grrr

And After configuring Outlook for my Intranet Mail, Came the HR mail , you will be Given Team tommorrow , For today I am sending you the Company Policies STUDY, Which i gone through in a second , he he.

And the rest whole day spent by studying the Ubunntu WIki, It has some great Information DO check it out .
Chalo yaar going home ......

Visit Xavient for More information about Company.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING OF INDIA LINUX USERS' GROUP

Today i went to the Annual general Body Meeting of India Linux user`s group (Why it is Not Indian Linux User Group Delhi, ;), he he.....


It was Fun with elections this time,But in comparison to last time we really don`t have much people into as candidates ( dare i say no one , as all of the people were volunteered).





Here`s the complete Photo gallery

So it started off something Like this :-


1. Raj giving a introductory talk about the meeting and told about currently elected members.

2. Kishore the treasurer Presented the accounts.

3. Kishore accounted the achievements of ILUGD , which Included RKGIT two days workshop and Seminar.

4.Then Elections were held, and the following people have been elected to
posts in the society:
President Raj Mathur
Vice-president Andrew Lynn
General secretary Gora Mohanty
Joint secretary Nikhil Prabhakar
Treasurer Kishore Bhargava
Member #1 Devapriya Chaudhury
Member #2 Gaurav Mishra(/me)

5.Then we have some brief discussion of various activities about the ILUGD calendar for this year. Which included.
* Expansion of Mentorship program to other colleges and get NCRF fundings

* Organizing Freedel a Event in September for which JNU will be providing it`s campus

* A tech -support organization by ILUGD which will be targeting mainly academic
places.The idea is to have a self-sustaining, scalable
setup that caters only to non-profit organizations rather than
being entirely commercial.

* An idea was put forward of putting together a list of qualified
FOSS personnel, vetted by ILUG-Delhi. Which was put aside for more discussion.

And then Everyone parted for the Real thing Partying

Saturday, July 08, 2006

WikiMapia -- An excellent Example of Community

Wiki were the Best thing after Tea, Which is easily shown By one of the most popular site on internet Wikipedia.

Today in open Source World Almost all Documentation is done through Wiki, My favorite one is Ubuntu Wiki.

And What happen when a marvelous technology from Google and Community Comes Together. WIkiMapia is the Online Version Of the Masterpiece Google Earth, (BTW google earth is Available on Linux too, Read here)

believe me It`s got better zooming capabilities than Google earth. I was able to zoom upto 200 ft over my House. :)

Here`s a screenshot



It`s nice to see it says the Exact Location From Main area On the Title bar

WikiMapia
rightly says Let`s describe the whole Earth.

Back to KarmaBhoomi

Just returned to Good Old Hot Ghaziabad, Now i havea Joining for my training on Monday yet to get Update of the Company in which i am going to do my training, :)

Let`s see how the First Day in First COmpany goes Like.

For rest of week :-

1. Sunday ;- ILUGD General Body meet and Elections for new Body. Read it here
2. Monday :- joining My Training.

Ps:- will be Updating

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Will not Blog for some Days

Back at home i don`t have internet connection at home and it`s difficult to blog from cafe. So Blogging is closed for some days....