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QC : Quality Control. Do we have a quality control mechanism for our life? Ask this question to yourself  and QC the answer. These days Quality has become a rare element. Quality is not something which can be incorporated in to the system suddenly. Its an habit. It is very easy for any of us to loose the quality aspect by looking at peoples activities around you. But we should not do this.  Quality is something which you follow even when no one is watching.  Let you be a student / teacher / software engineer  / or any professional in-general if you miss the quality component you have lost everything.  At the initial stages focussing on quantity may look like giving you the success but actually it is not.  Quality is an habit which need to be inculcated in to the young minds.  There is a famous quote by Mahathma Gandhiji : " It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity ". So please don't do any task s...

A small story: Long ago, (Not so long ago) there was a Guruji who had few students. He used to take his classes under a tree. One day when he was taking class there was a Cat roaming around that area disturbing the concentration of students.  So the Guruji decided to tie that cat to a near by tree and gave it some milk to drink so that it would keep quite. The next day Guruji had to visit some other place. So he asked one of his senior students to handle that day's classes. As per the words of Guruji, that senior student was ready to take the class. But he seemed to be disturbed and worried. His friends asked him the reasons. And he replied: " I am ready to take the class. But what to do? The cat is missing. Our Guruji used to  tie the cat to that tree while he was taking the classes. So i also need to follow the same thing. But to my worry the Cat is Missing". Most of our modern day activities are like this only. We have forgotten the soul of the concepts and simply stic...

No.. No.. This is not yet another philosophical post.  I was in need of opening large text files. Large in order of 2+ GB for a single text file.  Tried with notepad. Result : Need to press Ctrl + Alt + Del to rescue my comp With Notepad++, my favourite text editor, it was struggling to open it.  Tried with Wordpad, Office 2007 Word etc.. Not satisfied with the performance. Then found Large Text File Viewer. A freeware. Sized only  367 KB .  http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/Large-Text-File-Viewer.shtml To my surprise it was opening the large files without even a single second delay. An awesome tool esp. for my current need.  The features of this tool are: · It uses little memory and is able to open a gigabyte file instantly. · Background file indexing makes browsing even faster. · It allows the user to perform high-speed complex text search by means of plain text or regular expression. The regular expre...

I found the result rendering of Google broken as the logo and next previous buttons going for a toss... Is it a bug? Really dont know... I am not able to reproduce the same. However, look at the following screenshot: Btw, It happened in Chrome 5.0 / Win XP SP3. Have you experienced any such things??? 

Event I On a lazy sunday morning, I was watching a Test match between India Vs SriLanka. Indian bowlers were getting smashed all across the ground.. Btw, cricket is not the theme of this post. Commentators Tony Craig and Arun lal were talking about the number of crows in and around the stadium, which was more interesting than the game itself. Arun Lal was admiring about the birds and was mentioning about the importance of crows in the Hindu mythology. Event II  In the afternoon, same day, i was at the doorstep of a clinic in pondicherry town. Many vehicles were passing by. Among that a Tata Sumo, suddenly stopped at the cross link between two roads near by. A door was opened and a fellow was vomitting. Thanks to the specialty of pondicherry. :) that has gone into him. The place was looking very disgusting. Without worrying about all these things the road was busy. I was thinking about who will clean this???? With in 5 mins or so, there landed our hero - The crow. Started cleani...

" < minutes / > " : A new component in my regular "Internet Programming and Web Technologies" Lecture session. In each session 10 mins will be allocated to one student. He/she has to utilize that time to present a recent innovation/happening/event in the field of Web Technology. The idea is to enrich both the communication and technological updates of the students in a participative manner. Thought of recording it through digi cam. Need to execute in a professional way, the recording. An another decision that I have taken is to utilize the "Google Moderator" for publishing the class room queries and discussions. Have allocated one enthusiastic student for that purpose as coordinator. Well... Need to wait and watch how these things would shape-up. PS: The naming credit " < minutes / > " goes to Jayarathna Madharasan, an another enthusiastic student of IPWT class.

"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho was my companion for last week. As it has been accepted by people all across the globe, it is one of the most interesting & "must read" novel. It was gifted to me at-least six months back.. I never tried reading the book,  though the gift was from person with real care. Hmmm, after all its about "Maktub"... ( Try googling to find out the meaning of the Arabic word "maktub" if you are very eager or wait until the end of the post) For those who have not heard about this book, it is a story about a boy - his journey - his mindset - expectations - struggles - success - which we can easily relate with our own experiences. One of the most interesting feature about the book is the "messages" that author coveys through the characters. Really Nice. The below given are my favourite "messages" from the book: "Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives,...

I have made a post each on these two books right at the moment I got interest on them. Now having completed reading both , I thought why not to register my thoughts on them again. Result is this post. Moondru Viral: This book is about the sequence of events that happens in the life of a Software Engineer (Sudarsan). Specifically about his experiences at on-site. One at Britan and another at Thailand.  At the outset, this book is written in a smoother language which every one can understand. Reminds the legendary writer Mr.Sujatha  at many places if not in each page at least once. Nothing wrong. I feel that no modern day writer (in tamil) can write without the influence of him. Moreover the story base is also technology oriented. Author's knowledge about both these countries and their culture is transparent.  "Kun" Ira Murugan has (those who have read the book can understand this) detailed many things about Thai culture, thei...

One of the shows of my interest in Vijay TV is Neeya Nana. Last week-end the debate was on "Modern age spiritual Gurus (MSG)". I love the way Mr. Gopinath pilots the show. No wonder this time too it was very good. An important question that was raised during the show was "Why do people need (or go for) spiritual gurus?". - Relief from routine tensions. - To avoid the feel of guiltiness - A mystery element in the life. - Branding - People who lack self-confidence. Well said. Even if you are a believer what is the thing that you would get from the MSG which you don't get in a temple (or church or masjith). They are just the translators of the things that have been given in Vedas, Upanishads (holy texts in general). It is always good to refer the original source if you need. We cant escape by simply saying "No Time; Not able to understand". Even if you can not refer complex scripts, the Ithihasas (Ramayana and Mahabharatha) are always there which are ea...

These are my summer vacation days. These days I feel scared to tune in to any of the news channels. I mean it. If you closely look at the recent news : - Fake / Expired medicines - Expired food products - Unprecedented corruption at Medical CI. - Dantewada : 70+ CRPF man killed - Yet another attack in the surrounding place in a Bus killing 30+ - Mangalore plane crash - 150+ killed - Attack / Sabotage on Train in WB - Killing 80+ (as I am keying this) All of these have happened within a short period. And they have all happened in our own country. And we are experts at playing the blame game.  And the above list is only a very small sample of whats happening all across the globe. All the religions unanimously declare that, "God is Love" - "Anbe Sivam" . With my limited understanding I am not able to find any love in the above mentioned events.  Every one of them killed would have a family. He/She might run a business. On that many families migh...

Hmm... I have Windows XP & 7 in my home PC. (Of course Ubuntu is also there).. Of late my XP had almost experienced the near-death scenario.  As usual initially system was becoming slow.. slower... slowest... Then it reached the next stage i.e. whenever I connected to net the system got rebooted automatically... System became totally un-responsive...  Then decided to go for an efficient(!!) anti virus.. Almost decided a brand to buy which costed ~Rs. 1600 for a three users license. Just before the purchase landed on to "Avast" anti virus site. They say it is free for "home users"... As said in the first line itself  the problem was on my home pc.. so I am a home user... ha ha ... Downloaded & Installed "avast" free edition.. Made the complete scan of my machine... it has 320 GB hard disk. To my surprise it completed scanning within 45 mins or so (more than 2.5 lakhs files) ... I expected much higher than this... It was t...

Well... May 2010.. We all agree the theory of evolution, still. And we do believe that we have six senses and therefore we are the most advanced form of creature. I would like to differ at this point.  A sudden thought, giving birth to this post.. (Would try to translate my mind-map in to English.. Lets see how much I would succeed) Note the title which is the compressed form of Plant + Planet. -> Pla(ne)t. As we all know the mother earth is shared by both plants and animals. (ya.. we, humans being the social animal!!!.. Joke of the millennium)..  Most of us looks at the plants like they are simpler systems than animals/ us. But if you think deeply, look at the power these plants have. They have the ability to "manufacture" their own food (recall your school botany class photosynthesis, chlorophyll etc.). What a magical power it is!!!! Though it has been taken for granted, think of a scenario if humans / animals also  get this po...

To make it one word "Wonderful"  is the right adjective to describe this book. Pallavi Iyer's (   Smoke and Mirros: An Experience of China )   flow of the book seems to be very nice.. (Though I  read the tamil translation by Raman Raja). "What do we know about China?... Nothing" is one of the few catchy lines in the first page of the book. China has been a black box for majority of us here. The book is not a simple travelogue. You can really get a feel of China by reading this book. Few things that attracted me: How controlled is China. Strict reciprocal to India. Chinese language has no characters to represent foreign names. Even names have to be "translated" to Chinese to represent. Demolishing most of the structures in Beijing for the Olympics (without any opposition) ... Think of the scenario here where even the smallest of smallest roadside temple demolition would raise lots of criticism.  Internal Passport mechanism to control the...

Imagine year 2020.  How would you be using your web? Somewhere I read this analogy: "the cars of early days mimicked ancient manual vehicles. Similarly the web of today mimic the books / newspapers / magazines of yesteryears".. then really how the web would be as the time progresses? Fascinating....  During the past 2 ~3  years webosphere has seen exciting new ideas. Blogs reaching the unprecedented capacity in terms of quantity and inclusiveness.. No need to explicitly mention about "Micro blogging" services like twitter , Google Buzz etc... Phenomenal growth .... Lets chart-out few possible web advaaaaaancements...(In my opinion:) "Web of Things" would occupy a major area of webosphere in the future..  Think about IP enabled Washing Machines, IP enabled Microwave ovens, Refrigerators.. all routing semantic content among them...  You might even get a oven/cooker which would suggest the possible recipes that you can make based on the ...

Today life depends on Gadgets / Appliances. For some it would be few... For others they are many. Few are essential. Others are luxurious / fancy. The case with essential gadgets is different. But what about fancy gadgets? This post is about A/C : Air-Conditioner. Of-late, many of us have become accustomed to living in A/C environment. You might raise an objection that A/C is not a fancy gadget. Whether something is fancy or not truly depends on the society that you live in. In a society of ours, where people are not getting electricity for irrigation, where mandatory power-cuts have become order-of-the-day, where students studying for their exams need to struggle with constant power cuts etc., the decision of treating A/C luxury or not is left up to you. For me it is for sure. A 1000 Watts appliance running for an hour would consume 1 Kilo Watts of power.  Even a 1 ton A/C would consume more than 1000 Watts. Calculate the power consumption for days / nigh...

It was a summer day. Hot & Sunny morning, 10:30 AM. I was waiting, for my friend @ Anna Salai, Pondicherry (Thanks to very few living trees @ Anna Salai). Within couple of minutes I noticed that many elderly couples were there with few covers / bags in their hands. The purpose of their visit was to a bank near by. ~95% of them were struggling to manage the steps @ that bank's branch. I had a closer look at those steps. Horrible is the right adjective to describe the status.... It was not clean... Corners of many of the steps were broken... damaged.. Initially thought there are only 4 or 5 steps .. then i realized that the bank is operating in the first floor... There was no support to climb on those stairs. First few of them were big.. and then smaller... Unevenly sized... Those who managed climbing these stairs were finding it very difficult to come down.. Even noticed one using a nebulizer...I guess these senior citizens have to manage with this bank atleast once in a mon...

Thought of listing the places from where my blog got hits during March 2010. The countries from where hits came from are : India United States Germany Republic of Korea Malaysia Pakistan Turkey United Arab Emirates etc... I understand that these are IP based identification. (So there is a chance of difference from the actual) Nevertheless thought of listing the cities from where i got traffic in March 2010. Thanks to all the Buzz friends who kept on commenting all the entries that I made. 

The announcement of GSoc 2010: "Google Summer of Code  (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We have worked with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period.  Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together nearly 3,400 students and more than more than 3,000 mentors & co-mentors from nearly 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through  Google Summer of Code , accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits.  In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released...

சில நேரங்களில் எனக்கு ஒரு சந்தேகம் வருவதுண்டு, "திருக்குறள் ஒரே ஒரு மனிதரால் எழுதப்பட்ட நூல் தானா?" என்று. திருவள்ளுவர் வாழ்ந்தது இன்டர்நெட் இல்லாத காலம். (!!)ஏன் இதை குறிப்பிடுகிறேன் என்றால் "இத்துணை துறைகள் சார்ந்த அறிவை ஒரே ஒரு மனிதர் எந்த ஒரு தகவல் தொடர்பு கண்டுபிடிப்புகளும் இல்லாத காலத்தில் எப்படி பெற்றார்? ". ஒவ்வொரு முறையும் யாரோ ஒருவர் அவர் சார்ந்த துறை குறித்து திருவள்ளுவரை மேற்கோள் காட்டும் பொழுதும் எனக்கு மிகுந்த ஆச்சர்யமாகவும் , பிரமிப்பாகவும் இருக்கும்.  மென்பொருள் வடிவாக்கம் குறித்து திருக்குறள் கருத்துக்கள் ஏதேனும் ஒத்து வருமா என்று திருக்குறள் அதிகாரங்களை "முறைத்து" பார்த்துக்கொண்டிருந்த போது கண்ணில் பட்டது "வினைசெயல் வகை" என்ற அதிகாரம்.  இந்த அதிகாரத்தில் குறிப்பிட பட்டுள்ள குறள்களில் "வினை" என்பதை "மென்பொருள் வடிவாக்கம்" என்று எடுத்துக்கொண்டால் , சாப்ட்வேர் இன்ஜினியரிங் கொள்கைகளுடன் அவை ஒத்து போவதை உணரலாம் . எடுத்துக்காட்டாக : பொருள்கருவி காலம் வினையிடனொடு ஐந்தும்  இருள்தீர எண்ணிச் செயல். Do an ...