Help Worth To Note

Today while coming to office, a very old lady has requested me to help her in crossing the road and I dutifully did that has have a very different impact all through the day... A sense of strange happiness of helping someone...

Out of all people crossing over her, something must be there to prompt her to ask help from me...

Hmmm... a real sense of happiness...

Likewise few days ago I donated few bucks to another very aged grand-ma who was begging in the road... that day too I had this same sensation of satisfaction...

Also daily I'm seeing an old lady sitting under a tree on the way I used reach the Chepauk railway station attracts my attention..... she must be left alone without any to help her... very dis heartening to see how bad people are treated in their homes and society(which includes me) having no-care attitude towards those most needed people...

I'm sure the day, sorry the time I get the disposable income in my hand will saw a new beginning of service organization which may be handled by me if possible or through someone to serve this most needed people...

Until then I wish her and people like her have at least a peaceful life if not a comfortable life...

Bachelor's Heaven - Triplicane/Chepauk, Chennai

Triplicane aka Thiruvallikeni(Thiru-valli-keni) and Chepauk of Chennai is famously dubbed as bachelor's heaven, all because of its host of mansion spread almost 70% of this area. Mansion in the sense here are not the pose big mansions which are being usually referred in western media, here its just a building with small rooms all up to the third or fourth floor which are typically shared by two, three or four people. This kind of jam-packed buildings which houses more people per sq.km makes this area unusually crowded.

Triplicane aka Thiruvallikeni(Thiru-valli-keni) and Chepauk of Chennai also houses lots of mess to cater to food needs of people who stay here far away from home. These mess are typical hotels made out of small houses which provides home-made taste foods at very reasonable prices. This mess's combining with the mansion's make up the most of this area and very attractive to new comers to Chennai since it gives head start of new den at new land in matter of minutes.

Here are the pictures I took in this area, and this is an even organized to celebrate some anniversary of the temple.

Though the event is nothing to-do with god, it draws big crowd thanks to the home away people who has no work other than roaming after their official work...

A typical narrow lane which is the only way of accessing the most of place in and around Triplicane aka Thiruvallikeni(Thiru-valli-keni) and Chepauk

The event

Not even a single female heads... a true point to prove the bachelor kingdom...

Some crap dancing event...

Man in women performing a dance from famous Chachi-420 movie as dressed like the star Kamal Hasan...

The same fool...

I have seen this short guy in some flims, but couldn't remember exactly... he too was there to perform...

A makeshift stage... which may fall anytime..

An interesting performance... man playing with fire... he did without any safety kit.. and all vulnerable things around him like electric transformer, electric wire right over his head... hmmm who cares....

the same fire guy...

A bunch of cats which has its home in a street which is strangely called as 'Khanna Bagh' street...

Way To PSR Engineering College From Kovilpatti

Those days of traveling 3 hours everyday to and fro from my home to reach my college PSR was all eventful filled with fun and ecstasy, all thanks to the gang of people who travel by our college bus.

This time around I happened to visit my grandma place traveling through the same plains I used to travel to reach the PSR college... All the way from Kovilpatti to Sevalpatti, one can't see anything much other than rocky mountains, small villages which comes once at every 5 or 10 KMs, part agriculture lands and part dry, unused lands.... so its completely different from the current metro life... though Chennai metro life is different it has lots of improve compared to true metros...

The trace route between Kovilpatti and my college is, Kovilpatti -> Ileyaresanathal(Ile-ya-resa-nathal) -> Sippiparai(Sip-pi-parai) -> Naduvapatti (Nadu-va-patti) -> Myparai(My-parai) -> Sangupatti(San-gu-patti) -> Thiruvengadam(Thiru-venga-dam) -> Kundampatti(Kund-am-patti) -> finally my college PSR which is at Sevalpatti(Sev-al-patti).

A near no-man land like the Mars... its between Kovilpatti and Thiruvengadam(Thiru-venga-dam)

A vegetated land...

Its none other than Mr Karthikeyan Ramchel
(its for clueless search crawlers to identify me and my page for this term)

My cousin Raj.. The trusted lieutenant in my war against life...

Typical Software/IT Consultant

Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side of a deserted road. Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt. The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray-Ban Sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie, gets out
and asks the Shepherd: If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will You give me one of them?"

The shepherd looks at the young man, and then looks at the large flock of grazing sheep and replies: "Okay."

The young man parks the car, connects his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a NASA Webster, scans the Ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with logarithms and pivot tables, then prints out a 150 page report on his high-tech mini-printer.

He turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1,586 sheep here."
The shepherd cheers," that's correct, you can have your sheep."

The young man makes his pick and puts it in the back of his Porsche.
The shepherd looks at him and asks:

"If I guess your profession, will you return my animal to me?"
The young man answers, "Yes, why not". The shepherd says, "You are an IT consultant ".
How did you know?" asks the young man.

"Very simple," answers the shepherd.
"First, you came here without Being called.
Second, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already
Knew, and third, you don't understand anything about my business...

Now can I have my DOG back?"

Working in IT? Top 10 Things You Should Remember Always

If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the “dirty little secrets” listed below may surprise you because we don’t usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you’ve probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to add — and please, by all means, take a moment to add them to the discussion. Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT managers, and desktop support professionals. This list is not aimed at developers and programmers — they have their own set of additional dirty little secrets — but some of these will apply to them as well.

10.) The pay in IT is good compared to many other professions, but since they pay you well, they often think they own you

Although the pay for IT professionals is not as great as it was before the dot-com flameout and the IT backlash in 2001-2002, IT workers still make very good money compared to many other professions (at least the ones that require only an associate’s or bachelor’s degree). And there is every reason to believe that IT pros will continue to be in demand in the coming decades, as technology continues to play a growing role in business and society... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

11.) It will be your fault when users make silly errors

Some users will angrily snap at you when they are frustrated. They will yell, “What’s wrong with this thing?” or “This computer is NOT working!” or (my personal favorite), “What did you do to the computers?”... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

8.) You will go from goat to hero and back again multiple times within any given day When you miraculously fix something that had been keeping multiple employees from being able to work for the past 10 minutes — and they don’t realize how simple the fix really was — you will become the hero of the moment and everyone’s favorite employee. But they will conveniently forget about your hero anointment a few hours later when they have trouble printing because of a network slowdown... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

7.) Certifications won’t always help you become a better technologist, but they can help you land a better job or a pay raise

Headhunters and human resources departments love IT certifications. They make it easy to match up job candidates with job openings. They also make it easy for HR to screen candidates. You’ll hear a lot of veteran IT pros whine about techies who were hired based on certifications but who don’t have the experience to effectively do the job. They are often right... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

6.) Your nontechnical co-workers will use you as personal tech support for their home PCs

Your co-workers (in addition to your friends, family, and neighbors) will view you as their personal tech support department for their home PCs and home networks. They will e-mail you, call you, and/or stop by your office to talk about how to deal with the virus that took over their home PC or the wireless router that stopped working after the last power outage and to ask you how to put their photos and videos on the Web so their grandparents in Iowa can view them... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

5.) Vendors and consultants will take all the credit when things work well and will blame you when things go wrong

Working with IT consultants is an important part of the job and can be one of the more challenging things to manage. Consultants bring niche expertise to help you deploy specialized systems, and when everything works right, it’s a great partnership. But you have to be careful. When things go wrong, some consultants will try to push the blame off on you by arguing that their solution works great everywhere else so it must be a problem with the local IT infrastructure... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

4.) You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones

One of the most attractive things about working in IT is the idea that we’ll get to play with the latest cutting edge technologies. However, that’s not usually the case in most IT jobs... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

3.) Veteran IT professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies

A lot of companies could implement more cutting edge stuff than they do. There are plenty of times when upgrading or replacing software or infrastructure can potentially save money and/or increase productivity and profitability. However, it’s often the case that one of the largest roadblocks to migrating to new technologies is not budget constraints or management objections; it’s the veteran techies in the IT department... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

2.) Some IT professionals deploy technologies that do more to consolidate their own power than to help the business

Another subtle but blameworthy thing that some IT professionals do is select and implement technologies based on how well those technologies make the business dependent on the IT pros to run them, rather than which ones are truly best for the business itself. For example, IT pros might select a solution that requires specialized skills to maintain instead of a more turnkey solution... More at blogs.techrepublic.com.com

1.) IT pros frequently use jargon to confuse nontechnical business managers and hide the fact that they screwed up

All IT pros — even the very best — screw things up once in a while. This is a profession where a lot is at stake and the systems that are being managed are complex and often difficult to integrate. However, not all IT pros are good at admitting when they make a mistake. Many of them take advantage of the fact that business managers (and even some high-level technical managers) don’t have a good understanding of technology, and so the techies will use jargon to confuse them (and cover up the truth) when explaining why a problem or an outage occurred. For example, to tell a business manager why a financial application went down for three hours, the techie might say, “We had a blue screen of death on the SQL Server that runs that app. Damn Microsoft!” What the techie would fail to mention was that the BSOD was caused by a driver update he applied to the server without first testing it on a staging machine.

Complete Story at http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=546

A Rare Get Together Between Microsoft and An Open Source Family Member - PHP

I'm very much surprised to read a news about the co-operation between Microsoft and Open Source family member. And it got more attention since the Open Source involved is my PHP.

The main subject is "Microsoft is going to support the PHP in one or other way" interesting 'na! so continue read this...


The race between the Windows and Linux operating systems is multifaceted, and one aspect revolves around the PHP scripting language. But PHP is merely an item from an infrastructure of software, a solution stack designed to be the foundation of websites and servers. Essentially, Microsoft has recently upped the stakes in the Windows – Linux face-off by ensuring closer PHP integration with its own operating system in the much larger confrontation between LAMP and WISP. LAMP of course stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. But now Microsoft comes with its own alternatives for an operating system, a web server, a database management system, offering Windows, IIS
and SQL. Still, one thing that Microsoft cannot do without is PHP, and this is why the Redmond company is embracing the scripting language.

"Why is WISP the new LAMP? Well, up to now, PHP developers, although they will be developing on top of Windows, the platform of choice for running their web servers etc, was Linux and Apache, with a MySQL back end. Why? Well, they were designed and written to work effectively together. PHP could be handled by IIS, using CGI, however it didn't give the level of performance that running PHP on a Linux/Apache platform gave, hence it became the platform of choice. With the announcement of FastCGI however, that's changing. This FastCGI extension is built into Server 2008, but you can download it for free, for IIS 5.1 and 6. Just a quick note - IIS has had 0 critical updates," explained Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Partner Technology Specialist.

You have of course already been able to read about the work Microsoft and Zend have poured into enhancing PHP performance on Windows, and about the availability of Go Live FastCGI Extension for IIS6.0 and IIS5.1. But now, McSpirit offers the true perspective of where Microsoft is going with the integration of FastCGI into Windows Server 2008. "So, you've now got a strong platform for development and actually running your web applications in Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0, along with a great database offering, all of which connect with PHP in a way that enables efficient, streamlined and powerful performance - something that was only available to PHP developers running on LAMP in the past", McSpirit added.

Source: Softpedia.com

An Anti Firefox Evangelist Destined To Be Doomed

In lieu of the increasing usage of Firefox browser and in some European countries Firefox has beaten IE in many counts, Firefox going to be in-determinable force in near future. But few people still don't realize the potential of Firefox. They think their voice heavily biased for one or other reason will take Firefox out of Internet users. Hmmm... no fool who realized the power would goto IE again. A column writer has simply blocked the Firefox users just because they use FF which in-turn has an add-on called (controversial according to them) AdBlock Plus.

Adblock plus is one the most popular add-on for Firefox which gives users un-obstructive browsing experience by blocking the intrusive ads(sadly most ads fall in this line and are needed to be removed)...

Here is the story given by a columnist Grant Buckler on ITBusiness.com,

Hey, you there, reading this column. Yeah, punk, I mean you.

Have you looked at every advertisement in this paper?

You haven't? You thief! How dare you steal my work! This publication exists to provide quality content in exchange for displaying ads. Reading our content without looking at the advertising, therefore, is no less than stealing.

Firefox users who go to http://jacklewis.net/weblog/ are redirected to http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/index1.php, which says the Adblock Plus[http://adblockplus.org/en/] extension undercuts Web sites dependent on advertising revenue.

“Accessing the content while blocking the ads therefore would be no less than stealing,” wrote Danny Carlton, a Web site designer and author, who runs both sites. JackLewis.net is his personal blog site. “Millions of hard working people are being robbed of their time and effort by this type of software,” he added in a posting on the Why Firefox is Blocked Web site.

And if you've been fast-forwarding TV commercials, you're just as guilty. Heck, if you've been getting a beer during commercials, it's no different. You're still a crook. I'll bet you sometimes even toss the flyers that come with your newspaper into the recycling bin without looking at them.

Oh, and you sent your Aunt Edith a postcard last week, yet you didn't read the junk mail you found in your mailbox? Don't you realize that without its revenues from delivering that junk mail, Canada Post couldn't possibly deliver your postcard for only 51 cents?

Okay, relax. I'm not serious. Yes, the publisher of CDN makes its money from the advertising, but that does not obligate you to look at the ads. The model works because enough readers do look at enough ads that advertisers get their money's worth. The same is true of television.

And the same is true of the web. Somebody needs to explain that to Danny Carlton.

Carlton is a blogger. You can't read his blog using the Firefox web browser. If you try, you get redirected to a page titled “Why Firefox is Blocked,” which explains that because a popular Firefox add-on called Ad Block Plus makes it possible to block online advertising, Carlton has blocked Firefox access to his site to prevent what he calls theft.

“Numerous websites exist in order to provide quality content in exchange for displaying ads,” the page says. “Accessing the content while blocking the ads, therefore would be no less than stealing.”

Let's see if I understand this. You make an assortment of content publicly accessible. I look at the part of it that interests me, and ignore the part that doesn't. That makes me a thief - in spite of the fact that people have been ignoring advertising for as long as it has existed.

Yes, if nobody looks at ads, ad-supported websites won't be viable. Judging from the success of Google - a company that derives 99 per cent of its revenue from online advertising - this isn't a clear and present danger.

And if the online advertising business is really worried about ad-blocking, it should look in the mirror. When an online ad jumps out of its place and blocks my view of what I'm reading, or when the casual movement of my cursor across an ad causes my computer to start blaring noise at me, I start thinking ad-blocking software might be a good idea.

And thanks to Danny Carlton, I've now got some. I hadn't really heard about AdBlock Plus before, but when I read about his tirade, I had to check it out. It works quite nicely, and you can find it at www.adblock.com.

[funny quote of this author about Danny Carlton]
Oh by the way, I also pointed Internet Explorer at Carlton's blog to see what other opinions he has. Among the posts there: rants against “socialized medicine,” the American Civil Liberties Union and the theory of evolution. Now I'm looking for software to block the content and leave the ads.