Platonic

It always amazes me how last few minutes of the game changes the expressions on every ones face. Let it be Indian Premier League or Election poll results after effects are same.

Last week by chance I hooked into S-MAX while flipping through various channels. I found that there were 6 balls to hit 7 runs.I thought let me see what really happens. Both the teams were playing pretty good, target was not that big it was around 174, still making some one struggle these runs is also difficult. Anyways, I kept watching the match. In first two balls the batsman took singles, then a no run. I thought ok, these guys are going to loose the match. But no, there was again another run and then a four to end the match. Wow. That was great! I really enjoyed the last few minutes of the match. You can imagine what might have happened to the supporters or even team members of loosing team. They walked back slowly to the pavilion, when the other team celebrated the moment which they deserved.

Same thing happened with Karnataka poll’s. Many well known big shots in politics failed to win. BJP won the elections surprisingly. For the first time in south India, BJP is in a situation to form the government to rule a state.The other side there were clips of big shots pale faces.

Just few minutes change the way we react to things isn’t it. Is this is called as the “Power of Now“?

Its now quite easy to use the webcams on Linux these days. One of the application which has caught my attention for a while now is “Cheese“. If its installed on your Ubuntu,  you can find it in Applications -> Graphics menu.

I took a pic while driving back home using the web cam which is on my laptop. It was quite easy to take the snap as I can rotate my cam 180 degree without any issues.

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eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

Yes, i’m having trouble with eAccelerator on my VPS server. I could find that shared memory needs some alterations to the hardware node on which my VPS has been created. Luckily I could find the following solution in eAccelerator FAQ page itself.

I’m using linux 2.6 kernel and eAccelerator doesn’t get loaded when the shm_size is set to value bigger than 32mb. Php gives this warning: PHP Warning: [eAccelerator] Can not create shared memory area in Unknown on line 0

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The most awaited full-fledged Bengaluru international airport is now operational. 30+ Km’s away from the city situated at Devanahalli.

The city owes a lot to those who have given away their farming lands and those who have spent 36 months designing and constructing this state of art infrastructure.

Now we will be paying back the huge bills which will be coming on our way while using this new international facility. The cost of living and traveling both are increasing day by day. New changes to city and city life. We have no other choice other than welcoming the new changes. Think ahead and plan your life accordingly.

Bangalore! Just a minute. Going international is not a big deal. We wish if you could retain your name “Garden City” and be cool as you used to be in my childhood. I was wondering  “who moved my cheese”. Is it urbanization?

When I copy SSL certificates from windows files, it makes it hard for me to put them directly on server to configure SSL certificates. Because UNIX treats the end of line differently.  A CTRL-M character is visibly displayed at the end of each line as ^M in vi.

Have a look at the following content. Its an SSL key which I copied from a windows file to a normal file in Linux. You find that each line is ended with a control character. ie.  ^M or CTRL+M.

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Man! Got this post from an email forwarder. I’m curious about your views on the same… Do comment. I shall write what I felt about this later in some other post

AQUARIUS

Hot-hearted man who likes to do thing his way. He can suddenly decide to do something without thinking of it’s outcome. He is the type of guy with an inside energizer, so if you fall in love with this type of guy be “patient”, even if you have to follow him a bit. His creative mind could create fantastic idea any time. If you do not understand or can not follow him, you won’t be with him for long.

A man in this Zodiac will less likely to have a pale skin, and if he has a scar, it would be on his face or on his head. He moves very fast and very energetic, and he has a very self confident in himself. He loves justice. He dares to show his opinion or even argue about certain subject even he knows it might bring him problems. A straight forward type of guy.

He is gifted with the ability to be a very social person. He could talk even about subject that he has no knowledge of. He interests only at the present time and look at the world positively. Many times he feels hurt because of reality, but he will not run away and he will overcome that difficulty. Read the rest of this entry »

It has been a while since I really thought of doing something other than technical work, something different.  Last week I went ahead and joined driving school. Got my learner’s license. Now I’m prepared to get my driving license for both two wheeler and four wheeler in next one month.

Today I did enjoy driving Santro for the first time. Last time when I tried learning driving it was a big disaster. Whole bunch of people who were there inside the car thought of running away even before I started the car.

True, its always right to get trained by some one who is experienced. It does not matter whether you’re learning driving or technology or any other art. All it takes is whole lot of efforts you put on learning and excelling it. Also it depends on the guidance provided by your guru. If you wanna be an Ekalavya who learnt bow and arrow without getting admission to DroNacahrya’s ashram, believe me you got to promise yourself to put in all that hardwork required to make it happen. I know I can’t try this with car as I really care about others who’re on roads.

So, I’m back to school now. Learning to drive from Mr. Manjunath. He works as an instructor in Rainbo driving school which is very nearer to my office. I did feel the drive today. Thanks guru!

Its 9:27pm right now and trying hard to reach home as early as possible to check out new Tata Sky connection. Its week and I will be watching TV in my home after 15 years. I know you won’t believe. I had stopped watching television when I was in 5th standard and after that we also had removed an old Onida set. My 8+ year old 14″ computer monitor is being used as TV now. Wanted to ensure that I make use of all the hardware which I have purchased so far. Will be replacing this with a 24″ LCD screen soon.

Stuck here in this traffic from near majestic from last 10 minutes. Blogging right here, thank god BSNL EvDO has got good coverage in my route. Sarjapur road, Koramangala, Richmond Circle, Majestic, Malleshwaram, Rajajinagar, Mahalakshmi layout and Nandinilayout and many other areas which come on my way has got no issues with BSNL EvDO connectivity.

9:36 : Still waiting, just crossed one more signal. ah! at last moving ahead. Chatting with friends and colleagues and listening to FM 92.70 “Big FM”…

Its horrible to travel these days in Bangalore. if you don’t have a/c in your car you will suffer a lot. Why people cut down trees? Bangalore was never like this before.

I was reading some where in news paper, development is “irreversible”. This might result in serious problems in future and I’m already feeling the heat here.

I get to time to think about all this while I travel in bus, spend time analyzing what I have been doing in life so far. At times plan a bit for future and blog.

Haven’t got a chance to cross “City Center” till now. Clock ticks 9:42 PM. Is there any quick solution for Bangalore traffic? It has been a long day already. Started my work at 7 AM in the morning, did enjoy training people on Linux through out the day and did throw few quick fixes which were there in my magic wand on few issues and by the time I thought of getting back, Clock did a trick and ticked on 9′O clock.  Here I’m still in front of Majestic bus stop.

9:49 PM now flying near Malleshwaram, Peace. Will stop bloging now and publish this post. Good Night all.