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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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Another quote::

Hard Work Often Pays Off After Time, But Laziness Always Pays Off Now.

i had seen this on my friends email signature. :)

Elections in Andhra

This time cinema star Chiranjeevi is also in the election campaigne. At first when i heard this i felt "he should not win at any cost!!". Many of my friends were overwhelmed by his arrival. I felt like: if he wins a seat it means like telling 'Hey! Me not working at all is equal to this MLA working'. Its true that few MLAS hardly work... but some how i didnt like him at the election.

it seemed like his acting career is now giving new fruits. Where ever he goes what ever he speaks(only fault finding) he is always honoured. This is the 2nd thing i dont like. See, a doctor's duty is to return u the health and he does his duty. Similarly an actor gives u the entertainment. So, why should the actor be hourned? just because many had seen him doing his work?

Very recently, there has been a party:Loksatta lead by jayaprakash narayanan. His approach is all diffarent. In recent past he said: 'No body wants to become CM to dwell/ sell the state for money. its the approach in which one makes mistakes which finally ends up the situation in mire.' He speaks the point and by his words i feel like he is a perfect leader.

How Congress Govt changed my Village

My grand mother and relatives came to attend a cerimony here at hyderabad when i asked them whome will they vote? They were not happy with the existing government. They said "Previously when wanted some work to be done there were always somebody at the corner of the street waiting for work. Now also there are people but they are not willing to work !!!"

My God! what kind of a statement is this! They are still free, but dont want to work??? "Yes!" the answer came. The present govt had given loans as much as 3Lakhs to each farmer at 25 pise interest (i.e. 0.25%) and in the loan amount farmers are given 50% subsidie (i.e. need not pay) in the remaining amount the farmer can pay at their will.

At first it sounds good! atleast the farmers are finally improving their lives, but wait! are they really improving?? It sounded like, previously they ate nukalu (cheap rice) and now Basumathy rice. Sowhat, did things improve?? Are they in a position to sustin themselves if the crop fail again/ famine rules the village? i dont think so. I dont even think the government is looking at this point.

For me one rupee is one unit of work. If you are giving some body(x) 3L it means u are giving somebody(Y) elses 3L units of work fruits to him. Now the qn: what is the farmer doing with it? I have not heard any farmer saying that this loan is really improving their lives, nor does the govt shows some development in them.

a small thought...

Last sunday we had two guys to my home... they were more towards solving the global economic issue, and how 'Lord' and his 'Love' can help us to mitigate it. By their words i sensed that it is related to christianity and the releated preachings and said that i am not interesed. They went off leaving me a book 'The world'. Today morning the same topic came in my home and when my mother understood that i took the book she boiled in anger!!! I see reason for this to happen to her.

I heard a lot of times that pple convert to christianity -especially 'the poor'.  They are lured by the benifits: concession in education, free clothings and books. May be the religion is supporting them and giving them a good life... but some how i dont like this. My understanding of religion is collections of 'dharma' and by jumping btw religions, you are indirectly telling that one set of dharmas is superiour over the other.... so bad !!! i am not saying christianity is wrong... but jumping is wrong.

One of our relatives took this religion few years back and she converted her mother and father also to it. Just last year her father died and my mother went to her home to console her. In our religion we have 'Thidi/ taddinam' -a dharma following which we believe that we are feeding the 'Aathma/ soul' of the person. We felt deeply hurt when she didnt bother to do this at all 'cos she is no longer in our religion !!! 

But there is a catch. All these years, or since 40 years they were in our religion following it completely (vratamulu, pandagalu, etc etc). We all worked moved, and spent together. Now that she took up the new, how far is it correct to ignore all the old dharma.

At their home my mother felt dejected/ thrown a part. She never visited them again :(.

Suntech days Feb '09

I work for a software company and sun tech days is a good break form my daily routine work. That's way i used to like it very much. This is the 3rd time they are arrianging at hyderabad, and i attended it all the times. This time its terribly dissapointing. All the sessions were boring and i felt like not to come back again.

This time i noticed more of college students than the employed guys here. May be its because of the global economy depression.... atleast 75% were college students and i am sure not even 5% of them found atleast 1 session useful. What a pity!!! Seeing them i remember my college days. At my college one day a friend of mine asked me a qn: "Ravi what will you do next year?" (i was in 4th year 1st sem) I had no answer....  and after a while replied: "i will go in the way the wind takes me (etu gali veste atu)".

Student life at the engeneering colleges are more or less monotonic... only books, college, games, lectures (which we never understand). Its the time when we have no idea of anything outside college/ studies. Once we are out of college we are more or less like a fish out of water.... every one wants experience and we hardly have any practical knowledge of what we read.. and that way a student like me ends up at the square one. So, I see education more or less a failure in earning bread to a person. At my time computer booom was on a full move and i didnt feel the heat completely.

Now how is this related to sun tech days???... i am not sure... but i felt like these little ple are getting exploited... The sessions that are at this place are to the guys who had hands on java/ web related things. They are definitly not ment for students. but who cares??? :(

HR's solution to financial crisis

An email i got today morning from my friends abt the financial chrisis.

Dear Employees,

 
Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown of economy, Management has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 40 years of age and above on early retirement. This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).

 
Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to management to be eligible for the SHAFT scheme (Special Help After Forced Termination) . Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW programme (Scheme Covering Retired Early Workers). A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as many times as Management deems appropriate.

Persons who have been RAPED can only get AIDS (Additional Income for Dependants & Spouse) or HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance). Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be SHAFTED or SCREWED any further by Management.

Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as much SHIT (Special High Intensity Training) as possible. Management has always prided itself on the amount of SHIT it gives employees.

Should you feel that you do not receive enough SHIT, please bring to the attention of your Supervisor. They have been trained to give you all the SHIT you can get.

Signed,

HR

Satyam & Maytas...

I felt very bad and pitied at Sri. Ramalingaraju when i heard him imprisoned. Its not a joke to bring a company from a strength of 30 to 55K employees. Today morning i had seen thisnews at one of the news sites:

Raju, Satyam become butt of jokes!

Satyam Computer founder B Ramalinga Raju may have
left the company after disclosing India's biggest ever corporate fraud,
leaving thousands of employees, lakhs of shareholders and hundreds of
customers in the lurch but many are having a good laugh at his expense.

From parodies of nursery rhymes to funny SMSes, chain mails and
cartoons, everything is full of jokes lampooning Raju. While some are
saying that 'Satyamisation' has become a synonym for inflating profits,
others finding it tough to get a job because of bad reputation of their
employers are feeling 'Satyamised'.

The popular nursery rhyme, 'Johny, Johny, Yes Papa' has made way for
"Raju Raju, Yes Baba, Cheating us, No Baba, Telling Lies, No Baba, Open
your accounts, Ha Ha Ha".

Another rhyme, 'Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall" has been popularized even
more with its Raju version: "Raju Raju sat up on the wall, Raju Raju
had a great fall, Balance sheet died, shareholders cried, Raju Raju
made a big fraud."

An SMS doing the rounds has a new full-form for Satyam: 'Stealing And Transferring Your All Money'.

One message points towards famous film-maker Ram Gopal Verma preparing
to make a movie on the Satyam saga: It goes on to say that Varma, who
was sighted inside Taj Hotel, Mumbai, after terror attacks there, was
seen at Satyam headquarters in Hyderabad last week.

An age-old TV commercial of a toothpaste has also been pulled out due
to a Raju connection. In its new avatar, Masterji says, "Raju tumhare
daant toh motiyo se chamak rahe hain? (Raju, your teeth are sparkling
like pearls), to which Raju replies "Chamke kyu na? maine apni hi
company ka paisa jo khaaya hai (Why wont they sparkle, I have gobbled
up my own firm's money).

Such a bad thing... so unfortunate... we all make mistakes.. and so he had... the onld diff is that his mistake had costed very others very hard. I think the above comments should not have been made.

Remote debugging in SQL Developer

There are many sites explaining how to do this.. but somehow i see them incomplete and not very userful. I followed some and had to do goo experimentation on things to get this one working. So this is how i went about

Problem:
I have a windows machine on which i have SQL developer. Now i need to debug a proc that resides over a solaris/ linux box (diffarent server)

Solution:

1. Download the sql developer and create a connection
   
2. open a procedure, right click and select compile to debug
3. Right click on ur connection and select Remote Debug
4. Give the port as 8001; IP: local ip (u can get in cmd window with ipconfig command). If you see a windows firewall dialog then shut down the firewall. in run > give services.msc > opens services> right click on 'Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)' and select stop.
   
5. U will see the new debug connection under RunManager window below connections.
6. Now login to the target DB-machine as someUser
   
7. if it doestnt have debug previleges then login as sysdba and run the command: GRANT debug connect session, debug any procedure TO ; and then login as someUser
8. now run the command:  exec DBMS_DEBUG_JDWP.CONNECT_TCP('ur ip',8001);This should complete with no errors.
   
9. put a debug point in the sql developer (click on the left white column and u will see a red dot)
10. now click on the lady bug and the debugging starts.

i am not sure how to do a remote debug when a java process calls this procedure. Any ideas... please share with me.

oracle streams jobs 12/13/2008

• Double (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)

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  • 2^-1074

• Datatypes

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  • The NUMBER datatype stores zero as well as positive and negative fixed numbers with absolute values from 1.0 x 10^-130 to (but not including) 1.0 x 10¹²⁶

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