If cultivation stopped everywhere….what we do?

Hi all,

This blog is non technical. As everyone knows, Indian irrigation land is turning down to real estate plots. I happens to go Ponmar, Chennai almost an year ago. Of course the road towards ponmar was damaged a lot and you could not feel smooth travel due to pits in road. Almost the layout of Ponmar looks like a village. You could also few hoardings in and around in chennai motivating investment on lands in Ponmar. I had seen few billboards saying ‘Today’s Ponmar = Tomorrow’s Velachery’. I do remember that when i came chennai for job search, everyone was told that I am going to be out of the city as i was stayed at velachery. But nowadays Velachery seems to be hot spot in Chennai. In Ponmar, almost every land seems to be with no cultivation. I had a talk with one old lady who is residing there. She said that they used to do cultivation on the land a decade back and once the IT building around OMR(IT Express highway) stands up, the broker started targetting Ponmar as there is a way to connect OMR easily. Once the brokers approached the land owners with good offers, they stopped doing cultivation and started selling their land with attractive rates and almost the land owners never expected such return as they could not get such amount even if they do cultivation for the life time. She also asked me that if i do look for some plots around there. I said no and asked for a cup of water. She then ran a motor and asked me to drink the bore water. I was really happy to have the water as it was pure and tasty too and you can’t get such water in Chennai city. There was also many mineral water plant there in Ponmar. Just imagine when everyone stopped doing irrigation, what we do ? We had no option other than importing food materials from other country. Why not government should take steps to motivate irrigation. Though government do few things like supplying free electricity and cancelling the irrigation loan amount, why not government can induct employees to do irrigation. Of course there are some agriculture students who might be jobless. Hope doing so, will let more employment. To be more frank, Government is investing more on TASMAC wineshop. More and more government revenues are through wine shop and so they stopped private sector entering into such domains. Also I personally feel, the politicians who are contesting for the constitutions should gather altogether in a stage and have open discussion with public like in US. In fact i wish to do irrigation after my fifties when my generation stands on their own earnings. Just a thought.

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i love programming on Linux

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I had been working with Windows operating system since i started working on with computer. In fact i remember, my father bought me a Desktop while I was doing third year engineering. The machine was only 20GB hard disk with Pentium III processor with minimum configuration and it was preloaded with Red Hat Linux OS and Windows XP. On my college days, there was a guy who had enough stuff with almost 5 programming knowledge and he can do any kind of task in that programming languages. Depends on his requirement, he had to switch over between Linux and Windows Operating System. He had only Pentium II processor machine with less than 20GB hard disk. So he format the hard disk on the over night and switch over the Operating System. I used to work with Linux only while playing games that installed with Red Hat Linux. I never tried doing some programming experience in Linux. I also never used Linux operating system while doing college too. After my graduation, I used to do read some computer stuff magazines and read about Linux and their security features. I then had a honor for Linux operating system. After i got placed in a concern, i was provided with Windows XP machine only and one of my colleague was working with Linux. I wish to install the Linux operating system on my personal laptop. Finally almost after 3 years, i decided to install the Linux operating system and trying to learn it. I was suggested by everyone to try with Kubuntu Linux operating system. So i thought of downloading from the website. Suddenly i happens to notice an option ‘Request for Live CD’ and i register there with my residential address. After almost 15 days, kubuntu operating system installation disk was mailed through post to my address. I installed Kubuntu on overnight. Now, I feel good working with Linux operating system rather than Windows. I frustrate a lot working on with Windows Vista. It is popping out either to Continue/Cancel for launching every application. I got this pop up even after registering that the application is a trusted one and provided with full permission in UAC. Coming back to linux, you have to quit give up some GUI based experience of Windows and they are trying to cover up in GUI domain too. I am experiencing my long time wish of doing programming in Linux and i am improving myself in Linux command nowadays.  Often disturbing one for my learning exposure in Linux and that is none other than Google. Open Source technology is flashing in my mind and i am trying to install RoR(Ruby on Rails) on Linux. I love learning Linux.

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Motivation to Open source technology

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After a long gap am writing here and dropped here to write about open source technology in IT domain and my recent interest on it. In this competitive IT domain, many of them started looking for open source technology to sustain in the market. In recent days many open source technologies are dominating the market. I am a frequent browser and i happens to come across many PHP sites. I do thought of learning PHP a long time back itself. But the thoughts never turned in to action. Also i never had time to upgrade myself in the technology with advanced concepts. Recently I had a chance to learn PHP. I was trying to install WAMP(Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server by myself and i was not able to done with the installation. I have to thank William Richerd, who helped me with installation and explaining me about configuring files on installation and their purpose. Also my thanks extend to Peppin Shaaju, who explained me with basic things. It is really amazing to have such a tutor. I never missed concentration while he was teaching me the basic concepts. I do wish to try my vision on some other open source technology too. I had a lust to learn RoR(Ruby on Rails) and i wish to write on a seperate blog about Ruby on Rails and my learning experience. You can follow me there on http://exploringrubyonrails.wordpress.com and i wish to update with my learning experience on RoR.

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Few unknown keyboard shortcuts

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In this blog i would like to share a few shortcut that could be helpful for an end user. I will be often in a need to explore the files in the hard disk. I do usually navigate to the folder from the ‘My Computer’ icon on the Desktop. Also to navigate for the files under ‘My Documents’ again it has to be referred from the corresponding shortcut icon. I normally start almost all the application with the run command. Be it a browser to be launched. I hit the shortcut keystrokes(Windows+R – run console) and then provide the run commands. Suppose if Internet Explorer has to be started with launching http://npselvan.wordpress.com, i do provide the run command as ‘iexplore http://npselvan.wordpress.com’. When i was trying something like the same last day, i hit the run command with just a dot(.) and it opened me ‘Documents and Settings’ of the user you logged in. When run command was hit with two dot(..) it will show you the list of the user accounts folder on the explorer. When it was hit with three dots(…) it will take you to the ‘My Computer’ on the explorer. I feel light to navigate to the folder from here. Probably many could know this. Hope this will be helpful to someone who is not aware of the shortcuts.

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Hats off to Lawrence…a blog out of technical

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Tamil Actor and the leading choreographer of Tamil film industry is to be awarded Best Social Worker this year from TamilNadu govenment. He is none other than Raghavendra Lawrence. The 35 year old actor has been supportive for the physically challenged peoples. He even makes the physically challenged peoples to dance. I personally feel he is the right person doing this service with his true involvement. I did watched few programs where Lawrence used Physically challenged guys/gals to dance.  The thing to watch is lawrence boost up the confidence on their mind and to be honest, even sometimes a normal dancers could not perform like the way they perform. Lawrence is supporting around 70 such peoples. On the mean time, we should also honour atleast with words both Rajinikanth and Soundarya Rajinikanth who take care of their food expense. I had a personal experience visiting government orphanage at soolakarai, Virudhunagar. There are more than 100 such peoples. They sometimes have to skip foods if there was no donator for the day. As far as to the best of their knowledge, their minds stick to Puri(Indian tiffen item) as the best. Government should take care of those kids atleast to have food on three times. Atleast there should not be no bribes between this. Before dropping out of this blog, just wish to say….hats off to Raghavendra Lawrence.

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POI jar compatibility issue

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               I was held up with some task to do on Excel file in Java. I finally decide to work out with the third party jar file POI. Well this is a product of Apache. 

What i have to do with POI ?

              I have to read through excel file and update excel file when fetched with the cell value to be replaced. I done with all the implementation work and uploaded the same on the server. I do have Microsoft office 2003 installed on my computer. I tested well with the excel file created on Microsoft office 2003  and also with the excel file created using Open Office. A few days later, a client reported an issue stating that the excel file reading and updating the excel file is not working. I then collected the logs from him and surprised to see that the excel file created using excel file on Microsoft office 2007 will not work with POI jar as the data reading mechanism is different from the predecessor. I soon realised that testing is a vital thing, before shipping the product. Though certain things cannot be avoided, it is quite a learning experience. I love to make such faults in my working environment.

 

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Few unanswerable questions….

Hi Folks,

When i was doing my engineering graduation, a lecturer often shoot these questions and i never tried replying for his question. Though it seems silly, might be worth reading and analysing it. Atlast we could end up with no answer from us.

• Why do a magnet position in North-South direction ? why not it be east-west ?
• Why do clock rotates always in clock-wise direction ? why not it be rotating anti-clockwise direction ? could you imagine such a clock ?

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Stumbleupon

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I always like to spend time on browsing. Almost all internet crawlers fix google as their gateway on information searching. It makes really wonder on thinking about how google algorithm is implemented. Usually when i go on searching for an information through Google, i click on all the links listed out on the first page and the probability of getting successful resource might be 90%. I came to know through a friend that Stumbleupon add-on could be helpful in such case. I am now addict with stumbleupon. Preferences  can be configured on creating account with stumbleupon. When you click on the ‘Stumble!’ on the toolbar the pages related with the preferences configured are listed out on successive click. Also keyword based search is supported with this add-on. Also the page we like can be bookmarked and it will be listed out the account we register. Though bookmarks can be maintained on the browser itself, there might be possibilities of deleting the bookmarks without once knowledge. But the bookmarks maintained here last longer and can be retrieved at any time. I am happy with what Stumbleupon delivering. The stumbleupon add-on is available with most popular browser like Internet Explorer and Firefox.

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