tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91425056976959814522024-03-12T19:24:25.509-07:00Me, Myself and ...This is my real estate on the web where i do describe whatever i do.Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-42705067732056256312010-07-26T09:24:00.001-07:002010-07-26T09:24:19.790-07:00scribe...for chrome<p>so i am back to scribefire (from chrome..find it here http://bit.ly/by4UIT) and it does have that white/grey with a tinge of blue google feel. Also the fact that its uncluttered is what has always got me to use it...more later...</p>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-38552764121395787102010-07-09T12:10:00.000-07:002010-07-09T12:15:10.303-07:00Another announcement of me being back!!!They say that any announcement on the blog that you are going to post from now on essentially translates to the blog being dead...:)<div><br /></div><div>However, there is no perfect time to do any thing. So with that assumption, i am truly back....</div><div><br /></div><div>Have been sort of so engrossed with "140 characters" that i forgot that there is a vernacular world called blogging where i rightfully belong.</div><div><br /></div><div>So hoping to keep in touch and share whats cooking on my mind....</div><div><br /></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-21627888476754202862009-12-11T19:59:00.000-08:002009-12-11T20:03:03.011-08:00My day of reckoning!!!What else....The semester exams begins today...I had been thru a few sems but never blogged about it..fair enough...This time its a different story altogether and the exams start with a brain-crashing mathematics....<div>The peculiarity of this subject is well documented by any tiny-totter to a no-holds barred scientists...</div><div>Trying my luck today. Will post regarding how i managed. </div><div>My motto: Maths...dont bother about grades. Just sneak through</div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-26881305671843246362009-08-19T00:45:00.003-07:002009-08-19T00:45:52.682-07:00Illusive sense of security?<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>The recent brouhaha over SRK detention brings to notice an important issue which finds resonance across everybody. That issue being the effectiveness of intelligence gathering. What purpose does a multi-billion dollar security apparatus serve if they can't verify who SRK is?<br/><br/>The point is how do we trust these guys and what use do they make of all our legitimate information?<br/>The phone-tapping, scans, frisks, bgc etc. Do they server any purpose?<br/>The unwritten rule seems to be everybody inclusive of highly respected Dr. Abdul Kalam (never mind, he is a former president) and SRK (who is he? lol) is a suspect. I am sure they even take the pants down of Barack Hussein Obama when he boards air force one. No one is bigger then the law isnt it?<br/><br/>Most concerning, is the fact the US security apparatus seems to be paranoid post 9/11. Of course, we are all appalled and share the same grief. We know how it feels when we are attacked. our sufferings are well documented pre 9/11. We had our parliament attacked, blasts everywhere, our own centre of pride (mumbai) held at gun-point for 3 days. Yet, though with seething anger, we have gotten back to normal lives with lessons learnt. But still we are not paranoid. We dont detain every boat in the arabian sea. Nor do we block all humans from parliament..lol<br/><br/>Of course, the US guys seem a lot less hawkish now under a pragmatic president. But the fact is,every international traveller is shit-scared of entering US lest they be part of a detailed security procedure. Its like a short detention camp at every port of entry.<br/><br/>The US is too good a country to let these hawks ruin their free spirit, openness and the pursuit of happiness which is the corner stone of their declaration of independence. A couple of minutes on their history is ample proof and would assure is that they will bounce back and be the sun-shine country that everybody in the world wanted to migrate and call home.<br/><br/>At the same time, its a lesson to all of the other countries, that merely getting a illusionary procedure to harass its own citizens does not serve any purpose.<br/><br/>We all dread of any events of national importance becos we know we may be stopped for checks, ID's and what not. A national celebration turns into a nightmare for every reveller. I had it first-hand this independence day.<br/><br/>So wishing for common sense and pragmatism.<br/><br/><br/></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-53698767443102750972009-07-30T22:54:00.001-07:002009-07-30T22:55:22.405-07:00Cloud Computing ----very cloudy<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Dusting off my clustering skills after a hiatus of two years (had worked on building a cluster for nutch back then), i am starting work on a eucalyptus (<a href='open.eucalyptus.com'>open.eucalyptus.com</a>) cloud on rocks cluster...<br/><br/>The definition of cloud computing is one cloud but i would still like to re-emphasize the utility of a level of abstracion and isolation on various levels like memory,cpu etc etc (one more definition to the trash)<br/><br/>will keep posted on the happenings as i go along...<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-904416011754020582009-07-15T22:28:00.001-07:002009-07-15T22:28:34.817-07:00mailing list pun<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Found a nice page with lots of intended pun on mailing list etiquettes...Its hilarious but quite importantly gets the message across...<br/>http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html<br/><br/></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-66266851402904401762009-07-14T05:54:00.001-07:002009-07-30T22:46:24.622-07:00w-meter tool released<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>we released a new tool developed at our lab to the open-source community. Have a look at w-meter.sourceforge.net The tool is meant to do conformance testing and performance evaluation of wi-fi products<br/><br/> have a look at w-meter.sourceforge.net<br/><br/><br/></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-79440746319588709402009-05-25T22:50:00.001-07:002009-05-27T04:51:05.453-07:00Jai Ho!!!<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Now that the elections are over, i heaved a sigh of relief at the outcome...its a pity that people are relieved at the prospect of a secular and stable government...The electorate have time and again showed that they are the boss of the EVM.<br /><br />If you look at the election agendas we had for the past few elections, it changed from roti,kapda makaan to nuclear deal, internal security, terrorism...fair enough..its a testimony of the times we live in but also scary as to what we have made our world to be,....<br /><br />The trumpeters of "loh purush" syndrome actually are thinking that mere fear mongering among the electorate will get them votes...but again kudos to the indian electorate....<br /><br />I am proud of the fact a non-corrupt, learned professor is leading the country....<br /><br />Jai Ho!<br /><br /><div class="zemanta-pixie"><img src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=894e1787-e70a-874c-ba0e-db3d4a7ac90a" class="zemanta-pixie-img" /></div></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-78008324442351280812009-03-06T02:08:00.001-08:002009-03-06T02:08:32.751-08:00philosophy rant!!!<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>There has been a bloodbath on ilugc regarding petty issues like one ignorant guy using a .ppt in an open source conf, one's choice of posting in other languages and other stuff...all the more, there has been lots of mails reminding eah other of mailing list guidelines, etiquettes, common sense etc.,<br/><br/>Hypocrisy to the MAX i would say...forget about all these artificial rules, what about the natural rules like respect for each other, courtesy, tolerance, humulity and so on...<br/><br/>Much has been criticised about NRCFOSS and how everything that it does is not helpful to FOSS cause and so on. Grow UP!!! with out NRCFOSS, ilugc would not have had the same kind of visibility in TN atleast. NRCFOSS at AU-KBC has been humble enough to let these giys run the show and there is no penny credit given for this simple fact...any LUG guy knows how much sponsorship money NRCFOSS has contributed and/or arranged to run your favourite fossconf show in the world..<br/><br/>NRCFOSS has also sponsored so many of these highly learned community members to participate in workshops and conferences organized by NRCFOSS. Yet these gentlemen speak of government money being waste..i dont know whether its waste in consumption or waste in expenditure.....<br/><br/>ALso with out a simple understanding of the objective of FOSS LAB server, people are crying out at the uselessness of the utility....paining to see iluustruous guys join the noise generator...<br/><br/>if only people dont forget analytical reasoning and common sense, we would live peacefully and have a good SNR ( Source code to Need Ratio)<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=eb182de0-e6bc-4712-871f-a55e7aabcb82' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-42679520854037159962009-02-23T03:33:00.001-08:002009-02-23T03:33:43.741-08:00Toll Free?<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><font face='trebuchet'>Had a pleasure trip last week towards ECR with my family..Enjoyable to the max but the journey of 150 Kilometers from my hometown to ECR, chennai took me across five toll gates.....yes five toll gates and a cool 150 around bucks to get thru all of them....Really odd to find out that taxing the few, more and more seems to be the mantra now!<br/>If you are an indian tax payer, you wonder if anybody is paying more than you in the whole planet....Tax on all food items purchased (all our super-duper departmentals have no choice), tax on phone bills, electricity, water, house, vehicle registration tax, insurance, roadtax, toll tax, to even tax on eating your favourite sandwiches to teas....plus on the official front, professional tax, income tax, fringe benefits (which bird goes by that name is anybody's guess) and whatever you have left and want to spend, you cant do a single penny officially without paying an associated tax, unless you were indulging on a road-side dhaba or some non-fancy restaurant (namma hotel maams aka bismillah hotel or something), be ready to be taxed...<br/>If all that is scary, there is more to come when you even think of starting a simple business...you cant sell a single biscuit packet without paying a tax....what with all the STPI and SEZ, its common middle class guys like us who bears the brunt of this skewed taxing rules....after all this the finance minister gives a breakdown and claims that 20% of our national income comes by debt....if only there is an end of corruption...!!Ah!<br/>No wonder the rich dont pay, ( they only deposit offshore in some tax-haven), the poor dont have a means to pay....its only us who are left to fend for ourselves....Hope some sensible finance minister coems into the cabinet next time and takes a realistic approach to solve our taxing tax.....<br/><br/><br/></font><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=62ac6601-a37d-4ec3-bf27-92094343bc44' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-57139028636488955122009-02-15T21:57:00.001-08:002009-02-15T21:57:30.972-08:00Laloo - The quality that matters!!!<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><font face='trebuchet'>Its amazing how one can easily fill the hearts of everybody watching with a sense a humour that one can feel as though calming amidst a tornado!!!!<br/><br/>I was watching laloo videos on the net regarding the budget and it struck me to see him enact his wizardy over the entire session. (believe me...these guys are not too easy to please)...so spellbound are the listeners, that they have nothing to do but? Laugh What else along with the rest of the nation....<br/><br/>No matter what the CBI, opposition, detractors and "others" say about him, laloo, to me stands for optimism. The reasons are simple....no need for brouhaha over his past legacy and his so termed tainted rule and all elitist opinions about him, he has stood the test of times.....<br/><br/>of course, lots of good things were happening before in previous administration of railways, but this gentleman is a cut about the rest. For his courage (propogating secularism), determination (fighting CBI cases), intelligence (remember his master piece in making his wife the chief-minister), managerial skills (railways turnaround folklore), his bone-tickling speeches and his indomitable spirit....I am his FAN!!!!....just for his incredible quality to charm his way through detractors.....<br/><br/>PS : care not to explain if there are not convincing for others and for people who have other opinions about laloo...everyone has an opinion, so do i<br/></font></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-60658433205505024142009-02-12T02:51:00.001-08:002009-02-12T02:51:34.195-08:00Here comes the fun!!!<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><font face='trebuchet'> I have always been amused by what people can do when in the face of serious consequences. Like the feb 14 drama played out and promises of free marriage to any guy being around a beautiful woman. (enticing but really damn bad and a bad joke from me too)<br/> Everyday, we see news of "this day" or "that day" but the greatest thing is nobody bothers about others choice of celebrating a particular day. That is the whole point...we just leave people to be on their own and not force our will upon them<br/> sadly this whole debate about feb 14 shows one thing. The inability of the people to accept other's choices and the inability of the affected parties to let go. <br/> A <b>"pub roko"</b> cannot be fought by a <b>"pub bharo" </b>campaign. If anybody bothers to even listen, both are not our <b>(Gandhian)</b> way of doing things. When the apartheid dogs threw him out of the train, he did not launch a <b>train bharo</b> campaign. Its high time we donot flame up these small incidents into something unpleasant. <br/> "<i>There is always a better way of doing things"</i><br/></font></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-66820563057251808642009-01-20T22:30:00.001-08:002009-01-20T22:37:39.494-08:00OBAMA!!!<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Back from a long hiatus....<br/>work, laziness or anything else i don't know and can't comprehend...but still i am back.<br/><br/>Stranger things have happened these days. but none stranger than <i><b>"the skinny guy with a funny name"</b></i>, whose journey has inspired one and all and continues to take people into a sort of dream people desperately need in these hard times.<br/><br/>The one thing that sets apart the Yankee from the rest of the mortals is this belief of "we can". How else could one explain the low savings rate, over consumption and other luxuries? <br/><br/>But the real issue which is being missed is?<br/><br/>Obama was the best qualified person for the job. I dont give a penny to this african-american heritage business. Lets not take the credit away from OBAMA, the man himself by layering his qualifications with race.<br/><br/>Having said that people are inspired by him, one should also not be too ignorant of everyday happenings around us which we tend to neglect and which are far more inspiring. <br/><br/> All around us who are geniuses in their own right. From the daily wager, for whom the presidency is one day's wage and to the millions who eke out a living around the world. These too are inspiring for me. The daily struggles, the constant threat of hunger, disease and all sorts of deprievation. Still they are alive! Long live the human spirit !!!<br/><br/>And hightime we start appreciating these stars also.....<br/></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-11251155346185905522008-10-14T01:43:00.000-07:002008-10-14T01:48:00.361-07:00trying to get back to blogging<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><font face='trebuchet'>i am bored out of my wits guys....<br/><br/>wanting to blog about some interesting things but not finding good time for it....<br/><br/>anyways will keep you guys updated from now on....</font><br/></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-30694495921761715782008-09-03T21:40:00.000-07:002008-09-03T21:43:59.654-07:00Ramzan and taqwa<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><br/><font face='trebuchet'>Back again....<br/> long since last posting but just leaving it to post some better stuff....this is the month of ramzan....the month of fasting...and loads of graciousness from allah....<br/> one major and important thing that needs to be acheived thru fasting is taqwa...so if somebody can practice taqwa "fear of allah" then allah says that he will give him rizq from a place that he doesnt even imagine..<br/> so please make sure you dont spend this month just like any other month with empty stomaches....<br/></font></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-27422136137522730612008-05-29T23:11:00.001-07:002008-05-29T23:11:07.823-07:00I am Back ---reflections of a piognant moment<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Just back to blogging after a long time...work and that most coveted one-time work of our lives..Marriage....my nikah was on 11th may 2008 and sorry for being stereotypic...its has been the best day of my life<br/><br/>Well unique as our customs are, though being a realist, i thoroughly enjoyed it....<br/>sorry for being artistic again, i had to say seeing the bride for the first time only after nikah is an unforgettable experience...<br/><br/>i must say there are somethings which we can never fully coprehend and nikah should be on top of that list....two perfect strangers...one nikah ceremony....then the transformation to being the ultimate companions aka soulmates....<br/><br/>my life now closely resembles that fanta softdrink Ad....where a guy is blasted by an orange ball....dishkiyaon....<br/><br/>one thing that stuck me after all this is there is a better, clean, halal way to do everything that we desire however worldly it might seem....and that as a consequence works out to be the best choice....<br/><br/>without being philosophical, lemme add that marriage is not just the satisfaction of our inclinations but the culmination of all things important for us in our lives.....<br/><br/><br/>ok now for the marriage resolution....<br/> " Before marriage, there are lots of relationships we are involved in like the relation with your parents, extended family friends etc., and after marriage, there is again a superlative bonus of new relatives like your in-laws and associated assortment of relatives....my understanding is that both have their own places and their rights and the resolution is to maintain and sustain their rights without infringing on each others rights and egos"<br/>It does sound challenging but thats the way to go about it<br/></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-56807083357310948402008-02-26T23:09:00.000-08:002008-02-26T23:11:04.160-08:00Auto Kaaran!!http://autofellow.blogspot.com/2008/02/auto-fellow.html<br /><br />read this post about the typical auto fellow!<br />Hilarious and also mark a feed if possible as interesting updates are intendedMohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-20835639602506062782007-08-16T06:33:00.001-07:002007-08-16T06:33:52.038-07:00Why dont we work on 15th august?<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>I was wondering on my space time yesterday ( Independence day) about the need for taking a day off to celebrate this auspicious day. As per my reckoning, we would motivate ourself to work on that day just for the sake of our nation. We could involve in socially relevant causes on national holidays just to reinforce our belief in our nation. Only a very small percentage turned up to hoist the tri-colour which for me was shocking. <br/>We should all try to spare a day and serve the nation so as to serve as a token of remembrance of the freedom that we have taken for granted! <br/>I am going to do it come next day of national significance. Pls do the same<br/></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-51353484257993636582007-08-08T00:03:00.001-07:002007-08-08T00:03:50.628-07:00There is still some sanity left in our journalism - The proof<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div id='mb_0'><div>Just take time to read it...and then think.....you<br />may or may not agree but it is surely thought provioking...have we<br />really stopped thinking a sa soxciety? Or we just think what we have<br />already decided as right, is right....Think....<br /></div><br /><div> </div><br /><div><a onclick='return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)' target='_blank' href='http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/sagarikaghose/223/2220/shshshmuslim.html'>The blog article on IBN! Please click on this link to view</a><br/><br/>The article really made me think about how our common senses have been blanked by a few bastard and how we need to pro actively evade this stupidity.<br/><br/></div><br /></div></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-26447575632185835452007-07-01T22:15:00.001-07:002007-08-03T01:37:05.029-07:00Activity Report for June 30th meet<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Its absolute pride for me to present before you the report of the activity on June 30th at Islamiah Boys Higher Secondary School, Melvisharam.<br /><br />The meet as you nay know was for the +2 students and the hall was brimming with them ( around 180 boys ). The meet was attended by all the senior staffs handling +2 classes and by the principal and the correspondent. I would like to really appreciate the attendance our our community members (around 14). It was spirited on our part to be present and show our unity for the cause and purpose for which we have<br />identified ourselves with.<br /><br /> The meet followed the agenda as we have discussed and finalized. The principal welcomed as warmly and then<br /><br />1. Intro to the meet.. M Imdadullah --The backroom worker who had done many things for the meet..from projector to screens to registrations etc.,<br /><br />2. About the community - Mohamed Imran K R ( i really didn't have a watch during the presentation..so i didn't know how much time i was actually taking for my presentation)<br />2. Industry Prospects and Opportunities - Muzafer A (Target) - ( Really wonderful...Mr Rizwanullah was highly recalling the facts and figures in his ppt...great statistical work)<br /><br />3. Motivation - U 2 can do it - Mohamed Saalim K - ( He had to manage<br />time not used by me...excellent and very basic understandable pres...feeling sorry for him as he had to present to people who had taught him..should have been very nervous)<br /><br />4. Vote of Thanks - Abdul Jabbar K - A fluent extempore speech with out any preplanning...<br /><br />Overall it was a well attended meet..The general consensus is that the management have understood our motives but the students were not comfortable with our advanced statistics and other facts...I think our goals are met because if the management understands us , we could go into individual classes to explain to the students<br />I would like to once again thank all our community members who participated and all those who didn't but prayed for us.<br /></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-6543378821104420362007-06-23T01:09:00.001-07:002007-06-23T01:16:12.791-07:00you know you are in 2007 when...<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span style="font-size:100%;">i came across this bitter truth in one of the websites about how much we are controlled by technologies and how funny our lives have been in this digital era...<br /><br /><br /><br />the story goes on this this...i ve also given the link to the origila post on <a href="http://www.thoughtmechanics.com/2007/05/25/you-know-youre-living-in-2007-when/">thoughtmechanics.com</a><br /><br /><a href="http://http//www.thoughtmechanics.com/2007/05/25/you-know-youre-living-in-2007-when/">you know you are in 2007 when..</a><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.</span></p><span style="font-size:100%;">2. You haven’t played Solitaire with real cards in years.<br /><br />3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.<br /><br />4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.<br /><br />5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.<br /><br />6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.<br /><br />7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.<br /><br />8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.<br /><br />10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.</span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )</span></p><span style="font-size:100%;">12 You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.<br /></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.</span></p><span style="font-size:100%;">14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.<br /></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t#9 on this list</span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.</span></p><span style="font-size:100%;">YOU REALLY KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 WHEN …<br /></span><pre><span style="font-size:100%;">1. you try to change the TV channel using your cell phone keypad;<br /><br />2. you feel your belt or purse vibrate even when someone else’s phone is ringing;<br /><br />3. you trust your car GPS route finder more than what you can see through the windscreen;<br /><br />4. you choose your friends according to the size of their MP3 music collection, and of course whether they are prepared to share them with you;<br /><br />5. you try to warm up your take-out meal in your hotel room’s electronic safe;<br /><br />6. you wish you could put your mother in law in hibernate mode, or yourself in log-off mode;<br /><br />7. you try and press ‘page down’ when turning the page of the novel you are reading, and are surprised when it does not work;<br /><br />8. with hundreds of zooty ring tones available, everyone selects the antique one;<br /><br />9. your laptop picks up twenty wi-fi networks in an airport but none of them is free;<br /><br />10. you have three mice on your desk and are not sure which machine they link to;<br /><br />11. you spend more time obeying what your computer and emails tell you to do, than listening to what your manager tells you to do;<br /><br />12. when there is a power outage there is no option but to go home, and even the home experience is limited;<br /><br />13. you are really really sick and tired of messages ending my telling you to pass them on to your friends, but you obey anyway…<br /></span></pre><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />PS: Enjoy! But pls do consider that our lives dont be as miserable as it is projected....Use your HEAD!<br /></span></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-10896771300203639112007-06-14T23:29:00.001-07:002007-06-14T23:29:20.054-07:00technokrati post<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/claim/zw2cdz9n7w" rel="me"&gt;Technorati Profile&lt;/a&gt;<br></br><br></br><br></br><p class='poweredbyperformancing'>Powered by <a href='http://scribefire.com/'>ScribeFire</a>.</p></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-58853318987170077892007-06-12T23:47:00.001-07:002007-06-12T23:47:55.402-07:00Wireless Mesh Networks<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>If you wonder about technology as a boon or a bane, then you must not forget to take configuring the same into account. Well it takes a a helluva lot of a time to get something up and running. and dont even talk about wifi products, which for advanced installations need site planning channel management and stuff like that...<br></br><br></br>So where does this leaves us. How do i manage my community network...how do i extend the range of it. how do i get good throughput at all places.. how do i do this ...how do i do that...<br></br><br></br>the answer is simple...wireless mesh networks...just buy a few of these mesh access points..put them up strategically and connect one of them to the backbone internet.power them up and do very basic config...and lo! you have your entire neighbourhood unwired...<br></br><br></br>Mesh network is based on the 802.11s standard. its still evolving..the primary motivation is to have a self-configuring , self-healing network that takes care of itself. The addition of new mesh poinys is effortless..just plug them up and they also become a part of the network and extend the range..if one mesh point is down ( for power failure or something) the others intelligently learn about that and they reconfigure the network effectively...<br></br><br></br>over all its fantastic...i will describe some products later (insha allah)...watch out..<br></br><br></br><br></br><p class='poweredbyperformancing'>Powered by <a href='http://scribefire.com/'>ScribeFire</a>.</p></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-75736102801955068462007-05-04T02:38:00.001-07:002007-05-08T22:46:43.468-07:00Indexing with Xapian and Omega<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Continuing my sojourn to index my file system and having a web-based application to search, i came across Xapian. Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the <a href='http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php'>GPL</a>. Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It supports the Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.<br></br>If you are looking for much simplistic stuff to use Xapian, you could use Omega, an application that is built upon Xapian. <br /><br />Xapian's versatility allows you to extend Omega to meet your needs as they grow. You can download all of them <a href='http://www.xapian.org/download.php'>here</a>.<br></br>The installation is very easy and documented <a href='http://www.xapian.org/docs/install.html'>here</a>. A complete tutorial on using Omega is available <a href='http://wiki.xapian.org/OmegaExample'>here</a>. The only thing you need to worry about is the space available in your HDD to store the indexes.<br></br>The relevant searching is good and the default cgi application of omega is effieient enough for a basic search appliance. Make sure that your files to be indexed are in the http path ( use virtual hosts) so that you can follow the search results when you click on them<br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><p class='poweredbyperformancing'>Powered by <a href='http://scribefire.com/'>ScribeFire</a>.</p></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142505697695981452.post-89979289072232451212007-04-26T22:07:00.001-07:002007-04-26T22:07:06.745-07:00File system indexing<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><font color='#000000'>I was looking for ways to index an entire array of websites to create a repository. the idea behind is that people can download and dump their favourite websites like tldp.orf ( The Linux Documentation Project), wikipedia etc., and create an index out of them that facilitates searching among these repositories.<br></br>wget is a small linux utility that allows you to recursively dump websites into your hard drive. For the indexing purpose, we can use Zebra which is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. <br /> Zebra also supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes of data, tens of millions of records). you can download Zebra at http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/idzebra-2.0.12.tar.gz and install the same after installing dependencies like yaz etc.,<br></br>Zebra documenattion is available at http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra/doc/ read specifically the sections on Administering zebra. you can do different types of indexing ( see zebra.cfg options). For indexing your dumped websites, you should use the indexing with File Record IDs which will also support incremental updates to your repository.<br></br>You can access data stored in Zebra using a variety of<br /> Index Data tools (eg. <a href='http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/'>YAZ</a> and <a href='http://www.indexdata.dk/phpyaz/'>PHP/YAZ</a>) as well as commercial and freeware Z39.50 clients and toolkits.</font><br></br><br></br><br></br><p class='poweredbyperformancing'>Powered by <a href='http://scribefire.com/'>ScribeFire</a>.</p></div>Mohamed Imran K Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09800011702982513346noreply@blogger.com1