When I am writing this post , I was parallely browsing on what laptop to buy . For the last two weeks I am just checking with my colleagues and friends on it. Most of them asked me to go for DELL, so finally I am planning to buy DELL Inspiron. The model S541217IN8 is the one which perfectly suits my requirement more importantly my budget. Even this was advertised saying 35,900 (Including Taxes) in Dell site what I finally get in check out page is nearly 3000 plus.

For the last one year it was maximum of 20 commands I should have issued in linux boxes and most of the time might have ended with PERMISSION DENIED error. But its been last one month or so, I had some good time with linux. To be frank first I felt little tough, but when it started moving it was awesome. Even though I cannot tell myself as a perfect linux administrator, I am a good linux user. This all started on a day when I just got sudo permission in one of the dev box.There I started installing Perl, PHP ,APache etc. Eventhough most of the time it is just YUM , I got little in my pocket .

The real stuff started when I was asked to install Grsecurity and sbox in the machine . To do Grsecurity it asked me to compile a kernel with Grsecurity patch. First I felt like this things need to be done by great geeks , but finally after following the steps given in LINUX NUT SHELL I too did it. Then loaded grsecurity patched kernel, and tested few of our application. But finally my search came to end only after writing LKM (Loadable Kernel Modules) for over writing few system calls . This is the place where I felt the real flavor of linux .

My dream on this linux world still continues. Once I complete my project I guess I can say myself as linux administrator. Passionately waiting for that day .

The four funny sad laws of software project team is as follows.



Honestly speaking , my life is no where out of it . All the newton's law, moore's law may fail ,but this God damn law never .So here I take my oath ,In future when I get a chance to make a team ,I will break this damn law and will set a new record .

This is mainly for the new hires to the software industry , they will not be aware of those proxy/monitoring scripts which runs in the back of internet and tracking each of our key click and http transactions . Without minding that the fresh minds will browse all those useless sites and finally get a warning mail from his Project Manager . Even though in many of the company this is not a big issue ,its worth aware of it. Already the security team of company will have their own script to track all those , besides there are some new companies starting their business with their main objective of pirating the privacy of software professionals . In that list comes the following advertisement.

Its just fun , So please tear this page in the PC world book june 2009 edition of your office copy ,before your project manager sees.

The wisdom you get from this world is much , but other than this there are some little funny entertainments are available.

1) Even LKG boys and gals will goto school on saturdays, but never the real software engineers.
2) you will get some really good emails daily, if you want to spend the whole day you can spent time by just reading those mail and forwarding it
3) Will get big salary for the little work we do .
4) If you have gals in your team , you can flirt under the name of discussions and team interaction .
5) Can use the office phone to call all your friends , to whom you have never called from your mobile phone.
6) Under the name of relaxation can spend max of your time near coffee machines ,coke machines all at free of cost .
7) You always say this software life is boring , but when somebody ask you to quit you will never do so.
8) 90 % of your work will be done by google , rest 10 % of mailing ,reporting alone need to be done by you.
9) Eventhough you are not doing anything useful to the company , can sit in the office till 12 and go home and say oh God it sucks man !
10) Finally you will get some good gal as your life partner ( This was a year back ,but now ???? ).

Hi software professionals , just check your life span here its just a mathematical calculation ,never it gonna tell truth but worth checking it . It is more clear that we are the people with less physical activities , more partying habits , high stressed individuals.

The result for my life span is :

I have 59 years left to live.
I will die in 2068 at age 81.
I am beating the average lifespan for someone my age by 5 years.
To put it another way, I have the health of a 17 year old.
I have lived 27% of my life already.


So If you people want to check this use this link When Will I Die Quiz

It's true they say that a picture is worth a thousand words.
I don't think there is a better way of explaining our life. Imagine yourself sitting in the black chair...




My life also continuous as same way ,but till now its cool and fine. I don't know when It gonna suck . Morning 9:00AM wake up call from my dad and mom , Reach office by 10:00AM. , Check mails 11:00 AM , Discuss with PL 12:00 PM , Cafe lunch ,chat with office friends and sights from 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM. Then comes the real Work Till 06:00 PM (In the middle some funny mails , cafe drinks , chat for relaxation ). TT(Table Tennis ) till 09:00 PM , Blogging some crap till 10:30 PM , Watch Comedy in Sun tv and Kalaignar tv till 12:00 Am with room mates . Then some more songs till 01:00 AM .Then Sleep.

In the middle some funny friends , talented and cool persons , interesting problems , crazy technologies and especially TT are keeping me well on track. Besides have to load my mind with some information (lol).

April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day, although not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends,family members and neighbors , or sending them on fools errand , the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. Wondering how this guy got those sexy words (errands, gullible etc) in this few lines . Don't wonder it was all from great wiki. Thanks Wiki for providing me this introduction to start this post and to cheat all these people as such my english has approved in a great way from the past posts .
I started this year 2009 with no resolution and no beer .But when I see this first quarter result of my life , it came out as good pic even under this recession . I am doing work fine ,everything is working in my way and days are going fast and thrill till yesterday . But today three times I have been cheated, fooled ,bankrupted ,that too by just simple forwards of following mails .

It was all set to go and I am going on with full concentration on my work , suddenly at (Wed 4/1/2009 11:11 AM ) my mail box popped up one message .
Content is nothing great ,but a simple image .















Oh damn common will see , whats gonna happen ? press that F13 carefully , I said by myself and searching the key F13................ Oh f**k even small kids knows that there are only 12 function keys . I don't understand why I am becoming much clever nowadays ? Again proving to myself in a big screen , "that people tend to lose their common sense easily on growing " I did this .
Fine commmmmmoonnnn awake no more silly April fools today , said to myself and started staring that same useless monitor. Next it was during (Wed 4/1/2009 2:26 PM) my mail alert popped up with April fool keyword in it . Before opening that mail I was saying be careful , never this time .Finally it was a mail with MS word attachment saying 11_ways_of_fooling.doc . With great expectation opening that mail "common atleast using one idea I can cheat all my friends ". But finally that attachment of 26K doc had only this line .

This is one of them, will mail you the rest later

OH GOD again !! Why me ? Ok this time let us prove ourself as clever ,lets forward this mail to all of the friends and make them fools today . Some how some already fooled fools replied for my mail , "Anyway thanks for your help but I have my own ideas ,please forward to some real fools ". Ha ha ha ..Very funny that was my reply to those, what else I can do ?.

Then the last best mail (Wed 4/1/2009 6:55 PM)it was even better ,but no reaction from me .























I don't know ,why I really felt something this was normal mail and I am not cheated with this . I don't know why I came to this point of compromise ? why ? why ? May be too much of this funny frustrations...... Any way thanks to those few mail creators and senders ,it remained my sweet school old days ,where April 1 is a big funny festive even now . Finally I can be proud of myself ,saying that nobody cheated me in front, all are through this stupid mails .....

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The day I remeber my first three lines of code ran in the production and created some value to my company . My first one was not a big project , it was just a three line fix to the existing code . It was an afternoon , after finishing the lunch and spending some time with friends in terrace came back to my place and checked the mail . My PL just sent me a perl file of 2000 lines and asked me to just look at it . To be frank I don't know about perl much that time . I was just trying to go through with the help of google , thinking that they just want me to understand this and nothing more . Then after ten minutes , I got one more mail stating that this is a cron script which runs every day night and gives the statistics of download of a particular client in an excel sheet .

They also mentioned that it was put in production on jan 15 2008 and running successfully till October 31 2008 ,but after that it failed continously for 6 days . They just asked me to find the reason , why it failed ? Oh God My first work was given in a language , using which I have never written even a line of code before that . I was guessing something , may be because of the month part changing from single digit to double digit may cause this problem , or even funnier that there is no download took place for those seven day so no stas got created etc .I was trying to see the lines containing date manipulations and look at it . To my goodness after 30 mins I got a call from my PL stating that in the line no 380 ,some duplicate ids are causing the problem you make a fix to avoid the duplicate . Thanks God one line of regex and two lines of if else loop fixed the bug .

" Eventhough it is not a big fix or innovation, the first project always stands in our mind for a long time ". I am sure am an exception to those and will surely forget this soon ,so only thought of making this as a post to make myself remember this for my life time . From that 3 lines everything started ...........

The day before each semester exam is the day that all engineering students will remember for their whole life ,with some fun filled exciting thrills . The day when we get to know the full name of the subject? The day when we see the text book for the first time? The day when we will feel little fear and think of arrears ,placements ,future ,dreams ,goals, life ,xyz ,zyx allstupid things which never disturbed us for the past six months. The day where we really work but for the hell sake everything sucks beyond our work and plan . Whatever we study before the day of Exam, everything is less useful on the day of exam .At the day of judgment everybody will fight till the last second , not because they learned some important points and don't want to waste them without writing, its only for filling some crap till the papers end so that some real professors will feel that this guy has got something to get pass.

This was my first semester in college life: I still remember the study holidays,where I managed to study a bit. Every subject can be managed easily at the eleventh hour, but not that stupid Engineering Maths . It needs some special brilliant guy like Ranjith to change that real unchangeable thought to a really stupid one. With his help ,around 10 guys of our wing got the subject cleared. Those days our racks were filled with books ,Where our only thoughts are to clear the subjects.We study independently & sleep well during exams previous night, finally end up checking the stupid answers with our friends. After seeing the result, we found that writing semester exam is nothing but giving halwa. The second semester is slightly different,with number of books in rack reduced to two ,started group studies with friends ,but regarding maths same fun, only Ranjith will decide our result . I still remember the group study with madurai(Karthik) for Basics of EEE and C++. I saw the definition of real spirit, dedication, enthu, sincerity etc from that guy only for that semester.

The Second year of our life: Where everybody started feeling as geth seniors, as a result no studies ,nothing ,which lead us to set some great records in arrears and start of some special classes for the first time in the history of GCT .Thanks to
our faculty who took very much care on us and gave little option to study and big chance for guys and gals to put kadalai freely in the department under the name of group study. Many of our classmates should be where very thankful to mam.

The fifth and sixth semester where really super ,everybody started feeling that semesters are nothing but one night stand. No body will have text book with them , only xerox & even that too one unit. The days where our gang started developing (Thamim, Baas , Peter ,Supni ,Thala ). The motto of our gang is 'Whatever is the size of the book, read only heading, subheading and keywords, especially diagrams but never leave a title untouched in the book'. This motto really worked well and everybody got cleared with some decent percentage . Since our party shown very good success in those semesters many copied our motto.we felt really happy on our followers but our geth gang needs something unique and distinct ,so we came up with some new motto for the legendary final year.

The motto is simple " xerox only index page of book & don't waste the money , if really needed attach two or three white papers and use them for formulas and diagrams.To be honest, this motto is far more successful and attractive. There at the
end of college we came to know that how talented guys we are ? how brilliant we are ?. Finally our gang came out of college with the name of dedicated hardworking brilliant GCT students. We are very much thankful to the guys Santhosh, Gokul, Naveen, Balaji, Paramesh etc who helped us in background to get this valuable name ,In order to thank them I specially dedicate this post for those guys. The Only thing I felt sad at the end is I missed GOLD medal by an inch. Oh! God why not me?
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Some special persons and their fancy semester moments are to be.........................

It was a month before coming to hyderabad , my investigation started on Hyd, searched google ,google earth and all those stuffs ,finally wat I found is really cool and interesting things( really i don't have words to say) i.e., some bomb blasts ,bomb threats are common there , ( in one blog I read hyderabad is next Jammu & Kashmir). Oops...............!
I prayed to God ,"Pls God if my life ends ,let it be for some good things not to these simple bombs".
Then with some hope , My dream journey began to Hyderabad from Chennai by July 12 11:15Am,through flight (thanx to reimbursement of JUNO).Before starting I phoned my friends (who were in Hyd)to come and receive me in Airport, I was sure they will be there at least half and hour before my arrival (because one of the guy among them is very punctual, he'll never miss time).
Around 12:45 Air-Hostess announced ,
"Flight 'll be landed in Hyderabad in a short while pls all fasten your belts" .
Through that window, I was searching outside where is Hyderabad? where it is? ,but I didn't even saw one building out there.I felt being in Arabian desert and I saw some buffaloes, waste land around there.

Then I moved with my things with the blind hope that the punctual guys 'll be waiting for me for longtime.
I switched on my mobile it said
"Emergency calls only",
I was stunned "Oh! my God there is not even mobile towers here ,wat a nice place I got to work?".
Then only I came to know that damn Aircel has no network coverage outside TamilNadu. Then I took one airtel sim which i had it in my purse and started using .
My bad luck is I got only 3 rupees balance in it.I don't know Wat to do? Whether to call my dad and ask him to recharge or call to those punctual guys to know where they are?. Finally I called my dad to recharge it ,now my balance is 0.00. I don't know wat to do?. So I got a mobile from a stranger and tried to give a missed call to punct guys, as guys were punctual they didn't even allow a ring ,attended it, suddenly without any idea me too cut that call. I don't know wat to say to that guy(asked for giving a missed call but finally??), my goodness he didn't mind about that.
Then they made a call and said
"Machi sorry da we are not able to come ,its too far we slept da"
( I expected this things from those punctual guys,and said 'k you dogs i ll come and see you).
Ada paavigala apadinu sollitu Radio cab pakkam pona avan 500 rs nu sonnan. Auto was k they said 300 rs and i took that .Nearly after 1hr 45 min I reached the hotel. I was thinking wat a pity? It took only 1 hr for me to reach Hyd from Chennai, but 1hr 45 min for reaching hyderabad city from airport
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The traffic in hyderabad was horrible , no check post ,no traffic constable,not even signals and it needs some special talent to drive in Hyderabad.Then in hotel, I planned to order lunch in the hotel, but my colleagues who was already there said ,"Pls check the menu before you order", so I saw the menu, every item they had was very nice , I don't know wat to order finally i saw the price and said that items are not good enough(Chi Chi intha palam pullikum). (I understood why he asked me to check the menu ,i said thanks to them).
Then my friends came and said," Get ready da we are going to Jaane tu Ya Jaane na hindi film".But you see my fate I can read and write Hindi well but i don't know even some basic meanings.
They said "Don't worry da! We ll explain ! Get ready!"

Then we went to Hyderabad central for lunch ,there we were trying to cross a road it took around 10 mins .In the mean time we saw many ppls(all aged) crossing very easily ,just by showing the hands on the side. There we learned how to cross this traffic roads. The most worrying things are we don't get bus frequently ,the main mode of transport is share auto( its good that cost nearly equals bus,and it is more frequent and flexible).

Then I think we took 3 autos and a bus to reach theater talki town in Miapur.The way how they named the places are very interesting see madhapur Gontapur,miapur etc and hyderabad,secundarabad,cyberabad... There in theatre, I felt that Hyderabad is very cool and colorful, but to prove the terror face of hyderabad ,wherever you go you 'll be checked like a terrorist.


The film was superb, except me everybody enjoyed ,(whenever some one laughs I too did the same,because nearby me a gal i don't want to reveal myself that I don't know hindi- prestige issue ).Then the film somehow got over(i was badly waiting for it to end,but to be honest the film was nice I guessed from the video not from audio) .
Then our Deshaw guys gave treat for their first month salary in Ginger court near Madhapur(the hotel looked pretty good) ,I thought
"Wow! this is the right place to taste the Hyderabad Biryani(lets go and rock it )" We started with some decent starters(some chicken and fish items -ya it was really nice), then we got into the main item with some special briyani's( to be frank there is nothing in it, we just felt like vomiting, white rice with some half cooked mutton, and some spices- it cost's around 200 but to be frank it is worth only for 10 rs),then we switched to desserts(had nice ice creams)and finally returned room around 12 am .There we played some computer games and slept (Dream day ended nicely).To be honest I felt ,"Hyderabad as sweet killer" -from my first day experience.
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