Blasts in Mumbai...

This is real bad... i love the way India Responded... Strong. India is resilient, and iam very confident India will spring back much more stronger. We live in crisis always and know how to handle this. Its very sad and the target are unassuming peace loving civilians that are choosen to be targets..


Its really hard to live peacefully with all the distractions muslim terrorists create. I have some really good muslim friends who feel sorry and are rather ashamed that a few could completely disrespect the religion and the purpose for which it rather came to existance.

I was listening to CNN after a long time to capture a glimpse of whats happening. Larry King was on discussing with Deepak Chopra. Right after that i heard a comment from CNN reporter Christianne Ammanpoor which is rather shocking. She appeared very upset with Deepak's comments hinting pakistan's involvement and appeared to rather justify the attacks. She said that the 150 million muslims are underprevilegded. Come on Christanne.. you better read and know more before becomming emotional and acting up... It makes me sick to hear your comments.

More facts by some poster here http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/435982/cs/1/#reply

Its clear muslims have more freedom and representation... Would christianne justify if the underpreveleged blacks in USA do something similar. Its compeltely irresponsible for someone from CNN to do just sloppy representation in a national broadcast. Its a shame that CNN even has her on payroll..

Scammers using Dish Network

It was annoying to be called by guys from 1-877-656-9808. Claiming to be dish network rebate department and trying to sell monthly programming for $68 with latest equipment. Always suspected they were a fraud. Finally i asked for a number and they gave the about number. When i tried to call them back, I can easily see this guy trying to put an ugly USA accent. Total frauds. Then they called me from two other phone numbers, 203-201-2000 and 971-230-0738 asking for SSN, CC# etc...

I read here that more people have been affected. I think dish network should advertise to avoid getting a bad name.

Please be aware...

Curry for Kids

Portland area non-profit is teaming up with restaurants to help end TB in India.

Thursday Oct 30th dine in any of the restaurants in the list, they would contribute a percentage of sales towards the cause.

Visit Progressive Health Worldwide for more details.

Opensolaris supporting fast-reboot

For people who work with a real OS... OpenSolaris build 100 now supports fastboot.

The minute i installed b100 i found great use for it. Its typical that once i install a lab system for development, i always have to set proper network params, hostname and such to work with DHCP blah blah... and then i would need to reboot.

deciced to give it a try and reboot -f , got the prompt (including X) back in about 7-10 secs) which was fantastic...

Thank you Sherrie from sun for providing this neat feature.. now only if you extend to support panic reboots would be fantastic.

Check the manpage for reboot for additional options.

Great work Sherrie!

Allen @work

Allen was here graciously covering for me & bob while on sabbatical. He is leaving back to home. Here are some pictures today after lunch at Thai Orchid.



Bob, Steve, Allen and Geetha



Allen posing in front of his Car... btw: he didnt drive like in China :-)



Steve wondering what to order for lunch

my iphone review

Ok, I didn't get the first version of the iphone so I could get the 3g version. Overall I'm impressed, but seems to lack some intelligence when u get a product from apple. Here are a few cases.

- 3G sucks battery like crazy. Even with 3G off, Wifi off, and using it as a simple phone it doesn't last more than a day and half.
- with 3G on and if the signal is weak, it's not switching to edge. Insted ur phone quits working unless u switch 3g off manually
- they should really turn on 3G or WIfi on or off on demand right when an app needs it. That could save pwr significantly and save going to settings like 20 times a day.


- atleast make battery easily replaceable
- ability to make custom rtones should be free. There is one for iMac (garage band), but would love to have that on PC as well
- need some way to cut/paste. Dam, it was even on windoZ ce

But all said Iam afraid it's still a cool product..

Some apps I like

- papikump (game)
- tetris
- palringo (im that connects to everything)
- facebook, twiterrific, photobucket
- shazam ((it's really cool, finds even my Tamil songs). Beats midori to dust for being a free app.
- iphunny
- vnc

I won't return it though. Although it could be better

That's it for now

Sabbatical in India

Alright... finally after 7 hard years... my employer gives me a break with a sabbatical. Paid vacation for full 8 weeks. (Iam happy they still do it when several others have pulled this nice benefit away).

I have been here for a fully day and a half already, after gurelling some 20+ hrs in flight with 2 kids...

More to come...