Handshake with Dalai Lama

Kishore meeting Dalai Lama

Geany perl compile error

Playing around with Geany on Jaunty…found this error in compiling

Can’t locate B/Bytecode.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5….blah blah.

Jaunty distributes perl 5.10 which has a couple of changes 5.9.4.. removal of B::Bytecode module was one of them due to its unreliability.

to correct this in geany, goto Build->Set Includes and arguments

change perl -MO=Bytecode,-H,-o”%f”c “%f” to

simply this perl -c “%f” ..

Things that feel good

1. Falling in love.
2. Laughing so hard your face hurts.
3. A hot shower.
4. No lines at the supermarket
5. Getting mail
6. Taking a drive on a pretty road.
7. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.
8. A long distance phone call.
9. A good conversation.
10. The beach
11. Finding a Rs. 500 note in your coat from last winter.
12. Laughing at yourself.
13. Midnight phone calls that last for hours.
14. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.
15. Having someone tell you that you’re beautiful.
16. Friends

Things I intend to do

1. Stop watching television.
2. Stop eating fast food.
3. Stop eating pizza and fried foods.
4. Stop driving places that you could easily walk to.
5. Read at least 1 book a month.
6. Take classes in what interests you or your vocation.
7. Work enough to support yourself, and if needed get a new job or second job to make enough to support yourself. Never stick with a job that doesn’t pay enough to support yourself no matter how much you work.
8. Pay off your debts and don’t go in debt (My MD also says so). You can pay off your debts if you avoid needless expenses, such as cable, overpriced clothes, impractical decorations, unhealthy snacks, jewelry, etcetera.
9. Don’t buy a car on finance, and don’t buy an expensive car if a cheaper one that works is available.
10. Wake up early, and get all your work done as quickly as possible. That includes household chores, as well as your employment.

Acid3 tests of Current browsers

The race of browsers is on. Earlier it was assumed that Firefox and IE would compete for a larger market share but now there are more candidates.I conducted a Acid3 test on the browsers and  got this.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is quite convincing with a score of 87 out of 100.

Market share – 19.46 %

Opera 9.52 build 10108 had a score of 84/100 which was quite near to firefox

Market share -  0.69 %

Google chrome build 1798 had failures but I am sure the current build 3604 would fix a few of them. It well scored 75/100

Market share – 0.78 %

Open Source DMS/ECM review

Web based Document management system have come a long way. Filenet and Documentum were a few pioneer technologies that made life easy for organizations that need to maintain loads of electronic documents. The second generation of DMS appeared in shape of client server based system which used java webstart like techniques for document hosting. Xinco is a good example. The third generations of web based DMS have appeared more like a enterprise content management solution rather than a simple DMS. Here in this post , I would discuss third generation web based DMS and the features they offer.

In open source arena, There are multiple such solution available. This multiplicity of projects have either matured as a complete enterprise DMS solution or died off after setting future roadmap for other DMS projects. I have able to sort out a few DMS solution that can serve document management requirements based on either volume or number of features they provide.

Joe Stump’s Interview

This is an excerpt from Joe Stump’s interview. Joe is lead architect at Digg.

Break stuff. Break everything. Poke, prod and explore. Don’t listen to people who tell you that you can’t do something or that you’re wasting your time. More practical advice is that you should learn to know and love design patterns and avoid GUI’s. I have a real problem with people who say they know SQL because they’re well versed with an ORM or a DB’s GUI. Go back and read up on relational algebra and SQL92 before you say you know SQL okay?I’ll probably get flamed for this, but I think people should learn a single environment in and out and stick with it. This might mean you learn Microsoft’s technologies in and out or Cocoa or LAMP. You simply can’t be an expert in an area of computers without picking a single environment and sticking with it. Dabble, sure, but pick a horse and learn everything you can about it.If you choose UNIX read one man page a day until you’ve read all of the GNU utilities’ man pages. You’re not a true UNIX geek unless you’ve typed man man at once point in your life.

This is one of the best which I have read in recent times. One can’t be an expert in all the area. You need to choose one and know as much as possible about it. The illusion of having opinion about every techie stuff going around you will lead nowhere except confusion for yourself.

Open Source SNMP

The list of open source SNMP tools

http://www.openxtra.co.uk/network-management/monitor/open-source/

and the one which skipped this list
http://www.itmanagement.com/features/10-open-source-network-tools-052407/
http://collectl.sourceforge.net/index.html
NetXMS
Mon
OpenNMS

and the mecca list of all
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html

My Ubuntu Desktop

Dynamic design

This Is A Cool Computer Program – Celebrity bloopers here