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Saturday, November 25, 2006

ModMani's

ಜೀವನದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ನಗ್ನ ಸತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಅರಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡೂ ಜೀವನವನ್ನು ಮುಂಗಾಣಬಲ್ಲ, ಎಂತಹುದೇ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶದಲ್ಲೂ ಸ್ಥಿತ-ಪ್ರಜ್ಞತೆಯನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಲ್ಲ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯವೇ ಜೀವನದ ಉತ್ತುಂಗತೆ.

Friday, November 24, 2006

Keats

To bear all naked truths, and to envisage circumstance, all calm: that is the top of sovereignity -- Keats

ಜೀವನದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ನಗ್ನ ಸತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಅರಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡೂ, ಎಂತಹುದೇ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶದಲ್ಲೂ ಸ್ಥಿಥ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞತೆಯನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದೇ ಜೀವನದ ಉತ್ತುಂಗತೆ.

is it worth putting it here

Conversation with Cobra


(12:54:00) Cobra: hello sir

(12:54:20) mad rabbit: hello sir good morning

(12:54:27) mad rabbit: how are the things with you

(12:54:31) Cobra: going on

(12:55:12) Cobra: how is things at your end

(12:55:44) mad rabbit: Things are fine.. But planning is required, which needs lot of inputs :D

(12:56:07) Cobra: planning and inputs on what

(12:56:54) mad rabbit: I need to plan the design and architecture of our infrastructure .. and it requires lot of inputs from various peoples and fields

(13:00:36) Cobra: cool sir, can we be of any help to in this context

(13:00:51) mad rabbit: sure sir....

(13:00:53) mad rabbit: :)

(13:00:59) Cobra: ajit was telling me about this when i met him yesterday

(13:02:20) Cobra: ok thats nice to know, u guys have AD and exchnage in place

(13:02:34) mad rabbit: no not yet

(13:02:51) mad rabbit: as of now.... we were not in need of it :)

(13:03:08) Cobra: you mean to say AD ????

(13:03:20) mad rabbit: may be we will not get exchange .... but for the new project we need AD

(13:03:40) Cobra: ok thats needed

(13:04:43) mad rabbit: configuring AD is not really a big deal... but getting all those licenses and deciding on the server configurations is really tough

(13:07:20) Cobra: yes that is true

(13:08:12) Cobra: about server configuration you can get in touch with

(13:08:26) Cobra: they are good

(13:09:03) Cobra: even in price wise or else direct get in touch with IBM or HP tell your requirements they will suggest good one

(13:10:04) mad rabbit: and especially during this period of time... where we have 64bit architecture, intel/amd/ celron and many people in competition, storage spaces capabilities and requirements are growing like anything, debate on the threshold of computing powers of machine and man interface... battery explosion, greenhouse effect, global warming due to bad powersaving settings and many more

(13:10:39) Cobra: from my knowledge for AD any X series IBM server with Raid 1+0 or raid 5 should be fine

(13:10:52) mad rabbit: yeah, thats point... earlier I had dealt with frontier... will talk to them.. I have taken the UPS from them

(13:11:03) Cobra: great

(13:13:19) Cobra: >:D<

(13:16:59) mad rabbit: x series is x86 architechure right ..?

(13:17:10) mad rabbit: what is p5

(13:18:32) Cobra: yes sir dual xeon processor 2 gb RAM or more with 146 GB in 5 hard disk on board ethernet and 2 extra ethernet would be good for any AD server

(13:19:02) Cobra: or even for redenuncey you can for culster your life will be always smooth

(13:19:20) mad rabbit: and even a mailserver requires approximately same config right ..?

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

bengaluru bedagu

ಈ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಹೀಗೇ ಬೆಳೆಯುತ್ತಾ ಹೋದರೆ ಮುಂದೆ ಏನಾಗಬಹುದು?
ಸುತ್ತಾ ಮುತ್ತಾ ಬಂಗಾರದ ಬೆೆಳೆ ಬೆಳೆಯುವ ಭೂಮಿಯನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ನುಂಗಿ ನೀರು ಕುಡಿಯಬಹುದು.
ಊರ ತುಂಬಾ ತುಂಬಿರುವ, ಅಮೆರಿಕನ್ನರು, ಯೂರೋಪಿಯನ್ನರು, ಚೀನೀಯರು, ಕೊರಿಯನ್ನರು, ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯನ್ನರ ನಡುವೆ, ಉತ್ತರ ಭಾರತೀಯರು, ತಮಿಿಳರು, ತೆಲುಗರ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು ಕಣ್ಮರೆಯಾಗಬಹುದು.
ಕನ್ನಡತನ ಮರೆಯಾಗಿ ಹೋಗಬಹುದು. ಬರುತ್ತಿರುವ ಹಣದ ಆಸೆಗೆ ಹೀಗೆ ನಮ್ಮತನವನ್ನು ಬಲಿಕೊಟ್ಟವರು ಉಳಿಯುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ? ಸಾವಿರದೈನೂರು ವರುಷಗಳ ಇತಿಹಾಸವನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ?
ನಿಮ್ಮ ಅನಿಸಿಕೆಯೇನಾದರೂ ಇದ್ದರೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Open Source symposium

Opensource symposium was organized on 17th October 2006

This events target audience were CIOs and CTOs.

Mr. Nandu Pradhan, President and MD Red hat India Private Limited Welcomed the gathering on Both days. In his interesting welcome speech, he suggested the power of open source and how it can help in building the nation, by contributing to the areas of non profit making sectors of e-governance. And also there was a hint about how one can generate revenues while working with such environments.

Opening Keynote on the Open Source Symposium was by Dr. D B Pathak, HOD KreSIT, IIT Mumbai.
He was keen about the economical changes that open source can bring in to the economy of the countries like India. And also he raised some questions about the Intellectual property rights, for example, “If somebody owns the right for a piece of code, and if the documentation is written by somebody else, then how IP rights can be justified, who owns what and how end user sails over all these issues..?”

Then there was a panel discussion on the topic “ How Linux has added value to the business? whats more to the business beyond Linux and Open Source?” Unfortunately I was not able to attend this panel discussion as there was an emergency call in the office.

Post lunch session was divided into two streams business and technical, both streams running parallel.
The topics I attended are.

1.Enterprise Linux Best Practices – Customer case study – Maharashtra Courts.
by Mr. Ashish J Shiradhonkar National Informatics Center
2.Identity Management: LDAP in the RealWorld, Migration and Integration
by Satish Chetty, Redhat
3.Reducing the cost of Management with Stateless Linux
by Rajeshwar Singh, Redhat.
4.Dynamic Linux Kernel Instrumentation with SystemTap
by Eugene Teo Redhat Asia Pacific.

All the three topics were very interesting, The first described about how e-governance and digitization of the Maharashtra Law courts has happened, the challenges faced, and the solutions by opensource were discussed.

In the second Lecture Mr. Satish Chettty, discussed about implementation of LDAP for SSO, mail and many other application. It was a complete technical session which also talk about smooth migration and integration if different systems already exists. (as I am already planning to have some kind of SSO in our organization, this lecture gave me some more inputs).

The Stateless Linux looks to be a better solution for Call Center and BPO environments. This is not much different from the LTSP or thin client concept, except a stateless Linux Desktop will work offline also once it got booted. This will give a good control and administrative rights to the system administrator and also it is easy to deploy the new management policies if we are adopting/migrating. But as this is evolving technology, the suitability of such system to the Offshore development Center is to be evaluated and tested.

The last topic of the day was most beautiful, which described about tuning the performance of the system, editing kernel parameters, It was very informative, But really went above my head ;).

The session was ended with a Q&A, and a lucky dip where winners carried a sony PSP and iPOD.


Red Hat Developers day was organized on 18th October 2006

Mr. Nandu Pradhan, President and MD of Red Hat India delivered the welcome speech, where he repeated the quotes he made yesterday, But the session was mainly focusing on Developers

As again there was a call from the office I was not able to attend the seminars which were there in the pre-lunch session, But I attended three sessions in the post lunch session.

Mugshot – A Social live Experience by Ramakrishna Reddy, which talks about development of orkut like community, which can be used to share pics, music, and many other things.

Semantic Storage System on Desktop by Satish Mohan which talks about a new kind of file system, which index the files with respect to the content of the file, and stores in a folder, which can be addressed by different ways, and file system itself is robust.

Localization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux by Mayank Jain talks about the initiative Red Hat is taken in standardization and localization of the programs/ fonts/ OS, so that the application area of the computers can extended to the Indian Local Market.

The complete two days session was thought provoking, gave an insight into the future of computing, and was very useful for developers, system administrators and infrastructure managers.