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Its almost a fortnight since the first wow post. I don't remember the exact date and I don't have net access right now. Its 2 am right now. It may have something to do with the fact that the cellular network is showing full signal strength yet no internet. I'll bet 5 bucks that even for the full signal the call won't go through if I tried someone. Well, cellular peculiarities aside, I have come to announce that I had to abandon my quest of mastery of C language because the Brian Hall book I was referring to was an alpha quality book and it was never finished. Which meant that I should take up the task of finishing it. I would have but before starting that I found something better to do and that didn't have anything to do with C language. Anyway failed quests aside, I'm enjoying life by writing code for living and watching lots of movies and lots of dr house episodes for entertainment. Well the only problem - I'm mentioning only one because in a normal si...

*** Well, not for the first time but I missed the point I wanted to say in this post. So I'm just putting it up here. I really regret missing this opportunity to work with the amazing guys. I feel bad because the people did expect something from me and I have failed them. I have also failed myself. Well, even though I was a failure, it was touching to be contacted and asked about it. Well, getting back to rebuilding now. First program to go under axe is Kernel Programming... Sucks! But every failure has it's price and I have never hesitated from the payment if the price was right. Next will be my laptop hours. And after that maybe my Sundays!!! (Well if I get to that point the world may end since my current organization is eating my Saturdays as it is. ) I'm hoping to get to that point!!! I must not be feeling like wow right now. After such a fiasco, I should be sitting in a dark corner and crying my heart out. Actually I almost cried, but when the fault is yours the t...

Its the discovery of the decade. Apparently I've found out that I'm too good for this world and so my life sucks! Well the thing is that I'm a jack of all trades and my parents were too good for me. Which led to them teaching me to be accepting and patient and lots of other such non-interesting things. And so right now in my two and half year of career I've ended up working on following things: 1. Windows administration - system assembly, setup and is installation and troubleshooting. In fact my windows skills are almost power user level. 2 Same power user level with Linux: yeah I started with slackware but that was when I was 16. Its 9 yrs now and i have seen and uses a number of Linux distros. I can handle basic troubleshooting and almost all tweaking of a new installation. 3 .net development: Right after my engineering in 2k8 I did a course in .net, so I can code in both C# as well as VB.NET . Also I have done couple of projects in ASP.net. 4 Oracle: It was my ...

Open import_database.dat and change the path to dmp file. Save it and run it! C:\import_database.bat sqlplus sys/sys as sysdba @C:\SqlRefresh.sql imp m1/m1@m1 fromuser=m1 touser=m1 ignore=y file=c:\cat.DMP C:\SqlRefresh.sql connect sys/sys as sysdba; drop user m1 cascade; create user m1 identified by m1; grant dba to m1; exit; Working: import_database.bat logs user in as sys and deletes user m1 so that his database is deleted along with him. Then it creates the same user and grants him dba privileges. All this is done in file SqlRefresh.sql. Next we import the new dump with the help of imp command.

When your KRA* is not defined, you had to suffer a lot of things like Documentation, testing and training the users on field (Why would a dev would want and need to go to field??? God knows!!! ). Well, unfortunately when your 90% of time is spent in these activities you actually can't complain!!! *KRA: KRA means Key Responsibility Area, these are the responsibilities that form the core of your work and define your role in the organization.

So another week past and another period of time is committed to history. I have learnt a few things. First is however prepared you may be sometimes you just fall on your face and you can't do anything about it. Second thing was you can try your best and still you may not be able to stop yourself from falling on your face when the situation is just so. I was on field enjoying a paid vacation in the middle of nowhere and things crapped a bit to conspire the falling on the face. There was only one positive thing about this, the screw up was not at my end and whatever didn't work, I didn't have anything to do with it. Some people would call it saving own skin but I don't think so. In fact because of this thing only I was able to enjoy the time. Thankfully I had internet access via the trusty old GPRS. It wasn't fantastic but it did crawl along. And the ample amount of songs on this phone and my adorable Zen Mozaic kept me entertained. The games on this phone also ...

Having a smartphone and using it regularly as a Smart phone for about a month now, I have come to some conclusions. 1. A smart phone needs Internet. Without Internet it's maybe only 30% smart. 2. Also we each have our specified tasks and we need Apps for that. Without appropriate Apps the smart phone loses its usability. 3. Ease of use is another parameter which determines the usability of a smart phone. If all functions are easily accessible and easily manipulated then the user can exploit it fully. 4. The UI performance is also another important factor and it influences the usability greatly. Fluid animations and clear interface contribute to greater user experience.