Microsoft Silverlight & Linux.......

It has been a long time since i wrote. Well it has been really a long time, stuck in the worst city Bangalore, then moving back. Being in there in certain things. Having a fifteen minutes of fame. Everything was there. I did miss writing here in blogger. Though there was twitter to write to, it is not fun. But a great way to say out ideas short and sweet.

Well, after a long time, and trying to figure a way out to make Linux my main os at work, i succeded last week... Yes! DimensioN Studio 2.4 started to work in linux, it took a little hard work to figure out which files were missing. With a little more help from winetricks, i did get it to work properly via wine. It was so much fun doing it. I was just happy that i need not have to move into windows anymore.

Then i just thought of giving the new browser based cloud product of ours a try from linux. But this darn Microsoft agains comes into frustrate me. Silverlight doesn't seem to work with linux. and every attempt to make the new product work with Mono Moonlight also failed. It was frustrating to think that i have to login back to windows just to work with something which is browser based. This is not fair.....

Talk about microsoft and fairness, what am i talking? So i had to give the error messages and i was able to only hope that either mono team will release Moonlight 2.0 soon and it would be compatible with Silverlight 3.0, or our engineering team will make sure it will make changes to accomodate the moonlight too. But who knows....

The suddenly today when we were just discussing things, suddenly it turned towards the new product and linux compatibility. And My interviewer asked me why don't you try with wine or whisky and run the windows version of browser and try to make it work. This was a nice idea. Firefox 3.5.3 was up in 5 minutes, but then again Silverlight decided to play bad. Everything i tried was in vain. Nothing worked. Now i have others in the race. It's got to be me or the Engineering who should find a way out.... But if others find, that is also fine.

Why?! Why is it that at everyturn a new obstacle arises......

Gold Star! - followup

i had mentioned about unconference which takes place in my office every alternate week. and how i missed a gold star last week. Well this time i made it. But i don't think i was worth it this time. After the question by the other tall lady, i didn't stand a chance. i had lost all hope once that question was posted. mine never had a chance, and i was also not able to think of anything else. i had lost all hope of making it this session, i was not even a single position of getting even a silver. But somehow i made it to 13 votes, and the tall lady too managed 13 votes for the best question. i couldn't believe it. But the fact that i had to share the gold is not great. But this is the first gold. But still it should have been her. She was the one who had shared, with me. her question was best. But you can never stand in front of the people. See there is a saying in tamil. "Makkal Theerpe magesan tirpu", meaning the people's decision is the god's decision.

Next time, next week. i will work even more hard to be solo winner of the gold. But i have already set my eyes on the red bell which goes for challenge and which is a point more than gold. i have challenged some. Seems i have to read more and be cautious, coz in the next session i will be travelling thru hot waters, one small mistake could create large slides and falls.

Gold Star!

Unconference:
An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. (Wikipedia)

It was not fair!, I attended the whole session today just to win the gold star. But, all i could manage was, my second consecutive silver star. Mani, did not make a note of the questions asked today, unlike previous sessions. But i cannot put the entire blame on him. even i did not remember what questions i asked... That was not right from my part also.

so well, better luck next time. I will win my gold star next time.

I have taken leave from tomorrow. so i can study for jlpt. Hope i pass this next time.

Deepavali?! or just yet another holiday!!

It was tat time of the year yesterday. The time of joy. The festival of lights, the festival to celebrate the victory of good over evil. As a kid this was the day other than my birthday i would eagerly wait for (though both would come in so close that i would not be able to enjoy both fully).... I would run around the house, visit the relatives, burst crackers. wait the whole night to be the first to burst crackers in my street. Sneaking around to steal the confectionaries and sweets. The thrill of lighting the 100 walas and 1000 walas, the joy of wearing the new clothes, to check out the next door kids what he is wearing and try to better than him. That was the deepavali which we used to enjoy.

But, I haven't bought crackers for the last 3 years(though for logical reason in 2006, what abt the last 2 years), we did not make any sweets for the last 2 years and i slept the whole day yesterday, did not visit any of the relatives or friends, leave visiting, i did not even call any one to wish happy deepavali. Man, what has become of us, why are we moving away from this fesivities. why?!!!!


Deepavali has become something like just another national holiday. I can't understand. During the rest of the year, when someone asks why you work like this day and night (that is a saying, we don't even work half the time, they are pointing.), and we say, that to be happy and be together friends and family for the festive season and yet here i am, sleeping away most of the time, coughing and covering me under sweater feeling unwell. Why can't we enjoy this day like those days of yester years. why?!!!!!!

A little Self Confidence....

Its a little more than a month since TOPL concluded, But i still couldn't forget the thrashing i had in the final match against V. It still sends shivers thinking abt the match, and also the second match again V and A. But today when K called to play, i just went down as usual, but there they were V and A, and then there came the big guy, whom i just want to beat atleast once I just need to take handle his serve then i can do anything against him.

Anyway coming to what happened today, i j ust geared up, thinking up all the positive things that i had been doing all these days after TOPL, my fast play and my forehand have improved, i know, but even with that i did not think i could have played the way that i played today,

I am not saying that i played too good and stuff, but still i did take on V, I did return A's serve, i was able to look thru the spin of V, it was just awesome, just awesome to see the ball land exactly where i had expected, just turning to exact amount which i had calculated, everything just fitted to the T, I was like on cloud 9, but still i kept check on everything, I did play good, from my point.

It's just wonderful what a little self belief can do to you.....

As i used to say during the end of college days, i repeat once again to myself, Believe in you.

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And the winner of the All England Tennis Championship 2008 is..................

Rafael Nadal wins the Wimbledon 2008 Tournament...........
score 6-4, 6-4, 6-7(5-7), 6-7(8-10), 9-7..............
Now i can go sleep at peace.........
what a match...............

Rafa vs Roger Wimbledon 2008 Finale update

hmm, its already 12:38 in the morning here. rafa and roger are locked at 2 sets each , with 2 games each in match decider set, and a deuce, and rain stops play again.... Still no match on tv. am following the match in Radio Wimbledon, for the past 2 hours.... what a match, i did not expect roger to come back after the way he was brushed aside by rafa, still he came back. He is not leaving the crown, Rafa drubbed Roger in French open finals just a month ago. Now if he wins, he will be the second spaniard to win at wimbledon and also some one who one French and Wimbledon on the same year after Borg.... Man.........this is a thriller, why don't we get to see matches like this in regular occassions.... Rafaaaaaaaaaaaaa please win. God let Rafa win today, please....... The score now 6-4, 6-4, 7-6(7-5), 7-6(10-8), 2-2...... and the match is stopped coz of rain...., wait... the commentator on Radio Wimbledon is saying some like the match is gonna start again,........

It is 8:08 pm at Wimbledon now, and the news seems to be that the covers might be out by around 8:20 pm....... can't wait to continue hearing the commentary, But got to go to office tommorrow morning,.. need to get up at 6:00, it's gonna be difficult. I know, both for me and rafa, but i think we are gonna make it.... somehow.......

God let rafa win today.................

Rafa Vs Roger Wimbledon 2008.

I don't know what is happening.... They say it is raining there, and i am not able to watch the match on tv because of the CAS here.

From the net : Roger is 2 sets down, seems at last Rafa is going to win against roger, this will be a match to watch. when the rain stopped play it rafa is to server at 4-5 to roger. this is the end of Federer, and may be the beginning of the reign of Nadal.....

I pray for nadal to win. it is boring to see the swiss win always...........

Nadal please win, don't let the rain break lose your focus.........

Architect...... Solution Architect.....

hmmm, a year has gone by and i am still working in the company, this is the first time i have ever been working in the same concern for a long time............ Congratulations to me. any way, after i joined the company i met one of my friends, who asked me what are my plans, and stufff,... i was too blank to answer him., come on i have never planed anything in my life till then, even till now. Just to shut him up i had said, i would be trying to become a Solution Architect.... But some how after that it stuck up with me, for a month or so, i was going around with that thought... after some time i forgot the whole thing, and as usual was moving around with work and other stuff, Now though i have changed roles from developer to a role which includes supporting all developers with their problems and educating them about their short commings and also doing a part time Solution Architect role and also a one man research n development team. feels kinda important, ok... seems i have achieved something which i had said some time. But i have to hold on to my horses..... Coz things have started to happen , the way i wanted them to happen. Kewl ain't it, but the problem is, they are happening at a pace which i will not able to cope with, either i will fall, or it will be the worst..... I don't know. for know i am enjoying whatever i am doing.... I think i will soon go up one more step, coz you can always go up only one step at a time. else you need to have support to go fast....

Wine 1.0 and Dimension Studio 2.3

At last, a major release of wine, which stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, came out last week, and it was available in the mandriva repositories yesterday morning. The first thing i did as i reached office yesterday was to install and then try to install and use Dimension Studio in Linux. Though it was a fairly easy cake walk with wine and Dimension Studio version 2.3 did work, and worked so cool. That i was just in awe!!,,, all the struggle for the past 7 months, the pain, the angst, everything vanished, at the sight of the progress bar progressing and the spreadsheet interface appearing. I was there like child with his new toy to play with, and doing all sorts of things..... The joy was not for long, coz when i tried it with the latest version of Dimension Studio 2.4 it was very similar to what has been happening for the past 6 months. Still i need to try once again with the 2.4 version.

The next big jolt came when i tried to install the Dimension Server 2.3 in Linux, coz i know the fact that it will work in linux, and i have done it once or twice in my house. But when i tried i was running into errors of all sorts unknown to me, i did try to change the JDK to sun JDK 1.5.0_14 instead of Open JDK 1.7.. still i couldn't proceed the problem was that during installation MYSQL Tcp/Ip connectivity was disabled and myssql's case sensitivity switch was on. which was causing problems, and i was running around without checking these facts for nearly 5 hours... How insulting!!!.....


Well that was it, for now though.... I will make dimension studio 2.4 and all subsequent releases to work with the help of wine, and switch over to linux. This is a promise i make...........

Rise and (Honda) Shine!!!!!

Honda Shine! that is the bike which i had booked for me. I know this is my second attempt at buying a two wheeler. I just went over there to book a Aviator but instead got this one booked.

Life is too boring. Satish is looking for jobs in and around chennai. Seems he is having a tough time with this . if nothing happens within this month end, he will leave to qatar once again. come on some one should be having a opening specially for him, but where are we supposed to find it.

I am feeling sick with life for the past week or so. I don't know what to do. I am just still holding on for my Ryuske to come. where are you, Ryuske....

Satish Marriage and other incidents

The last few weeks haven't been that good. They haven't been bad either. still just boring old life. Am expecting a change, the problem is weather i should initiate the change or wait for it. it was just 5 mins and 1 question which showed me what my problem was, why i am performing below par, well below my own standards. Now i am just trying, to make things right, the way it was, that is the only way to reinvent / motivate myself. But how am i to go about and do it. Where am i to start for the change. am just confused..... too confused...

Satish got married last week. To be precise last Sunday, now i have to remember 3 marriage anniversaries. Tough job. I think, i should now stop calling him for anything and everything, coz she too needs time with him.

Though nothing much has happened, i got two people interested in getting Linux installed in their boxes, and if possible i'll help them get it done. considering the fact, being me, and making 5 people interested and getting 2 to think about installing Linux is really a very great achievement by my standards. still....

I just hope everything goes really well.

TOPL got underway in office. two matches over and 3 more to go. I lost my match. bad, really bad. shame on me..... The others have to win at least one more match for salvaging some pride, coz we have challenged OS and not the vice versa. a 3-2 lose would not be bad. but 5-0 whitewash would be worse. Even though, we knew what the result would be even before challenging them, we were just wanting to prove a point or two. Hope we win two more games. nothing more i ask...

few things which i missed to mention in the past year.

the past 9-10 months were interesting in one way (though there more non interesting things too). Sightings of many who were lookalikes of some of my friends, my first visit to a church, people who talked so cool in my native language, a women who smoke and drunk, a nice talking person from dispur, assam who had a wonderful smile, my first flight experience, etc etc. i forgot many. but these were nearly unique ones.

I found many lookalikes when i was in bangalore. i even mistook them for my friends.... Then there was this lady, i can't say you who, that would put me in trouble. who smokes. big deal hanh! but i think it was cool. it was raining, and she was there standing in the balcony with a cigar in her hand, puffing away. she was coooool.

Then two months back, when i went to one of my uncle's retirement function, i was stunned at the command the people over there had on the language. i simply cannot talk without an english work in a sentence, they were talking entirely in tamil.. i just couldn't believe it. i wish i too could talk like that someday. i wish!!!!....

i wish there are many more such interesting incidents all along the way that life would lead me to.

And hey i forgot, i launched a google groups for team ddc. and it seems to be a lill successful. Hope it is useful to everyone in ddc..



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A birthday

Hmm, Today was Tamil new years day!!!!

it has been the same all the time, these days. I am just sick of everything that is going on around, and i hope things comes to an end soon, and everything starts out afresh again. There is no big change, i missed to wish for lotta birthdays in the previous month and week and half.

Today was monalisa's birthday. Hey!! Happy Birthday Mona!,

Well, nothing more. the day was as usual, no movies also today, saw veyil again today. went for TT in the morning, and everything is pretty much the same.

Will there be a change.....

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JLPT certificate

Ah! the certificate..
The certificate indicating that i failed in JLPT level 4 examination came today via email from my friend Jeyan, he says he will mail the original soon to me.

Hmm, the first steps, first small steps, i may have failed this attempt, but i will learn the language and recieve certification that i am a certified japanese language speaker....... soon,..

Fedora 8 & Sun Java problems and Antelope

Ok, it is known fact i was hellbent on making this cool app for svn administration. But in the process of making this, i did make some cool findings which i forgot to share it, and on the way also set up the debian for sun jdk and ant 1.7.0 Kewl isn't it.

anyway on way of completing this, i found a editor for ant build files, which can be used to execute the scripts from the editor itself. The name is Antelope. it seems to be cool. and itself being built on ant, seems wondeful. thought there are some issues, still it looks great.

and also i have installed Squirrel on the debian system.

Fedora seem to have problems with sun java. i had installed jdl 1.5.0_06, seems to create some problems all programs just seems to quit just at the point of creating GUI. seems like the java is conflicting or having problems with X display system, will try to identify and rectify, but am not finding time to do it.

JLPT Update

JLPT, i failed.......

Music

Hmmm, in the last 7 days i had spent nearly 400 rupes on cd's. Thought originally i had gone in to landmark to bye Linux for You, since it was not there and i did not walk out empty handed, i bought a few cds.. nice cool collections. i like all songs in them. Though it was not a waste of money, still i haven't bought the magazine which initially i had set out to purchase.

Hope it arrives soon into the stands, and i could buy it, without missing it this month...

Madhav......

Ah!,

Sridevi gave birth to a baby. He's cute. tiny..... Hope everything is fine with him and his mother. Hope i get to see them soon...

JLPT lvl 4 Last Sunday

last sunday Dec 02 was my JLPT lvl 4 exam. i did it ok. i might even pass it. i went to bangalore, stayed in Jeyan's Place to study. that one week only i took the book and started with the ABC of Japanese. it was fun, and a nice experience. Made some new friends. Met a girl whose name was.... who cares, i don't remember.... she was jeyan's classmate in JLPT class.

well nothing else. everything is back to normal. The roller coaster ride is oVer....
and yes her name was medini, if i am right!!!!

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