I was like speechless as this is clear gunda raj and force to use their pathetic service. These cable guys just come once in a month to collect the rent. I am asking the rent collecting person since last three months to check the cable as only only 40-50 channels are viewable (still grainy) and rest are not at all visible!! That guy is not even responding and just go with money..

This is not only issue in FAM CHS. I have read on internet that many areas in Navi Mumbai is facing this Gunda raj. I am sure that this kind of force is only possible only with backup of local politician.. We are saying that we are going to 21th century but after looking this kind of local mafia, just think where we are!!

Make my words that it’s never easy for a guy from Gujarat to stay in the place where main food is rice and dress code is lungi But I conquered and won.. Not only that but made wonderful friends

I had come here in Chennai because of my job change. I stayed initially in company guest house for 10 days. I reached at night and was planning to go outside for food and stopppp… I was stopped by fellow members of guest house and told me that you cannot find food in Chennai after 9:30 or 10 !! This was the first damage done by Chennai to me There are only 3 or 4 good shopping center in Chennai so if you are planning to buy something then you have to make hell big of plan to reach there first..

I met with Kingshuk Dutta in my guest house who was also new joinee at my company. Because of same interest we became friends eventually and shifted to a paying accommodation in Pallavaram. The owner of PG gave us so many promises but cheated at last. I met Zeeshan (Our Hero), Mr Indranil (Uncle jee) and Mohib. We all were new to Chennai except Zeeshan so we used to take tips from him. We enjoyed fighting with PG owner a lot there.

After some time, Kingshuk fed up of Chennai and found the job in Bangalore where is always wanted to go and then I shifted with my team mates (Sreekanth, Sachin and Pavan) flat at Thiruvanmiyur. All of my team mates in office are Telugu. From here start my real journey to Chennai and I get a chance to know the culture of Telugu people. I met Babu, Naresh, Gopi and Satheesh also there. One similarity between Tamil and Telugu people is that they eat lot of rice. Rice taken by Sreekanth at one time is equal to rice taken by me in week (Now scenario is changed ) Gopi is chief chef at our flat. He makes awesome curries. If Gopi is at home then no need to worry about food. Naresh is assistant chef He also cooks very well but he needs some motivation and that is provided by Sreekanth.. I also can cook (I am not joking ok.. ) but if I cook then nobody here will eat . So final take is I get ready made food and also milk in night because of courtesy of Babu

Believe me, Movie is another religion in south of India. If you make some bad comment on heroes then you are in danger . Rajnikanth and Kamal Hassan in Chennai.. Mahesh babu, Chiru, venki, pavan kalyan in AP (I really suspect that this Pavan can act !!  but Sreekanth is big fan of him. Sorry Sreekanth ) I also know many famous actor, actress and movie names now. I have experienced Telugu movie culture more even though I stayed in Chennai.. If some good movie is coming then all the guys will stick to the TV and enjoy. I also enjoy with them even though I don’t understand anything or “kuncham kuncham”.. There is also one trend of not liking Hindi movies. However the good Hindi or English movie, more chances are of bashing.. I really don’t understand that.

My overall experience in Chennai is wonderful. I got a chance to meet different people and do a friendship with them J I cannot write everything I experienced here but I will always remember this as a great experience to my life.. I am sure I will come here again (Sreekanth has promised to invite me in his marriage.. Waiting dude.. )

Thanks all for making my 10 months journey to wonderful one…

This beast is supposed to have dual analog stick (I always needed this, 1 was never enough), Multitouch capacitive touch pad, 5-inch touchscreen OLED display with 960 x 544 resolution, and giganic quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor!!! It also has GPS, wifi, 3g (yes you heard it right ) and standard accelerometer That is a hell of a upgrade from current PSP Go.

I have been the PSP game addict since long time and was waiting for this kind of good upgrade. I never liked this stupid PSP GO device. Now I need to sell my 3001 PSP slim.

Here is the comparison between PSP, PSP GO and PSP2,

Sony has already made its move to discountinue UMD disk media for game distribution so we are expecting some new way to do this e.g. flash drive or direct SD card.

UI or OS to be used in PSP2 is called “Live area” and it will have configurable home screens. It will be integrated with various social networks. You will not lose the gaming progress while switching to live area from running game unlike current PSP

Check out the video from youtube as well here,

RT @ChevronWP7 ChevronWP7: A first step in the right direction #wp7 http://bit.ly/ihv7iV #wp7dev

It the article on ChevronWP7 site, Chris has said that they are having many meetings with Microsoft regarding the developement of homebrew for Windows phone 7 and also protecting the copyrights and platform security.

He has also informed that next (first!!) update of WP7 will fix the bug that allowed ChevronWP7 unlocker tool to work. ChevronWP7 unlocker tool allowed to install any non market apps to Windows phone directly using XAP installer. It used patched certificate to do that..

Chris has also indicated that Microsoft and Chevron team is working on some other tool to allow the homeberw developement after ChevronWP7 is dicountinued..
Here is the some part of Walshie’s post..

“After two full days of meetings with various members of the Windows Phone 7 team, we couldn’t wait to share with everyone the results of those discussions.

Although a large majority of the content presented by Microsoft is covered by a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which we voluntarily agreed to, we can say we’re genuinely excited by many of the forward-looking presentations. We can only hope they come to fruition as soon as possible.”…

to read more click here : a first step in the right direction

windows-phone-7

Microsoft has launched its most awaited new mobile operating system at Mobile world congress which they have called as “Windows phone 7 series”. It is rebranded from “Windows mobile” to “Windows phone 7 series”. They are now planning to launch their own mobile phone instead of only selling their OS to other phone manufacturers like HTC. This might directly compete with Apple iphone. In the same way that the Windows 7 desktop OS was nearly everything people hoped it would be, Windows Phone 7 is almost everything anyone could’ve dreamed of in a phone, let alone a Microsoft phone. It changes everything. Why? Now that Microsoft has filled in its gaping chasm of suck with a meaningful phone effort, the three most significant companies in desktop computing—Apple, Google and Microsoft—now stand to occupy the same positions in mobile. Phones are officially computers that happen to fit in your pocket.
Not only name is different but the makeover done here is also big. New look of the OS is largely influenced by their own “Zune” player interface. The phone operating system does away with pretty much every scrap of previous mobile efforts from Microsoft, from the look and feel down to the underlying code — everything is brand new. It features completely different home screen and fully new user interface. It seems Windows has finally realized to change their traditional stylus friendly interface to finger friendly interface. Seems like heat of competition from other manufacturers specially
“Apple”.
The Home page of the new interface has big finger friendly icons aka “live tiles” which will internally call their own old applications. Home page is fully customizable and can be scrolled vertically. Old style start menu is probably gone. Home page interface with widget like icons seems to be inspired by android. they’re linked with online data sources such as Facebook or Flickr or email, grouped in “hubs” that bring together data from applications, corporate servers like Microsoft Exchange, and the Web. Text and tiles “overflow” the touch screen, but users pan quickly through arrangements that are visually consistent in each hub.
New OS is well focused in social networking. “People hub” feature is all you need here. Updates from all your friends in different social networking site facebook are directly displayed. Still it has no twitter support but should be coming soon. I find it very useful as it gets rid of opening different sites and check updates in all. if you really like someone or want to stalk them hardcore, you can make them a tile on your Start screen, which will update in realtime with whatever they’re posting, and pull down their photos from whatever service. There’s also your very own profile page, where you can scan your current social state and post updates to multiple services simultaneously. All of your contacts are automatically synced by internet to Microsoft exchange, windows live etc.
Just like Apple’s strategy of “Iphone with Ipod” will be “Windows 7 with Zune ” in new operating system. The phone will have built in zune player. This is your media hub. Also they have added FM radio in this hub.
Pictures are a little different though, and get its very own hub. That’s because it’s intensely connected—you can share photos and video with social networks straight from the hub, and via the cloud, they’re kept in sync with your PC and web galleries. The latest photos your friends post also show up here. Of course, you get around with multitouch zoom and zip-zip scrolling stuff.
There is xbox icon on the home page that means you can access xbox live directly from your mobile phone. It indicates that there might be some mobile games are in queue to be launched. What I hope is some improvement in Internet explorer as of now it sucks a big time!!

Windows phone 7 series operating system will be released to other mobile manufacturers also like HTC, Sony etc. They have to comply with strict hardware requirement like multi touch, dedicated start and search button,

Final words are “I definitely want to try it”. It combines zune, xbox etc in your mobile phone in new better organized manner. It seems there is now hope for Microsoft to survive in mobile world with its new mobile phone.

Technical_analysis.xls

Users hoping to find their latest tweets were instead shown by a black screen with a green flag.

Above the flag, in Arabic, read: “Hezbollah is victorious.”

On the flag, in red Arabic writing: “Yassin” (an Arabic name written in bold) then in smaller Arabic print “the feast of peace.”

Below the flag was more written in Farsi.
In English, the hackers wrote: “This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army. U.S.A think they controlling [sic] and managing internet by their access, but they don’t, we control and manage internet by our power so do not try to stimulation (sic) Iranian People To…..
Now Which Country is embargo list? Iran? Usa?
We push them in embargo list ; )
Take care.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week was quoted by a senior official as saying, “Using the Internet and Twitter against the Iranian regime is something extraordinary that the U.S. can do.”

There is no evidence at this time that Iran or Hezbollah is behind the attack.
Source

I have 5 New orkut invitation to share here. If anyone wants it can comment here. I have limited invitation so will give on first come first serve basis. I also encourage users to share their invitation here so others can benefit.

Check new orkut design here.

Presently Google Wave is in a limited invite-only preview that is for now only limited users are allowed to try their hands on this online tool. You can also request invitation from official Google Wave site. You have to fill a simple form with some questions and Google will send you invitation after some time.

Information about Google Wave:

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

More information regarding Google Wave can be found at here.

I will send invitation when I get some. Please also share your invitations here,

Sharing is the power.

Thought TCL is quite easy to use, it misses some useful functions. One of that is scrolling. Recently I was stuck-ed in similar problem. My requirement was to create a scrollable page with possibility to enter data by user.

Tcl/Tk only allows to attach scroll bar with Entry, Listbox and canvas widgets. If I use canvas then I can not create textbox(entry) on canvas that is scrollable with the canvas. Entry and label widgets created on canvas are not scrollable.

I took another approach. I created text on the canvas and bind the mouse click of text to a procedure. This procedure opens the toplevel widget on the current window with one entry widget and OK/Cancel buttons. Now on OK click data entered in the text box is passed to parent window and the text in the parent window is updated. This is not straightforward way but that’s I could do with TCL.

I have created a simple example of my original problem, which is described below.

Below program creates a scrollable canvas and put 3 texts on it. Clicking on it will open text box to enter the value. Note that I have not put any validation on it as its just a demo program.. Edit it according to your need. I took TCL TK practical programming book as reference

# PROGRAM START

#!/usr/bin/wishx
frame .f

canvas .f.c -width 300 -height 100 -scrollregion {0 0 500 500} -xscrollcommand {.f.sx set} \
-yscrollcommand {.f.sy set}
scrollbar .f.sx -orient horizontal -command {.f.c xview}
scrollbar .f.sy -orient vertical -command {.f.c yview}
pack .f.sx -side bottom -anchor s -fill x
pack .f.sy -side right -anchor e -fill y
pack .f.c -anchor nw -fill both -expand y
pack .f -fill both -expand y

set ROW_NUMBER 1

proc Popup { FieldValue FieldTag } {

global Value

set Value(result) $FieldValue
set f [toplevel .prompt -borderwidth 10]
message $f.msg -text “Enter New value ”
entry $f.entry -textvariable Value(result)
set b [frame $f.buttons -bd 10]
pack $f.msg $f.entry $f.buttons -side top -fill x

bind $f.entry <Return> {set Value(ok) 1}
bind $f.entry <Control-c> {set Value(ok) 0}
button $b.ok -text OK -command {set Value(ok) 1}
button $b.cancel -text Cancel -command {set Value(ok) 0}

pack $b.ok
pack $b.cancel

focus $f.entry
tkwait variable Value(ok)
destroy $f
if {$Value(ok)} {
.f.c itemconfigure $FieldTag -text $Value(result)
set {$FieldName} $Value(result)
} else {
return {}
}
}

set NameValue “No Value”
.f.c create text 10 [expr $ROW_NUMBER *25] -anchor nw -text “Enter Name :”
.f.c create text 200 [expr $ROW_NUMBER *25] -anchor nw -text $NameValue -tag NameValueTag

.f.c bind NameValueTag <Button-1> “Popup {$NameValue} NameValueTag”

set ROW_NUMBER [expr $ROW_NUMBER + 1]

set LastNameValue “No Value”
.f.c create text 10 [expr $ROW_NUMBER *25] -anchor nw -text “Enter Last Name :”
.f.c create text 200 [expr $ROW_NUMBER *25] -anchor nw -text $LastNameValue -tag LastNameValueTag

.f.c bind LastNameValueTag <Button-1> “Popup {$LastNameValue} LastNameValueTag”

set ROW_NUMBER [expr $ROW_NUMBER + 1]

set TelNoValue “No Value”
.f.c create text 10 [expr $ROW_NUMBER *25] -anchor nw -text “Enter Telephone No :”
.f.c create text 200 [expr $ROW_NUMBER *25] -anchor nw -text $TelNoValue -tag TelNoValueTag

.f.c bind TelNoValueTag <Button-1> “Popup {$TelNoValue} TelNoValueTag”

wm title . “Popup Demo”

# PROGRAM END