Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Linux lags Windows in new security

A report released today indicates Windows Server 2003 may actually be more secure than its most popular Linux competitor when it comes to vulnerabilities and the time it takes to patch them. But well before the paper's official release, members of the IT security community have questioned the comparison, with some slamming the researchers' methodology and others the Microsoft connection -- the software giant funded the research behind the favorable findings.

"The fact that Security Innovations [which produced the paper] retained 'editorial control' doesn't help; if Microsoft is paying the bills, there can be all sorts of nonverbal pressure behind the scenes. It isn't like it was 'co-funded' by both Microsoft and Red Hat," said Michael D. "Mick" Bauer, senior editor of Linux Journal and director of value-subtracted services for Wiremonkeys.org.

Money does Matters?

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Yahoo Blogs!

Competing with Yahoo is not so easy, even Google came with 1 gb storage in Gmail, yahoo enhanced the storage space and retained their users 90%. Yahoo messenger, geocities, yahoo photos are the big base for Yahoo. Yahoo acquired Geocities for personal web pages for their users, now Yahoo have acquired the Flickr photo sharing service website and its parent company, Ludicorp Research & Development. Though Bloggers using Flickr for their photo blogs, yahoo keeps it in their mind and have acquired it.

Yahoo! are expected to use the technology in their upcoming blog service to enable users to share photography and build communities. So guys get ready for name registration.

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

" Gods come down to earth"

Adding to Cogito, The title very well suits to TamilNadu. An interesting Slogan from a TV about a VJ
"Wildest VJ ever hit on TV"
Only Flesh, No Talk- Coming Soon

Monday, March 14, 2005

Acquistion

It is the time that Indian companies acquiring companies in USA, Aus..

Bangalore-based software and BPO services firm MphasiS is acquiring US-based IT healthcare company Eldorado Computing for $16.5mn, in an all-cash deal. Eldorado offers IT solutions to the healthcare and insurance sector.

It means Indian IT's are investing a lot to get rid in the race. MMhh, earning in $'s to pay in Rs thro $'s. Great Idea!

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Corruption No.4

India is among the fourth most corrupt countries in Asia but graft in China poses the biggest global threat because of the country's growing economic influence, a consulting firm said on Tuesday in a study.

Other countries which came in at the bottom of the annual graft rankings by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd included Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.

Singapore was the least corrupt, followed by Japan and Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, the firm said.

The report said Indonesia was Asia's most corrupt nation, ranking 9.25 on a scale from zero to 10. "The issue of corruption could make or break Indonesia," the report said

The firm said that the Philippines which ranked No. 2 on the graft list with a score of 8.9 needed to beef up its anti-corruption forces. There's a backlog of 2,000 cases in the country's anti-graft court, the report said.

Vietnam was No. 3 on the list because corruption is rampant in powerful state-controlled companies and government ministries, the report said.

India was fourth on the list, partly because the country's "suffocating bureaucracy" created plenty of opportunities for payoffs to cut through red tape, the report claimed.

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Bangalooroo

Green City???
This name might be true before 4 years, not now. Due to fast growth in IT market, bangalore has polluted with CO2. Trees are loosing their life, remaining trees are all wearing Dust dress. God, B.lore is being polluted by 2 & 4 wheelers. Roads are all changing their roles to one-way, no entry. I don’t know how city traffic police is controlling this heavy traffic.

Traffic is the biggest head-ache for people nowadays. Even Govt is thinking to change the School timings from 11 am to 7 pm. Culture? Hheheh night shift culture obviously, pubs are all floating in week ends with girls and boys. Money flow is really grown like anything in these 2 years. Anyway IT people are all loading their pockets easily. Consultants are God to Employees and Employers.

Monday, February 28, 2005

TN-Anti-Corruption

There is no difference in DMK and ADMK in corruption, they know how to do and how to come out of the problems if they face it. Everybody knows the Bribe cases against CM’s (as Sathyaraj said in MahaNadigan. the first job when CM sworn to arrest the previous CM).

As per an analysis, RTO, Collectorate, Thasildar office is the topper in Bribes. When I came back from UK, I planned to register my vehicle. I have not registered for 7 months so that I want to check with the broker to reduce my penalty for 7 months. After then I discussed with one of my friend for the procedure to do, came to know it is very simple however I have to dedicate 2 or 3 days for this.

My action starts on Tuesday to get an acknowledgement from Salem RTO for some paperwork. Surprisingly I have got the paper with out bribing there. In second day I went to Thiruchengode RTO to register my car. I gone with my car and spoke to RTO directly (NRI-nnu sonna mathipae thanipa), so that the process went faster as usual. He asked me to submit my papers and calculated the exact fine. He given quote that I how much I have to pay. I usually don’t bargain or bribe. So I have accepted and paid the money (got back 50p as a balance). As we have other work on that day I asked RTO to get my number ASAP. He asked me to wait for 2 hours, which was not possible, us to stay there. I told RTO that we are leaving would come back next day. He said okay and he asked to collect the paper after 1 week (my RC book, tax bill.etc). Around 6 pm I got a call from RTO and got my number. I amazed, surprised.... no words to say.

I know Amma is doing a great job in Anti-corruption; it may happen in somewhere else not directly to the Public. Though a great fan of DMK I happened to appreciate the way they have behaved and worked. After then I called RTO for thanking him and came to know that bribing was reduced in RTO office, as Anti-bribe raid 3 RTO-office(they got 1 crore in Trichy Office in oneday)

I hope TN is doing great also ADMK government, will reach No1 asap.

Mookil Ongi oru Kuthu

Kelviyum Nanae, badhilum Nanae.
Hindi Padikalaiyo Hindi

Oscar-Again Disappointing for India

Results has been announced for 77th Oscar Annual Awards

This time i had a confident that My favorite actor Jhonny Depp will not get the awards as Ray has the wave, however I was expecting Ashwin's Little Terrorist will get award in short film category, better luck next time Ashwin. WASP overtaken Little Terrorst. Happy to hear that frequently Indian films are also getting to Nominees now, still we have improve a lot to get the awards. If we stop producing movies like Sukran, Dreams etc, then We will knock Oscar doors in all categories.

Results are Below
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Jamie Foxx
RAY

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Morgan Freeman
MILLION DOLLAR BABY

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Hilary Swank
MILLION DOLLAR BABY

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett
THE AVIATOR

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
THE INCREDIBLES
Brad Bird

ART DIRECTION
THE AVIATOR
Dante Ferretti (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration)

BEST PICTURE
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg

CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE AVIATOR
Robert Richardson

COSTUME DESIGN
THE AVIATOR
Sandy Powell

DIRECTING
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Clint Eastwood

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BORN INTO BROTHELS
Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
MIGHTY TIMES: THE CHILDREN'S MARCH
Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston

FILM EDITING
THE AVIATOR
Thelma Schoonmaker

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE SEA INSIDE
Spain
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar

HONORARY AWARD
Roger Mayer

HONORARY AWARD
Sidney Lumet

MAKEUP
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
Valli O'Reilly and Bill Corso

MUSIC (SCORE)
FINDING NEVERLAND
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

MUSIC (SONG)
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
"Al Otro Lado Del Río"
Music and Lyric by Jorge Drexler

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
SIDEWAYS
Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman; Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
RYAN
Chris Landreth

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
WASP
Andrea Arnold

SOUND EDITING
THE INCREDIBLES
Michael Silvers and Randy Thom

SOUND MIXING
RAY
Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer and Steve Cantamessa

VISUAL EFFECTS
SPIDER-MAN 2
John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier

Sunday, February 27, 2005

Kannadigas

When I entered Bangalore I found people talks several languages like tamil, kannada, hindi, telegu. However as most of the tamilians are living here Tamil may be the widely talking lanugage. At that time I felt that Kannada speaking people is very less and it is fadding in its way. After that I found most of the kannadigas knows minimum 3 languages(Kannada, Tamil, Hindi), this is becoz I believe the way they were brought up.

Yesterday there was a meeting in my team and all of them spoken in 4 languages(with out any problem). My Team Lead started the meeting in the Offcial language Englsh, continued and explaining tasks in Hindi, english, kannada and tamil too. I was able to understand any of these languages, with out any hassle(Learnt Kannada when I was staying with Kannadigas in UK).

I feel now Kannadigas knows more than Kannda also, which doesnt mean that Kannada is fadding and will die. Political Guys in Tamilnadu please dont go for any anti languages strike for your political popularity. Language is only the mediate to people for make understand their feelings to others. Kannadigas knows more languages as they meet different language talkng people day-by-day.

However Bangalore has lot of changes in the past 2 years, will be in the next blog that How bangalore is getting worser by people ....

Friday, February 25, 2005

Racism

It is nothing bad when we we Do Ctrl C & Ctrl V for the great post, Thanks for Cernar for posting such a great Mail. I have faced such issues in my life also.


Scene took place on a British Airways flight between Johannesburg
and London. White woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a
black man. Obviously disturbed by this, she called the air Hostess.
"Madam, what is the matter," the hostess asked. "You obviously do not
see it then?" she responded. "You placed me next to a black man. I do
not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give me
an alternative seat." "Be calm please," the hostess replied. "Almost
all the places on this flight are taken. I will go to see if another
place is available." The Hostess went away and then came back a few
minutes later. "Madam, Just as I thought, there are no other
available seats in the economy class. I spoke to the captain and he
informed me that there is also a seat in the business class. All the
same, we still have one place in the first class." Before the woman
could say anything, the hostess continued: "It is not Usual for our
company to permit someone from the economy class to sit in the first
class. However, given the circumstances, the captain feels that it
would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so
disgusting." She turned to the black guy, and said, "Therefore, Sir,
if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage, a seat awaits
you in first class." At that moment, the other passengers who were
shocked by what they had just witnessed stood up and applauded

Monday, February 21, 2005

Meeting in 4 Languages

When I entered Bangalore I found people talks several languages like tamil, kannada, hindi, telegu. However as most of the tamilians are living here Tamil may be the widelt talking lanugage, At that time I felt that Kannada speaking people is very less and it is fadding in its way. After that I found most of the kannadigas knows minimum 3 languages(Kannada, Tamil, Hindi), this is becoz I believe the way they were brought up.

Yesterday there was a meeting my team and all of them spoken in 4 languages(with out any problem). I will let you what I have faced ....

Friday, February 18, 2005

Back to Work

Lot of Back's huh.. If somebody ripping you from Back then you can able to write lot of blogs starting with BACK. Anyway God gives hope to come out of the problems.

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Back to Form

Returned back to India, Tiruppur and struggle on Tiruppur roads, A great get together after 10 years, sudden changes in my life. Lot more to share, wait for another 2 days.

Thanks for the Anonymous for remembering the same what I said before(Cernar ???). Meantime I dont have a PC to update Blog that is the reason for not updating Blog, nothing else.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Back to Pavilion

Stress, dipressed, restless, tension, .... Bad time for me now. Not to say anything as off now...

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

New Look Ver 3.0

Fashion is nothing but repeating in a time intervel, same like my blog's design, When I started my blog I chose the same design which I am having now. Somehow I like this template, however I have modified a little bit now, added News Updates in right pane, hopefully I believe everybody likes it.
Expecting your support further.

Monday, January 10, 2005

Vivek

DevanamPattinam!. one of the worst affected village in Kadalore Dist. When Vivek adopted that village no body knows whos is Vivek Oberoi(celeberity in Bollywood though). now he is the real hero for that village(one of the village man told "I never expected a great hindi hero will help us rather a tamil hero", ashamed of tamil hero's:( Pity about tamil nadu people and fans. Tamil hero's, learn something from Vivek!!

Hats off Vivek Oberoi!! Thanks for helping us!

Friday, January 07, 2005

24/7

I happend watch NATWEST Bank advertisement yesterday. They show the countries pics or clippings accordingly. Advertisements goes like this

Bank-NATWEST
Food-Chinese
Barbar-SA
Dress-Albania
Car-Germany
Tea-India
Beauty-Veninisula

But customer support in UK(24/7), it is could be because of HSBC, where a customer wrote to HSBC against it's being callcenter operated from India. Anyway nowadays callcenter means India, one UK born sardar told that whenever he rings to a call center he speaks in Hindi only.



Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Blog Readership Surges in 2004

The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a study this week that showed that blog readership in 2004 increased by 58%, with 6 million Americans getting news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators. The same study shows that there are over 8 million people creating web-based logs or diaries. However, the same study shows that 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is. Blogs are online diaries or where Internet users post their opinions, thoughts, observations, or whatever else they like to the world. The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit that studies the social impact of the Internet.


Starting a Blog is not a big success, continuing that is the big success. That too after 5 or 6 months bloggers getting bored if they didn’t get enough comments and hit counts, however most of them are unable to update due to their work and time restriction. In future everybody has blog, may school teacher validate students marks through blog(who knows)

Kaadhal

Sometimes I do feel that Tamil cinema's quality is getting worser nowadays. Especially hero oriented movies(like Gajendra,Dreams etc). After watching the movie I was stunned, Amazed, talk less...etc. When I watched Samurai 2 years back, I thought the way Director worked was excellent, though went in vain due to the story. Balaji Sakthivel, done a good job in this film, "Modhira kuttu" is very in these days, first film for Mani and 2nd for Shankar. Great work man, Hats off to you. I say this movie one of the milestone in Tamil Cinema Industry. After "Autograph" this is a great movie. That too when they show 2 vehicles in the same bridge when Snadhiya's Uncle(Chittappa rushes to Chennai to search) where Bharat and Sandhiya usually meets every time. Good thinking.

Bharat, getting continuous hits (4 The People(Malayalam), Chellamae. Boys, flop though). Simbu and Dhanush please keep in mind.

Sandhiya, great actress found for Tamil Cinema(anyway in the forth coming films she must loose her clothes one-by-one due to survival), astonishing acting in climax, she is one of the frontend (computer prof illaya Naan) for this movie's success. Great success might be the character selection(90% are new to movie), karatandi guy real funny role hahahaha.

Another successful guy from ArRehman campus, made a very comfortable music to make this movie a great hit. Vijay Milton, joined hands with Balaji second time, made viewers eyes so smooth.

Finally one word about this movie Tamil cinema lives these types of movies, Tamil People please make this movie as a Great HIT, at least we can get few quality movies in future.

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