Today my colleague pointed out that sun.com and sunmicrosystem.com redirects to oracle.com. Man… they have taken over SUN and its complete brand name and domain too! Not feeling good about this. It feels like Oracle is suggesting who is the boss. This transition seems to have taken place n 28th Jan 2010. Though Oracle has promised that SUN’s open source projects will continue as-is, but I doubt if we will ever see anything new in open source world under SUN banner ever. BTW if you went to sun.com to get a copy of Java, better head to java.sun.com.
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Ultimate Sidhu Quotes
Today I received a mail with
collection of famous quotes by Navjot Singh Sidhu…………………
| 1. That ball went so high it could have got an air hostess down with it.
2. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it’s that of an incoming train which will run them over. 3. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. 4. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run and midway sent him back and Dravid was run out in the third test against the West Indies at Barbados.”Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope.” 5. Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian taximeter. 6. Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide. 7. Wickets are like wives – you never know which way they will turn! 8. He is like Indian three-wheeler, which will suck a lot of diesel but cannot go beyond 30! 9. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world, which does not have wings! 10. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine. 11. The ball whizzes past like a bumble -bee and the Indians are in the sea. 12. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack. 13. The pitch is as dead as a dodo. 14. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar! 15. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at Rajendra Talkies in Patiala one falls and everything else falls! 16. Indian team without Sachin is like giving Kiss without a Squeeze. 17. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs. 18. Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be given a free transfer to Manchester United. 19. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too. 20. One, who doesn’t throw the dice, can never expect to score a six. 21. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire, ruled Shivnarine Chanderpaul ‘NOT OUT’ in the second test at Port of Spain T&T “Eddie ichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands.” 22. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm 23. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two. 24. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants. 25. The cat with gloves catches no mice. 26. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. 27. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg. 28. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition. 29. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason. 30. Kumble’s bowling at the moment is flat as a Dosa. |
Your pen drive bigger than 4GB?
Do you know that pen drives are formatted in FAT32? Do you know that maximum file size supported by FAT32 is 4GB? Did you ever try to copy files bigger than 4GB in your pen drive, only to be confronted by some error?
Today we have pen drives of 8GB, 32GB and more capacity ones are coming. It is natural that we try to copy files which are bigger than 4GB into them. Unfortunately FAT32 does not support single files bigger than 4GB. You need to format your pen drive in NTFS for that.
In Windows (XP) when you try to format the pen drive you are provided with FAT32 as the only option. This is probably because of portable nature of pen drives. In NTFS you can set permissions and encrypt files too. These files then may not open on other computers. Furthermore, NTFS needs more writing than FAT32. This is maybe because of the small cluster size of NTFS.
To be able to format pen drives in NTFS you will need to enable “Optimize for Performance” mode. Ples follow through the steps of this excellent article – http://blog.eches.net/tips/how-to-format-usb-drive-with-ntfs/. Ubuntu users should know that this OS already runs in optimized for performance mode.
Home new home!
Finally I have my own domain name and my blog on my very own domain. I have now migrated my htpp://applegrew.blogspot.com to here.
Welcome home. 🙂
It’s all Arranged
Of late I have seen many friends, who happened to be females, get engaged or in the process of getting engaged pretty soon. All have many things in common. They are independent and like it to remain that way. They are educated and earn for themselves. They have friends, both men and women. All these things they all want to let it remain that way, but unfortunately they are women.
Women need to change families after marriage. Embrace completely new family and are supposed to do it their way. So, there is no guarantee that the above things they love, will remain that way. There are hell lot of unknowns involved. Obviously, so, I have seen them develop cold feet about this whole arranged marriage thing. How on earth will somebody be able to tell if the prospective other half, who in this case is a male and the dominant factor in the whole equation, will be the just right person for the prospective bride, in just an hour of meeting with all the elders hovering around! I need few months just to make the right kind of friends! This is a lot of pressure. This causes a lot of anxiety. I have seen anxieties like – what if I have to give up my job or what if I have to let go of my friends, etc. The anxiety is also on the part of the friends, who may end up loosing contact with a good friend in the process.
This is all too thorny picture. The good thing is that somehow people end up knowing that the other person is just the right one. Hope this proves to be true for everyone. All the best.
PS. This is a girls perspective. I somehow can’t imagine a guy’s perspective about arranged marriage. I guess from a guy’s perspective the only three unknowns they need to look for are – that the girl is pretty, good natured and has good family background.