Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Speach and Debate links info

http://www.lynbrooksd.net/
http://www.nflonline.org/
http://points.nflonline.org/School.aspx?id=3636

Expository:

Spontaneous:
Impromptu
National Extemporaneous
Foreign Extemporaneous

Interpretation:
Duo Interpreation AKA ‘Duo’
Dramatic Interpretation AKA ‘DI’
Humorous Interpretation AKA ‘HI’
Thematic Interpretation AKA ‘TI’
Oratorical Interpretation AKA ‘OI’ - I call it "I have a Dream" Interp
Original Prose and Poetry AKA ’OPP

Parliamentary Debate:
Congress:
Lincoln Douglas Debate:
Ploicy:

why linux is difficult

"sunk training costs and a large installed base married to Microsoft" makes the newer entrent like Linux in to large installed bases like coporate desk tops environments.

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Microsoft blocks mails from Google

http://www.keyhole.com/
Keyhole/Google complains of Microsoft as

"Hotmail and MSN email accounts have been intermittently deleting all communications from Keyhole - meaning that we cannot guarantee that you will receive your account info. We recommend using an alternative email so that we can send you your account information."

May pick your own fruits

Let us meet at the following place tomorrow around 11:00 to 11:30am. We plan to start 10:00am from home. It takes 66minutes to reach this place.

2010 Walnut Blvd. Brentwood, CA. 94513
(Vasco, Livermore becomes Walnut Blvd when you near Brentwood)

http://www.brentwoodfruit.com/
Harvest Time member #15
There are many other farms: check out http://www.harvest4you.com/images/mapht05.pdf
Current fruits that are possible are: Cherries, Apricots, Blackberries, Strawberry, Citrus/Mandarins, Pluots and Squash.

Sunday weather is really hot.
12:00 - 78F, 3pm - 82F, 6pm - 77F. Wind W 15mph. UV Index - 9 Very High.

Please bring lots of water, sun screen, especially for kids. Have proper clothing for every one.
This is real country side place - it would be muddy - have shoes (preferablly old ones). They will get dirty.

Bring extra cloths/snacks for kids.

http://www.pickyourown.org/strawberries.htm
http://www.harvest4you.com/
http://www.brentwoodfruit.com/
http://www.harvest4you.com/images/mapht05.pdf

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Big Box stores

Big box store like Costco and Wal-Mart are blamed for "putting Mom and Pop out of business".
The neighborhoods don't encourage such shops in their back yard due to increased traffic and possibilities of hassles around it. The City administrators like them for the economic drive and the jobs they bring along with them.

Well, I am a member of Costco and I shop often at Wal-Mart. Don't we cont Safeway, JC Penny, Sears, K-Mart, Kohls etc as bog-box stores as well? I shop in all of them as well.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Microsoft ShipIt award statement

"Every time a product ships, it takes us one step closer to the vision: Empower people through great software - Any time, any place and on any device. Thanks for the lasting contribution you have made to Microsoft history."
- Signed by Bill Gates

do-it-yourself - taking on the corporate world

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1061773,00.html?promoid=yahoo

Few examples:
blog - taking on journelists by surprise
Open Source Software (Linux/Firefox) - takin on Microsoft products (Windows/IE)
Audio Record label - independent folks
Movie makers - independent movie makers (The low cost high quality video production equipments helps)
Internet radio stations - traditional radio stations

Saturday, May 14, 2005

Business proposals

1. Foreclosuer properties
2. Help Doller shops - co-ordinations
3. Transport mobile properties

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

What's your salary

"You can grow ($$/Role/responsibility) as much as you can think off. The only bottle neck is you and your thinking."

I believe in this philosophy and also overheard a manager talking to the team member.

Sunday, May 08, 2005

wiki entries - vandal?

I created a wiki entry in wikipedia for a company as 'open source' info. In the next couple of days I notice that the info on the company is editted by some one in the company - perhaps by getting paid for making this entry from the business.

I tried to put back couple of points that are not exactly in favor of the company and the corporate folks would come back and delete my entry. This incident makes me wonder, if we should really make it open for any one to change.... How to free the 'open' from folks who have $$ interests - point of view.

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Zaba Search

ZABA is from the Greek word, "tzaba", which means, "free" or "at no cost"

Zaba Search locates people in the US. They collect info from various public records. The free search gives few informations like address and phone number. You can pay to get more info on background check.

http://www.zabasearch.com/

Zaba Search also provides interesting pointers to other search tools like address mapping, satelite mapping, weather. Surprising missing is Google Search.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

FireFox vs Microsoft

Last (2004) October, Andreessen (Netscape) accused Microsoft of getting a monopoly over the browser and then ending innovation.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

blog news 2005-04-26

April 26, 2005: Cisco Systems to Acquire Sipura Technology
$68M in cash & options.

Extracts from the corp web site on the deal:
Consumer VoIP is rapidly expanding as independent providers and incumbent telecom and cable operators bring VoIP offerings to consumers. Synergy Research Group, a leading market research firm, reports that today there are close to 8 million home users worldwide using VoIP to make phone calls over their broadband connections. By 2009, Synergy anticipates this number to grow to 58.9 million home users using VoIP to talk to friends and family around the world using broadband and VoIP technology.

Sipura has developed the technology incorporated in leading VoIP adapters (including those integrated into home routers and gateways) and a multi-line IP phone for the consumer and SOHO market. Sipura's technology is currently used by Linksys in some VoIP products, including certain analog telephone adapters and wired and wireless routers with phone ports. Sipura currently has relationships with regional and top-tier VoIP providers. Linksys will continue to work with those service providers, as well as use its traditional retail channels to target consumers and SOHO environments with Sipura's line of VoIP products.

April 27, 2005: Gates Surprised By Reaction To Microsoft Stance On Gay Rights Measure

Blogger throws errors

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:494)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2415)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:172)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223)
at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:261)
at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:360)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:604)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:562)
at org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:679)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:619)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

root cause

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
at java.lang.Thread.start(Native Method)
at java.util.Timer.(Timer.java:112)
at com.google.blogger.base.LRUCache.(LRUCache.java:67)
at com.google.blogger.dbreader.SqlServer.(SqlServer.java:73)
at com.google.blogger.dbwriter.SqlServer.(SqlServer.java:37)
at com.google.blogger.base.PostCache.(PostCache.java:97)
at com.google.blogger.datastore.ShardFactory.getDBShard(ShardFactory.java:62)
at com.google.blogger.dbreader.SqlServer.getBlog(SqlServer.java:769)
at com.google.blogger.base.Blog.load(Blog.java:435)
at com.google.blogger.base.UserBlog.getBlog(UserBlog.java:204)
at com.google.blogger.base.Identity.getBlog(Identity.java:161)
at com.google.blogger.base.Identity.getUserBlog(Identity.java:119)
at com.google.blogger.frontend.AccessGroupsAuth.authenticate(AccessGroupsAuth.java:297)
at com.google.servlet.authentication.MultiAuthentication.authenticate(MultiAuthentication.java:61)
at com.google.servlet.handlers.AuthenticatedHandler.execute(AuthenticatedHandler.java:105)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.HandlerDispatchPipe.invoke(HandlerDispatchPipe.java:82)
at com.google.blogger.frontend.PyraJspDispatchPipe.invoke(PyraJspDispatchPipe.java:74)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.ServletPipe.invokeNextPipe(ServletPipe.java:118)
at com.google.blogger.frontend.ProfileLogPipe.invoke(ProfileLogPipe.java:49)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.ServletPipe.invokeNextPipe(ServletPipe.java:118)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.StatsPipe.invoke(StatsPipe.java:64)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.ServletPipe.invokeNextPipe(ServletPipe.java:118)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.PendingRequestPipe.invoke(PendingRequestPipe.java:31)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.ServletPipe.invokeNextPipe(ServletPipe.java:118)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.HttpRedirectPipe.invoke(HttpRedirectPipe.java:43)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.ServletPipe.invokeNextPipe(ServletPipe.java:118)
at com.google.blogger.frontend.IdentityCookiePipe.invoke(IdentityCookiePipe.java:137)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.ServletPipe.invokeNextPipe(ServletPipe.java:118)
at com.google.servlet.exceptionhandling.ExceptionHandlerPipe.invoke(ExceptionHandlerPipe.java:99)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.ServletPipe.invokeNextPipe(ServletPipe.java:118)
at com.google.servlet.pipe.LocaleContextPipe.invoke(LocaleContextPipe.java:116)
at com.google.servlet.BaseServlet.doGet(BaseServlet.java:89)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:494)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2415)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:172)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223)
at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:261)
at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:360)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:604)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:562)
at org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:679)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:619)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

Apache Tomcat/4.1.24

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Company evaluation

While a company is evaluated, the analysts ask 'is this the set of people who brought the company to where it is today'.

This basically means that you can't fire all the folks who made the comapny and have cheap workers while selling the company to the next prospective buyer/ipo.

Friday, April 15, 2005

Speach and Debate

Lincoln Douglas Debate: http://cas.bethel.edu/dept/comm/nfa/ldrules.html

Speech & Debate Takes First at National Quals

Competition Thursday through Saturday (4/6/2005 - 4/9/2005) to represent the California Coast District at the National Championships (which will be held this June in Philadelphia and Delaware).

Team Results
First - Bellarmine - 86 points
Second - Lynbrook - 78 points
Third - Leland - 76 points
Fourth - Presentation - 60 points
Fifth - Westmont - 59 points

The top two finishers in each event go to the national tournament.

Foreign Extemporaneous
First - Nikhil Matani - Bellarmine
Second - Akshay Rao - Leland
Fourth - David Chiang - Bellarmine

U.S. Extemporaneous
First - Jonathan Weed - Bellarmine
Second - Brian Stephan - Bellarmine
Fourth - Dylan Groves - Bellarmine

Original Oratory
First - Ananth Srinivasan - Bellarmine
Second - Kelcey Chung - Saratoga
Third - Bobby Holley - Bellarmine

Duo Interpretation
Iqwak Bhurji/Yue Tu - Leland
Anthony Tran/James Tseng - Leland

Dramatic Interpretation
First - Nina Sung - Leland
Second - Stephen Elrod - Bellarmine

Humorous Interpretation
First - Christopher Lin - Bellarmine
Second - Varun Rajan - Leland
Fourth - Ashwin Bhagat - Bellarmine

Public Forum Debate
Undefeated - Vikram Mahal/Sachin Thakkar - Bellarmine
Qualifying - Carol Shen/Dharini Subramanian - Lynbrook
Alternate - Sharat Raju/Tushar Khadloya - Bellarmine

Policy Debate (Because of entry size, three teams qualify.)
Undefeated - Chris Weldon/Arun Badhwar - Bellarmine
Qualifying - Phill Baker/Thomas Mathew - Bellarmine
Qualifying - Hassan Khan/Nick Singh - St. Francis

Lincoln Douglas Debate (Because of entry size, three qualify.)
Undefeated - Katie Heil - Presentation
Qualifying - Sameer Jain - Bellarmine
Qualifying - Sonya Mehta - Lynbrook

Patent

How would you make it difficult for another (new commer) company with deeper pocket not to take away your hard earned market / profit - Patent.

Saturday, March 26, 2005

Calling Cards

Farhad Moshtagh, President
Splendor Networks
Main: 408.446.9900
Cell: 408-242-7070
moshtagh@splendornetworks.com
10436 N Blaney Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014
888-511-1919

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Network Related stuff

OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) 7 Layer Model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_Model

Free cool products URL

TextPad - http://www.textpad.com/ - Free ware (requests for paid usage) http://download.textpad.com/download/v47/txpeng473.exe

UltraEdit - yet another free text editor http://www.ultraedit.com/ download location http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=1

WinRAR - good archive files manager. Limitted time tril version (?) http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar342.exe

Windows Support Tools from Microsoft - http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/3/8/d38066aa-4e37-4ae8-bce3-a4ce662b2024/ Starting location from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49AE8576-9BB9-4126-9761-BA8011FABF38&displaylang=en

PSExec (part of PSTools) - remote execution win-win. Usefull for Windows admin or having to work with multiple machines at the same time.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml

Slogger - firefox extension for logging traffic
http://www.kenschutte.com/firefoxext/

Ethereal - Network Protocol Analyzer
http://www.ethereal.com/

HTML validator extension for FireFox (based on Tidy)
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/

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