The Concepts

    In current job market, many prominent companies are using the terms "DevOps Engineer". What does that means?  You really need an IT engineer that focus on technology or a cultural engineer? DevOps is a culture, not a technology.  If that basic do not know for these companies, how are they going to do so called "digital transformation" ?      While I was talking to a friend on this subject, he was told his experience.  He had been offered many jobs in India.  During the discussions, he asked them what do you focus?  Most common answers modern technology, DevOps and digital transformation.  Since they says about these, he asked them "do you have flexible work culture?".  Response was "Of course, we do have".  Since he is from Kerala and the job locations for the interviews he attended were outside of that state, he was happy on that answer.  So, the next question from him was "can you explain that flexible wor...

Today I have had a fun with technology. Opened a support case for system located in China, from Malaysia.  Received email seeking more update in Chinese language.  This is still acceptable as support team will not have knowledge of person located when opening a case using web portal. However, I decided to try Microsoft Outlook 2013's built-in translator tool.  Funny things happened.  It attempted to translate from English to French automatically and given me same Chinese output. How nice technology making people so dump. Have a good fun day.

     Recently, I had tried several Linux variants in my AMD laptop.  As everyone say, I too loved Ubuntu before it entering to Unity mode.  Once Unity came in picture as default, I had to look for much better flavor.  I would say, Unity is for kids to play around.  Linux is always far better than any other desktop operating system and Ubuntu plays a major role in that to bring it as more people friendly.  I tried Debian, Fedora 16, Mint Lisa & Ubuntu 12. I liked Mint 10; some how I wanted to try the latest flavor.      Debian - This is the base platform for Ubuntu and Mint.  But Debian is powerful and I recommended if you are really interested to play harder with Linux.  Set up itself very minimal and you won't get any wireless driver support.  You have to plug in the network cable, if you want to have complete installation once the base part finished.  Everything has to manually configure. ...

     This is a free service from Quick Heal , internet security provider.  Whether you use or not using quick heal products, you can register your laptop and can track, if it stolen.  This site even provide you facilities to identify, whether the second hand laptop you are going to purchase is a stolen one and Cyber Crime Law Enforcement Authority can trace stolen notebook.  All you want to do the following steps. 1. Go to track my laptop site and select your desired option.  There will be 4 options you can see.  First one for Quick Heal users, second one for non-Quick Heal users, third one to verify a Used Laptop and the final one is for Enforcement Authority. 2.  Here, I selected "Not a Quick Heal User" option.  Register yourself.  You will get a MAC identification tool to identify your MAC address.  Download the tool and run it, it will show your MAC address.  If you are using any VMWare virtual interface, the...

Japanese car maker Nissan launched their concept car with alcohol detection system in mid of 2007.  It uses breathalyzer-like detection systems may provide even greater traction for Japanese efforts to keep impaired drivers off the road.  Nissan's alcohol-detection sensors check odor, sweat and driver awareness, issuing a voice alert from the navigation system and locking up the ignition if necessary.  Odor sensors on the driver and passenger seats read alcohol levels, while a detector in the gear-shift knob measures the perspiration of the driver's palm when starting the car.  But Nissan's car includes a mounted camera that monitors alertness by eye scan, ringing bells and issuing a voice message in Japanese or English if a driver should pull over and rest.  For more details, visit their official page .

I am not sure, how many of you are aware about this.  This is called 10Minute Mail .  As soon as you login to this website, you will get a mail id.  The default duration for this id is 10minute.  If you need to extend the timing, you can click the "Give me 10 Minute More" option.  This will increase the life to another 10 minute.  With this mail, you can beat the spam mails and you can do the work, as you wish.  Again, technology at its best.

Another week of testing with the best Linux IM client "Pidgin".  I could configure the Office communicator, Yahoo, MSN and gtalk.  The best feature I can see in this, all chat windows can be accommodate with tabbed option in a single window.  This is very good feature and this was the one, I was searching for a long time, when Jabber ( I was using Pandion client ) was switched to Office Communicator at my office.  I think, I seen this tabbing option only in Pidgin version 2.7.1 onwards.  Here, I tested 2 versions of Pidgin. Pidgin 2.6.6 My Ubuntu Lucid kernel is "2.6.32-22-generic" . This version of Pidgin comes by default with Ubuntu Lucid.  What I had to do is, install the 3 dependencies.  Install the following with the order it mentioned. 1. libmp3lame0 2. gstreamer0.10-plugins-multiverse 3. gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 4. pidgin-PPA packages After these 4 items installed, I had tried to restart the services of pidgin, but was not successful.  So...

Another week of testing has completed.  I have found success rate of 95%.  It was a fun-loving work for me.  Installation of Linux was not a rocket science, but make my office application work well, is some what similar to rocket science.  Thanks to Google and Ubuntu communities; helped a lot to do many changes.   One of the major problem I still faces, using the Linux email client with cache mode.  I don't want to waste my disk space using this.  But there is no other client supports non-cache mode with Exchange server; except Microsoft technology.  To over-come this, I had to install Office applications for Linux.  But the response of Microsoft Outlook from Linux is very very slow than from Windows.  I think, Microsoft still hate Linux like anything.  All applications are fast running on this 1GB memory Core Duo system; except Microsoft stuffs.  All my client servers are connecting via SOCKS.  I was worrying how ...

Last one week, I was breaking my head on testing different flavors of Linux.  I opted best desktop version Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and best laptop version Open SUSE 11.2.  My installation set-up was on HP Pavilion tx 2000 Entertainment PC.  It's configuration consists of AMD Athlon X2 64-bit with nVIDIA GeForce graphic controllers, 2GB RAM, 150 GB HDD, Broadcom BCM4312 WLAN card with web-cam and other stuffs like finger print reader etc. Started testing from Open SUSE.  First installed its KDE version.  This is the best interface I saw and very coolest environment.  First I attracted with the "sysinfo" option on the window, when I clicks.  It reveals the graphical display of my HDD usage, system details and much more.  Another plus I found on it is the LVM part ( I am too keen on it ).  The LVM works well on it and I used only 60GB out of my 150 for all the purpose and kept aside the rest of the space for future use.  This is fantastic option...