Microsoft Photosynth - wow!

Recently I stumpled upon, Microsoft's photosynth. I am amazed to see what a software can do. What Photosynth does is mind blowing. From the bunch of photos of a same place, it tries to find a pattern among them and constructs a 3D image of it!! I can't even imagine, how they are doing this? Even human brain will have difficulty doing that. Amazing!

Take a look @ Photosynth.net

you will have to install silverlight plugin (something similar to flash plugin)..

Parleys.com - Good site for java fans!!

I hit upon Parleys.com which has many tech talk show videos.. it is better than videos in youtube.. We can even download the videos, but we need AIR (Adobe flex runtime) for playing the video.. but certainly looks promising.. Mostly it has J2EE related tech shows.. But video is not playing as smooth as youtube, hope it will be fixed (i guess my office broadband is fast enough to stream!)

see you!

Relaunch of my tech blog

There were various reasons why i started to blog, to improve my writing skills, to keep a note for myself, share my views with friends and finally every body does it :) I have been mixing different topics in this blog and I don't want that going forward. So i will segregate my blog post into general topics and tech टोपिक्सtopics. General view on some interesting sites or new game or gadgets does not go to tech blog, rather it goes into personal blog. In tech blog I am planning to write mostly about what I do every day for work or for fun.
Most of you might not have seen my tech blog, but i have created one long ago and now I am going to try updating that blog as frequently as possible.

My tech blog is http://witty-gritty-coder.blogspot.com/

I wish to see some of you guys doing the same to share you wisdom with us..

Frustrating day with solaris

I hardly use console based operating system.. not that i dont like them.. but i never got a chance to explore their full potential.. so i always have a dislike towards those terminals(after seeing matrix i started liking them though..) today i had to perform a build in solaris server.. i typed something wrong in the console so i have to erase it, so my instinct said i have to press the backspace key and it didn't work and suprisingly i got some funny looking characters on screen.. so i tried the obvious second choice of delete key, that didn't work either :( then i tried Vi short cut and again in vain and then emacs del shortcut, still no help.. cursing the creator of solaris and asked my colleague sitting next to me.. fortunately he knew how to get backspace working... type the following the console prompt

stty erase

make sure you press the backspace after you type "stty erase " and there you goooo...

How easy it is.. we need to remember a command to remove a character from console.. crazy!!

Back to work...

After long vocation of 10 days, I am back to work today. Though i had 10 days of holiday, I couldn't sit in home for even 1 day completely and most of the i was out to visit my relatives.. yeah many of them.. Lot of things i want to write about, I couldn't find time all these vocation days.. now that i am back to work, i hope i will have some time.. irony isn't it.. :)

first thing i would like to share an experience in a bus journey. After repeated request from my Grand Ma, i finally decided to visit her. The place i used to enjoy when i was a kid, is no more fun.. All my friend there are now grown up, most of them moved to cities for work and others busy with their business. I will not be able to meet any of them and all my cousins where out of town to their nana's place. I have to spend a whole day alone, but atleast i have tv with all channels there. I took the bus around 7 in the morning, suprisingly bus wasn't crowded and i had many choices for my seat and all of them equally bad :( so i selected the one which is easy for me to get down.. once i reached tambaram two old gentleman in their mid 50's boarded the bus.  They sat behind my seat.. they started their conversation and their conversation reached my ears.. they were speaking in hindi possibly urdu. From the language and their attire i can easily identify them as moslems. 

And then we reached Mel Maruvathur and there is a amman temple there.. crazy amount of buses, most of them parked on the highway, causing traffic jam. One guy explained to other guy that this temple is making crazy money and that's true.. after sometime they started talking about the recent Mumbai terror attacks.. so far i was not very much keen on their conversation, but after this i was keen on what they talk about, so i pushed myself back against the seat to hear them.. I was very happy to hear what they feel and they bashed pak like anything.. He was telling all the mosleum countries were good except pak. He also said pakistan is going down economically and their are trying to pull us down.. he said "I don't know which allah asked these terrorist to kill people..."

After the recent terrorist attack there was a sense of hatredness towards moslems which was very unfortunate and by doing this we are yielding to terrorist.. the ill effects of terrorism is not thousands of people dying, it is not about the weakness of the security in our country, it is not about how easily they managed to sail into our country, but it is all about how they try to destroy the integrity of the country. As long as we are integral, we are united, we can survive any many terrorist attacks and we will be able to do well as a country.. 

Afer this experience I was happy about what india is and how it is going to be....

Jai Hind!!