Monday, December 29, 2008

Blogs worthy to watch

Hello All,
Please go through some of my friend's blogs which are informative and useful.
To know more about English and some spicy
http://scribbles-blacksnow.blogspot.com/
To know some heart touching
http://panjaram.blogspot.com/
To know about attitude
http://baranee-perception.blogspot.com/
To know some interesting thoughts (No recent posts though)
http://www.ramz-thoughts.blogspot.com/
To know more about your "autograph" days
http://learn-through-life.blogspot.com/
Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Go Green concept

Hello All,
Go Green is the recent Buzz word for Indian economy and especially with IT companies. The idea is termed as one of the key differentiator for the IT companies in competitive market. US companies want to work with the companies which are environment friendly. Hope you all had the possibility to view IBM's recent advertisement on "Go Green " concept. So what is that "Go Green".. Simple...Environment friendly and saving power or energy..U want detail???Here it is.........For companies, 'going green' means taking several steps such as using machines with power-saving mode, using natural light in offices during day time, increasing employee awareness on energy conservation, re-cycling/reusing of packaging material, avoiding use of polythene, reducing consumption of stationery and following LEED norms for construction purpose. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED-INDIA) Green Building Rating System is a globally approved benchmark for green buildings.....So Make ur organization as "Go Green" by taking responsible for the above mentioned activities.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Friday, December 26, 2008

Rewind - year 2008

Hello All,
I would like to recollect some of the events/incidents/happened things in the year 2008.
1. India's controversial lose in Sydney-cricket and a memorable win in perth..the ground which is termed as Ponting's backyard and the way ishant bowled to the big man and got him out with a glorious delivery........
2. Abinav's Gold from Shooting...which is his own effort by having one foreign coach with the lack of indian standards and full credit to him. India can only proud of him because he is an Indian.
3. Mystery spinning by Ajantha Mendis----Mendis code-The seniors were unable to crack it and Dhoni and co has done it with an emphatic style.....
4. Need a better teacher to start violence- Ask Raj thakarae and co and learn a lot from them...
5. How to convert a losing department to a revenue generating one---Ask Lallu...He and his collegues will teach you a lot in what is meant by innovative ideas.....
6. Economy slow down- Impacted heavily in Indian economy and see- saw market with zig-zag sensex points on a day to day basis....
7. Got red handed in cheating---It is Sathyam and the world bank Saha
8. Bravery - The indian NSG commandos police from bombay. The way they tackled the issues in Mumbai....Kudos to them...
9. Deepika padukone- What is beauty meant for 2008.
I will continue to summarize the major events in my next post also...

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Single Step

Hello All,
Again one quote " The great journey starts with the single step"....Yes when you want to go upwards in your life you have to take a step forward to do that....I have one classic example of my friend of not doing that.....He wanted to write his own blog 4 months back......One week he repeatedly told me his interest...I asked him "why dont you start right away" and i got one answer " you are writing for fun but I have lots of concerns and parameters to start a blog...My blog should be creative,informative, useful, should cover all the areas below the sky and alll...Yes, we need to agree that he has some specific reason for blogging ...but he started blogging?????Answer is no....your interest should impress you first and then it should attract others.....There comes the picture of single step...You need to start with a post as a single step so that it can be a great journey in blogging.... And the important thing is single step should continue and it cant stop for whatever reason.....

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

The speed

Hello all,
After a long time this is a new post rather new quote from me. " lose some time in traveling and save sometime in your life". It is not my own quote but the message is clear - Avoid rash driving...then people will come back to me and ask " are you driving slowly??? Do you follow traffic rules??? This time also I have the answers..Yes I am driving slowly mainly because of my CT100 byke with that i cant go more than 60....Yes i am following traffic rules and it was one of my new year resolution and it was successfully done ....but yes life is all about speed...moving faster, learning faster and riding faster. But while driving the speed will bother other persons as well...Nothing wrong in starting 5 to 10 minutes early.....Chennai's riding life is terrible for now....But you have to ride or drive carefully to avoid accidents and your own personal safety.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Sunday, November 30, 2008

House rental increase and IT people

Hello All,
I am just sharing my recent experience in train journey. One co passenger has explained his problem with the house rent. He said that he is paying around 12k for a double bed room flat in Anna nagar and he blamed the IT persons are responsible for the rental increase. I thought that he is working in a manufacturing industry and earning around 3 lac per year and had a pity on him since he has a child (which is one non stop naughty adament all the time and also crying all the time which is a different story altogether)...And he blasted IT guys like anything...In the next morning he distributed his visiting card and it said that he is working as a PL in CSC and his wife in HCL. Shocked..man....For a programmer with 5 years experience in CSC worth 6 lac per year....An earning family of 12-15 lac is bothering to spend 12000 means what????How the people working in MF industry or low salaried people in IT can afford????Folks pls...Dont always blame IT people for all and as a part of IT org. dont blame your own industry persons......Yes we need to agree that the increase is because of IT growth..But now the market is sort of slow down and do u think the owners will decrease the rental because of the slow down..they have different set of audiences like students, bachelors, peoples from other industries who can afford such rents and you cannot always blame IT people for the increase in pencil rate...

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

What is Virtualization in software testing

Hello all,
I have recently come across a term called " Virtualization" and " Virtualization for Software Testing"..So for that I went through some of the article and one article from Redhat was very good in explaining these terminologies...."Virtualization allows multiple operating system instances to run concurrently on a single computer;it is a means of separating hardware from a single operating system. Each “guest” OS is managed by a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), also known as a hypervisor. Because the virtualization system sits between the guest and the hardware, it can control the guests’ use of CPU, memory, and storage, even allowing a guest OS to migrate from one machine to another"............This is the definition....tough to understand ......simple.....For ex...If u want to test a software product in operating systems like Windows XP, vista, Mac, Linux and Unix, then u have to get 5 systems and install an OS in a machine.....so the cost here is very high...for that in the organization, One person uses vista and other person uses Mac and another person uses Linux....U need to create a Guest login in each OS and maintain it from a single machine which will have one software called VMM (virtual machine monitor) with the help of internel network or even accessing with out side network.....with the help of VMM software u can control the memory of all 4 or 5 system and even u can migrate from one machine access to other.....so this is one of the emerging trends in IT across all industries.

Thanks & Regards,
Varun
dayavarun@gmail.com