Right isn't always popular... and what is popular isn't always right...

The following article is not my own but i loved it so much that i felt like sharing it down here.

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?

Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make

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Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?

Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how far-sighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.

The great critic Leo Velski Julian said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the trains sirens.. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.

'Remember that what is right isn't always popular... and what is popular isn't always right.'

Everybody makes mistakes; that is why they put erasers on pencils.

Out of this entire article i liked the last lines most. I believe that no one would argue about the truthfulness of it.

The Grand Vijayawada

Vijayawada is politically referred to as "the capital city of Coastal Andhra". It is located on the bank of River Krishna. It is also known as Bezawada as this region (vada) is described as the river Krishna following through a nozzle (Bezam). It is well known to host the Krishna pushkaralu. It has prominence as a major trading and business centre and is called as the "The Business Capital of Andhra Pradesh".

Place of visit in and around Vijayawada:

The first thing that strikes when we recollect about Vijayawada is Kanaka Durga Temple. One of the most popular temples in Andhra Pradesh, it is located on a hill Indrakeeladri hill overlooking the city as well as the River Krishna.

Prakasham Barrage at Vijayawada across Krishna River

A 12 km from Vijayawada is the renowned temple of Lord Narasimha in Mangalagiri. The unique feature of this temple is that the mouth of the idol accepts half the quantity of panakam (jaggery dissolved in water) offered by devotees, irrespective of the size of the vessel. The Mangalagiri hill is actually a dormant volcano.

The famous Amaravati, the most important Buddhist sites in the country is very near to it. Amaravati is considered the most sacred pilgrim centre for Buddhists in South India. It also has an Amareswara temple.

Manginapudi beach is located about 70 km from Vijayawada.

Within the city you can find Rajiv Gandhi Park also equiped with a zoo, Gandhi Hill which has got a planetarium and the Victoria Museum will attract a lot of tourists.

Situated on the river Bhavani Island, Perhaps one of the largest islands on a river, would house for adventure and fun sports loving people.

Kondapalli village is situated 16 km from Vijayawada. It has Kondapalli Fort and the world wide famous "Kondapalli toys" are from here.

Some other places of interest would be Hinkar Thirtha (Jain Temple), Mangalagiri, Hazarat Bal Mosque, Gunadala Matha Shrine, Marakata Rajarajeswari Temple, Subramanya Swamy Temple, Sri Nagarala Sri Maha Lakshmi Ammavaru Temple, Undavalli caves, Mogalarajapuram Caves.

People of Vijayawada are very fond of movies and one can find plenty of theatres in it. It is said to be a major revenue generator for Telugu film industry.

How to reach Vijayawada

Vijayawada is an important link connecting the three regions of Andhra Pradesh. It is housed with 2 National Highways, the NH5 and the NH9.

By air route to Vijayawada
A domestic airport located at Gannavaram which is about 10-km, from the city.
By Rail route to Vijayawada
Vijayawada is the biggest railway junction of the South Central Railway and is second biggest junction in India and only railway station to have escalators after New Delhi. It is well connected to all major cities of India. And the railway station is located at the center of the city. This railway station is one of busiest one in India.
By Road to Vijayawada
Vijayawada also has one of the biggest bus terminals in the country, pundit jawaharlal nehru bus station. It is well connected to the rest of the country by National Highways — NH-5 and NH-9. Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) runs ample number buses to and fro to the city.

To travel within the city all major streets are connected with the Local Public Bus Transit (City Buses) operated by APSRTC. Motor driven auto (rickshaw)s and manual driven (cycle)rickshaws are the other alternative means of transport within Vijayawada.

Tips for Tourists
Vijayawada is a very hot place with a lot of humidity in the air. One cannot expect to get out of it without sweating like a pig. So be prepared about it. Avoid visiting the place during summer where one can even get affected by Sun Burns.

For further information visit http://www.vijayawada.com/

Wish you all a very Happy New Year

Fable Morales … are they good enough?

I wonder if there would be one who hasn’t heard about a single fable story in their entire life. One might have come across them as bed time stories or lesson learnt as a part of education or while watching TV etc. The fable stories so intricately cultivated into our life’s that they have become as the moral checklist for oneself.

During childhood we listen to those tales believing as if really a forest with speaking animals do exist. As we grow up we do realise that how the stories were cleverly written to melt down the involved morals into our minds.

But is it so easy to apply those morals in our day to day life? The clear resounding answer would be a big NO.

In the fables a wicked personality is clearly made apparent by their looks or characterisation. From the starting of a story a character is destined to be wicked and he ends up wicked with a failure on his face.

But is it the case in a real life scenario? I wonder not. In the real world a person tends to be good at some point and turns out to wicked and at later point of time.

All the fables clearly show that good people always win in spite of all the odds they have and they face.

But is this so clearly apparent where a good and bad itself haven't got a clear partition? Once good is bad for someone else and once bad is good for some others.

As we start growing and facing the real world there would a plenty number of incidents where the morale we learnt doesn't actually fit down to explain the reasons behind them. We are left to wonder why it happened and satisfy ourselves by saying that it might be results due to deeds done in past life or in a long run we can see results that are in accordance with the morale or sometimes attributing it for the luck and so on.

It would be bad to realise that this fable stories even attribute for some negative mindsets. Like say the odds that set off as we came across a oddly looking person and apparent charm of a good looking person. Even though if bad looking happened to a genuine person and the good looking one a cunning.

Like the Ant and the Grasshopper story which concludes out saying "Hard work always pays off".
Is this really true? You can observe people around who strenuously work to achieve a minimal growth in life and at the same time people who lucratively spend time and still manage to end up their life in luxury.

More interestingly, I have come across some recent version of The Tortoise and the Hare story which was extended further to explain some management principles. The initial story had morale of "Slow and steady wins the race". The original was extended a bit to convey

- That fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady;
- Work to your competencies;
- Pooling resources and working as a team will always beat individual performers;
- Never give up when faced with failure;
- Compete against the situation. Not against a rival.

On a whole the real life is so intricately weaved web where morale cannot fit down straight. We do have to bend and twist the morals.

Unix User Profiles

I know that most you are aware of these. But i would like to reiterate them.

As the name conveys profiles are something where we have description of our own choices and so.
And in the same line Unix profiles are those where a unix user can have the default environment choices.

After the user logs in as a part of starting up the user's shell, two profile files are executed.
The first is the system default profile located at "/etc/profile", which is common for all the users and run by every user.Second one is the ".profile" in the user's home directory which is only run by the user who owns it.

The intention of these profile files is to set up the environment each user will need to use the system.

Before a logged-in user gets a shell prompt to start working, a robust profiles will usually display messages about the system. They will also setup $PATH so that the users can access basic UNIX System programs.

So if you want to set your own customised environment you can do it at $HOME/.profile. As the changes done here will effect only a particular user.

Go to user's home directory and look for the .profile file. Don't worry if you don't find one you can always create your own file.
Add the desired commands so as to have your own environment.
From the next login you can see the changes.

A typical user profile would look like:

$HOME/.profile

# envvars
export DISPLAY=localhost:0
export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/tools:$PATH:/sbin/:/usr/local/bin/mh:$HOME/accounts/binexport
PRINTER=ljps
export SHELL=/bin/ksh
export TEMP=/tmp
export TMP=/tmp
export TMPDIR=/tmp

# shell options
set -o bgnice
set -o noclobber
set -o notify
set -o trackall
set -o vi
set -o vi-tabcomplete

umask 077

trap '. $HOME/.sh_logout; exit' 0

What is Happiness....

From my childhood at every stage of my life , I used to here or say to myself that if I do this I shall become happy.

In my studies I used to feel / I was made to feel that if I score good grades then I would be happy. I used to dream of becoming a topper and the happiness I would be experience after such an achievement. Finally the day came,But i felt like the happiness I felt was far below than which I dreamt.

In my career I always used to feel that if I get a good job then I would lead a very happy life. That day too came. But still the feeling the experience of happiness was less than what I dreamt.

And days went by like this feeling and asking to myself what actually is happiness....

Now after long many experiences, I began realizing that happiness is not something that is materialist which you can quantify and also can say that some logical sequence of steps would lead us to it.

To say in the words of Democritus:

"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul."

Suddenly, I began to realize that all these times I was happy but just that I haven't realized that I was happy. And I was happy even if failed to fulfill my dreams.

So, whenever in doubt that if you are happy or not recollect the word of David Burns:

"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you."

Tip

Q. How to type more than one command at one DOS command prompt?
A. The pipe or the ampersand to separate your commands. The shell and version of Windows you are using decides what character to use.

Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME users

cd\ | dir

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP users using the command shell

cd\ & dir

AdSense

The new jargon in the net industry which some of you might have already been familiar with.
AdSense is a contextual advertisement program run by Google.

In the word’s of Google “Google AdSense matches ads to your site's content and audience, and depending on the type of ad, you can earn money from clicks or impressions.” In simple terms it is a way for the website owners (publishers) to quickly add advertisement to their WebPages. Google will decide which ads to be placed on the website depending on the website content (Contextual Ads).The advantage of this program is that now your pages has ads which are much in relation with the contents of your pages and much less annoying for the readers and higher chances of getting clicks.

How to Start with AdSense:

To participate in AdSense program, publisher has to register themselves with the Google.

The requirements are:

1. A published website with content according to Google policies and a valid URL.
2. A valid payee name and mailing address.

Here a website means anything where in which you can edit the HTML content of the pages. So you can attach ads with your blogs also.
Be noted that not all languages are yet supported for AdSense program.

The application process usually takes 2-3 days of time to get evaluated. So be patient.

Tips for getting AdSense:

These days because of growing interest among the publishers for AdSense and multiple applications from them Google is not readily accepting the applicants.
Following tips will help you in getting an approval:

1. Google allows only 1 AdSense account per person. So be careful before applying.
2. In case of applications from India, they generally reject duplicate applications from the same address even though this 'same address rule' is not officially published by Google. So, if another person in the same or similar address have applied for AdSense earlier, it is a good idea to use a different, family relative's address in your Google AdSense application.(Please don't ask 'how do I know if another person from a similar address have already applied ?'. Use your common sense and figure out. For example, if you are using a hostel address, there is a possibility that another person living in the same hostel would have used the same hostel address). Google does not usually care about duplicate applications from same IP Address. Better to maintain different IP Addresses
3. Don't apply for AdSense account on the same day you created a site. Wait at least 2 weeks.
4. Make your own Blog with Bloger.com or any blogging site (Prefer Blogger).(In case if you are not having any.)
5. Put and update daily some good articles related to education or online money making jobs or anything you want. Keep it as original as possible.
6. Apply for AdSense. Be careful to provide all the details accurately.
7. Wait a while for the account to get approved.
8. If the account haven’t got approved
9. Try to resister with your family member's name.
10. Try to make your new AdSense from another computer and with other mailing address.
11. After account is approved try to put some topic like cars, bike, insurance etc to get more revenue.


Some other info:

In situations it would be rather difficult to drive traffic to our won websites. So in such a situation you can join some website where there is AdSense Revenue Sharing program. In this sites all you are allowed to maintain your own profiles and you can contribute to the sites and contents and depending on the ads in your contents you will are paid.

Some good sites which I personally am aware of are:

IndiaStudyChannel
IndiaReviewChannel
Go create a account there and start earning money.

References:
http://www.indiastudychannel.com/forum/Category14.aspx
https://www.google.com/adsense/login/en_US/?gsessionid=3GYVJJ7RxKuiS40Ov8GKGA
http://knol.google.com/k/ron-mertens/adsense/2vh42ff3ngpdh/3#

self intro

As a self introduction

I am a Software professional. In my daily routines i work on windows, linux, AIX, Solaris & HP operating systems. So most of the popular operating systems. And also on many databases.

Looking at it don’t think that i am well versed with operating systems. I am just acquitanted with them.

I am like student at some university who studies some computer courses. As for me every day is a learning experience and i like it the most.

So here and then i would like to post some tips for them here, which i learned in my daily life.

Hello Bloggers!!!

Finally i too entered the great world of blogging.
Hope i blog a lot.