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Clean Up Your PC - Went through this

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Clean Up Your PC - Went through this

This morning a friend of mine brought his laptop and showed it to me, it was totally bad. Every few minutes a pop up comes up. Some random software was installing all by itself, endless dll corrupt prompts… It was really in a very very bad state. I asked him - “Don’t you have an antivirus ?”, he said yes I do, I have Mc Afee. So I looked at the little icon in tray and whoops it was not renewed so it is not functioning anymore. He did not want to renew it and he assumed that it would be protecting him because it is already installed on his system.

Now I started downloading my favorite softwares for this kind of situation. I downloaded the following:

1) Stinger
2) AntiVir
3) AdAware

The above softwares have free editions for personal use. And now a whole 2 hours of installing and scanning to get things into a better shape.

Next I downloaded the HOSTS file from mvps.org, Firefox and asked him to have a safer browsing using Firefox.

I thought there could be a lot more people out there for whom this information may be helpful, so is this blog post.

Comments and Suggestions are welcome.

Clean Up Your PC - Went through this

One of the Best Inspirational Quote I ever heard

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

One of the Best Inspirational Quote I ever heard

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do“.

Do you know of any such or better high inspirational quotes ? If so, please post in the comments below.

One of the Best Inspirational Quote I ever heard

Why “Why Outsourcing Sucks” Sucks

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Why “Why Outsourcing Sucks” Sucks

Here is a the most stupid article written by a very stupid guy titled “Why Outsourcing Sucks

His Point:
Major Indian software companies are recruiting low quality programmers.
Yes may be because they recruited this guy. But because Indian Software Companies made a mistake once by recruiting him doesn’t mean that they are recruiting low quality programmers intentionally.

A large percentage (I am afraid more that 50%) of the programmers are from non-CS backgrounds. Many are mechanical engineers, electrical/electronics engineers or civil engineers.
So ? I saw some people with Non CS Background who are very very better at coding and commitment wise far better than CS Grads. Trust me, I personally know atleast a dozen of them. And I am pretty sure some of them can even beat the writer of that stupid article.

The pay scales for fresher posts here are not the best even according to Indian standards.
What is he saying ? Helooooooooo can someone explain please.

We don’t care for the quality of the work we do for you. Now I don’t want to piss off any one, but the fact is that seriously no one cares about the quality of their code they do for some American company which they don’t know much about. You will get quality code only if it comes from your heart - like when you code for yourself. Most Indian software engineers don’t feel any kind of commitment to their organizations
May be this guy doesn’t care for his work, may be this guy has less commitment levels. That is really not the case. I see a lot of people sweating hard and working extra hours to get the project done and some people really really care.

Part of the reason why many companies recruit low quality programmers is that the works we get here are mainly some support work or very monotonous and boring development work that looks like it will take ages to get completed. Many Indian programmers have their own pet projects which they dedicate their free time to and they concentrate on the quality of the code they produce for that pet projects instead of the projects they have to do in their organizations.

Really ?

Conclusion: This poor guy really had a bad time, may be he is not competent enough and he has no commitment for his project. He is just interested in sitting for 8 hours in office and getting his salary. Only people with above qualities write posts like this. A small advice, if you find it so nasty leave this job and get into another industry. Find a job which satisfies you and work hard. Unless you are satisfied with your job, you cannot make significant progress in your career. All the best. Really if you dislike software and think most programmers in India are good for nothing, I can bet and say you are the worst of all.

Finally all outsourcing guys, outsourcing has its advantages and disadvantages. It may or may not suit your project. So, decide well and outsource as per the needs.

PS. This post will not hit 1st page of Reddit because most of reddits 1st page posts are manipulated ;)

Why “Why Outsourcing Sucks” Sucks

What is he trying to do ?

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

What is he trying to do ?

The following is a screenshot of my Google Analytics page for the day 23rd May 2008. Here you can see a person from Chennai, India spent 2hrs 22 mins on my website viewing just one webpage and by refreshing the page 168 times. Did anyone of you see this kind of strange activity on your websites, of so please share using comments.

What is he trying to do

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This activity is for this link.

What is he trying to do ?

My Blog Jan 2008 Review

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

My Blog Jan 2008 Review

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