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4月30日 Right of Way, GPS in Netherland, Australia repeating the feat1. Ani - mentions about the right of way. I think we have this behavior ingrained. We think the size of the vehicle and texture of cloth will have the right of way. You can see this in action, A bicycle uses the creakish horn on the footpath user, the biker gang of Ani/Tririckshaw using their tools of sound arms on everybody else, they also act pretty funny, when they are politely asked to stop with hand sign. Somehow they seem to have hurry to reach all the places(I call them having #2 hurry- the call of nature is too strong, you can't avoid it). Tri-rickshaw and Biker gang never ever use the lane, they create this video game kind of scenario on the road where half of the time you are braking to avoid hitting them as they zip past as if in motor cross and other half respondig to folks who think you are dumb giving way to all those knuckleheads.
The drivers have major types.
1. A BPO/private vehicle with yellow tab,
2. a young can't keep still driver of either sex,
3. an experienced(in/watched an accident) driver with family,
4. an old fiat/ambassador, a government vehicle which blare its emergency through its horn,
5. a tourist who seems to stop at every place he should not(rickshaw and bikes do the same) - think of road turning, think of junction, think of just after/before the turn, or just right in the middle. The idea is to block everybody else and no desire to take the vehicle out of the caused jam.
6. The lady on the bike - this is dangerous species as many of them take turns or make moves without any kind of communication. They have the right logical thinking for this action though. They are under impression everybody is anyway watching them - so people will watch they are doing and "adjust".
7. Beasts of nature - cows etc
8. Beasts of the road, trucks who blink on one side and turn on another - idea is to take as much space to turn. Transport buswallahs who have the competition to stand in the middle of the road otherwise they will get stuck in corner.
9. Traffic police - who have penchant of stopping the truck/bus/car/two wheeler, right in the middle of the traffic and walk across with imaginary rope around the vehicle.
BTW this behavior is same across all the cities without any affiliation to caste/creed/religion/place.
The problem is bigger as people who have seen better managed places with rules and regulations come back and break every possible rule in the book :).
Another of the behavior on the cross with or without traffic lights of "surging tsunami". Imagine traffic going from north to south. A small cross road joining in from west will have first a puddle slowly turning into gurgling wave made up of eager bikes, snarling rickshaws. If in the right mind you better keep horn pressed (sometimes this does not help) but blaring it a top decibel keeps folks aware you mean business - that is to cross the road when you have the way. Other times you will see people just ignore the signal and keep crossing, follow them otherwise you might get hit as I did at 7.45 am at dairy circle becuase i was waiting as abiding citizen for light to turn green. Last but not the least on traffic signals with decreasing wait time, you will see people try and leave about 10 secs earlier - it is a norm - do not fight it.
2. GPS/Maps in Netherland uses google maps. Over in India - Yahoo has flawed but maximum collection of cities under the map. Satellite data sucks. Google/Live are catching up with Yahoo at this juncture.
3. Australia browbeated the opposition to take another world cup. Every other team was reduced to being paper tigers.The best team has won. Adam Gilchrist embodied the valley which resides between Australia and rest of the teams.
4月26日 First ammendement, traffic woes and othersI had to mention - Ani 's latest entries about
1. First amendment - Although I am all for individual liberty but I agree with Ani - "there has to be influence of good kind" - now this could be contrused in various ways - brainwashing with right/left/liberal wing thoughts. It is funny to see some of the books which talk about bringing up kids in particular way. Actually I am not sure bringing them up in certain way is going to plug future "events".
2. Traffic woes in Bangalore - I envy Ani's happiness/glow since he has got that two wheeler while I drone through the traffic in 4 wheeler. I am going to join his tribe soon. Application VirtualizationVirtualization 101
Shed the vendor pitch(disclosure - I do work for Microsoft) and focus on what it means (indirection of another kind to achieve a set of goals - centralized/controlled rollout/management/monitoring/upgrade, consolidation )
- hardware virtualization (storage,network)
- os virtualization
- application virtualization
- presentation virtualization
For last couple of months I have been working with few customers to help them minimize the costs associated with managing the desktop. One of the technologies which just "clicks" with customers is recently acquired Softgrid.
- It allows applications to get isolated environment to execute and not trample the common infrastructre items(registry,COM dlls,File system etc)
- It has feature of streaming the application to the desktop ensuring only the required footprint is present on the machine.
- It allows monitoring/metering of the applications to ensure applications can managed more effectively. Allow locked down Group olicy based execution/access to the software.
- It allows easy upgrade of the applications/os in controlled fashion.
- Helps ISVs/Enterprises by lowering the cost of testing for application compatibility and leads to software as service.
Where it is applicable?
- Anywhere when a pc based application needs to have isolated environment allowing easy upgrade, rollout, limited footprint and closed monitoring.
eg.;
- One pc used by many folks each having different set of applications possible sharing common dlls having different versions.
Scenario
- Healthcare front desk/Callcenter/Insurance-Finance company desktop where managed environment is essential.
Where to get it
Contact your Microsoft rep. It is available as part of Client optimization pack. Ask for MDOP information. "The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance is a dynamic desktop solution available to Software Assurance customers, that employs innovative technologies to help reduce the TCO of the Windows desktop by accelerating OS and application management, and enhancing IT responsiveness and end-user uptime. "
What is the licensing Contact your Microsoft rep.
Is it available to general public?
In its present form - it has been made available to our SA -Software assurance customers who want to enjoye trouble free maintenance and migration of the desktops.
Can I download it?
It is available for customers/softgrid enabled partners through trial-in-box models through local microsoft rep. IF you want to become partner again contact your local microsoft rep.
Q. How does it work
An application is "packaged" using sequencer and served off the server to the client having the softgrid client. When user clicks on icon/shortcut to the application, rights to access it are queried with ad/sofgrid server and only required bits are streamed down to the client.
Q. Are disconnected scenarios supported
A. Yes
Commonly asked questions
Q. What is sequencing?
A. Verb - act of recording what common elements(FS/Registry/COM etc) are changed/accessed by the application during installation and use and creating a application "bag" which contains all regular app stuff virtualized by the sequencer. This application "bag" is stored in the SVAS(SoftGrid Virtual Application Server) which in turn is delivered to the clients on demand.
Q. What is the role of AD?
A. Sequenced applications are provisioned based on the access rights in AD. So idea is launch rights etc are given to the right users. For eg., you might want to provide Excel access to Finance users and Photoshop access to designers. This allows those users to use those applications "only".
Q. What does the client do?
A. Client runs a piece of software to communicate with SVAS to get the required applications. It contains the infrastructure to "communicate" and
"recieve" software on demand to the machine.
Q. What does sequencer do?
A. A sequencer application runs on clean machine running the nearest configuration of the client(OS/apps).
Q. What does SVAS do?
A. It provides the
- store of the sequenced applications in filestore
- way to authenticate and authorize the clients with AD.
- monitors the access/licensing etc
Q. Does it have an SDK to extend either client/sequencer/server
A. Not yet.
Q. What is the storage used for?
A. To Store profiles and access/authorization/metering information
Q. Is the store configurable to something else?
A. Sql Server 2005
Q. Does it allow IE sequencing?
A. While Internet Explorer cannot be sequenced, plug-ins and add-ons such as Java, JRE, Macromedia, etc. can be. For more information refer to Answer ID 174, "Recipe: Microsoft Internet Explorer".
Q. What is the relationship to SMS
A. SMS/MOM is all about management of assets/monitoring etc. Softgrid integrates with SMS through connector allows easy patching,update, asset inventory etc from single view. It thus allows virtualized applications to be inventories.
Q. What is relationship to Virtual PC, Virtual Server or terminal services?
A. Microsoft SoftGrid virtualizes the application layer. Virtual Server virtualizes the Windows Server and Virtual PC enables you to run a virtual session of the OS.
Q. Where is the core site for softgrid
Other kind of virtualization
1. OS - checkout virtualpc, virtual server (we use them for testing/quick provisioning/deprovisioning/demo)
Pathetic trumpeting of understanding of religionReading books by Jyotirmaya Shrama - "Hindutva","TERRIFYING VISION: MS GOLWALKAR, THE RSS AND INDIA" etc, following are the conclusions
1. To be Hindu and declare oneself is sin. 2. It is better to look yourself through the eyes of "PrafulY", "JohnX", "IrfanZ" or Leftist educated card carrying communism 3. Your thinkers are nothing but axxxxxs. 4. If you try to think logically and on your own and try to question we will crush you since we know the english vocabulary and our army of haters will impound you on tv channels, books and articles. 5. Wait for emancipation from us. (fill in the religion, philosophy)
I liked(sic) a book "disappearing daughters" based on female infanticide in India. But I fail to understand the reason of hate and looking down upon anything related to Hinduism by the left bastions of thinking in various universities in present India. It is awful to see a guy interlinking, extrapolating works/words of Aurobindo/Vivekananda. (maybe as bad as me talking about this) There are ton of things which are wrong with Hinduism, what I personally like is freedom from one "controller" of anykind. Challenge for all these kind of people who evaluate and try to come up with "understanding" is that Hinduism is not "limited" by "Books/One messenger" and written stuff and keeps evolving. So their commentry and idea of linking it to voilent nationalism which they have been fearing for decades (secretly hoping it comes true - as it makes them experts ;)) never really comes true in large scheme of things. The feeble attempt to understand the simplest ritual of morning in middle class house to a farm worker where most of the things are dedicated to God first are beyond their meagre minds. RIP all the left brainwashed impractical folks in "frontline", "jnu".
When not to outsource -Blackberry blackoutBlackberry is becoming victim of its own success? I don't think so. A current story reflects sad parts of it. This is not unique to the blackberry. In general
1. Don't outsource the core capability on which your business depends - in this case the network or at least have reasonable SLA to twist a collar/collection of collars(white or blue).
2. Be clear, concise in when explaining an event and respectful of the customer's concerns. Unfortunately public facing team here did not have good plan to manage the expectation. Customers know things can go bad, what they need to know is things are under control and will be resumed after a point in time. ( Disclosure - Always heard good thing about balckberry use, never used it. Presently I am a Microsoft employee) |
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