Hit the end of the day Oct 4 2009

Just before hitting the bed

I know nothing good will come ofwriting now, neither will the punches come , nor the strokes of utter brilliance that one can see in my writing, blah blah

 

etc etc

 

my writing at 2 am might as well be the start of a new way to live.  There could be a book about how one man , at the end of his day at well past middle of the night, where Baba Ramdev has already woken up for his early morning exercises, and as well as millions of others. I am going to sleep , and before that I will write a small blog

 

nothing furnishing about the day today ,

Lakhsmi  bisarjan, went to the laketown swimming pool, actually there is a pond near it, where we did it last year too, but I don’t remember, my memory fails me, fails everyone.

 

Well, I just remember that during the Kali Pujo , I had to go deep down and immerse the goddess. Now today , all that hoopla about the Lakshmi Pujo is done, it used tobe great in Agartala I remember, with kids from so many places, so many houses nearby , so many neighbors, I don’t even remember all their names,

we would go house after house and eat the Prasad, there will be nights of fire crackers, after the Durga Pujo , during the Lakshmi and Kali Pujo days

 

I remember returning from the tuition at 10 :55 pm  one night, and I almost hit a car al bcoz of the smoke from the firecrackers all around the town,

 

Other than that, I saw the new technopolis, CCD out there in Salt Lake area. It  is quite ,  nice and cozy , the CTS guys who work there, I pity, first a low paying company and then in Kolkata, the salaries will be amongst the lowest brackets,

 

That is the story for all software guys now, the world squeezes  a dry sponge, nothing left…

Netlimiter

I searched in a lot ofplaces for  “ is there any software to find out or monitor, what is eating away my badwidth”

 

I have a tat photo+ connection and I have a limited  plan . Only 10 GB per month , for which in the Kolkata circle they are charging  1100 plus taxes. I had a big fight the last month as they had some serious customer care issues. I had asked them for a 2 GB rental plan for which I was suppsed to pay 750 plus taxes and I was told I could change the plan anytime I want, any time maaney any time, it could be “ 24 x7 x 52 “and even if that figure does not add up to a whole year, they will do it in those gaps too, these are terms they learnt from some new Americon hiphop corporate master, with hunter and a carrot, The carrot he uses to beat the employees and the hunter he uses to seduce them

 

Well, one fine morning when I asked them to change the plan they told me that, it can be changed only on the end of the billing cycle and I had to pay loads extra due to that,

 

This month I am in the 10 GB plan but my system usage in the Huwaeii Access Manager software shows that I have used up 20 GB already , this is ridiculous and way above my head, since I am using all text based i/o and ssh is a pretty secure one. I am using a dsa software on top of a VPN connection and thus having only a differtial page refresh requests, something which should not manifold into GBs fo usage.

 

Some one must be making my machine a peer 2 peer victim. I don’t know, I tried to search online for things such  “ network monitor, some paid versions and some upaid”

there were softwares like, BMExtreme, which will only act as a scolding device and notify you , but nothing of the sorts that will let you know what is eating everything up

 

I ran the services.msc to see what all services are there, stopped the telnet service, stopped the ftp , using net stop msftpsvc

for that is the windows command line to stop the ftp server, but that was still not the issue

I tried to install  RTPG software ,that will graphically show you all the different services that using up your bandwidth but to understand the interface I might had to spend the whole day Sunday today to figure the different tiny things in it

 

Finally I downloaded this Netlimiter, too good, maaney too Good ( Russell Peter style )

I saw that smc.exe the Symantec anti virus software is what is causing the problem. put the access settings to denies, killed all its connection and now my packet usage dropped, astonishingly to nothing, I am almost back to the stone age,

Till today morning I was afraid to go online and work , but now I am confident that even if I keep thing online all night, by mistake too, the downloaded thing will be 10 MB over the whole night,

thanks to the netlimiter,

 

I mark it as 10/10

Lakshmi Pujo 2009

This si Oct 2, 2009, I am sitting in my work desk here in Kolkata, it is 6:16 PM

I have broken something in the office ( maaney software , ) where virtually you can make or break hundreds of things almost seamlessly.

 

Anyways, I am now working on some benchmark or big design failures. One took about an week to fix, if 1/52 of a year I take to fix just one issue, that is very costly, I cannot keep doing it, we need to be solvers, who can make things done

 

I have started to believe that some people are superior and that, all the five fingers are not same, similarly we need to understand what goes correct for me may not work out for someone else, and sometimes, may be I am the weaker one and there are stronger out there.

All these books about regenerating the power within, can put you may be on a more optimized or stronger you , but in view of the current talents that I face almost everyday in office, I stand far behind, and in the time that I will take to  beat their current form they would move steps ahead,

 

the whole process of software development and issues with it, is that, you got to know a lot of stuff, and with huge experience can you take decisions that make a change, when the field was new, one could take decision quickly, since there were no precedence and good software was unavailable

 

the major softwares that were in working and popular mode where the gnu tools and the dos based applications, where basic coding was pretty easy said and done, but any time you tried something  advanced, you will go crashing with core file eating your disk space.

 

That was true about our very own GDB too,

Anyways, since I put a starting heading called the Lakshmi Pujo, all of Kolkata is now in the mood to do the pujas tomorrow, get hold of a priest to do it, the yagna , arrangements, the evening shoppings, the marketing for a good looking idol, the plans for food tomorrow, the Oct 3 2009, where we will do it

 

it was an week ago , that I think we were looking forward for the Saptami evening and now we are gone, sailing through the last week, I did not as much as feel a  heart beat in this whole week,

 

It is raining today , the weather department always in fear of a back lash will predict, that the next festival day we will have the rains, so that no one comes back and says,

“apnaar ki kortey bosey Aachen ? ain ?”

 

 

Still all said and gone, we are going through a time warp and I believe that is true,

kaash my days went a bit longer, I no longer want a 24 hour day in the current state of affairs , I would happily take a 48 day and sleep over it