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So this is how they keep the uptime of Flight Information Display Systems (FIDS) at Indira Gandhi International Airport at 99.9%, a quick restore from a Notron Ghost image of a Windows XP install. Takes around 10-15 minutes if the technician is around. For 99.9% uptime you can afford approximately 8.8 Hours of downtime an year, i.e 35 reinstalls per year for a reinstall process of 15 minutes or one reinstall of Windows XP every 10 days, good enough, Windows XP can survive for atleast 10 days :-).

Finally another server for my old website, thanks to someone dear to me in UK. This time the hosting company is godaddy.com. And as I am using drupal as the CMS for my website, had a little nasty surprise on godaddy hosting. Clean URLs stopped working and server displayed a friendly 500 Internal Server Error with the following in the error log

mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase the limit if neccessary.

The subject cited quote is easier said than done for various reasons. Maybe we believe others may not want to hear it, maybe we want to play it safe, maybe we fear rejection, maybe it is fear of being persecuted. We are afraid. We may not even fully understand the reason for our fear but we may think that it is easier to play it safe.

There is another way around "half-truth", we can dilute our words and not risk as much. But would that be truth? As Gandhi Ji once said, "What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the voice within tells you. How then, you ask, [do] different people think of different and contrary truths? Well, seeing that the human mind works through innumerable media and that the evolution of the human mind is not the same for all, it follows that what may be truth for one may be untruth for another…"

This friday 15th June 2007, was my last day at BBSBEC, farewell dear college. I have been at BBSBEC for more than 10 years, first as a student then as a faculty. But again it is not over I will always consider myself to be part of BBSBEC.

Now the new job from Monday 18th June 2007, hope it would be as much fun.

UPDATE: 18 May 2007, the camera is off-line now. See the last image from the camera below, before it was dismantled.

This is inside our RnD lab, you can see me and a number of other fellows here usually from 0830 to around 1800 Hrs IST Mon to Fri and sometimes on Saturday and Sunday also. This cam is available I don't know till when, so enjoy the show.

I am the supreme nerd GOD.

and this is what has been said for me

• 3% scored higher (more nerdy),
• 0% scored the same, and
• 97% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is: All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!

My homepage ajaypal.com has been moved, from my locally managed server (for the organisation where I am still working, maybe till next month) to a commercially managed server (some where in US I guess), with effect from 14th April 2007 00:00 Hours.

With the expected change in my job, in the coming days, I believe I won't be able to dedicate time for management of this server.

My best wishes and greeting to you for the new year 2007. May this new year bring you happiness, joys and .... (the usual greetings follow). BTW do consider buying me one of these as a new year gift (In my own order of preference):

• Micro Client Jr.
• Neuros OSD

Ek Anek Aur Ekta (ऐक अनेक और ऐकता) a nice video, reminds me of old times.

Hmmm... I guess the following pictures are worth my 50 (or so words). See and admire **Test** reporting on Yahoo News (India) with a request to "Please Ignore" as seen on Dec 10, 2004 8:20PM.