Wednesday, August 11, 2010

*+Kashmir unrest and status of minorities+*

Northern most governed part of india is on boil again and like always we dont find any help from anyone. Year 2008 saw massive protests, infact the largest uprising after 47 in india, but why did it fizz out?? Reasons unknown!!
Year 2010
'LAck Of vision and mission'
I am really sorry if it sounds bit harsh that i am calling this movement without mission and vision, i am no scholar no historian, i am just a common kashmiri living away from his land. I am really disappointed and feel sad about the way things are shaping in kashmir. It is good to know that protests finally are not instigated but spontaneous and we do ve back up from all of india's civil society after a long long time, Do WE WANT IT TO fizz OUT LIKE 2008!!
Some may argue that 08 laid basis for what is happening today, i would slightly disagree because now every tom dick and harry knows that the phase was political which resulted in nothing but losses. This time things are different, and thats really appreciable if we can get something good out of it. ,
i am part of SGPC youth faction (it is one of the governing authorities for sikhs) and after maintaining a long spell of silence i speak. After detailed discussions with the minorities and series of meetings with people over past one month, there are certain things that we want to make clear to each and every person with stone in hand demanding freedom!
1. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE IT A COMMUNAL MOVEMENT.
I know kashmir has been the best example of religious harmony and many would even argue that the movement is not communal, it is purely movement of people, but my interaction with minority people shows a different page altogether. There are certain things that majority community will have to realise very soon if they dont want 2010 to fizz out like 08.
Homing about 8k sikhs in different parts and pandits as well as hindu's kashmir presents really good picture of religious tolerance. I feel proud that even after migration of pandits we were able to maintain our good picture in d eyes of world but now things are changing, now i wont just pick up a single hair cutting incident that raised brows around globally spread sikhs and other communities as well. .
HAIR CUTTING INCIDENT; aftermath. .
I was in direct contact with the district committee of my town baramulla when this incident occured, soon a meeting was called up in jammu to review the situation and press note was released condemning the incident and clearly mentioning that it should not affect brotherhood in valley! Then we had series of assurances coming from all sections of society including hurriyat conf. Sikhs took it as one unfortunate thing and tried to move on but then review of different sections of sikhs yielded following. .
1.Most of the sikhs in valley are beleived to be an obstacle hindering something called azadi.
True they may be because we never were protesting against hindu's or any community and i as a person never felt imprisoned there, yes there were human rights violations there still are and we protest that! The view of sikhs that they are hindrance for the cause of azadi is creating tensions which need to be eased. The meetings of sikhs with gilani or any other did not discuss this, it is an issue.
2. Sikhs have not contributed to the cause of kashmir. .
I wonder how that is true, we work for same govt as majority does. From past 3months the plight of sikhs is same as majority, all are house arrested, education has suffered equally for both.
There are points that one of the members of sgpc has gathered after his visits to twin villages of dardpora and rafiabad, they wil be made public in next post.
I on behalf of the whole sikhs community of jammu and kashmir request and urge majority community to keep the movement away from religion. Waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh

Thursday, July 29, 2010

****ENGINEERING WOES PART1****

*****ENGINEERING WOES*****
THEY SAY THE NUMBER OF SHEETS WRITTEN BY AN ENGINEER IN FOUR YEARS ARE SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO BURRY HIM WHEN HE IS GONE, LOGIC STANDS GOOD FOR BURNING AS WELL!!!
THE REASON I AM WRITING THIS MUST BE OBVIOUS BY NOW, THIS IS JUST TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS “ENGINEERING WOES”!!! BEING AN ‘ER.BABU’ IS NOT SO EASY, THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT ENGINEERING KILLS IN YOU, NOT TO MENTION OF THE TIME AND INK,THEY GO ALONG…LOL!!
I STARTED THIS JOURNEY THREE YEARS BACK NOT KNOWING IT WILL TAKE SO MUCH AWAY FROM ME AND GIVE SOMETHING THAT I MAY NEVER REALLY BE ABLE TO VALUE OR UNDERSTAND. THE LIST OF MY LOSSES IS REALLY LONG BUT THEN I TRY TO FORGET ABOUT ALL THOSE THINKING ‘EVERYTHING COMES WITH A PRICE TAG’.
IF BY NOW YOU HAVE STARTED THINKING THAT I DONT ENJOY ENGINEERING, I AM SORRY, I DO, I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT JUST FEW MONTHS BACK IN MY 3RD SEMESTER AND THIS LOVE WILL GO LONG!! NOW THAT IT HAS TAKEN AWAY ALL MY PASSIONS AWAY FROM ME, I WONT LET IT GO!!
AH I JUST STARTED WITH MY OWN STORY, LET ME COME STRAIGHT TO ‘ENGINNERING WOES’
THE DAY YOU ENTER AN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF THINKING THAT YOU WILL GO OUT AS SOMEONE WHO WILL BE RESPECTABLE IN SOCIETY, THIS FEELING CONTINUES TO DOMINATE YOU TILL YOU GET YOUR VERY FIRST SESSIONAL TEST RESULTS!!!! LOL
THEN YOU GET LITTLE ACQUIANTED WITH THE ATMOSPHERE AND START INTROSPECTING “AH WHERE WAS I WRONG, I DID EVERYTHING AS I DID IN SCHOOL, LEARNT EVERY TOPIC, CRAMMED EVERYTHING AND EVEN PASTED SAME ON THE SHEETS” INNOCENTLY BUT INTELLIGENTLY YOU GET TO KNOW ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL POLITICAL SYSTEM RUNNING WITHIN THE COLLEGE AND SUDDENLY YOU START FEELIN PROUD OF BEING BORN IN INDIA!!! YOU COME HOME TALK BACK TO YOUR BEST FRIEND AND PARENTS AND HERE IS WHAT COMES OUT “D AS ROMANS DO!!!”, AND IN YOUR HEARTS OF HEARTS YOU DECIDE YOU WILL OVERCOME THIS AND GET SOME SOLUTION, UNFORTUNATELY YOU END UP BEING PART OF THE SYSTEM AND THAT TOO ON A LEVEL WHERE THEY CALL YOU AS ‘THE PLACEMENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COLLEGE’!!!!
BEING IN SCHOOL YOU HAVE ONE GREAT HABBIT, I MEAN I ALWAYS LOVED IT WHEN I GOT UP AND WAITED FOR ALARM CLOCK TO RING, AH ITS ALL GONE NOW, I DON’T KNOW HOW IT WOULD VE BEEN IF I WAS AN RJ OR A DOC, BUT I BLAME IT ON ENGINEERING….TAKE IT FROM ME, I HAD NO SINGLE DAY IN LAST 3YRS WHEN I WAS TOTALLY FREE, I WAS ALWAYS WRITING A PAGE HERE AND PAGE THERE…. I REMEMBER SITTING WHOLE NIGHTS AND SIPPING TEA AND COFFEE AND EATING OUT HEADS OF MY FRIENDS ABOUT NO OF PAGES… NOW SEE THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING THE LOGIC HERE, I HEARD SOME TEACHER CONFESSING IT,”YU ALL ARE GONNA COPY PASTE SO ASSIGNMENT ASSESMENT WILL BE BASED ON VIVA” BELIEVE ME IF NOT FOR MY DECENT RAPORT IN COLLEGE I WANTED TO SHOUT OUT IN CLASS!! AND YOU KNOW FUNNY THING, LAST TIME MY MUM ASKED ME REASON OF BEING AN INSOMANIAC, I STARTED OUT WITH THIS THEORY BUT I KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT,”OUR BOY IS IN LOVE”…. FORGIVE ME GOD IF I AM DISRESPECTING LOVE BUT I AM NOT IN LOVE, I AM INTO ENGINEERING!!!!!!
ALL THE BEST GUYS, SESSIONAL TESTS START THIS MONDAY,THEY WILL BE ACCORDING TO THE CODES, FIRST UP 601,…..606

PART TWO WILL COME UP TO ADD TO WOES SOON

Monday, July 19, 2010

The imminent and sad demise of .net technologies!!

This topic has been quite in limelight among us all as to what is actually the better of two technologies, is it java or .net. The reason i am discussing this is cuz i stand alone in my class who has worked on java technologies and rest all had their interests in microsoft based .net. As they say the debate that air is more important or water has no relevance to fish, it is going to live in water anyway, same way with over 70% microsoft users, my points are useless.
I do not know if i am goin to regret my decision of opting for java or not but there are certain things in which java is certainly better than .net. Here i am presenting some important points with little explanation. Please do contact if any point is not clear or wrong, please do correct me, i am putting things as i ve been taught and as i ve researched a bit. . ,
THE POINTS STAND AS NAILS IN COFFIN OF .NET. . Here they are. .
1. Java applications run on multiple platforms from smallest devices to large mainframes. It runs on platforms ranging from smart cards, embedded systems, cellphones, servers(both mainframe as well as non stop)! .Net doesn, infact it is advised not to use .net applications in real time situations, they HANg UP on you like WINDOWS!
2. Java IDE'S are superior in their support for coding tasks, features like code refactoring, intention action(which .net copied and presented it as intelli sense), superior code browsing with built in code and class browser and robust automatic code completion. I wonder how many features has microsoft copied till now and added to its another new version ie beta 10VS. D argument that java copied it from .net should not arise, cuz java made that feature a part of IDE when .net was in its infancy.
3.CROSS PLATFORM INTEGRATION. . integration with other languages like perl, php or phython is achieved in java, these are not sun's creation but independent open source products so u cant present a point that they ve same creator. I can take my php script that can talk to java and run in windows and i can finally place it in linux box and ve ma work done without spending a single coin. . CAN .NET DO IT??
4. Java has retra mature and robust products that support mapping of relational data bases to objects, like top link and coco base. There is no such took in .net. And now microsoft has added something called objectspace and that too in beta, NOT MATURe enough to entrust intelligent users.
5. More deployment options with java!
There are more ways to deploy your application, like java offers you applet, webstart, x windows, midlet. What about .net? I dont know so please tell me.
6. Java applications can be compiled in one platform and run in other.
Now consider this in visual studio, .net and .net sdk ve strict user license agreement that code compiled with these cant run in non microsoft environment! Why???
I would not appreciate your views of marketing here. Lets talk engineering for God sake.
7. Java programmers and developers are ten times more in demand than .net. . You ll end up working in highly volatile environment with 10java guys and they are mad i tell u, cuz they dont drag and drop.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Suggestions and corrections are welcome!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Windows 7ultimate Vs Linux.. . Reality revealed.

The question,"who will crush whom?" finally got its answers today when i was not even looking for it.
Back there in college, me and my friends were always proud of linux as an Os, we ve had many discussions, but v really never knew details of either, linux or windows.
I remember having spent some time installing f3dora once and my friends muzamil and tyab ve had their experiences with solaris n ubuntu as well so i am not new to how linux looks like! V hd 1hr guest lecture by hp professionals about 'where windows actually stands'.
I will try to reduce the use of technical terms as much as possible. Crux of 1hr was that windows7 stands nowhere when it comes to comparison with linux giants.
Windows7 uses minwin kernel, that all windows os's use. It is no doubt way better den win vista sp1. Windows7made good friends with xp users, but what we are really seeing is that windows users are just thrilled that it is not total waste of bytes as vista was. Now our point is that just cuz windows7 saves bytes, it in no way shows in its architecture, cuz it not only looks like vista but amazingly works like it as well.
Linux trio of f3dora, ubuntu and open SUSE shows its continuing to increase performance and add new features every month. Linux remains far more secure and stable than any windows version ever was.
Windows7 has its ups like it installs easily, has simpler config, and greater availability of software support, but before u smile that it is winning, consider this, linux and its software are mindlessly easy to install, and as far as software choice is concerned, come on, linux has too many programs to choose from, you name it and you ve half dozen decent choices in linux.
On a lighter note, one point is agreeable that linux doesnt come with flashy games pre installed, i wonder how many of us play those:-)
windows7 uses power shell, thank God! Microsoft finally realised that shell is darn handy for system administrator.linux has been using power shell ever since its birth at BSD.
Finally a point that windows7 people boast off, is that it uses,UAC(user account control), no doubt it is better in 7 than vista but still 3 to 4 generations behind linux.
Windows 7is just warmed over vista, it is really nice to know that good os like vista did not go into trash and is reusable now in the form of 7.
However in spite of all this, it is fairly true that linux cant crush windows7 cuz it is married to too many people, but everyone knows linux is future of desktop.
Windows7 users are unimaginably higher than linux users but hey linux fans note that cockroaches are far numerous than humans and numbers alone do not denote higher life form. . Isnt it??
I hope i ve not offended anyone, all suggestions and comments are welcome!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Justice denied. . .1984. Unanswered questions.

Once i thought to write an article on 1984 genocide of sikhs but i have, time and again, restrained myself, as the article would forewarn the culprits because my reference to various aspects of case may lead to destruction of remaining relevant records. Here r questions, that remain unanswered.
1. Official telex msg sent at 11am on31.10.84 to embassies abroad said,"two sikh guards n clean shaven"as assasins of indira gandhi, who was clean shaven.
2.why was large no of sikh police personnel taken off duty, and sent to barracks on 31oct.
3.tytler was identifiable man who was shown on doordarshan throughout oct31 n nov1 shouting "khoon ka badla khoon"
4.what happened at meeting in PM rajiv gandhi's house on evening of oct31, who attended the meeting, where r records?
5.senior police officers were called for meeting at H.K.L Bhagat's house on late oct31, wot was purpose of meeting?
6.was any inquiry held into deployment of Dtu drivers for ferying rioters from place to place in official buses to which fact reference was made in press?
7.why did police take away even kirpans of sikhs (violating their right to defend themselves)
8.how was it that all delhi police stations adopted patiently illegal method of not recording separate reports of separate compliants but compressed all reports as a single case of riot in area?
9.when at 12.23pm on 1.11.84 a wireless msg from east dist.central police room(office of Dcp sewa das)was received by sho kalyanpuri(surbir singh) to effect that people had set gurdwara to fire, why was msg confined to sending to fire brigade and why police was not sent to arrest people roaming in curfew with petrol cans
10.in spite of details of wholesale killings of sikhs reaching highest quarters by late nov1 why no preventive measures were taken.
11.why n by whom was request of commissioner of police to call army put down n postponed.
12.why did govt officials not refute the statement made by congress leader dharam das shastri in police station, that police should not arrest the people who resorted to violence as they were not criminals but respectable persons.
13.when addl. Commissioner of police ved marwah, started inquiry into conduct of erring police officers, why was he not allowed to continue inquiry and make his report.
14.what has happened to notes of true statements made before ved marwah
15. When army units from meerut side reached borders of delhi, and it was found that unit had some companies of sikhs, they were stopped from being deployed. Who ordered this and why.
16. How is it that when their substitutes were called from elsewhere, there was no sikh unit therein? I have given here an indication so that in case of fresh inquiry, these unanswered questions be asked again and again.