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First post from my mobile phone - fly b340 ds

2010-03-31T23:01:00.001+05:30

This is my first blog post from my phone, fly b340 ds. The blogger page showed up pretty decent in Opera mini. The Airtel mobile office has been giving me decent speed for a GPRS connection. Although I have not been able to use my fly b340 ds as a modem to browse from my pc.After multiple calls to airtel cust care i have lost hopes as they said that fly is not a guaranteed model for using GPRS. My only hope was the Fly customer care. But the number provided in their website is an invalid one.

Gmail Filters

2010-03-30T01:41:00.002+05:30

My Gmail account was in a big mess full of spam messages and Orkut messages. I was desperately looking for a way to filter out all the Internet job related spam emails that I have been receiving from multiple email addresses. Gmail Filters was the perfect solution for my problem.

What is a Gmail Filter

A Filter is a condition/Set of Conditions that is configured based on which the emails are going to be filtered. And also gmail filters gives you the flexibilty to decide as to what needs to be done with those messages.

Following are the steps that I had followed to configure a filter.

Step 1:- Identify the filter criteria. In my case I had to filter out all the messages that had the text "Internet workers" subject.

Step 2 :- Go to Gmail --> Setings (top right corner of the main page)

Step 3:- In the Settings page go to Filters tab.

Step 4:- Click on Create a New Filter.In the next page enter the criteria based on which the messages need to be filtered. In this case I have entered the text "Internet workers. Earn" in the "Has the words" section. Once this is entered, click on Test search to get the list of messages in Inbox that satisfy the filter criteria.

Step 5:- Once the list of messages are displayed, click on Next Step to select the action to be performed with the messages filtered by Gmail filter.

Step 6: - In the next page we can choose the action to be performed on the filtered message. I am chosing to delete the message from Inbox. Please note that filter will be active for the messages that will be received after creating the Gmail filter. To apply the Gmail filter to the emails currently in the Inbox, select the checkbox that says "Also apply filter to xx conversations below" Click on Update filter.

Now the filter will be applied to all the messages that arrive in the Inbox.The Gmail filters are very similar to the Rules and Alerts feature in Microsoft Outlook. For more details on Gmail filters Visit the below links

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6579

GPRS Settings for Fly Circle B340 DS

2010-03-28T10:56:00.000+05:30

Fly circle mobile comes pre-loaded with the GPRS settings of most of the service providers. I was able to browse using my idea gprs connection. But if you are going for airtel mobile office,then we need to configure the settings manually.

AS400 or the Sytem I

2010-03-17T23:48:00.001+05:30

This post is about the computing server platform called as AS400. I have been working on this for last 3.5 years and decided to come up with a post about this.Also I am planning to start an AS400 tutorial series.

AS400 or the System I

AS400 also known as the System I is a powerful midrange computing system from IBM. Initially when this was introduced way back in 1987 it was called the AS400. Later it was renamed as the eServer i Series in 2000 .IBM was not yet done with the naming that they finally gave its name System I as part of the Systems Branding Initiative in 2006.

Features

The IBM System i platform extended the System/38 architecture of an object-based system with an integrated DB2 relational database. The IBM System i includes an extensive library-based operating system, i5/OS, and is also capable of supporting multiple instances of AIX, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

Programming

Programming languages available for the AS/400 include RPG, assembly language, C, C++, Pascal, Java, EGL, Perl, Smalltalk, COBOL, SQL, BASIC, PHP, PL/I, Python and REXX. Several CASE tools are available: AllFusion Plex (see *Plex Wiki), ADELIA, Synon, AS/SET, IBM Rational Business Developer Extension, LANSA and ProGen Plus. The IBM System i fully supports the Java language, including a 32-bit Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and a 64-bit JVM.

Left Outer Join Issue

2010-03-17T01:32:00.001+05:30

This is a post in continuation of my previous post where I had described an issue I had faced with Outer join. And the solution that I had mentioned at the end of it was not correct. In fact the query that I had put in was also incomplete. Following line describes the issue and the solution. Consider two tables

Employee -

Employee (Number) - (10 distinct records)
Department (Char)

Manager -

Employee Number (Char) - (3 records matching with TableA)
Employee Name(Char)
Manager (char)

Requirement:- Select the list of all employee numbers,Employee Name. For normal employees, employee name can be blanks while for managers select the correct name from Manager table.

I wrote the following query to achieve the same using a Left Outer Join.

Select A.EmpNo,ifnull(B.EmpName,' ') from Employee A Left Outer Join

Manager B On A.EmpNo = B.EmpNo Where B.IsManager = 'Y'

This query should ideally return 10 records since a Left Outer Join is done. But here
the query would return only 8 records i.e. it would function like an Inner Join.

Why:- Here the where condition is applied on the Joined table. Since for the mis- matching rows the value is null, the where condition would fail hence that row would be omitted. Here is an alternate solution

Select A.EmpNo,ifnull(B.EmpName,' ') from Employee A Left Outer Join

(Select * From Manager Where IsManager = 'Y') B On A.EmpNo = B.EmpNo

This would work as there is no where condition applied on the null columns.

Thanks Lynne Roll and all other System i Network users for this piece of learning.

Click here to go to the System i Network thread. ; Forum Post

Fly Circle B340 DS User review

2010-03-17T00:31:00.003+05:30

I had brought this phone for 3450/- this week and with what I have seen Its absolutely worth the price.

Delights

The looks are really good and the navigation and the menus are also good.
The social networking features are impressive although I was not able to get Nimbuzz run on this.
Tried Snaptu and Opera Mini with IDEA GPRS and they are just working fine except for low connection speeds at times.
Got GoTalkMobile (GTALK for mobile) installed and is working real good.
Was able to use the webcam feature with Skype
Bluetooth is just fine with good speed.
Security settings look impressive although I am about to test them
Audio quality is ok.

Buggings..

The Nimbuzz issue with IDEA GPRS is still bugging me.
Had issues with using mobile as webcam with Yahoomessenger which kept crashing.

Are you a Fly Circle B340 DS User??

2010-03-17T00:30:00.000+05:30

This post just for all the new Fly cirle users.

Are you facing issues with your pc not detecting the memmory in the phone?

Fly provides its own set of drivers for USB data cable downloadable from Fly mobile web site A soft copy of the user manual is also available for download here.

Publish Post

Some useful web site links

Nimbuzz blog talking about Fly Circle
Orkut community on Fly Circle

My Nature Photography

2009-08-23T19:28:00.000+05:30

Hectic Day.

2009-03-24T00:22:00.003+05:30

It has been a hectic day at office with deadlines to meet. Finally managed to complete the bigger piece and deliver it. Life seems to be drifting like a boat away from one island to another.I am yet to find the destination so that atlease I can keep or shift the focus.

I'm back

2007-08-14T18:42:00.001+05:30

I'm back after a long period of time. I know it has been a very long gap but even know i don't have much to write. So I think let me end it with a quote

" Dreams are not what you see while in sleep.

But they are those that wont let you sleep.. "

- Abdul Kalam

So thats it for now.. I'm feeling sleepy..

At l a s t we are meeting again....

2007-04-05T08:49:00.000+05:30

When I thought of writing this post the first thing that came to my mind is Saif Ali khans dialogue in HUMTUM.....He says "Zindagi bahuth lambhi hai......."

May that big life is taking us once again to our college...... Its a get together but donno how many will get a chance to be together..... Any way i'm hoping for the best.....
To see some of those faces.........

I'm BAck....

2007-02-26T11:08:00.000+05:30

At last I'm back....Now that i hav been posted to the great capital city of trivandrum.. I feel happy... ?????!!!! may be happy that i'm back to my state.. n happy bcos i can have some real kerala food... n at last but not at the least some real goood malayalam movies as well.....

k c u there in tvm....

News!!!!!!!!!!

2007-02-23T10:38:00.000+05:30

What do u call a News ??? Is it something which you say you dont know and some body else say they are the first to know it??????

May be yess.....

But it was much more when it came to the SSLC model exams in kerala....When i heard that there is some news about the SSLC exams I thought it would be about the toughness of the paper.
The NEWS was so interesting as the Exam question paper was itself the news..
Poor students who had a very bad habit of not reading papers had a tough time as their friends were reading their question papers in the morning instead of the morning NewsPaper.....

So their goes the secrecy and privacy of the kerala SSLC exams........

So dear friends before u sacrifice ur sleep for the next days exam.....

DO LISTEN TO THE NEWS BECAUSE NEWS IS SOME THING THAT U DON'T KNOW BUT OTHERS KNOW...

DONT BE A FOOL.............

IN INFY

2007-02-23T10:13:00.000+05:30

It has been a long gap since i made the previous post...
Life in infy as a trainee was a very busy one. And now that is over i'm again in this blogosphere to shout n yell at the world.
Now..... being a software engineer it is different the way u luk at things and the way peole luk at u......
So now i'm ready to jump in to that beautiful fantasy of being a software engineer..
Catch u up at the other end of the dream............

I'm an Infoscion

2006-10-23T21:34:00.000+05:30

Life seems to have changed over night the day I joined the indian MNC. It has been totally stunning first week for me here.I'm sure most of us are dumbstruck by the facilities Infy has to offer us..

I'm taking my practice sessions to stay awake as coming are the days with sleepless nights.......

It takes something to be at the Infy MYSORE campus.....

Life is like that!!!!!!!!

2006-09-23T12:26:00.001+05:30

life is like that is a great comment to make when u feel yourself unhappy or when u feel yourself defeated. But i felt that using such a comment in one's life in any part of one's life is cowardness. rather cowards use it!
What do u think?????
I think it is not so because i dont want to be called a coward!!!!!!!!

because u dont wanna make urself down while the whole world will try to take u low till the ground level. It is the spirit to fight back

Because " LIFE IS LIKE THAT "

orkut - the future of spamming?

2006-09-19T12:42:00.000+05:30

I had early written in my blog that the orkut is gonna be a new edition in social networking. That was when i entered it.Now being even a passive user of it my mailbox spam is filled with messages frm orkut.

starting from appeals to save diseased children to save your own profile at orkut by simply forwarding a amessage which warns everybody of the same. orkut is now a wonderful spam machine....

hope it hurts for orkutians.............

it includes me also..............

I beleieve the goggles of google is watching it n we wil soon have a solution....

and agin we can say happy orkutiing.........

Life Rocks

2006-07-10T13:05:00.000+05:30

Life really rocks after the college life. It has been a strange exp after the college days. days are realy crawling in front of my eyes. The speed and splendor seems to have left so silently.it is a hard realisation that life really rock which u realise only after it has passed by.................

orkut - the future of social networking

2006-05-23T11:50:00.000+05:30

The term social networking looked strange to me before i joined orkut. but now i really know and feel the power of it. At orkut once you become a member you have a lot of communities on any topic under the sun. Once you become a part of orkut, your friends network will grow even with out your knowledge.Thats the power of orkut....

Internet does make friends than break....

career swings - who failed out last?

2006-05-17T16:37:00.000+05:30

At last everything is going to be over my exams will be over by next month and then i willl be joining my job which i had secured through a campus placements.I am one of those gifted with the valuble gift of a campus placement. I t is not so easy to get one but in fact it wasn't

but i'm going to an industry which is something much far away from my degree. but that doesn't matter. as far as i can learn new things easily and grab them with ease i'm gonna be yet another successful sof engg.

i'm feelin happy abt myself as i could get a job but i dont know whether i will be happy after an year or so ??????????

The campus placements are increasing tremendously much faster than the no:of campuses itself. but the placements are only towards the IT industry itself.

But does it mean that the professional colleges have succeeded in making their products ( engineers) a marketable commodity?

Whatever may be the fact they claim so !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now letus stop talking about career ladders and start talking about CARRER SWINGS.

but the question remains WHO FAILED OUT LAST ????????????????????????????????

The movie that shook me up - achanurangatha veedu

2006-05-17T15:30:00.000+05:30

hey for those who love kerala and malayalam movies watch the movie achanurangatha veedu-u 'll lose if dont watch it out.

I feel that it is a movie of numerous hidden messages. I personally saw the movie with my friends.I felt bad when my friends expressed bad abt the movie.
The movie is still resting in my heart as a pain.I felt guilty of my consciousness but i couldn't find why?

The movie also depicts the typical kerala scenario where relationships are getting much thinner among friends as well as family members which diverts the mind in to other extreme thoughts.

I believe it is amovie that every teenager and every youth of kerala should watch to enlighten one 's consciousness about the hidden animal inside the all innocent malayalee.

hats off to all who thought of making such a movie.....

Is internet making friendships or breakin????

2006-03-23T18:47:00.000+05:30

Its true that through that we make a lot of friends on the net throug penpals and other sites. But don't u feel that the time that we spent with our friends is much less . I feel that cyber friends have a wave of uncertainity swinging b/n them as they still can't be 100% sure of each others identity.So i believe real life friends are much better..

what was the worlds first hobby?

2005-12-06T12:18:00.000+05:30

there are a lot of hobbies that we all know and have?/?? but what would have been the first hobby that shook the world??????