This sunday (yesterday), me and RJ (a classmate of mine working in Infosys) went to Nandhi Hills for a small trip. We started from Bangalore (BTM Layout) at 10:30 am. Here is the direction to go there. Take the Hyderabad/Mysore/Tumkur road. There will be a diversion ahead which splits the road to Hyderabad/Mysore and Tumkur. Take the Tumkur road and proceed. Roughly after 35 km, you will see a diversion in the left leading to Nandhi Hills which is at 22 km from that point.
It is from this point where my problems brew. The road was very bad at many points. When we just started climbing from the base, my bike screwed up. The back tyre was punctured. I always have my toolkit in the bike. So, I removed the back wheel and took it for fixing it up. Luckily I found a shop in about one and half kilometers away. After getting it up fixed, I assembled the wheel and we started to climb again.
A two wheeler parking fee of INR. 25 is collected and the entrance fee was INR. 3 per head. This place has some good spots to visit. But don’t go with great anticipation. Not a very special place, IMHO. Plastic pollution is very high in this place. Some serious action is needed to control this. We treked, visited some spots, had our lunch (at 4:30 pm ;-)) there and then descended. The uptrip read 91 km in my tripmeter and after the downtrip the same read 170 km. I am not sure if this is accurate.
Let me tell you that a two wheeler drive at this point in time is not very pleasent, because there is a lot of road construction going on in the Tumkur road and it is full of dust. Suitable gears are advised if you want to take a bike trip.
In your cellar there are three light switches in the OFF position. Each switch controls 1 of 3 light bulbs on floor above. You may move any of the switches but you may only go upstairs to inspect the bulbs one time. How can you determine the switch for each bulb with one inspection??
Cisco on friday announced that it would buy Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion. So, this will be the second largest acquisition ever made by Cisco. This acquisition will help them to enter home entertainment segment. But IMHO, I don’t feel that there is going to be a good ROI worth the price of acquistion. Market sentiments also seems to be same. Read more about it here.
There are no tricks - this is a straight forward problem. This is supposed to be one of the questions which potential Microsoft employees are asked.
U2 have a concert that starts in 17 minutes and they must all cross a bridge to get there. All four men begin on the same side of the bridge. You must help them across to the other side. It is night. There is one flashlight.
A maximum of two people can cross at one time. Any party that crosses the bridge, either 1 or 2 people, must have the flashlight with them. The flashlight must be carried back and forth, it cannot be thrown, etc. Each band member walks at a different speed. A pair must walk together at the rate of the slower man’s pace:
* Bono: - 1 minute to cross
* Edge: - 2 minutes to cross
* Adam: - 5 minutes to cross
* Larry: - 10 minutes to cross
For example: if Bono and Larry walk across first, 10 minutes have elapsed by the time they get to the other side of the bridge. If Larry then returns with the flashlight, a total of 20 minutes have passed and you have failed the mission.
There is no trick to this. It is a simple movement of resources in the appropriate order. There are two known answers to this problem. Microsoft expects you to answer this question in under 5 minutes!
I have spent more time to prepare the solution for this problem compared to the time I took to solve it. This is one damn case where a lot of problems with formatting. Hence I am not able to post it as a comment. So, I am posting it as a seperate post. Please bear with the inconvenience.
9: The Norwegian lives in the first house
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The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays, exams, and class room discussions; most were from fifth- and sixth-graders. They illustrate Mark Twain’s contention that the “most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
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Google has launched yet another service known as Google Analytics. This service is used for monitoring the traffic of a website. If one has a Google account, he can signup for this service, all for free. One can have multiple sites linked with a given account. The interface between Analytics and your site is a clean Javascript based like anyother tracking services. But you can expect more professionality in the service as it comes from Google. It can also be used from the Adwords control panel. This will serve a good oppurtunity for the bloggers to get a clear picture on their visitors and will help them in increasing their revenue from Adwords.
It was quite shocking when I saw the news that Eddie was found dead in the hotel room he was staying on November 13th morning. Seems that one more toll added for drug abuse and WWE risks. Eddie was a unique man of his kind. He had the power to make people smile. The place of Eddie is defintely infillable whatsoever. I couldn’t resist a drop of tear when I saw the Eddies’s rememberance edition of Smack Down. We will miss you Eddie. Let the heaven taste some “Latino Heat”!
Today is my last day at Novell. It was nice working with Novell on an open source project for the last 6 months. It is so unfortunate to leave Novell now, but I didn’t have options. Will defintely miss all the fun that I had in the Evolution team.
There were a good amount of learnings in terms of knowledge and values in these six months. It was a mutually rewarding oppurtunity.
Working with the Evolution Exchange connector had its own challenges when it comes to either new features or bug fixes. During this six months, I have a done a couple of good features namely folder hierarchy for Calendar, Task and Addressbook, migration of delegation assistant and change password functionalities into plugin and reorganizing the Exchange Account Setup plugin to include more features and renaming it to Exchange Operations plugin. There were some crucial bug fixes as well. Eventhough I like to contribute to Evolution in the future, I might not be able to contribute much to the connector as I may not have access to any Exchange server setup for testing.
We have shot some photos on the last day and I have uploaded them to Flickr.
Update: I am joining Sun Microsystems shortly. No worries 
The following are the FM Radio channels available in Bangalore.
- 91.0 MHz - Radio City
- 101.3 MHz - Rainbow FM
- 102.9 MHz - Unknown
PS: Please add if you find missing stations.
