After months of wait .. my wife delivered a baby girl on November 29th and I’ve become a father. I was tensed and curious. Tensed because of the unexpected trip to the hospital due to fluid leakage and because she had chicken pox during pregnancy. Curious to know whether our new born would be a…
Fresh Engineering Graduate Training Topics
I was just thinking of starting a course for Computer Science and Electronics Engineers who have just passed out of College. The topics that I thought of covering can be split into the following sections, covering what I call the basics. Basic Networking / Internet Protocols (TCP/IP, NWLink, NetBios ) Application protocols, ports, configuring POP,SMTP,IMAP,NNTP,FTP, Routers,ADSL, dynamic DNS,WIFI…
Trip to Ernakulam
Personal Useless Stuff ; just for twitter 🙂After a long time I came to Ernakulam from Calicut by car. The intended purpose was staying with my expectant wife till delivery. The road (NH 17) seems to be very much okay when compared to the previous trips. But took a long time to reach Alwaye and…
How to show update availability for a windows program on a PHP/Drupal site ?
With the release of the new version of Jaledit, I thought of introducing a new feature to all my programs. It’s the typical check for updates. I found that Opera does something similar, where in, when the check for update menu option is clicked, a message is displayed if there are no updates. If there’s an…
FCK Editor installation problems and other notes on Import HTML module of Drupal
FCKEditor 2.5 Beta version does not work on Opera Versions below 9.5 Beta. Replacing old version of Drupal FCK results in an error (user warning: Table ‘user328_jal.fckeditor_settings’ doesn’t exist query: SELECT * FROM fckeditor_settings in D:Projectswwwsitesjal.sunish.netincludesdatabase.mysql.inc on line 172.) the error results even if upgrade script is run. The right process is to uninstall, hopefully…
GPRS Activation and Deactivation procedure for BSNL Postpaid connections
Being one of the early adopters of GPRS in Kerala, I thought I knew what’s going on with BSNL GPRS. Time and again I was proved that my knowledge is limited. I wanted to change my GPRS Plan to Plan 199 and had thought that required a letter. I had suggested to BSNL employees and…
Does the ATM/Debit Card Expire ?
Yesterday I got a new Visa ATM card for my Federal Bank Account. The expiry date is in 2017. The previous card was valid only for 3 years and the new one has a validity period of 10 years. I was told the old one will work without any problems. I tested and it indeed worked….
Paypal lets you accept money through Indian Banks
Not news anymore and I have not yet received any payments through paypal yet ,but I have a donation link at http://jal.sunish.net/donate. I decided to go through the paypal process to accept money through my ICICI bank account in Calicut. After going through the profile option and Add bank of paypal website, it was asking for…
So Why Should I have a personal domain name ?
Of course for businesses you have no choice, you got to get one for the n number of reasons that you might get on a Google search. Long time back my good old friend Shankar Subrahmanian asked me What do you do with a domain name ? So here are the pros and cons of…
Driving madness and stupidities in India
Yesterday morning I had gone to Mahe by car and I thought I’ll make a note of the usual stupidities or lack of road sense by my fellow drivers. The confusing signals given by some drivers might be helpful for foreigners driving in India. Here are the most common counter intuitive confusions and tips in…