Date : June 1st, 2007Category : TruthAuthor : Rakesh
The flyover is under construction. Owing to a busy Chennai – Bangalore railway crossing, construction of a flyover became imperative. The road is dug around 1.5 feet and hence the starting trip of first 300m or so from the Kadugodi (an area in Bangalore) bus stop is highly jerky. Due to this the luxurious local volvo buses have stopped coming inside the bus stop and stand on the main road itself around 500m away. That fine evening, he was waiting for the volvo to reach the central railway station. Finally, after a meager wait of around 20 minutes the bus arrived. Happily, he jumped inside and grabbed a seat. But he had failed to realize that it is going to be damn crowded. It is the peak time, when all the giant corporate employees get released from their offices and make a move to their houses. Consequently, the traffic was so intense and what could be seen around were only vehicles stuck on those huge roads without any motion. At every stop people were pouring in huge amounts. The scene inside the bus was ridiculous. Some are reading novels with their Ipods/mp3 players plugged inside the ear. At one moment he suspected whether he is in the right bus, as the ambience seemed like a long distance bus. His eyes constantly stared the wall clock hanging behind the driver’s chamber, with a thought when I am going to reach? The only thing that kept his temper and patience in the limits was the cozy environment, the pleasant music of Radio Mirchi on the air and the freezing a.c. channel right above the head. It took around three hours to complete a small distance of 30 km instead of the normal one hour and ten minutes.
Date : June 1st, 2007Category : DreamAuthor : Rakesh
She was getting late for home. It was already nine and the autorickshaws were charging 1.5 times the normal rates. Her friend Shameen was confident of getting a cab. Shameen’s father is the cab services manager, and a call to him can solve the situation. But the girls did not want to pester him and instead wait for a little more time.
Sameer, a close pal of both was adamant to drop her home. But their modesty was not allowing to do so. And after all she came all the way to this place on Sameer’s request. Sameer had to go in the opposite direction. He did not take those cabs going to his place, just to give her a company in waiting for the cab.
But before the cab could arrive, the phone had rung up and Sameer’s wonderful dream was broken. The reality is she never came to that place.
Date : June 1st, 2007Category : Cool, Crazy, code, perlAuthor : Rakesh
Last night, i had a situation. A download was running on my Windows Server 2003 machine. But i had to retire for the bed and shutdown the machine after two hours. The command line interface permits to shutdown machine till a maximum of ten minutes* delay only. Hence, i started surfing the web for some auto shutdown timer softwares. But apart from giving fancy multicolored buttons for reboot and standby, i got nothing useful. Then i came up with the following.
File – shutdown.pl
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#! /usr/bin/perl
sleep(5400); # time in seconds after which you want to shutdown.Its 5400 seconds here or 90 minutes.
system(”shutdown /s /t 00″);
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Run the program as perl shutdown.pl
And my job was done. However there might be more smarter ways to handle the situation.
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*type shutdown on windows server 2003 command prompt and read carefully
