Three weeks back, I bought a brand new DVD player, Onida DFX-7410.  Using AV1 port(RCA), I connected the DVD player to TV(SAMSUNG CS21M50MEELXTL) and when a DVD was played, everything was perfect, except for the color. The color was flickering.

At first, I give my thought, over the probable causes of this fault. It has to be one of the following.

1. Faulty DVD Disc
   This was ruled out,when I tried with several other DVD Discs. All the DVDs faces the same pattern of color Flicker.
2. Faulty Video Cable / AV Port of DVD Player
   This again was ruled out, when I took the DVD player to my neighbour’s home and played the DVD. There, the picture is fine without any color flicker.
3. Faulty AV Port of TV
   This was the last one in the list, I doubted on this, as the TV was 2-3 years old.
   The TV has 3 AV Ports: AV1, AV2 and Alternate RCA port for AV1. I tried connecting the AV cable to each of the three RCA ports, the same color flicker issue persists. So, I assumed the common circuit for all the AV port needs servicing.
   But this cause was ruled out when I connected my Camera Sony Cybershot DSC W300 to the TV using AV1 port, the Picture is brilliantly clear.
4. What’s that? Its DVD Format (NTSC/PAL)
   So there is something, that causes the issue when the DVD player is connected to the Samsung TV.

   Today, I googled to check about cause of the TV color flicker, I came to the yahoo Answers. Immediately, I switched on the DVD player/TV. I was looking for NTSC/PAL in TV/DVD Player ‘Settings”. I couldn’t find any option in TV, but in DVD player, there is a dedicated button ‘N/P’. I toggled it from PAL to NTSC, that resolves color flicker issue.

   So What really happened was,
   DVD Disc that I have played is of Format NTSC, while my TV is PAL one. My DVD Player needs to be set as NTSC to read the NTSC disc and convert the video to PAL so that my TV can understand.
   In the case of my nieghbour, His TV is an pseudo Systems, it can automatically handle PAL/NTSC, that explains why it worked in his home without setting up NTSC mode.

   Though India is the country where PAL is the Defacto standard, It doesn’t matter when it comes to DVDs. What really matters is that DVD format NTSC/PAL and DVD Region codes.

Check this out for more reference.
http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Articles/PALvsNTSC/PALvsNTSC.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

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English is such an alien Language, by then, I was standing outside the corridor of an Auditorium at around 8:00 PM. In another 5 minutes, I have to give a speech on Pollution Control, the topic that just popped in the mind of the NCC Officer, a minute back.

My Name is Arun, first Year engineering Student, a NCC (Navy) Cadet.  I have been wondering what to say about  “Pollution Control”? Its not that difficult topic to speak about. But my  mind doesn’t go beyond the first line.  ” Pollution can be classified as Air  Pollution, Land Pollution and Water Pollution. And Pollution.. “. Many words are appearing in mind, but none of them falling together as a sentence.

I have heard lot of times, ” English is just a language of communication “, and I know it by heart, but somehow I believed that English is a flawless language and everything in it is facts,  scientific & perfect.  This belief is blocking my words to form a sentence with the grammatical rules. ( Anyway, now, I am breaking this paradigm, in this blog )

I was praying to God,  for the last ten days, this moment should not come. Yes,  Ten days back, We started playing this game in our NCC Camp @ Naval College Of Engineering, Lonavala, Everyday, between 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Our own NCC Officer will say a topic to a cadet and the cadet has to come with as speech in five minutes. The Main objective is to enable everyone to overcome the stage fear, i.e., the fear of the unknown.

Having my name starts with ‘A’, I was very lucky, because the game is started in the descending order.  So, on the first day, I made some calculations and as per my calculations, I am not going to take seminar in this camp next 10 days, as only 60 students can take seminar in ten days while i am 96th person. But my happiness doesn’t lost for long, as on some days, this game was played for more than two hours.

Finally, I am here. the last minute has already started ticking. I was trying to defrost my excitement so that I can have a clear thought on the topic, but not of any use. Now I understand, how it feels like, being under pressure.

I remember on the 3rd or 4th day,  My Friend, Guru has given the speech. While he was elaborating his topic, he has used the repetitive word ‘I Mean’ several times. And at the end of his speech, Almost everyone of us had a laughter, when the Judge announced, that he used the filler word for 94 times.

Now I realize, he is far far better than me ( Feeling guilty!! ). The clock has finally stopped at five minutes. I stepped inside the auditorium and walked straight to Chief Officer. I said ” Good Evening Sir. I am going to speak on the topic ‘Pollution Control’, Can I have your permission, Sir?’, that’s most obvious question, for which he nodded. I turned towards the audience. There I am,  looking at my friends and the girl who I wanted to impress ( In fact, Infatuation !!).  I said

‘Pollution can be classified as Air  Pollution, Land Pollution and Water Pollution. Air Pollution is the pollution that is caused on Air. Air Pollution is…..!!!!@@@@@????%%%####’.

I was staring at the audience, not knowing what to do and what to say. After a long pause, the NCC Officer helped me, and let me go to my seat, that’s a graceful exit.

On a lighter note, Just tell me, What can a Tiger do, if its available for 4 Rs ? that’s a healthy snacks. right?

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Information Security is crucial for any organization. No one can deny that. But for that, blaming it on Mobile Camera, is definitely a laughter in the current scenario. But It doesn’t make me smile.   From its inception, I have been fancied on Mobiles. My Mobile Favs,  always confines with in Nokia and it goes on as 3310 -> 2100 -> 6630 -> N80, with latest on the list being 5130, Xpress Music Phone features a Camera. So now, I have to find a mobile without camera, without being a loser in features and to meet the business ethics. My Search Begins, with blackberry, Nokia E Series etc, But Unfortunately, these high end mobiles have already discontinued their Camera Less Version.  After several googles of Search, I finally come down to Nokia 2323,  priced at 2300 INR.

What it has : GPRS, Built In Memory 10 MB , Blue Tooth, Mp3 Tones, Radio, Music Player
What it doesnt have : Camera, GPS, 3G, Expandable Memory.
Its unreasonable to expect such features for now at such a price, but soon it would be viable.
This is the best entry level mobile camera that has GPRS.

For Detailed Feature List -> Check Out  GSM Arena

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திரைக்கு வந்து சில மாதங்களே ஆன, மாயாண்டி குடும்பத்தார் திரைப்படத்தை இன்று சன் தொலைக்காட்சியில் கண்டேன். சிறப்பான படம். அருமையான கிராமியக் கதை. முதல் முறையாக இந்த படத்தின் திரை முன்னோட்டத்தை காணும் போது, அதில் இருந்த அடிதடி காட்சிகளும் அதட்டல் காட்சிகளும், என்னை இந்த திரைப்படத்தின் மீது ஒருவித அருவெறுப்பை உண்டாக்கியது, என்றாலும், அதன்பின் தொலைக்காட்சியில் வந்த திரை மின்னல்கள், சிரிப்புகாட்சிகள், முதலில் எனக்குள் தொன்றிய எண்ணத்தை மாற்றியது. தற்போது வெளிவந்த ரேணிகுண்டா திரைப்படமும், மாயாண்டி குடும்பத்தார் படத்தை போல் முதலில் வந்த திரை முன்னோட்டமும், அதன் பின் வந்த திரைக்காட்சிகளும், முரண்பாடாக அமைந்திருந்தது. இரண்டறை மணி நேர படத்திற்கு கொடுக்கும் உழைப்பையும் முக்கியத்துவத்தையும், இரண்டு நொடி திரை மின்னோட்டத்திற்கும் கொடுத்தால், அது திரைப்படத்திற்கு பக்கபலமாக அமையும் என்பதை திரைப்படத்தின் இயக்குனர்கள் மற்றும் தயாரிப்பாளர்கள் கவனிப்பார்களா? திரை முன்னோட்டத்தில் வரும் முரண்பாட்டை தவிர்ப்பார்களா?

மாயாண்டி குடும்பத்தார் : –

ரேணிகுண்டா :-

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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is now available for free to try. Download Here.

It has got whole lot of new features. Check out the top ten benefits of it.

Two weeks back, I downloaded the beta software, after registering for Windows Live account. And, Office 2010, it’s simply cool, definitely a level up. Now, I am publishing this blog from Microsoft Word 2010 beta. This Beta software has its own annoying features. So, Download and Install only if you can take that risk.

Warm wishes for Microsoft!!

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There is no wonder, If Coke, and Pepsi co, opens a water bottling plant in Moon and that’s the direction on which the humans were all upto.
but For now, Be Cautious, Save Water.. water is so precious..

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On Sunday, I visited Mozillazine, after a very long time, and I was surprised to know that Firefox 3.5 has been released. While Ididn’t notice any change in my firefox. Looking at the features of Firefox 3.5, I checked my version of Firefox, its 3.0.5. Oh My God! Auto Upgrade Option has to be off, I thought. I went to Tools->Options->Advanced->Update to check the Auto Update option, to my surprise, it’s already on.

I was clueless on what went wrong. I tried running the help->upgrade option for the third time. Its all failure, the funnier part of the error is that the upgrade runs fine, and on completion on upgrade, it prompts for restarting Firefox as if the update is completed successfully, but after restarting Firefox, the browser starts again on 3.0.5.

Moreover, Firefox supports auto upgrade only in linear fashion, i.e., it progress from 3.0.5 to 3.0.11 to 3.5, so i have to reach 3.0.11, before go to 3.5.

As I have no solution for this mysterious error, I assumed that some extension might have corrupted the Firefox. So, as per my precognition, I went on to the next step of uninstalling firefox 3.0.5 and installed the freshly downloaded Firefox 3.5.

Before I could celebrate the success in the Firefox 3.5, installation of extensions keeps failing. On analysis with the help of Google, I find that there were registry entries one of Extension “PC2Synchronisation” has been corrupt in my Firefox which causes the Firefox to fail in all extension upgrade.  So I manually deleted this extension in Windows Registry (Regedit32)

Voila! My Celebration has begin with Firefox 3.5. Now, its Fast-Forward on to Internet.

Well! thats a day debugging on the Firefox 3.5 Upgrade

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Is this life Meaninful?   Seriously, I really don’t know the answer to this question..

Once I had a thought that, To make Life Meaningful, one has to spend some of his time with his family and Friends.While my friend’s thought says, “Spend some of your Salary, it can change the world of a Child, and that makes life beautiful”

Definition of life changes from person to person, time to time and situation to situation. As I say  this, I like to quote the lines from my friends.

Its My Friend Karthik, he finds the meaning of life in the job he does, the words “I feel software job is grt n filled my life with grt meaning” brings out the pride in his job.

Taking the view of my school Friend SriRam, for him “The life provides a lot of opportunity to learn. It has no meaning but dictates us to live” thereby he denies the existence of meaning for life.

Having heard the quotations of life, I leave the conclusion to the readers to decide, What do you think? is this life meaningful?

This blog is based on the mail which I have written a four years back

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May Day, is always a special for Labours, as its celebration for  International Worker’s Day. It was in 1886, in Chicago, Labours called for a strike to make work day as eight hours, which previously varies from 10 to 12 hours. The strike got its ignition when several workers were shot by the Chicago Police. The loss of lives has got its meaning when the strike succeeds. This Success has then spread across the world as Eight Hour work day.

Ok, Thats the history. Now, Lets come down to reality, The Economic Downturn, has forced all companies from east to west, to start extract their max output from the labour (having lay off as an Weapon), and worker was no more bonded to Eight hours myth. Companies which had a formal 8 hour policies, extends it by various loopholes around the policies & focussing more on deliveries. 

Though the essence of May Day is completely lost, except for the holiday to spare, Lets take a minute to remember those who has given their life for us to live happily and work effectively.

Ref : Siruvar Malar, Anantha Vikatan, WikiPedia

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“What is the best solution?” “What can be the alternative solution to go around this issue?” this sort of questions would be quite common in everywhere. Two days back, there occurs a situation, where I confronted with this question. It is when my web page displays “Error establishing a database connection” in a white page with the black letters.

Having experienced the free web hosting for two years, I have joined ixwebhosting.com six months back. Its the best paid web hosting with wonderful size of bandwidth/storage space.But While blogging on my previous post “Ayan“, I have been knocking this error message “Error establishing a database connection”. This wordpress error message is quiet evident that mysql server is gone down or has got some issues.

I was well aware of this message as this is common in free hosting services such as 110mb.com, kwikphp.com and sometimes even in awardspace.com. But, when I see the similar error in ixwebhosting.com, I couldnot tolerate, as this is paid web hosting where it is not acceptable to have this error even for a second, but it occurred to me for more than half an hour.

After a half an hour wait, I raised an ticket in ixwebhosting help center and I could see the web site coming back after 15 minutes.

Though this shows the unreliability of the service, we have to accept that these all programs which can go wrong anywhere, anytime and paid web hosting is no exception. However, I would expect some sort of load balancing mechanism implemented in ixwebhosting, to overcome such kind of disaster, to improve their reliability.

Also, Looking at the problem at the another angle, Its mainly the wordpress dependency on mysql, causes my complete website to go down during this issue. It gives me a thought over the database. And, I felt that , it is too much to ask for a powerful database for a single blog (mysql)!.� Is there a way to use word press / blogging system without database?

As I think, There is two alternative, one is wordpress plugin, PDO(SQLite) for WordPress and other is a usage of flat file based bloging system, FlatPress or SimplePHPBlog. Implementation of this is not a matter of question, however dedication and time were the ones that keeps asking “Is it really worth it?” “What can be the alternative solution to go around this issue?” and “What is the best solution?”

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