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Happy New Year!!!

Pandian — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:25:25 +0000

Happy New Year!!!

To all Gregorian calendar followers, no wonder, gregorian calendar has made its position as standard all across the world.

Always, New year begins with new hope new dream new aspiration. I wish all your hope dream aspiration, comes true this year 2011.

Warm wishes for you!!!

Microblogs

Pandian — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:27:53 +0000

“Write a Blog on smartpandian.com”.

That’s always my first task in my Google task list. But I never stick to that. Because, Writing a blog requires lots of effort as it has to be good for read, creative, informative and lots of finer stuffs.

Normally, when I start preparing the blog, I start with the topic, but most of the time, it wont go beyond that point and even if it goes, it wont go beyond a line or two. So, that ends up in making my blogs idle. While the list of blogs in my drafts section keeps growing, I had nothing that is good enough to publish as blog.

Then, there comes the new Wave, Its known as microblogs. Its nothing but a few lines of text, that covers the gist of your thought, It just says “What are you doing?” or “Whats on your mind?” and Yes, that’s what you have heard it as Twitter and Facebook. Both of them has demonstrated the power of micro blogging to the world.

It not only me, Micro blogging has captured the nerves of almost all people, irrespective of whether the person is previously a blogger or not. Now, everybody is a blogger, but there exists a thin line of difference from blogger and micro blogger and eventually, both goes hand in hand in spreading the information the world.

With that in mind, henceforth, I would posting the Microblogs also, in this platform (aka Smartpandian.com).

Happy Blogging..

Here It is someting more for you to read…

Why Facebook and Twitter Are Not Replacing Blogging (dannybrown.me)
Microblogging – Establishing Authority in 140 Characters… or Not (searchenginepeople.com)

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Day After Tomorrow

Pandian — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:11:10 +0000

After watching the movie, “Day After Tommorrow” for almost an hour, I told Pandian not to go to office on day after tommorrow.

He asked me “why? Are you Nutz?. Do you think world is going to end day after tomorrow?”.

I said “Buddy! I am not so crazy as you, to think like that. I just wanted to remind you that day after tommorrow is Krishna Jayanthi, which is a national holiday”

Pandian thought for a second about his misunderstanding, not wanted to accept his defeat (in war of words) immediately said ” Why the hell Krishna Jayanthi is a National Holiday, Did Krishna Bought Independence as Gandhi did?”

Immediately came the reply, “First tell me Why the Gandhi Jayanthi is National Holiday, Is Gandhi, a God (Fish/Lion) who took ten avatars to save the man Kind?”

Pandian started crying “Ayyo Saami! Aaala Vidu! Govindha GooooVindha”

While Me, “Happy” even more than Gandhi/Krishna as they themselves didnt had holiday when they were alive

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Does Color Flickers in Your TV?

Pandian — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:42:25 +0000

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.

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.
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.
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.
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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Pollution Control

Pandian — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:43:26 +0000

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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திரை முன்னோட்டம்

Pandian — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:38:53 +0000

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

Pandian — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:35:07 +0000

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!!

Back To i3Theme

Pandian — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:05:22 +0000

Its almost two days after the NASA, ISRO confirms the presence of water in Moon, today, I switched my blog theme back to i3theme from the boring Atahualpa theme. While There is no relation between the two events, its important to bring the importance of water, an essential ingredient for the sustainance of life, that’s this blue theme all about.

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..

Firefox Upgrade 3.5

Pandian — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:31:19 +0000

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

Peace

Pandian — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:41:46 +0000

Peace, The word, that brings calmness in mind. The antogonism, The favoritism, The patriotism, and all isms will disappear, when we think of Peace.

Its Peace, that brings value to the humanity, and dictates ones responsbility in Society.

Finding Peace in Oneself is not so difficult, as it appears. Just take one complete deep breath, with peace as a only thought.

Some would say, Peace is a weapon of coward. May be that was true as it appears, when we see old people like Gandhi/Buddha dictating Peace as the only way for the thriving humanity. It may even appear like they were hiding their cowardice under the mask called Ahimsa.
Here, its important to look at the quote of Gandhi which says “An eye for an Eye will end up in making the whole world blind”. How true it is?

Keep yourself from controversial thoughts, there begins the peace within you and to the society.

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