Vasanth Selvaraj

Its been a challenging and amazing one year in Accenture…I can say I took a deep dive into whole oracle products .. Nah.. not a master … basically all the oracle products similar concept of installation and routine stuffs .. since I worked on whole Oracle products I didn’t find anything difficult ..But its time to think about some new technologies .. IAM,OBIEE,Weblogic,SOA,Primavera …still on the list …

Between IPL and World cup is starting this year.. Its going to be fun with new teams .. I am looking forward again Chennai will lift the cup …

Hacking / Hackers fancy term I always like to hear but when comes to me bit terrified . Today morning one of my site got suspended with no reason . I contacted the host monster support for clarification . They said ur site was hacked and ur account is temporarily suspended . What kind of hack ? Phishing in my site . The name suggests they looking for fish in my site such as credit card , username , password details .

Now I have to rectify that malfunction of my site which is very easy ( probably need to delete some of the new directories which is not created by me and chmod permissions ) . But the biggest task need to find the root cause of the problem . Whole day I was crawling all the sites to get useful information and I got two or three documents from hostmonster itself . So I am sharing with you for ur information .

How to prevent your site from getting hacked. How to repair a damaged site. Website security precautions: http://25yearsofprogramming.com/blog/20070705.htm

After the whole day , I found my site exposed to RFI (Remote File Inclusion) attack . In short term RFI means some malicious users can run the PHP code on your webserver . How to stop this attack ? this done by proper php settings (php.ini) and modify your .htaccess on your public_html directory .

So action item for all of us .. Go and secure your websites from hackers [;)]

Very good site designed to check the user name availability for most of the portal

http://namechk.com/

Well explained credit crisis visually

Credit Crisis - Part I

Credit Crisis - Part II

First day in Goa Trip

My Goa trip is full of thrilling experience. 13^th August I started the journey from Hyderabad to Bangalore in Volvo bus . Second time I am visiting Bangalore . As per Stephen’s advice I have to get down in main Bangalore and catch an auto to his room . When the bus reached Bangalore city I asked driver I want to go X place and he replied get down here and this is nearest . I enquired about the place to auto driver and he charged me around 250 rs and he said your in the border of Banglore city . I think my communication (Hindi) with the bus driver is bad . I stayed in Stephen’s room for 5-6 hours and evening I boarded another bus to Goa with my three friends (Alex , Kamal and Jambu) . And the best part is no one knows Hindi in my group . I am the only one sole translator J.

We didn’t book any rooms and didn’t enquired any hotels in Goa . In the bus we enquired about some affordable hotels in Goa and we got a fair idea about rooms are cheaper in South Goa . We planned to stay in South Goa and hire a bike to travel. Looks like good deal for me . In the afternoon we reached Colva (South Goa) . Every one is happy and another second all the eyes on me about the arrangement and auto. Now everyone has to depend on my Hindi. Auto looks like an half tempo covered at the top. Now my job is to look for nice lodge nearby seashore and hire two bikes. I caught an auto and asked “Bhai ek hotel chaiyya beach ka pass “ and he looked curiously whether I came here for suicide or whether I asked a wrong person. I have to reframe my sentence many times to autodriver to understand my new form of Hindi. My friends starring as I am speaking a foreign language and I have a freedom of speaking Hindi before my friends and I enjoyed . We found one nice hotel near Kolva beach (Casa Roiz ) at 3pm and luckily hotel owner speaks pretty good English and got a two bikes for rent (Honda Activa ). Hungry! Hungry! .

We found out udipi hotel nearer to lodge and took a first picture before moving to Kolva beach. I was in Kamal’s bike when he started within another 5 minutes both were in small pit. Hmm Its an accident. He lost control and I was hit by lamppost and blacked out for few minutes and horrible pain in my rib cage and bruises in the shoulder. When opened my eyes and bunch of peoples surrounded me and started speaking in different languages. In that situation even my language is Greek to me. And the rain started heavily and some how I managed to stand up and cleared the crowds. Next biggest worry for everyone is how to repair the bike. Finally reached the first beach of the tour and night gone by debating “who issued the licensed to Kamal “. I decided to ride a bike from next day onwards. We purchased a map and marked down the places to visit tomorrow. Sounds like a plan for me but accident worries me a bit because roads are slippery. We planned to start tomorrow’s journey by 7 AM . First day in Goa is night mare to every one .

Next entertainment cricket is starts on December 3^rd of this year (2008) . This time is much bigger because teams from different nations joining this party . Bangalore , Chennai and Mumbai will host the matches . And the final would be played on Chennai .

There are eight teams participating in this competition .

· Group A
Victoria, Middlesex, Titans, Chennai Super Kings

· Group B
Dolphins, Warriors, Rajasthan Royals, Sialkot Stallions

Will check out team and key players of the team – Group A

Victoria

Champions of the Australian domestic team . And very good chance of winning the inaugural Champions T20 league .

Players to look for – Cameron white , Brad Hodge , David Hussey .

Advantage - Cameron white and David Hussey already played for IPL team and well suited to play in India .

Drawbacks – Pitch will be totally different from Australia.

Middlesex

Champions of the England domestic team . They beat kent in the finals . Tyrson Henderson put up a very good show in this year

Players to look for – Ed joyce , Tyrson Henderson , Andrew strauss ,Murali Kartik

Advantage – Bunch of good players in the team

Drawbacks – I think all the players visiting India for first time apart from Murali

Titans

Champions of the South Africa domestic team .

Players to look for – Morkel brothers

Chennai Super Kings .

Runners of the IPL and my home team and favourite too . Playing two matches in the home ground .

Players to look for – MS Dhoni , Mathew hayden , Michael Hussey and Muralitharan

Drawbacks – There is no good bowling attack in the team .

Stay tuned for Group – B updates .

We are at the end of the 2008 . Its time to review movies I liked this year . There are other movies as well I list the most and I am going to rate top 10 list of this year . Always we need suspense and I will start from the last.

10) Hancock – So much expectation for Will smith but this movie not up to the mark.

9) Wanted – I was very much impressed with the trailers but the whole movie is a piece of crap.

10,000 BC – Looks big but most of the things are not impressed .We can say this an bigger form of Apocalypto.

7) Righteous Kill – We can see the movie for only Climax other than tag line is very good.

6) Horton Hears a Who! – Cool animated movie and nice watch.

5) The Incredible Hulk – My favorite star Edward Norton movie. Action packed and good to watch one time.

4) Kung fu panda – Another surprise by animated movie. And the movie is fast moving, comedy and action.

3) Iron Man – I can bet u its better than incredible hulk . Every scene is very interesting .

2) WALL E – My title is go green. Pixar’s classic and expecting an award for best animation movie .

1) The Dark Knight – This is the Rock Star and super hit . I watched three times on the big screen. Joker acting is freaky. Yet another Christopher Nolan’s best.

I personally enjoyed movie is The Dark Knight . There are more movies still to come. My next movie is waiting for Body of Lies

Everyone hates the pop-up message “Are you sure want to exit or submit or delete and so on… ” But I have an experience. I finished my college (electronics background) little knowledge to computer mostly I will use computer for games or movies . After I finished my college and I got a job in the software company . First few weeks of training program for fresher . Me and friend of mine Vimal one day attending the class .As usual not understanding anything from the class . So that time we have an access to  only internal site of company its having information about employee details and so on.. . Vimal trying to explore(playing J) more on that site . I am sitting beside him and watching . He entered into one page called Transfer(Transfer.jsp) or some sh?t where we can apply the transfer (Normally you need to dance J in front of HR to get the transfer which I understands very lately) . He enters the field explains “Reason for transfer “ and he fills the column says  “I want transfer to Bangalore because lots of good looking girls in Bangalore and so on “  Just for fun …. There is a submit button and I pressed it for fun which I expects some pop-ups like Are you sure want to submit … .

Here comes the twist . After I clicked the submit button and URL redirects to home page .. He is starring at me with lots of questions in the face … In my mind there is no confusion only one thing is going to happen there will be some disciplinary action against him . He has no words to say . We tried to contact so many members working on that tool to stop the workflow which will directly send a mail to project leader .We tried to act like a hacker with no knowledge about computers . Finally what happen ? As I said earlier we need to dance in front of HR to get the transfer .. Looks like this request is redirected directly to garbage (Recycle bin) .

What I am trying to say … Everyone hates Windows for some reason.. But we need to really appreciate the idea the pop-up message reconfirming our actions. Sounds simple but it proves a lot.. Happy Reading.

IPL reaches the last and thrilling stage . Chennai, Mumbai or Delhi who will make into semis? . Tough task for Mumbai and Chennai. Chennai is must win situation against Hyderabad deccan charges . Even though Deccan is not performing as expected in the tournament, but there are good bunch of players in the team where single player win the match. If Chennai loses the match, Mumbai is having fair chance of entering into semis. Chennai last match was very close against Rajasthan chasing the mammoth total.

Mumbai has to win against Rajasthan royals and Bangalore. Rajasthan are the leaders of the IPL still now. Don’t take lightly Bangalore. They have back-to-back win in the tournament and fully charged up. Exciting to watch the clash.

Wait and Watch the thriller.

Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnite

I like this song . Wonderful music by Linkin park . Watch and enjoy the music