ஒரு தூக்கம் கலைகிறது... :-)

Time is up.

After a month break, I resume my works! :-) cheers.

My laptop has the two big-fat downloads sleeping for long time:

1. OC4J - (Oracle Container for J2EE)
2. JDeveloper -(IDE from Oracle)

Now, I am going to wake them up. Yes, we will talk about them a lot in forth coming days.

Kodaikanal: A meet, A trip.

Kodaikanal

A meet

Yes, this hill resort is best viewable from my house’s terrace. But, I’ve never been to.
Btw, I got a chance to meet few of my schoolmates together at these holidays. We decided to plan a trip to somewhere – where we can sit comfortably and chat.

A trip

It was 22nd Oct 2006, Sun 06:00 AM. We hired a call taxi, and flagged off the trip. We were six in numbers. Usually, I do watch the routes while traveling to places. I was making thousands of routing calculations to reach the place. But, the driver was smart enough to break my mathematics and proved his experience! He showed me lots of short cuts which would help in reaching the place very faster.

Dum Dum Rock

His words were true. It was 06:35 AM while our car hit the foot hill. The first spot, we stopped at, is ‘Dum Dum rock’ – a view point. It was an exciting sight; there was a water-fall in distance, which should be more than 500 feet tall! It was like a white light in greenish Western Ghat Mountains – For me, telling someone how the sight excited me was like telling them how a song should make them feel! :-)

Silver Falls

The car sped off on the hill-way. Next stop point was ‘Silver falls’. The name matches with the place’s beauty! It was wonderful to see the waterfall in the bright morning. We took lots of snaps there and around.

The top

I couldn’t resist myself from controlling an unwanted fear while topping the hills J I wondered to realize that I was standing on 2000 feet! Chillness spread over me in and out.

The lake view

The lake view was not that much attractive. Usually, I don’t like greenish water, since it is impure! :)

Pillar Rock

Then, Pillar Rock. Again a falls. My friend told me to notice a ‘cross’ symbol/statute on the very top of the falls. I asked my friends and some of the tourists what was it and who placed it on the heights. But, I didn’t receive any reasonable answers from anyone. (Yes, I didn’t ask Mr. Google yet!)

Guna Cave

They had made a fence around the cave. I’ve heard lots of stories about it already. I just glanced the cave from distance, with a little fear. One tourist guide was explaining to his tourists, “This cave is formed as gap between mountains and it is a 900+ feet hole. If anybody falls into this, usually the rescuers take a day or two to locate the person!” Oops, let’s leave this place! J

Suicide Point

I’ve never seen such a hollow space in my life before. I saw some mountains and falls below my feet! One of the tourists threw a plastic plate, but it was pumped up to 1 mtr towards sky and then went down deep! :D

In few minutes, the clouds and white midst rouse up and hide the place form view. It was white to look at anywhere down.

Something stoke at mind and it was, “The Sky is falling” :)

Park

It was around 5:30 PM while we entered in. The places were completely arrested by light midst. My hands were so chill and my mouth was smoking without cigarettes! J We took lots of snaps to washout the battery charge. And it turned dark.

We came back to home and it was 7:50 PM. Still the chillness stays with me.

(I’ll post the snaps after sometimes)

After Diwali.

I was on long leave for this Diwali holidays. I’ve bagged a 3.1 mp dig cam with me while going home. Have taken lots of photos. Have shot beautiful sceneries surrounded my houses which includes, Dams, rivers, small streams, mountains and of course my family!

I’ll take sometimes to upload the photos into www securely and post the URLs.

The single answer.

After a very long period, I am in(te) rest(less). I’ve not touched any technical books since a month. I’m eagerly waiting for the change in day to day life, which is going to happen very sooner. So, I’m not interested in anything as of now.

I was not shaken by anything happened over the last month – despite so many things went on. I really wonder how I could stand stable without any fear/mental disorder unlike before. Then, I feel little happy about myself that I became pretty matured and confidence than ever before. This is the person, I often tried to be, but failed to be. It might be the single answer for lots of questions running in mind over long days. Now, I can clearly, frankly tell and distinguish my strength & weakness!

Going home on Diwali hols. Planning to stay for a long time there and around. This time, I might take some snaps, if possible.

Sooner, I will post the happy news! :-)

The lessons.

These are some lessons I learnt (or)
something always think of (or)
something like I want to be (or)
something I already be.

(Disclaimer: All these sayings are my own! Not to hurt anybody else, or not because of anybody else!)

1. The finest moment in my life is when I was thinking of nothing.
2. The time I always be brave is when I am loyal to my conscience.
3. I always suspect silent people – their other side might be dangerous.
4. Do not act as some one whom you are not. People, are not lured by imitations.
5. I hate commanding people, and I never want to be anyone’s manager.
6. Everyone else in life needs to be respected. God has his own purpose to create every living.
7. I always ashamed of eating delicious, when a beggar in front of me is starving.

Web hosting basics (for novices)

So, you have decided to publish your own web site. Now, how do you go about doing it? We’ll discuss hosting your own site step by step.

I. Define the scope of your hosting needs

First, you have to be very well aware of all the hosting functionalities that you might need. Sample cases:

1. Publishing some web pages or photos with descriptive content (Static Pages)
2. Reserving a domain name based on your name or family name (Personal websites) and running the site.
3. Interacting with your visitors (Guest Book, Online shopping Portal, Customer feedback and etc)
4. Running news sites that handle high user traffic (like cnbc.com, ibnlive.com and etc)
   

II. Choose the hosting provider

1. If your requirement is similar to case I.1, then you may choose free hosting services like geocities.com or pages.google.com. These sites provide static hosting services for free of cost. Yet, they provide tools to build, edit your web pages.
2. If your requirement is similar to case I.b, then you have to register a domain name first. Refer to the post (http://web-admins.blogspot.com/2008/08/domain-names-at-cheap-price-10.html), that lists a review of companies that provide domain name registration service for cheap price. Once, you have registered a domain name, you have to map it to a server (location of a directory where in your entire html files are stored). This space is called as web space or storage space. You may either buy the space from service providers or you may redirect all the requests to this registered domain to some other web sites.
3. If your requirement is similar to case 1.c, where in you need to interact with your web site visitors, then you have to buy a hosting service that offers server side scripting (Php, Perl, Jsp, Python and etc) facility. You have to check with the service providers for the quota limits like web space quota, database quota.
4. For case 1.d, you may have to go for dedicated servers that offer a hassle free service.
   

III. Building your web pages

Your web site content and appearance is what attracts your visitors. So, you need to pay more attention while designing your web pages and writing the web page contents. There are plenty of web designing tools available online. We’ll be discussing this section in detail.