GanpatiPule

I went for an outing to Ganpati Pule and some adjoining areas. Great place but we had a hectic time as we had to return back on Sunday.
Desperately need to change the job. Maybe into Oracle Apps.
Atleast I finished revising my CV. Now it has to be just fine tuned and I can start applying.
According to many friends there is a shortage of these consultants and I should get a job.
But "apply apply and no reply" has been the case with me always.

Hope for the best.

Month end,year end etc no time.......

It was month end time and hence did not have time to update.
Monthe end has ended and have to prepare for audit and of course a job in which I am interested nd get job staisfaction
Planning to go on leave from 8 to 12 outof station.

Donated blood for the first time today.

Long time no post so this

I started a Linux/open source/ general computer info blog. Will post all linux and opensource info happennings there and not here.

Working hard to avoid the later finalization hassle. Still havent tried for a Oracle Financials job even though I am more knowledgeable than a year back. Still need to learn a lot. The demand for apps is high.
Sitting late every day trying to finish work
Will be working on Sunday.
next week is goin to be more hectic.

Same old story

Nothing worthy to mention. I was preoccupied with my month end last week. Also Oracle Financials AR implementation was catching up speed. Did not get time to pursue other interests.

1. Going to Nagpur again and this time it is Saturday and Sunday.
2. All plans and schedules made in my prior post have not materialised.
3. Atleast I am reading "Da Vinci Code" every day regularly.
4. I am going for 2 days only so want to travel lite. Unnecessary load like books to be avoided as I know there is not much time to read as I will reach back in the Hotel after 12.00 am
5. Logged on to IRC thru Mirc more than before.
6. Found that Gentoo and Debian are the most popular on Freenode and of course Ubuntu is there in the top 10
7. Managed to ask questions on IRC regarding modem detetction and direct booting to CLI instead of GUI and got good answers
8. Synaptic started working this morning. Even though Ubuntu is a very solid distro a old Slack user like me is desperate for that Slack login. I do not have Slack anymore on my PC. I need Slack desperately. I have slack 9.1 CD's need the latest i.e 10.0 or 10.1
9. No time to do anything as per plan as after office have to be with my kid, So take life as it comes.
10. Which book to carry tommorow? Maybe "Da Vinci" or some techie book?????
11. When I visited Distrowatch site last there were some 400 odd distros tracked. I wondered how many people used or tried more than at least 10. But suddenly I realised that whatever the distro is based upon it is different. So Ubuntu,Knoppix are not pure Debian.
12. The open source seems to move at jet speed and I am a sloth.
13. Gnome 2.10 was released
14. I got FC3 cd's from a friend and still have to try it.
15. Thinking of buying a CD-R/DVD combo drive.
16. Really need some free time to re-organise myself

Thats it.............

General update

1> Trip to Nagpur meterialised. Was there 14-16 Feb 04
2>The obvious choice seems getting into Oracle Apps implementation but no firm steps taken as yet
3>I tried to load Slack9.1 on my Pc and found that the CD was bad. I wrote the CD in office but did not know nor had the time to find out how to make it bootable. I could not boot finally. Needed to have Linux desperately. I think it is like a drug which you are hooked on.
Finally i gave in to Ubuntu(Warty ) and loaded the same. It is Debian based.
4>Opened a Gmail account yesterday. You can get invited to open an Gmail account from the Gmail site itself. All these days was wondering of asking my friends for an invite.
5> Started subscribing to Ubuntu users mailing lists today through gmail.
6>Carried 2 books again when I visited Nagpur. This time it was "Learning Perl" -O'Reilly and "Open Source a perspective" by RMS but could not read a single page as always returned from office at 12.30p.m.
7>Bought "GNU C++ by Tom Swan". Well I am just buying books by the dozen I dont know when I will read them.
8>I had read "Are you afraid of the dark" by Sidney Sheldon a month back exchanged it with the local book seller for "Da vinci code" by Dan Brown and also bought "A brief history of time"
by Stephen Hawking". Da Vinci is supposed to be a bestseller and so wanted to read it. Every tom dick and harry is reading this book.
9>Started making yearly targets, and within them short term targets.
10>OCA/OCP-yearly, Finalise my CV w.r.t Apps by 28/2/05-short term, Learn a foreign language-yearly
11> Have to fcous on work also as year end is near and I have to plan to be ready for Audit by April 05 or May 05 Max
12> I do not get to operate my PC at home as I have to spend whole time with my kid.
13>I had joined Oracle SQL course for OCA a year back. For 3 papers there are totally 6 books.
Planning to read the basic book (Book 1) by 28/2/05

Pc back into action but w/o Linux

My brother loaded Win XP and one of the PC is live again albeit without Linux. I tried to load Linux today morning but did not get enough time.
I have been trying to change my job for a long time but am not getting any good calls. I am more into system impelmentation rather than core finance. My salary is peanuts presently compared to others.
Well so systems is my forte and I have been implementing and using Oracle Financials at my current job for 2.10 years. I should capitalise on that. This feeling always comes of a sudden to me and then vanishes. I know even if I only concentrate on learning Oracle (for which all tools exist) I may be able to change my job (hopefully). Now fater all this I will start to learn Oracle and after 2 days again I will leave it as it is.
This feeling today has arisen because I saw an Ad for Oracle Financials from CapGemini
There is so much to learn just in Oracle itself leave alone Apps. I also have the relevant books and of course I can practice at work.
I came across a site asktom.oracle.com and it is a fundu site.

Both Hard disks formatted. 2 blank pc's with no OS

Hi
I have a spare PC at my house. This is an old one bought from my office in 2002. Recently y brother bought a new PC a P4 2.4ghz 256 mb RAM with a new cabinet. The old PC was lying idle w/o a HDD/FDD but with Mobo/RAM amd processor.
I had an idea of creating a home network connecting these 2 pc's. I bought a HDD and got a crossover cable abt 1-1/2 month back. I was free on Saturday so I decided to try connecting this to my old pc. I continued this on Sunday and inthe process I formatted bothe my HDD's.
Now I have both the PC's clean w/o anything on the HDD. This is bcoz we did not adjust the jumper settings.
Great experience will reinstall everything again fro scratch.

Bangalore visit

Visited Bangalore and returned on Sunday.
Was a good trip. I trained Bangalore accountants in my company on Oracle Financials
Hope to go again some time in Feb. I am more hopeful on a trip to our branches in Kolkata and Nagpur, hope they materialise.
Could not read even a word of the "Learning Perl" book I had taken along to Bangalore.
I read some 10 pages of "The Alchemist" in Bangalore.
In turn I bought 8 books on computers mainly relating to Unix and Linux.
I dont when I will read them or where I will keep it.
Books worth Rs.3300/- bought in Jan 05 itself.
Month end time no mood after the trip to Bangalore.

Human mind-remains unexplored unexplained

My mothers Aunt who stays at the same place where we stay was admitted to the hospital due to suspected paralysis and other complications. We came to know about this on 14th Jan 05.
She is an old lady of 93 years old. I have never seen her ill during my lifetime. She has always remained active with the odd aging problems.
I came to know of this while I was working in my office. There was a little bit of tense feeling me because of the age at which she was suffering.
My mother immediately visited her in the hospital and the same day evening when I came back home from office my mother told me that she was alright and would improve in days to come.
The above sentence just had the right effect on my mind and I really did not think about my granny
right from Friday thru Tuesday.
On Tuesday night I came to know that she had a stroke and had been taken in Intensive care and she was at a critical stage.

This same sentence had a drastic effect on my mind and I again started to think otherwise and this also affected my work.
On Wednesday I visited her and that day I could not concentrate on work.
Death is an integral part of the package called life yet when it stalks our near and dear ones we fear.
Just 2 words had my mind work and think differently.

UBUNTU

Loaded Ubuntu Linux on my PCNow I triple boot Win Xp/Slack9.1(2.4.22) and Ubuntu.
It was a real sleek install. No problems whatsoever.Some issues still need to be sorted out in Gnome.
Some progs do not open.
I am used to the CLI and my favourite Midnight commander.
Ubuntu directly opens a GUI with Gnome 2.8.0.
I need to change the background but do not know how to mount my FAT32 drive.
I am not able to login to CLI.
What is the root password ?????????.
I was planning to try out FC3 but getting the CD's will take time.
The ubuntu site has a shipit link and ships the no. of cd's for free.I had logged in and entered my name almost a month back and I got the cd's yesterday.Want to keep this setup for some time and may be will start learning networking in the near future.

Status Quo!

Well I visited my blog after a long time.Got inspired by somebody elses blog. Well nothing new to write about.
A self proclaimed linux fanatic has no time to use Linux due to personal reasons.

Let us see?

New to Blogging

What is Blog and Blogging. Well just created a Blog and now will use it regularly,I hope.

For an introduction I am an Accountant and a Linux Fanatic.