Sarath Chandra Pandurangi's Blog

Yes. Life is swiftly changing towards even more happiness. This new year, Our family will bring a cute bundle of joy home. We know it is going to be a boy. I'd like to thank my wife for bearing with me during these difficult (but exciting) months. Mom, she is going to be, is such an amazing feeling. She is doing well so far. Dad, me - I am excited, nervous and  happy all at the same time. I'll hope to be back blogging soon. 

బంధు మిత్రులకి, సమస్త లోక జనులందరికి  శ్రీ నందన నామ సంవత్సర  శుభాకాంక్షలు సర్వే జనా సుఖినోభవంతు   Wishing everyone in the family,  all our friends  and everyone everywhere.. Happy Ugadi photo credit: kalyan

With net-books failing to hit off, tablets replacing almost every thing else, laptops have become almost obselete. To stay in the fray, laptop manufacturers have gone "air". Almost every laptop manufacture now have a thin "Mac Air" replacement, a lighter, faster, but much less expensive laptop. If you are in the market for one of these amazon as a decent offer

I have been busy with work, and life. Now, I realise It's time. I should start writing again. Writing releavs a lot of stress for me. Opens up new perspectives, slows you a bit to think rationally, and often gives you solutions which would otherwise be difficult to arrive at. They say if you want to learn something, you must write a book on it. I will try with writing blogs, again, about life, with and without technology . Lets see what I learn. Meanwhile..

I picked up my Acer Iconia. A500 tablet from BestBuy yesterday. 24hrs later, the screen looks like its been used for 6 months. It's scary how these things keep you captivated. There are thousands of reviews out there, so I am not going to bore you with another "in-depth" review. Here is short and sweet account of my rendezvous with my new found love interest.

One has to admire the relentless spirit of a nation to value the immense loss on this day ten years ago. And their courage to stand by it. Hats off to those in United 93 who chose to sacrifice thier life over thier fellow countrymen. And to the countrymen who don't forget the loved ones, and show gratitude to those who served. May the families, whose loss is immeasurable, find peace this day. May the souls rest in peace. May there be "No such day to any nation on the face of the planet, EVER again" . Today, so We pray.

Some times you need to copy only table structures across databases. This article describes two ways of doing it. If the whole database schema need to be exported, mysqldump is very effective. A --nodata flag will dump all tables' schema. Like this. mysqldump --nodata -p -u username databaseName But if you want to copy a specific table, individually, you could use "create table like" feature. You could create it even from a different database. However it must be on the same mysqld instance. Like this. create table newtable like oldtable; --Or from a table in other database create table mytable like otherdatabase.tablename;

Here is one company committed to Green alternative fuels and reducing carbon foot print. Google is no less a real life research lab. Plugin Electric cars are the fastest way to remove dependency on oil. They may eventually become energy hogs (if everyone will buy these), but for the moment, they are a viable solution. Advances in renewable energy may make electric even cheaper, easy to produce - until then, its only time for ideas.. like these..

Want to install a userscript on your browser. Go no further. Here are simple instructions and caveats for installing Userscripts in Firefox, Opera, Chrome. If you want to author your own scripts, here is a beginner's tutorial .

UserScripts are fun, useful and often productive . A lot of sites have small improvements you think could add a lot of value. And just because you are not the author of the site, you need not give up. With some basic javascript skills, you could write a userscript, install it on your browser, and make the site behave.

మీ ఇంటిల్లిపాదికి ఈ ఉగాది సుభాకరం కావాలని, ఆరోగ్యం, సౌభాగ్యం, శాంతి, సామరస్యం మరియు ఆనందం తేవాలని ఆసిస్థూ…   ఉగాది శుభాకాంక్షలు - జ్యోత్స్న & శరత్ (చందు)

  India won the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, beating a formidable Srilankan team by 6 wickets. It was a tribute to Indian cricket, 1.2 billion Indians and a particular one of them, Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin adds this feather to his celebrated cap after waiting 5 world cups.

IE9 has some really cool tech upgrades .Here are a few errant UI features that makes IE9 less than perfect. It almost gives the impression that the UI engineers did not do a stellar job. or IE9 UI is a half baked cake.

This tool is probably one of few which puts the power of Internet and Social Networks to the best use.

  ‘Million March' turns violent in Hyderabad Why is this happening to us? We used to pride ourselves for hosting ravindranath tagore (never thinking he is not from our state/region). We put *Cotton Dora*'s idol in our land (never considering he is not even from our country). Such were we, that MK Gandhi praised our patriotism and hospitality. It is a shame some of the most educated are have a positive side to this story. Supporting these acts of immaturity and haste in the name of a Greater cause, is disrespecting the genuine-ty of that demand, belittling the cause.  There was time when we did things differently. A different leadership, and people who really followed them religiously. The Video is a reflection of what we achieved, and how we achieved- A path is respected by the world and the humanity. The students who lost their lives never would have done it, if it were under the same path.  The people DO deserve thier voice to be heard. But they DONOT have a ...

When you suspend Windows, you expect it to live in the slumber. And only act when you command it to wake up. However, Sometimes, Windows wakes up, apparently for various reasons. And it wont tell you why, like most other things it wont tell. But if you are wearing one of those investigator hats today, get to the bottom of it. Using Windows Event Viewer. To fire up Event Viewer, available in Control Panel > Administrative tools. You can apply filters to the events displayed, by using the controls on the right. You could use Event Sources (look for power*, for spurious wake ups), and/or keywords. Or you could manually go through all of the logs.

If you just updated your andriod devices to froyo, you are already one step behind in android releases. But With all the goodness in each update, why would you wait. Howver, if you are an early adopter, Google is not sleeping when you are waiting.

2010 is out the door. Personally, it was a year that ebbed out the worst period of my life. Dawning 2011, I hope things make a turn towards the good. To all the members of our extended family, friends, friends' friends, Jyothsna and I wish a very very very happy new year. It has been a fun New Years Eve, Thanks to a lot of friends. credit:btobetun Let there be Peace!

Just updated the fresh-out-the-oven Google Maps. 5.0. Simply Awesome. The 3d images of NYC buildings, tilting, rotating, much smoother zoom operations, and better offline support make it a highly recommended update

Got a new Android? This is the first place you should be looking at these tutorials . Online Search for Market Apps: If you are looking to search for market apps, and thinking that there no such online search tool? There may not be an official Google hosted online market replica, but appbrain.com gives one. Installing Apps: Most websites you browse on the laptop/computer, have what are QR codes (eg. shown below). These are like images that link to urls on other sites or market apps. So first you have to manually go to market place and search for " Barcode Scanner " and install an app by ZXing. From then, you can use the scanner to install various apps that can be looked up by QA Codes. This app can also get you product lookups (however there are specialised apps for that) Appbrains.com app: Appbrains has an app manager that can manage your apps, installing them and their updates. You create a profile online and all your installations are synced to your device. This...