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7-7-7 for me was a day at Bar camp. The camp was hosted at Persistent systems. Being a part of the organizers, I planned to reach there at around 9. Although early showers in the morning delayed my plans and was there at around 9:30. Things had already started moving. The registrations had begun and the campers (participants) were enjoying early morning “Poha” with “chai”. It was good to see people praising your campus and canteen and everything.

The sessions started at 10:30. It was good to see that all the 3 tracks were almost packed before 10. I went and attended throughtworks presentation on “Fractuals and Complexity”. I really wondered before the session what is this guy suppose to talk about since I did not have any head or tail of the topic. But that was one thing that attracted me to attend the session and I enjoyed it. The theme behind the session that everything that nature designs is not complexity but rather simplicity. The trick is to figure out the applied algorithm which could may be iterative or repetive and they could really create complex structures. It was good to see people and companies exploring such mathematical and different ideas.

I also heard that TVGuide.in session which was running in parallel to this track was also an innovative concept and the teams had fun interacting with the speaker.

The next presentation by Adaitya Thatte about microsoft’s silverlight product was also informative. Meanwhile I also had discussions regarding the new co-operative IT concept with Ajay. This was again and interesting thing, which co-incidentently I was also thinking about sometimes before.

It was lunch time by then and we had a delicious lunch in Vinod and Priyanka’s company.

There was yet again an interesting session regarding “How to open start-ups in US, UK and India” by Rohas from Techturis. Rohas talked about some really interesting tricks and points which only a lawyer can think and analyze.

We had freeman talking about “Open source education” after that. Freeman discussed about the open source communities initiatives in reaching to masses with quality training through. I found this concept also catchy and would definitely like to contribute to the same. I also had a talk with Puja from marketwala.com meanwhile where she talked about how marketwala operates and interesting revenue models.

Anand from persistent also presented his idea of BLogger which was really an application in itself. Seems like he is triggering the semantic web concept and taking it to production :-).

Had a good time with the organizers too. All of them Kiran, Jatinder, Atul, Rohit11 (yes this is what his name is and we had a good debate on this :-)) all of us had interesting discussions and information sharing.

I would say, Barcamppune3 was a hit…..Enjoyed the day.

Hey All,

The bar camp fever continues. Let us get wet with bubbling new technology discussions along with drizzling rains at persistent, pune.

The topics seems to be interesting and I am sure all of us will have fun as always.

See you there.

Every day I get out of my home on pune roads, and every day I wish to write this blog. So finally here it comes. I saw a couple of times in the daily news that pune is short of traffic cops and the administration was assuring all attempts to find out ways to cope with these shortage. Finally they came out of this contract schemes where they contract employees from various NGO’s and other places who helps the traffic police manage pune’s ever increasing traffic.

Although this is surely a welcome move, this does not seem to solve the problem though. The volunteers are doing really nice job. But alternatively what is happening is I see now that the traffic cops are now only at the junctions for collecting money (in whatever form) and the actual traffic management is getting done by the contracted employees.

I don’t understand why there should be more than required traffic controllers at the junction. There are a lot of junctions where 1-2 traffic cops just sit on the bike and do negotiations while the other contracted employees do the traffic management.

Hello All,

After lots of speculations, I finally got my own identity on the internet with www.shahharshal.com. wordpress provided me a nice layout for my blogging platform. So henceforth I would be blogging at a single location which is http://www.shahharshal.com/blogs.

Mark this in all your readers. Also all those veteran users of wordpress are requested to let me know some of the awesome wordpress themes and all the interesting wordpress features that they came across.

-Njoi

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I got a new external drive for my laptop this weekend. I just connected the drive to the laptop using the USB port and windows XP recognized the seagate external hard drive. This was good to observe. However after that I was not able to view any new drive created. I wonder how would I transfer my data onto the disk now. I spent sometime over it and managed to do that. I thought it would be useful for other folks to avoid spending that extra time. So I thought of listing down the steps required. Here you go..

Once you see that the drive is identified by the OS, and you can see icon in your system tray which says external device selected,

• GO to My Computer
• Right click on My Computer
• Go to Manage Tab
• Go to disk management
• You can now see the added external disk partition available witout anything.
• Just right click inside that partition space and say “mount”.
• This will change the status for the external disk to “basic” and “online”.
• Then once you have mounted the drive, again right click and say format.
• Once you format the drive it will ask you for the drive letter and once the formatting is done your drive would be visible for use.

Enjoy more space

Had my experience of the first blog/bar camp on saturday. It was really an unconference. However it would have been real cool without those product promos. Rest all was lovely, unique and fun.

My day started there at around 8:45 (one of the few early birds) when the things where just about to start at the venue…..I met sanket, a self-boss. Mechaninal engineer by profession and loved IT guys.. cool…good to know ppl still love them :-).

Met tarun and then headed towards the audi, where rajesh was present to greet us..the zimbra guy,was good to talk to. I offered by helping hand and he asked me to serve the gates :-)… which was fun too… rajesh,sanket,ranjan and myself were standing at the gate and ritika joined us.. She had volunteered for the event. we started with the registration process and distributing the cool blogcamp t-shirts and notepads to the participants.. ranjan was enthu at the beginning to click each one of the them but looking at the crowd later, gave up

The event was getting delayed but I had fun meeting and talking to ppl… there were these gupshup guys who were in true sense the gupshup dudes :-)… Thakkar and the gang were interesting to talk to and we had some nice talks. crowd started pouring in and it was fun to watch different sizes (since we were also distributing t-shirts :-))… Among the unique ones where melody, sakshi and divya uttam who made that presence felt instantly….after about an hour, I started talking with ppl in the audi and met eklavya the watconsult guy… he was also interesting and I had already made up my mind to talk to one/all of these guys. He gave me some interesting information and details.

The fun continued with a round of introductions. Everyone was unique and interesting is what I could observe. Some of them blogged for criket, some for their spouses and some for rakhi sawant and salman khan :-)… some were veteran bloggers with 4-5 yrs of blogging and some of them decided to get birth on that day

Some of them very in their mid-40es while there were a few who were in their teens (15 years to be precise)….All in all you could find almost everyone there

The sessions started with sulekha.com and purplenova presentation. The teams started talking abt their stuff. Although it was good, I would have prefered more experiences and intersting things in all arenas of blogging. I also learnt about OpenId, trackbacks and other stuff talking to people which was an added advantage. Met a big gang from persistent (in fact we realized we were in a majority there). I was also not aware of the fact that persistent is planning to have a bar camp on 7th July in the campus … :-(….

Kiran, jatinder and all informed me about the same. We had some exciting discussions about ruby on rails, and previous bar camps over lunch. The pool side lunch was also wonderful. Session after that was smsgupshup’s thakkar talking abt the product. even though this was again marketing it was done in an interesting manner and hence fun. I had work following me after that and had to run out of the fun…… so that’s Harshal reporting (apart from all those CNN-IBN and DNA reporters….) for his own channel

… Njoi

Hi All,

Look at this amazing new computing technique “Surface Computing” by Microsoft.

http://www.surface.com

Some of the useful utility software’s that really helped me when needed are :

1. Free Undelete

• Web:-http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
• Description:-In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file systems FreeUndelete is the utility to help.

2. Easy Cleaner

• Web:-http://www.toniarts.com
• Description:-Easy to use registry cleaner. It was a freeware when I downloaded. However now you might have to pay the initial fees for accessing products on the site.

3. cygwin
Web:-www.cygwin.com
Description:-If you need to use unix commands over windows, a really nice utility.

Rest still to come….

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