A Peek into Solaris Sustaining engineer's life...

Wednesday May 25, 2005

Bubba!

Bubba was bragging to his boss one day, "You know, I know everyone
there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know him.

"Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, "OK, Bubba how about
Tom Cruise?"
"Sure, yes, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it."
So Bubba and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's
door, and sure enough, Tom Cruise, shouts, "Bubba! Great to see you!
You and your friend come right in and join me for lunch!"

Although impressed, Bubba's boss is still sceptical.  After they leave
Cruise's house, he tells Bubba that he thinks Bubba's knowing Cruise
was just lucky.

"No, no, just name anyone else," Bubba says.
"President Clinton,"  his boss quickly retorts.
"Yes,"  Bubba says, "I know him, let's fly out to Washington."

And off they go. At the White House, Clinton spots Bubba on the tour
and motions him and his boss over, saying, "Bubba, what a surprise, I 
was
just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and
let's have a cup of coffee first and catch up."

Well, the boss is very shaken by now, but still not  totally convinced.
After they leave the White house grounds, he expresses  his doubts to
Bubba,  who again implores him to name anyone else.
"The  Pope," his boss replies.
"Sure!" says Bubba.

"My folks are from Poland, and I've known the Pope along time." So off
they fly to Rome. Bubba and his boss are assembled with the masses in
Vatican Square when Bubba says, "This will never work. I can't catch
the Pope's eye among all these people.  Tell you what, I know all the
guards so let me just go upstairs and I'll come out on the balcony with
the Pope."

And he disappears into the crowd headed toward the Vatican. Sure 
enough, half an hour later Bubba emerges with the Pope on the balcony. 
But by the time Bubba returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart 
attack and is surrounded by paramedics.  Working his way to his boss' 
side, Bubba asks him, What happened?"  His boss looks up and says,  I 
was doing fine until you and the Pope came out on the balcony and the 
man next to me said, "Who's that on  the balcony with Bubba?" 

Sunday February 06, 2005

Bollywood Berkeley!

Bollywood Berkeley!

One of our friends is doing school at UCI and she invited us to
Bollywood berkely Hindi Film Dance competition yesterday night
which took place at Palace of Fine arts in San francisco. Bollywood
berkeley HFD is an intercollegiate South asian competition featuring
the style of dance portrayed in Hindi Films. The eight universities
that participated in this 4th annual competition are:

* University of california, Berkeley
* University of Southern California
* University of California
* Stanford University
* University of California, Santa Barbara
* University of California, San Diego
* University of California, Los Angeles
* University of California, Irvine


The show started around 7:30 pm with Stanford team performing first.
Berkeley and USC teams were the best performers with Berkeley notching
the top prize and USC bagging the second place. The other highlight
of the whole show was master of ceremonies done by Harvin Sethi and
Pari Mathur. They did an excellent job and entertained the crowd
a lot. An evening well spent - 3 cheers to MC's and all the participants! 

Thursday October 14, 2004

Driving and the choice you have!

I was driving along with a colleague from Mountain view to
Sunnyvale on our way to Toysrus today evening. The driver
in the left lane cut us sharply and entered our lane. Then 
he breaked as the car infront of that one cut this guy and 
took a right turn! I had to slow down significantly to avoid
the accident! Then we discussed about the choices we had:

 1. Honk and shout at the other guy and inadvertently feel
    bad.
 2. Take it easy, laugh at him and move on! Make your day!
  
No guesses on what option I picked. :-)

I believe in the world of choices and similarly Sun is trying
aggressively to make this happen in IT world. Sun strives hard
to maintain open standards and also provides customers a choice
on what they can choose. 

Cricket! Australia is touring India and second test is currently in action. Till lunch time, Austalian openers did a very good job and run rate was more then 4. Then Indian bowlers strike backed :-) Especially Kumble was pretty impressive taking 7 wickets. Now the onus is on Indian batsmen to execute and put up a big score! Details can be found at Wisden CricInfo site. (2004-10-14 07:58:01.0) Permalink Comments [1]

Monday October 11, 2004

Shopping at Gilroy!

Couple of our colleagues from India are here and we went around to do 
some shopping at Gilroy. We started off in Fremont after lunch at
Shalimar restaurant around 1:30 pm. Gilroy was around 1 hr drive
(around 12 miles on I880 and 40 miles on 101). One friend wanted
to buy shoes, so we went around almost all the shoe shops there
like Nike, Adidas, Reebok and couple of others. Adidas shoes were
good, but expensive. Reebok shoes were the ones which we liked
and with the offer they had, they were coming around for 30 bucks.

While we were there, we did some other shopping at van huesen
and window-shopping at other stores. The Bose showroom was
impressive and audio headphones were pretty effective - cost
was little bit high though. Philips 50" Plasma TV was good 
- don't ask the price :-) 

One shocking thing that happened during the trip was that when
we were driving on 101 to Gilroy, we suddenly saw one car going 
at more then 110 mph and was doing cuts and disappeared in couple
of seconds. It was like watching a video game... Not sure what 
exactly that driver was trying to achieve by going at that speed...

Monday July 19, 2004

Intro

I am an engineer in Solaris Sustaining and Engineering group working on
NFS & Naming products. Our group supports following products on all
supported versions of Solaris[TM].

   * NFS 
   * lofs 
   * cachefs 
   * autofs 
   * RPC 
   * Native LDAP client 
   * NIS+ 
   * NIS 
   * DNS 
   * Sendmail 
   * Kerberos (SEAM) 


I joined Sun Microsystems in Mar, 2000 after completing my Masters at 
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and since then have worked on 
most of the above products except DNS & Sendmail. I am also SEED [1]
member and am mentored by Alec Muffet.

My interests include 

   * listening music 
   * watching movies(English, Hindi & Telugu) 
   * Reading & learning new stuff
   * trekking
   * and playing/watching sports. 

I listen to Hindi and Telugu songs, watch most of the movies (HBO was 
my favourite channel) and play games like Chess, Ping Pong/Table Tennis, 
Volley ball, Carroms and watch Cricket, Tennis, Football/Soccer.

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