Archive for October, 2010

All discoveries in the human history is accidental

Posted on October 12th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Here I am not restricting the topic to the scientific discovery or something that added to development of human civilization rather I emphasize the totality of knowledge, findings, inventions that either helped us or not that doesn’t matter here in my discussion but anything that provoked peoples to say aha…I got it was something that he never expected to happen and there was little correlation with the past effort or direction he was applying to achieve something extraordinary.

There have been numerous instances of scientific discoveries in the last century, peoples were searching for years something that turns out to be very different. Today ever organizing human system has developed ways of finding things this has made more difficult to reach extraordinary inventions that otherwise would have been possible accidentally. Now everything that might add to our values largely depends on what is existing before it and that gives it direction and limits out action as well as possible outcomes. In this type of situation there is limited possibility of coming up with something revolutionary or original.

let us go through some examples one by one that will solidify this point. the most common examples can be Newtons finding about gravitational pull when seeing apple falling from tree and Archimedes theory of bouncy while taking bath in his bathtub. The true historical facts about those happenings are doubtful but they can be a great starting point.

Along the same line i want to discuss what is called spirituality or different state of mind that some peoples stumbled into. Later those individuals like Buddha or gurus of modern ages tried to reproduce their experiences into other individuals through methods and theories. This failed miserably. There have been several account of pro-claimants of enlightened peoples who had some sort of extraordinary experience that was not the part of meditation practices rather to realize that there is nothing to it.

Companies who today became giant started with arbitrary ideas that happens to be a great success and that firm in the course of time turns into a giant. Similar things are observed about movies when directors comes up with his presumably wonderful theme but movie flops badly and in opposite cases they simple created one movie that turns out a big hit. There are no explanations about the success of some particular celebrities despit having other good adversaries why this person came on top cannot be explained.

One result of this writing that i can think of drawing is you cannot stumble into something extraordinary as long as you follow some sort of method or system or theories to reach your goal.

Orkut for dating & account temporarily disabled

Posted on October 7th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Orkut is the best and trusted tool from Google,can be used for  searching friends or date partners. Though facebook is on a fast lane dozing ahead to completely wipe out orkut from the scene. More and more peoples are migrated facebook, but when it comes to searching people facebook stands nowhere to orkut. Search is the most powerful feature added lately by Google in orkut that make searching based on age. gender and marital status. Facebook search is very crude perhaps they wanted to keep away from dating game.

There are dozen of dating sites out there but using orkut for this purpose has genuine reason first the large database of peoples and member profiles there aren’t fake like all of dating site operator used to do most of their female member profiles are fake. Now trouble with orkut is that you don’t have unlimited number of friend request allowed to send. Soon your account is blocked for some time.

When you send large number of friendship request to other members like hundreds in a day, your account is temporarily blocked doing that. This pervades for very close to a week time. After 6 – 7 day this functionality is resumed again. So the idea is send no more than 20 request per day, have little research on their profile before sending them instead of getting denial of request. After say 4 – 5 days you must empty your pending request assuming that those members are not interested.

I am not sure what should be the daily frequency for sending requests but in case you are stuck for a week what you can do is start sending scraps to members and ask them if they are interested in friendship here also the glitch is you can be blocked for sending new scraps to more than 20 peoples that are not in your friend circle.

Using TCP monitor eclipse plugin to test web applications

Posted on October 5th, 2010 by admin  |  1 Comment »

TCP monitor is a great tool for making variety of request to our applications some format like JSON are difficult to make to your web services or servlet application in java. You can test an application without having actual request being sent to the program.

Installation

Download TCP Mon this is a jar library keep it under eclipse installation plugin directory and restart eclipse. In order to see TCP monintor view goto Windows ->  show view -> others -> TCP Monitor

Now you will see a tabbed window in the bottom panel. TCP monitor can listen request to all hostname and ports specified in the configuration looks like this

Here listening port must be anything other than 8080 (Used by tomcat) and which is free I took 9090. Next is  name/IP of your server 127.0.0.1 where application to be  tested are running now click Add button. it will create create a tab showing TCP mon is connecting to application. Now next thing is you will have to make the request to application from your browser outside the eclipse program. Here trick it this must pass through TCP mon so intead of using 8080 in our application URL we must use 9090 (used by TCP Mon)

Make sure that your Tomcat is running you will be surprised to see that this application is still running after your change the port number because it is now routed from TCP Monitor. back in the eclipse window you can see request and response to that application