March 2007 Archives

Mar 29, 2007

5 Reasons to work for Comcast = 5 awesome portals

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles No comments

Comcast is the largest cable company in the United States . I work as a Engineering Manager in Comcast and I honestly believe that if you understand how the web works then Comcast is the best company to work for in Philly (and in the United States !) . Anyone intrested in working on cutting edge [...]


Mar 29, 2007

.classpath and .project eclipse files in Windows

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Java, Technical Articles 3 comments

I hope i am not alone when i had issues copying .classpath and .project files on the windows environment. I was trying to import my old non-eclipse java projects into eclipse. Eclipse did not allow me to create the project since it did not have these files in the project. So i sent an email [...]


Mar 29, 2007

Time Is Running Out: Save Canadian Seals

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Animal Cruelty 2 comments

Mar 29, 2007

How to backup a mysql database ?

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles No comments

MySql has two awesome tools which make life a lot more easier for people who don’t like to work with command prompts . MySql Query Browser and MySql Admininstrator are bundled together and available for download at  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html .You can use the Query Browser to execute all DML operations and the Adminstrator for all DDL operations.  [...]


Mar 17, 2007

Microsoft Vista Security Center and Norton AntiVirus

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Technical Articles No comments

I was not able to use Norton Internet Security 2006 with Vista to begin with so i had to lose my 360 day subscription (presinstalled when i got my PC so i did not have the key) . I ended up downloading Norton Anti Virus 2007 . Now there is one more issue the security [...]


Mar 16, 2007

Microsoft Vista – Issue with indexing Network Drives

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Technical Articles 1 comment

I had Windows XP media center prior to upgrading to Vista Home Premium Edition . I have HP Media Vault , which is a network drive and i also have external drives connected to it via USB . I had Micrsoft desktop search (WDS) installed in XP and i was able find files really fast in my [...]


Mar 7, 2007

Bootmagic Issues – BootMagic and a FAT32 Recovery Partition

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Technical Articles 6 comments

I installed PartitionMagic  as I had a 100 GB drive and just a single partition. I have a HP media center desktop with a recovery partition (FAT32) . I decided to partition the single drive into multiple drives so i can group data. All was well till I installed BootMagic which came with the installation package.
The fun started [...]


Mar 7, 2007

Tools a java programmer needs

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles No comments

Unlike Microsoft.net java has a wide variety of tools to support development . I think personally this works both as an advantage and a disadvantage. The challenge is to pick the right tools . I have been in the industry long enough so here is my list of tools
Clip Path : http://personal.vsnl.com/sureshms/ClipPath.zip . This program installs [...]


Mar 7, 2007

Export Putty session information in Windows

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Technical Articles 3 comments

Putty stores session information in the registry.
To export the session data.
1. Click on Run
2. Type in regedit
3. Search for putty
4. You should be able to get to this key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions
5. right click on sessions and you should to export the info to a .reg file
6. copy the file to any machine you want the information [...]