April 2008 Archives

Apr 29, 2008

Help Cows

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Animal Cruelty No comments

By supporting PETA today, you can help reduce and end the suffering of more than 40 million cows—each a sensitive individual—who are killed in slaughterhouses in the United States each year.Most cows never enjoy a peaceful day in a grassy field.Instead, cows raised for their milk are commonly confined to filthy sheds and barren dirt [...]

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Apr 25, 2008

Dasavatharam – Music Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Movies, Music 52 comments

Himesh Reshamiyya has performed the music score for a tamil movie for the first time. He is lucky that he is doing the score for a Kamal Hassan movie with a budget in excess of 35 crores.This is a typical Himesh album with high pitch vocals ,heavy bass and Keyboard generated sounds.
Ulaga Nayagan (Vinith)
A song [...]

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Apr 23, 2008

Norton 360 2.0 – it is 360

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

I wrote an article about Norton 360 a while back norton-360-not-360.
Someone in Symantec actually did make the changes that most of us were asking them to do. They have reintroduced the password manager as Identity Safe . This new program actually is actually a tool bar on both IE and Firefox. It will store passwords [...]

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Apr 21, 2008

Kuruvi – Music review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Movies, Music 2 comments

Vidyasagar and Vijay have created many hits together and Kuruvi is no exception. It is a typical masala album which will please the fans of Vijay.Almost all the songs are fast paced and rhythmic .
Happy New Year ( Sunidhi Chauhan, Yogi, Dr Burn)
This is a Rap cum Kuthu song .It is a perfect start to [...]

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Apr 18, 2008

Dham Dhoom – Music Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Movies, Music 5 comments

Harris Jayaraj has performed the music for this movie directed by the late director Jeeva. Jeeva and Harris have worked together on big hits like 12B and “Unnale Unnale”. I think Harris prefers to reserve his best for certain directors and it is obvious Jeeva was one of them.
Harris has not disappointed his fans at [...]

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Apr 14, 2008

Management Styles

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Technical Articles 1 comment

Google and Apple are in opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of management styles. Google allows the developers to innovate and Gmail and Google News emerged as the by products. Steve jobs rules Apple with a iron hand and we have seen the iphone and ipod make history. The founders of Hewlett Packard had [...]

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Apr 9, 2008

Do you know how pigs in the U.S. live their lives?

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Animal Cruelty No comments

Fact #1: In the U.S., more than 97 percent of pigs—smart, social, interesting animals—are raised on factory farms. They spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy warehouses, where they never see the sun or breathe fresh air. Because of their hideous living conditions, more than 70 percent of the pigs have pneumonia by the time [...]

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Apr 3, 2008

Hibernate Filters

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Java 1 comment

Hibernate filters provide you with a programmatic way to restrict the result of your query.The advantage is that you can programmatically change filters even though you can’t do it at runtime it is still a better approach. In the following code sample I created a filter called activatedFilter and added it to the User class. [...]

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Apr 2, 2008

Hibernate Cache

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Java, Technical Articles 12 comments

Database operations are typically very expensive. A typical query would have to be first transmitted over the network. The database has to create a query plan for it and then execute it. The response then has to be transmitted over the network again before the client can process the results. Most databases will cache the [...]

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Apr 2, 2008

Ibiza Rhapsody – Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products No comments

I wanted to write about this for a while now. The SVP of my company, Charlie Herrin presented me with this Linux based Personal Music Player . Before I go any further with my own experience of the product here is the list of awesome features of this player from Heir.
1) Rhapsody support
2) Wifi
3) FM [...]

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