January 6, 2008 – 11:52 am
When you are usually running ftp daemon in the Linux, you may come across this error. You notice that your ftp site is not being served. At this point you start troubleshooting by looking at the service.
/etc/init.d/vsftpd status
vsftpd dead but subsys locked
The solution to this is first stop the xinetd by the following command,
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop
Stopping xinetd: [ OK ]
Then remove the vsftpd lock by removing the lock file from
rm /var/lock/subsys/vsftpd
Then start the vsftpd daemon by using the following command,
service vsftpd restart
Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: [ OK ]
After starting the vsftpd deamon, you need to restart the xinetd service using the following command,
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
Starting xinetd: [ OK ]
This will bring up your ftp site and running.
December 25, 2007 – 3:08 pm
Next time you visit Landmark, watch out for the difference in price for the same novel. I found it very interesting. I was browsing through Robert Ludlum’s novels when I accidentally found that there were price differences in the same book rack. There were two differently bound books with the same title. Also that the books were different in color also. I was curious and wanted to know the difference. I thought to myself ofcourse there will be,
- The book printing was a major take away. The cover page was a major one as pointed out by Sharath.
- The print quality was also a factor.
Lower priced books were all printed in US by Bantam Books where as the higher priced ones were printed in Britain by Orion. Apart from this, Bantam books has a antique look where as the Orion books look more modern.
In my case I wasn’t concern about the quality of book and went with the antique look and brought the Bantam books. Probably I can auction them as antique books after few year down the line 
December 24, 2007 – 12:15 am
There have been a lot of remake movies in the recent times. It looks like a trend. But people who are making it don’t understand that it’s a bad idea. Why would it be a bad idea? The producer can make money with a proven idea and the director doesn’t have to sweat much as the script, dialogs etc are easily copied. It just lacks a basic definition for which Kannada movies stand, creativity. Have you seen Puttana kanagal movies? Those are the movies which were remade into other languages. I am not able to reason out why we need remakes? Probably there is a very good reason for it, but it some how escapes me.
E Bandhana is a remake of Baghbaan - Hindi. There are few extra scenes that are missing in the Kannada movie. It had already started when I sat down to watch the movie. I thought this movie could have been made better. I felt there were few missing elements like a few more interesting scenes could have been added. It could have been made more flowing with the theme of the movie. It all seemed like the movie was made with the minimum budget and few of the brands were endorsed. I felt it was made with an intention of making money. The other irritation in the movie was the songs. At one phase of the movie, there seemed like 3 songs were played within a short duration. When i meant short it was around 2 mins or so. The songs were also not vocalized properly. I could literary feel the low pitch from the female singer for more than 3 occasion in the movie. It was also of a not so good lyrics. There were few big names in the movie. Over all the movie was a pathetic watch for me. Please note that its all my personal view.
I wouldn’t remember watching this movie as I would with Baghbaan. It’s nicely made and you will not regret watching it once. I would like to reiterate that remakes are bad for the industry and will be of short term gain. Now with few good movies there are people watching Kannada movies, please don’t drive them away with remakes!
December 17, 2007 – 10:41 pm
The Scorpio Illusion by Robert Ludlum is a must read. The story is based on deception, navy intelligence and terrorism. One can produce a nice blockbuster of a movie. I am amazed by the story narating skill exhibited by Robert Ludlum. It made me read all night long till i finished it.
The story revolves around an Naval intelligence officer. He is known for his brilliance in the intelligence circle. His lovely wife gets murdered because of a incorrect factual analysis by Navy intelligence. This makes the Navy officer enraged. He promises not to serve the navy ever and quits his job. He starts his own carter business. He goes into depression and starts boozing. A beautiful lovely lady enters his life. She makes him feel very special and they both start loving each other. One day she disappears making him realize that his over indulgence with alcohol did him in. The story takes a turn here.
Two of his old friends visit him. He gets briefed about the eventual terrorist act destroying the political leadership of many countries including one of his over a short period of time, leaving a political vaccum. He gets recruited by MI-6 and all the action starts from here.
The rest of the story involves the deception and corruption at the highest level. I would suggest you to get the book and start reading it. You can always borrow my book
December 11, 2007 – 2:14 pm
Welcome, this is my first blog in my website. Earlier I was posting all my blogs on the google’s blogspot. I wanted to have a blog of mine own for sometime now, but didn’t get around in doing that. Today is a lucky day in the sense that I starting putting together my website. I am still trying to customize the look and feel of the website. The justification for having a simple theme, is its lightweight attribute in loading and also it wouldn’t clutter visually. Hope you will find lots of things to think about after reading my blogs. Please note that the views are my personal views. Enjoy the fun while you are here
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