DishTV vs. Tata Sky vs. Cable

I bought DishTV 2 months ago and it has been pathetic so far…for following reasons…

1. Often it gets signal disturbances. This defintely happens in rains, but sometimes happens in normal weather as well !!! I never faced such an issue so frequently in Tata sky connection at Pune…

2. The menu sucks!!! We have Tata sky at our Pune home, and their menu system of classifying the channels is very good. In DishTV, you need to remember each and every channel number you like…that is just so aweful in today’s world where even basic mobile phones have better user interfaces! …there is absolutely no system in DishTV for classifying channels…

3. Since a few days, a new problem has started…the set top box starts blinking for 10 mins every time I start…and only then it comes to normal…   …now I’ll need to follow up with an installation guy who doesn’t pick up the phone at all…(now this is normal in any Indian service…so not so different about it)

Guys from DishTV…if you are listening…JUST HIRING SHAHRUKH KHAN FOR GETTING MORE CONSUMERS IS NOT ENOUGH…PLEASE WORK ON IMPROVING YOUR CORE SERVICE !!!

So friends…go for Tata sky, or regular cable if they are good in your area…once you buy the set top box, you get locked to misery… …like I have been…

That’s why I don’t love linux… :(

I have never been a great Linux fan…Yes, there is fun in doing all the work on command line…remembering complex commands, and combining them in interesting ways to create powerful combinations…

But this distracts you from your actual work…

Look at this sample…

I wanted to debug and step through my symfony project…There is no plug-n-play system for this…as far as I know…

So I wanted to setup XDebug with PDT on our Ubuntu dev server. Now just look at the hurdles in the road…

XDebug must be compiled from source…there are no binaries for *ux. So I downloaded the code and untarred it…

Now to install this, you need to have some script called PHPize…seemed it is not present on my machine…so next mission was finding PHPize…

After scouting at a some forums…I found that PHPize is present in “php-devel”…may be developer version of PHP…

After getting errors on several FTP servers, I found one server that had the RPM.

The next problem in queue was that RPM’s are not recognized by Ubuntu. :’( You need some package called Alien…

Now I am just too tired to pursue this further today!!!

And this is just the first step of running XDebug…integrating it with PDT might be another arduous task…especially because I want to set it up on the Dev server remotely…

I know I am a new bee in LAMP…and this should not be so hard for a habitual linux user…

But why…oh god why we can’t have a clean development system that has everything inbuilt…I always wish I had been a .NET developer after working on J2EE and now on LAMP…

The fundamental problem is that there is no single vendor for any system that you want to use…you always have to look for useful pieces in the jungle…and create a contraption…and scout for people who have tried similar contraptions…Symfony has surely been a great exception so far…it is working smoothly without glitches so far…

Of course…when the system owner doesn’t have to pay a single penny for licenses of his software development…that’s a great value add from his perspective…

From Zamanzar.com

Posting after a loooooooong time…

Getting settled in Noida…it has been a fun ride so far…looking for a place to stay…finding decent food…adjusting myself in the new company…with new people…no good old friends to talk to… …certainly a valuable experience…of course chatting and cheap call rates have made life a LOT simpler…(except IDEA cellular…who has ‘changed my life’ for worse for last few days…may be will put rant about it separately… )

First few days at Zamanzar.com have been interesting…learning a loooot…and there’s a loooot of work to be done…

You can find more about us at http://www.zamanzar.com/home/about. We are into real estate space, but with a twist in the regular listings database model appropriated by others like magicbricks.com…

You must be asking what is with this name…what does this mean?…well, it’s a combination of Zameen and Manzar…tell me if you like it or not…

Let’s see how far we go…fingers crossed…and head down to work…loads of it…

Hopefully will keep updating the blog now and then…

Paul Graham on the ‘Elite’ class…

I’ve always felt that IIT’s and IIM’s are hyped…

Now, you can of course say that this is because I didn’t  join one…  

But seriously, how much you gain out of a college really depends on you, rather than the college, or the Prof’s. Now, in Indian scenario, this varies a little. The gap in quality of professors in IIT’s and just below that, is huge…unlike US.

Paul Graham has validated these thoughts with the experience he had in Y Combinator…as always, very interesting and thought provoking to read.

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ब्लॉगर अब हिंदी में !!!

अब मैं हिंदी में लिख सकता हूँ। बिना झंझट के। यह ब्लॉगर तो कमाल कि चीज है! बराहा कि कोई जरुरत नही।

हे लवकरच मराठीत व्हाय्ला पाहिजे (Semantic word detection will not work in Marathi right now…even though the font is same।)

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Why Not not start a startup

Paul Graham of Y-Combinators has written an excellent article http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html. He tries to address the concerns that typically one has about starting up…16 of them. Very objectively and logically written. A must read.

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Guy is a wonderful guy ! This guy called Guy Kawas…

Guy is a wonderful guy !
This guy called Guy Kawasaki really writes well…I recently came to know about him and have been a big fan since then…currently going through his archive…

Here’s a gem on the technique of bootstrapping (working with little resources and slowly gaining momentum without spending much) to be applied to startups…

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