When Microsoft Windows® XP is initially installed, the Windows XP Setup Wizard creates all user accounts as local administrators. This account type enables users to install, update, and run software since an administrator account has system-wide access. When a user is added to the local administrators group, that user is automatically granted every Windows privilege. These privileges are collected and maintained in a user’s access token. Every Windows resource has an Access Control List (ACL), which is a list that records which users and services have permission to access the resource and what level of permission they have. Windows' authorization model uses the data contained within a user's access token to determine what access the user is permitted/denied in a resource's ACL.
Administrative users automatically have:
* Read/Write/Execute permissions to all resources
* All Windows privileges
In Windows Vista, there are two types of user accounts: standard user accounts and administrator accounts. Standard users have limited administrative privileges and user rights—they cannot install or uninstall applications that install into %systemroot%, change system settings, or perform other administrative tasks. However, standard users can perform these tasks if they are able to provide valid administrative credentials when prompted. With UAC enabled, members of the local Administrators group run with the same access token as standard users. Only when a member of the local Administrators group gives approval can a process use the administrator’s full access token. This process is the basis of the principle of Admin Approval Mode.
UAC Architeccture:
Each application that requires the administrator’s access token must prompt the administrator for consent. The one exception is the relationship that exists between parent and child processes. Child processes will inherit the user’s access token from their parents. Both the parent and child processes, however, must have the same integrity level.
Windows Vista protects processes by marking them with integrity levels. Integrity levels are measurements of trust. A “high” integrity application is one that performs tasks that modify system data, such as a disk partitioning application, while a “low” integrity application is one that performs tasks that could potentially compromise the operating system, such as a Web browser. Windows Vista prevents applications with lower integrity levels from modifying data in applications with higher integrity levels.
When a standard user attempts to run an application that requires an administrator access token, UAC requires that the user provide valid administrator credentials. The "UAC User Experience" section in this document details this process.
Virtualization
Windows Vista includes file and registry virtualization technology for applications that are not UAC compliant and that have historically required an administrator's access token to run correctly. Virtualization ensures that even applications that are not UAC compliant will be compatible with Windows Vista. When a non-UAC-compliant administrative application attempts to write to a protected directory, such as Program Files, UAC gives the application its own virtualized view of the resource it is attempting to change, using a copy-on-write strategy. The virtualized copy is maintained under the user's profile. As a result, a separate copy of the virtualized file is created for each user that runs the non-compliant application.
The virtualization technology ensures that non-compliant applications will not silently fail to run or fail in a non-deterministic way. UAC also provides file and registry virtualization and logging by default for pre-Windows Vista applications that write to protected areas.
Courtesy:
Microsoft official site
23 Dec 2009
Understanding User Account Control in Windows Vista (Part 1)
When Microsoft Windows® XP is initially installed, the Windows XP Setup Wizard creates all user accounts as local administrators. This account type enables users to install, update, and run software since an administrator account has system-wide access. When a user is added to the local administrators group, that user is automatically granted every Windows privilege. These privileges are collected and maintained in a user’s access token. Every Windows resource has an Access Control List (ACL), which is a list that records which users and services have permission to access the resource and what level of permission they have. Windows' authorization model uses the data contained within a user's access token to determine what access the user is permitted/denied in a resource's ACL.
Administrative users automatically have:
* Read/Write/Execute permissions to all resources
* All Windows privileges
In Windows Vista, there are two types of user accounts: standard user accounts and administrator accounts. Standard users have limited administrative privileges and user rights—they cannot install or uninstall applications that install into %systemroot%, change system settings, or perform other administrative tasks. However, standard users can perform these tasks if they are able to provide valid administrative credentials when prompted. With UAC enabled, members of the local Administrators group run with the same access token as standard users. Only when a member of the local Administrators group gives approval can a process use the administrator’s full access token. This process is the basis of the principle of Admin Approval Mode.
UAC Architeccture:
Each application that requires the administrator’s access token must prompt the administrator for consent. The one exception is the relationship that exists between parent and child processes. Child processes will inherit the user’s access token from their parents. Both the parent and child processes, however, must have the same integrity level.
Windows Vista protects processes by marking them with integrity levels. Integrity levels are measurements of trust. A “high” integrity application is one that performs tasks that modify system data, such as a disk partitioning application, while a “low” integrity application is one that performs tasks that could potentially compromise the operating system, such as a Web browser. Windows Vista prevents applications with lower integrity levels from modifying data in applications with higher integrity levels.
When a standard user attempts to run an application that requires an administrator access token, UAC requires that the user provide valid administrator credentials. The "UAC User Experience" section in this document details this process.
Virtualization
Windows Vista includes file and registry virtualization technology for applications that are not UAC compliant and that have historically required an administrator's access token to run correctly. Virtualization ensures that even applications that are not UAC compliant will be compatible with Windows Vista. When a non-UAC-compliant administrative application attempts to write to a protected directory, such as Program Files, UAC gives the application its own virtualized view of the resource it is attempting to change, using a copy-on-write strategy. The virtualized copy is maintained under the user's profile. As a result, a separate copy of the virtualized file is created for each user that runs the non-compliant application.
The virtualization technology ensures that non-compliant applications will not silently fail to run or fail in a non-deterministic way. UAC also provides file and registry virtualization and logging by default for pre-Windows Vista applications that write to protected areas.
Courtesy:
Microsoft official site
Administrative users automatically have:
* Read/Write/Execute permissions to all resources
* All Windows privileges
In Windows Vista, there are two types of user accounts: standard user accounts and administrator accounts. Standard users have limited administrative privileges and user rights—they cannot install or uninstall applications that install into %systemroot%, change system settings, or perform other administrative tasks. However, standard users can perform these tasks if they are able to provide valid administrative credentials when prompted. With UAC enabled, members of the local Administrators group run with the same access token as standard users. Only when a member of the local Administrators group gives approval can a process use the administrator’s full access token. This process is the basis of the principle of Admin Approval Mode.
UAC Architeccture:
Each application that requires the administrator’s access token must prompt the administrator for consent. The one exception is the relationship that exists between parent and child processes. Child processes will inherit the user’s access token from their parents. Both the parent and child processes, however, must have the same integrity level.
Windows Vista protects processes by marking them with integrity levels. Integrity levels are measurements of trust. A “high” integrity application is one that performs tasks that modify system data, such as a disk partitioning application, while a “low” integrity application is one that performs tasks that could potentially compromise the operating system, such as a Web browser. Windows Vista prevents applications with lower integrity levels from modifying data in applications with higher integrity levels.
When a standard user attempts to run an application that requires an administrator access token, UAC requires that the user provide valid administrator credentials. The "UAC User Experience" section in this document details this process.
Virtualization
Windows Vista includes file and registry virtualization technology for applications that are not UAC compliant and that have historically required an administrator's access token to run correctly. Virtualization ensures that even applications that are not UAC compliant will be compatible with Windows Vista. When a non-UAC-compliant administrative application attempts to write to a protected directory, such as Program Files, UAC gives the application its own virtualized view of the resource it is attempting to change, using a copy-on-write strategy. The virtualized copy is maintained under the user's profile. As a result, a separate copy of the virtualized file is created for each user that runs the non-compliant application.
The virtualization technology ensures that non-compliant applications will not silently fail to run or fail in a non-deterministic way. UAC also provides file and registry virtualization and logging by default for pre-Windows Vista applications that write to protected areas.
Courtesy:
Microsoft official site
19 Dec 2009
Handling error page efficiently in Firefox
I could not have imagined my anger and frustration when a URL to load due to congestion in network, peak performance, load on server or maybe due to low bandwidth of the internet connection. Until i found a solution for my anger management.. a simple add on in Firefox that lets you handle the error page efficiently and easily. Let me arrive to the tool later on, while i briefly explain the technology behind.
Coral Content Distribution Network
Coral is a free peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site by offering the service through some of its participating web servers where the content has been already replicated instead of pointing at the original server which may be overloaded at that time, thereby increasing the performance and meeting its volumious demand.
To use the service, one needs to first publish the site through CoralCDN. It is as simple as appending a short string to the hostname of objects' URLs. A peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server. Sites that run Coral automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it, improving its availability. Heres a snapshot of how a coralized site looks like.. notice the URL?
Using modern peer-to-peer indexing techniques, CoralCDN will efficiently find a cached object if it exists anywhere in the network, requiring that it use the origin server only to initially fetch the object once.
One of Coral's key goals is to avoid ever creating hot spots in its infrastructure.(Hot spot here means a region of a computer program where a high proportion of executed instructions occur or where most time is spent during the program's execution.) It achieves this through a novel indexing abstraction called distributed sloppy hash table (DSHT), used in peer-to-peer networking protocol like Torrentz. (Hash table is a data structure that uses a hash function to efficiently map certain identifiers or keys to its associated values.) It creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating with more distant or heavily-loaded servers.
Wayback
Almost everything is archived on the internet, in form of snapshots, caches, thumbnails etc.
Wayback is a technology used to see those archived version of the site, which people believe to be of use for future generations. It not only archives live URLs but also dead sites. One of such sites that offer wayback service is Archive-It.
Archive-It allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of born digital content, through a user friendly web application, without requiring any technical expertise or hosting facilities. Subscribers can harvest, catalog, and archive their collections, and then search and browse the collections when complete. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center, and accessible to the public with full text search.
This is a snapshot of how Google site looked on 17th January 1997.
Going to the main stream; you can find the add-on here
Technology never cease to excite me the way i am now, handling error functions are more interesting than making a bug free code. I am enjoying the privilege that i am being offered.
I can see opportunity in the errors now and not a sad face, don't you agree?
I have left programming a long time ago, yet Hope Mozilla guys are listening to me?
Coral Content Distribution Network
Coral is a free peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site by offering the service through some of its participating web servers where the content has been already replicated instead of pointing at the original server which may be overloaded at that time, thereby increasing the performance and meeting its volumious demand.
To use the service, one needs to first publish the site through CoralCDN. It is as simple as appending a short string to the hostname of objects' URLs. A peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server. Sites that run Coral automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it, improving its availability. Heres a snapshot of how a coralized site looks like.. notice the URL?
Using modern peer-to-peer indexing techniques, CoralCDN will efficiently find a cached object if it exists anywhere in the network, requiring that it use the origin server only to initially fetch the object once.
One of Coral's key goals is to avoid ever creating hot spots in its infrastructure.(Hot spot here means a region of a computer program where a high proportion of executed instructions occur or where most time is spent during the program's execution.) It achieves this through a novel indexing abstraction called distributed sloppy hash table (DSHT), used in peer-to-peer networking protocol like Torrentz. (Hash table is a data structure that uses a hash function to efficiently map certain identifiers or keys to its associated values.) It creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating with more distant or heavily-loaded servers.
Wayback
Almost everything is archived on the internet, in form of snapshots, caches, thumbnails etc.
Wayback is a technology used to see those archived version of the site, which people believe to be of use for future generations. It not only archives live URLs but also dead sites. One of such sites that offer wayback service is Archive-It.
Archive-It allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of born digital content, through a user friendly web application, without requiring any technical expertise or hosting facilities. Subscribers can harvest, catalog, and archive their collections, and then search and browse the collections when complete. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center, and accessible to the public with full text search.
This is a snapshot of how Google site looked on 17th January 1997.
Going to the main stream; you can find the add-on here
Technology never cease to excite me the way i am now, handling error functions are more interesting than making a bug free code. I am enjoying the privilege that i am being offered.
I can see opportunity in the errors now and not a sad face, don't you agree?
I have left programming a long time ago, yet Hope Mozilla guys are listening to me?
13 Dec 2009
Memory resource fix for Firefox
I am not sure if I have already written and mentioned this in my earlier Firefox hacks post. But i am writing this in the enlightenment of those people who might have been facing high utilization of memory resources while using Mozilla Firefox. Firefox being an open source project, unlike other browsers can be optimized according to users requirements. In this post, i am going to show you how the high utilization of memory resource in Mozilla can be fixed. The tools used to demonstrate this are available freely on internet and not licensed versions.
One thing you may like about Mozilla is that these settings can be saved and restored or reused on other machines if you like... say your workplace. You may save the boookmarks, links, tweak settings etc in it and send it via mail or transfer it into another machine and restore or use those settings to have the same look and feel as you are at your home.
Heres a snapshot of my memory utilization of Firefox on my machine.
Step 1: To start with, the back end source code of Mozilla can be accessed by typing "about:config" on one of the tabs. Click "OK" or "I'll be careful, I promise" depending on the version of Mozilla you use.
Step 2: Download "Mozilla Optimizer 1.6.3" from Computer Base
or you can go ahead with the optimzations yourself to save the download time from the source codes. If you want to explore using the source codes, here they are
Preference name Value/ Boolean
nglayout.initialpaint.delay 100
content.notify.ontimer true
content.notify.interval 100000
content.notify.backoffcount 5
network.http.pipelining true
network.http.proxy.pipelining true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8
network.http.max-connections 32
network.http.max-connections-per-server 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 4
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 2
To find the mentioned preference name, use the filter on top of the table and change the boolean or value as mentioned above. To save all these, you can can download the mentioned tool above and just install it once.
Now lets take a look at the performance of Firefox, attached is the snapshot below.
Step 3: (Optional) In case you are still not happy with the result, you can use one more tool to minimize that. But you should remember that this tool needs to be invoked each time you require to minimize the utilization and isn't one time activity unlike the above, which was code injected. Ensure that this tool is always when you open Firefoz, unless you wish to run it.
Search for "Firefox Ultimate Optimizer" in Google and you will find it. After running it, here is the memory utilization snapshot.
See, how easy it is. Happy hacking around.
Disclaimer: Use these tools and hacks at your own risks. I wont beheld responsible for any issues or concerns raised using these freely available tools.
One thing you may like about Mozilla is that these settings can be saved and restored or reused on other machines if you like... say your workplace. You may save the boookmarks, links, tweak settings etc in it and send it via mail or transfer it into another machine and restore or use those settings to have the same look and feel as you are at your home.
Heres a snapshot of my memory utilization of Firefox on my machine.
Step 1: To start with, the back end source code of Mozilla can be accessed by typing "about:config" on one of the tabs. Click "OK" or "I'll be careful, I promise" depending on the version of Mozilla you use.
Step 2: Download "Mozilla Optimizer 1.6.3" from Computer Baseor you can go ahead with the optimzations yourself to save the download time from the source codes. If you want to explore using the source codes, here they are
Preference name Value/ Boolean
nglayout.initialpaint.delay 100
content.notify.ontimer true
content.notify.interval 100000
content.notify.backoffcount 5
network.http.pipelining true
network.http.proxy.pipelining true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8
network.http.max-connections 32
network.http.max-connections-per-server 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 4
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 2
To find the mentioned preference name, use the filter on top of the table and change the boolean or value as mentioned above. To save all these, you can can download the mentioned tool above and just install it once.
Now lets take a look at the performance of Firefox, attached is the snapshot below.
Step 3: (Optional) In case you are still not happy with the result, you can use one more tool to minimize that. But you should remember that this tool needs to be invoked each time you require to minimize the utilization and isn't one time activity unlike the above, which was code injected. Ensure that this tool is always when you open Firefoz, unless you wish to run it.
Search for "Firefox Ultimate Optimizer" in Google and you will find it. After running it, here is the memory utilization snapshot.
See, how easy it is. Happy hacking around.
Disclaimer: Use these tools and hacks at your own risks. I wont beheld responsible for any issues or concerns raised using these freely available tools.
7 Dec 2009
Adobe Acrobat 9: First look
When i saw the tutorial video of Adobe Acrobat 9, it was like.. woooooowwww!!
I mean, i never had imagined that a PDF would have Videos, interactive Flash files or any other external files to be embedded in it! I mean, what the heck man! Its like an OS without any compatibility issues to any known software or hardware.
I am still to get the software and lay my hands on it. Maybe i can tune in MS Office 2010 and save it as PDF. I did not know, all these could be so much fun! Now i can make interactive resumes .. with videos and snapshots of what i want to show the employer.
Let me get back to you soon with my copy. Watch this space for review on the same.
For more information check here.
I mean, i never had imagined that a PDF would have Videos, interactive Flash files or any other external files to be embedded in it! I mean, what the heck man! Its like an OS without any compatibility issues to any known software or hardware.
I am still to get the software and lay my hands on it. Maybe i can tune in MS Office 2010 and save it as PDF. I did not know, all these could be so much fun! Now i can make interactive resumes .. with videos and snapshots of what i want to show the employer.
Let me get back to you soon with my copy. Watch this space for review on the same.
For more information check here.
A breif review on Microsoft Office 2010, Beta version
For those who wants to work on beer, MS Office 2010 maybe the right choice. Its still in Beta phase and yet to be released but available for use on Microsoft site. You will be provided a license key for the product to be used for some time until its official launch soon.
I would say, i was very impressed with the much much lighter version of MS Office. Whereas it would have taken me minutes to load a 1 lac row Excel, it took me few seconds for Office 2010 to load the same. There are a few additional features wrt formulaes and intefaces more smoother.
Heres a brief based on my review:
Interface: 7/10
Ease of use: 8/10
Performance: 9/10
Additional features: 4/10
Recoverability: 8/10
I guess very less features remain to be explored in Excel. I havent tried other office suites extensively, but i assure you that you will be happy with the interface. Happy exploring
I would say, i was very impressed with the much much lighter version of MS Office. Whereas it would have taken me minutes to load a 1 lac row Excel, it took me few seconds for Office 2010 to load the same. There are a few additional features wrt formulaes and intefaces more smoother.
Heres a brief based on my review:
Interface: 7/10
Ease of use: 8/10
Performance: 9/10
Additional features: 4/10
Recoverability: 8/10
I guess very less features remain to be explored in Excel. I havent tried other office suites extensively, but i assure you that you will be happy with the interface. Happy exploring
Life needs a change!
I have been in my blues, not 'coz someone said shit about my performance but because of the shit package i have been beginning to develop to worry about. Initially, maybe because there was less liabilities, it went fine for me. But with each passing day, i do realize that i do not make half the money my credit card bills me! Am i supposed to ward the credit cards off and stay aloof in my apartment watching some fabulous places like Dubai or States; or earn enough to bear the costs?
I do believe that while the former seems rational with the existing condition i am in, it wont run long way as a solution. So now i am looking for a change in my career, for growth - yes, definitely maybe for more credit cards to fill in the pockets !
Inability to sustain in life could not be more frustrating! I needed some change. So finally, this sunday i decided, if not my life.. at least my lifestyle.
Finally i revamped the looks of my farm at Farmville in Facebook.
Well i guess, i got some satisfaction for some time.
I do believe that while the former seems rational with the existing condition i am in, it wont run long way as a solution. So now i am looking for a change in my career, for growth - yes, definitely maybe for more credit cards to fill in the pockets !
Inability to sustain in life could not be more frustrating! I needed some change. So finally, this sunday i decided, if not my life.. at least my lifestyle.
Finally i revamped the looks of my farm at Farmville in Facebook.
Well i guess, i got some satisfaction for some time.
A breif review on Microsoft Office 2010, Beta version
For those who wants to work on beer, MS Office 2010 maybe the right choice. Its still in Beta phase and yet to be released but available for use on Microsoft site. You will be provided a license key for the product to be used for some time until its official launch soon.
I would say, i was very impressed with the much much lighter version of MS Office. Whereas it would have taken me minutes to load a 1 lac row Excel, it took me few seconds for Office 2010 to load the same. There are a few additional features wrt formulaes and intefaces more smoother.
Heres a brief based on my review:
Interface: 7/10
Ease of use: 8/10
Performance: 9/10
Additional features: 4/10
Recoverability: 8/10
I guess very less features remain to be explored in Excel. I havent tried other office suites extensively, but i assure you that you will be happy with the interface. Happy exploring
I would say, i was very impressed with the much much lighter version of MS Office. Whereas it would have taken me minutes to load a 1 lac row Excel, it took me few seconds for Office 2010 to load the same. There are a few additional features wrt formulaes and intefaces more smoother.
Heres a brief based on my review:
Interface: 7/10
Ease of use: 8/10
Performance: 9/10
Additional features: 4/10
Recoverability: 8/10
I guess very less features remain to be explored in Excel. I havent tried other office suites extensively, but i assure you that you will be happy with the interface. Happy exploring
7 Aug 2009
Some lessons from work life
The more i spend my days at work, the more do i begin to ponder on the thought process of others. There were many things which i have learnt from the work life...some of the few things/mistakes which i realized and learnt are as follows...
1)Expecting more than you deserve
I was extracting data for making report, when i realized at some point that, if i had the absolute power and control over the data; i can manage to provide the same at ease. At one point of time, i expressed my desire to have total control of the data..to which a senior smiled and said... "i like the way you think but..its not possible..its how the process is meant to be." Later i realized what i was demanding. Its been just more than a year now, and i am demanding total control of something which i do not deserve yet. I have to earn it myself instead of demanding. Thats the way how life is
2) Think different from others
The printer cartridge had run out of toner ink a few days back, to which none of the hundreds of employees in my floor have raised a question or try to address the issue; nor anyone have raised the stationary requirement for the toner. I had to get some printouts and hence i sent a copy of the file to my senior and went to his place for the printout. He denied saying, "why haven't you addressed the issue or brought the issue to the Admins notice?". I replied back saying, there are some 700 employees in my floor who need to print on daily basis, and yet they haven't address the same yet.. so why should i? And even if i do, the next time..people will expect me to do the same again and again. My senior said, "you don't have a right to raise that question because you have never tried to resolve the issue. If you had raised the issue even once to the admin, you can say that i had taken up the issue last time; why don't you guys do anything?" It was a lesson learnt in a happy way, i guess.
3) Never point out others mistake, even if you know hes wrong
There are challenges everywhere in day to-day work life. Nones perfect and many of them are not knowledgeable as much as some are. There are times when you know that the other person is wrong, not in terms of his actions but in terms of his knowledge and understanding. No matter how much you try, some are hard to crack. Once i had a heated argument with a person from another team and there was escalations happening at higher level. And then my senior came to my desk to ask what the matter was. I explained to him, as he listened calmly..and he replied.. "do not point out mistakes in others even though u know he is. Listen to what he says, try to understand how he interprets the issue. Once you know how he thinks, explain to him in his own words..and he will surely understand." Well, you know what..he called up the guy and talked to him for a few minutes and the issue was resolved in minutes.
4) Never think that others will understand the way you do
I was preparing MIS report once again, and i was providing it in Excel with the original data in a format, derived data in another format etc..sort of mixed. I sent it to my senior for finalizing the report. He asked me some points like.. what is this data.. what is that data.. whys is this.. why is that and all...i replied him all.. He wanted me to change the data be consistent to make sure that there is no confusion. He said, "do you think seniors have enough time to see all these 100+ odd rows ?"; and asked me to consolidate the data to have a simple dashboard highlighting special areas of interest. The data interpretation part was more time consuming than the data extraction part, but believe me.. i was rather contented with myself at the end. Because at the EOD, if someone send me a data in a dashboard without all the details which are not required at extent, i would be much pleased and happy.
I hope more points will come up.. as i interact closely with the management each passing day.
1)Expecting more than you deserve
I was extracting data for making report, when i realized at some point that, if i had the absolute power and control over the data; i can manage to provide the same at ease. At one point of time, i expressed my desire to have total control of the data..to which a senior smiled and said... "i like the way you think but..its not possible..its how the process is meant to be." Later i realized what i was demanding. Its been just more than a year now, and i am demanding total control of something which i do not deserve yet. I have to earn it myself instead of demanding. Thats the way how life is
2) Think different from others
The printer cartridge had run out of toner ink a few days back, to which none of the hundreds of employees in my floor have raised a question or try to address the issue; nor anyone have raised the stationary requirement for the toner. I had to get some printouts and hence i sent a copy of the file to my senior and went to his place for the printout. He denied saying, "why haven't you addressed the issue or brought the issue to the Admins notice?". I replied back saying, there are some 700 employees in my floor who need to print on daily basis, and yet they haven't address the same yet.. so why should i? And even if i do, the next time..people will expect me to do the same again and again. My senior said, "you don't have a right to raise that question because you have never tried to resolve the issue. If you had raised the issue even once to the admin, you can say that i had taken up the issue last time; why don't you guys do anything?" It was a lesson learnt in a happy way, i guess.
3) Never point out others mistake, even if you know hes wrong
There are challenges everywhere in day to-day work life. Nones perfect and many of them are not knowledgeable as much as some are. There are times when you know that the other person is wrong, not in terms of his actions but in terms of his knowledge and understanding. No matter how much you try, some are hard to crack. Once i had a heated argument with a person from another team and there was escalations happening at higher level. And then my senior came to my desk to ask what the matter was. I explained to him, as he listened calmly..and he replied.. "do not point out mistakes in others even though u know he is. Listen to what he says, try to understand how he interprets the issue. Once you know how he thinks, explain to him in his own words..and he will surely understand." Well, you know what..he called up the guy and talked to him for a few minutes and the issue was resolved in minutes.
4) Never think that others will understand the way you do
I was preparing MIS report once again, and i was providing it in Excel with the original data in a format, derived data in another format etc..sort of mixed. I sent it to my senior for finalizing the report. He asked me some points like.. what is this data.. what is that data.. whys is this.. why is that and all...i replied him all.. He wanted me to change the data be consistent to make sure that there is no confusion. He said, "do you think seniors have enough time to see all these 100+ odd rows ?"; and asked me to consolidate the data to have a simple dashboard highlighting special areas of interest. The data interpretation part was more time consuming than the data extraction part, but believe me.. i was rather contented with myself at the end. Because at the EOD, if someone send me a data in a dashboard without all the details which are not required at extent, i would be much pleased and happy.
I hope more points will come up.. as i interact closely with the management each passing day.
2 Aug 2009
Why Mumbai is a place for everyone!
Besides few reasons why i hate Mumbai, there are millions of reason why i like Mumbai.
One of the most important reason is that people here are CIVILIZED. If the definition of civilized people differs from yours, you better redefine yours. One best example would be one which was told to me by my friend in Bangalore. His friend got a call on his number one night and the caller said that his other friend is drunk and lying on the roadside.. and gave the proper address so that he can take him home. When his friends ask him who he was, he said he is a thief and taking away his mobile and wallet. Dont take me wrong, there is a thief in everyone of us. But this thief was polite enough to let his friend know that his friend needs help, besides helping himself with the money and mobile.
People follow rules here. If you see a board which says Queue, people form a queue. People stop at traffic lights, even when there is no vehicles from the opposite end. People know their rights and stand up to fight for the same, they stop by to ask if we are lost when we are...the auto walas will take us to anywhere in Mumbai taking the Best possible route and not try to cheat... Impressive enough!!
One of the most important reason is that people here are CIVILIZED. If the definition of civilized people differs from yours, you better redefine yours. One best example would be one which was told to me by my friend in Bangalore. His friend got a call on his number one night and the caller said that his other friend is drunk and lying on the roadside.. and gave the proper address so that he can take him home. When his friends ask him who he was, he said he is a thief and taking away his mobile and wallet. Dont take me wrong, there is a thief in everyone of us. But this thief was polite enough to let his friend know that his friend needs help, besides helping himself with the money and mobile.
People follow rules here. If you see a board which says Queue, people form a queue. People stop at traffic lights, even when there is no vehicles from the opposite end. People know their rights and stand up to fight for the same, they stop by to ask if we are lost when we are...the auto walas will take us to anywhere in Mumbai taking the Best possible route and not try to cheat... Impressive enough!!
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