Geo targeting

With regional/geographical information, one can decide most relevant ads to show website visitor.
Internet user can be identified by many different geographic characteristics as follows.
IP,Company Name, Domain Name, Area Code, State/Region, Zip,Code,Country,Domain Type, City.
I can track your visit to this page - see your IP and geo details ;)





how it works ? I will write about it later.

Running 'rmiregistry' as Windows service

I wanted to configure JMeter for remote testing ( configuring master-slave model ), jmeter uses Remote Method Invocation (RMI) as the remote communication mechanism.

To run jmeter as slave on remote machine - i wanted to make jmeter and rmi as windows services. windows utilities failed to make rmi application as windows service.
I wrote following Java code and resulting class file is used to create rmi windows service - using Java Service Wrapper.

public class RMI{public static void main(String args[]) throws
Exception{ Object obj = new Object();
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rmiregistry"); synchronized(obj)
{ obj.wait(); }}}

only issue with this program is - when you stop windows RMI service, rmiregistry process is not
getting killed. Also you need to be careful about using ports 1099 for other applications running on the system, because rmiregistry uses port *1099* as default port.

I will post on "how to configure jmeter master slave model" soon...

Adding hit counter in your blog/website

http://statcounter.com provides excellent way to keep count and track of visitors to your website/blog each day. Statcounter also provides you summery, came from, visit length, visitor map etc. Even you can hide hit counter from your website/blog visitor ;)

Hero Honda - HUNK 150cc Bike

Last month I brought Hero Honda Hunk, because of my personality I am forced to buy this bike. its "all muscle bike" - 150 cc powerful engine but not noisy at all. it has excellent handling and to be noticeable its smooth riding.

I am only upset with its
1. its gear system - it might harm you polished shoes look.
2. Switches - switches are not smooth to operate.
3. Heavy weight - this is expected from 150 cc bike

I think these are all minor factors, my only expectation is smooth/comfortable riding with better power and control.

Configuring Netgear WGR614v8 Router with WiMax

One can configure NETGEAR router with Reliance WiMax broadband using following procedure.

In Basic settings tab ( Netger configuration console ) make sure you have following -
1. Radio button 'No' should be selected for "Does Your Internet Connection Require A Login?"
2. Domain name - reliancebroadband.co.in
3. Account information - your login id (not needed)
4. Internet IP address - Get Dynamically From ISP must be checked
5. Domain Name Server (DNS) Address
to know about reliance DNS address - you need to directly connect reliance broadband ( using laptop/PC ) and use ipconfig to know DNS addresses - note first two DNS addresses, go back to routers basic settings - and populate DNS primary and secondary fields.
6. Router MAC Address - select computers MAC address
7. Click on apply - wait till router finishes its configuration.
8. Switch off router and modem
9. Restart your modem wait for 2 minutes , poweron router and wait for few minutes.
10. In Routers configuration - Router status tab - you should see router has acquired IP address and subnet mask. if you dont see any ip address assigned - wait for few more minutes.

Today ( 27^th Oct 2006 ) is my last day at Sun Microsystems Inc, it was very tough decision for me. As I am emotionally attached with company, product and people. I had very good learning at Sun, it includes - technology - people management etc. During this tenure I met many great people ( I will write about them - some time later ).

Now - choice is between package, designation, work and technology. What should I choose so that it will help me to progress in my career - Work and technology ?