Oracle and more – Amardeep Sidhu

“Stupid managers” always make a wonderful topic for discussion among technical folks. I created a simple poll to see how many people think that they have a stupid manager (immediate supervisor). Please take a moment to click Yes or No. Lets see what is the ratio of good to bad managers in our industry !

After pretty long time, I logged in to one of my oldest Yahoo mail account to check for a mail. It logged me in successfully but threw a bloody message “Your account have been de-activated and all your stuff has been deleted”. It was my first internet email account. I stopped using it long time back as Gmail almost compeletly replaced Yahoo but i am still a regular user of Yahoo messenger and use this account to login. Being the first account there was so much of information stored there. I lost it all . Someone not touching yahoo at all can be told that he didn’t use Yahoo services for long but being a regular user of Yahoo messenger its so sad to lose everything like this .

Previously also, on my personal blog, i wrote about performance of DishTV’s website. Today again i opened the website to recharge my account. And oh yes it didn’t  let me click any link in IE8, Firefox or Chrome. Then i uninstalled IE8 and finally it worked in IE6. After logging in, the very first message it flashed was that to ensure your security you should change your password every 15 days and it was the time to do so. I entered the same password again and thank God, it didn’t accept it (Then i removed one letter from the end, and it accepted it   ).  So i was done with the log in to enjoy the terrible experience. Website sucks completely as i wrote previously also. Just accidentally this time i concentrated on the security. Here are some screen shots from different pages of the website. See for yourself, security unlimited !

The website runs on 202.46.200.213 and this particular page was last modified on 25-04-2009

This one on 19-02-2009

Again this one on 25-04-2009

Oh…this one lies in the root

I am neither a hacker nor a web developer but can clearly see the standard of the website. Zee Group, one of the biggest in India, i guess can’t have a proper website for their service. Bullshit !

On the wall just outside my office. Who says there is recession ?

Aman just called me to ask if i could search for anything in Google and then go to any website from there ? I checked and oh no: it won’t let you go ! What did it say just follows:

After a min or so, it was ok. Glad we are safe