Rant: How come some companies hate Internet-1

Sorry!!! I am no longer having access to my blog from my office. The big brother is bit paranoid and cut access to all Web sites. Well !!! that is the reason for this rant. How come some copanies hate Internet?
My company pays me to do work. They have every right to deny the Internet. While they say how "not browsing the internet" improves the company productivity, I have my own reasons to say how it helps me.
1.Internet helps me to do my work easily. For example, I copy my code from google groups half the time. Am I not saving bunch of money for my employer, since he/she need not pay for the training?
2. Can you be really secure by not connecting to the outside world? If that is the case we should all live in the islands all by ourseleves. Even the concept of family/ society have to be redefined. Ain't it?
3. Do we really save time by not allowing the internet? Well I spend time in chatting with the team mates.. my coffee breaks have become longer..

Hey all the above reasons are null and void. Since at the end of the month my company pays for my bills. So..

Tech: dotnetnuke

Last month I was invited by one of my friends to attend a .NET user group where a user presented very good things about the dotnetnuke. It seems to be quite appealing. I ate the pizza and enjoyed the presentation.
Came back to home and decided to try the "dnn" thingy.
Down loaded it and tried configuring. First time it took five hours to configure. Because the documentation is not that helpful and user forums had more questions than the answers. SO what the heck. Tried it anyway.

Now I want to do this:
1. Have a portal with xyz.com
2. Have another portal with abc.com
3. Both would use one dnn configuration. I do not want to consume the the hosting space by installing another configuration
4. Use the same SQL server database. My hosting provides me only one database.

Any ideas how this can be achieved??????????

$$$: Fidelity Four-in-one index fund

I am at dilemma. It seems I am going to owe awful lot of money to uncle Sam. Ok... It's awful lot from my standards. May be peanuts for you...
I was suggested...
1. Have dependents ( Hey!!! I am working diligently)
2. Buy a house ( Do you listen to the NPR news.. The bubble is going to burst... I am waiting for it)
3. Increase my 401K retirement contribution

S0, I was suggested by Fidelity advisor to look for Fidelity Four-in-One ticker symbol : FFNOX

Will it be another fiasco for me or will it be a fortune?

Tech: FileNET to be or Not to be

We are going to make a transition from COM based FileNET interface to Java based API called ISRA. Its more of a managerial decision than a technical one. How stongly FilNET supports Java. Two days back they were ALL Microsoft , Today they are all Java . Will post you the updates
:)

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Tech: Unix utilities for Windows32

Hi all,

Recently I had to do file comparison on Windows. Its quite simple. Take a text file pick each line( record) and check in the other file if it is there. My friends suggested touse winmerge(??) to do thisUnfortunately I needed a standalone script to do this. I could write a brute-force program to pick each record and search on the other file. My COBOL wayof doing this. But I was lazy and wanted a ready to use script.Ultimately I had to write a Korn script on unix to do this. So I had to FTP my files from windows and do this on my unix box. What a pain!!!
During my search I thought how would it be, if we got all our unix utilities on Windows?After a day's googling ( Now this is considered as verb in the junkies world) Voila.... I found this interesting link.
GNU utilities for Win32
Cool.. Ain't it?
Caveat: Do not ask me how to use it. I just found it and wanted to share with y'all