Saturday, June 11, 2005

$$$: 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?

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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
:)

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Welcome to Chandralekha

Chandralekha: Chandra's Lekha
A letter from me to the reader/viewer/visitor.
Here you will find my ideas, useful links etc.. etc..

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