Wiered Mails

inspirational

akanhere — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:19:20 +0000

This was narrated by an IAF pilot to IIT students during a Seminar on Human Relations:

Venkatesh Balasubramaniam (who works for IIT) describes
how his gesture of booking an air ticket for his father, his maiden
flight, brought forth a rush of emotions and made him (Venkatesh)
realize that how much we all take for granted when it comes to our parents.

My parents left for our native place on Thursday and we
went to the airport to see them off. In fact, my father had never
traveled by air before, so I just took this opportunity to make him
experience the same. In spite of being asked to book tickets by train,

I got them tickets on Jet Airways. The moment I handed over the tickets

to him, he was surprised to see that I had booked them by air. The
excitement was very apparent on his face, waiting for the time of
travel. Just like a school boy, he was preparing himself on that day and
we all went to the airport, right from using the trolley for his
luggage, the baggage check-in and asking for a window seat and waiting
restlessly for the security check-in to happen. He was thoroughly
enjoying himself and I, too, was overcome with joy watching him
experience all these things.

As they were about to go in for the security check-in,
he walked up to me with tears in his eyes and thanked me. He became very
emotional and it was not as if I had done something great but the fact
that this meant a great deal to him.

When he said thanks, I told him there was no need to
thank me. But later, thinking about the entire incident, I looked back
at my life. As a child, how many dreams our parents have made come true.

Without understanding the financial situation, we ask for cricket bats,
dresses, toys, outings, etc. Irrespective of their affordability, they
have catered to all our needs. Did we ever think about the sacrifices

they had to make to accommodate many of our wishes? Did we ever say
thanks for all that they have done for us? Same way, today when it comes
to our children, we always think that we should put them in a good
school. Regardless of the amount of donation, we will ensure that we
will have to give the child the best, theme parks, toys, etc. But we
tend to forget that our parents have sacrificed a lot for our sake to
see us happy, so it is our responsibility to ensure that their dreams
are realized and what they failed to see when they were young. It is our
responsibility to ensure that they experience all those and their life is complete.

Many times, when my parents had asked me some questions,
I have actually answered back without patience. When my daughter asks me
something, I have been very polite in answering. Now I realize how they
would have felt at those moments.

Let us realize that old age is a second childhood and
just as we take care of our children, the same attention and same care
needs to be given to our parents and elders. Rather than my dad saying

thank you to me, I would want to say sorry for making him wait so long
for this small dream. I do realize how much he has sacrificed for my
sake and I will do my best to give the best possible attention to all their wishes.

Just because they are old does not mean that they will
have to give up everything and keep sacrificing for their grandchildren
also. They have wishes, too.

Take care of your parents. THEY ARE PRECIOUS.

Essay on Cow

akanhere — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:15:39 +0000

AAJ TAK Sabse Tez

akanhere — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:14:26 +0000

The year is 2020 and India’s much awaited MAN-ON-THE-MOON mission is successful. The first Indian astronaut lands on the moon. The moment he steps his foot on moon he is shocked to see 2 Indians already present on the moon.

The astronaut asks them : “Who are u?”

Reply:

“Cameraman Santosh ke saath main Deepak Chourasiya……AAJ TAK“

Swine Flu

akanhere — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:10:06 +0000

Before and After Swine Flu

Champu ki Kahaani

akanhere — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:05:39 +0000

Pareshaan thi Champu ki wife

Non-happening thi jo uski life

Champu ko na milta tha aaram

Office main karta kaam hi kaam

Champu ke boss bhi the bade cool

Promotion ko har baar jate the bhul

Par bhulte nahi the wo deadline

Kaam to karwate the roz till nine

Champu bhi banna chata tha best

Isliye to wo nahi karta tha rest

Din raat karta wo boss ki gulami

Onsite ke ummid main deta salami

Din guzre aur guzre fir saal

Bura hota gaya Champu ka haal

Champu ko ab kuch yaad na rehta tha

Galti se Biwi ko Behenji kehta tha

Aakhir ek din Champu ko samjh aaya

Aur chod di usne Onsite ki moh maya

Boss se bola, “Tum kyon satate ho ?”

“Onsite ke laddu se buddu banate ho”

“Promotion do warna chala jaunga”

“Onsite dene par bhi wapis na aunga”

Boss haans ke bola “Nahi koi baat”

“Abhi aur bhi Champus hai mere paas”

“Yeh duniya Champuon se bhari hai”

“Sabko bas aage badhne ki padi hai”

“Tum na karoge to kisi aur se karunga”

“Tumhari tarah Ek aur Champu banaunga”

Pareshaan thi Champu ki wife

Non-happening thi jo uski life

Champu ko na milta tha aaram

Office main karta kaam hi kaam

Champu ke boss bhi the bade cool

Promotion ko har baar jate the bhul

Par bhulte nahi the wo deadline

Kaam to karwate the roz till nine

Champu bhi banna chata tha best

Isliye to wo nahi karta tha rest

Din raat karta wo boss ki gulami

Onsite ke ummid main deta salami

Din guzre aur guzre fir saal

Bura hota gaya Champu ka haal

Champu ko ab kuch yaad na rehta tha

Galti se Biwi ko Behenji kehta tha

Aakhir ek din Champu ko samjh aaya

Aur chod di usne Onsite ki moh maya

Boss se bola, “Tum kyon satate ho ?”

“Onsite ke laddu se buddu banate ho”

“Promotion do warna chala jaunga”

“Onsite dene par bhi wapis na aunga”

Boss haans ke bola “Nahi koi baat”

“Abhi aur bhi Champus hai mere paas”

“Yeh duniya Champuon se bhari hai”

“Sabko bas aage badhne ki padi hai”

“Tum na karoge to kisi aur se karunga”

“Tumhari tarah Ek aur Champu banaunga”

Hello world!

akanhere — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:48:51 +0000

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

From NH-75 With Love

akanhere — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:43:00 +0000

It’s 4:56 AM and cannot sleep any more. I am in an Engineering institue since yesterday, to mentor Third and Final Year students.

People are good, the students and staff here are very friendly. The place where I have been put is great… (I will put up thoughts and pictures as soon as I get back to Pune.

(By the way, NH-75 stands for National Highway 75, India.)

Radio Interface Layer – Getting CellTowerID, Location Area Code on Windows Mobile (Part III)

akanhere — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:41:00 +0000

I have made huge modifications to the RIL Wrapper Code. Although

As usual all conditions and disclaimers imply. No rights

And lastly, sorry for not including any code comments. Please

[FieldOffset(4)]

public uint dwParams;

[FieldOffset(8)]

public uint dwMobileCountryCode;

[FieldOffset(12)]

public uint dwMobileNetworkCode;

[FieldOffset(16)]

public uint dwLocationAreaCode;

[FieldOffset(20)]

public uint dwCellID;

[FieldOffset(24)]

public uint dwBaseStationID;

[FieldOffset(28)]

public uint dwBroadcastControlChannel;

[FieldOffset(32)]

public uint dwRxLevel;

[FieldOffset(36)]

public uint dwRxLevelFull;

[FieldOffset(40)]

public uint dwRxLevelSub;

[FieldOffset(44)]

public uint dwRxQuality;

[FieldOffset(48)]

public uint dwRxQualityFull;

[FieldOffset(52)]

public uint dwRxQualitySub;

[FieldOffset(56)]

public uint dwIdleTimeSlot;

[FieldOffset(60)]

public uint dwTimingAdvance;

}

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[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]

private class RILOPERATORNAMES

{

public int cbSize;

public int dwParams;

[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 0x20)]

public byte[] szLongName;

[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 0x10)]

public byte[] szShortName;

[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 0x10)]

public byte[] szNumName;

[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 8)]

public byte[] szCountryCode;

}

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[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]

private class RILSIGNALQUALITY

{

[FieldOffset(0)]

uint dwSize;

[FieldOffset(4)]

uint dwParams;

[FieldOffset(8)]

public int nSignalStrength;

[FieldOffset(12)]

int nMinSignalStrength;

[FieldOffset(16)]

int nMaxSignalStrength;

[FieldOffset(20)]

uint dwBitErrorRate;

[FieldOffset(24)]

int nLowSignalStrength;

[FieldOffset(28)]

int nHighSignalStrength;

}

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#endregion

#region Ctor

public RILWrapperClass()

{

waitHandle = new AutoResetEvent(false);

for (int i = 0; i

bHoistFlag[i] = false;

//stopWorker = false;

//count = 0;

cellData = new CellData();

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//Initialize the property and keep it ready for consumption

CellularData = Run();

}

~RILWrapperClass()

{

}

#endregion

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private CellData Run()

{

//Initialize RIL

hRilInitializeRet = RIL_Initialize(1, new RILRESULTCALLBACK(RilResultCallback), new RILNOTIFYCALLBACK(RilNotifyCallback), RIL_NCLASS_FUNCRESULT | RIL_NCLASS_NETWORK | RIL_NCLASS_MISC | RIL_NCLASS_RADIOSTATE, 0, out hRilHandle);

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//If FAILED then QUIT

if (hRilInitializeRet == IntPtr.Zero)

{ //Send All RIL Commands

this.SendRILCommands();

//wait for events

waitHandle.WaitOne();

Debug.WriteLine(“THREAD RUNNING”);

}

return cellData;

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}

private void SendRILCommands()

{

try

{

//if handle RilGetCellTowerInfo is 0 then fire this function

//then fire RilGetCurrentOperator … etc

if (hRilGetCellTowerInfoRet == IntPtr.Zero)

hRilGetCellTowerInfoRet = RIL_GetCellTowerInfo(hRilHandle);

if (hRilGetCurrentOperatorRet == IntPtr.Zero)

hRilGetCurrentOperatorRet = RIL_GetCurrentOperator(hRilHandle, RIL_OPFORMAT_NUM);

if (hRilGetSignalQualityRet == IntPtr.Zero)

hRilGetSignalQualityRet = RIL_GetSignalQuality(hRilHandle);

if (hRilGetCurrentSystemTypeRet == IntPtr.Zero)

hRilGetCurrentSystemTypeRet = IntPtr.Zero; //TODO: Add the System Type Info here

}

catch (Exception ec)

{

Debug.WriteLine(ec.Message);

}

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public CellData CellularData

{

get

{

return cellData;

}

set

{

cellData = value;

}

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private void RilResultCallback(uint dwCode, IntPtr hrCmdID, IntPtr lpData, uint cbData, uint dwParam)

{

try

{

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if (hrCmdID == hRilGetCellTowerInfoRet)

{

hRilGetCellTowerInfoRet = IntPtr.Zero;

RILCELLTOWERINFO _cellInfo = (RILCELLTOWERINFO)Marshal.PtrToStructure(lpData, typeof(RILCELLTOWERINFO));

Debug.WriteLine(_cellInfo.dwCellID.ToString(), “cellid”);

Debug.WriteLine(_cellInfo.dwLocationAreaCode, “cellid”);

if (Convert.ToBoolean(_cellInfo.dwParams & RIL_PARAM_CTI_TIMINGADVANCE))

{

cellData.timingAdvance = (int)_cellInfo.dwTimingAdvance;

}

if (Convert.ToBoolean(_cellInfo.dwParams & RIL_PARAM_CTI_CELLID))

{

cellData.cellid = (int)_cellInfo.dwCellID;

}

if (Convert.ToBoolean(_cellInfo.dwParams & RIL_PARAM_CTI_LOCATIONAREACODE))

{

cellData.locationAreaCode = (int)_cellInfo.dwLocationAreaCode;

}

bHoistFlag[0] = true;

}

else if (hrCmdID == hRilGetCurrentOperatorRet)

{

try

{

hRilGetCurrentOperatorRet = IntPtr.Zero;

RILOPERATORNAMES _operatorNames = (RILOPERATORNAMES)Marshal.PtrToStructure(lpData, typeof(RILOPERATORNAMES));

if (Convert.ToBoolean(RIL_PARAM_ON_NUMNAME & _operatorNames.dwParams))

{

cellData.mobileCountryCode = Convert.ToInt32(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(_operatorNames.szNumName, 0, 3));

cellData.mobileNetworkCode = Convert.ToInt32(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(_operatorNames.szNumName, 3, 2));

}

bHoistFlag[1] = true;

}

catch (Exception ec)

{

Debug.WriteLine(ec.Message);

Debug.WriteLine(ec.InnerException);

}

else if (hrCmdID == hRilGetSignalQualityRet)

{

hRilGetSignalQualityRet = IntPtr.Zero;

RILSIGNALQUALITY _signalQuality = (RILSIGNALQUALITY)Marshal.PtrToStructure(lpData, typeof(RILSIGNALQUALITY));

cellData.radioSignalStrength = _signalQuality.nSignalStrength;

bHoistFlag[2] = true;

}

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if (bHoistFlag[0] && bHoistFlag[1] && bHoistFlag[2])

{

waitHandle.Set();

for (int i = 0; i

bHoistFlag[i] = false;

}

catch (Exception exc)

{

Debug.WriteLine(exc.Message + “ResultError”);

Debug.WriteLine(exc.StackTrace);

} } private static void RilNotifyCallback(uint dwCode, IntPtr lpData, uint cbData, uint dwParam) { //Don’t need this } } public class CellData { public int cellid { get; set; } public int locationAreaCode { get; set; } public int mobileCountryCode { get; set; } public int mobileNetworkCode { get; set; } public int age { get; set; } public int radioSignalStrength { get; set; } public int timingAdvance { get; set; } public RadioType radioType { get; set; } public string carrierName { get; set; } } public enum RadioType { RADIO_TYPE_UNKNOWN, RADIO_TYPE_GSM, RADIO_TYPE_CDMA, RADIO_TYPE_WCDMA, }; new';">
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The idea is to form a group of like minded people who can share ideas and collaborate together for Windows Mobile development in Pune. Post any queries / interest in comments to this post.

FoneFind – Stuck in a problem

akanhere — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:52:00 +0000

It is just not happening. I have restructured the entire code for FoneFind and now I am stuck in between.

The problem being that the registry key of state and notification broker gets automatically deleted most of the times. I do not know why. I have a hole in my head becuase of scratching it for a long time. Anyway for now I have added the promised feature of sending the Cell Data as SMS to the registered number and also sending it continuously, once the application detects a SIM change.

But unless this problem gets resolved and app behavior gets reliable, we need to wait. But it wont be too late and I hope I get some clue on this problem by today.