My Life in America - Karthik Upadrasta

Economy - Abbreviations

2007-11-19T10:30:00.000-05:00

Here are some abbreviations used in the capital market. Recently, I started reading a book called "How the Economy works" by Edmund A.Mennis. These abbreviations are from the same book:

BEA - Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S Depart
CBO - Congressional Budget Office
CPI - Comsumer Price Index
ERP - Economic Report of the President
FOMC - Federal Open Market Committee
FRB - Federal Reserve Board
GDI - Gross Domestic Income
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GNP - Gross National Product
IMF - International Monetary Fund
NIPA - National Income and Product Accounts
OASI - Old Age and Survivors Insurance
OMB - Office of Management and Budget
OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
PPI - Producers Price Index
SCB - Survey of Current Business

Brochevaru evaru ra

2007-11-18T09:36:00.001-05:00

Brochevarevaru ra
Brochevarevarura
Broche vaaru evaru ra

brO cEvAr evarurA

From: http://www.carnatic.com/www/?why=dev

rAga : khamAs tAla : Adi, 2-kAla caukkam
Composer: Mysore vasudEvAcArya Language: telugu
Standard transliteration scheme.

pallavi

brO cEvAr evarurA? ninu vinA, raghuvarA! nannu
nI caraNAmbujamunulE vidajAla karuNAla vAla

anupallavi

O caturAnanAdi vandita nIkuparA kElanaiyA
nI caritamulanu pOgaTalEni nA cinta tIrci varamulichi vEgamE

citta svaram

sa sa ni da pa da ni sa ni ni da da pa ma pA da ma ga ma pa da
ni

sa nI da pa ma ni dA pa ma ga ma pa da ma ga ri sa sa mA ga
ma pa da mA

pa da ni sa

sa ri nI ni ni sa dA da da ni pA da ma pa da ni sa ni da pa ma ga

ma ni da ni pa da

mA pa da ni sa mA ga ri sa ri sa ni da pa sa ni da pa ma ga ma
pa da ni

charaNam

sitApatE nApai nIkabhimAnamu lEdA?
vAtAtmajA shR.tapAdA! nA moralAnu vinarAda

Aturamukha karirAjuni brocina vAsudEvuDe nIvugadA
nA pAtakamella pOgOtti gattiga nAchEyi baTTi viDuvaka
=========================================================
Meaning:
**********
Pallavi:
brOcEvArevarurA (who will save)
ninu vina (other than you)
raghuvara (descendent of raghu - rAma in this case)
nanu (me)
Who will save me other than you Oh descendent of Raghu.

Anupallavi:
nee (your) caraNAmbujamula (lotus like feet)
nE viDajAla (I can't leave)
karuNAlavAla (oh treasure of mercy)
I can't leave your lotus like feet Oh treasure of mercy.

CaraNam 1:
O caturAna Adi vandita (Oh, the one who is worshipped by brahma and
others)
catura + Anana (the one with four faces = brahma)
Adi (starting from or others)
vandita (worshipped)
neeku (to you)
parAkElanayya (parAku Elanu ayya = why aloofness, oh father)
"ayyaa" literally means father, but is used to address a male in general
Oh, the one who is worshipped by great ones starting from brahma, why
are you so aloof? You are the only one who can save me. If you yourself
show aloofness, what can I do?

nee (your)
caritamu (life history)
pogaDalEni (inadequacy to praise)
nA (my)
cinta (worry)
teerci (remedy)
varamulicci (varamulu icci = grant boons)
vEgamE (quickly)
My diction is inadequate even to praise and sing your story, I am in such a
poor state. Please clear my worries and grant my wishes and save me.

CaraNam 2:
seetApatE (oh lord of sita)
nApai (towards me, in this context)
neekabhimAnamu lEdA (neeku abhimAnamu lEdA = don't you have
affection)
vAtAtmajArchita (vAtAtmaja arcita = worshipped by Hanuman, the
half-monkey half-man devotee of Rama)
pAdA (feet)
nA (my)
moralanu (lamentation)
vinarAdA (can't you hear)
Oh, lord of sita, don't you have any affection towards me? Oh, the one
whose feet were worshipped by Hanuman, why don't you listen to my
lamentation?

bhAsuramuga (gloriously)
kari rAjunu (elephant king)
brOcina (saved)
vAsudEvuDavu (vishNu)
neevu kadA (aren't you)
Aren't you the vishNu who gloriously saved the elephant kind? (referring to
"gajEndra mOksham")

nA (my)
pAtakamella (all sins)
pOgoTTi (get rid of)
gaTTiga (firmly)
nA chEyi (my hand)
paTTi (hold)
viDuvaka (without leaving)
Cleansing me of all my sins, and without leaving it, holding my hand
firmly, who will save me, other than you?

Jobs in US schools

2007-11-18T07:16:00.001-05:00

Students coming to study in a Graduate school in America have a few questions about jobs, how they can manage their living expenses and in some cases, how they can pay their semester fee.

In this post, I tried to be as general as possible. But please keep in mind that I am from NJIT and I want this post to be more useful to students coming to NJIT. I also am from the CS department, I have no clue of how to deal with other departments. So if you can see that this post may be useful to you, you may use it.

If you are going to a "good" school, believe me, except for the fee, NJIT is better than most "good" schools for a few reasons:

1) NJIT is the neighbor of the financial hub of the world
2) It belongs to the tri-state area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Region)
3) Most financial employers come to NJIT for on-campus recruitments. Ask you friends, seniors who go to those "good" schools and what companies come for on campus recruitment.
4) Life is hard. Why this is good? You become experienced to different aspects of life and learn to live stronger. Most schools don't offer this ;)
5) NJ is full of desis. Believe me, xenomania is not good. We are Indians and lets live with some. In NJ, you can find many many Indians and hence you can feel at home.
People in other states die to go to get stuff from an Indian grocery store. Here we have grocery stores everywhere! There is actually a street nick-named "Indian Street" in Jersey City because all shops in it are Indian! If you are from Hyderabad, and been to Abids/Koti, you will know what I mean.
6) For people who have Xenomania, go to NYC (30 mins on train, ticket is 1.50 which is dead cheap here). you will get to see people from all over the world, except that you cannot distinguish. All those white people look alike! Anyway, you can slowly differentiate nonetheless.
7) People coming to NJIT, you will love this place. You can feel happy saying we are locals of NYC!
8) Only bad thing is that you have to be careful. I have been here for 1 yr and I have heard of some 6-8 mugging incidents. But thats alright, just give them what you have and you should be fine. Its always best to have very little amounts in your pocket. You won't need money when going to school.

Job opportunities differ from school to school. There are few tradeoffs you have to make before coming here:
1) You want to do Masters - that's it. After that, go back home. This is very rare. In such cases, you want to pay as much fee by yourself as possible.
2) You ultimately want a good job at a good place. For this option, you have to consider few more things. Which field you are in? Which place has the most jobs for your field? Is there a school famous/good/popular for that field.
3) You have a low GRE score and have very less options.

In the first case, it doesn't matter which school you go for. Any school is fine. Believe me, if you are not in the top schools (say top 50), it doesn't matter. The other schools are all the same. So, don't worry about the school. Just see if you have funding or not. How the on campus job opportunities are etc. So, for average GRE scores say 1000-1300 or so, you should be worrying about funding. Scores above 1300 in most of the cases, are clever people, and manage to get funding. Anyway, I don't care about them. So, go to a school which offers you a GA, TA, or RA position. If you think you should go to a better school than the one which is offering you the Assistantship position, you will be, in most cases, doomed! SCHOOL JUST DOESN'T MATTER UNLESS THEY HAVE FUNDING. If the school has funding it implies that they will have good TA positions. If departments internally have funding, they have good GA positions. If the professors have funding, they have RA positions. If you get any of these 3 positions, a part/all the fee will be waived. This, is the best option you can get and you cannot ask for more than this. GA/RA/TA positions mostly ask you to do a thesis under the professor you are working or in the department you are working. This is not a big deal and is very good if you can do it.
What do these positions pay?
GA positions can pay on an hourly basis or a particular amount monthly. They can pay anywhere between 15-30 dollars an hour or 1000-1500 a month. You can work for 20 hours on any job when you are taking 9 credits (usually 3 courses).
TA positions are paid by the school or by the professor under whom you are doing the TA position. If a school has many PhDs, most of these positions go to the PhD students. In most cases, the fee gets waived.
RA positions are entirely based on the professor. They pay anywhere between 1200-2000 and the entire fee gets waived in most cases. RA positions are difficult to get in good schools. If you are from IIT, IIIT etc or have presented papers at under-grad level or did some research work in under-grad level (which most of us wouldn't have), chances are that you will get an RA position easily if you find the right professor who is working in the same field as you earlier did.

Next, we have on-campus jobs. These jobs are usually paid on hourly basis. They usually pay anywhere between 7-15 dollars an hour. It depends on the kind of job and the school. Examples of these jobs: (Some GA jobs are also similar)
1) Work in school cafeteria.
2) Work in library
3) Monitoring the laboratories
4) Tutoring under-grad students
5) Front desk jobs: International office, Graduate Office, Bursar Office etc
6) Work in school's gym etc
7) Referee in school games
You get the idea right?

Finally, we have off-campus jobs. These jobs are illegal. You cannot do these by law and if you do, you need to have permission from the USCIS. These jobs pay very little 5-10 dollars an hour and are rarely enough. But most people do it anyway. If you are studying near a city, its very easy to get an off-campus job. You will know how. I should not say all these things here. I could get arrested for that. Anyway, you can ask your school seniors about these jobs. For these jobs, there is no hour limit as you are not working legally. If you are caught, you will be deported.

Also know that all calls/emails/chats can be monitored by the NSA. Never talk about murders/terrorism/hatred etc in any means of communication. Though in most of the cases, there is no harm, just don't do it. Its no fun either. Check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

So, you know about the different jobs you could do. Post comments if you have any questions and I will try to answer them. Don't im/mail me. If you ask here, others can profit from it too.

Good luck and God Speed!

Best Peaceful Telugu Movies

2007-11-16T14:24:00.001-05:00

There have been numerous occasions when I wanted to watch a nice Telugu movie while having dinner/lunch or for passing the time. But with a lot of movies, its difficult to decide what to watch. Its always good to have a list of movies which you want to watch at any time of the year as many times as you can. Here is one such list of the best Telugu movies. No violence/moderate violence. The kind of Telugu movies you can with with your entire family. The kind of movies which you can watch to pass some time. No weird sex stuff, no crooked jokes etc.
The kind of movies that make you feel peaceful inside:

1) Sathosham - Nagarjuna, Gracy Singh, Shreya - No violence
2) Bommarillu - Siddharth, Genelia - No violence
3) Nuvve Nuvve - Tarun, Shreya - No violence
4) Godavari - Sumanth, Kamilini Mukharjee - No violence
5) Satyam - Sumanth, Genelia - Moderate Violence
6) Aarya - Allu Arjun, Anuradha Mehta - Moderate Violence +
7) Dhee - Vishnu, Genelia - Moderate Violence
8) Happy Days - Varun, Nikhil, Rahul, Vamshi, Tamanna, Gayatri Rao, Sonia, Monali, Kamalini - Moderate Violence --
9) Aata - Siddharth, Ileana
10) Nuvvu naaku nacchav - Venkatesh, Aarthi Agarwal
11) Tholi Prema - Pawan Kalyan, Kirthi Reddy
12) Michael, Madana, Kama, Raju - Kamal Hasan

ABCD - ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - American Born Confused Desi

2007-11-02T22:57:00.000-04:00

ABCD is used to refer to American born 'Americans' to Indians. Though these people are born to Indian parents, they are born in American nonetheless. They should be considered American. They are American. Anyway, ABCD is used to refer to these people and it means 'American Born Confused Desis'. Desi is a Hindi term which means fellow countryman. (countryman: a man from your own country).

Anyway, I recently learnt that it actually extends till Z! Here it is:

ABCD is the most common version of the phrase, but there are variations of it that extend all the way to the letter 'z' in at least two different versions: "American Born Confused Desi, Emigrated From Gujarat, House in Jersey, Kids Learning Medicine, Now Owning Property, Quite Reasonable Salary, Two Uncles Visiting, White Xenophobia Yet Zestful" and "American Born Confused Desi, Emigrated From Gujarat, Housed In Jersey, Keeping Lotsa Motels, Named Omkarnath Patel, Quickly Reached Success Through Underhanded Vicious Ways, Xenophobic Yet Zestful"

We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel

2007-10-03T09:13:00.001-04:00

My version of the same song:

Dennis Ritchie Charles Babbage.. Compuuuuuter C language
Compilers Linkers Data and Databases

Bjarne Stroustrup's C plus plus James Gosling made Java
Microsofts Windows, Unix Linux, Solaris

Antivirus, virus, hackers and firewalls
Gateways, ISPs, Internet made lot of p0rn

XML, DTD, XSL XSLT
XLink, XPath, XQuery, XForms

We didnt start the fire
it was always buring since the computer was running

We didnt start the fire
no we didnt light it but we tried to get into it

HTML CSS TCP IP
Applets javascript Asp and VBScript

Eclipse RAD Netbeans IDEs
dont read APIs, work with a lot of ease

FrontEnd Backend Middleware has lot of jobs
fire her and fire him, Laid off and no jobs

Suppliers Consultants Clients and Vendors
Whom are we workin for what are we sloggin for

We didnt start the fire
it was always buring since the computer was running

We didnt start the fire
no we didnt light it but we tried to get into it

Microsoft made Dot net, sun made j2ee
IBM made this and that, what the heck did we all get?

Oracle SQL Server DB2 and MySql
Databases Data Mines, Data in Datawareshouses

Session Beans, EJBs we build Middle Tiers
You take care of backend, they take care of frontend

Programming Testing Coding and Modelling
You name anything, we do all n everything

Download Upload Use internet to the core
Go here go there and do a job off shore

We didnt start the fire
it was always buring since the computer was running

We didnt start the fire
no we didnt light it but we tried to get into it

Somewhere a job

2007-10-03T09:01:00.000-04:00

Somewhere a job By Queen!!!!
(original song: somebody to love)

Can anybody find me somewhere a job?
Ooh..

Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord what you're doing to me
I've spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord

Somebody
Ooh, somebody
Can anybody find me somewhere a job?
Yea

I work hard
Every day of my life
I work till I ache my bones
At the end
I take home my hard earned pay all on my own
I get down on my knees
And I start to pray
'Till the tears run down from my eyes, Lord

Somebody
Oohh, somebody
Can anybody find me somewhere a job?

Everyday
I try and I try and I try
But everybody wants to put me down
They say I'm going crazy
They say I've got a little water in my brain
Ah, I got no common sense
I got nobody left to believe

Ooh, Lord
Ooh, somebody
Ooh
Anybody find me somewhere a job

Got no feel, I've got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat
I'm ok, I'm alright
I ain't gonna face no defeat
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
One day I'm gonna be free, Lord

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ooh
find me find me find
Ooh
find me find me somewhere a job
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Can anybody find me
somewhere a job

ooh
Find me somebody, somebody, somebody, somewhere a job
Find me, find me, find me, find me, find
ooh, somewhere a job
ooh
Find me, find me, find me somewhere a job
Anybody, anywhere
Anybody find me somewhere a job
Find me, find me, find me find...

Purpose of Life

2007-09-22T22:14:00.000-04:00

Most of my beliefs are based on Hinduism, or my own beliefs (which may again be part of Hinduism which I haven't read yet and some of my beliefs are inspired from Christianity).
I do not claim to be an expert of Hinduism. I know Hinduism upto a certain extent and know a little about Christianity.

I am not sure if the things I say here really exist in Hinduism.
So, just think it this way: This is just my theory. I do not care if you believe what I say or not, but if you do believe, then I am glad I passed on some wisdom(?).

The purpose of life is definitely not about having a nice job, being famous, having a beautiful wife/girl friend (boyfriends/husband for women), or having a beautiful family, or having a great personality. These are some of the most important things many people take pride for and pride is one of the most dangerous things in life.

Anyway, the purpose of life is to attain God. It is to seek God.
Ok. Now, as I am typing in this post, I am losing faith in my own beliefs.

Before I say any further, I need to make some clarifications about a Brahmin.
Brahmins are high priests in Hinduism. All its temple priests are Brahmin. All the rituals of a man’s life and even of the after-life can be carried out only by the Brahmin. The Brahmin is the god on the earth Bhoodevata. (Reference: http://www.sulekha.com/groups/postdisplay.aspx?cid=1051&forumid=1256078 I know its a bad reference) Brahmins had high respects in the days of the kings. As such, Brahmins developed some pride in themselves and encouraged acts such as intouchability etc and considered themselves to be at a high position. (Its ok if you are at top position but being proud of it is not). So naturally, people of other castes looked down on the Brahmins. The movies today show Brahmins to be at the bottom most level and make stupid jokes on them. Anyway, point here is that in Hinduism, Brahmins act as a go-between of the god and the human being.

In Upanishads, is a great saying: (Aham Brahmasmi), which means "I am Brahman":
In the sentence, ‘Aham Brahmasmi,’ or I am Brahman, the ‘I’ is that which is the One Witnessing Consciousness, standing apart form even the intellect, different from the ego-principle, and shining through every act of thinking, feeling, etc. This Witness-Consciousness, being the same in all, is universal, and cannot be distinguished from Brahman, which is the Absolute. Hence the essential ‘I’ which is full, super-rational and resplendent, should be the same as Brahman. This is not the identification of the limited individual ‘I’ with Brahman, but it is the Universal Substratum of individuality that is asserted to be what it is. The copula ‘am’ does not signify any empirical relation between two entities, but affirms the non-duality of essence. This dictum is from the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad.^**
(http://www.jayarams.com/dharma/mahavakyas.html)
Again, I did not understand completely the above stuff. What I inferred is the following: I am God. In every being is God. To seek God, come out of your consciousness and look at yourself. (I have no clue how to do that)

Anyway, the purpose of life is to attain God. It is to seek God.

How do we do that? God can only be attained by coming out of consciousness. WE ARE GOD! The purpose of life is to know the true thyself! I am sure, that any religion will be based upon this core idea because any religion is just a way to reach GOD!

Most of us are not even sure what the religion is really about but still take pride in the religion we follow. Its like you owning a car and boasting about it but you cannot drive it. Most of us become old by the time we realize that and then we start to realize God by praying to Him, visiting His place (temples, holy places), giving charity and all the good stuff. Now, do acts like these attain Godness? I do not know.

There are people praying(?) (or seeking God) in Himalayas. There are people who have attained this Godness. Can you tell if they are "alive"? What happens after death?

What is life? What is death? Ideally, they must be both the same! What does any religion talk about people who are dead? All the religions want them to "rest in peace". What happens when you attain God? You are in peace with the world. Are life and death both the same? They may be! Maybe they are! Maybe being dead is no different. No one can tell.

You may ask me what about friends, family, relatives? Why do we feel sad when someone is dead? Why are we happy to see new life in the family? Why do people make babies and why people die? I don't know. (yet?) (or will never know?)....

How unfair is this?

2007-09-14T09:09:00.001-04:00

Once upon a time, a hunter worshipped Lord Shiva unknowingly on Shivaratri. He did this by dropping bael leaves on a shiva linga at the base of a bael tree from its branches where he was hiding and fasting all night. For this he was forgiven of all his sins.

I mean, we do a lot more than that right? And the hunter in the story doesn't even have the concept of God. Atleast he must worship by thinking of God or chanting God's name. Doesn't God seem unfair at times?

Excerpt from a certification book - Funny one

2007-09-13T16:11:00.000-04:00

The book is OCP - Oracle 8i DBA SQL and PL/SQL Study Guide for Exam 1z0-001.

Chapter 6 of the book is called "Other Database Objects and the Data Dictionary".

The following is an excerpt from the book I found funny.

"If you are relying on this book to learn everything about Oracle that may appear on the exam, crack open a pack of sticky notes, make up some flash-cards with the following data dictionary families, and trudge through the rote memorization of them. You can stick them on the mirror for review while you are brushing your teeth, stick them to the back of your favorite cereal box for some light breakfast reading, stick them to your computer monitor - get creative. Just don't stick them inside the windshield of your car or to your spouse's forehead."

Begging for grades

2007-09-07T11:57:00.000-04:00

In the United States schools too, a lot of students beg for a better grade.
I am taking a class under Professor Blank.

The following is an excerpt from one of his web pages:

"Typical letter from B student" - student who got a B grade
Esteemed, Respected Professor Blank:
I really worked hard in this class and expected an A. I got A’s on most of my homework. I won’t get into the PhD program, my mother won’t love me, and my fiancé won’t marry me unless I get an A. Please change my grade to A.
Desperate

His reply:
Dear Desperate:
I think you must have me confused with another instructor. I teach computer science, not begging.
Sincerely yours,
Professor Blank

A bit mean, but he did send his message.

George Blank's website: http://web.njit.edu/~gblank/

How to add search to your site

2007-07-22T15:27:00.000-04:00

You can add a very attractive search thingy to your website now.
In the past, we could add a search box to the webpages or blogs
using Google's adsense search and it used to look nasty.

Now, the new google custom search
(http://www.google.com/coop/cse/)
lets you create a very well behaved and very cool looking
search box. You can specify the colors in which the results will
appear. You can specify in which page (suppose you want results
to appear on search.html) the results should appear, whether you
want ads or not and if you do, it lets you connect to your
adsense account. Its still in its beta though but I give it
4.5/5. very cool....

Problem Description

2007-07-08T13:10:00.000-04:00

http://www.cs.njit.edu/~alexg/courses/cs610/handouts/hw3.pdf

The file is copyrighted so cannot be pasted here. Also, the file cannot
be saved as is as this is the only location where it can appear.

The link may expire within days, weeks or months. I don't know
when he will remove the file.

Output

2007-07-08T13:09:00.000-04:00

This is the expected output for the provided input in the previous post:

Key 2323000 was inserted into slot 0
Key 2454000 was inserted into slot 2
Key 4444000 was inserted into slot 6
Key 4444000 was inserted into slot 12
Key 3444000 was not found
Key 4444000 was deleted from slot 6
Key 2323000 was found at slot 0
Key 2454000 was found at slot 2

Example Input file for HAsh table impl

2007-07-08T13:01:00.000-04:00

100 2
8
1.2323 0
1.2454 0
2.4444 0
4.4444 0
2.3444 1
1.4444 1
1.2323 2
1.2454 2

save it as input.txt

Hash Table Implementation - Java Source

2007-07-08T12:37:00.001-04:00


/*
* Created on Mar 13, 2007
*/
package homework;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

/**
* @author Satyanarayana Upadrasta
* @version 1.0
*/
public class HashTableImpl {
static File outfile;

HashTableImpl ht = new HashTableImpl();

public static void main(String args[]) {
if (args.length != 2) {
 showUsage();
} else {
 readArgs(args);
 readFile();
}
outfile = new File(filename2);
HashTable table0 = new HashTable(N);
HashTable table1 = new HashTable(hashtype, N);
HashTable table2 = new HashTable(hashtype, N);
if (hashtype == 0) {
 for (int i = 0; i < i ="="" hashtype ="="" i =" 0;" i ="="" hashtype ="="" i =" 0;" i ="="" ff="new" file =" null;" filename1 = "" filename2 = "" filecontents = "" file =" new" filename2 =" file.toString();" file =" new" filename1 =" file.toString();" input =" new" m =" 0;" i =" 0;" m =" input.read())" filecontents =" fileContents" quitflag =" 0;" noofoperations =" 0;" st =" new" n =" Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());" hashtype =" Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());" hashtype ="="" hashtype ="="" hashtype ="="" noofoperations =" Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());" typeoferror =" 0;" keys =" new" ikeys =" new" operationindex =" new" erroroccured =" false;" i =" 0;" typeoferror =" 1;" erroroccured =" true;" typeoferror =" 2;" erroroccured =" true;" typeoferror ="=" typeoferror ="=" i =" 0;" n="int3" hashtype ="=" table =" new" htnew =" new" htt =" new" n =" (N" i =" 0;" i =" 0;" ke = "" ke =" ke.substring(ke.indexOf('.')" ke =" ke" ke =" ke.substring(0," key =" 0;" hashtype ="=" key =" ((int)" hashtype ="=" key =" (((int)" hashtype ="=" key =" (((int)" indd =" 0;" output="" k1 =" (int)" i =" indd;" hashtype ="=" j =" hashFunction(k," index =" 0;" output="output+" hashtype ="=" hashtype ="=" j =" 0;" i2 =" 0;">N-1)) {
   if (table.keys1[j] != 0)
    j = hashFunction(k, N, i2, hashtype);
  }
 }

 table.keys1[j] = k1;
 output=output+""+"Key " + k1 + " was inserted into slot " + j+"\n";
}


}

public static void hashTableDelete(HashTable table, double k, int hashtype) {

int k1 = (int) k;


if (hashtype == 0) {

 int j = hashFunction(k, N, 0, hashtype);
 int index = 0;
 int flag=0;
 while (table.keys2[j][index] != k1){
  index++;
  if(index>99){
   index=0;
   flag=1;break;
  }
 }
   
  if(table.keys2[j][index]==k1){
  table.keys2[j][index] = 0;
  output=output+""+"Key " + k1 + " was deleted from index " + index
   + " of the linked list at slot " + j+"\n";
  } else if(flag==1) output=output+""+"Key "+ k1 +" was not found\n";
} else if (hashtype == 1 || hashtype == 2) {

 int j = 0;

 for (int i2 = 0; i2 <>N-1)) {
   if (table.keys1[j] != k1)
    j = hashFunction(k, N, i2, hashtype);
  }
 }
 if(table.keys1[j]==k1){
 table.keys1[j] = 0;
 output=output+""+"Key " + k1 + " was deleted from slot " + j+"\n";
 } else {
  output=output+""+"Key "+k1+" was not found\n";
 }

}


}

public static void hashTableSearch(HashTable table, double k, int hashtype) {

int k1 = (int) k;


if (hashtype == 0) {

 int j = hashFunction(k, N, 0, hashtype);
 int index = 0;
 int flag=0;
 while (table.keys2[j][index] != k1){
  index++;
  if(index>99){
   index=0;
   flag=1;break;
  }
 }
   
  if(table.keys2[j][index]==k1){
  output=output+""+"Key " + k1 + " was found at the index " + index
   + " of the linked list at slot " + j+"\n";
  } else if(flag==1) output=output+""+"Key "+ k1 +" was not found\n";
} else if (hashtype == 1 || hashtype == 2) {

 int j = 0;

 for (int i2 = 0; i2 <>N-1)) {
   if (table.keys1[j] != k1)
    j = hashFunction(k, N, i2, hashtype);
  }
 }
 if(table.keys1[j]==k1){

 output=output+""+"Key " + k1 + " was found at slot " + j+"\n";
 } else {
  output=output+""+"Key "+k1+" was not found\n";
 }

}
}

}

class HashTable {
static int hashType;

int N;

double[] keys1;

double[][] keys2;

public HashTable(int hashtype, int n) {
N = n;
hashType = hashtype;
keys1 = new double[n];

}

public HashTable(int n) {
N = n;
hashType = 0;
keys2 = new double[n][100];
}

public HashTable() {

}
}

Scope of Mahabharata

2007-07-06T17:48:00.000-04:00

Mahabharata's scope is best summarized by one quotation from the beginning of its first parva:

What is found here, may be found elsewhere. What is not found here, will not be found elsewhere.

New Way to Improve Hits

2007-03-15T09:50:00.001-04:00

The other day I was searching for something on Google. I couldn't find it. The text that I searched was: "Britney Best Tracks". There were no direct results. There have been many instances where I searched for text which should have given me results which could have been direct but in vain.

So, I thought, from the next time, whenever I search for some text and if I cannot find it, I will create a post containing information about the same.

Mere Sapnon ki Rani chords

2007-02-28T12:18:00.001-05:00

Am G Am
Mere sapanon ki rani kab aayagee tu....

Am G F
Aye ruth mastani kab aayagee tu...

Am G C
Bita jayaee zindagani kab ayegi tu..

G Am
chali aa... tu chali aa....

Inteha ho gayi Intezar ki chords

2007-02-28T12:17:00.001-05:00

Em………………….D…………..Em
Inteha ho gayi ,intezar ki

Em………………………….D…………..Em
Aaina kuch khabar ,mere yaar ki

Am…………………………….D
Yeh humein hai yakeen,

Am……………….….D
bewafa woh nahi

F#.....................A#
Phir wajah kya hui

D…………..Em
intezar ki

Get going with your guitar

2007-02-28T12:15:00.001-05:00

I play the guitar like a PRO_{of beginners}. Well, you could call me a beginner, but I call myself a PRO_{of beginners}.

Ok. I am kidding. I am a beginner guitarist. I love playing the guitar but I have stubborn fingers. They are short and one finger of mine accidentally fell in a door when I was 6 yrs old and the tip got cut. Only if these curses haven't been on me, I would have been another Satriani or Van Halen.

I have started playing the guitar back in December 2004 and still today I suck playing it. But still, I never got discouraged. I play for myself. I play for no one else. But if anyone like the torture of me playing, I don't mind torturing you. But then, there are times during which my fingers get blessed and produce some nice tunes and melody off the Guitar. I never let those memories die and immediately record those tunes using a stupid old mike which sucks but still does the job for me.

Click on the links below to download the mp3 files, if a window pops up asking whether to save or run, do either of those. If you choose to save, remember where you saved the file. If you choose to run it, there should be no problem unless you have a good mp3 player on your system. If you are running windows, it has media player which is good enough

Most of these songs I learnt from one of my favourite sites IGT. I highly recommend IGT for anyone wishing to start playing guitar or wishing to play Guitar like a PRO. Visit the website at Indian Guitar Tabs

If you want any chords or tabs of these songs, mail me.

Follow up of previous post -- Sri Venkateswara Sthotram

2007-01-05T21:47:00.000-05:00

Kamalakucha choochuka kunkumatho
Niyatharunithathula neelathano
Kamalayatha lochana lokapathe
Vijayeebhava Venkatasaila pathe

Sachadhurmukha shanmukha panchamukha
Pram ukakhila daivatha mouli mane
Saranagatha vathsala saranidhe
Paripalayamam vrishasailapathe

Athivelathaya thava durvishahai
Ranuvela Kruthairaparada sathai:
Paritham thvaritham vrishasailapathe
Paraya krupaya paripahi Hare

Adhivenkata saila mudaramather
Janathabimathadhika danarathath Paradevathaya gathithannigamai:
Kamaladayithtanna param kalaye

Kalavenuravavasa gopa vadhu
Sathakoti vrithath smarakoti samath
Prathivalla vikabhimathath sukhadhath
Vasudeva suthanna paramkalaye

Abhirama gunakara dasarathe
Jagadeka danurdhara dheeramathe
Raghunayaka Rama Ramesa vibho
Varadho bhava deva daya jaladhe

Avaneethanaya kamaneeyakaram
Rajaneechara charu mukhamburuham
Rajaneechara raja thamo mihiram
Mahaneeyamaham Raghuramamaye

Sumukham Suhrudam Sulabham sukhadam
Swanujam cha Sukhayamamogha—
Saram Apahaya Raghudwaha manyamaham
Na kathnchana kanchana jathu bhaje

Vinaa Venkatesam nanatho nanatha:
Sadaa Venkatesam smarami smarami
Hare Venkatesa Praseeda Praseeda
Priyam Venkatesa Prayachha Prayachha

Aham doorathasthe padamboja yugma
Pranamechaya gathya sevam karomi
Sakruthsevaya nithyasevapalam thvam
Prayachha prayachha prabho Venkatesa

Agnanina maya doshaanaseshan vihithan Hare
Kshamasvathm kshamasvathvam
Seshasailasikhamane

Suprabhatam - Mp3 and Lyrics

2007-01-05T21:37:00.000-05:00

I was searching for MS Subbalakshmi garu's Venkateswara Suprabhatam on the internet but it was hard searching for one. I got hold of the .rm version finally. I uploaded it on my domain. You can download it from Here.

Below are the lyrics to Venkateswara Suprabhatam:

Kowsalya supraja Rama poorva sandhya
pravarthathe Uthishta narasardoola
karthavyam daivamahnikam (Twice)

Uthishtothishta Govinda uthishta
garudadhwaja Uthishta
kamalakantha thrilokyam mangalam kuru (Twice)

Mathassamasta jagatham madukaitabhare:
Vakshoviharini manohara divyamoorthe
Sree swamini srithajana priya danaseele
Sree Venkatesadayithe thava suprabhatham

Thavasuprabhathamaravindalochane
Bhavathu prasanna mukhachandra mandale
Vidhisankarendra vanithabhirarchithe
Vrishasaila nathadavithel davanidhe

Athriyadhi saptharushayssamupasyasandyam
Aakasa sindhu kamalani manoharani
Aadaya padhayuga marchayithum
prapanna: Seshadrisekhara vibho!
Thava suprabhatham

Panchananabja bhava shanmukavasavadhya:
Tryvikramadhi charitham
vibhudhasthuvanthi Bhashapathipatathi
vasara shuddhi marath Seshadri
sekhara vibho! thava subrabhatham

Eeshathprapulla saraseeruha narikela
Phoogadrumadi sumanohara Balikanam
Aavaathi mandamanilassaha divya gandhai:
Seshadri shekara vibho!
thava suprabhatham

Unmeelya nethrayugamuththama
panjarasthaa: Paathraa vasishta
kadhaleephala payasani Bhukthvaa
saleelamatha keli sukha: patanthi Seshadri sekhara vibho!
thava suprabhatham

Thanthreeprakarshamadhuraswanaya
vipanchyaa Gayathyanantha charitham
thava naradopi Bhashasamagrama sakruthkara sara rammyam Seshadri
sekhara vibho! thava suprabhatham

Brungavaleecha makaranda rashanuvidda
Jhankara geetha ninadaissa sevanaya
Niryathyupaantha sarasee kamalodarebhyaha
Seshadri sekhara vibhol thava suprabhatham

Yoshaganena varadhadni vimathyamaane
Ghoshalayeshu dhadhimanthana
theevraghoshaaha Roshaathkalim
vidha-dhathe kakubhascha kumbhaha
Seshadri sekhara vibho!
thava suprabhatham

Padmeshamithra sathapathra
kathalivargha Harthum shriyam
kuvalayasya nijanga Lakshmya Bheree
ninadamiva bibrathi theevranadam
Seshadri sekhara vibho!
thava suprabhatham

Sreemannabheeshta varadhakhila
lookabandho Sree Sreenivasa
Jagadekadayaika sindho
Sree devathagruha bhujanthara
divyamurthe Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Sree swamy pushkarinikaplava nirmalangaa
Sreyorthino hara viranchi
sanadadhyaha Dware vasanthi
varavethra hathothamangaha:
Sree Venkatachalapathel thava suprabhatham

Sree seshasaila garudachala venkatadri
Narayanadri vrishabhadri vrishadri
mukhyam Akhyam thvadeeyavasatheranisam
vadanthi Sree Venkatachalapathe! thava suprabhatham

Sevaaparaashiva suresa krusanudharma
Rakshombhunatha pavamana dhanadhi
nathaha: Bhaddanjali pravilasannija
seersha deSaha: Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Dhateeshuthevihagaraja
mrugadhiraja Nagadhiraja gajaraja hayadhiraja:
Swaswadhikara mahimadhika
marthayanthe Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Sooryendhubhouma bhudhavakpathi
kavya soori Swarbhanukethu
divishathparishathpradanaa:
Twaddhasa dasa charamavadhidaasa daasa:
Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Thwathpadadhulibharita spurithothha
manga: Swargapavarga nirapeksha
nijantharanga: Kalpagamakalanaya
kulatham labhanthe Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Thvadgopuragra sikharani
nireekshmana Swargapavarga
padaveem paramam shrayantha:
Marthyaa manushyabhuvane
mathimashrayanthe Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava Suprabhatham

Sree bhoominayaka dayadhi guna
mmruthabdhe Devadideva jagadeka
saranya moorthe Sreemannanantha
garudadibhirarchithangre
Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Sree Padmanabha Purushothama
Vasudeva Vaikunta Madhava Janardhana
chakrapane Sree vathsachinha
saranagatha parijatha
Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Kandarpa darpa hara sundara divya
murthe Kanthaa kuchamburuha
kutmialola drishte Kalyana nirmala
gunakara divyakeerthe
Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Meenakruthe kamatakola Nrusimha varnin
Swamin parashvatha thapodana
Ramachandra Seshamsharama
yadhunandana kalki roopa
Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Elaa lavanga ghanasaara sugandhi
theertham Divyamviyathsarithi
hemaghateshu poornam Drutwadhya
vaidika sikhamanaya: prahrushta:
Thishtanthi Venkatapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Bhaswanudethi vikachani saroruhani
Sampoorayanthi ninadai: kakubho
vihangha: Sree vaishnavassathatha
marthitha mangalasthe Dhamasrayanthi
thava Venkata! subrabhatham

Bhramadayassuravarasamaharshayastthe
Santhassa nandana mukhastvatha
yogivarya: Dhamanthike thavahi mangala
vasthu hasthaa: Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

Lakshminivasa niravadya gunaika sindo:
Samsarasagara samuththaranaika setho
Vedanta vedya nijavaibhava bhakta
bhogya Sree Venkatachalapathe!
thava suprabhatham

ltnam vnsnacnala pamerlna
suprabhatham Ye manava: prathidinam
patithum pravrutha: Thesham
prabhatha samaye smruthirangabhhajam
Pragnyam paraartha sulabham paramam prasoothe

Download Suprabhatam here

Blog from mail.

2006-09-03T22:20:00.000-04:00

This is a test blog which I am sending from my mail!!

Finally in UTD!

2006-09-03T21:49:00.000-04:00

So, I finally arrived at Dallas on the 8th of August 2006. It was hot. 110F. I was sweating. The ISA(Indian Student Association) sent a member of their organization called Jinesh to pick me up. I waited for him for 15 mins but he didn't turn up. I roamed around the airport but still couldnt find anyone. I tried to call Tanay Shaha who is the president of ISA, but it went to his answering machine but still I left him a message saying that I am stuck at the airport.

Finally, I went to the taxi stand and asked the lady there how much it will cost from the airport to UTD, Richardson. She said it will cost about 30-40 Dollars. I got horrified. I waited for some more time. Then I asked her again if she was sure. When I was doing this, Jinesh came to me and asked me if I am Karthik. We introduced ourselves and he left to get his car. Finally we set to UTD. Me and Jinesh talked for sometime and mostly I asked him a lot of questions. He seemed to have got bored and turned on the radio. But still I asked him questions. Finally he showed me some buildings and said "UTD". I felt very happy for seeing those. It was a pleasant place. I was taken to the ISA's Office, which was Tanay Shaha's room. I expected ISA to have a building.

There was a lot of activity going on there. There were 175 Indians coming this fall and Tanay and Co. had to make pickups and temporary accommodations for all these people. His room was full of luggage of people who have come that week. There were a few people who were shifting to their temporary accommodations. I helped a few of them with their luggage. I came to UTD around 6PM and I was taken to my temporary accommodation with 3 other people who have come this fall: Syed, Srini and Sandeep.
They gave me some food. I ate. I slept thinking of all the great opportunities America was going to offer.

Well, So far I found nothing but that's a different matter altogether...

Don't Stare

2006-09-03T21:40:00.000-04:00

We generally have a tendency to look or look for a long time(stare) at people who pass by us so that we can say a friendly hello to that person if we know him/her. Well, if that person is aggressive, he stares at you back till you drop down your head. Otherwise, that person will feel shy.

Americans, on the other hand, will just say a "Hi" or "Hello" or "How you doin" if you do the same to them. A few of them just raise their hand; a sign to say hi. Well, sometime I feel they are actually saying "stop" with this sign as if saying, "Stop staring at me".

My Journey to the USA

2006-09-03T20:07:00.000-04:00

After i went in, they measured the weights of my bags which was a few hundred grams more than their specifications.. but they didnt make a fuss about it.. they didnt even asked me to open my bags.. after that, they checked in the big bags and allowed me to take the smaller ones... one bag pack and one small trolley bag.. after that, they checked my pockets.. i had a matchbox in my pocket.. he threw it away and i sat in the waiting area for 30 mins and finally boarded the plane.. they gave me the lassssssssssst seat in the plane an aisle seat.. and right before where the air hostesses make stuff(something like a kitchen).. the airhostesses were ok .. not tooo good.. one was a very old lady like in her 40's.. can you believe that? and there were 3 guys along with them... and the facilities for economy class were bad.. we had a 3 TVs for every compartment.. and each seat has a radio of 24 channels.. and they gave us head phones.. apart from that, there was nothing else for passing the time..

the flight arrived at frankfurt 10 mins before schedule.. i had to wait there for like 4 hrs where i passed the time by roaming around the airport.. there was a travellex counter where i exchanged 20 dollars for a few euros and a few dollars where he charged me 3$ for his service.. and i wasted 1.5 euros, which is about 100 rupees, for making a call to india for like 50 seconds.. then i found a telugu guy ravi bulusu who works in NJ and he bought me some donut and a coffee.. there is no sugar in the coffee and it was awful.. finally, it was time to board .. the schedule time was at 12:55 and it took off at 2:30 because of 13 idiots who were missing but obviously off for shoppng in the bigggggg airport.. this time, i got a seat in the middle of two guys, so I was obviously not happy again..

then, it landed at newark 1:15 hrs off schedule and everyone was not happy with it and they started clapping tho for the plane landed safely.. i guess thats just a formality to clap..

then, there was the immigration, where the officer asked me why i came to nj, whom i am going to stay with, my i20, how many days im gonna stay there and will i go to dallas at all.. after that, i collected my baggage and proceeded to the exit where my cousins and uncle were waiting and we took a few snaps near the parking lot and came home...