comparisoin of free php hosts

http://www.free-webhosts.com/php-hosting-comparison.php

free web hosting sites

Nice list of free web hosts.
http://www.free-webhosts.com/webhosting-01.php
I used 000space.com as well. And find it good as well.

drupal vs joomla vs wordpress

Nice review at:
http://www.slayerment.com/blog/drupal-vs-joomla-vs-wordpress

3 idiots vs five point someone

I agree to the film makers that 3 idiots is different from Chetan Bhagat's five point someone. Its probably ok to say "inspired by". But somehow the whole idea is from Chetan Bhagat and I felt probably they should have acknowledged in the start of the film than at the last by when everyone in the hall would have left.

3 idiots starts with ragging sessionas like in the book. But the idea of using a bulb the senior a shock was indeed good and much better than that in the book. Book talks about coke bottles been brought by seniors probably to push in their backs. But still the book story is more realistic (ofcourse it should have been) than the movie.

3 idiots misses to picturize well on the pressure the students have as compared with the book. Most of the focus was viruS as they man behind the pressure, where as the book properly shows the whole system as pressurizing.

Obviously the movie has to show our heros as heros than villans, so theres a lot difference in that. While the book shows the characters as real idiots who messed with their lifes in IIT big time.

The Machines class is a little different where our hero in the moive tries to put it in simple words while the prof insists of bookish definition. The book is little different where prof defines in simple words("the machine minimizes human efforts") and Ryan (one of the 3 in book) questions back saying "gym equipment are machines right? then why they increase our efforts".
Both of them are good. I somehow felt the original one be retained but might now have made audience laugh much.

The book revolves around the 3 characters, Neha, HOD and few others. Movie also same but more screen space is given for Chatur Ramalingam. This character is not there in the book but we can compare it with Venkat in the book.

Rancho writing Farhanitrate and Prerajulization on board is new in the movie to make audience laugh.

The chamatkar<=>balatkar episode is a very good comedy scene in the film which is not in the book.

The scene in Rajus house when they went for food is also amazing.
I also felt some of the scenes in the book when they look eagerly for food should have been made as-it-is in the movie as they are also as funny as those in the movie.

Movie completely changed the main charactor and hero-in role.
While I felt the original book roles Hari and Neha interactions where very interesting.

I somehow felt they should have as-it-is put the "longest day of my life" chapters from the book as its the highlight of the book. The whole drama is ofcourse very funny and very interesting.

I also felt the way our HOD gets to know about his sons death should have been similar to the book as that would have created more emotional affect.


The lobo project as mentioned in the book should have been retained in the movie.

Somehow didn't like the baby delivery episode much. Instead of that, I would have loved to see the "longest day of my life" chapters on the reel.

I even wished the cooperate to dominate (C2D) had some screen space as well.

The extra twists that are added like Rancho is not Rancho in reality. Eloping the bride to get her to our hero are new.
While to book ends calmly as our idiots get jobs and settle down.

Overall I felt 3 idiots has some good points and the book also had some.
I was really surprised why our director didn't consider to add "The longest day of my life" series to the movie.
It would have made the movie much more interesting.
Still its an amazing movie...ofcourse its made by my favorite director Rajkumar Hirani whom I see in the shoes of Hrishikesh Mukerjee.

For people who didn't see the movie and read the book. You should watch it. Its not same with the book and its equally interesting as the book is.

For people who saw the movie and didn't read the book, you should probably read the book. The raw dialogs which sensor board would have cut mercilessly are right in the book. The book is as interesting as the movie.

For people who did neither, I suggest to watch movie first as it motivates you to read the book as well.

For who did both like me, spread the news :-)
I rate it 5 out of 5...for book as well as movie.

Adurs is not at all adurs, its full of bedurs

Yeah...Adurs telugu movie is kind of crap.
I was trapped by the comments in NTV, TV9, ETV and various other telugu channels. They all are completely partial. These channels ratherthan taking common man opinion, try to advertise as if its the greatest movie ever made.
I sometimes feel if the movie makers pay them for showing all that crap.
For me its a disappointment. No logic its all magic.
Even though its very common in Indian movies and more common in south Indian movies that a hero can easily beat 100 people, they never grow in fight sequences. Like take for example Jackie Chan...if he fights 100 people, its somehow looks realistic. He makes lot of efforts to create the fight scene.
But in our movies its not, a lean short fellow with literally burning eyes and weak bony hand hits a rowdy, cut there he will be flying in air for a kilometer. No laws of gravity, no laws of force, no logic...
But we accepted it! We accept that he can beat any no of people just like that.
But we can't accept a sense less drama. Last time I had headache was with kick movie and this is equally worst. Some scenes are really stupid...
as I started with fighting, let me tell you one scene in the end...
Scene 1: Our Hero has a twin (one person itself is unbearable, how can we bare 2), he doesn't know how to fight as he grows in a Brahmin family. Other one grows in a footpath kind of situation...grown rough and tough. So that makes hi beat 100 200 or even 1000 people. When our rough and tough guy gets hurt, Brahmin guy imagines how his twin fought, learns dynamically and fights!
Wow what a capability. We call this eka-santaagrahi.
Scene 2: Our hero is trapped in vilans den. Villan with a terrible laugh says you can't come out of it as its made of such a metal even 1000 kg of rdx can not break! (why don't you tell which metal is it...our Military needs such a metal)
Scene 3: Our twins have a father who invents such a invisible gun which can target any person whom we lock-in using the satellite tracking kind of thing.
Good idea but how they made?
The gun looks like a card board dabba...totally unrealistic looks.

Villan looks like a fool and easily fooled by our hero.

Some comedy scenes are ok. NTR as a Brahmin did well.
Songs are crap. You can't listen the second time. Tough dance is ok, but not that great.
Hero-ins roles are not much. Theres enough skin show. Nayanatara's low waist dresses...probably to show how much she lost weight. Frankly speaking she looks terrible. Her bubbly look was better than a skeleton look.
Sheetal also made sure she did enough exposing. Whoever seen sheetal in parugu will see a different sheetal here.
Overall I rate 1 out of 5.
And obviously this will head for a flop movie.

Google App Engine

Hosting your site is much easier and became cheaper. Earlier we had various hosting services with Cpanel or some custom panel which allowed one to upload the site files to the document root or something similar
(ex:- bluehost.com, godaddy.com) Tough those solutions are good enough for a static or not frequently visited sites, its not enough for web 2.0 sites or sites which need good bandwidth.
Also most of the sites don't necessarily utilize the purchased quota and some sites feel they need more quota.

For example a greeting card site doesn't get visitors through out the year but the number visitors on or before a new year day might be huge. To be able to serve so many visitors occasionally a greetings card site has to purchase hosting space through out the year. Its a waste of money for many such sites. 
Cloud comupting answers to such questions.With could computing one can pay for hosting as a service. There are many such service offerings like Platform as a service, Software as a service etc. One can pay only the amount consumed like electricity bill and water bill.
 The best known services rightnow are Amazon web services, google app engine, Microsoft Azure which allow user to pay only for the amount of CPU used, storage used, bandwidth used etc.

Rightnow I would like to compare only google app engine and Amazon.
I will start with Google App Engine as the service is free for a certain quota.
Created a app engine account. Its fairly easy. It requires one to provide a mobile number to validate the account and start a project.
Go to 
http://appengine.google.com/
Login using your google account.
It prompts you to provide your mobile number to start any project. So I gave my number to which it will send an sms. The sms will have a code which one need to enter in the appengine.google.com to validate the account.
Initially it was not working as I never got an SMS. I tried for couple of days time with no luck. I thought its not working. Appengine doesn't allow you to create projects unless you validate your mobile.
I tried today and got an SMS finally. It seems the SMS gateway is down ro some problem at the googles side.
Anywayz...I got it and it asked me to create my first application. One can create 10 applications with url .appspot.com
I created one.
Now what to do?
Ok got to the google appengine site and see docs. RTFM dude.
Yes google support two platforms. Python and Java. App engine has already got a framework and one need to write apps to it based on the apis provided...interesting.
Now thats a pain as one need to learn and doesn't have a choice of development.
I wish php and mysql is supported so that I can quickly deploy a drupal site on app engine, but its not like that.
I was interested in the python stuff as I know python a bit. So downloaded the python sdk and set it up locally. The python framework is based on Django web framework. Django, as I heard is getting popularity and is a nice platform for web applications.
Lets see how it goes. I am looking at Django, app engine python stuff and few sample apps.
Lets see how it goes....
Once done with App engine, I will see how to work with AWS and then post a comparison.

g.ho.st review

Recently I was looking at g.ho.st a cloud based virtual desktop. It was started off by Israeli-Palestinian collaboration based at Ramallah and considered to be the only joint Palestinian and Israeli technology Startup company...cool.
What kind of website is this?...without a .com or .org ending...yeah I got that question...wiki answers this:
"Its name is an acronym of Global Hosted Operating SysTem. The URL G.ho.st is a domain hack using the Sao Tome and Principe .st country extension."

They wanted it like tht...looks different. wiki also says:

"The G.ho.st service provides, over the Internet, a working environment that mimics the classic desktop provided by personal computer operating systems. As an internet based service, users are able to create, save and return to a working environment from different physical computers and mobile phones."

OK. so it works on mobile phones as well...thts cool indeed. I guess people who have IPTVs with web browsers can also try it. I am planning to buy a sony PS3 soon...I will try on tht.
It got lot many features...
some cool features listed here
You can login open windows and logout and when you login next time you get all those earlier open windows and session. What particularly impressed me is the cool graphics and eye candy desktop and apps. Other thing is file sharing. I find many videos, music and stuff in the shared folders.
You can upload your own files and share.

Its based on Amazon Web Services and heres few images for you which I captured from firefox browser on my opensolaris desktop.

Initial screen when you go to g.ho.st

after login. You can see a browser window and few widgets on desktop

IM which support gtalk, ym, msn, aim

The good part is shared folders. You can see I am trying to play a share video


Few more links:
News article regd g.ho.st
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/dec2007/gb20071227_091684.htm
Some online webtops conpared:
http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/11/17/your-office-in-the-clouds-the-best-online-virtual-desktops/
9 top web based apps by pcworld:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/170222-2/9_webbased_office_productivity_suites.html