Hi!
For the past few days, I'm not being able to access the login page of
my online stock trading website which is www.hdfcsec.com
The login page url is https://trade.hdfcsec.com
When I click on the login button on the main site, the login page
tries to open but the status bar keeps showing "Connected to
trade.hdfcsec.com..." indefinitely but the page does not loads up.
I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.17 under Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn) on my
laptop and Firefox 3 under Fedora Core 10 on my desktop. Both machines
are connected to the internet through bsnl dataone broadband
connection and I'm using Netgear DG834G adsl modem-cum-router in dhcp
mode. The desktop is connected through ethernet and the laptop
connects on wireless. I tried accessing the page from Firefox/IE
runnning under Vista on my laptop but I'm facing the same problem
there as well.
I tried accessing the login page from one of my friend's machine who's
got the same broadband connection but a different modem (huawei
smartx882 connected via ethernet with static ip setup) with ubuntu
8.04 installed on his machine and the page opens just fine at his
place using Firefox/Opera.
What could be going wrong at my end? Please help.
Regards,
Sarfaraz
Vivek Kundra: The Alpha CTO By ctovision <http://ctovision.com/> on February
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[image: Vivek_Kundra.jpg]Every CTO I know has heard of Vivek Kundra, CTO of
the District of Columbia. We have all been following his accomplishments in
transforming the technology program in DC and have watched in excitement as
more and more capabilities have been rolled out to serve the city and its
citizens. We have followed reports of bold moves he put in place to ensure
technology programs deliver. We have read about his new approaches to
technology portfolio management and watched as he discussed the leap ahead
he delivered to his enterprise by his audacious, courageous use of Google
Apps and other cloud-based solutions.
If you are not one of those familiar with Vivek, here is a short bio:
VivekKundra is the CTO for the District of Columbia where he leads an
organization of over 600 staff that provides technology services and
leadership for 86 agencies, 38,000 employees, residents, businesses, and 14
million annual visitors. He brings to the role of CTO a diverse record that
combines technology and public policy experience in government, private
industry, and academia. Previously, Vivek served as Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the first dual
cabinet role in the state's history. In the private sector, Vivek led
technology companies serving national and international customers. Earlier
he served as Director of Infrastructure Technology for Arlington, Virginia.
He also taught classes on emerging and disruptive technologies at the
University of Maryland. Since Vivek became District CTO, he has been honored
with major IT awards. In 2008, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium recognized him
among outstanding IT innovators. In addition, InfoWorld Magazine named
Vivekamong its "CTO
25"<http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/02/23FE-cto25-kundra_1.html>
.
I recently saw Vivek at a meeting of the Washington Area CTO
Roundtable<http://www.chieftechnologyofficer.org/>,
an informal collective of area CTOs led by Yuvi Kochar, CTO of the
Washington Post Company. Before the meeting we chatted about mashup
technologies (including his Apps for
Democrac<http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/>y
contest and also JackBe <http://jackbe.com/>). During the meeting
Vivekdiscussed several aspects of his innovative efforts to transform
the
District's information technology infrastructure. A point that struck me
was his leadership through principles. Three key ones he articulated were:
1) Leveraging commercial technology, 2) Driving transparency, and 3)
Rethinking notions of IT governance.
Vivek and I just finished a phone call where we discussed these and other
items in more detail. Here is a bit more on his approach.
*1) Leveraging commercial technology:* Commercial radios and cell phones
allowed a rapid enhancement of the tactical communications infrastructure of
the DC workforce, including the police workforce. Police squad cars are
also now equipped with commercial, but toughened, laptops. Commercial web
technology has been leveraged in ways that leaped ahead of old clunky office
automation and also enable rapid development and mashups.
*2) Driving transparency and engaging citizens: * Technology impediments to
information access and information sharing were eliminated in ways that
enable citizens to see how government decisions are being made. Data was
also exposed in ways that enabled mashups and agile programing/development.
Examples include DCs digital public square <http://dps.dc.gov/> and Apps for
Democracy efforts.
*3) Rethinking notions of IT governance:* Totally new, innovative ways to
manage IT portfolios were created and used to ensure all stakeholders could
evaluate the technology program and better make informed decisions on when
to terminate programs and where to invest more money. Chief among these
innovations was an approach to portfolio management that replicates a stock
market trading floor. More important, however is the relentless focus on
performance and innovation to support performance. Beside rethinking these
notions of governance Vivek also took measures to smartly
watch/reduce/reprioritize IT costs.
I asked Vivek for thoughts that might be relevant to technologists who have
set their sites on careers where they can deliver results. Many of us would
like to follow in his footsteps. I wondered, if there is a particular
computer programing language we should all be learning now? Should we be
diving into Python? That's hot now. And what about databases? MySQL and
Hadoop are all the rage. The thoughts I got back from Vivek were incredibly
insightful and far more relevant than the simplistic question I asked.
V: Technology is important, and we do need to know technology. But in
these very exciting times where Moore's law pushes us all forward it is
actually more important to be able to quickly learn new technology rather
than focus on one and only one. This is the beauty of the new world of
technology. There is always something to learn. We should also always
remember that the reason to learn is the mission. To an enterprise CTO,
technology by itself is worthless. Technology only has value if it
addresses business problems and drives business success. Therefore
technologists must have an ability to translate between the worlds of
mission needs and technology and need an ability to rapidly learn and deeply
understand both.
I asked Vivek for his intention for sharing his models and methods, since
they have clearly delivered success in DC. He is doing quite a bit there so
all of us who would like more info have plenty of ways to learn more:
V: The DC CTO site at http://octo.dc.gov provides links to many of the
ongoing activities of the office and for those who would like more on the
models that produce the results we link to policies, guidelines and
procedures. We also provide information on how our governance process
works. But additionally we host visits to our office by interested parties
and have begun blogging about them. In another effort we hope will help
move the models forward we are pressing ahead with plans to turn our stock
market approach to portfolio management into an open model and will open
source the code that makes it work, which should help drive more innovation
there.
Speaking of innovation, Vivek seems to have found a way to accelerate
innovation, which is something all CTOs are interested in doing. I asked
him for his thoughts on where to look for innovation. Another interesting
reply:
V: You can look for innovation many places, but remembering that necessity
is the mother of invention you should keep an eye open for places that
innovate because they really need to. I always keep an eye on the
developing world and am so incredibly amazed at the tech innovation there.
Enterprise IT does not mean that every program and project must be delivered
with huge budgets and huge staffs and the incredible innovations coming out
of the developing world prove that time and time again. I'm excited and
enthused about developments like cell phone voting in Estonia, electronic
census that works in Chili, fishing villages around the world using instant
direct data to plan movement. Innovation occurs many places, but some of
the greatest lessons for innovation are coming from the developing world.
I asked Vivek about how to find balance between setting standards and
enabling innovation:
V: Standards are important, but if a standard gets in the way of innovation
kill it. Use standards that enable innovation. This is the role of the
CTO.
Vivek also offered thoughts on social networks.
V: In seeking ways to make your cycles of innovation move faster, never
underestimate the power of social networking tools and the networks you can
build with them. Facebook is the example most talked about but there are
many others including networks built around ecommerce like eBay and Amazon.
I believe we should not only embrace them to enable the power of social
networking but to help us leverage, in a large way, the IT infrastructure of
these platforms. The new generations today are making maximum use of these
platforms and I view this as a very optimistic point.
As for me, I view the results of Vivek Kundra and his models as optimistic
points. The great thing about being a CTO is the learning never stops in
this field and Vivek is a great teacher we should all be learning from.
For more on Vivek and the way hew views technology, including some of his
inputs to the Obama adminstration, see:
http://www.ctovision.com/2009/01/federal-government-technology-directions-a…
--
jitendra
Dear Friends,
Key sections of the FOSS manifesto (Point # 1 on FOSS in education, #
4 on open standards, #5 on encouraging freely shareable, FOSS based
knowledge repositories like Wikipedia in Indian languages), have been
strongly articulated in the BJP's IT vision document that was unveiled
today by BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Shri LK Advani. The 40
page vision document is at:
http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/images/stories/it-vision.pdf
The press release is at:
http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/content/view/799/281/
The FOSS Manifesto is at:
http://www.public-software.in/FOSS-manifesto
(have you signed it yet?)
I am also enclosing my blog on this subject:
Venky
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http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/03/bjps-it-vision-supports-open-source-and…
Saturday, March 14, 2009
BJP's IT Vision supports open source and open standards
The BJP, the largest opposition in India has released an IT Vision
document that endorses open source and open standards. Many of the
points mentioned in the FOSS Manifesto for India that we put up online
last week have been incorporated in this document.
This document was unveiled by none other than Shri. LK Advani, the
BJP's candidate for Prime Minister. I did a quick read of the 40 page
document and am impressed with how thorough and comprehensive it is.
As a long time supporter of free and open source software, I am
delighted to see a major Indian political party endorse it. However, I
am even more delighted to see that this endorsement is rooted in a
comprehensive vision for India's development. A big chunk of the
credit for this document should go to Shri. Sudheendra Kulkarni (an
alumnus of IIT Bombay) and Shri Prodyut Bora (an alumnus of IIM
Ahmedabad). Shri Kulkarni was advisor to Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee
when Vajpayee was prime Minister of India and Shri Bora is Head of the
IT Cell of the BJP.
I was happy to see that the Digital Colonization theme that my friend,
Jaijit Bhattacharya of Sun talks about has been incorporated in this
document. Apart from the FOSS Manifesto, some of my key passions on
open standards (that we don't pay for standards like weights and
measures in the physical world, so why should we pay for standards in
the digital world?) have been reflected. Also, as a co-founder of
IndLinux.org which we started in 2000 in an attempt to bridge the
digital divide, I am happy to see that the BJP has promised to create
a National Mission for Indian Language Computing.
The CPI(M), another national party in India has always been a strong
supporter of our stand on open source, open standards and our fight
against software patents. We are hopeful that other political parties
will also take cognizance of the FOSS Manifesto and incorporate the
same into their IT plans for India.
With the country scheduled to go to polls next month, we now have a
broad consensus emerging around the use of open source and open
standards. This is great news for all of us who believe in free and
open source software!
Hi,
We are trying to put up a list of low cost scanners for our Institute users.
All the scanners lists available on the Internet is either too old or
are yet to be available in the Indian market.
I would be grateful to the list members if they can suggest some
scanners or multifunction devices available locally and working under Linux.
Thanks and regards.
sadhu
Hi,
Sorry for not posting the full informations.
1. The DHCP server is running on rhel-4.
2. What I meant by machine goin offline was that they are off the
network without an ip showing IP conflict.
Thank you all for the suggestions. Would try pulling down the lease
time and increasing the subnet range.
Sachin
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From: amit gogna <amitg(a)laptop.org>
To:
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:50:14 +0530
Subject: XO Laptop SPEAKS about "OLPC Mumbai Group First Meet-14th
March,'09" (Kindly ignore this mail if member of OLPC India Google
Group)
Hi All,
My name is XO Laptop. I'm planning to join a group of people meeting
on 14th March,2009 to discuss about my development and my family -
OLPC.
The details are on the wiki :- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Mumbai.
Somethings about me :-
a) I run a very unique OS called SUGAR which is totally focussed on
Education (www.sugarlabs.org)
b) No matter what your interest is you can be my friend and part of my
family OLPC.
c) I'm still very young and need to gain some muscle in terms of
building content, developing new activities , speaking native
languages etc.
d) Also you see i've got the Looks, i'm Strong , i'm very Friendly and
willing to change according to your needs... and above all kids love
me.
.... and much more....
Now , the OLPC Group in Pune (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pune)
already had a similar session in Pune called XO Getting Started Camp
which was conducted by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay from The Fedora
Project. ( It was simply an amazing session :-) ) The details are on
the wiki :- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_Started_XO_Pune_Camp.
So if you want to know more about me and OLPC family and be my friend
and work with me...
here is your chance .. All you need to do is enter your name under
attendees section on OLPC Mumbai wiki page.
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Mumbai) and be there.
Cheers,
XO
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