Moving from LA to San Jose

I thought this would be easy cos my employer would provide movers but now, they are only paying me for the move so I am stuck....

Been googling and filling up forms for quotes. but nothing so far :(

Infosys (Infy) pays for overtime

Infosys has settled for a total amount of $26 million.with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) towards possible overtime payment to certain employees in California

The payment pertains to the last three years and such back wages will be paid to employees in due course and was announced by Infosys as part of its Q3 2007-2008 results.

Highlights of Infosys Q3 Earnings Report (2007-2008)

Revenues: $1.08 Billion
Net income: $310 million
Earnings Per Share: 54 cents
No of Employees: 88,601
(as on December 31, 2007)
Clients Added during quarter: 47

Outlook for Q4 2007-2008 for the quarter ending March 31, 2008

Revenues: $1.136 billion-$1.142 billion
Earnings per ADS: 54 cents

According to Line 64 of Ex 99.1 - Miscellaneous Exhibit of Infosys's '6 K' on the secinfo site

Line 64: California wage settlement The Company has voluntarily settled with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) towards possible overtime payment to certain employees in California for a total amount of $ 26 million. The payment pertains to the last three years and such backwages will be paid to employees in due course. Outlook for the quarter ending March 31, 2008 and the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008 ...

At Lawyers and settlements.com

The site is asking us to

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Register your Infosys Unpaid Overtime Complaint
If you are an employee of Infosys Technologies in California and make less than $47.81 per hour and do not receive overtime wages, you may qualify for damages or remedies that may be awarded in a possible Infosys Unpaid Overtime lawsuit. Please click the link below to submit your complaint and we will have this lawyer review your Infosys Unpaid Overtime complaint.

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As a former employee of Infosys who falls into this category I got my check ( checque ???? ) today and really appreciate that the company settled my balance inspite of the fact that i had not claimed anything from them

Bloxorz

Here's a simple game of moving a 1x2 block by rolling/turning it over to finally reach a hole. Reminds me very much of Sokoban, but with some interesting twists including the absence of walls.

Play it to know more - it sure will bring down your productivity at office

iPhone Faults

1. Does not have copy and paste functionality.

2. Safari considers every 10 digit number a phone number, even if it is a tracking number or something.

3. No way to switch between applications without going to the home screen first. So for instance, if you using the pop mail application, click on a link in your email, it goes to safari but once you're done with safari, you can't go back to mail app without pressing home button.

4. Safari supports tab/multiple window browsing but no way to right click and open a link in a new window.

5. After you close the new window in safari, your original window still navigates to the new page and disables the "back" button as well. So you've to go to history and navigate from there.

6. No way to close the keyboard. Start the SMS application, create a new SMS, press send, keyboard stays there.

7. iPhone puts timestamp on SMS conversation when it feels convinient to do so.

8. Can't just turn off the phone without turning off wi-fi as well.

9. Can't play games without an internet connection.

10. Can't change the auto-correct feature of iphone.

11. Can't record videos.

12. Claims to have "full version" of the web available on iphone but no flash support. Can't even pan around a map on google/yahoo/live maps etc. or similar applications.

13. Can't delete pictures from your photo gallery. Can only delete on pc and sync again.

14. Can't rate songs on iPod.

15. Album art don't change once the song changes in album flip mode.

16. No snooze feature for reminders.

Mesothelioma

Today read somewhere that "mesothelioma" is one of the highest paying adwords in adsense. Being a doctor's son ,was too curious not to lookup what "mesothelioma" meant.

So here's a gist of whatz given on wikipedia

Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos.[1] In this disease, malignant cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body's internal organs. Its most common site is the pleura (outer lining of the lungs and chest cavity), but it may also occur in the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) or the pericardium (a sac that surrounds the heart).

Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or have been exposed to asbestos dust and fibre in other ways, such as by washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos, or by home renovation using asbestos cement products. Unlike lung cancer, there is no association between mesothelioma and smoking 

More information , its prognosis, symptoms and prevention at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelioma

Turn Off Archiving in Oracle

Shutdown edit pfile / spfile (spfile when instance is up of course) to say log_archive_start = false.

startup mount

alter database noarchivelog;

alter database open;

create user syntax for mysql

1. CREATE USER user [IDENTIFIED BY [PASSWORD] 'password']

Then u'll have to do the grants for the db

2. Grant all on .* to user