Hiya! Ok just a quick fly by post on where I’ve been donating recently on behalf of others.  Below is a list of the organizations and the considerate who’ve requested donations on their behalf.   Please follow along on this journey at www.cheapindianguy.com !!

Cheers,

Ravi

-Ravi Shanghavi, is the CheapIndianGuy

Donations, and donations on behalf of.

1) Ituneskiller – $50 – Ottawa Food Bank
2) Nuria aka nuri787 – $51 – Canadian Cancer Society pledged to Julia Saltarelli-McCrea
3) Erika Saunders – $51 – Recyclore
4) DoctorPhil – $51 – Down Syndrome Association – National Capital Region
5) DJ Sinsear – $51 – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa
6) Margaret Sambol – $51 – Children at Risk Ottawa
7) Julia – $51 – NAAR – National Alliance for Autism Research
8 ) Norm O’Hara – $51 – Seva Foundation
9 ) Ravi Shanghavi – $51 – Hindu Temple of Ottawa Carleton
10) Darcy P. – $51 – Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
11) Kishor Shanghavi – $51 – Save the Children: Cyclone Nargis
12) Henrik Schwerdtfeger – $51/Laptop – Martin Luther Kindergarten of Ottawa
13) D’Ermo Family – $51 – Conservation Halton Foundation In Memory of Matteo D’Ermo
14) Dan Lavine – $51 – Kids Help Phone
15) Deirdre Jorssen – $51 – Ronald McDonald House
16) Jalpa S – $51 – Jaipur Foot Camp
17) Mahesh Shah – $51 – Vishva Shakti Durga Mandir
18) Will Chan – $51 – Christmas Gift Exchange
19) Bill Murray – $51 – Multiple Sclerosis Society
20) Panthini Shanghavi – $51 – Feeding of poor street children in india
21) Bere H – $51 – War Amps of Canada
22) Amy Beck – $51 – Red Cross: Haiti
23) Ravi Shanghavi – $51 – Glebe apartment fire

Lenovo, the largest purveyor of PC’s in China has announced its intention to sell the Andriod based LePhone in China starting in May.  Our friends over at Engadget have reported on this most recent development in the Google vs China showdown.  Newsworthy itself because the world is now just months away from holding the oh so georgous LePhone, but even moreso since Google has been able to hold back Samsung and Motorola from bringing their goods to market.  Lenovo who already has the home field advantage seems poised to feed the hungry horde that is the Chinese Android market and scoop up the #1 title in that arena also.  Motorola on the other hand who hasn’t seemed so fashionable since its Razr days needs as much help as it can get.  So it will be interesting to see if they continue to tow the Google line.. or is it a leash.. and if it were a leash.. who’s holding what end?  Feel free to weigh in folks.   Find Engadgets take on the matter after the jump.

Engadget – Lenovo LePhone launching in Le May

With Exchange 2010 out, and power users hungry to take advantage of it’s new features it’s a sad thing indeed to think how long it’ll really take for your workplace to upgrade.  Anyone with any IT exposure knows just about how long it takes for changes to make it to production.  Especially if it ain’t broke.  Nobody in IT is going to volunteer to fix it.  So you’ve heard some talk about upgrading to Exchange 2010, but that it requires an upgrade to BES 5.0.. and to do both they can’t schedule it for another six months.. eeegads.  You’ve got the solution though right chap?  Messaging Guru Sembee has posted successful results of a Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.1/ Blackberry Professional Server 4.1 implementation with Exchange 2010.   Continue reading for more details.

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Health is wealth no?  This might just be our key to seven figures. New tech from Japan is bringing wireless monitoring of your vitals to the masses.  So the next time you indulge in that Starbucks triple frappuccino your mobile may just buzz. Not with joy, but with your doctor… The Japanese firm WIN Human Recorder Co has developed a device called the HRS-I, that in conjunction with your mobile phone can measure heart rate, brain waves, body temp, pulse and loads of other bodily functions. Movements are detected by a triple-axis accelerometer, so if you’re the philandering type.. Continue Reading

Baking the perfect tablet.  Cupertino et al take heed.  Recently we’ve been inundated with renderings and details on the upcoming offerings from Apple, HTC, and HP.  All those are swell, and some even pretty darn swelte.  Though all still need our improvements.

The key ingredients of our Tablet Supreme are going to be as follows.

- 1x Laser Keyboard
- 1x Front facing camera with gesture based input
- 4x SSD drives in Raid
- 1x Tail
- 1x Any well designed tablet with loads of battery life

Current tablet drawbacks lie in their ability to be used for an extended period of time.  Go ahead and try to type a letter on a tablet laid flat on your desk.  Notice your neck straining as you peer over your hands, or perhaps the carpal tunnel setting in on your wrists from the scrunch?  Maybe it’s your frustration at having to hold it upright at just the right angle whilst you read the latest Stephen King novel.   This is how we can help.

First the tail, the goal is a support that will allow us to tilt and swivel our tablet on a bevy of surfaces.  An airplane seatback table, or a bed piled high with pillows and streaming sunlight.  Extend the tail and use it to angle the tablet almost upright but turned just slightly for the least glare.  As our Tablet Supreme sits we’ve our hands free to munch popcorn.  Wait.. popcorn??  The horrors.. imagine buttery fingerprints.  Not quite.

The laser keyboard.  The gently angled tablet at a buttons touch casts a red eerie image across our tabletop.  Away we go, first letter?  Dear Steve Jobs, We’ve some improvements for your tablet.. and so on.  Comfortably typing our lengthy letter without straining anything… except maybe our brains.

Speaking of strain.. imagine how much you’re going to love playing Crysis on this tablet now that we’ve baked in Quad SSDs striped in Raid 0.   Yes, we’ve taken this cue from Sony’s new Vaio Z. Whoever said slow and steady… didn’t play games much.

Now here’s our magnum opus, the front camera with gesture based input.   Browse the web by clicking away and scrolling simply by waving and tapping in mid-air, improving our tablets e-book reading capabilities the most.  You haven’t read a book until you’ve read one handsfree.  Voila!!  Our Tablet Supreme is complete, please see prices with care..

One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah Ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, “Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it.” “If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty,” replied Benaiah, “I will find it and bring it to you, but what makes the ring so special?” “It has magic powers,” answered the king. “If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy.” Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility. Spring passed and then summer, and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring. On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of the poorest quarters of Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day’s wares on a shabby carpet. “Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget his joy and the broken-hearted wearer forget his sorrows?” asked Benaiah. He watched the grandfather take a plain gold ring from his carpet and engrave something on it. When Benaiah read the words on the ring, his face broke out in a wide smile. That night the entire city welcomed in the holiday of Sukkot with great festivity. “Well, my friend,” said Solomon, “have you found what I sent you after?” All the ministers laughed and Solomon himself smiled. To everyone’s surprise, Benaiah held up a small gold ring and declared, “Here it is, your majesty!” As soon as Solomon read the inscription, the smile vanished from his face. The jeweler had written three Hebrew letters on the gold band: gimel, zayin, yud, which began the words “Gam zeh ya’avor” — “This too shall pass.” At that moment Solomon realized that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust.

“This too shall pass” is a phrase occurring in a Jewish wisdom folktale involving King Solomon. The phrase is commonly engraved on silver rings.

Many versions of the folktale have been recorded by the Israel Folklore Archive at the University of Haifa. Heda Jason recorded this version told by David Franko from Turkey.

Hiya folks, so thought I’d drop a line about where I’m at with cause. Recently I’ve made the below donations on behalf of those listed.  This week I’m working towards donating a laptop to a children’s day care, this can be attributed to Henrik Schwerdtfeger.  This wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts of Rob Alliman who helped me take part in a United Way raffle which allowed me to win this laptop.  The plan was to buy x number of raffle tickets based on the odds calculated from the number of devices available to be won.  Then donate the one laptop, and sell the rest for profit which would increase the total amount of money I will be donating.   The plan wasn’t as successful as I’d hoped but I will be able to make good on my promise to donate this laptop to the daycare.

You’re welcome to visit my site www.CheapIndianGuy.com and leave comments and suggestions.

-Ravi Shanghavi, is the CheapIndianGuy

Donations, and donations on behalf of.

1) Ituneskiller – $50 – Ottawa Food Bank
2) Nuria aka nuri787 – $51 – Canadian Cancer Society pledged to Julia Saltarelli-McCrea
3) Erika Saunders – $51 – Recyclore
4) DoctorPhil – $51 – Down Syndrome Association – National Capital Region
5) DJ Sinsear – $51 – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa
6) Margaret Sambol – $51 – Children at Risk Ottawa
7) Julia – $51 – NAAR – National Alliance for Autism Research
8 ) Norm O’Hara – $51 – Seva Foundation
9 ) Ravi Shanghavi – $51 – Hindu Temple of Ottawa Carleton
10) Darcy P. – $51 – Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
11) Kishor Shanghavi – $51 – Save the Children: Cyclone Nargis

Pop over to CheapIndianGuy.com to see week 7’s donation!

-Ravi Shanghavi

Week 6 wraps up with a Donation to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa.  Take a peek.

Donations, and donations on behalf of.

1) Ituneskiller – $50 – Ottawa Food Bank

2) Nuria aka nuri787 – $51 – Canadian Cancer Society pledged to Julia Saltarelli-McCrea

3) Erika Saunders – $51 – Recyclore

4) DoctorPhil – $51 – Down Syndrome Association – National Capital Region

5) DJ Sinsear – $51 – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa

Just a quick blurb about this,  having spent a little too much effort on resolving this issue I figured sharing the correct information with the rest of the world was in order.

To cut to the chase the proper settings required for access via ESX 3.5 are the following. [ Otherwise your ESX 3.5 iSCSI adapter will detect 0 targets]

Openfiler>System>Network Setup> Network Access Configuration

Add the IP NETWORK of your ESX 3.5 installation.  ie. If your ESX server is 10.1.1.183 subnet 255.255.255.0  you will enter here IP 10.1.1.0 subnet 255.255.255.0 . Set to “SHARE” . Click UPDATE

For ESX 4.0 you may add the exact IP of your ESX server, not just the Network.  It’s unfortunate you cannot restrict this further but 3.5 is on the way out and 4.0 is here to stay.  So I can’t see this being sorted anytime soon.

Next step.

Openfiler>Volumes>iSCSI Targets>Target Configuration

Select your target from the drop down,  click CHANGE.  Now over to Network ACL and set the 10.1.1.0 IP to ALLOW.

Rescan on your ESX server and there you have your targets!

I wrote this as the web was filled with numerous suggestions relative to the IP in the Network Access Configuration.  Some suggested 10.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.255 or the exact IP.  None of those worked with 3.5 and Openfiler 2.3.

VMWare ESX 3.5 and 4.0 ideally should be configured to work off a ISCSI LUN.  (Read Storage Area Network or SAN).  Given the cost of a proper SAN most SMB’s or admins performing proof of concept/lab testing don’t always have the access to these.  So in comes OpenFiler, a rpath Linux based open source storage server software.  You can install this on bare metal or in a VM.  Support and documentation is scattered and you’re left with somewhat of a trial by fire.  Once setup like most things *ix the Openfiler server performs beautifully.

Br,

Ravi