Kerala - God's own Country

Population:32 Million
Population Density: 819 / km2
Language: Malayalam

• Number 1 state in Technology Diffusion Index, April 2002
• Number 1 State in Human Development Indices (HDI) by Planning Commission, GoI April 2002
• Number 1 State in Law & Order, Sept. 2000
• Number 1 In terms of Peaceful & Pristine Environment
• The life expectancy for an American, with all his chairs and cushions, is 77 years, while the life expectancy for a Keralite male is 73 compared to 64 years in India.

                                             Life Expectancy                 HDI
               Kerala                           73                                0.64
               India                             63                                0.59
               China                            71                                 0.72
               USA                              77                                 0.94

• After the latest in a long series of literacy campaigns, the United Nations in 1991 certified Kerala as 100 percent literate. Your chances of having an informed conversation are at least as high in Kerala as in Kansas. Its current adult literacy rate is 91 per cent compared to India’s 65 and the US's 99. Ernakulam was declared as the country's first totally literate district in 1991.

           Literacy  
                             M               F              Total
          Kerala          94             88                91
          India            76              54                 65
          China           95               86               91
          USA             97               97                97

• Kerala’s birth rate is 14 per 1,000 females and falling fast. India's rate is 25 per 1,000 females and that of the U.S. is 16.

• Kerala’s infant mortality rate is 15.3 per 1,000 births versus 57.0 for India and 7 for the US.

• According to the India State Hunger Index, Kerala is one of the four states (AP, Punjab and Assam) where hunger only "serious"

• Malappuram district is India’s first computer literate district

• 1st wireless district in the country

• Rated as the most baby friendly state with the lowest infant mortality rates and the best Health Care Model by UN.
  
  
  

Though Kerala is mostly a land of paddy-covered plains, statistically Kerala stands out as the Mount Everest of social development; there's truly no place like it.

Few good brians from the state include: 

• FORMER PRESIDENT OF SINGAPORE MR.CHENGARA VEETIL DEVAN NAIR
• The first non-Tamil Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu - Makkal Thilakam, MG Ramachandran (Ramachandra Menon)
• Chief Justice of India
• Indian Foreign Secretary
• Indian Defence Minister
• Chief of "Chandryaan' , the Indian Space programme
• The first individual oscar winner Rasool Pookkutty (A.R.Rahman is the second)
• Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister
• Chief of the new National Investigation Agency -"Radha Vinod Raju"
• Principal Secretary to Prime Minister
• The only Indian to contest for the UN Secretary General's Position
• The chief of Staff for Security to UN Secretary General
• Mr. V K K Menon, the 1st Defence Minister of india.
• The man behind White Revolution- Mr. Varghese Kurian.
• The man behind Green Revolution - Mr. M S Swaminathan
• The brain behind National Integration is Mr. V P Menon who assisted Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
• The man who recalculated the distance to moon for 1st manned mission - Dr. Sudhakar.
  
  
  

Reference: 

http://www.ashanet.org/library/articles/kerala.199803.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model#Human_resource_development_indices

Flute music collections

Check out some mind blogging flute music collections @  
http://flute-music-mp3.blogspot.com/

I liked most compositions under "Flutes Of World mp3 songs" 

• Andean Nocturne - Bolivian Mocheno 
• Canyon Echo - Native American Flute 
• Cry of the Dragon - Japanese Ryuteki 
• Eagle Dance - Moroccan Fipple Flute 
• Emerald - Irish Porcelain Flute 
• Flute Traveller - Alto 
• Ghost of Palenque - Mayan Clay Recorder 
• Kotory (Little Bird) - Japanese Shinobue 
• Love Song - Native American Flute 
• Man Jiang Hong - Chinese Di Tzu 
• Morning Prayer - North Indian Bansuri 
• Mountain Spirit - Chinese Ba Wu 
• Rain Forest - Chilean Ocarina 
• Sanctus - Silver Flute 
• Shepherd's Hymn - Romanian Panpipes
• Song of Sunda - Javanesse Suling 
  
  
  & ofcourse the one by our Remo Fernandez

Its an amaizing collection from the blogger. Great work !

Configuring TFTP server in Ubuntu 8.10

1) install required packages - "sudo apt-get install tftpd tftp xinetd"

2) Create "sudo vim /etc/xinet.d/tftp" file and insert the following code:

service tftp
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /tftpboot
#disable = yes  // This needs to be commented
per_source = 11
cps = 100 2
}

3) Create a folder "sudo mkdir /tftpdboot"

4) chmod -R 777 /tftpdboot

5) Start tftpd "sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd start"

6) Testing

6.1. /tftpdboot/123.txt
6.2  chmod 777 /tftpdboot/123.txt
6.3  tftp 192.168.51.100    // If the client is at 51.100
6.4  tftp> put 123.txt
   Sent 833 bytes in 0.0 seconds
6.5  tftp> quit

JavaFX on Netbeans 6.5

1. Download all .nbm files from http://updates.netbeans.org/netbeans/updates/6.5.1/uc/final/stable/patch3/javafx2/
2. Quit NetBeans
3. cp org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm temp
4. unzip org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm
5. Edit info/info.xml and delete org.openide.modules.os.MacOSX from it.
6. Delete all files in "META-INF" folder
7. Unzip netbeans/modules/org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.jar using jar - jar xvf org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.jar
8. Delete in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF the required module org.openide.modules.os.MacOSX
9. Delete the previous jar file - rm org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.jar
10. Re-archive jar content - jar cvfm org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF org
11. Make all files executable in netbeans/javafx-sdk/bin - chmod u+x netbeans/javafx-sdk/bin/*
12. Delete the downloaded org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm in TEMP directory and Zip all content of TEMP (1) rm org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm (2) zip -r org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm *
13. Use the modified org-netbeans-modules-javafx-sdk-mac.nbm with the other .nbm
14. Start NetBeans - Goto tools -> Plugins - Select Downloaded tab - click on Add Plugins - Browse to the directory of the downloaded .nbm files - Select all .nbm files - click on Install- Avoid the Warning message(Continue) - Restart NetBeans !