National Pension Scheme was launched on 1st January 2004 by the government of India to provide financial security for its citizen post retirement. Since then NPS has received lukewarm response from the market mainly because for the following reasons:- WithdrawalContinue reading… Should I Invest in NPS to claim tax benefit on extra Rs 50,000
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"Unlicensed Product" error when you open an Office Professional Plus 2010 application
Some times, when open any MS Office application like outlook, excel etc, i keep get following error irrespective of my license expired or not. “Unlicensed Product” error when you open an Office Professional Plus 2010 application” To fix the issue,Continue reading… "Unlicensed Product" error when you open an Office Professional Plus 2010 application
JDBC programming inputs
While doing jdbc programming, following API interface would be very useful to program generic manner for all jdbc supported databases. Interface DatabaseMetaData exposes many methods which we’ll use for jdbc programming. For more info on this, you can refer toContinue reading… JDBC programming inputs
Introduction to basic ODBC programming
Sample program to write basic odbc program to connect/ query/ disconnect with unicode data. //— BEGIN PROGRAM SOURCE #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <windows.h> #include <sqlext.h> int DBP_SQLSERVER = 1; int DBP_DB2 = 0; int DBP_POSTGRES = 0; #define ENVContinue reading… Introduction to basic ODBC programming
TCPDUMP – Packet size limited during capture HTTP truncated
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Force a windows desktop application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS
Recently, I faced an issue with a downloaded windows application binary/executable. When I double clicked, it throws error popup saying that wrong architecture mismatch. Then my target is to run that age old application to run on my latest x64Continue reading… Force a windows desktop application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS
Monty Hall Puzzle
You’re on a game show and there are three doors in front of you. The host, Monty Hall, says, “Behind one door is a brand new car. Behind the other two doors are goats. Pick a door!” You think, “Well,Continue reading… Monty Hall Puzzle
Linux: Awesome Commands
To mount windows share on redhat linux. mount -t cifs -o username=<share user>,password=<share password> //WIN_PC_IP/<share name> /mnt we can further explore -o option which allows add as many options to add as possible.
ORA-01658: unable to create INITIAL extent for segment in tablespace SYSTEM
Recently I’m stuck with this error suddenly while writing data to this Oracle XE edition. Of course, it’s kind of frustrating to see this kind of errors in the middle of our tasks without even knowing the origin of these.Continue reading… ORA-01658: unable to create INITIAL extent for segment in tablespace SYSTEM
Number of comparisons to find second minimum element in an Array
Given an array of numbers, we need to find the second min element with optimal number of comparisons. Let’s compare two elements (side by side) and get next set of min element list. Recursively, we end up with lowest numberContinue reading… Number of comparisons to find second minimum element in an Array