Drawing of Ganeshji

I have done lots of drawings and water painting but the one still I have is the one of Lord Ganeshji which I have done when I was studing my degree may be around 1998-99.

Completed with Nandus Portrait

Today I completed with Portrait of Nandu (yeah 2nd idiot).

Second idiots painting underway

I think it will take 2 or 3 sittings more to complete Nandu's portrait. This was my 3rd sitting and it looks like this...

Second idiots painting underway

Posting portrait of Nandu which is in progress.

My Barcode

The web is buzzing with barcodes, so thought I too would be a part of it and get me a barCode of mine. I used "Barcode Label Printer - Free Online Barcode Generator" at this site http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/index.php to generate my own barCode.

Second idiots painting underway

Yesterday I start with portrait of Nandu, its underway. just wanted to post.

I am working on portraits, trying to get tones. I am not up to there yet but yeah I have seen some improvement.

Finished with first idiots painting :)

I am done with Sudhirs painting, its like just 2D effect as I was not able to give it the touch to be consider it as 3D, still to learn a lot. For the portraits I need to learn the color effects to bring the image as 3D, here I failed to do so, as such you can see that the face with no light is just as some what black, but actually should have been of dark brown (not exactly), anyways I will be working on the kid, mmm thinking of my sis to paint next, this one is not for any one but for me to learn.

Knife painting

Just completed painting with knife, tried to get depthness but not upto the mark.

mid-way through painting of 1 of the idiots

I started off with my life's first portrait, its of Sudhirs and I am almost there, a sort of mid-way. Took me nearly whole day to come up to there, but still I lack in giving it as a real picture, but yeah I know for sure I have learned things with this one and will be on to the next one, it will be of Nandu's, but his portrait will be in just blue, black and white shades.

My Unfinished Painting

I started of with this paintings on 23Dec08, yeah they are not yet finished and are in the same state as of I left it then. I am not sure when it will be finished and as I am not a real artist like professionals, I do painting only when I get interest and so not sure when they will be finished :), mmmmm lets wait an see if I can finish with this one or not.

Recollecting my past painting which I used to do with water color, I have done birla temple painting in the past but then it was way back, I don't even remember to whom I have given the painting then, if its still there.

2 Idiots portraits

I have been given task by two idiots (off-course Sudhir and Nandu) to have there portraits been done. I have started off with Sudhir as I have a good pic of him, but Nandus mmmm still waiting for his good pic, I am not an portrait artist but trying out this will be a great experience. I have done the outline with pencil on 15" X 22" inch of Sudhirs. Will be starting on Nandu's when he will provide me with a good pic :)

Will be starting on giving it color, just thinking on how to give it!, I mean should I give it as usual skin color or should I go with a sort of creativity to give it a single color...it all depends on my mode when I start on it, until then...wait and see :)

DOS/MAC to Liunx/Unix text file converter

This is a common problem if you work on linux/unix flavors and when you check out you find an shell script which is just an ascii file is not working, when you try to run it says "bash: ./mk.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory"

Simple solution is to convert the text file (shell script) which is in DOS/MAC into LINUX/UNIX text format using "dos2unix" command. Need to run as "dos2unix "

Learning steps with "Jack Kolber"

Just completed with "Jack Kolber" tutorial, I am still learning things told by Jack and need to do a lot of work, thanks to him once again.

Learning steps with "Jack Kolber"

I was searching youtube for learning the technique used by the professional painters, who are real artists, I found one video at Oil Painting Lesson with Jack Kolber - Summer At The Lake its by "Jack Kolber".

I have started on it, its not yet complete and you can see the preview of my first layer of the painting.

This painting is dedicated to "Jack Kolber", Thanks Jack.

Printing "Hello World" with three different threads

Written a Java program which prints "Hello World" with three different threads ie first thread should print "Hello", second one " " (a space) and the third one should print "World". This three threads can start at any point but our program makes sure that the output is constant.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
* Program which prints "Hello World", "Hello", " ", and "World" are printed by different threads
* but should be in sequence of "Hello World"
*
* @author mpujari
*/
public class ThreadHelloWorld {

private static final int COUNT = 1000;

private static final String[] STRING_OUT = new String[] { "Hello", " ", "World" };

private static final List stringOutList = new ArrayList(COUNT);

private static class SimpleCountLock {
private int count;

SimpleCountLock(int count) {
this.count = count;
}

public int getCount() {
return count;
}

public void setCount(int count) {
this.count = count;
}

public void incrementCount() {
count++;
}
}

private static class PrinterThread implements Runnable {

private String msg;
private int priority;
private SimpleCountLock lockObj;

public PrinterThread(String msg, int priority, SimpleCountLock lockObj) {
this.msg = msg;
this.priority = priority;
this.lockObj = lockObj;
}

public void run() {
synchronized (lockObj) {
while (true) {
if (this.priority == lockObj.getCount()) {
// System.out.print(msg);
stringOutList.add(msg);

lockObj.incrementCount();
lockObj.notifyAll();
return;
}
try {
lockObj.wait();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
}

public void doTest() {
SimpleCountLock lock = new SimpleCountLock(1);
for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
lock.setCount(1);
Thread hello = new Thread(new PrinterThread(STRING_OUT[0], 1, lock));
Thread space = new Thread(new PrinterThread(STRING_OUT[1], 2, lock));
Thread world = new Thread(new PrinterThread(STRING_OUT[2], 3, lock));
Thread[] threads = new Thread[] { space, hello, world};
for (Thread thread : threads) {
thread.start();
}
for (Thread thread : threads) {
try {
thread.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
ThreadHelloWorld helloWorld = new ThreadHelloWorld();
helloWorld.doTest();
// test the output
int count = 0;
for (String out : stringOutList) {
int mod = count++ % 3;
if (!STRING_OUT[mod].equals(out)) {
System.out.println("STRING_OUT[mod]:" + STRING_OUT[mod] + ", " + out);
throw new RuntimeException("Test failed");
}
}

System.out.println("Test was successfull");
}

}

Final touches to Boat in the dark

After 3 months of doing my "Boat in the dark" painting, yesterday I have given it a final touches ie I had varnished it :), looks great with a new layer of shine....
Need to varnish "The lazy puppy" and the "Sunshine".

Another year starts

We are in to new year & hope this year brings happiness to all of us (hopefully). for me things are going on well work as well as hobby wise, right now 3 paintings r in progress from that one is hyderabad's birla temple (one of the icons of hyderabad) . Will be posting soon once completed :)

My new path

At last I started on my own path, still need to learn and do a lot. The first one a puppy is for Kaushik (As I told him, he would get my first painting) :) and its like the first painting as I had no exp in oil paint...anyways lots of complaints from him for that but a promise is a promise so I will not be correcting that painting even if I know its not tht much good...




The second one is for my wife...yeah my life I started realizing about oil painting...yeah its not that easy, this painting is copy right of a guy (I don't remember this id to be given over here) so I tried to do it as he has done but yeah he is a professional one n mine seems just a child started one, mmmm thats k for me....I have learned lots of details from this person's painting (thanks to him, sorry realy I haven't saved from where I have taken this painting).








The third is for Sudhir...my lungoti yaar....yeah he seems very impressed but frm my heart I know its just eye illussion if this painting is seen by any real artist he will defentliy kick me..for the mistakes I have done, but yeah I will b improving on that.

ORA-01005: null password given; logon denied

I was doing a simple POC of JDBC.
My system configuration is

Operating System : Windows XP
OS Architecture : x86
OS Version : 5.1
Database Version : Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Beta
Java Version : 1.5.0_16
JDBC Jar File : OJDBC5.jar

When I tried to run the program I was getting "null password given; logon denied", yeah I know the reason :) I cross checked that I have missed giving password but NO wait...I have given it correctly, but still I was getting "null password given; logon denied".

I searched net for any issues related to it, and found one blog where it says change the language settings, I tried it but had no success. So I went and saw was I using correct ojdbc5.jar file, looked like I was using correct jar and that too with correct version of JAVA but still I got the error. after struggling for 3 days I just thought to use the jar provided by ORACLE XE in %ORACLE_HOME%/lib, it contained ojdbc1.4.jar and ojdbc1_g.jar it says to use this jar with JDK1.4 but I was using 1.5 but still wanted to test it. so I went ahead and used 1.4 drivers instead of 5.jar, it just worked out...... :) but still have to figure out why I was getting "null password given; logon denied" when I was using ojdbc5.jar which should be used with JAVA 1.5.