Rajesh Akkineni’s blog

When I was trying to install rvm on our ubuntu server I got the error.

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Luckily after 30min of searching I found

http://www.go2linux.org/configure-error-gcc-g%20%20-needed

By doing “apt-get install build-essential” every thing worked perfectly

Recent bi-elections for Kovur and Mahabubnagar in Andhra Pradesh made me realize one thing, I am too optimistic or the state is in a very very bad condition than I thought.

Here are some numbers.

Kovur

Total Votes Polled: 175,913

Loksatta Votes: 1,585

Mahabubnagar

Total Votes Polled:  125,002

Loksatta Votes: 455

That means Loksatta got 0.9% and 0.3% of votes. Now they need at least 25% of votes to have any chance of winning. But that means the number of people who want to vote for Loksatta have to increase by 25 to 100 times.

There are around 10 Engineering Collages in Mahabubnagar district. I am sure that there will be more than 2000 engineering students only from that place having right to vote. Even if half of them voted for Loksatta then they will get 1,000 votes.

Very depressing situation. I am not worried about Loksatta. I am worried about what all these people are thinking.

Over last 10 years I have seen many kind of businesses. Here are some example businesses that I hate. I am not going to take any name now, but I will explain the basic principle of how they operate.

1. They make a product that most customers never use, but they buy it because every one else is buying.
2. Product takes Rs x to make and takes Rs 10x to market, and sell for Rs 20x
3. Client needs some thing to be done. Any one can do it for Rs x. But they don’t know. This company says they can do it for Rs 10x, and spend Rs 5x on useless costs and make ‘nx’ profit(does not matter what n is)
4. Company profit directly proportional to the stupidity of its customers.
5. Give salary of 100,000/- per month for doing what a Rs 10,000 person can do.
6. Give anything beyond 30,000/- per month without  responsibility of managing other employee.
7. Make money by cheating Govt or customers.
8. Get a project by giving bribe to govt officials.
9. Very big company with billions in market cap, but does some of the above.
10. Hire A and give Rs 2x to 5x salary to him, and reject to give even  Rs x salary to B even when A, B are of same talent.

I will update this if I find more examples.

Today I logged in to my linked in and saw one funny thing.

I see a update from one of my connection that says

“ XXXX has sent 7300 IMs using Digsby! ”

XXXX is my connection name obfuscated.

Why will you post this in a professional network? do you want your new employers to think that you use IM all the time?

More funny is why will Digsby is using this strategy to expand? That too in LinkedIn? May be because there are more stupids to fall for that.

Yesterday Emami’s AMRI, today Regency Ceramics one thing is clear, there are limits to thinking about others too. One must first secure their position and then only think about other person. Otherwise the other person whom we are worried about may destroy us.

Government should protect industries, because they are what makes India a developing country. It is a very dangerous situation we are in now. Without protection to industries who will invest in the state? and how will state develop without investment?

And how little the coverage of this incident in the media? No one caring what happened to industries which closed due to such incidents.

Anyway, if I am in similar situation and have to protect my investment, I will not hesitate to make the extreme step which ever it may be. I will surly not forgive people who are trying to destroy me just because they are ignorant. Ignorance is an excuse. I will not leave, I will surly teach them what I wanted to tell, no matter what the way may be.

After clear observation of so many actions I thought of taken, so many ideas I wanted to implement and all people around, I see that it is only “commitment” that is needed from any one to do almost anything.

You want to do good in job? Or setup a business, or be a doctor or something else, what ever it is all we need is commitment.

We have so many problems for doing every thing. Money, Time, Health, friends, contacts or some thing else, we say we don’t have. Solutions to all those problems are also there, infact we have many solutions to every single problem we have.

So why we are not taking the solutions and implementing? because we lack commitment. If we have commitment, one of the solution will surly be found and we can move on. As long as problem is not Commitment, there is no problem at all.

Even though I have so many dreams, I want to commit to one thing, Give the world the best accounting software. Better than anything else. After that I will look into my other dreams. But I will keep dreaming.

I feel guilty

• when ever I say I will do ‘so and so’ and did nothing about it.
• for using some one without properly rewarding them for it.
• did shout at some one, and learned that it(not shouting) was actually my mistake.

Of these, the first one is causing lot of pain these days. In last one year I think I might have booked more than 4 domain names for doing different kind of things. Most of all are dead now, I am not doing anything. The reason is simple to explain. I expected more out of my small acts. I stopped at the first sight of trouble.

Luckily, I do get lot of new ideas, and hopefully will try to work on some thing very seriously. Commitment is very imp for people like me.

What about you guys? Same story?

Last year we could hardly hear our TV sound between 9 to 10 Diwali day. We were pissed off and turned TV off. But this year, we could hardly tell that it is Diwali day at 10:30. It was complete silence at that time.

I am sure people have burnt < 50% of what they did last year. I am not sure what is the reason. Is it just that cost of crackers went high? or people getting wise?

Anyway I am happy, less sound pollution, and less money wasted.

If there is a question that I wanted to ask most to others and did not ask that is it. “DO YOU NEED A LIFT?”

On an average I get a chance to ask this question every day. But I almost never asked. I know that other person needs a lift. They know that I know(Assumption). I expect them to ask. They almost never ask. I think that they think that I wont give.

Whose responsibility is to break that loop? Do I have to wait until they ask?

When ever I was walking other than for the sake of walking, I always expected some one would ask that. But I know no one will ask. I hesitate to ask then for lift. I hope every one is thinking same.

Now lets think that I have changed, do you like some stranger in 30+ age stop by and ask “Do you need a lift?” what is the probability that you will agree? What if you are a Female(all ages)? What do you think about that person?

Please share your views… I have been thinking about it for very long time, I want to find a solution soon.

It happened many times. Many people said that I should stop thinking more and enjoy. Or stop doing some thing else that they thought I am doing and start enjoy life.

I don’t really know what they really mean by enjoyment. I define enjoyment as follows..

You have 5 to 10 times more money than what your present average is, and you still don’t change some thing that you are doing, then I say you are enjoying doing it.

For example, if your job is X and some one pays you 5 times your salary to do Y, but you still want to do X, then you enjoy doing it. That means while doing X you enjoy.

Simple is in’t it? Now fortunately for me, it is almost 90% of what I do. For some people it is going out on road. For some it is some thing else. For me, it is what I am doing already. I didn’t get much enjoyment when I saw Charminar for the first time(after 10 years in hyd). So each person gets enjoyment in different way.

So those people who keep suggesting that I should enjoy more, thank you for your concern, I really appreciate your intentions. But I am already enjoying my life.