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Regional Riots??

I am an Andhraite and I am fiercely proud of it. And when I say Andhra I do not mean the coastal part that is referred to by that name by some people of Telangana and Rayalaseema. Instead I refer to a united Andhra Pradesh.I was born in East Godavari District. But I have stayed in Hyderabad and to me, the city and region of Telangana is as much a part of the state of Andhra Pradesh as any other part of it.

Andhra Pradesh is divided into three broad regions - Telangana, Rayalaseema and Kosta (coastal part). There has been some anger in the Telangana region that the region has been unfairly exploited and that people from outside the region have been coming in and taking away the jobs of the locals.There seemed to have been a broad consensus during the recent Andhra assembly and parliamentary elections about the formation of Telangana. The TRS performed very badly and the Congress won pretty impressively. The late Chief Minister Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy was against the formation of a separate state. He in fact made a statement that was widely condemned saying that if the TDP-TRS combine came to power people from one part of the state would need a visa to visit another. Yet he was a person that was against the bifurcation of the state for whatever reasons he had. Today had he been present the situation might have been different.

Now we come to the person at the centre of the whole issue, K Chandrasekhara Rao. He was part of the TDP, which was founded by N T Rama Rao. NTR is credited with giving the Andhraites a separate identity. KCR was part of the first government set up by Chandrababu Naidu. He was not given a ministerial berth in the second government, which was formed in 1999. In 2001, he quit the party and set up the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS). Where was Telangana when KCR was part of the government?


The real reason behind the demand for a separate state is suspect. I have heard that if Telangana is formed it will not be KCR but someone who will stand for the Chief Minister's post. Have we not heard about the concept of the power behind the throne? The argument is that the region cannot develop as long as it is 'under' Andhra Pradesh and that it is being exploited. To be honest I am surprised by the student agitation. But is bifurcation the answer to all ills? Are there no other means to develop the region? Politicians generally go for solutions that pay immediate political dividends and may genuine interests be damned. Stoking student passions and demanding a separate state is an easy answer. Today there have been protests in Maharashtra about 'outsiders' encroaching on the jobs of the 'locals'. In AP these so-called outsiders are not even from outside the state. If the Maharashtra argument is stupid, the AP argument is beyond stupidity.Now the Congress is caught on two fronts. It cannot reject the demand outright. On the other hand its own MLA's are resigning in protest of the decision.

I personally do not want the division of a state. What is needed right now is effective leadership and a genuine concern to address the issues facing the region if not the state.

Configure Microsoft SQL Server for Mixed Mode Authentication

This article descibes how to setup mixed mode authentication, also known as SQL Authentication, in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.

No GUI tool is available for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition to configure the server. One can do this manually. If SQL server server is configured to use Windows NT authentication, you can change this to Mixed mode as below.

To verify the authentication mode, using SQL Server Management Studio Express, run the commands as follows.

EXEC xp_loginconfig 'login mode'

• Open registry editor (Run -> regedit) and go to 
• HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQLServer in the tree on the left. 
• On the right, look for an entry named LoginMode. 
• The default value, when installed is 1. 
• Update it to 2.

The next step is to restart the service.

1. Launch your Service Manager (Start -> Run -> Type services.msc) and look for a service named MSSQL Server (SQLEXPRESS). 
2. Restart the service.

Bypass windows genuine advantage!!

Hello everyone,

Here is a small trick to bypass the windows genuine advantage program which is available/active from Windows XP Professional SP3.

I was a victim of this nuisance, even though, I "do" have a legal copy of windows XP Pro!! I used the following approach to bypass the program:

1. Launch Regedit (Start -> Run -> type "regedit")
2. Browse for the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
3. Delete the folder ‘WgaLogon’ and all its contents.
4. Restart Windows XP.
5. Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\Windows\System32.
6. Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\Windows\System32\dllcache.

Good Luck!!