ChandraMukhi -- Reloaded ( Part VIII )

PART - VIII - ENTRY OF CHANDRALEKHA AND PROBLEMS FOR LMRVSOFT

On a fine Monday morning, Prabhu calls Rajini at his cabin and informs him about "Hey Rajini, you've got a mail from a top US company to solve a technical problem. Seems like you need to go there immediately".


Rajini feels peeved, not because he had to leave to US immediately, but, wat the hell, how could Prabu login into his official email account and check his mails without his knowledge.


Rajini : Prabhu, this is too much, I think you are crossing your limits, how can you peep into my mails?


Prabhu (replies with a smile): well… Monday morning, I didn't feel like working at all..Yesterday when u logged in my system and checked ur mail, you had set the option for remember password rite, so I was able to check ur mails :D. Hey come on, this is how it happens in the original ChandraMukhi also. After all Remakes shud not deviate much from the original


Rajini got irked, but knowing that this guy Prabhu can never be changed, so he left the issue there and started to leave for the immediate Onsite assignment. So he bid good bye to everyone in the office including his love Nayanthara.. "Any problem one SMS, Rajini will be right there", Saying this Rajini signed off in style


Business continued as usual at LMRVSoft with Prabhu and Jyo effectively managing the office. As Rajini and Prabhu had instructed, no one dared to enter the room where Chandralekha's PC was locked and other than that room, the entire office was kept clean and nice.


But Jyo was rather curious to browse thru Chandralekha's system. In her earlier office, after lunch time and during relaxed times, she used to spend time playing solitaire, mine sweeper and other PC games which gave her a refreshing break from the mind boggling work. Especially Jyo enjoyed the thrill of playing the games at office without getting noticed by the PM or PL. She missed all those now. In the hush-hush created by Neela while getting the relieving order, Jyo could not get the back up of her personal data from her old office machine. She heard from some old staffs who worked there earlier about Chandralekha, that she used to play Prince of Persia, Dave, Paratrooper and similar games during office hours..tjhey were telling that the buzzing sounds of such games were still ringing in their ears. Ever since hearing this, Jyo's curiosity to check out Chandralekha's system grew more.


So Jyo, ignoring her hubby's and Rajini's warnings, on one fine day, unlocked the Chandralekha room and stepped inside.......The room was covered with dust and Chandralekha's system was looking dirty and pale with all the dust on it... Jyo cleaned the room in quick time and switched on the monitor, as the system which was on standby mode all these days came back to life as she moved the mouse cursor.


At the same time, Prabhu who was typing google.com in his browser, accidentally missed out one of the letters and was taken to a porn site, while Accounts department aasha while doing online money transfer to one of the company's clients, entered an additional zero to the amount accidentally and pressed enter even before she realized it……


The effect of Chandralekha had thus started to haunt the LMRVSoft Office as Jyo, unaware of these things proceeded to browse thru Chandralekha's system. She was amazed at the amount of data in Chandralekha's system, thousands of DOS and Flash games, the Entire collection of Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin, Asterix and Obelix and so much more. And then there was a huge collection of MP3 songs, English, Tamil, Hindi and even Konkani. This PC was surely a treasure, she thought. Jyo was just wondering, how Chandralekha's PM even thought of firing such a hardworking, dedicated employee.


Just at that moment, Prabhu called for Jyo. So she quickly switched off the monitor, closed the door and left the room immediately to respond to Prabhu.


Next day... Everyone were busy working on a module that had to be delivered to onsite that day. Prabhu after attending a client call at the conference room was returning back to his cubicle. At that time he noticed Nayantara logging into a different system from that of hers and doing something. So he stopped and inquired Nayantara, "Hey Nayan, wat are u doing here, your job is in the front office..." Nayantara, who did not seem to expect Prabhu at that time, got tensed by his question and replied "yea..yea Prabhu, this is anita's system...she is on leave today and it seems she had forgotten to check in the files that she has modified yesterday. So she called me up today morning and asked me to just check in the files...as these are critical for today's drop. I am doing just the same". "O.K Fine", said Prabhu and proceeded to his cubicle.


The module was completed shortly and was packaged for the System testing. Prabhu thought he would just do a round of Sanity testing before the testers started BVT (BVT - Business value Testing, Testing of key functionalities which must be passed if it needs to be delivered) on it. He ran the application and it looked to run smoothly suddenly, the application crashed and the system hanged. Everyone were shocked. "how could this be" was the question in everyone's mind. Nasser, the Module leader quickly pointed out "the bug should be in the database module only. Anita was handling it, but she ran it in her machine yesterday..showed me also before she left for the day, it was working fine..somebody shud have screwed it afterwards..", he paused and raised his voice "Who worked on Anitha's system today"......... everyone's eyes fell on Nayantara.. She got terrified... "No..no..i did nothing at all. I just checked in whatever code Anita has entered into VSS".. Prabhu was puzzled at this sudden failure of application..But he did not mutter any thing rather looked at nayantara with a straight face..."Please go away from here to your cabin....", he turned to the developers "Folks, look at the root cause of this issue and get it solved immediately. "


From that day onwards, problems seemed to coming in plenty for LMRVSoft. Certain machines crashed for no reason, Programs threw memory out of exception error at times, some machines behaved very strangely. Prabhu and Jyo got upset by this and were worried about the business prospects if the problem continues. So Prabhu sent an SOS like SMS to Rajini to return to see what is haunting LMRVSoft of late.

( TO BE CONTINUED .... )

PART - VII - RAJINI Vs ANTONY


A tensed Prabhu rushes into Rajini's cabin.


Rajini : Hey Prabhu, why do u have to look so serious and tensed like V.V.S.Laxman?. I didn't say you will not be included in the next match, did I?


Prabhu : Oh come on Rajini, we have got a serious problem


Rajini : What is it?


Prabhu : We had been testing the software product by Antony Software Technologies as per our contract with MilliSoft rite? The company chairman Mr.Antony is on the line now. He is warning us to close the bugs that we have logged into Millisoft's defect tracker for their product… otherwise…


Rajini : otherwise?


Prabhu : Otherwise, he would influence Millisoft's top management to break our contract with them. Antony Software Technologies is a 10 year old company and had been the partners of Millisoft for more than 5 years now. Antony personally knows most of the top management guys there at MilliSoft. Thatz why I am more worried. What should I reply to him?


Rajini : hahaha, don't worry. I will take care of the issue. It is lunch time na. You go and have ur lunch..


Prabhu : So soon eh? Just now I had my breakfast. I will have it after an hour or so. Now I am having snakes


Rajini : (terrified) : What?????


Prabhu : snakes you don't know? the chips, biscuits, cakes stuff…


Rajini : oh snacks ah ? o.k o.k you continue having it. I would take care of this problem.


[Prabhu left the place]



Rajini : Antony…………


[Antony immediately recognizes Rajini's voice. Rajini had been Antony's arch rival for years.]


Antony : waare wah Rajini…………. So was it my old friend who logged in so many defects against our name

Rajini : Hey hey hey , don't see the defect count ah, see the effects on client.

Antony: Don't teach software management to me. You are a kid in the software business. I had been running a company for 10 years now. If you find defects, do you think you are a big Tester?

[Rajini just smiled]

Antony : (continues) Defects kandupidikkaravan ellam Tester aagida mudiyaathu. Just tell me whether you will close the defects or not.

Rajini : Sure, I will give u 7 days time. You fix all the reported bugs, I would close the defects in the defect tracker.

Antony : [in angry tone] Haaaa, you are setting time to me is it?, OK, I will close… I will close your chapter and your company contracts with Millisoft within the same 7 days time u gave………..

[Saying this, Antony angrily disconnects the phone]

(the next few days)

Scene : Antony and his team hacks into Millisoft Defect tracker and changes the status of the bugs

[Flash] Somebody takes a picture of it

Prabhu comes and tell to Rajini "Antony is hacking into Millisoft's Defect Tracking system"

Rajini : Let him hack

Scene : Antony bribes a LMRVSoft employee to get the contract documents pertaining to this project.

[Flash] Somebody takes a picture of it

Jyo rushes to tell Rajini, "Antony has got a copy of our official document"

Rajini : Let him have that

[ After a week]

Antony called up Rajini

Rajini : Hello, LMRV Soft

Antony : Antony……… Marc Antony…… You had given me 7 days time to finish off the bugs rite. I have taken enough steps to finish off your company as a whole.

Rajini : Ha ha ha…. Kanna, If there is a PC in front of you, just read the latest E-mail from MilliSoft,.

A shocked Antony logs into his PC, and read the E-mail that he had just received from MilliSoft. MilliSoft's Vice president for Asian operations have sent a mail that read "We are sorry to inform that our agreement stands cancelled in view of your fraudulent activities'" and attached were photos that showed Antony bribing LMRVSoft's employee and him hacking into Millisoft's website.

An angry Antony kicks the monitor infront of him………. Rajiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Rajini : Ha ha ha, Yeah yeah yeah Rajini………….. Super Star Rajini………….. What you told, what you told?

Defects kandupidikkaravanga ellam Testers aaga mudiyathu nu you told la . yea, quite true, ... Defects kandupidikkaravanga ellorum Testers aagida mudiyaathu…. But these are not the bugs that we had disconvered… These are bugs that were the result of ur negligence…… This is not a minor bug. High severity bug. We can do nothing about this.

Antony grumbled and moaned as Rajini continued

Rajini : hey hey hey……. GOD will give so many compiler errors to a good programmer... But he will make the code pass UAT successfully with zero defects...For bad programmer's code might seem to run perfectly in offshore environment. But during UAT, GOD will make the bad code fail miserably. Your code(points at Anthony) will fail in UAT phase…. Try to correct it…..

[ A dejected antony hangs up the phone... But since Rajini was the one who called, the connection is still active, After a few minutes silence, due to rajini's magic, automatically the speaker turns on in Antony's phone. Rajini delivers a punch line ]

Ennai pathi theriyum la "Intha Rajini oru idathula code change senja............... 100 bugs fix panna maathiri......" (Sshhk sshk sound..)

(BGM followed by Rajini disconnecting the phone)

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