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 .... )