Freedom after a caged life

Last sunday I had a chance to visit the Taraporewala Aquarium at Grant Road, Bombay. Its a small structure in itself. I had last visited it when I was a small kid(kids are small always). May be I was in 7th grade then. Actually I had gone to meet a friend and we made out a plan to visit it.

The last time I had gone there it all I remember was some small ponds and fishes in it. Very unclear picture. This time I was actually fascinated by the new fishes I saw there. There's this whole skeleton of a bog whale there in the room when you enter the door. In the middle of the whole floor lies that thing. I saw that there was a lot of renovation done and new fish ponds were added.

Fishes are such  simple and genteel animals. Just floating around the ponds wherever they get place to. The only pity I had for them was that they were caged and the ponds not big enough for their full free float in the water.

Sometimes I wonder, we make our lives like these small ponds and then cage ourselves in it, although the cage does not seem to be visible to naked eyes, to neither of us or the other people around us. Sometimes we like to live in that small net and keep ourselves confined. Human mind does not revolt against something spontaneously if that "something" is not directly visibly causing any mantal or physical pain. And in this case we have ourselves made up this cage unconsciously so we do not make a move to break it.
It take a lot of courage to break this kind of cage, because we are left in a free flowing world once we break it and are left in all awe.

I think if these fishes are put in the sea or river, they also must be feeling the same. Being in a pond for a long time, if they are let go into big river they must be feeling intimidated and afraid of all the big water around.

But still the freedom you get when you are out of the cage is invaluable....

Changing condition of the world ... a joke

World wide survey was conducted by the UN.

The question asked was:
"Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"

Needless to say -  The survey was a  huge failure!!

In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant,

In India they didn't know what 'honest' meant,

In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant,

In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant,

In Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant,

In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant,

And in USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant!

Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?

A true story. A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:

"Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof."

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however wrote the following:

First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to hell. Since, there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant.

So, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.

Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.

It was not  revealed what grade the student got.

War of thoughts

Looking at the shining shadows of the windy clouds I feel the breeze of intelligence flowing seamlessly through each and every truthfully alive particle in this world. With that I flow, my heart mellows, my eyes reach for the birds of wisdom and try to hold on to their wings, I feel the flapping of their wings as if the monotonous laughter of a Yogi. A chirping nightingale lands onto my shoulder, I feel her weight but then I let go the thought of it being a burden and somehow I feel only the warmth of her legs and not her weight. I feel something changin in my body. I try to understand what it is but I cannot understand. It pains a little at first but then gradually the pain increases and takes over my whole body as if my body is a home for all the pain in this world. I close my eyes tight and try to concenterate on one and only one thought and that is the fact that pain does not exist, what exists is the human consciousness that "feels" the pain.

So what happens is ->

Crowded trains of thoughts running on my tentacled electrochemical rails are bumping into each other creating a havoc and chaos of emotions...I wanna get out of it...

UBUNTU

Dec 18,2007
Ubuntu....is an ancient African word that means "humanity to others".
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999) defines UBUNTU as:
“ A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. ”

Nelson Mandela explained Ubuntu as follows.
“ A traveller through our country would stop at a village, and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but Ubuntu has various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not enrich themselves.
The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to improve? ”

The last sentence in above is the most important question everybody should be asking themselves. We spend too much time asking others question, answering others' questions but tend to forget the fact that we need to ask some questions to ourselves first.

P.S.: Ubuntu is also an operating system distribution for Linux.

Linux Mint and Windows Vista ~ (Info) Dual Boot-2

Nov 18,2007
Ok...
So I am back here after having a rough time with my system after I did the above installs.
My system crashed after I installed another OS called Centos and tried one more...
I had taken backup of whole data so it did not cost me much except precious time of my life....
SO then the issue was like this...
I reinstalled two times the same OS(mint) and had mounted partitions from windows here too.
But then I dont know y it happened.
After the third install...OS did not let me unmount it...
None of them...
So then I tried reinstalling another OS and then too I was failure...

Next thing I did was restoring the Vista from my recovery CD, but then it also hung...
I suppose this happened because the unmounted partitions were not kind of free...

So I created a new disc image from Linux Mint installation on the whole disc ( which I did unknowingly or accidently without looking at the note that this would erase all the data on my HDD)
So I was left with a system not more than a machine minus OS...

Next thing is back to restoring Vista...
I could do it now...Successfully did it(created three primary paritions)

So today after I completed my CAT exam(which was My God very very hard and threatening kind of) I sat down installing Mint again....
Installed mint on third primary part and then installed SUSE 10 on additional logical partition I had to create...

The GRUB boot loaded, is showing all three systems now during boot....
Congratulations to me...

Linux Mint and Windows Vista ~ (Info) Dual Boot

Hi Guys,
Recently I got an attack to dual boot install Linux and windows on my lappy.
Actually when I bought the 500 GB hard disk(WD) I could easily take backups of my current data and do whatever I wanted to my current disk.

I went searchiyng for Linux bootable discs.and got lot of them
viz. Linux Mint,SuSe 10.3,SuSe Enterprise and others

The first one I tried was Mint.I booted it thru DVD and the way it turned out was an awesome piece of code.

Though I decided to give try to this one finally, i tried the other ones too, but they did not much appeal me in terms of speed and GUI both..

While doing all this stuff, Vista went dead.... The I had to restrore Vista too.
Installed SUSE KDE too.But it did not let properly do a dual boot..
There some problem with SUSE10.3 boot loader.
When I installed it,I could not load it from disc.It always threw an error saying that "Kernel is not loaded.It should be loaded first"

So I deleted it too..Then I went to my first choice, Mint , and what I am currently having on my lappy is a dual boot Vista + Mint.
GRUB loaded works cool here.automatically detected Windows Vista partition...

although I did take a risk by doing all this, I am happy with the performance I am getting with Linux Mint..
If any of you guys is having thoughts similar to me, please share here.

I afterwards found out in office about a site that gives a step-by-step process to dual boot vista,XP and linux on same system in all combinations
viz. [URL="http://apcmag.com/node/5162/&

quot;]http://apcmag.com/node/5162/[/URL]

Another thing I would like to share is that Now I want to try some thing different.
I am thinking of partitioning my portable hard drive and install 1/2 linuxes there.
I am not sure whether this will work or not.
All I know is that unlike windows, you can install linux on a portable hard drive partition too.
Windows says it cant install itself on a portable hard drive which I had (a USB one).

What I actually want to try is whether I can port an OS to some other machine and actually boot there by obviously making some modifications in some or other config in the other system.(But I am not sure, not much time I get to do this after my office timings and other stuff)...

Try Mint...
[URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/index.php"]http://www.linuxmint.com/index.php[/URL]
Its a debian based OS(And I dont much know what a debian based system is-might be kernel or shell)

I am able to have a very good aero experience wth Mint...
You dont always need a Windows for your work...