Ubuntu a Powerful Operating System ...

All fed up with windows.. 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista and hell. Born and brought up with windows, were I. I din feel Windows boring, in spite of whatever freezes and crashes i ever faced wid Win-do(se)ws. Ignorance took over me to windows. I knew something good than Windows doesn't exists, rite frm my 8th std., the time we bought a PC. In fact, i was familiar about something called Linux, Red-Hat Linux but din want to know about it much in those young days cos i heard people saying it was all about codes.. U can't access the PC without knowing atleast a few basics of coding. Well, what else could i do, when i din have anyother option left other than the unopened curtains of Windows? Continued with it... Moreover, i still love billy very much.. for his hard-works, for his personality, his specs (i love the way he adjusts his glasses), his hairstyle etc etc. I hardly remember if i had missed any TV shows where Bill was the hero. Well, i know this would be a silly excuse for using windows ;) but i din't really wanna crash my PC, trying something new. Never, now! To say, am out of the doors or windows.. with something called Ubuntu.

Ubuntu:

Ubuntu is, as said earlier, a really powerful operating system, which is based on Linux. Advantages are heaven in Ubuntu. Right from the desktop to the backend of database management, Ubuntu can be powerfully used. More with GUI as user Interactions, one can use Ubuntu, without even knowing what a Terminal is! Btw, terminal is a note pad like thing where u can ask ubuntu to do ur desired stuff like application installing etc (apt-get install, is the code). Something similar to Run/cmd/command in Windows, but million times powerful than that. Ubuntu is a freeware, open source OS. Canonical Systems, the coders of Ubuntu has given a Public Licence to it. Look at this! You need to pay thousands of bucks for a crap, where later u would probably have to do an updation of hardware components, because the crap you got did not detect them. Whilst, you get the most powerful distro free and pay nothing else other than some time to order a CD in Ubuntu's official website. And yeah.. coming back to Linux.. there is one thing people always confuse with. (even did i :p)

Linux:

Linux, first of all, as many consider, is not an Operating System. Precisely, its just the base of the operating System, over which the original OS is built. say, to compare with Windows, Windows runs on a base called 'Kernel'. Over kernel, is built the actual OS, be it Xp or Vista or whatsoever. Similarly, Linux is the base on which OS's like Red-Hat, Ubuntu and such. The most popular GUI's used in Linux includes KDE, GNOME etc. Both uses different types of GUI and gives different interfaces and appearance. Linux is named after Linus Torvalds, the inventor of this powerful kernel. Linux is very powerful at servers and can be installed with mainframe to super computers and operates with command line processing. Well, thats actually history. The Ubuntu distro has made Linux a fruitful experience to a common man who doesn even knows the A's of coding.

Why Ubuntu?:

I use Ubuntu right now.. I ll mention a few advantages... I don wanna compare it with Windows and waste time...

1. High speed. My PC starts up within a matter of 10 seconds.

2. Highly customizable. I don find any walls as in the former. All the Windows are open wide.

3. Adding and Removing programs are never made much easier. 4. A manager which can detect all the applications in your system, do updates promptly, with which you can just install any applications ever available for Ubuntu. U don really have to go bugging websites and take pain in downloading torrents.

5. Security options. No one can use even a partition of my hard-disk without my password.

6. No Freezing points.. I ve been using ubuntu for atleast 2 months from now and i rarely or never experienced any crashes. My PC is now a good boy :p.

7. Virus free.

8. Multiple options to operate the System.. GUI or Terminal, which maybe effective sometimes.

9. No drivers necessary.

10. I got it for Free!!

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Wanna check ubuntu?? well, here u go.. http://www.ubuntu.com/

all the best.

Microsoft - back wid the next endeavor ..

Windows Vista, a highly expected OS, for its design, simplicity of user interface, support, security really buzzed off many techies, i must say... The expectations were really a short-lived one, not only to the techies, but even to those home users, who just use their system to play games, hear music and watch movies. The release had bugs wid Drivers and with many of the applications. Applications and Drivers which were designed for XP, failed to take a lump less drive over Vista. If to mention, the serious bug wid which Vista had with nVidia really pissed off many gamers. Too much of security alerts, which though useful, were felt a stupidity among common users. Bound to the walls of Microsoft, users had only used the options which Vista forced them to. Not that Vista was made for Users; Users were made for Vista. But to mention, this had been a claim of Windows right from the beginning. Vista as informed earlier, managed to get the users attention through a simple GUI. Aero, called it Microsoft. Glass schemes of windows and lighting effects made Vista look cool and always better, attracted ppl as such. Later the regression they made is well known.. But later, M$ managed to correct the bugs with the SP1 release of Vista. And now, many applications have support for Vista and driver bugs are corrected and remolded. These times, i don't think one (speaking about the end user) will have to struggle much with Vista, except for the exceptionally asked security questions, which often blows our hats off. But still there are complaints about Vista eating up really a tough space in the hard-disk and the user is unknown for what it happens. I was even stunned to know that after installing Vista and running my PC idle for a few hours, nearly 2 GB missing on my 40 GB hard-disk, whilst the installation took only 7 GB. Later i managed to tweak it up and fixed it, anyways.

The new endeavor:

After Vista, which sold at a rate, nearly two times half than that of XP, M$ is on its next project, which MS calls, Windows 7. MS claims this to be built mostly in accordance with Vista based technicalities, so the user need not to have face weird problems, as they did in Vista. Elegant, Supportive, Clean, Technically fit, Entertainment, Environmental are some keywords to Windows 7. I don think, MS will give much new as in a transition from XP to Vista. But, advancements in what Vista was supposed to have and what it failed to do, will be added up or rectified in Windows 7. But, who knows? MS is purely unpredictable. Official blog says, MS would release Windows 7 in 2010. But the release could be made even sooner, because they don ve to code from the kernel level. The OS can be an assurance for sure, to all its users with Vista of compatibility related issues. Drivers and applications which run successfully in Vista will run in ease even here.

Hope we hear something good from Microsoft corporation about the doors of Windows 7.

For more informations and follow-up's visit : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

Darwin's Theory of Evolution - a Crisis??

Evolution... a most frequently asked question, whose answer is still beyond the imaginative power of man. Where are we from? Whom did we come from? How did our evolution take place? Are we from monkeys? Then who created the first bacteria of the World? From where did it evolve? lotsa questions, as such.

Theists say "Its all from God.. God created the Universe, the Planet, the Atmosphere, Water, Land, Bacterias, Viruses, Animals, Plants, Human". well, good in that case. Belief is always the answer for an unknown question.

And back to Darwin's theory, Sir Darwin proposed a theory.. famously called as the 'Theory of evolution'. According to him, each and every creature on this planet, is created with a factor so called, "decent with modification". The theory says, Everything is descended from its ancestors. trees, animals, human and everything {We must have been from an amoeba then, not from monkey :p}. Also adds up, when such a transition occur, the beneficial mutations still remain as in the ancestor, but the next advancement of the gene would be radical. Say, Human, as of now, is considered to have taken his evolution from a monkey. The advancement we have is the addition of one more sense, absence of tail etc. Its just a structural advancement we have, considers the Theory of Evolution. This process of advancement, was coined by a term 'natural selection', by Darwin. Say, the theory proposes, there must have been something, which existed before the butterflies, which cannot fly but had the properties of a butterfly. Say the fore-runner is X, the butterfly should have inherited a few properties from X and should have developed the capability of flying. The X should have gradually got extinct and what exists is actually the butterfly.

But the transition can not happen in a leap. It takes lotta time. It takes place slowly and very slowly. Darwin further said, if under any discussion, it is to be proved that any organ/part of a creature existed without successive building of them, from their ancestors, the theory of Evolution would obviously break down. Such an organ, if formed, would come under 'irreducibly complex system'. The Irreducibly Complex System is something which contains many complex parts, where the entire organ fails to function properly, if any one single part of the organ fails. Say, you have a two wheeler. You wont be able to run a two wheeler, which is a complex system without tyres or engine or handlebar. You need these integral parts of the complex system to run the two wheeler good. Now, in the same case discussion, there is no chance that the System of the two wheeler can be evolved part by part. Because, if the evolution is part by part and slow, the system wouldn function well.

To note a point, Darwin himself had made a confession on his theory...
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."

And thus, the Darwin's theory is a crisis ... !

Sholingur Lakshmi Narahsimha Temple

Sun Dec, 14., 2008

After a plan to visit the Lakshmi Narahsimha Swami temple, Sholingur, we started from home at 6.00 am sharp. Having booked a cab from a taxi center, the travel took around two and half an hours to reach the temple. 8.30 was the time, when we stepped our foot at Sholingur. Sholingur, outwards, is located near Tirutani and Arakanom, from either sides. A 10km journey from Arakonam will land you in Sholingur. Located in Tiruvallur district. The earth near temple are mostly unplotted. Mostly covered by mountains and hills, Sholingur, is really a good place, provided there is no effect of the striking sun. A calm whether can make Sholingur LN temple trip a most memorable one.

Two major temples, located over the hills. 1. Lakshmi Narahsimha Swami, 2. Anjaneya Swami. Nevertheless located on two different hills, the altitude is more or less the same. The LN(Lakshmi Narahsimha) Swami temple contains around 1,350 steps from the down-hill. Not so very steep, except very few such places. The statue of Narahsimha, an avatar of Lord Vishnu, is placed here and called as Yoga Narahsimhar. 'Narahsimha' avatar of Lord Vishnu is derived from the two words, Narayanan (Lord Vishnu)+Simham(Lion). LN has a body of an ordinary man, as of Lord Vishnu and head of a Simham (Lion). Avatar motive was to kill Iranya kasibu, a wicked dictator and to save the world. LNr is believed to be one of the most powerful GOD.

The temple located over the hill, is full of Monkeys. One can see Family's of monkeys going here and there.. U need to be a bit careful with what you have in your hand else, within no time, you may find it snatched away by them....