How to make a life and not living

A Message by George Carlin: -comedian of the 70's and 80's


The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. 

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side..

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent..

Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. 






Truly, inspiring !!

Google Interview Puzzle : 2 Egg Problem...

* You have access to a 100-storey building.
* Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are identical.
* You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an egg can be dropped without breaking.
* Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process

Finally Finally...........................

Atlast After long wait of 5 months i got my patch reviewed .Although the review is negative still i am very happy because now i can restart my contribution .


All in all you may ask that i was really that enthusiastic to work on the open source project then y didn't i took up any other project ,why waiting so long .

I know that i should have done that but this job and movement stuff made me to move out of the project for some time but now i am back and this time am not going anywhere ..

Atlast i would like to thank bZ(chat name ,Boris Zbarsky) for squeeze out time from his busy schedule for doing this review and adding the motivational line "

This patch is looking much better, though!"

To add more : this bug have been moved to core components section from thunderbird section .:)

Recuva -Great software for data recovery

Erase my HDD by mistake .
But recovered nearly all my Data with help of this Software ...

This is a must have ..!!!!
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

New Silverlight Client for Facebook: I Can’t Believe This is Facebook

Luckily, Facebook recently opened up its API to allow third-party developers more access to core features, which gives them a chance to rework the web app and deliver something a little easier on the eyes and potentially less frustrating. That’s exactly what Microsoft’s done with its new Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook, available for Windows and Mac. It’s also demonstrated that Microsoft can sometimes make something I actually like.
As you can see from the screenshots below, the Silverlight Facebook client does something visually striking with the content it pulls from Facebook itself. It uses a fairly sparse dark theme with big, easy-to-read type that borrows just enough from the standard web-based Facebook layout that you won’t find yourself hunting for commands and interface elements.
Your main view shows your news feed (the live feed, not the “News Feed,” which is completely useless and should not be the default for any reason). You can filter your news feed results using the same filters you’d find on Facebook.com, which appear down the left-hand side. Commenting and “liking” is enabled in the news feed, and you can post status updates by clicking the “what’s on your mind?” link at the top. Clickable selections from your friends’ photo updates appear slightly blurred on the right-hand side, providing even more functionality
You can also switch to either “grid” or “photos feed” modes. Grid displays your news feed in a columnar view, so that you can see more at once. Photos feed brings the partially-obscured photos backdrop to the fore and displays a mosaic of your friends’ recently uploaded images. It’s quite nice looking, and it provides a way of looking through your contacts’ images that’s far more appealing than Facebook’s standard method. The photo browsing in general is very cool, and it feels much better checking out albums than it does on the web. The only downside I’ve found is that some albums, for whatever reason, aren’t browsable in the app, because of some setting the uploader has used in creating them.

What really puts this client over the top, in my opinion, is that it gives you access to both Events and your messages. Thanks to the inclusion of both of those features, I no longer have to visit the web-based Facebook at all. You won’t be able to use Facebook chat through the Silverlight app, Other limitations include some control issues –you have to click on a column’s arrows to scroll, instead of using a mouse wheel, for example. This may be a limitation of Silverlight itself, or it could just be because the client is still in an early beta stage at this point, but it does get a bit annoying. You also can’t hide things you don’t want to see without visiting the Facebook web site, and some types of links will take you back to the web, though I didn’t encounter this very often because those are mostly Facebook app links, which I don’t generally use anyway. There are also some obvious bugs, but again, this is an early beta.
By far the most useful aspect of the Silverlight Facebook client is how it treats Facebook more like a CRM system and less like something to use for idle distraction. For example, whenever you view messages between yourself and someone else, it populates the right-hand side of the app with the latest updates, links and photos posted by that person. That way you can refer directly to that contact’s recent activity. It isn’t providing you with any information you can’t get on the web site, but it is combining and presenting it in much more useful ways.
It’s a solid Facebook client, and it makes the service feel much more professional. If you use Facebook during the course of your work, and you aren’t happy with how it works on the web, the Silverlight Client is definitely worth checking out.

The New Google Doodle Is a FREAKING GAME OF PAC-MAN

it will start automatically or by hitting the "insert coin" button .
even lets you play 2 player mode with the WASD keys on your keyboard.

It'll be up all weekend long,
It works on smart phones and iPads, too.

Google

Kites Movie Review | काइट्‌स : फिल्म समीक्षा

Kites Movie Review | काइट्‌स : फिल्म समीक्षा
Just Watchable..

Google IO

Watching the Google IO 2010 videos on youtube.. as i missed the live stream on youtube on 19th and 20th may .
But still it great to watch it now .

can watch them :http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers.

lot about HTML5 ,may be googleTV(still watching ...)

Strange Battery problem in my Laptop!!!

Mine is HP laptop and to my surprise my Battery gives me a 1hr45min backup when fully charged even after 2 years of purchase .
but the strange problem is that it won't charge while Laptop is in use.

Thanks to google ,I found a solution to this .

remove the battery for around 15-20 mins keep using ur Laptop and place it back ..see the magic Battery starts charging again .

Gmail Tips

1) now u can drag and drop files as attachment..
    but must have latest firefox or chrome..
2) LABS: sneak peek :enable
    right-click on the mail to get the preview w/o opening them

FULL HD Version New Pepsi Fifa World Cup 2010 Advert Commercial

Create ur own ringtones..

http://www.madringtones.org/

or download what already there...

great site..

Original Windows ERROR Remix

YOUTUBE ..

http://www.youtube.com/xl -- HD you Tube
http://www.youtube.com/testtube -- try this too..

http://www.youtube.com/disco

Opening banned websites....

try using there IP address ..
http:// ip-add..
(who to get ip address ..go to cmd ping the website )
if your admin is smart u can even try the next method...

convert the ip address to dword,octal,hexadecimal form ...
to calculate manually ... refer :-http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm

or google for convertors ip to dword..binary,octal..etc ..njoy

Undo send e-mail

only available in GMail..

go to Settings>>LABs>>then enable undo send option..

this will allow u to undo ur send msgs..(but within 5 sec :( )...but still a good option...

[HOW TO] Add a photo to my computer properties

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Add a photo to my computer properties

To do this:

1. Open Notepad.

2. Type the following:
[PHP]
[General]
Manufacturer=”your_name
[Support Information]
Line1=
Line2=
[/PHP]
3. Save as “oeminfo.ini” in the System32 folder.(Without Quote)

4. Create a bmp file(Your Photo) and save it the System32 folder as “oemlogo.bmp”(Without Quote).The size of the image should be within 180 (wide) x120 (high) pixels

5. Now Check your My Computer Properties.

It’s tested and working

Dual boot XP and WIN7 with WIN7 installed first

u may face BSOD while booting from XP Disk .
Goto BIOS setting and change SATA to IDE or ATA

as XP donot Support SATA by default
refer:http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-118712-blue-screen-while-trying-to-install-xp

The Story of Bottled Water

The Story of Bottled Water

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Best Songbird Addon Extensions

1. mashTape – This is one of the first things that made me fall in love with Songbird and remains one of my favourite add-ons. mashTape fetches relevant information about the currently playing track from the web. The main pane shows artist biography, members of the band, discography, and related links fetched from last.fm. It also displays album reviews from Amazon and latest info related to the singer fetched from a number of sources including Google News, Yahoo! News, Google Blogsearch, HypeMachine and Digg. But my favourite feature is the cool slideshow composed of related photos from flickr. And oh yeah, before I forget mashTape also fetches relevant videos from YouTube and Yahoo! Music.

2. Now Playing List - Songbird doesn’t contain a Now Playing list (like Windows Media Player or Winamp) that allows you to quickly drag and drop songs and create custom temporary playlists on the fly. This can be a deal breaker for some (including me). Thankfully, there is an add-on that allows you to add a Now Playing List pane.

3. MediaFlow - I love the iTunes like Filter View present in Songbird. However, if you prefer the flashier Coverflow then MediaFlow is the add-on you are looking for. However, this plug-in does have some performance issues.

4. Equalizer Presets - Songbird finally got an equalizer with its latest release. And it’s a pretty good one. Unfortunately it doesn’t include any presets. Manually tuning a 10-band equaliser according to different types of music is just too much work for me. Thankfully for lazy bums like me GeekShadow has done all the hard work. Go ahead and install this add-on to get some much needed equaliser presets.

5. Metadata Tools - This add-on comes in handy when you are tagging your files. Metadata tools add the option to automatically fill in metadata from filenames. Another nice thing about this tool is that is adds an additional filter to the Filter View – Album Artist. I prefer using this over individual artists as a filter.

6. The Exorcist - The Exorcist allows you to locate broken and missing tracks as well as duplicate tracks. It uses track name, artist name, length and other metadata information to locate duplicate tracks. This is a pretty handy add-on to have and is useful if you want to clean up your media library

7. Song Notifier - Just as the name suggests this add-on displays a little notification window (toaster) whenever a new song starts playing. Additional options include ability to include album cover and specify the icon used in Song Notifier.

Install offline dictionary in ubuntu 9.10

1) sudo apt-get install dictd
sudo apt-get install dict-gcide
sudo apt-get install dict-moby-thesaurus
(2) Go to Application>Office>Dictionary> open the dictionary
(3) Edit>(right click)Preference>Source>Add>
(4) Now enter the following:
Description: Local Dictionary
Transport:
Hostname: localhost
Port:
(5) Add>Source>Local Dictionary(select)>Close

Enable Smooth fonts on Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Linux has an option for font smoothing that isn’t turned on by default for some strange reason. This makes fonts significantly smoother, enough to be very noticable.

To enable this option, you need to edit the .fonts.conf file in your home directory. To create and open the file, run this command and paste in the xml data below it.

gedit ~/.fonts.conf

Paste in this text:

true

You’ll have to log out and back in to see the difference.

Here’s an image of the before:

And here’s an image of the after:

Definitely looks smoother, and is much more readable on my laptop screen.

purpose is just sharing this article was found on:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/enable-smooth-fonts-on-ubuntu-linux/

Fix Ubuntu Dropping Wireless on Suspend/Hibernate Resume

Problem:-You put the machine to sleep (suspend) or hibernate it. Arbitrarily sometimes the wireless connection picks up where it left off and you can carry on. Other times it doesn’t and the only easy way to get back your wifi is to reboot.

Solutions

To problem one, I’ve not tested this long enough but it seems to have done the trick. Yes it’s yet another bloody text configuration file. (Why does Linux need so much tweaking for heaven’s sakes, I still love the OS but it gets annoying after a while. Drop in replacement for Windows it isn’t yet…) In /etc/default/acpi-support there is a lot of things you can tweak. Notably what services are killed and restarted on suspend/hibernate.

Find the following line after opening this file (e.g. Alt+F2, and enter gksudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support):

# Add services to this list to stop them before suspend and restart them in
# the resume process.
STOP_SERVICES=""

Change STOP_SERVICES to read:

STOP_SERVICES="networking"

Save the changes and close. With any luck this will fix the problem. What this will do is kill the networking service when you suspend/hibernate but also restart it afresh when you resume; hence there may be a few funny flickers from the Gnome Network-Applet on the panel. Certainly this seems to have worked as my Wireless interface is configured by default on my T40 with the 2100B as eth1 which when I run ifconfig when the wireless has screwed up on resume was not present. Even doing a sudo ifconfig eth1 up which brought it back in would not yield a result.

Article is just for sharing taken from :http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/fix-ubuntu-dropping-wireless-on-suspendhibernate-resume/

Alien in ubuntu

sudo apt-get install alien

HJSPLIT alternative for LINUX

[step 1] Download the gtk-splitter.rpm here: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1116749/com/gtk-splitter-2.0-1.i386.rpm.html
I choose version 2.0-0 because I know it is stable.

[step 2]Next, fire up your terminal and CD to the directory where the gtk-splitter.rpm is, and copy & paste this command line, that will convert the RPM into a DEB installation file.
cd 'home/user_name/Desktop'
sudo alien gtk-splitter-2.0-1.i386.rpm

[step 3] Install the gtk-splitter.deb by clicking on it with your mouse (simplest way???).

[step 4] Use your terminal to start the app "gtk-splitter," or create a Launcher.

I use gtk-splitter all the time for joining and splitting huge archived files. It is very user friendly and fairly easy to use if you are a former Windoze user.

new VUZE 4.3 in Ubunutu

• First you need to install JRE (Java Runtime Environment). Open terminal and paste this line:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

• After JRE installation, download Vuze from Official Site or click here.
• Unpack it to the desktop.
• Go to your home folder and create new folder “.azureus” with dot in front.
• From nautilus View menu, choose “show hidden files”.
• Copy All files from Vuze folder on your desktop into newly created “.azureus” folder.
• You are almost ready. Now you need to add a program launcher to Applications menu. Go to System/Preferences/Main Menu. Then Choose Internet and click “New Item”. On the Create Launcher window choose Browse. Then on new Choose an Application.. window right click to choose Show Hidden Files.

• Next, Go to your Home folder/.azureus and click on “vuze”. To add the vuze Icon just drag and drop vuze.png as on the next picture. Click Ok and that's it :)

You are now ready. Go to Applications/Internet/Vuze to start your new installed application.