The love was always there in my heart - it had been relegated to the dusty corners of my mind, but it was very much there. I would always be handicapped without it. Well, not handicapped perhaps - but I would be like Gabbar without his voice. It took me some free time at work and chance question to after it - something I should have done ages ago...
Was loitering around when my SysAdmin asked me if I knew how to enable telnet on a linux system. Of course I knew - a little pottering about and it all came back to me - /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart - NO? oops - a little 'find' told me that telnet was ready to go - only I should restart xinetd! Yes - and the two proud hands high in the office you could see were both mine!!
But, I realized this is not enough - I need to be in constant touch with muh baby - linux. And shure enuff, this blog is from Firefox on RH9! I am gunzipping and untarring and configuring and making and installing and all this is sooooooooo much fun!!
Thank God for ttys!
Long Live Linux!!
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
not dreamt of in my philosophy
What does it mean to be open like the sky? Free of any notions about how things must be?
India is a land of so many sciences for which courses are not conducted in most universities. Vedic Mathematics is one of them. Ayurveda is definitely on its way back. But how do you explain this:
Found out that The Art of Living volunteers were going to clean a temple in Tirusulam, Chennai. Me joined them. After cleaning the temple, we had food and sang a couple of Bhajans, when rain started pouring down. There was a Swamiji who applauded the good work we had done and asked us to meet him. I planned to just do Namaskaar and be off - nothing prepared me for what was to come.
It was getting late and the car in which I was to go was about to leave. I told people I would leave without meeting him but they insisted that I meet him. Some took a lot of time and some were done fast. I noticed that everyone was telling him their name and what they did. I prostrated and told him the same.
He said - "Continue with your present job. You have changed two jobs already - let this one continue till you get a really good company". I was shocked because I had been contemplating going to Bangalore to get a job. He then continued "It will be a little slow - learn as much as you can - you had chances of studying further but you are not doing anything about it. you are moody, temperemental and adamant. You had a bike accident where you didn't remember anything"
By now I was quite shocked by what he knew and at that time he rattled off a lot of stuff in fast Tamil which I didn't follow (I don't understand Tamil very well) but I did understand what he ended with - "What's the use of me talking - you will not understand all this..." - this was the clincher. I was laughing - there was some shock still but I could sense his situation - here he was, telling all about a person he knows just the first name of - and that person not understanding most of it!!
Anyways, I managed to ask him a question - "should I study further - and he said - "Do it - you have been talking for 3 years!!"
Very exciting for me - also pattern breaking. I am quite interested in 'sciences' that predict an individual's characteristics, future etc. - be it Numerology, Palmistry, using blood group etc. - but this really takes the proverbial cake! Nothing but pure intuition working here...
Of course, after the incredulity wore off, I started to reflect on what he had said - whether it could have been deduced just by my age etc. - and I can come up with a reasoning on how he could have done it - but then I'm reminded of Einstein -
Any significantly advanced science is indistinguishable from magic
India is a land of so many sciences for which courses are not conducted in most universities. Vedic Mathematics is one of them. Ayurveda is definitely on its way back. But how do you explain this:
Found out that The Art of Living volunteers were going to clean a temple in Tirusulam, Chennai. Me joined them. After cleaning the temple, we had food and sang a couple of Bhajans, when rain started pouring down. There was a Swamiji who applauded the good work we had done and asked us to meet him. I planned to just do Namaskaar and be off - nothing prepared me for what was to come.
It was getting late and the car in which I was to go was about to leave. I told people I would leave without meeting him but they insisted that I meet him. Some took a lot of time and some were done fast. I noticed that everyone was telling him their name and what they did. I prostrated and told him the same.
He said - "Continue with your present job. You have changed two jobs already - let this one continue till you get a really good company". I was shocked because I had been contemplating going to Bangalore to get a job. He then continued "It will be a little slow - learn as much as you can - you had chances of studying further but you are not doing anything about it. you are moody, temperemental and adamant. You had a bike accident where you didn't remember anything"
By now I was quite shocked by what he knew and at that time he rattled off a lot of stuff in fast Tamil which I didn't follow (I don't understand Tamil very well) but I did understand what he ended with - "What's the use of me talking - you will not understand all this..." - this was the clincher. I was laughing - there was some shock still but I could sense his situation - here he was, telling all about a person he knows just the first name of - and that person not understanding most of it!!
Anyways, I managed to ask him a question - "should I study further - and he said - "Do it - you have been talking for 3 years!!"
Very exciting for me - also pattern breaking. I am quite interested in 'sciences' that predict an individual's characteristics, future etc. - be it Numerology, Palmistry, using blood group etc. - but this really takes the proverbial cake! Nothing but pure intuition working here...
Of course, after the incredulity wore off, I started to reflect on what he had said - whether it could have been deduced just by my age etc. - and I can come up with a reasoning on how he could have done it - but then I'm reminded of Einstein -
Any significantly advanced science is indistinguishable from magic
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