5. Addiction
There are many addiction in our lives.
And that addiction varies from person to person and my addiction is if not computers it is certainly Linux.
It based on innovation and knowledge.
It is also has strong political and social motives.
It is copyright and exploitation.
If I say I am not politically motivated it is not true.
Any social activity has political roots, so is mine.
It used to be an addiction (not me) of our voters to go and vote and upset the apple cart of power brokers.
It is no more any more.
The area basis and proportional representation has changed the electoral system and body politics upside down.
Almost 48% did not vote at the last general election.
And many more won't turn up this time around, allowing the people who manipulate voting to have a field day, including the counters doing the counting.
Even we have and electronic system of voting the followers of the powerful parties will find a way to engineer something marvelous to get the result they anticipate well in advance of the day of the elections.
Even the polling of surveys could be engineered the way one asks the question and present the data,
With all these facts the voters are beginning to ask the question is it worth the exercise?
The answer is in the negative.
Then who is addicted with polling and elections?
There is a very simple answer.
It is the one who is elected.
It is he/she who gets the image bloated.
Voter get deflated soon after and the promises disappear into thin air,
The vicious cycles begins another round.
This time it has come to spoil the Cricket World Cup.
Average voter want some escape route.
I am pretty sure it won't be acceded by the powerful and the one who wields the clout.
It is another “Merry Go Round” in this country in which people have lost humour and ability to laugh at the selfish self-oneself.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
4. Temptation
4. Temptation
It is time for me to approach the internet activity in totally different perspective.
I was one who was hooked to the computer over the past 18 months to promote one single addiction of mine.
That is to promote Live CDs except Ubuntu (nothing against Ubuntu and it is doing a yeoman service to Linux and the Open source Community).
My antipathy for Ubuntu is based on few basic infrastructure details which are fundamental to Linux.
One is root logging.
That is dropping the root (administrator protocol) and using sudo instead. Having used to old ways of Linux with solid security management, this I consider still a big oversight. After seeing WiKiLeaks and the security leaks and leeches I am more than convinced my reservation is well founded and substantive now than before.
It can be corrected easily with few changes in the scripts and tool kits and libs and I hope in the coming year the Canonical will look into my grouse.
Having said that it is not the intention of this piece of writing.
The intention is far more academic and contemporary.
For a starter internet is basically for luring and attracting the kids and the young.
Old people because their inability and resistance to change are actually not reaping the full benefits of it especially in the East.
Its content is not scrutinized according to the age and maturity.
It becomes a way of life and an addiction.
It gives way to a deprivation syndrome and people tend not to read or critically analyze contents with the false belief that, it is in the web and it got to be true.
I can go on and on but I think my point should be clear without any more elaboration.
My intention here is how we can resit the temptation not to indulge in excess and make creative ways to make the user understand the logic of its use in moderation.
My next piece will be on intuitive ways to make the kids collaborate with my philosophy but it will be useful to adults too.
It is time for me to approach the internet activity in totally different perspective.
I was one who was hooked to the computer over the past 18 months to promote one single addiction of mine.
That is to promote Live CDs except Ubuntu (nothing against Ubuntu and it is doing a yeoman service to Linux and the Open source Community).
My antipathy for Ubuntu is based on few basic infrastructure details which are fundamental to Linux.
One is root logging.
That is dropping the root (administrator protocol) and using sudo instead. Having used to old ways of Linux with solid security management, this I consider still a big oversight. After seeing WiKiLeaks and the security leaks and leeches I am more than convinced my reservation is well founded and substantive now than before.
It can be corrected easily with few changes in the scripts and tool kits and libs and I hope in the coming year the Canonical will look into my grouse.
Having said that it is not the intention of this piece of writing.
The intention is far more academic and contemporary.
For a starter internet is basically for luring and attracting the kids and the young.
Old people because their inability and resistance to change are actually not reaping the full benefits of it especially in the East.
Its content is not scrutinized according to the age and maturity.
It becomes a way of life and an addiction.
It gives way to a deprivation syndrome and people tend not to read or critically analyze contents with the false belief that, it is in the web and it got to be true.
I can go on and on but I think my point should be clear without any more elaboration.
My intention here is how we can resit the temptation not to indulge in excess and make creative ways to make the user understand the logic of its use in moderation.
My next piece will be on intuitive ways to make the kids collaborate with my philosophy but it will be useful to adults too.
3. An Advertisement
3. An Advertisement
For an advertisement to be taken note of, it has to be only 3 words of some impact, nothing more or nothing less.
Either it is,
I love it
Or
I hate it, with some superlative starting with letter F....
Otherwise what one pays for is waste and goes down the gutter!
That is why people hate internet advertising and why internet is not contributing to productivity in a sustainable way.
Thing about it in the coming year.
Internet has lot of traps and I have discovered many daring omissions and this has made me to focus on few more aspects in the coming days and weeks, if there is time I can spare and write.
For an advertisement to be taken note of, it has to be only 3 words of some impact, nothing more or nothing less.
Either it is,
I love it
Or
I hate it, with some superlative starting with letter F....
Otherwise what one pays for is waste and goes down the gutter!
That is why people hate internet advertising and why internet is not contributing to productivity in a sustainable way.
Thing about it in the coming year.
Internet has lot of traps and I have discovered many daring omissions and this has made me to focus on few more aspects in the coming days and weeks, if there is time I can spare and write.
2. Twitter
2. Twitter
One should be able to send a message in 140 characters which will fly fast in the internet.
I try it hard but sometimes fail but then I still try harder to get my message across.
If one cannot get the message in time and 100 characters it is lost.
Brevity and light weight (Flash and Media are heavy and slow and insult to human intelligence) is the key if one wants to keep pace with one's computer and the fast moving world of action.
One should be able to send a message in 140 characters which will fly fast in the internet.
I try it hard but sometimes fail but then I still try harder to get my message across.
If one cannot get the message in time and 100 characters it is lost.
Brevity and light weight (Flash and Media are heavy and slow and insult to human intelligence) is the key if one wants to keep pace with one's computer and the fast moving world of action.
1. Email
I am going to serialize few items of archived writing for posterity, since I have gone beyond 1000 pieces (they were not included, by accident)
1. Email
If one has less emails to open and more to redirect or forward, I consider that one is starting the day with flying colours.
But if you fail to say even Hi (send a reply note) if not Haaih or Cheers and reply immediately, I feel one has failed in true inner connectivity.
Email is not a dustbin but a powerful media that we misuse and reuse.
I get thousands of emails and developed a good technique of filtering and answering which I learned as a kid in school which were were taught to us by our teachers.
Never fail to answer a friends call lest you lose him for good.
Now I see some of my friends after decades of hibernation in foreign soil come back and try to re-establish connections which were strong while we we here.
Moment one goes abroad he/she learns the bad habit of selfishness (Western value) inner attachment.
The stock market crisis is the manifestation of that selfishness and greed.
1. Email
If one has less emails to open and more to redirect or forward, I consider that one is starting the day with flying colours.
But if you fail to say even Hi (send a reply note) if not Haaih or Cheers and reply immediately, I feel one has failed in true inner connectivity.
Email is not a dustbin but a powerful media that we misuse and reuse.
I get thousands of emails and developed a good technique of filtering and answering which I learned as a kid in school which were were taught to us by our teachers.
Never fail to answer a friends call lest you lose him for good.
Now I see some of my friends after decades of hibernation in foreign soil come back and try to re-establish connections which were strong while we we here.
Moment one goes abroad he/she learns the bad habit of selfishness (Western value) inner attachment.
The stock market crisis is the manifestation of that selfishness and greed.
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