This all started with a small incidence narrated by one of my friends, Mohan, When I was in ADA. The narration was like this:
Somebody called his freind over phone asking,"Can I speak to Mr.Vijay"(name changed)
and his friend answered,"you can, but you may not!".
That time(when this narration was made), I was a 'buchcha' in this type of sensitive english. So, I simply remembered.(Many times I do this. I simply remember the things that I dont understand, hoping to understand them somewhere in the future).
Later, I dont know when, at some point of time, I got to know the difference. Some day while discussing with Phani, I began elaborating him, "you can hit your boss with a stone in public, but you may not", which makes it pretty clear. 'Can' is the matter of capability and 'may' is the matter of probability.
And that exactly made me understand this:"after removing all that is impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth". This appears in one of the short stories written by Sir.Arthor Canon Doyley.(This sentence, I might have gone through, while reading Sherlock Holmes stories, but didnt realize the meaning at that time)
Once I understood the meaning of this, the revelation for me was tremendous. Bacause, gradually, as I recollected Sherlock Holmes stories, I found that, each of the analysis that Mr.Holmes conducts for his deductions is based on this particular principle. Though this basic principle of detective work can be put so simple, there still remains a great challenge for the detectives. That is, to demark between what is impossible and what is improbable. Because this demarkation greatly depends on amount and accuracy of information, the detective holds.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Dogistory
I used to be afraid of dogs very much. Now, though I still get feared, I manage not to run. Because, running can prove dangerous, I know. Dogs also, donot like running men, i feel. I anticipate enough barking from dogs, whenever I see them. Until they keep barking, that is, their mouth will have a movements totally dedicated to barking, so, I need not worry. I firmly believe the single thread processing atleast in the case of dogs. Only one process at a time. If it is barking, then it wont bite. So, I am safe as long as it is barking. Once, it stops barking, then one needs to be more careful.
It was really a great relaxation for me, when I came to know about the that we are protected by the self protection act from them. If a dogs comes and barks on you, you can claim that, it has come to bite you. So, according to self protection act, you can attack on it and save yourself from, dog-bite. So, a legal approach is still available in public places. One of my relatives told me this, and I was so happy that day.
The day I learnt this, I started carrying the umbrella with me in all occations. I wont care if i need to give any clarifications for this though, it is somewhat irritating. Atleast it is better than, getting your stomach inserted with injections 14 times! Alas! it is so difficult to live.
Whenever we plan to go somewhere in our holidays, presence of dogs is one of the important parameters to be considered. We would always be reluctant to visit homes where there would be dogs. The first thing we would note about a house newly visied would also be the same. Because, in spite of having a pond, a big house, so as to get enough hiding places for hide and seek, or even a bunch of trees, very suitable for climbing if a dog is there, they are all waste.
One day it thus happened that, on the road there were 3 dogs sitting like people pose for sitting for a strike. By that age, I had alreay developed a practice of seeing the far end of the street whenever I take a turn and realized, their presence. Instantly, I decided to go through some other route and escaped the attack. Some other day, dogs became aware of this and were sitting at the corner and before I could know that they were there, I was standing right in front of them. This was a crucial battle, and I had only one weapon, a small bag made of cotton. This was the time the real worrier in me showed up and for a long time, I didnt see them in that route.
May be it is more convenient to put stories about dogs under a seperate heading, "Dogistory". This I am suggesting because of the abundance of stories available on dogs. Dogs in fact never have been given the attention they have to be given. All these menaces created by dogs are just because, dogs are not given right place in society. They are noted only when, some thief breaks into a house or, when a corporation van pulls them into it. I really feel that this is the reason why, dogs are taking revange agains us in all possible ways, many of them I have already observed.
The final message from my side is this. Please always keep dogs in the right place you need to keep them.They might have troubled you many times. But, as you say in hindi, "paap se door raho paapee se nahee".
It was really a great relaxation for me, when I came to know about the that we are protected by the self protection act from them. If a dogs comes and barks on you, you can claim that, it has come to bite you. So, according to self protection act, you can attack on it and save yourself from, dog-bite. So, a legal approach is still available in public places. One of my relatives told me this, and I was so happy that day.
The day I learnt this, I started carrying the umbrella with me in all occations. I wont care if i need to give any clarifications for this though, it is somewhat irritating. Atleast it is better than, getting your stomach inserted with injections 14 times! Alas! it is so difficult to live.
Whenever we plan to go somewhere in our holidays, presence of dogs is one of the important parameters to be considered. We would always be reluctant to visit homes where there would be dogs. The first thing we would note about a house newly visied would also be the same. Because, in spite of having a pond, a big house, so as to get enough hiding places for hide and seek, or even a bunch of trees, very suitable for climbing if a dog is there, they are all waste.
One day it thus happened that, on the road there were 3 dogs sitting like people pose for sitting for a strike. By that age, I had alreay developed a practice of seeing the far end of the street whenever I take a turn and realized, their presence. Instantly, I decided to go through some other route and escaped the attack. Some other day, dogs became aware of this and were sitting at the corner and before I could know that they were there, I was standing right in front of them. This was a crucial battle, and I had only one weapon, a small bag made of cotton. This was the time the real worrier in me showed up and for a long time, I didnt see them in that route.
May be it is more convenient to put stories about dogs under a seperate heading, "Dogistory". This I am suggesting because of the abundance of stories available on dogs. Dogs in fact never have been given the attention they have to be given. All these menaces created by dogs are just because, dogs are not given right place in society. They are noted only when, some thief breaks into a house or, when a corporation van pulls them into it. I really feel that this is the reason why, dogs are taking revange agains us in all possible ways, many of them I have already observed.
The final message from my side is this. Please always keep dogs in the right place you need to keep them.They might have troubled you many times. But, as you say in hindi, "paap se door raho paapee se nahee".
Monday, October 1, 2007
BAKophobia
With all phobia's I am adding another desease. BAKophobia. I badly want to share this experince because you all are going to get benefited out of it.
It happened like this. I had installed a software in my PC(It is a client actually). But, it was not working. I broke my head in several different ways. But couldn't solve it. The sotware still kept its challenge to my ability open. Finally, I had to visit the master of software installation in our department. He is so experienced and so knowledgeable in installing the software. So, I asked him to help me. He went through all procedures, many of them mere a repitiation of what I did, and finally, found the loophole. The installation was refering to a back up file(back up configuration file). He removed that back up file, and we were welcomed by the appearance of client window.
That was the time, when I started hating Back Up files. I honestly hate them. The honesty is in that, the oath that I took at the time I realized that I hated them. The oath goes like this:" I will promptly shift delete(permanent delete- cannot be reincarnated from recycle bin also) all the bak files I could see in my PC,( and other PC's too when I see them). Every day as soon as I arrive, I will search for all the back files in my PC and delete them. I will never opt for a back file generation in the event of any change in any file. I will spread this message as much as possible" I have been honest in obeying this principle and suggest all of you too for doing so.
I started a great rage for backup files. I also realise that it has become a desease now. But then, why name it? I badly believe that, there should be a name for each desease. I advice all the readers to name any of the new kind of disorders with a particular name. A named desease always invokes respect for the patient in the heart of any person who comes to know. So, I immadiately figured a name for this desease, when I came to know that I had such a disorder. "BAKophobia". What else can I name this desease. I have seen 'phobia' many times in the testbooks and news papers. Whatever, we hate in gereral can be put as a kind of phobia. This makes the desease more respectable, I feel, than giving a trivial name. I hope I am not overburdening the syllabus of future students of future students of medicine. But then, I am also giving them a chance to charge more for these desease. I strongly feel that, doctors charge more for all the disorders that were named in thier text books. So, I feel that I am helping them than troubling.
I really dont understand the logic of creating the back files. These files simply reside at the disk and they are of no use. Suppose you have a large file, you open it, and make a small modification. Then a back file gets created with original conent and modified content will be stored in the actual file. This is as good as storing that large file twice with obviously no need for that with small difference in content in them. It consumes so much of you hard disk space and it ceratinly not advisable to keep it for any reason. Another noticeable fact is that, many viruses are activated when a back file gets generated. The synthesis of many computer viruses is done taking backup file as basis. Whenever back up files are created, many dangerous viruses may keep hang your PC's. many times you might have noticed that, your text editor works fine until you save it. When you save it, the whole system gets hanged. This is becuase, when you save it, a back up file will be created and this as soon as it gets created, viruses get activated. Ans also, You might have seen the extension of back file itself. How awkward it is. never look a beauty, with two dots. Just compare two file names text.txt and text.txt.bak. How beautiful is the first name. And how awkward is the second.
Even, bak files are a disrespect to the author/creator. What is the meaning of reverting back to a previous version after we have edited. Isn't there any respect for the editing that we have done. The operating systems actually disrespect us by creating bak files as if to show that, we may go wrong, and we may have to return back to original version. This is another reason we all should start deleting back files as and when possible. So, freinds, let us hold our hands together in deleting all back up files and let us have a motto that, we would be (shift) deleting all back up files of any sort within 2020.
OK, it is time now, for starting deletion of todays back up files in my machine. Hurrying for that. Will surely write more about them in coming posts. Till then, good bye.
It happened like this. I had installed a software in my PC(It is a client actually). But, it was not working. I broke my head in several different ways. But couldn't solve it. The sotware still kept its challenge to my ability open. Finally, I had to visit the master of software installation in our department. He is so experienced and so knowledgeable in installing the software. So, I asked him to help me. He went through all procedures, many of them mere a repitiation of what I did, and finally, found the loophole. The installation was refering to a back up file(back up configuration file). He removed that back up file, and we were welcomed by the appearance of client window.
That was the time, when I started hating Back Up files. I honestly hate them. The honesty is in that, the oath that I took at the time I realized that I hated them. The oath goes like this:" I will promptly shift delete(permanent delete- cannot be reincarnated from recycle bin also) all the bak files I could see in my PC,( and other PC's too when I see them). Every day as soon as I arrive, I will search for all the back files in my PC and delete them. I will never opt for a back file generation in the event of any change in any file. I will spread this message as much as possible" I have been honest in obeying this principle and suggest all of you too for doing so.
I started a great rage for backup files. I also realise that it has become a desease now. But then, why name it? I badly believe that, there should be a name for each desease. I advice all the readers to name any of the new kind of disorders with a particular name. A named desease always invokes respect for the patient in the heart of any person who comes to know. So, I immadiately figured a name for this desease, when I came to know that I had such a disorder. "BAKophobia". What else can I name this desease. I have seen 'phobia' many times in the testbooks and news papers. Whatever, we hate in gereral can be put as a kind of phobia. This makes the desease more respectable, I feel, than giving a trivial name. I hope I am not overburdening the syllabus of future students of future students of medicine. But then, I am also giving them a chance to charge more for these desease. I strongly feel that, doctors charge more for all the disorders that were named in thier text books. So, I feel that I am helping them than troubling.
I really dont understand the logic of creating the back files. These files simply reside at the disk and they are of no use. Suppose you have a large file, you open it, and make a small modification. Then a back file gets created with original conent and modified content will be stored in the actual file. This is as good as storing that large file twice with obviously no need for that with small difference in content in them. It consumes so much of you hard disk space and it ceratinly not advisable to keep it for any reason. Another noticeable fact is that, many viruses are activated when a back file gets generated. The synthesis of many computer viruses is done taking backup file as basis. Whenever back up files are created, many dangerous viruses may keep hang your PC's. many times you might have noticed that, your text editor works fine until you save it. When you save it, the whole system gets hanged. This is becuase, when you save it, a back up file will be created and this as soon as it gets created, viruses get activated. Ans also, You might have seen the extension of back file itself. How awkward it is. never look a beauty, with two dots. Just compare two file names text.txt and text.txt.bak. How beautiful is the first name. And how awkward is the second.
Even, bak files are a disrespect to the author/creator. What is the meaning of reverting back to a previous version after we have edited. Isn't there any respect for the editing that we have done. The operating systems actually disrespect us by creating bak files as if to show that, we may go wrong, and we may have to return back to original version. This is another reason we all should start deleting back files as and when possible. So, freinds, let us hold our hands together in deleting all back up files and let us have a motto that, we would be (shift) deleting all back up files of any sort within 2020.
OK, it is time now, for starting deletion of todays back up files in my machine. Hurrying for that. Will surely write more about them in coming posts. Till then, good bye.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
No 'Net Work'!
Now that I have also started thinking this way. I don’t have any work. I am at office and our 'network' is down, so I cannot do any work. So, blogging!
Somewhere I had read, in someone’s blog. He said,’ I am here blogging because I don’t have any other work!’ Actually, I do waste time by blogging many a times. This gives me happiness that I also can waste time like any other does. I want to be as normal as any blogger in the world! Never mind if somebody reads or not, comments come or not. Never mind what it means. Simply blog!
Writing blog is not the only way of wasting your (worth-wasting) time, this wasting can be made useful,(some times wastes can also be useful), by reading blogs. So, I read some of the blogs. But if you really want to enjoy, do write blogs. You will not only get satisfied that you have wasted your time, but also you will get additional satisfaction that you are helping others to waste their time too. The 2nd satisfaction is proportional to the number of visitors to your page. So, it becomes important that you publicize your blog as much as possible.
I would like to give hints on how to do it. First let us narrow out the users who will read the blogs. Those who don’t have work right? This can happen with the workers, who work, and occasionally get some time, when they don’t get work. In those times they feel that, they don’t have work becuase 'they had been working'. So, these are my target people. And my objective is to give them enough stuff to waste their time! I am really happy today that I am getting useful in this way.
Many times I read material related to the software(that I work upon) in the free time. But, I never get satisfied, by such a kind of usefulness. Wasting time, which is so precious, can give such an immense satisfaction, I had never known before. So, I am ‘utilizing’ my free time to waste it!
Today no one is working in our department. Don’t think that our department is calm now. On the contrary it is noisier today. I can hear people laughing here and there, chatting noisily and this is the way I really like my department to be (at least until I become a boss some day). Today is the day of freedom.
And you know how the freedom is utilized in India. It is used to make ourselves free from observing rules! Perhaps this is because of the Raj rule that was there earlier. No body took responsibility for anything which was public, when there was Raj rule, and even when British people ruled us. Raja’s needed to take the full charge of whatever happened in public. If any other person took interest in them, he was teased, “Are you the king here?” .During the regime of British, we were so busy getting our freedom .We didn’t even have time to think, how we will make the society understand, about what may happen when we change from Raj to Swaraj.
So, in our department it is the same case. We do meeting, we have formal talk about the projects that will be taken in future and all important matters, without the help of network, when network is up. But we are not doing that now, because, there is no ‘net work’!
Somewhere I had read, in someone’s blog. He said,’ I am here blogging because I don’t have any other work!’ Actually, I do waste time by blogging many a times. This gives me happiness that I also can waste time like any other does. I want to be as normal as any blogger in the world! Never mind if somebody reads or not, comments come or not. Never mind what it means. Simply blog!
Writing blog is not the only way of wasting your (worth-wasting) time, this wasting can be made useful,(some times wastes can also be useful), by reading blogs. So, I read some of the blogs. But if you really want to enjoy, do write blogs. You will not only get satisfied that you have wasted your time, but also you will get additional satisfaction that you are helping others to waste their time too. The 2nd satisfaction is proportional to the number of visitors to your page. So, it becomes important that you publicize your blog as much as possible.
I would like to give hints on how to do it. First let us narrow out the users who will read the blogs. Those who don’t have work right? This can happen with the workers, who work, and occasionally get some time, when they don’t get work. In those times they feel that, they don’t have work becuase 'they had been working'. So, these are my target people. And my objective is to give them enough stuff to waste their time! I am really happy today that I am getting useful in this way.
Many times I read material related to the software(that I work upon) in the free time. But, I never get satisfied, by such a kind of usefulness. Wasting time, which is so precious, can give such an immense satisfaction, I had never known before. So, I am ‘utilizing’ my free time to waste it!
Today no one is working in our department. Don’t think that our department is calm now. On the contrary it is noisier today. I can hear people laughing here and there, chatting noisily and this is the way I really like my department to be (at least until I become a boss some day). Today is the day of freedom.
And you know how the freedom is utilized in India. It is used to make ourselves free from observing rules! Perhaps this is because of the Raj rule that was there earlier. No body took responsibility for anything which was public, when there was Raj rule, and even when British people ruled us. Raja’s needed to take the full charge of whatever happened in public. If any other person took interest in them, he was teased, “Are you the king here?” .During the regime of British, we were so busy getting our freedom .We didn’t even have time to think, how we will make the society understand, about what may happen when we change from Raj to Swaraj.
So, in our department it is the same case. We do meeting, we have formal talk about the projects that will be taken in future and all important matters, without the help of network, when network is up. But we are not doing that now, because, there is no ‘net work’!
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