Krishnan's weblog – an assortment of things. A scribble pad. A hybrid microblog. Mostly bread crumbs of an internet journey.
I’ve decided to be on XP Professional till my Rapidshare premium account runs out. I have to face it. Rapget can’t be replaced 
. Symantec corporate edition is keeping me secure. My OS is up-to-date. Rapget, uTorrent, Flashget and Feed reader are all working 24 x 7 to fetch me the infomation I need. I have 12,523 posts and 31,584 emails to read. Winamp plays Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. There is this general feeling of well-being well past the Saturday midnight …
Just so that I am always able to access my data from Linux, even when I’m on XP, I installed this little utility.
http://www.diskinternals.com/download/DiskInternals.zip
It loads the Linux partitions as read-only and lets you copy files from Linux partitions to Windows partitions.
Cool 
After downloading 3 DVD isos totalling 13 GB, after a week of 9 hour per day scheduled power cuts, after sitting up all night, after drinking precisely 11 cups of tea with sour milk, after the first few install attempts crashed due to NVIDIA, after GNOME, after KDE, though I’m still on Iceweasel – I movedto Debian.
Good bye Mandriva 2008, You gave me the confidence that Linux can be truly fun.
Good bye Vista, You suck.
Jack and Max are walking from religious service. Jack wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.
Max replies, “Why don’t you ask the Priest?”
So Jack goes up to the Priest and asks, ” Father, may I smoke while I pray ?”
The Priest replies, “No, my son, you may not! That’s utter disrespect to our religion.”
Jack goes back to his friend and tells him what the good Priest told him.
Max says, “I’m not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try.”
And so Max goes up to the Priest and asks, “Father, may I pray while I smoke ?”
To which the Priest eagerly replies, “By all means, my son. By all means. You can always pray whenever you want to.”
Moral of the story is, “The reply you get depends on the question you ask.”
Courtesy : Anonymous forwarded e-mail
Finally, a clean look for my desktop. It meets all my expectations. Its cool, black, has no text, is minimal and “superfunctional”
Learning Daily is a personal blog that is just as random as my thoughts. The navigation bar at the top and the search box may be the only things that will help you find something.
My present interests lie in sustainability, peak oil, debian, Web after 2.0, creativity and epistemology. I learn daily. I learn about everything under the sun and even those beyond it. I am a perpetual student whose believes that wisdom is the real reward for learning.