Things changed since I was underweight last time

Not that I did not notice, but a lot of things have changed since 2005 and that includes my own personality. My dressing, reading habits, food preferences, friends, ability to make new friends, the government and my perspective of politics are a few to notice and mention quickly.

For example, I have changed from being not-religious (call me atheist but that makes you part of a sect) to not-skeptic. Got to know that parallel perspectives could coexist, which is a wonderful concept and equally stupid for the best creature of the divinity. See, I just proved my point - parallel perspective about  coexistence.

Many interests allure me and I concluded, there is nothing to hold. Should have known that much earlier. But then I should have known my potential of a great tennis player quote a few years earlier. Missed on that one as now it seems out of a feasible age. Many things to write - Geeta, History, problem with Aryan concept in west, our ignorance of native research, Persian language and Decathlon pops up in my mind, when I think of writing. But all for a good time. For now, I feel that I have started feeling!

Linux: Then and Now

Linux has changed quite a lot in last 10 years. The GUI, theme, KDE (and GNOME) the package manager, the office - Libreoffice now, Openoffice then - the OpenGL support, the drivers and the community support to mention a few superficial but palpable. Kernel release numbers are incremented more frequently and distros update their versions faster. Amarok is rocking but is not alone.

Earlier a single installation of Mandrake Linux used to take like 5 hours. It used to take 5 CDs (DVDs were yet to get in vogue) and multiple insertions of CDs over a night to get you started in Mandrake. After that the nights used to get busier with series of package dependencies. Think about it now - a usual Ubuntu/Mint installation takes like 20 minutes, with almost all the things you'll need. This is called change. Rahul Gandhi and Congress government can learn from these examples and change their governance.

Another change can be observed in the list of additional packages. I still some time use/edit /etc/fstab but don't mind doing it.

/dev/sxx  /mnt/point    ntfs-3g    defaults   0  0

This is probably the most frequent line I use during first boot of my Linux installation. I ususally also update a few useful packages, like - qtcreator, kile, chrome, freeglut3-dev etc.

The thing that hasn't changed since is - the requirement of more packages. I guess this greed will not change ever. The new version of Qt (5.1) is more inviting for developers.

And the bliss of using a Linux system has been a constant - mind that, as they say the Gravitational constant is temporally changing (sometimes I think science is a curve fitting exercise!).