How the British CONQUERED India

Published on July 15, 2012 in General and Life. 1 Comment

The secret and, or proof of how the British CONQUERED India is Lord Macaulay’s address to the British Parliament on February 2, 1835 where he suggested to replace our ancient, but rich educational system and culture or heritage; read his statement found in a preserved copy:

Read what INDIA was as per LORD MACAULAYs statement on 2nd february 1835

Read what INDIA was as per LORD MACAULAY's statement on 2nd February 1835

It is sad that we, the Indians, are still following same even after 64 years of Independence from British rule. What’s wrong with our Granths, Gita and, or Vedas? Why can’t we base or replace our constitution on our rich heritage and, or traditions? Can anyone amend Gita? Is Gita against any cast, creed and, or religion? Is Gita against secularism and, or democracy?

FYKI, it was Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the tenth Sikh Guru, who established “Khalsa Panth”, a pure democratic system way back in 1699 and provided equal opportunity and power to the women when our educational system was quite disturbed and, or contaminated by the Mughal rulers.

We almost all know that our forefathers lived a life in slavery for about 700-800 years, just because our people did not bother to challenge the then rulers, our rajas / maharajas who were not performing their duties well or these so called rulers sold us into the hands of foreigners just because of their vested interests or own security.

And, that’s what we are doing today — we almost all know that the Congress or UPA has failed to provide good governance and most its members or ministers are facing cases of exemplary corruption. The so called opposition BJP or NDA is weak or has no reasonable agenda to win in the forthcoming elections and we almost all the educated and, or learned Indians are awaiting for someone else to save us from these corrupt bureaucrats and, or politicians or white mafia.

ਆਪਾਂ TV ਅਗੇ ਬੈਠ ਕੇ ਗਾਲਾਂ ਤਾਂ ਕਢ ਲੇਂਦੇ ਹਾਂ, ਗਲੀਆਂ ਯਾ ਸਡ਼ਕ ਕਿਨਾਰੇ ਖੜੇ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਭਾਸਨ ਦੇ ਆਂਦੇ ਹਾਂ; ਇਸ ਤੋ ਜ੍ਯਾਦਾ ਹੋਰ ਕਰ ਵੀ ਕੀ ਸਕਦੇ ਹਾਂ — ਕੋਈ Anna Hazare, Kiran Bedi ਜਾਂ ਇਹਨਾ ਵਰਗਾ ਹੀ ਉਠੇਗਾ ਜੋ ਸਾਨੂ ਯਾ ਸਾਡੇ ਦੇਸ਼ ਦੀ ਡੁਬਦੀ ਬੇੜੀ ਪਾਰ ਲਗਾਵੇਗਾ - ਸਦਕੇ! ਭਾਰਤ ਦੇ ਵੀਰ, ਯੋਦੇ ਅਤੇ ਦਲੇਰ ਪੁਤਰੋ; ਰਬ ਹੀ ਰਾਖਾ.

A challenge or an extravagant worry?

Published on October 17, 2011 in General and Life. 0 Comments

The race for being the best starts right from your child’s schooling years. As a parent you always want to give your child the best possible future, and will go to any extent to make it possible.

But the biggest challenge for you is to ensure that you’re prepared to support your child through a highly competitive environment and increasing educational expenses …

And you forget or even ignore the Nature and, or God, if you believe one, that you are not the Almighty, and that’s where a corruption starts :(

Do you know that the parent’s of any famous and, or successful personality never ever cared their children except for a few who were either discarded by the society or were mentally or physically challenged?

Is not it possible that the extra care you’re providing to your child can turn out to be kind of some weakness or curse for your beloved child?

Remember, you’re not the one and only one who had been running this world and, or the show of this world is not going to stop with your or any elseone’s demise.

Deadly Allopathic Medicine

Published on December 8, 2010 in Alternative, Health, Homeopathy, Life and Medicine. 0 Comments

Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government’s failure to rein in a lethal profit machine. More…

Nano9 from Bell Labs :)

Published on March 6, 2010 in Computers, FreeBSD, Internet, Life, Network, Projects, Software and Wireless. 0 Comments

Nano9 for USB sticks and, or SD/MMC cards or a Plan9 live demo, is nothing more than a FreeBSD-7.2 base, xorg-minimal and 9vx-0.12, but is no less either :)

I have updated binaries,  added  source and all documents from a latest plan9.iso, so that user’s may carry it in their pockets and explore plan9 from any PC, whether wired, wireless and, or standalone. Hope it will provide you a better access over the network and requisite documentation when you don’t have an access to a plan9 auth, cpu and, or file server.

I observed around 180 downloads of nano9 so far, just in the first 14 hours of its launch. I had been serving it from a residential connection, now mirrored onto a fast server http://werc.homelinux.net/hacks/nano9/, feel free to try it :)

Using ssh-agent in an elegant way

Published on March 24, 2009 in Blog, Computers, FreeBSD, General, Internet, Life, Linux, Network and Software. 1 Comment

Logging into many a remote hosts and, or servers from my desktop and, or notebook is a routine job for me, hence I extensively use ssh and ssh-agent every day. I wanted to use the same ssh-agent instance from each and every terminal whether I’m on a virtual console or in front of x-window desktop running a terminal emulator. I created a tiny bash script say ssh-agent.sh in the /etc/profile.d as follows:

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh-agent.env"

start_agent() {
    # Run ssh-agent, only if root is mounted in read-write mode
    if grep -q '\ /\ ext.*rw' /proc/mounts; then
	ssh-agent |sed 's/^echo/#echo/' >"$SSH_ENV"
	chmod 600 "$SSH_ENV"
	. "$SSH_ENV" >/dev/null
    fi
}

# Source SSH settings, is ssh-agent already running, eh
if [ -f "$SSH_ENV" ]; then
    . "$SSH_ENV" >/dev/null
    pgrep ssh-agent |grep -q $SSH_AGENT_PID || start_agent
else
    start_agent
fi

And the life now seems quite easier since then :)

The Beauty of Gazillian Linux Distributions

Published on November 7, 2008 in Blog, Common, Computers, Fun, Life, Linux and Software. 0 Comments

The beauty of a hundreds of thousands of GNU/Linux Distributions is that they provide endless options to end-users as well as developers and, or packagers. All you need to have is an appetite to learn, a patience to try, a curiosity to explore and a creativity to deploy un-imaginable possibilities.

You might be wandering what triggered me to write all this, when hundreds of other people are bashing the creepers, creators and, or all those inharmonious beaters of drums?

Well, I wanted to give the KDE 4.1 desktop a try without rebooting off of a LiveCD, installing a complete distro and, or compiling the sources locally on my live Debian rig. By searching a bit, I found that the ArchLinux is always ahead in making available latest stable builds and, or binaries for most of the popular software; so I downloaded the archlinux-2008.06-core-i686.iso and booted off of the image itself with QEMU, addtionally giving it a free partition say /dev/sda5 as a drive and installed the core and KDE 4.1 desktop including all dependencies in single shot. I did all this in kind of a virtual environment, but we know almost all the virtual environments and, or machines have some overheads which make the system somewhat slow.

To overcame and, or avoid all that overhead, I exited the QEMU and mounted the partition where I recently installed ArchLinux and KDE 4.1, mounted few parts from my existing /dev and chrooted in to that new partition from console:

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
mount --bind /dev /mnt/sda5/dev
mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/sda5/dev/pts
mount --bind /dev/shm /mnt/sda5/dev/shm
mount --bind /home /mnt/sda5/home
mount --bind /proc /mnt/sda5/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sda5/sys
invoke-rc.d kdm stop
chroot /mnt/sda5 /etc/rc.d/esd start
chroot /mnt/sda5 /etc/rc.d/kdm start

Viola! Me, as expected was greeted and, or welcomed to login in to that KDE 4.1 desktop.

Although I needed to tweak around a few user and, or group id’s in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group and relevant shadow files in this ArchLinux partition, might be tedious job for newbies, but the things are working smoothly ever since with a zero or no downtime.

The experts might have guessed that we need to reverse execute all the above steps to come out from this chrooted environment or we may automate all these steps with the help of an init script.

Five serial blasts rock Delhi

Published on September 13, 2008 in General and Life. 0 Comments

It is a huge shame on the workings of our security and, or intelligence agencies in general and the central or state governments in particular, that how well organized the terrorists, militants and, or criminals operate from within the country and, or abroad but the concerned forces have nothing to do except for beating around the bush or watching all this to happen moodily and helplessly again and again.

This one for your kind information is a ninth major attack in the series — first in the Mumbai, Maharashtra, second New Delhi, third again Mumbai, Maharashtra, fourth Malegaon, Maharashtra, fifth Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, sixth Jaipur, Rajasthan, seventh Bangalore, Karnatka and eighth at many a places including Ahmedabad, Gujrat a few months ago.

Ringworm, alternative treatment

Published on September 8, 2007 in Alternative, Health, Homeopathy, Life and Medicine. 1 Comment

Ringworm is a contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, a fungi, and forming ring-shaped or circular, itching and discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton), usually in the humid weather and, or locations.

Although prescribing based on single and, or local symptoms is against the philosophy of homeopathy, but I have observed wonders the Bacillinium did in almost all the cases of ringworm; hence this prescription:

Becillinum 200 or 1M dilution, preferably German
  2-4 drops stirred in 2 tbsps fresh water
  2 doses/day, morning 6-7am, evening 5-6pm
  repeat weekly, only if required

Avoid eating, drinking and, or smoking before and, or after taking any of the Homeopathic, Biochemic, Tautopathic and, or Bauch’s Flower remedies, at least for half an hour as a precaution. IMHO, almost all medicines give more effective results when taken as per timings given above and only a few may have specific characteristics at other times.

I hope, only first 2 doses of this will cure and, or annihilate your ringworm in its whole extent within a week, and that’s forever! In addition to above you might want to try a few doses of some specific remedies for a complete eradication of this disease :)

Available distributions

Published on August 20, 2007 in Blog, Common, Computers, FreeBSD, Linux and Software. 0 Comments

I have a small collection of various CD’s and, or DVD’s for distributions of Linux and, or Unix which I would love to share with you. Please bring some extra blanks and get the media burned for your favorite distro only at the cost of a smile :)

I shall arrange to download other such images also, provided these are freely and legally available somewhere via Internet.

The FreeBSD ports I maintain or test

Published on August 14, 2007 in Blog, Computers, FreeBSD, Fun, Internet, Life, Network, Projects and Software. 0 Comments

I proudly, have been maintaining and, or submitting a few ports for FreeBSD project since December 2006. The authorized volunteers however, take time to approve and, or commit new and, or updated ports; may be due to the workload they handle.

Hence, I have created a public repository for sharing these with all those of you, who either are interested to use or help me in testing these ports, even before these are committed to the real ports tree. Please feel free to download, test and, or report any bugs; a feedback of yours though not mandatory, shall highly be appreciated.

After downloading the requisite and, or suggested <whatever>.shar.gz file(s) for a port, to extract and, or install, all you need to do is, as root repeat the following for the *.shar.gz files:

# zcat <whatever>.shar.gz |sh

or for the <whatever>.patch.gz file(s):

# zcat <whatever>.patch.gz |patch -d/ -p1

Now, visit the main ports’ directory and perform:

# cd /usr/ports/<category>/<port>
# make install clean

That’s all, and you have done it!