FW: Thought provoking

Really very good article…

 

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~~~Cassis, John

 

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SHARING SOME THOUGHTS TO PONDER.......

Yesterday, I was driving, and the FM radio went off for few seconds. I thought, I should have an iPod. Then suddenly I realized that I have not used my iPod in last 6 months. And then… more things, Handy cam in last 2 years, Digital Camera in last 2 months, DVD player in last 1 month and many more. Now I can say that I bought that Handy cam just out of impulse, I have used it twice only in last 4 years.

So, what's wrong and where? When I look at myself or my friends I can see it everywhere. We are not happy with what we have but all are stressed and not happy for the things we don't have. You have a Santro, but you want City… You have a City, but you want Skoda. Just after buying a new phone, we need another one. Better laptop, bigger TV, faster car, bigger house, more money… .I mean, these examples are endless. The point is, does it actually worth? Do we ever think if we actually need those things before we want them?

After this, I was forced to think what I need and what I don't. May be I didn't need this Handy cam or the iPod or that DVD player. When I see my father back at home. He has a simple BPL colour TV, he doesn't need 32″ Sony LCD wall mount. He has a cell phone worth Rs 2,500. Whenever I ask him to change the phone, he always says… "Its a phone, I need this just for calls." And believe me; he is much happier in life than me with those limited resources and simple gadgets.

The very basic reason why he is happy with so little is that he doesn't want things in life to make it luxurious, but he wants only those things which are making his life easier. It's a very fine line between these two, but after looking my father's life style closely, I got the point. He needs a cell phone but not the iPhone. He needs a TV but not the 32″ plasma. He needs a car but not an expensive one.

Initially I had lot of questions.

I am earning good, still I am not happy…...why ?

I have all luxuries, still I am stressed.... ....... why ?

I had a great weekend, still I am feeling tired...... why?

I met lot of people, I thought over it again and again, I still don't know if I got the answers, but certainly figured out few things. I realize that one thing which is keeping me stressed is the "stay connected" syndrome.

I realized that, at home also I am logged in on messengers, checking mails, using social networks, and on the top of that, the windows mobile is not letting me disconnected.

On the weekend itself, trying to avoid unwanted calls… and that is keeping my mind always full of stress. I realized that I am spending far lesser money than what I earn, even then I am always worried about money and more money. I realized that I am saving enough money I would ever need, whenever needed. Still I am stressed about job and salary and spends.

May be, many people will call this approach "not progressive attitude", but I want my life back. Ultimately it's a single life, a day gone is a day gone. I believe if I am not happy tonight, I'll never be happy tomorrow morning. I finally realized that meeting friends, spending quality time with your loved one's; spending time with yourself is the most important thing. If on Sunday you are alone and you don't have anybody to talk with, then all that luxuries life, all that money is wasted. May be cutting down your requirements, re-calculating your future goal in the light of today's happiness is a worthwhile thing to do. May be selling off your Santro and buying Honda City on EMIs is not a good idea. I believe putting your happiness ahead of money is the choice we need to make.

I think, a lot can be said and done but what we need the most is re-evaluation of the value of happiness and time we are giving to our life and people associated with it.

KEEP SMILING.......... J

 

Google Search Tips

Excellent document…

 

cg

 

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~~~Cassis, John

 

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Google Search Tips

Success City

Good one… J

 

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is only success delayed.

 

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Subject: Success City

 

One of the most important lessons you can learn on your road to success is that failure is not a final destination, but rather a place you pass through on your way to achieving your goals.

Here is a picture to show you what it means:

This simple picture illustrates a number of very important points about the relationship between failure and success:

1. There is only one road to Success City

2. The road to Success City passes through Failureville

3. One of the main reasons people never reach Success City is because they are so afraid of driving through Failureville that they never begin their journey.

So what does this mean in the real world?

It means that failure is not the opposite of success as many people assume. On the contrary, failure is an important part of achieving success. In fact, it is usually through the process of trying and failing that we learn the lessons we need in order to ultimately achieve our goals in life.

quote regarding the relationship between failure and success comes from the legendary basketball player Michael Jordan:

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." – Michael Jordan

When you understand the fact that success lies on the other side of failure you will be much better prepared for the journey that leads to achieving your most important life goals.

Command Line Magic: Scripting, Part One

Here is one good article on linux scripting…

 

Command Line Magic: Scripting, Part One

Creating shell scripts is the lazy (smart) system administrator's way to automate and build intelligence into repetitive tasks.

 

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8747/     

This scripting miniseries will help you learn some basic scripting and perhaps launch you on a more productive career in Linux system administration. If you find yourself typing the same commands over and over again, do yourself a favor and write a script to do it. Smart administrators have scripts for everything. There are three things you have to remember about scripting: Don’t test your scripts on production systems, document the script’s action, and name the script descriptively. This week’s article introduces you to simple shell scripting.

There’s no great secret to creating good scripts. You don’t have to be afraid of criticism about script security, programming style, or which editor you use to create them. You don’t need to be a programmer or even a Linux expert to create some pretty cool scripts. All you really must do is test your scripts, document your scripts, and give your scripts descriptive names.

Test your scripts to make sure they work like you expect them to. Document your scripts inside and outside the script so that you don’t forget what the script’s original purpose is and that anyone else using the script will know how to use it. Name your scripts such that its functionality is at least hinted at from the name.

Those of you who are new to Linux might ask, “Why do I need to create scripts?” The answer is simple, you don’t need to but once you’re worn out from typing the same commands several times per day, you’ll want to create them.

Scripts help you manage your system(s) more efficiently. And, the rule of thumb is, that if you’re typing it, you can script it.

The Basics

I only use the Bourne-Again Shell (BASH)* for scripting. It’s the default shell in Linux and it has the best features from the other major shells. But don’t worry if you don’t use BASH, you can still write scripts that use BASH, even if you use a different user shell. The prerequisites for gaining the most out of this series are that you know how to use basic shell commands. For example, cd, ls, ps, cat, chmod and a command line text editor such as vi, emacs, or nano.

I only use the vi** editor in the examples.

This series is interactive, so you’ll need access to a Linux system, physical or virtual, with which to work. If you’re required to use root user privileges or sudo access, I’ll note that in the example.

At the Command Line

To keep my scripts in this separate from everything else, I created an area in my home directory for them under scripts/intro. Shell scripts are simply commands contained in a file (a shell script file) that run as if you had run them individually at the command line. Enough introduction, let’s get started with some shell scripts.

Open your favorite text editor and enter some commands into it on a one command per line basis. To run the script within a BASH shell, enter #!/bin/bash.

#!/bin/bash

This line, which must be the first line in your script, is the only line that may begin with the # (shell) symbol. Placed anywhere else in the script and the shell interpreter ignores it and anything on the line after it. This is the comment symbol everywhere but on the first line. Continue by adding some commands as shown.

#!/bin/bash

touch file.txt

echo "Hello World" >> file.txt

echo "Create another file" > file2.txt

ls -la

cat file.txt

echo " "

cat file2.txt

Save the file with a descriptive name (no spaces) and with a .sh at the end of the name. For example, file_create.sh. The file is simply a text file, not a script at this point. Do you know why? It’s because the file permissions don’t allow execution. To change the behavior, enter the following command:

$ chmod +x file_create.sh

Now, execute the file and allow it to create the two files and display their contents.

./file_create.sh

total 20

drwxr-xr-x 2 khess khess 4096 2011-05-30 16:01 .

drwxr-xr-x 3 khess khess 4096 2011-05-30 15:35 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 khess khess   20 2011-05-30 16:01 file2.txt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 khess khess  141 2011-05-30 15:55 file_create.sh

-rw-r--r-- 1 khess khess   12 2011-05-30 16:01 file.txt

Hello World

Create another file

As demonstrated in the script, you can enter as many commands as you want into a script. They will execute one after the other, from top to bottom, until the script completes.

For a practical application of the script you created, try this one that checks the lastlog and then mails you the list of user who’ve logged in during the current month.

#!/bin/bash

echo $HOSTNAME > logins.txt

echo " " >> logins.txt

last >> logins.txt

mail ken@kenhess.com < logins.txt

Note that this file records the hostname to help you identify which hosts your messages originate from, in case you have more than one that you manage.

Interactive Scripting

What if you need more flexibility in your scripts that you just can't program to run autonomously? You program them to run interactively and provide the intelligence as needs and circumstances change.

This script prompts you for a filename, some initial content for the file, and then writes the provided information to the specified filename.

#!/bin/bash

echo "Enter the name of the file you wish to create."

read FILENAME

echo "Enter any info you want to enter into the file."

read INFO

touch $FILENAME

echo $INFO >> $FILENAME

cat $FILENAME

Grant execute permission to the file and run it. Does it produce the expected results? Do you see any other useful applications for the scripts you've learned today? How about interactively adding information into a database?

Next week, you'll gain considerably more experience writing scripts now that all of the trivia and introductory material is out of the way. If you have particular problems you'd like to solve, use the Comments section to address them. Other readers might have some good ideas or I can tackle them in upcoming posts. Try out a few scripts on your own from the ones you've learned here and post them for others to use.

Remember, that we're an interactive, positive community that wants to foster open communications. Everyone comes in from a different place and it's our job to nurture learning and discovery. Until next week, happy scripting!

* Watch for my upcoming, Korn Shell tale post.

** It's the first one I learned from old UNIX nerds who thought that vi is the only editor. What can I say?

Kenneth Hess is a Linux evangelist and freelance technical writer on a variety of open source topics including Linux, SQL, databases, and web services. Ken can be reached via his website at http://www.kenhess.com. Practical Virtualization Solutions by Kenneth Hess and Amy Newman is available now.

 

 

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Railways blocks 4.6L user IDs for e-ticket fraud through irctc website

 

MUMBAI: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which looks after online booking of tickets, has blocked over 4.6 lakh user IDs and 71,484 e-mail IDs since March to curb malpractices in train reservations.

 

The IRCTC has restricted the number of bookings in a day through a single user ID to two. Also, individual users cannot book more than 10 tickets in a month. Agents have been barred from booking tickets online during the first hour after the bookings open at 8 am. This has been done to curb black marketing of ticket as many agents (authorized and unauthorized) had create multiple user IDs to corner the tickets.

 

More details on the following link:-

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Railways-blocks-46L-user-IDs-for-e-ticket-fraud/articleshow/9007215.cms    

 

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FW: Friends spread it like a wild fire - Jan lokpal bill in Simplified English

Jago Bharat ke Nagrik Jago…

 

Truly

 

Of the people, by the people, for the people...

 

cg

 

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

~~~ Albert Einstein

 

From:
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:30 PM

Subject: Friends spread it like a wild fire

 

Friends,

 

This is a presentation on Jan lok pal bill.. 

 

Request you to kindly share it with everyone and if you get opportunity discuss it with your friends and family.

 

Lets spread it like wild fire.. 

We will not get this opportunity again. This is the time to make the governmental realize that enough is enough. They have fooled and looted the country for last 63 years but now no more.

 

They will have to pass Jan lokpal or they will be booted out of power in next election and only that party will win who will implement Jan lokpal bill. 

 

Please do this at least for your mother land so that your future generations can live in peace and prosperity. 

 

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Subject: Friends spread it like a wild fire

 

 

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Subject: Friends spread it like a wild fire

 

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Aaj ki Mahabharat - Political

Good one…

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-LuNG6pybE&feature=player_embedded 

 

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Hackers target Sony, Nintendo and FBI partner Web

Just for your info…

 

If website and data of FBI/NASA/Sony/gmial/VISA / MasterCard/American Express etc.. credit card/Incometax Dept. India can be hacked then I thing nothing is secure on internet…

 

HACK : Hackers leak FBI passwords on internet

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/hackers-leak-fbi-passwords-on-internet-20110606-1fnvc.html

FBI partner attacked by hackers, passwords taken

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/06/05/technology-tec-fbi-partner-data-breach_8501273.html

Hackers report breach of FBI passwords

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/389107/hackers_report_breach_fbi_passwords/      

 

Hackers claim to have hit Sony again

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/06/us-toni-cybersecurity-sony-idUSTRE75563220110606

 

Hackers target Sony, Nintendo and FBI partner Web site

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20068890-245/hackers-target-sony-nintendo-and-fbi-partner-web-site/#ixzz1OZCpBvic

Sony Pictures ‘Looking Into’ Claims of New Data Theft From Site by Hackers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-02/sony-pictures-looking-into-claims-of-new-data-theft-from-site-by-hackers.html

 

 

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Chirag Gandhi

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Sun Point

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Ahmedabad 380 006   India

 

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BEST VIDEO ON CHOLESTROL EXPLAINED...

Just gr8! …

 

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~~~Cassis, John

 

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Subject: BEST VIDEO ON CHOLESTROL EXPLAINED.

 

The presentation is very illustrative and explains Cholestrol very lucidly.

 

We have all heard of "high cholesterol" & many of us are on medication to keep it under control.   Even if you know what it is, pls do watch this excellent video with simple explanations.  The screens change automatically, so sit back & watch it to the end. Know your body. This video will give you very useful information about how to take care of yourself, why people get heart attacks and stroke, and how you can avoid such disasters by eating healthy food, exercising and staying away from bad habits. http://cholesterol.emedtv.com/high-cholesterol-video/introduction-to-high-cholesterol-video.html

 

We say that we are working hard...................... ???

http://www.azadindia.org/social-issues/index.html

 

India accounts for the second highest number where child labour in the world is concerned.

 

http://www.childlabour.in/child-labour-in-india.htm

 

http://www.azadindia.org/social-issues/child-labour-in-india.html

 

Government of India

Ministry of Labour and Employment

National Child Labour Project       http://labour.nic.in/cwl/childlabour.htm

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_India

 

Lets join our Hands to stop Child labour in the every possible way we can !!!

 

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~~~Cassis, John

 

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And we say that we are working hard!!!            Pls dont be lazy to fwd dis from ur Air conditioned cubicle sitting in a cozy wheel chair as u can see some r not gifted with a comfortable life as u are...  Lets join our Hands to stop Child labour in the every possible way we can !!

http://www.wwfindia.org/

 

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Namaste,

 

 

"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite of adventure over the love of ease" 

- Robert F. Kennedy