Future (im)perfect..??

Just a few words on Mahendran's lines... "if you feel that that person... has put in more and more research and thoughts " --- Precisely..!! Believe someone ONLY if you feel that the person has put in more "research and thoughts" and is also able to convince you that his research was flawless... (after all, researches and thoughts too may not be right) "some damn shit layman " --- Hmmmm... "nobody can question the fact that E=MC (square) " --- Nobody denies it is right, as far as the present levels of knowledge goes. But its only in questioning the obvious that new revelations can be made. Just as Galileo questioned Arsitotle's "universal truth" (which held on until the 1500s) of geo-centric theory... "But for sure one can predict the future which is what all is all about... " --- Predict the future..?? Uh..!!

A music concert

Yesterday, I had gone to a music concert held at the Coimbatore Music School, a musical joint venture between a few music teachers in Coimbatore and The Royal School of Music, Sweden. The project is financed in part by SIDA. Yesterday's concert focussed on the strings section, i.e., the violins, cellos, and basses. The program started around 6:30 pm. The first item was Concerto in C Major for Cello and String Orchestra. Franz Joseph Haydn was the composer of this exquisite piece. The concerto consists of three movements. A movement is a portion of a music piece, something similiar to ragas in Indian Classical Music. The first movement is Allegro Moderato (The music is played with a moderate degree of quickness. Allegro means quick and moderato means moderately). The second movement is Adagio (A slow passage, movement, or work. The tempo would be very slow and graceful.) and the third movement is Presto (Music is played with a swift tempo, faster than allegro). The concerto was conducted by Mark Lomnas with Magnus Lanning playing the cello. The strings section consisted of violinsts, cellists and double bassists, comprosing of people from Cochin, Bangalore and Chennai. The second item of the day was a vocal performance by Cecilia Ohrvall. She performed two songs, Venti Pranti and Lascia ch'io pianga (Music and lyrics: G.F. Händel). The string orchestra accompanied her. The next piece was an Mexican Christmas song titled "Earth's Joy" played by the string orchestra. This was followed by a traditional Christmas Carol, "Silent Night". The Coimbatore Music School Choir. comprising of children between the ages 8 to 12, sung this moving piece with the strings providing a solemn backing. After this, the staff of CMS sang a latin hymn titled "In Dulci Jublio". The next vocal piece was a traditional song from Papua New Guinea titled "Kumbaya". Then a musical piece titled "Divertimento In D Major" written by Mozart was played by the orchestra. The day finally ended with another vocal perfomance by the CMS choir children. They sang three songs, titled "I like the flowers", "New moon", and "We are the flowers". It was wonderful to listen to the concert. There will be a similar concert to be held in Bangalore at the Bangalore School of Music. I'll inform you about the dates later.

Books read this week

The past week, I read four books. One of them, The Eye Of The Tiger by Wilbur Smith, was an interesting story about sunken treasure with an Indian angle. If you recall Indian history, the Mughals were a great dynasty who brought much of India under a single dominion. Hindusthan was a rich and powerful nation in the heydays of the Mughal rule. They had built several architectural wonders and were connoisseurs of art. One Mughal king had a priceless stone, a stone priceless than the Kohinoor. This diamond was embedded in a throne, not the Peacock Throne, but another throne. This throne was guarded with great security. During the Indian Mutiny, a British officer kills the guardians of the throne and parcels it back to England to sell it. But an unexpected storm near South Africa sinks the ship and the throne is lost. The recovery of this throne is the story in short. The another book, The Fifth Profession by David Morrell is about two bodyguards, an American and a Japanese one coming together to defend a client. An interesting thriller from the author of The First Blood, it dwells with the question of duty and honor. It also deals a little in depth with the possiblity of altering human brain. The book had an interesting concept. Every one might have had experienced déjà vu atleast once in thier life. But to experience jamais vu would be torture. “Jamais Vu” is used to describe something the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; In this novel, the protaganists sees each other die, but afterwards find that what they was not real, everything they had believed to be true is false. An interesting twisting tale of horror. I also read The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith. This book was conceived as a parallel novel to one of his earlier work, The River God. This is also a treasure hunt, a hunt that takes place in the hearts of the Ethiopian jungle. The treasure is a tomb of a pharoah, Mamose, who lived some two thousand years before Christ. A wonderful novel, blending nature and man in a never-ending struggle, runs to nearly 700 pages. Two archaelogists try to find the treasure under water and underground, escaping death at every turn. On Monday, I read Burnt Sienna by David Morrell. A chilling tale of a manhunt across continents with lots of twists and turn every few pages, the novel is about an ex-military man, who had forsaken violence for art. Chase Malone is a famous artist who is commissioned by an arms dealer to paint his wife. The trouble is Chase like to take orders from no one. He is forced to accept the offer. The face-off between Chase and the arms dealer forms the crux of the novel.

Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO)

Hi, Coming backl to the TCO issue as pointed by Kishore... There was a survey conducted by a group called RFG (Robert Frances Group Inc) which evaluated the Total Cost of Ownership for Linux deployments in enterprises... This was concucted from a wide angle of perspective exploring all the aspects right from the deployment of Linux environment and to the extent of administration and the hidden costs as well.. This says that Linux is the least expensive deployments which involved minimal TCO when compared to other OS environments such as Solaris and Windows and they also provided the quantified data and statistics as well.. For having a look at what they say about that, you can visit this link But still, People can question the validity of this information too but I would say the same words again... These people have put in lots and lot more thoughts than what we have put in and I am pleased to believe this and I leave the rest to you... The End!

Out of touch

I guess I've been out of touch fro the past week. So here are my contributions to the discussion. Linux is a very good model for the power of open source just as Microsoft is the model for proprietary software. Apple would also be a very good example for closed source software, but their idea of including hardware under closed source, was a major drawback. Both closed source, (hereafter referred to as CS) and open source (hereafter referred to as OS, not the OS as in Operating System) have their advantages and disadvantages. Imagine a Venn diagram with two sets. One set would be Open Source s/w and the other Closed Source/Proprietary s/w. They would naturally intersect. The discussion that we are having has been mostly in the area of intersection. Mostly the s/w that lies within these areas of intersection are operating systems, web based applications (LAMP architecture) and some general applications like text editors etc. But if you can imagine, you can see that there are lots of areas where they don't intersect at all. That is one area that worries me. Ideally the time we should be this discussion should be when the area of intersection covers most of both circles. Anyway it was a good discussion with lots of useful information backed by solid facts.

Of course you r right bala...There is no thumb rule that you should have a blind eye and accept whatever an experienced person says...after all they are also humans and there is 100 percent chances for them to be wrong also... Rather it also does not mean that you can question anything and everything for a matter of fact...For instance if somebody says something and you may be pleased to believe what he says, if you feel that that person (no matter whomsoever they may be, our seniors or some damn shit layman or your grandma) has put in more and more research and thoughts than what you have put in that... For a matter of fact nobody can question the fact that E=MC (square) and probably you can question but only when you can substantitae your stand against such a universal timetested truth... As ranjini said the future is uncertain...agreed.. We cannot foretell the future and flatly throw a statement in the air... But for sure one can predict the future which is what all is all about...

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Mahendran jayavel

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