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first #ubuntu-in BoF meet was held this sunday at Mc. Donald's (V.T.), Mumbai. Baishampayan/G0SUB was in Mumbai for some personal work and we decided to meet at mc. donald's.. btw, Baishampayan has made it to Google Summer of Code.. congratulations buddy

Ladder Theory talks about how men and women evaluate each others.. and more importantly how women have a concept of two ladders by which they evaluate males..

its humorous, and at many places you'll feel its true also.. truely an interesting read.. i've been through first 10 pages still.. do read it completely.. there is a Wikipedia Article on ladder theory as well..

Everyone knows about $ du , which is used to display disk utilisation of filesystem. however there is this graphical utility Filelight which represents same information in a rainbow piechart display.

Filelight is available in Ubuntu and Debian repositories also. do give it a try.

an Ass h0le recently came up with a brilliant idea.. reserve half of the seats in professional courses in indian universities for backward classes...

till date, no other politician has managed to get as much attention of the indian youth as Arjun Singh has managed to attract, in such a short time.. and it doesnt matter if his children (if any) completed their graduation from American universities..

today i seriously regret voting for Congress in previous parliamentary elections.. i wonder what's up with our Hon. President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's India 2020 vision.. Politicians are such a cancer you see..

baks17: digen: do you know how to cook plain rice?
anurag: /join #ubuntu-cooking
digen: baks17: yea mum has written that in some book
baks17: anurag: hmmm
anurag: oops
baks17: digen: heh. Ok. One simple dish:
digen: anurag: lol
baks17: digen: Cook some rice, add dahi, and put a tadka of urad dal, jeera, rai, kadhi patta
digen: baks17: go slow I cant prepare it so fast
baks17: digen: add some finely chopped green chillies and finely chopped onions
baks17: digen: tadka maarne ko aata hai?
digen: baks17: now i can I know that,but can you elaborate more please ? :p
baks17: argh!
baks17: cook rice, keep it in one bowl
baks17: add some dahi to it
***anurag saves irc logs for future reference
baks17: take a 1 tspn oil, and add jeera, rai and urad dal
baks17: jeera and rai about 1/2 tea spoon
baks17: urad dal 1 tea spoon
baks17: and when the rai starts popping, add kadhi patta
baks17: put the flame off, and pour the tadka on your rice and dahi mixture
baks17: add the chopped onions and chillies
baks17: add salt to taste
baks17:
baks17: done
baks17: that is called bakkala bhat
baks17: atleast that is what we call it
baks17: its a southie dish
***digen thanks baks17 soooooooooooooooooooooo much !!
baks17: heh all the best
***digen hails baks17 tooo
***anurag saves irc logs again

this is strange.. i have not recieved a single mail (not even spam) since past 10 (or so) hours.. most possibly i think either,

1. spammers are tired of spamming
2. CC4 server's antispam and antivirus setup is working flawlessly.. since nowadays i've been training sa-learn to recognise spams
3. no body is sending me mails

btw, the script i'm using for automatic backup of data on CC4 and Web is available here on my code snippets blog

an interesting quote from bash.org..

A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you're a great guy, but I don't like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we're not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we're going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn't work out, we'll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.

http://bash.org/?414593 | well, i dont agree with all of it, but its still funny

Shelly's blog talks about Linux, an european threat to computers

She's extremely proud to have an IBM laptop which she considers as an American marvel, while the truth is that IBM has been outsourcing all of its PC manufacturing business to chinese maker Legend (now Lenovo).. I wonder if her blog post was a work of humour or something that she seriously felt about?

[ Spoiler Warning: Content written below is best described as a Rant ]

Google sometimes makes all of us wonder, a faboulous email service, 2.6GB and ever growing inbox,industry leading search service, messenger, homepage builder, calendar, orkut social networking, blogger, news, googlegroups.. you think of it and google offers that service.. if not then it will start offering it from next April fool's day

Why is Google doing all this? People say they have revolutionalised the email and search market so much, so that all other look like playing a catching up game. But think of it in this way, Google allows you to use those services only if you have a Google Account. Something like your profile by which Google refers to you. Who knows google might be operating an internal Google Human Profiling Services?

Google never asked you to join Gmail service. Its your friends who asked you to signup and sent you invitations. And this whole mesh of friends was started by a few initial Gmail users. Every Gmail user was invited by some other existing Gmail user. This means google has an extremely large friend's circle diagram at their disposal, using which they can calculate human statistics with pinpoint accuracy, where other such providers can only guess.

Google now offers you to signup to their search engine service so that your search history is available for later reference (to them, most importantly).. Google can now build up a personal profile of your online tastes, and what information you generally search for. Using Orkut they can identify who your friends are, they could even identify what you and your friend look like in real life using their orkut photo albums.

If you extensively use Google Calendar service then they can find out all about your appointments, schedules and reminders.. Google is even offering Wifi service all over the city of San Fransisco, that means they can even locate you where you are.. If you are using their Google Talk instant messaging services then they even know what you talk about and with whom... Google has huuge storage space at its disposal, and whatever you delete from your inbox is permanently archived by them..

If you regularly access google services, then using your IP, they also know from which part on earth you connect to their service. Finding name of your ISP and then later finding details of your location is a matter of child's play.

Now the question is, how could this be of so much importance to anyone? But then think from the perspective of a prospective employer.. If you mention a Gmail.com email account as contact email address in your resume, then your employer can ask Google Human Profiling Services and find out details about what kind of emails you get, and out of them what kind of emails you generally reply to.. what kind of friend circle to you have.. what kind of relationship do you keep with women/men..

for example, if you are subscribed to Python and PHP mailing lists/newsgroups, then you are somewhat interested in Python and PHP. If you sometimes reply to Python mailing list then you are a pro in that language. And if you often keep replying with python code, then you might be an expert in python. If you repeatedly keep answering several threads in python mailing lists, then you could well be a guru...

And If your google search profile indicates that you have been searching for python code snippets for past 3 years then it means you have been into python programming for past 3 years probably. Your employer will get a positive signal from Google's human profiling services.. and your employer will not hesitate in employing you.

Well yes, normal companies and organisations wont be able to utilize this excellent info, but such human profiles are definately very important to CIA/RAW/NASA.

You just can't be sure who is keeping track of you, can you? Google surely knows what everyone of us did last summer.

Did you encounter a situation wherein you had to create several directories recursively? just use mkdir/mkdirhier to do the trick try this command:

$ mkdirhier {A,B,C}/{P,Q,R}/{X,Y,Z}
OR
$ mkdir -p {A,B,C}/{P,Q,R}/{X,Y,Z}

Output directory structure should be something like this. each dir A,B,C contains directories named P,Q,R which in turn contain dirs X,Y,Z.

Originally i was looking somewhere in Exim4's documentation where in found out this info. normally this is used to create maildirs where they have several cur,new,tmp directories.