aashiks'in

I have a BSNL wireless router and two computers. One is a desktop system , choke full of hardd drives and the other is a laptop. Both run Mandriva 2008 GNU/Linux . Both the computers are connected wirelessly to the router [ I am afraid of wired connections - a lightning strike once fried my router and the desktop's network card ]. Naturally , I  want to back up data over the network to my desktop from my laptop.

No rsync stuff here.  Just an occasional copy paste should suffice. So I asked around and looked on the net and found that most people run Samba or NFS mount the remote partition or use ssh-fuse.

Me being very very lazy , didnt want to do any setup. I had sshd running on both computers so i could occasionally shut down the Desktop from my laptop or update it. I was very disappointed.

That is , until I found that konqueror’s KIO slaves include something called a ‘fish’ protocol. Now this was a very welcome news.

All I had to do was type in  ‘fish://remote.computers.IP’ into konqueror’s address bar and he will automatically open a dialogue which asks for your username and password on the remote computer. And when you enter the password……..Thats it !! . Konqueror will open the default file management view at the remote users home directory.

No other thing is required except sshd .

This was an awesome find. And one more reason to say “കോണ്‍ക്വെറര്‍ പുലിയാണു് കേട്ടാ !!”

I cleaned my room today.

No i didn’t mean the chumma dusting up. i cleaned the whole room. Took all stuff out and then vacuumed dusted, washed the floor. In short a full overhaul.

The reason : I start sneezing as soon as i get into my room and the obvious culprit was all the dust accumulated. Since I have banned my mom from cleaning my room , dust accumulated fast.

Since i made a mess on the front steps and the small courtyard ( മുറ്റം ) I cleaned them as well . The cats , though perplexed , were gracious enough to sit around and listen to my rants during the whole time.

The room and the courtyard.

Aah now , to the subject of the post.

Its a theorem:

You are likely to meet a superwoman everyday in your life

Super woman is the woman of today who balances a job , kids and house work and still manages to spend some time with her husband. They are amazing. Really.

I know two. One is my mother , the other is my sister. My sister all the more because she works as a software engineer and by the time she comes home , her mind is numb . But she still manages to play with the kids , bathe – feed and get them to go to bed .

I work , but when i get back home, i either sit around chumma or go read a book.

The theorem occurred to me because i was so tired after doing the cleanup . Washing the floor was a bit more kashtam than the rest of the chores. And to imagine that my mom does it twice a week to all the rooms.

So from now on , i am going to wash the floor . Twice a week.

Reading xkcd BLAG has its advantages. I landed at Project Euler ( ഒയ്‌ലര്‍ ) during one of my long XKCD sessions.

According to its about page ,

“Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.”

സ്വരൂപിന്റെ പൈത്തണ്‍ പുസ്തകവും ഈ വെബ് സൈറ്റുമുപയോഗിച്ച് ഒരു ന്യൂബിക്ക് പ്രോഗ്രാമിങ്ങ് തുടങ്ങാമെന്നു തോന്നുനു.

Ii love her for what she is rather than what she looks like.

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I know. I havent been putting anything here . I should . Keeping at it is one of the good things eh.

I was about to go sleep when i saw rockusnarus GTalk status. It said ‘Blog Update !!’

So I read his blog and i found this tag.

The tag requires you to do the following

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page, pick an image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd�s mosaic maker.

I made the following mosaic.

The questions ?

1. My First Name – Ashik .

2. What is your favorite food? Right now?

Right Now I Want a Rasa Vada. No , make that two . Okay three. That should do .

3. What high school did you go to?

I went to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan School and look what i got !! I mean that’s the best i could get.

4. What is your favorite color ?

I have three Green shirts , a Green Cap and I like that pose in the pic.

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

Currently , this little lady. Naughty . And Innocent . And Beautiful .

6. Favorite drink?

Obviously, Coffee . And someone to have it with.

7. Dream vacation?

Right now ? Greece. Why ? No Clue. Gerald Durrell and Nikos Kazantzakis might have the answers .

8. Favorite dessert?

A piece of chocolate. Well that pic is really good. I like that pic.

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Never kill off that 12 year old inside because your are in your twenties. The twelve year old wants to� become someone who preaches about software . Yeah right. Ask my friends !!!

10. What do you love most in life?

The changes that life brings.

11. One Word to describe you

Crazy. And all my friends agree with me .


12. Your flickr name. – aashik . Didnt give any results so I tried ‘ashik’
And anyone who reads the post _must_ do this tag. Otherwise your computer will fall off the table and die.

Credits:

1. lost_poem.JPG, 2. rasa_vada, 3. Frames of Mind 2007, 4. Green on Green, 5. Genelia D’souza, 6. waiting for storm, 7. OIA, handmade houses, 8. A Sweet Bite To Eat.., 9. Audio of the Day: VV Show #39 – Guy Kawasaki, 10. Life and change , 11. It made me crazy!!, 12. don’t forget to stop at red light!!!