In search of absolute

Save our Tigers - Achyut's Art

2010-02-16T15:37:00.002+05:30

save-our-tiger-art-achyut, originally uploaded by nalinitj.

It was great to see Achuyt drawing tigers after tigers to save them. Incidentally chines new year holiday helped him to draw more pictures. Coincidentally it is Tiger year for Chines. Why not for the whole world for saving them. Effect of our recent visit to India can also be seen in his drawing 'Airtel' free add for airtel. :)

What ever it is... message from Achyut, me and my family to world is "Live and let Live" DO not KILL. DO not buy products made from Tiger body parts. We must act now to save this beautiful species.

We must save tigers - message from Achyut to the world

2010-02-16T15:31:00.002+05:30

must-save-tigers, originally uploaded by nalinitj.

Second drawing from Achyut regarding "SAVE TIGERS" campaign.

Achyut's campaign to save Tigers with his art.

2010-02-16T15:28:00.001+05:30

save-tigers-achyut-art, originally uploaded by nalinitj.

Little Achyut is 7 years old now. He saw an add in NDTV about "Save our Tigers". His instant reaction was to join this campaign. He asked me how he can help save tigers. I gave a small lecture about it, one of the things he liked was to draw a picture and spread the world. Here is one of his arts to help tigers.

Achyut is shouting aloud to the world "PLEASE SAVE TIGERS, never kill them. They also have equal right as humans to live on this EARTH. Live and let live.

Achyut's art - Elephant visiting achyut's home

2010-02-16T15:22:00.001+05:30

home-achyut-art, originally uploaded by nalinitj.

This is one of the arts of Achyut. He is depicting here his dream home with dream drive-the Elephant.

The Indian Institute of Science Forum

2008-05-10T17:34:00.002+05:30

Very happy to announce new forum "The Indian Institute of Science Forum" to all my fellow IIScens. Being an IISc Alumni myself (1994-2000 in Department of Organic Chemistry) I'm proud about this Forum and request each and every IIScens to register and participate actively in this forum for the good of everybody.

What fellow IIScens are telling about this Forum?

Sridharan Rajagopal (SCREW) of OC says...

"it is good to have a forum like these so that we will able to contact all the old buddies. I thank for the people who have started this. forum"
KD Sharma of OC says.....

" This is great! Good to see the old buddies coming together. "

Have fun...

Example C Program to print any Multiplication Table

2006-11-23T11:55:00.000+05:30

/******************************************
* C Program to print MultiplicationTable       *
* Author of the Program: Jagadeesh, M.N.     *
* Date 23 Nov 2006                        *
* ***************************************/
#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
        int i, p=1, table[10];     /* define integres and array */

        /* ***************************
         * Output Formating Begins
         * ***************************/
        for(i=0;i<61;i++)
                printf("#");
        printf("\n# Program to print Multiplication table of any number");
        printf("\n# NOTE: To exit type 0 \n");
        for(i=0;i<61;i++)
                printf("#");
        /* ***************************
         * Output Formating ENDS
         * ***************************/
        while(p != 0)
        {
        printf("\nWhich table ");
        scanf("%d",&p);              /* takes input from input */
        for(i=0;i<10;i++)            /* Fills the array */
        {
                if(p==0)             /* Stratagy to exit the program Benins */
                {
                        printf("Exiting\n");
                        break;
                }                   /* Stratagy to exit the program ends */
                table[i]=i+1;       /* Fills the array with numbers 1 - 10 */
                printf("%2d x %2d = %2d\n", p, table[i], p * table[i]);
        }
        }
}

Nice graphics gallery of Biochemistry

2006-05-17T17:46:00.000+05:30

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/index.html

From Gene to Function

The major actors of molecular biology: the nucleic acids, DNA and RNA.
How they carry and transfer genetic information from one cell generation to the next and translate this coded information into active proteins.

And more...

Philosophy Of the Stock Market... (from Inbox)

2006-05-17T10:22:00.000+05:30

Once upon a time in a village a man appeared who announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs. 10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys went out in the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at 10 and as supply started to diminish and villagers started to stop their effort he announced that now he would buy at 20 rupees.

This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching moneys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to 25 and the supply of monkeys became so that it was an effort to even see a monkey let alone catch it.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at 50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business his assistant would now buy on behalf of the man. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at 35 and when the man comes back you can sell it to him for 50."

The villagers queued up with all their saving to buy the monkeys.

THE VILLAGERS THEN NEVER GOT TO SEE THAT MAN OR HIS ASSISTANT
BUT VILLAGE WAS FULL OF MONKEYS....AND MONKEYS.....

Cool Bioinformatics Pointers

2005-10-19T15:27:00.000+05:30

Bioinformatics Bookmarks

Do you know how fast your can type?

2005-09-27T09:08:00.000+05:30

If answer is no, typing test @ TypingMaster will help to find typing speed online, for free!

I took the test, here is my results:

------------------------------
Thank you for assessing your typing skills with
the free TypingMaster Online Test - and welcome back
to www.TypingTest.com.

TYPING TEST RESULTS
Here are your full test results:

- Test Name: Strategic Alliances with Competitors
- Test Time: 03:00
- Gross Speed: 54 WPM
- Errors: 4
- Accuracy: 97%

- NET SPEED: 52 WPM
--------------------------

LearningPage: Quality learning material for kids

2005-09-26T09:43:00.000+05:30

http://www.learningpage.com/

Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced
instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans,
books, worksheets, and much more can be found on the site. Start by
checking out free samples
(http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/gallery.html).

Registration is needed for full access to the site. Registration is free.

Structure search by name (IUPAC Nomenclature search)

2005-09-15T14:43:00.000+05:30

Search IUPAC Nomenclature

You know the name of a compound, say methylenedioxy, but do not know the structure of it. One of the easiest online way is to search for compound name in http://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/#search

Search for methylenedioxy resulted in following output:

A cyclic acetal in which the two acetal-oxygen atoms form part of a ring may be named: (a) as a heterocyclic compound; (b) by use of the prefix "methylenedioxy-" for the group as a substituent in the remainder of the molecule, derivatives of the methylenedioxy group being named as substitution products thereof; or (c) particularly when stereochemistry is implied in the name of the corresponding alcohol or ketone, as the alkylene or alkylidene derivative of that alcohol or as the alkylene or alkylidene acetal of that ketone.

DAYPOP - for BlogSphere watch

2005-09-15T12:11:00.000+05:30

Daypop is a nice place for keeping tract of important happenings in blog community

Main Page http://www.daypop.com/
Top 40 links that are popular with web loggers http://www.daypop.com/top/
Top WebLogs http://www.daypop.com/blogrank/
Top WebLog posts http://www.daypop.com/posts/

Nice Story from Inbox: Love your job but never fall in love with your company, because you never know when the company stops loving you!

2005-08-31T13:48:00.000+05:30

A mother and a baby camel were lazing around, and suddenly the baby camel asked .....

Baby: Mother, mother, may I ask you some questions?

Mother: Sure! Why son, is there something bothering you?

Baby: Why do camels have humps?

Mother: Well son, we are desert animals, we need the humps to store water and we are known to survive without water.

Baby: okay, then why are our legs long and our feet rounded?

Mother: Son, obviously they are meant for walking in the desert. You know with these legs I can move around the desert better than anyone does!" said the mother proudly.

Baby: Okay, then why are our eyelashes long? Sometimes it bothers my sight.

Mother: My son, those long thick eyelashes are your protective cover. They help to protect your eyes from the desert sand and wind. Said mother camel with eyes rimming with pride....

Baby: I see. So the hump is to store water when we are in the desert, the legs are for walking through the desert and these eyelashes protects my eyes from the desert......Then what the hell are we doing here in the Zoo !!!!!???

MORAL OF THE STORY IS: Skills, knowledge, abilities and experiences are only useful if you are at the right place" (where are you right now????????)

Love your job but never fall in love with your company, because you never know when the company stops loving you!

Web Design:Blog without using MySQL

2005-08-31T11:40:00.000+05:30

PIVOT is the PHP solution if you want to host your blog at a private web site but does not have access to MySQL data base.

Without much pain I could get one of my blogs up and running. Here is an example blog which is hosted on on TumkurInfo.

More about Pivot:
Pivot is a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use. It is written in PHP, and does not require additional libraries or databases to function.

Cost: Pivot is completely free, as it is released under the GPL. In short it means something like this: You can use Pivot for free. you can redistribute it for free. You can also use the code I wrote and turn it into something else, but you have to make the derivatives of this program available for free as well.

Pivot related Links:
About Pivot
Download Pivot (from SourceForge.net)
The Forum (Get support here!)
The Pivot Wiki (Lots of information)
Pivot Webring (Pivot Users Ring)
Pivotstyles.net (Templates, languages and more)
Mypivot.net (Pivot news and resources)
Contact Author (not for support)

Nanotechnology for windshield defogging

2005-08-31T10:22:00.000+05:30

In the Nanotechnology news section of azonano.com, it is reported that MIT scientists have developed a unique polymer coating made of silica nanoparticles which eleminates fogging on glas surfaces. It will be great permanent solution to automobile windshield and spectacle fogging problem.

Foggy windows and lenses are a nuisance, and in the case of automobile windows, can pose a driving hazard. Now, a group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may have found a permanent solution to the problem. The team has developed a unique polymer coating - made of silica nanoparticles - that they say can create surfaces that never fog. More

Gulabi Huva in our garden

2005-08-25T09:25:00.000+05:30

Camera: Olympus C-4000, 4 Mega Pixel
Exposure Details: Flash, Macro, F/4, 1/125, ISO 100

Web Design: Guestbook without using MySQL

2005-08-23T10:13:00.000+05:30

Yes Joanna's php guestbook is the shortest answer. It's a simple guestbook that uses PHP but doesn't require MySQL.

Why should I bother about a guest book which does not require MySQL?

Simple, MySQL service is paid service with web host. It does not come with basic package. They want me to upgrade if I want to use MySQL data base service.

How about free services like Sign My Guestbook?

It is getting difficult to manage with Sign My Guestbook recently. They charge for new accounts, the server is down a fair amount, the date format is downright ugly, and it adds that stupid code at the bottom linking to diaryland and pitas. However, it remains one of the easiest to use and most customizable guestbook services out there. Above all MySQL service is paid service with many web hosting.

Thanks to Joanna for Great set of PHPs. Check out my working guest book at http://mnjaga.tumkurinfo.com/guest/

India 2004: Best Business Schools

2005-08-16T22:53:00.000+05:30

The Best Business Schools 2004 Rank

Rated by Business World - Dated 22-09-2003

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
National Institute of Industrial Engineering Mumbai
Management Development Institute Gurgaon
Xavier Labour Relations Institute Jamshedpur
S.P. Jain Institute of Mgmt & Research Mumbai
Faculty of Mgmt Studies, University of Delhi Delhi
Shailesh J. Mehta School of Mgmt IIT-Bombay
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
ICFAI Business School Hyderabad
University Business School Chandigarh
Dept of Mgmt Studies IIT-Delhi
Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management New-Delhi
Institute of Rural Management Anand
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade New Delhi
International Management, Institute New Delhi
Goa Institute of Management Goa
Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad
T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal
Indian Institute of Management Indore
Fore School of Management New Delhi
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management Pune
Regional College of Management Bhubaneswar
Indian Institute of Modern Management Pune
NIILM Centre for Management Studies New Delhi
Prin L.N.Welingkar Inst. of Mgmt Development Mumbai
Loyola Institute of Business Administration Chennai
Vinod Gupta School of Mgmt IIT - Kharagpur
Institute for Technology & Management Mumbai
Alliance Business Academy Bangalore
Graduate School of Business & Administration Noida
PSG Institute of Management Coimbatore
Prestige Institute of Mgmt & Research Indore
Institute for Financial Mgmt & Research Chennai
Jaipuria Institute of Management Lucknow
Indian Inst. of Social Welfare & Business Mgmt Kolkata
Bharathidasan Institute of Management Tiruchirapalli
Asia Pacific Institute of Management New Delhi
Department of Management Science, Pune University Pune
Amrita Institute of Management Coimbatore
Rourkela Institute of Mgmt Studies Rourkela
Rajagiri School of Management Cochin
Indian Institute of Rural Management Jaipur
N.L. Dalmia Inst. of Mgmt Studies & Research Mumbai
Indian Institute of Health Management Research Jaipur
Master School of Management Meerut
Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies Harihar
Inst. of Business Administration & Training Bhubaneswar
Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management Secunderabad
BLS Institute of Management New Delhi
Institute of Management Education Ghaziabad
Sri Sringeri Sharada Institute of Management New Delhi
Dept of Management Studies, University of Kashmir Kashmir
SDM Institute for Management Development Mysore
K.J. Somaiya Institute of Mgmt Studies & Research Mumbai
Symbiosis Institute of International Business Pune
Dept of Business Management, Osmania University Hyderabad
Sydenham Inst. of Mgmt Studies & Research Mumbai
School of Mgmt Studies, Hyderabad University Hyderabad
Jagan Institute of Management Studies New Delhi
New Delhi Institute of Management New Delhi
Mount Carmel Institute of Management Bangalore
Dept of Management Studies, REC Tiruchirapalli
Institute of Public Enterprise Hyderabad
National Institute of Management Calcutta
National Inst. of Agricultural Extension Mgmt Hyderabad
United Institute of Management Allahabad
Gitam Institute of Foreign Trade Visakhapatnam
Birla Institute of Management Technology New Delhi
Dhruva College of Management Hyderabad
KLS Inst. of Management Education & Research Belgaum
Integrated Academy of Mgmt Technology Ghaziabad
College of Mgmt Studies, GITAM Visakhapatnam
Dept of Business Admin. Guwahati University Guwahati
Aravali Institute of Management Jodhpur
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies Pune
Shiva Institute of Management Studies Agra
Integral Institute of Advanced Management Visakhapatnam
Xavier Institute of Social Service Ranchi
Department of Commerce & Management Studies Calicut
Bharati Vidyapeeth's Inst. of Mgmt Studies Mumbai
International Institute for Special Education Lucknow
School of Mgmt Studies, Cochin Univ. of Sc. & Tech. Kochi
Kousali Institute of Mgmt Studies Dharward
St. Joseph's College of Business Administration Bangalore
Institute of Technology & Science Ghaziabad
Siva Sivani Institute of Management Secunderabad
Alagappa Institute of Management Karaikudi
Institute of Productivity & Management Ghaziabad
Institute for Technology & Management Chennai
Institute for Technology & Management Bangalore
Inst. of Finance & International Management Bangalore
Indian Institute of Science & Management Ranchi
Institute of Management Studies Noida
Institute of Mgmt & Information Science Bhubaneswar
Department of Business Administration Bhavnagar

Wireless networking (Wi-Fi): Free Wi-Fi by Google?

2005-08-16T16:18:00.000+05:30

Is Google offering free Wi-Fi?

May be! Check out this SlashDot post

If that comes true, that will be another wonder. But, nothing is impossible.
And Google... they are know for doing things in a different, simple and effective way.
All the best Google if you are planning such a great project.

Definition of Wi-Fi from the web:

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) wireless standard for LANs.

Wireless Fidelity; Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance's (WECA) brand identity for the IEEE 802.11b standard; WECA certification that ensures products' compatibility.

WiFi is the wireless way to handle networking. It is also known as 802.11 networking and wireless networking. The big advantage of WiFi is its simplicity. You can connect computers anywhere in your home or office without the need for wires. The computers connect to the network using radio signals, and computers can be up to 100 feet or so apart.

Clock for web pages

2005-08-16T09:25:00.000+05:30

Clocklink.com provides some nice clocks for web authors.

Following code is for GMT0530 Bangalore, India.

<embed src="http://www.clocklink.com/clocks/0001P-Blue.swf?TimeZone=GMT0530&Place=Bangalore" width="150" height="150" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">

http://www.clocklink.com/

Conversion of mol2 file to sdf using babel

2005-08-11T11:47:00.000+05:30

Conversion of mol2 file to sdf using Open Babel

babel -imol2 file.mol2 -osdf file.sdf

Conversion of .mdb (Molecular data base format, ex. Sybyl also uses this format) to sdf

.mdb generally contains multiple mol2 files for converting to sdf first
catinate all the mol2 files to single mol2 file. Now use babel to convert mol2 to sdf
Following commands will be useful:

cat `find ./ -name "*.mol2"` > all_mol.mol2
babel -imol2 all_mol.mol2 -osdf all_mol.sdf
rm -rf all_mol.mol2

Note: put the above set of commands in to a file (say "mol2sdf") in ~/bin directory
and use it inside the .mdb (database) directory.

Edit PDF Code as Clear Text using a Vim Plug-In

2005-08-11T09:50:00.000+05:30

Happy to find a nice tool at 'AccessPDF-Forum' to edit pdf files using VIM. Using this, VIM users can install a plug-in (pdftk) for easily editing PDF code. When PDF file is opened in Vim, the plug-in calls pdftk to uncompress the page streams, so they are editable. When PDF file is saved, the plug-in uses pdftk to repair and re-compress the PDF.

How?

Download pdftk.vim.zip, unpack, and then move pdftk.vim into your Vim plug-ins directory ( e.g., C:\vim\vim63\plugin). Restart Vim to source the new plug-in.

What is pdftk?

From AccessPDF

If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:

Merge PDF Documents
Split PDF Pages into a New Document
Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
Encrypt Output as Desired
Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
Apply a Background Watermark
Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels
Update PDF Metadata
Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
Unpack PDF Attachments
Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.

Pdftk is free software (GPL).

Indian government must strongly support Electric Cars (like Reva) for clean future!

2005-08-05T10:40:00.000+05:30

Indian government must encourage Electric Cars (like Reva) for clean future!

Reva is a Bangalore based Electric car company. They are the first to launch electric cars in India.

Picture of "Reva Electric car"

Electric cars are the cars of the future. Though there is good support from the government it is not enough. Government of India must think seriously about waiving the off "Road tax", "sale tax" which will bring down the car price dramatically. Thanks to Karnataka government, which has already exempted road tax and also the sales tax on Reva. All other states must follow the same for the clean future.

Heart Surgery for $1 and a Quarter!

2005-08-05T09:56:00.000+05:30

Sounds like impossible, right? Check out a post by CochinPrince in his blog.
It is worth quoting from his pages:

Twenty-year-old Prasanna, a farmer from Tumkur district of Karnataka, would have normally wasted away after he was stricken with a heart disease.

However, a model health insurance scheme has provided a ray of hope to thousands like him, besides setting a splendid example of government-private partnership.

Prasanna underwent an open heart surgery for Rs 60, the annual premium for the Yeshasvini health scheme launched in the cooperative sector in 2003.

This quiet health revolution reaching out to the have-nots has resulted in medical treatment to more than 85,000 farmers in the last two years.

As many as 25,000 farmers have undergone various kinds of operations, including those of the heart, brain, stomach, eyes and the gall bladder, during this period.

Starting from the 800-bedded super-speciality Narayana Hrudalaya Hospital on the outskirts of Bangalore, it now reaches out to farmers through 170 hospitals across the state.

The scheme came into being ironically at a function where its originator — the Hrudalaya hospital founder and heart surgeon, Dr Devi Shetty — was invited to endorse a milk product. Dr Shetty, a foreign trained cardiologist who went on to become Mother Teresa's personal cardiac surgeon and then an unabashed advocate for providing modern health care to the poor, asked his hosts the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) to support a path-breaking idea.

What he had to offer to the KMC's Managing Director was this: "I will extend health benefits to all your two million employees for just Rs 5 a month" More...

How to submit your home page to Google?

2005-08-02T14:47:00.000+05:30

Why should I submit my home page to Google listing?

To increase the possibility of finding your pages by others.

OK, How do I submit my site to Google?

Click http://www.google.com/addurl

Should I add each page I have generated?

No, only top level directory is enough.
Ex: if you site is http://www.MoneyOnNet.com/
You only need to add http://www.MoneyOnNet.com/
Neither you need to add http://subdomain.MoneyOnNet.com/
Not http://www.MoneyOnNet.com/cash.htm

Got it?

Google about Moon

2005-08-02T13:01:00.000+05:30

Google has a nice page "In honor of the first manned Moon landing".

http://moon.google.com/

I like Google Logo Maker

2005-07-29T16:31:00.000+05:30

LoGogle.com, can give any text, a "google logo" look. I liked it very much.

http://www.logogle.com/

This is how MNJaga looks in google-logo-style

You must Blog. But, take care not to get fired because of your blog.

2005-07-29T15:26:00.000+05:30

Why you must blog?

But dont get fired at work because of your blog.

How not to get fired because of your blog.

Enlightning thoughts: Osho

2005-07-29T15:06:00.000+05:30

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep -- and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.

Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

The heart is always right-- if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart-- because mind is a creation of the society. It has been educated. You have been given it by the society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

If the whole existence is one, and if the existence goes on taking care of trees, of animals, of mountains, of oceans from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest star -- then it will take care of you too. Why be possessive? The possessiveness shows simply one thing that you cannot trust existence. You have to arrange separate security for yourself, safety for yourself; you cannot trust existence. Non-possessiveness is basically trust in existence. There is no need to possess, because the whole is already ours.

Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look too tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against nature.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder."

All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be -- don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied; something or other will remain to be changed. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

To be alone in the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course of time will you start; moving into the world of light and crystallization, but once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is. Then share your revolution with others; it has to go that way, from heart to heart.

Intelligence is a natural phenomenon -- just as breathing is, just as seeing is. Intelligence is the inner seeing; it is intuitive. It has nothing to do with intellect. Never confuse intellect with intelligence, they are polar opposites. Intellect is of the head; it is taught by others, it is imposed on you. You have to cultivate it. It is borrowed, it is something foreign, it is not inborn. But intelligence is inborn. It is your very being, your very nature.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor -- according to me -- is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.

The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.

In this world the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -- there are no distinctions.

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. The heart has no time concept.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization. If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

Flickr.com to enhance your blog@blogger with Images

2005-07-27T16:49:00.000+05:30

I happen to find Flicker.com today and seems to be one of the best solutions to include images with blogs at Blogger.

It is worth repeating here about what http://www.flickr.com/ says:

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Let us show you why!

Flickr is a way to get your photos to the people who matter to you. With Flickr you can:

Show off your favorite photos to the world
Blog the photos you take with a cameraphone
Securely and privately show photos to your friends and family around the world
... and much, much more!

Basically, Flickr is what butters the borders between your photos to the people you want to see them. And basic accounts are free!

How to use GMail for organizing Bookmarks/Notes

2005-07-27T15:51:00.000+05:30

How to use filters and Labels to automatically organize your Bookmarks/Notes

There are many ways to organize your bookmarks and Notes. Secured way is to keep every thing locally. On can use blogs or web pages for this purpose.

What if you want to keep all your bookmarks away from public?

Best bet is using Gmail. It is very secure, simple and effective. I use this method on a daily basis to store all my bookmarks as well as notes online.

Here is my recipe
(I assume you have a gmail account and you have logged on to your account say "Y ourGmailAdd@gmail.com")

1) Click on "Create a filter"
2) In the "To:" field type "YourGmailAdd+links@ gmail.com"
3) click "Next Step"
4) Select "Skip the Inbox" and "Apply the label:"
5) From the drop down menu of "Apply the label:" chose "New Label" (this option is the last one, you can find it at the end). Type " Bookmarks" in the pop-up window and say click on "OK".
6) Click on "Create Filter".

You are all set to store/organize your Bookmarks online!

Now if you want to store some interesting link, all you have to do is to send a mail with your own address with modification shown in point-2. You are right! send mail to " YourGmailAdd+links@gmail.com" with your bookmark information in the content. You mail will skip "Inbox" and get labeled as "Bookmarks". You can access your bookmark by clicking on "Bookmarks" Lable.

Similarly you can create another filter and label for "Notes" and send your notes to "YourGmailAdd+notes @gmail.com"

Trick to keep related Bookmarks in a single-mail-content rather than different mails

Why do you want to do this?

As your bookmarks number increases locating them may be a great problem. Ofcourse one can use Search, but I feel it is much better to organize things in the first place itself.

Solution is again simple "use Subject wisely"
Lets say you want following news links in single mail entry rather than different
1) http://www.cnn.com/
2) http://news.google.com/
3) http://www.news.com/

Send first link to ""YourGmailAdd+links@ gmail.com" with subject "News"
Send second and subsequent links to " YourGmailAdd+links@gmail.com" with subject "Re: News". Adding "Re: " is very important.

List of interesting e-books available for free on the web

2005-07-27T11:12:00.000+05:30

General e-Books

PyMOL: Translate, Rotate individual Object!

2005-07-26T16:35:00.000+05:30

PyMol tip:

Switch the mouse into "3 button editing mode", and then shift-left-click-and-drag to rotate and shift-middle-click-and-drag to translate.

"Creativity" Book by Osho

2005-07-26T15:29:00.000+05:30

One of the favourite books of MNJaga
Creativity : Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho, Insights for a New Way of Living.)

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st ed edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0312205198

Amazon link to "Creativity".

Recently I happen to see this book in Sapna Book House, Bangalore, while browsing through the racks. Read few pages randomly. I felt this is exactly the book I was looking for since years! This is first book by Osho entering MNJaga's library. I had never read any of Osho's books. Why? I don't know. May be because of bad media coverage? Possible! Fortunately I was lucky this time. I got an opportunity to enter in to OshoWorld. I am greatful to the editors of this book and for chosing such a nice title "creativity" for this book. Title made me to open the book and read. After I purchased this book my library has filled with lots of Osho's books. Like: Meditation: The first and last freedom, Walking in Zen Sitting in Zen, Maturity...

Best place to find more about Osho:

http://www.iosho.com/
http://www.oshoworld.com/ [Read lots of free e-books online]
http://www.osho.com/ [Many talks on various topics]
http://www.sannyas.net/

Some interesting pages related to blog (weblog)

2005-07-26T09:14:00.000+05:30

HowStuffWorks has a nice article (How Blogs Work) about blogs. More details with lots of interesting links on Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) with the entry "weblog". One can start blogging in minutes for free on google's "blogger".

MNJaga's question, about reminders, to 'askslashdot' got accepted

2005-07-25T09:05:00.000+05:30

Slashdot (/.) is an interesting site for computer geeks (as the site says "News for nerds, stuff that matters"). I have been a regular reader of this site since couple of years. Stories are given by readors which filters through a tough filters. To sum up, it is not that easy to get your story posted. AskSlashdot is a section where we can ask questions to readors to get real nice answers. For the first time I asked a question about "reminders in unix environment" and to my pleasent surprise it got accepted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 with the title "Reminders (Pop-up & E-mail) with Unix?". As usual with /. response were mixed type. Thanks to all the people who took time to respond. Some people gave real good solution to the problem while many people posed as usual as if they are ultimate!

Linux distributions I have tried on various IBM-compatible PCs

2005-07-22T09:05:00.000+05:30

1) Knoppix [My favourite]
2) Mandrake
3) Fedora core
4) SuSe
5) Mepis

Live CDs I like

1) Puppy Linux
2) Damnsmall Linux
3) Knoppix

Jag's favourite programs on Linux

2005-07-20T16:10:00.000+05:30

Application/Task		Software
Browser		Firefox
Email Claint		Thunderbird
FileManager		Konqueror
Editors	Text:	VIM
	HTML Editor	Nvu
	Image:	Gimp, Xfig
	Video:	Lives
	Audio:	Audacity
Photo Album Creation for Web authoring		JAlbum
Text Process		OpenOffice, Scribus
Presentation		OpenOffice Impress
PIM:		TreePadLight, TuxCard
Shell		Bash
Task Scheduler /reminder		cron, remind/tkremind, gkrellm-reminder
Window Manager		XFCE4
Chatting		Gaim
Molecular modelling		PyMol, VMD
Ftp		gFTP, sftp, konqueror
PDF	Reading	Acroread
PDF	Writing	vim (with pdftk plugin), Scribus, openoffice
Screen Saver		XScreensaver
DVD/CD Burning		K3B
Multimedia		Xine, Xmms, Mplayer
Linux Distribution:		Knoppix

Keywords: Linux Links, Complete Linux system, Linux Bookmarks, Favourite Linux applications

How to setup a perfect "email or pop-up reminder" with Linux

2005-07-18T16:36:00.000+05:30

Keywords: Linux task scheduler, e-mail reminder, pop-up reminder, cron, remind, tkremind

If you have just migrated from MS-windows sure you will be looking for a simple application for all your reminders. I was using a cool little application called "Kirby alarm" when I was using windows and I really loved it as the Kirby alarm says "Kirby Alarm is a completely free alarm and task scheduler that will pop up a note, or run a program, or play a sound, or send an email at user defined intervals". I was looking for some thing similar under Linux. It took a while to make things work. At the end I could do some thing similar (may be more) with couple of applications. I am very happy that I culd learn to do much more than what I used to do with Kirby-alarm.

You can expect pop-ups like the following from our reminder tools!

Figure 1: Pop-up from "xmessage"

Figure 2: Pop-up from "Xdialog"

Figure 3: Pop-up from "kdialog"

1) Tools needed for pop-up reminder (XWindows)

Solution-1) cron, xmessage/Xdialog/kdialog Solution-2) remind + tkremind

Solution-1) cron, xmessage/Xdialog/kdialog
I like this as we need only cron and either of the three programms (xmessage or Xdialog or kdialog.)

All we need is to enter proper linux commands in to crontab so that the message needed will pop-up at scheduled time.

Here is how I do:
First try weather any of the three message programs [xmessage/Xdialog/kdialog]work for you. Type the following command in your shell/console window:

date '+Reminder issued at: %H:%M %p' | xmessage -buttons OK:0 -title "Jag's Reminder" -nearmouse -file - -timeout 8

A pop-up window [see Figure-1] will appear near mouse and disappear after 8 seconds.

/usr/bin/Xdialog --rc-file ybox.rc --title "Reminder" --backtitle "coffee time" --clear --under-mouse --no-button --right --infobox "You need a coffee, dont you?" 0 0 8000

A pop-up window [see Figure-2] will appear in the center and disappear after 8 seconds.

Note: for getting "yellowbackground and blue text you should have "ybox.rc" in your home directory with following entry:

---------content of "ybox.rc" file -------

style 'yellow_background' {
bg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 1.0, 0.0 }
fg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 }
font = "-adobe-times-bold-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-132-iso8859-1"
} widget '*' style 'yellow_background'

Similarly we can use "kdialog", enter the following command

kdialog --title "Jag's reminder" --passivepopup "This is my reminder message" 8

A message pop-up [see Figure-3] will appear at the top-left cornor and will stay for 8 seconds.

If any of the above works just enter that command in your crontab. But we need to tell the cron to display it on Xserver by inserting "DISPLAY=:0.0" before message command i.e. "xmessage or kdiallog or Xdialog" It is also safe to put full path of the message command. Type "whereis" and your command to find out full path of your favourite message command. On my linux-box they are located at "/usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage", "/usr/bin/Xdialog", "/usr/bin/kdialog"

Now for getting pop-up message every 5 minutes between 1.00 - 1.30 PM

Issue the command "crontab -e" you will be thrown in to a VIM editor. Type "i", you will enter insert mode. At insert mode, cut and paste one of the following three lines in your crontab.
# Pop-up message using xmessage
00-30/5 13 * * 1-5 DISPLAY=:0.0 date '+Reminder issued at: %H:%M %p' | /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage -buttons OK:0 -title "Jag's Reminder" -nearmouse -file - -timeout 8

# Pop-up message using Xdialog
00-30/5 13 * * 1-5 DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/Xdialog --rc-file ybox.rc --title "Reminder" --backtitle "coffee time" --clear --under-mouse --no-button --right --infobox "You need a coffee, dont you?" 0 0 8000

# Pop-up message using kdialog
00-30/5 13 * * 1-5 DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/kdialog --title "Jag's reminder" --passivepopup "This is my reminder message" 8

After pasting press 'Esc' press ":x" this will save and come out.

Your pop up reminder is ready.

Solution-2) remind + tkremind

TkRemind is front end GUI for remind. It uses the file ".reminders". I generally prefer to use 'vim' and put up my reminders.

when we type the command 'remind' it reads '.reminders' file. Remind also supports INCLUDE some other file. I prefer to seperate my daily pop-up reminders from anniversary and birthday reminders as by the command 'remind $HOME/remind_main' I get out put of only birthday and anniversary which can be sent as e-mail using cron. It does not look goot to get daily reminders like 'coffee break' 'lunch time reminders' in your mail box, right?

----------------------My .reminders file in $HOME directory--------------

#----------Begining of ".reminders" file---------------
INCLUDE $HOME/remind_main # Contains important birthdays and Anniversary dates

# Moon Phase
REM [trigger(moondate(0))] SPECIAL MOON 0 -1 -1 [moontime(0)]
REM [trigger(moondate(1))] SPECIAL MOON 1 -1 -1 [moontime(1)]
REM [trigger(moondate(2))] SPECIAL MOON 2 -1 -1 [moontime(2)]
REM [trigger(moondate(3))] SPECIAL MOON 3 -1 -1 [moontime(3)]
# Moon Phase End "remind -p .reminders | rem2ps > out.ps"

# Every day Events
# Coffee break reminder this will issue pop-up reminders every 5 minutes between 10.15 - 10.30AM

REM TAG TKTAG1 22 June 2005 *1 AT 10:30 +15 *5 MSG 10.30PM: Wanna Coffee? # This reminder pops up every 5 minutes between 12.45 PM to 1PM

REM TAG TKTAG2 22 June 2005 *1 AT 13:00 +15 *5 MSG 01.00PM: Lunch Time, Get some Energy man...
#----------End of ".reminders" file---------------

A part of my remind_main file is here.

#----------Begining of "$HOME/remind_main" file---------------
if !defined("init")
set init 1
fset since(x) ord(year(trigdate())-x)
endif

# Birth Days and Anniversaries

REM 26 Jan +2 msg %"Renuka's [since(1973)]Birthday%" is %b.
REM 27 Feb +2 msg %"Sahitya's[since(2001)]Birthday%" is %b.
REM 28 Feb +2 msg %"Jagadeesh+Nalini's [since(2001)] anniversary%" is %b.

#----------End of "$HOME/remind_main" file---------------

2) Tools needed for e-mail reminder

remind + cron + mail

You can get your remind output in to your mail box with following "cron" entry
45 5 * * 1-7 remind $HOME/remind_main | mail your_ID@domain.com -s "Reminder"

So, every day at 5.45AM remind will be executed and the out put will be sent to your e-mail account with the subject 'Reminder'. This way you can get reminders even while you are travelling!

Final tips/commands:
man cron
man xmessage
man Xdialog
kdialog --help
man mail
man remind

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Pop-up reminders in Linux using "Cron"

2005-07-18T11:51:00.000+05:30

Issue following commands from the shell (Linux commands are shown in quotes, and comments are shown between %)

"crontab -e" %this command will open your cron entry in vim editor%

press i % you will enter insert mode in vim%

cut and paste the following:

# Lunch reminder every 10 minutes between 1 to 1.55PM
00-55/10 13 * * 1-5 DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/Xdialog --rc-file ybox.rc --title "Reminder" --backtitle "Lunch time ..." --clear --under-mouse --no-button --right --infobox "GO and get some energy man..." 10 45 60000

press "Esc"
type ":x" and hit "Enter"

you will get following comment:
crontab: installing new crontab

% above lines will get you pop-up reminder for lunch, as comment says, with with cron entry you will get pop-ups every 10 minutes between 1.00PM to 1.55PM on Monday through Friday. pop up will stay for 60seconds and dissappear automatically. Xdialog is used for the pop up message display.%

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I like cron reminder as I dont have to start any program to get reminder. If the system is on, I get reminders automatically.

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However, I like a program called 'remind'
check out: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open_source_remind.php

also a nice article: Remind: The ultimate personal calendar at

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529

"remind" with "tkremind" will form a nice linux reminder.

You can get your remind output in to your mail box with following "cron" entry

45 5 * * 1-7 remind your_remind_calendar_file | mail your_ID@domain.com -s "Reminder"

So, every day at 5.45AM remind will be executed and the out put will be sent to your e-mail account. This way you can get reminders even while you are travelling!

How to apply for Khata?

2005-05-13T10:00:00.000+05:30

The Khata should be applied for in the concerned sub-registrar's office.
One can get the same by filling up the application form and submitting
copies of the original sale deed, tax paid receipt and EC.
The EC form is available at all sub-registrar's offices.

Things needed:
1) EC-form at Sub-registrar's office.
2) Copy of Original Sale Deed.
3) Tax paid receipt.