My pensieve

Earlier in one of my posts, The Dark Knight’s review, I had observed that an hero can be successful only when he has no dependent on him because then he has no weaknesses which can be exploited by others. But it came to my mind today that if hero doesnt have any dependent then where will he get any motivation to to do something like a hero. Without any dependent, he doesnt have any reason to become a hero.

we went and met Sanyal Sir at 10. He was expecting some report from us but we had gone there empty handed. In the meeting he also set a deadline of 15th dec to submit sometype of paper on cluster computing. Then we told him that we wanted minimum of 3 computers to create a cluster. For this he asked to wait for Rajkumar sir who would provide us computers. he came at 11’0 clock. he asked us select any computers from the lab.some computers had 3 NIC which was very good for us as we needed minimum 2 NIC in the server. we were more lucky as i found a computer with Fedora 8 OS. we decided to make it as our server. then i installed the oscar packages as was given in the installation guide. but we needed a switch to install oscar in client nodes. so we decided to call it a day. then i came back to room and played aoe. and then watched mahabharath. in the evening, sandeep,santya and kiran went to bench. i wasnt interested as i was very tired. i had plans to go to LH more for dinner. but when they came back, they told me that it was Aunty’s shop was closed. So then i decided to prepare Maggi. I had a half packet Maggi. I prepared maggi from it. it was much better than last time. after dinner i again played aoe for sometime and watched mahabharath. then went to sleep.

after the mumbai incident, i got into the habit of watching the videos displayed on “The Times Of India” web page. i would get the latest update on the mumbai incident and how the world is reacting to it. however today when i looked at the video section, the first video wasnt about the mumbai incident. Ironically it was about Katrina Kaif being the sexiest woman for Bristish Inidans according to some poll. That is when i realized the spirit of media which is very much similar to spirit of mumbai. Mumbaikars return back to their normal life even after there is a chain of train blasts the previous day. Similarlly media return backs to the glamour world as soon as possible even after an incidents like Taj-Oberoi hostage situation. Well i think viewers and readers do like glamour more than life-security unlike me.

got up at 9:45 after Tanamay woke me up. we had decided to go and meet Sanyal Sir at 10. However just before getting up i was having a dream that i had scored 9.23 in 7th sem. this might have been because of Tanmay constantly saying that it was 9:45 already. somehow i always feel that dreams are always related to what is happening to us at that particular moment. like if someone is throwing water on us while sleeping, we dream that we are drowning or playing rain or something like that.
well we went to dept at 10 and waited for around 30 mins. after that we asked someone in dept where Sanyal Sir was. he told us that Sir was attending the seminar on CERN. So we decided to come back at 3.
when we went at 3, Sanyal Sir was busy with seminars of MCA. after sometime he came out and he saw us waiting for him. he asked us to come at 10. so have to go and meet him tomorrow at 10. then i came back and watched The Lion King- part 2. then started playing AOE. after that went to have dinner at LH more alongwith Santya and Kiran and had Maggi and Bun-Omelette as there was nothing else. then came to room and after sometime went to play Football alongwith Sattu,Ankush, Doon, Harry, Mrinal and others. enjoyed it very much. the teams were North and sandeep vs rest(me,Usuf,Mrinal, Basant and Tudu). we won 6-2. came back at around 1. then after some time went to sleep.

quite a good day. after trying to install CentOS for 3 times yesterday, i finally gave up and installed Fedora 8 in Bacchas’s CPU. Even that took me 3 times before Fedora was installed successfully. After that, i tried installing basic softwares in it. wasnt successful initially. VLC and SMPLAYER had libpulse dependency problem. after trying for some more time unsuccessfully, i gave up. However then i tried to install OSCAR using the tutorial given in its site. was successful till here. wasnt able to continue as i needed another NIC for that.So I shifted to Windows to play AOE and watch movies. Watched The Lion King-part 1. Downloaded full series of mahabharat which was of total size 22.4gb. then went to LH more to have dinner. then after coming back started watching first episode of mahabharat. then went to sleep.

Didnt update here as i did nothing useful other than enjoying. On 5th collected the CPU from Baccha as soon as her exam was over. then went to CCD along with VT(host),Dorxana,Baccha and Anjali(the chief guest of the treat). Had a very nice time over there pulling each other’s leg. Was beaten by Anjali quite few times, someday will take revenge. Then went to see off Baccha who went to Howrah by bus along with Gandhi and Rama.
On 6th, got up early and had breakfast. then spent time playing cricket in the wing. then in the evening went to see off wingmates those who were going to Goa, Tushar ,Bala, Patil, Vijay and Pa2. Then in the night connected Baccha’s CPU to Vijay’s monitor. Finally i now have a working computer all for myself after about 2 months. Lappy is still sick.

Got up at 12. Went to jupes. Then went to Dept. to meet GS to discuss about our project. After waiting for about half an hour along with Tanmay, Rasheed and Anup, i just remembered that GS might be out of station. So then i asked PKG sir who was available in dept about GS. He informed us that GS was out of station and he would be coming on 8th. We had mixed reactions for this news. On one hand we had got extra time for us do to something on the project, so that when we met him we had something solid to show but also on the other hand, this meant that we would have to stay in Durgapur atleast till 8th. However after that i came back to my room. Talked to Manish and then went to GM along with him and Gautam. Then started cleaning room which had become a complete mess. Spent around 2 hours for cleaning. had dinner. went to techno and then to LH more. Over all didnt do anything worthy.

Well the wait is finally over and the results of the survey on Linux usage by girls in Ladies Hostels is out. The survey has shown that GLUG-Durgapur has tremendous growth oppurtunity among the girl students. Out of the total 228 girls who participated in the survey, 51 use different distributions of Linux regularly either in their own personal computer or in departments as a part of sessionals. 124 girls want to use install and use linux regularly but they havent still because of lack of basic linux knowledge. Out of the 124, only 19 are from software branches(Computer Science, Information Technology and Master of Computer Applications). This shows that huge number of students of non-software branches are not only becoming aware of presence of Linux but also want to enjoy it. Also according to the survey, ____ out of ____first years want to use linux and nearly 80% of first year girls are registered members of GLUG-Durgapur. Also there are 11 students who are really “linux users” but are not registered member of GLUG-Durgapur.

In case of distribution, Opensuse is the leading Linux distribution among girls. Out of 35 girls who have installed and use linux in their personal computers, 16 use Opensuse, 7 use RedHat Enterprise Limited, 5 use Fedora, 4 use Ubuntu and 3 others forgot to mention the distribution they use, hopefully they dont forget to use linux. Some of the interesting points I found is, one girl uses Opensuse 11.2 version(11.1 is yet to be released), and also some girls use linux distribution called Windows.

Some of the common problems faced by girls while using linux are:-

• Audio and video problem.
• Frequent crash of computer.
• Problems with downloading and installing softwares, like VLC.
• Internet problem.
• Less User friendly.
• Dependencies problems while installing softwares.
• Voice chat softwares like Gtalk not available.

I saw the movie about 1-2 months after its release. I was waiting for its DvdRip. I think it is better if i leave the review of the movie to professionals as i wont be able to do justice. I would just say that it is very good as it not only contains every aspect of a movie but all excels in it. Story, sound, dailogues, acting. Everything to perfect. No doubt it is in top 5 in IMDB.

I would like to discuss the role of Joker here. Joker is shown in the movie as a villian who does not do bad stuff for a reason. He does it only because he enjoys it. He doesnt want to earn money or gain power. He just wants to create a chaos. I think he is a saddist and he thinks that every human being in the city just lives for himself without caring about others and they are ready to kill each other to save their own ass. He conducts a what he calls as a social experiment where he keeps bombs in two ferries, one containing civilians and another containing criminals from a jail. He keeps the detonator of the bomb in the ferry containing civilians in the ferry containing criminals and vice versa. Now he says that if either one of them doesnt kill other then he will blow both the ferries. Joker expects both the bombs to explode or at least one to explode and if it did it would prove his idea. However this does not happen and no one from either ferry is interested in blowing other ferry just to save themselves. Strangely i feel that the Joker had not exchanged the detonator and if anyone had tried to blow the other ferry they would end up blowing their own ferry. However i will never come to know whether what i think is right.
I think Joker is not a murderer but he is not afraid of killing anyone who comes in his path. the only problem was that he had chosen a wrong path. This made me think what if Joker hadnt chosen the wrong path. What if he was a person who was ready to kill anyone who comes in his path and his path was to keep the city and world safe and make it a happy place to live. He was perfect for it. He didnt have any dependent and he didnt have any motive other than just creating chaos. So if he had chosen a correct motive, then he would have been a perfect hero.

There is another aspect of the movie which i should mention. The DA of Gotham who also is the present boy friend of Rachel, who is the ex-girl friend of Batman. Batman wanted him to make the new hero of the city who was more real and had deserved to be called hero as he just did his job perfectly and wasnt afraid of its consequences. However there was one problem. He was and had a dependent, Rachel. And this dependency was his weak point which the joker exploited.