I hope everyone likes to hear stories. Let me tell a story. Nearly 2 years ago someone decides that he wants a shiny device as he goes for events where the "AXE" effect is important and that depends on the life of few people around him. He looked around and found a aluminum colored device and got it after paying a hefty amount compared other non-aluminum ones. He also had a choice between a white one but the aluminum one was having 2 USBs and as he travels a lot and thus uses a CDMA USB wireless device as he takes photos uses multiple harddisks with for storage etc. Was instantly impressed by the paper box in which the aluminum device came. He had to use a search engine to find out how to pull out the power plug from the aluminum device. That really killed all ego he had, such a shocker it was ! He still knew few basic equations of electricity and all those but he was humbled. This particular guy was pretty old school and needed a mouse. So he tried to plug in the mouse into the second USB slot for which he paid around 20K INR more. Alas, its not going in. He was bit surprised and but then, there could be a trick to it he thought. Tried few things, no he is not able to plugin the USB mouse. He flipped over the aluminum device and realized that this time there is no need to search but the common sense of a 5 year old will tell him what the problem is. There is not enough space between the USB devices to allow most of the USB devices to be plugged in. He is still in the shock and nothing is going to help him to get rid of it for the rest of the life. 20K rupees is gone and he still around with the shock. After a while he found about something called a USB hub & got one spending INR 600. This is it he thought. He managed to plugin that to a USB lot and alas he can connect upto 4 devices of any size. He plugged in a mouse, the USB internet connection everything is good. The first few hours have passed and he was just about to forget about the new device called the hub then the mouse stopped working and internet got disconnected. Oh, both the devices are disconnected. He might have done something which made the devices disconnect and he plugged the 'hub' back, waited for a while and everything is working again. Life goes and he keeps doing this every 4 hours or so for last 2 years. Now he finds it a good distraction from continuos sitting and working for too much time and it even acts as measure against downloading large files over the wireless connection - it never allows it and he is saving lot of money over bandwidth. After a while a friend wanted to write a book and wanted to use some 50 of his photos. He was quite excited and decided to sort around 400 GB photos and select some 200 of them for the final selection. He grabbed his harddisk, connected it to the USB hub and yes, the disks appeared on the desktop. Wow ! He soon ran out of space and bought a new harddisk to copy images. Plugged in the new harddisk started taking backups and every-now and then the disk got disconnected. Finally after nearly 6 months, he has some 250 GB on new disk, 120 GB on the aluminum device and 400 GB on another harddisk. He is quite confused about which is the master copy, or all the images are synced or what exactly to do now. He has some health issues and stuff and can't keep working on the copying business for ever and after trying few things like getting a new hub etc he has dropped it. His friend never wrote the book. Soon he wanted to get a monitor mostly because of health issues and wanted to sit in an ergonomic position. All is well. He has one monitor at work and another at home and tried to connect he monitor to the aluminium thingie. Damn, again there is no hole !!! (no, no double meaning intended here!) There is nothing that looks like a DVI or VGI. The R&D started and he soon figured out there is some sort of connector which will do the magic of connecting a monitor to the aluminum box. He bought this small connector for 1600 INR after some bargaining accomplished the great task of connecting the monitor to the aluminum box. He carried this magical object with him so that he can keep doing the magic in different locations. Often he forgets the magical wand but he is used to it now. He once tweeted saying that buying the aluminum box is the last compromise he did in his life still lives pretty happily.
Everything in life is about choices and all that matters is what we choose & freedom enables one to choose. - Bobinson K B On 11 October 2011 23:07, Dibu Philip <[email protected]> wrote: > "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to > sever fools from their freedom, has died." > > Is this how someone announces death of someone who wasn't a terrorist? > > Next comes RMS quoting Mayor Harold Washington, so it is no problem! Mayor > Harold Washington used that phrase against someone who was atleast corrupt!; > and was Steve corrupt in anyway? > > "Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only > hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less > effective." > > Apple Inc., is a public listed company, and the death of Steve is not going > to affect the company; so it will grow! > > Finally, whatever be the original post, what does it look like to someone > who is new to FSF, RMS and the whole Free Software concept?! നല്ല വിറ്റ് > ആയിരിക്കും!! > > Though I advocate Free Software, I must say, RMS, അങ്ങേര്ക്കു വട്ടാ!! > > Dibu John Philip > > Cell : +91 94 9633 7069 > E-mail: [email protected] > WWW: http://djnetworkz.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/dibujphilip > > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2011/10/11 Dibu Philip <[email protected]>: >> > Stallman is eccentric!! It is upto people to choose their kind of >> > freedom.. >> > But the Free Software community should hold up its standards high in all >> > respects; and that includes respecting others too! >> >> This also includes reading the original post and understanding it >> before commenting. >> >> -- >> പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് >> You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your >> rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as >> they follow the rules: laws and constitution. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List >> http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ >> http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >> #[email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
