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I like to argue when it comes to decisions. Although most of the time it's just me alone evaluating things. But I had some opportunity in office to debate a few things.  Lately though there's not much discussion going on, rather we have loads of work and the small pockets of discussion that happen when one of juniors gets stuck somewhere.  Anyway, lets put that aside and concentrate on our own ward. So I'm facing some quite radical change in coming quarter or so. In lieu of this I have decided to cut off the amount of various activities I have been spending time on. So there go the TV Serials. And also decreased stats for movies - maybe 2 per week or so. And almost no e-books. Add in some compulsory study that I'm going to need and more free time for other tasks.  So there is lot of debate going on. What to be prioritized and what to be altogether dropped. What to be gracefully closed and what to be discarded like trash.  One example is I discarded about 50 GB of TV

Update 2012-11-23: I have just updated the dev build to alpha using apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade; and the system is feeling more stable. The added blue checks wallpaper really shines What's new       Terminal         We have a new terminal emulator which replaces gnome-terminal and it's looking slick.     Plank         Plank is the dock at the bottom. I have covered it below.     Pantheon Files         Merlin was the file manager used in Elementary Jupiter. Now they have forked it into Pantheon Files.     GALA: Elementary's libmutter based window manager         Gala was introduced only couple of months ago. And I think it was a big step for elementary. Having their own widow manager lets them have greater control as well as customization.     Noise         Noise is the music player provided by elementary. It's fairly modern and the goal is to have something that fits the elementary philosophy with being fast and lightweight.     Ma

I have seen a good amount of change. I've seen change for the sake of it. I've seen change out of necessity but unwillingness. I think I've seen all the ways change can be. So I wonder when I'm going to have so much change what kind it is. Is it opportunistic? Is it out of necessity and desperation or is it enforced? Would you call necessity a desperation? Would you call frustration just an expression of inability? What is it? Life is going to change in big way. Maybe I've some unfinished business that I might end up taking care of. Or I might make an even bigger mess of things than what it already is. A new city. Goodbye to the present one. Is it going to be difficult? I don't know. I was scared of this change when I decided to do this. So I think everything will be alright. Or I keep telling myself just not to panic. And boy, I know I can panic. I know what it is being panicked. Its like a deer caught in the headlights. Except as a deer you can't decid

Yes! Its ready! Penned and all and I'll post it here  as soon as I can get back to my place.

I'm just reformatted my external HDD. The thing was I had kept two different partitions hoping that I would be able to separate the data better this way. But to my dismay I got bogged down with shifting files from here to there and vice versa. So after six months or so of such pain, I have wiped out both the volumes and got one single partition now. Actually I need to get one more HDD. The current one - a western digital 320GB has served me well for last 3 years. It's taken its share of falls and has acquired some bad sectors. But I don't think I can splurge anything on some more electronics any soon. So I guess with this drive's 300GB and my laptops 200 odd GB's I'll be making my meal so as to speak. Well, actually I can just wipe out the 200GB or so of movies and tv serials. But them I'll have to get at least 20 DVD's of my most favorite movies. And dream about the tv serials. And the other STUFF! What has life come to! Says the guy who had an affa

What is this localc? ( I thought it as local-c) I wondered for a lot of time. Launching it would open office. So $ whereis localc; gives /usr/bin/localc Ok what kind of file is this $ file /usr/bin/localc; gives POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable. OK cat it; $cat /usr/bin/localc ; gives #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/libreoffice/program/soffice --calc "$@" OK why would a script with name local-c open libreoffice calc? Hmmm, this is weird. 5 minutes of deep thinking reveals the problem with my associative thinking. Its lo-calc idiot, not local-c! I end up telling myself!

Problems with 64-bit build's installation, couple of personal problems and overall busier nature of last few days have caused delay in the review. I'm starting on it. But I don't know when I'll really be able to get through it. On the side note I'm moving around a lot and the work pressure is also mounting. Things have become tougher. And I think by end of this month they will get tougher. But yeah, I want to do this review. I'm using elementary for last one month or so and I'm impressed by the amount of work that has gone into it. So the review is going to be here. Just its going to take some time.