While surfing the intrawebs I found the image below that allows you to quantify and classify your sleeping skills.
According to the chart I have achieved a catlike transcendence 🙂 Which proves that I do sleep a lot. Although I also stay awake a lot but once I go off to sleep I need something like this to make me functional again:
Source: Sleeping Skills
– Suramya
Some of the sites out there seem to think that all their visitors want to do is copy their stuff and they come up with some really irritating idea’s to try to prevent the text/images from being copied.
One such method that I hit today is used by The CartoonistGroup.com site. They have put a javascript mouse over that changes the cartoon to another image that says “CopyNo.com” in a crossed circle.
It took me literally 5 seconds to copy the cartoon to my system inspite of the ‘protections’. (Select the pic, Right-click, choose view selection source, and copy the url, open in a new window) All it did was annoy me. If you think thats technical, just turn off java-script in your browser and the protection is off…
A lot of people like moving their mouse over what they are reading and its quite irritating to have the pic change to another when you are scrolling down…
If you treat all your visitors like criminals who are barely held in check from ripping you off then they are infact going to go out of their way to do it. If you treat them like normal people maybe one in a 1000 will copy the cartoon and post it on their site. And you know what. It doesn’t matter. Its free publicity for the artist and site.
I do agree that hotlinking is not that great. In that case they are using your bandwidth and you are not getting any benefit out of it. However then also you have other options, myconfinedspace.com/ for example allows you to hotlink to images on their server but puts a watermark on them. If you visit the site directly then you don’t see any watermarks on the images .
Putting a watermark on a image when its copied is ok, putting silly java-script/other useless technologies is not ok. Worse comes to worse I can always take a screenshot of the page and then cut paste the image from that and use it. Think about it.
You are not preventing people from copying your stuff. All you are doing is annoying your customers.
– Suramya
The past few days have been interesting, as they were spent rewiring the house so that the new UPS that we installed for the house would work and not have too much load on it. In addition we redistributed the load so that each of the three phases coming into the house from the electricity board have an equal amount of load on them. This involved cutting a lot of wires, some drilling and a lot of splicing and adding of new fuses etc.
We finally got the delivery for the new UPS 3 days ago but the batteries that were supposed to be delivered at the same time were only delivered yesterday as they took longer than expected to charge (That’s what the dealer told us). When the UPS arrived we had to remove the old Inverter ’cause of the deal we had made with the company (we got a discount if we gave them our old inverter) so we didn’t have any power backup for the house till yesterday night when all the work was finally done.
Thanks to all of this, my desktop was off for most of the past three days. I didn’t want to chance the power going off and my UPS (for the computer) running out of juice before it came back.
Once everything was installed and tested I booted up my system and got a Grub Rescue prompt instead of my normal boot screen. Normally the solution to this is booting up with a live CD and reinstalling Grub. But first I had to figure out what happened and why I was getting this error. I still don’t know what happened but I ‘think’ that the drive developed a bad sector/block and that sort of destroyed the bootloader.
The problem I faced then was that my DVD drive seemed to be having a lot of trouble reading any of the Live CD’s I have lying around. I first tried the Debian Testing Installation cd, followed by RHEL 5.1, Slackware, Kanotix, Kanoppix. None of them would work. Finally managed to boot using the Debian Test and convinced it to read from the CD. Once that was done told it to restore the Bootloader and was good to go.
But since I didn’t know what caused the crash I wanted to make sure that my Main drive was working ok (Its a 1 TB Segate) so I booted into single user and told the system to scan the 1st 500GB partition for badblocks and mark them as such. This scan took about 14 hours. Now I have another 500GB partition plus a 200GB drive and another 15 GB drive. Which by my guess will take the most of the next few days to scan. The 20 GB shouldn’t be an issue as I can scan it while booted in the GUI (Its a backup drive) but the rest have data on them that is used when I boot into Linux so I will have to do it from a single user mode.
I think I will copy most of my work/entertainment files to a thumb drive and work off that till this is done.
Well this is all for now. I am off to copy data to my thumb drive and then will start the scan on the other partitions. Will post more later.
– Suramya
Today when I logged in to FaceBook (FB) after a long time I saw status messages from most of the girls in my friends list stating something like “black”, “pink” etc. So obviously I was a bit confused and did a little search and found a link to a story that explained it. Apparently this is a way to promote awareness of Breast cancer by posting the color of the bra the poster is wearing at that time.
While I agree that Breast Cancer is an important issue and people need to spread awareness about it, I don’t think this is the right way to go about it. Why? You must be asking (or maybe not, but I am going to tell you anyway)
Facebook has evolved beyond a platform where only people on your friend list are your friend list are your friends. Now you have people who work with you on your friend’s list. In my case, I have co-workers, (both seniors and juniors) in my friend list in addition to author’s whose books I like.
Now I really don’t want to or need to know what color bra my boss or a developer in my team is wearing today. Yes, its fun to read when you are talking amongst friends but I don’t think it looks very professional when a co-worker or worse a client reads such status updates.
What do you think?
– Suramya
As some of you know, I am not a big fan of modern art. To me most Modern art looks like a five year old’s experiment with paints. To me that’s not art. Painting a blue line on a white canvas and calling it art is just plain silly in my opinion. A lot of people have tried to convince me otherwise but I stand by my statement.
The painting below on the other hand is art. It takes skill to paint like this and this is what I consider art not some random squiggles on canvas. Yes, you read it correctly the image below is actually a painting. Cool right? The artist’s name is Alyssa Monks, check out her site for more paintings by her.
Visit TheToyZone.com for more images that are actually paintings .
– Suramya
Wishing all my readers a very Happy New Year, where ever you are located and whatever you do I hope you have a blast in the coming year. 🙂
The day (31st ) started off at 11 am for me, ’cause I had to drop off Sid and Ritika to Gurgoan(GG). They had stayed back at our place after they came over to watch Avatar with Vinit and Surabhi. We left home at about 1:30 so that we could have lunch before they left.
We had lunch at Sancho’s where I had Taco’s with grilled vegetables. Now I know that I should never order Taco’s with vegetables. Plain Beans and Rice are good enough for me. The rest of the group enjoyed the food and while mine wasn’t too bad, it wasn’t as good as I had expected.
After Lunch we left Surabhi and Vinit at South-Ex and the rest of us drove to GG. I dropped them at their place and drove to Aditya’s place. Since we had time to kill and had to get dinner we drove to the Mall road and walked around in a couple of malls. Did some shopping at Spencers for some of the stuff that I used to use in the US and missed over here in India.
Then Sakhi also joined us and we went to dinner at Punjabi by Nature. The food was decent and the portions were pretty big. After dinner we went back home and watched TV. Basically we saw the dance performances of a few dance troupes till midnight while making fun of everyone. After midnight we started watching B4U which was doing a marathon song session on various Actors and Actresses. We had so much fun commenting on everything and anything in the dance/lyrics etc. I have not laughed so much in a long time. We were up till about 4:30 am and I had a blast.
My new years resolution:
1. Finish updating suramya.com content and push the new interface out. Its way beyond time to finish this.
What are your resolutions?
– Suramya
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