Monday, April 5, 2010

Right to Education

I think in this decade our educational system is in good hand of Kapil Sibal. Right to education act bill has been passed in the parliament and it is yet to be implemented all over India. Just watched an interview of Kapil Sibal in NDTV. I am impressed by his ideas, visions and willingness to change our old educational system. Here is the link, which is worth watching.

Here is link about the act "Right to education".

Monday, March 22, 2010

Mac highly practical




Recently I have switched to Mac. Never thought of switching to Mac from Windows. At office for my scientific work I use Linux mainly Suse Linux. But for mailing chatting blogging surfing photo editing writing making presentation etc etc I was using windows but not anymore. After using Mac for last 2 month I think I have wasted my energy time and money on Windows for last 10 years. What a crap? Most of the time I was fighting to settle things in my Windows laptop like wifi, standby, freezing, 100% cpu, virus etc. Now I think how much time I have spent on watching my XP is booting. Small example I have not switched off my Mac for last 17days. It shows I have up time of 17days ?? hours ?? mins. Now-a-days I am used to of keeping my unfinished work open in my desktop, keep my mail, chat, browser windows open. This year I am teaching a lot, so I am also keeping all my presentations open. Most enjoyable thing is I am getting a terminal like linux and got connected to the office without stating ssh client/xming or cygwin. Thanks to some extra ordinary happening (not exposing in public) which inspired me to get a mac.
There are few drawbacks I should speak out. There are few programs which are not available in Mac version or very costly. There are some solutions to this, e.g. partitioning the Mac and having a Widows partition or virtualization. But I am happy without any Windows and want to stay seamless and happy.