It’s just a matter of….never mind… look at the pictures below. it’s my dad’s old computer room.

Today, I was writing some documentation for a project and suddenly noticed that I was using semicolons instead of dots.

The chm file viewer in windows is based on Internet Explorer. Today, when I was trying to open a chm file, it started displaying that ever boring “Page cannot be displayed” sign. I was wondering what to do, I was damn sure that this file worked before. Is that a some kind of a virus threat or is that my proxy settings? I was messing around the settings, but no luck there. Then, I started to backtrack ( I have a stack on my mind ). Then finally I found out what I did last was renaming the directory. So, I copied the file out of the directory and tried. Even though it sounds crazy, It worked. Yeah! That’s it. New name of the directory is “C++ & C#”. CHM viewer (Microsoft HTML Help - That’s the correct name I think) doesn’t encode the “#” character for Internet Explorer. So, it fails to load the file. So, I simply renamed it back to “C++”. May be it’s time for me to install wine + IE (Since I’m doing web developing, I need to test my web pages on Internet Explorer) and strict to linux only. I already have wine, but IE is not working

I have been browsing through the internet and found out this interesting site :

http://deathball.net/notpron/

It’s all about common sense.

What is the first step of random number generation? SEEDING… If you haven’t seeded the number generator, you’ll end up with the same series of numbers. The same approach is true about your mind – It’s a really popular mind hack. (I guess that’s the correct word).

In computer environment, it’s really simple. Just calling a function. But when it comes to real life, how can we seed our idea generator or our mind. It can be done using almost any activity that you have never thought of doing, like reading a book if you don’t read books, watching a movie if you don’t watch movies often, etc.. Or it can be some simple activities like reading a simple joke, looking at a road, looking at some mountains, or even taking a careful look at day-to-day activity will do the job. For example, may be you can analyze the activities of a insect ;-).

After spending a lot of time with coding (actually it’s not a lot, but for some reason I wasn’t feeling well), I also wanted to seed my mind. So, what I did was reading a **strange** book. I usually read books (novels, short stories, politics), but this one is kinda strange. It was written about the mental state, activities of the gods(gods as in buddhist gods) – a completely unknown world. I don’t care whether it’s true or false, but the interesting fact is, that’s like a ferry tale – really interesting stories about the gods and have a bit of some scientific background (bit as in very very little).

However, after spending straight 10 hours for reading the book, I’m back for CODING.

New photos uploaded. Take a look : http://www.sandaru1.com/photos/

It is true that most people in the world are using Windows. But there is a doubt: “Is it the best OS for PCs?”. Here is a brief description regarding Linux vs. Windows.

GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) -

Both Windows and Linux provide GUIs and both are seem to be fairly ok. But there is an advantage in Linux; many GUIs (Gnome, KDE, etc) are available. Windows only comes with its own one and only GUI. There are some external software to change the look of the theme. But those are third party products and take up too much memory and slow down your computer.

Shell / Dos prompt -

The shell in Linux is very powerful. You can do almost everything in the shell. But the Dos prompt’s scope is limited to a small area (Almost only file handling!).

Cost -

Linux is almost free and Windows is around $200 - $300. But when you consider running Linux on a business environment, you may have to hire some Linux technicians, who might be more costly than the Windows techno craps.

Live CDs -

Windows doesn’t support a live booting while there are many live linux distros.

Software -

This is the main disadvantage of Linux. There are only few 3^rd party software for Linux. You might have some kind of alternatives but those might not good as windows products. For example macromedia products are the ideal tools for the web publishing; there is no good alternative for those in Linux. And most of the games are only for Windows. So, regarding the software Microsoft is in the lead.

Security -

There is no point of even talking about this. Linux is much more secure than Windows. There are thousand of security holes in Windows and very few in Linux. And the Linux bugs are always quickly fixed by the community.

So, as you guys can see Linux is much better than Windows? But why the people are still using Windows? That’s a topic to discuss and gateway to improve linux. Get back to you in another article.