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Delhi - An interesting city

2012-10-25T11:13:00.000-07:00

Introduction

Delhi the capital of Indian sub-continent, is a place filled with a lot of interesting things. It is a place filled with political and international diplomats(embassies), lots of places of historical importance, people from all parts of India, food from all parts of India, companies of all kinds, unique extreme climate, red-light area(GB road). All these factors make it an interesting place. One must stay here for sometime to see or experience these things, which are not found elsewhere in India.

History

Delhi officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) that includes the Indian capital New Delhi. Delhi is also believed to have been the site of Indraprastha, the legendary capital of the Pandavas during the times of the Mahabharata. It also served the capital of the Mughal Empire.

Living conditions

Climate: Climate in Delhi is extreame, meaning in winter temperature falls to near-zero and in summer it rises till 45 degree Celsius. So we need to have protection from heat as well as cold, like AC, cooler, refrigerator, room heater, quilts, etc.
Rented house: Rent would be not more that compared to other big cities in India like Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, etc. The good part in this is we don't have to pay 10 or 11 months' rent as deposit like in Bengaluru, Chennai, etc., only need to pay one month or 3 months rent in advance.
Food: We can get food of all the states in Delhi. For south Indain food Sagar Ratna chain of hotels and Saravana Bhavan are good options. For sweets there are Bengali sweet stalls which provides better variety and quality. Problem is with food in morning as the hotels here open at 11AM. So, best option is to be ready to prepare our food ourselves. Liquor is very expensive compared to other places.

Places to visit

There are a plenty of places here which are very attractive and perhaps, most of them are of historical importance.

In Delhi

Places of interest in Delhi are India gate, Swami Narayan temple of Akshardham, Qutub Minar, Red fort, Purana Qila, Lotus temple, Humayan's Tomb, Jamma Masjid, Rastrapati(President) Bhavan, Sansad(Parliament) Bhavan, Raj Ghat(Gandhiji's Memorial), etc.

Around Delhi

Taj Mahal and Red fort in Agra, Amer fort and Jantar Mantar in Jaipur, Golden temple, Wagah Border and Jallianwalla Bagh in Amritsar, Hill stations like Shimla, Nainital, Kullu Manali, Historical places like Mathura, Haridwar, Vaishnav Devi temple and so on.

Ubiquitous Linux

2012-10-19T03:23:00.001-07:00

Ubiquitous Linux

Linux OS started a great revolution by making itself opensource. Now, after becoming powerful, secure, stable, compact and secure by regular updates from millions of of people all around the world, it has been making its way into each and every device, from a small embedded device to mobile phones to powerful servers.

Today, Linux systems are used in every domain, from embedded systems to supercomputers, and have secured a place in server installations often using the popular LAMP application stack. Use of Linux distributions in home and enterprise desktops has been growing.

History

The Unix operating system was conceived and implemented in 1969 at AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the United States.

Linux kernel was released on 5 October 1991 by Linus Torvalds as a free operating system for Intel x86-based personal computers. Torvalds began the development of the Linux kernel on MINIX, and applications written for MINIX were also used on Linux. MINIX is an inexpensive minimal Unix-like operating system, designed for education in computer science, written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. GNU applications replaced all MINIX components, because it was advantageous to use the freely available code from the GNU project with the fledgling operating system. (Code licensed under the GNU GPL can be reused in other projects as long as they also are released under the same or a compatible license.)

Future

As technology improves, there will be unlimited ability to mold and shape interactive information devices like phones, tablets, wristwatches and monitors into news shapes. Also, the sensors that let them interact with the real-world will undergo (are undergoing) similar explosive variation. Every one of these will need some sort of underlying embedded operating system unencumbered by restrictive licenses that developers can quickly understand and rely-upon and generalize about without having to learn the nuances of every single device their apps might target—and that embedded OS will often be Linux. Linux becomes just sort of a generic plumbing. Oh sure, some people will use Linux on the “desktop”, but that won’t be any philosphical debate. It’ll just be a by-product of Linux being everywhere else, and it only making sense. Of course in some cases, it will be Unix and other variations of *nix platforms that have even less restrictive licenses than GNU. But as a rule, manufacturers will use Linux as a short-cut to get around all the work they would have to do themselves for their own custom embedded Unix, or a proprietary one that could be even more expensive than “just sharing back” as GNU licenses generally require.

For more information:

http://www.linux.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

About Bangalore/Bengaluru

2012-09-10T08:51:00.000-07:00

Bengaluru the IT hub of India.

Bengaluru is well known for its climate. It's neither too hot nor too cold, hence called as air-conditioned city. It attracts people from all parts of India for the following reasons:

Good climate

Employment opportunities in IT

Good Educational institutions

Better health care facilities - Off late it has become a hub for Health tourism

Restaurants of almost all the cuisines
Last but not least, People are very well mannered and cooperative

I will discuss about the pros and cons about Bengaluru shortly in my up coming posts.

Thanks for reading,

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Breaking Ice

2012-07-25T08:49:00.000-07:00

Hello all!

I am an Electronics engineer by education and have been working in IT industry. I would like to use this platform to express my personal views, ideas, opinions, experiences, philosophy(:-p), etc. (let the breaking ice post be short and simple).

Regards,
Kindle(My blogging name)