Pebbles...

Now that I have been told by my boss that I m too cynical and sarcastic for my own good..I have taken that feedback and tried thinking it through. I made a list of things I m cynical about and the things I believe in : Cynical 1. God: or more like the concept of religion 2. Essential 'goodness' of human beings 3. the 'Indian way' of doing things(do it because we have done it this way since2000 bc) 4. following societal rules 5. Marriage 6. greatness /chauvinistic view of organisation/culture/nation 7.trust 8.Women 9.titles/surnames/designations 10.casualty-if you do this>this will be your reward Non-cynical 1. Love/romance 2.beauty 3.Honesty 4.crime and punishment 5.Learning 6.Freindship 7.Fun 8. thinking clearly ,rationaly 9. Respect 10.Women So there it is. the lists are almost equal . Which means that I am cynical by 50% and non-cynical by 50% ,which also means that since there is no 'control' or datum I am pretty much balanced o...

When the sun will go down ..you will go home.. When the dust has settled you will go home.. When the sweat has dried you will go home... When all has been what has been..you will go home.. When the sun has gone down.. I will still be walking When the dust has settled I would still be wading thruh the path.. When the sweat is dried..I would still be sweating When all has been what has been..I would still be walking.. A breif moment of pass.. A brush of time... A touch of fun.. A bit of tryin.. When the sun will go down ...you are sure of your home... When the dust has settled ..you have your water ready.. When the sweat has dried...you have a cushion.. When all has been what has been..it all will be a past for you.. I would still be walking... For I have no home to come to.. No cozy corner that I want.. No, I didnt think of it .. I am as ready as can be, for the roads I am as ready as can be for the dust I am more than ready for the fragile trust.. I am a...

Predicting the time to failure of a complex system is basically the aim of reliability analysis. I mean If at the end of the day I cant tell when a system would fail its stupid of me to study that system. Frankly I think the probability approach is not suitable because it takes data with a bias. MTBF must fit a probability curve. We twist and turn trying to fit a curve with substantial data falling out. Its not a nice way for PROGNOSIS. If I cant tell you weather the toss will be a heads or tails , What use is of the word '50%' probability. My hypothesis of diagnosing a fault is this: Suppose we line up the times between failures on a strainght line . With breaks consisting of up times and solid lines consisting of failure times , can we find a pattern? Can we find some scaling? Can we find repetative patterns of small failures inbetween big failures? Can we find a fractal dimension of the pattern of failures? and Can we extrapolate this? I mean if I find that the MTBF li...

There will be always a little left.. There will always be a litlle right... In the world of balance.. things will be little tight.. A little patch of sunshine .. A fistfull of moondust.. Some patch of clear blue skies.. And a little bit of mismatch.. a little left.. a little right.. there will always be a skew.. a little more broth..a little less brew... a little here ..and a little there.. somewhat this , somewhat that.. thats what it always is.. a little of this and a little of that ;)

Deep inside ....isnt a nice place. Deep inside is a scary place. A place of ghosts , apparitions and blood. Deep inside is a place no one wants to go. Light rarely enters and darkness rarely leaves. Its pulsating, dark and moist. It has a smell ..a mesmerisingly damp smell. Deep inside is a small beat...beating to its own rythm..sometimes erratic, sometimes sad and very rarely happy. Deep inside is a soft place, exposed to the elements it would wither and die ..but in the moist arena of memories it grows its own fungus. Its own poison ..its own nectar. It has its own movie and its own projector. Sometimes old vintage movies are shown ..rarely new movies come. Few people stay deep inside. Some are wanted some just refuse to go away. Deep inside loves darkness..it hates light. Light chases away shadows ..and deep inside IS a shadow. Deep inside is a dirty place..its a bad place..its a vulnerable place. Its not a place one visits of a picnic..its a dungeon that most people are dragged to....

This may be a bit out of the line for a blogspot entry but what the heck. I thought I would put down a bit of the summary of a course on networking. It was a 14 day course and kind of interesting because it opened my eyes a lil. We generally use internet so often that we tend to take it for granted but there is another world lurking below the software jargon. The world of switches and routers that kind of is boring but in some ways is terribly easy to know. The course concentrated on use and configuration of Routers(of course CISCO ones). What we learnt is this: 1. Routers are "intelligent" switches operating on an OS called IOS. 2. Routers connect one network to another. 3.You can use routers to monitor traffic between networks and also do a bit of jiggery-pookery to configure them. 4. Basically you can tell them 'connect this network to that'..poor guys will do that.But even more in teresting is that you can tell them..'dont allow this ,dont allow that ...

When a group of us got our first few months of pay packets... flushed with new found wealth and an adrenalin rush of acquiring gizmos commensurate with our pumped up bravado...most of my freinds bought their first bikes and the first music systems. Then there were a silent competetion to buy the most PMPO output music systems and the highest BHP bikes. A few opted out in the start itself . Reconciled to lower range "practical" bikes and box stereo midis. The Hero Honda splendour and the small philips hi-fidelity systems ..well which did their 'functions'..!! Then there were high players ..the Honda CBZ/Bullet guys with high end Music sysetms from  Sony to JBL. I bought a Suzuki fiero and went hunting for a music system . I somehow had narrowed on a sony when I came across a BOSE wave radio in a Pune showroom. I was zapped. The Sony was nowhere near the sound of a Bose. And even pricewise the comparision wasnt fair. The Sony was in the range of 15k while the bose one ...