The Exasperated Man

Linux is an Operating System for your computer. If you are not a deadbeat in technology, you must have heard about it somehow. Let's face it, the first thing that comes to peoples mind when they think Linux is its terminal (to which many are still scared of). Most colleges usually have at least one semester to teach the students basic shell commands in Linux or Unix; mine did. I was a bit allergic to Linux at first, but soon realized what I've been missing so far. Flashback : Sometime in 2007 – 2008. It all started one day when with CHIP Magazine which I got from my university and found a DVD in it containing various software. What was printed in the upper half of the DVD caught my attention. In a green coloured layout was written, “Linux Mint”. I did not know at that time that operating systems are distributed for free in DVDs. Since then I had the curiosity to try Linux Mint once, but brushed aside the thought since I did not know anything about how ...

This post is specific for Jelly bean. If your android version is lower, the things here may not work. USSD notifications: If you are annoyed by USSD notifications that appear every time you call, or use the INTERNET, use the android application “Quiet Balance”. It automatically stores your last 25 USSD messages, and you can view them later. Notification Bar Notifications: If you do not want applications to show notifications, go to the Application Info and check the text box which says “Show Notifications”. Avoid Advertisements using Adfree (Requires Root): Use Adfree to prevent advertisements from loading in your apps. Temporary App freeze (without root): You can Force Stop an application in the Application Info. The Application will not notify you until you manually launch it next time. (Some apps do start, but this always buys you time). Greenify (requires root): Some applications always keep running in the Background. If you don't ...

This is a continuation of my post titled – The Hedonic Treadmill.  Please read the other blog post. There was so much I wanted to say in The Hedonic Treadmill , but then I thought I shall put it in a different post to give things more clarity. The fear of missing out is in all of us. In fact FOMO is good. Without FOMO we would never evolve. We would never learn new things. But like I already stated in my previous blog post, balance is essential. If things could happen progressively governing the balancing rule, everything would happen good in life. Quiet: The power o f int r overts in a world T hat can't stop talking by Susan Cain , was the book which gave me huge insights about introverts and the power of just sitting in silence without talking too much. When I took this book in my hands, I was skeptical that this book is going to speak on and on about how introverts are the greatest people, in a biased context. I soon found out that the wri...

That's a huge title.  Wikipedia defines the Hedonic treadmill as such. “ ...as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness.”  Now that the topic looks promising, let me tell you a little story. Five years ago, I had really terrible INTERNET. It was slow, with limited bandwidth. I had to carefully choose the websites I visited to about exceeding my bandwidth. I really wanted a high speed INTERNET. Then I got into a better plan which gave me an increase in speed. But then Bandwidth was always a problem. Then I got into a plan which not only increased speed but also gave me unlimited bandwidth within a limited period within a day. But then I had to queue all the videos I wanted to see until this particular period when I got unlimited bandwidth and that was kind of irritating. The I got into an Unlimited plan. But there was a little compromise on speed. Now I was unlimited ban...

There are two ways of reading a book. One is to read it whenever you get time. Fiction or Non fictional Stories are mostly read like this. Number two , is when we select a topic to read and finish it off in that particular sitting. This is like splitting the book into readable sized articles and completing the articles in one sitting. Technical/Philosophical/Informative books can only be read in this way. You cannot read half the article one day and the rest on the next day. Come on! Of course you can, but there wouldn’t be proper information flow and you won’t be able to have a bird’s eye view of the information contained in the book. We've all used them. Bookmarks. They can be a piece of paper or a thread of cloth that comes with the book, or the silly paper bookmarks that are inside the books when you buy them. *Now, by bookmarks I mean, the bookmarks in a physical book; nothing digital. * Now imagine yourself in a new countr...

I never thought I would be writing a review for an application in android. But this one was so beautiful and elegant, that I felt compelled to write one. I have always craved for a file manager in Android that lets me treat my mobile device, not so mobile. The mobile methodology of file browsing through trees or lists was not effective in managing files effectively. I found it cumbersome to use and tried my best to avoid file browsing in the phone. Why can’t Android have a traditional file manager like Windows Explorer, or like Linux file managers (Thunar, Nautilus, Nemo etc.), which would make file browsing a lot easier on a mobile device? And thus came FX file explorer, on a search in Google Play. Boy was I happy. Traditional window management, zoom in and zoom out of icons to make them bigger or smaller, built in text editor, bookmarks at the top, search bar for instant file search, script runner and root file browser, were all the things that made this ...

It's been a while, since I've been active in here. Today, I am all in for a quick question. What comes to your mind when you think of James bond? Wait. Don't answer. Just imagine him. The way he moves, the mannerisms, the vocabulary, the body language. Now answer my question. What comes to your mind? Cuddly women. Costly cars. Champagne. Rolex. Tuxedo Martini Luxury Lifestyle. James bond is one of the perfect identity for a role model considering a lifestyle choice. But what exactly is his lifestyle? Driving 10 second cars? Sleeping with as much women as possible? Amongst the seriously distracting by-products of his lifestyle, it is very hard to determine the core of his lifestyle choices. But I find that he has two specific lifestyle philosophies which get him the jamesbondian life. Choice #1 He is sophisticated. The scene on casino royale, where he orders up a very specific method o...