Sandeep Bhalla's Blog, page 43
April 1, 2014
Journey from loneliness to aloneness.
Loneliness, anxiety, insomnia, despair, depression and aloneness. We are all alone: That is a fact. If we see our actions, carefully and with full attentiveness we shall find that all our actions are aimed at covering up the fact of loneliness. We are acquiring pets, making so-called friends, clinging to TV, stock piling houses with […]
March 20, 2014
Iphone 5: A dangerous security risk.
Gross data insecurity in iPhone. And you thought your expensive iPhone is secured? You were entirely wrong. What is secured is the operating system but not the data or at least not the entire data. Here it was. A sleek black iPhone 5 with OS 6.1.3 gifted to me by a friend who had fallen […]
March 15, 2014
Installing Sigil Epub editor on Ubuntu Raring
Sigil the open source ebook editor. Sigil is a very good e-book editor. In fact it has no known parallel. There are two ways to install it in Ubuntu/LinuxMint: First method to installSigil in Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04 /LinuxMint Petra: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunab/sigil-git sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sigil Note 1:The old repository “ppa:rgibert/ebook” […]
March 6, 2014
Welcome Springs 2014
The pleasant breeze. Bloom everywhere and just becoming unbearable Sun. It is springs time in New Delhi, India.
March 5, 2014
Visit to a religious shop-temple-gurudwara:
The religious theater: All temples, churches, gurudwaras are nothing but religious theaters pretending to be greater than rest of mankind. Just like politicians. I have tried my best to stay away from these commercial theatres playing the show of ‘God Bless You’. After all if God is The God why would thou shall have human […]
March 2, 2014
Few thoughts about death.
When death is sweet. About death: Death is the only certainty in life, its timing is not. While I was watching the funeral arrangements being made for the body left behind, my mind was struggling with waves of thought. What is death? Is it distinct from life? Is life part of death or vice versa? […]
February 27, 2014
Installing Linux Mint on 32 GB USB drive with separate home folder.
Linux Mint/Ubuntu on 32 GB USB drive with persistent home folder. Regular install attempt with Ubiquity: With large capacity USB drives becoming cheap, it is axiomatic that an installation of Ubuntu/Linux should be desired thereon. That would be so nice to carry a pendrive in pocket instead of laptop. But it is not easy. On […]
February 24, 2014
Recovering from encrypted /home in Linux.
Encrypted home folder in Linux/Ubuntu/Mint Recovery of Files: To recover files from an encrypted /home folder in Ubuntu/Mint we need to remember the login password of the Ubuntu/Mint installed onthatdisk. Boot from the live cd or USB. Let’s hope that encrypted disk is readable. Enter following command at the terminal: sudo ecryptfs-recover-private It will result […]
February 21, 2014
Learning curve in humans
Ego, self-knowledge and Learning What is learning? Learning involves three things: 1. Knowing the extent or boundary of our knowledge; 2. Understanding the sphere of our ignorance; 3. Transcending the above two when actually receiving the knowledge. The last part is tricky and that is the reason as to why some people have sharper learning […]
February 19, 2014
A Review of Notionpress dot com
Notionpress a publication fraud. Notionpress claims to be an online hard copy publisher like createspace dot com in USA. On its web site it proudly proclaims the number of authors registered with it and the number of books it has published. The reality of these numbers is however different. Fraud is an industry in India: […]
