Connecting to remote machines and working

I would like to curse all the managers, team leads, directors who ask developers to connect to remote machines in different country and develop from there.

These are the curses that I am cursing them.

• They will always work on remote machines which has to be connected by doing VNC to one machine in different country, and from there again VNC to their machine which is in another country over a very slow speed internet.
  
• They will suffer forever with Windows Vista or very similar OS, and struggle with incompatibility at all levels including hardware, application softwares, device drivers etc.
  
• They will spend $150,000 every year for their softwares for upgradations, and would go bankrupt very soon. (Microsoft Office Pro - $1150, Vista Ultimate - $850, Visual Studio Team Suite - $15,000, MS SQL Server Enterprise - $35,000, Exchange Server - $10,000 etc., and had to pay four times for Quad Proc machine)
  
• After developing and successfully releasing one breakthrough software which collapses 20 companies, and outdates 50 products, they will realize that, they used one library which is under GPL v3 and copyrighted by only Richard Stallman.
  

Lost Generation

I realize this may be a shock but
"Happiness comes from within"
is a lie, and
"Money will make me happy"
So in 30 years, I will tell my children
they are not the most important thing in my life.
My employer will know that
I have my priorities straight because
work
is more important than
family
I tell you this
Once upon a time
Families stayed together
but this will not be true in my era
this is a quick fix society
Experts tell me
30 years from now, I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my divorce
I do not concede that
I will live in a country of my own making
In the future
Environmental destructions will be the norm
No longer can it be said that
My peers and I care about this earth
It will be evident that
My generation is apathetic and lethargic
It is foolish to presume that
There is hope.

And all of this will come true unless we choose to reverse it.

Please read it in the reverse order (from bottom to top)

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

Sent to me by Deep Joy Majumdar

First Cartoon on Loksatta

Text Inside Cartoon : Our's is non-violent Naxalism.

Text Ouside Cartoon : We should not have said like that Sir. Since our government is doing non-violent encounters.

Press Release of Dr.JP on this : http://news.loksatta.org/2009/02/lok-satta-is-non-violent-naxalite-party.html

Courtesy: Eenadu.net

Your Privacy is an Illusion

It is technically possible for your cell phone provider to know where all places you have travelled with exact timings and the distance with a granularity of 0.5 km - 2 kms.

For cell phone to work, it has to send signals to the nearest tower. When it sends the signals, the tower comes to know of the area of this cell phone. If the service provider of the cell phone stores that information, then they can find out where all that person has gone at what time. It literally means, we are telling all our movements to the service providers.

This is the reason why Richard Stallman does not use cell phones.

Ain't this the truth??????

John Smith started the day early having set
his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN)
for 6 am. While his coffee pot (MADE IN CHINA )
was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG).
He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA)
designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE)
and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).
After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA)
he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO)
to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN)
to the radio (MADE IN INDIA)
he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY)
filled it with GAS (FROM SAUDI ARABIA)
and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day, checking his Computer (MADE IN MALAYSIA)
John decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL)
poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE)
and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA)
and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA.