Love of my life

There’s a better world somewhere

They call it the promised land

And I’ll be there someday

If you will hold my hand

I still need you beside me

No matter what I do

For I know I’ll never find

Another YOU…

There is always a someone

For each of us, they say.

And you’ll be my someone

Forever on my day

I could search the whole world over

Until my life is through

But still I know I’ll never find

Another YOU…

Our World

It’s a long…long journey

So do stay by my side

I would never mind

Any treasure I lose

But if I lose you,

I don’t know what I’ll do

For I know that I’ll never find

Another YOU…

The quarter life crisis is the period of life immediately following the major changes of adolescence.

It occurs shortly after a young person enters the “real world”. After entering adult life and coming to terms with its responsibilities, some individuals find themselves experiencing career stagnation or extreme insecurity. The individual often realizes the real world is tougher, more competitive and less forgiving than she/he imagined.

It is when we stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn’t know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren’t exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.

You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared.

You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren’t so great after all.

You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.

When you’re younger, you’re more apt to settle. We settle in relationships (It’s better than being alone), we settle for high-stress, low-satisfaction jobs (It could be worse), we settle for all kinds of things that later in life would be simply unacceptable.

When you’re younger, you think once you get your own place with your own paycheck coming in, and no homework to do, you’ll have it made. And that’s not the reality of it. Being a grown up has a lot of responsibility, but I think part of the trick of getting through the “Crisis” is to focus on the freedoms of being an adult rather than the restrictions.while winning the race would be great, right now we’d just like to be a contender!

This period of life can be the best time to passionately and honestly explore what we want to do, and what we want our life to mean.

We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.

This service is being provided as a convenience to users who need to be able to produce a small DOS program and do not have access to a DOS machine with a compiler on it. There is no guarantee that this service will be available in the future, and DJ Delorie reserve the right to disable it when he need the CPU cycles .

Step 1: Copy your program to the box below.
Step 2: Press the Submit button.
Step 3: If your program is error free a file named program.exe will be generated for downloading.
Step 4: If your program has got errors,the page will get redirected to the error page.

Type your program here:

Sample C program

#include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

int main()

{

printf(“45K Blog”);

getch();

return(0);

}

This compiler will quickly generate executable file from your source code & if your code contains any errors it will take you to to the program errors page.This program resides at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/compile/

It also has a button saying “Create a Configuration File”, but when this is pressed, nothing happens.I was reminding myself that “I had done a numerous wordpress installation and why wordpress µ makes a difference.I was rechecking whether I did a mistake in server configuration or file permission etc.., but everything seems correct.I hope what I did was normal.But when I did a debug I got an error from a file called wp-blog-header.php and digging through the code revieled that

“wp-blog-header.php searches for possible wp-config.php files and if it found one it wont create a new wp-config.php in my case I had already installed a wordpress in my root directory.”

So I did a small modification in the code and the problem get solved.Thanks to Linda for her help.

Original wp-blog-header.php

< ?php
/**
* Loads the WordPress environment and template.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) {
// WPMU Runs installer if things aren't set up correctly
if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php') &amp;&amp; !file_exists( dirname( dirname(__FILE__) ) . '/wp-config.php')) {
if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'wp-admin') !== false) $path = '';
else $path = 'wp-admin/';
include( "index-install.php" ); // install WPMU!
die();
}

$wp_did_header = true;

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );

wp();

require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-loader.php' );

}

?>

Modified wp-blog-header.php

< ?php
/**
* Loads the WordPress environment and template.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) {
// WPMU Runs installer if things aren't set up correctly
if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php') ) {
if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'wp-admin') !== false) $path = '';
else $path = 'wp-admin/';
include( "index-install.php" ); // install WPMU!
die();
}

$wp_did_header = true;

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );

wp();

require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-loader.php' );

}

?>

On June 12th 2005, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios spoke to Stanford University’s 2005 graduating class.In his commencement speech, he tells three inspirational stories.Here is the full text of his address.

“I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.“

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

Apple Computer founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Steve Jobs 2005

At 17 ,I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Vintage Steve Jobs

Apple Computer's original "Newton" logo

Steve Jobs on naming Apple:

I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I’m a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o’clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that’s why we’re called Apple.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run thecompany with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs showed the prototype Apple I at a meeting of a local computer hobbyist group in Palo Alto, California. A local computer dealer saw it and ordered 100 units. About 200 Apple Is were built and sold over a 10- month period, for the superstitious price of $666.66.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Bill Gates of Microsoft,Mitch Kapor of Lotus and Fred Gibbons of Software Publishing corporation , the three earlier software developers for Apple.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell (his wife)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

-Steven Paul Jobs

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact, It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration, It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

“Most of the great work in this world was done by men and women who didn’t believe that what they were doing was impossible. Talent is certainly beneficial, but only the right attitude can release it to reach its potential.“

Here’s a great collection of Apple print ads from the past twenty years

The mathematicians got out their slide rules, calculators, blow-up dolls and binoculars, scientifically determining the perfect ratio of waist to hips.

Their results? The closer that ratio is to 0.7 (waist measurement is 70% of the hip measurement), the sexier the swagger. And guess who has that exact ratio? Jessica Alba, pictured below.

Other babes of historical importance were also mentioned, such as Marilyn Monroe, with a target ratio of 0.69, making it almost to the level of perfection of Jessica, but not quite. This 0.7 ratio translates into a waist of 25 inches and 36-inch hips, making that tick-tock walk look absolutely perfect.

But the ratio is not necessarily related to measurements or weight just the difference between those two measurements. However, we’re betting that if those numbers get a whole lot larger, the illusion is lost.

Other possessors of that magic 0.7 ratio: Sophia Loren, Alessandra Ambrosio and Venus de Milo.

From Wikipedia: A WHR of 0.7 for women and 0.9 for men have been shown to correlate strongly with general health and fertility. Scientists have discovered that the waist-hip ratio (WHR) is a significant factor in judging female attractiveness. Women with a 0.7 WHR are usually rated as more attractive by men from European cultures. Glad we got that straight. It’s all mathematical.

Jessica Alba has the perfect wiggle, study says

Jessica Alba, the film actress, has the ultimate sexy strut, according to a team of Cambridge mathematicians.
Jessica Alba’s waist:hip ratio gives her a sexy walk .The academics found that it is the ratio between hips and waist that puts the sway into a woman’s walk – and the nearer that ratio is to 0.7, the better. This ratio provides the body with the right torso strength to produce a more angular swing and bounce to the hips during the walking motion.

Therefore, a woman with a 25in waist and 36in hips would have just the right proportions to carry off a sexy swagger as she walks.The Jessica Alba sashay beat off competition from Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie and even Marilyn Monroe, whose walk along a railway platform in Some Like It Hot is one of the most famous in film history.

While Monroe was a fraction off the target ratio with 0.69, the Cambridge team said that Alba had the perfect proportions.

Telegraph Newspapers, London, UK; 25-Aug-2007

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Autorun Eater V 2.4 will warn you and remove any suspicious ‘autorun.inf‘ files(based on user decision/settings). Malwares using the ‘autorun.inf’ method to infect users unknowingly be it from flash drives, removable hard disks or any other removable storage device. When a device is infected with a malware and an ‘autorun.inf‘ file is dropped, the shell menu is normally modified to execute the malware whenever the unsuspecting user accesses the infected drive.. There are also certain cases whereby the malware has been removed by an antivirus but the ‘autorun.inf’ file remains. This will cause the drive to be inaccessible through the conventional method(double-click). Autorun Eater will also remove it if necessary so that you can access the drive as usual. Version 2.4 adds ‘Close Autoplay’ option to prevent execution of malware via AutoPlay window.

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Topics people talk in twitter

“Twitter in Plain English” introduces the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. The video focuses on Twitter’s ability to connect people in new ways, using short messages. The video includes:

• Why answers to the question “what are you doing” are interesting.
• The mechanics of Twitter – signing up, sharing and reading messages
• How a skeptical person fell in love with Twitter

Twitter explained in plain English

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