Anna Hazare corrupt?: Decide for yourself

With all the noise being made by Congress,I spent the last couple of hours reading through the Sawant commission report(on scribd). If you are interested, read pages 365-372 for the conclusions on Anna Hazare. Contrary to all the noise on corruption Congress is making, the commission found only valid charge of corruption(The trust spent 2 lakhs trust money for 60th birthday celebrations of Anna Hazare). There are 24 instances of maladministration that the commission found valid. The really serious instance of these is that Anna Hazare could not control some of the members of the Brashtachar Virodhi Andolan from abusing the platform the Andolan provided. There were also a large number of allegations that commission found to be outright invalid or the person making the allegations could not produce any evidence on them. For me, this is not sufficient to damage the credibility of Anna Hazare

Anna himself involved in corruption: Congress

Miss my camera #1

While I was returning home last Friday, a neighbours kid ran down the street to welcome her mother. The kid was an year or two old, not yet fluid in walking. She was walking as fast as she could, scaring me a little that she would stumble. She didn't care. She had a happy expression on her face, very infectious. Her eyes were only on her mother and her hands spread wide for a hug. It was beautiful. One of those moments you would want to capture and store forever. I really missed my camera at that moment. May be its better as a memory. You need a really good photographer to capture the joy on the kids face at that moment.

This Linux is not for me

Actually that title should read "This Linux is not only for me". I recently bought two laptops one for my parents(with preloaded Win7) and one for me with FreeDos. I chose Win7 for my parents because I wanted things to work out of the box for them. After I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I had to rethink if Win7 was really necessary.

The Linux installation is almost click through now. There were a couple of questions on time zone and user name etc(which I assume even windows needs). My Internet connection was auto detected. The display worked right away. The external monitor worked immediately. As soon as I logged in, I had all I need in the menu.

From Blog Pictures

1. Home directory
2. Firefox
3. Libre office(word, excel, ppt)
4. A music player(Banshee, not preferred one but it was there).

I wonder if there is still a case to install Windows on a home computer. Lack of tech support in places like my hometown could be the only thing. Would that disadvantage be balanced by the lack of viruses for Linux?

My office laptop running XP boots forever. This Linux system booted in under a minute which is quite amazing. I wonder how someone would argue the case for Chrome OS.