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I am going to segregate my blog posts into two parts
1. Personal - (here) http://saneax.blogspot.comp
2. Technical - http://saneax.tumblr.com

Now I need to copy all the posts from tumblr (personal ones to here).

Why the emphasis on honestly

Suddenly their is too much emphasis on the word 'honestly'. I am not sure why?

I have begun to use it with every sentence now. 

Running towards happiness

Honestly, the second image prompted me to blog :)

Rudra runs towards the cows far off. Honestly I wanted him to run! isnt it all of us want the same thing *Run to Happiness*?

Mediastan -Wow!

The truth is even weirder than fiction! I am speechless on this documentary. The one word comes to my mind is, you M* F* journalists. Alas there are a very few honest ones out their. The more hones you are the more likey you are going to be brutally killed or sidelined from the main stream. Whats happening to this world. One day after all this gimmick all of us have to die, then for whom are we doing all this?

mediastan

Taish

I thought I would document words my kids say when starting to speak, just for my refernce (my frail Alzheimer prone brains). I am not sure, if its only me, but these words are priceless and I cannot hear when the kids grow up.

Taish (तआइश ) ताषि
Athai (अठआइ )
TOT  (तोट)
काका
athaio
creamo
aiyo
dido

happiness

far away horizon,
maybe the endlessness,
beautiful,
happiness

Decipher hdfs dfs -count -q

sudo -u auser -c "hadoop dfs -count -q /projects/xyz"
| QUOTA      | REMAINING_QUOTA | SPACE_QUOTA    | REMAINING_SPACE_QUOTA | DIR_COUNT | FILE_COUNT | CONTENT_SIZE    |    FILE_NAME |
| 6679830  |  3611848        | 1880164883496960 | 1404566776912681      |    32522  |   3035460  | 155321286319159 |   /projects/xyz |


not sure, why the docs are not so clear. On the docs section on hadoop its only this.

Itinerary to Bhutan

Itinerary to Bhutan (ver 2 After HVK inputs, thank you Sir)



15 Dec to 19 Dec - 4 Days - travel from bangalore to Kolkata
19 Dec to 21 Dec - 3 Days with family


22 Dec - Day 1 - (start at 10PM 21 Dec from Kolkata, Night/Day drive - Kolkata - Dumka - Siliguri - WBTDC Jaldapara Resort) 800 Kms and stay over night.
23 Dec - Day 2 - (drive early to reach Phuntsoling by 8:30, take permit to Paro and Thimphu and drive to Paro) 198 kms
24 Dec - Day 3 - Drive to Thimphu(Get permits for other places, Make sure you get a Cultutal Ministry permit to visit inside Punakha Dzong) - Return to Paro - 124 kms
25 Dec - Day 4 - Paro - stay and relax
26 Dec - Day 5 - Trek to Taktsang (Tigers Nest) relax
27 Dec - Day 6 - Trek to Jele Dzong and Camp
28 Dec - Day 7 - Return to Paro
29 Dec - Day 8 - Paro - Thimphu - Punakha (stay at Punakha) 122 Kms
30 Dec - Day 9 - Punakha - Wangdue Phodrang, Bhutan - Gangtey Monastery, Trongsa 156 kms (rest at Trongsa)
01 Dec - Day 7 - Trongsa - jakar - Bumthang - 77 Kms
02 Dec - Day 8 - Bumthang - mongar 184 kms
03 Dec - Day 9 - mongar - Lhuntse trek (Festival * Lhuntse Tshechu)
04 Jan - Day 10 - Back to Mongar (relax)
05 Jan - Day 12 - Mongar - trashigang - Samdrup Jhonkar - Tezpur 465 kms (not sure If I can do that)
06 jan - Day 13 - Buffer
07 Jan - day 14 - Tezpur - Tawang 325 kms (pesses for Tawan/Ziroto be procured from kolkata AN office)
08 Jan - Day 15 - Rest
09 Jan - Day 16 - Tawang - Seppa 378 Kms
10 Jan - Day 17 - Seppa - ziro 288 kms
11 Jan - Day 18 - Ziro - Narayanapur - Tezpur 285 kms
12 jan - Day 19 - Tezpur - Siliguri - 544 kms (I am not sure if this is diable although)
13 Jan - Day 20 - Buffer
14 Jan - Day 21 - Siliguri Kolkata Via Dumka

15 Jan to 16 Jan - 5 Days with Family
16 Jan to 19 Jan - Drive back to Bangalore



Drive will be on scorpio 4wd and thats the time I am getting a large window so winter it is. Would appreciate advice/correction.

Spaces

Colors and spaces
like fast moving river
changes rapidly. as the sun races
down the horizon, a prayer
hold on please, stop, you wish it freezes
the moment in my life I wish to hover
for a bit more, ceases



my thoughts embraces
as the sun goes down, casts forever

Time flies

Time flies, and with that whatever we call life
no lies, however hard we call that life
when we are inching closer to death
when we shall cease to thrive

Life, why?
all that I built and saved will be gone, sigh
all those close and dear, no more one day
die, why?

To death,
I ask, all those years which I lived
you will take away,
all those memories I hid
you will take away
why?

Far across the horizon
the birds flew to their homes
as if dreams washed away
all those people and all those places roams

Gruesome

how gruesome, can it get?
how much more worse
how much more the greed, can it get
no shame, no remorse
heads hang, shamed, destroyed

If their was even a faint light at the end of tunnel
show it please, in vain I try
If any soothsayer can see the end, please tell
let me hear, when can i sigh

Lenovo T430 wifi doesnt work on debian wheezy 7.1

Well, all because the firmware's are distributed as a non-free package.

1. add non-free to your apt-get (edit /etc/apt/sources.list)
2. do apt-get update
3. install 'firmware-iwlwifi' (sudo apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi)
4. reboot

crossing over

what if water just passed
without you crossing over

years, echleons passed
day and night followed
cries and laughs drowned
like bubbles our lives vanished

what if water just passed
without you crossing over

sit down and see the sun set
see the flocks of birds returning
see the water flowing in that rivulet
see the long faces frowning

what if water just passed
without you crossing over

what if the aching heart pains
what if skies hold the rains

one day you will have crossed
one day pain would have ceased
the river here would be still flowing
the sun would still be setting
yeah, but, you would have crossed

Why Cricket sucks in India (Part II)

Part I is here.

Now that media and new paper have enough material going around, I feel I have already told you this is good. Good that the bad is coming out.

However, I damn care whether thats good or bad for cricket.

One batsman and 11 fielders standing idle is a game of Maharaja's.

Its a black spot in the the name of sports.

Even the Olympics council does not recognize it as a sports. Its a sports of the lazy, loosers.

If a nation full of lazy loozers are taken for a ride, I have no interest on the whole episode.

RIP, Cricket.
disclaimer.
I do not see cricket, and so most of my inputs are hearsay. 

Large log on the disk, what to do?

Probably more so, if the log is impt and needs to be saved. Here are a few solutions I gathered -

single file, tar is not required, multiple files may be we would want to tar it also. We will tar/gzip and throw the output to stdout which will be piped to a pv (to show the progress) which is piped to nc -l (netcat listener)

(on source)
1. single large file

 gzip -c filename | pv | nc -l 4545  

2. multiple large file or directory

tar czf - filename |  pv | nc -l 4545

(on target)

nc source-hostnmae 4545 > filename.gz  or nc source-hostnmae 4545 > filename.tar.gz

Need to write/speak

A horrendous crime done by insane men and a girl died brutally. We all hide our heads in shame! However, I am at loss of words at seeing

• facebook updates with pictures of the girl, before and after and explicitly describing what happened.
• news channels continuously debating and asking the public, 'what do you think about the incident?'
• news channel going after the village and talking to every person in the village.
• political parties running a race to give goodies like naming roads, day etc etc..

I am no saint, and probably even worse judge of things happening. But it surely feels like this society raped her again and again for their narrow objectives. TV trp ratings, political mileage, 2 minutes of limelight in front of a crowd. 

RIP, probably this is a bad age.