Seems to me like a good game. I just hope I get a new PC to play this game

This is a Ubuntu based demo of Beryl

Quite amazing, isn’t it; the things one can do on Linux

Your way too beautiful girl
That’s why it’ll never work
You have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it’s over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only wanna do your dirt
They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say it’s over

[Verse 1:]
See it started at the park
Used to chill after dark
Oh when you took my heart
That’s when we fell apart
Cause we both thought
That love last forever (last forever)
They say we’re too young
To get ourselves sprung
Oh we didn’t care
We made it very clear
And they also said
That we couldn’t last together (last together)

[Pre Chorus:]
See it’s very divine
You’re a one of a kind
But you mush up my mind
You outta get declined
Oh Lord…
My baby is driving me crazy

[Chorus:]
Your way to Beautiful girl
That’s why it’ll never work
You have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it’s over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only wanna do your dirt
They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say it’s over

[Verse 2:]
It was back in ’99
Watchin’ movies all the time

Oh when I went away
For doin’ my first crime
And I never thought
That we was gonna see each other (see each other)
And then I came out
Mami moved me down South
Oh I’m with my girl
Who I thought was my world
It came out to be
That she wasn’t the girl for me (girl for me)

[Pre Chorus:]
See it’s very divine
You’re a one of a kind
But you mush up my mind
You outta get declined
Oh Lord…
My baby is driving me crazy

[Chorus:]
Your way too beautiful girl
That’s why it’ll never work
You have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it’s over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only wanna do your dirt
They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say it’s over

[Verse 3:]
Now we are fussin’
And now we are fightin’
Please tell me why
I’m feelin’ slighted
And I don’t know
How to make it better (make it better)
You’re datin’ other guys
You’re tellin’ me lies
Oh I can’t believe
What I’m seein’ in my eyes
I’m losin’ my mind
And I don’t think it’s clever (think it’s clever)

You’re way too beautiful girl
That’s why it’ll never work
You’ll have me suicidal, suicidal, (music fades) suicidal

Just a while ago I read a post on Jeff Ventura‘s blog about a poll on Gawker. Here are the full details:

Q: Will Vista be the reason you switch to a Mac or Linux?

For the results you better click below, yeah lazy person/shagpile…

So now that you have clicked to read on here are the results – as of the date stamped on the footer of the results.

Will Vista be the reason you switch to a Mac or Linux?

5626 total votes. results as of 01/23/2007 12:51:36 am.

Introductory prices are as follows:

4GB flash-based storage: US$499

8GB flash-based storage: US$599

Geeks in the US can expect this “revolutionary device” [If I may say so] around June ’07. Alas, the lads in Europe may have to wait until the end of the year; hopefully not. And what about us, the people of Fiji? Well, for us, its somewhere in the not so distant future.

Here’s a quick rundown of the currently known specs:

Specification overview

Source: theINQUIRER.net

 

 

Many, many industry analysts have speculated on what Apple would eventually produce to push into the crowded mobile phone market. The final product might possibly be the most perfect culmination of all the speculation, desires, and needs of every Apple fan and Apple speculator over the last several years. µ

 

L’Inq
theINQUIRER.net

It is blissful news indeed. What say?

Tel Aviv, Israel, December 4, 2006–Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that Fiji International Communications Limited (FINTEL), the country’s international telecommunications provider, has selected BreezeMAX to offer WiMAX data services to the businesses and residents of the Fiji islands. Working with Paclink, a leading South Pacific systems integrator, FINTEL will start by offering services in the capital city of Suva, later expanding to more of the 330 islands in the south Pacific archipelago.

“We are pleased to be able to bring the ‘4G’ services of WiMAX to the Fiji,” said Mr. Jone Wesele, Commercial & Business Development Manager of FINTEL. “As a complement to our existing fiber and satellite networks, BreezeMAX has proven to be ideal for our island terrain. It’s a robust, ruggedized system with exceptionally high performance for our non-line-of-sight environment and meets the demanding bandwidth and service requirements of our busy tourist industry.”

BreezeMAX is Alvarion’s award-winning, WiMAX Certified™ platform designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality.

“Bringing WiMAX to the Fiji Islands is very exciting, and we are thrilled to plan and deploy such a significant addition to FINTEL’s network capabilities,” said Philip Martyn of Paclink. “We look forward to growing our relationship with Alvarion to offer more network solutions to FINTEL and other carriers in our region.”

BreezeMAX carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 200 installations in more than 80 countries around the world.

“We applaud FINTEL’s decision to strategically integrate the excellent business case of BreezeMAX to add broadband data services to its already existing network capabilities,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “As our deployments in Asia Pacific increase, we are pleased to see more and more carriers leverage our market-leading BreezeMAX in their island environments. In addition, WiMAX services will give the Fiji tourist industry a substantial boost with the corresponding economic benefits.”

Now we will have to wait and see what kind of dawn Kidanet will bring.

LG Electronics announced Wednesday that they plan to sell a DVD player that will be able to play both rivaling high-definition DVD formats. This will be the first dual-format DVD player to support both HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

The player will be unveiled at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, further details on the player and details on pricing and availability will also become available then.

HD-DVD and Blu-ray have been battling for market share since their introduction last year. Both are expected to get a boost this year as more studios release films in the formats and more players become available.

But there is one mayor problem, the two formats are incompatible, forcing consumers to choose. Studios and electronics makers have said the resulting format war would delay widespread adoption of high-def DVDs, which contain sharper images and extra features not possible with standard definition discs.

LG Electronics will try to solve this problem with it’s new DVD player, you no longer have choose between the two competing high-definition disc formats, you can play both.

Source: Releaselog

Another milestone to classic Windows resolutions on mobile phones has been met: Hitachi Displays, Ltd. started mass production of 800 x 480 2.9-inch LCD panels for use in mobile phones, which the company claims is “the industry’s first 800 x 480 product as a mobile phone display panel.” The users can view the entire image without side scrolling when browsing websites designed to match the size of a personal computer monitor or watching VGA (480 x 640) video. The panel employs the company’s proprietary liquid crystal technology called IPS that boasts wide viewing angle and high image quality.

The pixel count is five times that of QVGA (240 x 320), which has been the norm for mobile phone panels. IPS LCD works differently from the general TFT LCD in that a horizontal electric field causes liquid crystal molecules to rotate in a plane parallel to the TFT substrate. This simple movement allows a wider viewing angle, better color reproduction and faster grey-to-grey response time, claims the company. The new product is a transmissive LCD panel that boasts a viewing angle of over 170 degrees in both vertical and horizontal directions, contrast ratio of about 400:1 and luminance of 250 cd/m². Sweet, isn’t it? I’m only bit afraid of the moment when you will need a magnifying glass to check whether there’s new SMS…

Source: Realeaselog

PS. By the way, my notebook HDD is also from Hitachi (Hitachi Travelstar)

When Gandhiji assumed India’s leadership the average life span of an Indian woman was only twenty seven years. Babies and the pregnant women ran a high risk of dying young. Child marriage was very common and widows were in very large number. Only 2% of the women had any kind of education and women did not have an identity of their own. In North India, they practiced the purdah (veil) system. Women could not go out of the house unless accompanied by men and the face covered with cloth. The fortunate ones who could go to school had to commute in covered carts (tangas).

It is in this context that we have to recognize the miracle of Gandhi’s work. Gandhiji claimed that a woman is completely equal to a man and practiced it in strict sense. Thousands and millions of women, educated and illiterate, house wives and widows, students and elderly participated in the India’s freedom movement because his influence. For Gandhiji, the freedom fight was not political alone; it was also an economic and social reform of a national proportion. After a couple of decades, this equality became very natural in India. After India’s freedom (in1947) and adoption of constitution (1950), emphasized equality of women, when Hindu code was formulated, the population was not even impressed. They said -”Of course, it had to be done.”

Woman and Progress

Gandhiji always advocated a complete reform which he called “Sarvodaya” meaning comprehensive progress. He believed that the difference between men and women was only physical and has expressed several times in his writings that in many matters especially those of tolerance, patience, and sacrifice the Indian woman is superior to the male. You will discover this when you read his articles from “Young India” and “Harijan”. During the 40 years of his political career, he only found more reasons to deepen his faith in what he wrote. He never had a specific program for women, but women had a integral role to play in all his programs. I feel that this is one of the reasons why women participated in his programs so overwhelmingly.

Gandhiji declared that there is no school better than home and there is no teacher better than parents. He said men and women are equal, but not identical. “Intellectually, mentally, and spiritually, woman is equivalent to a male and she can participate in every activity.”

Indian society is a male dominated one. Gandhiji has illustrated in his autobiography (The stories of my experiments with truth) how early in his marriage he too wanted to dominate his wife. He often said that paternal society is the root cause of inequality. In his book, there is a very touching chapter about when he asked his wife to clean a public toilet and the resulting conflict between him and his wife. He has written how ashamed he was of himself, and how he took care not to hurt her anymore for the rest of his life. Even though there was big gap between him and his wife intellectually, it did not affect their family life. He has said that Kasturba followed her husband more than was expected of her. Gandhiji followed Bramacharya (strict discipline of food, drinks, and of celibacy) from a very young age, but when his wife passed away, Gandhi grieved that without Ba, his life would have been meaningless. That was the bondage of his 62 years of marriage.

Woman and Social Service

Gandhiji struggled very hard to understand a woman’s physical and mental pain. From a young age he introduced his wife and children to social sacrifice and service. He believed that service has to be performed for self-fulfillment, not for public consumption or exhibition. He believed that the publicity given to one’s social service actually decrements the value of the service. He tried very hard to eliminate job indignity and bias based on caste system. He tried to do the work of a barber, dhobi (washer man), and janitor to understand them and demonstrate that the work one does has no impact on one’s status in the society. For me, the fact that he contributed a great deal in raising his children is very modern concept. On one occasion the white midwife would not show up for his wife’s delivery and Gandhiji himself delivered his child. He helped wife with feeding, bathing, and toiletries of the infant. In western countries these days men are encouraged to be with their wives during the delivery and the men are supposed to pitch in with diaper changing, etc. Gandhiji practiced this very modern concept 90 years ago in his own family.

Role of Women

“Womanhood is not restricted to the kitchen”, he opined and felt that “Only when the woman is liberated from the slavery of the kitchen, that her true spirit may be discovered”. It does not mean that women should not cook, but only that household responsibilities be shared among men, women and children. He wanted women to outgrow the traditional responsibilities and participate in the affairs of nation. He criticized Indian’s passion for male progeny. He said that as long as we don’t consider girls as natural as our boys our nation will be in a dark eclipse.

Child Widows

Gandhiji was especially considerate of the young widows. In the last 80 years, as a nation, if we have made any progress on the matter of child widows (girls used get married very early and after untimely deaths of their husbands, they were condemned to a life of great agony, shaving heads, living in isolation, and shunned by the society.) it is due to the reformers like Gandhiji and his contemporaries. Gandhiji once noted during his legendary travels across India that he never came across 13 year old who was not married. He declared the marriages in which the girls were not consulted were unholy. At that time in Madras presidency, the number of child widows were alarmingly large. He called upon the young to marry the widows and also to boycott child marriages. (It may be noted here that Gandhiji himself married when very young; he was thirteen.) The history of India knows of many such young men who married widows and went on to work as social reformers.

Temple women and Prostitutes

Gandhiji was very disturbed by the plight of this low caste untouchable section of the society, namely the Devadasis. (see also: The Temple Women) He was hurt by the miserable way the children of brothels were treated. He had made elaborate plans for their rehabilitation. He declared that protecting women’s honor was important and as holy as protecting cows. His book “Women and Social Injustice” contains discussions of very deep thoughts and solutions on the topic. He felt that after India became free, the system of temple women and brothels must be abolished. Even though on paper we have abolished the system of Devadasis, rampant exploitation of women as sex servants has continued. There was no way Gandhiji could have predicted modern ways and means of prostitution (call girls, phone sex etc) but he certainly identified its social evil and tried to fight it.

Gandhiji’s contribution for betterment of women in India

As we look back at the Indian history and compare the conditions of women before Gandhi’s rise, and now, the progress we have made is quite enormous. A whole generation of women leaders came up influenced by Gandhi’s vision. If today in India so many women can go to work in offices, educational institutions, and factories without fear or hesitation, the roots for such system were laid 90 years ago by Gandhiji and his followers.

As mentioned earlier, Gandhiji formulated India’s freedom struggle as a comprehensive plan for women’s development. Even though a lot of inequalities remain in our society, there is a fundamental agreement that men and women are equal. As Indians, we can be very proud that the same cannot be claimed even by so called “advanced nations”. In Britain as well as in the U.S.A., women could not vote 75 years ago. But women’s voting came very naturally to us from the beginning. About 100 years ago, the western woman could not own property, get a divorce or take the custody of her children. We just have to look at the life and struggles of Dr. Annie Besant to understand the status of western women during Gandhiji’s time. The western women had to take to streets, overcome many stereotypes to establish themselves voting and other rights. But for us, political, economic and voting rights came so naturally through the constitution!

Legacy

Today, if Gandhi’s agenda has fallen apart, it is due to Indian politics. The continued exploitation of women can be attributed to the degradation in moral values of the society, and utter poverty of our nation. We ignored the role of social service, job dignity, and self reliance. Once in a while we run into true volunteers (like Sushilamma) who believe in Gandhiji’s ideals and have implemented his programs. I hope that at least a few of the younger generation take up Gandhiji’s unfinished manifesto and work to eliminate social barriers facing women.