Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Computers or Doomputers?

Yeah, I understand the title was not really an ass-kicking one. But I feel it can still convey the point that I am trying to say now. So you installed both Linux and Windows on your machine. Both are working fine and you only work on Windows all your life, even though you know, it only needs you, to go to the loo for it to come crashing . You still like patched up Windows because it is freaking user-friendly. And you logged into Linux after 4 months, after struggling to remember your password and finally succeeding with the correct password after 10 valiant attempts. You are working on open source -highly appreciated, safe and secure Linux. Everyone says Linux is pretty good and whatever you do, Linux is tied barbwire hard that nothing can get into it or leaked out of it. But if you are that sort of bloke where you delete a file, which you felt is not related to the kernel and try to reboot the system to work in Windows, and you see a Grub error, boy, you are in for some trouble.

It took one long day for our supporting staff to allot sometime only for me and keep the Windows up and running. Not at all a tough job to repair Windows, but our staff, you know. Yeah, I am compassionate to my colleagues even though I was freaking irritated with their delay in attending the complaint. Don't you have those sort of blokes around you? I bet you do. Government emulated corporate mantra says, you live and let others live. I am not a super IT geek who co-authors in Computers Today. Just a normal user like any other, facing the brunt of computer emitted rays into my eyes, at times seeing imaginary dark spots when I turn my head from the monitor and look into the white light.

I had problem with Linux this time and yet I am taking a dig on Windows. How fair is that?
Problems often encountered with Windows users:

1. You are a first time user and, you don't know that your drive can be split into two separate ones. You put all your stuff in one drive, the 'C' drive. System crashes, you crash.
2.Okay, you can relatively navigate through Windows, better than the first time user. But never really felt the use of using an other drive. You have your videos, pics, movies, not to mention your 'those' videos in your normal drive, C drive, and you are negligent to transfer them to the other partition. System crashes when you were fiddling with your system folder and you really want to crash the monitor, but better sense prevailed.
3. You are neither a novice nor a half learned bloke. You are close to an expert. You did pretty well to segregate the stuff into your partitions. And you do it very regularly. But you suddenly uploaded important stuff and it is sitting neat on your desktop. You forget that and start working with your coding, downloading, hacking etc. You don't know. You see a blue screen saying, Kernel inpage error because - it did not rain when you wished. Bosh !

In addition to the aforementioned instances, staring the monitor all the time continuously would trouble your eyes. Experts say, for every 20 minutes one has to take their eyes off the monitor and look somewhere for half a minute. How about staring a buxom girl? You surf the internet for everything, and you are not maintaining your, otherwise, then and then contacts with your friends. Your relationships are spoiled. You are into work all the time and the result is the same as before. Spinal cord problems and back spams are not too far away. You eat voraciously and slouch on your comfortable chair, thinking, this is the job I wanted, only to know few years later, that you should have had a constant blood circulation to your limbs and muscles. You preserve all your data in the computer and you would think of a back up only when your data is lost. Are computers really there to help us or to hurt us?

I still say I am innocent and I din't know what I deleted in Linux that caused the Grub error.

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