Remembering Gandhi: This was the post on 2nd October 2, 2009. This is the day of Gandhi Jayanti .
While seeing the home page of timesofindia.com, I can across this Photos Section. I felt so bad, and so guilt. As you can see just adjacent to the great leader’s photo and the lust pic.
I feel sorry for the editor. I am sure this is not what Gandhi ji wanted and of couse many of us.
I am writing this offline. For those who don’t know the internet jargon very much, not working on the internet is working offline.
After reaching the office today, I realized that my network was not working. I tried to restart my PC 2 times, because they say that the simplest way is to restart the PC when something goes wrong. Anyway I went to my manager cubical to know if they he is also experiencing the same problem, he was not there. I went to my super manager, she was not there. I went to my Lead cubical, he was not there. I went to my other team member, he was not there. So finally I talk to some other employee working on the same floor. She was also experiencing the same issue.
I said that we can’t do anything without going online, even if the computers were working. She agreed. She instantly said terrorist can just disable the internet and everything comes down. I was taken aback, one is not suppose to talk abt them leave alone is soft voice. I said yes, I read somewhere that these are electronic bombs that can hamper grids, electric wires and electronics equipments. She said yeah. Then she said banks wont work, nor credit card transactions. Then we discussed that how crippled our life is without internet. We can’t do any coding (of course), make reports. There should be some manual was
I saw everyone going here and there, because there is nothing to be done offline.
Computers, internet, mobile phones and other things have made a permanent place in our life. We can’t just think of doing something else without them.
Well by the way, I am writing this offline!
The world is facing a greater threat, the threat larger in many folds than the nuclear war. And this threat is Global warming. The Global Warming has many side effects and has ripple effects like endangering sea animals and fishes, change of pattern of rain and this drought and floods. We are in a urgent need to change the way we live and eat. Because of us there is a severe shortage of water. Even before we heard of all this at least 2 Billion people or 1 out 6 people did not have the access to the safe drinking water. And we all know that the water is the essence of life.
I wish I were a president of
Utopia
I am thinking all the nuclear countries including North Korea, USA, India, Pakistan, China etc show sit on a table and agree to disarm their all nuclear weapons with the very moment. And all should start working to reduce the global warming and pulling down the increased temperature. All the nation tops scientist can work together to make perfect (90% if not 100%) renewable energy sources. They should work in tandem to exchange ideas that can benefit other countries.
We have to do a lot of work
If you are thinking that is just too ambitious then just wait for 50-70 more yrs and we will see the earth coming so an standstill. We can have larger conflicts not only between countries but also between states/provinces because of the scarcity of water.
I will end this article with some quotes.
We have done enough talking( that’s what I am doing right now), its time to act now.
Better late than never
Please let me know what to do feel about this article. I am sure the language may not be a good one because I am not a professional writer.
Skyline Software Systems, Inc.
4506 Daly Drive, Suite 100
Chantilly, VA 20151 USA
and of course this is an Indian company. I guess the picture has been provided by ISRO are from Indian satellites but the software piece is "foreign".
To start DO NOT launch the desktop icon which says: TerraExplorer, instead log in into the site with the username and password with what you registered. After the successful login you should see the tool working.
On the left hand side there are many places/option to set, You can set District to see the District boundaries. I tried to search Jawahar Nagar, Jaipur. But it returned with an error, shown at the end of this article.
I did not liked:
1. Not an fully Indian, tool (TeraExplorer) made by Skyline, USA.
2. Slow and a very poor GUI. The Indian website is also not good.. If you look as the registration page the GUI look as if some just know to create a simple HTML page has made it. ALL the fields are compulsory and asking Organization, Designation , Address and Purpose of Browsing BHUVAN. I do not understand the purpose of these fields. What should one enter in "Purpose of Browsing BHUVAN": Fun/ exploring.
Anyways, I just entered asdasdas, and this is we all do when stupid question are asked.
3. The website is damn slow, in the beginning you will realise that the maps are blur. But wait for 2-3 minutes and it will make terrain clear.
4. There are many bugs, I just ran into an error after working for 10-15 minutes.
Conclusion:
A very good and bold step by ISRO. But the tool is half cooked. I guess the company did not employed any GUI engineer. Also some of the text is hardly viewable.
