Tragedies

Two boat tragedies on the vijoyadashmi day - one in Khagaria and the other in Darbhanga resulting into death of  scores of persons, mainly women and children. These were mainly due to overcrowding of boats and could have been avoided if there were some regulations for plying of passenger boats. My heart goes out to the bereaved families.

On a personal level, got a rather sad news this afternoon of Naresh jee passing away the previous night. His son Vikas rang us up to convey this disturbing information. Naresh jee had been suffering from kidney malfunction for last few months, but I had never imagined that the end would come so soon. May his soul rest in peace and I pray God to give strength to his family-members to bear this terrible loss.

Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much.

Pujo festivities and other thoughts

Pujo festivities are over. And one is getting back to work after extended week-end. May Goddess Durga bless us all and give strength to face challenges in the year ahead. We were generally indoors during these holidays except one visit to the pujo-pandal near by to pay our obeisance to Maa Durga. Rishu has been working hard in his study to make for the lost time due to illness last fortnight. He has his Semester exam from Oct 1. Dates for JEE and AIEEE have been announced and these are scheduled for April 11 and April 25, 2010. So, there will not be much time after the board exam!!

Abhishek has his presentation today in the lab. I hope it goes off well.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

 

UIN

The Unique Identification Number (UIN) project is high on the government’s agenda, and has gained momentum with the appointment of Nandan Nilekani. Nilekani has said the aim is to provide a UIN to 600 million persons by 2012. Each UIN will be randomly assigned, and linked to a database with biometric information. Data will be stored in a central server, and authentication of residents will be online. The authority is supposed to network with major registers — the NREGA, PDS and Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) — to provide accurate information of beneficiaries and nip fraudulent claims.

It has also been argued that once the UINs are rolled out, internal security will improve. Indeed, the government has been worried about illegal migration and infiltration for a while; it considered compulsory registration of citizens and non-citizens living in India to prepare a National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC), the handing out to citizens of a Multi-purpose National Identity Card (MNIC) (with non-citizens receiving a card of different colour and design). With this in view, the MNIC pilot project was undertaken by the office of the Registrar-General (RGI) and Census Commissioner under the home ministry during 2003-2008 in selected areas of 13 states or Union territories, covering 28 lakh people in 2,175 villages and 19 towns costing, reportedly, Rs 30 crore.

परंपरा

परंपरा 

परंपरा को अंधी लाठी से मत पीटो.

उसमे बहुत कुछ

                           जो जीवित है,

                        जीवन दायक है,

जैसा भी हो,

ध्वंस से बचा रखने लायक है.

पानी का छिछला होकर

                    समतल में दौरना,

                यह क्रांति का नाम है.

लेकिन घाट बाँधकर

पानी को गहरा बनाना,

यह परंपरा का काम है.

परंपरा और क्रांति में

                         संघर्ष चलने दो.

आग लगी है, तो

        सुखी टहनिओं को जलने दो.

मगर जो टहनिया 

           आज भी कच्ची और हरी हैं,

                  उनपर तो तरस खाओ.

    मेरी एक बात तो तुम मान जाओ.

परंपरा जब लुप्त होती है,

लोगों की आस्था के आधार

                                 टूट जाते हैं.

उखरे हुए पेड़ों के समान

वे अपनी जड़ो से छूट जाते हैं.

परंपरा जब लुप्त होती है,

                 लोगों को नींद नहीं आती,

न नशा किये बिना

                         चैन या कल पड़ती है.

परंपरा जब लुप्त होती है,

सभ्यता अकेलेपन के

                                दर्द से मरती है.

कलमे लगाना जानते हो,

                              तो जरुर लगाओ,

मगर ऐसे की फलों में

                 अपनी मिटटी का स्वाद रहे.

और यह बात याद रहे

की परंपरा चीनी नहीं, मधु है.

वह न तो हिन्दू है, न मुस्लिम है,

न द्रविड़ है, न आर्य है,

न परंपरा का हर प्रहरी

                         पूरी का शंकराचार्य है.

                                                                                                                                              -दिनकर 

Crimping your own LAN cable

These days if you go out and buy a network cable it would cost you about Rs. 100 per metre. But when connector breaks, or you realise that the cable you have is shorter, you need extension of sorts. This is all you need to start crimping your own network cables - one metre regular network cable @ Rs. 50, RJ45 connectors @ Rs. 3 per piece and a crimping tool @ Rs. 250.

Cut the outer cable jacket. You will see eight wires twirled around each other in pairs, one solid colour and the other striped. For a Straight cable, arrange the wires in the following sequence: white orange, orange, white green, Blue, White Blue, Green, White Brown and Brown.This is the same sequence to follow on both ends for a Straight cable.

For a crossover cable, follow the same sequence for one end. For the other end, arrange the wires as follows: White green, green, white orange, blue, white blue, orange, white brown and brown.

Once you confirm the wire sequence, cut the wires in equal length. Then slide the wires into the RJ45 connector. Insert the RJ45 connector into the crimping tool. Ensure the eight wires are pushed all the way into the connector. Now just squeeze the tool until you hear a click. That's it, you are done.