Ubuntu, Unity and Compiz in Action

For the first time I'm uploading the video of my favorite OS. I am not a professional in video editing but in this video I have tried to demonstrate how Ubuntu Natty Narwhal with Unity and Compiz can do with your computer.

 See this video to know how eye-candy is my system. 

In this video you can see:

My Ubuntu Desktop

Unity3D

Compiz with effects like

Wobble Effect, 3D Cube Desktop, Scale Plugin, Ring Switcher, Shift Switcher, Expo Plugin, Minimize-Maximize Animation, Close Animation, Menu Animation, etc.

And finally I've used OpenShot Video Editor to remake this video.

See the power of open source.


Sorry for little mistake in video I used Ubuntu 11.04 which is called (Natty Narwal) not Maverick Meerkat.

ODYSSEY OF ENIGMA 

http://beyondrakesh.blogspot.com
Beyond the invisible (infinity)

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."

Authentic Religion (Dharma) and Religious Tradition (Sampradaya)

["Religious is the very nature of our soul, We need to be religious not by being Christian but by being Christ, not by being Buddhist but by being Buddha."]

If Blogger management team are rigidly religiously superstitious then definitely my blog might be closed but if they are also the seeker of the Truth then they might consider the contents of this blog because what I'm writing here is from the an audio discourse by Osho who's title is given at the end of this post. If you have ever heard the discourse of 'Mr. S.N. Goenka' regarding 'Vipasanna Meditation' then you'll know the difference between the word 'Dharma [धर्म ]' and 'Sampradaya'. What we call Dharma is the real religion and what we call Sampradaya is just Religious Tradition. When we talk about Hinduism, Muslim, Christianism, Buddhism we are actually talking about Sampradaya they are not Religion what we actually mean. How can it mean Religion because the real meaning of the word Religion is 'nature'. 

i.e. the nature of fire is to be burn and to burn. So, we can say that the 'to burn and to be burn'is the religion of fire. [carefully consider this truth, after all truth is religion.] ["When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion".~Abraham Lincoln, that's his nature, so he used the word religion there.] There cannot be any other truth beyond 'meditation'. It is not accident that the word 'medicine' and 'meditation' has been derived from the same roots; where medicine is for physical body and meditation is for the soul. The hypothesis of GOD has made almost all of us to live a very normal life so normally that we even don't bother to think if what we are being said and taught are even true. This discourse has so many shocking truths that if you are not open minded please do not proceed............. I know only one thing; that is to be natural, that's my religion.

Reality Beyond What We Unconsciously Speak

[Why people are not interested in understanding the truth? Most of our knowledge has been automatized and mechanized. We speak those words but never know its real meaning because it has been set in our subconscious mind. So, let's see this example to get clear idea of what I want to present in this blog.]

Once it happened that a man died and his wife was really in despair, crying and crying. And one of my neighbors went to her and said, "Don't be worried, the soul is immortal. Your husband has not died, it is just the body; his soul is immortal and cannot die. So don't unnecessarily be in despair, be sad and cry, there is no need."

Microsoft Security Essentials, Strong Yet Free Antivirus

First of all, I welcome all visitors of my blog. Since I'm involved in Computer Hardware, Network and Data Recovery field. I would like to share own of my greatest expertise from my field. This time I would like to share one of the greatest Antivirus that very few have known. I have known this Antivirus since its beta release but I couldn't use it since the beta version was not made available except few countries excluding my home country. But since it officially released on 29th September 2009 I've been using it with great success. This antivirus is released by Microsoft itself and called as "Microsoft Security Essentials". It has been made available for following Operating Systems for free but the windows must be licensed and genuine, in order for MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) to run.

-Windows XP - All Versions (32-bit only)

-Windows Vista - All Versions (32 and 64 bit)

-Windows 7 - All Versions (32 and 64 bit)

Installing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat from USB Flash Drive.

It's been long my blog not updated due to some personal difficulties. Here today I'm writing a guide on how to install our favorite Linux distribution Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10 without a CD/DVD.

STAGE 1

First of all you need to download the ISO image file from the ubuntu. [Note: For most users using Desktop and Laptop we should download the ISO image of Desktop since there are so many variants for different computers i.e. Netbook, Server, etc]. 

All ubuntu have two versions i.e. 32-bit and 64-bit. If you are not an advanced user and unless you have 4GB of RAM and at least Core2Duo processor powered computer don't download the 64-bit version. If you have patience and high speed internet you can download Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat from here.

Intelligence, Beyond Modern Education

What actually is Intelligence? Well, I'm not talking about forensic intelligence. In this post we'll dive deep into the true meaning of Intelligence. So, let's begin our odyssey(odyssey means a journey full of new knowledge and experiences).

This of course is from a discourse, but this time I'm not telling who has written it because the religion, culture and our belief systems come into play when we know the name of the person who has given it. This is universal and should be read by all people no matter which religion you follow, whether you are atheist or not.

The discourse begins as below:

One who wanted to become a Carpenter have become a Doctor, one who wanted to become Doctor have become a Carpenter. Everybody is in somebody else's place hence so much unintelligence. Everybody is doing somebody else's job. Once you start seeing it, you'll feel why people are behaving unintelligently. In eastern we have been meditating deeply and we have found one word 'SWODHARMA' 'स्वधर्म' (i.e. self-nature) that carries the greater implication for a future world.

Apache RTR 160 An innovative Racing Experience

Let's begin with the fact that's being popular in Nepal. The fact is छोरा बिग्रियो पल्सर लए, छोरि बिग्रियो फैएसबुकलए  "Chora bigriyo 'Pulsar' le, Chori bigriyo 'Facebook' le". The english translation goes like this: "Son retrogrades due to 'Pulsar' while Daughter retrogrades due to 'Facebook'."First of all I'm not anti of Pulsar but 'Apache RTR 160' is different and thats why it drew my attention and I love this bike. The above proverb/fact came into my mind when I was choosing to buy my new bike. Since my desire, my third eye was targeted into this bike since the day I first saw it a year ago, I never changed my mind.

Aloneness, Loneliness & Love continued...

An Insight into Aloneness, Loneliness, Love - Part II
Continued............ from 'An Insight into Aloneness, Loneliness, Love'. This discourse is full of knowledge, if possible read the previous post also but the things written in this post is complete on its own to understand the main theme but must be read completely. In this post we'll know about how loneliness is en-fused in the every cell of our body and our subconscious mind... so let's continue the previous incomplete odyssey.

I have heard about a poet who was lost in a forest for three days hungry, and then came the full moon night. He then looked at the moon and he was surprised because all his life whenever he had seen the full moon he had always remembered beautiful faces of women, his beloved, things like that but that day after three days of starvation; tired, hungry, thirsty he looked at the moon and he saw a white bread, a Chapati (aka 'roti') floating in the sky above the clouds, he could not believe his eyes what kind of poetry is this. A great poet and the full moon looks like a Chapati. And you all know that if something is starved too much you will start substituting it by imagination. If you have lived in a forest alone for many days and you have not seen a woman even the ugliest in the world will look like Cleopatra.

An Insight into Aloneness, Loneliness, Love

Today the combination of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04, VLC 1.1.3 (just release), Google Chrome 5.0.375.127 and a audio discourse which will be mentioned at the end has resulted to this post. This enlightened master has a new dimension on Aloneness, Loneliness, Love and Marriage. So, what actually is Aloneness and Loneliness. Let's begin our odyssey then,

PART - I

This is extract from a Discourse.

Question: Why do I cling to this habit of escaping aloneness?

The discourse: Amrito(questioner), Aloneness is ultimate. There is no way to be anything else than alone. Hence after each profound experience, we will feel alone. After a great love experience you'll feel alone after a deep meditation you'll feel alone. Thats why all great experiences make people sad in the weight of a profound experience sadness always settles, its because of this phenomenon millions of people don't hanker after profound experiences they avoid, they don't want to go deep in love, sex is enough, because sex is superficial, it will not leave them alone. It will be a fun and entertainment, for a moment they'll enjoy it and then they will forget all about it. It will not bring them to their own center but love brings. Love is so profound that it leads you alone, this look very paradoxical because ordinarily people think love will make you aware of togetherness, that is utter nonsense, if love is deep it will make you aware of aloneness not togetherness because whenever anything goes deep what happens?, you leave the periphery of your being and you fall into your center and the center is all alone there only you are, are not even you but only a consciousness with no ego in it, with no identity in it, with no definition in it. An abyss of consciousness. 

Awakening

Today, August 17, 2010 I woke up late for my college so I didn't went for the class and instantly this topic came into my mind with so many ideas flowing in my mind I hope I'm writing the best, since I'm not a professional writer.

Let's start with the following facts:

A - "You are all Buddhas,

There is nothing you need to achieve,

Just open your eyes." ~ Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Once, Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) was interviewed, the conversation went like follows (not exactly) as I'm recalling it from my memory and I'm inserting the main conversation only;

'GNOME Do' An Innovative multi-application launcher

Switching from Windows to Linux is a hard thing for most of the people. But once you are used to Linux then, there's no going back to Windows simply because of the highly flexibility, security implementation and highly customizable feature of Linux based Operating Systems. One of the program that is a must in Linux is 'GNOME Do'. I like this program very much and have been using since its initial release. 

A Tribute To The Teacher

This post is an irony for those people who needs to revisit their mind's perspective towards what s/he has perceived towards education, teacher and the entire education system. 

Let's look at the following proverb "There is no teacher who can teach anything new, he can just help us to understand the things, we always knew." Each and every word in the above proverb has meaning, if you look straight you'll think the proverb is wrong. But it is not. Now, just realize, how can a teacher teach you new things? S/he will always teach you through the things that you already know. Let's take an example, we all know about alphabets (i.e. A,B,C,D,--Z) A teacher then teaches you 'A for apple', so most of us might think that its new, but realize how can you learn 'Apple' if you don't know 'A' including all the alphabets.

Laptop heating and its remedy.

Notebooks are becoming very essential device for people. Since the major of the problem in laptop arises due to over heating. Here, today I'm writing on how to remedy this problem. The pictures here I have taken is of Toshiba L200 Notebook. I guess you can find laptop disassembling guide on the web of your laptop if you plan to do it yourself, but do it at your own risk. Following is the summary of steps which I have performed on this.

1. This is Toshiba L200 Notebook laptop of which I have done this work.

2. If you are planning to work at hardware level, do remove the battery first.

3. Start disassembling, I am not uploading all the disassembling pictures. So, here is the picture after removing front part and the LCD display. Look at the dust on the fan.

A Farmer! - The way of living

Today I revisited my old school copies and found a interesting story which I've read almost 8 yrs. back. So, here is the story:

Once upon the time there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically.

“Maybe,” the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed.

“Maybe,” replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.

“Maybe,” answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.

“Maybe,” said the farmer.

 So, from this small story we can learn that  we should not react to external stimulus no matter what the outer conditions are, we should keep living our life unbounded by the materialistic conditions or our happiness will become conditional. The above picture is a saying in Srimad Bhagavad Gita, but sorry it is in Hindi. Anyways it means that "what happened was for the good, what is happening is for good and what will happen will be for the good." and change is the law of nature. So, learn to live life with unconditional bliss.

Finally here's the english translation I found.

"Don't submit to stupid rules, be yourself and not a fool." ~Enigma

ODYSSEY OF ENIGMA 

http://beyondrakesh.blogspot.com
Beyond the invisible (infinity)

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."

Programming Your Subconscious Mind.

Today I'm writing about programming our subconscious mind. If you are new, then I hope you can read  my previous posts here and here. If you google about the subconscious mind, you'll find you'll get more than 1,450,000 results and definitely so many websites and so many products and different information will  put you in confusion. So, on one of my previous post 'brainwave' is also the background for this post. There are various techniques and even mind tools to tap into the power of subconscious mind. Few of the techniques to access our subconscious mind are: 

1. Meditation
2. Hypnosis (including self-hypnosis)

3. Brainwave entrainment CDs

4. Subliminal Mind Programming

1. Meditation: 

"Sleep is unconscious meditation, Meditation is conscious sleep."

Subconscious Mind In Greater Details

After the introduction to 'subconscious mind', now its time to know how we can program our subconscious mind. Since subconscious mind learns by repetition, not by logic or any means, we can program our subconscious mind by simply repeating any information we want. Before writing about the various methods for training/programming our subconscious mind let me make you clear about the working principle of subconscious mind by comparing with it the computer's working principle. Since 90% of our brain's capacity is within the control of subconscious mind we must know how to use and control it. Subconscious mind is like a hard disk of a computer in which everything is stored permanently but without a proper 'database' (meaning, we can't retrieve the proper information at required time).

                In Computer, what happens to a 'program' when we simply minimize it, it's window disappears from the screen but does it really means the program is gone forever? No!, it's still there, and actively working on background (i.e. when we minimize 'Itunes' does it stop playing music?, No!). Similarly the things and concepts that we are holding are just like the programs of a computer. Due to the continuous thinking of conscious mind those deep rooted desires, ideas and feeling just fades away from the conscious mind (in simple terms; it just gets minimized). And we go on thinking that its over. And most of us have negative beliefs patterns, negative ideas, wrong informations and emotions installed in the subconscious mind. So, like the 'Itunes' still playing music even after being minimized from the current viewable desktop(i.e. conscious mind) to taskbar (i.e. subconscious mind). Our subconscious mind is also creating hindrance for new ideas and goals since it already have so many things waiting to be resolved. We can clearly understand that our subconscious mind holds everything that we are capable of. How can a computer work if it has heavy programs like 'Photoshop', 'Itunes', 'Virtual Box', 'Movie Maker', 'AutoCAD', etc all running on background (minimized). It simply cannot do new tasks. Similarly we also cannot achieve or do anything new what our conscious mind wants simply because we have so many programs running on our subconscious mind (minimizingly/unknown to conscious mind) which needs to be resolved.

                

Subconscious mind

Subconscious Mind

Many scientists have said that mind is a tool. We all know that we only use 10% of our mind at most and the one who've used their minds above 3% are only the few persons like Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, Buddha, Jesus, Emerson, Plato, Gallileo, etc. There is three level of consciousness i.e. conscious, subconscious and super-conscious. And 90% of the brain's capacity lies within subconscious and super-conscious mind. Even the computer that we use today is developed from the working principle of our mind. Like in computer when we systematically record data into it then we can retrieve it in whatever time we need. Similarly if we are able to record the memories in systematic ways then we can recall at whatever time we need. That's why the system like super learning was developed.

Our brain has two hemisphere i.e. Left hemisphere and Right hemisphere (aka left brain and right brain).
Have you ever wondered why we can remember a song exactly as its written when we sing but can't remember the definition of 'inertia'. Albert Einstein said "Imagination is more powerful than knowledge." The function of left brain is language, grammar, numerical calculations, logic, analytical, rational whereas the function of right brain is imagination, rhythm (like in music), creativity, intuition, feeling, etc. So, right brain's capacity is unlimited that's why we can easily remember a song than a definition of anything because song is sang in a rhythm but the same song if we are asked to sing from the middle we can't sing simply because its out of the rhythm. 


So, what actually is subconscious/unconscious mind then?
Think of the subconscious mind as the storage room of everything that is currently not in your conscious mind; it stores about all belief system(cultural pattern), your behavior pattern in any situation, your previous life experiences, your memories, your skills, all the situations you've been through, and all images you've ever seen and it also controls the function of our physical body like heartbeat and breathing. We do not need to remember to breathe and to heart beat. One of the best examples for understanding subconscious mind is a person who has just started to learn driving. In my case I've just taught my cousin to drive, in the beginning she couldn't respond to what i'm saying while driving because in the beginning phase her conscious mind is driving the scooter and her conscious mind is busy doing the driving. Like in computer when we open 'Photoshop' and immediately try to open 'AutoCAD' then what happens? the computer responds slowly. But after few days when she learnt driving, she is the one who is talking a lot while driving. So, what i'm trying to say is that when the skill of driving is installed in our subconscious mind then our conscious mind can do other works (like talking, receiving a phone call, etc) and the driving is done by our subconscious mind and our conscious mind do not need to give attention for that work.
Subconscious mind can learn things by repetition not by logic. Our culture has programmed our subconscious mind so deeply that our success and behavior is controlled by it while we should be the one to control our subconscious mind. Our culture has installed so many belief systems in us like, "Money doesn't grows in trees", "I can't do that thing", "No it’s impossible", "Men always cheat", etc. These belief system effects our life. Even knowing these things we can't control these belief and these beliefs is deeply stored in our subconscious mind because they are repeated from our childhood. There is a saying if a false statement is repeated for many times then we go on believing that its true. So, we need to reprogram our subconscious mind to get rid of such belief and install new ones like "Money can easily be earned", "I can do it", "Everything is possible", "I'm happy and calm". Then we can see change in our life. But what are the methods for reprogramming our subconscious mind? I'll write about it in the next post.

ODYSSEY OF ENIGMA 

http://beyondrakesh.blogspot.com
Beyond the invisible (infinity)

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."

Living the life you were meant to live.

An Story for knowing the wealth within everyone of us. The purpose of life. We are all the creation of the consciousness or better cosmic consciousness every living being has a purpose. So let's look at a story below until my pre-targeted post comes alive till I make it informative and interesting.

An eagle lays an egg, but somehow the egg finds its way into a chicken coup. A chicken incubates the egg with all her other, chicken eggs and when it hatches, she rears the eaglet as if it were one of her own chicks. It learns to peck the ground for food, to flap its wings and bathe itself in the dust, and to strut around the farmyard. One day, an eagle flies by overhead. The little eagle looks up and sees the marvelous, golden colored bird, wings outstretched, soaring through the deep blue sky, and says to himself, ‘I wish I were an eagle – how majestic, how free, how beautiful to be like that and have such a life.’ And then the little eagle went back to his life in the chicken coup; he lived like a chicken and died like a chicken, because that’s what he thought he was.

Here, we must understand the life we were meant to live like.

ODYSSEY OF ENIGMA 

http://beyondrakesh.blogspot.com
Beyond the invisible (infinity)

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."

A Zen Story!

Touching Zen Story

There was once a Zen monk, sworn to celibacy, 

walking with another monk along a mountain trail.
They came to a stream and saw a beautiful woman hesitating to cross.
The Zen monk picked her up, walked across the stream 

and put her down on the other side.
The other monk was scandalized! 

"You have touched a woman! You have defiled the name of your religion!" 

He kept screaming at him in accusatory rage as he followed him along the path. 

The first monk walked along in silence, 

and after some time he turned around and faced the angry young man. 

The first monk replied "I put her down when I reached the other side of the river. 

You, on the other hand, have been carrying her this whole way."

So, got the lesson from this? :Zen And the Art of Happiness

"The True Nature"

"The source of all problems is the mind.

Thoughts arise, you identify with your thoughts

and that defines your experience.

So many thoughts arise without you even knowing it.

So many worries and troubles constantly arising

and repeating and although you are not

conscious of them, you are identified with them.

You are identified with the

stress of it, the conflict of it

and so that is your experience.

Say you have to get your toilet fixed.

You know you have to get your toilet fixed.

But the thought repeats itself as a conflict

until you resolve it.

It sits on your shoulders like a hundred pound weight

telling you life is not the way it is supposed to be

until the toilet is fixed and then it goes away.

And then the plumber says

"I can't come until next Wednesday"

and that hurts because you know

you will have to carry around that

thought, that conflict of

"I have to get the toilet fixed" for another week.

And there are thousands of them

arising so fast!

Toilet fixed, dentist appointment

late on rent, your sweetheart dumped you.

You wake up in the morning

from a state of deep peace

and freedom from all identity

and boom....

the mind looks for something to identify with

and there's the broken toilet, the rent bill

the high school sweetheart 

and a thousand others within seconds.

And that's who you think you are,

that is how you perceive life.

To stop allowing thoughts

to dictate your experience

and instead discover what

is truly here beyond the thinking.

To realize your natural state.

Because your natural state

is love, is peace, is bliss.

Not some emotional experience 

on the surface

but every cell of existence 

vibrating as bliss.

And if you can taste that once,

then you can do it twice.

Then you can rest in your natural

state for longer periods of time

before being pulled back into thinking.

And eventually, the duality 

between thoughts and peace 

ceases to exist.

You begin to experience 

thoughts as energy.

You experience the very nature 

of thought itself.

Which is unconditional bliss.

It's like you stop being involved 

with the lyrics to the song 

and just enjoy the music.

The bliss of the music.

The toilet still needs to be fixed

but you're no longer wearing 

it as a hat.

It no longer defines you.

You exist

completely free of it

as unconditional peace.

ODYSSEY OF ENIGMA 

http://beyondrakesh.blogspot.com
Beyond the invisible (infinity)

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."