My Technical Ecosystem

My ecosystem consist of...


Ubuntu as base, topped up with following applications....

1. File system
Ranger: terminal based system, trust me, use it ones and your will forget about midnight commander or any other file system that ever existed. If you happen to be VIM fan, just go for it, as it comes with vim like binding. However ranger is for basic operations only.

2.Backup system:
rsync and Grsync: install both, sometimes, you just want to save time and no harm in having both, though rsync is sufficient and Grsync is just a GUI of it.

3. To remove duplicates and empty directory
Fslint works like charm

4. Image and graphics
INkscape
GIMP
Blender
Dia , only for quick design
LibreCad
FreeCad 

For managing images I use shotwell
Many softwares are available for video editing, I still have not found the best one in linux but one can use pitivi and openshot



5. Audio Video
Audacity, Clementine
for videos still i have to find a convincing tool
VLC for videos

6. Mail
Gmail works allright
there was time, i shifted to thunderbird, but with increase in limit from gmail, thunderbird, mutt is not really needed. Mutt is useful for looking back into old sweet mails at times.

7. Internet
Firefox and if you are vim fan, get vimoperator as plug-in or vimfx


8. Office Applications
Libreoffice complete suit
Bibus: Bibus is no more supporting libreoffice integration alas so zotero
Freemind/freeplane
pdfsam
scribus 
PDF-shuffler


other then I have these tools installed for my research

Arduino
Expeye
ipython
ipython -notebook
jmole

 most of these applications can be installed in windows as well, if you are window user you might want to install gvim which i have not listed.

1/3 rule of management

Simple rule of time management
learned from nature,

We often have crises of time in our life, a natural way of time management.
Focus on rest!!, focus on rearranging as well.

As we spent 1/3 of our time in sleeping and according to me sleep is nothing but a de-fragmentation of all the data mind has accumulated in a day.  While dreams  are simply a signals felts by our senses during the process of this rearrangement of information.
Thus we can say that we spend almost 1/3 of time in
sorting/rearranging + busting stress(rest)

It does sound like lot of time just going into sorting!!


But take it as a rule of thumb

  that

 "sleeping over matter"  + "sorting matter" should take atleast 1/3 of our time.

more then will be wasting too much time, and less then that would not prepare us for next task.


1/3 remember

Sugar, a drug

Sugar is oldest drug but newest in category

It is drug because it is addictive and  harmful.

Recently I attended a talk at the fortis hospital, gurgoan, it was on weight cycling.

So what is weight cycling, it is nothing but fluctuation in weight, which we achieve by dieting or restricting meals, later when we go back to usual diet, we gain even more weight, such changes is knows as weight cycling.

There few of the facts specially for Indian subcontinent

Fat is not a problem for us, but carbohydrates are, meaning you can have paneer pakoda but avoid rice and roti.


Then we should look for glycemic index of the food, infect doctors says, check insulin index and not even glycemic index.
so what is glycemic index, it is how fast a food we eat get converted into blood sugar in body  in scale of 100, where our glucon D, which is nothing but glucose gets 100, while something which has almost no carbohydrate and also poor in producing one will get much lesser number. For example dal has typical glycemic index of 15-30

it is scale of how fast is a food gets converted into.
Check different foods and their glycemic index, and create kind of map in mind for food having more then 50 and less then 50, and choose your diet accordingly.
And be in shape forever. 

and remember sugar is drug too, so avoid it

My latest love

Succulents...

Well those who do not know what succulent is...

it is category of plants, which are mainly dessert plants, they are tough ones, they need less water, and can survive is all drastic conditions, for example cactus are succulents too, all cactus are succulents but not all succulents are cactus. Even aloe vera is one of the succulent and we all are aware of its immense applications.



 They are most beautiful yet tough

Moral one should take....
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How to give our best in least resouces and toughest condition.

Check more on google, to start just type sacculent and search in images

Being Selfish

 Every evolving soul is selfish, every evolving being is selfish, and when you are evolving others do not like it, and say being selfish is negative quality.

confusing ..


In this society we have made so many norms and almost divided everything in good and bad.

People say I am selfish, but so what its not bad to be one.

People say I don't have heart, so what, it does make no difference if I had one or I have none. 

People say I don't understand them, so what as it makes no difference even if I  understand.

People say i have no feeling, why you want me to cry, who cares if I do or don't and why being sad is feeling and being happy is not.

People say I am mechanical, so what if i am not human.

People always say n number of things, many cares, those who care are god. Those who care have fans and friends. I have none. As I am not what people define as good. We are not just definitions of others, I am evolving species, I believe in evolution and not emotion. I prefer to be selfish then selfless.

I prefer to be stone even if I am thrown.