The French Disaster

It's 29^th may and still haven't reached Pakistan. Stuck in this oven like transit lounge . Our next flight to Lahore should be at 6:00 but now it's at 8:00. Dibyendra is laughing at the way i'm spending my time writing out what is happening. As i was saying it sucks. Traveling . If your an Asian no one will respect you. That is what i have learned about this trip till now, of course except for the air hostess.

Me and my friend went on JET airways to Delhi from Kathmandu. It took us an hour and a half to reach delhi. Just before the scheduled flight the aircraft had a technical problem in it's left wing, so we all had to stay in the plane without any AC it was damn hot. The heat was not the problem . The problem was that my friend was not with me. He had been seated four seats before mine. So the whole trip was lonely.

Now you may think where this French things come in. While during the flight their was this French who was sitting next to me in the next lane. He had an empty seat next to him so i kindly asked him whether he wouldn't mind my friend sitting next to him so that i could have his company throughout the flight. The French just urrrsssssh me .. with his lips. That bastard. So home is always sweet, Foreign is often sour.

This is what i get leaving my country and so my waiting begins..............

GNU/LINUX distro gets JAVA

After a long await, finally java can be redistributed with GNU/LINUX distros. Now Nepalinux might be releasing it's next version with java. Till date some of the functions in OpenOffice.org, open office suite, required downloading the jre to use them, which has been overcomed by the ok signal.

Sun's Chief Open Source Simon Phiipps says:
The nightmare that was installing the Java platform on GNU/Linux is over. As of right now, there is a Debian package Java on GNU/Linux. You can apt-get install sun-java-jdk and it actually works. Same on Ubuntu. Same on Gentoo Linux. I gather that Novell and Suse are endorsing this as well. Finally, the relicensing has happened so that Java is present on the Linux that is being used by most people in the two-thirds world….. [Red Hat] already have Java in their distribution up to a point. We did ask them if they wanted to be involved here and they decided that they would pass this opportunity. I think probably because they are busy tied-up committing themselves to Java anyway. They just bought this app server company apparently so there's really no question of Red Hat's commitment to Java because the profitability of JBoss depends on it.

Singularity

Sometime in the next few years or decades, humanity will become capable of surpassing the upper limit on intelligence that has held since the rise of the human species. We will become capable of technologically creating smarter-than-human intelligence, perhaps through enhancement of the human brain, direct links between computers and the brain, or Artificial Intelligence. This event is called the "Singularity" by analogy with the singularity at the center of a black hole - just as our current model of physics breaks down when it attempts to describe the center of a black hole, our model of the future breaks down once the future contains smarter-than-human minds. Since technology is the product of cognition, the Singularity is an effect that snowballs once it occurs - the first smart minds can create smarter minds, and smarter minds can produce still smarter minds.—Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence