The DaVinci code

Just completed that Novel. Started on friday night. One great read. Amazing novel. The greatest benefit for me from the novel is the link between the dharma and the religions of the west. I can now paint a picture of how the truth got spread and spilled over the entire world. How the truth got transformed into Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

SPOILER WARNING -- if you have not read the novel, you might not want me to spoil that for yourself. So stay away for few lines.

I knew that the novel is about the grail and 'what is it?' even before I started, so it took some sheen off when the truth surfaced in the middle of the novel. Nevertheless, a captivating read. I must admit, I never thought the central piece of theme would be on so-called 'pagan' beliefs. I am now a little clear of the connection between sacred feminine theory

If Dan Brown had little more oriental knowledge then he would not have missed the origin of mother supreme theory. Well, if he refers to the phallus and the chalice, what good to explain without the most ancient reference, the 'lingam' and the 'yoni'.

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But, the novel also made me wonder for a little time whether religion came into India or out of India. With the knowledge base about the truth being so large and so authoritative in India, right fromt he vedas, upanishads, brahma samhita, I can only assume that the truth spread out from India.

Only enough unbiased research can shed more light on this.

The speed of light

Sayana comments on a verse in Rigveda that Sun traverses 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha. Yojana is an ancient Indian unit of length and nimesa is the unit of time. Upon conversion in modern units, this yields the value of 186,000 miles per second. Now it is well known that this is the velocity of light. Why would Sayana call this the velocity of Sun? It turns out that Sayana was following the ancient Indian tradition of codifying the knowledge. In this code Sun represents light.

 

Source: http://www.indiastar.com/Rajaroy.html

Nerd score

Sun revokes Java license for FreeBSD

Though I read this late, I am a bit concerned with the news.

 

The open source FreeBSD project has had its licence to view the Java source code revoked by Sun, according to the FreeBSD Foundation's latest newsletter.

The newsletter, published two weeks ago, said Sun had terminated the FreeBSD's Sun Community Source License (SCSL), the licence which controls access to the Java source code. FreeBSD is worried that this may mean it can no longer release binary distributions of the Java runtime environment with the FreeBSD platform.

"The latest blow to our efforts [to port Java to FreeBSD] was the recent notification of Sun's desire to revoke and renegotiate the FreeBSD Foundation's SCSL licence," said the newsletter.

"Even after receiving notice of the termination of our licence, attempts to contact Sun to renegotiate the licence have gone unanswered. For now, it is safe to assume that the Foundation will engage in another lengthy, and potentially costly, licensing negotiation before our binary distributions can continue."

Sun and FreeBSD were unable to immediately respond to requests for comment, but according to sources close to the issue the situation was a misunderstanding and is likely to be resolved soon.

 

Source: http://freebsdaddicts.org/

 

This comes at a time, when I am thinking about a FreeBSD machine. I would be happy if it gets resolved soon. I would be going (soon) for either a cheaper machine or my machine back home.

Find the best path

What type are you?

Do you have a vision for an egalitarian society? Do you want to find the best thought system based on your needs and expectations? Please take the small test to find the ideal path for you.

Mobile blogging

This is a real good idea. You might wanna try out. Mine is http://ramesh.busythumbs.com/

 

Some pride

Did some search. Typed Ramesh L and was amazed to find my blogger profile in the second place.

Moving ahead

Voila!!!!! That was in google.com not even the co.in

I was flattened when I found that Kan's blog is numero uno when I searched for Gulmohar. Practical power!!!!!

Senthil was not that lucky. My other blog friends were not impressive too. Think you gotta go a long way guyz ;) .. lol

Hey, as I said Google.com, is google redirecting requests to local servers, to give more localized results? In college and off it we've discussed a lot regarding Google, but could not remember this.

The ongoing war

After reading the following story, I could not help thinking that who is gonna win this battle for the IT market.

Attack on MS anti-spyware

Its a war between capitalism embodied by MS and socialism championed by FSF and Linux communities worldwide.

Are the MS haters right about creating a new world order? Personally I feel its certainly not good to have only one company commanding everything. But, so is the uncertainty without anyone in command. Its the pressure of MS that made Linux a much user friendly system today. Otherwise, the system would have always remained geeky. Because of the MS push, that the people are now taking that battle to its own courts. With Apple joining the foray with its impressive Mac Mini, I would say there is an interesting battle in the cards.

GNOME Culture

Read a good article about GNOME culture by Seth Nickell. Here is a small piece of his article. More at, www.gnomejournal.org

In 2002, Derek Glidden wrote a humorous comparison between his visions of how GNOME and KDE development occur. Just to give you a taste:

”[KDE is developed in] a big room somewhere in Europe with lots of chrome and glass and a great big whiteboard in the front with lots of tiny, neat writing on it. There are about 50 desks, each with headphones and pristine workstations, also with a lot of chrome and glass. The faint sound of classical music permeates the room, accompanying the clicky-click of 50 programmers typing or quietly talking in one of the appropriately assigned meeting areas.”

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”[GNOME] Development strategies are generally determined by whatever light show happens to be going on at the moment, when one of the developers will leap up and scream *‘I WANT IT TO LOOK JUST LIKE THAT’* and then straight-arm his laptop against the wall in an hallucinogenic frenzy before vomiting copiously, passing out and falling face-down in the middle of the dance floor. There’s no whiteboard, so developers diagram things out in the puddles of spilt beer, urine and vomit on the floor”

Gandhi in Italian AD

If he had communicated like this