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There is a large tree in front of our house. And we both protect the tree from different kinds of invaders. May be we are wrong. May be Trees are bad. They drop leaves and leaves make our courtyard dirty. But we believe that trees help  our city and our earth. So the other day I noticed a very small sachet of turmeric powder and vermilion below the tree. I was intrigued. Because there is no God there. But do I get tempted to install  a God there! To stop the street and other dogs from defecating there.  But do dogs see a small picture and realize it is God and it sacrilegious to shit there? I don't know. Let us not try to contemplate who if any one placed these packets there. Who would want to harm me and for what reason and in what different ways? No that topic becomes a mindless blame game - like congress bjp fight. So I saw these packets and showed them to my domestic help next morning. She was terrified. She asked me not to touch them. But I just...

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I was and am tired of my windows laptop. Things start disappearing from time to time and I am unable to bring them back. Few months back it was network indicator.Why do I need indicators? Because I need to be disconnected almost always. Because I am paranoid surrounded by unfriendly wifi connections of some unfriendly, almost hostile people. So I thought let me buy a ubuntu system and live happily ever after with that system.  Happily ever after is not written in my kismet. When I first bought the system, sound was not working. Then lan connection was not working and next wifi was not working. Windows tweaking is simple - relatively. You just enable and disable some services. At the most you may need to use registry editor. Or worst case scenario, factory reset fixes the problem. You may need to install all software all over again.. But ubuntu is different. Users of this system are supposedly geeks. So if you have fever, ubuntu gives you an anatomy book and asks you to fix ...