Neal’s World

REM’s Electrolite…there is a lot of sadness in its melody…caught me attention first on a not so good rainy day…

There has never been IMO no other “universal” indian music director from India other than Salil Choudhury(well, forget modern day AR Rehman for a second )…Be it in Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil or Kannada …his songs help revive memories of days by gone! Here is a sweet malloo one by Salil…(and notice l’ll Sridevi

My first song on the guitar was this…again by Salil

Another sweet malloo song with heavenly music provided by Salil

sudo lsb_release -a

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cat /etc/issue

If you still think that politicians do anything for the common man, you need a brain transplant.

We no longer have a democraZy in the US. We have an oligarchy.

Let’s face it: No nation on earth has pure democraZy. Some have its own corrupt version of it. Sorry to say that Abe

So politicians are in the game not for the common man, but for themselves and the people who fund them from behind(aka lobbyists) . So what should we do on election day? Don’t vote would be a good decision. I will be doing that, anyways in 2008. My world works without politicians anyways. Whatever I do or dont do does not change a thing for me. Well maybe I should vote…and write-in the name of my son for what it is worth!

Hillary is a flip-flopper and so is Guiliani and MOST of them. So you see my point…knowing that if you go and make one of them a leader of you, just stinks

I should say this though…Dennis Kucinich is one person that is not a flip-flopper.

Will he go anywhere…Never!

I had great respect for Gore from say 2000 to 2006 AD. But the convenient truth of today is that I dont like him anymore. Gore and his global warming lie of a movie just put me off him. The hypocrite wants us all to go-green while he walks around with a carbon-bigfoot. Do as I say, don’t do as I do. Global warming is a lie. 75% of the world is water and nobody seems to factor that into any equation. And I believe all weather changes are cyclic. Don’t anybody worry about mother nature. She knows to correct herself now and then via floods, fires, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones etc.

And Bush…what an f-ing SOB (putting it mildly ) . Without daddy’s help full-time, he could have as well acted the caveman part for real in the Geico ads . In the next life he could be in some God-forsaken-land on earth begging for one square meal…and thinking what the f he did in his past life to deserve that. Ultimately heaven and hell are both on earth, my friend! This brute has delayed the arrival of the “age of Aquarius”.

Ok I have a healthy Feisty install.

On one of them umpteen logins noticed an upgrade button in the updates window. Well what could go wrong. Right? Extemely WRONG 

Things went good during the upgrade. I rebooted.

At that point it croaked with a greeter app crash error

Well took a month to get back to the issue.

All I did was get into maintenance mode (“Boot to hard disk” –>”recovery mode” entry from GRUB). and type these on screen at the prompt(sequentially after each finishes…each take a few mins to complete)

a) refresh apt's cache

sudo aptitude update

b) run the upgrade
sudo aptitude upgrade

c) GNOME is all screwed up…so run this too

sudo aptitude install xorg gnome

Well that did it!

Now have Gutsy. When Hardy comes out I will have the once-bitten-syndrome