Emotions - Part 1

The content of life is rich with adventures and experiences. Everyday we find ourselves learning new things, the deeper the emotional waves, the wiser we become. The moment we think we have become smarter or wiser, we surpass ourselves, puzzled and  challenged. We experience range of emotions such as anger, fear, joy, jealousy, sadness and so on. These emotions contribute to our growth, improving us in every way. Understanding how our emotions effect us and how to make use of them is the trick to enrich our lives.
Our mindset is fixed on achieving happiness and to avoid sadness, why? Because our culture has been cultivated in such way, our predecessors have thought us so and our environment is engineered based on this rule, thus limiting our mind to think out of the box thus tapping the higher level of understanding. Opening our mind to unlimited possibilities lets us go beyond these boundaries. Happiness and sadness are a package that comes with life, understanding this simple concept will lead us to fruitful journeys. Let all emotions be your friends, embrace all of them. Do this and we will find ourselves excited about what life has for us in the future.

Our mind defines the emotions that we experience as good or bad and our senses perceives what the mind interprets, teach our mind to define these emotions positively and send that positive vibe to our senses and surroundings, we will see fulfilling results. It is difficult but not impossible. How do we do it? How do we teach our mind to define positivity? When we find ourselves troubled or in pain;

• Think of the past troubles that we experience and how we got through it.
• Think of the current pain, feel it and know that this is a trial that prepares us for the future.
• Know that in the future, we will look back, talk and laugh about it.
• Know that there are a lot of other people in this world go through much more pain and unimaginable suffering.

That does not mean that our experiences are insignificant, everyone’s is as equally important, from a five year old boy who couldn’t go out to play to a nation's leader who has economical crisis in his hand.


If it doesn’t break you, it’ll make you!!!!

Mounting Windows Shares In Ubuntu

Below are the steps needed to make a window share folder available in ubuntu

First, edit your /etc/hosts file and give the Windows machine a name:

192.168.1.2   winpc

Next, install the samba and smbfs packages using your method of choice.

Create a directory where the share will appear on your local filesystem.

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/music

Edit /etc/fstab and add a line for the mount. Here “winpc” is the name of the machine and “music” is the name of the share.

//winpc/music  /mnt/music  cifs exec,credentials=/etc/cifspw 0 0

Create a password file /etc/cifspw with the login credentials for your Windows account.

username=User
password=ThisIsAPassword

And secure the file:

$ sudo chmod 600 /etc/cifspw

Now, Ride the tiger......

$ sudo mount -a

Ubuntu : X Server, Problem with NVIDIA Driver

After performing some software updates, i restarted my dell lappy without knowing the horror that awaited me. Upon reboot, the screen shrank (800x600) and refused any changes to higher resolutions.

tens of minutes passed, to no avail, i have only met with a dead end. A thought made haste, time to resolve to the information world of wonders, the internet. Further scrutinizing lead me to X Server, a GUI that allows accessibility control (Keyboard, Screen, Graphic, etc).

Now the culprit have been identified, my nvidia x driver mysteriously got corrupted. quickly got into recovery mode and fixed the X Server, logged in and to my joy, all was fixed, at least that's what i thought...........

Ever so excitedly my fingers commanded the mouse to launch the burning crusade. Mayhem! Massacre & suffering......... the culprit was back, in fact he was still active when i thought i fixed him. I will have to turn to another strategy

The Origin

One of the biggest question that dwells in our mind is "where did we come from?". This is a question that will guise at one point in our lives which drives us to do research on our history.

This research that starts from family ancestors to culture & religion to historical events , finally ends at spiritual enlightenment. Spiritual Enlightenment is the final stage that we will ponder upon (for any topic), having believes vs. logic debate, within us.

Our origin is very much tied to what we call the Big Bang theory. Big Bang states that there was "explosion" 14 billion years ago (arguable but acceptable) wich caused the dilation of matters thus forming the elements of this universe (planets, asteroids, systems, galaxies, clusters and super clusters). So, is that the origin? Well, there are alot more but will try to summarize it.

We live in a stage of time where appearance is evidence, and our conclusions is mostly made based on that evidence, e.g, Most of us buy a car because it looks nice but most of us ignore wht materials are used to construct the body of the car. We buy a shirt mostly because it looks nice on us but choose to neglect the properties / features of the shirt.

My point basically is that the Big Bang is the appearence and not the inner workings which comes in 4 stages.

1. Need / desire (The need to achieve a goal)
2. Thought / Plan (planning or idea to attain that goal)
3. Sound /Action (planning put to work)
4. Light / Object (The result, reaching the objective)

How do i support this theory? very easy. Every living being functions based on this 4 principles. For example, I feel hungry (need/desire to eat), i see an apple, then i would think on how to get that apple (thought), i'll pluck the apple from the tree (Sound/Action), finally i'll eat the apple (light / Object) which is the objective. Now eating the apple is the Big Bang. :-)