tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65629879254646396502024-02-19T13:48:25.239+05:30UndergroundRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620914130590158570noreply@blogger.comBlogger12313tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6562987925464639650.post-30358418105772681382010-02-08T12:36:00.000+05:302010-02-08T12:37:59.442+05:30"What are you?""What are you?"<br /><br />The lights fade away,<br />The curtains close in,<br />The props are out of place<br />The smeared paint on their faces,<br />Some are ugly others not.<br />The madman dances with his boots on,<br />The curtains re-open,<br />The lights reappear,<br />There is no key to the lock,<br />As the madman keeps dancing.<br />Silhouetted women holding their glass,(dont change this to glasses)<br />We see diamonds and rubies,dimes and roubles,<br />As the madman counts his nickels,<br />There is no lock,he lost the key.<br />The hyenas are laughing,the punks speed by,<br />When the adman tries to sell the world,<br />Grey wolves crouched in the jungle.<br />Three different worlds,<br />As the young boy struggles with his shoelace,<br />The yellow bus is on its way,steer clear,<br />Misplaced notebooks and the edgeless lead.<br />The pandora's box is here,they que up in line,<br />Dressed up for the showdown,polished keys,<br />They reach out to his ear and ask him,<br />"What are you?"illogical sainthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00843998088155275550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6562987925464639650.post-28648100174256040402009-09-04T23:40:00.001+05:302009-09-04T23:57:07.605+05:30Enable Samba File-sharingQuickest way to enable samba file sharing without much of hassles:<br /><br />Open Terminal and follow the steps:<br /><br /><pre style="border: 1px dashed #dcdcdc;"><br />$ su -<br /># smbpasswd -a -L <user><br /># smbpasswd -e -L <user><br /></pre><br />Replace <user> with the username of the account you want to enable Samba access, then<br /><br /><pre style="border: 1px dashed #dcdcdc;"><br /># mkdir /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares<br /># chgrp sambashares /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares<br /># chmod 1770 /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares<br /></pre><br /><br />Then open your <i>/etc/smb.conf</i> file:<br /><pre style="border: 1px dashed #dcdcdc;"><br /># gedit /etc/smb.conf<br /></pre><br /><br />Find <i>[global]</i> and below it add:<br /><pre style="border: 1px dashed #dcdcdc;"><br />usershare owner only = False<br />usershare path = /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares<br />usershare max shares = 10<br /></pre><br />You can change the value of <i>usershare max shares</i> as per your need<br /><br />Thats it, now restart the computer or the Samba service and share everything you got :)Anant Khaitanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17400363777055576720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6562987925464639650.post-55498118862281782252009-05-04T20:44:00.004+05:302009-05-04T22:23:17.953+05:30PETRA.....The Alchemist returns from his hibernation(which lasted nearly 6 months) with this piece on Petra...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE ROSE RED CITY HAL</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUydaay2NHtxNgSO693d4wdZZEY2YSH1_gyE50d3mfFJqeAhlET7AyZo89D6TjTYoGL7DLAoRiEwRucA_74ClnlOmvDOPd1a9Jl3_z5rI9IGIkf1J9V5lvRRX-wzSeGGi4v1hgGhtEmu5/s1600-h/wunder_karte_petra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUydaay2NHtxNgSO693d4wdZZEY2YSH1_gyE50d3mfFJqeAhlET7AyZo89D6TjTYoGL7DLAoRiEwRucA_74ClnlOmvDOPd1a9Jl3_z5rI9IGIkf1J9V5lvRRX-wzSeGGi4v1hgGhtEmu5/s320/wunder_karte_petra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331989373514333394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">F AS OLD AS TIME</span></div><div><br /></div><div>A city famously described as "a rose red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize winning sonnet by John William Burgaon . UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage.</div> <div><br /></div><div>On the edge of the Arabian Desert, Petra was the glittering capital of the Nabataean empire of king Aretas IV [9 BC to 40 AD]. Petra is an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah , the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Aquaba. The Nabataeans constructed it as their capital around 100 BCE but reached heights in the reign of King Aretas IV.<br /><br /></div> <div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgZDWVP9uazp6wDfWVXb2v0Lp3HDpyH72ska9Ee_qwq6bw_uY1u5Bk0SpFEDrGcb1pNgE4C8P-QnuHlreXvwkq3iBaqyml3iFcg1euIQsWOS8gErpyBLMjfwOAiNeR71O-dRWNL8hs6Sv/s1600-h/Thumb600x.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgZDWVP9uazp6wDfWVXb2v0Lp3HDpyH72ska9Ee_qwq6bw_uY1u5Bk0SpFEDrGcb1pNgE4C8P-QnuHlreXvwkq3iBaqyml3iFcg1euIQsWOS8gErpyBLMjfwOAiNeR71O-dRWNL8hs6Sv/s320/Thumb600x.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331989145386629202" border="0" /></a></div><div>It was the ability of the Nabataeans to control the water supply that lead to the rise of the desert city, in effect creating an artificial oasis. they provided city with great tunnel construction and water chambers.</div> <div>The impressive eastern entrance leads steeply down through a dark, narrow gorge called the "Siq", a natural geological feature formed from a deep split in the sandstone rocks. At the end of narrow gorge stands Petra's most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh (known as " The Treasury") ,hewn into the sandstone cliff.</div> <div>A little further from Treasury at the foot of the mountains called en-Nejr is a massive theatre. Theatre is modelled on Greek - Roman prototypes ,had space for an audience of 4000.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today, the Palace Tombs of Petra with the 42 metre high Hellenistic temple facade on the El- Deir Monastery, an impressive examples of Middle Eastern Culture.</div> <div><br /></div><div>Petra declined rapidly under Roman rule, in large part due to the revision of sea- based trade routes.</div><div><br /></div><div>The ruins of Petra were always an object of curiousity. The site remained unknown to the western world until 1812, when it was introduced to the west by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.</div> <div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrziTHPSJIPfFdVU5SOZqGK766-RNeQzVJin_QlV8dH5tgYEu6WVrP_NSt3HCmDh1UTEUiFsPQIgE_Ztp57cXNRbqgiH5hLTydWOfkd74BSbOMSAfBQO8UT9Wsr-YJwIJdxrsN6YzT012/s1600-h/PetraMonastery.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrziTHPSJIPfFdVU5SOZqGK766-RNeQzVJin_QlV8dH5tgYEu6WVrP_NSt3HCmDh1UTEUiFsPQIgE_Ztp57cXNRbqgiH5hLTydWOfkd74BSbOMSAfBQO8UT9Wsr-YJwIJdxrsN6YzT012/s320/PetraMonastery.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331989366428063042" border="0" /></a></div><div>On December 6 1985, Petra was designated a world heritage site. On July 7 2007, Petra was named one of New Open World Corporation's "New Seven Wonders of the World."</div>RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620914130590158570noreply@blogger.com0