Ajitabh Pandey's Soul & Syntax

Exploring systems, souls, and stories – one post at a time

Author: Ajitabh

  • Beyond Einstein

    A perfect book for people who wants to understand and review the various theories related to the Universe and find a single theory of the universe. An excellent but somewhat outdated introduction to the concepts of the String Theory. Written in a simple language, you do not need to possess a degree in physics to understand it. A high school level understanding of science is enough to understand the matter presented in the book.

  • Enable Apache mod_rewrite module on OpenSuSE

    OpenSuSE has mod_rewrite installed, but it is not loaded by default. Check if mod_rewrite is actually loaded by default or not:

    # grep "^APACHE_MODULES" /etc/sysconfig/apache2
    APACHE_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_host authz_groupfile authz_default authz_user autoindex cgi dir env expires include log_config mime negotiation setenvif ssl userdir php5"

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  • Quality Without Tears – The Art of Hassle Free Management

    Quality Without Tears Cover ImageThis is an excellent book and a must read for managers. Crosby has listed 14 steps to attaining the Zero Defects. However, this should not be the first read, unless you are already familiar with the concept, tools and techniques of quality management. First you should be reading Quality is Free (by the same author).

    I strongly feel that you should believe in the concept of quality or the fact that there is always a scope of improvement in what you do, only then you can progress.

    The entire concept of Quality Management is about “excellence in work”, which is what is taught by ancient Hindu holy book – Srimad Bhagavad-Gita.

    And yes this applies to your personal life as well as work life.

  • UW IMAP on OpenSolaris 2009.06

    It is quite surprising that the opensolaris distribution does not come with an imap server in the standard repositories. I needed one and the simplest one to use is the one from UW IMAP.

    I downloaded the source package from:

    ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap.tar.gz

    The UW IMAP documentation is at http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/

    I have GCC installed in my opensolaris 2009.6
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  • Is statistics always right, how do you measure the development?

    Sometimes by looking at various statistics being published at various places about India becoming a (so called?) developed country, I am compelled to think that are these statistics reflecting the true Indian progress…..
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