Ajitabh Pandey's Soul & Syntax

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

Author: Ajitabh

  • 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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  • Who Am I

    Who Am I ImageThis book is a collection of 28 questions as asked by one of the disciples of Sri Raman Maharshi. The questions focus on self inquiry. Although this book is only 16 pages but there is a huge depth in the answer to each questions. If studied carefully and practiced as mentioned in the book, one can reach the Goal.

  • On Sabayon 5 now

    Last night installed Sabayon 5 amd64 on my laptop. All went fine except when I tried to do an update. I did the following as suggested in the Sabayon wiki:
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