Advice, Art Of Living, God, Life, People, Spirituality, Thoughts
In Art Of Living on June 9, 2009 at 10:00 pm
There are lots of lessons to learn from a dog about God.
- God doesn’t speak to us, yet we can realize God’s love. The same goes for a dog.
- God loves us unconditionally. Doesn’t your dog love you unconditionally?
- God always think about us. A dog does so.
- God gives us some kind of signal when something wrong is going to happen. A dog alerts us too. Dog and God have the ability to know what’s going to happen in advance.
God uses dogs to teach us how to overcome problems in life. If you are walking alone in a deserted street with a fierce dog walking towards you what would you do? Would you turn back and run? I hope you never did that. If you do so, the dog may become so curious in hurting you for sure within seconds. I also hope you wouldn’t turn to any other streets for a change, because there might be more than a dog on those streets when you enter. So naturally, you’d just pray to God and move on with head high (with fast-thumping heart) without looking at the dog as though it never exists in that street. After a while, you are sure to go beyond the dog without any grumble from dog’s end and your heartbeat would become normal.
In the same way, when you face a problem in your life, take it as a dog in the street. Just pray to God and move on towards the destination. All the problems (dogs) would eventually go off without even making any kind of impression. Sometimes, they may give more energy to face more problems (dogs) in the future without others’ help! If you try to run away from the problem, then the problem is sure to come along with you bringing more problems (dogs) as the time passes. If you turn away and go on a different path, then there may be more (different) problems (dogs) on that way.
Next time, when you face a problem in your life, remember this post and move on. Or join in an Art Of Living course and see how it brings changes in your life and in your problems!
Jai Guru Dev…
Technology, Virus, Windows
In Technology on June 1, 2009 at 7:34 am
Internet is becoming insecure day-by-day (okay, it’s year after year). Most of the viruses are spread by pirated software. If you are using any kind of pirated software, your computer is likely to be a victim of computer viruses. You may not even be aware of getting trapped in the world of viruses.
Earlier, viruses were spread to completely destroy the data available in computers. Hackers do not gain much just by destroying the data. What they need is money. Money is a vital factor for them to keep learning new ways to attack a variety of computers and a variety of protection methods. So, they started collecting important financial information from virus-affected computers. In this case, the end-user may not even know that the concerned computer is indeed affected and sensitive information is being taken out from the computer without the user’s knowledge. In this way, hackers collect credit card information, SSN, etc that are more useful than simply destroying them.
If you are using pirated software of any kind, switch over to a genuine copy. In fact, you’d save a lot by choosing original software. Even if you are using original software, don’t forget to turn on automatic update feature which is usually available with those software programs.
Good luck!
Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP
In Technology on May 20, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Last week, I got a day off from my work. I decided to test drive Windows 7 RC. I downloaded it, burned, and partitioned my hard disk to get some free space for Windows 7. Finally I loaded the DVD into the drive and restarted the machine to boot Windows 7 installer. There is nothing so impressive with the installation. There are some gui improvements, though, that was expected from every new release from any operating system. After a couple of (usual) automated restarts, I finally got into the login prompt.
The very first thing that impressed me in Windows 7 is the ability to get rid of the pop-ups that come so often in Vista whenever one installs a program or whenever one access a file that is considered to be important by Microsoft! The next big improvement is the rearrangable taskbar icons that was not present in Microsoft’s previous products but has been present in Linux for many years. The difference is that Microsoft made it very pleasing with its Aero effects. However nothing can still beat Linux’s compiz effects and it’s customizable features.
Apart from these two, I don’t think Microsoft made any other important changes that could make a typical corporate client to switch to Windows 7 from XP. At the same time, there are Vista users who are sure to switch to Windows 7 when it is available at the end of this year (or probably earlier). Overall, I still feel that Windows XP is the best OS.
