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Lost a Friend

This poem here has a lot of resemblance in my life and I feel the poetess went through exactly the same, as I just went recently. Signing off with the friend with it. I guess I too should move on. What ever happened to the good old days When we used to be the best of friends? We would have fun and hang out. But it’s true what they say, All good things must come to an end. I was always there for you, And you were always there for me. We shared secrets and told each other everything. But now all that is left are the memories. I don’t understand why we lost contact, I don’t understand why it’s been over a year since we hung out. Don’t make the excuse we’re always too busy And that our schedules don’t work out. I feel left out! I feel like my best friend died. Was it really because of busy schedules or was it over a guy? I know people change and drift apart, But if something is important enough a person will do anything to work it out. So apparently you’ve moved...

Shackles

Shackles, I feel shackled by laws, rules, fear. These shackles restrain my actions, I am told its for the best, they prevent me from doing wrong, and keep me from wandering astray. Shackles protect me from danger, as I am not the only one chained, others are bound by shackles, their reach to me constricted. I dare not break these shackles as some bound are vicious beast, however others are gentle creatures, who's kindness the shackles hide. Their kindness I cannot see, they are locked away by shackles, and I realize, so am I. Chained by these shackles for ages I grow weak, locked away in this cellar I become naive, I cannot face beast that have broken, and I shun the kindness from the others. I feel uncomfortable with these shackles, I realize they are so tight they hurt, the chains spiral around, entrapping me. With these shackles I am stuck, drowning in an ocean of cowardice, I suffocate from fear, I feel I can't do anything, I decide, no more, no more shackles, I wish to br...

Please understand

Disclaimer: When you are reading this keep you mind open and think from the perspective presented. Your perspective is not wrong, but just agree to disagree because mine too is not wrong. Its lynx's bday and god knows how much I looked forward to it. Nothing better celebrating your sister's first night cake cutting ceremony and that's why its more special. And due to some unexpected scenarios it all got delayed. Everyone were disappointed, but nothing matched to my disappointment levels. And I am a big time jackass to take things in a bit too harsh way. Its either this way or that way. Binary is my most favourite language. But its good for computers, not practical life. So when Sam once said to me I being too straight at times is a blessing in disguise, I knew exactly what she meant. And when I feel disappointed, rather than being manipulative and presenting a better and middle path, I kind of blurt out. And mostly it happens I say things which make things worse. And t...

Happy Holi

It's Holi today and yes, of course, Happy Holi to everyone. But for me, I don't like this festival. I just hate it anything. Agreed its color of festivals and you need to forget the differences between people. Just like colors when brought together makes a great artwork. But the colors need to be in appropriate proportions. And an artist when creating masterpiece, balances them well and in a discipline. I am sorry, but the meanings of the true Holi have lost their significance, entirely. Yes entirely . Today, its all about, how to behave in the most weirdest and craziest way possible. The more, the better. Try to color someone with such a color, that it lasts longer than anything...eternity. Or it's an opportunity to color a girl whom guys look through the backgrounds. Is it an occasion of meaning or just an opportunity to have a crack at a girl; a day when somebody thinks why did he played holi and with what color he played; or a day of another holiday. And so I don...

Forbidden

You always want what you can't have It's there within reach yet it's untouchable The yearn and the want for the forbidden equalized by The fear and uncertainty of the forbidden Do you give into the temptation or Do you fight it daily and nightly Haunting images of what could be tease you as you sleep The ache felt every morning when you awaken Dulled only by preocuppying the mind but the heart and body still feel that ache Forbidden fruit tastes the best but do you dare tempt fate and push that hand forward and clutch that fruit to your bossom And now the question before you: Do you let passion conquer or Do you fight the forbidden --  poetic-dragon

Re-sizing multiple images on Linux

Every time when I have some task which is quite laboriousness and requires a lot of manual intervention, I think of some sort of automation. I think that because what I have understood during all my digital experience, that I am not the first one to be hit by these kind of boulders all along. At the same time, I am also not the only one who thinks that way when they are challenged with things like these. And finally, a lot of those people are way more smarter than I am for solving these problems. And what's even more better is, they share their learning and experiences. I just love the open source family... :k Right, back to this post. Recently, my sister got married and as expected, a lot of pics were captured. I had specifically bought Nikon L810 for it, and god, what images does it capture. But, you can't upload those high -resolution images for sharing with your friends. That's about 10G of images and in countries like mine, that size is a pretty high volume. So...

SVN Setup on Linux Box

Create the Repository sudo svnadmin create /var/svn/repositories/test Allow the Apache to read and write to the repository sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/repositories/test Create the permissions file with the first user. sudo htpasswd -c /etc/subversion/passwd dragon Subsequent users can be added by same command WITHOUT the -c option. Edit the apache2.conf file sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/svn/repositories/ SVNListParentPath On AuthType Basic AuthName "Test" AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> Require valid-user </LimitExcept> </Location>