Monday, February 28, 2005
Religion, Faith, Belief explained...
"When you're in a belief system, it's not that you stop asking questions, it's that they become irrelevant. Why don't you ask yourself about the existence of gravity? It's because a lot of the stuff you do every day presupposes it and it seems to work, so where's the motivation to question it? In belief systems, you tend to enter this strange state where you start thinking there must be something to it because everybody around you is committed to it. The general question of whether it's true is relegated." - Pascal Boyer
Read this interesting Guardian Feature "Tests of Faith"
-Bhaskar
"When you're in a belief system, it's not that you stop asking questions, it's that they become irrelevant. Why don't you ask yourself about the existence of gravity? It's because a lot of the stuff you do every day presupposes it and it seems to work, so where's the motivation to question it? In belief systems, you tend to enter this strange state where you start thinking there must be something to it because everybody around you is committed to it. The general question of whether it's true is relegated." - Pascal Boyer
Read this interesting Guardian Feature "Tests of Faith"
-Bhaskar
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Dont forget the good old GNU
I was looking for an authoritative article that discusses the contribution of Linus Trovalds to Linux and also amount of his own code in the first kernel released by him. I hit something rather interesting. A faq page on why Linux should be called GNU/Linux and not just Linux.
The first question was "Why do you call it GNU/Linux and not Linux?"
The fact is that a large part of what we see as Linux today is actually contributed by Free Software Foundation, GNU project. Another good link GNU is not Unix!
You should find time to read them.
-Bhaskar
I was looking for an authoritative article that discusses the contribution of Linus Trovalds to Linux and also amount of his own code in the first kernel released by him. I hit something rather interesting. A faq page on why Linux should be called GNU/Linux and not just Linux.
The first question was "Why do you call it GNU/Linux and not Linux?"
The fact is that a large part of what we see as Linux today is actually contributed by Free Software Foundation, GNU project. Another good link GNU is not Unix!
You should find time to read them.
-Bhaskar
