All in vain

Recently i was trying xubuntu. I was facing some issues with my 4 year old PC. My realtek ethernet card and onboard sound card was not detected. Even `lspci` returned nothing. After banging my head against the wall for a few hours and searching on the net revealed that i have to add "pci=noacpi" to my kernel arguments(in grub press 'e' and at the end of the string append this).

After that everything worked like a charm. I dont know why this happens but it did gave me some problems cause i had to reinstall some distros cause my hardware was not getting detected properly.

Recently i was reading an article about ODF. Clearly open standards are what we should be looking for. Binding ourselves to a proprietary is going to harm us in the future. For example if i have a document i would want it to be accesible to me for eternity. Just because the software it was created in is no longer available or for a price shouldnt mean anything.

Heck i "own" that data. So the bottom line is softwares (like Open office) which support open document standards need to be encouraged.

I was for a long time anguished by my peers who used to rubbish PHP as a "hacking" language. Fit only for write once forget afterwards kinda scripts.

I always believed that if you have some self-descipline you can do pretty much anything* with your chosen language.

*Conditions apply

Heres a link to an interesting article from lesscode.org