While watching one of the youtube videos, I realized some thing that I did miss in my life. That is art of telling “Sorry”.
I am not talking about saying “Sorry” to a girl friend, or wife. But telling sorry to some one else. I tried to remember when I told some one else sorry. Even though I have very poor memory of what I did in my child hood, I can say for sure that I never told some one sorry.
I might have told some times to my employees, that too just because I might have shouted at them unnecessarily.
I believe that it is some thing our parents forgot to teach us. I don’t blame my mother for it. May be no one have thought her in the first place.
In that video, a Pakistani girl says ‘ham mafi chahthe hai’ (We seek forgiveness) for using wrong words in the debate. That spontaneous response from her, when no one is asking her to say sorry, is really an eye opening for me.
I don’t remember using the word ‘forgive’ or its equivalent word in any language ever.
I am very very impressed by the way those girls have talked. It has a very beautiful and meaningful song also. You should watch it.
When I started my new Ubuntu 9.04 server on Rackspace cloud I got some strange problem when ever I used apt-get.
Here is the errors I got
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = “en_IN”
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
I searched a lot for it. Then found the simple solution.
I have been using computers from last 10 years. Even though there are people who used it for 30 years..I can say that I know pretty much about them. When I say computers I mean software. Without software hardware is of no use. We have seen the tremendous growth in hardware in recent years. There is nothing I have at present to complain about hardware except one thing(“Why some people are still using flopy-disk?”).
I have used so many software…operating systems, Net browsers, Mail clients, Office software, multimedia, cd writing, downloading software etc etc. Recently I have tried a voice recognition software. It worked more than my expectations. I was able to do chatting with it without using keyboard(if I pay more attention to how I am talking).
I got one question in mind after that… “Is it the way the software(all software I used till now) has to be?”
The natural answer came is “No, they must be much better than they are at present”.
But I don’t have clear points to support this answer. When I talked to others I found that they also agree to my answer. But they also don’t have any alternatives to show.
To find out the actual facts about this issue I am planing to start an analysis. First I will try to list the points which are wrong about present software. And then propose my alternative plan if above analysis shows that alternative is needed and possible.
