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Technology has taken deep roots in our daily life. It would not be false if I say, it has taken over us. Be it your mobile, computer, TV, wifi, bikes, cars, or similar materialistic things. Your holidays are no more peaceful holidays, they are constant exchange of text, pics, news, and information. The mind never is at peace when awake. It is struggling to keep with huge amount of information, most of that it cant process or do not require at the first place. One should ask a simple question, do I really need this much information or resources to live a peaceful life. Is it not a peer pressure to keep up the things, most of which you don't require. The mobile phone with most of us today are powerful gadgets with huge capacity to do many things. They are even better than most of the efficient people on earth today. A phone is not merely a phone, but much more than that, it's your camera, social connection, news point, and professional need. Imagine the number of photos clicked...

One of the good point about Gandhi Ji was that his mind was restless. He always tried something new, he never was contented with his present. He never thought once in his life that he is settled, at peace and satisfied. I think this is one of the many reasons that he was a great person. He never tried to hide his mistakes/faults. He denied primary education to his children, his elder son was very unhappy with him for this. Unfortunately, this was also one of his experiment with life. But many of his other experiments like cleanliness, ahinsa were globally appreciated and accepted. So, don't stop yourself from experimenting, just because of the fear of failing or non-acceptance by society. I agree there is risk, but risk is there in anything and everything in life, the only difference is our faith in the outcome. We are generally happy in taking those calculative risk, where the results are more or less favorable. Challenging yourself is the best thing a person can do all his life...

Many of us face either/or combinations of these issues very often- I have a list of references in word. But now the format needs to change to numbers rather alphabetical. I don't use any paid reference manager, so how to do it easily. I can save my reference in bibtex format, but word uses xml format. I use word on two different PCs. How to manage my references. I cant find my reference style in my microsoft word. So, there are solutions internet provide, but require some effort to solve every issue. I have tried putting together everything to answer above questions Start with a search of your reference in google scholar Save the search in your google scholar library. This step will be repeated many times to build your library, but trust me, its one time effort, and far better than others, where you have to do a lot of typing or copy-pasting. Save your list of reference from google scholar in ref man format (.ris). Somehow, it saves one page (20 references) at...

I remember earlier making bootable usb was a big task. Also after so much of effort, chances were that it might not work because of some errors in making process. But now with unetbootin, its really easy. I tried it with different versions of windows (even xp) and it worked always. Just two step to follow once the program is with you. All you really need is the program (download from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ ) and the iso image file of your OS, and a spare usb (4gb I prefer, as it will be sufficient for all windows editions). Run the program and it will make it in easy steps. If one is facing problem in installation, the common reason is FAT32/NTFS format. If your usb format is different, format it accordingly and try again. Otherwise, I never faced any problem in installing OS in laptop/pc/netbook.

Although laptop makers recommend using windows 7 starter or basic edition for netbook to get best performance, but unfortunately that doesn't happen. I have tried three versions of windows 7- basic, starter and professional. It does run, and you can do things, but will hang in between. The reason being, windows itself is taking ~50-70% of your RAM. So with 1 gb RAM, there is hardly much space left to really work. Even with internet surfing you will see that it stuck many times when there are heavy sites or multiple windows open, as RAM usage reaches more than 90%. I bought my netbook (Asus x101ch) with the hope it will be much easy for me to do simple things  like surfing, listening music etc. But, with OS mentioned above its really not smooth. I have found that XP runs much better, faster and smoother. But for the latest netbooks like the one I have, drivers are the issues, you don't get drivers for XP.

I know that many users face this problem while installing xp on netbook. The moment you boot from external drive or usb, blue screen appears showing some missing files (bootmanager). This happens because of the new SATA hard disks of netbooks are in ICHE configuration that blocks the installation. The simple thing you need to do is change the configuration from ICHE to IDE and try again from external usb/drive.

The common thing which I hear from people is that the present is not good, I don't deserve this, I should be somewhere else, etc . But, if you analyze your life, you will find that only the attitude is not changing otherwise every single part of your life is constantly changing. The problems and issues you are facing in the present were not there in the past, and may not be there in the future also. Same way, the problems with which you were struggling with in past are no more now, they got solved or dissolved with time. Life issues/problems have different ranges, some are short span and get solved/resolved within months or maybe a year, but some take longer time. But every single of them gets out of your life ultimately. The thing which sustains with you is patience and your precious life. The events happening in one's life is predestined, it never is/was what one expects from god, but it is always what God wants and is in good favor of person in the long run. We do feel...

A person who seems impatient at work front might be very patient in his personal and family life. The way one displays his virtue at any particular point of time or place all depends on the situation, his mental strength and his experiences. If a person is left with no other choice but to show patience, then he ends up being patient. But, if you have options then definitely you will react or display the attitude that is easily reachable and not the one which is hard to show.  In earlier days, great living principles were attained by very few people. For more than 90% of the population, the aim in life was to earn bread and live healthy and disease-free. Only a few were there with zeal and enthusiasm to make their life useful and achieve something. But, if we look around us, one will find persons with courage/endurance/patience and other great abilities in them. But, many times they feel it is redundant to show them, and in some cases, they don't realize their posse...

Life can be simply classified into internal and external part. Internal life is all about our ideas and thoughts, which in a broader sense decide our personality/outlook. Clear thoughts give a clear perspective and somehow make life simpler, complex thoughts lead to a confused personality. On the other hand, external life is what we carry in the world; in front of friends, relatives, neighbors,  etc . This external life is mainly dependent on our words/actions. If we say good words, speak politely and our actions are socially correct, we will be considered as a nice human being. But if this doesn't happen, our words/actions/behavior is different then we are called as rude/shrewd/off spoken/ill-mannered/abusive. One can always watch his thoughts for maintaining his outlook, and good deeds can always fetch you good name in society.