Unix distros - where they originate from

This is a tree showing how various Unix distros originated from.

Unix

--Linux

----RPM (Red Hat Linux)

------Fedora

------Cent OS

------SuSE

------Mandriva

--------PCLinux

----Debian

------Ubuntu

--------gOS
--------PinguyOS
--------EasyPeasy

--------Linux Mint

------Mepis

------Maemo

------Linspire

------Knoppix

--------Damn Small Linux

----Gentoo

----Slackware

------Puppy Linux

What is a BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY?

The relevant book where the idea came from - http://bit.ly/c55AK1

First what is red (opposite of blue here) ocean? It is the tradional market place where firms compete with each other.

Blue ocean is a new marketspace, yet to be explored. Since it is new, competitions are irrelevant there.

What is a BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY? The authors explain it by comparing it to a red ocean strategy (traditional strategic thinking):

1. DO NOT compete in existing market space. INSTEAD you should create uncontested market space.

2. DO NOT beat the competition. INSTEAD you should make the competition irrelevant.

3. DO NOT exploit existing demand. INSTEAD you should create and capture new demand.

4. DO NOT make the value/cost trade-off. INSTEAD you should break the value/cost trade-off.

5. DO NOT align the whole system of a company's activities with its strategic choice of differentiation or low cost. INSTEAD you should align the whole system of a company's activities in pursuit of both differentiation and low cost.

Wikipedia link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy

Car sharing does not work

When my long commute session began, I naively thought I could reduce journey time and exhaustion by sharing car thru various car-sharing websites.

Sadly, this scheme does not work.

Main reasons are

· Your co-passenger(s) are highly unlikely to commute to exactly same place. I know slight detour is not an issue but in congested peak traffic that time counts.

· Even if you start at same time in morning, finishing time can be varying. If someone finishes early, it is a problem for other one.

· What if you miss the journey? Alternative transport can be quite expensive.

· You are basically at mercy of other driver.

I did not get a single reply to my sharing post in those sites. This is unusual as my route was not a very strange one!

So now we know why we see so many single occupancy cars on UK roads.

Measurement of Depression

I searched for a scale how to measure depression but could find nothing on the internet! Which is pretty strange as I thought in modern era, almost everyone becomes depressed every now and often.

So I took the pain of defining a scale myself (time pass - eh?).

This is how the scale stands. Please note that the scale is logarithmic (like Richter scale) rather than linear!

Highest to lowest

[9] Lost off sight/limbs, permanent disablement, loss of children, spouse, life threatening illness (eg cancer) to self or loved ones

[8] Divorce (including setback in relationship)

[7] Chronic illness (not life threatening but hampers daily life)

[6] Loss of job/business [including imminent loss which is almost certain]

Set back in professional career - denied promotion, did not get the job wanted, demotion, unable to start a business venture, unable to find date/spouse etc. [ie something you want but can not get it - you feel you deserve it - but you never got it so far], Bankruptcy etc.

[5] Acute monetary shortage - not being able to buy basic necessities like food, clothes, shelter etc.

[4] Loss of large amount [relative] of money/reputation/social status or something which has psychological equivalent of money to the depressed person

[3] Unfortunate incident - accident but no bodily injury or massive monetary/reputation/etc. loss, being robbed off, pick pocketing, burglary etc.

[2] Inconvenience, water leaking from roof, broken down on road etc.

[1] Trivial - food was cold, could have saved £1 by buying from elsewhere, got drenched because didn't carry umbrella, camera I wanted is out of stock etc.

Note: This is measurement of initial depression, as time passes, the depression level usually goes down as people become accoustommed with deperssed condition gradually.