Achievement Begins with a Dream – Azim Premji

Wipro Chairman Azim Premji feels people who succeed most in their careers are those who can constantly transform themselves.

  
Have a Dream
You have got to have a dream. Dreams are very powerful internal motivators. Great achievements are created twice—first in the mind and then in a concrete form. The most exhilarating part of being young is the ability to dream. As one grows, one may realize that not all of them are achievable. But never turn cynical. Aging is not adding on years. It is parting with one’s dreams. Use your experience to reshape your dreams and adapt them to changing reality but do not stop dreaming. I cannot think of a single transformation or achievement, individual or social that did not begin with a dream. Dreams not only help us in seeing things before they happen, but they also give us the passion and energy to make them happen.

Defunct/Zombie processes

GENU
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It means that it’s finished – but still depends on a “parent” which is still alive.
Other than Windows, unix manages an explicit parent-child relationships between processes. When a child process dies, the parent will receive a notification. It is then the duty of the parent process to explicitly take notice of the childs demise by using the wait() system call. The return value of the wait() is the process ID of the child, which gives the parent exact control about which of its children are still alive.

As long as the parent hasn’t called wait(), the system needs to keep the dead child in the global process list, because that’s the only place where the process ID is stored. The purpose of the “zombies” is really just for the system to remember the process ID, so that it can inform the parent process about it on request. If the parent “forgets” to collect on its children, then the zombie will stay undead forever. Well, almost forever. If the parent itself dies, then “init” (the system process with the ID 0) will take over fostership over its children and catch up on the neglected parental duties.
<<anonymous. somewhere from the net>>

shell prompts – solaris

Shell                                                              Prompt
 
C shell                                                        machine-name%
 
C shell superuser                                         machine-name#
 
Bourne shell and Korn shell                                  $
 
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser                  #
 
ALOM shell                                                        sc>
 
OpenBoot PROM shell                                          ok

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. — Anonymous

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……..the best time to get out of project is when things are going fine,leave your mark and get out but make sure the mark is not water mark …….”

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
— Chief Aupumut (1725), Mohican.

[ from greensatya's blog ]