K World

I was talking to a friend couple of days before. Because of my “The Road Not Taken” problem, he was already little pissed off that I’m about to take a decision which would prove that I’m scared of trying something new.

Leaving that aside, yesterday he saw that Safari 3 Beta for Windows was released (It might be released long time before, he don’t know about windows as he is OS X user) and told me to give it a try. I replied him that I’m quite happy with the way Firefox works. He tried telling me that rendering speeds of Safari are better that firefox etc etc. What ever he is telling is true, actually many people consider that Safari is the best browser available (atleast on OS X, and thats debatable) But, I wasn’t ready to give it a try.

Then he told me something which made me think, actually think a lot. He told me that I tend to become comfortable with my Good Old Life and I don’t want to try anything new. After recollecting so many things like in both life as well as technology aspects. I don’t want to about my out-of-comfort actions in life. The following are few things which came into my mind when I thought about Technology and my Out-of-comfort actions.

• I wouldn’t have tried installing Windows 3.2 on a computer with Windows 98, when I hardly knew how to shut down windows just to see how an old version would look like …
• I wouldn’t have tried having multiple operating systems - 98 and 2000, when I hardly knew that there are many filesystem types, and 98 doesn’t support NTFS …
• I wouldn’t have installed Redhat 7.2 on my computer in my B.Tech second year, when none of my friends or my lecturers or me hardly use to use linux or even knew about it …
• I wouldn’t have tried installing Gentoo on my machine, when I hardly knew whats a Gentoo portage was …
• I wouldn’t have tried doing Linux From Scratch or creating a distro of my own-rules and called it KiX after doing my B.Tech even before I knew about those steps involved it doing it …
• I wouldn’t have tried installing DesktopBSD on my computer and mess up my Partition Table and then edit the partition table by calculating sectors of partitions manually using some tool (This itself is a big journey which I don’t remember clearly, but I’ve used some tool given on Hiren’s Boot CD and a calculator and managed to get my partitions back without losing any data .. But, I remember date exactly 19 Aug 2005, 1 day before I gave aptitude test of my current employer)
• I wouldn’t have installed three operating systems(98, XP and Gentoo) on my machine just to make sure that I can run all the applications
• I wouldn’t have done my B.Tech project in Python when I knew that I’ve to start my project review by explaining the guys sitting there that this Python is NOT a snake but a programming language
• I wouldn’t have tried to move my blog from blogger to my own domain when I was pretty much OK with my Google blogging service
• I wouldn’t have changed 15 mobiles in last 18 months

Guess, these are good enough to convince myself that I’m not a person who is scared of trying something new. But, then, to make him happy, I installed Safari on my box. It’s a good browser, but I’m yet to become comfortable with it. I’m just letting it stay in my box along with 3 other browsers - FF, Opera, IE (and Lynx, installed on cygwin, which I use once in a while for fun)

Yes, I tend to be happy with my Good Old Life, but, I’m not scared of trying something new. I would certainly try if its worthy of giving a try.