An 18-year-old student gone nuts and killed Eight, more than 10 injured in Jokela High in Tuusala, Finland. As per a Finnish friend of mine, he was taken down by Karhu (something like SWAT of Finland) and now he is in a critical condition. This is what he wrote about himself on dreamland.

I am a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial socialdarwinist, realistic idealist and godlike atheist.

SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM! JUSTITIA SUUM CUIQUE DISTRIBUIT! SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection.

You might ask yourselves, why did I do this and what do I want. Well, most of you are too arrogant and closed-minded to understand… You will proprably say me that I am”insane”, “crazy”, “psychopath”, “criminal” or crap like that. No, the truth is that I am just an animl, a human, an individual, a dissident.

I have had enough. I don’t want to be part of this fucked up society. Like some other wise people have said in the past, human race is not worth fighting for or saving… only worth killing. But… When my enemies will run and hide in fear when mentioning my name… When the gangsters of the corrupted governments have been shot in the streets… When the rule of idioracy and the democratic system has been replaced with justice… When intelligent people are finally free and rule the society instead of the idiocratic rule of majority… In that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want. [copied and pasted from one of his pages]

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum! Justitia Suum Cuique Distribuit! Sic Semper Tyrannis! is a Latin Sentence - Translation is “If you seek peace, prepare for war ! Justice renders to everyone his due ! Thus always to tyrants !”

I can understand that he is completely pissed off by the society and decided to kill people. He actually wrote a Manifesto in English for also for English readers. He uploaded some videos and photos and he tried in every possible way to convince people that the is not a psycho but just a person who had enough of this world.

He is not dumb. But, his decision to kill people is stupid. I can tell that its a decision but not just aggression, as he created his manifesto, uploaded some videos in Youtube with title -“Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007”. He has actually decided the date too.

I am self-aware and realize what is going on in society! I have a free mind! And I choose to be free rather than live like a robot or slave. You can say I have a “god complex”, sure… then you have a “group complex”! Compared to you retarded masses, I am actually godlike.

That is taken from his manifest which suggests that he might have been suppressed a lot by the society. My Finnish friend thinks that this guy must have been a nerd who had no-life and was hated by everyone else. That could be true - “Group Complex” and “Retarded Masses” are the phrases he used to describe others. If you read what he wrote about Naturality, You can understand that this guy got a very good intellectual knowledge.

He knew that people will take him as a psychopath. Yes, they certainly will take him as a psychopath because he is one psychopath killer. He tried in every possible way to convince us that he is not one. But, his convincing skills rather proved that he writes well. He would have made a very good writer if he wasn’t a psycho !!!

You can find the manifesto here as well as this web directory.

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 :P

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.

The following is the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost which I saw in my school days.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Wondering what is so special about this poem ? The poem can be related to all our lives. All our decisions. When you are going to take some big decision, you think a lot, you take advice from your friends, relatives, seniors. After all that, you take some decision - which is going to change atleast some smaller or bigger part of your life. You might feel that the decision which you made is not good for you or may be the choice which you didn’t select was a great one. Well, there could be a chance that you can trace back and do the missed option. But, not every one could be that lucky. I’ve taken many not-so-big decisions up to now - like “Further Studies” or “Job” … Actually, I don’t know whether it’s big or not. But, I can certainly tell that, my decision was completely biased one. Job looked desperate for me when I was taking that decision. To be clear, Job @ My Current Employer looked like LIFE to me. But, after took that decision, life was steady for 6 months. Then, the factor which made be biased towards Job felt like nothing. I started thinking about the Road Not Taken … but, I actually never felt that I did something wrong just coz, I’m happy with my Job even if life wasn’t so happy. Now, I’ve a decision to make. A road to be taken. Both roads look good to me. One road is a high-paced all-comfort all-people-want-to-go road which all usually prefer. One road is a different-yet-great scenic-country-road which I would enjoy to the core. But, here I’m not biased towards any of those roads so that I can take a faster decision like I did previously. I wish, there’s a reason as strong as my previous one which would make me biased towards one of those roads.

Tribe 3 is on the move now to become Gutsy Gibbon next Thursday, which actually managed to impress most of the people out there. Gutsy Gibbon is coming; with lots of hopes on its shoulders.

If you are thinking what the hell is this ??? Well, never mind, I’m talking about the new release of Ubuntu Linux Distribution. Probably, you want to read about Vista rather than this ;)

If you are wondering, what is Gutsy Gibbon bringing with it; It’s bringing hopes of several Linux lovers of Linux becoming a desktop ready OS. Dell and some other vendors are already selling some of their Laptop and PC models with Linux pre-installed in them. But, the present day situation is little different that Linux is not really so friendly that any one can just start using it as simple they use Windows.

If you are probably a Linux user already, the features worth looking forward in Gutsy Gibbon are

• Faster Desktop Search
• Compiz Fusion by default
• AppArmor security framework
• Improvements in Firefox plugins
• Better support for audio/video codecs
• Graphical configuration tool for X.org
• Faster User Switching in shared machines
• Printer auto-detection
• Better handling for commercial drivers
• Better support for NTFS

What is Gutsy Gibbon doing to Linux ?

Well, Ubuntu is just one flavor Linux, and it’s giving it’s best to take Linux one step ahead of becoming a Desktop OS.

What is so good about Linux ?

This question surprises me a lot. To be very clear, everything is great about Linux. It’s got a sexy interface, if you don’t trust me, take a look at what Compiz can do. If you don’t want any GUI interface, you are TEH GUY for Linux, it welcomes you with a very useful shell. It’s got almost every tool you use on windows, check LinuxAlt for more information. It gives you more control on your computer than windows. It lets you do MORE useful stuff with your computer rather than burning your computer cycles for checking those stupid commercial DRM rights. If you are a casual user, you need not spend thousands of your hard earned money just to buy one crippled OS which never gives you for your money.

Is Linux nearly a step ahead of becoming Desktop OS ?

Well, the answer is not with just me. It depends on the “particular” user. A user like me will be comfortable with Linux obviously coz, it does everything what windows do, but, if you are some games freak or if you need Photoshop, well, Linux can’t help you much other than giving you some decent alternatives.

What does it mean if you are still reading this post ?

It means nothing that you are little bored of your Windows, and you are little scared of trying/buying the new OS from Microsoft - Vista. And, yes, you are thinking about something good. Just, grab your LiveCD from Ubuntu, and pop the CD and reboot. Ubuntu will boot from the CD without installation. If you like it, you can install it beside your “windows” installation without doing any harm to your files.

You can download the ISO of the CD from Ubuntu site or order a free copy of Ubuntu from its “ShipIt” service.

He is a British-educated lawyer He is the first “colored” lawyer admitted to the bar in South Africa He invented a new weapon for fighting - Ahimsa He is the Father of the Nation which boasts being biggest democracy The above hints might not be helpful for current generation to identify our Bapu. But, certainly there are couple of hints which might be of very helpful for them in identifying him.

The old guy who talks to Munna Bhai in Lage Raho Munna Bhai movie

This hint might be very helpful for the current generation kids to identify him. But, in India, politicians, often being under-educated than a sixth class student would be knowing a lot about Abu Bhai or Dawood Bhai, but not the “first” Bhai of “South Africa”. I’ve a very easy hint for them to identify the person who made India to appear on World Map as India.

Politician uncle, I’m talking about the smiling person on our currency notes

Now, I don’t think there would be any Indian who didn’t manage to recognize the hero of this post. I’m not a fan of him personally but I’m a very big fan of one of his weapons to fight against Injustice - Non-cooperation. Sorry, I don’t remember the exact dialogue, below is “form” of a dialogue taken from one movie

Do whatever you want. I will accept the punishment you give. And after it’s over, I will do the same what I’ve done for what you’ve punished me

In the movie, he states that he learned this technique from his wife, and the fact is I’ve seen same form of war-tactic in almost every girl/woman I’ve seen.

United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring Bapu’s birthday (2nd October) to be the “International Day of Non-Violence.” Bapu, being the person who flashes in any person’s mind when he listens to the word “peace” was nominated for the Nobel peace prize five times, in 1937, 1938, 1939,1947 and 1948, but wasn’t given the Nobel Prize. However, recently, Michael Sohlam, the Executive Director of Nobel Foundation in Sweden said that not awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize was a great mistake done by the Nobel Foundation. May be, it was Bapu’s wish not to be awarded the prize given on the name of the inventor of “dynamite” and owner of “Bofors”

No doubts about it. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi a.k.a Bapu a.k.a our Currency Guy is one of the Greatest Gifts given to India by God.