My first post on this blog is rightly selected – lamp! My name is Chirag and its meaning in Indian languages viz. Sanskrut/Gujarati or even in Urdu/Arabic, is lamp.
Nowadays in USA, we have a choice of buying “day light” energy saver lamps at Home Depot or similar stores. These spiral “day light” energy savers are real energy savers. I have saved tens of bucks on electricity every month.
Today, I am talking about a different LAMP which you might be aware of already. Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP. It’s about free software movement. If you have LAMP, virtually everything used on computers can be created! I am serious.
At the same time, I am an ardent fan of Microsoft movement as well. It’s not about capitalism only or not being greedy. It has more to do with simplicity in action. If you can visualize bell jar curve, you will rightly understand that major area of that curve is occupied by middle portion of the curve. Say, right side 10% is for very naive people like artists. They want very very simple application and that domain is captured by MAC. Then, there is 10% portion of the curve in left side, which is for “intellectuals”. They know what they are doing and nobody else understands that. This domain is ruled by LAMP! The rest 80% portion is captured by Microsoft! This is area comprising common people. They need some power and much simplicity!!!
I will try to explore LAMP and Microsoft Windows in coming posts. Happy reading (or happy getting bored…)
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