Convenience

There are two super markets in the area I live. Now both of them have got almost the same stuff and I always go to only one of them even the other is equally good. I have also purchased in the other one when I am passing by that way (both of them are pretty close by) but these days I end up going to always one which is a more distant of these 2 may be by some 50 meters. 

So it happened today that I went to the same place and while returning I was just wondering what is that it makes me always come here and not the other one.

The answer is Convenience :). I mostly go there for getting some food stuff, daily needs and it is always like a quick buy I want to do having a list of things I need always on my mind. It doesn’t need a leisure shopping of groceries for a single guy. So these things are located close by to the billing counters here. And the other products that are daily essential are just on the way to the billing counter. So this makes my job easier not to walk around a lot. It is like I enter the shop and walk to wards the billing counter may be 30 feet or so and by the time I reach there I have everything I need. In the other one the billing counter is the other end and has a separate entry and exit. I have to walk back the entire length again after the purchase to reach my scooter.Also the daily needs stuff is at one corner of the shop which you need to go pick up and come back to the billing. It is just a matter of hardly few steps but it has got a huge effect psychologically:)

Well the conclusion is Convenience matters!!!

Felt like wasted time reading this.. Any way you would have wasted it but at least you read something now. 

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A date with Linux

My office laptop is on dual boot with Fedora Core 9 and Windows XP Professional. I use Linux at times but not continuously. So yesterday I decided to use Linux at office and see if I will reach a situation where I can do with out Windows. Configuring the IMs and Mail took some time. And next comes playing mp3, support which has been removed due to legal issues. Not knowing what to do have to take the help of Linux Forums on the net and I got what I need in few minutes the sequence of commands to execute to install and play :) Cool and I don’t miss playing my mp3s now. And I went on using at till the evening with out any problems. As my work is also on Linux servers – No Microsoft Technologies:), I didn’t face any problem from that front too.

At the end of the day the experience was quite good. 

Getting used to the fonts, icons and the UI was a bit difficult. Tough there are no technical problems even by evening I was feeling like the UI needs some more control in customization. May be it is already there and I don’t know how to…..

And the animations on the desktop are just awesome. Not sure if MS can provide such features ever. The switching over to the next desktop, dragging and what else … everything almost was really good.  I was playing with them when ever I got bored. 

There are too many options for the utilities required, which confuses what to use and you will end up evaluating all of them.  But almost all the things you need (for a developer) are there by default including the Project Management Tool which is lot better in terms of usability than the Microsoft Project though the options are less. 

All it takes is a better UI and nothing else to make the Linux user-friendly. 

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