Political Joke

We used to tell this joke with some modification pointing to the sardar community. I hardly knew this would fit in with the nepali politicians. Here is the nepali politicians' version.

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Being under tremendous pressure to keep the alliance of political parties together and not knowing who was capable of helping him run the country the PM (Girija Prasad Koirala) took a trip to India and on his trip he had a 'Darshan' with Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. During the meeting he asked her, "How do you manage to keep the alliance of parties together and run the country so well and so effortlessly?

"That's easy," she replied, "I identify the intelligent leaders in the alliance and keep them close to me and always take their guidance and advise."

"But how can I tell whether they are intelligent or not?" the PM inquired.

"You ask them a riddle," she replied, and with that she pressed a button and said, "Would you please send Manmohan Singh in."

When Manmohan arrived, Sonia said, "I have a riddle for you to answer for me. Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was this child?"

Manmohan replied, "That 's easy. The child was me."

"Very good," said the Sonia, "Thank you. You may go, now."

So the PM came back to Kathmandu and called his main coalition ally Madhev Nepal, hoping he would pass the riddle test as he really wanted and needed him in the days ahead to keep the alliance together. He said to him, "I have a riddle for you, and the answer is very important. Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was this child?"

Nepal replied, "Yes, it is clearly very important that we determine the answer, as no child must be left behind when we build the new inclusive Nepal. Can I deliberate on this for a while?"

"Yes," said the PM, "I'll give you four hours to come up with the answer."

So Nepal went and called a meeting of the rest of the seven parties, other than the Maoists as he didn't want them to know such an important question let alone the answer, and asked them the riddle. But after much discussion and many suggestions, none of them had a satisfactory answer. So he was quite upset, not knowing what he would tell the PM.

As Nepal was going back to Baluwatar, he saw Prachanda approaching. So he said, "Comrade, can you answer this riddle for me. Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was the child?"

That's easy, said Prachanda, "The child was me."

"Oh thank you," said Nepal, trying not to let him know what a big problem he had solved and brushed him aside, rushing off with a big smile to Baluwatar.

So Nepal got to Baluwatar he went rushing in to see the PM and he proudly said, "I think I know the answer to your riddle. The child was PRACHANDA!"

"No, you idiot!" shouted the PM in disgust, "You can not even solve the riddle how can I count on you… The child was MANMOHAN SINGH !!!"

A major newspaper closes its operations

This is another example of Maoist atrocity. One of the major newspaper closed down its offices due to maoist nagging.

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कामना प्रकाशन समूहको हार्दिक अपिल

विगत २३ वर्षेखि आदरणीय पाठकहरुको सेवा गर्दै आएको कामना प्रकाशन समूहबाट नियमित रुपमा प्रकाशित नेपाल समाचारपत्र राष्टि्य दैनिक र महानगर सन्ध्याकालीन दैनिक माओवादीसम्बद्ध वितरकहरुले अवरोध पुर्याएका कारण २०६४ असार ५ गतेदेखि केही दिन प्रकाशन तथा वितरण कार्य हुन नसक्ने व्यहोरा अनुरोध गरिन्छ ।

विगत डेढ महिनादेखि नेकपा माओवादीसम्बद्ध अखिल नेपाल संचार, छापाखाना र प्रकाशन मजदुर संघको नामबाट कस्टुमर सोलुसन प्रा.लि.का केही पत्रिका वितरकहरुले कामना प्रकाशन समूहअर्न्तर्गत नै रहेर युनियन दर्ता गर्न पाउनु पर्ने माग राखी अवरोध पुर्याउंदै आएको जानकारी समेत यसै साथ गराइन्छ ।

प्रकाशन समूहको व्यवस्थापनले पटक पटक आन्तरिक रुपमै समस्याको समाधान गर्ने प्रयास जारी राखेकोमा उक्त समूहले पत्रिका प्रकाशन तथा वितरण कार्यमै अवरोध पुर्याउंदै आएकोले प्रवुद्ध पाठकहरुसमक्ष पत्रिका पुर्याउन नसकिएको व्यहोरा अनुरोध छ । यस्तै अवरोधका कारण गत जेठ १२ गते शनिबार पनि नेपाल समाचारपत्रको राजधानी संस्करण प्रकाशित हुन नसकेको व्यहोरासमेत स्मरण गराउन चाहन्छौं ।

स्वतन्त्र, निष्पक्ष र व्यावसायिक पत्रकारिता गर्दै आएको कामना प्रकाशन समूहमाथि नै अनावश्यक एवम् गैरकानुनी दवाव तथा हस्तक्षेप भएकोमा समूह अत्यन्त दुःखित भएको छ । कामना प्रकाशनले यस घटनालाई लाखौं पाठकको सुसूचित हुने अधिकारमाथि हस्तक्षेप ठानेको छ ।

हजारौं नागरिकको रोजगारीसंग जोडिएको यस स्वतन्त्र एवम् निष्पक्ष पत्रिकालाई बचाउन तथा निर्वाधरुपमा संचालन गर्ने वातावरण निर्माणका लागि हामी सम्पर्ूण् स्वतन्त्र नागरिक समाज, राजनीतिक दल, संचार माध्यम र पेशागत संघ संगठनलगायत हर क्षेत्र र वर्गसंग विनम्र अपील गर्दछौं ।

प्रेस विज्ञप्ति

नेपाल समाचारपत्रलगायत पत्रपत्रिका वितरण गर्दै आएको कस्टुमर सोलुसन प्रा.लि.का केही वितरकहरुले कामना प्रकाशन समूहको कार्यालयमा अवरोध पुर्याएका कारण समूहबाट नियमितरुपमा प्रकाशित हुंदै आएको महानगर सन्ध्याकालीन असार ५ गते र सोही दिनदेखि नेपाल समाचारपत्र राष्टि्य दैनिकको प्रकाशन तथा वितरण कार्यमा समेत पनि अवरोध पुर्याएका छन् ।

सोही कारणबाट नेपाल समाचारपत्र यही असार ६ गतेदेखि केही दिन प्रकाशित हुन नसक्ने व्यहोरा सम्पर्ूण्ा शुभेच्छुक, पाठक वर्ग तथा विज्ञापनदाताहरुमा दुःख पर्ूवक जानकारी गराइएको छ । कामना प्रकाशन समूहले नेपाल समाचारपत्र राष्टि्य दैनिकको वितरण कार्य कस्टुमर सोलुसनलाई करारमा दिएकोमा वितरकहरुले प्रकाशन संस्थामै आवद्ध भएर मजदुर युनियन दर्ता गर्न पाउनु पर्ने माग राख्दै आएपछि उक्त स्थिति उत्पन्न भएको हो ।

नेकपा -माओवादी) सम्बद्ध अखिल नेपाल संचार, छापाखाना र प्रकाशन मजदुर संघका नामबाट ती वितरकहरुले युनियन दर्तालगायत विभिन्न माग राखी विगत डेढ महिनादेखि छापाखाना घेराउ, पर््रदर्शन र नाराबाजी जस्ता विविध गतिविधि संचालन गरी अवरोध पुर्याउदै आएका छन् ।

यस्तै अवरोधका कारण २०६४ जेठ १२ गते शनिबार नेपाल समाचारपत्रको राजधानी संस्करण प्रकाशित हुन नसकेको सबैलाई अवगत नै छ । प्रकृतिले नै स्वतन्त्र हुनुपर्ने एउटा निष्पक्ष पत्रिकामाथि अनावश्यक रुपमा यसरी राजनीतिक हस्तक्षेप तथा गैरकानुनी दवाव दिइनुलाई हामीले प्रेस स्वतन्त्रताको चरम उल्लंघन ठानेका छौं । यस्तो कार्यबाट आमपाठकको सुसूचित हुने अधिकारमाथि कुठाराघात भएको छ ।

लाखौं पाठकको सूचना तथा समाचारको विश्वसनीय माध्यम एवम् हजारौं नागरिकको जीविकोपार्जनसंग जोडिएको एक स्वतन्त्र, निष्पक्ष एवम् व्यावसायिक संचार संस्थालाई जोगाउन नागरिक समाज, राजनीतिक दल, संचार जगत, पेशागत संघ संगठन, आमशुभेच्छुक, पाठकवर्ग तथा विज्ञापनदातालगायत हर वर्ग र क्षेत्रलाई कामना प्रकाशन संस्था हार्दिक आह्वान गर्दछ ।

साथै केही दिन नेपाल समाचारपत्र र महानगर सन्ध्याकालीन प्रकाशित हुन नसक्ने व्यहोरा सम्पर्ूण्ा पाठक तथा विज्ञापनदाताहरुमा जाहेर गर्दछौं ।

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तथा प्रधान सम्पादक

PM denies making comments favouring 'minor King'

A day after a news about PM GP Koirala's view on monarchy made the headlines of all the newspapers, the PM gave new statement that the press "miss" - quoted him. Now now, what kind of statement is that? I think this is another good political joke. I don't want to comment anything on this topic.

Below is the news article from Nepalnews.com
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A day after he was reported to have made remarks urging the King and Crown Prince to abdicate in favour of 'minor King' or face imminent republic, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has denied making such comments.

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala (File photo)

"I had referred to the statements I made in Biratnagar eight months ago. I had then urged the King (to consider this offer). But the King did not listen to me. And now the situation is different. Only the Constituent Assembly can decide the fate of monarchy now," he told reporters after the meeting of Nepali Congress parliamentary party in Baluwatar on Monday.

The Prime Minister said that the media had failed to understand what he had said during his interaction with a delegation of Pakistani journalists who were accompanied by members of Weekly Fortnightly Newspapers Network on Sunday.

"Our media is just learning so I do not want to make any specific comment about them," Koirala added.

The Prime Minister said that he cannot go against the wishes of people. "The CA will have the people's mandate and I cannot go against their decision," he said, adding, "I have no love or preference for monarchy."

At the NC parliamentary party meeting, many Congress lawmakers raised concerns about continued Maoist atrocities and wondered aloud if the CA elections can be held on time.

Meanwhile, the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) leaders, too, raised objections against PM's reported remarks favouring 'minor King' at the meeting of standing committee on Monday. nepalnews.com sd Jun 18 07

Wikipedia's MySQL databases handle over 25,000

I got this in mail from Vibek dai. We had small chat about open source software and license software yesterday. This is quite a useful article to all.


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Wikipedia's MySQL databases handle over 25,000


Wikipedia is the multilingual, Web-based, free encyclopedia that is
produced collaboratively by volunteers. According to Alexa Traffic
Rankings, Wikipedia consistently ranks in the Top Ten most-visited Web
sites in the world. It hosts over 5 million articles in more than 100
languages. Every day, tens of millions of visitors learn more about
their world - making nearly a half-million edits and creating
thousands of new entries.

Their 'Growing' Challenge :

Wikipedia's growth statistics are simply amazing. The organization has
faced exponential growth on many fronts since its introduction in
2001. These include:

* Annual visitor growth from less than 50,000 to over 154 million
* Content growth from less than 100 articles to over 5 million
* Contributor growth from less than 100 to over 290,000

Wikipedia expects the growth in content, contributor and user-base to
continue in all directions - and needs a computing infrastructure that
will keep the pace.

Their Scale-Out Solution:

This phenomenal growth has put constant technical pressure on the
performance and scalability of the system. Wikipedia is based on the
LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP) and has grown from initially
employing a single shared server to now being a Top Ten site, with
more than 20 replicated database servers delivering up-to-date content
to visitors. Additionally, lightweight MySQL instances are spread out
on application servers as a distributed archive solution.

Wikipedia relies upon MySQL replication to scale-out their database
infrastructure and accommodate more visitors, more articles and more
contributors. This architecture also allows them to save significantly
on hardware costs. Since they add new servers only on an incremental,
as-needed basis, they can delay their new hardware purchases until
more powerful machines drop to lower, commodity prices.

P.S.
What is Database Scale-Out?

Scale-Out is a modern computing architecture that enables
organizations to improve application performance and scalability on an
incremental, as-needed basis by adding multiple replicated database
servers on low-cost commodity hardware. This is in contrast to a Scale-
Up approach, which requires organizations to make a large up-front
investment in more expensive and complex server hardware and database
licenses in order to add capacity.

In the online world, many of the largest and fastest-growing companies
use MySQL to cost-effectively Scale-Out their successful businesses,
saving millions of dollars over high-cost proprietary technology -
including Google, Yahoo, craigslist, Ticketmaster, Wikipedia, YouTube,
and Evite/Citysearch.


"The notion persists within many traditional enterprises that once you
reach a certain level of application importance, it is necessary to
transition to big, expensive boxes running big, expensive databases.
However, free-thinking members of their IT staffs are beginning to ask
the question: 'What can we learn from Google, Yahoo, and Wikipedia on
how to scale for high growth?' "
Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst
Red Monk

Source: http://www.mysql.com

Buying a computer????

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm

thinking about buying a computer.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.

ABBOTT: Your computer?

COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.

ABBOTT: What about Windows?

COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?

ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?

COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look at the

windows?

ABBOTT: Wallpaper.

COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and

software.

ABBOTT: Software for Windows?

COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to

write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?

ABBOTT: I just did.

COSTELLO: You just did what?

ABBOTT: Recommend something.

COSTELLO: You recommended something?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: For my office?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!

ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.

COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let's

just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?

ABBOTT: Word.

COSTELLO: What word?

ABBOTT: Word in Office.

COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.

ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.

COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?

ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W".

COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "W" if you don't start

with some straight answers! What about financial. You have anything I can track my money?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?

ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.

COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?

ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.

COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?

ABBOTT: One copy.

COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?

ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.

COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?

ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!

A few days later . . . . . . .

ABBOTT: Super Duper Computer Store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?

ABBOTT: Click on "START" !!!!!

Businessmen vandalize Maoist office in Rajbiraj

Kantipur Report

RAJBIRAJ, June 14 - Businessmen in Rajbiraj Thursday vandalized and torched Maoist belongings in their Tribhuwan Chowk situated party office.

The businessmen have alleged that the Maoist youth wing Young Communist League (YCL) cadres -- protesting against the killing of their fellow cadres in Rupandehi -- forced them to shut down their shops and even thrashed them.

Two YCL cadres were killed yesterday in clash with Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) in Rupandehi.

Six businessmen including Baiju Shah and Dinesh Prasad Gupta have been injured by the YCL thrashing.

The irate businessmen set ablaze a computer, six bicycles, some documents and clothes from the Maoist office.

They have handed over a pistol and a grenade, which they found at the Maoist office, to the police.

Posted on: 2007-06-14 00:38:40 (Server Time)