Pravab

Source : PatriotDepot so·cial·ism noun a theory or system of social organization  that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.  (http://dictionary.com) An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had stu...

I Promise Myself To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet. To make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them. To look at the sunny side of everything, and make my optimism come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet. To give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds. To...

Two Buddhist Monks were on a journey, one was a senior monk, the other a junior monk. During their journey they approached a raging river and on the river bank stood a young lady. She was concerned about how she would get to the other side of the river without drowning. The junior monk walked straight past her without giving it a thought and he crossed the river. The senior monk picked up the woman and carried her across the river. He placed her down, they parted ways with woman and on they went with the journey. As the journey went on, the senior monk could see some concern on the junior monk’s mind, he asked what was wrong. The junior monk replied, “how could you carry her like that? You know we can’t touch women, it’s against our way of life”. The senior monk answered, “I left the woman at the river’s edge a long way back, why are you still carrying her?” Source: (Tia, 2011) http://www.yourlifeyourway.net/2011/11/21/the-monks-and-the-mon...

Due to the licensing of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS), every user of F/LOSS can enjoy the freedoms and rights that it has to offer. Information and communication technology (ICT) recently has been recognised to play an important role for organisations to be able to meet its business objectives. Even the educational institute have realised the potential it has to offer but due to the high implementation cost and maintenance of the ICT infrastructure, educational institute mainly in the developing countries have been deprived of its use. The study indicates that with the availability of F/LOSS as an alternative, most of the education sector in developing countries have been able to enjoy the benefit ICT has to offer. In the context of Nepal, when the Ministry of education realised the potential of educational sector benefiting for the ICT, they initiated programs to integrate it in the education sector. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) model is the best example to consid...

From the collected data it can be seen that most of the teachers are using dual boot operating systems (i.e. both Microsoft windows and GNU/Linux) in both their home (50%) and educational institute (57%) whereas the students seem to prefer using only Microsoft Windows operating systems in both home (50%) and educational institute (45%). Even though most of the students tend to are using only Microsoft Windows, it is interesting to see the use of GNU/Linux as the only operating system used in both of the places (17% and 15% in educational institute and home respectively). It can be interpreted that some percentage of the students favour GNU/Linux operating system over the rest whether it is just for educational projects, normal projects or other purpose. The data also suggests that the dual boot operating system is popular in both the educational sector (36%) and in the home desktop (29%). With a high percentage of students using GNU/Linux operating system and dual boot operating sys...

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) goal is to expand education to every child with the help of a low cost laptop. The OLPC laptop runs with GNU/Linux as operating systems and with a unique interface ‘Sugar’ which can be localised. It is developed by F/LOSS users and has customised software developed by each country deployment team (Jones, 2007). OLPC Nepal project is handled by Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal. It is working with the DoE of Nepal to integrate ICT based teaching-learning approach into the country education system. The OLPC deployment was carried in two phase. In the first phase, two schools in Lalitpur district were selected as a pilot project namely Bishwamitra Ganesh Secondary School and Bashuki Lower Secondary School. The project started in April 2008 when 135 laptops were provided to the students from grade 2 and 6 (OLENepal, n.d. a).  Teachers were given training to make them feel comfortable for using laptop in their teaching process. Teachers wanted to be f...