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The history of 404 error message

Arun Vishnu — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:33:00 +0000

In the 1980′s a group of scientists at CERN (Switzerland) started working on what was to become the media revolution: the World Wide Web(WWW), or simply ‘the Web’. Their aim was to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats. They started developing their protocol called CERN’s internal network.

In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide Web’s central database.Any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request.When the database started to grow the number of requests grew and also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file.Soon these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: ‘Room 404: file not found’.

Later, the manual processes were automated and people could directly query the database but the error message remained the same ’404: file not found’. The room numbers remained in the error codes in the official release of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) and are still displayed when a browser makes a faulty request to a Web server.

A Nice Article about Love

Arun Vishnu — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:08:00 +0000

I once had a friend who grew to be very close to me. Once when we were sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filled the palm of her hand with some water and held it before me, and said this:

“You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love.”

This was how I saw it: As long as you keep your hand caringly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers round it and try to posses it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds.

This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love…they try to posses it, they demand, they expect… and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you .

For love is meant to be free, you cannot change its nature. If there are people you love, allow them to be free beings.

Give and don’t expect.

Advise, but don’t order.

Ask, but never demand.

It might sound simple, but it is a lesson that may take a lifetime to truly practice. It is the secret to true love. To truly practice it, you must sincerely feel no expectations from those who you love, and yet an unconditional caring.”

Passing thought… Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away…..

Life is beautiful!!! Live it !!!

by Swami Vivekananda

Linux != Windows

Arun Vishnu — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:25:00 +0000

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“Hi! I’ve been using Linux for a few days, and it’s mostly great. But, it’s a shame that [something or other] doesn’t work like it does on Windows. Why don’t all the developers completely rewrite all the software so it acts more like Windows? I’m sure Linux would get lots more users if they did!”
This the the first post I posted in my blog and homepage. But nobody give it’s answer or a comment. But now I got it’s answer. I read an article “Linux is Not Windows”. A nice article. This article is aimed at explaining to those newbies exactly why their ideas tend to get flamed rather than embraced.
So if you have the same question or want to know the difference between Windows and Linux read the full article http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm