Saturday, November 12, 2016

Ubuntu eats up Windows 10 - Windows not showing after installing Ubuntu - GRUB



After installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a dual boot mode with Windows 10, my laptop boots directly to Ubuntu and shows no option for Windows.

The solution for this is to run this command in the Ubuntu Terminal.

sudo update-grub

Click on the search icon on the top right of your Ubuntu Desktop and type in Terminal. Click on the icon that says "Terminal" (you can also use Windows+T keyboard shortcut).

This should list any unfound OS on to the Grub list boot options.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

A not-so surgical strike


Demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1000 notes was no surgical strike, it was a nuke. Mr Modi has dealt a blow to all the black money hoarders ( stool hoarding cash in India).  The media is talking about it even more than the TRUMP pulled off by Donald in the US Presidential Elections.
The question is, who is really affected? The simple answer is everybody.
The rich are hit in the long term - whether they have stashed away black money or not, the middle class in the medium term - again invariable of whether or not they have unaccounted money (unaccounted, because they are not really huge or ill-gotten like in the case of black money hoarders) and the poor in the short term.
The Rich
They have made heavy investments into the real-estate sector, which was pretty much been the staple medium for high investments. Those are definitely going to fall. The ones who had hoarded black money no longer do (atleast theoretically at this moment). The rich can only hope that there is no further action on all the foreign accounts that they have dumped their money in.
The Middle Class
Not enough cash on hand or have a few savings from gifts or chits and other such small payouts that are unaccounted. Some saving made over years which probably can't be really accounted for at this point of time. Realisation from sake of some ancestral properties, part of which was taken in black. These are amounts that they can probably deposit to bank and pay up some tax, but that could be a significant amount if you look at their overall income and saving.
The Poor
Hit hard immediately, but stand to gain in the longer run (hopefully). Most of their transactions are fine with cash, and cash has just been vacuumed, the payments to many I feel were circulated through the black market. Small traders can't run businesses with card swiping machines and mobile wallets. Not now, not in the near future. Until cash is back in the market they are going to be hit.
So effectively, everybody stands to loose and everybody stands to gain.
Not a surgical strike by any means. Is a total nuke on the parallel system, the epi-center being the black money hoarding rich who are still in India (that's a dig at people like Mallya and the other Modi).