Facebook shuts down on Mar 15?

This is the latest and hottest news on our planet. The world's second most visited website is going to shutdown in just 60 more days. Here is a news report quoted from weeklyworldnews.com.

PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful.
“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”
Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.
“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.”

And one single question I wanted to ask is, Are you kidding me? Who in heaven will shutdown such a multi-billion dollar business? I wouldn't be surprised if it touches Trillion mark within ten days. Whole world is immersed in FB and the business wolves will not let it happen. Millions of Android-powered phones are sold just because it ships in with a nice facebook app. Mobile marketing has taken a paradigmatic shift with the growing popularity of Facebook. Even if Zuckerberg does choose to leave it, would you think the world will stop social networking?

The next big battle will be for the one who will lead the road to fame by building the next facebook-like app. Rumors travel faster than light. This one just did. First best joke of 2011.

Dawn of the Debian

End of Microsoft's 12-year dominance has finally come, as I started using (learning infact) Ubuntu Linux for a while now. It's a DOS-based CAR-RACE game, which ignited my first ever fascination toward a computer. I was 12 then. Dad enrolled me in a computer institute. Manipal Institute of Computer education, if I recollect correctly. I am supposed to be taught MS DOS and OFFICE '97. I was given instructions on the basic DOS commands and I am supposed to try them out.

After I typed the CD command 600 times, and the COPYCON command, countless times, I got bored of seeing the black N white console and even got sick of seeing it as days progressed, until I found this CAR game. I completed the coursework and became a good friend of the instructor who allowed me to play the game for an hour every morning. My School was few blocks away, which allowed me easy access to the centre. After a head-start at 7 AM, I go to the centre, play the game till I hear the assembly bell in school at 8:45.

Stuck with Microsoft all these years. I learnt the Office packages, played more computer games, crossed high-school, graduated with an engineering degree in Computer Science.  I was never showed any other operating system than Microsoft, both in School and College. I am now enough matured to realize that I cannot survive with Microsoft alone. Definitely not that I hate Microsoft, but it's just that I want to learn Linux (and Unix too). As majority of the production applications are running in Non-Microsoft servers, I presume it makes sense to make myself get used to the shell environment :)