Xmonad

So i set up Xmonad on my system today. XMonad with GNOME is great. The key combination is easy to use and configure. Installation was easy. Thanks to the great tutorial by Mark Hansen @ http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-lucid/.

Now at present i have three windows open together. One running drivel, the other chrome along with a terminal. By running Xmonad with gnome i am able to use all the utilites provided by gnome. That i guess was the only thing i had in my mind while installing it. Since i needed the network manager to run my photon. Now since everything is running would love to explore this.

Now i am planning to install arch along with slackware on my system. Have used slackware for a long time earlier so i guess there won't be much problem on that front. Main thing will be to install arch on my system. This i will do when i go home, cause i need a good broadband connection to install arch. I am planning to use arch for general use and will use slackware to test new softwares.

Another application i installed today was Todo list. Got to see how useful it is.

Intelligence

Another thing that i read in Mark Hansen's blog :

" No one knows where the borderline between non-intelligent behaviour and intelligent behaviour lies; in fact, to suggest that a sharp borderline exists is probably silly. But essential abilities for intelligence are certainly:

to respond to sitations very flexibly;
to take advantage of fortuitious circumstances;
to make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages;
to recognize the relative importance of different elements of a situation;
to find similarities between situations despite differences which may separate them;
to draw distinctions between situations despite similarities which may link them;
to synthesize new concepts by taking old concepts and putting them together in new ways;
to come up with idea which are novel."

– Douglas R. Hofstadter, in Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid