Windows 7 Error : Verify that the file exists and that you can access it

This error basically means that the SYSTEM user is not able to execute the file (a .msi installer) in that folder.

Right Click and Change the Security Settings to add SYSTEM

Step 0

Right Click to go to Folder Properties Screenshot 2014-03-26 00.27.50

 

 

 

Step 1 Navigate to Security per0

 

 

 

Step 2 Add System per1

 

Packt gives Buy one , get one free offer on 2000th title release

Got a message from Packt Publishing-

Packt Publishing have launched an exciting campaign to coincide with the release of 2000th title. During this offer they are giving all our customers a chance to enjoy our books by giving them a free e-book copy for every purchase – “Buy One, Get One Free”

The campaign began on 18th-Mar-2014 and will continue up until 26th-Mar-2014. Following are the benefits readers can avail during this campaign.

  •     Unlimited purchases during the offer period
  •     Offer is automatically applied at checkout

Interested in free e books , here you go- http://bit.ly/1j26nPN

Packt Publishing seems an interesting phenomenon in the traditionally slow to change world of book publishing!

Talking on Cloud Computing

I am scheduled to deliver a talk here-http://chennai.vit.ac.in/isbcc/ . Will post slides once I am done!

1st International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges(ISBCC-2014)

Mr. Ajay Ohri
Founder
decisionstats.com

 

Title:
Data Analytics using the Cloud – Challenges and Opportunities for India

Abstract:
The availability of the cloud offers unprecedented democratic access to high performance computing. How is India’s Information Technology powerhouse industry willing to exploit the shift in computing from the PC to the tablet/mobile/internet with the cloud replacing servers as thebackend. What are some of the challenges including privacy, legal, regulatory and national in cloud computing. How can we use open source analytics like R with public clouds to drive much more innovation in the Indian economy? The talk will address all this.

INTERNET: Explicit Chinese Censorship versus Implicit USA Spying

Over the past few years , two models of Internet regulation have emerged and there seem to be parallels in Communist versus Capitalistic Ideologies in these two models. Most countries have adopted various shades and degrees of mixture of these models-

1) USA- Partner commercially with Internet distribution and content companies. Offer legal backing through Patriotic Act. Adopt secret courts for some provisions. Reward commercial partners like Google and Facebook

2) China- Offer explicit censorship through a legal framework on what can be taken down, and what can be tolerated. Firewall off non conforming companies, thus creating an ecosystem for domestic countries.

Had more countries like India, Brazil etc followed the Chinese lead of creating firewalls, we would have a more democratic internet rather than one in which a global Internet audience is monetized primarily for American financial and industrial systems.

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How to defeat machine learning with human creativity?

I look around and I see myself surrounded by people promising a new dawn of a glorious civilization by machine learning, with perfect data capture, incredible computational and remorseless algorithms crunching to give you a glimpse of the future. Some even say a few billion here and there and you could approach a new singularity in time.
So I wonder, and I wonder, if the human race , particularly the common man, the plebians, ever stand a chance against the machine learning plutocrats.
And I am heartened by that old friend of mankind, the sheer elegant romance of random number creation.And of tools like sarcasm, and implied association using lingustic tools that no database can capture.Of for some more randomness, more romantic entropy, onwards to a brave new utopian internet in an increasingly dystopian world.
Quo Vadis, Brutus? Quo Vadis, indeed!!

Artists Steal

Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal-Picasso (allegedly)

Just 1 hour ago, someone wrote this1236786_459060134193630_1006416725_n

 

Just some time back, I wrote this

https://decisionstats.com/2013/08/02/how-to-be-a-better-writer/

But as they say–

Karma is a bitch