Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Dream-05 and its interpretation from Heaven

Latest dream as far as I am concerned was futuristic.

Reasons I will give below.
It goes on like this.
We had a long drawn out industrial action, this time students (like in 1988-1989), I was getting bored and decided to quit for good which I did.

After 6 months of struggling I managed to get part of the Provident Fund (half of which was frozen for administration of unknown intellectual assets and authorities did not wish to part with the balance thinking if I die before the release of the funds, it was gross government saving, wished I could be dead by natural causes) and I wanted to buy a car for my retirement now that even walking a few paces was a struggle.

I went with somebody which I cannot remember probably an in law to drive me home.

We cleared everything and all of them got into the car and left leaving me behind with a heavy suitcase.

I thought now that I had signed the papers, they went for a test drive.

I could not leave my heavy luggage for safe keeping and after few minutes of waiting I decided to stroll down the alleyway.

The luggage was too heavy after few minutes I sat down under a tree panting and cursing myself, had I some money I would have hired a three wheeler.


Then after about half and hour they realized I wasn't in and came in search of me. By that time I had gone bananas and with the commotion I was woken up.

I must tell you why I was happy. 

My present Provident Fund saving is not enough to buy even a three wheeler.
I was visibly annoyed with myself for waking up lest I had gone to Anuradhapura in pilgrimage in this new car with total happiness, I may have even attained some path freedom (Sovan) in my dream.

That is the long and short of my dream but I was intrigued by the heavy luggage.

I sent an email to Maha and this time there was a long silence before his chat appearance.

I wasn't least pleased with his attitude to my latest dream.

I asked him was he busy to which he gave negative response.

Then again he was dragging his feet and asked me how  the industrial action was taking shape.

I told him we are having deliberations in the courts and I am not allowed to divulge anything.

Then he summoned his courage and said that this dream is not futuristic and dull and no point of discussing or interpreting.

I felt something fishy and asked him this dream is about me, isn't it?
He paused and said how did you guess?
Do you really need some interpretation? 

Why not, we earthling are going from pillar to post looking for godforsaken astrologers who take us for a ride.
We love to hear of our future even if it is our funeral and specially the salary increment we are going to get.

This one is little bad.

You mean to say we won't get any increment?

No fool it is your final farewell?

Farewell for leaving the University?

No fool your ultimate farewell from this planet.

Or I see.

You were waiting for the people to come and dump you and push the electric button and they were late and you were watching from above.

Heaven, I believe.

Can't tell you that now.

In that case can you tell me what was that heavy luggage in the suitcase.

That was your Kusal-Akusala Kamma Load.

Which is more?
Can't tell that too.

Can you tell me at least the Ahosi Kammas.
You have finished all your Ahosi Kamma by blogging and all in the suitcase were viable Kammas.

That means no Sovan for me, isn't it?
Can't tell you that too.

You must stop all blogging and stop doing any Kusala or Akulsala Kamma.
Why?

You are then in Kriya Mode and then only you get to dream good futuristic dreams not related to your life.
Or I see.

Less Kusala and Akusala in your suitcase and more I get to hear god futuristic dreams, from you.

How long?
That is left to you.

In that case I have to go on indefinite industrial action.
You won't have any problem with that since the case is in Sri-Lankan courts.
Happy dreaming.
See you soon.

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Comment to a Comment

I agree with almost everything what you say.
But my concern is can Swift Linux take the advantage of the niche (evolutionary term) and the void Microsoft has left for us the Linux community exploit?

Answer is Big Yes.

But we must have a global view.

My approach is having three sizes (even Puppy Legacy 2 has realized this).


1. Very Light (like Peppermint)-below 500MiB

2. Middle Weight (PCLinux is currently number 7 in Distrowatch neck and neck wit Puppy).-1 to 1.4 GiB

3. Gorilla (PCLinuxFullMonty)- 3 GiB and above

I want you to succeed in a business environment and LibreOffice is vital for day to day work. 
I use Abiword for its simplicity but many prefer  big chunk of office as a utility.
 
Please do not be restricted by 700 MiB CD.
 
DVDs are damn cheap even in Sri-Lanka.
Mini Pocket DVD (1.4 GiB) is affordable.
I appreciate your hard work.
Sky is the limit for you.
Good Luck and try torrent too.

Good news is iso files are available for download at SourceForge.
The link is given when one visit the home page of Swift Linux.

I managed to download the Swift Linux regular last night and it boots well and can be installed. I have both Mepis and AntiX (this is pretty good for old computers) with me and except for the fact that it has taken some weight out of Antix it cannot outsmart Antix.
Regards to old computers it does boot with my old IBM Think Pad computer but not with IBM Net Vista which I have installed Mepis for my downloads.
It looks like it has missed some hardware modules when downsizing.
One cannot downsize hardware configuration if one is promoting Swift Linux for old computers.
Bottom line is I will not install it but keep it for testing purposes.

There are over 100 very good light weight distribution including Puppy and Peppermint and it is left to you to decide which one you want to use.

Choice is yours. Visit my Linux 100 for details.

It looks like the home site of the Swift Linux has been attacked few days after this comment and I could not download a single file (Image).
This is why I stated that one should host images with linuxtracker as torrent file or ones own site as torrrents.
Even Linux tracker was attacked in this modern digital age one is not careful.
They said they are rising from the ashes of phoenix and and they surely did.
One mad digital guy / girl with corporate backing can do enormous damage while most of the average guys and girls do wonderful things with digital (code and programming) fingers and code soup.

I once thought writing and blogging on Live CD and Linux are a waste of time but now I realize what a load of image building I have done for them without even knowing any one of them.
Keep up the good work. 

This world has lot of good guys and only a few bad and ugly guys (mean both sex).

I am a fan of Mepis and AntiX.

AntiX is lighter weight version of Mepis with lot of packages and works with low RAM for old computers.
I have been looking for weird form of Linux derivatives and came across Swift linux some time ago.
After about 40 tries (download stream abruptly stops without completing) I mange to get diet Linux and Taylor Swift with  music at start up.

This was 0.0.3 version and I gave up because it was only live and no install.

I could get the other images and then suddenly another version came.
The 0.0.3 but could not  download with similar failure as above.
However my interest did waxed and waned but when I saw Distrowatch including it as a viable option I decided to get the latest version.

It was not there in Distrowatch or Softpedia and typed home of Swift Linux.
Presto1
Big jump the version is 0.1.1 and currently attempting to download.
there vision and goal are both honourable.
When Microsoft leave you high and dry, one need not throw the computer away or buy new one.
Swift will take over swiftly the vacuum left.
they have included Open Office which I have begun to hate now.
Hope they will include LibreOffice in future issues.
Please go and visit their site and I wish them good luck and hope they will leave the image at linuxtracker to prevent my agony of downloading. 

I will come back with a honest report if I am successful downloading it.