Sunday, February 9, 2025
MATE Update on User Administration
List of Failures of JVP/NPP
Problem with Human Language
There are 2000 functional languages in this world.
There were 2500 to begin with.
They are not uniformly structured.
Alien Artifacts
This is based on General Philip J Corso's revelations but I have my own insinuations.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Transistors and Texas Instruments and My Computer Journey
These ideas were extracted from a YouTube Presentation.
Transistors and Texas Instruments
First large transistor was developed in 1948, by Bell Labs, 3 years after Roswell Crash of Alien Craft. I believe these were reverse engineered from Alien Artifacts. It is not an opinion but a belief. These were given to various emerging companies to avoid monopoly. Monopoly like Microsoft came in much later in 1980s.
Read Phili Corso in this blog site.
Texas Instruments emerged in 1951 after a reorganization of Geophysical Service Incorporated, a company founded in 1930 that manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry, as well as defense electronics.
In April 2001, Woolworth Group acquired Tandy Electronics for $112.6 million from InterTAN Australia Limited (a subsidiary of International Tandy). Tandy had 222 stores at the time. Despite also owning Dick Smith Electronics, the Tandy stores continued to trade as separate entities until the phasing out of the Tandy brand by Woolworths in 2011.
This is based on General Philip J Corso's revelations but I have my own insinuations.
Whonix-Xfce-17.3.1.ova
What is DDR?
What is DDR?
I am interested to know what RAM my Old ACER Laptop has.
I think it is DDR3 and it is pretty slow.
I know my NUC has DDR4.
I won't buy a gadget with DDR5, even though I promote Linux games, in my age I have lot the manual dexterity to play games like a kid.
What is DDR?
As the speed of computer components have increased, memory speeds
also improved. Double data rate (DDR) memory was introduced to
consumers in 2000, prompting the previous technology to become known as
single data rate (SDR).
DDR memory transfers data to the processor on both the rising and
falling edges of the clock signal. This makes double data rate memory
significantly faster – and more energy-efficient – than single data-rate
memory, which uses only one edge of the clock signal to transfer data.
Since DDR is faster and uses less energy than SDR, it quickly became the
new standard for memory innovation.
It's also worth pointing out that double data rate memory differs from dual channel memory.
DDR generations
Each successive generation of DDR memory is faster and uses less energy than the one before it.
Today, most computers can get by using DDR3, while most high-end gaming and data-intensive creative content computers now use DDR4.
The latest generation, DDR5, was released in 2021 and offers the next level of performance for serious gamers and professional creatives.
It important to determine what generation of memory your computer supports before buying new RAM. DDR5 memory, for example, will not fit on a motherboard built to support DDR4.
Check with your motherboard
manufacturer to ensure you have the right memory.
Audience With King Charles and a Cuppa Ceylon Tea
Audience With King Charles and a Cuppa Ceylon Tea
Yes, I was invited for an Audience with King Charles.
Caste System is Endemic in Ceylon
Caste System is Endemic in Ceylon
I am making this because a guy in YouTube shows naked aggression.
Just before the election, I had a pieces here stating that J.V.P.'s political failure was it was cast based from the very beginning.
I removed that piece 48 hours before the presidential election and predicted that this time round J.V.P. would get 45% of the vote and there going to be count of the second preference.
In the general election they got the floating vote but could not top the 2.9 millions, the previous best which Gotabaya got.
British of course took grand steps to stem this tendency and their University system was the instrument.
But system persisted in a different way.
The villages were named according to the cast.
This persist to this day.
The name did not sound the caste.
British used this Divide and Rule System.
We are still divided but on ethnic and religious grounds.
1. City of Kandy
2. Church and the school
The Roman Catholic School made no discrimination in admission to the school but Muslim did not enter.
I stated my schooling there but did not last due to Mettanada's exposed Catholic Action to the Public.
Nobody could get a Government job unless on is a Catholic.
There was sinister attempt to make me to change my religion when I was under 16 years.
I resisted.
I wanted to be without any religion.
There was a caste here with political power and money.
The were called Rajapaksa.
All the land belonged to them.
Of course British had given them free.
3. Udagama
Where the Village council was located.
4. Pallegama or 2nd mile post
This is from where I came from. All the white collar job people resided in this region including the Chief Justice Thalgodapitiya.
5. Maddegama
Where the cemetery was located.
It belonged to the "Hewa Gam" or the dancers of the Kandy Perehara.
The first guy to enter the University came from this village but he could not get a job for over 5 years.
He worked part time in the Department of Pali (which J.R.J. destroyed and currently Ranil is hell bent in doing so) but ended up as a school teacher.
He was a very nice guy.
Just to say how British University help without discrimination in our time until Cyril Mathews introduced a new scheme of university admission.
I entered university before this scheme.
6. Coloniya Colony
Where poor people were located. It was a Tea Estate abandoned.
I have seen
7. Thuna Kanuwas or 3rd Mile Post
Where all the thugs were located and they also aligned to a party and their name was Pathirana.
This family was was decimated over time.
8. Another guy from place in between 2nd and third mile post entered university before me and he ended up as the Professor of medicine in Galle University.
I did not know where he is now. He was my elder brother's class mate.
I used to wear the typical Peradeniya Beard as a Medical Student but cut it when J.V.P. adopted this style.
I was never a supporter of J.V.P.
D.J.V.P. under the behest of Indian RAW put me in their kill list.
I was the fourth to be kill by them.
My crime I was working for I.M.M.I (Water Management Company).
This was a ploy by America to own our water resources.
India opposed this project that is why they wanted to kill me.
Funny part is now Indian is a strong ally of America.
8. Guru Gama or Gurudeniya for Royal Astrologers
Haragama is located here where last King escaped from Kandy through and underground tunnel to Mada Maha Nuwara where he was trapped and caught.
Please not when the first battalion of British Soldiers entered the tunnel water from Maha Weli was diverted and all were drowned. Read my book on Ceylon at Amazon where I have given a rough account of this SAGA.
Do not believe the British account.
By the way, the first Suicide Bombers came from Kandy Soldiers.
Inside Kithul palm trees the hid with improvised bomb material and when British guys decided to rest on them, they were blasted with the Suicide Bomber.
L.T.T.E borrowed this technique but improved it to high effect.
Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers
Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers.
Somebody should revive this, now that Steve Job is no more.
The Darwin kernel is equivalent to the Mac OS X kernel plus the BSD libraries and commands essential to the BSD Commands environment.
Items 6 to 10 are programming languages (now mostly platform independent) which made the backbone of Linux.
11. Audacity is a Linux derivative
12. Thunderbird is a Linux derivative
13. VLC Media Player is a Linux derivative
14. Geogebra is a Linux derivative
15.TeX
No operating system is Pure and I have used OpenOffice or Libre Office since they originated from Sun Solaris system and later became Open Source.
Friday, February 7, 2025
My Cellphone History
I have new Nokia with with Android 12 image and another Redmi A2+ which has Android 13.
My Cellphone history
I bought a basic phone for the utility value of it, first time round and ended buying upto 10 more cellphones.They were cheap then and I of course had spare money.
Number one utility value for me is listening to the Radio and to get local news updates when on the move and number two for an emergency call when out and about.
Having experienced a stolen SIM from me, I do not want to take my expensive cellphone out.
Even in Europe, the commonest items stolen are money, cellphone and laptops.
If I lose my cellphone, the headache is bigger than losing a SIM or two, even though, I have configured it to be traced by Google, in such an event.
Also typing the password for Gmail entry is a pain and it needs to be remembered by Google on 24/7 basis.
This basic phone is from Samsung and it is cute and not bulky.
First it's Radio was OK.
Sound quality was good and it detected all my downloaded music files.
There it ends my satisfaction.
It took two days to figure out how it works and set the time and date having read the instruction note twice in very small letters.
It was only interested in configuring the SIM.
I get the carrier details and that's all.
I removed the battery at least five times to get it to the start mode and each time I figured out what next to come one application at a time. This was useful when I got a Samsung tablet as a gift. It does not shutdown if the battery is on. Only shutdown when the battery is totally dead. Of course, it does not start until the battery is charged up to 20% or more.
I got the vendor to configure it, for me and I was not happy to give a call unless it does not work the way I wanted it to be.
Altogether, I had about 20 messages from the two carriers but I could not type a single SMS message.
I had to press this or that button to get the simple or capital letters or numbers.
Finally, I got the wall paper I wanted and switched it off, for a break.
If I have to type a message in an emergency, it perhaps needs one minute for each word.
I have not tried any contact numbers yet except my own extra SIMS in Nokia cellphones from one of which, I am typing this post.
This
is why, I always say Radio is the best way to get the local news fast
and not a new cellphone with carriers who cannot reach the far corners
of this country or the location of the person in distress.
The government has not figured this out.
A scenario like tsunami and how to respond quickly is not figured out.
Leaving it to the individual carriers is not the full proof remedy.
They are interested in money making.
During the Coronavirus epidemic getting the base stations working at full throttle was not achieved.
Leaving it to the doctors, who are already hard pressed (to get the infrastructure activated) is no good.
Police may do a better job but army is shadowing them.
Having a cellphone as a safety net is not good enough,
if the poor farmer does not know how to operate it (SIM response,
emergency calls and reaching the nearest police station or hospital).
The guy I gave my android phone version 8 has not figured out how to use it after almost two years.
Majority including my classmates who were in public service do not understand that the cellphone is a mini computer.
They feel shy to ask for help.
It is often, the son or daughter who is using or operating the cellphone.
Mind you, I leaned a few tricks from my daughter but I have gone beyond that point of entry.
I think Android phone should be the basic but my GreenTel cellphone had more options and I also had a version which received analogue TV stations.
I am told GreenTel has gone bust.
I had a GreenTel notebook, too.
The GreenTel has the best phone camera and its Android version is 6 and Google has fiddled with the photo application and I cannot access the photos stored in this cellphone.
I have activated the Google App store for updates and Google is not responding.
I am not sure whether it is due to GreenTel had gone bust or Google is interfering or both.
But
I am pretty sure Google is interfering and does not let me see the
stored up (not in the Google Drive, which I rarely use) photos in the
cellphone.
Now this was my second cellphone.
The first Java phone (1), I
gave free to a guy who depends on the cellphone for his day to day work and he has gained
my trust for a long time and when things were getting bad in schools
were demanding cellphones with video conferencing I bought a new one for
his daughter.
After 3 months of no work he has found some work.
The GreenTel (2) was taken twice to Singapore Birds Park.
I was a regular visitor to Singapore when airfares were pretty cheap.
The last visit to Singapore was to visit Bird's Park and those photos of birds Google is preventing the access.
I bought a cellphone in Singapore and it is called SeeKen (4) and it had Android version 6 and it's touch screen has gone unresponsive and it is not responding.
Problem with liquid crystals underneath.
The second GreenTel (3), I gave it to my son.
The third Zigo (5), I gave it to a guy who has not used it for two years. This was the phone in which one of my SIMs of Hutch was stolen my a Muslim guy, a crafty manipulator.
Fifth was a Zigo
(in Dubai - Sheikh's Company) cellphone with touch screen and it had itd pixels burnt and a white line running vertically which was disposed, since I could
not find a spare battery.
That is the second telephone company gone bust.
After long lay off, I bought a couple of Nokia cellphones (may be 4) for my Internet work and they are the best for me. One of which I gave it to a worker guy (who helps me with odd jobs) during coronavirus pandemic for his daughter to use for school work.
I have three of them and my workhorse is one of them. This workhorse is dead now in Ceylon, since I could not find a replacement battery. I could not recover my music and photos before erasing its content to factory setup.
If you want a robust cellphone buy a Nokia cellphone.
They are out of stock in Ceylon.
I also bought a Samsung phone (1) with a sealed battery, which makes the total 10 in number.
They have a rugged (Nokia) one coming soon.
I have no commercial interest with Nokia.
Mind you, Nokia coming from Finland introduced the brick like phone in 1980s which did not fit in my overcoat and I preferred the hospital bleeper and telephone exchange for patient care.
I used to put the bleeper into the waste paper busker when not on call and cleaners always put it back on the side desk religiously.
The bleeper sound mean a sick child has arrived.
I hate to see sick children often neglected by parents and compounded by GP negligence not responding quickly.
That was one reason me leaving UK.
GPs are powerful there and I did not go there to aid and abet GP's mistakes.
So you can understand why I hate cellphones.
Phones always bring bad news and I want pleasant or Somanassa Chitta at least in my retirement.
The land phone is out even after paying Rs.15,000/= well above the arrears and I hate MobiTel for life.
My first SIM was from MobiTel and I stuck it inside the Samsung phone.
I
bought a Samsung basic cellphone sometime ago for good some and it was
pretty bad with only basic applications (I use) and was almost never used.
Only
good think was the SD card with all the Western songs I downloaded is
recognized quickly by this cute little cellphone, I bought.
I said I bought it for listening to radio and music and it does a good job at pleasing volume control and not loud for bystanders.
I
had a GreenTel Notebook and it's RAM was limited. It was very slow to
my liking and gave away to a guy who did not know how to use it and his
grandchild broke it.
His name is Man Wadu and he is no more.
This comment is coming from a guy who used all the available models from Kit Kat 4.3 to version 11. I
had a cheap tablet with version 4.3 (its battery has gone dead and I
won't buy a new battery) and a game console which I could never download a
game due to faulty keyboard that did not let me type my 18 long
alphanumeric password.
This is a down to earth comment and I did not use exorbitant gadgets but
what was available at the time when I needed the most (upgrading wise).
So
going for Android 12 is a waste and I won't go to Singapore again
except bypassing it on a long trip to Australia and have a quick visit
to Greymouth and the remote Reefton (forgot the name) looking for
ladybirds with kids.
- Greymouth.
- Franz Josef Glacier.
- Fox Glacier.
- Haast.
- Haast Pass.
- Hokitika.
- Punakaiki.
- Westport.
- Reefton
It will be well beyond 2023 and I hope airfare would have come down to manageable level by then.
I feel that cellphone should NOT be a gift to a child under 18 for very good reasons.
The
cellphones used in video conferencing are expensive and one can buy two
alternative cellphones with android 11 version with that money.
Be wise and mindful when you buy a cellphone.
I have to wait for another two years to see a Steam Deck with Linux Operating System.
What a wait?
No Bonding is Dhamma View
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Revisiting West Coast of New Zealand.
Revisiting West Coast of New Zealand
Going for Android 12 is a waste of time and I won't go to Singapore again except bypassing it on a long trip to Australia and have a quick visit to Greymouth and the remote Reefton (forgot the name but only remembered looking for ladybirds with kids).
Except Haast and Westport, I have visited the rest.
- Greymouth.
- Franz Josef Glacier.
- Fox Glacier.
- Haast.
- Haast Pass.
- Hokitika.
- Punakaiki.
- Westport.
- Reefton
It will be well beyond 2023 and I hope airfare would have come down to manageable level by then.
I feel that cellphone should NOT be a gift to a child under 18 for very good reasons.
The
cellphones used in video conferencing are expensive and one can buy two
alternative cellphones with android 11 version with that money.
Be wise and mindful when you buy a cellphone.
I have to wait for another two years to see a Steam Deck with Linux Operating System.
What a wait?
Free BSD and Neptune Linux
Free BSD and Neptune Linux
Let me dish out with Free BSD it has no Live CD in the 14th version but only Install version. I think it is the right decision. Just went through a YouTube item on Linux who use Toxedo Linux from Germany says, lot of Linux guys try a Live DVD or USB and give up straight away. BSD has not got a good market share at this moment, it would drop more, if they introduce a Live Version.
Lot of Linux guys who have commercial interests do this trick of not letting one had a Live Version.
Good example is Ashi Linux which I have never tested (text mode only) or would try in the future. Let Apple Guys do that for themselves. Ashi Linux provides text mode developer support. This is craty way to lure unsuspecting Linux developers to tinker with the code without a payment method.
Regarding Neptune Linux, I forgot its name to begin with and then I had no space in my NUC which is full of Linux iso images. I tried Neptune to see it whether it gives a healthy relationship with the long forgotten KDE desktop.
I will not use it but I will use MX Linux KDE version, which I have already installed in addition to Netrunner.
No Neptune for many reasons.
I installed Xournel and Basket Notes and even though it boasts a persistent image on the Live USB, it did not register them when rebooted.
The Persistent package is faulty.
It does not allow Synaptic Package Manager unlike Netrunner for me to Install Abiword Office package.
It did not even recognize the password for the WiFi on the reboot.
Enough of problems and I won't recommend it to a new user of Linux.
By the way, my laptop has a 500GB SATA and it has hundreds of Linux images there which I can write to a USB and boot with my NUC. That solves my lack of space problem in the NUC.
I am a practical guy and not a bloated image guy and that is why I use Linux.
Of course, I can remove some of my Debian Linux images to free some space, if I need any space.
My book files are very tiny only the Linux Essential has 1MB file.
Linux saves file sizes to manageable sizes.
As a result, the upload time is very fast in the Internet.
Good Bye.
Apple Mac and Boot Loaders for Linux Distributions
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Apple Mac and Boot Loaders for Linux Distributions
Apple Mac and Boot Loaders for Linux Distributions.
Apple Mac is a PAIN.
Boot Loaders both Grub and LiLo can be pain in the ArXXXX if one is installing as many as seven (7) distributions in one computer.
That is what I do.
Each distribution, I use for a particular purpose, for testing and demonstrations.
Sometimes it is the smallest distribution that does it well.
I am going to talk about AntiX in a while, just hold it for a moment.
Because I use so many passwords including for my Bank Cards I tend to forget some of them due to lack of use.
I forgot the root password for PCLinuxFullMonty.
One cannot ROOT without a root password in Linux.
That is my work horse and I use it everyday including for downloading distributions for testing.
I wanted to do some simple task, home keeping task, one may call it BOX keeping task, like what cricketers wear when they go out for batting.
Like cricketers protecting their testicles one has to protect important data when computing and Linux has a way of doing it.
All important tasks are delegated to root user which normal user cannot use unless he is given sudo user privilege.
I could not remember the password and I could not cover my computer genitals.
That speaks lot about Linux.
Once configured I rarely do any household tasks.
Once the firewall is properly configured, one can do seamless work day after day.
No complaints.
It is true that Linux computer should run 24/7 day schedule.
No hassle of updating too.
I decided to format and install it again since that is what I do in December.
This time because of our industrial action and particularly the laziness acquired during long drawn out strike, this was bit delayed.
I keep entire December for enjoying and the computer also gets a rest.
But not this time round, we have to extend the sessions to accommodate for the lost time.
December 1st and second I was busy installing PCLinuxFullmonty.
Only PCLinux I forgot the password.
Others were OK and I could remember their passwords.
Installing went OK but with a hitch.
It did not recognize some of my other distribution in its GRUB file for booting.
I Installed Debian 6.0.6.
It recognized all but PCLinux failed to start.
The fact of the matter is PCLinux is KDE desktop.
Debian was Gnome.
They do not speak to each other.
That is true as far as GRUB booting is concerned.
Then I re-installed PCLINUX without formatting home partition.
This time Debian did not boot.
Then I go for my magic wand.
It is called AntiX, a Debian based Mepis derivative, and tiny and install in 10 minutes.
It restored my boot Loader with all in its menu.
I used to do all this manually with Redhat and Mandrake and edit the boot partition line by by line.
Mandrake had LiLo and Redhat had very good GRUB then.
Now
of cause Linux does not need a boot partition and all is integrated
with root partition and they can be mounted from any partition and MBR
has all the details.
Coming back to Apple Mac it is
Unix based and it still uses 1 MB bootstrapping partition which none of
the partition tools is able to do now.
I
installed Debian in the Apple Mac and then mounted Xbuntu and reduced
the home partition and installed Xbuntu on the available space.
Now it has two bootstraps but can recognize only one.
That is the last install boot partition.
Apple Mac does not have MBR like in windows and it recognize only one boot partition.
I know one thing I can do is to edit the boot menu in the boot partition using an editor.
I am too lazy to do that now and I have no idea how Apple uses its command to recognize alien distributions.
This is how Apple works and even Windows 8 is trying to emulate Apple very late in its downward trend evolution.
I can use only one Linux distribution in an Apple hardware.
It is an absolute waste of resources as far as hardware is concerned.
This is one reason I never use Apple Mac.
The second hand Apple Globe, I gave it to a young guy along with one of my old computers.
He could never figure out how to boot Apple.
I gave him the Redhat version of set of 6 CDS to install.
That is how powerful Linux is.
Rest of Linux utilities are spread over var and user partitions.
Ashi Linux for MacBook
Ashi Linux for MacBook
Linux for MaBOOK IS A WASTE OF TIME.
I tried to down load an image an could not. The developer is asking for money. I thing he should ask that money from Apple CEO.
It is script base non sense otherwise for Linux developers. They are trying to or lure Linux developers to ther project.
If you are True Linux Developer DO NOT FALL TO THIS TRAP.
Apple is trying to plunder everybody who has no economic brain.
Just buy a simple NUC for under 200 dollars with
Many moons ago I tried Linux on a Apple Globe with little RAM and Hard disk. Only Redhat 5 series supported it. I went to Debian afterwords. Finally its CD ROM packed up and I did not try USB booting but dispensed it freely to a guy who was learning Linux. The last think I knew was he dismantled everything but could not find any placements in Ceylon. I gave this guy most of the CDs I had.
Traffic, Heart Attacks, Perehara and Cycling to Work
Traffic, Heart Attacks, Perehara and Cycling to Work
It is Perehara Time in Kandy and if I cycle to work I get a heart attack or knocked down and killed by an erratic driver who is visiting Kandy on Pilgrimage.
This little town cannot accommodate normal traffic on a normal day especially when V.V.I.Ps visit with police cordon.
I have devised simple method which is to boycott Kandy City for two weeks or take two weeks leave and exit from the city.
This has worked for me for the last 20 years.
I walked down to the bus terminus (for my sanity I will not state the place) which is always jammed in all directions since Kandy police won’t let the bus drivers to park in Kandy city limits.
1. Funeral Procession was the first obstruction to smooth flow of traffic.
2. Then within half a Kilometer a Wedding Car doing almost a U-turn on the main road in front of a guest house.
3. From that point traffic was at snail pace to Kandy.
4. Then to my surprise I saw a pack of cyclists overtaking us.
Most likely they were Australian tourists who had come for the Cricket.
I thought they were a mad lot to cycle to Kandy in this terrible heat.
They will get heat stroke if not knocked down by somebody.
There were few ladies, too.
A casual look at them. there were at least three professional cyclists one leading the pack, one behind and one securing the ladies in the middle. Moment I saw these three gentlemen doing the impossible and without obstructing the main flow unlike our three wheeler peddling along safely, I was bit happy.
Then they disappeared from our sight.
The traffic were snail pace I thought they were the only wise guys / girls on the road who could beat even a policeman on a motor bike.
5. Then suddenly an ambulance was on sight.
Another patient who needed to be transferred in a hurry but almost stuck on the road.
I was thinking the cyclists would be in town and having a drink but when we were within a half a kilometer of the city they were stuck at a junction not knowing where to turn.
Who is / are wise me, on a old commuter on a bus on a Friday afternoon to beat 6 P.M closure time or cyclists without knowing the route, I wonder.
Exercise is recommended and cycling is one of them to prevent heart attacks and cycling in Sri-Lankan road is a Killer Entity.
Tourist beware, no cycling and no driving (please hire a car).
If you need some exercise please follow our President and do cycling on a exercise bike in a air conditioned room (?prevent dehydration-even air conditioning might dehydrate you but may prevent heat stroke) with a face mask on.
Next killer is air pollution and Kandy has the best / worst polluted air in this country for one to breath (only intermittent rain prevent this pollution) and mind you this Perehara festival is to bring rain (water cutting ceremony) and its religious overtone is a superimposition only.
At least if it rains poor elephants won’t have sore feet (when they walk on tar roads, the heat burns their feet) and that is also not happening due to global warming and our politicians and their kith and kin even clearing Sinharaja forest for road development, add to the destruction already done by predecessors.
Friday is a very unhealthy day to travel but I had to do that to go to a bookshop and buy some reading material to read till this bizarre period of festivity is over.
Three more days to go and I have already finished the books.
Perhaps I might do some writing and this is the end result.
How to make a hot ABIWord Soup out of Word Processing Noodles
Posted on June 25, 2011
How to make a hot ABI-Word Soup out of Word Processing (Mallum) Noodles
I was writing a small booklet from the gathering of various pieces of my writing, not related to y blogging of course.
Blogging and copying one web format to another can be a noodle soup with entangled code soup if you paste from one web application to another even though web format is a standard without jargon or macros.
But due to universal presence of Java applets that creep into the web format that is also can be pain in the ass.
But nothing to compare with Word processing applications from Microsoft to Word Perfect to K-office to Open Office to LibreOffice.
I had done the formatting in all of the above and when I wanted to get that to print form for a particular length and breath of the book the macros were playing Pandu (Cricket).
After 24 hours of struggling with K-Office and Open Office, I decided to give up.
What ever I did a macro from five years ago will creep in and none were print ready in spite of conversion to PDF.
I decided to remove macros.
Can you guess.
In earlier edition of Open Office before it became a Gorilla and much bigger than Microsoft Word sometimes, Open office 1 and 2 let you remove the macros and when I had the same problem when finishing my thesis and get print format ready I used them.
Even I find LibreOffice is a pain in the neck.
So what I did was import the document over 100 pages to a ABiWord, my dear friend, now very versatile.
With 3 hours of juggling I removed all irritating formatting macros and got it less heavy.
Mind you I could not change the colour blue (I use blue for eye pleasing effect) to black in some part of the document due to so much of background macros.
I saved the document in abi format.
Luckily Abiword does not have page formatting ability and my current page layout of 6 by 9 inches were left untouched.
Then I forgot I have to post a blog in the morning and I did not want to write something long having worked three hours on the trot on a word document of 100 pages.
If you are stuck only ABiword will help you to remove macros.
I kept the the page size and number of pages to my original plans but few pages less than the original.
Not only that I saved huge amount of memory and when I upload it to America it will be quick too.
There is always a package in Linux to bail you out and for 24 hours I am going to sleep without typing a word.
It will be 24 hours before you get a post from me.
Thank god we are on industrial action and today is Saturday.
Please excuse me for the typos.
I will edit them when I get up.
Update including Cricket
I hope above blog post done in only ten minutes before I went to sleep needed, another 25 minutes of editing and looking for typos.
I was I was listening to BBC radio and listening to cricket and I had to give up editing and went down to my son’s room and peoTV was blocked for (cricket from UK) then I had make my wife to move out to answer a call to get to the digital TV (Capture card) and tune into Eye Channel and was able see to Mahela’s mastery.
Take my word, they are the modern version of Rohan Kanhaie and Kallicherran of yesteryear West Indies.
This I said long time ago when they were young.
I will not miss a match when Mahela is on song.
Sanga should learn a lesson or two from Mahela.
West Indies cricketers who are young and never seen the two classy players mentioned above should watch Mahela and Sanga play limited over games and believe that they can produce high class players (there problem is batting once Brian Lara was gone).
The difference in the above two players as opposed to Sri-Lankan players were they always played like that every time they came to the crease, limited or not.
I never missed them when they came to Colombo on short visits (including great Westley Hall, Gorden Greenich and Griffith and I think Lance Gibbs the spinner).
Sobers I have not seen playing live.
There is a documentary on West Indian cricket of yesteryear produced by a cricket loving Englishman. Everybody who is a cricket liver should see that documentary including West Indians.
Without them cricket will be dead the way Indians cronies (not players) not West Indian who are marketing cricket like tooth paste and soap opera (Bollywood style).
I hope west Indies stop fighting and play gentleman cricket and beat India who has become too big for comfort for any cricket (IPL included.)
They actually gave Indian a wake up call and scare.
If not for Raul Dravid, the Wall (a real mature cricketer of class, whom I like very much) I will be rubbing salt on their woulds.
Raul Dravid was one player who was very badly treated by Indian Cricket Selectors, who thinks that any Indian who can play soft ball cricket can represent India.
Now that Garry Kirsten is gone like in Sri-lanka (political involvement) all the cronies will get in to ruin Indian Cricket Board and ICC.
On a finer note my daughter, my wife and the Gon Bass (work supervisor) did not let me sleep even three hours at a stretch and woke me up three times on three different occasions in spite of the fact it was a Saturday.
My dog was the only considerate soul who did not disturb my sleep but left a big poo in the living room to state emphatically, industrial action all right I need to go out and I am not a prisoner on hold like in Guatemalan Bay.
I got the message and decided to regularize my daily routines at least with the dog.
Coming back to ABiWord, it has 30 odd different formats including PDF and LaTex.
Its Pdf file is so light and opens in a Flash.
Who needs Adobe Flash anyway?
I have now decided to learn LaTeX as soon as possible before I am too old (grumpy dog) to learn a new tricks to please the master, from above the Maha Brahma.
I think LaTeX would take even less code behind the keyboard.
Learn it now if you are a young person.
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