Sunday, January 1, 2012

NetRunner 4.0-Update

NetRunner 4.0-Update
In the true runner of the cartoon road runner, this distribution downloaded breezily from linuxtracker and is a very good one.
It is Kubuntu based and has both KDE and Gnome features.
It boots up with old and new computers and with laptops too.
It has Skype and many more useful utilities.
This is a good one for newbies to Linux.
Good work done thanks to guys and girls doing the hard work.

Dream 21 and its interpretation


Dream 21
I was in some foreign land looked like India.
I see a girl playing Video Game with the game console in a car.
She was shooting her boyfriend/husband umpteenth time, as  if she was preparing for the finer detail of a murder she was planning.
As this was the land of celluloid's and I was getting bored thinking that it was a shooting of another film.
I was so sure this was a dream not real, even in my dream mode.
I was trying to get into my deep sleep without a dream.
In any case, I am not interested in Indian films or any shooting of a film that will come in the middle of year 2012.
I interrupted my dream myself, since getting to deep sleep was not coming instantaneously, and it was January first and I needed to see whether the Ultimate Edition 3.0 gamer DVD has finished downloading.
Got up went in straight to the computer but it was still downloading at 10 to 15 bit per second.

Anyway, I thought this was a good dream for Maha Brahma.
I posted it and in return mail I hear Maha's Voice Mail.
He was annoyed a bit.
He asked me why did you terminate the dream on your own.
I thought it was my duty to do that considering your safety in the dream mode.

Then I told him, that the girl in the car would have been my wife know?
So I pushed the safety button.
Can that happen in your case.
I don't think so Sir, I was joking.
I have an aversion to Indian films and even Indian dreams.

It is a done thing in Sri-Lanka, know.
Even politicians and murderers go straight to India for safety haven.
No.NO, Sir after L.T.T.E nobody looks for safe haven in India now.
Now there is no L.T.T.E. and old traditions must be getting established.
I do not know that Sir.

You must train to interpret this type of dreams yourself and improve on them when woken up.
Why Sir?
Then you can write a Tele drama or a screen play or two and produce a film for your own publicity.

Me writing Teledrama?
What nonsense?
I am only suggesting and it is not an order.

Well in that case I consider this as the opening episode and add a few more with future dreams and cook up a celluloid drama.
That's right my boy.
Don't you realize that all Indian films are in dream mode and no relationship to what happens in India, topically.

It was only when  Rabindranath Tagore was writing that real Indian life was portrayed.
I know that, Sir.
Was there a second part of the dream Sir.
Yes.
The girl who was playing the game was murdered soon after.
Why?
She was actually watching a real video of actual murders committed by her boyfriend.
So he did not have any choice.
Who was he?
He was a contract killer for hifi families.

He records all the scenes at the murder site and the murder itself as a video record.
He actually has to produce a video evidence of the murder to the actual contractor.
Otherwise the payment is not made.

The contractor enjoys the video and he keeps it as a souvenir and if the police does not figure out the murder he produces it as video film dubbing the one who was murdered and the murderer with robot  as actors (digital film star).
Then he sells the video on the street parlors.
They go like hot cakes since  those who buy the video knows who was actually murdered and by watching it figure out how it was done in the first place.
This is very futuristic know.
Yes it is futuristic.

There are no films in future and no theaters.
There are no film stars.
There are no Sunday papers with gossip columns.
There are no political analysis on papers.
All are in digital form.
Everybody has a tablet and and the story comes to the tablet (DRM) when the digital right manager is taken of or removed by the video producer after a profitable street sale.
He sells the stuff in the street first with DRM attached and then revoke the DRM once the sales are over.
These videos sell like pop corns.
Later he or she makes a video game.
That is really futuristic to me.
Will I live long to see them.
No my dear.
THANK YOU, SIR.
See you with another futuristic dream.

Ultimate Edition 3.0-Gamers

Ultimate Edition 3.0-Gamers
Ubuntu derivative Ultimate Linux has done a good job with moth standard version and gamers version.
standard edition has everything and the LXDE desktop has taken energy cravvy KDE and genome to task.
It has no office packages but but software manger lets you download from Abiword, to LibreOffice to Ubuntu One and Dropbox.
There were no Pingus or Supertux two of my favorite Linux light games which is packed with the 3.9 GiB of utilities and games in the DVD.
Only problem was I had to wait for nearly 6 weeks (very slow download speed) to download it piecemeal by piecemeal along with my torrent downloads.
I hope image is deposited with linuxtracker.
thanks guys and girls at Ultimate Linux it did not come on Christmas eve but did really hit the top on Sunday the first of January.
It is a fantastic Linux distribution to have.
Read my previous comments along with this.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody who has visited my blogposts.
I will take a low profile from now onward with some leftover academic work and examinations.
All in the beginning of the year due to our industrial action in May 2011.
Hope we do not have to go back to negotiating table again with an impending action in opposite directions.

Dream 19 and its interpretation

Dream 19
This dream was in two parts
I was trying to free my arm from a fence which looked liked a barbed wire fence.
I could not.
When I pulled my wrist it got dislocated at the wrist joint.
Rare indeed.
I was trying to reduce the dislocation and I could not.
I cannot remember which part came first.
This part probably came second while I was on the roof.
Our family was getting ready for a flight.
The was suppose to pick us at 3.00 pm for the flight.
Our luggage was in a place where car could not reach, strange indeed.
We had to carry the luggage which was heavy.
My daughter could not carry her luggage, which was heavy.
I took both and proceeded up a steep hill like terrain.
I felt I was climbing something very steep.
Finally I came to the top and threw the two bags above.
I managed to climb to the top.
There was no car.
There was no airport in sight or no fixed wing aircraft or not even a helicopter in sight to take us away.
We missed the flight!
I was on a rooftop with my family stranded.
What a holiday for us.
Interpretation.
This dream was not that elaborate.
Can you guess what it was.
NO.
Have you seen animals climbing trees.
No except primates when in danger.
You haven't seen elephants climbing trees.
NO.
But I saw a photograph of a dead elephant on a tree in Sri-Lanka.
What was the reason.
FLASH FLOODS.

When do Sri-Lankan climb the rooftops.
1. To wave our politicians who never had a bicycle before coming to parliament but now fly over our heads.
Why do you do that/
That is simple logic.
Get their hands off the joystick when they travel above us.
Why?
Then they take the hands  off the joystick to wave at us.
Then the pilot will take over when they fly above our heads. 
The pilot not the politician will maneuver it and fly safely and not the politician joyriding like with our economics.
We are safe.
They are good only for joyriding in politics not in real life situations.
That way we can prevent the aircraft crashing on our roof.
I thought you were genuinely waving at them.
What nonsense?
2. When the roof is leaking to patch up the leaks.
3. Of course one has to climb to the roof when flash floods come.
What then was my hand trapped in a fence?
And my wrist getting dislocated and I have never seen a dislocated wrist joint.
The incident was that you were trying to help your local MP.
He grabbed your hand so hard like grabbing a bribe when in power.
What happened to him.
You were more worried about your hand and he succumbed to the waves.
I never do such a thing even to a politician.
Calm down son, it was only a dream
You must keep talking about global warming and weather changes for an average person to understand the logic behind what you say.
 He left swiftly saying beware of flash floods if you happen to go to Colombo.

Dream 18 and its interpretation

Dream 18
I was away probably abroad.
I was going up a steep cement pavement.
A woman who looked like of n African descent was coming down singing a beautiful song
Earth or bird song which I cannot remember.
I went up the steep hill passing her by.
Reflected me walking up High Wycombe on wintry evening.
Reached the top.
When I turned round I saw beautiful open greenery.
there was a doorway to an open space.
As I was walking through a doorway to open space I felt something very soothing and clean fresh air not even seen in Alaska..
As I walked down a little distance I saw a Buddhist monk.
I did not see his face front on but only glimpse of his/her profile.
Then suddenly a yellow cat came in front of me and enticed me to  pick him/her up.
I took the fellow to the monk not straight on but from side and the face was not visible, the cat picked a flower from its mouth, offered it to the monk, made stand up dance like what dogs do in front of the monk and went down distracting my attention.
I was trying to pick it up and restrain so that I could engage in conversation with the monk and I could not.
I was woken up.
Maha Brahma's interpretation.
Did you know the person who was singing as you were climbing up.
No.
She was on her way to heaven and she was the one and only African Nobel Prize winner Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai.
If that was the way to heaven and where did I end up in my dream.
Any guesses?
NO.
You were leading the garden pathway to hell.
I thought the the road to hell was laid with bed of roses.
I never though one has to climb a steep hill.
Now they have amended the law in hell and it is made look very difficult to fool the Sri-Lankan who can even fool the gatekeeper at (Apaya) the entrance to hell.
Did you see any trees there.
No.
Did you see the face of the monk?
No.
How ever much you change your position one will never will see his face front on.
Why?
He was the one who is waiting to register you to hell and take some leave of absence.
My goodness!
Why did you pick the cat.
Did it feel like a cat.
No.
Haw you ever seen a cat dancing on hind legs.
No.
All those magics were to entice Sri-Lankans, who cheat at the gate.
I thought they use my server software to get rid of cheaters.
The server comes after you register with the guy.
By the way who was the guy who was hiding his face.
Can you guess/
No.
He was one of the parliamentary secretaries who said good bye to parliamentary privileges and ended up in hell.
Was he a Sri-Lankan, Indian or British.
He was a Sri-Lankan and he use to hide all the income files of government whips.
That is how he ended up in hell.
I see.
So I was destined to hell anyway and you kindly interrupted my dream.
YES.
Can you do me a favour.
O.K.
Can you write few lines of that Lady of Africa for me.
Why?
She only sings in heaven and never tell us about her bio-data.
She is so happy and we let her do that for a while before assigning her for the Green Revolution and Food for Africa protocol soon.
Thank you for your biodata.

Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai
 
Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.

In 1986, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace."
MaathaiMwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005.
In 2011, Maathai died of complications from ovarian cancer.