My Migration from Open Office to LibreOffice

My memory is failing but this much I can remember by going through an assortment of over 800 CD/DVDs having various applications, software and operating systems.

1. I started using OpenOffice of SUN Solaris in Windows 98.
I had some problems with Office of Windows and it was mainly due to macros.

2. OpenOffice removed macros of MS-DOS documents.

3. I got my thesis confirming to our university requirements.

4. I bought my first computer.

5. It was booted with Windows.

6. Having finished my thesis I migrated gradually to Linux using Linux floppies.

7. I bought an assortment of IBM (14 or 15 in number I cannot remember) second hand computers discarded from USA.

8. Installed Linux distributions on all them except 3 (Windows).

9.  I weaned myself of Windows totally.

10. I did all my books using AbiWord.

11. I am doing my first book on LibreOffice.

12. Could not do pre-printing final editing due to constant power cuts.

13. Currently enjoying my life without Internet but YouYube on my cellphone.

14. Enjoying my usual cup of tea.

15. Fully off alcohol and I do not pay tax to an illegal president and an unpopular government.

16. No politics untill (waste of time) the parliament is dissolved and the next election engine is fired.

17. I have no objection to the guys trying hard on the streets of  Colombo, at a difficult time.

18. Next election is fought on empty stomaches and angry mouths.

19. Average citizen has awaken to the reality of dumb politics.

20. While this is happening President Putin will rule with Ruble.

21. Dollar will crumble and with that, the sleepy Joe.

22. Bolton will be down and Trump in ascendancy.

24. Alternative TV channels will come up with true, not doctored news of CNN, BBC, and the lot.

25. It looks like Aljacera will top the world news.

Running parallels with Internal Ethnic War in Ceylon and Now War in Ukraine

I am not neutral here.

Little bit in favour of Russia.

Simple reason is My Grudge with Microsoft which is almost 3 decades long.

I am fully liberated now and into Linux by default.

I booted my first computer with Ubuntu 5.4.
It is slow but working.
This is the computer I used for my University Thesis.
All done on floppies not a single CD or DVD, then.

All my Linux distributions are on USBs and some on SD cards mounted on USB sticks.

Let me start with few generalizations in politics.

Number one.
It is easy to start a war but very
Difficult to end.

Number two (which was number one few months ago ).

The first casualty in war is Truth.

It is the time of Donald Trump's Faked News Saga.

CIA is the beneficiary.

The rest of the content bears no similarity.

In Ceylon there is a Guy called Milinda, talk show guy in Ceylon.
He tries to give advises on many fields, all are theoretically feasible but not practical.
He is a Guy who destroyed his grandfather's wealth to almost zero.
He has gone into hibernation.

For posterity Dayan Jayathilake should do a review of all Ceylonese political (journalists) pundits.

The other is Victor Ivan.

Hard core JVP guy now a venture capitalist.

When he was down I was one who was involved in raising Rs500,000/= to get his paper up and running to oust MaRa, the big political cheat.

MaRa used Milinda to purchase the Ravaya weekly and we politically scuttled it.

Aniddha was created and pandemic took toll of it.

Had I known that Victor becomes a venture capitalist I would not have got involved.

That is hindsight.

My contribution was buying three weekly papers and donate two.
Just over Rs.100/=.

Virtually nothing for me when I was working.

Coming to our politics it was Indian RAW and Indira Gandhi and her son (both gone for good) who engineered disruptive ethnics division in Ceylon which British were able to stem to a significant degree (thanks to yester year British which I am a byproduct).

Her paranoia was we were becoming a Singapore, down under.

My gut feeling was with so much greed in this Buddhist (antithesis to Buddha's teaching) country we would never create a Lee Quan Yu.

The bottom line is India created it and it was the minority who raised against the majority.

There was no significant difference in the two communities except minority invested on education and the majority spent none on advanced education (include computer science) except selling the language which is primitive with no scientific notions.

One must read the book on Power by Bertram Russel on these issues and they were really applicable to Ceylon in post colonial time.

We wasted our money on internal war and we are back to begging bowl and the majority does not have a square meal.

War destroys everything including common sense.

Ukraine War.
It is real war now.

Hitting Elon Musk is the first sign and this war is fought on space and with ultrasonic devices.

Difference.
It was the majority's attempt to destroy minority Russians.

It is American proxy war against Russia.

Now that the Ukrainian soldiers are decimated, it is the NATO soldiers on boot bearing the brunt

Major casualty is Poland and their Boys not UK and American boys.

American boys and British boys are running away.

Real War has not begun yet.

Ending will be far to the future with no country called Ukraine existing on the world map.

America created it and I do not know how they are going to sell the debacle.

Well start the Thaiwan War.

Top distraction.

This piece is for independent journalists (not CNN, BBC and Fox News) to look at the bare bone politics of today.

New world order is in the offing.

Star-Link of Elon Musk is busted by

I think President Putin has given OK to bust Elon Musk's StarLink that was helping NATO in Ukraine War.

This is probably in preparation on Winter Offensive.

This war (no longer SMO) will go on until Ukraine no longer exists.

Poland who was pilfering the Western weapons and profiting has plans to grab what they lost in the second world war.

History repeats and old simmering and festing wounds flare up at random now.

When war enters its own mechanics any current prediction is valid temporarily as only a news item.

Faked and doctored news become automatic gut reactions.

Satellites that are vital for normal communications are prioritized for war footing.

The soccer world cup in November in Dubai, my prediction  may even become a target of communication battle and we may not see live telecasting.

It will be a boom for gamblers and not for statisticians.

I will not watch it any way.