We are deities sent to learn, love and care

Avatar is a 2009 fictional film created by James Cameron. I'd talk about the movie but I guess you have seen it and if you haven't then you really should 'cause it's pretty amazing but not only because of the production but because of the message it has, and that's what I'm talking about today.

To Pandora arrives an Avatar brought up by the deity to save the Na'vi and Eywa from destruction by humans. But regretfully the only thing fictional about this movie is the planet and the Na'vi, everything else is real and happens everyday. We came to earth as humans and we keep destroying it everyday, doing our best to take all of its resources without any consideration and the earth is feeling the consequences and it's reacting against it. It is of the utmost importance that we transform into Avatars to start taking care of the earth 'cause right now it needs us and not only to take care of it but to restore the destruction we've made so far. to make that it's of the utmost importance that we start by listening to the earth spirit and begin to learn from it, to really care of the resources and every living being without any consideration to what natural kingdom belongs. If we don't get moving with this not only it will mean the destruction of the eco-system but also the destruction of human way of life as we know it. The time is Now!

The way of the Samurai

Samurai is a word referred to the higher ranking military in Japan in the old times, but basically it means a server, someone who serves others (usually nobler than himself) and that's what life should be about, serving others.

If we cared for others deeply and did our best to serve as best as possible we could also find pretty easily other people serving us and it would form a infinite chain of people serving one another.

And what if we served a higher purpose? What if we served to improve ourselves, to make the earth shine more, to learn how to take advantage more wisely of the earth resources without destroying it, to understand each living creature regardless of where would they or it came from.

We should definitely think of living a Samurai way.

The Rat Race and the life race

We constantly struggle through life to earn money, an important
position in a big company, loads of degrees, fame recognition, etc. To
do this we spend lots of our time working as hard as possible, lots of
time enclosed in a office in front of a computer, giving up lots of
concessions, kissing lots of asses and doing things we dislike.

There is a chance that after running this Rat Race we finally get to
the important position we were expected to have, to get the degree we
are asked to have, to earn enough money (for those in pursuit of money
is there really enough?) to be satisfied. But were we happy? Did we
enjoyed the road we had to cross to get there? Did we took enough time
to learn about it?

We should stop running the Rat Race and start with the life race, a
race to learn all those skills we'd like to have, to start enjoying
time with our friends, family, partner, etc; to take time for the
culture, go to a concert, the museum, the theater, read lots of books,

At the end... To be Really Happy taking into account that, in life,
what you'll really enjoy is the path, not your destination

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Linux, Windows and more little things

I wanted to get the last post before this one to clarify the importance of those little things, because those little details are the ones who has made me return to Windows back from my Linux Experiment. This are this little things:

- Power support: I have both the advantage and disadvantage of having an HP tablet PC, this computer due to heating issues can never go to it's highest speed 'cause it gets really hot and shuts down (and most likely it is damaging the internal parts in the long effect). To get over it I have to be rally careful regarding the Power management issues and in Linux I have to keep looking for the computer to keep the processing speed to the minimum on a regular basis 'cause I had some times the problem I configured the processor to use minimum resources and from one moment to another it just got to use maximum power resources.

- Flash player in Linux Sucks: Nothing more to add.

- OpenOffice can't read completely accurately any doc, docx, xls, xlsx file and Office 2010 can read any odt file without problem. On the other hand the user interface needs to get updated to a different more simplified way.

- User Interface: It has some nice effects, Compiz is way better than Aero but windows right now has a better overall look and feel than Gnome which i think still need to be a little more polished, though it is better looking than the traditional Windows 9X look and feel it doesn't heightens to the current Windows L&F

- OneNote support: I have all my university notes in OneNote, I think it is a really good way to take notes, specially with a TabletPC and I haven't found the suitable replacement. I know there exists Wikidpad and Zim but they can't read my previos OneNote notebooks but I can't blame the other applications but I also have to blame a little bit Microsoft on that one, 'cause it is most likely that the restriction is due to Microsoft having it as a closed format unable to be read from other sources.

There are really amazing things I have to recognize to Linux:

- The Ubuntu Software library is really amazing, though it shows just a tiny little bit of the open source software there must exist.

- Compiz is really amazing

- It can do a lot of stuff with minimum resources (despite the weird way it handles the system speed) and it doesn't seem to get slugish as sometimes you feel a Windows machine feels.

I still have to give it another shot when I get more time 'cause I'm still a believer that it is a great alternative for those people who don't want to spend much money in their software (I say not much instead of free 'cause i profoundly believe you should pay for the job a person does).

It's the little details

Little details is what life is made of and you have to learn to enjoy both the good little things and the bad things and learn from them. Afterwards you grow beyond each of this things.

You know, the big things seem always too much but if you get to see them in truth they are nothing but a recollection of small things or the conclusion of little steps you make along the way.

Third day of Linux Experiences

Hey Folks,

I'll start by saying that one of the first things I did today was to open up my computer using Windows, just because I had to do one annotation in OneNote. Afterward I switched back to Linux and been working since.

The first thing I did was to attempt to open my personal life goals journal (done in Word ooxml format) using OpenOffice. Bad Luck. The formatting of the document (had pictures, text boxes and all that stuff) was really messed up, so I started looking out for a way to install Microsoft Office 2007/2010 on my Linux OS. The idea of this experiment is not to get 100% open source (after all by the Open Source Purity standards I shouldn't even have Ubuntu Restricted Extras and the propietary drivers installed, after all) but to get a computer in a really good condition for a regular user to be able to use it without having to put up a lot of effort. After all the Ubuntu idea is to have a computer to be able to be used by everybody and we have to take into account also that there are a lot of things that are propietary/company made.

On the other hand I had a particular problem yesterday, I started using my computer on battery and without the cooling board (it has fans connected via USB) to check out how long would the battery last. It lasted about the same as using it with windows and seconds after I connected it back again to power the computer shot down because of overheating (This HP Tablet PCs really have a overheating problem). and using it today I've felt it warms up as much as using it on windows. So there I have one mith debunked, Linux computers can use the same resources as Windows ones.

So far the experiment has been really good. I haven't had the need or desire to get to windows far beyond the OneNote (and posibly any job I HAVE to do with MS Office and can't be done with anything else (Sorry folks but though OpenOffice does a nice job I receive lots of ooxml type files that just don't open right on OpenOffice).

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For those who ask what kind of job I'm doing to know how much power I'm asking to my computer:

To quickly resume what has been my work so far. I've worked with three virtual desktops provided by the compiz interface, managing both (at first just one) of the cores on a on demand/power save energy profile and listening to music or having a movie played in one desktop; chatting via aMSN (really cool program) and browsing the time loss pages (facebook, mail, etc) on the second desktop and using a browser with 5 to 15 open tabs on the third desktop.