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Pope Francis' Short Term Desire
Paraphrasing: To go buying pizza without being recognized...
Obviously, even from a Roman Catholic's standpoint, he doesn't have what it takes to be a pope.
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Ubuntu: power.d display brightness by AC/Battery mode
I believe someone unplugged my AC cord in the school's library and put hers in the same socket, despite 3 other available sockets next to it. I did not realize it until I finished my studies.
Hence, I was determined to have my Ubuntu alert me as Windows does, when the power adapter is unplugged, there should be an alert. In this case, the preferred reaction would be to dim the screen brightness. However, I have learned that it was very time consuming to find a solution.
First, there were no user-friendly configurations available. Then, after having pm-utils and writing scripts in /etc/pm/power.d/, I've encountered the xauth issue. Thereby preventing xbacklight from accessing the X server due to the lack of privilege from the power.d. I researched into this for too long to no avail.
Then I reverted back to the original solution I found but abandoned for some reason I don't remember.
Now it works with this script in power.d:
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
true) #laptop_mode_battery
expr `cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness` / 3 >
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
;;
false) #laptop_mode_ac
cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness >
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
;;
help) help;;
*) exit $NA ;;
esac
exit 0
Gnome Hot Corner Disabled
The hot corner where when the mouse is over on top left corner of the screen activates the Activities (same effect as Windows Key or clicking on Activities at the top) is very annoying.
Suggestions to edit some /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/layout.js file did not do the trick. However, the quick and easy fix is Activities Configurator. The extension provides quick fix. A window popup (or a smiley face appears next to the Activities button) after activating the extension and there are many things to configure including "disable hot corner".
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confession of Peter Jones
Listening to The Q&A of the Ligonier event, Peter Jones nearly burst into tears at the end when he shared briefly the struggle he has with his wife regarding 2 of 7 of their children who are not believers. The only solution they have is prayer.
The Q&A comes after Dr. Rosario Butterfield's testimony.
I was also reminded of Dr. Tong's curiosity on how so many preachers have unbelieving children.
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Decisions Well Made
The is on ecclesiology.
The church we now attend and may eventually become members of, is Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA). I am in no hurry to become member as I don't see the importance of it, neither now nor later. However, I do value the fellowship of the saints. It is, the true kind of membership.
Prior to this, I have made decisions to leave two churches. However, "leave" might not have been fully correct technically, as "leave" presupposes prior membership, and membership presupposes mutual agreement of which that is done publicly before the congregations. The memberships of both of those churches, were given to me, regardless of my consent. And I have never consented nor rejected them, due to the previous paragraph. But I was attending those churches for a rather consistent time and now I am not.
I left both churches for the same reason: The work of man has superseded the work of God. The first church has a low view on God's anointment but a higher view on friendships among men. Hence you have creation of members for the sake of a winning certain vote. The second church has a low view on God's Lordship and the Gospel but a very very high view on connections with people of repute.
The consequences of those churches, have proven that my decisions were not in vain. The first one split up, withered, perhaps even pursuing the Charismatic methodology. The second church has no true foundation. The pastor has reformed seminary background and I'd say that is about it. Meaning that the reformed background helps getting by/convincing some reformers that they are in the same gang. I've learned enough to not be fooled by such mask again. Many members left this church not knowing the difference between Catholicism/liberals/orthodox teachings. Hence, the chief fruit that can determine the tree is the likely next generation of this church - which for now, is rather lifeless. The easy way out is to make it liberal (or charismatics) but after the pastor's retirement, as if she had no hands in it, like Pilate cleansing his hands from the guilt of persecuting Jesus falsely. I cannot be in league with those who are this nonchalant, hence I severed my ties with such. But a helping hand I provide them, as a reflection of God's mercy upon me, while a gentile, a puppy dog, I was fed the crumbs from the children's table.
I'm not saying those churches are hopeless. But as for me, I shall come into the house of the Lord in the multitude of His mercy and not waste my time in things and places that do not please my Lord.
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E-Sword for Ubuntu Project
I find myself using Linux more and more on my laptop to a point that the only reason I switch to Windows is because of e-Sword.
The only way at this time to use e-Sword under Ubuntu is via Wine (>300MB). Which is not an option for my limited linux space.
The best solution is to write my own graphics software (qt?) in Ubuntu that reads e-Sword's modules. However, it seems that it is a hassle to do that with MS Access database, which is the format of those modules. Unless I can find a way to read access database directly from Ubuntu, the only way to handle it is to convert those database to a linux-friendly one (CVS, mysql, etc.)
The plan:
Learn QT -> Read CVS/etc. files -> Convert all modules -> Possibly remove/backup former modules to save space.
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The Next Presidential Contest 2016
It is likely that Obama is still going to be focusing on gay rights issues. He's done little in the immigration policy, which was something he promised and which got him re-elected. If the Republicans were to focus on the issue, they may gain the upper hand in the next presidential election. I think this is the only card they can play. Not LGBT, not the same old craps. I would have picked Obama anytime, not because Obama was better, but because the Republicans were really that bad.
However, if both sides realize this and only care about winning, there could be chaos.
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Jesus, the Son of Man
I heard of it recently, but I am come to be aware that it is crucial that "the Son of Man" could be more essential than "The Son of God". As for the Jews, it is from Daniel 7:13. That they are to know who this Son of Man is.
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Fun with Prime
It would appear that the mystery of prime gap is of interest to me for the distribution of primes.
It seems that there's a pattern of gaps building up. While there have been many conjectures out there pertaining to the gaps.
If we start with the gaps of odd...2,2,2,2,2,...
For sieving out multiples of 3, we "squeeze" every other 2-consequtive pairs to make it 2,4,2,4,2,4,...Sieving multiples of 5, we "squeeze" another specific yet consistent pattern of consecutive 2-4 to make it 6, such that 2,4,2,4,6,2,6,4,2,4,2,4,6,2,6,4,...
I need to examine such patterns as we sieve higher multiples.
As for the largest prime known to date: 2^57,885,161-1, which has 17,425,170 digits, the number alone requires about 7MB to store, bit-wise. Therefore, it is unlikely for me to implement a way to store all natural numbers to the largest prime, an easy way to perform the sieve. A cleverer way is required.
I don't care much about Mersenne Primes. I am more interested in having a means to find the largest prime, p, such that I should also known all primes < p.
For finding primes: Lucas-Lehmer Test is generally used.
For proving: Perhaps AKS test?
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