hiding menu on xournal

Before shorten menu

Two rows of toolbar while working with xournal on small screen might be difficult. They consume too much space. Xournal manual point out how to hide these toolbar.
check your ~user/.xournal/config. It can be generated by saving preference.
Then edit the value of this line:
shorten_menu_items=toolbarMain toolbarPen hbox1
toolbarMain for top toolbar
toolbarPen for below top toolbar
hbox1 for status bar


After shorten menu

I got these values from xournal.glade of the xournal source code as pointed out by xournal user manual. The lines on xournal.glade are:
widget class="GtkToolbar" id="toolbarMain"
widget class="GtkToolbar" id="toolbarPen"
widget class="GtkHBox" id="hbox1"

on freedom of expression

This time I deeply regret 15-M manifestation in Sol. Their direct engagement with Catholic World Youth Day teenager is really unacceptable. What did they do before these event was finally held?

In my opinion it is a really bad impression among happy teenagers who travel across continent and ocean leaving their family just to visit Madrid and meet the Pope.

Here's the situation on 23.00 of the second day of the JMJ event in Puerta del Sol. Really strange compare to the day before on the first day where hundreds if not thousand of young teenager around the world gather there with their country flags or region and various Catholicism apparels.

Clearly, ones freedom is limited by other's freedom. Respect.

oil on lens

Camera lens indeed has sophisticated mechanical parts. As other mechanical devices, lubrication is an essential treatment. However it doesn't mean that a lens needs lubrication.

Here is a severe example of the impact of a drop of oil on the aperture. The aperture mechanism is using a very light force. Therefore a small inhibitor will affect its functionality. The aperture blade is so light and designed with such kind of matte surface, apparently to prevent any glare. Therefore the oil fill the matte texture of the blade, and the cohesive forces between blades increase, so they are harder to move. Finally the diafragm cannot be changed.

I wonder from where did the oil come from? Apparently it came from the melting grease. But still I'm unsure, it may also came from silly human action.

on being unproductive

I feel that in these several recent days I've done nothing meaningful. Stuck in something and made no progress. Just feel horrible somehow.

If this situation would be continuously going on, I think I just merely waste my precious time of the most productive period of my life.

Instead of insisting to move forward, and get stuck, I must step backward, strengthen the foundation and then make a leap jump. Reading some 'ancient' seminal papers is a really good idea. Last time I learnt about a shocking vulnerability exploit. Though it is merely a simple problem on the surface, a deep observation led me to broad fields in computer science. From assembly, memory structure, into security policy. It refreshed and also taught me about the basic knowledge a computer engineer should have.

on being present

It is very common that people plan to do something big if they were having secure income or certain wealthiness. They think that money is the panacea.

In fact the existence of this intermediation is undermine their own real power. Economically speaking, man in the middle always takes an amount of profit in every transaction. Therefore they undermine the immediate value in their skill, knowledge, and wisdom. They undermine their presence!

I think people should value their presence more than anything else. There's no substitution for being present.

In today technology age, presence doesn't always mean physically at the same place though.

education

Another entry about this. Inspired by last speech of BKPM chief in our embassy. Quite glad to know a high level officer who has a far vision on education. In fact he found a foundation on this vision as well.

I hope similar vision can flourish across my country, meanwhile a very bleak view of pseudo-educated people is so apparent, people who have only diplome without outstanding skill or knowledge.

And Rendra's poem "menghisap sebatang lisong (1978)" suddenly strucks my mind.

Dignity of a nation

Terrible news storm Indonesia about execution by beheading of a domestic migrant worker in Saudi Arabia(KSA). Public anger sparks and then soon our cripple government issued illogical excuse on how it could happen. Government irresponsibility even so apparent when the officers blame each other just to secure their position. Marty the foreign minister even gave a totally lie statement that KSA apologized for not informing the beheading. This claim immediately denied by KSA. What a shame! I wonder how dare Marty was to lie about other country formal statement.

The shame story did not stop there. Government gave very slow response, that instead of real action to give immediate protection to other workers, the president formed a commission of taskforce and a decree to halt migran workers export starting on August. A faster reaction was given by KSA, they stop issuing working visa starting from July.

Where's our dignity as a nation? It is really a pity to have cowards as our representatives.

Weak leaders may affect many aspects of citizen life. Mostly in negative sense, particularly when engage with foreign interest. A terrible example occured in WW2 where French navy was slaughtered by British one. They actually were friends, but due German occupation of France, and Britain must secure their land from sea invasion, Britain must compromise strong French navy. Unfortunately French admiral did not react immediately. They engaged in northern africa sea and thousand French navy died. If french admiral were a confident man, he would order his men to surrender so then they could fight back Germany, side by side with British.

Si, somos indignados!