My first attempt at solving a Sudoku game

I have solved many Sudoku games on my Android mobile phone's Sudoku apps, but never had I tried to solve one on paper.

My average time to solve a "hard" Sudoku game is around 13 minutes while the fastest was around 9 minutes. But these went to toss when I tried to solve a Sudoku game on paper.

The below is the photo of my attempt:

This took me greater than an hour to complete.

Maybe I need to learn a different strategy.

After Ubuntu, now LibreOffice is dead. Time to resurrect OpenOffice.

Please note: As always, all text in this blog is my personal opinion.

Corporate interests are making community support obsolete in floss projects. After taking hours and hours of community development efforts and thousands of monies from charitable individuals, the greed of the corporate overtakes even Libre projects.

Now the LibreOffice' source code will be taken for a ride. The corporate sponsored coding efforts will not make it to the "Personal/Community" editions and a crippled version of LibreOffice will be given to the community.

With the blessing of the Heavens, the OpenOffice codebase was not merged with LibreOffice. Thank our stars for blessings in disguise. It is now the time to move all community support (code and monies) to the OpenOffice project.

Peppermint OS in problem - Going back to LinuxMint?

For the last couple of years, I have been using the Peppermint OS on mu home notebook. I was even able to use a very cheap game-pad by asking around in the Peppermint OS forums and who helped me in that Forum - the user name 'PCNetSpec', i.e. Mark Greaves - the main person behind the Peppermint OS project.

After his sad demise, the Peppermint OS does not seem to be holding on. The Forum was down, the last time I tried I could not even open the Forum page.

Now, I am also in a fix. Which distro to install when my current setup becomes obsolete? I am looking at LinuxMint, or maybe I will pick up an Independent distro this time? Lets see.