Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Ymlf-04-Chinese Linux-Not in my favour

This is probably an Ubuntu Linux remastered by Chinese without reading an English Textbook on Linux.

It takes a long time to boot and hangs up after mouse configuration unable to configure graphic and the rest.

I  did not find this problem with version (3) three.

Ctrl + Alt-----> F1 to F8 has been fiddled with and one does not know how to get to bash shell to exit.

It looks they have fiddled too much with Ubuntu (which itself has fiddled with original Linux to some extent and have taken away root function) and I want recommend this to to a newbie.

Let the Chinese fiddle with it and learn the basic of English and Linux for a while.
Chinese language is a Graphic language and they do not understand characters and words as such that we use in English.

They have to learn the character and word language features before putting out an English version.
How the Chinese version fare I have no idea.
It boots to Chinese and to get English one has to press  F2.
At boot time Linux uses F1 to F8 for various instructions and graphic is usually reserved for  Ctrl +Alt ---> F7 (F8)and that is missing in this distribution.

Trying to emulate windows is another mistake.
There are many other distribution and Ubuntu derivatives one can try.
This one is out of my favour.

Dream-03 and its interpretation from Heaven

Well, it is long time since I had a good dream to send to Maha Brahma (assistant in charge) for interpretation.
This time it is down to earth.
Unlike few decades ago it was going for birth day parties and wedding, now the trend is different.
I happen to go for funerals more often than not.
I do not know that the dream has any relationship to the funeral I went last but what I dreamt was of two grave diggers who were twins.
They were employed by the Kandy municipality.
Now that most of the bodies are cremated, they have very little  digging to do and the ash left is only less than 4 Kgs, many of it can be sprayed under the remaining trees round the Kanatta (Mahaiyyawa) but that is also taken away for rituals by the relatives, their income is getting lower by the day.
One day they decided to go and do a different type of digging.
Dig some ancient treasures in the Paduwas Nuwara.
They set foot from Kandy to Kurunegala and stayed in a place for preparation.
One of them went out to get all the necessary items including jasmine flowers, lemon and chicken etc leaving the other to look after the grave digging equipment they treasured very much (even grave digging equipment is not safe nowadays).
When he returned to the resting place he found a guy looked similar to him in his bed and his twin in the other bed.
So when he entered the room all three were looking at each other puzzled as if they (all three) had seen a ghost and there was some commotion and I was woken up before the dream finished.

Maha was bit puzzled that I did not send him an email earlier than this.
What is the problem with you.
You are not sleeping well?
No Sir.
I sleep very well because of the industrial action and get up late too and forget most of the dreams by the time i get up.
So when you do academic work you dream a lot?
Yes.
Shall I settle the dispute?
No Sir.
If you do that I don't have time even to send an email.
On the contrary, our politician sleep a lot in between the elections and it is good for them to have a wake up call now and then, now that the honeymoon is over.
Now then how did the dream end?
Actually there were four of them.
What you saw was exact isotopes of the twin brothers.
The brother who remained was under the bed and he was frightened when those two guys walked into the room.
Were they ghosts.
No.
How come?
They had gone for a medical check up and doctors cloned them in case any one of them (normal guys) come for heart transplant or organ transplant.
Why?
Now that the war is over and refuges are not there price of transplant organs have gone up like the fish.
The nurses by mistake had given an overdose of hormones and they have rapidly grown up to full size and escaped from the hospital and ended up at the resting place.
I can understand logic now that stem cells experiments are going on at hectic pace but what is the interpretation?
I cannot give a time schedule lest you get into trouble.

Interpretation.
If I say in future, politicians who go for higher posts clone themselves before the election.
In case if they die during the campaign, the clone will come and represent the dead one.
While in office they keep them as a safety valve in case something happens during the term of office.
But the real reason is, now that the term of re-election time is indefinite cloning is essential for self propagation and continuation of development policies.

Doc is it really possible to clone Gods.

Why not?

That is why gods live for eons and your boss Maha has many clones, in case something happens.

Have you clone yourself?
No.

You better do that soon; There are many dogs here aspiring to take up your post.

Is it costly?
No.
We need only a few stem cells.

OK, I will seriously consider that possibility but I have to ask my boos Maha Brahma.
I got to go do you have any more questions.

I hear Mr. Praba also had a look a like clone in case something happens to him.
Is it true?
Did he clone himself?

No, No. 
It was only a rumour he never wanted him cloned less the clone will kill him.
Can that happen?
Yes.

All clones have to be kept in secret location and a weekly dose of amnesia injection (treatment) should be given to maintain them in good shape.
Then when the real one dies an antidote of anti-amnesia injection is given by the panel of advisers surrounding the boss and the advisers take him to task and do what they please most.

If the first clone does not listen to the advisers, they dispose him or her and get another clone.

If they escape from interment he or she will certainly get rid of the real one.

Didn't I tell you your dreams are always futuristic.

Dream well and I will see you soon.

Don't forget to clone yourself but in heaven they do not kill each other unlike on earth. 
Do they?

Nop, see you soon.

SlimPup-lupu-5.25

SlimPup which is a derivative of Puppy lupu 525 has lot of video and udieo auditing capability including Flv and MP4 and over 40 odd formats.
The list of video file types are over 100 and I never believed that there are so many.
Video editing is such a pain in the neck if you have some video clips that you are unable to see then you better try Puppy Slim and see.
One should have two CD/DVD Roms.
One for booting one for writing.
Puppy takes only 4% of 1 GiB RAM of one's desktop one has all the RAM available for your conversions and work.
Good Luck with your try.

What if rains fails for 2 years: Are we (Sri-Lankans) ready?

What if rains fails for 2 years.

Are we (Sri-Lankans) ready?
The simple answer to this is Big No.
On the contrary we are all making this scenario possible on a daily basis.
One a daily basis everyone of us is contributing to felling trees.
The illegal felling of trees is rampant and often big political guns giving cover to the undesirable in the name of development.
In the name of development and road development the government has activated the engine of unsustainable growth.
Are we restoring and renovating tanks in case the rain fails for two seasons.

No.
The will build play grounds as if we have won the right to hold the Commonwealth games.
We have on record that we have converted an ancient tank into a cricket ground.
Additionally we are polluting our rivers and tanks (Renal problem in North and North East).
Can we designate 10 places in this country where water can be drunk straight from the stream?

No.
Can we designate 10 places where water can be taken for mineral water industry without treatment?

No.
Then what about the mineral water bottles?

If one does a secret survey without the knowledge of the company involved, they are just coming from tap water in tinted plastic bottles.

Mineral water is a big industry with minimum capital

that is why I never taste mineral water.
I do not mind foreigners drinking from mineral water bottles since in their blessed countries the pollution is 100 times compared to here.
Britishers took the pain to cultivate in our highland and made sure every river in its origin is polluted.

Our annual pilgrimage to Adams Peak does the rest.
Now come to my original premise, if rain fails for two years.

In this statement it does not mean total (100%) failure but substantial failure which may amount to 90% of the normal where rivers will dry up except in its origin.

For example if one looks at the Mahavali (Now I call it Mada Vally) River down below the diversion one should be able to understand and visualize the scene.

Every year from Teldeniya onwards the river goes dry part of the year.
One does not need to do any elaborate survey but just looking at the latest ariel view of Google is enough.

We not have a satellite of our own and if one wants to spend money spend some pennies and get a picture from Indian sources.
But my preposition is related to the effect of two important safety barriers we have with rain.
1. It (rain) cools our atmosphere so that we do not need a fan to coll ourselves.
2. The rain takes away the dirt and toxic fumes.
3. Toxic fumes include that are coming from Coal Power units running at full speed so that we can watch I.P.L cricket to entertain us in the not so cool afternoon.
4. I guess one or two players will succumb with heat stroke.
5. The smog will cover the the sky and will interfere with the photosynthesis of rain forest resident local varieties of plants.
They will flower prematurely and wilt away expecting for the rain to come.

(perennial varieties).
6. There is no germination of seeds.
7. Only few plants like cocoa and pipal trees will survive.
8. Then we can worship all the pipal trees but rain gods who were residing on tree tops have vanished to Africa to look after African resistant varieties.
9. Now we have drilled oil out of Northern Sri-Lanka and  Paisalie money is not a problem but transparency is.
10. We will spend all that money from gas and petrel to import bottle water for the politician and astrologers who are playing cricket in their back garden before the cabinet meeting (with few attending)  to refresh themselves with the world affairs.

11.No problem with rights of the people who want water to drink.

They are given either bottle of arrack or bottle of petrel to cash in with drinking water.

12. Government goons are selling the water bottles and take back both arrack and petrel and reinvest on water imported from abroad.

This is not hypothetical but real in time to come even without rain failing.