Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Birds birds and birds, where the hell they come from?


Birds birds and birds, where the hell they come from?

This is my comment below a paper article about unusual bird activity

There is something radically wrong for them to come out.
I have been observing this for a while.
I have not nailed it down but In Kandy it is due to clearing of their habitat on the Hantana foothills by guys with political patronage.

They move from East to West which is not normal.
They are now nesting in few trees near our house.
Never seen before except Blue Kobeeyahs.

Second reason is they need lot of water (not food) due to  unusually warm weather.
Global warming to be precise.
In our case we have a water purification plant and they come there to bathe and drink water.

Leave lot of water for them to drink if not bathe.
They die without water.
Mind you we had two full moons without rain in Kandy.

Third reason is our mulberry tree is full of fruits due to warm weather.

I am trying to make few sapling (very difficult in this warm weather) of mulberry and give it to my friends to encourage their visits.

If not Jam Trees would do.

My guess is without visiting the hinterland, a baaaaaxxxxD with political backing and in the name of development must be destroying the last vestige of their natural  habitat.

Pass this message and this news by email to all bird lovers and start investigating without delay.

I have few sketches devoted in my blog-post-Linux 100 and parafox to alert bird lovers of this country.

Try your email in the meantime.
Thanks for highlighting this phenomenon.


Ubuntu and Ubuntu Derivatives-12.04


Ubuntu and Ubuntu Derivative
Ubuntu 12-04 and its derivatives are now out.
All of them are exciting and one should try them and enjoy the freedom of Linux.
At Least Live CD/DVD.
I have to shift my recommendation but it all depends on one´s requirement.
If you a newbie just go for Ubuntu.
If you are savvy Linux guy/girl, one has lot of choices.
Ultimate Linux and Dream Linux are neck and neck but I prefer dream Linux because of its pleasing graphics and the presence of Scribus.
It has almost everything thing except games.
Ultimate is good for games but one has to download them or alternatively go for Ultimate Games Linux.
If you a love music and and films go fro Ubuntu Studio.
Then there is Tango Studio too.
All of them have 32 bits and 64 bit versions.
Only today I tried all of the 64 bit that I had downloaded but not tested one on my laptop and they do work OK.
I tried Linux Mint Cinnamon and Mate too, the version 13 of course but for me version 13 is an unlucky number and I go for PinGuy as my favorite.
I tried Gentoo 64 bit version too but I  still could not find a live script for its install.
They promised to add Anaconda install but it never came .
Hence I am downloading Sabayon, ¨the dream I (we) believe in and it in its final 600 MiB of the download sequence.
Now less than 100.

All these time FullMonty is in real dream mode and I have to wake it from slumber.

This is the wake e up call for FullMonty.
Mind you one needs at least 2 GiB of RAM in your laptop,
Without adequate RAM do not try them, they might FREEZE on you.
So who wants windows 8 with secure boot?
Probably ones who cannot independently think and act.
While all these happening Debian Lenny is releasing it 6.0.4.
All the above started from Debian.
But do not forget Slackware the oldest and Absolute Linux a Slackware derivative without a tag of a particular desktop (I love this approach) and AntiX and Simply Mepis.
Yes I did not talk about Redhat and Suse both of them are trying to have unhealthy relationship with Microsoft.
I wish them bad luck by choice and by default of mindless high flying CEOOs..