Saturday, October 8, 2022

Going Fully Wireless

I am into Wireless connectivity for a long time.

In fact, I bought two chargers cum  wireless  connectors (internet) and used them for free wireless connectivity long before MobiTel and Dialog stormed the market.

This was for my laptop not for cellphone use, then.

I think I was the one who introduced satellite and router connectivity to my city in the center of the country.

Our STUPID politicians were slow to respond to changing dynamic of the globe.

Now we have satellite TV, too.

Analogue TV signal is very weak and I went to Lanka-Bell for solutions and got my first Huawei
Mobile with Lanka Bell SIM in which I now use MobiTel SIM connected with a USB cord.

The wireless keyboard and mouse was a failure simply because I only use Linux for work.

The drivers for the  USB dongle had Windows exe software.

Intel's NUC changed all this.
I am all wireless and bluetooth from today.

I got my old witeless Keyboard and Mouse from the attic and they are working nice with  AAA batteries.

AAA,batteries are hard to come by in Ceylon and luckily I have a stock of rechargeable batteries.

Current problem is Power Cuts.

I am a dog lover and appropriately, I have over 80 Puppy Linux Derivatives.

Only two are in 64 bit versions.

This is in addition to over 10 in USB sticks.

I use Puppy (sometimes Knoppix) when I have problems.

With my first PC with only 4MB RAM and 1MB VGA, I could not boot Ubuntu and finally after erasing the data using Puppy Linux, I managed to install Ubuntu  5.4.

It took almost 12 hours in the night and it is booting nicely.

I have only one problem in the night, that is assortment of mosquitoes.

I keep up to kill them all by good hand coordination which I learned not by typing on old keyboard but by necessity.

Now the keyboards have gone through the roof with new innovations.

What a welcome change but at a price.

I am very bad touch typist.

I use KO KO (where the key where the key of visual searching) method.

I am against using all purpose anti-mosquito vapours.

They kill other insects which is not correct.

I target only mosquitoes.

Russians should take a leaf from me and target only NATO mercenaries, not innocent civilians, now that X-elenslky forces are muted.

We had 35 year history of War and civilian casualties were enormous.

We by the way fed all including LTTE well.

We are peaceful now but nevertheless very hungry.

We are paying the price for debts incurred by the Warlords who emptied our sovereign(stole them).

It is happening right now in Ukraine and Poland is selling them in the black market and they never reach the front line.

War is a funny game somebody not in the battle field make millions if not billions while Americans, British and German ordinary people are taking the punch and the brunt.

War is a funny game in this century.

Regarding my first PC.
It did not have USB ports.
Long time ago, I stuck a USB connector to PCI slot.
It did not have a Ethernet port and I stuck a TV card to the PCI slot.

There was a separate connector for Ethernet.
Unfortunately no WiFi connectivity.

I have pulled off the 80 feet long Ethernet Wire which had a faulty portion due to old weather beaten nature.

In any case I am going to say good bye to Internet and there is no hard feeling.



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