Organisational Skills and Japanese 5S

I am a well organised person by birth.
I think I inherit this probably from my previous birth.

I have worked with Japanese twice one in management capacity when they were developing JEB Vaccine based on Ceylon and other on academic capacity to get at least second hand microscopes.
I could not get one with a camera but bought a student's microscope with camera  for my research work.

On the second occasion I adopted 5S with enthusiasm.
Getting right first time was my motto and I did not want to redo my research.

I have met only one Japanese guy worth associating with.
All others were idiosyncratic and their inability converse with English was obvious.

I was much interested in Quality Control in Laboratory Work in Ceylon and done some work in this regard and was instrumental in Nawaloka Hospital getting the National award in mid 90s.

Quality was in my blood.

This is why I am an avid supporter of Linux Development.

My prescription is common sense and not Japanese paranoia which probably is indicated in consumer industry.

My interest was in service sector and especially in higher education.

Unlike Japanese I do not discard even a coconut shell after use.
It is hard and can be degraded to activated carbon.
Coconut fiber rubberised is very useful in making pot fillers and coconut dust has many uses apart from padding in our mettreses.
It was one of my classmates who pioneered the development of these techniques.
I do not know where he is most likely in Japan married to a Japanese girl.

Now coming to computers I have discarded all the IBM and IDE hard disks but collected an assortment of SATA disks (some internal and some external).

I did not get 5S training in computer assembly and I guess all this are done premanufacturing stage.

My job is to test their compatibility to Linux.
Debian, Ubuntu and lately I have covered Sparky Linux have mastered the technique of getting right first time round.

I did not discard any of the boxes and power cords that came with them.
Over the years I have put them in the wrong box and what I did was to put them back to their proper boxes with the items that I am not currently bnot using.
All of them have a latest 64 bit version running.

All of them are password protected and if I kick the bucket nobody can use them.
But I leave the passwords in one of my little notebooks.

Light has come up and I am back to installing Sparky Linux in my second SATA disk as a spare workplace.

Sparky Linux on My Intel NUC

The Sparky Linux 7 installer is not called Calamara but Orient Belt.

m new to Intel's NUC box which is cute and noiseless.

I love quiet mode that is conducive for my writing mode.

It is little bigger than an average cellphone but not rectangular but a perfect square which make orientation on six side meaningful.

Except for camera backside of a cellphone is redundant.

One can open the backside of NUC and slot in a small SATA hard disk.

It is portable and do not buy the bigger versions.

There are much slimmer versions from other OEM guys but they are expensive.

They will come down in price given time I wish I could buy a slimmer one before I kick the bucket.

Complete exit from this war mongering planet and galaxy.

Biggest hindrance is Power Cuts.
I have Debian in the inside chip of the NUC box and Ubuntu and Mint on a Western Digital external box.
The Visual BIOS is bit of a pain.
I mounted Sparky Linux on another WD SATA using my PC.
I could not mount it.
Finally I decided to undo chip set boot option and set it for USB boot.
After several attempts at F2 function key it booted.
I have said I have begun to like Sparky Linux and I am going to make it my workhorse.
It is Debian based and it has it's own APT application center.
It has VLC media player and Exaile music player.

I want to play some music from a Standard SD (micro SD) card.

I have not tried it yet.
Besides I have two Bluetooth speakers and music can be played without a computer.

Next problem is transferring my music downloads from my cellphone.

All these are nice entertainment for an old guy.

I end saying Sparky Linux is fabulous.

What I really like about Sparky Linux is it has brought back my memory of 8 workplaces (mind you not 8 windows cluttering the monitor) to any which I can switch and letting the others to work in the background, like downloading a Linux iso image.

Most Linux distributions are finiky    about internet connection but Sparky is not.

My advice is to install Linux without internet connection and both Ubuntu and Mint have heeded to our request and one can install without Internet.

But there is a big pause before disconnecting or looking for home site.

Just sit and wait till it comes back to install mode and partitioning.

By the way, after lot of trouble I got Emmabantus installed in my second hard disk of the PC.
I have to use a DVD and it won't boot from a USB.

Sparky Linux Installation

I have just finished installing Sparky Linux.
Unlike other Linux distributions it is happy to stay alongside other distributions and it's GRUB is similar to Ubuntu.
It says it is light wright secure and fast at boot.
It is actually fast at booting since it does not go through the file integrity checks at boot time.

Reason I tested Sparky Linux is to test it before I install Sparky Linux Game Over distribution.

It is slow to download and it has very few seeders.

My data finished in the middle of download and I won't go out for another 10 days to reload.

It's Debian based and I bet it is stable.
It uses Plasma Calamara Installer.
It's desktop is light weight and not Plasma.
It's desktop is clean without clutter and got a liking for it straight away.

It has its own application site and it supports WPS, OpenOffice and a multitude of office applications but there was no AbiWord.

It is going to be one of my regular  desktops once I install Sparky Linux Game Over.

It is going to be a healthy alternative for Steam Deck and Batoserra.

I will update my experience later and I have no hesitation of recommending it.

I downloaded Salix Linux and it looks like a replica of TrueOS.

TrueOS gone defunct and I have not used BSD for some time and I will soon be testing it.

It's installation is very cumbersome and I gave up.