Friday, February 16, 2024

Becoming a Publisher Using Linux Utilities

Becoming a Publisher Using Linux Utilities

I have had a crash course of writing.
Four books after two year lapse and ideas not opinions flowing at a tremendous speed.


I have almost stopped blogging and if I do not sit down and write them, the very next day, I have forgotten all.

I use forgetting as a method of encouraging new ideas.

Ruminating on the same old opinion is not a good thing for a writer.
One gets bogged down mentally or mental block ensues.

I was down with myocarditis on the first dose of vaccination but thankfully my mental faculties remained intact and that made me to go through the rest I needed, since there is no treatment for myocarditis which may even end up in death.

Initially it was fear but then reality dawned on me that uncertainty principle in stock market will fit in nicely with life events as well.

It was not fatigue that made me to go into hibernation.
Having worked 24/7 schedule all my life as a medical person, I needed a long rest, especially because the demise of our dog Zimba put me down low.
 

He was wonderful companion and I may not write a book about him which was more personal agony than glory.

(In fact I have written a book about three Ceylonese -afterlife- dogs and all three now are in Heaven and one as the Maha Brahma's assistant)
 

This book will be published soon when I go back to Ceylon for a break.

I have for the past 20 years, dissociated with medical activities and I pretend that I was a PhD guy and not a proper medical guy. 

Having worked my last years in the university, that ploy worked very well for me and gave me time for blogging, if not writing.

The corona virus pandemic was the correct antidote and I stopped drinking and loitering in the city, aimlessly in book shops, the coffee and tea shops which were mushrooming in a tiny city of Kandy for foreign tourists.


Unfortunately my classmates are either living on medical drugs and are deprived of alcohol due to their medication or have become alcoholic addicts.
 

I hate the cellphone and have almost switched off the land phone for good.

The telephone only brings bad news, never good and the rest is gossip.

That made me to write pretty or petty books on alcohol, publishing of books, fact files void of fat, mother nature and about 30 unique guys I, have met in my life including guys doing gem business, union activities, loafing, mountaineering, fishing, vendors, farmers, jokers, petty office assistants, librarians, sportsmen and many more.

Unlike the young days my memory is failing and I have to jot down ideas, in a tiny note book, which I found in New Zealand 30:years ago. and never used but kept it like a souvenir.

I did not bring this book to Australia and I am going back to collect it and enlarge upon the ideas jotted down.

 It has all the passwords recorded for posterity.


It has come handy and me forgetting PIN numbers of all the bank accounts made me to write down all the lengthy passwords for my email, except one email (which I remember well due to frequent use), I have forgotten all the other passwords.


I cannot log into CreateSpace account with one email which I have many books published.

Even though, I can some how get to my email by circuitous methods, I cannot get to the bookshelf of mine at CreateSpace.

Finally, I got round of that hurdle and here I am publishing again.

I begin to hate digital books with ugly black and white typeface.

For a long time I used Google's fonts with color to add color to my blog pieces.

I have resisted buying a Kindle and my tablet battery has gone dead and it cannot be replaced.

I have collected quite a number of Nokia cellphones and a tiny  cellphone (this I have disposed) for calls for Taxi or sending SMS and had a problem with responding to the Amazon's text messages for verification of my book page.

I have many SIM cards (15 in number, I guess a CIA guy do not have that many) for my various activities and have to use at least two of them to coordinate my writings.


The keyboard is a problem and cursor point of the mouse jumps recklessly to unwanted places and editing correction to this entry took more than an hour.

Thank You Amazon, the spell checker did a good job highlighting the mistakes.

Life is getting complicated and paranoid in this modern age,

The pandemic has made lot of guy/girls becoming paranoid.

It is not an evolutionary trend but a bizarre  malady of  modern age!

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Basic Needs of a Computer User can be Packed in 800MB of Puppy Linux-Vanilla Pup 9.3.3

Well, well, I did clean Install of Vanilla Pup in my hard disk using 512MB of space.

This was something I used to do ages ago (now forgotten) but I followed the instructions and within 30 minutes my 4GB USB can be removed and any thing I do will be saved on the 38GB Fat 32 Partition.

I used my name for the sfs file which is 532MB the size of the EFI partition in this computer.

This USB stick has all the Puppy Linux distribution Isos and other Linux distributions that I have downloaded to Test.

Yes, miracles can happen with Puppy Linux!

I am glad to hear Barry Kauler is active in developing three wheeler Moped (it is not the correct phrase).

What is good about Puppy is (this an old edition) it mounts all your hard disks partitions at boot time.

It does not do any damage at all to rest of the partitions.

The basic steps in  System can be enumerated in 10 Steps.

 1. File Manager (lot of names for this)

2. Terminal emulator (many in existence to command line instructions)

3. Process Viewer

4. Default Browser, usually Firefox

5.  Default Text editor for coding

6. Default Paint Program

7. Default Word Processor usually AbiWord or LibreOffice.

8. Puppy Setup

9. Edit Tray

10. Help

11. Eleven is Exit

All this can be done on RAM and if you are happy YOU can install it. 

That is what I did today.

We are all at Sea when Clouding

 We are all at Sea when Clouding

Even though I am very supportive of Cloud Computing as a concept and also would not like to be negative in response at least in the early stages of implementation, I have at least 3 reservations.

It is time for me to pen them now since necessary precautions can be implemented from the very beginning of its general use.


1. Number one is as regard to children 

With a Google Chrome OS children are given license to browse the internet without supervision or safeguards.  This is the same reservation I raised with Linux for Kids live CDs. 

These educational Live Linux CDs let one browse the internet without any record or a trace of the places browsed in the internet.

2. If that is not bad enough the children lose their identity or the identity may be hijacked and children could be lured using word like play and fun. 

Somebody else (not the adults intended) may use netbook (in this case a child) under the pretext of the owner, who is an adult.

3. The data that is stored outside of the personal computer even though encrypted can be used for commercial activities and government can access them under the pretext of security and one loses the privacy.

These three points alone should be deterrents for children to have netbooks without parental and or teacher control.

When  we design Cloud Computer Atmosphere that should be within intranet not widely link to the internet as primary precaution in school environment.

Arkane Linux

 Arkane Linux

Arkane Linux is an Arch based distribution.

Unlike ArcoLinux which I have a copy installed its its installer is bit dicey, so I did not try installing it.

It probably wants to take over the hard disk.

However, included application does not have even Gparted. 

I am going back to GostBSD as my carry over USB distribution since I know it can boot by old Laptop in an emergency. 

Paranoia and www.writeclique.com

 Paranoia and www.writeclique.com

This regarding an incident with British Council Library in Kandy.

The center is there teaching English but Library is no more.

They (my blog pieces at www.write.clique.com) were bit humorous and the basic ingredients were satire.

Incidentally Google has gone parnoid if one writes alternative view about "Coronavirus Saga".

Unedited part is below.

Unfortunately for me, out of the top ten, my writings (I was involved in initial setup) filled the top eight and the administrator got paranoid and blocked my name.

I still continued to write (very little traffic) in spite of noticing the administrators handiwork, since my idea was not to reach the top ten.

They used my birthday as a discriminator.

Who says there is no discrimination in web hosting and social media.

But my writings were there for anybody to read in spite of blocking the rating.

I have collated them and recently deleted 75% of the original writings from that site.

Some of them are now in digital output for posterity, in a book form.

This preamble is necessary since when one opens one’s heart and not the mind in the Web, one has to be prepared for insults and discrimination.

Sadly now governments and secret agencies are doing things that one would not suspect 30 years ago.

Technocrats and not the real hard working guys who fill these posts and operating from air conditioned cubicles and are scared to be on the beat and foot.

Invariably paranoia develops.

So I think it is necessary to have a bit of paranoia when one enters the Web with email to begin with.

The instruction for good password is in another piece!

How does one have a good password?

How one can remember a password with 14 to 16 characters (what banks employ now for an

account, with the help of computers)?

To begin with one has to train the brain to remember.

I have a suggestion elsewhere (under web etiquette) that I do not want to repeat here.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Android Versions

 I am not sure what is the latest Android version.

I believe it is 14. My current version is 11 and I hope Google will keep supporting old versions.

 1. Android versions 1.0 to 1.1: The early days

2. Android versions 2.0 to 2.1: Eclair

3. Android versions 3.0 3.1 3.2 HoneycombJR Raphael / IDG

4. Android version 4.0 Ice Cream SandwichJR Raphael / IDG

5. Android version 1.0 on early smartphonesT-Mobile

6. Android version 6.0: Marshmallow

7. Android versions 7.0 and 7.1: Nougat

8. Android version 8.0 and 8.1: Oreo

9. Android version 9: Pie

10 Android version 10

11. Android version 11

12. Android version 12

13. Android 13 multitaskingGoogle/JR Raphael

14. Android version 14
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

I am Installing ArcoLinux-SUPERB

I am Installing ArcoLinux which is excellent.

I am installing ArcoLinux.

I am not a fan of Arch Linux because of its minimalist approach (one application for one job approach).

It seems like ArcoLinux has broken that tradition.

It uses Calamara Installer and Arco Calaramara is flexible and gives the installer options to choose.

I do not know I have chosen the correct options but I like it giving me AbiWord and several Word Processes.

WiFi configuration is effortless and I am posting this while it is being installed.

I hope it won't mess up my EFI partition which was only 532MB and it wanted 2000MB which is a big waste of partition space.

I have 320GB in my Hard drive and it has three distributions already installed. 

Installation is slow and only 65% completed. 

Session user is liveuser and no password.

It has Gparted for partitioning. 

I use several desktops including light weight desktops and I hope like the BIG CD version of Debian 12.4.0, I can test all the desktop types at boot time.

Additional feature is one can toggle what is being installed at 5 second intervals. 

It is still at 71%. 

By the way, it let me select host of games which none of the Linux distributions fancy about.

So if its boots OK it is worth the waiting. 

ARcoLinux is astonishingly good.

Now I have more than 20 desktops to write about. I am writing a book about available desktops and I was under the impression it is about 20 but to my surprise there are over 40 desktop types and I will select only 25 that I have used during my 23 years of Linux, one for each year and 2 as my overall favourites.

At boot time one can select only one desktop.

Yes it installed alright but lot of fragmentation.

Only MATE and  Xfce worked and not KDE Plasma.

The integrated video card of my NUC could not manage KDE plasma 6.

This is the very reason I favour Light Weight Distributions.

I favoured light desktops and Xfce3 was my usual and Gnome has taken over the flavor out of Xfce4.

This is posted with Cutefish Desktop.

It does not give any office packages but gives a selection office packages to choose after installing the base. 

AbiWord implementation was faulty but after reinstalling it worked.

Thank YOU all girls and boys of ArcoLinux (Developer community).

I am installing it for the second time having shed the bulk of unnecessary application and selected 33GB (it needs 30GB for Large Install) partition for full install.

Besides, I can add or delete after installation.

It does not have Ubuntu Synaptic but bulk is installed Snapack.

It is over 70% install now.

Few things I missed.

It lets you install several browsers including Opera, Falcon and Vivaldi which I really value

Root partition needs nearly 20GB and I gave 33GB. Home and var partition can be left small if the hardware is not sufficient.

In my case, I have other distributions installed.

I had 3 chioces of mine and I could not decide on the fourth.

ArcoLinux takes that place and  Parrot Linux and Kali take fifth and sixth places and Linux Mint in between.

Now I can safely say in 35GB partition space Linux can fit in all the Linux applications one needs.

I do not think Mac and Microsoft take pride in that scenario and their selection is very limited.

This is what a community can do for its Own development.


Share Your Skills and extra time the final product is creditable.


STEPS for each package.

1. Key Ring

2. Checking Package Integrity

3. Package Files

4. Checking file conflicts

5. Checking disk space

6. Processing or configuring the package.

Arch does this process over and over again for each application.

That is why it takes a long time to install.

No need to check afterwards!

It runs live installation and good Internet connection is vital for smooth installation.

Most of these facts are common to all Linux distribution installation.

Debiin has its own way of installation but it worries about sable installation whereas ArcoLinux installs the latest if not the cutting edge. utililties.

Password Strategy From my AOL Mail

Password Strategy From my AOL Mail

This is a reproduction over a decade ago which I sent to a friend whose password was hacked. 

I forgot my password and reactivated today.

They have Two Factor method now but not long time ago.

 

Step 1

One has to have one’s own trick for remembering blocks of three or four.

Try to associate them with pictures, names, pets etc.

Your pet fish or dog or cat would have a secret code attached.
 

Every time you feed them repeat the code (in mind) mentally in no time it get fixed as a long term permanent memory.

Step 2

Come with a phrase to include all  10 to 16 characters in one’s password.
This is the hard part but it can be done.

Step 3
Use elements that one never forgets (unless one has Dementia).

Birthday is an easy one to remember.

Use only two numbers from it, not all.

Step 4
Unfortunately this cannot be used if one is English but I will give some hints for them too.


For Sinhala U Mata Banna, or Muta Mata Gahanna Hithenawa or Even Puke Ariya are good enough relatively used rephrases one can remember in trans-literate content, which the English Search engine might have trouble in figuring out.

From that phrase one can choose four characters (even more if the phrase is carefully constructed) easily.
 

For English user, one good example is to go to Alchemy and remember few Elements from the Tables.

Elements like Argon, Neon, Nitrogen, Bromine could be used at lib.
 

Or even one can use pentagon, hexagon, octagon or any other scientific or mathematical elements.

Again one only remembers four characters.

Step 5
If one has ever used a password before which one has remembered with repeated usage, use the same in the middle or rearrange it and put it in the middle.

Which will easily give you at least six characters.

You already got 12 characters now.

Step 6
Use two capital letters easy to access from the keyboard as the leader or the end of the password or leader and end, depending one is right or left handed.

Step 7
If the web site requires you to use an alphanumeric pick an alpha numeral to satisfy them.
You got 16 in all and 14 probably is adequate.

Step 8
Do not tell your method to anybody.
Do not share your password even with your spouse.


One day you may be divorced!


That is real and if you have time read my book on “Myths, Miracles and Marriage”.
 

Usually perfectly normal people become paranoid after getting married.
 

That is my medical experience.


It is often the people who are near and dear (sometimes, so called friends) who steal your password, not a rouge who breaks in for quick takeaway and getaway.

Keep the record of the method in a secret hiding place that you only have access.
In case one day you forget.
 

The best place to HIDE it is your brain.
 

Not even a brain surgeon would not have any access.

When resetting the password

 
When you change the password, drop two and take two from your birthday.
Pick four alternative block of four from your catch phrase.
Jumble your original password or add a new one.
Follow the rest as required and one may be able to go on till eighty to ninety since you practiced your own method and is almost specific to YOUR BRAIN which a hacker may not be able to penetrate or crack.

Unless you are one of twins there are no two people alike.
 

Even in them their are subtle differences not due to genetics but the brain behaves differently, even in twins.

Foot Note
But beware your doctor with a short memory or who is cash strapped who might steal your birth day or the catch phrase that you utter to him every time you visit.
Remember doctors forget their passwords more often than their patients.
They will never tell you.
That is why they record every word you utter and then get the vital diagnosis
wrong.
 

In this computer age doctors have become robots (unlike good old days) and not real humans.
 

If they ask you do you forget your passwords
 

Straight away say NO.

The stupid guy will ask you to state the password and put it in his computer memory which is not protected from hackers.
 

Even the nurse can steal it, if she/he is inclined.

I trust my doctor does not apply to passwords when you do visit him/her, next time, round.


That includes me too.


I might do that, catch your password, certainly not to steal but because my brain is getting absent minded I might put that in my computer, easily accessed even by a little kid.
 

Do not worry, I do not practice now by choice not by design anyway.
 

You are safe with me, my dear.


Monday, February 12, 2024

Mosquito Logic

Mosquito Logic 

            1. What is the first thing a mosquito does when it lands on the moon?

It takes the space suit off for the first feed which it missed on the flight.

2. What happens to a female mosquito who lands on a nudist camp.

She does not know where to begin.

3. What does it do when it meets a fellow mosquito in a nudist camp?

Check the sex to mate.

They are not homosexual (unlike human beings).

The following is what happens to the mosquito being after a bite.

4. What happens to a mosquito when it bites President Trump?

She (It) becomes a Megalomaniac.

5. What happens to a mosquito when it bites our P.M.R.W?

She becomes a crook.

6. What happens to a mosquito when it bites our President MS?

She becomes impotent.

7. What happens to a mosquito when it bites ex-president MR?

Her mind becomes small but body gets bloated.

8. What happens to a mosquito when it bites a Catholic priest?

She / he (no sex in heaven) gets an instant email from heaven with a request to be transferred to hell.

9. What happens when a mosquito bites Buddhist monk?

She (It) forgets to repeat its instant buzz of Stanza.

10. What happens when a mosquito bites a Buddhist nun?

It changes it sex to a male.

11. What happens to a mosquito when it bites a Muslim Priest?

She becomes a male and instantly grows a beard but forgets to wear a cap.

12. What happens to a mosquito when it bites a Hindu Priest?

Its colour changes to blue of God Vishnu.

13. What happens to a mosquito when it bites an atheist?

She develops her sense to discriminate believers and feeds only on atheists.

CoviD Fiasco-23-03-2021

CoviD Fiasco-23-03-2021

As an academic I keep a record of scientific material.

That is my habit and I do not believe in digital material.

This has helped me in writing books.

Two books I have delayed writing are one on Mosquitoes and the other on Viruses.

There is no hurry.

I have five more years to go.

This is how I recorded the CoviD Fiasco in point form.


1. Wuhan province in China in September 2019

Endemic becoming Epidemic.

Chinese denial of Bat to Human Transfer in the Wet Market.

2. Nearly 10,000 in China.

Satellite Images confirming large number of deaths.

3. Chinese built a massive building covering the cemetery.

4. The guys involved in the burial were burned to death under another building that collapsed while building it.

The front line workers were decimated.

5. Delay in reporting until 31st of December 2019 (the mandatory deadline of WHO).

6. Brief announcement of that epidemic in January 2020.

7. WHO delaying it reporting till March, 2020 as an International epidemic.

The ploy was for the Chinese to give 6 months of "Covering Time" to hide the factual data.

8. The WHO abrogated their bounden duty.

9. Between March, 2020 to June 2020 CDC had used Genetic Engineering to break down or Synthesize a New Viral Product.

10. International collaboration and over 200 countries participated.

Countries were short listed from 220 to 40 to 20.

11. Multiple Vaccines were artificially generated by Recombinant technology and Micro-array Assembly. 

12. Astra-Zenika only producing an interim report.

13. Emergency Use Authorization Protocol which was not globally accepted.

14. Competition among companies especially in United Kingdom.

15.  Russian producing Sputnic

16. China producing Covax.

17. Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson joining the band wagon.

18. Vaccine was used for front line candidates.

19. Prioritization of Vaccine Schedule

Vaccine was given to MPs in Ceylon!

20. The militarization of the Vaccination Program..

Military backed off and started diverting attention to Environmental Issues related to burial and cremation protocols.

Lot of people were dying including young guys (after vaccination).

I was a victim of global muscle damage after the first dose.

21. We over ran the china's total of reported 90,000.

22. In Ceylon deaths were not correctly reported and the Medical guy who assembled these data was shunted to another  department.

23. Finally cremation strategy was instituted.

24. Human Rights Case / Recent Violation of Human Rights cases started surfacing

25. Government debts and spiraling cost of living and food prices.

Added today

26. Mass protests throughout the country.

 

Update On Corona Virus-Edited-2020

Updated Global Assessment of Corona Virus Pandemic

Chicken, Broiler Chicken in particular.

Chicken Flu

These three words and phrases are synonymous with Corona Virus for nearly 3 decades.

Currently it is pig or piscine flu.

Historically Piscine or Pig flu is relevant and that is why Muslims and Jews in Israel do not consume pork (pigs) but all other varieties of meat available on this planet earth.

In Ceylon they even eat elephant meat.

Broiler Chicken Food Chain in my opinion, is central to the spread of the current epidemic and I have inadvertently missed that point.

Pigs and Chickens are part of the super spreader chain by way of Food Chain Transmission (F.C.T).

Only way to avoid transmission is to rear your own chicken or pigs in small scale and not on commercial scale.

WHO will never venture into these domains.

There are few more points of interest.

CDC head is a cunning "Smooth Operator" and his only desire is to hang on to his post for life and that itself is a disaster ominous.

I call him the "Pass the Buck Man”,not the Olympic Batten Style,  and all the American Institutions are well greased and ingrained in this philosophy of passing the buck up or down (Donald Trump Impeachment headed by Nancy Pelosy is a classic example and she is very good exponent of this ploy).

Ultimately it gets to the Commander In Chief.

To our amiable Joe Biden.

He should get rid of these smooth operators from the main stream, starting with CDC Head, if we are to turn the corner, in this pandemic, spreading relentlessly.

America unlike China has enough resources to bounce back in economy.

Rest of the world may sink including UK but not America by any stretch of imagination.

America's biggest problem is it’s open borders policy from Mexico to Latin America to India and China.

Biden is embroiled in this open borders strategy, not by his design but by Democratic party's long term desire to keep it's vote bank appeased and I agree with Trump's "America First Principle" for a particular period of time in American history, at least temporarily, to get rid of the budget deficit and keep  the economy under proper monitory control.

Corona Virus Pandemic should be turned into a stimulus, if they can close the borders on health grounds for at least three years to begin with. I think President Biden under pressure from the left is bending his back on first principles.

Do not listen to the vote bank but listen to the opponents. 

Every wrong move is a step towards Republican Victory.

Lot of guys and girls will give dead ropes including CDC Head, but I am sure President Biden will overcome those distractions and should not look for the next election for policy changes necessary, in this moment of time.

If he ignores the election (let the Republicans worry about it), I believe he can come back for a second term victorious with much more sustainable American Economy.

I think the Democratic opposition to President Putin will backfire, since President Putin is targeting the American consumer psychology long before the election and the price at the pump station will be very decisive. 

His attack, on oil, gas and the capitalist economy in general will bite hard on American consumers both Democratic and Republican.

The longer the war in Ukraine drags it is bad for the American consumer but a good time for the American War Machinery. 

President of Ukraine  open handedly dragged Ukraine into American orbit with no sign of compromise once one is dug in a protracted war. 

That is the plan of President Putin and he has many tricks under his sleeve.

President Biden’s foul mouth uttering or saying words like butcher and regime change have galvanized Russian opinion and that is all what President Putin wanted from America for his political success in the next round of election.

Besides, I believe war was a tactic to divert his failure of Control of Corona Virus in Russia. 

The death in the front line is better than dying of Corona Virus doing nothing at home drinking Vodka for boredom.

But the bigger danger is the fall of Russia politically is ultimate big gain for China. 

The Americans won’t be able to negotiate with China, let alone Russia who is an ally of China.

If America lets China to sneak in, it is going to be a Global Disaster unlike the Muslim and Afghan crisis filtering into India and its neighbors. 

China covertly supported Afghans to undermine America.

That ploy should be stymied now not later.

There are two other equally devastating results of the Corona Virus Pandemic.

1. Food Crisis.

2. Nutritional Crisis

3. The above two determine total Death Rate.

4. Without High Protein Diet one cannot respond to the Vaccine or the Wild Infection.

5. That this Vaccine will solve the current problem is a fantasy created by Drug Companies.

An average American living on food stamp is a total disaster. 

Food stamp is for sustenance and not for total immune response or recovery. 

A total stimulus including Good Diet is mandatory.

We went through this in 1970s and currently we are on the verge of total disaster.

An average child is surviving on manioc.

Powered Milk is out of stock and we cannot produce enough fresh milk.

The fresh milk is expensive and the supply depends on good weather.

A sustained period of dry or drought will kill our cows or reduce productivity below 10% and it is not a viable industry, at a time when economic and food crisis are looming.

We are looking down the barrel and current government is taking advice from a Gnana Manio (Mother with Vision), a Bogus Woman with image bloated sky high.

There are lot of Bogus Manios in this country.

Pani (honey), Nool (silk or thread), Death Traps (unless one pays the sooth healer a bloated sum) and Pooja Vattis (trays for offering flowers are bribes to the Gods) are the modus operandi operational at every doorstep in Ceylon.

I am doctor in full retirement who did almost kicked the bucket due to proactive Moderna Vaccine Jab (MVJ).

I am probably recovering from the Jab Related Myocarditis (J.R.M) and my life was touch and go for several months.

I do not fear to kick the bucket by the Wild Virus (but I hate to give the infection to a third party, not even to a cat or a dog) but I do fear death by the faulty Moderna Jab.

I was probably given a vaccine containing, 6-six times the required adjuvant  and with very little Corona Virus antigen in it.

My mental make is sharp at present and this is to  preempt any catastrophe to my higher centers in the coming months.

Google under no condition should  remove this piece or suppress it.

Visitors to this blog are less than 70 a day or 1500   a month, so it does not cause any alarm to the health agencies world wide.

My assessment are based on at least 40 years of continuous work except for six months, which I took a break to spend time with the family without any medical ha hoo. 

The six months break was children's request first and my volition on the second count.

I was never involved in politics except for a brief period to oust a corrupt regime, long time ago.

I resigned from G.M.O.A, since they failed to protect my rights in spite of my written request very early in my career. An appointment I deserved was given to a stooge. But I won my rights on my own legal representation.

After that, I resigned from government service never to join it again and I have a WAOP number but I have not received any entitlements.

I am a Ceylonese and I have No DUAL Citizenship.

I have traveled from Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere alone, just within 24 hours on my own money to see the Sea Lions. 

In other Words, I have seen the World, on my own account.

For the last 20 years I did not register Under the S.L.M.C.

My degree is MBBS (Ceylon).

I have postgraduate qualifications.

My writing here is as a lay person and should not be interpreted as a medical jargon or any valid  information for research work.

It is certainly not gossip or spinning yarns.

All my observation are from September 2019 onward.

Purely academic to begin with but little bit vocal. 

I think this may be my last, Corona Virus, blog piece, unless lot of sub-comments follow this piece at least to defend my stance politely.

Culprits of the Pandemic are only 3 or 4.

1. Mainland China and Wet Farms.

2. Singapore Airlines.

3. WHO

4. Cover up agents paid by interested parties including Drug Companies.

5. Austria's sky resort dilemma added as a little spice.

But the main cause is under par airline safety protocols.

A) Theory of Lab escaped Virus of high probability.

B) Piscine Borne infection.

C) Delay in investigations for the cover up to take effect.

I have some outrageous suggestion like the mRNA is so tiny, a mosquito can harbour, it and carry it for months apart from infecting pigs.

It is an enterovirus by design that changed it's transmission mode to respiratory mode purely, by accident.

It is only 20 to 30 nanometers and probably cannot be killed by the current detergents.

It keeps on living or replicating given the suitable environment, using its ingenious methodology.

Let me take a different point of view.

This virus had traveled from North Pole to South Pole in less than a year.

No country in the world is free of its contamination, if not death  and that contamination will continue for another 20 years unless we Stop the Food Chain Transfer (FCT) and the free virus mobility on meat products.

It is my belief, that the  Control or Mitigation of the Food Chain Transfer will never happen.

It is very difficult to arrest since entry point to the food chain is numerous and uncontrollable. 

People will starve to death if we interfere with the food transfer chain. One ship trapped in Sues Canal recently is a case in point.

Economic consequences will outlast the 20 years (plausible prediction) of spread of the disease.

If this is a natural virus (most unlikely and a successful virus never wipes out its subjects) it's determination is to control the world population for the benefit or health of the planet.

In the event, if it is an alien design (for a very long period they would have been  masquerading as humans on this planet of ours, i.e; the inhabiting and invading alien beings) for them to get established (in that scenario it is a virus adopted by the aliens for their propagation and they are manipulating it's spread so that the immune aliens have an advantage in survival on this planet) surreptitiously, on this planet.

You can bear with me, I am not sparing any random thoughts.

1. Number one this virus had traveled with man and it's food chain.

That is why it spans the globe.

2. Singapore Airline was the pandemic breaker.

It is the only country with the lowest number of deaths and confirmed cases.

Why?

I do not believe their records and knowing it as the super spreader, at the beginning stage of the pandemic, it is cooking up its numbers to avoid future litigation by foreign civil agents, if not WHO.

This scenario can go bizarre, if the vaccination program causes more vulnerabilities including myocarditis.

Just like China, Singapore is not a fully fledged democracy but it's richness gives it a bit of a cushion and an international clout.

Mode of transfer are Ships and Mighty Long Haul Vehicles with wet foods produced in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taipei.

My theory of mass movement of food products in the food chain helps to spread the disease holds true here.

Traveling  and Shipments are banned for North Koreans and it has probably the lowest cases per capita, probably, lower than Singapore.

All of them are of Chinese descent and wet market entrepreneurs.

Can you see that the jigsaw puzzle is fitting in nicely.

The final piece is WHO who were bribed to delay reporting the pandemic till December 31, 2019 (WHO deadline for that year).

My Conspiracy Theory is right at heart.

Aiding and abetting is visible and obvious.

It is possible to Genomically Tag it’s Origin but my mosquito and piscine theories make this more difficult.

Mosquito transfer is very unlikely apart from hospital (India and Africa are good candidates) spread related to housefly, a viable but a plausible passive transfer of the candidate virus.

The human race is responsible for this and 30% of the failure is of the administration and the other 70% is the incorrigible humans.

We are in a mess and we all have to get out of this mess. 

It is a global problem and not a national problem anymore.

Individual countries and companies stocking up the vaccine is not the way forward. 

It is somewhat, blind expectation that the 70% vaccination will get US out of this problem.

A fanciful imagination.

Lot more efforts and much more vigorous actions have to be in place. 

There are lose ends in this article and I won't try to hide or whitewash.

It is for the young guys to look at this problem globally from all angles. They should  resist the temptation to depend only on health infrastructure.

Spend the resources only on hospitals, vaccination centers and rely on pharmacies to support their efforts, may bounce back both on economy and well-being of mankind.

I have my deep sympathy to the first responders but I am bit skeptical of the efficacy of the vaccines. 

Too, true to be good and one vaccine almost killed me.



 

Whither Covid-19

The “Ceylon epidemic” as it used to be called, has been extensively studied, and in the 1950s the British epidemiologist George MacDonald used the Ceylon case study in developing the first application of ‘basic production number’ (or rate) for epidemics, the celebrated R0 (R naught or R zero). R0 represents the number of additional infections that one infected person can generate in a population. MacDonald has used estimates of 7.9 and 10 as R0 the malaria epidemic. Based on these numbers the herd immunity (R0-1)/R0) for malaria without DDT would have been around 90%.

Imagine if the Coronavirus was carried by a Mosquito Vector

R0 for Covid-19 is considered to be between 2.5 and 3.5 ( depending on countries and locations), and that would suggest a herd immunity threshold of 60 to 70%,i.e., 60 to 70% of the population will have to be infected before virus transmission can be stopped. Until a vaccine arrives on the scene, social isolation and lockdown measures are the only tools available to reduce the value of R0.

Virus transmission ends when R0 is reduced to being less than one, but that is not the end of the virus.

There is optimism that a vaccine breakthrough might come as early as January 2021. There is ‘ethical’ potential for a new therapy in Remdesivir, a "broad-spectrum antiviral medication" with established safety profile which has been previously developed as treatment for SARS, MERS and Ebola. These efforts may or may not come to fruition, and in the desired short time line, according to experts. The same experts also acknowledge when nothing else is working against the coronavirus it is natural to be enthusiastic about every new development that is going on.

Whither Covid-19

Outside South Asia, the general assessment is that the first wave of the virus is now over, the transmission has either stopped or is significantly slowing, and the affected countries can begin to ease up, while being fully prepared for the next wave.

For South Asian countries, including Sri Lanka, there is no certainty as to whether or not the first wave is past them, and there is no clarity about what is ahead in the next few weeks and months.

There were 600 cases in India, when the Modi government began the lockdown, on March 25. Now, just over a month after, the cases have multiplied fifty times and the total is past 33,000 and the number of deaths is upward of 1000.

The stories in Pakistan and Bangladesh are not any different.

Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers - less than 700 cases and seven deaths - are mercifully lower than what would have been the daily tally during the malaria epidemic. The low numbers should be a cause for cautious optimism, and the country should be in a position like New Zealand. The island country of five million people has about 1000 cases and 19 deaths, and it is confidently returning to normalcy but fully prepared for the second wave of the coronavirus. New Zealand’s much larger neighbour, Australia, an island continent, is almost equally well placed.

In Sri Lanka, there is no certainty or assuredness about what lies ahead.

The country is under a prolonged curfew to enforce social isolation.  As many people are in custody for breaking the curfew as have been tested for Covid-19, or sent to quarantine without being tested. Every time there is an announcement of relaxation, there is a spike in the number of cases and the curfew is extended. And the most recent spikes in cases are among the custodians of Covid-19 quarantines – the armed forces.

There is growing skepticism about even the Covid-19 statistics that are put out by the officials.

In yesterday’s Island, Dr. Vinoth Ramachandra called it strange that after six weeks of lockdown, "the ‘official’ deaths have remained static for the past two weeks and ‘official’ infections are miniscule in comparison with other countries."

He went on to ask the officials "is there another purpose that the lockdown serves?"

But my assessment is doctoring data for political reasoning and advantage!

The Alliance of Independent Professionals have been raising similar questions in their periodical ‘statement of facts’ on the Covid-19 crisis. Is testing being deliberately kept under capacity to keep the case numbers low?

Are clinical case definitions being ignored or tampered with where Covid-19 testing is not available?

Are patient deaths being properly recorded with causes prior to cremations?

It is unethical and illegal to tamper with official data or their collection. Where data involve helpless patients, it is also heartless and immoral to tamper with them or destroy them.

And monkeying with data involving Coronavirus will boomerang spectacularly, because without reliable information there cannot be a plan to break the chain of transmission of the virus.


Why I encourage mosquito breeding?

Why I encourage mosquito breeding?
 

I managed to fine a huge book on mosquitoes and won't dish out remedies to exterminate mosquitoes. My fish thrive on their eggs and are very healthy and I do not need to buy fish food.

Mosquito larva is our cesspit cleaner.

Cockroach is our gully cleaner.

The gecko is our pantry cleaner.

Please do not kill any of them with potent insecticides and these poisons kill our bees.

A Gram of fish food is more expensive than Thriposa or Samapoa.

This was something I wanted to write for some time but kept delaying it for many reasons including political. When some issue is taken out of context and used as a political gimmick, even with much discomfort, I tend to refrain from taking the center stage.

Train to think logically and constructively,

I sometime find it difficult to find an audience (group of intellectuals in a forum) to discuss a topic at length. This was something we used to do even when we were just interns.

For an example we were faced with a dilemma of the treatment protocol as interns. On many occasions we were sure we had made the correct diagnosis but the standard treatment did not ensue improvement or recovery. In one of these occasions we decided to double the dose of an oral antibiotic which was only 12 cents a capsule.

We could not double the other agent given I.M and very painful too since with the wrong dose of that,   I have seen a few children die (not any one who was under me) as misadventures.

Most of the misadventures were hushed up even then since the treatment was free and innocent patients were prepared to take some of the gullible lies from the administrators. This has become a common occurrence nowadays let me not digress. When we did increase the dose the patient started responding.

That was good news.

Unlike today we did not rest with that we asked the question why half the capsules were not working

Obvious conclusion was that somebody was introducing dud capsules in the supply chain.

We reported this and the Ministry then had the way to investigate the supply procedure and then caught pilfering from the Medical Supply Division and the substitution of dud ones to replace the same.

This was big news then.

This is a common practice in India even now before they reach our shores.

That was Professor Senaka Bible's time and we were very happy.

Years later I came to Colombo General Hospital and this practice was rampant as nothing constructive to abort this practice was in situ and Professor Bible had died under mysterious circumstances.

The modus operandum was for the guys to come as patients and take month's supply of drugs and unload them at the nearest private pharmacy.

There were many other offences (rice and eggs were meant to for patients were stolen during the Pang Polling days) I discovered as a D.M.O but these things are happening in much bigger scale now and I am still digressing from the major objective.

The point I want to bring out is that there is very poor accountability and the procedure for investigations is hampered both within and outside the health sector.

This is true for correct diagnosis too.

If one looks at a record of a patient who returns home comparatively well or who succumb in both private and public institutions the error rate of diagnosis is around 60% to 80% .

This figure has never been estimated for PMs (postmortems and not prime minister) after the introduction of private practice. Many a times not done in a proper scientific way.

Postmortems are avoided at very convenience of the doctors (I was a trained pathologist, paediatrician and a gaeriatrician). The other issue is that there is no proper consultation among individuals with expertise in other fields and different skills.

This is the salient feature in the practice of medicine in Ceylon. When something goes wrong the the diagnosis that come to the forefront is dengue.

The gullible media also report them without serious investigation.

All what one needs is a platelet count and a slide test that detect antibodies (no distinction from old or new antibodies). The test to show rise in titre is not evident in many cases. There are multitude of other that can lower platelets.

Concrete proof is lacking and impartial objective scrutiny is never done before or after the event. Once it is labelled as Dengue many doctors can have a sigh a relief that they have covered up their inefficiencies and tracks.

Unfortunately it covers up the administrative failures too. When a society is corrupt to the core and in effect the legal and medical systems are not strengthened to investigate and find viable remedies this filters to all the other segments of life including schools and universities and proper conduct of examinations and elections to are left to the undesirable elements.

That is when non-medical people too get involved in detecting virginity when the pertinent question that should be asked is;

Is it consensual (does not matter one is married or not-even in marriage it should be consensual not by force due the fact one is legally married; marriage gives a license) or not?

Every other case of death is buried under the mountain of dengue (we have to formulate strict guide lines).

1. The correct procedure is to have strict guide lines for diagnosis of dengue.

2. Then the next step should be and when the death is contentious (not dengue) there should be a procedure to arrive at an alternative diagnosis.

3. The third step should be to have independent clinical audit that is not practised in this country.

I can give you an incident when medical people failed to come to consensus regarding the increase of kidney disease in North Central Province. They did not have a protocol to deal with the scenario.

The dengue scenario is no different to me.

We are barking at the wrong tree.

Only taking political mileage.

Poor mosquito should not be an escape goat and escape route for our indifference since medicine like books are given free by the government.

All governments are also culpable whether they are democratic or otherwise.

We need a system in place when the system fails everything else fails.

Nobody ask the question why almost 50% did not vote. Simple answer to that is when the system in place has failed the very system that generate credibility is lost for ever and the apathy sets in.

These are not only philosophical points but these are social issues too. Everybody in power, not in power, able, disable, in private practice, in government institutions and in all spheres of activity should have a fare share of responsibility.

We are all culpable either direct or indirect or not in action or out of action or in the thick of actions.

We cannot leave it to the politicians alone.

What is lacking is sincerity and transparency.

As Buddhists we will have to pay our dues for these crimes of inactivity and indifference now not in next birth.

Linux Mint named Jammy (? Version21)

 Yes, I testes Linux Mint since , I had an extra USB of 4GB.

It is 3.1GB.

I begin to like it because of user friendliness.

If one happy with basic stuff, I have no hesitation recommending it to a newbie.

It has Synaptic Software and Snappak from Snaphub.

Snappak is the user friendly part.

I downloaded Abiword in live session.

I am surprised and HAPPY that AbiWord has increased its resources to 1.4GB download and 3.6GB installed.

By the way, Google again (to my Blog post to post this) did not sign me in a Live session of Mint.

Android Studio with Ubuntu 23.10

Android Studio with Ubuntu 23.10

 I am currently downloading Android Studio from Ubuntu base.

It is bi 1.2GB and from FlatPak, it takes a few minutes.

I tried to copy its description but could not.

This is what it says, mind you have have not tested its coding.

1. World class code editing, debugging, performance tooling, a flexible build system and an build deploy system.

2. Provides the fasted tools for building applications on every type of Android Device. 

3. The snap is maintained by Snapcrafters Community. 

It is still downloading.

4. On Opening, I said do not send statistics to Google.

5. It has graphical installation Wizard.

Options 1. Standard 2. Custom

 6. SDK Folder

/home/my name/Sdk

1.44GB

7. License Agreement

Me Cancel and Exit.


4. I said do not send satistics to Google.

Sunday, February 11, 2024

FlatPak, Flathub, Brave Browser and my Gmail

FlatPak, Flathub, Brave Browser and my Gmail

I am using different browsers to do different activities.

I use Opera for quick browsing.

I use Falkon for my torrent activities and yahoo mail.

I decided to use Brave Browser for my blog activities and gmail would not let me sign.

Brave browser is bit funny it asks you whether I would let it pop up advertisements.

I hate advertisements and Google very well knows it.

This piece is not about browsers but about Flathub and FlatPak.

Yes, they are doing a good job to pile up enormous number of resources BUT their synchronisation is very poor, especially with Synaptic Package Manager.

Installing freezes in Mid Air.

I had to Install Ubuntu for about 5 times to get my specifications specific.

Finally, I got it toady working smoothly.

It is not the fault of Ubuntu.

I had to install Synaptic Package Manager as a utility which used to come as a System Utility.

I cannot claim I am a Linux veteran, since I am a Linux user and I would like to have few light weight games while I am writing a book.

No articles now.

Waste of time writing articles, when it is finished new thing has hit the floor or the town.

Even downloading Frozen Bubble and Pingus has become a toil.

By the way, while I am writing this Blender, Inkscape and Scribus were downloaded.

Those are HiFi Linux utilities which I used in the past for learning few tricks. 

By the way, Batosera (Linux Games Library) compressed file is extracting in the background.

Batosera when expanded is 8.1GB and I have done all this with 8GB RAM on a basic NUC.

Thank YOU Intel but you have stopped producing NUC and ASUS has taken over the manufacturing business.

Real multitasking which Window can never accomplish.



Batozera Game Iso

Batozera Game Iso 

I was installing Ubuntu for the umpteenth time to get my GRUB Boot Loader in pristine form.

I had problem installing Synaptic Package manager and trying to install VLC I got lot of JUNK.

It took lot of time and I decided to try Batozera image downloaded and copied it to a USB and extraction did not go well.

I may try it not on Live Mode but on a Ubuntu Session and report back.

It is 3.1GB and I had problem extracting it (went into 10GB or more) and gave it up.

This time it is smaller and may work all right.

 

Saturday, February 10, 2024

2024 Election Analysis on Mathematical Grounds

My earlier prediction going by previous election statistics was very simple.

Nobody gets 50%.

At best J.V.P (N.P.P) would get only 45% of the total vote and they are short of 5%.

That amounts to massive 700,000 votes.

Even if they muster portion of Northern Tamil votes with the help of India and RAW, the J.V.P. cannot get that 5%.

Unlike my previous predictions, I have lot of factors without bias going in favour of my prediction.

They include;

1.The prudent and astute voter does not believe any of these jokers.

2. Their resolve cannot be bought in like the Indian voter. They take the money and vote to his or her choice at the time of the voting..

3. India cannot even manipulate the Estate Sector. 

They have been cheated from Thondaman times. 

India is good at lying to their own voters, so be it.

4. There is already election fatigue.

5. Importantly, there is also economic fatigue.

6. Just wait for unexpected turn of events.
Many candidates including Rajitha Senaratne would probe their own popularity.

7. These Wild Cards have local base value.

8. Kumara Welgama has gone dormant (medical reasons) but still has significant voter base but his son cannot change (not like the father like son scenario) evolving political events.

9. Chandrika is a Compulsive  Liar (just like her father) and has no Credibility at ground level.
 

She is fishing in trouble waters.

She thinks she has a base at Nittambuwa and Gampaha but I have my doubts.

10. Shrewdly and gradually, R.W. and S.L.P.P have scuttled the enthusiasm created by the spontaneous citizen uprising.

Factual Estimates

There are about 1.35 million votes estimated.

Successful candidate would have to earn 67, 50,000 votes and J.V.P (N.P.P) has to increase the total vote capacity by 62,50,000 votes from it's logical base of 5,00,000 votes.


It is humanly impossible for the N.P.P to raise this amount of votes by  "Simple Baila". 

"Baila" in local terms is gullible lies.

If at all it is a Protest Vote not a Yes Vote.


That is the bottom line.

This has never happened in World History of Politics.

There are more spoilers in this election than a probable winning candidate.

Ordinary people are generally less focused on politics and nobody who comes to power has a plan to get us out of our economic problems and the clever politicians won't spent their money (this time round) but a few "Rich but Stupid" guys would enter the fray including Nagaya or Nagananda Kodituwakku to inflate the election expenses and avoid paying TAXES (from the capital owned by the candidate). to the coffers.

Everybody including candidates, the winning (very unlikely without a second preference) contestant and the voters would be poorer at the end of the election.

The scenario of Second Preference vote has not been tested before and it is a very dicey affair.

My advice is not to cast the second vote.

Why elect a candidate of second choice?

I will not be interested in voting this time round.

Anyway, I am out of the country and I won't bother to come home, at the time of the election.

Two more points of interest.

1. There will be a Definite Drop (D.D.) in the percentage of voting of high of 80% in the past to a significant low of 70%.


That is about nearly 14,00,000 votes.

2. Lot of people have left the country due to economic meltdown. 

They won't come to vote not only due to apathy but more importantly due to cost of the air tickets.

These two factors alone would drop the 50% bar to 45% (whoever tops the list does not matter).

Lot of money and time is wasted and there is a sinister attempt to postpone the election on flimsy or bogus reasons.


"Sutra Puncha" will fail again and his tactics are pretty obvious, even to a stupid voter.

"SutraPuncha" should be ousted by all costs.

10% man will fail miserably to less than 10%.

But 3% man will jack up its base at least to 40% a significant achievement in Real Politics!




Friday, February 9, 2024

Ubuntu Studio 21.10 Version on Top of Ubuntu

Ubuntu Studio 21.10 Version on Top of Ubuntu

I am really stupid when deciding which distribution to Install in my small SATA disk mounted on Intel NUC basic.

I install the basic installation which is 4GB and then add on the additional applications.

In case of Ubuntu, I should have install Ubuntu Studio instead.

It also has office package and and all the audio video packages.

It only 1.7 GB of additional space that is required for Ubuntu studio.

Only missing item is Abiword, which I will add moment I boot it.

That is what am doing now.

Not only that I let it boot automatically at boot time.

It is OK for me in my retirement but for young guy who wants to edit and post his or her videos on YouTube, one need only Ubuntu Studio by default.

Make sure you download from a torrent file not D2D direct download.

Ubuntu Studio is a classic distribution for film artists!

One more point of interest, one should have at least 16GB of RAM to make best use of Video Editing.

Do not try it with 4GB RAM.

I added Box utility and Kodi to Ubuntu Studio repertoire and it did freeze a bit with 8GB RAM.

Yes, Box utility which I installed after rebooting did not recognize the iso or ran on the virtual machine.

I did not have this problem with Ubuntu 21.10.

It was a software problem not a RAM problem.

Require libraries were probably not there.

I am going back to Good Old Ubuntu and installe Gnome Box in it.

Steam OS

Steam OS

I have manged to download Steam OS iso from a torrent file accidentally found.

Yes it can be installed in a hard drive.

It reserves a large file for files in /var/reserve for the games and the rest as a home partition.

In fact I installed it over my Ubuntu Partition and erased it within 24 hours to install Ubuntu again.

This has nothing to do Holo Os, I could never find as an iso file.

It is fairly recent iso and good to have if you are gamer. 

Nobara (Fedora) and Ragata (SuSe) I was never impressed.

 

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Emmabantus Installing with Calamara Installer

Emmabantus Installing with Calamara Installer

Yes, Emmantus should be installed by Calamara Installer. If one use the old Debian Installer, it would fail to recognize the already installed other  Linux distributions.

I have found it with "Trial and Error ".

I am resistant to changes and if the developers have that decision, they I believe have a reason (standardization), I would fall in line with them.

Emmantus 5, consistently ignore other  Linux distributions installed in the same hard disk.

This may not be TRUE with Microsoft, I believe.

That means it is subservient to Windows.

It is not a Smart Linux distribution.

There going to be a little holiday for me in Ceylon.

I am going to pack my second hand 500GB SATA hard disk to external enclosure today.

That's It!

Thank YOU very much to guys and girls of the Debian Developer Community.

 

 

MX Linux Install

MX Linux Install is bit of a pain even for guy who is using Linux for donkeys years.

I am surprised it stand first in the ww.distrowatch.com list.

It took ages to configure GRUB and I hope it did not miss any of my installed distributions. 

But it has enormous amount of resoureces including Virtual Machines.

Problem is I have to install them one by one.

It started as a minimalist distribution and it has become fatty.

I like desktop fluxbox.

I am getting ready to identify fifty (50) types in my book. 

Well MX Linux has a Smart Installer.

I had to type AbiWord and it did find it and installed it briskly.

I am going for light weight desktops and it let me select the avaible light weight desktops.

I selected all.

Torrent also I selected all three available including my favorite transmission,

Deluge is  also installed.

Next I am going for virtual machines.

I hope my var partition will have enough space for all.

Yes, MX Linux has done a excellent job.

It will stand as my fourth (4) favorable installation in my NUC.

It took some time locating the Applications I needed but once selected installation goes on occasionally asking for root password (whereas other distributions ask for password for almost every application.

It tells me the image and installation size,too.

I got all my browsers installed including LiBreWeb browser (I am on with LibreBrowser) in one installation whereas before I had to pick each and every one and lot of distributions did not support Vivaldi (96% Open Source).

I have no hesitation in recommending it but one has to have an understanding of how Linux works.

Astra Linux, The Russian Guy

 Astra Linux, The Russian Guy

This is the distribution I have installed in my Laptop, just to irritate the Immigration Guys.

They have to check with the superior guys to know it is Russian Military based distribution BUT a very good distribution, which can be used as a desktop, cellphone or wireless connector.

It is not a spy tool like Kali and Parrot OS.

It is in English, Russian and Portuguese and several European nations.

What I do not like in this distribution is, one cannot use a User Account and always in root mode.

I do not want my operating penis to be rooted always.

It has its own Russian Fly Desktop.

I am downloading it and it has only two peers and it is taking 15 minutes to download and 8 minutes to write to a USB stick.

It is 5.4GB and needs 8GB USB.

Astra Linux does not allow any updates or additional application installation.

I am going to erase and install BlueStar Linux which is Arch based.

I hear Chinese are manufacturing USB stick with SD card soldered to the USB circuits so that they appear bigger than the stated storing capacity.  

Do not buy cheaper USB.

However, it affects the major brands, too.

What they do is introduce one or two adulterated USB sticks to each batch of USBs.

Do not buy in BULK.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Energy Saving Desktop Environments

Following are the MB requirement of several distribution in common use.

A guy had done this in his computer probably using Ubuntu.

FreeBSD Text Console       97MB 
Openbox                             614MB 
MATE                                 1361MB 
XFCE                                  1548MB 
GNOME                             2622MB 
KDE/Plasma                     2843MB 

I use Gnome exclusively and was under the impression it uses less MB than KDE. 

I am proven wrong.

XFCE of Emmabantus was the safest bet for me.

Another guy has done a separate testing he is reporting under 1000Mb for all.

He probably has done on a virtual machine.

I did research in preparation of writing a book on different desktop environment.

I think it is the features that come with DE that matters not the RAM usage.

Besides, unlike my days RAM is cheap and guys playing games use 32 to 64GB RAM.

My NUC has only 8GB RAM and it is good enough to run the Virtual Machine which uses only 2 GB of RAM when running BOX utility. 

What matters is the disk space allocation which needs at least 10GB space. It gets consumed running 3 of 4GB Isos.