Indika Totawaththa and His Interpretation of Dhamma

This just an advice for him as a doctor.

1. He is being used by various elements mostly by Catholics (Catholics (I call it Catholic Action, the second round started somewhere around 1962).

2. He has to read Dhamma through a third party and these guys selected or used distorted Buddhist Literature for him.

Not real Dhamma.

3. He should realize that Sinhala is a disorted version of Pali.

4. Both Pali and Sinhala were spoken languages with lot of distortions and misinterpretarions.

5. Writing in Sinhala started by Buddhist monks to record local medicine, more importantly Hindu Astrology and lately to preserve what is heard as Dhamma.

They were supposed to be ditroyed during Baminitiya Saya which lasted 11 years.

Unlike togay distortions (distortion is in weekly basis) were rare because monks routinely discussed Dhamma.

Also had big Dhamma Sangayana.

It is time for another Sangayana if we can find the quarum.

6. Dhamma was recorded 1700 years after Parinibhana and enough distortion has had happened over time.

 we do not need more and more distortion to help Catholics.

7. I have most of the Pali tesxts and three dictionaries one is a huge one. In that dictionary it takes 12 pages to define Dhamma.

8. It was not Sinhala Buddhists except perhaps Most Reverend Narada Thera who started translation to English.

9. It was three German Jewish Monks who started the Buddhist Publication Society and sorted restoring Dhamma.

Please do not make it Buddhism or Religion like other religions.

10. By Buddhist monks are also using him to sort out Nikaya and Monk problems due to some of his bizarre logic.

11. Karena Dhamma Sakachcha is good but the greated dander to Dhamma is Anura/Harumi/Ranil and Modi attack.

My understanding is anybody who is knowingly or unknowingly distort end up in Niraya.

My attempt is purely academic and write on Dhamma having perused relevant books.

I am currently working on Commetcilsation Meditation.

Buddhism is not a philosophy.

Buddhism is not a religion.

Buddhism is a Way of Life for both Monks and Lay People.

I do not pretend to know Dhamma.

I divert any queries to proper Sutta or books.

Sila

Samadhi

Panga are the basics.

Ekayan Maggo.

That proper supervised Meditation.

Not roaming as in the YouTube channels.

Another episode and another episode.

 

Dhamma or Truth is One Way Track.

No side roads to emancipation.

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Russian have taken My Gnome Promotion to Heart

 ALT Linux

I think Russian developed should take a leaf out of ARCH Reborn OS and provide online install and to pick one of the 10 favourite desktops.

I am installing it Now.

It was almost a disaster.

It takes over the entire monitor and picking options was difficult.

1.Press F2 for English or Russian (they have dropped Portuguese language).

2. Accepting and ticking the Free Software Declaration was difficult. Finally I found it on the bottom middle of the panel.

I would go for Gnome which I know and not the ALT Panel desktop.

3. Next come the Locality and finding Australia was difficult from the left hand corner menu.

4. Then the application selection.

I clicked all but ALT service client.

5. Setup for me is custom and not a workstation.

6. Thanks God again that the partition table was clear and on the left hand side. 

With full screen it was easy on my eyes.

It got my partition 24 WRONG as NTFS.

It is Ext4 and /var.

It did not have /boot option but many derivatives of /var.

I think it is going to destroy 5 of my partition. I clicked wrong option by accident.

It needed 26GB and I had only 20GB.

I could not resize it to 26GB.

I went down to 11.1GB for applications.

I think one should not try this distribution if you are newbie.

No recovery option and now the installation is on.

Yes, just like Redahat I will erase it within 20 minutes of my installation but keep the USB in my Archive. 

Already transferred (not written to a USB) the Iso Image to a spare USB.

The wallpaper is not Gnome but traditional MATE and yellowish.

I know my partition table by heart.

7. It's package system is RPM of Redhat which I hate.

Installation is painfully SLOW.

It installs the base system first.

Then go for applications second.

Application installation is also very slow but bit faster than the base system. 

I think it has picked up lot of ALT stuff and may have spying or snooping ingredients.

BEWARE.

It is for Russians by Russians and probably violate Free Software and Freedom Concepts.

After all it is a communist country just like China and that is why despise DeepIn Linux which many moons ago destroyed one of my external rotating disk for good.

The only one I had after disposing the rest to iron foundry.

No cancel or delete partition options.

SAD.

Yes, Russians are still "Bum Sucking Windows Utilities".

That is no Brainer for an ardent Linux supporter and convict.

Perhaps I might install it in my laptop on my first journey to Russia so that I can use ALT and Sysipus repository.

Good Bye ALT on Gnome and Panel Option.

Thankfully Gnome recovered my System at boot up and no damage done by ALT Linux.

I cut and paste the image on a 16GB USB for future review.

Erasing the USB used for testing.

Russian have taken My Gnome Promotion to Heart

Big Thank You to Russian Developers.

LINUX is GLOBAL and has no political affiliation or division in its COMMUNITY. 

Thank GOD, I did not publish my book on "Linux Essentials".

An account ALT Linux would be written there.

I used Mate Desktop on my OLD Laptop long time ago and was not impressed.

Gnome has more than 50,000 packages and it supports Snapcraft, too.

Just yesterday, I got Brave Browser installed in my Gnome using Snaps.

Thank YOU again.

I am downloading it (6GB)  and run live and if satisfied might install it in my NUC.

My visit to Russia is suspended indefinitely. I hear Russian have demoted Ceylonese in their VISA scheme. They very well remeber our JVP leader and his disruptive politics in "Lumumba University".

Maria Fokanova has announced the release of ALT Linux 11.0 "Workstation", an independently-developed Linux distribution with RPM package management and (newly) GNOME as the default desktop: "Update 11 of ALT Workstation operating system is available. The new distribution release is based on Platform 11 (p11 'Salvia' stable branch). The build is available for the x86_64 and AArch64 architectures, using the 6.12 (LTS) Linux kernel. System environment: GCC 14 compiler suite; systemd 255.18; glibc 2.38; glib2 2.82. The new distribution retains the ability to boot ALT Workstation in LiveCD mode. The LiveCD uses Nouveau drivers, while the installed system defaults to NVIDIA drivers. Key features of the release on Platform 11: redesigned system theme; switched from MATE to GNOME desktop environment; numerous new GNOME-compliant applications; updated documentation. The most significant change in Workstation is transition to the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME components: GTK 4.16, Libadwaita 1.6, GNOME Shell 47.4."

 ALT Linux

I did not like its MATE Desktop.

 ALT Linux was founded in 2001 by a merge of two large Russian free software projects. By the year 2008 it became a large organization developing and deploying free software, writing documentation and technical literature, supporting users, and developing custom products. ALT Linux produces different types of distributions for various purposes. There are desktop distributions for home and office computers and for corporate servers, universal distributions that include a wide variety of development tools and documentation, certified products, distributions specialized for educational institutions, and distributions for low-powered computers. ALT Linux has its own development infrastructure and repository called Sisyphus, which provides the base for all the different editions of ALT Linux.

 ALT Linux 2.4 Master
by ALT Linux Team

Publication date 2004-09-19
Topics alt, Linux, 2.4, master, distribution, Iso
Language Russian
Item Size 4.6G
This is quite a whopper of an upload, featuring ALT Linux 2.4 Master in its full 8 CD glory. The install CD is still available at ALT's FTP, but I can't find the other 7 anywhere.

ALT Linux is a Russian Linux distribution created by the merging of two Russian projects working on Linux in 2001; with the distribution itself ultimately starting as a fork of Mandrake Linux before becoming its own thing. As you can see, this release is from September 2004 and it has a truckload of stuff, which I can't even begin to list in any sort of detail here. I will let you know that the default installation comes with the KDE 3.2.3 and GNOME 2.6.2 desktops running on top of kernel 2.4.26, however. Additionally, the initial install only uses the install CD; you will have to fiddle around with Synaptic (the package manager used here) post-install to get the other 7 CDs added so that you can install whatever you want from them. I hope you enjoy!
Addeddate 2022-11-30 19:12:44
Identifier alt-linux-2.4-master
Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0

It had 4 versions

1. Developer

2. Gamer

3. Installer

4. Miscellaneous

I am downloading iGamer for my Archive.

 

MATE

MATE
MATE is named after the South American plant yerba mate (tea made out of it). The name is stylized in all capital letters to follow the nomenclature of other Free Software desktop environments like KDE and LXDE. 

MATE was adopted for “Advanced Traditional Environment” by the community in the spirit of Free Software. 

It is the continuation of the classic GNOME 2 interface. It offers a traditional and familiar computing experience with the ability to customize its desktop environment. 

MATE was an official Ubuntu flavour which Ubuntu abandoned.
It is light weight and lacks in software applications. 

Parrot OS uses it as its base.

I never used it or liked it.

Russian ALT Linux used it and lately Russians had got the brain wave and switched to Gnome.

DuckduckGO and Bodhi Linux

 December 26, 2011

Why one should use DuckduckGO

Bodhi Supports it.
DuckduckGO has a trendy support of the Linux community.
With cloud computing in full swing soon, the emergence of DuckDuckGO is a healthy attribute.
Bodhi and lot of  Debian derivatives which port light weight Midori as a browser by default support DuckDuckGO including Puppy Linux.
By the way Bodhi enlightenment desktop has produced and excellent distribution come this Christmas.
It is light weight and has beautiful desktop effects.

Bodhi supports Sinhala too.

Bodhi has enlightenment desktop. 

Below is the information reproduced directly from DuckDuckGO home page.
It has a strong Privacy Policy.
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that is based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and uses information from crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia) with the aim of augmenting traditional results and improving relevance.  

The search engine philosophy emphasizes privacy and does not record user information.
At other search engines, when you do a search and then click on a link, your search terms are sent to that site you clicked on (in the HTTP referer header). 

We call this sharing of personal information “search leakage.”
 

For example, when you search for something private, you are sharing that private search not only with your search engine, but also with all the sites that you clicked on (for that search).
In addition, when you visit any site, your computer automatically sends information about it to that site (including your User agent and IP address).

This information can often be used to identify you directly.
So when you do that private search, not only can those other sites know your search terms, but they can also know that you searched it. It is this combination of available information about you that raises privacy concerns.
DuckDuckGo prevents search leakage by default. 

Instead, when you click on a link on our site, we route (redirect) that request in such a way so that it does not send your search terms to other sites. The other sites will still know that you visited them, but they will not know what search you entered beforehand.
At some other search engines (including us), you can also use an encrypted version (HTTPS), which as a byproduct doesn’t usually send your search terms to sites. However, it is slower to connect to these versions and if you click on a site that also uses HTTPS then your search is sent. Nevertheless, the encrypted version does protect your search from being leaked onto the computers it travels on between you and us.
At DuckDuckGo, our encrypted version goes even further and automatically changes links from a number of major Web sites to point to the encrypted versions of those sites. It is modeled after (and uses code from) the HTTPS Everywhere FireFox add-on. 

These sites include Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon to name a few.
Another way to prevent search leakage is by using something called a POST request, which has the effect of not showing your search in your browser and, as a consequence, does not send it to other sites. You can turn on POST requests on our settings page, but it has its own issues. POST requests usually break browser back buttons, and they make it impossible for you to easily share your search by copying and pasting it out of your Web browser’s address bar.
Finally, if you want to prevent sites from knowing you visited them at all, you can use a proxy like Tor. 

DuckDuckGo actually operates a Tor exit enclave, which means you can get end to end anonymous and encrypted searching using Tor & DDG together.
You can enter !proxy domain into DuckDuckGo as well, and we will route you through a proxy, e.g. !proxy breadpig.com. This feature is part of our !bang syntax. Unfortunately, proxies can also be slow, and free proxies (like the one we use) are funded by arguably excessive advertising.
Because of these drawbacks in HTTPS, POST and proxies we decided to take the redirect approach to combat search leakage. However, we leave the choice up to you. 

You can deviate from the default on our settings page by toggling the redirect or address bar settings. 

You can also use our encrypted version.

Other search engines save your search history. 

Usually your searches are saved along with the date and time of the search, some information about your computer (e.g. your IP address, User agent and often a unique identifier stored in a browser cookie), and if you are logged in, your account information (e.g. name and email address).
With only the timestamp and computer information, your searches can often be traced directly to you. With the additional account information, they are associated directly with you.
Also, note that with this information your searches can be tied together. This means someone can see everything you’ve been searching, not just one isolated search. You can usually find out a lot about a person from their search history.
It’s sort of creepy that people at search engines can see all this info about you, but that is not the main concern. The main concern is when they either a) release it to the public or b) give it to law enforcement.
Why would they release it to the public? 

AOL famously released supposedly anonymous search terms for research purposes, except they didn’t do a good job of making them completely anonymous, and they were ultimately sued over it. 

In fact, almost every attempt to anonymize data has similarly been later found out to be much less anonymous than initially thought.
 

The other way to release it to the public is by accident. Search engines could lose data, or get hacked, or accidentally expose data due to security holes or incompetence, all of which has happened with personal information on the Internet.
 

Why would search engines give your search history to law enforcement? 

Simply because law enforcement asked for it, usually as part of a legal investigation. 

If you read privacy policies and terms of service carefully you will notice that they say they can give your information on court order.
 

This makes sense because they may be legally obligated to do so. However, search engines are not legally obligated to collect personal information in the first place. They do it on their own volition.
The bottom line is if search engines have your information, it could get out, even if they have the best intentions. And this information (your search history) can be pretty personal.

For these reasons, DuckDuckGo takes the approach to not collect any personal information. 

The decisions of whether and how to comply with law enforcement requests, whether and how to anonymize data, and how to best protect your information from hackers are out of our hands. Your search history is safe with us because it cannot be tied to you in any way.

JVP/NPP Combo is an Economic. Cultural and Social Pest (parasite) of Body Politics of Ceylon

 JVP/NPP Combo is an Economic. Cultural and Social Pest (parasite) of Body Politics of Ceylon

 This parasitic worm has to be removed from our body politics.

 It got the blessing of Ranil/Indian and CIA master plan but that is besides the point.

They build it cader on jealousy and cast system and now ir has permiated the vety Buddhist (Niragmikya and Samavasikaya of Magngala/Aruni/Maithree Clan or Biden Trojan)

Niragamika theme on this Month of Wesak has the most devastating Cultural Impact.

Yes, it should be discarded like the Kata Kela or the first spit of the mourning, lest we won't be able to for a considerable lenght of time in our history and heritage. 

Kata Kela comes from a Dhammapada Verse which JVP guys have never read and I have a copy in front of me even in Australia and it always accompany me on foreign voyage.

 It contains Truth not the Chethiyas a Boru of Anua/Arunu and Modi clan.

Yes Modi has a major Hate Muslim Theme (they are 30% and growing in India) but the underlying theme is to destroy reemergence of Buddhism in India. Yes it is happening lot of Hindus are in their heart are real Buddhists in their practice of religion and not anti-Bhuddhist like Modi Clan.

I call majority of Indians stupid.

That is why they cannot understand Buddhism in its core but War Mongering against the Muslims. 

India never helped us (really propagated their agenda and undermined our sovereignty) but Pakistan Air Force helped us a lot and in their need we should take the side of Pakistan not India.

Our Stupid President has become a stooge of Indian politics.

360 degree turn and Wijeweera started with Indian expansion in his five lectures to ruin our YOUTH.

The intention of these to highlight the economic impact (I have a piece here in detail) of their Destruction.

I was involved in replacing three (3) Transformers in our locality in a shorter space of less than two months. After the last reinstall the Lady Engineer told me it is the last in stock, you better protect it and YES, I became a real anti-JVP- crusade from then onwards and never hesitated to educate the Three Wheeler Drivers (first by boycotting and not hiring the JVP sympathizer 3WDs).

Last time they used Three Wheeler Drivers for this campaign.

So do not hire these 3WDS guys who a cultural pest and worm in our body politics.

I am telling it as a doctor and our body politics is sicken by their propaganda but our MINDS should be clear at the polling station.

Buddhism is for our Mind and not for our body that putrefy. 

Minds remains (reborn again) to take a root in another body and another life.

Despise these Niragamikayos.