If you are 'Senior Dog' Friendly, you are invariably 'Kids Friendly' and 'Senior Citizen Friendly'

If you are 'Senior Dog' Friendly, you are invariably 'Kids Friendly' and 'Senior Citizen Friendly'

We get old disproportionately.

Some of my pet fish never gets old.

They never sleep and I cannot figure out the biology (not advantage) behind it.

They are always always alert and kill themselves by their alertness.

I decided to changed the fish tanks and in the panic one fish got trapped behind the aerator and could not get out and it escaped my attention (old age).

I forgot to remove the aerator (forgetfulness another malady of old age) before changing water.

It took five solid hours (which I did not) since the water I do not discard but put them to my plants as fresh supply of nutrients (no artificial manure except tea leaves and my dogs liberal supply of not so friendly squirts, everything biodegradable, and environmentally (trying) friendly and I hate plastics).

Our dog got annoyed and after cleaning up utensils could not find the dog.

I do not call him (he prefers me looking for him and he hides like a seven year old) but go looking for him but after 10 minutes (of my daily exercise) searching I could not find it.

He is almost 80% blind with cataract and has early arthritis,I feared and figured he is injured.

Called him loud and after about another few minutes which was expanded my anxiety to about one hour, he just appeared on the top steps and I was on the bottom.

He has not lost his old tricks.

He thinks I am at his age of seven not geriatrics like him.

Dogs needs exercise.

Dogs needs lot of water.

His dish was empty and filled it up, fed him with yogurt and I made some yogurt drink (if I make it myself it costs 5 times less) for myself and dropped to sleep immediately (I skip lunch now, eat when I am hungry only-'Single Meal' principle of prehistoric man and his dog).

I woke up with some beautiful dreams (enough material for few more scientific articles but decided to pen down on the above issue).

My friendly advice is that one should not have a dog.

It reminds me of my age now.

I prefer to be young at heart, just 18 not the octogenarian feel.

I need freedom but I cannot go out and come late.

Dogs gives you lot of exercise at the expense of your freedom.

I prefer the freedom now.

Lot of young adult with young kids go for a dog without thinking (emotions) which is very demanding.

They do not take into account the risks.

I will list them now without any priority.

1. They low to gnaw on your footwear.

They are very expensive and even the slippers are expensive and we do not discard them once the slipper part is broken. For few rupees one can buy the upper part but removing the old putting them back are very difficult (I had a haematoma under my thumb and the shop keeper refused to push them in for me-that is the way we are served in a shop in this blessed country).

2. They gnaw on the extension wire, when there is no supply but when you switch on the plug there is impending fire hazard.

3. They urinate all over (It is liquid urea for plants me) and very smelly too.

When he is angry it squirts on my pillow, the pillow has to being a top place.

Imagine you wear a hat and it does a squirt on the hat.

They are not accidents like in kids but deliberate ploys to mark his treasures.

If you have any, they have to be hidden well away from your pet.

It might break up a family of young adults, especially one is averse to dogs.

4. There is enough dog hair to cause allergy.

5. Rarely it might do the big job on the sofa.

The above is enough to put you off rearing one but if you decide have one, dog's safety is almost equivalent to kids safety and senior adult safety.

6. No tripping wire.

7. No multi-plugs but dedicated plugs well away from the reach of toddlers/dogs.

8. Kids monitors have known to kill toddlers (strangling, fire, electrocution).

9. Fish tank should be on solid stand (dog does not drink from it) so they do not topple over kids.

They are heavy, I have known of a kid dying with a fish tank on top of the kid cutting his belly like a knife.

10. Ponds are a hazard for kids and puppies.

Bathing on puddles one can get drown in mud.

This list can go on but a small garden with flowers is much better than indoor fish tank, dogs and cats (unlike dogs steal food-especially cheese).

But a pond is a risk but I have a mini pond on a cement raising out of any hazard.

Kids friendly environment with open air is a luxury that one can ill afford.

That is why I hate condominiums.

That is where children learn to develop temper tantrums.

I hate to come to Colombo, even a lift is an antithesis to me.

Skyscrapers is a nightmare and that is why I have the shortest stop overs at Singapore.

New Additions to my Artificial Biosphere

New Additions to my Artificial Biosphere

I have four new addition to my artificial biosphere.

1.Yellow winged dragon Fly.

2. Mud Dabber

3.Toad

4.Tree frog.

5. Antlion, I called it the AntiLion with a political sting was brought by my Mason Bass with special request.

I have made an artificial sand castle without cement for their existence.

The tree frog was found in the pantry.

I cannot figure out how it ended up there.

I caught it in a fraction of a second which I perfected as a advanced level student.

I won't state how since, (catching a frog) the Korean visitors would catch them and they would soon end up in a dish in addition to dogs' flesh.

This frog was not at all scared of the camera flash but let me play with my camera giving due regard to my activity.

He/she ended up in my artificial pond.

They are nocturnal creatures and I am thinking of installing night vision camera (only when they come down in prices, when I can afford one).

I have a computer (Linux) friend who would probably help me in installing them.

With all these my wife got up thinking a thief had entered.

A good sign that nocturnal vigilance is mandatory since Chinthanaya Golayas have encouraged prowlers and petty thieves in our neighbourhood (drug addicts and peddlers who supply drugs to the university students).

I thought of fixing the prowler sensitive night light which was in my store room for the last 15 years.

But the electricity cost is prohibitive factor with Chinthanaya adding taxes to our electricity bill to cover their extravagances.

Frogs and Toads

Frogs and Toads

It is strange that many daily writers (Internet) and editors of national newspapers run short of ideas to write.

Most of them steal ideas from others and pad them up with their own prejudices.

Unfortunately, the unscientific and biased opinions make me feel sick.

My last post Measuring Prejudice was to make them analyze their own makeup and try to minimize their own fallacy when writing.

I hope they become detached, informative and creative and stimulate other freelance writers a space to emerge from the sand castles, the others have built around them.

In my case, it is the exactly the opposite.

I write for fun.

I come across, many ideas to write, but because I love reading more than writing (I was a late developer for writing), the time constrains are the major factors that make me not to pen them down all or enlarge upon, the new ideas.

I also get distracted by reading the material intended for brainwashing the reader with a theme (Racism, Buddhism, National Heroes) to suit a particular political agenda.

Some of my outrageous blog pieces come with that background and not spontaneous.

My outlook is scientific (not always) but satire is my goal.

For the last 10 years or more we did not have proper cartoonists or philosophical writers.

I did find anybody rivaling my outrageous views.

That was not the intention anyway.

If that happened, I would have retired gracefully, not due to pain or fear but I was happy that I was instrumental in making that trend constructive and alternative views find a fertile and viable ground to operate.

I am going to tone down and wind up slowly in this blog space.

That had been my long term goal, this space was for Linux and Linux is becoming less relevant to me now.

The Linux Magazine keeps me occupied and there are lot of Linux guys and girls to take the baton from my aging hand.

Particularly because, I do not want to be hunted down for reproducing materials taken out from some other sites to illustrate a point (Prejudice).

I do not know how the copyright law operates in World Wide Web.

In its original form (it was formulated before the existence of the Internet and digital material) it has no validity.

That is my opinion.

Wikileaks and other incidents opened  cans of worms and security arms are paranoid now and what is called 'Free Writing' is a myth and there is some eagle eye watching us incessantly.

Coming from the Free Software mentality, that leaves behind a bad taste in my mouth.

If you see this blog space die a natural death, please do not blame me.

It is like 'the radio killed the radio star' in operation.

Owl eyed operators / observers and lawyers with a penchant to file a case for money to be blamed.

Free Writing is no more in a corporate world.

I thank the Google for this space, the final good bye will come sooner than late.

Coming back to the title 'Frogs and Toads',

They are fast becoming extinct, in my locality.

The other day I found a large toad (for me frogs live mainly in the water and toads are basically terrestrial as adults) climbing up the coconut railing on our veranda. 

It hid behind the pole, having probably seen me with its large eyes.

I could see its belly and the front leg, which looked like a fingers of a bat.

I have never seen a bat in this position, thinking it was an injured soul, I came closer to investigate.

It was a large toad with beaming large eyes.

I ran for my camera by that time he was on the top railing enough to catch half of its body frame, in a camera frame.

Thank you and I clicked my camera with the flashed on.

In one go he feared the flash and jumped onto the roof of my fish tank below.

I lost him in the darkness outside.

He was targeting my indoor fish tanks for breeding.

Now he would do that on my outdoor tank with my fish at risk.

When the tadpoles come there is no place for me to dispense them.

The open well that was there is no more and is filled up with soil.

I wonder how many strains of frogs were decimated by our mega road development in the south, in open wetlands?

Somebody should do a study.

In New Zealand, they made open drains for frogs to migrate with the roads they built, but in this land of Buddhist revival, frogs are expendable.

Frogs and toads are a good barrow meter for water quality of the locality.

At least in that sense alone one should do a 'Frogs and Toads Study!'

Jumping Frogs, Hanging Bats, Boxing Foxes, Night Time Kalawaddas (Ceylon Civets)and Minee Moras (Killer Sharks)

Jumping Frogs, Hanging Bats, Boxing Foxes, Night Time Kalawaddas (Ceylon Civets)and Minee Moras (Killer Sharks)

If you think I m talking about Animal Rights you are sadly mistaken.

1. Jumping Frogs

This is about their analogy to out practicing politicians and their cohorts.

Once the parliament is dissolved or before it is dissolved these animals will start jumping exercises that will nominate them for the Olympic Medals.

They do not have credence or principles.

2. Hanging Bats

Hanging bats are the secretaries to the ministries, directors and the commissioners who are marking time to hang on to a money tree.

3. Boxing Foxes

Boxing Foxes are the ones doing all the shadow boxing and claiming the financial titles and gains.

4. Kalawaddas (Ceylon Civets)

Kalawaddas are the new rich Local Mafia who operate at night time with shady dealing and drug trafficking.

Former Defense Chief has no control over them even though they were his pets unlike the one who lost the mantle who cared for sharks.

5. Minee Moras (Killer Sharks)

Minee Moras (Killer Sharks) were released to the sea under environmental protection decree until such time, the need arises to eliminate the threatening political rivals or journalist or political sharks.

The reader is free to add anymore varieties as may be necessary to describe the local politicians especially in the South, except the our Paraya (stray) dogs who are protected by international law of bills and rights to exist scavenging the leftovers, if there are any left.

Who will come to see starving elephants?

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Who will come to see starving elephants?

In the Sunday Island of January 31, 2015, this author published an article titled "The Uda Walawe National Park: where Wildlife supports People". In the latest issue of Sanctuary Asia (Vol. XXXV No. 5, May 2015), Sri Lanka’s renowned elephant expert, Dr. Prithiviraj Fernando, warns of the tragedy that awaits this same elephant population as they face starvation; a grim fate for a species that has helped a once remote and relatively unknown area of Sri Lanka attain economic prosperity.
Disappearing Grasslands
The problem at Uda Walawe is that in the last two years, the elephants’ main source of sustenance, the Guinea Grass, referred to as Mana in Sinhala, has failed to grow. In his article, Dr. Fernando explains this as follows:
"A number of factors impact grassland succession. Fire generally retards succession and maintains grasslands. It burns off the dried-up, above-ground portion of the grasses and kills seedlings of other colonising plants, but the rootstock of the grasses survive. With the next rains, the grasses sprout again whereas other scrub and tree species need to be re-seeded and start from scratch. Therefore, where annual fires occur, grasslands are likely to remain as grasslands. The ‘fire-suppression’ policy adopted by the Wildlife Department is a critical factor that probably encouraged succession and quickened the demise of the grasslands in Udawalawe.
Elephants and cattle have complex impacts on succession. By browsing and trampling emerging seedlings of shrubs and trees, as well as impacting the earth especially by the hooves of cattle, they retard succession. By dispersing seeds of shrubs and trees into grassland by consuming them elsewhere and depositing them in droppings in the grassland, and by overgrazing of grasses, they promote succession. Whether the overall effect is retardation or promotion of change may also depend on the density of elephants and cattle. At lower densities they may promote grasslands but at higher densities cause their decline.
There are an estimated 30, 000 head of buffalo and cattle in the Park, despite the fact that the Law is very clear that domestic stock cannot be grazed within a National Park. At Uda Walawe, however, the cattle owners have long enjoyed local political patronage and when a previous Park Warden had the temerity to enforce the Law, he soon found himself in trouble, and out of Uda Walawe!
Most of the buffalo have now gone feral but there is no determination from the Department of Wildlife Conservation to enforce the Law, and certainly no intent from the politicians involved to do what is right.
Action is Imperative
Dr. Fernando sounds grave warning in concluding his article:
"If we want to bring back the Guinea grass for elephants, quick and appropriate management is imperative, as elephants are slow breeding, and once populations start declining they cannot recover quickly or easily. However, blind knee-jerk remedial attempts may do more harm than good…
The way to figure out how the grass can be restored is by conducting trials with manipulation of the putative agents of change and monitoring. Control plots subject to combinations of different forms of vegetation clearance, fire and grazing by cattle and elephants need to be set up to assess if there is any one or combination of management actions that can restore Udawalawe to its former elephantine glory."
Nothing was done
In October 2007, foreseeing the possibility of today’s events, and on the request of the then appointed Consultant to the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) at Uda Walawe, this author submitted a series of proposals for the better management of the Park to ensure its future survival. Some of these included:


"Management
a. Re-institute and enforce the ban on domestic buffalo and cattle being grazed in the Park.
Habitat Enrichment
a. Re-plant a 500 metre belt along the electric fence bordering the Tanamalvila Road with a mixture of Teak and indigenous trees. This will not only serve, in the long run, to provide much needed sources of food and shade to the elephants, but will also keep the enterprising "scroungers" away from the fence for a long enough period to break them from their ‘habit’. A further advantage will be that it will deter the spread of Lantana into these areas (the shrub is already taking hold in those areas of Hulankapolla now devoid of Teak).


This belt, too, will have to be separated by an electric fence for the first 3 – 5 years to protect the growing trees from the predation of elephants…


e. Fires are essential to the life cycle of the Park – for the healthy re-growth of mana so vital to the elephants’ diet. However, they must be controlled. For this, it is essential that the Fire Breaks are maintained so that only sections of the Park can be set alight, in rotation, over the years. This will allow the re-generation of trees and reproduction of the reptiles and smaller mammals which used to contribute much towards attracting a wide variety of raptors to the Park.

Conclusion
With careful and enlightened management, Uda Walawe has the potential to be one of the premier Parks in South Asia. Surrounded as it is by 53 villages, it can prove to be an example of how a wildlife reserve can successfully exist surrounded by a large population of people. However, for this to succeed, these people, too, must have a stake in the Park and must have a share in any profits made from it…"



Needless to say, nothing was done, and the elephants, and people, of Uda Walawe now face a bleak future.



A Brave New World?



There has been political change in Sri Lanka, supported by the majority of its citizens, and there is a new found freedom and hope stemming mostly from the reestablishment of an independent Judiciary. Yet, until the Civil Service is also liberated from political patronage and manipulation, the peoples of this Nation cannot expect to enjoy the true fruits of democracy. This is never better illustrated than by the DWC and Forest Department. With heads largely appointed due to their allegiance to the political regime, with little commitment to the sacred charges of which they have been given responsibility, the wild places and wild creatures of Sri Lanka are at the mercy of political rather than National need. No better example can be found than the large scale deforestation of the Kallara Forest Reserve, on the borders of the Wilpattu National Park, with the Laws of the country with reference to conservation and environment being flouted by the encroachers, and the statutory bodies conveniently looking the other way. Though the President has stopped further forest clearing in the area, why is it that the Head of State has to intervene to ensure that the Law of the Land is enforced?



As for Uda Walawe, is there the political courage to have the Law enforced and 30, 000 head of buffalo and cattle removed from the Park? At least those number which have gone feral – about 80%? This is despite that fact that their contribution to the local economy is far, far less than that which is earned for the region by the elephants, and other creatures, of the Uda Walawe National Park. The DWC will certainly do nothing about it unless their political masters instruct them to.



There once was a National Park called Uda Walawe…



As I pointed out in my article of January 2015, the Uda Walawe National Park has directly contributed to the financial upliftment of a once largely unknown little hamlet. Hotels and shops have sprouted in the area, jeep drivers make good living off the tourists, and the Park itself earns millions of rupees, every week, for the coffers of the Government. What will happen if the elephants of Uda Walawe disappear? Starved to death! As Dr. Fernando puts it:



"Continuing to play the fiddle while Udawalawe does not burn would hasten the day we will say: "Udawalawe National Park was once famous for its elephants."



After all, who will come to see starving elephants?

Baby Elephant Saga-Sri-Lanka

Baby Elephant Saga-Sri-Lanka

1. Investigation of possessing illegal baby elephants is going at a snail pace.

2. Two baby elephants are suspected to be buried on a temple ground.

They were killed to hide the tracks I believe.

3. Buddhist monks are are involved in this racket.

4. One of the judges who possessed an illegal baby elephant is charged but everybody is waiting how the process is handled by the Government Attorney.

If we look at the way legal system is moving, the cases against corruption they will go on till cows come home.

5. Top politicians who possessed two baby elephants and a shark is not investigate yet.

My bone of contention is the director of wild life should be suspended from active service and or prosecuted for not preventing these shoddy deals.

It is called aiding and abetting in practice of law.

Instead he is appointed to a high level investigation committee.

This is called 'Horage Ammamgen Pena Aseema' (asking the mother of the thief the culprit) or Yahapalanaya (god governance) in action.

Apodio-10

Apodio-10
This is a distribution specializes on video editing software.
I used it many moons ago when only the CD distribution was available.
It has almost 4GiB of software.
I downloaded it with torrent and I hope you would download it and increase the number of seeds.
It is Xfce desktop with mouse as the mascot and xfce was the first Live CD I used 15 years ago. 
It has Ubuntu and Debian software support.
Thank guys and girls of Apodio.
It is probably coming from France going by the name.
I may be wrong!
I am writing this piece with Apodio live session as a guest.
No password required.
It has the MultiSystem utility to make Live USB with multiple Linux distributions.
It can only be booted with root logging. 
Enjoy it. 
Apodio-09 is also equally good. 
It has UnetBootIn. 

'Simple Tricks' with Old Hardware

'Simple Tricks' with Old Hardware

I am dismantling old my computers, just to save on electricity.

I have come to the last two out of the 10 or more computers, I had with our little Network.

The last one had lightening striking through its UPS.

UPS was gone but the computer was resuscitated but its cooling (only 64 bit computer I had that was used to test Linux DVDs, boots with 500 MiB RAM, not sufficient to boot most of the modern Linux DVDs) was faulty and the alarm bell goes in half an hour of working time.

I tested it after about three months and it was not booting with its CMOSE battery dead.

I changed the little battery and tested its RAM, Graphic Card, cleaned it a bit and powered on and in seconds alarm bells went and burning smell was noted.

1. Old computers can catch fire.

2. Electric shocks are possible.

3. Hardwares with twisted wires can catch fire.

All the above, I have experienced during the last six months and I only work alone, when dismantling or repairing my computers with comfortable space around and no CHILDREN hovering nearby.

4. Lightening is a major hazard, with Telephone and Ethernet wires connected.

In fact our entire telephone system had to be re-wired recently after a major lightening episode.

Do not answer the land phone when there is lightening and one can go deaf.

So I quickly decided to rip through everything including the motherboard and removed the three fans to be donated to our bus driver (he boils himself in his driving seat) to fix them around him while driving as cooling fans.

5. I forgot to remove the DVD on the ROM.

When I was knew to hardware, I used to tear off the front door to take out a CD/DVD stuck there.

One does not need to do that.

There is a little hole in the front door.

Just shove in the needle and the door opens slightly and with the fingers one can open the door without breaking it.

I had six dismantled Roms and opened five of them but not the last one, the oldest model.

After few minutes of fiddling (it did not spring back) with the needle and my finger nails I opened it.

I found one DVD (Debian LXDE) in one of them.

The needle (one can use even a hairpin) is in all CD ROM boxes.

6. Three hard drives were my problem. I have run short of casings / enclaves for them but loaded them in plastic wrappers and put them in a plastic utility box to be erased when I Have time.

I have over 25 hard drives with no space to store.

7. So do not use your hard drives to save data.

Use them only for downloads and operating systems.

Transfer all the files to a Terra-Byte external disk or have a backup system.

I never use a back up system, simply because after using Linux I have not lost a single file for the last 15 years.

8 Booting problems.

My last computer is about to die but I will use it to its last breath.

Its boot record has gone berserk.

I use a live DVD to boot it.

In most of the Linux distribution there is option for live or from the hard drive boot.

I am using this method for the last four months since (I tried to modify the boot record but failed) any mistake from my part will kill it for good and I have to buy a new computer, which I am not inclined with my tablet and netbook still working well.

Soon I will be without a desktop but a cloud utility will take its place.

What a turnaround in my computer life.

I will have few bootable Flasdrives hanging around my neck with Multi-System booting utility.

Thrash-Reproduction

 Thrash-Reproduction

Here are 14 photos that capture the heartbreaking impact of worldwide pollution:

Stork trapped in a plastic bag.

Photo Credit: 

unknown

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Stork trapped in a plastic bag. Photo credit: Unknown

Albatross killed by excessive plastic ingestion in Midway Islands.

Photo Credit: 

Population Speak Out

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Albatross killed by excessive plastic ingestion in Midway Islands. Photo credit: Population Speak Out

A bird is coated in oil from a nearby spill.

Photo Credit: 

unknown

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A bird is coated in oil from a nearby spill. Photo credit: Unknown

Penguins covered in oil.

Photo Credit: 

John Hrusa

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Penguins covered in oil. Photo credit: John Hrusa

Surfing on a wave full of trash off the coast of Java, Indonesia.

Photo Credit: 

Population Speak Out

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Surfing on a wave full of trash off the coast of Java, Indonesia. Photo credit: Population Speak Out

A seal with his nose stuck on a piece of plastic.

Photo Credit: 

unknown

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A seal with his nose stuck on a piece of plastic. Photo credit: Unknown

This boy spends each morning looking for recyclable plastic to sell to help support his family.

Photo Credit: 

George Steinmetz

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This boy spends each morning looking for recyclable plastic to sell to help support his family. Photo credit: George Steinmetz

Landscape full of trash in Bangladesh.

Photo Credit: 

Population Speak Out

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Landscape full of trash in Bangladesh. Photo credit: Population Speak Out

Boy swims in polluted water in India.

Photo Credit: 

Green Atom

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Boy swims in polluted water in India. Photo credit: Green Atom

Fake Hong Kong skyline for tourists because the actual one is so polluted.

Photo Credit: 

Molly Smith

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Fake Hong Kong skyline for tourists because the actual one is so polluted. Photo credit: Molly Smith

A seal’s neck was sliced by trash.

Photo Credit: 

Ares Caius

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A seal’s neck was sliced by trash. Photo credit: Ares Caius

A bird is covered from an oil spill.

Photo Credit: 

Charlie Riedel

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A bird is covered from an oil spill. Photo credit: Charlie Riedel

A turtle is stuck in a piece of plastic.

Photo Credit: 

unknown

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A turtle is stuck in a piece of plastic. Photo credit: Unknown

A tortoise is trapped by a piece of plastic. Photo credit: Unknown

Photo Credit: 

unknown

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A tortoise is trapped by a piece of plastic. Photo credit: Unknown

Let's Look at 5 Ways That You Might be Sharing Your Location Information Without Even Realizing It.

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Just about every smart phone out there, except for a few dinosaurs used by a grandparent or two, has GPS-based location services built into them.
Our cell phones can pinpoint our locations, record and track our location history, and relay location data to apps for many different purposes. Some of the ways our location information is shared is obvious to us, but sometimes we may not even realize that we are providing this information.

Let's Look at 5 Ways That You Might be Sharing Your Location Information Without Even Realizing It.

1. Geotagged Pictures
When you first set up your phone, your camera app probably asked if it was ok to record the location of the pictures you took with the app, you probably said yes and moved on. The setting was made and ever since then, the camera app has been recording your GPS location in the metadata of the pictures you take.
We often forget that this data is recorded because it doesn't actually show up in the picture itself, but is part of the picture file in the form of metadata that can be read and extracted by apps such as Facebook to help with location tagging and other features that rely on geotags. You can also view this data with a EXIF metadata reader app (bad guys can do this as well.
Obviously geotags have privacy issues, learn more about them in our article: Why Stalkers Love Your Geotags

2. Facebook
Facebook has many features that leverage location data to make them work. One of the newer features called "Nearby Friends" can relay your location to your friends to help them locate you when you're out and about in the real world.
You can choose to share your location with someone for an hour, a day, or even indefinitely.
Facebook also may share your location when you tag yourself at different places, such as in a status update or a photo tag. When others tag you in a post, they could inadvertently be giving out, not only their location, but yours as well. This could be dangerous depending on the audience of the post. You might not want everyone in the world to know that you are with a friend on vacation as thieves might use this knowledge to their advantage and come rob your home while you are away.

3. Twitter
Depending on how you set up your twitter account, there is a chance you could be tweeting your location when you post a tweet. If you ever used the Tweet location feature in the past, then subsequent tweets you made could still be relaying your location, unless you shut the feature off. Learn more about this in the Twitter FAQ On Sharing Your Location With Your Tweets.

4. iMessage and Other Messaging Apps
Message apps such as iMessage might also be relaying your location when you send a message.
It's possible that if someone got a hold of your phone without you knowing it, they could have added themselves to the share location feature and set it to "share indefinitely" thus putting you on a digital leash, allowing them to know your location full time.

5. Dating Apps
Dating apps such as OKCupid, Tinder, and Plenty of Fish rely on location information in order to help find matches in your local area. Some of these apps may even provide frequent or near real-time location updates. This could be risky, consider turning off location services for these apps unless you are willing to accept the potential risks.

Steam Os is out.

Steam  Os is out.
It is for  64 bits computer.
Install only not live.
Enjoy Linux games with it.
Games was the only area Linux was behind in computing and now it can relax a bit.
Thank you guys and girls at STEAM OS.

Ubuntu Studio 15.02=Pretty Good

Ubuntu Studio 15.02
Ubuntu Studio is for creative Linux guys and girls.

It is XFCE and boots fast enough.
It also has Open Office and Calligra.
What is not their can be downloaded from Synaptic package manager.
This is one distribution which has 95% of the applications and takes the downloading extra packages redundant.
I tried Ubuntu Gnome but it did not boot.
Why I do not know.
I have an old IBM.
But all Debian distributions booted well.
So better option for a beginner is Ubuntu Studio but for guy who is adept at Linux should also try Debian.
Mind you one can have both (dual boot) distributions in one computer or hard disk.
Thank YOU guys and Girls of Ubuntu Studio for having a version for 36 bit computers.
Debian on the other hand has PAE (both 32 and 64 bits in one image).
That is the better solution which most distributions with 64 bits do not care.

Debian 8 is out with many flavours

Debian 8 is out with many flavours.
I downloaded Mate, Cinnamon and Gnome (PAE-32 and 64 bit Edition) and I tested all three.
For Me
1. Gnome comes first
2.Cinnamon Second
and Mate distsnt third
They are fabulous.
Download what ever you like and enjoy Linux.
Big Thank YOU guys and Girls at Debian, you are doing a wonderful stuff when Android with tiny applications of poor functionality is ruling the WEB.