Friendly Visitor

I think when massive roads are built there should be corridors built under them for these and other creatures to move freely.

The road is the most devastating creature of man.

He is supposed to walk erect but not to race on the earth surface.

Road racing is a madness created for his ego and nothing but.

He could never match an elegance of a cheetahs.

This Tree Frog is an annual visitor.

It is the best indicator of quality of water.

It's eggs cannot survive a few hours of water contaminated by man.

The decline of it's variety and population is directly related to water pollution.

These are simple facts of nature.

Chinese eating them add to their decline and the world pollution is directly related to Chinese population expansion.

So the Coronavirus has come as an answer and who knows China created this menace to curtail it's population without political communist rhetoric.

They are well known for single child per family and infanticide in the past.

He/she is lazy to cover the last 10 feet to my fish tank at the top most level.

Generally a late night visitor but block or lockdown with Coronavirus and no vehicles on thee road it is bold enough of to come out in day time.

This one recognises me and won't move an inch until it is ceremoniously taken to it's final destination.

It has come a long way and probably is dead tired.

Millions of them die crossing the road every day.

Our most ancient relative is threatened by the Chinese guys who eat them as a delicacy.

Please boycott Chines restaurants as a default strategy.

Ubuntu as a Last Resort, Did not Work

I have never used Ubuntu as a distribution and used occasionally as a demonstration but my love was Mandriva, SuSe and Debian.

I could not install both Peppermint 10 and PCLinux side by side with Debian and finally decided to install Ubuntu 20.10 and as a preparation installed it on my PC on the second drive to boot from the second drive leaving my workhorse Debian in the SSD.

SSD does not have a MBR or master boot record.

I could have written the GRUB to boot from a USB with so many USB around I would forget.

Installation went all right it picked up all the distribution already installer including PinGuy.

I am pretty sure it will not pick the ESP boot partition.

As anticipated it crash landed and could not figure out the ESP boot partition.

I booted FATPup installed in the Laptop  and found a home partition in my name in one of the partitioned used and over 5GB written in the other, assuming it's Ubuntu distribution files.

What I am now going to do is to reinstall the second Debian installation having prepared space by deleting few partitions not used

I know Debian will figure out if Ubuntu could be written to the GRUB file.

I have gone through this routines 1000 times and while it is being booted I will sip a cup of tea.

In good old days in BIOS fstab boot record I would write the booting sequence and mount the partition in question.

I have forgotten those details and ESP partition can possibly be edited likewise.

But I let Debian automation to do the job.

Yes Debian did the job and Ubuntu was booted from ESP partition.

Now I can display Ubuntu to a guy new to Linux who has no knowledge of Debian.

I think going after various new distributions is a waste of time and Debian 11 is already out for one to try.

I am dry of Data and Internet access currently.

I will try it when the lockdown is eased.

Universal Drink Alcohol or Water?

This is a very easy question to answer.

It is certainly not water.

It is definitely alcohol.

I could not find an accurate figure for requirement of water for a day for an adult.

Nobody except some guys who are told by folklore that one should drink certain number of glasses of water, no adult has a clue or taught correct physiology in their Huentire life of intake of the water requirement.

We drink a substitute instead, tea or coffee or a beverage that has caffeine in it for central nervous system stimulation by habit.

Not for water requirement at all.

The water is the basis of cellular life.

Fortunately all food we eat has some water and their combustion produce water of metabolism and our kidney has the capacity to conserve when we are not drinking and when we sleep.

But I find man always (this applies to a certain percentage of women) have few liters of alcohol down diluted with some water.

What I find interesting is the minimum even in Bangladesh (country with lowest intake) is one liter of pure alcohol per person.

Which is a colossal.amount when multiplied by the total population.

I find it interesting Iranians drink as much as Russians.

It is said Belarusians drink the most but their officials figures are scaled down.

Maldiwians drink more simply due to lack of water supply.

Come to Ceylonese they drink about 15 times as Bangladeshis and only about 5 times less than Russians.

I expected the Africans to drink more but it is true of only a few countries  like Zambia, Nigeria and South Africa.

Myanmar tops India and Indians drink (unlike in Tamilnadu films)  far less amount than Ceylonese.

My gut feeling was that rich and relatively happy countries consume more but they are less than Muslim countries put together and Malaysia is an exception.

I guessed Singaporean drinks more but I was wrong.

They have no time to drink.

Except New Zealand most of the Western counties drink an average more than Asians.

The Australians are heavy drinkers but it is coming down unlike in UK and USA.

My analysis is where there are dictators running the countries affairs, the alcohol consumption is high.

Myanmar is a classic example and some Latin American countries with dictators running the affairs are close allies of alcohol.

A point what our Buddhist monks have failed to grasp is when there is a dictator running, the alcohol consumption goes up significantly and rapidly.

So if we want to drop alcohol consumption democracy should go hand in hand not other way round.

If our alcohol consumption goes up by the next election do not blame the drinker but the ruler or rulers.

The corollary is for a dictator to succeed the country should streamline and jack up alcohol production at an affordable price, the variety does not matter but the production rate.

I gather Americans are drinking more after the election since the enthusiasm and the steam have run down and furloughing is through.

President Biden has to make sure alcohol production goes unhampered during his term office and he will be remembered for life if he cuts down taxes on alcohol in spite of medical advice and fail to keep 90% of the promises.

That also make Republicans to drink more and lose track of elections and for his successor to have a smooth riding.

If he follows doctors advice on alcohol and the numerous medical legislatures brought in front of him for approval, he is bound fail.

Just pretend you are absorbing them in good spirit.

See what happened to Donald Trump, mainly due to Anthony Fauci's insinuations.

Writing Space

This is to highlight the features of Writing Space Writer.

Since I see nobody helping AbiWotd to come out of the woods with a new life or rebirth, I was looking for a Writer package and I found a match.

I am busy finishing the first 10 chapters on Puppy Linux but I should write a piece here to give the credits to where it belongs.

Long time ago a writer developed a Writer Linux Live CD and I still have a copy of it's 32 bit version.

It worked only a Live Session and could not save a copy of the document one was working with.

In any case it went defunct and this is long before I started  writing as a habit.

Nevertheless, I was put off.

I downloaded several writer applications and before I could finish a page the guys asking me for hefty subscription.

I am a writer who works on a low budget both in time and money.

I am on a long holiday extended by Coronavirus incarceration.

I am not new to writing and I have already found a good ally by the way of Grammerly typeface.

Finding a Writer application not intrusive was illusive, till I found Writing Space.

1. It gives you a neat clean and open slate to thumb down.

In my case Index Down.

2. It is not intrusive.

3. It gives you 10 or more chapters to work with.

4. It has an Android Application front.

5. It let's you share.

6. It let's you publish immediately.

7. Editing the typos can be done at any time.

8. Remove or up or down the chapters as you wish.

What else a writer needs.

I think I will come out of slumber and finish my Puppy Linux (before I get on with the jobs being outstanding and halted by my self intentions).

I have used another writer and I have to use another application to read a list of Puppy derivatives, I made.

Then I got a guy from ClickUp application sending me daily emails reminding me of a job I never started, which I delete without reading.

Mind you, I start the day with Spark which does a good house cleaning job upfront.

Then Spike which integrate my emails and send junk to thrash without archiving.

I have looked at my emails and found my first attempt to hold a Linux Forum or gathering in Kandy which became a mighty flop due to interference by Guys paid by Microsoft.

If not for that sloppy job by Microsoft, I would NOT have taken Linux to heart and would have been VERY happy with Puppy Linux alone.

Always remember business can backfire on it's own.

Example is Windows.

Why Linux Distributions fear each other?

Brand new Debian 11 is out.
Unfortunately I do not have the Data nor the Ethernet wire (dismantled) to download it and test it.

By the way, my Debian 10 is running smoothly why bother.

Traditionally I download and test Debian and it will.be soon when the lockdown is eased.

I have got my Laptop and PC ready for its testing.

It is strange that Linux distributions while cohabiting peacefully with Windows, fear alternative Linux distributions.

I tried Peppermint and Pinguy Linux to sandwiched between two Debian distributions in my Laptop devoid of Windows and both failed even before starting.

I think they look for Windows to be already installed and not seeing any sign of Windows give up.

This is after preparing the Partition Table with Gpt, perfectly synchronised.

This is the ploy UEFI has craftily employed to scuttle pairing of Linux booting in a PC or Laptop prepared with a ESP boot partition (using BSD of course).

I noticed this and used a FAT partition of  255 MB (with nothing in it) in the front of the  USB stick and then booting the Linux distribution of my choice, in the partition left in the USB stick.

All 32 bit Puppy Linux distributions need this leeway but FATPup does not care.

So I have FATPup installed in a tiny partition of the Laptop and then install the second Debian installation to gather all installed distributions in the Laptop in the grand GRUB boot loader.

Only Debian has the temerity to bypass UEFI having erased Windows using BSD.

In fact, I used TrueOS DVD I downloaded in 2018.

I think Linux Torvalds should look into this spy ploy and reserve a tiny 1 MB FAT (is void and cannot be used by Windows to eavesdrop) reservation and scuttle the desired objective of Microsoft.

New Windows struggling to give birth may have subtle insinuations but DO NOT fear it is going to fail like 10 within six months.

I would not have had time or the inclination to go into these subtle annoyances, if not for the Coronavirus incarceration.

I thank the pandemic for my divergence.

Usually once I get my PC or Laptop in running order by December, I have a long holiday in January and empty the wines.

I have given up wines to preserve my memory and sanctity, if Puppy Linux (dog is also gone) is not there I would have gone bonkers.

I am aware that a lot of guys including politicians have gone bonkers during the pandemic and Ceylon is a good example.

It is not due to the virus but due to the boredom brought on by lockdown.

An unhappy lockdown.

Lilly Flower

Natural colour is much warmer.

Pencil Sketch of a Lillie Flower

Twitter Nest

The beauty of a sketch.

England, the Labour Stalwarts and the Decline of Principles

England, the Labour Stalwarts and the Decline of Principles

Before I forget I have to not down three names.

Not in order of preference or priorities.

Mind you I was a Labour sympathizer, then.

Not any longer.
No politics of conviction.
No religious affiliation not even academic conviction having not-registered as a practitioner in Ceylon over 20 years.

1. Arthur Scargill was a coal miner who became the Labour Union Leader.

He was personally persecuted by Mrs.Thather whom I disliked very much.

He disappeared from the scene with the money and came back to fight legal battles both within and outside the Labour Party.

He lives in recluse now rarely appearing in public.

He is in his eighties.

2. Ken Livingstone was a labour union leader who became the Mayor of London.

He started as a Council Member of Greater London and became the Mayor of London when that institution was formed.

3. Tony Benn was a labour activist and an excellent orator who imparted some religious favour to his convictions.

4. In this category Neil Kinnock was almost a total failure and lost 4 times to conservatives and remained as an amiable opposition leader to the liking of the conservatives.

5. Tony Blair who remained as a PM for 10 years tried to modernize the party and his "look like conservative party" has ruined it to the core.

6. Jerome Corbyn who inherited this legacy could not reform it to the current needs of the middle class and shifted towards the left and immigrants instead of the British Base.
Less I talk about current Mayor of London Khan is better for British Labour enthusiasts. He is hanging on doing nothing of substance but he be ousted by a real Labour guy (like what Ken Livingstone did decades ago).

7. Keir Starmer is the ideal choice for the labour party to come out of the wood and lead a possible victory within a short time. 

I have to revise my opinion below and he is a War Monger (ageist Labour Policies) and supporting War in Ukraine.

He is smart.
He is intelligent.
He is eloquent (unlike the oratory of the past without tangible actions).

He has the first hand experience in prosecution and should expose (no need to prosecute and an average intelligent British citizen would do that for him when the time is right)  the current wheeler dealer goons around the Conservative Party.

In fact, Conservative party members are already doing that for him.

Why waste energy but activate the young grass root level enthusiasts.

He has to extract the intent, purpose and  how the corruption insinuate even at health institutions dealing with Coronavirus.

Be patient but onslaught should be targeted and the conservative are corrupt to the core by nature unlike real labour activists.

I do not like the word socialists.

People are not equal but different at all levels but bringing them together with a common bond (every life young or old deserves dignity) is what an astute politician should do.

He should shun the paedophiliacs and sexually disoriented guys hiding behind the political garbs.

One caveat here in this country people appoint the most corrupt to the highest office and the parliament and they scratch their backs within 24 of declaration of the poll.

There are lot of Asians including Ceylonese who have come to UK with their trade marks of "absolute corruption is the only way forward".

That will be the path (absolute corruption) for UK if Conservatives remain any longer.

Do not take this as a wishful political thinking but a common sense approach to any human endeavour including mitigating the pandemic and it's effect on an average guy.

They have no money in their hands and living on "hand to mouth existence'.

I saw this in 1970s in Ceylon and history repeats itself with only a little difference, democracy is shutdown totally and a dictatorship has come to stay with the blessing of corrupt Sangha, for 5 years at least.

He is not answerable even to Almighty.

People are STUPID after all, all the time!

FATPup 64 bit Version

FATPup is an outstanding piece of Puppy work.
It has done another first for me.

After I erased Windows I could not use the SD Card slot to mount a bootable Linux distribution.

I just mounted FATPup on a SD card.

The two USB slots are now available for file transfer, mainly photos.

I do not have to stick a bootable USB.

But puppy is shy to install on a partition, I especially made for it.

Does not matter one does not have to use a terabyte of a hard disk for Puppy Linux.

I am installing another copy of Debian 10.9.0.

I found something interesting, afterward.

I made a special partition in the hard disk for Puppy and installed it but it did not boot from it on it's own.

Then I installed it on SD card and from it FATPup booted.

Well and good.

Then after I installed the second copy of Debian it recognized the Hard Disk installed Puppy and installed it on the ESP partition made using BSD.

Now I can boot Puppy without the SD card mounted.

The Xenialpup (Ubuntu based 64 bit) that is installed in a USB also can be booted from the same Menu.

Everything in one place but after several rounds of trying.

You may ask why two copies of Debian?

Debian has several Desktops and I try all with a different user.

The user name is either a dog or a monkey.

Yes, I am monkeying with you.

I would not have done any of these fancy stuff, if not for the Coronavirus, lockdown.

I am informed Debian 11 is on it's way.

That distribution is for gadgets that come after Coronavirus recovery.

I have over 100 Puppy CDs most of them under 200 MB mini CDs and Never on a single DVD (booting Puppy Linux).

FATDad trophy should go to Windows.

None of Windows could be booted with 100 MB.

They are all bloat ware.

FATPup started with 325 and went up by another 100 or about to 450MB.

I am talking about less than 500MB and getting my work done.

FATPup has LibreOffice and I want AbiWord as my roll master.

Having said that I could have downloaded AbiWord and remastered my FATPup but I have no DATA and I cannot go out or if I go out I want get a reload.

They are all closed due to total Lockdown, except for food stalls.

The plus point of FATPup are many.

1. One can make a boot USB under 4GB.

2. Once installed in a USB one can boot either in BIOS or UEFI.

I have one USB made for my BIOS PC.

The other USB is in UEFI.

I had been struggling to erase the Windows boot Menu in my Laptop and used TrueOS to do that with lot of preemptive precautions and steps.

None of that with Fat Puppy.

Download Fat Puppy.
Write a bootable CD.
Then boot the CD.

Make a UEFI USB and go to hell with Windows boot Menu.

Alternatively if you in old BIOS make a BIOS USB.

Now it seems ridiculously to boot the Laptop having a terabyte SATA Disk with only Puppy Linux.

I have already installed two copies of Debian, (I deleted one of them to install FATPup internally) in my Laptop, so I need not try FATPup any way.

I have four other Puppy derivatives that can be booted from the Laptop/PC but it took lot of thinking and reserving a 255 MB for a non existing Microsoft Windows in my Laptop.

FATPup did not care it prepared a UEFI bootable USB.

I think all Linux Distributions including Debian fear Microsoft.

It was BSD that erased the UEFI with its ESP partition which Debian used subsequently to prepare the boot Menu.

I thank Coronavirus if not for the forced incarceration I would have been doing something else.

Any way Puppy Linux came to rescue  and it is not a pure Linux Clone but an entirely different booting and operating system.

It came from Australia.

Barry Kauler is the first developer and he is retired but others have moved Puppy Linux forward.

Puppy Quirky 64 bit 7.2 Series

This is just to day I found another 64 bit Puppy derivative.
It did not have Gparted but let me use fdisk to partition a Micro SD card which I could not do with Gparted.

DD to delete
O to open a partition table and
N for a new partition
1 for number of partitions.
That it.
4 letters and one numerical character my the Micro SD back to life.
I am using it to instal Multiple Linux distributions including Knoppix 8.2 with a persistent volume and MultiSystem and Gparted included.
Debian does not let you Install in a USB or SD card (simply its volume is overwhelming) but get the files in and with a Debian DVD-1 in hand for reference one can install it using the USB.

Thanks Quirky but you were considerate not to erase my 16GB saying it only readable but not writable (overwrite).

This is also all time fame one can save to RW DVD.
I did not have a writable CD to test it.
I tried to ease the RW DVDs with 1999 cricket.
I could not.
I have made them once writable permanent copies.
Without Windows (off for 5 years) I cannot watch them.
Nothing to lose and save time to do something valuable.
I do not watch Ceylon or Indian Cricket at all.
The Coronavirus is the end for IPL.
In a way it is good for cricket in general.

Why I say we can run our affairs without Parliament and its Impotent Members

The Coranavirus has exposed the fallacy that we need a parliament to run our affairs.

In fact, current president has muted the parliament for his ad hoc method of governance.

I will go bit further, that we do not even need, a president with pompous.

This has been shown over and over in World history. All have failed if not first in the second round and they were ousted and went into exile or oblivion.

At the moment the country is run by intelligent and smart citizens doing their part without any supervision.

There is no MaC Mafia or Pathale or underground network operating now.

There are no third party dealers.

Ordinary vendor is coming out with his goods and bring them to the doorstep and no added charges asked.

What a turnaround?

The third party dealers are the ones that hoards good when prices are low and dish out the last season rice when price is artificially jacked up.

This mode of operation is supposed to be run by government goons and politicians with power.

This same ploy is applied to the vegetables, fish and any other perishable item.

Now producers have taken an initiative to deliver the good to the doorstep.

Marvellous idea at a critical time.

No need to go to the nearest city or township except liquor.

I think the liquor may have come down in price with dealers marginalized.

The price may be cheaper, even lower than the production cost.

We do not need government servants supervising these activities.

What we need is the Village Headman or the Grama Sevaka only to certify the guy we ho is doing business is local.

We do not need police investigating irregularities in transport except checking the driving and vehicle licences.

Things have simplified for better and the cost has come down.

We do not need Vasudeava to use P letter words and drive the people engine.

Without them people can run affairs efficiently.
It is said in business less control the better the outcome.

More control more problems.

In fact, Tamils in the North managed their affairs both during and after the War with minimum of Government.

I is happening in the South by default thanks to Coronavirus.

It is sugar, flour and Parippu or dhal the government need to worry and import, if they have money in the Central Bank.

It is empty by the way.

They have spent money on useless projects.

The road development that had been dragging for years in out neighbourhood is completed with less supervision by the government.

That is something outstanding.

It is the local astute business men who can do the needful, having removed the goons of government in power (it does not matter who is in power).

ClickUp Entanglement

I got this ClickUp utility through Google.

Not that I wanted even to Test with payment basis.

It  was an enterprise based software and tries to be comprehensive from the outset.

In my analysis it was a complete entanglement without escape route.

Within a few minutes I was overwhelmed and I gave up.

I have done work in large scale management in private sector and developed my own simplicity solution without getting bogged down.

It is called delegating responsibility and my job was to concentrate on bottlenecks throttling the output.

In a workplace there is flow of work and not every where is chocker blocked with activity by design.

This program assume that scenario and network is always live even with no activity in some areas.

Workplace is not set of desks, decks and boxes and this programme unfortunately had boxed them all tight.

I lost interest and the application is sitting in my Android to be deleted as and when necessary.

I am not a busy man but I do not want to be boxed in like the cat in and cat out dilemma.

I decided to be the cat out not in.

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Word Processing, why they have become bulky?

Computers work on input and output basis.

If you put garbage in garbage comes out.

This principle applies to word processing, in general.

I downloaded a simple word processor to test in Android.

It did type all right, I could not transfer the three lines to my email to be sent to my blog site.

This is the third time I have come across this problem.

Sending to an email is like sending to the printer.

The document that sits in your Android, computer or an old typewriter is a useless as a leaf drop (it is called apoptosis).

I do not want the three word lines to sit in my Android or become apoptotic.

Those three word processes I deleted or uninstalled immediately.

No surprise.

Except AbiWord I have not found a single LIGHT WEIGHT word processor that does super efficient word processing and page formatting.

NONE.

They have Macros sitting in them and try to accomplish multiple instructions in One Go.

That is why one has to redo the document even after checking the draft print.

Every paper typed or printed does create to trees being felled and in that sense digital typing should be precise and each instruction should be precise, so that the output is going to be crisp.

If you take LibreOffice, it has to cater for a large number of languages and put all that languages, in the initial installation of the Linux distribution and then delete unnecessary ones at the end of the installation.

A waste of time.

The right way about should be to give the light weight basic construction code to the particular country using the particular language and the country then  develop the big final structure with their team.

With Coronavirus hampering large international gatherings, in one place, a smaller team in individual the country can do the bulk of the work.

Scaling is necessary and mandatory.

The One for All is a Failure.

Google doing transliteration even though practical  is not the way about addressing this universal problem.

I do not like patch work but that is what is happening.

For my part I stick to AbiWord for my work.

If I do some typing in French for instance. I will take back that document to AbiWord in early stage and reduce it's bulk and send it by email, if I wish.

Browsers and Privacy

There are plenty of browsers out there.
I use Dicky Duck which is coming from Linux base.
I was addicted to FireFox browser for my computer and never used Chrome.
But having used Firefix mini for a while, I went back to Ducky Duck which is fast and not at all intrusive in behaviour.

If you are paranoid one can use Incognito Browser or Brave.
I have all these in my Android but even Ducky Duck I only use as a single user every time.
Just using my common sense.

There is no browser history to begin with.
It is smooth and fast.

I do many things at once.

I do not one one interesting with other or simply snoozing.
This is why had written a very bad comment on Application Manager III which was doing nothing but sticking in my phone.

After my comments and relating for the 4th time it did not haunt me, but let you know if it does.
I do not want browsers to haunt me but by default Google does it.
I hope in future it behaves better.

Plant can Sense

I am not talking about touch sensitive mimosa pudica but all the plants I care for.

They sense me on daily basis if not hourly.

The interruption by rain made me to be indoors and a welcome respite for me, without watering.

If I do not water they wither away in no time and removing the weeds is a must.

All these make me to touch them and I often remove the leaves wilting away to reduce unnecessary transpiration.

Well they have flowers to greet me and insects.

Only the Wesak Orchid refuses to bloom for nearly 30 years now.

I have added a few more orchids to entice.

Might work?

Never a bee seen nowadays.

They just know that I am around but cannot say it in words.

If I am not around for 10 days most of them in the rooftop garden wither away.

So it is similar to a dog left alone and not cared for.

Unlike wild plants the plant you cared from seed level totally depend on you.

So do not take gardening lightly.

Take it to your heart and it is good for your heart unlike the pet fish.

Regarding the guppy fish the magpie comes and gobble them in the morning.

I have no way to prevent this crafty bird doing it's bird round daily.

They are short of food, I guess.

But it's sweet music is to divert your attention and moment you are not around they gobble the guppies.

The guppies are in plenty they have enough leaf cover but the stupid ones come out of shading and are the targets of magpie.

The honey birds spent their hold day sucking honey but they are always hungry flying for feeding but some have learnt to rest on branches and feed.

This is when you are not watching them.

Otherwise they retreat but lately won't care when I am around BUT not gazing.

The daily wild crow is there whenever I feed the fish.

They are looking for bread crumbs.

There is always plenty left.

Majestic Touch

Even Booting Puppy Linux is Painful due to UEFI

Even booting Puppy Linux is painful under UEFI.
It was a very easy BIOS days.

I have over 100 Puppy Linux CDs I tested a decade ago.
They were loaded in cases with puppy photographs for easy identification.

Most of the 3 and 4 series cannot be booted in 64 bit computers.

I selected two of the 5 series to install in two spare USB one 4GB and other 8GB.

They both have AbiWord my favourite and many other utilities including Gparted.
Unlike present Gpart application it lets one select one drive instead of all.
Then easy to partition in a Flash.

I installed both in a usual universal installation setup.

Installation went right but it won't boot.

Then I tried the old Flash Boot method and it won't boot after installation.

Then I examined the USB to see 255 MB reserved part of the USB for windows boot up.

Not UEFI partition but a similar reservation.

UEFI was not in existence when these Puppy Linux derivatives were popular.

The UEFI strategy was to kill Linux installation at boot up time.

I am still not using UEFI but still using BIOS option but  have to give Microsoft Windows, "You Go First " type of a push up.

This is why I hate Windows.

I am not using Windows for about 10 years and the last in the Laptop which came up with Windows was erased using BSD, 5 years ago..

How to erase Windows for good is illustrated here in this blog space using TrueOS CD.

Usually one need to have an Internet connection.

I had to have two partitions even in the USB.

One doing nothing at all.

I tried even Ex-4 partitions and they cannot boot without first 255 MB reserved for Microsoft.

I do not know how France and EU deal with this direct interference.

I had to try for 7 days and I figured it out at the end but many cannot see this business ploy.

Application Migration III

This is a very nasty application.
It gets your permission and stays like a snake under the grass.
It reinstall itself without your permission.
It pretend to transfer an application and FREEZES at 90&.

I have removed it's installation for the 4th time today.

I am sure it will come again from the backdoor I have opened but I will Unstall it again and again.

I do not need it.

I have been using Application II to bring down 200 applications I was using.
I have deleted 35 totally and still had 165 left.
I took off the 4GB Micro SD card and put 16  GB card and tried this application III update.
It is running very very badly.
First of all it secretly hang around even after removing it's installation it go on boast about it's application performance showing  it's promise in sort of a video display.

In other words virtual memory but does not do a thing.

It is very very slow with frequent advertisement freezes.

For the third time I had installed it and after two applications transferred to SD taking hours it practically disappeared from my phone.

Thank you for your flight and I will never use it again or recommend anybody to use it.

All this tactics is to lure you to paid the paid subscription.

Not worth a subscription at all.

If you PAY you are stuck with this application.
It will be like a hungry leech having a meal after one year.

Utility Value of Linux

Utility value of CD/DVD Linux is unparalleled but value of a Unix book written by a panel of experts cannot be overridden by a single utility displayed in the Web.

This is what has happened to The Web and it's Education potential.

A guy or girl in early educational level having learned few tricks posts as Gurus to gullible web users.

I believe they have never red a book from cover to cover including related references.

In fact Web has become a hindrance.

I used to write a piece in the blog site when ever I encountered misrepresentation by rivals and I will continue to do that as a teacher for adults for a lsignificant part of my life.

The teachers job is not to spoon fed or make DIY at every turning corner but to guide him through the MAZE of misinformation and come out unhurt or broken down in soul but enrichment.

The Grand Web has failed miserably.

It is politically FAKED news

But academically it is the misrepresentation of facts in a statistical sense or a forum.

I have over 4000 books including about birds gone into extinction in Ceylon.

I have over 400 CD/DVDs which I have used at least once.

But I move on, not to the next best thing but to a utility that is light weight.

In the days of Windows, I used Open Office for productivity and to remove Macros.

Moved onto LibreOffice but my workhorse still is AbiWord which takes about few MB of RAM (I have a piece here about it in this blog post).

The pdf or the portable document with only a few KBs does my job.

Coming to png or portable network graphic, I use GIMP for editing my photos and when sending out through the Web it is converted png.

Microsoft till recently did not have pdf or png facilities but millions use it and clutter the Internet traffic.

Thank God the Android another Linux derivative but commercial one, came into squeeze  Microsoft by it's bulky neck, if not it's trunk.

One company cannot rule this world.

Unfortunately China and it's OS and cellphones trying the same spoilt exploits.

It can do it within it's borders with an iron fist but not in the democratic world exploited by big companies including Facebook and Twitter.

Linux Desktops and Productivity

This is to disagree with some of the comments circulating in the Web by paid pro Microsoft (rather micro shaft) guys and girls.

The simple letter signify my intent not to dignify the business trend and money.

It comes from two philosophies.

1. Small is beautiful!

2. Software ought to be FREE with ability to tamper with the CODE.BASE, so that there is no final product but an evolving ecosystem.

Linux does both with front end desktop's commanding status and back-end rigid style of organization.

I mean command output from a black terminal.

I never configured a server in Linux and let the router with Linux Samaba like utility to do me honours with 13 computers at home at different levels (all dismantled now).

I always hated black terminal but my output sky rocketed when X-system was adopted for user friendliness in desktops.

My current love is Plasma Desktop coming from Mandriva and SuSe KDE desktops background.

I did not like the rigid commercial Redhat default desktop.

Now coming to Desktops if you install Debian 10 in your computer you have all the desktops in one go in one installation.

When you boot up with a user logging you can pick and choose your own favorite desktop.

Coming from Puppy base, I use dogs names or monkey names as user logging.

Bono or monkey is my favourite user name with Gnome Desktop.

Other users will have a different desktops.

Our dog Zimba has his own desktop and all it's photos and few videos in that home folder.

I did not have a good video camera 10 years ago and Zimba passed in away 2016.

Then two years of relative hibernation and now coming back in style with Puppy in USB stick and AbiWord (removing all Macros from LibreOffice) doing the page formatting effortlessly for publishing.

So do not listen to these command guys and others struggling with micro-shaft word processing.

There are over 60,000 utilities in Linux and pick only the 10 you use frequently.

This piece unfortunately coming from an Android Nokia.

The Lineage OS is not popular yet and standalone cellphone production is stifled by Chinese mass production and trying to entice with their own OP system is ridiculous attempt.

I DO NOT use cheap Chinese products including margarine with short chain fatty acids that destroy your liver (not alcohol by the way).

They break down in less than a year of warranty and my intention is to boycott Chines products at all cost.

Puppy Linux

This is a short note on Puppy Linux.

With 64 bit computers ruling the world, unless one has a 64 bit compatible Puppy image, one will find booting from a CD or USB impossible.

I am testing all my Puppy CDs and I will report here what is working and what is not.

Basically series 3 and 4 do not mount on 64 bit computers.

Out of Series 5 some boot.

Precise, Racy, Rocor and Slako and others do not.

Slako has a beautiful desktop.

Old Puppy images Emulate KDE, LXDE, GNOME and MATE desktops.

Some have their own desktops.

I have over 100 Puppy CDs and I am going to have several of my favourites, booting from USB.

New ones have bulky LibreOffice, especially, FATPup.

I want only AbiWord.

I believe in "small is beautifu*";philosophy and Puppy started like that before FATPup came into existence.

It actually started for accessing Internet on the go using a USB without any other utilities.
Basically a light weight browser and a XML reader.

Then the puppy grew to and dog.

I use Knoppix for big work with a persistent volume but I use Puppy for light weight jobs often not saving any additional files.

I have one USB right protected by me using a strange sh script which I have all forgotten now.

I cannot erase the USB and reuse it.

I do not think I used a root password.

I was trying to erase it and there was no way I could accomplish it.

Linux has a way of respecting ownership.

I have own to disown the files in it (mostly MultiSystem boot images)

USB are meant to be erasable and reusable.

Not in this particular USB that I have fiddled with

Same thing (basically a corrupted partition table) has happened to a 64 bit Micro SD.

Please do not by USBs with over 32 GB.
It is far better to have a bigger capacity SATA external disk.

I am just erasing all unnecessary files.

My PC has enough storage space.

When I was working I use to have portable rewritable CD/DVD since USB was known to carry Microsoft viruses.

I never had any problem with viruses.
I once erased my entire hard disk while booting TrueOS of BSD origin.
I had fallen sleep (I used to do this well past midnight) and after waiting a while it erased and installed TrieOS on my 120 SSD primary disk.

Fortunately all my data were in the secondary disk.

I have once erased an external SATA disk with data.

I always keep two copies of important data and some in DVDs and having started using Linux never lost a file.

I do not have a single Microsoft or Windows file.

I erased the last copy of Windows in my Laptop 5 years ago.

It has now two copies of Debian 10.

This has a better View

This is from my other Nokia cellphone which has a better Camera Eye/Lense.
Mind you Google Lens interfere when posting a photo.
I think they should let the cameraman does his job.

Now the Twitter Nest is Exposed

Having tied the mango branch to the cement pillar, it is better exposed but cellphone is not a gadget one use in photography.
I used my camera for better photographs.
I am not bother to upload them into the PC.

The Twitter Nest Covered a by Mango Leaf

Havari Nuga is the tallest on the rooftop garden..
I could not notice it covered by the mango leaf.
The brood has left a long time.
Single thread can still stand the wind blowing across.
Twitter's wind physics much more advanced than mine.

Old Chap in Pencil Sketch

This old guy succumbed after parading in a pageantry.

This is how you a write book with AbiWord on USB

It is very simple.

You need not want Windows.

Unfortunately Debian does not support AbiWord.

There are other options since AbiWord is light weight and has no operating gear or system to boots on it's own.

Even FATPup is supporting LibreOffice.

Download XenialPUP or PrecisePUP and make a USB bootable stick.
Both of them have AbiWord as a default application.
It can be included in any Linux distribution and it's footprint is small BUT it's versatility unparalleled.

Android not supporting it has no concerns for me.
I will never get to start writing a book on Android unless I have a Mouse at hand copy and paste functions.

I recommend minimum 8 GB stick but even 4 GB stick is good enough for pdf files.

AniWord can be saved In many formats including LibreOffice and Words.

AbiWord's strength is it's precise page formatting.

Then working up that file saved in LibreFormat in LibreOffice is pretty easy for a final touch up.

Boot your USB either in your Laptop and PC and start your first Novel without Internet.

I have already started a book on Puppy Linux and my other book on laptop is top secret for the time being.

I am not going to miss Grammerly and other typefaces which are actually a hindrance to my writing style.

By the way Androids do not support AbiWord, the alternatives including Notion need connection to Internet with clutter and  unnecessary interruptions.

I need Internet connection only when I decide to publish.

Do not waste time on LibreOffice and Words, then have Gorrila sized image.

By the way, advertisements are the biggest hindrance.

Lucky not to be born in America!

I am referring to me not America or Americans.

I would have been spoiled by the American Industry which dumps so many gadgets as toys.

My parents (American patents) would have given me gadgets not books with substance.
One line about my father, who bought me gadgets and before I could master it it is given as a gift to a guy who won't appreciates it's value in  face and deep.

That annoyed me a lot but being wiser from my young age never expressed my inside to parents, teachers or any sundry.

Building stuff stopped from a polish tin microphone and a speaker.
It worked in one of the school exhibitions with long wiring but nobody took notice of it.
Dished out as primitive.

They even ignored the collection of leaves I displaced with intent (why the particular texture and form).

So I knew I am not going to have good teachers to spoil me and I built up my own scheme (nobody believed I could ever enter the University, it was for the Exclusive Club).
In America I would have been inundated with promotions and luxury of my talent at a particular point and Microscope would have been a gift and there onwards one way track.
In Ceylon I could not buy a digital microscope for my research work.

I bought a Children's Microscope from Amazon spending my own money and it was one dished out cheap since the new model was coming.

That microscope enough for meet to photograph a selection of my slides.
Job done.

Being in Ceylon we get gadgets decade or more later once they are dumped as not worth.
My entry into networking and PCs two decades later, I believe.
The entry of Linux was a by product.

The cellphones was the last I got interested in and I earned how to use one of them from my daughter..

The name was not Apple but GreenTel.

I was interested in Fdroid but it never came to Ceylon.

The whole idea is fabricating Google Android.

Pone OS has come out when interest was waning.

Good on my time and cash.

/e/install cannot be downloaded to a cellphone. it has to be downloaded to a PC with the cellphone jacked into the PC by an esoteric wire.
I have pulled out my Ethernet Wire and no Internet.
There is no WiFi mode of installation.
Very primitive even for Ceylon.

What is the benefit for Ceylon, the Pine phone and its OS?

I will go back to my writing mode in Debian and AbiWord is out of my use.
Figure out to use it via a USB which I have in plenty.

Puppy Linux may be my saviour.

I would have gone bonkers, if not for?

Yes what kept me going on during the pandemic?

It is simply my assortment of Nokia cellphones and one basic Samsung cellphone.

I would dispense with the 3G basic, first  with two SIMs.

That has limited applications and I carry it out for communication and bit of Internet.

That's all.

The Nokia had over 200 applications and my is my Internet Workforce.

I deleted  the rarely used applications  by 35 , to boot it fast but still it boots slow.

I use utilities to minimize the boot up assembly but they never work to my likings.

I have found Spike and Spark that do a lot to bypass unnecessary emails and clean up the mess I was in.

I found this Notion utility that organise the short notes.

But it needs running  Internet connection.

I also found this useless (in my convention this means in real terms) Pitch without an application front that tries to hitchhike on Notion Utility.

Please do not try it.
Waste of time.

A useless lot of crafty Internet Guys that consume your data.

I do revise my French with my cellphone.

The boot up menu "application organizers" are pleasing and give you options  at boot up.

They manage clutter mind you there are over 165 applications in my Android.

There are lot of browsers that include incognito ones but I use Linux based Ducky Duck.

I never use bulky Chrome which is blocked by default  using system  application utility.

But my biggest concern is Writing Utilities.

AbiWord is not supported due to overriding influence of LibreOffice.

WPS also want you to sign up.

There was a Writer Linux CD (32 bits) that a writer developed but it was live only.

I still have this CD for demonstrations.

I want somebody to use its source code and adopt it to Androids.

Going for Apple iPhone fixes you to one company.

It is against the Free Software Foundation initiative.

I don't want to go to PC or Laptop and use Grammerly in my old age.

Mind you virtual typefaces are many and SwiftKey has French support.

Unless one ditch the cellphone in old age or go adapting to the ecosystem, one is at a loss.

Unfortunately most are fixated to Microsoft and Microsoft is trying hard to catch up with Google with new business tactics.

Me ditching Microsoft two decades ago was my rejuvenation in IoT.

The age old tradition of rebooting of Microsoft has come to ail Androids too, if you are editing a large file and writing a book on Android is not visible on the horizon.

Me going back to laptop where Debian stands tall is the only viable option.

Catastrophy, is it manmade?

Time has come to.say good bye to.this blog site.
It has nothing to do with Google's and Gmail's strategic diversions.

It was coming for other good reasons.
Number of visitors and Coronavirus made me to revise my decision.

I will end with my analysis of recent misadventures in the sea.

The same logic applies to air travel now beginning to come to life again.
With expansion of Internet human.travel is redundant except a break for holidays, barring Coronavirus spread that seems not to nose dive but skyrocket upwards.
That was my prediction anyway and human behaviour is the main culprit and reason.

Catastrophy or Misadventure occurs in Medical Field, too.

1. Number one in my list is fatigue.
Man or woman is designed to work  under 10 hours or even less.
8 hours seems reasonable.
8 to 9 hour mandatory and not necessarily in one go. One short snooze has many advantages.
Any excess of coffee or tea does not change this physiological protocol.

2. Number two is underlying sickness.

3. Number three is alcoholism.

4. Number four is sea sickness not the sea sickness of first seafaring but the psychological factors that affects concentration, attention and focus to minor details.

5. All these can be lumped together as negligence of the supervision protocol of the industry concerned.

6. Failure of maintenance of the ship and every piece of navigation equipments and protocols.

7. Number seven is premeditated sabotage that seems like natural catastrophe to an observer BUT to claim insurance compensation.

This is a strategy Ceylonese are good at.

There was a guy who faked an accident and placed a cadaver to claim insurance.

Other standard method is to fake political victimisation.
A guy came to for full body X-rays claiming he had an accident on the way to Ratnapura.
I worked there for one year and travelled  every two weeks home by bus and I knew every nasty comer of possible accident and he could not tell the exact place of accident.

I refused and later found out he went to Australia and I never saw him again.

In the scenario of the ship that is sinking anybody conspired to the last item I mentioned above they should be brought to justice.
International organizations should hold their independent investigation and keep it without public disclosure until our report comes out first.
Then we can judge who are the culprits and who is going to cover up the misadventure at collosal environmental costs and impossible clean up provedure.