Gnome Partition Tool or Gparted

First thing first.

I cannot provide a public server.
Instead, I use blog pieces through Google.

Google owns it and I have no ownership.

Unlike Twitter, Facebook or any other platform there is no censorship and I do not publish BS anyway.

I have a private server called AsokaPlus and it has no domain name.

To get a domain I need to pay a hefty monthly FEE to the local or foreign service provider.

When it began it was all free and one needed only an email to register and Gmail was non existent.
 

I started with Yahoo and it is my oldest email and it is all free and no censorship.

The internet had become a cesspit and how much filth is poured against President Putin and Russians unlike British and American media who live on faecal matter or filth.

Russia if one cares to visit one of the cleanest country on this planet.
 

Gparted of Gnome

It all started with a PC and FAT partition of Microsoft Windows.

DOS was the forerunner.

FAT 16 and 32  (sadly no 64) had the total market share except for Apple hardware and software. One still need to have at least one (1) MB start up partition to boot.

It changed to Microsoft Linux killer UEFI and now we have a solution called 500MB odd EFI partition to boot independent of Windows. Lot of politics involved and money exchanged. I do not want to be a part of it in my full retirement.

I am an avid user of G.P.T or Gnome Partition Tool.

My first book on Linux is how to partition a hard disk and dual boot with Windows XP. I started with 2GB hard disk with Windows with C, D and E partitions.

I have not used Windows for over 20 years and what little little I remember is, that I used Partition Magic tool installed in Windows to delete E partition and install Linux having partitioned with ext3.

There was a limitation of 15 partitions.

Only 4 primary partitions were allowed and 11 others were logical partitions on the last extended partition.

3 primary partitions and one extended in total.

I have to invariably use swap partition of twice the size of the RAM.

Swap rolls over the memory pages that cannot be accommodated by RAM in one sitting. Windows have not figured out a solution and they now depend on the cloud and with Elon Musk taken out of context by President Putin, the Cloud Solutions are not going to be viable and tricky for every American, British and Ukrainian citizen.

So I am left with 10 partitions and I would mount instances Mandrake, Suse and Redhat on those 10 partitions. Mandrake is no more and Mageia coming from France failed to live up to an average Linux user.

I gradually moved to Debian and never used Ubuntu but I am now liberal with Ubuntu and it's follower Mint.

Basically, whatever the Linux distribution I use, I have a disk Partition Tool of my own choise to partition the disk and later finalise the GRUB boot loader, on a Efi partition. I believe, unlike MBR or Master Boot Record, Efi can sit anywhere on the disk but I have never tried it, other than the first partition.

Earlier boot loader was LiLo.

Nobody uses LiLo (? Linux loader) because of the robust GRUB.

Coming back to GPT, the new partition tool has gone beyond 15 partition limitation and my slave disk had 41 partitions. Problem with lot of partitions is,        it takes ages for GPT to read them.

Mind you partitions are written in ones and zeros and it takes a along time read and write.

Avoid resizing partition since it takes a long time.

I have decided to keep my partition table under 25 and I have Debian 11, Debian 12.1..., Ubuntu, Mint, and Emmabantus Installed at various times. Currently three (3) Debian installations are one of Ubuntu on 5GB partition have been my choice. I have fallen out of Emmabanuts and Mint, since, they cannot configure GRUB to Multiboot

I have Partition Magic CD which has gone commercial and it boots to RAM and CD is ejected.

It has many utilities including Gparted.

Gparted is from Debian.

It takes a little time to learn using GPT and         I really like rewriting the partition table which voids everything without the need for erasing with 1s and 0s.

I have the habit of erasing my USBs using Debian disk partition tool. Debian's partition tool is limited in configuring the partitions but it is very good at erasing, evrything in the USB but tales a long time to do that, as I said before.

Never try to erase a big hard disk it might take half a day or more. So one must sit down and write down the needs and the number of partitions, on a piece of paper.

One can have up to 9 partitions for a Linux distribution install but I am happy with 5, /boot, /root, /home, /var and /tmp.

By the way one can mount Linux in one partition and that is the strategy Ubuntu uses.

So four distributions installed  means 20 partitions, in total for me.

There are several partition types.

I love journalized ext4.

I hate btrfs because of its redundancy.

Reifs is used by Knoppix.

Xfs by BDS and Endless Os.

Xfs does not allowed resizing and takes over the hard disk.

I really like the ufs file system.

I use different types, so that when I glance, the table written on a paper I know which distribution is in which type of partitions.

I love organization Linux since I am a well organized man all my life. I follow the Japanese 5S principle and get it right first time round is my moto.

One does not need to repeat boring protocols.

I am going to, my book writing mode and none will be digital (this guy called Indian Gupta who steal or plagiarize copyright material as his own).

Ubuntu the Linux with Best GRUB Boot Loader

I have recovered from the Linux Panic Mode and I installed two copies of Ubuntu one each on the 1GB SATA Disks.

Ubuntu's GRUB is fabulous and nothing to compare with.

I was under the impression that I had IDE spare disk.

I was wrong (I did not care to open the PC and look).

In any case it was working well over 8 years and why bother?

It is now in better order with two Ubuntu copied installed (I will change one copy to 22.4, once it is downloaded, soon).

The motherboard had all SATA ports and none IDE.

I have a IDE to SATA port PCI slit into the PCI slot in the mother board but I have no IDE disks left.

I have discarded them and changed to SATA.

I have three spare SATA Disks.

1. 40GB not enough to install even Ubuntu.

2. 120GB just enough for Ubuntu.

3. 250GB with Ubuntu copy installed.

No slots in the mother board for IDE.

Luckily I had only one 80GB brand new hard disk and I loaded it to an external IDE case and booted DeepIn Chinese Linux.

I had 120 SSD with no master boot record which removed yesterday with only one distribution installed.

I put in an external vase but Intel NUC BIOS won't boot it.

It needs EFI code signal.

All the other distributions were in the 1GB  SATA including my regular Debian.

I have two terra bytes and I have lot of spare space and probably would be installing SparkyLinuxGameOver.

I am not going to try Batoserra and Steam.

One game player is enough for me.

Cost of Download by Dialog

For 2.4GB download of SparkyLinuxGameOver costs me Rs.800/= in half an hour.

In other words each Rupee gives me 3MB.

SparkyLinux is nearly 4GB.

It costs me roughly Rs.1200/= for one image and I am not going to write anything about Linux in Ceylon after I have downloaded Ubuntu 22.4 and SparkyLinux.

It is torrent download and if I tried direct download it would cost me more.

I was in Linux Panic Mode since my computer went completely dead.

It took few hours to figure out the CMOS battery was dead.

This battery is little over Rs.500/= and luckily, I had a spare battery.

My better half always ask me why I by two.
I say next time round it is either out of stock or twice the price.

It is thicker than the normal battery which I have several.

I was thinking of putting one live and one dead to get the currency thickness to fit into the mother board battery slot.

I checked today and those batteries are not available in my city.

So if your computer (PC) is dead think if sending it to the junk yard for lack of a CMOS battery.

That's how it is going in Ceylon.

Wish I kick the bucket.

Linux Panic Mode and Ubuntu Warning

Our relatively Old PC had a SSD master and a SATA secondary disk.
SSD do not have master boot record and only boots on distribution. I have my own ways of circumventing booting problems and I managed to have Debian and Emmabantus installed in the 120GB SSD.
I somehow got everything booting on the second drive.
Thankfully no master and slave with SATA disks.
To boot I have to press F2.
Yesterday I decided to remove the SSD and put a 250GB SATA disk and installed Ubuntu and everything went OK and at the final second Ubuntu warn that the system is going to crash.
Did not give details and the computer did shutdown.

I could not boot it again and start button went dead.
Except for cleaning dust and spider webs I practically did nothing.
I did not touch the RAM.
I had a nice graphic card I had removed from another computer I dismantled.
I fixed it and closed the chassis.
After few hours I tried switching on the computer.
It was dead for no obvious reasons.
I was in panic mode by this time.
Then having slept for a while I decided to prove the CMOS.
It was dead.

Luckily I had a spare CMOS battery and fixed it and the computer booted.

I have used computers for so long this is the first time I had a dead CMOS battery.

I am back installing and installed Ubuntu successfully.

Update on Linux Distributions-2023

This update is early but not premature.

This Christmas and Winter going to be the worse in modern history, except for Russia (I wanted to say China but the effect on Chinese workforce is devastating and I want to say Coronavirus is most likely an American conspiracy brought on by multinational companies to stifle Chinese economy).

I was down by the vaccine myocarditis and I am back to 95% of myself, still have lingering side effects including backache and inability to lift more than 5 Kilos.

But it was a blessing and I have become happy, relaxed and more organized after this episode.

I consider it my Rebirth Again in this life with much better outlook.

My temper tantrum or the site of the brain causing me to be angry has become dysfunctional.

All these caused me to update my computers well in advance.
I have finished it by October 15th.

Of course Intel's NUC has changed me completely and it is fabulous.

My wooden desktop has no clutter and is in total Wifi mode.

It has three major components.
Monitor.
Keyboard.
Mouse.
Others include,
Two 1 terra byte SSDs (bought them long time ago).

Emergency Lamp with USB charger for power cuts.
One note book.
An Old Note book with all the telephone numbers.

There powerbanks.

Two cellphones Android 8 and 11.
One Cellphone is for update on Ukraine war.

The other for update on Linux distributions.

My need is portable, small foot print Linux.
1. Puppy Linux comes first with almost over 100 USB, mini CD, CD versions but only two are 64 bit versions.
Development is currently very slow.

2. Knoppix 9.2 English version, coming from Germany and is in hibernation mode.

3. Number Three and upwards are for my work outputs.

1. Debian 11 with Plasma 5 desktop.
Debian, 11 earlier version for all the desktops and some are in USB sticks.

2. Number 2 Linux Mint.

3. Ubuntu for GRUB configuration.

4. Sparky Linux (I have not got spakylinux game over)

5. Salix Linux.

6. DeepIn Linux an alternative for Google.

7. Emmabantus

8. EndlessOS for cellphone like desktop front and enormous packages but very slow to download (applications are not Torrent files.

9. Mageia.

10. Peppermint Linux, I have fallen out of favour.

Rest I have not tested and no intention at all, and I am allergic to Arch Linux and it's Derivatives PopOs and Manjaro.

The site www.distrowatch.com does an excellent update.

I only use torrent files and browse  Linux Torrent Tracker when I want to download an image.
I go for the stable version and not the latest for good reason.
I believe one makes a torrent file once all the bug tracking is done.
Whereas, direct downloads and beta version (I have stopped testing beta versions and filing individual reports.

The bigger problem of direct downloads is nefarious files can be added to direct files which are not checked as in Torrent files.

The communities are very active and no flame wars except in commercial versions like SuSe and Fedora.

They make a bit of a mess going for cutting edge and modern hardware.

I am also very allergic to what called cutting edge graphic cards and latest processors.

Gaming is a different ballgame altogether.

It is a different ballgame and there are few very enthusiastic guys producing YouTube videos.
I casually glance them but make comments  very rarely.

DeepIn Chinese Linux Installation

I am glad to say, that I am installing Chinese DeepIn Linux on a IDE 80G hard disk mounted on an external case.
It looks like it is general purpose alternative to Google and perhaps for Cheap CHINESE laptops.

It asks for  language for install and takes over the hard disk.

About 7 or 8 partitions and no manual configuration of partitions.

No root and personally accounts at boot time bit may be after successful installation.

Thankfully does ask for Internet Connection but I mounted my mobile (Huawei Mobile WiFi) WiFi  without data.
I do not want to waste my data on installation which might deplete data in no time.

It displays a visual introduction like Ubuntu while installing.

No live session for testing before installation.
But not a problem since I am installing it on an external disk.

I had some problem with my Bluetooth speaker and DeepIn did configure it during it's tuning of configuring.

Thank You.

Many Computer Mistakes on a Single Day

I tend to do only a few mistakes with my computers.

Yesterday was completely different.

Everything I tried went wrong.

I did not lose my temper.

When our dog was alive and well all I do was to take the dog for a walk which both of us used to enjoy.

After Coronavirus vaccination abreaction, I think I lost the temper tantrum part of the brain and I do not lose my temper.

Thankfully my memory is intact and only thing I now forget is telephone numbers.

I used to remember by heart about 20 telephone numbers in the pre-cellphone era.

I have never carried a note book in my working life but only when I travel.

Now my travel is limited to Singapore.

It was pain to go to UK with stopover in the desert.

I hated Dubai except duty free lounge and first time in my life I am not going to watch soccer or football world cup in Dubai.

There is no fair play to women and labour force in Dubai.

I am nothing again players like Lionel Messi, Maradona, Lampart and many more.

World cup without Maradona ranting is an antithesis to me.

My multiple mistakes were mainly due to EndlessOS handing up on me.

It is painfully slow to boot and to install even Abiword my favorite FireFox it took ages.

Need for constant rebooting and wireless connectivity was pain in the arxccsex.

All it did was to deplete my prepaid data.

Any way I got it booted with a trick from Debian 11.5......

I won't disclose it here.

I have only one SATA Disk of 40GB in a plastic box left now.

If I remember right I pulled it out from an old IBM server.

I am intrigued by so many defaults motherboard and in hardware.

I know it very well.

Bloat-ware of Windows and energy hungry graphic cards melts the lead sealing on the motherboard.

Answer is Linux.

Linux allocate resources precisely and no bloat-ware.

Abiword is an example by which I published all my books.

I am going to publish my first book by LibreOffice, soon provided no Power Cuts and data in my dongle and mobile WiFi.

No Ethernet at all which is super fast.

I had many fire hazards when cathode ray TVs were used.

Even the circuit board caught fire.

This is going to happen in this winter in Europe and America but not in Russia.

Three of them caught fire.

In one it's front glass panel broke to thousands of pieces.

A heavy speaker fell on top of it.

I also had three episode of fire when I was using old second hand IBM computer, an assortment of 15.

When the electricity bill went up, I dismantled all of them except my first assembled PC which is running Puppy and Ubuntu on a 10GB (on board video of 1MB and it never heats up) hard disk.

The bottom line is EndlessOS is pain to mount onto a hard drive and I mounted it on two USB sticks (one 8GB SD card other 32GB USB).
With some perseverance I mounted EndlessOS on a 80GB IDE hard disk.

It is all booting well but very, very slowly.

I am not going to use it instead I am going to mount three or four (including Ubuntu 22-04 version not yet downloaded) Linux distributions on a 240GB SATA heavy disk.

I have five or six light weight SSD SATA Disks mounted on external cases only two of them have data.

Rest of them had data on them and I have an astute method of storing data which started with large floppy disks and later smaller floppy version.

I cannot recover any of the data in them in exe files.

I have decided to mount Windows 98 on a slave disk and install either SOT Office or OpenOffice 3 and convert them to odt files.

That is of course if I have free time.

I am going to activate my Intel NUC with a standalone, nice wireless speaker with a radio and inbuilt rechargeable battery and bluetooth.

All my films are on SD cards.

What a change in my life from heavyweight IBM computers to 18 watts Intel NUC without any games.

Games with high frame rate consume lot of energy but our eye and brain physiology cannot go beyond 36 frames per second.

It gives an ILLUSION of movement to our brain without thinking.

Brain is made to THINK and Ukrainians and Americans do not know how to think.

I think President Putin will make them to think in fear.

Either fight or  flight is the animal instinct and Americans have lost even animal instinct.

This is where AI and Drones will take over humanity which I fear a lot.

AI have no empathy or emotions.

Yesterday I downloaded 5 Linux images.

For some unknown reason the Internet was fabulously fast and I got everything downloaded except Ubuntu desktop and SparkyLinuxGames.

I even downloaded Chinese Linux derivative (it is not live and I could not make a live USB) and I do not want it to erase my two hard drives.

It is not a DreamOS but pain.

It does not dual boot and it's boot record, I guess is not compatible with dual or triple or quadraple booting.

I have lot of spare IDE and SATA hard disks and a few external cases.

I decided to install EndlessOS on 80GB IDE hard disk.

It had multiple Linux 32 bit distributions and none booted.

It's partition table was clumsy.

I looked at its back and made the mistake of (I pulled the metal part of one of the jumpers in this process and the copper piece got stuck with the jumper pins) by putting an extra piece of jumper that restricted the hard disk to 32GB.

I used a tweezer the lady's use to pick the metal piece.

Mind you, I was a neonatal surgeon by training and doing extremely difficult surgical work on 250 gram babies in early 1980s have come good in computer hardware restoration.

EndlessOS detected only 32GB portion and I quickly realized that one jumper two many was placed in.

I love SATA without jumpers and Master and Slave mentality.

I can remember in early days when computers were primitive even 40GB was too much to handle.

Changing jumpers and formating the hard disk took an inordinate time.

That was the reason for mistakes and breaking my sleep due to mosquitoes  was an added bonus.

I hate mosquitoes!

I do not hate flies from them we Iearnt, the genomic base of little over 25,000 proteins, in evolution.

There are millions of molecules but base is only 25000 which even the tiny worm also has.

The Internet was so slow EndlessOS got stuck 3 times.

I could not get even AbiWord installed.

I wanted FireFox and it too got stuck.

I did not want to give up since I wanted the tomorrow to be fully free.

So I went back to basics and to Debian and I got everything fixed.

Then it was past 2AM and Internet suddenly became fast.

So by 3AM I got everything working and had a few sandwiches, as an early breakfast.

I am going to sleep now.

PS.
The editing and additions were done after, 4 hours of nice sleep without dreams.

EndlessOS running on a SD Card mounted on USB mounter

EndessOS can be mounted on a 8GB USB stick and run as a portable operating system.

Beauty is even the Intel's NUC is booting it.
This is Version 4. I mounted it on a SATA Disk and erased it but booting on 8 GB USB was a discovery. Problem is only a few applications can be installed.

I am going to install it on 32GB USB.

I was fond of carrying an operating system on a USB.
Puppy Linux gave that freedom.
I have over 80 Puppy CDs.
Only a few are on USBs
Reason is only FAT Pup and Foss Pup are 64 bits.
All the others are 32 bits but all of them boot from a Mini-CD.

My first computer has only 4MB RAM.
This is the computer I used for my thesis and all the work was done on Windows 98.
All the data was recorded on Floppies.
I cannot read them now but the Floppy Drive is in good condition.
This PC is booted by Puppy Disk on disk drive and persistent file is copied to a partition.
Hard disk capacity is only 10.
It cannot mount a 40 GB hard disk.
Only Ubuntu 5.4 Kernel boots it and even Debian got stuck three times on installation.
I gave up.
It's BIOS does not boot with a USB.
It boots with only CD.
It does not boot with Floppies and looking for Windows 98 boot Floppies which I do not have.

I never used this computer to boot Linux and I migrated to better IBM (all discarded from America) computers not one but 15 of them, all second hand but working well.
I dismantled all of them since the electricity bill went up.

By the way, I bought the NUC to cut down on my electricity bill.
Only if I play games my electricity bill will go up.

There is Power Cuts in Ceylon on daily basis and I have bought two new UPS to mitigate sudden breakdowns.

I was about to mount Endless OS on a USB and power failed and end result is editing this blog piece.

I would have gone nuts if not for the cellphone.

I did not anticipate power cuts but to save electricity I bought several  emergency lights and they have come handy.
They were cheap when I bought them and have gone up 300% and even for that price they are not available.
Dollar crisis has hit our coffers very badly.

I mounted EndlessOS on several USBs.

I have EndlessOS installed in my Laptop.

It has ton of or endless supply of tiny and big applications.

On the desktop it appears like a large cellphone.

Version 4 is little under 4GB.

I have not written an update on EndlessOS and this piece.

It is password protected at boot time.

Only down side of it is it takes (unless one uses an Ethernet) ages to download even very small utility.

This is probably related to very few in Asia using it.
I think it is worthwhile to do marketing campaign over Indian subcontinent.

I have already downloaded AbiWord and waiting for Transmission, Telegram, Skype, Xjournal (my favorite), GIMP and many more.

It has lot of tiny games.

Chrome and Libre Office are installed as a default.

My favourite is Firefox and it downloaded it quickly.

PCM and History Repeat Itself

PCM=Protein Calorie Malnutrition.
I have seen PCM in adult during Sirima and NM.

We on the verge of PCM if rain fails in the upcountry.
This time with population of 5 times that in 1960s the case load will be unsurmountable.
I give an example, the current slice of bread will float in air like in early 1970, if the fan on top of the table is in full speed to counter global warming.
There is so much air in each piece thanks to over fermentation with yeast.

Now I am impressed by how the biscuit manufacturers have responded to price hike of four.

1. Crunch each piece is no more.
2. I feel that each piece is lighter and there is lot of air in each.
3. Weight of the packet is labeled 20 grams less from earlier 100 grams.
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4. The packet itself is bloated with nitrogen.
5. However the price has gone up by 300%.
There is no difference with parippu wade and masala wade which has gone up in price. There are no prawn wade now in Kandy.

So PCM soon will effect my health and I have hypoglycaemia by 1PM.

I know it well because I used to get hypoglycaemia at about this time when I was enjoying good wine (never poll arrak).

I do not mind kicking the bucket like BBC to support preemptive strikes on Russia.

But I do not want to see kids with PCM again.

I think we should ban early morning exercise for kids in school.
It is time for us to provide Gundu Banis (buns the government gave us in school again and we used to make mati-guli or mud balls to play with the mates during morning brake) to school kids and teachers.

Backward Compatibility of Debian Linux on Old Computers

Let me start with an important consideration with power cuts on daily basis in Ceylon the not so paradise country.

Go and buy a UPS before they go up in price.

We were like current Ukraine 38 years ago.
We had power cuts but we never went hungry.
I was looking at a plastic display stand with multiple tops.
The upright poles had lot of candle burns.
I have used it as a candle stand with it glass tops.
The glass tops are still there wrapped up in paper covers.
Thankfully out children were not born then.

It was hegemonic India behind a small country not as big like Ukraine.
India instigated minority Tamils.

In Ukraine it is minority Russians with mighty Russian behind them.
Outcome is obvious.

We did not have anybody supporting but I remember Ukrainians helping with old Russian aircrafts to supplement our aging Air Ceylon with only two second world war Arvos from Britain.

We were bombing our brotheren gone astray instigated by RAW of Indira.
Being a doctor I never support war anywhere in this world.
I was born after Korean War and I could never understand the American hero warship of their conscripts in Korea and their weekly War Soap Opera.

It is amazing how we prevailed and 50% of the Tamils moved to Sinhala dominant areas.
Thank you to those who mixed with us.
I love their dosai, masala wadei and parippu.
We only contribiuted with Pol Sambol.

Coming to Debian I mounted Debian Lenny (4 install CDs) and half way through resizing the 10GB hard disk light or power went off.

If I boot Debian, my guess is I can mount a second hard disk with 40GB capacity.

I could not install Debian Lenny and I have up after 3 attempts.

However Debian on non graphic mode (to save VG memory) did partition the disk to 10 partitions and another SWAP partition.
I am going to mount Puppy Linux Wolfe persistent on one of those partitions.
I would let you know whether that is successful.
I have successfully installed Wolfe on sda6.
It has Ubuntu in sda3 and a GRUB in master boot record.
I do not know how to boot to sda6 when it boots.
Sfs file is name after my Christian name.
I booted Puppy from a CD and Ubuntu is not configuring the internet but Puppy Linux would.
I have a safety precaution since I will always boot from the CD and not from the master boot record.

I am booting it now and it says next booting would be faster.

This is the second time Puppy saved me.
I won't discard the computer to the junk yard for metal now.
Small is beautiful and it uses 512MB space, even though I could have given more space.
This PC has old mult-ipin jacks.
However I have mounted a USB connecter on a PCI slot.

It has detected SWAP partitions 5 and 8.
I am recording it here less I erase them in another boot up procedure.
Everything is OK and my Puppy is wagging its tail.

Guys now talking about terra byte is an antithesis to me.

I booted Puppy Linux with 512MB USB and Puppy Linux really rocks without tech HiFi.

My Mosquito Theory of War

This point I missed in an earlier discussion.

It is the female mosquito who feeds on blood and the male except assisting in procreation (unlike in war as a foot soldier like a poor Polish boy) does nothing really in between.

Female Mosquitoes are likes Iranian drones who can fly about 2 miles a day to find a victim.

All what one has to do is to kill the female and leave males to die of sex hunger.

This ploy the Russia should address is to  deplete the resupply of weapons (blood in the case of War and in real Mosquito Strategy) of mass destruction of America and the Energy infrastructure of the Ukraine.

It becomes a walk over for Russia and Unlike our King Sri Rajasingha, one should not eat rice when it is hot but leave the balls of rice to cool down and gobble it fast and furiously.

So before the Ukranians cook the next rice meal, they should finish the job.

I am not a war monger but now it is in full swing (I have no control but to blog) I like to see end with a Russia Win.

My grudge with America is simply due to Bill Gate and Windows operating system and in no way to poor Americans mostly Indian migrants who went to West looking for better pastures and there afterwards, fully supporting the development of a faulty Microsoft operating system.

By the way my first computer from America which I bought 30 years ago is booting Ubuntu 5.4 and I cannot configure it to access the Internet with Wireless connectivity.
Only Ethernet works with it.

I have pulled out the 80 feet Ethernet Wire long time ago and I have no compulsion to pull the wire again on the roof and allow it to elements and thereby rot again.

My Intel NUC is fully Wireless and both keyboard and mouse which I bought  yesterday are working fine.

Indian after war is over must volunteer to help Russia to build a wireless network.

I am told Russians are very bad both on drones and wireless technology.

All the wires are burned down in 24 hours of constant shelling and Ukrainians do not have TV or Facebook to listen to their president and the mad hatter.

I am very partial here and brave enough to support Russia and call the spade a spade.

Hegemony and Decline of Independent Journalism

This applies to all media local and foreign.
I defer naming them since even bad publicity is good for these hegemonic institutions.

This piece is about catch phrases and alien invasion.
To be begin with, the current explosion of technology is the direct result of latency of reverse engineering of alien technology by American deep state or the MIC.

UK,USA and Israel finance these institutions for war mongering.

They have met the nemesis.
The Ukraine proxy war is consuming boot on the ground which is no longer the catch phrase.

I will come up with alternatives, later.

The name is not Rusputin but Putin, the greatest in modern history.

He has a diplomatic touch with everything he touches.

West has lost the meaning of diplomacy and replaced with hegemony.

Coming to my catch phrase it is "Drones on Air" managed artificially by AI technology of Aliens.

Americans fear to wear the boots and they have allocated STUPID Polish boys to wear the boots.

Now Polish boys are dying in large numbers and they want Nukes stationed in Poland.

Drones in Air is the latest American phrase or vocabulary and do you know who produce the best kamakasi drones currently.

It is Iran.

Who is using them.

Russians.

Where?

On Odessa where CIA covertly operates.

The war had just begun with proxy Elon Musk eliminated with one master stroke by Putin.

More to come.

Slow attrition of American hegemony and ascendency of China who are currently ruling the space with so many antennas mounted on China and on Mars.

Why?

They fear American and CIA sabotage.

Americans and NATO on the ground are scared to death without satellite information.

Elon Musk was providing them.

It is the so called brave British who stopped volunteering, with a women on top of the administration.

My boy is not going there, let the stupid Polish boys who were polishing the backside of Americans should volunteer,instead.

One up for Poland.

Putin might even Nuke the CIA command center in Poland bordering Kiev.

My December there is lot of surprises including preemptive Nuclear Arsenal from USA.

They have done it before and gearing to do it again.

Final Armageddon!

My Migration from Open Office to LibreOffice

My memory is failing but this much I can remember by going through an assortment of over 800 CD/DVDs having various applications, software and operating systems.

1. I started using OpenOffice of SUN Solaris in Windows 98.
I had some problems with Office of Windows and it was mainly due to macros.

2. OpenOffice removed macros of MS-DOS documents.

3. I got my thesis confirming to our university requirements.

4. I bought my first computer.

5. It was booted with Windows.

6. Having finished my thesis I migrated gradually to Linux using Linux floppies.

7. I bought an assortment of IBM (14 or 15 in number I cannot remember) second hand computers discarded from USA.

8. Installed Linux distributions on all them except 3 (Windows).

9.  I weaned myself of Windows totally.

10. I did all my books using AbiWord.

11. I am doing my first book on LibreOffice.

12. Could not do pre-printing final editing due to constant power cuts.

13. Currently enjoying my life without Internet but YouYube on my cellphone.

14. Enjoying my usual cup of tea.

15. Fully off alcohol and I do not pay tax to an illegal president and an unpopular government.

16. No politics untill (waste of time) the parliament is dissolved and the next election engine is fired.

17. I have no objection to the guys trying hard on the streets of  Colombo, at a difficult time.

18. Next election is fought on empty stomaches and angry mouths.

19. Average citizen has awaken to the reality of dumb politics.

20. While this is happening President Putin will rule with Ruble.

21. Dollar will crumble and with that, the sleepy Joe.

22. Bolton will be down and Trump in ascendancy.

24. Alternative TV channels will come up with true, not doctored news of CNN, BBC, and the lot.

25. It looks like Aljacera will top the world news.

Running parallels with Internal Ethnic War in Ceylon and Now War in Ukraine

I am not neutral here.

Little bit in favour of Russia.

Simple reason is My Grudge with Microsoft which is almost 3 decades long.

I am fully liberated now and into Linux by default.

I booted my first computer with Ubuntu 5.4.
It is slow but working.
This is the computer I used for my University Thesis.
All done on floppies not a single CD or DVD, then.

All my Linux distributions are on USBs and some on SD cards mounted on USB sticks.

Let me start with few generalizations in politics.

Number one.
It is easy to start a war but very
Difficult to end.

Number two (which was number one few months ago ).

The first casualty in war is Truth.

It is the time of Donald Trump's Faked News Saga.

CIA is the beneficiary.

The rest of the content bears no similarity.

In Ceylon there is a Guy called Milinda, talk show guy in Ceylon.
He tries to give advises on many fields, all are theoretically feasible but not practical.
He is a Guy who destroyed his grandfather's wealth to almost zero.
He has gone into hibernation.

For posterity Dayan Jayathilake should do a review of all Ceylonese political (journalists) pundits.

The other is Victor Ivan.

Hard core JVP guy now a venture capitalist.

When he was down I was one who was involved in raising Rs500,000/= to get his paper up and running to oust MaRa, the big political cheat.

MaRa used Milinda to purchase the Ravaya weekly and we politically scuttled it.

Aniddha was created and pandemic took toll of it.

Had I known that Victor becomes a venture capitalist I would not have got involved.

That is hindsight.

My contribution was buying three weekly papers and donate two.
Just over Rs.100/=.

Virtually nothing for me when I was working.

Coming to our politics it was Indian RAW and Indira Gandhi and her son (both gone for good) who engineered disruptive ethnics division in Ceylon which British were able to stem to a significant degree (thanks to yester year British which I am a byproduct).

Her paranoia was we were becoming a Singapore, down under.

My gut feeling was with so much greed in this Buddhist (antithesis to Buddha's teaching) country we would never create a Lee Quan Yu.

The bottom line is India created it and it was the minority who raised against the majority.

There was no significant difference in the two communities except minority invested on education and the majority spent none on advanced education (include computer science) except selling the language which is primitive with no scientific notions.

One must read the book on Power by Bertram Russel on these issues and they were really applicable to Ceylon in post colonial time.

We wasted our money on internal war and we are back to begging bowl and the majority does not have a square meal.

War destroys everything including common sense.

Ukraine War.
It is real war now.

Hitting Elon Musk is the first sign and this war is fought on space and with ultrasonic devices.

Difference.
It was the majority's attempt to destroy minority Russians.

It is American proxy war against Russia.

Now that the Ukrainian soldiers are decimated, it is the NATO soldiers on boot bearing the brunt

Major casualty is Poland and their Boys not UK and American boys.

American boys and British boys are running away.

Real War has not begun yet.

Ending will be far to the future with no country called Ukraine existing on the world map.

America created it and I do not know how they are going to sell the debacle.

Well start the Thaiwan War.

Top distraction.

This piece is for independent journalists (not CNN, BBC and Fox News) to look at the bare bone politics of today.

New world order is in the offing.

Star-Link of Elon Musk is busted by

I think President Putin has given OK to bust Elon Musk's StarLink that was helping NATO in Ukraine War.

This is probably in preparation on Winter Offensive.

This war (no longer SMO) will go on until Ukraine no longer exists.

Poland who was pilfering the Western weapons and profiting has plans to grab what they lost in the second world war.

History repeats and old simmering and festing wounds flare up at random now.

When war enters its own mechanics any current prediction is valid temporarily as only a news item.

Faked and doctored news become automatic gut reactions.

Satellites that are vital for normal communications are prioritized for war footing.

The soccer world cup in November in Dubai, my prediction  may even become a target of communication battle and we may not see live telecasting.

It will be a boom for gamblers and not for statisticians.

I will not watch it any way.

Going Fully Wireless

I am into Wireless connectivity for a long time.

In fact, I bought two chargers cum  wireless  connectors (internet) and used them for free wireless connectivity long before MobiTel and Dialog stormed the market.

This was for my laptop not for cellphone use, then.

I think I was the one who introduced satellite and router connectivity to my city in the center of the country.

Our STUPID politicians were slow to respond to changing dynamic of the globe.

Now we have satellite TV, too.

Analogue TV signal is very weak and I went to Lanka-Bell for solutions and got my first Huawei
Mobile with Lanka Bell SIM in which I now use MobiTel SIM connected with a USB cord.

The wireless keyboard and mouse was a failure simply because I only use Linux for work.

The drivers for the  USB dongle had Windows exe software.

Intel's NUC changed all this.
I am all wireless and bluetooth from today.

I got my old witeless Keyboard and Mouse from the attic and they are working nice with  AAA batteries.

AAA,batteries are hard to come by in Ceylon and luckily I have a stock of rechargeable batteries.

Current problem is Power Cuts.

I am a dog lover and appropriately, I have over 80 Puppy Linux Derivatives.

Only two are in 64 bit versions.

This is in addition to over 10 in USB sticks.

I use Puppy (sometimes Knoppix) when I have problems.

With my first PC with only 4MB RAM and 1MB VGA, I could not boot Ubuntu and finally after erasing the data using Puppy Linux, I managed to install Ubuntu  5.4.

It took almost 12 hours in the night and it is booting nicely.

I have only one problem in the night, that is assortment of mosquitoes.

I keep up to kill them all by good hand coordination which I learned not by typing on old keyboard but by necessity.

Now the keyboards have gone through the roof with new innovations.

What a welcome change but at a price.

I am very bad touch typist.

I use KO KO (where the key where the key of visual searching) method.

I am against using all purpose anti-mosquito vapours.

They kill other insects which is not correct.

I target only mosquitoes.

Russians should take a leaf from me and target only NATO mercenaries, not innocent civilians, now that X-elenslky forces are muted.

We had 35 year history of War and civilian casualties were enormous.

We by the way fed all including LTTE well.

We are peaceful now but nevertheless very hungry.

We are paying the price for debts incurred by the Warlords who emptied our sovereign(stole them).

It is happening right now in Ukraine and Poland is selling them in the black market and they never reach the front line.

War is a funny game somebody not in the battle field make millions if not billions while Americans, British and German ordinary people are taking the punch and the brunt.

War is a funny game in this century.

Regarding my first PC.
It did not have USB ports.
Long time ago, I stuck a USB connector to PCI slot.
It did not have a Ethernet port and I stuck a TV card to the PCI slot.

There was a separate connector for Ethernet.
Unfortunately no WiFi connectivity.

I have pulled off the 80 feet long Ethernet Wire which had a faulty portion due to old weather beaten nature.

In any case I am going to say good bye to Internet and there is no hard feeling.

Puppy Linux got my Old PC Running

Ubuntu 5.4 got stuck half way in the installation and I could not get the IDE hard disk partitioned.

I booted Puppy LUPUS mounted and created a bootable Puppy.

This PC originally did not have USB ports. 
I instslled a Device with USB ports into PCI slot. 
The Ethernet card was also slot into another PCI slot.

This is just to tell the new guys dealing with lot of RAM and SATA disks how primitive computer world in  the previous mellaneum.

My First PC and Ubuntu Rescue

My first PC was lying idle without an operating system and I tried to fix a 80GB IDE hard disk and I could not boot it.

First hard disk of 10GB did not boot since AntiX or Mepis I tried to install got stuck saying kernel is inappropriate.

I messed up even the CMOS battery and it won't even get the BIOS in.
After 4 days of trying I realized it had 1MB Video and 4GB RAM.
It won't boot from floppy of Mandrake, Suse, Debian or XandOS.

Finally I  got to the NM RAM and adjusted it to boot from CD.
Put the Ubuntu boot CD I had in my attic.

It is installing and that PC is back to live mode.

Thank You to Mark Sukerberk for distributing Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Livintu CDs.

The quality of those CDs is excellent even after 20 years in my CD Box.

Steam Deck, Gaming Platforms, Tech-High and Tech-Low

I am a Linux User and Windows Hater, not by conviction but by circumstances.

I started with Sinclair and Later Compaq and ultimately settled down with Linux Debian.

I used Windows for my research work (thank you) and games.

When my thesis printout was not according to the requirement of my University (on Microsoft Office) I switched to Sun Solaris OpenOffice and that would have been the trigger for me to switch gradually and totally to Linux.

Why I hate Windows is once you install it one has to add each and rvery  application and game, one by one.

Linux has bundle of utilities in one install but lately probably due to proprietary issues, especially Ubuntu and Mint that bundle has become smaller and smaller.

Windows was very good on cheap games and Linux was known for lack of games.

I was critical of this scenario (lack of games) and used to write a review on every distribution I have tested on all the issues including games. 

Valve and Steam was available  for a long time but without games.

I welcome the Steam Deck mainly because of its portable or mobile Linux distribution, not so much on the availability of games.

I use to carry Puppy and multiple Linux distributions on USB sticks for ages but I need to find a computer and monitor to run them "on the go", especially at an airport.

I hated bulky laptops and messy tablets.

I was thinking of a cellphone with Linux.

It has taken a long time for PINE phone to come up a solution but PINE has become very expensive and I cannot afford it, in my retirement.

Steam deck was like dream come true but it is beyond my purse,too.

Instead I went for a Intel NUC.

Valve will never come to Ceylon with people struggling with economics and hunger.

I have laptop with Endless OS and  an old PC with several Linux distributions on a rotating disk.

I have several portable hard disks with Linux and assortment of USBs running Puppy and Linux.

In fact, with NUC (I have not loaded it with games) adding to my armament, I don't think I should go for a gaming deck.

Even my son is not interested.

My son's first computer with 1MB Video and 4MB RAM I just got refurbished but I haven't got an operating system to boot from a floppy.

This is the computer on which I did my research thesis with lot of statistical diagrams. 

I think Linux does not have a statistical package.

I am not into coding for ages and if I did I would have made the basic framework for a Tiny Linux distribution for one of my Nokia phones.

I suppose I should wean myself off from Linux and computer addiction and enjoy only food and drinks.

Perhaps, I may go back to writing mode and who will buy any of my books with global economic meltdown.

I haven't done a book for over 3 years.

I am still wondering about my writing if not blogging. 

Gaming, Gimmics and My Gut Feelings

I just saw an advertisement for modern mechanical keyboard.

I am a mechanical keyboard man not a digital keyboard lover.

Digital keyboards prompts words but never synonyms which is something I want.

Using the same word is ugly and shows one's inability to use the correct and appropriate word.

This piece is about human physiology and his limitation in eye movements, hand eye coordination and brain function.

What we see is what the brain projects to our eyes.

Number one point in physics is when the light penetrates the lens of the eye it is upside down and left and right inverted.

Let me be in for some diversion.

Mind you these things were not taught to me as a medical  student and I am working them out in my retirement.

Thankfully we did not have fancy hand held gamers when I was a kid and I mastered my physics, quietly and secretly and my teachers were horrible. 

My target was to enter university which I achieved first time and some of my cohorts achieved it 6 to 8 years later.

That speaks of their dedication. 

The criss-crossing of fibers at several levels correct the physical light  aberrations and we sense and think them as real upright. 

In real terms it is illusion of some sort.

This illusion is exploited by gamers.

When fps or frame rate is below 36 the picture appears static.

When it is above 36 the illusion of movement is projected to the eye.

When photo films were made before world war II they realized unless films spin at higher rate the picture  would look static.

So fps of higher rate gives the sense of speed.

So setting a game rate to user's desired level is optional.

At slower rate one can beat the game player and at a higher rate one loses. 

What the kids wants is a win,  so a smart parent should adjust the rate to suit your kid at 7,10 or 16.

After 16 kids are interested in opposite sex and parents should put the gamer back to the box.

If you let he or she keep playing at home is a sure way to promote homosexuality, for me up to a certain age it is physiological and seriously and biologically abnormal beyond the formative years.

The point about the visual resolution is the clarity of the image which depends on the pixel rate of the image. 

The eye contrast above a certain level of pixel rate is non existent and having a bigger graphic capable card does not improve limitations of the eyes.

Of course it is more expensive to the parent who buys it.

We can distinguish only 256 colors and only 16 with clarity.

Computer can resolve millions of color shades.

What matters is to match the graphic resolution to the speed of the CPU.

So buying the latest and the fastest is ill conceived.

As children  grow they outgrow the previous interest and move to a different base level.

Additionally children should learn to share experiences and their gaming  habits and making them feel their gaming machine is better than the neighbors kid is detrimental and encourage jealousy and political paranoia which is an adult disease. 

Worse scenario is addiction which will lead to gambling and drugs. 

My advice is if one has no understanding about children either do not marry or if married do not have children.

In my case if one who is above 25, it is no concern to me he or she  is homosexual or not but leave kids alone and do not prey on them.

There are enough homosexual parties even in Ceylon and become a subservient party member or a priest with sexual disorientation.

I believe that man with correct senses do not need a party or a religion or even a racial orientation to be a real human being worth his or her  weight in gold. 

My First Computer and Intel's NUC

My First Computer and Intel's NUC

The NUC with WiFi and Bluetooth is cute.

My first computer is huge, heavy and was beast (a behemoth).

I cannot lift it BUT it's RAM was 128MB and Video RAM was 4MB.

 

It boots up with CD and I cannot believe, all my research work was done on it.

This may be the first research work done on a computer (earlier it was done on paper and a typewriter) in the Faculty of the University. It had 5 computers with 16MB RAM(I did the pioneering work on the network of computers). 

The computers were discarded from America.

By the way network does not need lot of memory and the server did provide the workload. 

For my research work I used Windows 95 and Office.

 

The office with bad macros could not get my research thesis in full print out.

I bought a dot mat printer and later Cannon Large printer and still later a digital scanner (from my pocket saving from UK). 

University had none.

They all are in working order except the dot mat printer and they fill my bedroom. 

This piece is about my entry into Linux distributions. 

Since my paper print out was bad and did not satisfy University Soecifications, I used Sun Solaris OpenOffice 1 for my research work. 

It removed all Microsoft Macros and I got the paper layout of my research thesis in A4 papers amounting to roughly about 180 pages.

Then I did some search and I found Debian, Suse, Mandriva, XandrOS and Redhat Boot CDs and booted them on a 10 GB hard disk.

I installed them all in 10GB HDD.

That is my Linux beginning without a GURU but with lot of books.

 

The outcome was multiple distributions in one PC.

I never looked back on Microsoft  again after my research work was accepted by the University.

Original hard disk was only 2GB.

I replaced the 10GB HDD and stuck a 80 GB hard disk and installed Debian with only one CD.

All the others need at least 3 CDs for installation.

Windows had about 42 odd floppies.

HDD (Parallel) to  serial SATA was a long journey and I love the NUC with 8GB RAM and 320GB SATA inside and 320GB SATA on an external case.

I have Mint (Ubuntu replacement), Debian, Emmabantus and Ubuntu installed and they are running smoothly on 18 Watts out put and without any noise.

What a turn around in my life with Linux.

I generally do all this just before Christmas BUT I did finish it by 3rd October, 2023.

I have three month holiday from Linux.

Imminent Collapse of the European Union is on

What X-elensky's War on Russia has done is to initiate the total collapse of the European Union.

X-elensky's Curse will actually end the European Union, long before Ukraine's wish becomes a reality.

More than RUSSIA EU is in panic mode.

This is happening when hitherto not seen Far Right is making ground in Europe and America.

Macron's  dream of becoming the elected King of France (now that Queen of England is dead and King Charles becoming a laughing stock soon, with one of his inadvertent and impromptu gig or gag, in a  world forum like global warming or the rain forest or wild life or engendered species) or the De Gaulle's Avatar reborn, will come to an end, soon.

Please do not put the blame on Putin and Russia but look on the EU mirror that has lost its gloss, simply because of the demand of a rouge country like Ukraine.

Macron's lack of diplomacy or slimy politics will be put to test no sooner Russia either annex or demolish Ukraine.

This scenario could have been avoided long time ago, if the media propaganda by a joker or an actor was stymied, and the center stage in European Politics was given to reality of the existential existence of Russia as a global player and not a regional player.

It is no more hilarious when real politics and a mighty army march forwards a rouge country run by CIA.

This winter will bring lot of surprises or changes globally initiated by food and fuel crisis.

It is not going to be rosy.

Debian 11has solved the ESP booting

I just installing Debian 15 series and it has solved UEFI booting problem for good.
I was installing Debian on Intel NUC.
Earlier I stuck a SATA Disk already configured in my PC and had both Ubuntu and Emmabantus.

By the way, my general advice is for one to make a boot USB, since    CD/DVD are becoming obsolete.

Of course one should not activate WiFi by default due to poor WiFi services in this part of the world.

I use WiFi dongle and all Linux distributions automatically detect WiFi provided one has already paid the service provider.

To save money I use prepaid data packages and only stick the dongle when I need to browse.
With ready availability of cellphones using the PC to browse the web is expensive and almost redundant.

Backing OFF after Backed UP

I have stopped backing up (except cellphone data) to cloud using Google Cloud.
For two reasons.

1. Number one my Privacy.
They are my private data.

2. Number two every time I access I have to pay the Service Provider money on MB Rate.
It is no longer FREE.

Every year by Christmas, I save my working data (old data is already old and dead) and erase my hard disk (except the laptop which is like a large cellphone with EndlessOS running).

Then I install the current Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Magiea and Emmabantus).

This time I made a little bit different process.

I used an old hard disk mounted on an external disk case to install Linux.

The units are PC, Laptop and my new Intel NUC all of them are running well the latest Linux distributions.

I am going to be in idle mode from today, till January 15th.

I am on holiday mood and mode.

I have 2 extra months thanks to Coronavirus incarceration and I have organized my working environment.

The idea was to overcome memory lapses that come and go probably due to old age and may not be due to vaccine abreaction.

POMR to EBM

It is time for me to revisit my medical career 22 years after calling it off for good.

First of all, tribute to all my batch mates living and left us in good time, long before the pandemic.

My batch had a few bad eggs some  of them were 8 years older to me.

I am not the youngest but one of the five youngest in the batch.

Credit to all my younger colleagues who organized the 50th anniversary of our entry into the University of Peradeniya.

Except the few old bad eggs the rest of my batch mates were Iconic in their own fields of expertise.

Unfortunately Peradeniya University has gone into abyss simply due to Area Based Admission which did irreversible damage to our Northern Friends and finally to the protracted 35 year old ethnic war in Ceylon.

Ill feeling are still simmering but it is time to reflect the good things of the past and forget the few bad eggs which spoiled the soup.

Changing into a different dimension;

This is just a reminder to Russia and Ukraine and they should not be a part to CIA and Neocolonial Propaganda.

It is time for amicable arrangement but unless X-ekensky is taken out of the equation it won't happen.

He is a virtual curse and in Buddha's Term Maraya's living Incarnation.

Russia is a great cultural nation one should not try to wipe it out of modern history.

I do not mind American, especially the democratic hegemony getting wiped out and a responsive conservative or republican government coming to power.

It is inevitable.

Besides politics, coming to POMR and EBM.

EBM or evidenced based medicine is dead.

Reason I do not know.

Most likely in real time, gut reaction, a better term ESP or extra sensory perception should be given a chance to operate and save a life in real time.

I have used this technique, a few times in my life and it really works when nothing in medical field works.

PMOR is simple Problem oriented medical records.

It has two components;

1. Back going problems of no current consequences.

2. On going problems one has to be cognizant.

3. There is no futuristic or stock market projections in Medicine.

It is either current or nonexistent (imagined).

This imagined part belongs to the patients and it is matter of how long one can kick on or better still kick the bucket for good for our planet to recover in real time which is over populated by old humans.

The young should be given adequate space and freedom to breath in new ideas.

As a medical person me pathological, out of date or after the fact determination or NADA the Forensic Expert with current expertise one has to balance the judgement and not be paranoid, at all.

Paranoia (partly futuristic) is an untreatable disease.

Live this moment with Metta and happiness of Upekka (? equanimity is the closest rendering of this Pali term).

Metta is powerful by itself.

PS.
My interests are not medical but pure physics and beyond the event horizon and nanotechnology.

But that episode is in 3 months in January 2023 not now but before that I will send a Christmas or New Year card to all who send me the current address.

Regards to Upekka,
It is not forgetting but current feeling with empathy.

NUC can Take a SATA Disk with Linux Derivatives

This is an update.
I could not get NUC to mount a Linux distribution installed on a SATA Disk on an External Disk enclosure.

It was all due to bad partitioning and bad  GRUB boot record.
I patiently revisited the mistakes and got Mint and Emmabantus installed and presto when I plugged in the NUC identified the Linux GRUB.
I am currently doing some changes to UBUNTU root partition (resizing and reinstall Ubuntu according to my wishes) to get a home partition installed.

Ubuntu and Mint on a Intel NUC

I bought a NUC without a hard disk and only 8GB RAM.

Intel's  visual secure boot is a bit of a pain.

I am not sure one can dual boot but it has option for Windows and Linux at boot time.

Both Ubuntu 21 and Ubuntu derivative Mint are running sleekly in the box.

I haven't got Steam 3 to test the games.

NUC bottom is for the SATA have disk.

It has power cable and data cable both are tiny.

It runs at 18 Watt capacity when not running games.

NUC top consists of integrated Graphics, System and there are two slots for memory.

It is very quiet when running.

I bought it to cut on my electricity bill.

It has WiFi, unlike my old PC in which, I have to stick a USB Huawei Mobile unit (with a SIM card).

I bought it from Lanka Bell but Lanka Bell service did not reach out house.

Both Linux distributions  booting with a  USB stick avoid proprietary codec utilities but guess, one can download them after installation.

I am not sure whether one has to pay for some utilities which I have no objection to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu guys and girls also have to pay for their rice and curry at a time of global meltdown and food crisis.

There is no free meal which is a saying in UK and I am not sure what Biden''s War machine is saying in America to poor Americans.

May be buy your our own food from Odessa in Ukraine as mercinaries.

Well they can join Ukraine as mercinaries which is already well into action with more than 70% of Ukrainians who are deactivated (in other words dead or injured).

CNN, BBC and FOX News deliberately count down on casualties and if they are not down why are they asking new recruits from abroad?

President Putin is up to it and there is numerical superiority probably 1 to 3 and incrementally rising.

It was not so during early phase of the invasion.

When we had LTTE War we were asked to tighten our belts and my belt had being tight all my life (over work) but after retirement my belly is no more flat but bulging.

That applies (obesity) to all our members including the domestic aid.

I am thankful to Ranil and Combo very soon we will need belts.

I am specially thankful to President Putin, the problem of obesity, he solved without firing a single bullet in the direction of America but unfortunate guys in X-elensky Zone will have sleepless and hungry nights.

This what the war brings but during our ethnic problems we were including LTTE were very well fed.

Not anymore in Ceylon.

Mint has overtaken Ubuntu

Yes Linux Mint has overtaken Ubuntu.

I hated it by being an avid free software addict and never used Mint with commercial codecs in the past.

Time has changed, I have softened and I still say Ubuntu's ESP Utility is FAB and if not for that I would have given up with Ubuntu and stuck only with Debian.

One word about Intel NUC, it only supports USBs of high capacity and one cannot boot from an external SATA connected with a USB 2 or ?3.

I had a 320GB old (not SATA) with corrupt boot record.

I installed Ubuntu and Mint.

I still have 200GB left.
Unlike Apple and Windows, Linux does not have bloatware.

That is it's beauty.

Trying to boot with Debian 15 series was a total failure on the external disk.

But Debian is running superbly on the NUC with WiFi connection.

It does not have Abiword but Emmabantus come and fill up that gap in depreciating and old packages.

I believe for another 5 to 10 years these utilities should remain and we have not recovered from the pandemic but we are going to get hit worse by economics.

Turning to Linux, even this late will bring healthy outcomes.

Thanks Linus Torvalds you are a real Gentleman!

DO NOT throw away old gadgets at least DONATE to schools in the third world.

Justice, Violence and Politics in Ceylon

I have two pieces here on Justice and Violence in Ceylon.

I have avoided politics in Ceylon, since there is not a soul left in Ceylon to get us out of the current plight.

They are all out there to pocket the money to their pockets and nothing filter to the voters who elected them.

When voters (65% of them) are stupid as they are, they deserve one meal a day.

Then only the blood would floor to their brains (physiological reaction to impending hypoglycemia).

All this happened under Sirima and NM and this is history repeating itself but in more devastating terms.

Printing money won't help.

We need commodities in real time.

Screen printing (money and objects) by a printer that prints is good only for America.

By the way, printing has gone up by as almost 500% and school copy books are out of stock and very pricely.

Of course, we did not have power outages, then.

Power outages happened under Premadasa  and I was working with Internationals and they could not operate computers in Digana and we packed them to Hotel Galadari.

These Americans if they do not have Internet connectivity especially for their spyware to which Israel ably helping 😶Americans think world does not exist in the far East especially in Russia and Petersburg Square.

The world is now upside down and Putin and Ruble will start ruling the world.

The upsurge of dollar is going to be temporary.

Come next Winter not this winter Germany and EU will be on the verge of collapse with non menstruating (they do not have feeling when in menopause) women running the financial affairs.

These women are greedy and pocket money to their own pockets, only.

The other term is futuristic investments, not volatile stock markets.

They are all not rice eating nations and Asians will feel the impact of global economic collapse both with wheat flour and rice flour shortages.

I have been living without rice for 15 years (chemical poisoned rice allergy) and currently without chocolates.

I have substituted Tea and Sugar on the hand (Called Alle Kema).

The Ceylon Wonder (with monks advising) is going to be that spirits will go up by 300% in mid October and that alone is enough to change any political power.

In Sirima's time it was Bread or American Piti that made JRJ in very old age to come to power.

By the way, I signed his last blood report as dead report and came home by train and by the time the train  reached Ragama, white flags were coming up.

It is going to be black flags this time round.

I will switch to my Linux piecee and New Physics from now onwards.

Politics is very fluid and bane to me.

Excuse the typos my regular cellphones are dead with no data from MobiTel and Dialog.

This is coming from Hutch.

Endless OS is Superb

 Endless OS is Superb

I have updated Endless OS in my laptop today.

It gives my laptop the appearance of a larger version of a cellphone.

It's history is unique.

I hated Microsoft Windows preinstalled when I bought the laptop in Singapore, many moons ago.

Microsoft crafted OEM, BIOS did not allow dual booting or erasing Windows.

But Endless OS did care less and erased everything.

Of course, I removed  the 1000GB SATA hard disk and installed a 120GB hard disk.

Incidentally, Endless OS, too, does not respect dual booting.

The worse scenario, is I cannot boot the laptop with a USB stick having a Linux distribution, due to the BIOS (UEFI) restriction.

I rarely use the laptop but my PC.

Incidentally I bought a Tiny Intel NUC box which is small and cute.

NUC is noise free and costs little with only 15 Watts output.

My reason for buying it was to cut down on the electricity and telephone bills.

Cellphone also costs a lot and recharging it's battery daily is a pain.

Who needs a laptop now?