Ultimate Gamers Edition

 January, 05, 2023

 

Ultimate Gamers Edition

 

Most of these games age already bundled up in Debian Gnome in 64 bit format.
 

I have not tested but Ultimate Arch Gamers also have bundled their own game pack.

 

Even though, it is 4.4GB the Box Utility of Debian it mounts in a Virtual Session, bringing nostalgia of 32 bit era.

 

It has GDebi Package installer and that it means it is updated to current use and once installed one can install even my favorite Abiword. 

 

Being a gamer, it has no office packages.

I have no hesitation to recommend using it by a newbie or an old hand like me in Linux.

 

Thank YOU guys and Girls developing Ultimate Gamers Edition.

 

I have included in my book "Linux Essentials" in the Gamers section.

 

I am not a fan of MATE and I have not used MATE as a regular user and that is why this Distribution has missed my attention.

 

By the way, I am not a fan of ARCH Linux but ARCH has come up with (Storm, Blue Star Linux, Arco Linux) many editions.

 

Blue Star Linux was 4.7GB and is a very elegant distribution only my lack of experience in ARCH Linux keep me not using it.

 

Manjaro is on top of my selections.

 

I am too, old to learn new tricks and I am happy with Debian.

 

It took almost two hours to download Blue Star Linux by torrents with only 3 seeders. 

I used my old Laptop. 

I use my Laptop (500GB but only half full after loading with all the Linux images) to store store all the Linux images, since my NUC has no space. 

Already filled with over 50 Iso images, mostly old Puppy Linux my favorite.

 

Linux Mint

Mx Linux

Debian

4M Linux (version 5 did not have seeders). 

Majaro

Blue Star Linux

 

By the way, Netrunner KDE derivative has become one of my favorite distributions which has many attributes.

 

Ultimate Gamers Edition is an open source and completely free Linux kernel based operating system derived from the world’s most popular distribution of Linux, Ubuntu, and designed from the ground up for hardcore Gamers. 

The Gamers flavour of the Ultimate Edition Linux operating system is distributed as a Live DVD ISO image that has approximately 4GB in size,    it supports both 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x86_64) hardware platforms, but contains software packages optimized only for the 32 bit architecture. It can be written to either a DVD disc or a USB thumb drive of 4GB or higher capacity.
Being designed from the ground up as a Live DVD, the Ultimate Gamers Edition distribution will allow the user to use the entire system directly from the bootable medium, in live mode. By default, it will start automatically when you boot the ISO image from the BIOS of a PC, but various advanced boot options are available on the boot menu.
The distribution’s default and only graphical desktop environment is powered by LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), which uses a traditional single panel layout for a productive and very fast desktop experience.
Among the pre-installed gamesare 3D chess, 

Airstrike, 

Aisleriot Solitaire, 

Barrage, Blackjack, 

Boswars, 

Brutal, 

Chess, 

BzFlag, 

Brutal Chess, 

Chess, 

Dream Chess, 

Five or more, 

Foo Billiard, 

Four in a row, 

Freecell, 

Gbrainy, 

Glest, 

Gnometris, 

Gridwars, 

Hearts, 

Lango, 

Kslotski, 

Majongg and Mines.
The Nexuiz, 

Nibbles, 

Nimuh, 

Open Arena, 

PokerTH, 

Robots, 

SameGnome, 

Sauerbraten, 

Snoballz, 

Suduku, 

Super Tux 2, 

Tali, 

Tetravex, 

Tremulous, 

Vetris and Warsow are also included.
 

The Play On Linux application, a graphical front end for the award winning Wine software, will allow the user to download, install and play games that have been designed to work only on the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Email Etiquette

 
Email Etiquette

Web is full of suckers.

Most of them pretend to be your Advisor or Savior.
This is true with obtaining VISA.
But they are suckers.

They are out there to get your money and email and more importantly your personal details.

They use your identity to get involved in undesirable activities.
Beside your government or its stooges are the most untrustworthy.
For example your Grama Niladari is not innocent.
He/She provides your information (sometimes incorrect) to the politicos and often leave important documents lying around.

Not in a safe or safe place.

In that way I am against this new trend in e-governace and e-commerce.

They provide these information to third parties and there are no legislation in this country to prevent them doing so.

Most of is done under the name of prevention of terrorism but now used for political mileage.

The police is not selective but they are corrupt.

They have no mechanism to anticipate and prevent disaster.
They are always after the fact and slow to respond.

So with this background my advice is simple.

1. If you do not need an email or not competent enough in using please do not open one.

2. If you do have one do not share it with others.
It is private property like an address.
Like our politicos you cannot have more than one birth certificate or more than one identity card.

3. Hackers are out their to use you as a Zombie.
Identity theft is a serious offense.
Our politicos operate in this way.

4. If you are opening an email, you should have at least two not one, for good reason.

I forgot my password for my private email it took three months for me to recover.

I forgot the 'the pet phrase' and the document that I wrote them was misplaced.
After three months, my memory recovered by accident and the pet phrase (now I have a pet phrase recovery method) was typed in to get back to the normal working order.

This was time I was migrating from Microsoft (dual booting) to Linux so my memory loss was not due to sickness but due to work overload and lack of sleep.

Trying to do too many things one at the  same time and wasting my time downloading Linux at night.

It was appallingly slow and University download was even worse and was restricted.
This was the time I had a university email and it was hacked by a guy who worked there for a while (temporary may be) and did some damage due probably to personal vendetta after leaving the university.

He took the password and the email password document of a particular faculty with him.
This was the time of mistrust and terrorism in its peak and with the most bizarre password (it was stolen) of all, I had was stolen.

The password was file was stored in a Microsoft Server which was available for the hacker/s.

So my conviction to go for Linux for the sake of Security was of paramount importance and the university was slow to adapt to Linux.

I never used university portals for my work and developed my own little private network which is practically dismantled to save my electricity bill NOW.

My daughter's Microsoft computer at home with
wireless connectivity was hacked most probably by a guy in the Engineering Faculty but never ventured to capture the culprit / guy but changed my tactics to be secure.

Coming back, if you forget your password, the easiest way is to give the service provider the alternative email so that they send an instant email for you to have a new password.
This simple technique was not there 15 years ago.

5. The use of alternative email gives you flexibility.

6. I have many emails and one email is for money transactions only and I do not give it to anybody.

7. Another is to keep track with my batch mates and I always get the sad news of demise of another guy with serious illness.

8. Another one for all the academic / magazine articles.

9. The email what I regularly use is called the Junk Email. So anybody who sends an email to it is considered a JUNK MAN / WOMAN.

10. My biggest problem is when I kick the bucket who will be responsible for them.

I have already forwarded them to Apaya Director to take appropriate action since I will be in Apaya as a guest speaker since I have done nothing to stop the Sri-Lankan National / International criminals who go scot free from all their crimes and his / her / their balance of crimes have been credited to my account by accident.

I need to clean my balance sheet at Apaya before I think of my next birth.

Not Sri-Lanka again by default.

I am tired living with criminals, including Cyber criminals.

Managing Passwords

 Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Managing Passwords
 

I think Ubuntu One and few others give concern for good password management.
Naming others would be improper since they are not Open Source based.

What goes behind them and whether they share them with the NSA or a corrupt regimes is open for debate. I have personnel reason to believe they do and my own experience with institutions specially corrupt or vested interests, is on the affirmative.

They are hell bent to breach any privacy one may have.
The reason being that they do not want to be exposed of their sordid acts.
They are paranoid and it is a disease.

Fact that this blog post exists is due to the interference with my blog post elsewhere and a site that lacked good security protocol.

They were dysfunctional over more than a year and I do not use the site anymore.
My writings were very docile innocent and not politically involved.
They were bit humorous and the basic ingredients were satire.

Unfortunately for me, out of the top ten, my writings (I was involved in initial setup) filled the top eight and the administrator got paranoid and blocked my name.
I still continued to write (very little traffic) in spite of noticing the administrators handiwork, since my idea was not to reach the top ten.
They used my birthday as a discriminator. 

This institute is now defunct not due to my influence.

 
Who says there is no discrimination in web hosting and social media.
But my writings were there for anybody to read in spite of blocking the rating.
I have collated them and recently deleted 75% of the original writings from that site.
Some of them are now in digital output for posterity, in a book form.

This preamble is necessary since when one opens one’s heart and not the mind in the web, one has to be prepared for insults and discrimination.
Sadly now governments and secret agencies are doing things that one would not suspect 30 years ago.
Technocrats and not the real hard working guys who fill these posts and operating from air conditioned cubicles and are scared to be on the beat and foot.
 
Invariably paranoia develops.

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

How does one have a good password?
 
How one can remember a password with 14 to 16 characters (what banks employ now for an account, with the help of computers)?

To begin with one has to train the brain to remember.
I have a suggestion elsewhere (under web etiquette) that  I do not want to repeat here.

Beginning,

Step 1
One has to remember in blocks of three or four.
To train your mind try to remember your VISA card number.
Front four are almost specific and easy.
The last four should be your next attempt.
Do this every time when you go to the bank or to the till.
Do not worry if you forget.
When you can remember the first and the last lot of four numbers, try the other two lot not in specific way.
Suddenly part of the brain not utilized before get a rush of blood and new neurone networks.
Person with any age with firm resolve can do that.
This subconscious repetitive acts can be easily extended to one's password.

I used to remember all the telephone numbers of my friends by heart in good old days and friends are the ones, one frequently ring and (telephone charges were relatively expensive, then) the brain stores them for good.
 
I stop doing that when cell phones came into existence.
 
One has to have one’s own trick for remembering blocks of three or four.

Try to associate them with pictures, names, pets etc.
 
Your pet fish or dog or cat would have a secret code attached.
Every time you feed them repeat the code (in mind) mentally in no time it get fixed as a long term permanent memory.

Step 2
 
Come with a phrase to include all the 10 to 16 characters in one’s password.
This is the hard part but it can be done.

Step 3
Use elements that one never forgets (unless one has Dementia).
Birthday is an easy one to remember.
 
Use only two numbers from it, not all.

Step 4
Unfortunately this cannot be used if one is English but I will give some hint for them too.
For Sinhala U Mata Banna, or Muta Mata Gahanna Hithenawa or Even Puke Ariya are good enough relatively used rephrases one can remember in trans-literate content, which the English Search engine might have trouble in figuring out.
From that phrase  one can choose four characters (even more if the phrase is carefully constructed) easily.
For English user, one good example is to go to alchemy and remember few Elements from the Tables.
Elements like Argon, Neon, Nitrogen,Bromine could be used at lib.
Or even one can use pentagon, hexagon, octagon or any other scientific or mathematical elements.
 
Again one only remembers four characters.

Step 5
If one has ever used a password before which one has remembered with repeated usage, use the same in the middle or rearrange it and put it in the middle.
 
Which will easily give you at least six characters.

You already got 12 characters now.
 
Use two capital letters easy to access from the keyboard as the leader or the end of the password or leader and end, depending one is right or left handed.

Step 6.
If the web site requires you to use an alphanumeric pick an alpha numeral to satisfy them.
You got 16 in all and 14 probably is adequate.

Step 7
Do not tell your method to anybody.
Do not share your password even with your spouse.
One day you me be divorced!
That is real and if you have time read my book on “Myths, Miracles and Marriage”.
Usually perfectly normal people become paranoid after getting married.
That is my medical experience.
It is often the people who are near and dear (sometimes, so called friends) who steal your password, not a rouge who breaks in for quick takeaway and getaway.

Keep the record of the method in a secret hiding place that you only have access.
In case one day you forget.
The best place to Hide is your brain.
Not even a brain surgeon would have any access.



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

Unless you are one of twins there are no two people alike.
Even in them their are subtle differences not due to genetics but the brain behaves differently, even in twins.

Foot Note
But beware your doctor with a short memory or who is cash strapped who might steal your birth day or the catch phrase that you utter to him every time you visit.
Remember doctors forget their passwords more often than their patients.
They will never tell you.
That is why they record every word you utter and then get the vital diagnosis
wrong.
In this computer age doctors have become robots (unlike good old days) and not real humans.
If they ask you do you forget your passwords
Straight away say NO.

The stupid guy will ask you to state the password and put it in his computer memory which is not protected from hackers.
Even the nurse can steal it, if she/he is inclined.

I trust my doctor does not apply to passwords when you do visit him/her, next time, round.
That includes me too.
I might do that, catch your password, certainly not to steal but because my brain is getting absent minded I might put that in my computer, easily accessed even by a little kid.
Do not worry, I do not practice now by choice not by design anyway.
You are safe with me, my dear.

Hackers, Holidays, Homing Folder and Homing In

January 22nd 2018 / 22-01-2018

Hackers, Holidays, Homing Folder and Homing In

Definitions

Hacker (term), a contentious term used in computing for several types of persons

C1. Hacker (computer security) or cracker, who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system

C2. Hacker (hobbyist), who makes innovative customization's or combinations of retail electronic and computer equipment

C3. Hacker (programmer subculture), who shares an anti-authoritarian approach to software development now associated with the free software movement

Hackers and Holidays
I refer to the category C1 in here since this is the holiday time and all the developers with FOSS mentality are holidaying and enjoying the Christmas, the shady guys become active by default during holidays.

I won’t go into detail of how to manage your security which has to be the responsibility of the individual.

If one leave the back door open, thieves will walk in.

You have two back doors unlike in a house.

1.The biggest of it is YOUR EMAIL with a loose password.

2. Unsuspecting back door is Your Browser with cookies to spy on your likes and dislikes

3. The deadliest is the combination of the two thieves.

YOU sign in and forget to sign off.

The second thief, the browser keeps a memory of your log in and often the encrypted password.

The best security I advise is not to have an email and not to browse the WEB but take a nice story book of your liking or get  your Amazon’s Kindle or Noble eBook and read during the holidays.

If you cannot resist both of the above vices, I have a few tricks up my sleeve for you, with the hacker’s mentality in me ignited.

Have two browsers or may be three with Amazons silk included.

Go for a light weight browser, Midori,  Ice Weasel type for your simple activities.

Then have any Gorilla Type of browser with your liking.

Then you have to do your own hacking.

Go to the properties and take all the cookies out or decommission them for good.

I have tried all the other methods but this the best remedy, I have found for the holidays.

I of course do a full format by the end of December of in January.

With so many Linux distribution in store already downloaded, I have to toss a coin and select the first five.

If you are PARANOID (It is a disease many of us, especially westerners have when they come here on holidays and do not recognize as it is and become non-human) what one has do is to download a live Linux CD with TOR (to RAM) in it and use it at lib.

There are many including Pollipix.

If you are in a country with a dictator running the day to day affairs these are an added security.

Do not PLEASE use the D.O.D's L.P.S (Light Portable Linux) even by accident an it is only for Russian Secret Service KGB developed by American CIA .

This distribution is worse than your email and the Gorilla browser and it sends all your transactions to a web-eavesdropper without your knowledge.

HOME FOLDER
This is where all your junk is.
What you do with your junk is your own pejorative.

Best defense mechanism is to not to have a home or home folder but become a vagrant or a vagabond.

Homing In

Switch off the computer.
Go to the up market.
By some wine, beer, cookies, chocolates, music CD (NO VIDEO PLEASE) and anything else you may think that Santa Claus won’t bring for YOU and
Home In and enjoy with your dear ones.

Unfortunately the holiday won’t last long, so make best use of it now.

For me because of our industrial action, this is the shortest holiday we have had for a long time, I can remember.

I made another mistake beginning of this year.

That is to blog a piece a day which I kept till now except one day.

I am glad I missed one in the very beginning so that I got out of the regimented or the religious enthusiasm.

Both are bad for your health and the sense of humour.

I am hoping to dream a lot and I will be back with some dreams (only if I dream some good ones).

Till then Good Bye and special thanks to Linux Guys/Girls who made 20th birthday of Linux in September a happy occasion for me to write few books on Linux, too.
In its 21st birthday, the KILLER organization called Cloud Computing will emerge and only UBUNTU is ready with this challenge.

Special thanks to Ubuntu for Ubuntu One and UNITY desktop.

I am waiting to buy a Tablet but this is the only godforsaken (Ceylon) country where they try to open private universities but have not allowed (unofficial ban) Amazon wireless service for me to read a Kindle (not even my books in Kindle) Fire this Christmas when I am bored with our Media (both private and government).

Reason for this unofficial ban of Amazon probably is due to the Education Department won’t be able to donate the books (20 years outdated-some of them especially IT and Science) they published with religious vigor to unsuspecting students.

Debian on a USB Stick

Thursday, September 26, 2019
Debian on a USB Stick

Making a Bootable USB stick (USB 2) with Debian 9.8.0 is humanly impossible.
1. I tried it with the latest DVD (First out of the 3 DVDs).
2. It has enormous amount of packages and does not fit in with a 16 GB stick.
3. Writing took nearly four (4) hours and aborted with failure to install software.
4. I tired to (thinking that it might help to recover).
It did not (probably no space left) write a Grub file.
5. I could mount Debian on a USB 3 64 GB stick (no installing) with MultiSystem Software.
6. I tried UnetBootIn and failed.
7. Now Linux does not support writing a Grub file on a USB stick.
My advice is to use SSD external drives.
I have several and discarding all Old USB sticks.
Alternative is to try other Linux distributions on USB sticks.
AVLinux supports booting from a USB stick.
I do not know whether Peppermint, ElementaryOS or PinguyOS support USB booting.

It is time to say Good Bye to USB 2 sticks, except for data writing.
I am not sure one needs a swap partition for SSDs but all the same reserved some space for swap.
SSD does not support Master Boot Record and one cannot install a second Linux distribution.
I have Debian on my Mater SSD but I reserved  J.F.S partition for a second distribution. It is unusable.
New technology does not support Old very but productive methodology.
My old turntable drives with terabyte capacity have three or four distributions installed with over 500 GB left for my data (films, photos, books and record of my Document Files).
One does not need cloud to store data, especially if your Internet connection and supply is pretty slow.
It is true in my case and I work only past midnight.

The technicalities behind it are tricky, but MBR is constrained by the capacity and limited number of its sectors—only 32 bits are available to represent logical sectors. You can find out more on Microsoft’s TechNet blog, but it means that MBR can only use up to 2TB of storage space. Anything larger than that, and the extra disk space is marked as unallocated and unusable.
 

GPT allows for 64 bits, which means that the storage limitation is 9.4ZB. That’s a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes. In practice, what it really means is that GPT has no real-world limit. You can buy any capacity drive and GPT will be able to use all of the space.
In short: MBR can support up to 2TB; GPT handles up to 9.4ZB.

King Asoka

King Asoka

Chandragupta was the father Bimbisara.

He established the North Indian Territory.

Bimbisara

Three sons of different mothers

Eldest Susima

Youngest Tusia

Asoka was the second. 

He was a warrior from young age.

Captured Taxila.

Later Udeni

He fought his brothers and became the King.

Married Devi from the Maurian clan who was Buddhist.

Chakravathi or Kings of Kings was the model then.

Kalinga was a brutal battle.

Instead of being victorious he repented on the carnage that ensued.

The horror and remose made him to change for ever. Educated and very sensitive Asoka sworn not to bear arms again.

Conquer the world through Dhamma was his ultimate message to the world.

He studied Buddhism.

His guru was Bhikku Gupta.

He was accepted to the the Sasana.

He erected Edits all over India.

Law and Order was his message to the people not dictatorial control.

Right not Might was his Goal.

He was pious but was a forceful emperor.

Benevolence to all living beings was his mantra. Sacrifice of animals for food was his name.

Third Buddhist Council was held in Pataliputra.

He sent missions to all over the world including Greece. The name Yona is Greek word for Buddhist converts.

Asoka

Mahinda

Singamitta 

Monks Sona and Uttara were sent by King Asoka from Magada to ? Thailand.

Thai people were originally from China. They move out due to oppression by Chinese Huang King.

They finally reached Thailand.

Thai means to be FREE.

Buddhism came in 1500 after Buddha.

Swarnabhmi

?Cambodia 

?Myanmar 

?Laos

?Thailand

King Kaniska

Mahayana Buddhism reached Sumatra.

But most likely Buddhism reached Thailand from Ceylon.

Therrvara Buddhism was established by Buddhist monks from Ceylon.

Upali and Ariyamuni Theras of Thailand reestablished Buddhist Sangha, Siyam Nikaya in Ceylon in 1753.during King Keerthi Sri Rajasingha. Then, the Buddhism in Ceylon had declined without any Upasampada Bhikkus.

In Thailand King has to be  Buddhist.

Last hereditary King became a dictator and was ousted by a military commander.

The current Kingship was created by this military commander who was devout Buddhist.

Thai people are very disciplined and respect their military. The military never allowed foreign conquer for many centuries.

Thai follow strict Theravada Buddhism.

Rebirth and Dhamma by Bhikku Bodhi

Even though, I have extracted this from Bhikku Bodhi's talk, I have added my own subtle insinuations.

Hence, I am responsible (not Bhikku Bodhi) for this piece and of any inconsistencies contained within.

 

There positions regarding Destiny after Death

1. Materialistic view is  that at Death material form and mind disintegrate leaving behind elements. This view deny existence of life after death or Rebirth.

2. The second belief is that there is one human life here and after death, one is born in either heaven or hell.

3. The third is the belief in Rebirth.

There is a chain of births before and after.

In Hinduism the belief is there is a permanent Soul that transmigrate from one to the other. 

The simile is that the Soul like casting one set of clothes after another, cast one body and get holds with another body.

The Soul remains intact.

In Buddhist teaching is fundamentally different to the Hindu View.

There is chain of events from one birth to the other. There is continuity.

There is Repeated Becoming or repeated existence of life forms. There is however a continuity from one Bhave to the next Bhava.

There is causal link but there is no transmigration of soul form one life to the other. 

This thinking leads to a paradox.

If there is no entity called Soul how one moves from one life to the other.

There are five factors.

One factor is the body formed of five senses.

There other is the four Mental Formations.

These two are intimately bound together and behaves like a single entity.

This is explained by the two currents of existence.

One is the existence of the body form.

Body is not a static entity. It goes through life of being born, childhood, adulthood, disease, disability and death.

Other is the mind form.

The mind is not an entity which is static. Like a stream it moves from one mind object to another mind object. Unlike the body it is fast and very fluid. This rapid transition of thought moments make us to believe that it as a substantial entity or self or soul. 

There is no ego entity.

But this perception is considered wrong but instead it should be viewed as 4 rapidly occurring mental events.

1. Feelings (contact with object of perception)                     Vedana

2. Perception                  Sanna

3. Mental Formations    Sankara 

4. Consciousness          Vinnana 

Better term I use is "Awareness" of the moment to moment change, instead of Consciousness.

Citta and Cetasika

The complication in Abhidhamma is the Cetasikas. 

There are 52 Cetasikas. Any open enquirer gets bog down in this scenario.

Citta is translated as thought and supposed to be having 7 Cetasikas, two of them are Vedana and Sanna.

Vedana and Sannna are taken as separate components while other Cetasikas are described in relationship to Kamma (Kusal or Akusal good or bad) or the effect on the bearer.

Passsa                Contact

Cetana                Volition 

Ekaggata.           One pointedness 

Jivathindriya      Mental Life

Manisikara          Attention 

Yoniso Manisikara means proper attention

Vicaya means Investigation, it often used with Dhamma Vicaya.

Vichara means deliberation.

I hate the word subconscious.

Even in sleep mode the mind is very active not at rest as implied in the word subconscious.

These four aggregates arise, persists for a brief period and vanishes without leaving behind any trace.

Uppada arising

Chitti persisting for brief moment 

Banga vanishing

Collectively it called Chittha.

When one Chittha breaks down another Chittha begins in rapid succession.

It is called Chittha Santana.

Because of the continuity of the Chittha Stream we grab hold it as one entity, self, or ego but there is no substantial entity as such. It is an illusion of some sort but this firm bondage to the Mental Formations is the energy that drives us to through Sansara.

At death the Chittha cannot sustain and death consciousness (Chuthi Chittha) moves to another life form instantaneously as the Rebirth Consciousness (Patisanshi Chittha).

It is a process and it is called Rebirth in Buddhism.

This Patisanshi Chittha carries all the experiences of the life just ceased and all the impressions of past lives before that as a continuum. 

Therefore, all the good and bad Kamma of the life continuum is inherited by his or her owner.

Stream of consciousness is not a single entity but a continuous process.

Rebirth is like flame of a candle just wanig off at the bottom of a candle lighting another candle. Flame or the light passes from one candal to another. Life stream or consciousness passes leaving behind the dead body.

No Cha So Nacha ancho.

Not the same but not so different.

That is the essence of Buddhist Teaching.

Hypnotist with a Strong Man

Posted on June 5, 2011
Hypnotist with a Strong Man

 
This is just to illustrate even a Hypnotist cannot down a strong man.

But a weak man with legs across the aisle can down a top actor / hypnotist down to the level of concussion.
He was not mindful of himself and how could a man like him help others to be mindful?
That is my opening question.

But to make Micky out of all hypnotists, below is a true story acted by none other than 1st year Medical Students of the yesteryear.
Today’s students would take a leaf out of this story, who go for some bizarre training, without critical thinking.

My friend who succumbed to this indignation  is now in Australia in full retirement, if he sees these few lines of recollection, hope he gives me permission to bare the facts but the name withheld by consensus.

He was a dignified soul in our batch and was not in our halls of residence.

He was our batch representative popularly elected without a challenge.

I was the go between in the plot with diplomatic astute to convince the guy that one of our batch mates could hypnotize anybody with a strong mind.

We practice this in our halls of residence when everybody else is  in sleep and the time was well past midnight.
Suffice to say most of the strong guys in our hall of residence went through this ordeal.

On the day we prepared a room (not mine) for our show.

One of us went and pulled the main plug supplying electricity when the go signal was given.

Slowly but surely show went on.

We were dressed in trousers to begin with unlike today and one by one we changed to sarongs surreptitiously and our strong man was in a corner with hands clasped in the warship mode.
Since this was the last show of hypnotism we took unusually a long time with lot of blah blah form the performer.

Then the final signal was given to switch on the electricity.

He was not happy at all even though the performer could not hypnotize him.

Why?

He had being worshiping our backside (sarong raised up) for nearly half an hour in the darkness and he realized only when we switched on the lights.

(We all had raised our sarong showing our back to him and he was not at all pleased).

He controlled his anger in good stead and we promised him that we will never tell the story to our female medical students and told him he was not the only one who went through this ordeal.

In other words he was baptized in the real world like Japanese karate men who never take the eye off from the focus of attention.

My apology above is if any of my female batch mates sees this now will guess who the guy was but he was not the only guy who was baptized (not hypnotized).

So anybody who closes one’s eye for the wish of any gullible performer would go through this indignation by his or her will.

I wish I could perform this to some of our TV showmen / women and politicians in power who are blinded with ego.

I hope the hypnotist who was the Fall Guy and not mindful to his own steps got the message wide / wild and clear and not to be a SHOWMAN to poor souls with weak minds.

WordPress Update is Pleasant

Yes, after very long lapse I revisited www.wordpress.com and posted a few posts.

I named it Dhamma.

It was a pleasant experience.

Having got used Google blog post, it was bit of a hassle but with trial error got it right.

It allows photos to be posted with the titles and I liked it very much.

Getting the photos from Google Photos took a little time but it was worth the trouble.

Criteria of Eligibility for AI in Heaven

 

 
Posted on January 10, 2011 

Criteria of Eligibility for AI in Heaven

I have to giving to the popular requests form most of my friends to disclose the criteria for the equation development without sacrificing the principles underlying the company A.I.(Ltd) now renamed as Artificial Intelligence without which one cannot communicate with the Hell or Heaven.

1. Longer one lives more one accumulates corrupt practices and less points (inversely proportionate) or merits one gets to go to heaven
 

2. Longer one lives more waste one produce to pollute the mother earth
 

3. More power one has more corrupt one becomes
 

4. More descendants one procreates more corrupt one gets
 

5. Longer one lives more aberrant one’s thinking becomes leading up to dementia of power and corruption
 

6. More artificial means one uses to prolong life (bypass, kidney transplant, lung and heart transplant).
In this context one who donates the kidney gets more merits and one who lives with the kidney gets more demerits (disproportionate since cumulative action).

7. This is the example I used to explain the 3 Cs Cumulative, Culmination of Carma (if one uses C gets more Karma since he is destroying a prominent language called English and if one K for karma he gets less so calculation are very subtle in nature in the final equation.

8. Similarly if one uses Sinhala instead of Pali terminology he gets more karma since Sinhala is the language that destroyed Pali in the first instance. English is taken as a neutral language because of its general use and corruption by many nations and now especially by Sri-Lankans

9. Most difficult part is finding correct terminology in Pali to be used in the equation since Buddha was very clever not to leave any obvious clues in all the Thripitakas (Canons) for me to get hold. 

Therefore I have to use English which both the Deva and Yakkus and Yamakas have agreed upon ( mind you Buddha visited to allay any misgivings in his time).

This much is enough for one to understand the nature of the calculation if not mathematics. If I reveal anymore even an average MP would be able to calculate his merits and demerits when he or she decides to exit from this planet.

10. The laptop they carry can convert the equation instantaneously to final outcome in decimals and nanoseconds without using their brains and any more revealing is very detrimental to my living and long life.

Debian on a USB Stick

Thursday, September 26, 2019
Debian on a USB Stick

Making a Bootable USB stick (USB 2) with Debian 9.8.0 is humanly impossible.
1. I tried it with the latest DVD (First out of the 3 DVDs).
2. It has enormous amount of packages and does not fit in with a 16 GB stick.
3. Writing took nearly four (4) hours and aborted with failure to install software.
4. I tired (thinking that it might help to recover).
It did not (probably no space left) write a Grub file.
5. I could mount Debian on a USB 64 GB stick (no installing) with MultiSystem Software. MultiSystem is a Ubuntu based utility that makes bootable USB.
6. I tried UnetBootIn and failed.
7. Linux does not support writing a Grub file on a USB stick.
My advice is to use S.S.D external drives.
I have several and discarding all OLD USB sticks.
Alternative is to try other Linux distributions on USB sticks.

AVLinux supports booting from a USB stick.
I do not know whether Peppermint, ElementaryOs or PinguyOS support USB booting.

It is time to say Good Bye to USB sticks, except for data writing.
I am not sure one needs a swap partition for S.S.Ds but all the same reserve some space for swap.
S.S.D does not support Master Boot record and one cannot install a second Linux distribution.
I have Debian on my Mater SSD but the reserved (for a second distribution) J.F.S. partition is unusable.
New technology does not support OLD but very productive methodology.
My old turntable drives with terabyte capacity have three or four distributions installed with over 500 GB left for my data (films, photos, books and record of my Document Files).
One does not need cloud to store data, especially if your Internet connection and data transfer is pretty slow.
It is true in my case and I work only past midnight.

The technicalities behind it are tricky, but MBR is constrained by the capacity and limited number of its sectors—only 32 bits are available to represent logical sectors. You can find out more on Microsoft’s TechNet blog, but it means that MBR can only use up to 2TB of storage space. 

Anything larger than that, and the extra disk space is marked as unallocated and unusable.

GPT allows for 64 bits, which means that the storage limitation is 9.4ZB. 

 

That’s a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes. 

In practice, what it really means is that GPT has no real-world limit. 

You can buy any capacity drive and GPT will be able to use all of the space.

In short: MBR can support up to 2TB.

 

GPT handles up to 9.4ZB.

Bacterial Logic and Forensic Toxicology

 Bacterial Logic and Forensic Toxicology
 
This is a convoluted piece only a forensic guy will understand.

Neither Ranil the current Raja nor the  Ex Raja would understand the logic, literally or metaphorically.

This has nothing to do with current starvation strategy of the government to save money to pay the salary of 225 MPs and their dependents.

Arguments goes like this why we have one bowel motion a day.

Of course some have three purges a day called "Ka Hatiye Bada Yama" and I have not understood the scientific bacterial logic of 3 motions a day.

Somebody else should do a PhD on that topic.

It is our own Lamabadusuriya who did a PhD on ion channels and the need for glucose not sucrose in rehydration fluid apart from Sodium and Potassium (me adding vitamins in 1973 as an intern some of my Sinhala colleagues thought, I had gone mad).

Sodium, Potassium and rehydration fluid which WHO borrowed from US was out of the Formulary Committee headed by Professor Senaka Bible.

I have a single copy of Formulary Notes and the list of other names in 1968, I will post it here, on a later date, with some of their  volatile statements, that I can remember.

By the way, 1968 is the year we entered the university 54 years ago.

Out 55th anniversary is next year by that time, I hope Anthony Fausi CDC chairman is ousted after a formal inquiry of mishandling of China and his outreaches of money swindlers in pharmaceutical companies world wide, including in UK.

Coming back to my original preposition why one motion (not one nation) a day and the corollary one meal a day.

It goes like this.

1. 60 % of our faeces is bacteria.

2. They are vital for us including providing B vitamins and  K vitamin.

3. If you flush them fully we succumb to loss of 60% of the cell load of the body.

An amazing biological factory.

Mind you they are so tiny the mass contribution in weight is so tiny like Tiny Linux (4 to 8 MB in memory here) but in numerical numbers they outnumber the current human population.

So if you count the number of bowel bacteria in Chinese population, ordinary binary computer will crack in a few seconds.

We need a quantum computer to count the number of Chinese bacteria (I stop counting their viruses).

4. They are called friendly bacteria.
I have a book on that topic.

5. Giving antibiotics to kill about 40 types of pathological bacteria is not logical.

6. Invariably leads to drug resistant pathological bacteria.

7. That is the survival strategy irrespective of that the bacteria are commensals or pathogenic.

8. These bacteria divide once in 24 hour cycles is my belief.

So one has to empty one bacterial load once in 24 hours.

They divide in 20 minute cycles.

9. More importantly in their sugar  metabolism they produce water and carbon dioxide.

10. Carbon dioxide make a big noise like politicians and is called political farts.

11. The water that is essential is reabsorbed even during periods of starvation.

It is called the water of metabolism.

Lower colon is the only place where water is absorbed in the body, solely by ion channels.

What a vital organ and we die in 3 days without water.

12. So using this biological hole for homosexuality is forbidden by 60% of the bacterial occupants whose downright biological residence.

13. That is why I hate homosexuals, like the Russians and Putin Do.

14. Current democrats are all homos and that is why the economic meltdown.

15. Please save bacteria and our Ar,. Ses.

Elive Linux

  16-09-2018

My Dear Friends
 

I am glad to inform you that Elive has sent me an email saying I could download the version 3 which is 32 and 64 bits. Old one I have in my possion is 32 bit.

I think it is important to crowd fund this project.

If not, it will disappaer.

Linux is stil hoveing aroung 5% in the PC market and most of these guys are compente Linux users.

I am a Debian Gnome GUY who is promting Arch derivatives.

In fact, I insalled Manjaro little over 24 hours ago in my NUC and it is fanfastic.

I Installed ELive in Spare NUC I have and it made a hash of the GRUB and it did not boot.

I finally reformatted and installed Debian 21.9.0 and Parrot OS .

MX Linux remained OK. 

All are now booting fine.

A simple Comment by a trapped Linux user

Got to say I really wanted to like this one, but after repeated trials I came to the conclusion that Ellive fails in its announced primary mission - revitalizing older computers.

I'll give Elive this - it brings on the bling, sort of a Barbie meets Liniux look and feel. The trouble is in the stability. I get browsers are an issue on old hardware, graphic cards and CPUs are pressed but many distros running on old computers manage with out constant freezes, but not Elive. And it would be somewhat forgivable if the freezing was just associated with browsers, but freezing simply permeates Elive.

Given the website for Elive reminds me of what Ron Popeil might have created if he developed a Linix distro, I expected more. Popeil's products worked as advertised, Elive does not.

And then there is the onerous process to try Elive for free, truly someone thinks much of themselves.

Elive


Web site: elivecd.org
Origin: Belgium
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment:
Architecture: x86
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia:
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: active
Zobacz po polsku Zobacz po polsku: Elive

Elive (Enlightenment live) – a lightweight, live GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian and featuring the Enlightenment window manager.
The distribution can be used as a live CD/USB using separated live images or can be installed on a hard drive. Up to version 2.0 “Topaz”, Elive was available as a free live iso image, but installation module had to be bought.

Administration of Elive can be managed via its custom application called ‘Elpanel’, which was developed especially for Elive.
New packages and updates can be managed via Synaptic Package Manager and the text based APT tool.

Elive was under development between 2005 and 2010, when the project has been dropped.
The first two versions of Elive 0.1 and 0.2 were based on Knoppix.
The 3rd one was changed to Morphix as its base system.
Starting from Elive 0.4, the system has been moved to Debian.
The last stable version of Elive 2.0 was released in March 2010.

After 3 years of break, the developers started the project again.
The current version 2.6.x is still in beta stage.

Elive is available for i386 CPU based (or newer) machines. 

Attached is a comment about Elive Linux.
 

Just go to its home page and download by torrent.

It has two Isos one for Live and for Install and another for USB booting.

Making a bootable USB was a bit of a hassle but worth tying (8-GiB stick is necessary) a persistent volume.

 

It has beautiful desktop effects.
 

It is basically meant for installation BUT not for live sessions.

Elive Linux

Elive is a non-commercial, cost-free operating system made for the daily use,    a much faster, friendlier, and feature-rich replacement of your high cost and low effective default system.

Turn your old equipment, up to 15 years old into a high performance machine with an interface that dazzles anyone who sees it. Customized to meet your needs while keeping it lightweight and beautiful using minimal hardware requirements.

In literally less than 2 minutes Elive runs without the need to install it , choose the language and the desired options to get the maximum performance, or just let Elive to select the best options for you.

Because the user experience is our priority, it provides a very intuitive experience where anybody can use it from the first time, using simple interfaces not saturated of options and with tons of automation.

Elive is a very stable and reliable system based in Debian that will work day after day without problems. The customized Enlightenment desktop is ultra-fast and perfectly stable, with no random errors or surprises.

It comes with a full suite of applications, whether for work or for pleasure. It offers everything from a complete Office suite, tools, games and multimedia. You can enjoy watching movies or making your own. Professional video edition, graphic designing, media center, or even recover files from formatted disks. Make 3D animations, edit and manipulate audio and image files in always the best quality.

Oriented for novice and advanced users which can find incredibly useful tools inside, for desktop usage, laptops, schools or enterprises.

Linux powers everything, from smartphones and TVs to Submarines.

Missing point below ISS spaceships are managed with Linux.

• Linux is the favorite operating-system of major tech giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay, PayPal, Walmart, and the list goes on and on..
• Linux controls the particle accelerator at CERN
• Most consumer electronics

• More than 80 percent of smartphones (via Android)
• 498 of the 500 fastest supercomputers of the world uses Linux (update: now all 500/500)
• Most global markets, including the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, the London Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange
• More than 75 percent of cloud-enabled enterprises
• 95 percent of the top 1 million domains

• Visual effects of Titanic and Avatar were developed in 3D applications on Linux
• The bullet trains in Japan use Linux to maintain and manage the sophisticated Automatic Train Control system.
• The In-Vehicle-Infotainment technology (IVI) inside Toyota and other automobiles use Linux platform.
• In 2002, Microsoft had accumulated a $ 421 million cost of fighting the spread of Linux,
• As of January 2010, Linux still only has a 1.02% market share within desktops. In 2018 is 1.46%

Expectations of Trump's Second Coming

Expectations of Trump's Second Coming

 

This piece is not comprehensive.

I am busy with 5 unrelated books.

I do not mean to say that President Donald Trump does not have good intentions. His intentions for America (I do not know about rest of the world) is genuine but his distractors are hell bent to prevent any meaningful realization of his efforts.

The distractors feel that if Donald Trump is successful for America they cannot come back to power to haunt us again.

I have decided not to write anything about Outgoing President Biden. 

Reason is simple.

Gives him credibility.

He was the Worst Democrat of American History.

Military Industrial Conglomerate had a "Free For All" under his regime.

Equally America is in Debt due to reckless spending on Ukraine.

 

Already million deaths on Ukraine side.

 

Their first goal is to project that loss to Russia.

Probable loss on Russian side is in tens of thousands, if we assume 1 to 10 ratio.

Huge loss for both sides.

I have no hope for President Trump to make headway, recover America or even gain momentum.

Reason 

The outgoing administration has put enough Road Blocks.

Basically financial constraints.

By the time, he clears the mess, his term would be over.

Let me start with Ukraine War.

1. Like what Angela Merkel did America needs  time to Regroup for a Conspiracy Scheme. 

They are very good at hatching a plot.

Time is the limiting factor.

2. Zelensky has siphoned majority of the money to his off shore roots.

He may be having his own plan to skim some more from President Trump.

I do not think President Trump is willing to spend on wars.

 

Zelensky is a crafty crook but Donald Trump is not.

 

Simple arrogance gets one nowhere, especially American Arrogance.

It is suicidal, to say the least.

3. American plan for Ukraine is in the hands of Elon Musk.

Trump wants to wash his hands off, for political reasons.

While on surface Trump may be showing no escalation but all the signs are that Elon Musk is saving money for a different military strategy.

Probably not in space.

If he tries that President Putin would have his own plan to smother all his satellites in space. 

Elon Musk burned his hands by helping Zelensky with information on Russian Troop movements in bulk during early stages of the war.

Due to Elon Musk's actions the cost for Russians was huge.

 

I was closely following this war of attrition.

I now believe War of Attrition won't work.

Russia has already realized it.

4. I do not want to postulate Elon Musk's plan right now but their intention is to recover the enormous amount of money spent on the election campaign.

Both of them a astute businessmen.

 

Their political brains are stymied because of their Greed for Money.

 

Money first War second attitude.

Both are not War Strategists.

5. My only advice to Russia is DO NOT believe in American Propagenda.

Go ahead and finish the job.

Ukraine soldiers are all but over and the NATO boots on the grounds of Ukraine is the reality.

Only difference is they wear Ukraine Uniforms.

Most of them are Stupid Polish.

Poland cannot sustain this. If they are finished (Polish guys), UK and France cannot sustain any long term pressure. They, UK especially, only have big mouths.

Germany with enormous economic pressure would crumble mainly on political grounds.

 

Americans busted the Russian gas pipe and they are already paying  3 times as much for American gas.

Russian plan is both political and military.

They are on full gear.

Russia should not take the foot off the paddle. My advice is to press it hard and accelerate.

Escalation is the name of the (War) Game. 

That would work wonders.

President Trump is still trying to get his Team Up.

Unlike in Russia the bureaucratic system in America is inherently slow when the regime changes.

Russia should take advantage of the Americas slowness to start with the new system.

6. The motto should be never to trust any American diplomat, military personnel or any white collar guy or girl from America.

 

Russia should bluff the West.

They work for money not for strategy.

That is their blind spot.

They do not have Diplomatic Wing to operate. That was ruined for over 30 years.

Shifty Shaft of Democrats is a good example. 

Steel (British guy) dossier or Trump impeachment was a classic example. 

Rebirth in Essence

Rebirth in Essence

 

This is extracted from our Walking Encyclopedia Indika Thotawatta.

Abhidhamma Explanation

Kamma Nimitta

Depends on the Individual

Buddha and Arhants, no remaining Kamma, so no Rebirth

Ananthariya Kamma one with invariably resulting Kamma, such like hurting Buddha by Devadhatta would result in almost unrecoverable bad result or Kamma effect.

Others fall in between have many degrees of Janaka Kamma that may result in higher (Devas) to the lower (animal kingdom) to the humans.

Human birth is very rare.

Gati Nimitta is the ability to foresee the impending birth in a momentary, flash like instance.

Janaka Kamma

Now the mind or the Vinnana having the speed far exceeding the speed of light, its expression in a moment to moment is unpredictable. 

 

It is far better to forget about the time frame in human reference which is a human construction of an arbitrary value (a kind of concept). 

In physics time is not a substantial entity of nature but is comparatively relative to the solar system one inhabits.

In a moment of time, many, many mind instances occur, as if it is in a high frequency flash light.

 

What it means is Chittha frequency is tremendously fast and one cannot hold onto any one instance since one fades into another, instantly. 

In Abhidhamma, (if my memory stands correct) it states in a moment , there are 17 to 18 (I am puzzled how it was calculated) thought moments exist. 

 

In my estimate it is a very arbitrary figure and it cannot be counted as such.

These thought moments have the Chethana base as a component and they are continuous and spontaneous and one cannot grab and hold onto one instance by will power.

In other words Rebirth is instantaneous and holder of the Kamma (unless one is an Arhant) has no control over the next birth.

The that sense the term Antharbhava is superfluous and has no meaning. 

 

I am stating it as a man with a good understanding of physics.

Chethnaham Bhikkuve Kammam Vadhami.

So the last Chethana or Kamma Nimitta (Nimitta means impending event that has not yet come to being) of this life would take us to the next birth instantaneously.

Chuti Cittha (ending of one life) gives way to to the Patisandhi Chittha of the immediately following life, a natural process. Gathi Nimittha is the momentary flash of seeing what is coming next and is not an event of any significance in Rebirth Phenomenon.

 

These Pali words unlike Sinhala or English have precise meanings.

So knowing Pali meaning is knowing the Dhamma in essence.

My Learning Curve of Debian 6 to Current 9.9.0

Saturday, May 4, 2019
My Learning Curve of Debian 5 to Current 9.9.0

Debian 13 is coming soon.

My Learning Curve of Debian 6 to Current 9.9.0 was not smooth but with lot of hiccups but it was worth all the same.

I am writing this while waiting for Debian to be installed on a laptop.
I erased the Windows for good (laptop) but it did not allow me to mount a Linux distributions.
 

The current UEFI of Microsoft was created to ban dual booting.

Sinister and a sadistic ploy and the ESP boot partition is filled with a batch of Microsoft Secretive BIG Virus Package.

Even Debian could not bypass this strategic ploy.

But I found a way.

It is Open Solaris in TrueOS that ruthlessly eliminated the ESP partition from ROOT to the RUMP of the partition table and let me use TrueOS. (TrueOS is defunct now)
It created TrueOS version of ESP partition to boot.

The TrueOS is for developers' item and I found a way to delete its TANK partition and install Debian.

Since TANK partition cannot be resized, I had to devise my own solution without coexisting with the TrueOS.
 

Coming back to my difficult experience with Debian in my early days, I migrated to Mandriva, to Redhat to Open Solaris and finally settled down with TestStar’s PCLinux (Fullmonty) for my work.
 

These were 32 bit power hungry old computers with low RAM.

Come 64 bits I changed to Peppermint (coming from UK is useless) and Debian.

I erased all my paid Window’s versions for good.

I now use Debian exclusively without any problem.

Even managed to make a USB stick for installation on a laptop.

When I have time I play with ElementaryOS, PinguyOS, PeppermintOS, Elive, Emmabantus and few more.
Since I now use Debian only I feel I should voluntarily retire from taking about other distributions from now onward.

Sorry guys and girls (developers) other than Debian.
Keep up the good work.
Thank YOU.