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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Forgiving and forgetting is it only a concept to be revisited?
Forgiving and forgetting is it only a concept to be revisited?
This is something I have picked up from New York Times.
This is something I have picked up from New York Times.
The article that came up as “Forgiveness “ has spawned a healthy discussion and a little internet forum. I have already circulated it around even though it has come 18 months too late for any usefulness to this country. But the point I want to emphasize is that different people have different threshold and the bitterness is truly embedded in ones Long Term memory. Forgetting is one form of escape I believe. But forgiving needs an active contribution.
We had tsunami how quickly we forgot and embarked on full time War.
Now the war is over and the healing has not yet even commenced but another political war started. Now that the political war is over we have commenced an international war of attrition.
It is going in endless cycles.
We are still in the box (I call it the Hate Box) and out of the box philosophy has not even considered as a viable option.
What I have done is to picked up few of the posts at random and reproduced it here to start a healthy discussion in this country. We are supposed to have three to four powerful religions of reconciliation. Are the followers ready?
I have also made a little comment below to show my ignorance and the apathy I myself had cultivated inside me.
Comment 1
True that Bishop Tutu in his Truth Tribunals showed us that reconciliation cannot occur without forgiveness; however, you did not include the most critical aspect of the reconciliation process. There was no reconciliation or forgiveness without full and complete confession on one's evil deeds to others. Those perpetrators who admitted their deeds, who accepted full responsibility for their actions, who atoned openly for their violence to others--only those--were given forgiveness and allowed reconciliation.
Of course we would want to lift the burden of victimization from ourselves, the seething and anger and wretched hatred we feel when another has betrayed, harmed, or abused us, and we would want to find a way to forgive in ways consistent with justice. As normal human beings, we do not want to be stifled or compromised by the pain of our hatred toward another. Yet, we cannot extend forgiveness this if the perpetrator does not even recognize the harm he or she has done. We cannot do this if the perpetrator takes perverse and continuing pleasure in the agony caused to us. We cannot forgive if the perpetrator gives no promise of never again causing such pain to others. All we can do is bargain within ourselves to release ourselves from the hold of the perpetrator. We can say to ourselves, "He has done this to me, and I have suffered. However, he will never have another moment of my life, and so I choose to let go and move on. I choose this for myself." And we do this for ourselves, not for the evil person. We do mindfully choose to let go of anger and rage in order to reclaim our own lives and our own power. We do this so that we can live fully again.
Comment II
I was born in Warsaw and have always thought of myself as Polish, although I was Jewish as well, certainly enough so, that at ten, as far as Hitler’s ethnic cleansing was concerned, I became marked for extinction. When the call came for my mother and I to move to the Ghetto, my non Jewish father said, never, and without my mother who was forced to hide we moved to another apartment where no one knew us. The time was early 1940 and I was 11. As yet, there were no walls around the ghetto and most people could not even fathom the idea that a nation which had produced a Goethe and Beethoven could engage in mass murder of children.
With typically German efficiency, following a perfidious plan, the walls went up, the people were caged and made ready to be exterminated like vermin. When the horrific truth finally became evident that the “civilized” world was going to allow it to happen, for most, with the exception of a few heroes who decided to fight, it was too late. After three years of torture they could not gather the energy to save themselves or perhaps, did not want to do it and face the “civilized” world which had betrayed them. Mein Kampf has been published in 1933 and in Germany alone 5.000.000 copies were sold. Hitler’s megalomania was never a secret. The “civilized” world knew and did nothing.
The memories of Holocaust and other mass murder crimes live deep within all of us but few of them compare to the mass murder of children as demonstrated by the mountain of baby shoes behind a glass at the Auschwitz museum. When I thought of the small feet of the children who perished I realized that it was not just one madman who needed forgiveness, it was the whole Civilized World which had betrayed them. It is to them to them I screamed.- How could you? You, who call yourself civilized? You Popes and others professing love each Sunday and You democratically elected Presidents and Judges. You shook your heads, did nothing and proverbially washed your hands. You are all to blame. Yes, you are worse than Hitler. You are all bad and I hate you. Can there be a more poignant proof of pervasive inhumanity in the civilized world. If that is civilization? I don’t want to be civilized.
My thoughts went suddenly to Africa and the 3 year old I saw on BBC the other day who was going blind because there is no water to wash his eyes and then, to the 5 year old little girl I saw working full time in a rug factory in the Middle East. I bought the rug she made and I know that everyday I waste enough water to wash a hundred little eyes in Egypt..
I fully expect to live to be 85 surrounded by my grandchildren because that is my current life expectancy. But, I also realize that if I was a woman in the Congo I would probably have died thirty years ago.
Of course that was just the beginning. How many children did the enormous atomic mushroom over Hiroshima killed and how old was the little boy on fire lit by napal in Vietnam? How many of the little faces of Tutsi children in a gigantic field of refugees fleeing for their life will ever have a chance to grow up? Those questions must be by now firmly implanted in the collective mind of “civilized” people, who like I have seen what I saw shook their heads, gathered their own children around themselves and then went on with their lives as usual.
Could it not however be possible that the millions of small souls who have chosen to die so visibly at the hands of others during the last century did it so that, the millions of others who will follow will have a chance to live and grow. Is not Mandela and his bloodless miracle in South Africa proof that it may be so, that humanity can forgive and win and that children need not die?
Yes, by forgiving Hitler and the “CIVILIZED WORLD” perhaps I can forgive myself.
And find peace. After all “ALL FORGIVENESS IS SELF FORGIVENESS”
Comment III
When I shared the events surrounding the recent loss of my dad at age 86 with a handful of close friends, and later with a group of acquaintances, many individuals told me that my experiences brought them some comfort and moved them to reconsider their own lives. If it is useful to you in any way that is an added blessing.
My dad was blessed with twenty-five years of inexplicable good health according to the account his cardiologist gave me three years ago. The doctor explained that most cardiac bypass procedures will add an average of only ten to fifteen years to the life expectancy of patients like my dad with poorly controlled hypertension and advanced cornorary artery disease before they become occluded again. Yet here was my dad still inexplicably driving around Tuscon and reading the Wall Street Journal.
But as his cardiologist was quick to note -- as inexplicable as all of this was -- the circumstances surrounding the success of his open heart surgery at the Tuscon VA Medical Center were even more improbable. My father had gone in for a routine cardiac catheterization that day. As the procedure progressed he became so stricken that a call went out over the PA system for any cardiac surgeon who was in the building.
Evidently it was not my father's time because the physician who caught the page was one of the world's leading heart surgeon who was in the building coincidentally. This did not prevent him from rushing to my father's bedside and scrubbing up. Once he had cracked my father's chest the situation was far graver than anyone could have anticipated.
The cardiologist explained to me that this physician was probably one of only handful of surgeon's with the requisite skill and determination to save my father's life at that time. My father was so gravely ill that this gifted surgeon had improvised a sextuple bypass procedure and totally re-routed the blood flow in my father's as he went along.
When I received a call from my mother that my father was gravely ill in the Cardiac Care Unit I had been so estranged from him since childhood that I had little emotional investment in his recovery. The psychological stakes were so low for me at that time that I had no desire to rush to his bedside for what may have been the last time.
Dad recovered with no emotional support from me -- his eldest daughter. What is even more telling is that if he was hurt or surprised we never spoke of it. His and my mother's lives were an ongoing stream of medical and psychiatric crises most of which I did respond to. After all I was a licensed highly trained healthcare professional myself.
In my late 30's I was finally diagnosed with full blown chronic post traumatic stress disorder due to neglect and severe physical abuse that I had suffered from my earliest childhood. Much of it at the hands of my father. The severity of these events had left me so incapacitated that I was removed from my home by the State at age 15 and required three years of protective custody from my parents to heal enough to pull my life together. The prognosis was poor but I surprised everyone by receiving a scholarship to an elite libral arts college where I went on to excel. I thought that was the end of it but now I found that like some golem these events had been called back to life.
Gradually in my forties and early fifties I took an increasing interest in my father's World War II experiences as a machine gunner in the Army Air Corps. I drove out to Van Nuys Airport to tour B-17's and the other planes that my father had flown in and speak with the Vets who were touring with the vintage planes. Then I read autobiographical accounts from army airmen in the European Theater on the Internet.
I realized that World War II had given my dad PTSD ( the VA had awarded him a ten percent disability for 'shell shock') and that my father had unwittingly passed the condition on to me - his beloved eldest daughter- and that I had the poor health and emotional scars to prove it.
At this point my war was over, I was able to see my father as the World War II hero he was for the first time. He enlisted at seventeen having never held a gun and wound up as a gunnery sergeant and expert marksman despite his original plan to avoid combat.
Soon my father (who had thrown out all of his combat memorabilia along with his medals and commendations) in accordance with his his feelings of shame around his eventual breakdown began to recount his experiences openly with me. We visited surviving members of his squadron and as he became a hero to me, my dad was able to reevaluate his life and see himself as a hero as well.
During the last two and a half years of his life he became for me the dearly beloved father that I had always wanted and is still my hero. I treasured every moment we were able to spend together. I explained to him the Catholic concept of grace as being an unearned divine blessing which described our situation quite accurately.
My philosophical quagmire!
It is nice to see how different individuals approach this common phenomenon in different ways. It is time we develop a technique to address this problem in a more detached way. I think it has to do with how we remember things good and bad. To add to this there is often a confusion whether to forgive or forget. I think it is more forgetting than forgiving. It is a defense reaction we all have.
We may even forget to forgive!
I say that saying sorry is qualitative (sometime quantitative-How often we say sorry but keep our anger within?). But sometimes we say sorry with little empathy (since the desired effect was achieved in the first place to annoy somebody). Having not to say sorry is Total Quality Empowerment ( Total Quality Management Principle utilized to full strength). We do not want to lose a customer, Don't we?.
We are still in the box (I call it the Hate Box) and out of the box philosophy has not even considered as a viable option.
What I have done is to picked up few of the posts at random and reproduced it here to start a healthy discussion in this country. We are supposed to have three to four powerful religions of reconciliation. Are the followers ready?
I have also made a little comment below to show my ignorance and the apathy I myself had cultivated inside me.
Comment 1
True that Bishop Tutu in his Truth Tribunals showed us that reconciliation cannot occur without forgiveness; however, you did not include the most critical aspect of the reconciliation process. There was no reconciliation or forgiveness without full and complete confession on one's evil deeds to others. Those perpetrators who admitted their deeds, who accepted full responsibility for their actions, who atoned openly for their violence to others--only those--were given forgiveness and allowed reconciliation.
Of course we would want to lift the burden of victimization from ourselves, the seething and anger and wretched hatred we feel when another has betrayed, harmed, or abused us, and we would want to find a way to forgive in ways consistent with justice. As normal human beings, we do not want to be stifled or compromised by the pain of our hatred toward another. Yet, we cannot extend forgiveness this if the perpetrator does not even recognize the harm he or she has done. We cannot do this if the perpetrator takes perverse and continuing pleasure in the agony caused to us. We cannot forgive if the perpetrator gives no promise of never again causing such pain to others. All we can do is bargain within ourselves to release ourselves from the hold of the perpetrator. We can say to ourselves, "He has done this to me, and I have suffered. However, he will never have another moment of my life, and so I choose to let go and move on. I choose this for myself." And we do this for ourselves, not for the evil person. We do mindfully choose to let go of anger and rage in order to reclaim our own lives and our own power. We do this so that we can live fully again.
Comment II
I was born in Warsaw and have always thought of myself as Polish, although I was Jewish as well, certainly enough so, that at ten, as far as Hitler’s ethnic cleansing was concerned, I became marked for extinction. When the call came for my mother and I to move to the Ghetto, my non Jewish father said, never, and without my mother who was forced to hide we moved to another apartment where no one knew us. The time was early 1940 and I was 11. As yet, there were no walls around the ghetto and most people could not even fathom the idea that a nation which had produced a Goethe and Beethoven could engage in mass murder of children.
With typically German efficiency, following a perfidious plan, the walls went up, the people were caged and made ready to be exterminated like vermin. When the horrific truth finally became evident that the “civilized” world was going to allow it to happen, for most, with the exception of a few heroes who decided to fight, it was too late. After three years of torture they could not gather the energy to save themselves or perhaps, did not want to do it and face the “civilized” world which had betrayed them. Mein Kampf has been published in 1933 and in Germany alone 5.000.000 copies were sold. Hitler’s megalomania was never a secret. The “civilized” world knew and did nothing.
The memories of Holocaust and other mass murder crimes live deep within all of us but few of them compare to the mass murder of children as demonstrated by the mountain of baby shoes behind a glass at the Auschwitz museum. When I thought of the small feet of the children who perished I realized that it was not just one madman who needed forgiveness, it was the whole Civilized World which had betrayed them. It is to them to them I screamed.- How could you? You, who call yourself civilized? You Popes and others professing love each Sunday and You democratically elected Presidents and Judges. You shook your heads, did nothing and proverbially washed your hands. You are all to blame. Yes, you are worse than Hitler. You are all bad and I hate you. Can there be a more poignant proof of pervasive inhumanity in the civilized world. If that is civilization? I don’t want to be civilized.
My thoughts went suddenly to Africa and the 3 year old I saw on BBC the other day who was going blind because there is no water to wash his eyes and then, to the 5 year old little girl I saw working full time in a rug factory in the Middle East. I bought the rug she made and I know that everyday I waste enough water to wash a hundred little eyes in Egypt..
I fully expect to live to be 85 surrounded by my grandchildren because that is my current life expectancy. But, I also realize that if I was a woman in the Congo I would probably have died thirty years ago.
Of course that was just the beginning. How many children did the enormous atomic mushroom over Hiroshima killed and how old was the little boy on fire lit by napal in Vietnam? How many of the little faces of Tutsi children in a gigantic field of refugees fleeing for their life will ever have a chance to grow up? Those questions must be by now firmly implanted in the collective mind of “civilized” people, who like I have seen what I saw shook their heads, gathered their own children around themselves and then went on with their lives as usual.
Could it not however be possible that the millions of small souls who have chosen to die so visibly at the hands of others during the last century did it so that, the millions of others who will follow will have a chance to live and grow. Is not Mandela and his bloodless miracle in South Africa proof that it may be so, that humanity can forgive and win and that children need not die?
Yes, by forgiving Hitler and the “CIVILIZED WORLD” perhaps I can forgive myself.
And find peace. After all “ALL FORGIVENESS IS SELF FORGIVENESS”
Comment III
When I shared the events surrounding the recent loss of my dad at age 86 with a handful of close friends, and later with a group of acquaintances, many individuals told me that my experiences brought them some comfort and moved them to reconsider their own lives. If it is useful to you in any way that is an added blessing.
My dad was blessed with twenty-five years of inexplicable good health according to the account his cardiologist gave me three years ago. The doctor explained that most cardiac bypass procedures will add an average of only ten to fifteen years to the life expectancy of patients like my dad with poorly controlled hypertension and advanced cornorary artery disease before they become occluded again. Yet here was my dad still inexplicably driving around Tuscon and reading the Wall Street Journal.
But as his cardiologist was quick to note -- as inexplicable as all of this was -- the circumstances surrounding the success of his open heart surgery at the Tuscon VA Medical Center were even more improbable. My father had gone in for a routine cardiac catheterization that day. As the procedure progressed he became so stricken that a call went out over the PA system for any cardiac surgeon who was in the building.
Evidently it was not my father's time because the physician who caught the page was one of the world's leading heart surgeon who was in the building coincidentally. This did not prevent him from rushing to my father's bedside and scrubbing up. Once he had cracked my father's chest the situation was far graver than anyone could have anticipated.
The cardiologist explained to me that this physician was probably one of only handful of surgeon's with the requisite skill and determination to save my father's life at that time. My father was so gravely ill that this gifted surgeon had improvised a sextuple bypass procedure and totally re-routed the blood flow in my father's as he went along.
When I received a call from my mother that my father was gravely ill in the Cardiac Care Unit I had been so estranged from him since childhood that I had little emotional investment in his recovery. The psychological stakes were so low for me at that time that I had no desire to rush to his bedside for what may have been the last time.
Dad recovered with no emotional support from me -- his eldest daughter. What is even more telling is that if he was hurt or surprised we never spoke of it. His and my mother's lives were an ongoing stream of medical and psychiatric crises most of which I did respond to. After all I was a licensed highly trained healthcare professional myself.
In my late 30's I was finally diagnosed with full blown chronic post traumatic stress disorder due to neglect and severe physical abuse that I had suffered from my earliest childhood. Much of it at the hands of my father. The severity of these events had left me so incapacitated that I was removed from my home by the State at age 15 and required three years of protective custody from my parents to heal enough to pull my life together. The prognosis was poor but I surprised everyone by receiving a scholarship to an elite libral arts college where I went on to excel. I thought that was the end of it but now I found that like some golem these events had been called back to life.
Gradually in my forties and early fifties I took an increasing interest in my father's World War II experiences as a machine gunner in the Army Air Corps. I drove out to Van Nuys Airport to tour B-17's and the other planes that my father had flown in and speak with the Vets who were touring with the vintage planes. Then I read autobiographical accounts from army airmen in the European Theater on the Internet.
I realized that World War II had given my dad PTSD ( the VA had awarded him a ten percent disability for 'shell shock') and that my father had unwittingly passed the condition on to me - his beloved eldest daughter- and that I had the poor health and emotional scars to prove it.
At this point my war was over, I was able to see my father as the World War II hero he was for the first time. He enlisted at seventeen having never held a gun and wound up as a gunnery sergeant and expert marksman despite his original plan to avoid combat.
Soon my father (who had thrown out all of his combat memorabilia along with his medals and commendations) in accordance with his his feelings of shame around his eventual breakdown began to recount his experiences openly with me. We visited surviving members of his squadron and as he became a hero to me, my dad was able to reevaluate his life and see himself as a hero as well.
During the last two and a half years of his life he became for me the dearly beloved father that I had always wanted and is still my hero. I treasured every moment we were able to spend together. I explained to him the Catholic concept of grace as being an unearned divine blessing which described our situation quite accurately.
My philosophical quagmire!
It is nice to see how different individuals approach this common phenomenon in different ways. It is time we develop a technique to address this problem in a more detached way. I think it has to do with how we remember things good and bad. To add to this there is often a confusion whether to forgive or forget. I think it is more forgetting than forgiving. It is a defense reaction we all have.
We may even forget to forgive!
I say that saying sorry is qualitative (sometime quantitative-How often we say sorry but keep our anger within?). But sometimes we say sorry with little empathy (since the desired effect was achieved in the first place to annoy somebody). Having not to say sorry is Total Quality Empowerment ( Total Quality Management Principle utilized to full strength). We do not want to lose a customer, Don't we?.
In that context both the rights of the offender and the offended should be safeguarded, We have to do it in a business like manner. Acid Test is whether the customer comes back or not. If he does not we have failed in both forgiving as well as forgetting. The technique I use at work is to avoid addressing the issue until my inner anger dissipates to a level of almost zero. Once the anger is gone it is easy for us to get on with the work as usual. Forgetting and the reformation have to be done by the offender and he or she needs more time than the offended. Point is that there should not be any aggravation! I have never delved into this since I tend not to do things to offend others unless of course I am provoked to total warfare. That rarely happens in day to day life. I may need to study this in some depth how others manage this common problem. Anyway this article has made me to revisit this issue in a more academic way or perhaps in a philosophical way.
Batocera USB, Belin Etcher and Gdebi
1. Batocera USB which is 8.6GB does not boot.
2. BelenaEtcher could not write the Batocera image but destyoyed the partition table of the USB.
I managed to recover the USB.
3. I could not find a Debian package for Gdebi in graphic mode, not on terminal.
I have given up using terminal.
4. However, I searched through Synaptic Package Manager and Installed it.
It is a Graphic installer and it can install Debian packages one has downloaded without using the terminal.
5. It is very difficult to find a Debian packages and I would try Installing Opera which not available in synaptic.
KDE Desktop PAIN is OVER
I have a reason why KDE is so, BULKY.
It does not have a reposotory to feed into the user after the first install.
So it adds all the currenty avaible applications kit in one basket.
In other words all the eggs in one basket.
So one bad egg can fail the system
Read also Most Elegant KDE Desktop is? on this blog site.
Let me start with Linux and Unix Basics.
Unix started on Multitasking background and Universities shared scared resources.of Computers. They were hard to come by and mainframes computers were as big as a fridge but kept horizontally, not vertically.
Administrator to service the resources and users with password protection were the normal protocols..
Now cellphones and computers are ubiquitous and they have eye-scanner passwords and everybody using them is paranoid.
Coming to KDE it is a pain, it took a long time to install Netrunner.
WiFi configuration was OK.
Could not browse the Internet while installation was in progress.
There were 11 instances of Firefox opened but none with gamail configured.
I am doing this on my cellphone.
Even time or clock stopped clicking for 10 minutes.
What a Frozen Candidate the bulky KDE has become?
To test integrity of my partition table and to see how ?btrfs or butter file format (its redundancy to satisfy Red-Hat, I do not like) works I used Btrfs for install.
I have 25 partitions including booting EFI.
Could not even format a USB stick.
Only good thing was its Synaptic Package Manager.
Did not have Gparted.
Most of the old kernel distributions do not support EFI and the image cannot be run on a USB.
Buster and Bullseye have problems running packages.
I am not interested in snap-shotting and I want the file integrity checking at boot time which Debian Gnome does a good job of it.
While doing the updating I have erased MX Linux and Netrunner, both KDE versions.
Instead of those versions I have now installed Debian KDE which I am beginning to get impressed with.
By the way, I started Linux with Mandriva and Suse on a KDE desktop.
In fact, MX Linux went into FREEZE MODE while I was running Suse Linux Tumbleweed on the BOX Utility.
That was a disaster and fortunately RAM did not burn itself.
Home folder had 9GB and Suse was 4.7GB big and the Box Utility reserved 4GB and there was no room to manipulate.
My regular home folder has 50GB and reserving 100GB if YOU are a Netflix guy a good ploy.
Since I have at least 4 distributions running in my 298GB SATA Disk, recovery is simple. Just open the folder and delete the ISO Image.
Another point about KDE is it cannot handle or delete a big file of 4GB which Debian handles just sweetly.
Well I do not like KDE graphic intensive "boot panel "and i need to rectify that now.
Overall, ext4 is a good choice for most users due to its wide support and good performance, but btrfs may be a better choice for users who need advanced features like snap-shotting or data redundancy. It is important to carefully consider the specific needs and requirements of your system before choosing a file system.
Semiconductor Technology, From Transistor to MOSFE Transistor
I am one who believes, in that Modern Technological Innovation has something to do with Reverse Engineering of Alien Artifacts.
Some relevance nace to Bob Lazar and John Lear revelations.
The story goes like this.
These artifacts were either divided by design or found mangled into pieces due to Scalar X-ray irradiation.
Pieces were coded and given to Black-Rock like American Commercial Entities, the names of which DO NOT exist according to American Experts.
The original fear was if one company has all the information Powerful Monopoly would result.
In fact, bona fide Secret Service was born in America.
The Story Goes, it took some years for Transistor, Fiberoptics and Laser techniques to be deciphered from mangled debris.
It is only by 1980s, that America was able to design primitive computers using Transistors by companies like Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments and RadioShack to name a few.
However Intel had a monopoly at the beginning. How this happened I haven't got a clue except I was hooked to Intel Devices from Late 1980s.
They were huge but very Limited Memory and I did not know about Linux. Unix only existed and Linux only in mid 1990s.
CPU was the Master designs, those days.
It was the processor that did the computer work.
RAM and Video RAM were intermediary to process power of the CPU into human legible information.
Binary System was born to begin with and soon became Source or Owned Code with Copyright Tag.
CPU has a fixed and singular design.
In other words each processor has a singular function.
Therefore to increase the throughput Multiprocessor Design had to be deviced. These chips were thick and bulky in design.
Needed Heat Sinks to decipate heat generated.
Silicone was the base because it was a good insulator of electric currents (or elections that shuttle through) and Silicone absorbs the heat generated.
They were easy to handle and mathematics were full numbers and not things like pie numbers or roots with decimals.
These Transistors or assortment of Chips Circuits could handle the Gates and Voltage control.
They were of (one) 1 Volt, still to this day.
Now there is a limit for these primitive computers.
We need flexible, scalable and energy efficient and low voltage and small designs.
MOSFET was born.
This is where the Rare Earth come into play.
Metal Oxide Semiconductor (Chip for short) Field Effect Transistors are not fixed like Central Processor Units.
1. They are programable and can be connected wirelessly.
2. The flexibility and energy efficiency of MOSFET are going to change our future designs.
3. Above all programmability at low cost.
Not fixed like CPUs.
4. They can be fabricated to nanometer level.
5. They can be stacked to even Three Dimensional Circuits. Current Circuits are FLAT and Serial not Parallel.
We are still at 7 to 9 nanometer level.
New FAB Machines can reproduce these Chips at tremendous speed.
6. Miniaturization and stacking of chips are done by rare metals.
7. Whoever who master these techniques will rule the future world.
I think China is well ahead and may already have deviced means at least at primitive stage but America has to do some "Catching Up".
That is why President Trump wants war with China to Slow Down the Chip War of the Future.
The diabolical state in Ceylon is we are surrounded by golden sand and we cannot even make a single chip in Ceylon.
China is exploiting the sand to the hilt.
We had been fighting (with India's incitement) with our fellow humans and there is no end to this SAGA.
Anura, Arjuna, Wira Wansa, Champika and Nirmal are only the political bonobos (monkeys) in this manifesting SAGA.
I have excluded Sepala, Sugath, Gune and Chapa who are political fanatics of their own designs.
Less I talk about NPP/DJVP/JVP is better for my Soul.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Butter or Btrfs File System Cannot Coexist with Ext4 and my two Almost Forgotten Dreams
Yes, I installed net Runner 25.64 on Btrfs file system and Debian Genome installed with the same NUC system does not mount them at boot time.
On has to have one file (Ext4) system and combining them with Btrfs, even for testing (which I hated long time ago) leads to catastrophe.
Btrfs may have caused similar problem 30 years ago when I was using Red Hat and Suse. It looks like lessons learned in the past stay and stick.
It struck a code in me.
Yes I installed Debian Cinnamon having formatted Btrfs with Ext4 and it works fine.
This piece in to bring notice to say another code guy has died young under 45.
Singers go through this phase and I think Code Weavers do suffer similar fate.
I do not know the details but Ian Donald. committed suicide after altercation with the American police. He sustained some head injury and that was hushed up by the police.
Intelligen young guys are very sensitive to emotional liability and changing the routine perhaps good sleep with dreams is a good remedy.
My Dream
Dream was in two parts or may be two dreams partially remembered but had some important message to go by.
Set was like a Government Hospital in Ceylon with chaos all around.
My role was not significant perhaps I was a passive observer.
In one section lot of little children unattended.
Their mothers were not to be seen.
Why?
I do not know.
May be taken in for examination.
In another corner bit a commotion with adult men fighting for something.
This may be attendants trying to sort out numbers for various clinics.
In another corner there were a few doctors who were oblivious to the chaos around more busy looking at their cellphones cum laptops.
Then suddenly a guy appeared from nowhere and everyone seems to be in unusually busy mood.
The dream abruptly stopped.
I do not need to send this to Maha Brahma for interpretation.
Yes, Health Minister has come for his political vituperations.
Certainly not for any inspection or opening up a new facility.
Second Dream is Global and Almost Real.
It is related to a Chinese Story travelling fast in the Internet. I am prepared to sign an affidavit to the effect that it did not come from a Secret Chinese Spy message intercepted by the Legacy Pup Linux Protocol which I accidentally found while doing AntiX Search.
This Magnetic Effect is found somewhere in a place between Siberia and Russia. The current Chine, Iran and Russia collaboration has nothing to do with this finding.
There suppose to be a huge Magnetic Ring surrounding a Rate Metal Deposit (read my next blog piece related to MOSFE Transistor Phenomenon) claimed by both Russia and China. In this unusual region any Drone that has lost its Battery Power while on transit to a adversary region can Recharge Itself Wirelessly.
What is Iran's connection.
Simple.
In case of American Strike on Iran Nuclear Facility, these Drones will swarm from this secret location, confusing the American's Latest Secret Drones to reroute them back to America creating an Third World War scenario.
That is why they have given Zelensky a one month respite from Ukraine War.
Mind you this is a real dream and I should be taken to task by Secret Service of any of the above countries.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Debian KDE Desktop has some Options
Yes, Debian KDE Desktop has some Options.
I downloaded and K.D.E Live desktop and tried to install it.
This Calamara Installer has many glitches.
Additionally applications are limited.
In the nick of time I gave up.
Netrunner, MX Linux KDE desktop and Neptune is much better.
Additionally I tried Zenwalk and Seven OS old edition.
Absolute Linux current Iso has problems.
It is not sfs file and Box Utility cannot mount it.
By the way, the developer has given up updating it and hope somebody take over it and keep it Alive.
It is based on Slackware.
I have never tried Slackware and it is as difficult as ARCH.
After a bit of research I discovered when on click on Discover one is taken to a dialog box from where one can download gnome utilities including Abiword and Box utility.
I am currently trying to download Suse Tumbleweed for testing on Box Utility.
Yes download was OK.
It is on Virtual Installer mode.
Iso is little over 5GB.
Takes 50% of the CPU and 4.3GB of my RAM.
I am using Stacer to see how it is running.
Stacer is a pretty good Utility.
T.C.P. and I.P.
T.C.P. and I.P.
When I wrote a book about Internet many moons ago it had 6 (SIX) or so Engineering protocols and of looks like they are merging some of them.and making 4 layers.
1. Data Link Layer with uniform standards or protocols.
2. T.C.P. or the Transfer protocol.
3. I.P. or the dedicated IP address protocol
4. System or hardware based Application protocols providing services.
What happened to the topmost layers?
Eaten up by the Cloud servers or the D.o.D (Department of Defense) protocols of Facebook and Twitter.
I think the CIA has outsourced top two layers of its services to Facebook and Twitter and earn money in the process.
What a profitable plan?
I always believed in this strategy and that is why I stopped using them long time ago.
One Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox are putting restrictions on users and are waiting to suck in dollars and pounds.
Me telling, Good Bye to Internet after 20 years is easy.
IT protocols were owned by big companies in the beginning and the Internet blossomed as an educational.platform.
BSD from California Berkeley did a yeoman service in the beginnings for services to available in.the universities worldwide.
It has gone through the full circle and back to big companies.
Now money only speaks and big companies have a stranglehold on millions of minions.
That is called development and in Ceylon a software is used by Army to snooze on us.
I have nicknamed this software as the proboscis the mosquito use it to suck our living blood.
Interestingly, the name of the software start with a P.
There is an appropriate slang or vulgar word starting with P in Sinhala.
What a coincidence?
When I wrote a book about Internet many moons ago it had 6 (SIX) or so Engineering protocols and of looks like they are merging some of them.and making 4 layers.
1. Data Link Layer with uniform standards or protocols.
2. T.C.P. or the Transfer protocol.
3. I.P. or the dedicated IP address protocol
4. System or hardware based Application protocols providing services.
What happened to the topmost layers?
Eaten up by the Cloud servers or the D.o.D (Department of Defense) protocols of Facebook and Twitter.
I think the CIA has outsourced top two layers of its services to Facebook and Twitter and earn money in the process.
What a profitable plan?
I always believed in this strategy and that is why I stopped using them long time ago.
One Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox are putting restrictions on users and are waiting to suck in dollars and pounds.
Me telling, Good Bye to Internet after 20 years is easy.
IT protocols were owned by big companies in the beginning and the Internet blossomed as an educational.platform.
BSD from California Berkeley did a yeoman service in the beginnings for services to available in.the universities worldwide.
It has gone through the full circle and back to big companies.
Now money only speaks and big companies have a stranglehold on millions of minions.
That is called development and in Ceylon a software is used by Army to snooze on us.
I have nicknamed this software as the proboscis the mosquito use it to suck our living blood.
Interestingly, the name of the software start with a P.
There is an appropriate slang or vulgar word starting with P in Sinhala.
What a coincidence?
Lions and Snow Leopards-Apple Computer Guys
Posted on July 31, 2011
Lions and Snow Leopards-Apple Computer Guys
Ever heard Lions and Snow Leopards living in the same home.
Ever heard Lions and Snow Leopards living in the same home.
In Ceylon Lions and Leopards live in such close proximity and in harmony only a terrorist can drive them mad.
I hear they cannot simply because they are proprietary products from Apple Mac.
I hear they cannot simply because they are proprietary products from Apple Mac.
Some time ago I wanted to write something about Apple Computer and write a Final Cut but for no reason I could not.
It was a very fortunate lapse on my part and had I done that I may have to eat every word of my short piece.
The other day I happen to walk into Kandy Super Market and I saw something very similar to Pinguy Linux and drop into see who is promoting Linux in Kandy.
I was wrong and it was a posh Apple Mac Store but I could not see any iPods.
All the computers had Snow Leopard but not the Lion roaring.
It looks like they are dishing out the last remains of Snow Leopards on unsuspecting but rich customers.
Just yesterday I posted and updated today that one can install four Linux distribution in over 2 and half hours and make them cohabit but unfortunately Snow Leopard and Lion can hardly ever cohabit in the same computer.
The trouble one has to go to install (which has two disks) Snow Leopard on Lion computer, only and expert can do that also on has two apple computers side by side with firmware attachment.
This guy who is a keen photographer wanted to transfer some photographic stuff from a camera and his old camera was not supported by the new Lion.
But if he gives his video to me I can convert them to many formats using ArtistX or AVLinux.
This poor guy, metaphorically of course (who is poor who cannot afford a new Apple computer) should learn some Linux before he gets older like me.
R.I.P. Linux–Rest In Peace for Windows
Posted on September 12, 2010
R.I.P. Linux–Rest In Peace for Windows
Recovery Is Possible-.Linux
This is the CD I use when I have accidentally erased everything in my hard disk which I did recently while partition my hard disk.
This is the CD I use when I have accidentally erased everything in my hard disk which I did recently while partition my hard disk.
I really love this because it reminds me of letting Windows Rest In Peace a long time ago.
But it is for recovery of your files and photos.
It says Recovery Is Possible and recently, when I visited a computer hacker (he rips off old laptops and sells the usable remnants for the price of a new one -good money if I stated doing that) to get a CD/DVD for my son’s old Hitachi Laptop.
But it is for recovery of your files and photos.
It says Recovery Is Possible and recently, when I visited a computer hacker (he rips off old laptops and sells the usable remnants for the price of a new one -good money if I stated doing that) to get a CD/DVD for my son’s old Hitachi Laptop.
Unfortunately my son as well as I forgot all the passwords and could not boot it.
Not rooted or booted for one year.
I found a Combo that juts out of the front panel but I got the old Hitachi working again and I am going to use it for testing Linux distributions until the Combo packs up or I pull it out and use net booting utility to rip the BIOS and booting sequence.
Not rooted or booted for one year.
I found a Combo that juts out of the front panel but I got the old Hitachi working again and I am going to use it for testing Linux distributions until the Combo packs up or I pull it out and use net booting utility to rip the BIOS and booting sequence.
New Wave of Linux-Multibooting Capability and its Culpability
Posted on October 3, 2010
New Wave of Linux-Multibooting Capability and its Culpability
Most of the Linux distributions are making a culpable offense by not recognizing other Linux that come from various backgrounds.
In the beginning the LiLo had problems with booting other Linux distributions.
Then came GRUB it solved most of the booting problems by booting from any partition unlike Windows which have to start from the first sector.
Linux guys have not put this weakness of Microsoft to light.
Now is the time to highlight why we give priority to Microsoft.
It is unfair in legal sense in open market economy.
It also should learn how to boot from any sector of choice other than Master Boot Record.
Nobody should give the copyright inheritance of the first sector to any Linux or Microsoft distribution.
It should be with the customer or the user.
It is a monopoly.
Why computer wizard did not expose this weakness to light is my grouse.
They only aggravate the situ by only recognizing Windows and DOS sometimes and invariably gave Microsoft the first place.
This is a culpable mistake Linux developers perpetuate by its taking the starting block.
Why give the head start to Microsoft?
I have found only three distributions doing it right
They are PCLinux (the new distributions now have a problem not including other format options – other types of disk formatting including DOS), Mephis, Debian, Suse , Mandriva, Redhat and Fedora.
Redhat had the best GRUB including RAIDs .
Still SuSe has the best partition tool, even though it restrict itself to 15 partitions.
Why I do not know?
All the other Live and installable CDs I checked had problem recognizing other Linux distributions.
But they invariable recognized Microsoft by default or is it fear induced by Microsoft by its global propaganda or is it both.
Why not recognize its sisters and brothers breathing over the neck to have a good start.
Most pertinent question is why Microsoft cannot see with their eyes open wide Linux or other partitions.
They are totally blind to independence an market forces.
Where is universal brotherhood?
Where is universal comradeship?
There are two reasons.
1. One is boot loader they use is LiLo.
2. The other is that they do not write a script (copy of the booting sequence in the header files of the root partition).
They all write on the M.B.R while giving priority to Microsoft almost by default or deceit.
Ubuntu do this, all Ubuntu derivatives including attractive Mint do this culpable offense.
It is time to wake up and put this right.
Suse recognizes only 15 partitions.
There used to be over 60 partitions those days before the RAID and volumes came into existence.
I used to have at least 8 (2 windows) distributions bootable on my hard disk barely 80 GB.
Those days Linux were not fat and heavy and some of them could stay on 2 GB partition.
I used to modify boot sector by various means to get all running without a problem with GRUB as the boot loader.
Now the hard disks are over 300 or 500 we must go back to all traditions and have at least 30 partitions recognizable.
Then I can boot Microsoft, Apple Mac and Open Free BSD as part-timers with Linux preferably my own assembly called God Bless You All (G.B.Y.A) (thanks to all the guys including Puppy Linux) and I will throw a party even the all mighty God has directed me to the grave for rest after the party.
Recovery Is Possible or Impossible and cohabitation is a must in the coffin for all of us at the end.
Absolute Linux-Install Only
Posted on September 13, 2011
End of the line for Absolute
Sunday, 12/15/2024
Age, expense, but mostly LACK OF TIME leave me no choice but to give it up.I won't bore you with the crybaby details, but I gotta make ends meet. If someone wants to take the distribution over, I would be happy to freely pass it on.I enjoyed tinkering all those years.
Sunday, 12/15/2024
Age, expense, but mostly LACK OF TIME leave me no choice but to give it up.I won't bore you with the crybaby details, but I gotta make ends meet. If someone wants to take the distribution over, I would be happy to freely pass it on.I enjoyed tinkering all those years.
Absolute Linux Current Iso image does not boot from a USB stick. It is probably for a Live DVD. It does not have sfs file to boot in Box Utility and it freeze.
Absolute Linux-Install Only
Web site: www.absolutelinux.org (not active)
Origin: USA
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: IceWM
Architecture: x86, x86_64
Based on: Slackware
Wikipedia: Absolute Linux
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 20240602 | June 2, 2024
Zobacz po polsku Zobacz po polsku: Absolute Linux
Absolute Linux – a very light Linux distribution based on Slackware.
Web site: www.absolutelinux.org (not active)
Origin: USA
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: IceWM
Architecture: x86, x86_64
Based on: Slackware
Wikipedia: Absolute Linux
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 20240602 | June 2, 2024
Zobacz po polsku Zobacz po polsku: Absolute Linux
Absolute Linux – a very light Linux distribution based on Slackware.
The IceWM window manager was used as the default desktop.
There is a set of programs included in the system which fits for working on a home computer.
Additional scripts (also working in graphical mode) allow for easy system configuration.
Low power consumption ensures free work on old computers.
Each version of Absolute (packages) is compatible with Slackware (Absolute 14 -> Slackware 14).
There is a set of programs included in the system which fits for working on a home computer.
Additional scripts (also working in graphical mode) allow for easy system configuration.
Low power consumption ensures free work on old computers.
Each version of Absolute (packages) is compatible with Slackware (Absolute 14 -> Slackware 14).
The Absolute installer available on CD/DVD works in text mode.
The last version of Absolute Linux was released in June 2024.
The last version of Absolute Linux was released in June 2024.
Absolute Linux
I had some allergy to this distribution but not any more.
Allergy is due to——->
In the early days of my Live CD distribution testing, I downloaded Absolute Linux and by shear accident I said yes to a command and it took over my hard disk and installed it and wiped everything.
That was long time ago and I wrote Microsoft Killer on the CD and never tried it again till today.
Allergy is due to——->
In the early days of my Live CD distribution testing, I downloaded Absolute Linux and by shear accident I said yes to a command and it took over my hard disk and installed it and wiped everything.
That was long time ago and I wrote Microsoft Killer on the CD and never tried it again till today.
Almost everybody in the University on token strike (remind me of the old days when we had to strike demanding bread, milk, rice and not coconuts) I decided to try this on one of my old computers in office which I had messed up including the boot record and its mouse, the PS/2 mouse was fidgety.
I plugged in a USB mouse and started installing.
Installing was on write mode which I like very much and it was like using Debian where everything was configured step by step.
It took a little extra time fearing it will destroy my FAT partitions used for storing some archived material which I have already forgotten.
True to the statements below which I copied from its home page it does write and reported the faulty on board sound and gave me opportunity to configure USB external sound card I plugged in.
It is very light on the old computer and had everything including K3B, AbiWord and LibreOffice.
I have no hesitation of recommending it for dual booting.
It uses LiLo and could not detect Peppermint I had already installed.
True to the statements below which I copied from its home page it does write and reported the faulty on board sound and gave me opportunity to configure USB external sound card I plugged in.
It is very light on the old computer and had everything including K3B, AbiWord and LibreOffice.
I have no hesitation of recommending it for dual booting.
It uses LiLo and could not detect Peppermint I had already installed.
Apart from that glitch it is an excellent distribution for a newbie learning Linux.
Another admirable feature is that when you first time boot it tells you what ought to be done including using a user account.
I had some difficulty in finding the control center which is the first entry in the menu because it gives neither Gnome or KDE desktop appearance which is in fact is a remarkable feature what I like the most.
It gets one out of the regimented routine and frees you with new found Linux independence.
Well done guys an girls at Absolute Linux.
Mind you it took 11 days to download (the longest but Hanthana Sinhala Linux did not finish after 14 days) by torrent.
Please use the point to point download and I am currently downloading its latest version.
It cannot be listed in my Live CD/DVD list since only thing it lacks is a live sfs script an I hope in future it is included by default with UnetBootIn for USB booting.
Desktop oriented, as opposed to use as a server
All-at-once installer with the packages I wanted.
Sifting through everything on the Slackware installer was hell.
Lightweight.
Lightweight.
Had some older equipment and also wanted to incorporate use of my modified version into my PC repair business — installing it on older machines for customers.
Like to play. Want the latest, best software. Slackware was perfect for this as all the headers are left in the packages/libraries so I can compile what I like. Since I like to script/program, I made myself many little utilities and shortcuts to configure the system more easily.
I want complete control.
But I want the operating system to stay out of my way.
Is a modification of Slackware.
Fast, stay-out-of-your-way desktop.
Like to play. Want the latest, best software. Slackware was perfect for this as all the headers are left in the packages/libraries so I can compile what I like. Since I like to script/program, I made myself many little utilities and shortcuts to configure the system more easily.
I want complete control.
But I want the operating system to stay out of my way.
Is a modification of Slackware.
Fast, stay-out-of-your-way desktop.
No Gnome or KDE.
Uses well integrated collection of the best lightweight software to give you most of the things the “big desktops” give you, only at at much, much faster pace.
The software folks use on a desktop: Firefox, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Pidgin chat, GIMP image editor, WPClipart, Thunderbird mail, K3B CD/DVD burning, Frostwire P2P, Deluge BitTorrent, 2 dictionaries, a bunch of games — basically any of the latest, most popular Open Source software.
Many script utilities (with friendly little GUIs) to make configuration and maintenance of system easier and still allows manual (text-file based) configuration, if desired.
Package compatible with Slackware minor versions. (ex. Absolute 12.2 -> Slackware-12.2), with a few exceptions: kernel packages, KDE-libs, madwifi, ndiswrapper, svga-helper, a/etc.
Root user can install software or set system configurations. That’s it. Perfect for parents and IT guys. If you want to do something root user is allowed to do, log in as root. That’s what the account is for.
The software folks use on a desktop: Firefox, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Pidgin chat, GIMP image editor, WPClipart, Thunderbird mail, K3B CD/DVD burning, Frostwire P2P, Deluge BitTorrent, 2 dictionaries, a bunch of games — basically any of the latest, most popular Open Source software.
Many script utilities (with friendly little GUIs) to make configuration and maintenance of system easier and still allows manual (text-file based) configuration, if desired.
Package compatible with Slackware minor versions. (ex. Absolute 12.2 -> Slackware-12.2), with a few exceptions: kernel packages, KDE-libs, madwifi, ndiswrapper, svga-helper, a/etc.
Root user can install software or set system configurations. That’s it. Perfect for parents and IT guys. If you want to do something root user is allowed to do, log in as root. That’s what the account is for.
Finnix, the Live CD for System Administrators
Posted on July 25, 2011
Finnix, the Live CD for System Administrators
Finnix is Genome / Linux Kernel 3 and only 102MB and fits a mini CD.
Finnix is Genome / Linux Kernel 3 and only 102MB and fits a mini CD.
Below is a reproduction from Finnix Organization.
If I write about Linux Live CD that boots with Windows X desktop only, I am doing an injustice to the Linux Developers, who make wonderful Little Utilities for system administrators.
Below is one of them, a CD that boots without a desktop window on a terminal (window) with 300 MB of utilities.
If I write about Linux Live CD that boots with Windows X desktop only, I am doing an injustice to the Linux Developers, who make wonderful Little Utilities for system administrators.
Below is one of them, a CD that boots without a desktop window on a terminal (window) with 300 MB of utilities.
Download and enjoy!
Thank you Guys and Girls of Finnix organization.
Finnix, the LiveCD for system administrators
Free stickers
Free stickers!
Finnix water bottle (sticker).jpg
Get a pair of free high-quality vinyl stickers, and find out how you can support Finnix.
Major sponsors
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Finnix Screenshots
Screenshots
Finnix 100 boot.png
RSS Feeds
RSS feeds
* Finnix news
* Recent wiki changes
* Blog updates (LiveJournal feed)
* Development snapshots
Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution (“LiveCD”) for system administrators, based on Debian.
Finnix, the LiveCD for system administrators
Free stickers
Free stickers!
Finnix water bottle (sticker).jpg
Get a pair of free high-quality vinyl stickers, and find out how you can support Finnix.
Major sponsors
Host Virtual logo.gif
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Thank you to our major sponsors, mirrors, donators and others who help support Finnix!
Finnix Screenshots
Screenshots
Finnix 100 boot.png
RSS Feeds
RSS feeds
* Finnix news
* Recent wiki changes
* Blog updates (LiveJournal feed)
* Development snapshots
Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution (“LiveCD”) for system administrators, based on Debian.
You can mount and manipulate hard drives and partitions, monitor networks, rebuild boot records, install other operating systems, and much more.
Finnix includes the latest technology for system administrators, with Linux kernel 2.6, LVM2, encrypted partitions, etc. And above all, Finnix is small; currently the entire distribution is over 300MiB, but is dynamically compressed into a small bootable image. Finnix is not intended for the average desktop user, and does not include any desktops, productivity tools, or sound support, in order to keep distribution size low.
Linux Ultimatum-Finishing with FinniX
Posted on February 21, 2012
Linux Ultimatum-Finishing with FinniX
It is almost 3 years that I had being trying to promote Linux.
I am going to wind up writing on Linux from the end of this month.
It is almost 3 years that I had being trying to promote Linux.
I am going to wind up writing on Linux from the end of this month.
It never materialized!
You won’t believe why I am going to do that.
It has nothing to do with Linux or visitors to my site.
You won’t believe why I am going to do that.
It has nothing to do with Linux or visitors to my site.
Nearly half a million had visited my blog site.
Thank you and you had been a source of strength.
It is all due to money and price hike of electricity.
1. I cannot afford to pay a huge electricity bill.
It has almost tripled.
It has almost tripled.
2. Second reason is slow internet.
3.Third is abrupt power cuts and interruption to downloads and my sleep.
All these due to irrational Engineers who are paying lip service to politicians and bungling in economics and power generation.
Besides rain also failing when there is power cut we do not have water too.
We are heading for disaster like “crabs in a boiling pot”.
We are getting cooked for no fault of ours.
We sacrificed and tighten our belts when war was rampaging but we asked to do more.
This is not realistic to me.
Fortunately I have written four books which are available at Amazons during our industrial action period.
Currently I am writing a book on Placenta and its clinical relevance with any help from the University.
That is taking a big tall on me.
Fortunately I have written four books which are available at Amazons during our industrial action period.
Currently I am writing a book on Placenta and its clinical relevance with any help from the University.
That is taking a big tall on me.
Finishing with Finnix, it is a tiny distribution of about 100 MB with lot of administrative tools and bug fixes.
It is Debian based.
I am currently downloading it.
It (Finnix) came on the Valentine Day with love to all Linux guys and girls and we married on the day before.
I missed Finnix (Linux) and my wife missed or forgot the day we got married.
I was one up on the deal.
It is Debian based.
I am currently downloading it.
It (Finnix) came on the Valentine Day with love to all Linux guys and girls and we married on the day before.
I missed Finnix (Linux) and my wife missed or forgot the day we got married.
I was one up on the deal.
If you are a Linux guy or a girl do not forget your loved ones, the community and your closest friends.
They need a little pat on the back.
I am currently listing all the little distributions (little book will be the outcome) and that will soon be in Kindle and Amazon.
So Good Bye.
I will be here if I have had good dreams with Maha Brahma helping me.
We need god’s help to get rid of the bad guys in politics who are ruining little we have.
THANK YOU, Google and you are doing a wonderful job.
The blog front has an easy and nice face front.
You have done a very good face lift.
THANK YOU.
WordPress is also doing wonderful stuff.
I will be here if I have had good dreams with Maha Brahma helping me.
We need god’s help to get rid of the bad guys in politics who are ruining little we have.
THANK YOU, Google and you are doing a wonderful job.
The blog front has an easy and nice face front.
You have done a very good face lift.
THANK YOU.
WordPress is also doing wonderful stuff.
Computer Aided INvestigative Environment)-Caine 2.5
Posted on October 9, 2011
Computer Aided INvestigative Environment)-Caine 2.5
CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is a GNU/Linux Live CD distribution.
The CAINE forensic framework contains a collection of tools wrapped up into a user friendly environment.
CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is a GNU/Linux Live CD distribution.
The CAINE forensic framework contains a collection of tools wrapped up into a user friendly environment.
Furthermore introduces novel important features; it aims to fill the interoperability gap across different forensic tools, it provides a homogeneous GUI that guides digital investigators during the acquisition and analysis of electronic evidence, and it offers a semi-automatic process for the documentation and report compilation.
The CAINE distribution offers all the main commodities of a typical Ubuntu desktop: easy-to-use environment, highly customizable architecture, reliable interfaces and a enhanced packed-oriented software distribution system.
The GNOME desktop offers a well known and efficient graphical environment to the digital investigator.
It is built from the standard version of Ubuntu Linux 10.04.
It can be booted into a PC under investigation as a live CD.
It can be installed into a forensic laboratory PC as a permanent operating system.
It has a beautiful desktop.
It is built from the standard version of Ubuntu Linux 10.04.
It can be booted into a PC under investigation as a live CD.
It can be installed into a forensic laboratory PC as a permanent operating system.
It has a beautiful desktop.
DoKuWiKi and WikiSpaces
Posted on August 11, 2011
DoKuWiKi and WikiSpaces
It is time for me to expand the horizon of Words World and go deeper into the program world where work is done almost on Unicode.
It is time for me to expand the horizon of Words World and go deeper into the program world where work is done almost on Unicode.
Let me be fair to the Linux Community and illustrating DoKu WiKi in no way undermine their efforts that are for professional programmers.
1. Vi is my number one.
2. Gedit is the one I used when editing files in Redhat 8.
3. Bluefish,
3. Bluefish,
4. Cream,
5. Quanta and
many more which I have forgotten the names.
I was abroad when early changes in computing (Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, BBC Basic) were taking place and when Windows came I wanted to buy a (last item in my shopping list with little money in my pocket and my wife having a hawk eye view, that I would put my last dollar on a worthless junk machine-very expensive then), a computer and I going around the few shops in the high street selling computers (price over 2500 dollars) the salesmen were ever willing to show me the tit bits and sell.
After the demonstrations, I asked the guys what program language I can type on this machine they were speechless (this little guy from Asia talking like a programmer) and told them I would not spare my money on a machine which I cannot write at least 100 lines of code for fun and promptly exited saving my money making my wife very happy.
The rest is history, till I got into Linux where from
Python
to Ruby to
C to
C++ were there but very rarely explored then, since my medical duties tax my time to the hilt.
While me doing night duties and you programmers were doing wonderful work with mid night commander and burning mid night oil.
So thank you guys and girls.
I am in no way excluding your efforts but this is to expose the newbies to the real world of computing and using DoKuWiki is only an introduction.
DoKu WiKi I downloaded was only 2.7 MB and AbiWord is 7.9 MB and it does my word processing.
DoKu WiKi I downloaded was only 2.7 MB and AbiWord is 7.9 MB and it does my word processing.
It has Apache, DTHML, html, PHP and SQL.
I typed one line and saved it in Unicode (Graphic front end and code in the background) and opened it in Abiword and saved the line in abi.
I typed one line and saved it in Unicode (Graphic front end and code in the background) and opened it in Abiword and saved the line in abi.
You have two utilities using under 11 MB which are super fast and minimal Macros, why you go for a Gorilla which you cannot handle when you are a newbie?
This is why I always say “Small is beautiful and bigger is never the best”
Now few words about Wikispaces.
It gives you 2 MB of storage free which you can share documents with your class mates and teachers.
I have already opened a space for my students in the university and another for K-12 class, even though I use Google and WordPress almost exclusively for my blog activity.
WordPress is of course professional class and the best I have used.
I will cut and paste few of the comments at their site for you to read.
“You guys have great customer and technical support–about the best I’ve experienced since the Internet began in fact.”
“I am a HUGE fan of Wikispaces for its ease of use and its endless options for collaborative projects and have been encouraging all my teachers to create a wiki for their class.”
“Thanks for making it so simple for my fellow classmates and I to connect. We’ve got a 20 year reunion coming up, and there’s no better, easier, and fun way than through wikispaces. I truly appreciate your efforts!”
“I had 80 kids register for Wikispaces today in class. Almost all of them said they were going home to make another one for personal use. Great tool, keep making it better.”
“Let me say how impressed I am with your service. It always amazes me that such an organization still has that personal touch.”
Thanks guys and girls for your comments which I have reproduced here.
“You guys have great customer and technical support–about the best I’ve experienced since the Internet began in fact.”
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LyX
Posted on October 25, 2011
LyX
Advanced open source document processor
Alongside Kile, LyX is another tremendous powerful LaTeX GUI.
Advanced open source document processor
Alongside Kile, LyX is another tremendous powerful LaTeX GUI.
It allows you to create impressive documents in HTML, PS or PDF format rendered with unbearably beautiful Computer Modern fonts.
LyX is also available for Windows and is a little less difficult to use, in my opinion.
I have reviewed LyX not that long ago.
User-friendly LaTeX source editor and TeX shell and KDE.
LyX – Word processor.
LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software. LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin.
User-friendly LaTeX source editor and TeX shell and KDE.
LyX – Word processor.
LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software. LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin.
Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface and therefore need an X server.
LyX produces high quality, professional output — using LaTeX, an industrial strength typesetting engine, in the background; LyX is far more than a front-end to LaTeX, however. No knowledge of LaTeX is necessary to use LyX, although it will give a user more power.
LyX is stable and fully featured. It has been used for documents as large as a thesis, or as small as a business letter. Despite its simple GUI interface (available in many languages), it supports tables, figures, and hyperlinked cross-references, and has a best-of-breed math editor.
Multi Tasking in Digital Linux-Ten (10) Minutes Only
Posted on April 17, 2011
Multitasking in Digital Linux-Ten (10) Minutes Only
I was bored to death of the long new year holiday and having had a long sleep overdue for sometime switched on the two computers, one for my daily work and the other for the downloading of Linux Gamers.
One I use regularly is a secondhand IBM overhauled by me into prime condition with two SATA disks.
Other one is one overhauled just two weeks ago with one of my old second hand IBM computer’s bare bones (133 Bus Speed of SDR RAM which I used for the last 4 years, day and night and coming to its terminal stage of life and wanting to say good bye (on off switch is not working properly, graphic card is grumbling at times, being unable to bear the load, etc) or see a junkyard specialist but all the old SDR RAM Cards which I paid a fortune to get the my minimum requirement of 1 GB in working order, old CD Writer (combo) not much used and a DVD ROM hacked to its optimum use still working.
Now the SDR RAMs which I paid a fortune, have no secondhand market value and throwing them into a dustbin was not my intention and roamed all the secondhand dealers in Kandy (looking for a IBM with SDR slots) and found a NetVista with 16 GB Graphic card (but the motherboard supporting above 32GB and above up to to 512 GB but the vendor selling it cheap, knowing it has no market value) and I was test driving it for buying it at a later date.
While I was doing all that another buyer (probably having minimum of Rs.10,000) without any respect to my age or dignity promptly wanted to buy it for cash on the spot. I took a back step and made a funny wink at the salesmen (by now who are very friendly with me) and said OK, sell it to the stranger. The salesman was form a nearby village (I knew him) knowing that I can have another I.B.M. later, if I wished with a new power pack and with some agreement by the dealer for providing a 32 GB graphic card (64 GB is the minimum for Linux now).
This incident reminded me of the post Christmas Sale and mad rush in London High Street where customers almost kill each other (I never went for any of them fearing my life like an Asian going to a English Football Club for a prime football match-unlike cricket of course-where one can get trampled to death by design if not by default- stay at home in London and watched them on TV instead) for a purchase which I wondered how could it happen in a civic society who teaches democratic values to Middle East sheiks.
And to put the story in perspective, I duly purchased the Kit with a 80 GB IDE fortunately one day before the agreed buy / sell date saving time in my hand in the process (since I managed to get my salary one day before the due date) so that I could fiddle with it (in spite of many security tags they put on inner hardware) and get it in working order to download Linux Games during New year holidays.
These are the things I did in 10 minute while K-torrent was downloading two images in two different computers in the background.
1. Copied a 1 GB image in K3B – Wild-Linux which is pretty good.
2. Went through my email answered new year greetings in double quick time.
3. Changed the screen saver on the newly assembled computer and almost ruined the graphic card of 64 GB with plasma effects and comic strip.
Please do not try these extreme graphic effects of Linux on new graphic cards not supporting Linux.
You will invariably ruin them in a few seconds.
4. Made a cup of tea in between and let it brew.
While my daughter was on Skype and my son watching peoTV on the same D.S.L line.
In spite of the slow speed of our Telecom achieving all this is due to Digital Capability of Linux and not Microsoft.
In the meantime my wife who had switched on the computer to watch digital TV but the computer idling with her being on the land phone answering a New Year call.
4. Made a cup of tea in between and let it brew.
While my daughter was on Skype and my son watching peoTV on the same D.S.L line.
In spite of the slow speed of our Telecom achieving all this is due to Digital Capability of Linux and not Microsoft.
In the meantime my wife who had switched on the computer to watch digital TV but the computer idling with her being on the land phone answering a New Year call.
This was land line (handset) out of commission and was not in working order for nearly 3 months and I happen to buy the cheapest hand set available on the market (but still over Rs.2500/=).
I often wonder why we use a telephone other than for flimsy communication strategy?
Can Microsoft boast for same multi- functionality or multitasking?
It may do all that but it will do all that in about 30 minutes with a huge RAM on the computer and it has no swapping facility to use the processor efficiently in a time shared manner.
It loads everything working and not working like a a dinner party dress with glamorous frills all around but which fail to take the attention of the speaker who is half drunk but still talking.
I doubt very much!
Go digital but make it Linux my dear friend.
I often wonder why we use a telephone other than for flimsy communication strategy?
Can Microsoft boast for same multi- functionality or multitasking?
It may do all that but it will do all that in about 30 minutes with a huge RAM on the computer and it has no swapping facility to use the processor efficiently in a time shared manner.
It loads everything working and not working like a a dinner party dress with glamorous frills all around but which fail to take the attention of the speaker who is half drunk but still talking.
I doubt very much!
Go digital but make it Linux my dear friend.
Monday, March 10, 2025
How We Built on Shoulders of Giants -John Haddock
This piece is in devlopment phase.
This am accountant given by John Haddock in 2018.
MIT
GE
HP
Berkeley came in lately but was involved in BSD.
Denis went on sabbatical to Berkeley with his magnetic tape and there Unix became BSD and at AT &T it became Unix System 3,4 and 5.
Bell lab was interested in transistors, fiber optics and laser and not on operating system or applications.
Computers were considered not useful to Telephone Companies at that time.
It started in Bell's Lab in New Jersey.
The idea was to develop a Portable Operating System that ran on many platforms by Brian Thompson and Dennis Richie.
They used a cast-off PDP7 computer for their work.
There was no assembly language. They used machine language which was written on a paper tape on another computer and ported it to the PHP7.
Up till then, operating system were fixed to the hardware or the applications they ran.
In around 1983, Digital Equipment Company, IBM and HP saw Unix has commercial space outside academic environment.
However, they had to pay a hefty fee for the Source Code to AT & T and the serial number of the computer using the Source Code had to be given to them for scrutiny.
Later on Sun Micro Systems requested them to lower the fee by offering them the Binary Code and a request to wave off the serial number of the computer.
BSD had TCP / IP and ManPage Virtual Memory wherease AT&T had swapping protocol called UCCP which needed a modem. No direct Internet link.
A company called BSDI thought using BSD Unix would not violate the AT&T code and went into independent production. There was expensive litigation by AT & T on a BSDI company over copyright issue.
Aparnet came in 1969 and it was the forerunner of the Internet.
1984 Richard Stallman came in and objected to Source Code changing to Binary Code which he could not understand and use for his work. He objected to copyright tag and wanted the Software to be Free.
He started rewriting all the Unix code without proprietary tag.
He developed EMax and software languages and compilers for them.
They were platform independent.
He brought the concept of Free or Open Source software.
In 1995 he formed the Free Software Foundation which upsetted the Commercial Apple Cart.
In 1991 Linus Torvalds in Sweden wrote the Kernel so that the Free Software could be stitched into a proper Operating System.
Tim Bernalee was the one (30 years before 2019) who started the Internet in 1989.
John Haddock wrote his first program in 1959 on a Fridge sized computer with punched cards in Fortran.
He could write one program at a time.
That is the beginning.
FPGA
1. Flexible and Adaptable
2. Efficiency and Performance
3. Scalable
4. Cost Effective
5. Programable
6. Security
7. Fast output Market
8. Hardware Acceleration
9. Prototyping
10. Longevity
Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Reprogrammable IC
Efficiency
Scalable
Programable
Reconfigurabilty
Hardware acceleration
Prototyping
AI compativilty
Longevity and scalability
Flexibilty
Parallel Processing
Real Time Application
ASIC
Application Specific Integrated Circuits
Objectives.
They fixed at manufacturering level
Make the kernel small so the coding is free of errors.
Applications to be on User Space and any crashes when running does not affect the kernel.
What food I miss from Ceylon
Ceylonese are Food Addicts and there are a lot foods for everyone's taste.
The list is numerous and all the types of food and delicacies from the City of Kandy.
Let me make some provisions.
I stop eating rice for a very long time.
There are at least 5 poisons in each grain of rice and I was reacting to one or many of them for long time. When I stopped eating even milk rice I recovered from my malady.
Second reason is I stopped drinking all types of liqueur. That helped the taste buds that were damaged to recover. Along with that I used to taste of every type food I tasted to make good the rice deficit
What is relevant in Ceylon is we are an Alcoholic Nation and spend more on alcohol than food. Big rice meal with chicken became our life style. Except for bread ordinary people would not try anything other than string hopers and hoppers. That is the sad part.
This coincided with foor portion becoming smaller and prices going up by leaps and bounds.
My simple example is wade.
Prawns omitted first.
Umbalalakada disappeared next.
Spices omitted thirdly.
Ultimately size and shape.
It was true of Egg Buns.
Full Egg became Half an Egg.
Half an Egg became Quarter of an Egg.
Ultimately the bun was just called Egg Bun without any garnish of egg at all.
Strangely, none of these happened during internal conflict
I would only list my favorites.
All these were tasted long before food and economic crisis.
1. Cashew Nuts with Karapincha (curry leaves) from Queens Hotel's Side Bar, which no more.
2. Ceylon Tea with Cheese Cake or Cheese Sandwich from Mesna Tea Center.
Earl Grey Tea at Mesna Tea Center
There is no Mesna Tea in Australia.
Cinnamon Tea at the Air Port.
By the way, I HATE Thai Tea
Heladiv Tea
Now owned By George Steurt and Company Limited
Heladiv commenced operations in 1990 as HVA Lanka Exports Pvt. Ltd., an affiliate of a Dutch-based agricultural development company, Handels Vereniging Amsterdam (Amsterdam Trade Association).
In 1993, the company reverted to 100% Sri Lankan ownership.
In 2001, they introduced the concept of Tetra Paking of Iced Tea in Sri Lanka.
In 2007, the company received an ISO 22000 accreditation by Bureau Veritas and was awarded the Lanka Star, for Packaging Excellence from the Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging, and a Soorya Sinha Award from the Mawbima Lanka Padanama.
In 2011, the company was publicly listed on the Sri Lankan stock exchange.
The brand name, Heladiv, is derived from the word "Heladiva", which means our land.
The Heladiv product range includes ice tea, regular tea bags, flavoured tea bags, green tea, flavoured green tea, herbal infusions, leaf tea in pouches, pet jars, metal canisters, wooden boxes and gift packs.
The company operates over fifty tea cafes across in China and a tea lounge in Colombo.
The brand Heladiv is registered and sold in over 40 countries.
This was the first Peach Tea (under Rs.50/=) Drink.
I believe it was a One Man Company, long before others ventured into the market.
He produced a Flavoured TEA in glass bottles (not in plastic containers) which can be diluted to taste.
It was fabulous.
Of course, this changed due to practical and economic issues.
Yes Lipton and Dilmah are here in Australia but they can never match with HelaDive.
I promote Ceylon Tea world over and wish them good luck.
3. Hoppers at ARPICO Food Stall
4. Fish Kottu and Masala Wade at Royal Mall Food stall
Of course Spring Rolls, bread, cakes sweets (Cheese Flan), Thala Guli (Gingerly Rolls), milk and poll toffees and good cup of Ceylon Coffee
Not to forget the long queue at the Liquer Bar on Saturday, evening.
5. Vegetable Rotty, Kimbula Banis, Croissants, Doughnuts and French and English delicacies from Kheels Super Market (located near Royal Mall) in Gatambe.
6. Then the String Hoppers with lovely "Amu Miris Sambol and Pol Mallum" from the lady who comes to Kandy City acrossing the right side of the Mahaveli River.
I think she came from a place in between Sirimalwata and Tennekumbura. That was the best Pol Sambol in the City of Kandy.
7. Prawn Wade and Masala Wade from Devon Restaurant.
Chees and Egg Kottu included.
8. String Hoppers with "Alahodi and Pol Sambol" from Bentota Bake House.
This restaurant has a Tall Tower like (in a Singapore Hotel) structure.
It has a open rooftop and I avoid the lovers time.
I go to the top floor and have a Superb Yogurt drink.Some time I have an off hour Beer (allowed for foreign tourist) when string hoppers are late to come. The guys who run this hotel come from my village.
Alcohol is banned for locals and I have to wait till 4.30PM to enter bar at ARPICO for a Sweet Wine.
With Mangala Samaraweera as Finance Minister one peg went up from Rs.190/= to Rs.420/=. I had two pegs and gave one peg to the bar tender and ordered big sized omelette with chips and dished our Rs.2000/=. No balance requested.
I drink alcohol and not taxes and abruptly stopped drinking all types of liqueur.
I still thank Mangala for my courage and never tasted any except only once on a grand birth day party. That is also a type of spirits I had never tasted before and I was staggering to the toilet on that occasion.
9. Then Balaji Samosa, Dosai and Pol Sambol.
10. The best of course, the Paper Dosai and Masala Dosai made by an Indian Cook in Captain Cook Corner at Devons Hotel's Top Floor.
I have to wait until 6.30PM when this special cook comes on duty.
I am happy I gave my Tamil lawyer a good meal at this place. He did not know it existed. He enjoyed it very much. I think it was a special booked lunch. I did not want him to go home late. His brother had a jewellery shop at Colombo Street. Lately, I did not see him, too. May have transferred his deeds to somebody else with no money coming from his brother.
Strangely he passed away after a rotten (sepsis) tooth abscess. I met him on the way to Peradaniya Hospital. I volunteered to take him to Dental Hospital but he declined.
There are a few more places that I used to visit.
1. Queens Pastry Shop and Queen Bar
2. Bentota Bake House
3. Devon Bakers Best
4. Central Bake house
5. Casamara Hotel (very rarely before it changed the location, it was situated near Senanayake Library, before and for Rs. 250/= we had a lovely meal and beer). I think they changed the name, too.
6. Hotel Topaz
7. Oak Ray of course for Beer and Hoppers
8. Mahaveli Reach Hotel for Billiards or Snooker game
9. Suisse Hotel for Billiard or Snooker game
All these are concentrated in The City, yet if you go down 5 to 10 kilometers away from the city one cannot find a good place to dine and wine.
Below are how Kandy City turned in to village setup.
1. Ampiya, Katawala, Lewla, Thalathuoya, Godamunne
2. Tennakumbura, Gurudeniya, Haragama and beyond to Mailapitiya
3. Kundasale, Balagolla, Kengalla, Digana, Teldeniya and beyond to Karalliyaddha
4. Mawilmada, Polgolla, Madawala Manikhinna and Kundasale
5, Gatambe, Dangolla, Rajawatta, Gakaha Junction, University of Peradeniya, Mahakanda and Hindagala Temple.
6. Peradeniya, Panideniya, Kossinna, Angunawela and Gelioya
7. Katugastota, Akurana, Nugapitiya Alawatugoda and Ukuwela.
8. Nugawela, Aladeniya Hadeniya turn off before Galadgedra to turn to Walalhenna Junction to Warakagda and Bokkawela
9. Aladeniya, Weuda, Galagedera, Pilessa, Mawatagama, Mallawapitiya and Kurenegala
10. Hadeniya off Arambekade Junction, to Walathenna Junction to Warakagoda, Ambaruppa off Harankahawa Junction to Molagoda Maha Viyalaya.
The last place is where I went to see one of my relative and an elder brother, before leaving Ceylon. He left to Canada week after my departure. I do not think he will come back.
We had a lovely meal at Kadyan Arts Restaurant where I stayed overnight from where I left to the Katunayake Airport. I was worried the Van Driver who picked me up would miss our house in Panideniya. I had one on my old time school mates to accompany me from this hotel to the airport.
I booked a room for him but he did decide to come in the morning. He did come from Mawilmada and it was a considerable distance.
He did not want me to spend money. However, I have him my Ceylon Surveyor's Map as a souvenir since I probably want write another book on Rivers and Water Falls of Ceylon. There are over 100 rivers and revelets in Ceylon and many of them are drying up, one by one every year.
Tragedy!
In fact, he walked to the hotel in the morning. He is marathon walker and walking is his hobby. I used to walked to Kandy to catch early morning train when I was at Aruppola.
Marathon running was a speciality in our Ampitiya St.Marys School. Nobody except teachers in this school new I was medical guy.
One of my wishes was to address current students (get some in to the University) but even though the Principal was a family friend, it never materiallised.
He was a middle distance runner and I was a short (100/200) distance runner we never compete against but joined in relays.
I go first he goes last and there is time to change spikes in between.
I did not have a pair of spikes and my father won't buy me one, let alone even a running short. It was the Burgher lady next door who made me a lovely velvet running short.
I used to hide the Championship Cup of Under 12 and Under 14. I used to do only 100 Meters and Long Jump as a Senior. I was not good in 200.
With Hop Step and Jump, I could barely touch the pit, at the Standard Set for the age.
Only, one jump (Hop Step and Jump), win or lose and that is usually my best and enough to get a place.
Long Jump is different.
First to Qualify.
Second to get the marking.
Third the Full Jump.
Skip Fourth and Fifth.
Last or the Sixth Jump to make it, a sportsman like finale.
Only once, I bettered my Third Jump in a Qualifying for Russians Tournament.
It was my best jump all my life and I could have qualified to Go to Russia but I let it slip through since, I was well below the International Set Standard.
I had my Final Examination and I could have waved it off and sat the repeat and got better results overall. That meant I miss the first Merit List and miss my batch and join the rest.
Come to think about it the best guys in our batch were in the second Merit List.
Could not fathom it, then.
I was caught in the Rat Race. However, in latter years I paced myself down to easy pace and I did my research work well past 50, mature enough to do Real Research which includes Linux which I am persuing to this day.
I was STUPID, I should have gone to Russia then, which was one of my lifetime dreams which I would not be able to fullfil in this life.
I had some hoppers at the Kandyan Arts Residency for my last dinner.
Hoppers are for my last meal whenever, I go abroad for a long stay.
HelaDiv Tea, A brand of Ceylon Flavoured Tea
Heladiv Tea, A brand of Ceylon Flavoured Tea
Now owned By George Steurt and company Limited
Heladiv commenced operations in 1990 as HVA Lanka Exports Pvt. Ltd., an affiliate of a Dutch-based agricultural development company, Handels Vereniging Amsterdam (Amsterdam Trade Association).
In 1993, the company reverted to 100% Sri Lankan ownership.
In 2001, they introduced the concept of Tetra Paking of Iced Tea to Sri Lanka.
In 2007, the company received an ISO 22000 accreditation by Bureau Veritas and was awarded the Lanka Star, for Packaging Excellence from the Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging, and a Soorya Sinha Award from the Mawbima Lanka Padanama.
In 2011, the company was publicly listed on the Sri Lankan stock exchange.
The brand name, Heladiv, is derived from the word "Heladiva", which means our land.
The Heladiv product range includes ice tea, regular tea bags, flavoured tea bags, green tea, flavoured green tea, herbal infusions, leaf tea in pouches, pet jars, metal canisters, wooden boxes and gift packs.
The company operates over fifty tea cafes across in China and a tea lounge in Colombo.
The brand Heladiv is registered and sold in over 40 countries.
This was the first Peach Tea (under Rs.35/=) Drink I believe it was a One Man Company, long before others ventured into the market. He produced a Flavoured TEA in glass bottles (not plastic bottles) which was fabulous.
Yes Lipton and Dilmah are here in Australia but they can never match with the Original HelaDiv Tea.
Now owned By George Steurt and company Limited
Heladiv commenced operations in 1990 as HVA Lanka Exports Pvt. Ltd., an affiliate of a Dutch-based agricultural development company, Handels Vereniging Amsterdam (Amsterdam Trade Association).
In 1993, the company reverted to 100% Sri Lankan ownership.
In 2001, they introduced the concept of Tetra Paking of Iced Tea to Sri Lanka.
In 2007, the company received an ISO 22000 accreditation by Bureau Veritas and was awarded the Lanka Star, for Packaging Excellence from the Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging, and a Soorya Sinha Award from the Mawbima Lanka Padanama.
In 2011, the company was publicly listed on the Sri Lankan stock exchange.
The brand name, Heladiv, is derived from the word "Heladiva", which means our land.
The Heladiv product range includes ice tea, regular tea bags, flavoured tea bags, green tea, flavoured green tea, herbal infusions, leaf tea in pouches, pet jars, metal canisters, wooden boxes and gift packs.
The company operates over fifty tea cafes across in China and a tea lounge in Colombo.
The brand Heladiv is registered and sold in over 40 countries.
This was the first Peach Tea (under Rs.35/=) Drink I believe it was a One Man Company, long before others ventured into the market. He produced a Flavoured TEA in glass bottles (not plastic bottles) which was fabulous.
Yes Lipton and Dilmah are here in Australia but they can never match with the Original HelaDiv Tea.
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