නියම විප්ලවය කියන්නේ

නියම විප්ලවය කියන්නේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී සියයට 46% කින් බලයට පත්ව ඇති වෛරයෙන් රට පාලනය කරන්න හදන පිරිස සියයට 51% කින් පරාදය කිරීමය.

එයට කාලය එලඹ ඇත.

එ කියනේ දකුණෙන් බිහිඋන (මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්), ජිල් මාට්කාරයාගේ ජිල් මාට් එක පරාදය කිරීමය.

How to Shorten Python in Linux?

Nobody has found a way to shorten Python in Linux.

I always try to avoid learning Linux Python.

I looked at i when it was 2.2 in Debian and gave it up having read the book "Joy of Linux"  written in the style of like "Joy of Sex"  by guys who worked in Kinsey Report.

These guys were critical of Python but found its loopy arrangement is good for cron jobs or repetitive jobs or in real work of automation.

I think Linux partitioning and installation are done by looking at the script during installation.

I do not have any understanding of coding commands like clang but even Cachy OS got stuck three times in in installation and failed.

I went back to REBORN OS for recovery.

Cachy OS takes twice as time as REBORN OS for each jog and my ADVICE for Cachy OS guys is to look at the Python and shorten it and stop looping (to much automation) during installation.

I think AI may fail and looking for RUST may be a solution but is not yet ready.

I am not into coding now and never Google's Visual Code which I gave up without looking at it when 1.2GB CODE became 2.4GB in less than a year.

I am trying to see how we can replace Google CODE for a better CODE..

Then I will look at the code in my 80s.

Well REBORN has finished installing.

However, Reborn OS Fire has some problem with installation of its desired applications. I used my preferred Easy Package Manager. Reborn Fire cannot switch off Easy Package Manager and switch it on probably duet o too much graphic but my Guess is the Python which got stuck.

By the way, MX Linux is brisk in installation and took only 10 minutes.

It has to improve its desktop environment but I immediately go for my favorite Gnome Desktop on top of KDE. 

Gnome also has to improve its appearance not its Image. 

REBORN OS comes from America. 

Thank YOU Guys and Girls. 

I hope AntiX in beta stage would come out with a new and a robust old code from GREECE.

I think GREECE is an English protectorate and English guys have become very LAZY. 

 

 

I found Two Cellphone Compatible Linux Distributions

They are like Window Managers in Linux.

1. Lomiri is the better one.

I can log off and also run applications installed in my NUC. 

2. Phosh

Portmanteau of phone and shell.

One can swith cellphone mode to desktop mode effortlessly.

Elaborate schem

Slides up and down.

I did not know how to use it but fiddling with the mouse got the two mode.

Log out icon is there on top right hand corner

It goes into sleep mode instantly and with the mouse click activate to cellphone mode or desktop mode. One can access any application installed on the PC.

Both are available in Synaptic Package Manager.

One is over 750MB.

Other is at least 500MB.

I am going to fiddle with them and learn.

Much better than UserLand utility.

Now I know Morph Browser was developed for Linux cellphones and now has migrated to Linux desktop. Light weight and is similar to Dillo but lighter than Dillo.

Reborn OS UPDATE

Reborn OS is one of the easiest to install only rivalled by Manjaro. One should give a reasonable large /var partition perhsos over 10GB. My standard is 6GB but I run into problem filling it up. This does not happen, never with Debian Gnome. Debian knows how to allocate space. 

Reasi being applcations are fireign to REBORN OS allocate space in the /var partition.

Be mindful.

I got BlueFish from Software Center

Firky is becoming innovative.

Missing applications are stored in Software center.

It tookbonly 5.8GB to install GNOME.

I am trying angelfish browser, now.

Unlike Synaptic Package manager 

I must go for catfish if not cutefish.

Cutefish is not there but catfish is available.

Tried Installing Linux Excalibur but Failed

I tried installing Excalibur on a dysfunctional 3 EXT4 partitions.

It failed.

Its instalation only took 5 minutes.

Preparation took one hour.

All in Text Mode in a Terminal.

It uses only 3 partitions.

Boot, Root and Home.

No Vat and Tmp or Opt.

Ruined my  GRUB Boot Loader.

It is only 1.9GB Iso Image.

Desktop is Xfce which I hate.

Experience is no different from SOLUS. Saga and almost identical.

If anybody wishes to experiment with Excalibur he or she is on personal peril.

I am a doctor in retirement and was an Ace Problem solver in active life both in CEYLON, UK and New Zealand.

Australia of course I pretend not to be a doctor. Long time ago, I wished to work on Northern Territories of Australia and I did not have money for tickets and VISA fees and gave up until I moved to New Zealand for a health payment but a very heavy job.

Once I worked 172 hours on two weeks.

Their labour regulation was 40 to 44 hours for a week. I was doing twice the workload and was covering for 3 recedent doctors and the OPD Emergency care during weekends. 

I threatened to sue the administration for violating their own labour regulations.

After I left, nobody joined the hospital and the local GP who was very smart guy was appointed and he saved his bills for his dispensary expenses.

It was a Win Win situation for him.

I returned home and joined the University with a very poor salary.

I became very active politically and plan was to send Rajapaksa Regime home unless they remedy our salary anomalies.

It was a 3 year long struggle and we sent him home. The plus side was he approved out saraly 3 months before my retirement and I did not get a red cent in salary increase. Not even my due promotion.

My promotion interview was held 3 months after my real retirement.

In the interview I said I would never walk into the University again.

Interview was over in 5 minutes before I let my steam out which I used to do if I am not going to be selected.

Yes, I did that at Central Bank of Ceylon 48 hours before the LTTE Bomb Blast.

I said Central Bank deserved it in a metaphorical sense not on literal sense.

I wrote this while reinstating my GRUB not on terminal but on graphic mode.

It is finishings and I am back to normal.

Last part is to say I do not go into Panic mode in Linux.

Just multitasking.

Linux Installation Simplified

With Debian GNOME:

With all the applications I may need installed, I have used 13.3GB, leaving 12.2GB remaining in my/root file and I would not get any warning, saying there is no space in any of my /EXT files including /var and /tmp.

I prefer /tmp instead of Calamares /opt which gets filled up quickly in REBORN and MANJARO.

A

Hard Drive Space 

/root 25GB and 30GB is more than adequate.

/home 15GB

For EFI, boot, var and tmp or opt 10GB.

50GB is ample.

SWAP now optional but I leave 16GB.

Twice the RAM was the old recommendation.

40GB NFFS partition for storing Windows Files, say doc files.

100GB is enough and the rest is for the storage, say  storing GAME files purchased.

In my case no games but 5 different distributions and at least 3 ARCH derivatives.

B. 

At least 5 USB sticks for writing Iso images.

C. 

Software 

USB Formatter 

USB Writer

D. 

Spare Time

E. 

Do not Listen to YouTube guys, 99% ot them  come from previous Windows or Apple background and hardly know how Linux operates.

F.  

Good Passwords for root and user.

H. 

AVOID 

Ubuntu

Zorin

Pop OS

Tuxedo 

Elementary OS

I. 

SOFTWARE applications

Synaptic Package Manager

Avoid SOFTWARE that is bulky with sandbox applications.

But if an application is missing in Synaptic one should look for in SOFTWARE.

Bluefush is not available in Forky Synaptic but is available with SOFTWARE.

J. 

Applications

Depends on one's needs.

Olease do a web survey to begin with.

M. 

Visit my Blog Post if all the above fails to satisfy the needs.

Type a Qquery and Wait.

YOU have to find the web page yourself.

Linux Support for Androids

Alternative is to run cellphone on Linux Debian Gnome through,

Phosh

Lumiri.

Do not cofuse wih Niri whicu is abTiling Window Manager.

I just gave up on Linux support for cellphones after Ubuntu and Debian with only terminal support.

I have found lwo utilities now, thank to Forky developers.

I have not yet tested them fully.

They are

Lomiri

Phosh

Hope more would surface.

One additional finding Gnome GRUB cannot support ARCH derivatives but ARCH can support GNOME.

GNOME base is old and conservative.

ARCH completely new but innovative.

I am gradually shiting myself towards ARCH.

CachyOS is efficient and strict but cannot coexist with other ARCH dervatives.

My shiting towards ARCH is due to its flexibility especially REBORN OS.

Manjaro is no different.

Thank YOU guys and girls for your wonderful work.

One can never expect Apppe Mac and Microsoft Windows to be innovative in the face of globalization of the code.

Unfortunately nothing is penetrating into Russia and China.

They live in their Own Worlds.

I of course hate Chinese stuff but I have a Chinese cellphone I bought in CEYLON with a cracked glass.

I cannot afford my favourite cellphone Nokia in Australia.

It is very expensive.

I had 10 Nokia cellphones with 15 SIM cards but none in Australia after paying 35 US dollats for 6 weeks in Australia in 2023.

It is more expensive now.

SATA disks are too expensive and thete is no hope of me getting my two terabyte portable hard disks left in Ceylo to service.

I would not visit Ceylon until this NPP/JVP government is expelled by force.

They will try to hang on until the last moment even though they are the most unpopular government in recent history.

They came to powet with 46% percent 4% less than the constitutional requirements.

That කපටි මැතිවරණ හොරා from down south did a roundabout ජිල් මාට්  to propel Anura to power.

No lawyer with guts opposed his sordid plan.

Now the entire country is payibg the price.

I now CURSE ජිල් මාට් කාරයා.

Unfortunately he comes from my ulma mater Peradeniya University.

Even the Peradeniya University has paid an untold price. It was totally under water including the Senate Building.

He is junior to me and I never saw him during my student days.

Jaya Mangala Gatha and the Blessings

I had only 10 days leave for our wedding.

Only thing I requested was get two teams to sing Jayamangala Gatha. 

One team for me one and other team for the going to be wife. 

Those blessing last for ages and to those who sing them. 

Those little girls each had a Parker pen and lot of extravagant chocolates for them to remeber the event for life..

Those girls must be having their own children by now. I hope these mums teach their children to carry on the age old tradition.

Anura is the only guy who refused the recitation in his inauguration.

He reaping the adverse effects of breaking the tradition.

I feel he is a curse to this country.

Guys who love Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi should recite Jayamangala Gatha for 3 days on the trot.

Not a recorded stuff.

Children are always a blessing.

I am not saying this because I did paedtrics for a long time in UK.

Those  children never hear Jayamangala Gatha and their suffering lasts long.

In addition children would overcome the fear of the current devastation, if this practice is revived in schools.

Having seen the devastation to Peradeniya University, well the current Vice Chancellor needs lot of blessings.

Recorded Jayamangala Gatha on radio or television has no effects.  

In schools they put records.

One does not have to understand the words in Pali.

If one underground the words the benefit is exponential.

As an adult now I prefer the Peon of Joy.

Aloka Udapada

Vidya Udapada and

Panna Udapada sung in the "Aneka Jathi Sansaram".

Kelum Jayasumana also should practice my advice before he gets a Heart Attack.

Otherwise, lot more Curse and Suffering would befall on Ceylon.

For a change Chritsmas Carol should be banned this December.

Go back to the time before Portuguese came to Ceylon.

Even, the wild elephants are calm after hearing Jayamangala Gatha sung in a musical tone.

Elephants love musical tones.

There was a British Guy who wanted to kill 50 elephants for tusks. He was killed by the elephant, in his last attempt.

I love elephants and I am against parading them in Kandy Perahara.

I have been boycotting Perahara for over 45 years on that ground alone.

It is not a Buddhist festval but a festival forced upon Buddhists by the last Tamil and Hundu king.  

British were a curse to Ceylon.

See the devatation in the Tea Plantation in CEYLON and in Mid Africa.

I love tea but I have cut down the number of cups. Tea market would slump and Tea prepared for export were damaged.

Muslims who do not have no contribution in Tea Production will dump the rotten tea to the masses. I know it and I invetigated their sordid acts in the past. They mix tea destined for manure in attractive oackets.

I used go for a Tea Center run by a Tamil invester and smell the tea before buying.

Tamils do not cheat in business and that is why they are successful.

Mudlims a different kettle of fish.

Saudis love our tea our best brand "Heladive Tea" was bought by them.

 

It looks like a section of Tamils are becoming a curse to Ceylon.

Our Rivers

 Reproduction and old piece

Our Rivers

Some years ago I remember walking around the campus and finding all the bridges were badly maintained including the Railway Bridge in Peradenya and Panideniya.
 

I decided to write up something on river basin management.
 

If I remember correct I send a draft to a English National Daily but they never bother to publish it or publish a similar article highlighting how Kandy as a district was neglected by politicians for the last 35 years or so.
 

The politicians past and present once they assume duties come to Kandy as a routine pilgrimage in a motorcade (now in helicopters) over these dilapidated bridges and do sweet nothing afterward. 

 

This cycle goes on ritualistically since they never get out of their cars or from their air conditioned rooms except for choreographed editions of their meeting of the electorate.

So I decided to publish them in the open, that means in the web.

Three years after that a shoddy job was done at Peradeniya Motor Bridge (nothing probably for Railway Bridge) and still the Peradeniya town is under threat due to earth slips. 

 

Most of these damages were initialed by heavy construction undertaken to construct telecommunication towers and some name boards in the hill above the Peradeniya town.
 

If one walks along the river side of botanical gardens cracks were visible on the road for decades but nobody took notice of all these symptoms and signs and the negligence by successive governments went on unabated. 

They provide lip service come elections and after that they move to Colombo and never come to Kandy even on December holidays.

Kandy had been a neglected city after the British left for good.

I have stated these observations based on my limited sphere of activity and everybody who is somebody should observe what is neglected in his or her sphere of activity and record and report them for the local government to act upon them.
 

But I cannot remember anybody acceding to my requests and comments.

However, I did not go into details of landslide since my understanding about is limited but my experience of it from childhood is enough to say the least.
 

I have seen part of the massive Ampitiya Uduwela landslide more than 50 years ago when many people left that village for elsewhere in fear.

Now in Kandy no place is safe.

In addition, during the Mahaveli Development the land reserves were divided among some of the kith and kin in public service and politics for a pittance and that also had encroached upon the river basin.

The management of the river basin was left to mother nature.
 

In addition heavy equipment used and detonation used over the past 30 years have even compromised heavy tension wire installations. 

They even remove the wires and reinforcement used to anchor the pillars. Enough damage is done one day high tension wires might even fall on our head nobody would give a damn.
 

Roughly a year ago Kandy train could not go past beyond Panideniya for three days due to stretch of the track above collapsing on to the drain. This part is still not fully serviced and the trains do go pass that point to Kandy daily.

I have decided to stop going by this train since one is not sure whether one would return safely home the same evening.

It is time we forget about Mega Projects and divert our attention at least to refurbish the existing infrastructure before they fall apart completely. 

This is how the public service is managed and it is getting worse by the season. There are so many ministries and there is no coordination to say the least. The events that are unfolding in Kandy and around are due to lack of foresight and negligence by the authorities holding high posts.
 

This cycle will repeat ad lib!

Mak-kos. Mack-kas, and Mac OS

 

Mak-kos. Mack-kas, and Mac OS

 

1. Makkos (Mathiwarana Komasaris) is our Election Commissioner.

He trains his officers to rig the count at Counting Stations.

This was what happened in Kandy, last time round.

They (counting officers) are given drinks after midnight and the covert operation begins.

They should be sacked (according to our civil service practice that originates from British) from their normal work and appoint them as our foreign ambassadors after the victory parade.

2. Makkas are the fleas.

They rig the voter at home and at the polling booths.

They are blood suckers and live on blood (political violence).

3. Mac Os is Apple Mackintosh Computer with its latest Operating system to rig the results.

Last time they were imported from India with Indian hacker's to help the commissioner.

This time they come from America, now that Steve Job is dead it is easy to use Mac Os for rigging.

 

It is called “Computer Gilmart”

DO NOT Try SOLUS

To start with it does not look like a standard Linux Distribution.

USB image is 3.2GB and boots OK.

To begin with it configures the WiFi OK.

It does not have an entry for EFI to begin with. It ERASED the EFI with FAT32. I went back deleted and made a new EFI ENTRY.

It.Actually it made FAT partition to boot as im Legacy computer.

Later I found that EFI partition allows any boot script to be written either legacy or UEFI. I have no problem with EFI since I do not use Microsoft Windows.

Installation took only 11 minutes and I knew it would not boot. 

Besides, it killed the BIOS entry without EFI for booting. BIOS flagged me to say, that there is no hard disk to boot. 

I was so annoyed I made lot of mistakes while making correction but Debian Base warns me of my mistake before committing.

SOLUS did not flag or gave any warnings.

I guessed at the end this SAGS SOLUS may come alive since I left /boot entry.

It did not and I do not know what dedkto it has.

I think this is an independent distribution made by some bone headed guys in Ireland, just luke ZORIN guys.

If SOLUS come alive I would find 10 more of its shortcimings, if ever it mounts on my NUC. These guys probably were Unity and Budgie guys who have lately realized their own mistakes and trying to come to the fold of Debian by stealing the work of Debian.

AVOID this distribution by all means.

Since I have not used it in the past and I am going to make an entry in my upcoming book, this SAGA was a necessary episode but was a Catastrophe.

I really went mad.

Manjaro Cinnamon

 Manjaro Cinnamon

I was bit unhappy with KIRO Linux with dull desktop features to save on memory.

I tried all the Big Linux Images fro K66, K612 to K17 Kernels buy none of them had the the appropriate drivers for the basic NUC .

Last time when I tried Lastold linux they did not boot.

This time I found Manjaro Cinnamon (not the community edition), there.

It had the same problem  as with Manjaro it took more than half an hour to read my partition table.

Once it read the partitions it is smooth sale.

WiFi configuration was smooth

Cinnamon Desktop is beautiful and elegant and I begin to like it.

Also brings the past nostalgia, using it during 32 bit time.

It is at 24% after 12 minutes filling up the partitions.

I hope it is not frozen at 24% after  such a wait. It looks like it the Calmares that is frozen unabke to make /tmp/ root file.

Like UBUNTU it opens all my Partitions without root permission.

I manged to move 2 iso to the NTFS partition.

It is not the RAM that is holding the the installation.

Password on live Session is Manjaro.

It was a typical MANJARO failure and I hit the kill switch before it destoys my GRUB file. I am still to find a suitable iso to install.

LastOS is also a failure.

Whay next?

I may try beta version of Antix25.

Revisting KIRO Linux

It comes from Belgium.

Historically I have heard nothing good about Belgians and that certainly has some effect on this simple review.

To begin with I won't withdraw my remarks about Variiety Wallpaper using it back port to snoope on the user.

It is ARCH based and Xfce which I do not fancy.

I had a spare GNOME instance which I almost never used.

So I installed KIRO to try installing Gnome and Plasma.

It is light weight and used only 10GB of 25GB / root partition.

I could not remove Variety and it is bound to command line by default.

It looks like it is used for school use and the desktop effects are good but not as good as BlueStar Linux.

KIRO Linux is of low priority to me.

Successful but it ERASED by GRUB.

Only BlueFish Linux and Reborn of ARCH tend to live together.

I want to see KIRO could, if not it will be ERASED soon.

I should get my GRUB back to see the probable invasion or evasion.

Sinhla Codec not visible in Google - Discrimination or Blocked?

 

 

ලෝකයේ පවත්නා නිදහස, යුක්තිය සහ සාමය යන්නෙහි පදනම මිනිස් පවුලේ