Meevanapalane Pora-Distort Dhamma

Meevanapalane is a sex maniac.

He was a Peradeniya graduate he claims.

I have nevet seen him. He does not look  senior to me in age. I knew all includimg the PSU President.

I was a hockey guy and I wad once the President of the sports council.

My gut feeling is this guy has adopted a name of University Graduate now residemt abroad to cheat the monks with a bogus degree certificate.

His ploy is to conduct 2 weeks bogus program in Buddhism and seduce girls at the end of the course.

Hr started as a homosexual but now exploring new Indian avenue Kama Sutra.

Wasa Warthi Mara

Wasa Warthi Mara was a potential uncle of Buddha.

He had triplets Tanha, Rsthi and Raga.

They were not Mara Quens but only an analogy but real human beings.

Mara means to disyract Buddha's concentration for Enlightenment.

Our Buddhisy monks were literary exoerts but vould not master Dhamma like thid Mevanapalane guy who is good at expoliting young girils.

Pulathissa was born 7800 years ago

Pulathissa was born 7800 years ago during Kasshapa Buddha. This is recorded in a cave and there us map of India and Ceylon.

Pulathissa was addressed as a Muni and he was a Teacher of Ayurveda and he had gone to India to teach Ayurveda to Indian students.

What Indians are telling us is wrong.

Bimba, Kumba and Bamba were three sons of Ravana King Wesamuni

Bimba, Bamba and Kumba were 3 sons of King Ravana.

Keveni is one of  the daughters of one of these sons.

This is according to Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi.

බිම්බා, බම්බා, කුම්බා

වෙසමුනි රජූගෙ පුත්තූය.

මෙවා කියන්නෙ මම නොවෙ ජයරත්න පතිරඅආරච්චි මහතාය.

තවත් එකක්

ලස්සනයි

කදිමයි

පොස්ට් කරමුද?

British Vandalism of Ravana Relics of Nuwera Eliya

This is in Evolution and finding facts for a book in the future.

British for their Wisdom had removed a Sel-Lipi in Harrassagla, Nuwara Eliya, a Stone Relic erected to locate the place where King Ravana was interned.

It is said Ravana Curse follow any who desecrated these places.

The Kachcheri was supposed to have caught fire three times in Nuwera Eliya and subsequently the last Kachcheri was build plastering the Sell-Lipi to the wall. 

This the level they go to destroy our ancient history.

It is human vandalism not seen even during Roman time.

With time truth will emerge and the British will be shamed damned for these sordid acts.

I do not ask for representative actions but we should explose the truth in the name of Buddha who followed long after Ravana.

No wonder Coffee and Tea Plantation would have been a ploy to erase this history.

Locals or Sinhala People did not want our history to be erased so they did not volunteer working in the estates.

They were not lazy buy were smart for the time.

Tamils were user for this purpose and currently using Norwegian and Tamil diaspora to do the bidding for erasing the true History of Ceylon.

Raj Somadeva and Indians are still continue to do this shoddy work unhindered.

It is time for proper investigation.

Bokken Kleppe is also in this game.

Working on Sinhala Font

I used to fiddle with Types of Keyboards including French Keyboard but could not get either French or Sinhala document published on Google Blog.

I gave up.

Google has done a grand overall with the help of AI.

I am revisiting both Sinhala and French.

Unfortunately, Linux computer is falling behind.

I would import these files from the cellphone to my computer.

First attempt is successful.

I hope Google let me use Sinhala Keyboard.

හරිද බලමු සිංහල පල කිරිම

පලමු පල කිරිම හරි වගේ.

උස්සහ වන්තය ජය ගනී.

හැබයි ඉබි ගමනින්.

එ වුනාට ගව්වකිනි ඉස්සරහට ඇවිල්ල.

ස්තුතියි ග.

Harankahawa Sell-Lipi

According to Jayaratne Pathiraarachchi in Harankahawa, Pujaptiya there is a Sel-Lipi dating back to 18,000 used by an astronaut.

I believe him.

Have You seen this?

Indian Counterfeiting Drugs

 Thursday, November 14, 2024
Indians Counterfeiting Drugs
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Below I reproduce an article for the greater good of the poor patients.

Counterfeiting Drugs
Even though, I do not write on medical topics now, this is an issue, I was involved for over 40 years but has not seen any improvement after the demise of late professor Senaka Bibile.

It has got worse over the past 20 years and I never buy Indian Drugs for my consumption.
 
Even if, the tender procedures look OK on paper by the time the drugs are shipped from India over 40 to 50 are dud ones (counterfeiting is not the correct term) so that, 50 of the good stuff is filtered and given to pharmacies in India at cut rate.
 
This happen in Ceylon, too.
 
Almost 50% from the SPC stuff is filtered out and dud ones are introduced.
 
There is a Drug Mafia running parallel with illegal (heroin) stuff and that is where almost 50% of the black currency is originated.

That is how the democracy works here and in India and perpetrators (because they are in the majority anyway) are protected by politicians.
 
Americans have woken up but it is too late for the poor patients in Americas.
 
How India's Drug Biz Can Compromise Your Pills‬‬‬‬

In the cutthroat business of generic drug manufacturing it’s the little things that can bolster a company’s bottom line—like fabricating data about quality instead of fully testing products.
 
Some major drug plants in India that exported medications to the U.S., it seems, did just that.

Such shoddy practices can lead to medicine that does not perform as it should or, worse, causes harmful side effects.
In recent years these kinds of incidents have prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to place bans on several prominent drug suppliers in India.
To follow up, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is going to India this week to meet with its health minister and industry officials. India’s drug and food programs will be at the top of the agenda, according to the FDA.
India is currently the second-biggest drug provider, after Canada, and the eighth-largest exporter of food products to the U.S.

The meeting comes shortly after the U.S. curbed imports at yet another plant belonging to Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd., India’s largest drug manufacturer and one of the largest U.S. suppliers. Last month the FDA banned a Ranbaxy plant from producing or distributing drug ingredients for the U.S. market; the firm was caught retesting materials to produce acceptable findings after they had failed the first time around. The company had neither investigated nor reported why the products failed initially, the FDA says.
Since 2008 the FDA has issued four bans against Ranbaxy plants.
At present, no Ranbaxy human drug products are being imported into the U.S.
The company has already pleaded guilty to federal drug safety violations as part of a $500-million settlement with the FDA, after a whistleblower from inside Ranbaxy came forward.

Separately, Ranbaxy has experienced other quality and control lapses, one of which allowed pieces of glass to get into its generic Lipitor tablets in 2012. Ranbaxy is not the only Indian company that has been cited for sending flawed products to the U.S.
Wockhardt and RPG Life Sciences have also received FDA admonishments.

Some critics have blamed lackluster FDA inspection practices for the mishaps, noting that although the FDA inspects domestic plants every two years, it only inspects foreign plants about once every seven to 13 years.
In fiscal 2009, for example, the FDA inspected 1,015 domestic establishments but only 424 in all foreign countries combined. FDA data indicates that in 2013 the agency performed 111 inspections at Indian drug facilities.

Simply ramping up the number of FDA inspections overseas would not solve the problem, however, says Roger Bate, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who studies the drug market. More unannounced inspections in India, along with testing products these plants send to the U.S. would help, he says, but any watershed changes would need to be fueled by the Indian government.
The power to inspect and shut down facilities rests with each state in India, and some states are more diligent than others, he says.
He notes that empowering India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization—equivalent to the FDA—to take action would help address the issue.

Commissioner Hamburg’s eight-day trip will apply needed pressure to the Indian government to crack down on the problem, Bate says. Hamburg is slated to take up food and drug safety issues during meetings with the CEOs of major drug and food producers and with India’s ministers for Commerce and Industry, Health and Family Welfare, and the drug controller general as well as state-level regulators.

She will also be meeting with World Health Organization officials and speaking at the World Spice Congress. India supplies nearly one quarter of the spices, oil and food colorings used in the U.S., but an FDA evaluation last fall found that some of the Indian spices were contaminated.
Just one of many findings: almost 9 percent of the 1,057 spice shipments from India were laced with salmonella.

(For more data on what’s in your spices check out Graphic Science in the March edition of Scientific American.)

President Putin can deliver

 
Thursday, November 14, 2024
President Putin can deliver
 
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
 
President Putin has delivered, what all Russians could be proud of

My comments about Mr. Putin and Russian politics are proven wrong.
 
There aren't any credible geo-politicians, left on this planet

We are going from crisis to crisis.

President Putin has delivered, what all Russians could be proud of.
 
I watched “Sochi Olympics” with much more enthusiasm than watching Sir-Lankans playing cricket with Bangladesh and English getting a real drubbing in Test Cricket by Australians.

The C in cricket stands for Crime and Corruption and I have changed it to Wicket and W in Wicket stands for wickedness they handed over to English.
The mighty South Africans who played well.
Eventuality, caused burnt out for England, and Kevin Peterson (P stands for Pride here), the not so nice guy in the dressing room (because he speaks his heart out unlike, the English who are born with two tongues- one tries to speak the truth, the other is deceptive).

Before taking about Mr. Putin let me dispense the English and Australians.

Like the way they dealt with Kevin, English use the Terrorist Rump (the backside of English politics)  who did sweet nothing to Ceylonese - Sri-Lankan- Image-to their advantage and dump them (like Kevin) off when the going is BAD or Touch,too Bad.

So before they went to Sochi, they were looking for holes (only found ARSxxxxx) in Russian Terrorist Rump and found nothing to find and ended up looking for toilet bowls and were balled out in Medal Table.

The BBC (they have an obsessive group of so called almost Nutty, sometimes Nutzie) group of journalists who were always unhappy even given the best of comforts) never portrayed the true “Russian Spirit”.

Unlike the British, the ordinary Russians are very sweet guys and girls.
 
They can bring the best out, given even the worst of comforts.

They looked after their stray dogs, too.

They proved their mettle without any doubt in Sochi.

The Australians who are also petting terrorist rump (what is left of it) fared worse than English.

What has happened to their “Macho Image” in Cricket and Rugger?

They can say it is a desert and Wild Continent and can wash their hands off.

But I am amazed.

To the Americans, my hat's off to the Olympians who adopted, so many puppies.
 
He is a guy who everyone should admire.

What has happened to “Puppy Sense” of British and Australians?

They must be thinking of quarantining the hypothetical Russian terrorist genes in their “Puppy Blood” before adopting them but they could adopt any terrorist with two legs, left our shores without any hesitation.

That is their wisdom in politics, of course.

Coming to Canada winning the Olympic Hockey (my favorite game being a hockey player of yesteryear (not ICE hockey) is creditable but their political brain is frozen when it comes to terrorists.

It is the breeding ground for the “Next Generation” of terrorists including money laundering and “Yuppie Type” guys and girls involved in “Cyber Cafe Crimes” (money is raised with illegal drugs coming from Mexico through Americas).

Those behind the Iron Curtain dealt a body blow to “Fanatic Muslim Terrorists” with and Iron Fist which Mrs Thatcher now in her grave could be proud of.

Not only that they topped the Medal Table too.

In the mean time all in the European Commission guys were busy splitting the Ukraine into Anarchy.

That is how the Europeans outside, the Greater Russia expanding their Neo-colonialism.

I think Mr. Putin should put an end to this SAGA in Ukraine with real politics, now that the Sochi Olympics is over.

Are YOU a Successful Politician?

 
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Are YOU a Successful Politician?
How to become a Successful Politician
 
I was getting totally fed up of all politics both local and global, mainly because it effected my writing habits, especially books.
I was particularly interested in Election in USA.
Local election, I knew the outcome well in advance and the total lack of political will of the opposition.
They were all geared up for the big post and spent all their money, resources and time, on that post.

Burnt out Syndrome.

They forgot that in parliamentary democracy what is important is vibrant opposition.
I say our citizen's are stupid enough to give 2/3rd majority.

I was particularly interested in ousting corrupt War Mongering Democrats.
It has come good but very soon MIC with it's might will turn Donald Trump into War Footing, starting from Israel to begin with.

Ukraine has become a dead end for Americans but EU guys with twisted tounge will continue to carry the War Flames.

This was of course a dream
This is the Topic of my next book, too.
It has some caveats.
Book won't be published but only on digital form.
If any body wants a copy FREE, he or she has to read one of my old books and send me an email to the email address given, in that book in the last page of the book.

Let me say, it is a Yahoo Mail opened well before Gmail.
 
I have never got an email in respond to any of my books published, either due to nobody has read it/ them at all or s/he has not read the last few pages.

Then they have to find this blog site (I have not given any clues) and quote the latest blog piece to qualify for free book.
Idea is to promote this site and not my books.

Let me say a few words to the guys who were selected to the Parliament I Ceylon.
 
1. Will they pass a bill to cancel pensions for MPs?
 
This is to save money for the coffers to begin with.
This has to be done before they take over the official residences of past presidents.

I bet that they cannot get this piece passed in the present parliament.
 
Reasons are many.
 
a) The privileges for a MP far exceed any CEO in America.
 
b) When they see the comforts provided to the MPs in the present parliament, no one would blame Pxxxxx Nanayakkara (who lost his seat for the first time and he was a List MP not answerable to any average citizen. He brought filth to the parliament for the first time) his crave and stamina to last so long without repugnance.

c) They will never get 2/3rd majority for this bill.
At worst they would say they would introduce that this  "no pension for MPs" in the next constitution.
I will leave at that.

To read about my dream one has to read my digital book.

This book is given free to anybody including present parliamentarians to promote Total Digitization of Government Activities.

This government promised digitization and I want to see how they would do it, successfully.

I will not dish out or volunteer how it can be done being a fully digital man for ages.

I do not use a Mobile

 Sunday, November 17, 2024
Why I do not use a Mobile
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

I do not use a Mobile
 
Mind you I have a land phone.

Read this in tandem with attention deficit (new syndrome defined by me) below.
 
This is something I posted elsewhere.

I have 100 or more reasons why I do not have or use a cellphone.

I will list them as they come to my mind but not in any order of priority.
 
As an intern I hated all calls mobile included since it meant, a batch of new arrival of small kids who have arrived in absolutely appalling condition.

Some of them fitting due to low blood sugar nearing zero.
 
In fact, I had 8 to 10 kids whose blood sugar and CSF sugar levels were down to zero.
 
The government at that time told the public it was due to encephalitis and I proved them wrong even without my medical registration completed.
I used to take blood samples to Medical Reaserch Laboratory in Borella and come the next week to collect the reports.

This is during Sirima and NM and Covinn time.

Then in 6 months later when I went to collect my own data they had disappeared mysteriously from, medical records.
 
Then, what I did subsequently, I have to pen down on a latter date of my life, nearing my death.

One thing was sure, leaving this messy Health Service and I decided to leave the Public Health Service for good and I was glad I did that and if you read Dengue Dilemma elsewhere, in my writings, one can easily guess it.
 
It has deteriorated in quality even though, it has expanded.
 
As a doctor, I hated bad news by telephone.
 
We rarely hear good news when on duty.
 
Later in life when cellphone came, I believed in CPP (Calling Party Pays) and flatly refused a cellphone.

It is a public nuisance.
 
It is a nuisance when the cellphone owner has switched it off when one really need him / her.
 
When you travel on a public transport one cannot have a snooze to drown the inconvenience with frequent telephone interruptions.
 
I love silence in public places.
 
Even though, I don’t use it, I have to foot the bill (kid's telephone bills).
 
 No work get done in public officers.
 
They are busy answering their private calls of nature and it is more frequent than the real call of nature.
 
It is cheaper to redirect a message by email that should end up as a junk or a piece of gossip.
 
We use it for gossip not for creative work.
 
It is private enemy number one when you own the bank or telephone company a small sum in arrears and the reminders by them costs more than the amount you actually own them.

I think you got the picture correct.

I think it is enough for today but I will add more on future date when I run short of a topic to write.
 
Memory and Gadgets
Attention Deficit Related (Mundane gadgets like tablets) to Technology Addiction.

Many years ago, I posted an article on the web regarding memory specially in reference to Buddhist Monks of yesteryear (not today´s TV acting MahaMewna Type) and all the points except my assertion on Mediation Practice (focused attention on the present moment) was copied by an Author of the Scientific American Publication and most recently by another author.

This is one reason, I thought of writing a few books before my memory fails by default and due to old age.

It is rather loss of short term memory and now I have coined a fancy Medical Term.

Few years ago (I still do not take a note or reminder but devised a 24 hour simple protocol to enhance day to day activity), I noticed lapses in my memory and got activated.

1. I won´t use the telephone but buy a cheapest cellphone when I go abroad and drop it to a bin at the airport (this is the biggest handicap and in the middle of your work, one may give a call with a low priority-gossip related call).

When I tried to do that long time ago, one of my relatives in Singapore asked for it and duly obliged. Another one I used for sometime gave it free to a classmate of mine.
His son had lost his expensive cellphone when travelling to Colombo by bus.

Who Cares for an expensive cellphone.

Thank God, one can switch off the cell, then what is the use of a telephone, if it is not doing it's job, simply transfer a message.

I use my land phone at my discretion since I pay the bill.
Not even the Telecom (delay in payment) or the a bank officer can break that law and break into my freedom.
 
2. Won´t sit in front of the TV and watch web videos unless it is related to animals, especially Elephants.

One Baby Elephant dead was trapped in a tree in this country.

There is a video of an elephant mum protecting its young baby from hyenas (we have to protect the young one's from political hyenas and some rabid monks in saffron cloth).

3. I live with living things, the dog, fish, and plants, including water plants.

All three will die if I do not have some simple protocol, not so rigid but to remind me that there are other lifes on this planet, in relation to me.

Fortunately fish can go on for 10 days without food.

If neglected any longer toxic algae will kill them.

A dog will die within three days without water, if there is no care giver.

Believe it or not Dogs never use telephones even in an emergency.
They only BARK.

My dog in particular will start barking for no reason when I am on the phone.
 
He wants me to stop talking quickly and he has not got a degree in economics but he knows how to cut my telephone bill.
 
The garden will go to wilderness in no time.

All these little things one has to be mindful, however busy one is in day to day life, even if one has servants to look after these odd jobs.

They will never do them right in my experience.
 
4. Use the computer and the email productively.

5. Keep in touch with family and family friends in person.
When one sees a friend, just stop for a few minutes and greet them and have some empathy.
You may not see them again could even be run over by a vehicle driven by a fast track lumpen with a cellphone in hand.
 
I am predicting now with Facebook and low priority web videos, the present young generation will hit a very low point, in their middle age with Attention Deficit and I am going to coin the Medical Term, Attention Deficit Related to (Mundane gadgets like tablets) Technology Addiction (AD-R-TA- RTA stands for Road Traffic Accidents and some of these gadgets may trigger an accident on the road too).

Trouble Getting Sinhala font for Debian- Can someone help?

Trouble Getting Sinhala font for Debian!

Can someone help?

Google provides a Sinhala font but it is not available for me to write a single line.

Is Sinhla font is for SALE.

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi please NOTE.

This is why I never tried to write a book in Sinhala. There are "55 Titles" in both digital and print form.

අසක no Combuwa write my name even with symbols of Google.

 

 My attempt t long time ago

මගේ පන ගිය Giya
උ මට ගැහැව්වා මට ඌ ගැහැව්වා

Transliterate in Sinhalese
Mage Pana Giya

 

This is another attempt today.

 

 

මගේ පන ගිය බියර්

උ මට ගැහැව්වා මට ඌ ගැහැව්වා

අක්ෂර පරිවර්තනය කරන්න සිංහල

Mage Panagiya added this gibberish ජීපුළුවන්

Mage Kakula Ridenawa -could not translate

Karen Danne only ne translated to නෑ

 

Google Gone bonkers, Thank you AI. 

 

I would have another go at LibreOffice 25.2- 

Complete failure to import fonts. However, if i copy a Sinhala font from another document source(I do not have any) and paste, they are taken at face level without any distortion.

 

 These are the symbols available in Google.

 

ඨඝඅආඇඅආඇඈඉඊංඃඅආඇඈඉඊඋඌ

ඍඎඎඏඐඑඒඓඔඕඖකඛගඝඞඟ

චඡජඣඤඥඦටඨඩඪණඬතථදධනඳප

ඵබභමඹයරලවශෂසහළ

ෆ්ාැෑිීුූෘෙේේොෝෞෟ෦෧෨෩

෪෫෬෭෮෯ෲෳ

𑇡𑇢𑇣𑇤𑇥𑇦𑇦𑇨𑇩𑇪

xxxxx@debian:~$ su

Password:????????////

root@debian:/home/xxxxx# sudo apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug ibus im-switch ibus-m17n m17n-db m17n-contrib

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Note, selecting 'im-config' instead of 'im-switch'

Package m17n-contrib is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

However the following packages replace it:

 m17n-db

E: Unable to locate package ttf-sinhala-lklug

E: Package 'm17n-contrib' has no installation candidate

root@debian:/home/xxxxx# sudo apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug ibus im-config ibus

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package ttf-sinhala-lklug

root@debian:/home/xxxxx# sudo apt update

Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease

Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease

Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease

Ign:4 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease

Hit:5 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release

1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.

root@debian:/home/xxxxx# sudo apt install fonts-sinhala

Error: Unable to locate package fonts-sinhala

root@debian:/home/xxxxx# sudo apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug ibus im-config ibus

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package ttf-sinhala-lklug

root@debian:/home/xxxxx# sudo apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug ibus im-config ibus-m17n m17n-db m17n-contrib

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Package m17n-contrib is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

However the following packages replace it:

 m17n-db

E: Unable to locate package ttf-sinhala-lklug

E: Package 'm17n-contrib' has no installation candidate

root@debian:/home/xxxxx#

Bokken Kleppe has bribed Our Media over 800,000 each to Publish a False Geneva Presentation

Yes, Bokken Kleppe has bribed undeclared (by the institution) sum to almost all TV media to publish a false Geneva Media presentation. 

It looks like they were recorded in CEYLON with Geneva background and not in Geneva.

There's were few guys showing false entries purported to be gathered from Geneva. 

Google have suppressed them having discovered them as doctored presentation to safeguard their reputation.

 

These were financed by L.T.T.E. Diaspora who are very adept at doing similar false Propaganda, over many decades.

ARCH Derivatives I am comfortable with

1. BlueStar Linux comes first.

2. Newly found KINO comes second.

I have both of them running in my NUC.

They do not have Synaptic Package Manager.

Just now I managed to install Cosmic Desktop for the first time on a Terminal

It removed pulse audio and installer it's own Audio Player.

It is bit like Cutefish but has two desktops on the left.

3. Manjaro Gnome

It had KDE, XFCE and many more

4. Endeavor OS is OK but minimal

5. Catchy OS is superb but it cannot coexist with Debian unlike KINO and BlueStar Linux.

Then come whole list of minimal but mostly inactive distributions.

6. Storm OS

7. CrunchBang

8. Rest I forget the names.

81-D.S.L

 
Monday, September 13, 2010
81-D.S.L
This is the best I have ever used out of the less than hundred MiBs.
When I am busy and could not attend to my wife's computer this the one I give her so that she can get her email read.
She does not know how to save any documents with it.
Who the hell who worry about saving your files at home for use.
Google is now providing mobile space for saving and cloud computing is on the horizon for everybody and USB sticks to go around.

In any case netbooting hardware is the need of the hour.

Linux is there to take the challenge.

80-CDLinux

80-CDLinux
This is good for Windows guys and girls.
They can mount this on a windows partition not on a DOS partition.
I was annoyed that they did not let me install it on a Linux partition.
Fast, cute and good.

79-Trinity Rescue Kit

79-Trinity Rescue Kit
This is a utility Windows guys can use to clean up their box / boxes (if they are stupid enough to have more than one).
What I used to do manually this Linux utility does in series of scripts booted onto the RAM. 

No knowledge of Linux is required only trigger happy (for Sri-Lankans) or mouse click happy (outside of Sri-Lanka) Window's stupid guys and girls.

78- Debris

78- Debris
Is another little utility with many applications.

77- Deft

77- Deft
I have been very busy, if not I may have finished the last phase (last 25 of the 100) my entries by now. I have already downloaded over 200 CD and DVDs in spite of the very slow throughput of our Telecom.
Guys / Girls of the Sri-Lankan doing a very good job with very limited resources they have.
Hats off for them for they are heading and giving a welcome hearing to my constructive comments.
Peo TV is very good venture and giving out a router which is above the Operating System in I.P. / T.P. protocol (Year ago the Modem did not support Linux) so that user can decide which operating system to use.

However, they are far behind in Telecom's innovations such as AsteristNow and the PABX. 

As far as Linux they are nowhere near international standards.

Coming back to Deft. it is a forensic distribution I fished out of Distromania archives. 

Apart form general utilities it has number of forensic utilities.

Trusted Download Sites

Trusted Download Sites
 

Until recently I trusted all sites with Linux Isos.
 

Since things are moving fast and there is no site that can be spoken as a specialist (in my view), I should write this brief note.

I was looking for Big Daddy of PClinux and I could not find one.
With some difficulty I found a link with Softpedia and started downloading.

I keep them as my archive editions.

While I was downloading, the site webmaster decided to delete the image since it was not accessed by anybody recently.

This type of sites you must never trust.
 

They are just delivery system without cross checks.

No checks and balances.

I was very disappointed and finally accessed PCLinux Website and a kind gentleman there gave me a site to download Big Daddy.

If you are looking for archives the best site is Distromania. This hs gone dormant but the name is used to cell demaon site.

1. Distromaina

2. Softpedia which give up to 5 years back issues.

3. Distrowatch which gives you current ones with fairly extensive literature on each distribution,

4. Live CD list site.

5. Linux Questions, site

There are many more sites but beware if they are not properly maintained or they direct you to other sites, lest you may be directed to a rouge site.

I was looking for peanut Linux and finally found at Distromania.
Peanut Linux is now aLinux and aLive.

Security Warnings with Live CDs

Security Warnings with Live CDs

Reproduction of my own piece.
 

This piece is old but valid to this day.

 

It is high time I should write something on security on Linux.

Ever since I started using Linux I never worried about viruses or crashes and hence I never had a firewall to protect me.

If at all I used standard security or none at all since I started downloading Live CDs.

Incidents developing over this year and events most recently happened were eyeopeners.

One needs to have a Security Policy for each desktop in installation.

I follow the Standard Linux Principles.

1. Never use a distribution that is popular but without root as a user.

Unfortunately this principle applies to Ubuntu, too.

That is why I use Ubuntu Linux as demonstration only and never for daily use.

Su is not a good option for me but it is a server administrator's tool as far as I am concerned.

Desktop is not a server.

2. Second Rule is always work as a normal user and never as the root.

3. 3rd Rule is to use high security options and firewall.

4. 4th Rule is to use child protection since there are lot of pornography in the web.

5. Firth rule is when downloading use only a trusted sites.

6. Use light versions of Live CDs for only relatively miner work like accessing your email but not for downloading.

7. Once you are happy with the distribution use the standard version of that Live CD for installation.

I will add up to ten when I have given thought to other current issues and that crop up with time.

For the developers I have this request.

For all light versions of Live CDs please add some enhanced security package bundled into one pack with instructions, how to use them for newbies.

I started using Linux distributions because of their excellent security.

We must not relax on that principle since the hackers that Microsoft hire are at work like worms eating the essence, now and forever, and some of them are modifying Open Source Distributions and posting rouge Linux distributions on sites that are not maintained properly.

Freespire derivatives is one example only.

76-3DGLive

Friday, September 3, 2010
76-3DGLive
 

Another Live CD resting in the archives to be rediscovered.

It has amazing 3D desktop effects like in enlightenment (E17).

I cannot believe why it is in hibernation.

It does not take much memory but the subtle movements with the mouse is fun for children.

Even at my age it was pleasing to play with it.

This desktop should be adopted for a children's distribution for children to learn various dimensions in space.

Who is willing make the to plunge and make a distribution designed for children.

It will certainly improve the hand eye coordination in children to begin with.

This is the looking through glass project.

76-VideioLinx-2

 hursday, September 2, 2010
76-VideioLinx-2
 

Now I am nearing the last 25 of the century, I am digging to Linux archives and looking for lesser known but powerful Linux distributions.
Videio Linux is one of them.
I am writing this with VideioLinux on RAM.
It is packed with lot of audio and viedio but unfortunately there is no Blender.
It is less than 500 MiB and I should down load from the synaptic repository (I prefer they should have done it for me since our Telecom is slow).
Guess from where does it come from?

PCLinux Based and I hope PCLinux get busy with them and make a lowly distribution.

BlackTrack4-74

 Monday, August 30, 2010
BlackTrack4-74
Some irresponsible person probably working for Microsoft may be from India through Freespire derivative hacked and included some scripts to invade my box and interfere with my downloading (I am close to my target of 100) habits was caught red handed within 4 hours of stay inside my computer probably within Firefox as a cookie.

So I booted Live Black Track 4, saved few of my document files used for teaching undergraduate students (no harm done since I have finished my lectures and tutorials long time ago and I have only end semester examination).
 

I never keep my questions inside the computer for the examination.

I did some forensic work and decided to re-install PCLinux2010-07 and I had (first complaint against PCLinux-its graphic partitioning tool has some major problems for a geek or a savvy) problem with formatting different partitions belonging to other operating systems (I use other partitions type as archives).

I did not loose any of my iso images (Only downside was I could not download any images and the plus side is I am giving a new lease of life to my age old computer (IBM of course).

Since it is black (BF4) saving many MBs it is loaded with utilities you may not use for a life time.

I have decided to install it and before that I thought of posting this for my friends who browse through my tit bits.

Hacker you are also welcome.

My efforts are multi-barrel and I have several Linux distributions installed for an emergency.

This is where multi-booting and multi-barrel approach helps.

73-Amatix-2.2.

 Saturday, August 28, 2010
73-Amatix-2.2.
 

Note: This was done with Amatix 2.2 booted on RAM.

This is one of the best Live CDs for a geek with all the utilities, including PABX, MySQL, text editors and many more and Apache and there are three demo passwords and the root password.
You should download it from their website and the CD also has lot of documentation in a series of function keys F1 to F10.

I am forgetting all the keyboard commands and short cuts now that I am addicted to the Graphic mode.

Thank guys and girls you have included the graphic mode in addition to text mode.

Without that I would have lost myself in those powerful commands including apt get.

I am even forgetting even the startx and killall commands with my poor eye sight.

Old guys like us with poor memory would give up without a graphic mode.

Thank again for that.

The website also has very good documentation and one should read them before installing it in your hard drive.

For live CD booting it is all right not having read the documentation but I want give you the password for booting here.

It is mandatory one should read the documentation before doing anything if you are a newbie and testing a live CD.


This is one instance being a teacher myself (not Linux) and voracious reader that I congratulate you for not giving the passwords for your database in advance.

Very, very good distribution.

It is coming from Debian and light weight with xface and very fast to boot.

At the end of the booting it gives a summary (in text mode- read them too) of errors and my one had one.

That is a very good gesture (giving a summary of errors at the end of booting-all live CDs should include this small gesture which is immensely helpful) even for live booting.

Parafox and Linux-Offensive Marketing

Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Parafox and Linux-Offensive Marketing

This word the parafox that I coined in place of paradox to bypass a system that was eavesdropping on my web writing of different nature but in fact, factual in nature, on a Live CD so that I could not be traced or detected by the owl eyes.

It has already outlasted its originating events.

It has got a Linux tag now and if you type Linux and Parafox you are immediately directed to my writing on Live CDs.

The original meaning I intended is somewhat like outfoxing (is human in nature) the foxes but running parallel (is scientific in nature) and close to them the foxes.

Now it is the name for my blog spot at Google's.

If Google can coin a word so do I in the internet.

Since it has outlasted its true nature (if you read the original entries in this blog spot you get the picture clear) I want this word to be designated an entry into the Oxford Dictionary of new words.

If they do not then the Cambridge University should consider it in retrospect for future use.

I have also coined a another Concept.

It is called Offensive Medicine.

It is related to the dengue epidemic in Sri-Lanka.

The inactive Health Personnel in this country put the onus and the blame on the people and sham away from the government's responsibility in controlling it.

They sometimes punish the citizens and it may end up one day killing all the dengue patients to arrest the disease transmission. There are many adopted war heroes who are jobless now who can enact this.

The way the things are managed in this country even the WHO will agree on this measure.
This is all because the treatment is free if one enters a government hospital.

Having said that once upon a time when I was in the private sector I confirmed a case of dengue for a test costing about 50 rupees a person (on a child).

Two weeks later when I looked at the payments received (the institution has to pay this guy) by a particular doctor (he had put three to four entries per day including telephone calls) the charges were many thousand multiples of Rs. 50/=.

He actually did not physically visit the young child.

Soon after I left the institute since I could not do anything to prevent this scenario occurring again.

It is practiced to this day not only in that institution but elsewhere too.

There are no checks and balances!

To put this concept in another situation is appropriate to illustrate its spread.
Government dishes out free books but does not do anything to improve the standard of teaching and teacher training.

If the student fails it is the failure of the student but not the system.

I hope the you got the picture of Offensive Medicine, right.

Today I am going to introduce another concept.

It is called Offensive Marketing.

This concept is similar to Offensive Medicine Concept where the onus is on the patient or the poor citizen.

This is applied to the Free Software and Free Linux distributions.
Somewhat similar to the FUD (Fear , Uncertainty and Fear) mentality if you use Free distributions, there is no support and one bears the consequences.

Onus is his or hers to own but no responsibility attached to the software or the distribution.


It is fair enough but consider a person working for a reputable company takes the free software and add few of his or her own company (example Java Beans. Flash Flush, Adobe Dub to name a few and few of its own household names) brands and put out a distribution, that I call an Offensive Marketing (fringes and frills of it) strategy.

I have reason to believe that this is happening today.

1. The parafox

2. The Offensive Medicine Concept (purely Sri-Lankan Concept based on Buddhist Karma and Karma-Pala-Vipaka).

3. The Offensive Marketing Concept are few that comes to my mind using Professor De Bono's lateral thinking strategy.

I hope these three will get to Annals of Web Publishing before I die (so that I can claim proprietary rights, and that should last 70 years after my death of course).

In a tangential way I want Oxford Dictionary to recognize four abodes its due place., because English does not have proper equivalents.

They are
1. Metta- Universal an unbound compassion to all beings born and to be born

2. Karuna-The boundless kindness to everybody especially the downtrodden, the poor and the sick- We have lost this in this country including reconciliation after 30 odd years of ruthless killings on both sides of the divide.

3. Muditha- Joy to see the well being and success- I have not seen a good word in English. We get the pleasure of putting people to prison.
That is the opposite of Muditha, the psychopathy.

4.Upekka- the equanimity

I have no trust on the English scholars dealing with Oxford Dictionary will give any credit to me for the creation / origin of my word parafox since those 4 abodes that are not recognized by the English speaking community are far more important to all living beings including poor me.

There is no incentive for me to enrich English if nothing is done for my claim for this creation (if not repudiated) by the scholars, unfortunately.

72-Antix

72-Antix
 

I did not know till recently this is the flagship of MX Linux as well as all the Legacy distributions that survived t0 this day.

Mepis was my favorite.

This is the lighter version of Mepis and it is really good and fast to boot.
It is less than 500 MB and has all the utilities one needs.

It is good for old computers with little RAM but does well in new computers too.
 

Well assorted and well done.