New Year Celebrations-2026=DOGS

To begin with No Fire Crackers for  New Year Celebrations.

This piece is actually is an advertisement to my latest book on "Three Ceylonese Dogs". 

One stray dog and two pedigree dogs. 

My advice is one should Read this book before one kicks the bucket or eventually become demented like the President of America.

The Paraya Dog has attained Nibbhana and through him, before attaining Nibbhana,       I have forged an indirect contact with Maha Brahma. 

He is on a long holiday measured in aeons. 

Earthling are prohibited any contact with heaven by default according to Buddha Dhamma. 

Dhamma is heavily corrupted by Tamil Monk Mahanama and MAHAVANSA.

I have taken the liberty to bring sanity to all earthlings and bring out Buddha Dhamma in a subtle way without stressing the mental capacities of the reader of my book, especially if s/he is not a Buddhist by birth.

It would be published only after the current war in Iran vs Israel is over.

I have made this book earthly, while giving some snippets of Samadhi States described in Dhamma.

That is why, I have highlighted the Paraya Dog who attended that higher state, in the first place.

The premise is if a CEYLONESE paraya dog could attain Nibbhana, so do you, at least the Sovan Status.

Sovan Status is supposed to be many times the power of Maha Brahma Status or Sakvithi Raja on this planet earth.

By the way, I have no intention of entering the path at this moment, since I have some unfinished business on my Kamma Pathway. 

That includes visiting our dog Zimba in heaven at least once or twice before me considering entering the Path of Freedom.

In case, I kick the bucket before next Olympics in AUSTRALIA, I may consider visting CEYLON briefly, only after this Niragamika Clan is expelled from power. 

It is a powder keg (of CEYLON) and would bust at any moment.

I want them to be in power for the full 5 years. I want the guys and girls who voted them to be punished, equally. 

Kamma works in both ways.

It is the aiding and abetting priciple in law.

One who helps them to come to power including LTTE diasphora are culpable.

It is already happening both who voted them in and those who opposed them are suffering due to fuel crisis.

Substantially, due to the price hike of petroleum products and fertilizer. 

My prediction is famine in Indian Subcontinent similar to Baminitiya Saya for at least for 5 years (not 11 years as when Kalinga and Magha were ruling CEYLON) during the full Niragamika Regime. 

The lot deserves the timely punishment.

When Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi's wished and tried his best to prove that Buddha was born in CEYLON all the corrupt monks including Ellawala Medhananda were antagonistic. He made a threat of a CURSE and that also may be hanging on the heads of all CEYLONESE who betrayed the country.

The saviour or the future Diyasena Kumaraya may not come or  he may delay his appearance.

Reborn Dudley Senanayake is my viable candidate but my guess is that he won't come at this juncture.

Going to a Kovil and asking help is worthless.This Kapuva, Kattadiya and Devale are human creations by Hindus and has no relevance to Buddhist Cosmology.

I am in a happy mood and I had a reasonable good dream to be retold later but it comes at the end of this piece. An invitation I received for a grand ceremony.

Point 1

Pre Maha Brahma Era

That is the period before me introducing a Computer Server in LINUX to Heaven.

Maha Brahma's action was primitive. 

He has this subjugative attitude to all the beings of lower realm.

Mind you Devas are of different colors. 

We can see distinctly only about 16 to 24 digital colors of a computer. The computer can distinguish over millions of colour shades. 

The Devas or Gods are over million of colours and they are outside our range of visibility of 24 colour shades.

That is why we do not see them. 

One cannot use a computer to see Gods.

That is the bottom line.

Maha Brahma has a Golf Ball like gadget which he kicks randomly and it colour determines the Kusal Status of an individual to be REBORN. 

This Kusal Status is gravity-less and radiates round him at all times until all the guys and girls are REBORN

I forget to say that gravity in hell is much bigger than our eagle who creates over 25G in advancing towards a prey from above. 

We humans can tolerate up to 7 or 9 gravitational force when traveling in space. Anything above kills us in space.

That poor Laika dog died in his first flight and that is when everybody in Russia got activated in studying human physiology.

As a medical student I wrote a piece for our student Medical Journal.

Entry into Hell is instantaneous with a gravity pull of over 100G. There is no delay unlike at the heaven's gate.

At the heaven gate the Good Kamma is evenly balanced with the next outcome in Rebirth. That is after eliminating an equivalent of Bad Kamma that may result in entering Hell.

Brightest colour belongs to the Gods.

Less bright colours belong to lowerly beings like pigs, dogs, elephants, dolphins, sharks and whales.

By the way, pigs are the closet to human genetics.

When Maha Brahma kicks his "golf ball like" gadget depending on the force he exerts the colour or the Kamma status of the ball changes. It automatically selects the guy or girl who belongs to that domain and s/he is born as another god or or pig or dog or any other sentient.

He kicks one and allocates one being and then he kicks again and allocates the desirable realm to the next. 

He is in no hurry and always takes a break.

Then ultimately came to our Paraya Dog. Before this dog left the gate of heaven, he told Maha Brahma that there is guy in CEYLON who is good in Linux Servers and that if I ask him, he may device a Computer Server for Heaven. 

In fact, he has already made a Server for Hell for guys entering from CEYLON and that Server and the Software are working fine without a break.

You need not have to kick this gadget and break your leg one day say, when an elephant or a whale is born. 

The computer can make millions and millions of colour shades non stop dishing out Rebirth in an instance.

You can even go on a holiday.

He said, OK. OK.

I will be back in 15 years with a Server Computer from CEYLON and this guy has a refurbished discarded IBM Server from America in his possession.

This was around 1980s when I was collecting all IBM computers discarded from USA and made Linux Network in our house. I have discarded this Network due to soaring Electricity Bill and moved to a NUC under 20 Watt. 

I left four of my SATA disks two of which are yanked to two external cases.

All my books, stories and blog pieces are in those two external disks. This is the only reason for me coming back to CEYLON to retrieve my digital content of the past. 

I cannot remember what is in store may be many Linux images, my digital photographs of over 10 years and my wrtings including political stuff. 

Before that of course, I used 36mm film rolls and photo prints. They must be in very bad shape. Termites must be having a feast or a field day.

Point 2

Current Maha Brahma Era 

With my inputs.

Thanks to my involvement in Heaven, Maha Brahma is on a long holliday, in aeons. He throughly deserves a Holiday. 

I used send him at least 50 dreams in total of my original dreams for interpretation.

First 35 them are in 3 volumes at Amazon books, named Dream I, II and III. Just Type my name plus Amazon books plus dreams to peruse them. I have 35 other books on various other topics including, Linux and Dhamma. 

My last entry was "Living with Nature".

The current Maha Brahma's assitant is a pedigree dog. He was the Yes Man under Rajapkasa regime. He was killed in a LTTE bomb blast. Appointed Chief Minister of the Eastern Province also died in this attack

He was born as a tourtoise.

This Yes Man was born as a Pelican and thereafter as a Pedigree Dog.

He is the current Assistant to the Maha Brahma.  Do not think of taking over that Post. He has no desire to leave it.

Other pedigree dog is reborn as a paraya dog to learns all the tricks of Our EXIT Dog tricks from other paraya dogs related to the 

him. His goal is to attain at least Sovan having learnt all the tricks of paraya dogs.

Point 3

This dream is related to Peradeniya and Panideniya. When I returned from UK in mid 80s, I could not find a suitable place to buy even some Rehydrat, the sugar and salt packets used for diarrhoea patients. Even, Preethi condoms were not in existence. 

There is Pharmacy belonging to a guy who did not have a valid certificate to open a retail pharmacy.

Somebody in the family may be his father had a certificate to open a Dispensary during probably, British rule. I believe he continued to use the dead father's certificate. He was the eldest in the family. His name is Sarath.

He was related to a politician with LSSP connection through whom Harinee made her entry into politics. 

One day, he dispensed me the wrong medicine. The tablets used for asthma patients had a red colour. He dispensed a tablet with the same colour that aggravated asthma. When customers were not present I asked him to show me the pharmacy certificate but he could not. There was a little altercation and I told him I am going to report and made him to close the outlet, if he does not apologize for his own mistake. He was almost in tears and was begging me not to report.

I said you cannot dispense medicine without a valid doctor's precriprion and he has to make a note of the amount dispensed in Red ink in the prescription. 

He agreed. 

Matter closed.

Those days I used to  go to Colombo on regular basis and I come back by bus and alight right in front of this pharmacy. He keeps it open till 9.30PM. I buy some provisions like cheese, butter and bread if any left. 

It became a working relationship.

Of course, during Corronavirus Pandemic he was in charge of the retail provisions and a single call to him was enough to get our provisions before they went out of stock. 

Then only I realized that had the earlier altercation with him made him an enemy, he would have deprived me the provisions including essential medicine.

Forgive and Forget is a good remedy.

One of my classmates who was Chemistry Special Graduate wanted to do Pharmacy Course and I helped him with all my medical books mostly brought from UK.

He tried to open a pharmacy but he could not. Others won't let him do so, by underhand methods. 

He did some stupid things which I won't go into. I told him you would end up 5 years in jail. He used to sell his certificate to a pharmcy guy in the city and stay at home. 

I told him by law he has to stay in the premises during working hours. So he did for a while which was a pain and he took his certificate back.

He gave to it to this guy. 

His home is nearby and he could come in for an emergency or if the pharmacy inspector decides to raid this pharmacy.

 

Through him, I got the pharmcy guy to have proper cupboards, fridge and freezer away from chicken and perishables. 

Ultimate goal was to give notice of 3 months and retrieve his pharmacy certificate. 

He did before I left CEYLON.

I also told him not to tell him that I was behind all this. 

The presumption is that nobody gets the wrong dose or the wrong medicine. 

Over time he developed the courage to give a call back to the doctor who writes illegibly or the wrong dose. 

Suffice is to say he was successful in his business.

He tried to become a baker but failed. 

There was a big breakery nearby.

Litte FRENCH 

Boulangeri is baker in French

Patisserie is the maker of pastries and sweets in French.

la boutique is shop or store and is a feminine noun.

FRENCH is Funny each noun has a male      (maculine) or female (feminine) grammatical gender. 

Genre comes from this connotation.

After 6 months of paid training in French those are the only words in French I can remember.

By the way, his younger brother opened another pharmcy in Peradeniya Junction.

His name is Keerthi.

This premises belonged to the University and I had no objection. Reason being the drug peddlars of GAMPOLA used to smuggle drugs (narcoics) through the river by boats and the recovery (exit) outlet was right behind this pharmacy. Police new this but never took action. 

There is a raw of boutiques and one of them belonged to an old lady who sold earthenware or pots and pants. I used buy the New Year pot every year from her boutique. The opening Title is New Year - 2026 and remebering this old lady is relevant. She used to rembember me at the first glance but the last time when I met her she could not, most likely she was bordering dementia. 

She was probably in her 90s.

Placing the pharmacy there had some hindrace to narcotic smuggle since people used to gather there by choice and having an illegal operation was not feasible.

I stopped going to this pharmacy and Raja Pharmacy with many outlets in Kandy was my choice.

The Dream 

This dream was related these pharmacies.

I was invited to an opening ceremony there.

That included opening a Network of computers conecting the two pharmacies.

They were using Microsoft Windows 11.

Instead of displaying the pharmaceutical names Ghost Characters appeared on the screen. 

Without making a commotion, I walked up to the Pharmacy in Peradeniya Junction. 

It was the same story.

Garbage on the screen. 

I volunteeed help in LINUX.

They declined.

The computer Server intended for the pharmacy was hijacked by a cyber punk. 

There was the message in this dream.

I do not need to send this to Maha Brahma.

Hijacking a pharmacy to launder money is a distinct possibility in CEYLON.

With the  Government having dealing with LTTE diaspora using any pharmacy to launder the ill gotten money is real

It won't look like a shady deal.

I had a few sips of orange juice and came home for some Earl Grey Tea.

I am glad I am not in CEYLON.

One Night of Trouble with Linux

 Saturday, November 28, 2015
One Night of TROUBLE with Linux

I was trying to upgrade my computer with Linux derivatives and take an early Christmas Break.
I list the Linux Nuances not on any order of merit here.
All these are Human Errors and can be rectified.

I believe all the Linux developers are Doing a great Job but by rushing to put out the distribution before Christmas leave behind some ugly nuances.

They should be excused for minor lapses.

1. Peppermint Front end is Dark and Ugly.

I get a headache after few minutes of work.

2. Libre Office has No Thesaurus in Linux.

3. Ubuntu 14.04 takes four hours,mind you it is not their fault.

Our Internet speed is down to 5 KB / per second by the default action of the Service Provider.

I Pay over Rs.8000 per month and get only 20 GB of downloads which I finish in one day of downloads and the rest of the month GO snail space even to read my email.

This they Call the Five Star Service. 
I hope during the Christmas holiday at least, they allow a leeway. 
 

But at the end of the installation delete the Tmp File which takes a bit of time.

Why can't they Install first in English and give the User to download his or her language afterwards?

4. Knoppix 7.6 is beautiful on a Live Session but has a major glitch.

I downloaded the English version and Installed it to reiserfs partition.
It is not in English but probably in Danish.

I tried to convert it to English at boot time but it boots so fast that touching the Del Key or F2 has no effect.

5. Boot loaders are finicky, especially Knoppix but it gives the option of not installing it and  let one configure manually.

6. None of them detect the UEFI based Window's 8 in my second hard drive. 
I deliberately shifted its UEFI partition.

7. DVD booting of Pinguy, and Knoppix were halted abruptly due to sectors not written properly on the boot disk. 
They were burned by K3B on Peppermint. 
One disk did not finish writing on it.
I am not a novice to Linux and I have gone through these nuances many a times, I can tolerate all this in one night of Linux Dance but what I cannot tolerate is our Telecom restricting my access to Internet even at 5 KB per second.

It is killing me softly.

I take my hat off for all the developers.
I am making these comments before Microsoft guys try to bash (not the hash script) your back with critical comments.
If  you  hear these comments from a Microsoft Guy / Girl please ignore them and have a Patch ready by January.
Mind you Microsoft takes one year  patch their faults by that time they have a new release for which you have to Pay.

Only foolish guys Pay for their own faults and make Microsoft Rich.

Linux, You Guys/Girls need a holiday and you richly deserve a holiday.

In any case I am going into recess any time from now and if you do not hear from me please do not assume I am dead and gone with the wind.

I will be back with all cylinders firing at top level.

Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year, 2016.

My Linux Beginning

Saturday, July 30, 2011
My Linux Beginning
Linux Reproduction for Posterity
Updating My Laptop with some editing
I must tell you after preparing the 15 partitions booting four Linux images it took little over 2 and a half hours. 
 
Pinguy took little longer and 20 minutes extra since I had to install Dropbox and I was connected to the Internet.
 
Half and hour is all that is required to install Linux.

1.Knoppix DVD was the quickest.
 

2. Then Vinux
 

3, Then Sabayon
 

4. Pinguy took one hour and one can cut it down to half an hour if you do not tick updates from Internet and third party software like Flash and Mpeg.
To be honest I had made a mistake in the night by inadvertently using its home partition (wrong numbering of partitions) for Sabayon and I had to redo all including re-partitioning to correct order and numbering sequence for me to remember by heart and I finished in less than two hours.
This would go as the quickest update under one day (24 hours) while doing lot of other things including taking my son out for meal who has high degree of visual handicap and sat with him with Vinux after returning home. 
He of course picked up the finer points in no time and by the time I returned having attended  to Internet cables I had pulled out accidentally while configuring the laptop.
In fact, that took longer than the installation since I had to check all the cables and make sure my download work continued (it broke twice yesterday) and listen to BBC cricket on radio while doing all this.
 
Since PCLinux 64 bits version is not there I am going to install Debian and leave two partition free for it for future day.

Beauty is that the GRUB file/s of each distributions is / are now compatible it does not matter in what order I install them.

That also saved lot of time.

In other words it is going to inhabit 6 distributions with all the utilities I used in various combinations.

I have not installed ArtistX or AVLinux since I have no time for graphic work now but I have their images in my collection if any of my friends need them to be installed.

Laptop is a showpiece but my real workhorses are old I.B.Ms which run almost 24 hours everyday downloading various images I test on daily basis but that exercise is going to end very soon.

I was waiting for the PCLinux2011 64 bits Version but it was never coming and decided to upgrade my laptop with a bigger hard disk which are becoming cheaper by the day.

The steps are 

1. Remove the battery.

2. Remove the Hard disk.

3. Fixed the new Hard Disk and place the old one on a portable mini USB bay/tray enclosure.

4. Use Gparted to partition the new hard disk (15 partition restriction applies  for SATA Hard Drives).

5. Install Knoppix 10 the anniversary edition. 
No problem.

6. Install Pinguy. 
No problem with GRUB and detects Knoppix but painfully slow when updating on line.

7. Install Dropbox in about 5 minutes.

8. Install Sabayon 6 with no problem and it detects both Knoppix and Pinguy. 
 
No problem with XBMC media center and mouse does not freeze.

9. Boot up Pinguy and let Dropbox synchronizes and me go to sleep and it is 6 am in the morning.

10. Test the USB Hard Disk and boots up OK but slow and my data in old hard is intact. 
 
All these without paying any ransom to Microsoft and now I have 7 operating systems 4 on the old disk 3 on the new one with another  7 partitions left for install.
 
Two for Linux Image Storage in NTFS partition and three for Debian Sinhala another three for PCLinux 64 bits when it comes and I still have another partition for testing new Linux distribution and a FAT partition for posterity but sometimes destructive for some Linux distributions with my oversight might make me to reinstall all in one night of hectic work and the whole Saturday for me to  go into sleep mode and have a couple of dreams for Maha Brahma.
 
Please note that installing was done in the night only because out Telecom's download is painfully slow for on line updates (takes ages if done during day time) in day time and all Ceylonese including doctors on duty sleeping except poor Interns who have poor diagnostic skills.
 
Please do not get sick at night because we do not have ambulances to take you to a hospital and the ambulance drivers also prefer a good night sleep. 
 
Then you might wonder me keeping up all night. 
 
Well I had to keep all night up when I was on call abroad often working for three others and patient prefer coming to me at night since I used to solve problems those GPs took ages to give an appointment let alone solve.

Those nightly habits are a bonus when one deals with computing in Linux, not that Linux gives problems but often due to human errors like installing a root partition on some other distribution's home partition due to wrong numbering of the partition table.

Classic Personalities, I Missed In This Life

I have a book on "Classic Personalities" at Amazon Books.

There were 36 in total.

Only one bad guy.

This is from milkman to the top guys in administration.

No diplomats.

 

But I missed 3 guys.

I may have made a passing reference but not in a chapter.

Since, I believe in Rebirth and I may or may not meet them again in my life stream, for the sake of completeness sake, I have to make a brief note of them here.

 

Two Banda and one guy who was a Muslim. 

One of them was extremely useful for my academic work. 

Strangely, I forgot his name but remembered the name, today

Case 1

He is Wijeratne Banda.

Chain smoker but dedicated to his work.

I have never seen him under the influence of alcohol but my guess is that he had some just before landing on the bus to Wattegama. 

He was many years younger but I did not see him after his retirement in KANDY.

He was in charge of the photocopy machine of the Faculty.

I used to buy a bundle of photocopy for my Thesis Work and he keeps it at a side and used them when I needed a set of copies. If one bundle is over I buy another. 

Suffice is to say the money allocation for my work was not enough. 

I spend nearly Rs. 500,000/= from my saving in UK. 

That included buying a Digital Microscope.

I think I did a little introductory book on LINUX, spiral bound.

Spiral spine came from him. 

That was my entry into writing books and the book on Placenta is one of them.

If not for him I would not have finish my book without any mistakes. 

Every page, I may have read 100 odd times to the tiniest detail, colon or semicolon included.

He was trying to build his own house while doing this.

 

Case 2

I forget his Christian name.

May be Punchi or Heen Banda by his stature.

He was an expert on Billiards and Snooker.

He was in charge of our Billiard Table and the Student Canteen.

We had a Surround Audio Player in the canteen. 

We also had a lovely collection of English Titles.

 

Before opening of our New Medical Library we had a overnight Pirith Ceremony, I was in charge of looking after the monks during their Pirith Breaks. With difficulty I managed one hour. I was one who could move out without disturbing the process under the pretext of attending to monks' needs. 

Rest had to sit glued to the ground. With my long legs of a short distance runner siting on the floor was an agony.

I have no problem sleeping on a Padura or carpet on the floor . I did this for two weeks to rest my back due probably to a stress fracture of the spine. I may have sustained it while practicing Hop Step and Jump which I was not good.

 

After midnight, I told Banda we could open the canteen and play Billiards till morning. 

He could treat me finer points. 

That is what we did. He shows me a particular shot and try after him. 

This top, bottom, left, right, screw, roll over, top left quarter etc;. he taught me. That how I could beat any Western guy in United Kingdom.

Thank YOU Banda.

 

Like Wijeratne I did not see him after he retired before me.

Case 3

I called him Marcam Marker.

I did not know his real name 

He was the marker at the Ballard Table of the Faculty Club.

We go there for beer.

Loser pays for the beer was the tradition.

My good friend Laxman Denipitiya who is Stonybrook in USA. 

I was his best man and I saw in only once after that when he appeared for a Guest Lecture.

Marker was even better.

He used correct my posture when nobody was at the Table.

We were living at Arruppola.

I used to miss our last night bus to Arruppla.

We use get into a long distance bus and get down at the RAA Kaddie ( Toddy) Junction.

He waits until I finish clearing the top of the mountain.

Reason the Wild Cat comes after midnight to catch dogs and cats.

One day he showed me the beaming eyes of the fairly tall Wild Cat.

I used to carry a torch. 

I did not believe it before.

He was so concerned about my well being.

He takes the next bus to Wattegama.

I managed to train a guy to play billiards at IMMI in Digana.

He was in charge of the Table but could not play. Most of the time I could not find a partner and there were only a few and most of the British and American guys have left because of the  JVP threats.

I let him win the last game as a good sportsman but he had to earn it. 

It went on for solid 2 hours. I spent 7 hours learning it and giving 2 hours for a new guy is not bad at all.

IMMI was closed and I collected all my Playing Gear.

Playing Cue

Jumper Cue

Sad part was my mother in law gave the Playing Cue to a Mason Bass when we were building our house on an anthill.

I did not make a fuss since there were no Billiard Tables left in the university.

These JVP student guys were using the Ballard Table as their Lunch Table.

That is the level of their sportsmanship of NPP/JVP combo.

 

Dhana and Single Meal

 June 9, 2011 by asokaplus

Dhana and Single Meal

Single most important principle in Buddhist Practice is its Dhana, the giving away ones possessions, without expecting anything in return.

This is something of an antithesis to modern world, where, self, image and one’s possessions are dear and belonging.

How it is practiced by Buddhist monks is discussed here briefly to make a novice monk adopt to modern trends in a demanding world.

A Buddhist monk ought to be light in baggage and belongings.


A monk could have only two cloths (Chivara), one for wearing and another for change.

How it should be made is also under strict and elaborate instructions.

The eating habits are also under strict code of practice. I would discuss that in detail here. When it comes to eating, if one ignores the morning meal, which is very light indeed, a monk has to survive on a single meal, and that has to be taken in the early evening not late as is modern day practice.

You may wonder why I took some interest in this.

This examination is scientific in nature and if you need satire read American Pie.

There are many reasons, and I would jot down only a few.

If a monk in the West practices this according to the strict code, it is a severe test for them, adopting this regime in the winter months.

Equally, I have seen some monks who try to adhere to the regime regimentally and religiously have ended up sick and malnourished.

If one becomes a Buddhist monk in adult life who had enjoyed somewhat a liberal life, changing to a single meal is a severe restriction on their diurnal habits.

One’s hormonal status, glycogen storage and status of the acid secretion in the stomach are habituated by ones daily routine (life style).

Changing this having become a monk should be done on a staggered basis giving time for the body to adjust.

Additionally, many of them do not have an understating of what is a balance diet.

What I stated above is obvious, but over years, I have seen many Buddhist monks suffering from food related diseases, especially diabetes mellitus.

This is something not welcome and unexpected for my own consumption. I have no intention of going into how one becomes a diabetic but for me somebody on a single meal getting diabetes mellitus was something of an enigma.

In this scenario, having thought a bit about it, I put the blame squarely on the layman.

Hope one is not amazed by this statement.

I would go into this briefly.

The upper and the higher middle class families are the ones who get quota for the Dhana for the residential monks in the city.

Their, idea of a meal is a lavish one.

Many of them are also diabetic because of their over indulgence.

The offer of Dhana is not done on a regular basis.

So on the day all the sugary, starchy, heavy but nutritionally unbalanced is offered. These Dhana days also happen to fall on weekends and holidays. The monk has no choice. They consume a diet heavy in carbohydrates which stimulate their pancreas to the limits on weekends and practically having an austerely meal rest of the week.

My theory of this up and down (erratic) stimulation of the insulin status, make them prone to diabetes in middle age.

This may be aggravated by lack of exercise and having sugary drinks (tea) to counteract the late evening hypoglycemia.

It is the duty of the layman to look after their welfare on a regular basis instead of lavish feast once a month.

Medical education is in its prime stage now especially on nutrition, the doctor should advise the upper middle class families what is a balance single diet for a monk who are practically at the mercy of the rich laymen who impart their inherent diseases to the clergy.

I would give some advice later regarding what to be offered and what ought not to be but for now let me digress a little.

I wanted to test myself whether I can survive on a single diet.

(For the record, I have not taken a single rice meal over 12 years and it is my health secret!)

I am more than convinced that it is possible and healthy.

But it takes time and it cannot be practiced overnight.

Prehistoric Man

Prehistoric Time -15,000 to 30, 000 ago

Having proved it to myself, I delved into man’s prehistoric period and how man survived in adverse climatic conditions and food scarcities.

Hunter gather never had three meals a day.

At best he had only a single square meal never three meals.

He mainly survived on big games in a community life style. He was

omnivorous and supplemented his diet with fruits and nuts. They

probably did not suffer from diabetes mellitus and his teeth were

strong, the enamel was thin but the dentin was thick, hardly had

caries. In times of food shortages and diseases there were signs of

enamel deficiency and bone diseases. These changes are recorded in

prehistoric fossils which date back to 15,000 to 30,000 years. Until

such time he became nomadic man milk was in short supply. Only

milk supply was maternal. The average woman was thin, and she

only had children once in four years or so. (It is now believed that

when a woman is thin -prehistoric women had to work hard, almost

equaling man’s efforts-like modern day women athletes the ovulation

does not occur. Additionally, prolong breast feeding without weaning

suppresses ovulation).

The man probably was sturdier and taller but comparatively thinner

since he had to work hard in hunting exercises. He probably lived a

shorter life than a woman (45 years), probably 35 years or so died

not of modern day diseases but by injuries sustained in hunting.

As far prehistoric man is concerned a single diet existence is not a

fantasy but a fact.

Paleolithic Period- 5000 to 13 000 years

Why man became an agricultural man is a mystery but available

evidence suggests dramatic changes in climate at the end of the ice

age and population expansion. With the emergence of the nomadic

life and mans entry into agricultural endeavours, he entered into a

sedentary life style.

However, he never gave up game and hunting until such time he

domesticated adequate livestock.

I would like to figure out that he was never a pure vegetarian.

The Asian wolf became associated with man around 13,000 years

ago probably scavenging around man’s domain. The dogs and wolf

can live on a single diet perhaps even longer and with the loss of

mammoths and huge games, wolf also found living difficult but

drifted with the man for game. His eating pattern, scavenging to

begin with which our present day dogs inherit and illustrate by

scavenging city dumps, is a reminder that even this period the man

existed (present day practice of feeding a single meal to a pedigree

dog which I don’t agree with) on a single main diet.

Even though, the agricultural practices were extensive, failure of

crops were common phenomena, the demise of Maya Dynasty was a

true example of catastrophe in history. In spite of extensive

agriculture, food was not plenty and the food preparation from

harvest to meal was labour extensive and man continued to

supplement meal on animal and animal sacrifices. In this period

population expanded probably because women becoming

comparatively fatter and fertile (it is interesting to note that when a

woman is too fat, like present day, fertility drops) and their body

composition was ideal for reproduction. But with success there was

impending catastrophe too. Famines were common due to

reduction of crops, failure of rains or floods.

The man became shorter and less sturdy due to sedentary life.

We may be able to surmise that even in this period man ate a

variable diet, characteristically a single meal which was

supplemented by animal, fish, shells, fruits and nuts.

How and when man discovered use of salt and spices is open to

question probably towards the latter stage of Paleolithic time.

Contemporary History from 5000 years to 2500.

During this period man was eating mixed diet containing milk (animal), sugar, salt, spices and animal and fish products. In spite of agriculture man

never ceased to consume animal food, in fact it became a major

constitute, judging by the tribal and religious practices from 5000 to 2000 years.

This is probably the period where single supper or a single meal changed to multiple meals especially in the upper classes but slaves and lower classes subsisted on an average single large meal.

The longevity and average health increased proportionately to

double the prehistoric period.

Most of the sages and philosophers except hedonists lived an austere

life while recommending the same to the masses.

2500 and the emergence of the Vegetarian Life

Even though some Jainers advocated vegetarian life, it was with the emergence of the Buddhists way of life in India that preceded the current wave of vegetarian (purported to be healthy) food fads.

Neither, Ten Commandments, the Jesus Christ’s Sayings nor Muslim Koran

abhors sacrifices of animals.

The vegetarian life is comparatively new one probably only 2500

years old in the history of mankind and that is why, there are so

many misconceptions.

Unlike monkeys, baboons and gorillas who are mostly vegetarians, from which man originated in an evolutionary point of view, the man had always been a carnivorous mammal.

2500 years is a small time in evolutionary time scale, a healthy

dialogue on vegetarian diet is mandatory in the present context.

Our intestine and teeth bear different relationships to tree dwelling

mammals, some are morphological in nature (genetic) and some are

based on the diet (environmental) we eat.

That is the view I hold, an opinion not substantiated.

As far as the growth and development of children are concerned my view is that single diet is not adequate.

That is my entry point to discuss another point of view.

Can a young novice monk who has not gone through puberty be

sustained on single diet?

This is a question I find it difficult to answer even thought I have stated my gut feeling above. This is another reason I defer on ordaining young underage monks (there are other reasons stated elsewhere) apart from psychological maturity to go on an austere life as prescribed by Vinaya.

Parents should have a critical say in these issues.

They should not plunge a young one into priesthood early in their tender years.

What should an average Dhana (Single Meal) should contain?

The physiological effect and the calorie intake of an average meal should

last 18 hours.That is the time when the glycogens storage starts to become

depleted. The diet should not have high sugary (desert) components that

stimulate surge of insulin and late dumping syndrome due to insulin

surge at the time of the meal. The vegetarian diet has no problem since the fiber makes the release of dietary sugar gradual.

The best desert for the monks is not ice cream but fruits.

Out of the fruits, the best is bananas which releases its sugars

slowly without upsetting insulin surges and maintaining a stable blood sugar. Milk and curd are preferred, since they give a supply of fat for starving intervals.

Missing ingredient is nuts, not only they contain short fatty acids which supply nutrition for starving intervals and also healthy vitamins.

I would encourage the young monks to go liberal on fruits and

nuts.

A supply of nuts (not aggalas and jaggery and sweets), fruits, papaw, banana and proper breakfast cereal containing millet (Kurrakkan) should be the breakfast for our monks.

Somebody should invest and develop a proper breakfast cereal for our kids (which can be used by young monks in their growing years) instead of foreign breakfast cereals. For the monks in the West a Buddhist dietitian with knowledge in Vinaya practice should investigate how their mid day Dhana

should be constituted.

My belief is many of them are having an inappropriate diet for

winter conditions. I hope a good breakfast cereal will emerge from

the West for the monks on a meagre diet.

My prescription for priesthood is entirely different. When I see young monks in the TV giving emotional speeches rather than mature sermons, I become sometimes terrified.

Even my twilight years, I sometimes reserve my judgment or giving

advices on certain issues. Never over the telephone, only, when I can

have an eye to eye contact with the person concerned where I, can

have an immediate assessment of the person’s psychological makeup

and the reactions.

One can do more damage by volunteering advice not appropriate. My advice goes as this. Let the young one follows a simple observational life. In other words learn to observe in a simple scientific and logical fashion.

Teach them science in simple terms as we tend to understand them from facts to fiction. Children learn fiction better in the early years and they should be

allowed to mature into scientific and factual way. They have the philosophical views embedded in their brains. Encourage them as much as possible.

This is why they always asks mommy why?

Encourage the philosophical views at an early age, even though we do not have ready made answers always.

Then only they should be allowed to think of a religion or religions in their life. If we are to stop, young from being taken into terrorist or religious cadres, that is the only way out left. That is the very thing we are not doing at present and ignoring. We are slowly encouraging and allowing young militants being made out of innocent minds because of our failure in commonsense education. Most of the religious and militant groups know this very well, the best currency to propagate their rigid views is the young mind.

  

American Pie

 Tuesday, October 6, 2020
American Pie
 
Comparing an average American’s eating habits with ours is a revelation by itself.
 
An American eats a cow / bull every ten years.
 
In every American there are at least 5 cows in him / her by the time s/he is fifty.
 
If he has not got Mad Cow Disease or Alzheimer’s Disease what s/he eats in the rest of his life is any American doctor’s guess.
 
He eats a pig every three years.
 
He eats at least 50 chickens and one turkey a year.

Some Americans of course eat much more than this.

My worry is every cow/bull s/he eats, at least an equivalent of 8Kg of fodder is needed to support its life to obtain 1Kg of meat.
 
If an American stops eating 1Kg of beef s/he is saving about 8Kg of grain for a poor soul in Africa or Bangladesh.

Out of the tons of grain produced more than half (this ratio has gone up with the increase of Chinese Middle Class population) is spent on animal feeds and some American cows are better fed than African kids. 
 
These Chines factories now BREED Coronavirus. 

Only to be sacrificed as human food.

The current Pope should give due consideration to these facts and he should give a hearing to this fiasco and if the grain saved by saving the poor cows / or bulls is multiplied by the factor of eight by 1000 (well the fed cow’s weight) there is an excess grain in this world to feed everybody.

Equally FAO should take this into cognizant.

Looking by some of Ceylonese who lavish on food I cannot say there is any difference to American mentality, here in Ceylonese (especially who visit here to take a break from the winter).
 
Coming back to a single meal, if an American or Western guy sacrifices a single meal a week, like our Buddhist monks who live on a single meal a day, we would be able to feed some hungry children in Africa and Asia without any problem or NGOs.
 
WHO also should take this fact to their cognizant.
 
I don’t believe in what our agriculture minister who says, that food prices have gone up because of biofuels.
 
The production of biofuels has being going on for over 25 years.
 
One should realize that the ancient man and his closest friend the dog survived on a single meal in spite of their aggressive hunting skills.

Eat less is my recipe!
 
Three rice meals a day is two much (unless one is heavy manual labour).
 
I lost my weight only after stopped eating rice.
 
I was like a pig when I was eating meat including pork!
 
I wanted to celebrate 12 years without eating a single grain of rice but differed it due to Coronavirus epidemic.
 
I am compiling all the bad things about rice cultivation currently.
 
My conviction is to stop cultivating rice in this country BUT import RICE like Dhal.

Ancient Tribes of Ceylon including RAVANA

Chola destruction of Anuradhapura

This 10th BCE and the establishment of Pollonnaruwa.

 

This is recorded in Thirivanangodu bronze record in India.

Ramashwaram

Magic Carpet or Air Crafts 

 

Seeta was abducted by Ravana.

 

Hanuman Bridge of 20 Kilo Meters 

 

Siyabakangadu Bronze edit.

 

Shiran Daraniyagala

 

Who red the Earthenware in Kandy region has recorded a contemporary Ravana edits.

 

Aristotle on Thaprobane or CEYLON.

 

Prechristian Era of 7000 to 5000.

 

Daraniyagala records in Aluthnuwara in  Anuradhapura.

Sive Hela ruled by 4 Kings and two of them were probably extraterrestrials.

 

We do not believe in Gods like Indians.

 

1. Yaksha Tribe

Ravana was one Great King

There were at least 12 RAVANA kings over 30,000 years of prehistory but only one became well known due to Seetha and Ravana Story.

2. Raksha Tribe

Kings unknown

There is Rakska Gala in Dimbulagala.

One has to read and discover their leader or the King by scrutinizing the Stone Edits. 

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is NOT going to be helpful now that he is  in a hospital seeking medical care.

3. Deva 

My Alien Invasion Saga.

 

In records in the East, these alien visitors were considered Gods, meaning coming from the sky. The crafts were called Dandu Monara Yantraya.

 

Dandu Monara Yanthraya

Additionally, in Christian and Muslim records they were considered Gods who came from the sky.

Let me put my own Alien saga here.

 

I believe in aliens, they have been visiting the planet earth, for millions of years according to Linda Moulton Howe.

 

Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist, author, and documentary producer known for her extensive work on UFOs, animal mutilation phenomena and alleged alien abductions. 

She has published four books investigating these topics, including An Alien Harvest, which links animal mutilations to extraterrestrial activity and Glimpses of Other Realities, with compiled testimonies about non-human interactions on Earth. 

Howe also produces the Earthfiles website and podcast, focusing on unexplained mysteries and human-alien interaction.

Animal Mutilation 

Howe's research into unexplained animal deaths has led her to believe they are caused by aliens, as documented in her book An Alien Harvest.

Crop Circles
She has investigated and documented the complex crop formation phenomenon in England, U.S. and Canada.
Alien Abductions and Government Coverups.
Her work includes exploring testimonies of human abduction and speculating that the U.S. government may be involved with alien beings in a coverup.

Documentary Production:
Howe has produced documentaries and is known for the Earthfiles website, where she shares findings and interviews with individuals with evidence and experience related to these phenomena.

Awards and Recognition:
She was honored with the Lucius Farish Foundation Award for her contributions to UFO research and productions in 2013.

Books

Explore her works such as An Alien Harvest, Glimpses of Other Realities and Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles.

Earthfiles
Visit the Earthfiles.com website to access her ongoing investigations, interviews and podcasts. 

Documentaries
Her work is featured in the History channel's series Ancient Aliens, with an episode dedicated to her career titled "The Linda Moulton Howe Files".

 

4. Naga

These are actually Reptilians and British Royal family probably has some connection to Reptilians.

 

Fight between Devas and Nagas probably resulted in a Nuclear accident and sinking of Original Lanka, is my postulated hypothesis (belief). The historical records are hidden in Indian Hindu Temples. 

Indian invaders of CEYLON in the past have hijacked all the documents and artifacts.

 

The ancient Indians believed them as Devas.

 

5. Lost Continent of Lemuria
Heckel
Helena Blavatsky
Mythical homeland of 7 races of Humanity.
 

Limas and Lemuria.

Continental Drift
Sircorn

Supercontinents

Pangaea 300 million years ago.

Antarctica is the remnant of lost continent.

Gondwana 500 million years ago.

 

 

Lemuria from Wikipedia

Lemuria , or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated by occultists in supposed accounts of human origins. 

The theory was discredited with the discovery of plate tectonics and continental drift in the 20th century.

The hypothesis was proposed as an explanation for the presence of lemur fossils on Madagascar and the Indian subcontinent but not in continental Africa or the Middle East. 

Biologist Ernst Haeckel's suggestion in 1870 that Lemuria could be the ancestral home of humans caused the hypothesis to move beyond the scope of geology and zoogeography, ensuring its popularity outside of the framework of the scientific community.

Occultist and founder of theosophy Helena Blavatsky, during the latter part of the 19th century, placed Lemuria in the system of her mystical religious doctrine, claiming that this continent was the homeland of the human ancestors, whom she called Lemurians. 

The writings of Blavatsky had a significant impact on Western esotericism, popularizing the myth of Lemuria and its mystical inhabitants.

Theories about Lemuria became untenable when, in the 1960s, the scientific community accepted Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, presented in 1912, but the idea lived on in the popular imagination, especially in relation to the Theosophist tradition.
 

Scientific Origins
Lemuria was hypothesized as a land bridge, now sunken, which would account for certain discontinuities in biogeography. 

This idea has been rendered obsolete by modern theories of plate tectonics. 

Sunken continents such as Zealandia in the Pacific, and Mauritia and the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean do exist, but no geological formation under the Indian or Pacific oceans is known that could have served as a land bridge between these continents.

Fact or Fiction- Moon Story?

 

Fact or Fiction- Moon Story?

I enjoyed reading more than writing.

My writing was a later development, starting with some blog activity and on a private web page (not on public domain) to save printed paper.

Entry to public domain was a later development and most of my time was spent on learning Linux without a Guru.

I am more of a computer fanatic interested in the Linux more than Windows.

Only fiction, I read with interest was God Father.

I consider reading fiction a waste of time but hit the films on the first day, if the film is based on some form of factual incidents.

More of forensic interest of the type of Colombo cases.

Kennedy assassination, The Day of The Jackal, French Connection, Italian Job and later Space Odyssey and Alien connections (fictional Paul) were few of my interests. 

 

Dog stories (Heavenly Dog and many more) are of course on top of the list.

To me landing on the moon (man not physical objects) was a fiction more than a reality.

Going through Van Allen belt to me was a mystery.

The rocket that powered (numerous failures) and the technology they destroyed after landing on moon on first attempt and needing another 45 years or more for another moon landing are not only hearsay but are probing questions.

 

Please watch the films Operation Avalanche and Something Went Wrong On The Way To The Moon.

I am happy that I am not an American citizen.

If I was and if I tried to investigate any of the above, I would have been eliminated by the CIA, just like many others.

How many lies they concocted on Kennedy Assassination?

The bigger the better it was my understanding!

The context here in this piece is Mafia and Drugs.

Mafia and Drugs go to the previous century (18^th) but proper investigation was commenced only recently.

That was also by President Richard Nixon.
  
Why?

In this country politicians are waking up to it, after very long slumber.

That is also around elections and after the election they give political cover (protect dealers) to the bigwigs.

Drug Enforcement Administration

he Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1, 1973, by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28. It proposed the creation of a single federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as consolidate and coordinate the government's drug control activities. Congress accepted the proposal, as they were concerned with the growing availability of drugs. As a result, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE); approximately 600 Special Agents of the Bureau of Customs, Customs Agency Service, and other federal offices merged to create the DEA.

Clown and the Circus

When a Clown takes over the palace, the palace becomes a Circus, is a Turkish proverb. Currently, AMERICA fulfills the TRUTH arisen from this proverb.

My Exclusion Xone (Zone) Linux Distributions

I am in a happy mood and there is no paranoia involved when writing this piece.

Today is March 15th and we are one month away from Sinhala and Tamil New year. I am moving to Holiday Mood inspite of the Economic downturn and failure of the Talk Talk and No Walk the Talk  NPP/JVP, the Indians stooges in CEYLON.

Anura is a Disaster and ousting him should be our New Year Resolution.

Attending at Oil Anointing ceremony in the Natha Devale is not going to help them at all.  That is simply due to Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi's bold moved  and Ganegama Dhamma Visuddhi Thera's simple predictions. Our corrupt monks especial the High Monks cannot elevate their own status. They are a national disgrace, I mean our monks including Bokken Kleppe in Norway.

Indians are the worse affcted by their duplicity closely followed by Turkey (Name change does not effect the moral of a country. It is similar to CEYLON politically becoming SiR Lanka)

These distributions violates the BASIC Fundamentals of Linux Principles and would peter out eventually.

Kali by becoming the pervert

Ubuntu becoming a commercial Enterprise 

Redhat becoming a Corporate Entity

SuSe becoming dysfunctional 

Vanilla a frozen immutable status

Tuxedo due to UBUNTU base and high price of hardware. Already other hardware with different Linux Distributions available.

Pop_OS of System and Cosmic Desktop is a big failure 

Sparky Linux based in Poland doing CIA bidding in place of Tens or Light Portable Linux

Elemetary OS trying to reinvent the Linux wheel

And many more failed distributions.

I am going to mention the successful distributions in a different piece.

Rest fall in between these two extremities.

Top Successful Linux Distributions

1. Debian and its GNOME edtion tops the list.

2. CachyOS comes second

3. Linx Mint stand tall

4. Neon User Edition with KDE

5. GNOPPIX coming fro Singapore due to its innovative approach and I have no objection for their commercial approach

6. REBORN OS for ease of use

7. BlueStar Linux

8. Endeavor OS

9. MANJARO OS with many Desktop versions

10. Void for its SystemD Free openness 

11. Batocera Gamer

12. GLF Gamer - Linux France

It is based on Nix OS package Management System which is devoid of libraries. Each oackge stays independently in  /store. Bit similar to Endless OS.

Why Linux Gives a Head Start to Microsoft Windows?

 Monday, October 4, 2010

Why Linux Gives a Head Start to Microsoft Windows?

 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 and 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 the brotherhood?

Where is universal the 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 GiB 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 300GB or 500GB 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.

Trick Exposed and Cannot Keep a Copy of Linux Image

 Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Trick Exposed and Cannot Keep a Copy of Linux Image
Richard Stallman is right, moment the market forces are introduced to Linux distributions, there is hardly any difference from Microsoft, Apple or Oracle and for that mater XandroS, Freespire, Mandriva, SuSe or ArtistX.

After many days of downloading what is said to be free distribution I am unable to keep a copy of Mandriva, Suse or ArtistX in my USB hard disk for safe keeping.

Thank god I did not bother to download DVDs in the first instance.

I was happy with CDs,

I have no intention of selling them.

I am interested in testing them and saying something good about them generally and expose some of their weaknesses as I see from a customer perspective so that next version can avoid minor irritations.

Customer is the best judge and Linux guys are not trained to be good salesmen any way.

That is why the Linux guys with commercial interest fail.

That is true for Mandriva and SuSe.

The have hidden tricks up their sleeves.

They do not let you keep a copy for reference.

This scenario can be overcome by following methods.

1. Burn several copies of the CD and do not bother about the Iso Image like me.


2. Use K3B and make a image without burning a CD /DVD. K3B makes a temporary Image in tmp and rename it. That is what I did with ArtistX. And then copy it to a CD/DVD or to a USB hard drive (but remember its temporary name).

3. Forget about using that distribution and select one out of the 100 and one distributions I have listed in this blog sopt.

4. Once you are comfortable with Linux avoid all commercial Linux.

5. Best solution is to have couple of Live CDs that have the applications you need.



When you try to copy, in the final few seconds they disrupt the coping process with a little script at the end that says it cannot be copied.

If they say it should not be copied it is a different matter.

Even if I sell a few copies I cannot become a millionaire.

This is absurd in the true spirit of FOSS.

They are no better.
Wolves in sheep clothing.
Take hard working Developers for granted.


Mandriva has the way of disrupting the last few MiB which does not tally with total MiB so that the would be newbie has to go and buy a copy.

If you are lazy it is far better to buy rather than download a Iso with missing files.

Like a good salesmen one must state the facts but not like an insurance agents or dealers who have hidden clause/s.

A clever customer can catch you and detect the faults unlike the gullible guy with lot of money and spare wallets.

It is like a bad dream or joke!

Pendrive Linux, Textbooks and Gambling

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Pendrive Linux, Textbooks and Gambling
Even though I spent nearly 9 months investigating (could have been 3 months if our Telecoms provided us with Express Highway- at the rate of 3 distributions a day in 3 hours) Live CDs, my single interest was carrying a Flash Drive in my pocket not more than 4-8GB in size in my retirement. That is the only thing, I can afford in my retirement with the government expecting me to kick the bucket sooner than late, so that they can save money in their coffers.

How can a pensioner who spent over 40 years of serving the average masses could have his or her head above water with the cost of living showing an upward spiral?

I do not know.

My old professor in sick bed and he could not afford the expenses having served 40 years in service.

I used to bring him medicine from abroad and he could not afford a good English detective novel. That is the only thing he wanted me to bring from abroad. Thank god he is no more and suffering. 

He taught me a few lessons which I carry to this day.

Honesty, integrity and above all outspoken and confident in all what he did.

I hope he is in heaven for the way he changed my outlook, in life and matters of importance and self integrity.

So, Pendrive not a Laptop that I carry in my old age and to my grave and they should be sealed, for a century for historians to study our way of life, if human race could last that long.
Little over one year or so, I prepared number of Pendrives with various Linux distributions. Unfortunately, I cannot use then in the University since none of the computers can be booted from a Pendrive. They are pretty old and some of them we purchased just before the bomb blast at Katunayake.

We have not had an upgrade since then.

We could not afford to network the rooms and the cost was prohibitive.

What we did was to get some help from Lions Club and bought all the equipment for networking and trained a few university guys in networking and got the work done.

We only paid them over time and that was also stopped abruptly.

This is the way the University functions.

This job would have cost us over 2 millions.

I knew the price very well. 

Just before joining the University I was in private sector and we wired the entire hospital and we had to get some things from Singapore since our IT industry was not considered existing, then.

All the rooms were networked except my room.
You may wonder Why?
I was fed up.

I did my own network at home and my network was faster than one in the University. I climbed the roof and wired it myself.

Even now I cannot download a Linux distribution in the University even at night.

So why bother leave the University, if one wants to upgrade oneself.

That was what I did.

I left the University in my youth and I was earning my professor's salary on a weekend locum in London, England.

Unfortunately. things have not changed much for the younger generation.

Now that the Government has legalized betting it is imperative that the internet access should be fast and open to everybody.

I saw an Indian betting gentleman was inquiring from Indian Express whether online service is available, in Sri_Lanka.

Come Cricket World Cup, everybody will be betting except watching and enjoying cricket.

My impression is that this is going to be the Worst Cricket World Cup.

You wait and see.

Weather, grounds, umpiring and betting going to be diabolical.

Now that I was off the target a lot.

Not without reason.

Instead of me talking about Pendrive Linux please visit the home of Pendrive Linux and see it for yourself.

I have copied part of the page of introduction of their website below.

But my last comment is, if I am the Minister of Education, I will have a simgle distribution of Linux on a Pendrive with all the dictionaries and all the Textbooks copied. Then the children do not have to carry a gunny load of old outdated government text books on their back. Not worth reading with this fast changing and expanding universe of knowledge.

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