Total Quality Management (T.Q.M) and my SLEEP

Total Quality Management (T.Q.M) and my SLEEP

I have not had good sleep for the last one year or so.

There were many reasons.

Fact that I had to published a book on (my omitted) Dreams and their interpretation is an example of that inconvenience.

I only dream when I am down with fever or revering form a flu episode.

I probably dream a lot but never remember them unless I am incapacitated.

Be that as it is, may be, for the coming year is not a healthy pastime and this years resolution is for me to catch up all the lost sleep.

In fact I am practicing it for the last few days and it seems to be becoming infectious in the family.

The reason for lack of sleep was my obsession of downloading 100 Linux distributions to begin with but it ended up passing over 200 and not out, which Tandurkar should be bit concerned about.

It was shear perseverance.

Lot of odds!

I wish Tandukar make it this year for the record.

Good luck it will be on your way.

Do not believe on lucky stars but believe in yourself.

My reason for keeping up in the night is that i could never get our telecoms the speed above 5 to 10 bits day time even though I pay for 50 bits/sec.

This where lack of quality is judged by every minute of loss of my sleep.

Then the electricity breaks down and before the download stream breaks down I have to get up and shutdown the computer and restart again when power is restored almost every other day due to sudden interruption to electricity supply.

That is number two in my list of lack of Quality.

Number three is the water supply.

All of the above three i pay through my nose and i have decided to terminate my Linux adventure soon.

That is after I have downloaded a few Linux gamers for demonstration.

I am trying the Ultimate gamer for the last two weeks and there is still 1 GiB left.

Hopefully without any break i would be able to download it from a point to point server.

Hope they place the image in Linuxtracker soon.

Ultimate Linux 3.0 (without games) I was able to download through linuxtracker in 2 days.

My quality of sleep is interrupted by two or more sources.

Number one is Global Warming and its attendant increase of mosquito menace.

Number two is my dog barking at night.

Number three is the fire crackers which my dog hates.

He does not sleep and so do I.

So to solve my quality problem, I need to bring down the ambient temperature.

With coal power and the rest of the factors contributing to its upward mobility I won't be able to solve it.

I will try my ZERO carbon out put (that means I have to die) and failing which low carbon output.

I must go into Metta Meditation and the Dream Mode to conserve energy and low CO2 output.

When I do that mosquito attraction is less.

I will encourage the misquotes to bread in my water buckets.

Then add two or three guppy fish when full of larvae.

Water plants of course I cannot use as vegetables but I will try to find a water plant that prevent mosquito breeding.

When I sleep well my dog also sleep well.

The mosquitoes reach me first and then the dog who is under the bed.

I cannot do anything about the fire crackers.

I will put some ear plugs and possibly to my dog's ears too.

I do not think my dog will love ear plugs.

So those are the few steps of quality control I may employ coming year.

Mind you I will stop downloading Linux within the next few weeks.

I have enough in my archives now.

Dog Puzzle with Economic Stint

Dog Puzzle with Economic Stint

This is a puzzle I leave you to solve in the coming new year.

If you are an American I sympathize with you for using American businessman as a case study.

You should not be worried.

He/she is hypothetical in my puzzle.

The dog is typical Sri-Lankan Paraya (stray) dog.

He/she was speculator, Hedge Fund Raiser and a Swindler par excellence in money markets world wide.

He/she (hereafter only he) is 35 years of age and recently had a bypass surgery.

He wishes to live up to ripe old age of 80 with the ill gotten money.

He would like to raise a dog for his companionship.

Because of his swindling he no longer has friends.

Q.1.How many dogs he has to raise in the next 45 years?

Q.2. When he has to have a bypass operation for his dog to prolong its life by 5 years? (equivalent to 30 to 50 human years).

Q.3. How much it costs  (bypass surgery) for the dog?

Q.4. What happens to the will that was written in the name of the first dog?

Q.5.Is there a Carry Over Hedge Fund (C.O.H.F) for the next dog?

Q.6. How much is the value of it?

Q.7. When he actually dies at 80 what is the age of the dog (dog age not human)?

If you have correct answers not hypothetical please post them under comments.

Dream 20 and its interpretation

Dream 20 and its interpretation

 

Dream 20 was somewhat different.

 

I was investigated for being in my birthday suit.

 

Twice I had being availing myself the freedom of not wearing cloths in a godforsaken place.

 

Not at home

 

Not in my office

 

Somewhere in my dreamland I cannot still figure out.

 

First time was brief.

 

I was guilt stricken.

 

What will my home people say?

 

What will my colleagues would say?

 

Then the second time was more of time for it to be detected by the outside world.

 

That include my colleagues.

 

The end result was an inquiry into my behaviour.

 

Unfortunately for me inquirer was a female with whom I had strained relationship on some unrelated academic matter.

 

The inquiry went like this.

 

Why did you do that on the first occasion.

 

I said it is my privilege and right to be naked when I wanted to be.

 

I was born naked and I do not understand why I need to wear a dress except to protect from elements.

 

Especially when the climate is too hot to wear a tie and a coat.

 

Then I was asked why you did it for the second time.

 

I said well it is easy the second time.

 

It is difficult to lie the first time but the second and third lies become almost spontaneous.

 

So me being naked in public was less of a problem

 

Didn't you have any guilt or shame?

 

First time yes.

 

If my family members knew it would have been a difficult ground to defend and they would have assumed many more reason for me to be stark naked.

 

What about the second time?

 

Well now my home people knows it before it becomes world-wide gossip, it is the done for it to be repeated, say while watching a cricket match which is dull.

 

The the question, why did you do that?

 

I said it is my human right.

 

Animal can do that.

 

My cat does it.

 

My dog does it.

 

Even the big elephants do it.

 

So why not me?

 

I do not find any logic in it.

 

When I see young ones, often the married females do almost everything to bear themselves free, almost naked in public nowadays why when a man is found naked it is obscene.

 

This expression the lady investigating me a back step.

 

She was appropriately dressed.

 

I hope if she was more bare perhaps wearing only a tiny winy bikini to witness my innocence.

 

Besides I have only a very limited span to reveal unlike in the females.

 

Some soft parts and some hard parts were revealed.

 

Then I said the soft part was not made hard anyway?

 

The the lady in gear was in a state of shock and the investigation abruptly ended without any conclusion.

 

I was left without any objective finding what the rationale for wearing cloths which are getting expensive by the day especially the foot wear.

 

I expound the wisdom that only underwear should be absolutely expensive but not the over-wear or the overcoat to protect us from elements.

 

 

This was good one for Maha to interpret.

 

I include two more and he was promptly available by Voice Mail.

 

He asked me why did you send three instead of one.

 

The I told him I was down with a flu and the first two were when i was down a bit.

 

The last one was when I had almost recovered except I could not bear the rain and the cold weather accompanied.

 

Then he asked which one I preferred interpretation first.

 

I told him the last and the others were under bad weather conditions physically and I told him the last one I enjoyed the most the inquiry into my simple behavior change.

 

Before he could commence, I asked him do gods wear cloths?

 

No he said.

 

Don't co?

 

Yes we do not have to wear cloths and we merge our bodies with the environment as it were one whole gracious thing.

 

I cannot understand that.

 

You got to come here and see.

 

When?

 

I am not supposed to tell.

 

So if I am coming to heaven it is no point having a nice dress rehearsal for the funeral parlor guys.

 

Yes.

 

Why do they spend a lot for the last dress which I am not really wearing myself, anyway.

 

You got to ask the funeral guys we are not experts on human clothing.

 

You mean to say if one is going to hell, he or she should wear a nice dress.

 

Yes, I suppose so, the guys in the hell won't let you have one or borrow one to wear.

 

You go to be ready and be naked if necessary.

 

Then I am the one who is going to hell. 

 

In my dream I was without any cloths in my birthday suit.

 

Isn't it?

 

Well it is not like that.

 

If you really won't to be naked you may choose to go to hell but coming back to the interpretation, you were handling the inquiry very well and I was enjoying your real human logic.

 

then why did you stop me in my dream?

 

I did not.

 

Who did it?

 

The lady did it.

 

Why?

 

Don't you realize?

 

NO.

 

She has not had a real HARD one for sometime.

 

Didn't she?

 

That is why some of them get involved in investigations and administration and NOT REAL LIFE.

 

Or I see.

 

Are you really want to hear the interpretation.

 

YES.

 

Interpretation.

 

It is not at all related to you.

 

It is futuristic.

 

In time to come with debt crisis rising to trillions in America people will not get good salaries.

 

The food prices will go up.

 

Clothing will go up.

 

More importantly the global warming will hit America if they wait till 2020 to rectify the CO2 issue.

 

They form clubs called NAKED TRUTH and NAKED APES especially in California.

 

You were dreaming one of those places you wished you would have gone on your holidays in retirement but could not.

 

It was not my faculty.

 

No.

 

Thank you for that information.

 

Who was that lady investigating me.

 

She was from the American Embassy for VISA processing and documentation.

 

The people who wish to go to America stark naked and without any corruption in Sri-Lanka get preferences.

 

She was picking the docile ones without hard parts, lest they get into trouble once they land in California.

 

So people with soft parts as opposed to hard parts get VISA.

 

Wolfer-2-main-lalau-i386-Update

Wolfer-2-main-lalau-i386-Update

Ubuntu based Wolfer is pretty good Linux distribution which boots up fast and breezy.

It is Gnome but appearance is sleek and looks like KDE.

It does not have Cloud Utility and Abiword.

Installation is easy and has some Sinhala capability.

Software download is easy and has Abiword as the first package under office.

It has open office as a base.

It is a pretty good distribution but point to point download took over one day.

I hope they leave a torrent file at Linuxtracker in future.

When One is troubled with Windows What one can do?

When One is troubled with Windows What one can do?

It is strange that when one is troubled with Windows he or she goes into shell and blame oneself and not the operating system.

It is the opposite when one is troubled with Linux.

If he / she is a one who comes from the windows background without batting an eyelid he / she blames the distribution as if the whole hell has descended on him / her. 

It is often a minor glitch he or she has overlooked to configure or may be downloading a suitable alternative package or worse come file a bug report to which a ready solution is available within 6 weeks.

If that does not help one can swap the distribution and select one that suits and download it.

(I have two books already available, not digital yet selecting a distribution and also the utilities and packages, if this blog entry is not adequate enough).

One problem with this approach is if one is not using a torrent download (even this can be painful if there is one seeder who has gone into hibernation at night-simply switched off the computer) it can be time consuming. 

The download time can be awfully long and and painful (I have enough of stories often due to failure of the telecoms but now never or do not complain because I download several at a time and I know one will be finished by morning when I am in deep sleep and dreaming some bizarre episode of Cloud Computing like star wars of yesteryear).

But once one has a CD (ideally D.V.D with almost everything one needs in one pack) the live session is breezy and installation is cakewalk if not catwalk.

Only thing Linux guys forget is to keep it running 24 hours (cron jobs at midnight are vital to get rid of the junk files that collect is one switches off the computer regularly; leave seeds for others to access) at least once or twice a week.

If you are lazy use a the sweeper or do it manually which I prefer now because of the frequent downloads.

Now come to Window guys/girls.

Steps.

1. Do not blame yourself.

2. It is often the operating system at fault.

3. It can be due to a corrupt file or large macro sitting on the file and spying on you.

4. The pet devise to blame is the latest virus and I bet you you will not have a solution this side of 6 months.

With so many holes in the operating system which Microsoft will never able plug and then they will promise you the new version is very beautiful (but very slow to run unless you doubled up your RAM) and one should change and upgrade and works better (of course till the next ultra new version is ready for upgrade).

You are in this vicious cycle (V.C) and never get out of it.

If a guy of my age descends on me with a problem, I do not try to convert the guy to Linux fearing one gets a heart attack.

I ask a few questions.

If it it a pirated copy.

If the answer is yes, thrash the pirated copy and get a copyrighted version.

This is I am openly campaigning for the guy to remain with Microsoft.

Microsoft should be happy with my efforts now but I do not charge anything for this advice.

The poor guy has to pay through his nose anyway.

Do not forget the virus guard and that also will cost you some quids.

Get somebody to format and install, I won't do that for you unless he or wishes to have a Linux distribution dual booted.

His has to spend a half a day with me with food and beverages ready and ample.

This is Christmas time anyway.

If the guy has not got the money, then the scenario changes.

I ask what are the things that he uses computer for, regularly.

Invariably, the answer is that he uses the email and nothing else to be in contact with the family and friends.

Then I give him a breezy Live CD and ask the guy to use it till he himself try to find a remedy for the malady or ultimately ditch Microsoft and ask me to install the new distribution in his computer.

The long course works well for Linux and I of course have to have two visits instead of one.

That of course keeps our friendship lasting and viable.

Who says Microsoft is bad.

It makes "my sphere of activity" to enlarge and expand.

Dogs and Digital Tombs

Dogs and Digital Tombs

This is the best feature article I read during Christmas,2011.

Unfortunately it is taken off the main page and I had to search for it today.

I have some extracts below for your perusal.

I have a suggestion for French and People in Paris.

Instead of stoned tombs in the cemetery, they should have a server with DIGITAL TOMB with all the photographs and videos of the dogs when they were alive and well for not so dog lovers or dog loving Sri-Lankan administrators to see.

For the poo ("crottes de chien"), I have suggestion, they must send them to Sri-Lanka as fertilizer for the Banana Plantation we are growing in the thick of virgin forest to feed American entrepreneurs.

We love anything including "poo", if it is foreign but make sure they are scented with French cosmetics for poos, please.

This is good for our City Planners in Kandy and Colombo where dogs are rounded up and slaughtered and some end in dinner plates as "chicken substitute".

It is no point saying all the beings be happy and content like a mantra.

Without them (dogs) we cannot protect our things from petty thieves.

Extracts

The pampered pooches of Paris

By Joanna Robertson Paris

Pet dogs in the French capital appear to enjoy the freedom of the city, accompanying their owners just about everywhere - and even have their own cemetery.

The pampered pooches of Paris

By Joanna Robertson Paris

Pet dogs in the French capital appear to enjoy the freedom of the city, accompanying their owners just about everywhere - and even have their own cemetery.

There are hundreds of thousands of dogs in Paris.

They can be chosen from puppy-shop windows or ordered from countryside breeders.

They are seen traveling about the city, nestled amongst the groceries in shopping trolleys or peering out of handbags.

Dogs perch on the running boards of mopeds - ears flying in the wind - or sit, swathed in blankets, in bicycle baskets.

They are petted on the bus, the tram and the metro and, for a flat-rate ticket costing 5.10 euros (£4.25), the smaller ones can escape the metropolis and take the train to anywhere in France.

Access all areas

When on all four paws, dogs in Paris can choose from 72 gardens to walk in - from formal palace grounds to tiny urban squares.

In between, they can mark lamp-posts, trees, ornamental masonry and the corners of Art Nouveau metro stations to their hearts' content.

Paris dogs snooze under cafe tables and sit politely in restaurants.

They are allowed into shops - even when officially not - and, from time to time, sneak into cinemas, usually for a matinée on a wet afternoon.

Each dog has its own preferred vet and there are hundreds to choose from.

Each vet has a preferred dog diet. Calves liver, braised. A little "blanc de poulet" (white chicken meat) or a slice of rare roast beef.

What goes in must come out, and Paris dogs apparently drop 20 tons (20,000 kg) of "crottes de chien" (dog poo) on the city's streets every day, although who exactly weighs it remains a question that even the Hotel de Ville (Town Hall) cannot answer.

From time to time, the city's more creative residents have used the crottes as pavement art, sticking them with coloured flags, photographing and painting them.

Mangoes and Weight loss

 Mangoes we eat has lot of medicinal value that has not been studied in the East.

The latest craze in America is a type of Mango that help lose one's waistline.

Unfortunately there is no study on our mangoes.

Whether it help in weight loss or not Mango is a health food.

One mango a day is better than (last seasons Apple which has lost all its vitamin C in storage) 10 Apples from our super stores.

Following is an extract from New York news.

What Is African Mango, and How Does It Work?

African Mango 

Despite the recent frenzy surrounding African Mango and its ability to cause safe weight loss, the fruit has actually been used as a diet aid for centuries in Cameroon, Africa.

The brightly-colored tropical fruit is native to Cameroon's west-coastal rain forests. African Mango, or Bush Mango, differs from other mango fruits in that it produces a peculiar seed, which natives of Cameroon refer to as Dikka nuts.

For hundreds of years, an extract from the seeds called irvingia gabonensis has been used among Cameroon villagers for its wide-ranging medicinal benefits, which range from reducing and preventing obesity to lowering cholesterol to regulating blood sugar to treating infections.

Why one should use DuckduckGO-Bodhi Supports it

Why one should use DuckduckGO-Bodhi Supports it

DuckduckGO has a trendy support of Linux community.

With cloud computing in full swing soon, the emergence of DuckDuckGO is a healthy attribute.

Bodhi and lot of  Debian derivative which port light weight Midori as a browser by default support DuckDuckGO including Puppy Linux.

By the way Bodhi enlightenment desktop has produced and excellent distribution come this Christmas.

It is light weight and has beautiful desktop effects.

 Below is the information reproduced directly from DuckDuckGO home page.

It has a strong Privacy Policy.

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that is based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and uses information from crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia) with the aim of augmenting traditional results and improving relevance. The search engine philosophy emphasizes privacy and does not record user information.

At other search engines, when you do a search and then click on a link, your search terms are sent to that site you clicked on (in the HTTP referrer header). We call this sharing of personal information "search leakage."

For example, when you search for something private, you are sharing that private search not only with your search engine, but also with all the sites that you clicked on (for that search).

In addition, when you visit any site, your computer automatically sends information about it to that site (including your User agent and IP address). This information can often be used to identify you directly.

So when you do that private search, not only can those other sites know your search terms, but they can also know that you searched it. It is this combination of available information about you that raises privacy concerns.

DuckDuckGo prevents search leakage by default. Instead, when you click on a link on our site, we route (redirect) that request in such a way so that it does not send your search terms to other sites. The other sites will still know that you visited them, but they will not know what search you entered beforehand.

At some other search engines (including us), you can also use an encrypted version (HTTPS), which as a byproduct doesn't usually send your search terms to sites. However, it is slower to connect to these versions and if you click on a site that also uses HTTPS then your search is sent. Nevertheless, the encrypted version does protect your search from being leaked onto the computers it travels on between you and us.

At DuckDuckGo, our encrypted version goes even further and automatically changes links from a number of major Web sites to point to the encrypted versions of those sites. It is modeled after (and uses code from) the HTTPS Everywhere FireFox add-on. These sites include Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon to name a few.

Another way to prevent search leakage is by using something called a POST request, which has the effect of not showing your search in your browser, and, as a consequence, does not send it to other sites. You can turn on POST requests on our settings page, but it has its own issues. POST requests usually break browser back buttons, and they make it impossible for you to easily share your search by copying and pasting it out of your Web browser's address bar.

Finally, if you want to prevent sites from knowing you visited them at all, you can use a proxy like Tor. DuckDuckGo actually operates a Tor exit enclave, which means you can get end to end anonymous and encrypted searching using Tor & DDG together.

You can enter !proxy domain into DuckDuckGo as well, and we will route you through a proxy, e.g. !proxy breadpig.com. This feature is part of our !bang syntax. Unfortunately, proxies can also be slow, and free proxies (like the one we use) are funded by arguably excessive advertising.

Because of these drawbacks in HTTPS, POST and proxies we decided to take the redirect approach to combat search leakage. However, we leave the choice up to you. You can deviate from the default on our settings page by toggling the redirect or address bar settings. You can also use our encrypted version.

Other search engines save your search history. Usually your searches are saved along with the date and time of the search, some information about your computer (e.g. your IP address, User agent and often a unique identifier stored in a browser cookie), and if you are logged in, your account information (e.g. name and email address).

With only the timestamp and computer information, your searches can often be traced directly to you. With the additional account information, they are associated directly with you.

Also, note that with this information your searches can be tied together. This means someone can see everything you've been searching, not just one isolated search. You can usually find out a lot about a person from their search history.

It's sort of creepy that people at search engines can see all this info about you, but that is not the main concern. The main concern is when they either a) release it to the public or b) give it to law enforcement.

Why would they release it to the public? AOL famously released supposedly anonymous search terms for research purposes, except they didn't do a good job of making them completely anonymous, and they were ultimately sued over it. In fact, almost every attempt to anonymize data has similarly been later found out to be much less anonymous than initially thought.

The other way to release it to the public is by accident. Search engines could lose data, or get hacked, or accidentally expose data due to security holes or incompetence, all of which has happened with personal information on the Internet.

Why would search engines give your search history to law enforcement? Simply because law enforcement asked for it, usually as part of a legal investigation. If you read privacy policies and terms of service carefully you will notice that they say they can give your information on court order.

This makes sense because they may be legally obligated to do so. However, search engines are not legally obligated to collect personal information in the first place. They do it on their own volition.

The bottom line is if search engines have your information, it could get out, even if they have the best intentions. And this information (your search history) can be pretty personal.

For these reasons, DuckDuckGo takes the approach to not collect any personal information. The decisions of whether and how to comply with law enforcement requests, whether and how to anonymize data, and how to best protect your information from hackers are out of our hands. Your search history is safe with us because it cannot be tied to you in any way.

Things I could not do in 2011-Finding a Book on Turtles

Things I could not do in 201-Finding a Book on Turtles / Tortoises
Turtles / Tortoises are now classified in the same species category.

I use to feed tortoises daily.

The were in plenty in Kandy Lake

One day bystander told me not to do that.

Why?

If you do that the our Kassipu /Toddy / Illicit drinkers will take them and eat them was the answer.

His prediction was right in 1973 when food was scarce and children were dying of hunger our population of tortoises vanished.

This the Buddhist heritage city and that was how we practiced Metta to all animals.

Other reason probably was the pollution of its water.

Then they (once the species was exterminated/genocide) pass a law stating it is a protected species.

We are good at closing the stable door once the horse has bolted.

We no longer practice Buddhist virtues.

Animal are food material and then they started catching dogs and cats for food during Perehara festival.

Vanishing species is not FOOD for THOUGHT anymore.

Below is a reproduction from elsewhere for your perusal.

Conservationists have declared 2011 the Year of the Turtle in an effort to raise public awareness of the precarious state of turtle populations around the world. Nearly half of all living turtle species are considered to be threatened with extinction. Of the well-known animal groups, turtles are disappearing the fastest.

We are in the midst of a worldwide decline in biodiversity. A staggering 12 percent of birds, 25 percent of mammals and 30 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction. Sadly, turtles offer no exception to this trend towards species loss. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an organization that maintains a comprehensive list of the status of the world's species, categorizes 47 percent of all living turtle species as Threatened.

Turtles first appeared in the fossil record more than 200 million years ago during the Triassic Period. Since that time, they have changed little and today's turtles bear much resemblance to their ancestors. Despite their long evolutionary history, turtles are now in danger of disappearing due to a variety of threats including habitat loss, over exploitation, pet trade, hunting for use in traditional medicine, by catch, invasive species, disease and climate change.

Many of the threats facing turtles are derived from human activities. Conservationists look to this fact with optimism—if man can create these threats, we can also reduced or eliminate them. They suggest a number of actions that can help ensure a more secure future for turtles. These actions include protecting rare turtle species and the habitats on which they rely, looking after common turtle species to ensure their populations remain healthy and managing crisis situations such as saving critically endangered turtle species and responding to emergencies such as oil spills.

Coal Power and Health

Coal Power and Health

I was reluctant to talk about health issues but following is an extract from Scientific American.

I was more concerned about "global warming" and medical facts were known from 1952 and having worked in UK I need not have any pep talk health effects.

Scientists especially American Industrial agents had been distorting facts regarding global warming and delaying action till 2020  that was my primary concern.

To the credit of the American Doctors they have facts to prove their claims.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson revealed the rules, which have been about 20 years in the making, at a Washington, D.C., children's hospital. 

Mercury can harm the nervous systems of developing fetuses and infants and can enter the food stream through contaminated fish.

While the rule mostly adhered to the tough proposal on mercury, arsenic, chromium and other pollutants made earlier in the year, there were some differences.

It is time for our doctors (wake up call) in practice to formulate guidelines.

If we do not have coal power then we can investigate cadmium, and arsenic in our rice (fertilizer).

Hackers, Holidays, Homing Folder and Homing In

Hackers, Holidays, Homing Folder and Homing In

Definitions.

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

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

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

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

Hackers and Holidays

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

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

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

You have two back doors unlike in a house.

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

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

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

YOU sign in and forget to sign off.

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

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

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

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

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

Then have any Gorilla Type of browser with your liking.

Then you have to do your own hacking.

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

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

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

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

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

There are many including Pollipix.

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

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

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

HOME FOLDER

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

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

Homing In

Switch off the computer.

Go to the up market.

By some wine, beer, cookies, chocolates, music CD (NO VIDEO PLEASE) and anything else you may think that Santa Claus won't bring for YOU and Home In and enjoy with your dear ones.

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

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

I made another mistake beginning of this year.

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

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

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

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

Till then Good Bye and special thanks to Linux Guys/Girls who made 20th birthday of Linux in September a happy occasion for me to write few books on Linux too.

in out 21st birthday, the KILLER organization called Cloud Computing will emerge and only UBUNTU is ready with the challange.

Special thanks to Ubuntu for Ubuntu One and UNITY desktop.

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

Reason for this unofficial ban of Amazon probably is due to the Eduction Department won't be able to donate the books (20 years outdated-some of them especially IT and Science) they publish with religious vigour to unsuspecting students.
Postscript.
I forgot to tell you when you are asked to fill up a PHP form and not a Zombie but Human, the coockie want show up as desired (you have already removed) the alphanumericals or the phrase and you are not able to sign up witht the web page, if you use the big browser.
Then you ought to go to your tiny winy browser and that will do the needful but do not try to remove the bare essentials ( do not try to hack the toddler browser essentials) of the tiny browser you are using.

I have edited this with grml (Debian based Genome) i downloaded few minutes ago.
Few months ago grml was only terminal with lot of editors.
Now it has a desktop that one start with startx.
Both the browser and the live CD is fast and breezy.
That is what one gets when one shed heavy armer in all the Gorilla browers.
All of them are SLOW ansd LAZY.