I have decided to devote on Linux Games when I retire (if that will ever happen) and because of that I am yet to download a games DVD.
Games in Linux, that is the only area it is lagging behind.
Games in Linux, that is the only area it is lagging behind.
Now that the downloading of Gamers Linux DVD is in progress by dawn of Bakmaha Poya Day, Linux Gamers DVD (4.4 GiB) would be ready barring power failure due to thunder and lightening in Kandy.
We had a very big shower today and by midday computer which was cooking at 95 F was switched off.
My hard disks are chockablock with Linux images and it is high time I quit this adventure of mine.
We had a very big shower today and by midday computer which was cooking at 95 F was switched off.
My hard disks are chockablock with Linux images and it is high time I quit this adventure of mine.
All night and till early morning (best time to download) I was configuring all my Pendrives with Puppy Linux 4.2 (from biblio), DSL 4.4.1 (from Australian University), Parted Magic and engineered method of PCLinux KDE on Flash Drives with UNetBootIn as Linux Utility was the penultimate step.
Yes, UNetBootIn has some teething problems which I have stated elsewhere, no need of repetition, here.
Long holiday was blessing in disguise!
Yes, UNetBootIn has some teething problems which I have stated elsewhere, no need of repetition, here.
Long holiday was blessing in disguise!
Little over 3 years ago my interests were to have a Linux on a Pendrive (Puppy Linux), the latest SuSe DVD, latest Mandriva DVD and Linux Gamers DVD (Knoppix in particular with kids in mind) to play with in Christmas 2008.
I used to get somebody in Kandy to download these and after months of perseverance I get a badly burned (with Nero) DVD.
That also in 64 bits version which I cannot use.The other ploy was to get the DVD from a chap who comes once a month to deliver pirated copies of all Microsoft utilities and few Linux CD/DVDs.
It is very often, me coming down to Colombo and searching either in Liberty Plaza or Majestic City the DVDs in Linux and never for pirated copies of Microsoft utilities.
I had made a firm decision that I will not use pirated copies (it is stealing) which even some Buddhist monks who are preaching virtues are violating in this Buddhist country.
So entry into Linux was with a firm base and not by anyway accident.I had made a firm decision that I will not use pirated copies (it is stealing) which even some Buddhist monks who are preaching virtues are violating in this Buddhist country.
Then the guy who used to bring Linux DVDs got married and I never heard of him since then.
The one who used to do some downloading lost his business place (owner raised the rent).
One of my favorite Linux students went to Colombo and another went abroad.I was left high and dry.
Nothing was in my favour.
One I trained in Linux in the University has become incorrigible and he would be downloading only Movies but not Linux CDs interestingly using university lines (resigned from computer committee on the pretext of migrating full time to Linux).
No wonder I was bitten by the D.I.Y. BUG (Do It Yourself Bug) and I took a short holiday and went abroad (had some medical work abroad too) with a list of items to buy and convert my house into a little network (with lot of secondhand items all over the place in my house).
Last World Cup Cricket in 2007 with war in rampaging spirit made me to realize what a lot of things we were missing in this country.
If the university cannot do it or if the entire Kandy City has no way of offering me a solution, only way I can accomplish my dream without being a pest and a scrounger was to do it myself (D.I.Y).
With a little head start by December 2009 and the year of elections in 2010 (as a diversion of my intellectual capacities) with no worthwhile activity happening in academic spheres, my decision to divert intellectual energy for Linux was a right one.
In that process I said good bye to Fedora, Mandriva, SuSe and warmly embraced all the up and coming Linux distributions with somewhat academic criticism of the way of dealing with the common issues and problems.
I am none the wiser, now.
I do not need to repeat what I have already stated in the wider web and suffice is to say that response form the Linux Community was almost instantaneous and outrageous.
Linux has gone beyond the threshold of suppression mindset of the business vultures, it will emerge stronger and brighter and nothing can steam roll it now.
Yes, I can get involved in Linux Games now and little respite for Linux utilities and their virtues.
I have waited solid 3 three years for Linux Games (by design and not by default) except the little ones that come with some distributions which I often play when I am bored when downloading.
Next I will be downloading the Supreme Super Gamer which is 8.4 GiB that needs a double layer, double density DVD. May take a week or more but that is how the work get done in this blessed country.
Like a little kid I am not going to share them. If somebody asks me for a copy I would say with firm conviction, "It is free go and (do it yourself) download it yourself".
I have no time for lazy window seekers (no offense to the musicians)!
Funnily enough I could not find a good double density DVD in Kandy before New Year holiday.
I still have two out of many I bought for Cricket World Cup in 2007 but never have the opportunity to use (not 2011 World Cup - my worse fears that they will be eliminated before round robin stage was spared but the way we exited was like a bad dream) them.
I think I deserve a little play time now if not cricket which is spoiled by internal politics (not external or Indian).
Last World Cup Cricket in 2007 with war in rampaging spirit made me to realize what a lot of things we were missing in this country.
If the university cannot do it or if the entire Kandy City has no way of offering me a solution, only way I can accomplish my dream without being a pest and a scrounger was to do it myself (D.I.Y).
With a little head start by December 2009 and the year of elections in 2010 (as a diversion of my intellectual capacities) with no worthwhile activity happening in academic spheres, my decision to divert intellectual energy for Linux was a right one.
In that process I said good bye to Fedora, Mandriva, SuSe and warmly embraced all the up and coming Linux distributions with somewhat academic criticism of the way of dealing with the common issues and problems.
I am none the wiser, now.
I do not need to repeat what I have already stated in the wider web and suffice is to say that response form the Linux Community was almost instantaneous and outrageous.
Linux has gone beyond the threshold of suppression mindset of the business vultures, it will emerge stronger and brighter and nothing can steam roll it now.
Yes, I can get involved in Linux Games now and little respite for Linux utilities and their virtues.
I have waited solid 3 three years for Linux Games (by design and not by default) except the little ones that come with some distributions which I often play when I am bored when downloading.
Next I will be downloading the Supreme Super Gamer which is 8.4 GiB that needs a double layer, double density DVD. May take a week or more but that is how the work get done in this blessed country.
Like a little kid I am not going to share them. If somebody asks me for a copy I would say with firm conviction, "It is free go and (do it yourself) download it yourself".
I have no time for lazy window seekers (no offense to the musicians)!
Funnily enough I could not find a good double density DVD in Kandy before New Year holiday.
I still have two out of many I bought for Cricket World Cup in 2007 but never have the opportunity to use (not 2011 World Cup - my worse fears that they will be eliminated before round robin stage was spared but the way we exited was like a bad dream) them.
I think I deserve a little play time now if not cricket which is spoiled by internal politics (not external or Indian).
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