Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Phases of human Conformation and Transformation


Phases of human Conformation and Transformation


For me conformation and rigidity to established conventions is a malady.

For example, if one uses the same Windows Box from birth to death he or she is imprisoned in a system dictated by a foreign agency.

The corporations knows this form of boredom and they keep on changing the front end without altering the back end and functionality.

This was one reason, Linux came into existence and overtook them in all spheres except desktops.

People who has money would upgrade their systems to their needs or migrate to MacOs or any other system of their choice.

Many do not have neither money nor time for change and are stuck with their working but old systems.

Then the Android and tablets come and changed the landscape completely.

Just like that humans either get stuck in one phase or move forwards in phases, very very slowly. 

There are about four phases (could be many more for some) but basically human nature is to get stuck with three phases.


1. Comfort Zone.

Majority of us move in our own sphere of (not necessarily one’s chosen choice) activity and master the techniques available at the time of establishing one’s own identity.

One feels comfortable with the status and that is why I call it the comfort zone.

2. Conflict Zone

I believe majority of them move from the comfort zone to the conflict zone invariably, either due to financial constraints or simply due to boredom.

My impression is this is mainly due to greed and money, nothing but.
That is why there is so much conflict in this zone of existence.

No further explanation is necessary.


3. Calm Zone

This is where one loses his or her own creativity.

The period of stagnation and procrastination.

One becomes a prisoner of his or her own conscience due to lack of progress.


4. Compassion Zone.

This is the rarest in occurrence and even religious dignitaries cannot reach this level of change.

Few examples, in corporate and political sphere would be appropriate in explaining the above scenarios.


The comfort zone is the raw recruit upgrading oneself.

The conflict zone is the executive grade who gets burnt out in no time.

The calm zone is the non-executive director phase.

One who lives on others sweat and blood.

No contribution but a born blood sucker stage.

None of them except few like Bill Gates and Facebook guys reach the forth stage of compassion and remain their for life.

Simply because they were very successful in the sucker stage.


Now take a politician, like in the corporate sector, they go through the first two stages without much a do.

Their aim is to destroy all other possible challengers and come to the clam stage victorious.

The are the best example without creativity.

They are slow to react.

They procrastinate even on trivial things.


They are in simple term pain in the arsxx.


They can never get to to the compassion stage since all their energies, in all their life was used for hate campaign.

There is nothing left in their hearts for others except themselves and their extended families.


Compassion Stage.

Few qualifiers are necessary for this stage of achievement.


1. One should have been completely apolitical from childhood to adulthood.


2. One should be free of dogmatic beliefs, be that be religious, social, political or scientific.


3. One should not be dependent on others for survival.


4. One should have lot of resources including money.


5. One should have inborn compassion built into their makeup.


6. One should be trustworthy.


7. One should have at least few friends.


Come to think about it, only dogs, especially the paraya or stray dogs could qualify for some of these qualities.


Very few humans, if there are any can achieve this stage but it is worth a try in the twilight years at least.

Monday, July 23, 2018

How to Evade Dogmas


How to Evade Dogmas


It is very difficult to evade, Dogmas (my definition is embedded lies), be that it is old or new.

Only way to avoid dogmas (dogmata) is not to have any.

If one has a dogma A against the Dogma B there are multiple ways one gets embedded in the dogma not realizing one is entangled, within.

Read Brahmajala Sutta, there are 62 variants and I believe none is true.

If dogma A is true one has to assimilate points supporting or basic tenets within it.

There is an element of belief that the dogma A is correct.

Belief has no scientific validity until it is approaching 40% of validity (ideally 60%).


There is no belief scientific or otherwise which has 100% validity.


Often beliefs falls below my cut of point 30% often it is less than 5%.


Then one has to identify the arguments falsifying the dogma B.


Suppose dogma B is correct and dogma A is wrong.


This is why I call dogma (lie) gets embedded in another circular lie or dogma.


One can apply this argument to existence of god (one dogma) or existence of alien life on mars (dogma B).


I leave you to do one’s own homework on the above and delve a bit on Buddhist tenets.


Buddhism is based on two basic tenets.

Number one is Kamma.

Number two is Beings in Samsara.

There are many other variants based on these two dogmas.

Neither of the above can be proved beyond doubt.

So they remain as dogmas.


This is true for other religions, too.


That is why I say it is safer to have no dogmas.


Do not ponder on the past.

Do not wonder about the future.


What we have is this moment of existence.


Enjoy it to the best without pondering on embedded dogmas.


What we have is this moment of happiness (Somanassa) so do not get into Domanassa Mood by delving on dogmas.

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Reality, Perception and Dimensions beyond our Grasp


Reality, Perception and Dimensions beyond our Grasp


I was a pathologist trying to unravel mysteries beyond our grasp.

At the beginning my professor warned me, for which I am grateful.

He said only 40% is known.

With best of our research capabilities another 20% can be assimilated into our knowledge base, the rest 40% would be unknown.


It will be so; he said.


That put me off and I left the faculty searching for bigger challenges.


Then when I returned after many years under different professor, I explored the above context and found, given the problem, I studied, 32 due to genetics, 28% due to environment, including nutrition and the rest 40% was unknown.


At least I broke the barrier, then established, 50% due to genetics and the rest 50% due to environment.


So nothing more top explore, I delved into computer science.


That was my entry into Linux which I do not pursue with much vigour now, due to entry of Androids as a human interface.


With our limited senses what we can understand is limited in scope.


With new found freedom in the West, many are trying to pursue and unravel the consciousness.


But we are at loggerhead.


I think the consciousness falls into that 40% of unknown domain.


For want of better word, I prefer awareness to consciousness (since there are unexplained words like subconscious, unconscious and near death perception syndrome).


Let me say we are imprisoned in three dimensions.


Mathematically of course there are as many dimensions as 13 dimensions.


How can we enter into the fourth dimension assuming that the aliens who visit us are not in our dimension but within a different domain or dimension?


Supposing these guys remain only in their dimension then they are at a definite advantage and can blindfold us in many ways.


To interact with us, they have to shape change and enter into our (three) dimension at least temporarily and hijack human subject's conception.


This has happened in our history (after Roswell) and this is kept as a mystery from global human conception.


Why?

I do not know?


Is there a secret agenda of guys/girls who are interacting with human subjects?


Or is it an agenda developed by the our secret governments in existence to hoodwink the masses?


What have we discovered from MK Ultra?


Why they have disbanded these inquiries?


I think we are in the dark.


It is not 40% but 60% according to my professors outlook.


The 20% that has been discovered is kept as a secret by the world’s secret dictators of intelligence.

Why?

I do not know.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Conundrum



Conundrum
One year of self induced divorce from political, religious and scientific investigation was a revelation.
For more than 15 years (included books too) I have tried to change the way we think about every aspect of social life.
When I realized that Internet was used by Intelligent agents for eavesdropping not only on opponents (Russia, America, China) but even an innocent citizen (Ceylon used this mentality to induce an ethnic bias), I was very ashamed.
I give priority to privacy.
Me using, Linux was one way of avoiding conflict of interest, with proprietary commodities.
Also to promote copyright law.
I have no political ambitions except helping people who need help (more of education rather than giving a dole).
People who say that they are public servants or political activists (include media, too) have failed to enforce law and order in this country. That started from early seventies and over 50 years now.

According to Victor Ivan less than 5% are convicted all the others are on bail or absconding.

Let me now highlight our fallacies.

1. We procrastinate and postpone action.
The latest victim is MS.

2. The previous government ploy was to use prominent lawyers to protect criminals.

3. NATO ploy, No action but Talk Only Show.
This was our political show.

4. People without brains take up politics as a profession.
Brainy (Brain Drain) fellows leave our shore.

5. They live in other countries, until their retirement and come here to avoid bitter winter but dish out remedies like dishwasher liquids.

6. No recrimination or remorse having done the wrong things repeatedly (J.V.P and L.T.T.E are good examples).

7. No ability for reconciliation.
Hold onto old ideas until they reach 80s and die with them.

8. National papers, especially English publish articles written by oldies little bit edited for the current use.

9. We neglect the youth and their aspiration is to go 
abroad even in the kindergarten.

10. Lack of ability to think in present tense (only past glory or future vendetta).

I think above ten statements summarize our predicament.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

USB Booting Linux

USB Booting Linux
It is sad, there are only few utilities available for booting Linux from a USB stick or Flash Drive.
1. Number one is MultiSystem DVD that comes in both 32 bit and 64 bits.
It has many utilities including Gparted.
It can boot many Linux distributions except Debian and few of the new Puppy Linux derivatives.
It is from France but it gives multiple language support now. 
It can be booted to a USB or Portable hard disk.
Only downside is, there is no root or user passwords.
If you lose the stick anybody can look at your private data.
I give Priority to Privacy Now which is violated by CIA and MI16/15.

2. UnetBootIn
Please follow the instructions given in Pendrive Linux site.
Both Debian and Peppermint Linux do not support, UnetBootIn.
I am not sure Ubuntu supports it.

I have given up testing Ubuntu after Unity Desktop, which they have given up, has gone back to Gnome, according to Linux Magazine.

3. USB Boot-In Utility
In Peppermint Linux there is a Utility that lets you installs a single Linux distribution in a USB Flash 
Drive.
I forgot two others with plenty of Utilities.
They are

4. Puppy Linux

5. Knoppix

Debian the clear winner-The Gold for Light and Heavy Weight Championship

Now that the industrial action is over, we brought the Hero to Gyro (not giro and we could not be bought by money circulating on illegal hands or corruption) except perhaps few individual who had vested interests and wanted to be heroes at the expense of the general body politics of our action perpetuated by sheer needs and not aspirations (fell far short of aspirations of accountability, transparency, fairness).
These instant Heroes had unassailable lead and they had to be pulled down to base level and gyrate them on the correct path lest all of us would be heading for disaster.
We never had the political will to bring Heroes to Zeros but the vision to come to the base level we reached way back in 2008 and gyrate in correct orbit instead of asking for miracles which we will never achieve the way we sink into dirty tricks and manipulations by undesirables.

I hope senses will come to body politics of the country, unless of course the voters will bring the Heroes to Zeroes in double quick time at the correct gyroscopic orbit and time and they are not stupid or donkeys who carry burden.
We are of course in the minority in that context and what we can provide is wisdom if not vision.
We came to equilibrium position neither zero nor hero but a position of comfort from where we can gyrate to greater heights if correct recognition is extended.
Otherwise history will take us backward (like in cricket) instead of forward.

Debian
Coming to IT industry where there are commercial heroes but the clear winner which gyrate at the correct orbit is Debian.
It was no surprise.
Score of above 3000 and well above the Gold Standard of 2500 for the standard CD.
For the heavy weight category it is within the Gold Mark where no other distribution has all the components at hand with over 30,000 package well tested.
It has gParted which is around 100 MiB with partition and security features.
It has Blender, Scribus and Inkscape.
Only missing component was O.E.M. component.
It did not have a printed book but thanks to French and the English translation is due soon and available on line as open source.
It has all the versions from Mini to KDE to Server.
It has multi-language support including Sinhala.
It does not pretend to be a (commercial) hero but the wise counsel to all the other distributions which include Ubuntu and extending a hand to Linux Mint currently.
Additionally it is forging with FreeBSD too.
It is the clear winner.
If I said without my marking scheme everybody will say I am biased. Now it is vindicated and flame wars are not the necessity but a feature of Linux and its multi-faceted distributions..
Now I can say with or without bias it is the one that guides us and the Gyroscope for years to come.
If you need a solid, stable and secure enhanced Linux, there is only one and only one.
It is called Debian.
It is not for the lazy souls and it is the one who wants to dig a lot, sweat a bit and enjoy a lot of the hard labour.
Nothing is easy in the IT World.
One has to go into simple command line and give commanding orders till midnight commander sleeps like a sleeping beauty!

Friday, July 13, 2018

MultiSystem Boot CD-Update

MultiSystem Boot CD
An Update

1. Go to Google and Type MultiSystem Boot DVD
2. It is available at sourceforge site.
3. One does not need a SH file now.
4. DVDs are available for both 64 bit and 32 bit computers.
5. Install it on a USB using the DVD.
6. Download few Linux distribution Isos of your liking (Peppermint, Pinguy, Ubuntu). Knoppix, Debian and Puppy Linux do not support this utility.
7. Run the MultiSystem Utility and it mounts a Graphic Front End.
8. Drop your Isos and wait.
9. It writes a GRUB boot file and all your distributions are there according to the order you drop them to the cage.
10. Enjoy Linux on the fly.
 



What is written below is bit old and one can ignore.

I have written a lot about MultiSystem CD.

It can be used in Windows but I am not going to waste time.
In Linux one can extract the SH file obtained from sourceforge, install it and run with ROOT permission.
It cannot be used as an ordinary user.

If you want to avoid root permission easiest way is to download version 9 from sourceforge, write the image into a CD (make sure it is 700 MiB), (why waste a DVD) and boot up.
It has Gparted too.
One must download all the images (ideally in the hard disk or even an external hard disk) beforehand.
NeBootIn let you download from the site but it takes lot of time.

It is better test the isos by writing on CD/DVD. 

What I do is install it on a FLASH Drive First using the CD. (ms.its.precise r9) or even an external hard disk and boot it on RAM and start adding one image after another to the Graphic Till or Cage.
No terminal!
Suse, Fedora and the new Debian (early 8 version supports live DVDs) do not support it.
Not to bother it tells you if it cannot make a live script.
If any of the distributions does not boot for any reason, what you have to do is to mount the flash drive on a Linux session and delete the live folder.
The name of the distribution remains in the Grub File but do not click the deleted one since the Flash drive or Hard disk hangs out looking for for the script.
If that happens wait a few seconds and PRESS the off button. If you do not wait for few seconds it might burn your RAM.
I did all this with on an old 32 bit IBM for three hours with only 1 GiB RAM, while doing (other) multi-tasks, nothing untoward happened.
That is the beauty of Linux. 
Ten or more distributions in a Flash Drive is handy!
 The mounting partition has to be FAT.

Thursday, July 12, 2018

World Cup and England’s Exist


World Cup and England’s Exist

I did not want to make any predictions about the outcome of the semifinals but all the same watched both games with intent interest without any emotions (no equanimity, there).

But nobody talked about the Italians who were eliminated in qualifying round to Sweden.
The difference was one goal in two matches in the qualifying rounds in 2016.

1. I did not want to see Panama in the final 16. 
England beat them by 6 to 1 and lost to Belgium 0 to 1.
Panama was beaten even by Tunisia.

2. Most of the African countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt do not deserve to be in the Final 16 (not of the class of Europeans).

3. All these countries are contributing lot of Money to FIFA which they mismanage.

Inquiries of mismanagement (FIFA officials) are hushed up for decades.

4. The money could have been better spent on African countries and poor South American countries.

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I did not want Australia to be in too.

I wished Russia to be in the semifinals but Croatia spoiled it for them.

I was not worried about Germany and Denmark going out, at all.

Their game is boring to say the least.

England should thank Croatia for eliminating them, early enough.

They would have got a drubbing from French.

That would be a bitter pill to swallow.

Now what happened to the South American Nations.

Mind you, Croatia a small country like ours with only 4 millions beat Argentina.

They should put money into poor South American young players.
The good players are bought in by rich European countries like, England, France, Denmark and Germany.

What is left in South America (young players are poorly managed) left to their own devises.

That is the reason for quality of soccer going down worldwide.

Just imagine a final between Italy and France.

I hope Croatians give a decent game to French.

If not we will see China (not Korea) playing quarterfinal against England, next time round.

About the English (all players playing in Europe) players, they are paid huge sums and where there is money there is lack of commitment.

This is what has happened to cricket, too.

They are paid huge sums and when I see some of their performance in and out of the cricket field, it is disgusting and appalling.

Umpires and referees are no better.

That is why there is no crowds to watch cricket.

That is why I watch soccer with more interest than cricket (not even T20, the spoiler game) and stop writing about cricket for a long time.

Indian IPL killed it for good.

That is the bottom line.

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Linux Commands


Linux Commands

Linux has a unique way of doing things in a black terminal with commands.

The moment one presses Enter, following a command, it executes the command briskly.

First command, I probably typed was ping in Unix.
The first response or information one may get is the command not found, if there is a Typo.

All commands are in simple letters, never begins with a Capital.

Let me list a few of them here for a beginner.

If I remember right;
xinit & in Unix terminal or startx (starting a graphical front end) killall (if stuck with a command and no response) and exit were the first few commands, I learned.

I did not have the fortune of using a Unix Box, but thanks to early Linux Live CDs, I began a long journey and every book published on Linux was purchased and read, not from cover to cover by the way.
I practiced line by line without a Guru (Book was my Guru).
Unix Made Easy by John Muster and The Joy of Linux by
Michael Hall and Brian Proffitt were the inductors, hard to find then and now in the bookstores.

I collected all the books written on Linux from Linux Bible to all the Redhat Books from Redhat 7 to 8 and later Fedora 6.
Later, I gave up with Fedora and the Linux commands to Graphic intensive Suse.

I gave up Suse when it turned commercial with service edition to boast.
I went to Singapore to buy a service edition but they never obliged.
That was the reason for giving it up.
Then exclusively used Mandrake and Mandriva till it wound up in France.
Thankfully Mageia has taken it forward.

Finally, I settled downed with Debian, Peppermint and Pinguy (Pin-or the Merit Guy). PClinux and FullMonty are worth their titles.
EOS (Endless OS) is a recent addition worthwhile mentioning, now available in Live Base DVD.

Knoppix is my gold standard and Puppy is my favorite.
Sorry Guys/Girls if I failed to mention all the other distributions I used, but strangely enough, I rarely used Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu.
I had some aversion to Ubuntu, a point I cannot justify or rectify. 
Most probably the lack of books but now there are journals in Linux and Ubuntu.

Coming back to commands,
cd
pwd
ps
ls
cat,
date,
who
grep
awk
sort
wc
echo
more
less were the ones that followed ping.

There are thousands of commands now one needs to know only a few in working life.

Monday, July 9, 2018

About Moon Landing


About Moon Landing


Bart Sibrel


Published on Apr 14, 2013



All Truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, Then it is violently opposed, Finally it is accepted as self-evident.”


-Arthur Schopenhauer-


In an age of universal deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act.” “Whoever controls the past, controls the future.”


-George Orwell-

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the Truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”


-Carl Sagan-


It is easier to fool people, than to convince them that they have been fooled.”


-Mark Twain-

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Equanimity (Upekka) and English Football


Equanimity (Upekka) and English Football


The term Upekka stands, in a higher realm than Somanassa.


There are other terms like Piti (Joy), Sukha (happiness) but Somanassa has a higher level of appreciation of well being in this present moment (watching a football match won’t let one enjoys this mental calm that is evident in Somannasa, they actually fall to a lower level of joy with excitement and subtle happiness which lasts momentarily, until the next match which may be a loser).


This is written with Russian football fans in mind but let me expand on the word equipoise (Upekka) for one who does not understand its meaning.


There is no clear word in English vocabulary to explain its Pali meaning.


It does not mean mere neutral feeling. Equanimity or mental equilibrium is its near meaning.

Viewing something impartially neither with attachment nor aversion is the state of mind in the feeling of Upekkha which one cannot achieve watching a highly charged game of any kind.


Even with meditation one cannot reach this level of equanimity since Piti and Sukha are close association of Jhana States.


That is why Upekkha realm is higher to Metta, Karuna and Muditha and a state of mind very difficult to cultivate.

I think competitive games is an antidote to Upekkha. 


The idea here is to prevent few heart attacks or gambling during the next few days.

As for Russians who lost to Croatia, they should not curse their own players, including the goal keeper.

They should be magnanimous (unanimous, too)  for their organizers who are making the world cup a success for Russian as well as the rest of the world.


Mind you there will be lot of English hooligans and ruffians in Russian streets now.

Give them lot of Vodka or put them in Prison (let them watch the game in prison without Vodka) instead not the poison the English diplomats are concocting and talking about, freely.


I tell you now, even if, the English wins the world cup they will have a mouthful against Russia.


Grumbling is their national pastime and is in their Genes.

Invitation for a Soccer Match in Heaven


Invitation for a Soccer Match in Heaven


I was rudely woken up.


I went to sleep in the evening, expecting to wake up later and watch the quarter-final matches.


The reason for waking up, was getting a invitation ticket for a soccer match not in Russia but in Heaven.


In the dream state, when I landed there, I found very strange things.


1. No Referee.


2. Soccer Ball Multicolored.


3. Football pitch was huge.


4. 50 players on each side.


5.The game is played for one day, earth time not ninety minutes of our time.


Mind you one day in heaven is equivalent to one year in earth time.


6. Plenty of refreshments including multicolored lozenges bad and banned for ourcricket players.


7. The most bizarre thing is that the players change their appearance (it is called shape change) at will which the gods are very good at.

One moment one is wearing the one’s own color of the assigned club.

The next moment one is wearing the color of the opposite team.

Idea is to score more goals for the opposition.


It more of own goals.


The team that scored less wins the game, unlike on earth.


It is like a local club’s friendly match.


The moment one scores a goal his (no she's in heaven) own color of the team appears instantly and the score board allocates the goals to the correct team.


8. It is like war when this game is played on earth.

In heaven it is a friendly and hardly any crowd.


9. I was the only earthling watching the game, luckily in dream state.

Who can watch a game for one day when 90 minutes is way too long for an earthling.


10. No injuries and when they do occur, simple shape change affects the cure.


It was boring and I woke up.


Luckily it was well past 1.45 A.M. and I had to watch only the final minutes of the Russia and Croatia game.


It was a stunner!