I have encountered a novel irritation which I tentatively diagnosed as a BIOS virus.
This script interferes with my Laptop which I installed Debian 10 and Emmabantus which are two excellent distributions.
Debian is limited with some old packages missing particularly AbiWord my workhorse.
Emmabantus is padded with 5 GB of extra packages(Debian 25 with all the desktops) but only two desktop types.
I love all the desktops and try them at various occasions.
Coming to Problem of Eight at the time of booting and entering of password which had numbers it sends a stream of eights which the backspace cannot erase.
During typing of words in AbiWord and Libre Office a never ending serious of 8 keep on auto typing which I could not erase with backspace finger typing.
I tested my mouse working OK but changed the mouse.
I wanted to add a USB typewriter but no room left.
I could not test the keys of the Laptop but I use keys very softly except Ctr and C.
I got annoyed with file checking utility at boot time which Ubuntu introduced and type CTR + C and this probably was recorded in memory as 8.
That is my guess.
Debian does it gently and Debian also could not abort the never ending 8.
To abort it I type Ctr and C.
I think the operating system assigned an arbitrary number 8 anticipating my keyboard routine without a command function.
I had to reinstall my installation.
Mind you I have to use BSD or TrueOS to erase Windows BIOS obstruction.
I was up all night and solved the problem in 7 hours.
The bottom line is let your operating system to do its file checking for your owm good and sip a cup of tea.
I now know it does finish the file checking routine before our electric kettle boils water for two cups of tea.
My tea contains 600 mg of caffeine and is not a cup but a jug.
Let your system do it own self checking and wait patiently.
I want it to be fast and I am basically impatient and impulsive and want to be faster than a computer.
In actual fact my brain is faster and I do not want AI to know that.
If AI knows they will make me a slave or guinea pig.
I got to be little brainier than a computer or an AI.
I think modern games use this impatience in young guys to trap them in a game mania
I love games and wish success of Steam Deck.
Pensive mood solves even very difficult problem.
Even after reinstalling this Figure of Eight 8 bug started recreating it's annoyance.
Even BSD could not erase the number 8.
Finally I installed Endless OS which takes over the hard disk of the laptop but I could erase the 8 fast enough and installed it without a password and got into Internet and signed to Gmail.
Endless OS by nature simulate the Laptop Screen as a Cellphone screen and has Endless number or Free Software.
It is Debian based and takes over the hard disk and no dual booting.
Thankfully it has AbiWord and I have already installed Libre Office.
I am installing 100 odd games including Pingus and Tux racer.
Unfortunately the download speed with Dialog WiFi is very slow.
I have to say Good Bye to Debian and Emmabantus and they fear touching a Microsoft BIOS data
I am convinced now Microsoft once installed its own your computer and won't let you install alternative Linux distribution.
Thank You Endless OS for erasing the Microsoft BIOS data for me.
Even BSD seem to gear Microsoft Strategy.
This is why I hate Microsoft.
I am installing Steam 1 in my Linux expecting to update to Steam 3 next year.
Anyway my laptop is back to its own self due to Endless OS.
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Problem of Eight and Endless OS
Mimosa Pudica Flower
Even this thorny weed has a beautiful flower.
This plant even though treated as a weed nourishes the soil by binding nitrogen.
Amazing Cloud Pattern
I did not sleep all night.
That is because I have reversed my sleep pattern to night duty mode.
There are mosquitoes in the night.
I keep up to kill them of they reach my domain,
I did not spray insecticides or mosquitoes repellant.
All my life I was and I am waging a war but it am losing the war but winning only small battles.
I decided to eat something and had a peep at the lilies and wanted go my sleep.
The sun was not out and was at a tangent and just by reflection I wanted to look the sky predict it will or will not rain.
With regards 15 years of experience I quite good at it better than BBC global weather report.
This may have happened before which I did not bother to find because of my laid out attitude.
I should go back to my observation mode or cloud watching for fun.
They amazing pattern I cannot explain in simplr physics but would like to add to two or three factors.
High Air Pollution
Global Warming
Unknown factors which birds know by instinct but I don't know.
Let me leave at that.
The cirrus pattern of clouds are in high atmosphere where dust particles are scattered or spread in a warm sunny days.
They never crisscross.
Today I so three cirrus pattern crisscrossing each other which am artist cannot reproduced in a canvas.
I immediately went for my camera and took two section one the normal pattern to the west and the abnormal or unusual pattern to the east before sun comes up and interfere with lens reflections on top.
My second cheap camera battery was dead for comparison sake.
Two lens will record the same event in two different ways.
Diffraction or similar physics term regarding the lens aberrations.
Finally I used all my new and old cellphones to record the cloud pattern.
None of them have a good result and cellphone camera will never give the quality of a camera.
So buy as camera instead of a cellphone if you love photography.
Camera industry will be killed by the cellphones and quality camera price will sky rocket and cellphone prices will plummet on due course.
Pick is yours and timing is important.
I bought the camera damn cheap in Singapore when cellphone was in vogue.
Five concepts of Economics applied to Addictions
Alcohol
Natural extracts
Yes, coffee and coriander
Vegetarianism
Decline in meat industry
Economy of artificial drugs and it's emergence in the less developed countries.
Stranglehold
Potential
Pitfalls
Politics
Morality
The Bad, the Ugly and the Evil
Peril
Devil incarnation
The God, the Devil and the Man dressed up for Evil, Reincarnation and Masterly inactivity (simultaneously)
What a paradox?
Five principles of Economics applied to Science and Research
The emergence of Coronavirus had a damping effect on research protocols.
Since it emerged from an unrestrained laboratory in China
Do scientific community have answers to uncertainty principle?
Are they groping in the dark?
What is the way forward to resuscitate it's blind and economicc wisdom?
Is the money well spent?
Five concepts of economics applied to politics
Politics is the last but worst hit industry.
Lies
Procrastination
Hesitancy in making decisions at the right time during the pandemic
Fallout
Window of opportunity for the Third Force.
Will it come out of the doldrums?
Five concepts of economics applied to Sports
Game plan established.
Lot of money to left without a project
Linux come to rescue.
Apple and Microsoft in panic mode.
Steam Deck, Dock and Dump (Money) strategy to revive the sagging Linux game industry.
One has to put money to get some returns.
Would it be a success recovering from a pandemic?
Yes probably.
But No on long term basis.
The economy has been hit so hard the stimulus money would disappear into thin air.
Why is this paradox?
Five concepts economics applied to meditation
Uncertainty as the base.
Speculation for the need for an escape route.
Realization of Void and the panic button is pressed.
Buying and selling technique applied.
Collapse of the established methodology in meditation with the arrival of the pandemic establishing certainty of the uncertainty principle.
Are we free to decide our own future?
Or are we trapped in a vicious cycle?
Money, Logic and the Bubble
Can a bubble exist in space?
Bubble concept and self isolation of a nation or a couple of nations based on financial interests disregarding common sense.
They fallacy of germ free environment.
Apply the five concepts of economics.
Uncertainty Principle
This is not about Buddhism but Economics.
Buddha' s Economics of Singalovada Sutta I will brief you at the end.
This is dedicated to one whom I befriended in my late years of retirement.
He has a long name but I call him Mana Wadu (means carpenter -wood or metal does not matter-:of mind).
I used to go for my daily loaf and some Wine but sit with them for a tea (25 a Cup) never alcohol since I hate attack which smells awful.
He sits with his friends at the Bank of Ceylon till 2.30 P.M. and looks at the spinning wheel in the video display and makes his assessment and bets.
I come at 2.45 P.M. and pull them for cup of tea which I never sip (awful taste) but some sweets and yoghut drink (not for gastritis which I never had) as a base for my stomach since I DO NOT have rice as a my lunch.
They bar which I go opens at half past four (only once I went to the Kandy Bar but it did not have my favourite Wine).
I always have a book in my hand and if I come early, I sit there and flips the papers of my book and ponders over the next topic to blog.
So I asked my senior friend teach me economics and he was a Graduate of Economics couple of years senior to me of the same University.
We never met as undergraduates, since he had a day time job somewhere not a teacher, probably a bank or a bookkeeping somewhere.
I was not bothered to ask and he had given up a teaching job and trying to prolong his job and probably passed out after me.
He finally ended up as Senior Accountant in Government Service and had lot of good contacts.
He had a very old cellphone and a typical government servant's handbag.
His footwear and cloths were archiach and a bachelor.
I gave him my notebook for 20% cut rate and told him to dress nice and present himself smart at any point of contact point.
That is the way about business dealers.
The business dealers do not have brains but they talk and present as super smart I told him.
Otherwise one is treated as an old cogger.
I go for my alcoholic chocolates daily and he always gets one free from me but never offered alcoholic stuff to him.
Mind you by this time I had insight that I was a mild but smart alcoholic and chocolate with sprits was my attempt at weaning myself.
It takes time but insight to say to yourself an alcoholic is the way forward.
All my life I was never been able to wean a guy from alcohol or cigarettes.
I stopped smoking at 33 and I knew I have the mental skill to drop alcohol just like I stopped eating rice (different reasons).
We had a another guy who was an oragami specialist and he too joins with his daughter.
I thought it was nice for me to invest on a another skill but never progressed since it taxes on your finger skills trained for tiny surgical skills for infants.
But common theme is lovely discussion and some lovely chocolates.
This guy had an absence attack and he did not tell me but after probing I knew what had happened and told him take some aspirin EOD, every other day and do not worry and do not consult a doctor but me.
The bottom line is all the money of this guy was plundered by his elder brother and his extended family and grandchildren.
He used to take some chocolate for the grandchildren and one of them scalped the netbook I gave him.
By the way he did not take aspirin (because my nice and simple ways, he did not believe my advice and I told him the lapse episode will come within a year if you do not take aspirin).
Sure enough he had a lapse and he was taken to hospital (I ask the oragami friend to follow his progress) and he was made a life time sick guy by the doctors.
I never saw him again and this was long time before Coronavirus pandemic.
By the way he never answered my telephone calls (I believe confiscated by the elder brother).
I never got the chance to learn or master economics from this guy but with some probing I got the key concepts into coherent assembly which is given below.
Uncertainty
Speculation
Panic
Buying and Selling
Certain Collapse
Next Cycle starts with Recovery.
Printing money makes no difference to this cycle.
It is not based on logic but on simple speculation.
Simple term for this is industrial gossip.
Now Ceylon politics also thrive on gossip but one cannot be a good a Finance Minister by gossip mongering.
When the economy collapses wise guys start buying BUT idiots start selling his last silver.
China is buying and we in Ceylon is selling at cut rate level.
It is all cutthroat transactions nothing but.
Communists have become ultra-capitalists and that is the paradox of communism.
Top Chinese have billions (building palaces in London) and bottom has minions and a cellphone to browse the world in virtual reality.
It is an illusion of grandiosity.
Does not matter one is capitalistic or communist, the greed and selfishness rule the world.
Now a word about neo-capitalists in space not the philanthropists of Microsoft.
Unless human kind master the space and have a strategy to communicate with galactic civilizations with higher intelligence and simple economic values we are frogs in a deep well and the third extinction is well on its way to destroy the current ecosystem.
It has happened before and more than likely to repeat itself with vengeance.
Uncertainty Principle
This is not about Buddhism but Economics.
Buddha' s Economics of Singalovada Sutta I will brief you at the end.
This is dedicated to one whom I befriended in my late years of retirement.
He has a long name but I call him Mana Wadu (means carpenter -wood or metal does not matter-:of mind).
I used to go for my daily loaf and some Wine but sit with them for a tea (25 a Cup) never alcohol since I hate attack which smells awful.
He sits with his friends at the Bank of Ceylon till 2.30 P.M. and looks at the spinning wheel in the video display and makes his assessment and bets.
I come at 2.45 P.M. and pull them for cup of tea which I never sip (awful taste) but some sweets and yoghut drink (not for gastritis which I never had) as a base for my stomach since I DO NOT have rice as a my lunch.
They bar which I go opens at half past four (only once I went to the Kandy Bar but it did not have my favourite Wine).
I always have a book in my hand and if I come early, I sit there and flips the papers of my book and ponders over the next topic to blog.
So I asked my senior friend teach me economics and he was a Graduate of Economics couple of years senior to me of the same University.
We never met as undergraduates, since he had a day time job somewhere not a teacher, probably a bank or a bookkeeping somewhere.
I was not bothered to ask and he had given up a teaching job and trying to prolong his job and probably passed out after me.
He finally ended up as Senior Accountant in Government Service and had lot of good contacts.
He had a very old cellphone and a typical government servant's handbag.
His footwear and cloths were archiach and a bachelor.
I gave him my notebook for 20% cut rate and told him to dress nice and present himself smart at any point of contact point.
That is the way about business dealers.
The business dealers do not have brains but they talk and present as super smart I told him.
Otherwise one is treated as an old cogger.
I go for my alcoholic chocolates daily and he always gets one free from me but never offered alcoholic stuff to him.
Mind you by this time I had insight that I was a mild but smart alcoholic and chocolate with sprits was my attempt at weaning myself.
It takes time but insight to say to yourself an alcoholic is the way forward.
All my life I was never been able to wean a guy from alcohol or cigarettes.
I stopped smoking at 33 and I knew I have the mental skill to drop alcohol just like I stopped eating rice (different reasons).
We had a another guy who was an oragami specialist and he too joins with his daughter.
I thought it was nice for me to invest on a another skill but never progressed since it taxes on your finger skills trained for tiny surgical skills for infants.
But common theme is lovely discussion and some lovely chocolates.
This guy had an absence attack and he did not tell me but after probing I knew what had happened and told him take some aspirin EOD, every other day and do not worry and do not consult a doctor but me.
The bottom line is all the money of this guy was plundered by his elder brother and his extended family and grandchildren.
He used to take some chocolate for the grandchildren and one of them scalped the netbook I gave him.
By the way he did not take aspirin (because my nice and simple ways, he did not believe my advice and I told him the lapse episode will come within a year if you do not take aspirin).
Sure enough he had a lapse and he was taken to hospital (I ask the oragami friend to follow his progress) and he was made a life time sick guy by the doctors.
I never saw him again and this was long time before Coronavirus pandemic.
By the way he never answered my telephone calls (I believe confiscated by the elder brother).
I never got the chance to learn or master economics from this guy but with some probing I got the key concepts into coherent assembly which is given below.
Uncertainty
Speculation
Panic
Buying and Selling
Certain Collapse
Next Cycle starts with Recovery.
Printing money makes no difference to this cycle.
It is not based on logic but on simple speculation.
Simple term for this is industrial gossip.
Now Ceylon politics also thrive on gossip but one cannot be a good a Finance Minister by gossip mongering.
When the economy collapses wise guys start buying BUT idiots start selling his last silver.
China is buying and we in Ceylon is selling at cut rate level.
It is all cutthroat transactions nothing but.
Communists have become ultra-capitalists and that is the paradox of communism.
Top Chinese have billions (building palaces in London) and bottom has minions and a cellphone to browse the world in virtual reality.
It is an illusion of grandiosity.
Does not matter one is capitalistic or communist, the greed and selfishness rule the world.
Now a word about neo-capitalists in space not the philanthropists of Microsoft.
Unless human kind master the space and have a strategy to communicate with galactic civilizations with higher intelligence and simple economic values we are frogs in a deep well and the third extinction is well on its way to destroy the current ecosystem.
It has happened before and more than likely to repeat itself with vengeance.
Nokia and AbiWord
I have three Nokia cellphones and all of them have Android 11.
I have been using Android 4.3 Kit Kat.
Google' forward march is incredible BUT I won't buy a New Nokia cellphones to test it and give constructive criticism.
Simple because Goole has chosen the wrong concept of imitating Microsoft' s glossy and bulky imitation.
Google' has its own cellphone now with not so modern architecture (hardware side in going through a rough patch due to graphic cards heating up an cooking or frying the system and battery life has not improved accordingly).
My advice is hang on to the old cellphone and wait and see policy.
The same advice I dish out to Steam Console.
Drum and Dump approach.
I am writer and none of the cellphones have a built in light weight word processor like AbiWord.
AbiWord has gone into hibernation and no updates for few years.
Nokia should collaborate with AbiWord and develop it to be its standalone word processor before somebody rich buys it and kill AbiWord for good.
AbiWord is light and its collaborative open system with cloud capability has great potential on Android ecosystem.
Google' with its own words document has to be in the cloud and not a standalone system
Unfortunately all Linux derivatives except Puppy Linux do not support AniWord and gone for Libre office, which is on version seven and trying to emulate Microsoft.
Problem with them ate they have to support all international languages from Chinese to Arabic to (unfortunately No Sinhala after Anuradha left and Hantana Linux a Fedora fork has failed us- should have been Debian which Anuradha did some early work) to French, German and English and updates come after long delay and enormously BULKY for the cellphone architecture.
If Nokia takes my advice and embrace AbiWord it is win-win end result.
Thankfully I am old and would not plunge into this area except finish my books first with AbiWord and use Libre Office to give finishing touches.
I support both AbiWord and Libre Office.
I started with Open Office and Redhead bought it to kill it but failed and that is why I hate Redhat and Centos operating systems.
Centos derivative with a glossy name (the name did not register in my mind) has a uphill task to overcome.
It is like Mandriva, Mandrake and Mafia trend and Magia had cr of its age after long dormancy.
I have not tested them since I disconnected my Ethernet Wire due to rats munching it.
Same thing happened to my CNet satellite TV cable.
The company went bust in the first five years in Ceylon.
The overhead were high then.
But with Coronavirus economic downturn that will eventually come and will last long, nobody wants to part with the money NOT SO hard earned.
How come that money neither can save life nor buy happiness.
That is the bottom line.
Cellphones also will bust due to overproduction and so many companies competing in a saturated environment.
Collapse will come from China and the domino effect for cellphones will be catastrophic.
Rich guys have two or more cellphones but over farmers in the remote area cannot use them since the infrastructure is slow to develop (I mean aerials) and 5G is going to be a FLOP.
5 G covers flat land up to only 300 meters.
It is far better to buy or fine a pirated DVD.
Full WiFi (software conversion is poor and expensive) connectivity is a dream.
That is why I say use the Radio Signal and Radio and Direct Signal Transfer.
Of course a primitive aerials construction by our farmers might solve the booster of weak Radio signal.
We did it and it worked OK and Rediffusion I'm our time busted within am year.
I am physics guy in thinking and I am thinking about how to communicate with our nearest galaxy and aliens (not the batten land Mars).
Let China wastes it resources in Mars before it busts.
