Pure Linux Text File

This site was created due to pure frustration with Microsoft Windows.
I hated Visual Basic.

Way back in my Linux history, I wanted to train (I am a medical teacher and keeping medical records safe and secure was my original intention, then) 100 Ceylonese guys (no girls at all) or introduce Linux and Free Software to 100 guys.

It was a TOTAL failure.

My attempt in a open public meeting was scuttled by Microsoft by bribing the guy who organized the bonanza for Microsoft.

Me the vagabond, went into overdrive, here I am still promoting Linux.

That little incident Microsoft should regret.

I became Linux addict and Linux advocate.

A lawful act of benevolence.

(please note that I have used the words that follow to test the digital dictionary. I hate the cellphone keyboard and tried using many but none satisfy my needs.
I love the touch of keys of a standard keyboard and cut and paste of Microsoft, I despise.

I always use simple instructional English.
I call it academic English.

The computer language bores me to death and one finger typing on a digital keyboard is painful to my index finger digit).

I have stated the above comments about Microsoft for over thousand times, I do not HATE  Window Users but I only PITY, them.

Satire is in my genes and that genomic piece in my genetic code has kept my head above water for so long.

Lot of American and British guys, lately Ukrainians do not have backbone to resist subtle and deliberate insinuation by USA/CIA.

Freedom, I value and Linux gave me that freedom.

I am glad after many years in the doldrums Linux has woken up to take Windows head on and Windows guys have found Linux Python utility as an escape route.

This piece is to make the statement that YouTube is useful for advertisement and it increases the coffers to Google.

Text book and text file is the sure way of learning Linux.

All Linux is a grand text file and python 3 plus integrates it.

By the way, some of these utilities are coming from Free BSD.

The best server utility, if you care to learn is BSD.

Decade ago I promoted BSD one always  need an Internet connection to use BSD.
No text books.

In retirement, to save money,  I only use a Dongle to access Internet.

Dialog is my favorite even though it costs me one Rupee per MB.

I have about 8 SIMs to do various jobs.

I uploaded Rs1500/= to HUTCH and that money is not credited to my account. That SIM is in my mobile wifi I carry it with me "on the go".

When I visit them eventually, I will blast the Ceylonese receptionist, all the same.
That works in Ceylon.
This is why I hate Chinese.
They (Chinese) provide service but the customer service is hopeless.

Do not use Hutch.

Chinese are hopeless in English.

But if I lose the receipt that job is undone.

So always ask for a receipt.
That makes it legal.

Now if you want to learn Linux file hierarchy, please use Debian.

The directories (folders in windows) in Linux are

/root
/boot
/home
/etc
/var
/tmp

Then apart from su one should learn to use # dollar sign £ pound sign
. a dot precedes every file and it is not visible by default.

ls
User
Dir
Bin
Bin has all the utilities
Password and thousand more code words.

Learning 10 to 20 is not enough to be a instant Guru.

10 commands are not enough and all are in simple letters, never capitals.

ViM has better functionality than python.

There are many more text editors from simple to advance.

One should start with a simple text editor and graduate upward.

That is how I did it without a proper Guru but all are forgotten now with a cellphone in hand.

Latex has gone into oblivion.

Vade Mecum is my bone fides.

Demise of our dog put me off from the Internet for two years.

I am back again but has forgotten all commands due to lack of use.

Buy the Linux book for details.....

Read it's chapters on Shell (they vary according to the distribution) and Administrative Tools.

That is the entry point to Linux.

In this site I only promote
Knoppix
Debian
Emmabantus
Ubuntu
Magia
PCLinux
The rest including Arch and Mint I never used.

But over the years I have made an entry of over 100 distributions here.

They are outdated but one is free to browse them.

There are 20 to 30 visitors daily.

To keep them amused I have liberal pieces of local satire and global academic stuff.

But I am going back to writing books and then I am totally absorbed on what I am writing and unavailable.

This Blog site is to let my Steam Out and with hopeless coordination in old age, no Steam Games except Digital Bridge.

Games and Game Boxes

I have done two nasty political pieces but are real events in our current century.

The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) was exposed to a small degree but they are the ones calling the shots.

Before I go into game boxes, let me expose the psychology behind  most games.

Most of the games simulate violence in young kids.

The parents one generation behind
have no knowledge or understanding of the violence in these games.

These are good to train violent soldiers in action not disciplined soldiers.

I think in Ceylon military training in the past,  it is the first and the foremost and I do not know how it is enforced now.

We had over 3 decades of war, generation after our generation only knew violence.

A peaceful Buddhist country turned upside down and Myanmar is the classic current example.

Violence begets violence.
Parents buy toys to
(I have replaced the words win or lose in a Dhammapada verse)
to divert their attention and to buy the latest to riva, the neighbour's kid's gadget).

When they grow up they start liking guns and try them like game kits.

That is the truth about America.

Due to our violent terrorist in the South (the British let us own guns to begin with) the government confiscated all the guns.

That did not prevent emergence of LTTE, the Underworld and political goons possessing guns.

Perhaps only in Russia (we only speak bad things about Russia) carrying weapons is a criminal offence.

There is another Dhammapada verse that states one sees the tiny speck of dust in another's eye but do not see a fly in one's eye or nose.

This applies to America and Ukraine.  

Weaponized Ukrainians are more violent than average Russian soldier who is doing a job and there is a violent brigade in Ukraine some holding political posts.

These things are getting exposed due to the war.

Then there is exposure to illegal drugs to get the 'game kick" one gets when playing a game.

Fourthly they fail in academic activities.

Fifthly one should play with your own kids, right game at the right time.
This is what I learned as a paediatric guy.

Buying a game box to buy time for your own work is not way around.

Instead of collecting these toys one should give them to a kid who does not have one.

With that long preamble let me dish out my observation.

1. Number one is the price, is it affordable?
With parents finding difficult to feed their kids this question does not arise in Ceylon.
Even a photocopy is expensive and exercise books have gone up in price.

2. Number two is the RAM and none of the basic models except Apple has above 8 GB RAM.
One need at least 16 GB RAM to play modern games.

3. Number three is Graphic processor which costs at least 100 dollars.

4. Then the accessory ports in the front or on the back, ideally with a Ethernet port.

Our wireless connection is hopelessly slow.

Current president wanted to donate  a laptop to each kid in ? A level and one of the ministers was given the monopoly to import.

Thankfully we got rid of that government before executing any of these grand projects.

I was telling at that time it is far better to buy a cellphone with Android 10 or 11.
I have not seen an Android with version 12.
I bought three cheap cellphones before they went up in price to 3 times (to avoid buying new batteries for old ones).

There are no cellphones or batteries to buy in the open market, now.

One has to fly to Singapore but the  plane ticket is 5 times, now.

5. Then there are  other accessories like Monitor, keyboard, mouse and joysticks.

6  All these add up to 300 or more dollars and buying a Valve Steam Deck and Dock is more realistic, than ever.

7. The problem is there are not enough chips in the market with China banning export of good quality sand that they dig from our (Ceylon) coast for many years, pretending to build a port city.

Our politician banning a ship is eye washing mouth watering politricks. 

8. We could have built a chip factory instead here to earn money from the DEBTS to unnecessary ports and air ports built but never completed.

That is the bottom line of our idiocy.

Chinese are shrewd monsters in this globe.

Bacterial Logic and Forensic Toxicology

This is a convoluted piece only a forensic guy will understand.

Neither Ranil the current Raja nor the  Ex Raja would understand the logics, literally or metaphorically.

This has nothing to do with current starvation strategy of the government to save money to pay the salary of 225 MPs and their dependants.

Arguments goes like this why we have one bowel motion a day.

Of course some have three purges a day called 'Ka Hatiye Bada Yama" and I have not understood the scientific bacterial logic of 3 motions a day.

Somebody else should do a PhD on that topic.

It is our own Lamabadusuriya who did a PhD on ion channels and the need for glucose not sucrose in rehydration fluid apart from Sodium and Potassium (me adding vitamins in 1973 as an intern some of my Sinhala colleagues thought, I had gone mad).

Sodium, Potassium and rehydration fluid which WHO borrowed from US was out of the Formulary Committee headed by Professor Senaka Bible.

I have a single copy of Formulary Notes and the list of other names in 1968, I will post it here, on a later date, with some of their  volatile statements, that I can remember.

By the way, 1968 is the year we entered the university 54 years ago.

Out 55th anniversary is next year by that time, I hope Anthony Fausi CDC chairman is ousted after a formal inquiry of mishandling of China and his outreaches of money swindlers in pharmaceutical companies world wide, including in UK.

Coming back to my original preposition why one motion (not one nation) a day and the corollary one meal a day.

It goes like this.

1. 60 % of our faeces is bacteria.

2. They are vital for us including providing B vitamins and  K vitamin.

3. If you flush them fully we succumb to loss of 60% of the cell load of the body.

An amazing biological factory.

Mind you they are so tiny the mass contribution in weight is so tiny like Tiny Linux (4 to 8 MBs in memory here) but in numerical numbers they outnumber the current human population.

So if you count the number of bowel bacteria in Chinese population, ordinary binary computer will crack in a few seconds.

We need a quantum computer to count the number of Chinese bacteria (I stop counting their viruses).

4. They are called friendly bacteria.
I have a book on that topic.

5. Giving antibiotics to kill about 40 types of pathological bacteria is not logical.

6. Invariably leads to drug resistant pathological bacteria.

7. That is the survival strategy irrespective of that the bacteria are commensal or pathogenic.

8. These bacteria divide once in 24 hour cycles is my belief.

So one has to empty one bacterial load once in 24 hours.

They divide in 20 minute cycles.

9. More importantly in their sugar  metabolism they produce water and carbon dioxide.

10. Carbon dioxide make a big noise like politicians and is called political farts.

11. The water that is essential is reabsorbed even during periods of starvation.

It is called the water of metabolism.

Lower colon is the only place where water is absorbed in the body, solely by ion channels.

What a vital organ and we die in 3 days without water.

12. So using this biological hole for homosexuality is forbidden by 60% of the bacterial occupants whose downright biological residence.

13. That is why I hate homosexuals, like the Russians and Putin Do.

14. Current democrats are all homos and that is why the economic meltdown.

15. Please save bacteria and our Ar,. Ses.