Basic Needs of a Computer User can be Packed in 800MB of Puppy Linux-Vanilla Pup 9.3.3

Well, well, I did clean Install of Vanilla Pup in my hard disk using 512MB of space.

This was something I used to do ages ago (now forgotten) but I followed the instructions and within 30 minutes my 4GB USB can be removed and any thing I do will be saved on the 38GB Fat 32 Partition.

I used my name for the sfs file which is 532MB the size of the EFI partition in this computer.

This USB stick has all the Puppy Linux distribution Isos and other Linux distributions that I have downloaded to Test.

Yes, miracles can happen with Puppy Linux!

I am glad to hear Barry Kauler is active in developing three wheeler Moped (it is not the correct phrase).

What is good about Puppy is (this an old edition) it mounts all your hard disks partitions at boot time.

It does not do any damage at all to rest of the partitions.

The basic steps in  System can be enumerated in 10 Steps.

 1. File Manager (lot of names for this)

2. Terminal emulator (many in existence to command line instructions)

3. Process Viewer

4. Default Browser, usually Firefox

5.  Default Text editor for coding

6. Default Paint Program

7. Default Word Processor usually AbiWord or LibreOffice.

8. Puppy Setup

9. Edit Tray

10. Help

11. Eleven is Exit

All this can be done on RAM and if you are happy YOU can install it. 

That is what I did today.

We are all at Sea when Clouding

 We are all at Sea when Clouding

Even though I am very supportive of Cloud Computing as a concept and also would not like to be negative in response at least in the early stages of implementation, I have at least 3 reservations.

It is time for me to pen them now since necessary precautions can be implemented from the very beginning of its general use.

1. Number one is as regard to children 

With a Google Chrome OS children are given license to browse the internet without supervision or safeguards.  This is the same reservation I raised with Linux for Kids live CDs. 

These educational Live Linux CDs let one browse the internet without any record or a trace of the places browsed in the internet.

2. If that is not bad enough the children lose their identity or the identity may be hijacked and children could be lured using word like play and fun. 

Somebody else (not the adults intended) may use netbook (in this case a child) under the pretext of the owner, who is an adult.

3. The data that is stored outside of the personal computer even though encrypted can be used for commercial activities and government can access them under the pretext of security and one loses the privacy.

These three points alone should be deterrents for children to have netbooks without parental and or teacher control.

When  we design Cloud Computer Atmosphere that should be within intranet not widely link to the internet as primary precaution in school environment.

Arkane Linux

 Arkane Linux

Arkane Linux is an Arch based distribution.

Unlike ArcoLinux which I have a copy installed its its installer is bit dicey, so I did not try installing it.

It probably wants to take over the hard disk.

However, included application does not have even Gparted. 

I am going back to GostBSD as my carry over USB distribution since I know it can boot by old Laptop in an emergency. 

Paranoia and www.writeclique.com

 Paranoia and www.writeclique.com

This regarding an incident with British Council Library in Kandy.

The center is there teaching English but Library is no more.

They (my blog pieces at www.write.clique.com) were bit humorous and the basic ingredients were satire.

Incidentally Google has gone parnoid if one writes alternative view about "Coronavirus Saga".

Unedited part is below.

Unfortunately for me, out of the top ten, my writings (I was involved in initial setup) filled the top eight and the administrator got paranoid and blocked my name.

I still continued to write (very little traffic) in spite of noticing the administrators handiwork, since my idea was not to reach the top ten.

They used my birthday as a discriminator.

Who says there is no discrimination in web hosting and social media.

But my writings were there for anybody to read in spite of blocking the rating.

I have collated them and recently deleted 75% of the original writings from that site.

Some of them are now in digital output for posterity, in a book form.

This preamble is necessary since when one opens one’s heart and not the mind in the Web, one has to be prepared for insults and discrimination.

Sadly now governments and secret agencies are doing things that one would not suspect 30 years ago.

Technocrats and not the real hard working guys who fill these posts and operating from air conditioned cubicles and are scared to be on the beat and foot.

Invariably paranoia develops.

So I think it is necessary to have a bit of paranoia when one enters the Web with email to begin with.

The instruction for good password is in another piece!

How does one have a good password?

How one can remember a password with 14 to 16 characters (what banks employ now for an

account, with the help of computers)?

To begin with one has to train the brain to remember.

I have a suggestion elsewhere (under web etiquette) that I do not want to repeat here.