Zencafe GNU/Linux
ZENIX GNU/Linux
Zen Linux
Zen or Meditation concept made me to use it once.
ZevenOS is a good one I use its latest version.
Friday, September 13, 2024
Alinux and Peanut Linux
Peanut Linux 15 is available for download.
Log in with root keep blank the password.
It is pretty Good.
Brings me all the nostalgia.
I have highlighted the distributions I have tried at least once!
0Linux
2XOS
64 Studio
AbulÉdu
Adamantix
ADIOS Linux Boot CD
AgiliaLinux
All in One - System Rescue Toolkit
Aleader
Alinex
aLinux
AliXe
Amarok Live
Amber Linux
Anarchy Installer
Ankur Bangla
Annvix
AnNyung Linux
Anonym.OS LiveCD
ANTEMIUM Linux
Antergos
Antomic GNU/Linux
Apricity OS
aptosid
Arabbix
Arabian Linux
ArcheOS
Archie Live CD
ArchLabs Linux
Ares Desktop
AriOS
Ark Linux
arkOS
ArtistX
Arudius
AryaLinux
AsianLinux
Asianux
ASLinux
ASPLinux Russians use this Distribution.
Asturix
Athene Operating System
ATmission
Atomix
Augustux
Aurora SPARC Linux
Aurora OS
Aurox Linux
Why I encourage mosquito breeding?
Why I encourage mosquito breeding?
I managed to fine a huge book on mosquitoes and won't dish out remedies to exterminate mosquitoes. My fish thrive on their eggs and are very healthy and I do not need to buy fish food.
Mosquito larva is our cesspit cleaner.
Cockroach is our gully cleaner.
The gecko is our pantry cleaner.
Please do not kill any of them with potent insecticides and these poisons kill our bees.
A Gram of fish food is more expensive than Thriposa or Samapoa.
This was something I wanted to write for some time but kept delaying it for many reasons including political. When some issue is taken out of context and used as a political gimmick, even with much discomfort, I tend to refrain from taking the center stage.
Train to think logically and constructively,
I sometime find it difficult to find an audience (group of intellectuals in a forum) to discuss a topic at length. This was something we used to do even when we were just interns.
For an example we were faced with a dilemma of the treatment protocol as interns. On many occasions we were sure we had made the correct diagnosis but the standard treatment did not ensue improvement or recovery. In one of these occasions we decided to double the dose of an oral antibiotic which was only 12 cents a capsule.
We could not double the other agent given I.M and very painful too since with the wrong dose of that, I have seen a few children die (not any one who was under me) as misadventures.
Most of the misadventures were hushed up even then since the treatment was free and innocent patients were prepared to take some of the gullible lies from the administrators. This has become a common occurrence nowadays let me not digress. When we did increase the dose the patient started responding.
That was good news.
Unlike today we did not rest with that we asked the question why half the capsules were not working
Obvious conclusion was that somebody was introducing dud capsules in the supply chain.
We reported this and the Ministry then had the way to investigate the supply procedure and then caught pilfering from the Medical Supply Division and the substitution of dud ones to replace the same.
This was big news then.
This is a common practice in India even now before they reach our shores.
That was Professor Senaka Bible's time and we were very happy.
Years later I came to Colombo General Hospital and this practice was rampant as nothing constructive to abort this practice was in situ and Professor Bible had died under mysterious circumstances.
The modus operandum was for the guys to come as patients and take month's supply of drugs and unload them at the nearest private pharmacy.
There were many other offences (rice and eggs were meant to for patients were stolen during the Pang Polling days) I discovered as a D.M.O but these things are happening in much bigger scale now and I am still digressing from the major objective.
The point I want to bring out is that there is very poor accountability and the procedure for investigations is hampered both within and outside the health sector.
This is true for correct diagnosis too.
If one looks at a record of a patient who returns home comparatively well or who succumb in both private and public institutions the error rate of diagnosis is around 60% to 80% .
This figure has never been estimated for PMs (postmortems and not prime minister) after the introduction of private practice. Many a times not done in a proper scientific way.
Postmortems are avoided at very convenience of the doctors (I was a trained pathologist, paediatrician and a gaeriatrician). The other issue is that there is no proper consultation among individuals with expertise in other fields and different skills.
This is the salient feature in the practice of medicine in Ceylon. When something goes wrong the the diagnosis that come to the forefront is dengue.
The gullible media also report them without serious investigation.
All what one needs is a platelet count and a slide test that detect antibodies (no distinction from old or new antibodies). The test to show rise in titre is not evident in many cases. There are multitude of other that can lower platelets.
Concrete proof is lacking and impartial objective scrutiny is never done before or after the event. Once it is labelled as Dengue many doctors can have a sigh a relief that they have covered up their inefficiencies and tracks.
Unfortunately it covers up the administrative failures too. When a society is corrupt to the core and in effect the legal and medical systems are not strengthened to investigate and find viable remedies this filters to all the other segments of life including schools and universities and proper conduct of examinations and elections to are left to the undesirable elements.
That is when non-medical people too get involved in detecting virginity when the pertinent question that should be asked is;
Is it consensual (does not matter one is married or not-even in marriage it should be consensual not by force due the fact one is legally married; marriage gives a license) or not?
Every other case of death is buried under the mountain of dengue (we have to formulate strict guide lines).
1. The correct procedure is to have strict guide lines for diagnosis of dengue.
2. Then the next step should be and when the death is contentious (not dengue) there should be a procedure to arrive at an alternative diagnosis.
3. The third step should be to have independent clinical audit that is not practised in this country.
I can give you an incident when medical people failed to come to consensus regarding the increase of kidney disease in North Central Province. They did not have a protocol to deal with the scenario.
The dengue scenario is no different to me.
We are barking at the wrong tree.
Only taking political mileage.
Poor mosquito should not be an escape goat and escape route for our indifference since medicine like books are given free by the government.
All governments are also culpable whether they are democratic or otherwise.
We need a system in place when the system fails everything else fails.
Nobody ask the question why almost 50% did not vote. Simple answer to that is when the system in place has failed the very system that generate credibility is lost for ever and the apathy sets in.
These are not only philosophical points but these are social issues too. Everybody in power, not in power, able, disable, in private practice, in government institutions and in all spheres of activity should have a fare share of responsibility.
We are all culpable either direct or indirect or not in action or out of action or in the thick of actions.
We cannot leave it to the politicians alone.
What is lacking is sincerity and transparency.
As Buddhists we will have to pay our dues for these crimes of inactivity and indifference now not in next birth.
Mosquito Logic
Mosquito Logic
1. What is the first thing a mosquito does when it lands on the moon?
It takes the space suit off for the first feed which it missed on the flight.
2. What happens to a female mosquito who lands on a nudist camp.
She does not know where to begin.
3. What does it do when it meets a fellow mosquito in a nudist camp?
Check the sex to mate.
They are not homosexual (unlike human beings).
The following is what happens to the mosquito being after a bite.
4. What happens to a mosquito when it bites President Trump?
She (It) becomes a Megalomaniac.
5. What happens to a mosquito when it bites our P.M.R.W?
She becomes a crook.
6. What happens to a mosquito when it bites our President MS?
She becomes impotent.
7. What happens to a mosquito when it bites ex-president MR?
Her mind becomes small but body gets bloated.
8. What happens to a mosquito when it bites a Catholic priest?
She / he (no sex in heaven) gets an instant email from heaven with a request to be transferred to hell.
9. What happens when a mosquito bites Buddhist monk?
She (It) forgets to repeat its instant buzz of Stanza.
10. What happens when a mosquito bites a Buddhist nun?
It changes it sex to a male.
11. What happens to a mosquito when it bites a Muslim Priest?
She becomes a male and instantly grows a beard but forgets to wear a cap.
12. What happens to a mosquito when it bites a Hindu Priest?
Its colour changes to blue of God Vishnu.
13. What happens to a mosquito when it bites an atheist?
She develops her sense to discriminate believers and feeds only on atheists.
Mosquitoes
There are more than 3500 species of mosquitoes worldwide.
More than 300 of these species are found in Australia.
There are almost 100 species of mosquitoes in Western Australia.
Canada has 60 species.
UK has 30 species
Pacific has 200 species
Eggs mature within 48 hours.
500 to 100 eggs per lay.
After larval stage (may be 30 cycles) undergo 20 more cell division cycles and become adults.
From egg to adult is only 10 days.
Male live on nectar for about a week.
The female live 5 to 7 weeks but given favourable living conditions can live up to 6 months.
1. There are about 3500 species of mosquitoes and about 2500 species probably are in current circulation.
2. I believe, it is the most versatile insect on this planet.
3. Only about 40 species are diseases producing and the rest is an evolutionary store waiting to be discovered
4. All of them start life underwater as multitude of egg types.
5. The larvae are upside down in water and breath through a pair of siphon located in the tail end.
6. Anopheles do not have a siphon and lie flat on water surface and breath trough a pair of holes in one of the segments.
7. Job of larvae are to eat a lot and grow fast.
They are filter feeders.
8. Elephant mosquito larva eat other mosquito larvae
9. Dragon fly larva breakfast is mosquito larvae
10. 4 moults.
11. Emerges as a Pupa.
Trumpets (breathing apparatus) pop out from the head.
12. Some flowers are only pollinated by mosquitoes.
Males only feed on sugar of flowers.
13. Adult mosquito has navigational tools.
14. Females of only some varieties need a blood meal before laying eggs.
15. Giant mosquito larvae while not blood suckers help to kill other mosquito larvae and control the population explosion.
16. Killing all mosquitoes is not a solution to control mosquito born disease.
Environmentally useful guys are also killed in that process.
More Dangerous Than A Snakebite
Reproduction
More Dangerous Than A Snakebite
with Curtis Cost
April 3, 2023 By Hilda Labrada Gore
What could possibly be more dangerous to your health and life than a rattlesnake bite? Vaccinations.
Our guest, Curtis Cost, the author of “Vaccines are Dangerous,” explains why shots have more serious consequences than many may have initially realized.
Curtis describes problems, beyond “side effects,” that can arise not only from the covid-19 shot, but from all shots.
Conditions like autoimmune dysfunction, asthma, allergies, and other debilitating issues that result from injections are often not perceived as triggered by vaccines.
Curtis connects the dots.
He also goes over why he’s especially passionate about getting the message out about the inherent dangers of these shots to the African American community.
Power and War, An Anaysis
This is to make a statement about all Forms of Wars in human history.
Human history is studded with wars.
Do not go away with the idea that wars are fought on economic grounds.
I have listed below the five important reasons.
Number one is religion.
Ottoman empire is one.
They are called crusades.
Israel is another.
If wars are fought on religious grounds what is the use of a religion?
This question I have raised for many years and no religious convert is willing to answer.
That is why I say religion is an incurable brain virus.
China killed 70 million in Tibet.
Dalai Lama is a peaceful guy nobody stood for him.
Come Ukraine Military Industrial Complex was ready and waiting.
MIC had armed the Ukraine army to the hilt, out of proportion to its size and needs.
It is clear this was a well designed project and was in the plan for over 10 years.
Pakistan and India had fought wars but they are amenable to diplomatic channels.
India and Pakistan cannot stage cricket in respective countries.
But they still play cricket on neutral grounds, in Ceylon.
Crowd violence add to the problems.
China and India fought 3 wars.
China invaded Tibet and Tajikistan.
Even Vietnam fought war with China.
Vietnamese do not trust Chinese.
India does not have a border with China.
Kazakhstan
Central Asian country.
Russia to the north and west.
China to the east.
Kyrgyzstan to the south east
Uzbekistan to the south
Turkmenistan to the south west
Kyrgyzstan
Conquered by Russia.
It has oil, gas and natural resources.
Turkic people slowly replaced and assimilated previously Iranian speaking locals.
Alexander invaded it by failed to suppress it.
Part of it was occupied by Ottoman empire.
Macedonia is the old name for present Greece.
Osman the Turkish ruler established the Ottoman (Anatolia) empire now called Turkey.
At least three wars over Middle Ages to the First World War.
Turks of Ottoman empire subjugated Greece but over subsequent treaties Greece claimed its own territories.
Cyprus though a Greek / Turkish speaking nation is a separate state but part of it is retained by UK.
Greek Cypriots are the majority and are Orthodox Christians.
Turkish Cypriots are the minority and are Muslims.
Largest Greek island is Crete.
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
Separated from Pakistan from Afghanistan by a narrow strip of land.
Afghanistan to the south
Uzbekistan to the west
Kazakhstan to the north
China to the east
It was conquered by Soviet Union.
Uzbekistan
Tibet, Nepal, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh are buffer countries that prevent direct access of India to China.
Queen Victoria and Elizabeth built an empire with wars fought all over the world.
Afghanistan was the only country who fought to the bitter end.
United Kingdom lost to Afghanistan.
Russia fought for 17 years and lost over 15,000 soldiers.
America fought for 20 years and lost over 20,000 soldiers.
Hitler is a good example of ethnic cleansing.
First and Second Wars were fought on political grounds.
Vietnam War was the best on political grounds (communism and capitalism).
All other wars including Middle East wars are fought on economic reason.
For oil resources.
Ukraine war is different.
It is based on Hate.
But other reason is ideology.
Russia is not capitalistic but socialist.
That is the reason for war.
But the main reason is to support Military Industrial Complex of USA and UK.
In other words people take up power or sit on powerful posts to propagate war.
Bertrand Russel failed to elaborate on War mongering in his book on Power.
I think he was against World War I but he supported World War II.
He was ambivalent, I suppose.
In my case, I am against all types of wars but I am not a diplomat to raise the need for dialogue and diplomacy.
Power corrupts humanity and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Humanity has yet to devise a fool proof political mechanism.
I think humanity would be able to move forward albeit slowly.
Internet has given that opportunity to mankind.
It is slowly moving forward.
Everybody has to be an active participant.
1. Power of the Church (Priests)
2. Power of State (Kings and Presidents)
3. Power of Identity (Race, Castes and Social Status)
4. Economic Power (Banks, Lending agents like IMF)
5. Power of Politics
All the above power systems have encouraged wars and they will continue in spite of us having the UNO.
UNO is a white elephant.
We are already into the Third World War.
Already 50 countries are supporting Ukraine Proxy War initiated by America and no sovereign country has remained neutral.
China and India are playing a duplicitous game.
China has the biggest Army in the world and getting ready to fight America on Taiwan.
That will complete World War III, scenario!
Totalitarian or Dictatorship.
Stalin, Hitler, Francois and Mussolini
Distributed Power
Democratic Institutes
Hybrid Power of both Parliament and Executive Presidency
Ceylon is a hybrid state that failed miserably.
We do not have oil but our gas resources are yet to be harnessed.
Capitalism
An economic and political system where a country's trade, industry and wealth is controlled by private individuals for profit.
It is assumes that profits drives the economy forward without state control.
It is not free for all but a self regulating economic instrument.
In theory it is fabulous but in practice much more virulent.
Supply and demand flow can be adjusted in favour of the margin of profit.
Its mechanics are always in upward direction and assume no nose drives.
But when there is a lot of competition invariably nose dives do occur.
When this happens the big sharks gobble the small fish bringing some artificial equilibrium.
The essential feature of capitalism is to motivate individuals and industry to make profits.
There are exceptions.
Pharmaceutical Industry is the classic example.
Have you ever heard a pharmacy going bankrupt?
Late professor Senaka Bible took a chance and developed the State Pharmaceutical Company.
JRJ's sister Gladis ruined it and it is functioning as a rudimentary company.
Communism
States owns all property.
There is no democracy, class, religion or private sector.
But it has metamorphosed into Workers (sometimes like slaves) and Ruling Elite.
Marxism
Marxism rejected the egalitarianism on the basis of already existing workers and owners (two distinct classes) dichotomy in the middle ages.
Classless, stateless, money-less and humane society would only emerges when inequality in all levels are reduced to the minimum.
It is a distant dream but worth working for and no human society has achieved that goal.
Marxism was based on industrial society.
Present day society is much more complicated.
Socialism
Socialism is the transitional state between overthrow of capitalism to realization of communism.
It is a political ideology that gives workers of collective ownership (tools, land and buildings) and it is the responsibility of the workers to manage a particular industry.
It is not state owned but the state allocates resources to the public on demand basis.
Russia
Russia is an anomaly.
It has shifted from industrial economy to a market or capitalist economy where oil, gases and mining bring lot of money to the state coffers.
The guys and girls managing these industries became oligarchs who started pilfering money to the West (UK and US) surreptitiously.
Putin had to fire them but many escaped to the West.
Ukraine war gave added unexpected bonus to Russia with Middle Eastern countries cutting down production and jacking up oil prices.
China does not have enough oil and gas for its industry and that made the sour relationship with Russia to mellow down and become trusting allies.
The laxity of control of sanctions imposed on Russia and apparent inability to make it global instrument has caused Russia to bounce back.
Trade Embargoes generally work in opposite direction to what is anticipated.
Scarcity of commodities not only jack up prices but also promote illegal mechanisms.
G20 countries control only 50 countries.
BRICS with more than 70 countries behind them make American sanctions only hurt the five major countries the most, Canada, New Zealand, UK, US and Australia.
The capitalist hegemony has its own limitations and is slowly crumbling.
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism believes in greatest good for greatest number of people.
Humanism
Humanist do not believe in god.
Look for alternatives to dogmatism in religion.
Its individual assets include
Freedom
Dignity
Morality
Transcendence
Ethical
Rational
Common good as opposed to selfish motives
Liberty
Human rights
Individual rights
Bound by social responsibility
Law abiding by nature not by force
There are many other shades of social developments.
None has brought perfect balance between rulers and subjects.
Early civilizations did not have religions.
I think the lack of balance in civilian administration lead to moral obligations which blossomed into various religions.
Religions actually did not provide solutions.
It started with good and bad.
The science was late development.
The correct connotation is Right and Wrong and nether Right nor Wrong was only a theory and did not have pragmatic values.
Land and economy took precedence and laws came in to protect the land owners.
Liberation and revolution were only late developments.
Karl Marx of course analyzed it well but was hesitant to throw out ready made solutions.
His anticipated utopia has long eluded humanity.
Anarchism
Revolution
Authoritarian
Terrorism
Egalitarian in all spheres including moral, economic, political, legal, racial and gender.
Elitism
Dominance of society or system by elites.
False belief that is the best available.
Simple common sense approach is disposed of in favour of this elite class.
America is good example where neocolonialist community of rich guys behind Biden and White House failed the community of the democratic voters who now take scum out of the dustbin to live.
That is the reality.
Defined by
Notability
Power
Wealth
Skills
Intellect
Interest of a group
Silicon valley is good example
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