Political Will for Integration

 This is an old Piece Reproduced.

Political Will for Integration

Politics is not my fascination.

I am a below average political citizen by all means.

I did not feel the pulse of the nation but was drowned in a total theoretical dream world of mine.

My prediction of neck and neck race with a win by a nose has gone awry.

Mind you, I neither did read the local papers nor watched any BIASED or Polarized TV.

I guess no Television station made a broadcast to the effect of a balance discussion.

The Election Commissioner’s spicy or saucy comment is a reminder of the ground zero level.

I did not miss anything.

I have decided to read Des Capital but mind you there isn’t a single copy available in this Buddhist city of Kandy.

The volume III was available but I refused to buy it without the first two volumes.

This is what happens when a nation gives free books (I am totally against this political ploy) to its students. 

Their soiled papers end up as Kadala Gottees (wrappings for chick peas).

They do not value the books or the knowledge imparted.

In a world where putrid Facebook and Twitter discourses determine political wisdom, rather  the outcome and in a digital world where paper has no value but of course pdf files can be a substitute.

Now my bone of contention.

These are my addition to the Des Capital.

Democracy has failed the Minority View.

Democracy is crazy (D.M. O’ Crazy).

Democracy is dead.

Democracy has failed the economy.

In Democracy there is no common sense but polarization on ethnic, religious, and more importantly the power of the money, to change political will and outcome.

Hegemony succeeded.

The common sense failed.

Segregation and polarization worked.

The education system failed in full.

This is, what happens when we employ a SINGLE Language Policy to educate the poor masses FREE.

I have seen this as a university don.

English language skills are hopelessly inadequate for communication and reading.

Forget about French (I have an O’ Level pass in French but that is not enough to translate the content of this English blog piece).

I think we should place heavy emphasize on English Language Skills (not Tamil and Sinhala).

The link language English is the only solution.

 

The Menace of Microsoft UEFI

The Menace of Microsoft UEFI

This is an Old Piece.

Debian is on again in my Laptop

I inadvertently erased my Debian Distribution in my Old Laptop.

I had problem installing it without Internet connection.

It is all due to this UEFI boot loader of Microsoft incarnation, in fact, trying an incarnation in reverse gear, on my laptop which I erased 5 years ago.

It (boot loader) does not let me install Linux without Windows.

The records in the UEFI haunted me.

Thanks to BSD but specifically TRUE OS I erased the UEFI, boot loader.

I had a installable DVD in my archive made in 2017, December.

Other DVDs I have shy of erasing the UEFI boot record.

Finally Endless OS erased it but won't let me, dual boot Linux.

 

This is how to do it.

1. Boot TrueOS and install it.

2. Boot Gparted and delete the tank root partition.

3. But leave the ESP made by TrueOS untouched.

4. Boot Debian 10 latest CD1 (you do not need other Debian.CDs).

5. Install Debian in the free space by deleting tank partition.

6. Again do not touch ESP made by TrueOS.

7. Install Debian and let it do its partitioning.

8. It takes the remaining space for a huge /home partition.

9. I delete /home partition and resize it and make also a /boot partition for safety.

10. BIOS partition does not function in this scenario.

11. Debian install its base system and once it is over, it lets you select from the Taskel. the desktop types.

12. I select all except web server.

Hit install and it takes a bit of a time and I either sleep or browse my emails.

But remain nearby.

It stops and asks a few options for you to confirm including root password, user passwords and a few more questions.

Say NO to them since you are not connected to the Internet.

It wastes your time and your first DVD has everything you need.

It installs and eject the DVD.

Thanks again to TRUE OS developers.

Do not try Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution they hide behind UEFI,  even though they claim UEFI compatibility.

This is true to Peppermint.and Mandriva.

I tried all of them and only Debian succeeded.

Thanks to Debian and Debian developers please take a leaf out of BSD overtures (by default) and do NOT feel shy to erase UEFI.

The U or Unified is not TRUE, it defies Unification logic.