EasyOS Puppy Linux 6.5 is OUT

EasyOS Puppy Linux 6.5 is OUT

It is pretty good and supports all container types.

It is only 1GB but unlike other distributions fills up the rest of my 8GB USB with an Ext4 File system for use.

Thank YOU. 

Firefox and Chromium browsers need to be downloaded and Chromium has its own container.

Vivaldi browser is also available.

Only downside is no AbiWord.

This USB stick is used only when I travel and not on daily basis.

By the way, Puppy Linux is my favorite for a very long time. 

I started Linux with Puppy Linux. 

This is the only Puppy derivative that active and all the others are dormant.

Only a few Linux Distributions are posting their Linux Images.

Emmabantus Debian 5 Edition is pretty good and feature packed.

TAILS is out but I did not test.

Sparky Linux Game over has limited games. It did not have my favorite Frozen Bubble. Currently, I do not support Linux games.

My Cricket Ball Design of Computer Technology

Even though, I do not bother about the copyright of this idea, I am going to incorporate this concept in my book "Linux Essentials" so that it lives after my demise.

I am going to have a name for it not "Cricket Ball" but a name and concept that died in early days of Linux. Name of that distribution which is now dormant and defunct would be mentioned for posterity in my book.

For the guys of FreeNAS and Alpine this idea is available to you for development.

It's versatility is limitless.

In the way of XMonard and Heskell Language developed, FREENAS and ALPINE should develop their own cryptic language for high level security.

 

For the Puppy guys of EasyOS 6.5 they should invest and lay some ROOM in their multitudes of container facility without wasting any code.

A container within container as it were.

The introduction to Magic Wand is mentioned at the end.

My Cricket Ball Design of Computer Technology

 

This is a theoretical and Novel Design for the Google Clan.

Cricket balls comes in different sizes and shapes.

 

This technical ball of my design is futuristic.

It is a global design similar to the "Golf Ball" design of the old typewriters but with a difference.

 

1. This Golf Ball is magnetic, wireless and completely empty inside.

 

2. It sits on top a Intel NUC type of a computer.

It's shape should be cylindrical to fit the "Golf Ball" on top of the computer.

The top of the computer should be shaped as a half of the globe.

 

The bottom should have the CPU and the integrated graphic card.

 

3. Both the "Golf Ball" and the top half globe of the computer are magnetic when powered on.

Otherwise it consists of metal components (cannot be plastic) with no magnetic capacity.

 

4. There is wireless Bluetooth Connectivity to a video display panel of any size. 

Could be multiples of monitors depending on the design of the computer base.

 

5. The Golf Ball with large memory capacity on the surface can code for any of the 2000 remaining languages on this planet earth. 

 

The sphere is selected to facilitate the maximum surface area.

 

6. Google's  role is to translate these languages into Linux UNI Code

 

7. Google can own it and lend it to the United Nations Organization.

8. Of course this "Golf Ball" can have syntax and grammar depending on the language in question. 

The original design is complex but the beauty is the magnetic field when powered on and the limitless wireless connectivity.

 

It can beat any "Reversed Engineered" Alien Technology which America may possess, currently. 

CIA stole PENS from Linux community.

CIA can steal this idea, too.

 

9. The ball can be of any size from a tiny marble to a satellite in space. 

 

In space the cylindrical design is redundant since gravity plays NO role.

10. The Keyboard for this Computer Design is a simple Wireless Keyboard (not a Golf Ball Typewriter).

11. If any body has more bright ideas he or she should think about a Magic Wand. 

The easiest in my mind is a Remote Control with infrared bandwidth. 

To avoid fire hazard I have not talked about Laser Technique which is a weapon of war, currently.

I have no interest in any war that would demolish this planet earth in 70 minutes.

Going back to my first typewriter;

Two things I bought from my first salary in UK were a AGFA camera and a Electric Typewriter. The typewriter is still working with only a few keys having lost the surface imprint capability.

I did buy over 20 new cameras over next 20 years and the last one I bought, damn cheap in Singapore was a FUJI Digital Camera which is in good working order.

Photography was my life long hobby. 

It is a dying hobby due to cellphone camera proliferation with poor quality plastic lens.

By the way, I have a Digital Microscope which I used for my Research Work in Pathology. It has a camera that can be mounted on the Microscope Barrel.

 

I do not keep copyright of this design, I have mentioned here. 

 

It belongs to the humanity with many different languages.

 

I hope at least a prototype could be built and is in functional form before I kick the bucket.

For the sake of posterity, I would have a chapter on my book "Linux Essentials".

It is going to be the last chapter.

Basic Tenets of Dhamma

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Basic Tenets of Dhamma

The inclement weather made me to be home bound and compose myself to investigate the three words in our discussion and find the closest English rendition (as much as Sinhala cannot translate them correctly, English fare much worse).

As I write this there is a YouTube session on the Internet on, and an American Lady (lay person but taken the role of a preacher) is having a talk show and stating that there is an anti-universe and in there life of beings is eternal and there is no death but permanent existence.

What a hoax?

To her my prediction is that even the anti-universe is subjected to state of flux and extinction and another round of universe and anti-anti universe would come into existence.

But our discussion here is on mind and its behavior which can grasp or cling into both the micca diiti (wrong view) and samma ditti (right view).

The bottom line is we should not corrupt the Pali Terminology.

1. Animitta          Condition-less (without a focus of attention)

2. Apanahita        Desire-less     (without attachment)

3. Sunatta            Emptiness or Void  (null)

What I find to my surprise is that they are the three of the 18 contemplative states described for monks with correspondingly higher states that can be attained in Vipaasana Meditation.

Suffice is to say these are very difficult to accomplish by an ordinary layperson.

My subsequent investigation leads me to the following summary.

The base line technique which is easy and useful for focusing the mind is nothing but Ana Pana Sati.

What is the objective?

Attainment of Dyana is the correct term for the commonly used term Jhanas (4 to 8 in number) that could be attained momentarily.

These states are not the same but similar to the psychological effects of psychedelic drugs.

These are very addictive states and bring out rapture and happy states and have the proclivity for more of the same arousal tendency, craving and delight in essence.

That should not be the attitude of the meditator but is a hindrance to upward mobility.

They are not permanent and subjected to change.

That is why one should contemplate the Anitta, Dukkha and Anatta principles in these state of arousal.

As one ascends through higher Dyana levels the technique is to drop the mental states that are hindrance to the next level and finally achieve the highest level which is Upekka or Equanimity.

The next stage is to contemplate on detachment, abandoning and extinction leading to Nirodha.

I have summarized the states achieved in the first 4 levels, below.

The seven elements of Enlightenment are

1. Sati or Mindfullness

2. Dhamma vicaya or the Truth Principle.

3. Viriya or Energy

4. Piti or Rapture

5. Passadhi or Tranquility

6. Smadhi or Concentration

7. Upekkha or Equanimity

The seven states of enlightenment developed and frequently practiced leads to Wisdom and Deliverance (Vijja-vimutti).


Samadhi or the Concentration
In other words the attainment of four to five Jhana absorptions.
In Jhana Absorptions, there is complete but temporary detachment from all five sensual spheres and of five hindrances or the

Nivarana
They are
1. Kamacchanda (Loba)
2. Vyapada(Dosa)
3. Tina Middha (sloth and torpor)
4. Uddhakka-kukkussa(restlessness)
5. Vicikiccha (doubt)

1st Jhana State one attains
1. Vittakka (thought conception and attention to thought-thinkink)
2. Vichara (reflecting or on inner speech or discursive thinking)
3. Piti (rapture)
4. Sukha (joy)
5. Ekaggata (one pointedness)

2nd Jhana State
Vittaka is dropped.
1. Vicara
2. Piti
3. Sukha
4. Samadhi are accompaniments.

3rd Jhana State
1. Piti
2. Sukha
3. Samadhi
 

4th Jhana State
1. Sukha
2. Samadhi

5th Jhana State
1. Equanimity
2. Samadhi

Beings of other planets have attained the next four levels (5 to 8) of higher mental states and for lack of proper terms they could be called Divine Entities.

The four Jhana states practised and attained at Patisnandhi state of mind would cause births in better worlds higher than the earth.

Unfortunately in these states they are unable to acquire new Kusala Kammasa and it is practically a dead end and once the Kamma is consumed, they fall into lower levels including birth in world system like ours.

It is just like one who has a big saving account and he/she withdraws money little by little before full maturity and empties it in no time.

Full maturity should be taken as Nirodha Samapatti.

Pangna or Wisdom
This is the understanding of the Four Noble Truths, the suffering, the origin of suffering, the path for cessation (Nirodaya) of suffering and the cessation of suffering.
 

This is the more difficult and is the intellectual pursuit of Vipassana Meditation.

The Samatha Meditation is the more practical and easy way of meditation. 

There are about 40 objects for Samatha Bhavana (Vissudhi Magga has over 1000 objects) and one should select one which suits the personalty.

Objects of Insight Mediation
There is lot of commercial advertisement to meditation, I thought of giving a little resume for the novice.
There are 18 kinds of insight knowledge that can be used as objects of Vipassana Meditation.

It is Knowledge or Truth or Dhamma based meditation as opposed to Samatha Meditation.

1. Annitta Contemplation of impermanence

2. Dukkha Contemplation of unsatisfactoriness (suffering)

3. Anatta Contemplation of non self

4. Nibbhidana Contemplation of disinclination or aversion

5. Viraga Contemplation of dispassionateness

6. Nidodha Contemplation of extinction or cessation

7. Patinissangga Contemplation of of abandonment

8. Khayanu Contemplation of body

9. Vayanu Contemplation of state vanishing

10. Viparinama Contemplation of state change

11. Animitta Contemplation of state of conditionlessness

12. Apanihita Contemplation of state desirelessness

13. Sunnatta Contemplation of state of emptiness or void

14. Adhipanna Contemplation based on higher knowledge

15. Yathabhuta Contemplation based on knowledge and vision of reality

16. Adhinavana Contemplation of misery

17. Patisankha Reflecting or thinking on contemplation

18. Vivatta Absence of cycle of existence – Nirodha samapatthi