Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Expensive Aircrafts Becoming Obsolete
Tuxedo OS and Pop OS
Evaluation of Election Results, The Closing Beat
With a massive campaign they could not muster 3% that Australian Labour party achieved.
Good Old Days Resource Usage
Good Old Days Resource Usage
Monday, May 12, 2025
Red Alert of Nuclear War and Victory Parade in Russia
Red Alert of Nuclear War and Victory Parade in Russia
I make a note about Ceylon. We failed to represent Ceylon and have somebody representing Ceylon in Russia in Victory Parade. If not for Russian army we would be speaking German today. This is what happens when guys who do not understand World History for that matter even our own Ceylonese History become bogus leaders.
The moment the Ukraine war is over the Military Industrial Complex of America with the help of Israelite started another war in Asia.
They have to empty the old War Cabinet which is filled with useless armaments but there is a big difference.
China come to the forefront in aid of Pakistan. They are testing their own weapon in active war against their major rival in the region, India. India has no allies except Israelites but only western weapons which they have to pay in dollars and franks.
India and China has had wars in the past.
I think 3 times.
Ceylon was a neutral country and no more after Anura.
Our stupid President Anura has signed unnamed and unlimited agreements with India and becoming partisan in wars we are not involved in.
On that ground alone he should be removed from the Post of Presidency within two years.
Lest, he will invariably take Ceylon to total destruction.
I do not know what will happen to Modi but there seem to be an undercurrent to remove him by American War Machine.
Vice President Vance says America is not involved.
I do not believe him but who can believe Americans and their direct proxy Israelite.
President Trump is already trapped by guys ex.president (who was the biggest war monger) has left in the MIC.
His dream to win the Nobel Peace Prize for peace is already scuttled.
The whole world becomes poorer even before recovering from the Coronavirus Saga.
Moving to Russia after 3 years Ruusai has help its Victory Parade without much pomp.
With nuclear arms and Oreshnik he is ready to face America and Germany.
Idea is to draw Russia to Indian side.
I hope President Putin won't take the bait and dead rope.
I have no sympathy for India breaking into many pieces for all what they have done to Ceylon from Indira Gandhi to Modi.
It was Pakistanis who help us to defeat L.T.T.E.
This Anura Guy does not know our own recent history and is backing India blindly.
He is a disgrace to Ceylonese non-aligned principles of the past.
It is difficult to be neutral and that what our Buddhist Outlook teaches us.
He is cardboard Buddhist by all means.
This month of Wesak we should practice non alliance and global peace.
U.N.O is a puppet organization and it cannot bring peace to this world.
I am always against war anywhere on this planet earth.
Nuclear catastrophe and total destruction of this planet is on the card.
Limited nuclear strike is the biggest mirage of all times.
Mutually Assured Destrution is looming.
Madness of M.A.D.
I think the Victory Parade finished without an incident.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
The Paddy Field, the ecosystem and the sick man
The Paddy Field, the ecosystem and the sick man
The Paddy Field, the ecosystem and the sick man.
I never bothered to work out the ecosystem built around the paddy field.
My first impression is that they are vanishing fast due to wrong agricultural practice and use of uncensored variety of chemicals and fertilizers.
I used to release my excess load of guppy fish to the streams and paddy fields but have stopped doing that since, my gut feeling is that they would not survive.
I dismiss paddy as a highly customized and manipulated plant for commercial use and has no value to nature except pollution and more pollution.
It is not a natural plant in a giant ecosystem.
I natural pant does not need any human intervention.
My neighbourhood is a good example of what is happenning to the paddy fields.
There was a stretch of paddy land between the road and the railway line.
Now there is line of newly built houses where most of the paddy fields were.
It an offence to fill up paddy fields and built houses according to the law but with Chinthanaya holding its forte, every little law related to paddy cultivation was violated over the last 10 years.
In actual fact over the last 25 years.
If you neglect a paddy field it does not regenerate its ecosystem and blossom into a water garden with water lilies all over the place.
If there is no water it goes into a utterly useless wasteland.
One cannot make it to a proper and viable vegetable garden.
The in between land is worse, they become breeding ground for various mosquitoes not only dengue.
When we moved into our present location, the mosquito menace was immense.
We could not sleep without mosquito nets.
Then we went abroad for few years and when we returned, I made a resolve to make our current location 80% mosquito free.
I have listed them elsewhere from education to simple techniques (no need any repetition here) and we have achieved it.
Suffice is to say, the filling up of the paddy lands did help a lot but now we are left with dengue.
Dengue mosquitoes thrive on urban on semi-urban environment.
My bone of contention was and is even toady is that most of the mosquitoes breed in the cesspit.
Coming back to the paddy lands that are presently cultivated, there are only two left.
One looked after by a woman.
The other looked after by a man who worked in the university.
I was very friendly with him and he followed a somewhat scientific approach and the woman followed the traditional method.
The paddy land of the woman is above the paddy land of the man and it gets the water first but this clever guy always beats her and always cultivate paddy a few weeks before the woman.
This I have observed and was very careful not to raise my eyes and pose a question knowing there was subtle competition.
The other subtle point is the guy gets the benefit of the fertilizer seepage towards the latter half of the growth and it is almost free.
These are little things one has to observe but no detective work should be carried out.
Mind your business attitude.
This week I noticed she for the first time beat the guy up well and truly.
So I paused a bit and went into pensive mode.
I pretended to be observing the two king fishers on the power line.
There were two almost flightless birds (who nest on marshland left by uncultivated paddy lands) on the paddy field that has being prepared.
I came home and decided list the animals.
The fish (hardly any), crabs, king fisher trail was obvious.
Water snakes, frogs, toads and insects were in the other trail.
Mind you all the toads and frogs visit my fish tanks not civets.
I do not interfere.
This is something I missed in my little piece.
But then I remembered this guy telling me that there are little mice that damage the plant when young and also when the seeding begins.
The fact, I did not know that this was the mouse or the rat that spread leptospirosis.
I did not see him for few weeks.
Is he down with leptospirosis?
Is he having kidney ailment?
Saturday, May 10, 2025
DoKuWiKi and WikiSpaces
Posted on August 11, 2011
DoKuWiKi and WikiSpaces
It is time for me to expand the horizon of "Words World" and go deeper into the program world where work is done almost on Unicode.
Let me be fair to the Linux Community and illustrating DoKu WiKi in no way undermine the efforts of professional programmers.
1. Vi is my number one.
2. Gedit is the one I used when editing files in Redhat 8.
3. Bluefish
4. Cream
5. Quanta and many more which I have forgotten the names.
Rest are;
6. Notepadqq
7. Vim
8. GNU nano
9. Eclipes
10. Geany
11. Kate
12. Gvim
13. Emacs
14. Leafpad
15. Atom
16. Cuda Text (new Nvidia based0
17. JED.
18. Gnome text
19. NetBeans
20. Brackets
21. UltraEdit
22. IntelliJIdea
23. CodeBlocks
24. LightTable
25. KomodoEdit
26. Visual Studio
I was abroad when early changes in computing (Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, BBC Basic) were taking place and when windows came I wanted to buy (last item in my shopping list with little money in my pocket and my wife having a hawk eye view, that I would put my last dollar on a worthless junk machine-very expensive then), a computer and going around the few shops in the high street selling computers (price over 2500 dollars) the salesmen were ever willing to show me the tit bits and sell.
After the demonstrations I asked the guys what program language I can type on this machine they were speechless (this little guy from Asia talking like a programmer) and told them I would not spare my money on a machine which I cannot write at least 100 lines of code for fun and promptly exited saving my money making my wife very happy.
The rest was history till I got into Linux where from Python to Ruby to C to C++ were there but very rarely explored them since my medical duties tax my time to the hilt.
While me doing night duties and you programmers were doing wonderful work with mid night commander and burning mid night oil.
So thank you guys and girls.
I am in no way excluding your efforts but this is to expose the newbies to the real world of computing and using DoKuWiki is only an introduction.
DoKu WiKi I downloaded was only 2.7 MiB and AbiWord is 7.9 MiB and it does my word processing.
It has tahs for Apache, DTHML, html, PHP and SQL.
I typed one line and saved it in UniCode (Graphic front end and code in the background) and opened it in Abiword and saved the line in abi.
You have two utilities using under 11 MiB which are super fast and minimal Macros, why you go for a Gorilla which you cannot handle when you are a newbie?
This is why I always say “Small is beautiful and bigger is never the best”
DokuWiki is an open source wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language. It works on plain text files and thus does not need a database.
Wikispaces allows individuals and organizations to create webpages that multiple people can collaboratively edit. Anyone can create a Wikispace free of charge, with additional paid options available for more features. Wikispaces is commonly used by organizations, companies, individuals and educators
Now few words about Wikispaces.
It gives you 2 MiB of storage free which you can share documents with your class mates and teachers.
I have already opened a space for my students in the university and another for K-12 class, even though I use Google and WordPress almost exclusively for my blog activity.
WordPress is of course professional class and the best I have used.
I will cut and paste few of the comments at their site for you to read.
“You guys have great customer and technical support–about the best I’ve experienced since the Internet began in fact.”
“I am a HUGE fan of Wikispaces for its ease of use and its endless options for collaborative projects and have been encouraging all my teachers to create a wiki for their class.”
“Thanks for making it so simple for my fellow classmates and I to connect. We’ve got a 20 year reunion coming up, and there’s no better, easier, and fun way than through wikispaces. I truly appreciate your efforts!”
“I had 80 kids register for Wikispaces today in class. Almost all of them said they were going home to make another one for personal use. Great tool, keep making it better.”
“Let me say how impressed I am with your service. It always amazes me that such an organization still has that personal touch.”
Thanks guys and girls for your comments which I have reproduced here.
Elive
Elive
Web site: elivecd.org
Origin: Belgium
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment:
Architecture: x86
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia:
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: active
Zobacz po polsku Zobacz po polsku: Elive
Elive (Enlightenment live) – a lightweight, live GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian and featuring the Enlightenment Window Manager.
The distribution can be used as a live CD/USB using separated live images or can be installed on a hard drive.
Up to version 2.0 “Topaz”, Elive was available as a free live Iso image, but installation module had to be bought.
Administration of Elive can be managed via its custom application called ‘Elpanel’, which was developed especially for Elive.
New packages and updates can be managed via Synaptic Package Manager and the text based APT tool.
Elive was under development between 2005 and 2010, when the project has been dropped.
The first two versions of Elive 0.1 and 0.2 were based on Knoppix.
The 3rd one was changed to Morphix as its base system.
Starting from Elive 0.4, the system has been moved to Debian.
The last stable version of Elive 2.0 was released in March 2010.
After 3 years of break, the developers started the project again.
The current version 2.6.x is still in beta stage.
Elive is available for i386 CPU based (or newer) machines.
EDE-Live
Web site: equinox-project.org
Origin:
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: EDE
Architecture: x86
Based on: Ubuntu
Wikipedia: EDE
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 1 | June 6, 2012
EDE-Live – an Ubuntu based Linux distribution which features the Equinox Desktop Environment as default.
EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is a small, open-source desktop environment that is meant to be simple and fast, that started in 2000 by Martin Pekar.
The Remastersys team created an Ubuntu 12.04 based distribution with EDE (2.0) which you can burn on CD or use with a virtual drive.
Friday, May 9, 2025
Lack of Web Etiquette in Politics
I searched over 100 web pages to find my web entry (accidental) on a blog site and what I discovered was something I should write here and is important for several reasons.
It is remarkable that several tendencies of the SMS age is evident.
The world without humor for me is not worth living and boring.
I like the subtle humour as opposed to crude humor where one has to tickle one’s arm pit to initiate the process, almost self induced.
The worst of satire in Linux terms is flamming which I am opposed to.
I was brought up in a age of discussion and discrete disagreement and not infighting but that is what one sees today.
That is the topic here but I should state one more of my observations before getting into that topic.
Often break up of love affairs. I often think breakups are good for many to learn real life situation before getting into serious commitments which most of them are not yet ready.
It should be of positive dynamics rather than negative so to speak.
So blogging is not a bad thing to pass over the tide but I found a serious impediment there.
It is like this if one is attending a a diabetic clinic for the young and fall in love with another diabetic, in no way I am encourage that.
Two bad genes and you (the two) end up with many diabetic children as parents.
Getting to know another diabetic is a good for one’s soul to learn to cope with but not to get married, for heaven sake.
My observation confirms that there was unhealthy pairing.
This is sure recipe for more disappointments and even suicide.
At that stage what you need is a sympathetic friend (not a lover) and a very good counselor with adult stature.
Coining a suitable pseudonym has to be done with care.
It is often trial and error.
I will come out with a story.
I went abroad for a short holiday and the idea was to buy a laptop without an operating system and to boot it at the airport with a Linux CD while waiting for the plane before the check in call.
I actually did that.
When I went to several places knowing that I was foreigner they wanted to sell me (more profit) always with an operating system
I had to show the boss guy I was not a stupid foreigner and pulled out a Puppy Linux from my front shirt pocket and booted up and in with the internet and typed Linux and my Christian name.
Presto!
There were 20 of my entries including Gonbas, Gembas and Gambas in Linux.
My friend who was residing in that country too was amazed and he was a computer guy.
He helped me to go to the correct warehouse of course.
Without much a do we closed the deal.
It was all fortuitous but worked for me.
If one has a common name like Sara or David one can still work with it without adding numerical.
I change paradox to parafox and it is the name I use here.
Then I start using not prefix or suffix like in English.
Tailing words combined.
1. Saralive or seralive or sierralove
2. Davidknock, Davidcook or Davidcock and the vagary is almost limitless.
The word is not a English, Name or a English Word and it will hit the top of Google engine in no time.
For French it is very easy.
Just combine se, le, la to make one word.
I hope you got the onions and foxes right by now.
Hope, Yep, you rise to the top in the web of antonyms.
Evolve OS
Web site: evolve-os.com (not active)
Origin: United Kingdom
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: Budgie
Architecture: x86_64
Based on: Independent
Wikipedia:
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 1.0 beta1 | March 16, 2015
Zobacz po polsku Zobacz po polsku: Evolve OS
Evolve OS – an independent developed Linux distribution with a home-made desktop called “Budgie”.
Budgie is a lightweight, clean desktop environment built from scratch and based on the GNOME stack. It is under development by Ikey Doherty, as well as his present project called “Solus”.
Evolve OS uses a custom package manager forked from Pardus Linux.
Evolve OS was a continuation of the previous Ikey’s project called Solus OS.
In April 2015, Evolve OS has been renamed to Solus.
SolusOS
Web site: solusos.com (not active)
Origin: United Kingdom
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: GNOME, Consort
Architecture: x86, x86_64
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia: SolusOS
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 1.3 | February 18, 2013
Zobacz po polsku Zobacz po polsku: Solus
SolusOS – a Debian based, beginner-friendly Linux distribution with GNOME 2 desktop.
SolusOS 1.x is based on stable version of Debian GNU/Linux “Squeeze” and the first release was published in May 2012.
It features the GNOME 2 desktop, a set of applications for everyday tasks, such as: LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, XChat, OpenShot Video Editor, Transmission, VLC, PlayOnLinux, Java and Flash plugins, Synaptic package manager, etc.
SolusOS FirstRunWizard helps installing non-free drivers for NVidia and ATI graphics cards.
The next release of SolusOS 2 was built from stretch.
It used GNOME 2 desktop and then its own fork of GNOME 2 Flashback (the GNOME 3 Fallback Mode), called “Consort”.
The project has been closed in 2013.
The founder and developer of SolusOS is Ikey Doherty.
There is another project develops by Ikey – EvolveOS, which uses Budgie desktop. It was renamed to Solus in 2015, so make sure that SolusOS and Solus are two different projects.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Neon User KDE
Neon User KDE
Neon User is a latest KDE based distribution.
It is clen and neat but since it is KDE, I won't installit.
I only use Gnome based distributions or KDE based but using other tools i can install Gnome desktop.
Good example is MX Linux which I have installed which has both desktops and many more.
Conspiracy Within the Cultural Vacuum
For me Ceylon has wonderful memories outside politics and even site by the side of a water fall is unique and serene.
Divisive politics of India, RAW and L.T.T.E took all that serenity and Anura also has become a pest for our Buddhist culture and polity with their imported doctrine even Karl Marx himself never fathomed.
I was a real Labour guy in Ceylon and UK.
Current Labour promoting War in Ukraine is to say the least, is bizarre adventure in politics of United kingdom.
He is the most unpopular PM of UK perhaps worse than Aruni of Ceylon.
Conspiracy Within the Cultural Vacuum
Since I do not intend to write any political piece here in this blog site about Ceylon and also I do not intend to return to Ceylon even for a holiday, I need to make a Final but Critical Comment about the unlawful "Aragalaya" in the name of System Change.