Monday, March 31, 2025

Bodhi Linux Overview

Bodhi is Single User and woks on root level and that is not to my liking.
I always have a not privileged user account.
 It lets one remove Firefox and install Vivaldi, Opera and Brave.
How ever without installing Firefox on cannot install waterfox.
In any case to promote Enlightenment Desktop I keep it in my NUC system as a minimal desktop environment. However, one can install Enlightenment desktop on top of Gnome but I prefer the Modern, Elive desktop with fantastic desktop effects.
Importantly no LibreOffice and got AbiWord installed.
 
I have not tried Bodhi Linux after 32 bit days. 
Modern version 7.00 is fantastic with minimal applications. 
It is based on Ubuntu and has Synaptic Package manager.
Yes I have to install it my NUC.

It Froze and could not mount my 26 Ext partitions.
Tries it again and waited patiently and it mounted the hard disk.
It is in final stage of installation and I love the OLD UBUNTU installation which I have gone through 100 of times.

Well I got to distribution with Enlightenment desktop Installed, now.
 
If one is a Buddhist this is the Linux distribution one should try.
I think Buddhist monks would love this Mokha Desktop.

Took about 600MB of my 8GB RAM but 1GB with fire fox.
591MB of my hard disk.

However the installation was SLOW.

YES it stands up to its claim of light weight and energy saving and not resource hungry.


Bodhi Linux Overview

A minimalist, enlightened Linux distribution

Bodhi is a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop.

Bodhi Linux is extremely lightweight and highly customizable. 
Bodhi is suitable for both Linux newcomers and experienced users. 
The Ubuntu LTS assures stability for years and the Bodhi Team is very open to all suggestions and requests from users and willing to help.


Rescuezilla

Rescuezilla
 
Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. 
The project's latest release, version 2.6, updates the base Ubuntu operating system, offers a fix for booting on machines with Windows 11, and updates the partition management tools. 
"Updated the UEFI Secure Boot shim package to v1.58 after a Windows 11 update revoked older shims by incrementing the minimum "SBAT generation". 
 
This fixes any 'SBAT self-check failed' errors to ensure Rescuezilla continues boot on UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems which require the latest 'SBAT generation'. 
This also fixes the 'revoked UEFI bootloader' message warning when creating a bootable USB stick using Rufus
Replaced Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic) and Ubuntu 22.10 (Lunar) builds with build based on Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) for best support of new hardware. 
 
Temporarily does not include Mozilla Firefox on Oracular release until switched to new source.
 Image Explorer (beta) temporarily out-of-service across variants. 
Fixed querying drives with the Bionic 32-bit version, which broke since Rescuezilla v2.5 due to using the --merge feature introduced in util-linux v2.34." 
 
Further details are provided in the release notes.

Elive Linux Desktop is Amazing

Yes Installation was a grand success.
Thank YOU Elive.
 
Like Manjaro, Elive Linux needs your help.
I am currently installing the FREE Copy of Elive 3.8 and its desktop effects a AMAZING.
Yes it is the most beautiful desktop of all.
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Elive Enlightenment gets over 1000 points well above the 750 points for a Live CD.
I downloaded the unstable image from distromania (nobody can say I am a lifetime member of the band of distro=maniacs).

I have given extra 100 points for its commercial venture which is a new addition to my criteria list.

Linux guys and girls also live on rice and curry or fish and chips
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They also need to take home something for their efforts and sweat.

I recommend you go and buy the CD instead of going to distromania.

The buy is probably worth than the other fat commercial versions.

Mind you distromania is a very good repository for old and new distributions.
I think distromania site is defunct now but Linux Freedom is active.

Please feel free to visit them and register.
 
New Edition
It did not upset Plymooth Boot Loader of Manjao nor upset the GRUB Boot loader which Legacy Linux destroyed 3 months ago. Unlike LegacyOS Elive makes a persistent image in the USB, too.
 
In my Debian Gnome, I have Enlightenment Desktop as an option at boot up. 
Now i can take break from Installation rigmarole and finish my boo on Linux Essential. This blog piece would be edited to suit the book content.
 
It is called Enlightenment Desktop of Elive.
 
I have used it this during 32 bit time but it went into hibernation for long period. I manged to get a copy about 3 years ago in Ceylon but could not install it in combination with Debian derivatives. I left all my Old USB sticks and CDs in Ceylon to avoid surcharge at the Airport. I had a lay off and enjoyed the tropical sunshine of Queensland but the torrential rainfall made me to Revisit Elive.
It is in my NUC system.
It picked my old partition system except the small boot partition of 954MB. One 1GB is the minimum except for the EFI partition.
I am not sure it picked up my EFI, If not I would reinstall it.
There going to be  special Chapter on Elive in my new book "Linux Essentials".
My only grouse is the Windows were fixed in SIZE and resizing them was impossible in Live MOD but however the Monitor is large enough to accommodate many windows. However, during installation this function was activated transiently. 
Terminal was small and black and I could not resize to read the contents.
I have had enough RAM Free.

Beside, I could not catch a screenshot while Installing.

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Enlightenment is an eye-candy, compositing and stacking window manager that is released under the permissive BSD License. It was first released in 1997 by Carsten Haitzler (Rasterman) and this original release was dubbed Enlightenment DR16 (or E16 for short). In 2012 a new version of Enlightenment was released, which was called Enlightenment DR17 (or E17). Since then many further major releases of Enlightenment have been made, from E18 to E24.

There has been some confusion over Enlightenment versions. E16, despite being an older release of Enlightenment, has its releases numbered 1.x, while the later releases of Enlightenment (E17-E23) all have decimal release numbers. E17 is numbered 0.17.x, E18 is numbered 0.18.x, E19 is numbered 0.19.x while E20 is numbered 0.20.x and so on. Consequently, it is advised that users are careful as to which version of Enlightenment they are installing. While the version numbers reflect actual versions of the upstream tar archives, they can be confusing.
 
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The default Elive desktop.

Elive is as functional as it is beautiful.
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The Enlightenment desktop holds a special place in my heart. You see, back in my earlier days of starting out with Linux, 
Enlightenment was the window manager, compositor, and minimal desktop that helped me to transition from AfterStep into a more modern world of the open-source operating system. 
Although I truly enjoyed my time with AfterStep, it became clear it wasn't going to stand the test of time.

Ergo…Enlightenment.

Enlightenment was a minimal desktop that offered maximum configurations and was lightweight enough that even slower machines seemed far faster than they really were.

Also: The best Linux distros for beginners

Sadly, over time, fewer and fewer Linux distributions offered Enlightenment as an option and even installing the desktop could get a bit tricky. There have been some distributions that clung to the idea of Enlightenment; for example, Bodhi Linux's Moksha desktop is based on Enlightenment.

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Greg Kroah Hartman

Greg Kroah Hartman 

He is one of the Linux developer who maintains the Linux Kernel.

Kernel has a protected mode and non protected mode. The protected mode looks after the O.E.O. hardware ant not released until it is tested fully both on hardware and Virtual Machine setup.
It is 40 million lines of code which supports the hardware from NASA rocket booster to your washing machine to all the Android to Apple cellphones to your car radio and your home TV.
 
Linux protects your cellphone and your TV.
 
So give some respect to these Kernel Developers who do not boast like Bill Gate who has had Epstein Connection which were covered by murdering him in a prison cell. 
Even some Royal guys have had Epstein connections.
 
Linux is universal.
Hardware drivers stay with the kernel and user does not have to worry about the drivers.
 
It is agnostic reaction of the Kernel with programs and Userspace.
 
These developers protect the programmers from the constant hassle, so that they can get on with their program development unhindered from your browser to video or audio players.
 
That is why Linux have over 60,000 packages and I use only about 30 packages on top of my Debian Genome or Manjaro Genome.
 
KDE I take it as  a pain due to its immense resource hungriness
 
You better buy a New Graphic card and do not try KDE on old hardware.
 
Whereas with Windows one has to Install the latest version and then prop up the bulky drivers on top of it while paying Microsoft a FEE and if something goes wrong with your hardware Microsoft won't compensate the User.
 
I guess they should not the strained  manufacturer.
 
Whereas, Linux take the trouble not to support the hardware until nine weeks of testing elapses. Only for two weeks of new drivers are taken on board and the rest 7 weeks is spent on bug fixes before releasing to the commercial and public space.
 
In other words every citizen on this planet uses Linux knowingly or unknowingly.

Most important feature of Linux is it's ability multitask and run several programs simultaneously some as daemons in the background. 
There are deamons and Processors.
 
Each processor has a unique identity and no conflict is created when running.
 
One of the most unique program in Gnome is Stacer (which Manjaro does not have) which analyses ever process as and when it runs.
 
This is like where Linux File Mangers tabulate every folder and file available for running under Linux.
 
Linux is not a micro-kernel it is huge but runs without major conflicts.
 
When Linux installed it configures and integrate every piece of software and hardware. 
It looks for conflicts and gives a running commentary in the new Calamara Installer.
I do not have to worry installing which I have done over 1000 times over the last 30 years. 
I do not bother to switch to the next distribution when my current one is running smoothly. 
I just run them on live mode and sometimes install a few of them to see how they really look like.
 
It is not plug and play story.
It real in depth analysis.
 
Not like these Windows Guys who run Linux on a Virtual Box and say Linux Sucks at the behest of the Microsoft Hierarchy. 
It is all propaganda gimmicks.
 
Kernel drivers are one third of the size of Windows due to refactoring commonality within the kernel.
Proper spelling is Kernal when this word came into existence first in 1980s.
 
Linux is like a pyramid.
There are 800 maintainers which look after every subsystem or every layer of the pyramid. 
It is a huge task unprecedented
 
That is why it is rock solid like a pyramid and could last the nest century but my worry is the AI Guys take this FREEDOM and misappropriate the Wonder Developed that was laid down over 30 years.
 
Linux is based on Human Trust and not Corporate Greed.
 
There is a Trust Tree where new patches are lined up before release.
 
1. There is  Stable Release which is time tested.
 
2. Then there is a Testing Release and this is for the developers.
I used Testing Image in Linux only once and it did not go through well with the full installation.
Network Site did not give the authorization for Install.
 
Stable Release lasts two years.
 
Even though new patches are released every 7 weeks they are not bundled to a Stable Release for another two years
The developer have to be satisfied with the Testing Kernel and have to be responsible for fixing the bugs that might arise due to something faulty in the Original Code.

Linux is written in C for 30 years and there are no C++ blocks.
Rush is emerging as another programming language which is good perhaps in memory management and lack in fixing drivers for hardware.
I say we do not need to reinvent the Linux Wheel. Rush guys should not rush and become impatient.
Linux kernel maintainers will look at rush and bind them to the C-Code where they match together. If Rush keep adding stuff that do not match or actually do not need for functionality in Linux, it is far better they rewrite everything bottom up and grow its own identity call Rush Operating System.

Openmamba

It is again Plasma based and heavy and has no Gnome support with Synaptic Package Manager. Unlike other distributions it has its own software center, and that is a plus point. I won.t use it until it is Gnome ready.

KDE Plasma

The most evolved and complete desktop system of openmamba, KDE Plasma based. For every user who wants a modern, multimedia and productive desktop.

Available in downladable media: diskimg-livecd, livedvd, livecd, rootfs, diskimg-raspberrypi-plasma.

LXQt

Openmamba system with a simple and light desktop. For server installation or desktop on obsolete PC, embedded systems, tablet, single-board PC.

Available in downlaodable: livecd-light, rootfs-light, diskimg-raspberrypi

 

    • it is not a derivative neither depends on other existing distributions;
    • uses the RPM packaging format to distribute software components;
    • uses DNF and PackageKit as updates managers;
    • supports the installation of packages from Flatpak repositories;
    • implements a rolling mechanism to deploy continuous updates to the latest software releases;
    • it is available for x86 (64 bits with legacy support for 32 bits) and aarch64 (arm64) architectures.

    Bazzite Linux

    Bazzite Linux

    I have fallen out of Redhat and Fedora for ages.

    However, having browsed FOSS Linux I decided to download Bazzite Image of 7.72GB.

    It is a Gamer and it has an image for hand held devices.

    It claimed to support Lutris and Steam.

    It is a Installer Image and takes over the hard disk.

    It was just  a waste of time and when I burned it to the USB, I could smell charcoal burn which is perhaps even nastier than expected. 

    By the way, current Batocera also takes over the hard disk. I haven't got a bootable USB now. I had in the past but erased it.

    I am glad I left Redhat and Fedora long time, ago.

    It was after an altercation with a Foreign monk (perhaps a homosexual guy), in Sarana Road Colombo 7, long long time ago. I managed to get the 6 out of 7 C.D.S from Singapore (I knew a guy in Colombo who had worked in Singapore and got the C.D.S for me). I think he copied them using Windows Utility which did not read and write one CD).

    I got some CDS and later DVD that came with Large Linux books before I went for Mandrake Linux which got the Linux Ball rolling for me.

     

    Saturday, March 29, 2025

    BIOS, CMOS and UEFI

    BIOS first.
    BIOS means basic input and output.
    POST second.
    Power on Self Test
    Them CMOS.
    BIOS chip is non volatile.
    CMOS chip is volatile hence it needs a CMOS battery to keep the data intact when the computer is turned off.
    UEFI is the modern BIOS.
    It is graphical interface that can even use mouse input. It supports large storage devices.
    Support Secure Boot.
    Old BIOS had to be configured using keyboard and did not support large drives.

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    Old civilizations on this Planet

    Old Civilizations on this Planet

    Mayans
    Sumerians
    Assyrians 
    Akkadians to
    Babylonians

    Mohandajaro and Harappan civilization did not have priests or religions.
    There cities were
    Chola vira
    Happapan
    Lothan
    Sukodat
    Mohendo jaro

    Happy New year to ARCH Derivatives

    Happy New year to ARCH Derivatives
    Ceylonese New Year is two weeks away and it is all about our Sun which comes right on top of our vertex, if one is on the equator.
    I am a Physics Guy with some mathematical base that is why I am good with Linux.
    Biology or Medicine was my chosen profession which I gave up 25 yeas ago practicing but continued to teach until my retirement at 65 plus years, not medical guys but Dental Guys.
     It was one of the Dental Student who introduced me to Linux and he now a very good Oral Surgeon.
     
    It is all about the time Sakyawarthi Years or Roman Years.
    Only Africa has its land right on the Equator and they are well adapted to Sun Rays and not the white guys who are deficient in an enzyme that determine melanin pigment melanization.
    Let me finish wit Artix.
    It is the only, Arch derivatives that deals with at least 4 INIT Systems.
    If I remember right there were at least 6 Init Systems and only SytemD and OpenRC (Deuvan) survived to this day.
     
    SytemD
    OpenRC
    Runit
    S6.
    All the others have only one INIT system and cannot coexist with other derivatives. Other init sytems are bit messy and Windows system come from one branch.
     
    Still with time of counting time which the Kings in ancient times wanted for their tax collection from the veritable subjects.
    There is a caveat here.
    Earth does not spin in 364 day exactly but little a few minutes longer.
    I did not understand this but all the same I enjoyed our New Year celebration.
    But over years I decided to celebrate Wesak since lord Buddha was the greatest human being who ever lived on this planet. 
    He did not believe in Gods but believed in that there are other living beings in the Universe.
    So this so called yearly calader has many variations from Australia to Africa to Americas which gradually died with disappearance of old but great civilizations from Myans to Babylonians.
    Mayans
    Sumerians
    Assyrians 
    Akkadians 
    Babylonians

    Mohandajaro and Harappan civilization did not have priests or religions.
    There cities were
    Chola vira
    Happapan
    Lothan
    Sukodat
    Mohendo jaro
     
    All these civilizations had a calendar of their own.
     
    That is why we have leap yeas to accommodate the lost time every 4 years. 
     
    It started with the time which corresponded with to the location of the civilization and not the center or the equator which we call latitude in relation to the equator.In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body. 
    Latitude is given as an angle that ranges from −90° at the south pole to 90° at the north pole, with 0° at the Equator. Lines of constant latitude, or parallels, run east-west as circles parallel to the equator. Latitude and longitude are used together as a coordinate pair to specify a location on the surface of the Earth.

    Coming to ARCH Derivatives and their problems

    It all due to their fixation to KDE.

    KDE derived from CDE is a window manager and not an operating ssystem like Gnome.

    KDE lacks software repository. 

    Having adopted KDE the Arch guys had to develop their own software and a packge management system which did not inegrate with thier ARCGh derivative.

    They had to develop AUR .

    AUR, also called Arch User Repository, is a community-driven repository for Arch-based Linux distributions. It allows users to compile packages from the source and then install them via Pacman.

    1. Bluestar has Octopus which is very messy. 

    2.  Endeavour OS Merch store does not coexist with GRUB.

    3.  Manjaro I think use Official Manaro repository which is based on Pacman.

    Out of this Majaro Gnome is the best but it does not have Stacer, for my liking.

    That is the only Arch I would use.

    Snippets of Betrayal of Buddhism

    Snippets of Betrayal of Buddhism 

    The Exposition of Dalada is the culmination of the project to hoodwink the ignorant Buddhist civilians and Sangha
     
    They are only worried about the vote to change the constitution which needs a referendum to confirm it.
     
    Even if 20% of the misguided guys like Sepala, Sugath and Kumudesh and some  from Australia try to muddy the water there are lot of Ceylonese abroad which we can activate when the time is ripe.
     
    Kumudesh is another Link Guy who is helping the nefarious activity through YouTube..
     
    We did that to Ma Ra Ya and NPP would become a Chicken Feed in comparison to that effort which needed careful planning. 
    They come to power with Protest Vote (which is normal in Ceylon), mainly Buddhists and they cannot be cheated again.
     
    Already Chapa Bandara is doing the Ground Work.
     
    Good Luck to him.
     
    His political stature is growing.
     
    He had Army Cadet Core training and he can mobilize the disgruntled foot soldiers when high command is bump sucking the NPP/JVP for fringe benefits.
     
    Rest would be history. 

    Lot of guys including Sepala, Sugath and a number of NPP biased You Tube (hard at work) guys who are paid to carry on the project as designed.

    Gama Rala or Ranil Golaya or Goyya of CIA won't stand another chance. 
    He will become part of the bin (man) in computer technology or political Kunu Bakkiya.
     
    We know he won't give up until his death bed like J.R.J uncle.
     
    J.R.J was a pathetic soul in death bed at Navaloka Hospital and I signed his last blood report of death.
    Strangely Rerukane Chanda Wimala Himi was on life support but he refused any investigation and I did not see any
     
    Even though, I did lot of tests on Reverend Narada Himi while learning basics of Dhamma from him before I went to United Kingdom for so called higher studies.

    Targeting a few corrupt monks and generally belittling the rest of the monks is the project design.

    They have already have instituted robed or saffroned guys.

    Kiribathgodaya is only one of them.

    The project plan and design is to change the constitution which gives a special place to Buddhism but not necessarily Dhamma.

    Niragamika theme of JVP and NPP is used as a the carrot to the masses.

    As long as the Buddhists are united they cannot divide the country into pieces like an America Pizaa (the country into various parts according Race and Religion).

    Ultimate plan is to make Ceylon a Military Base and Mihinthalya is their America Air Force Base according to M.C.C or Millennium Project. 
     
    Milinda Moragoda is the project manager.

    USA and India Combo, The CIA and RAW are directly involved in this sinister project.

    The current government is the culmination of this Project.

    They tried the CIA method (infiltrate the Sasana) and failed and now using another tactic.
     
    "Niragamika Theme" (No religion) of the current PM / President Combo was devised in Washington but President Trump want his religious beliefs protected and preserved.
     
    Duplicity in Action.

    "Jayamangaka Gatha" was banned in the parliament BUT the full Christmas Bandwagon was dished out, liberally. 
     
    This Cardinal Guy is dreaming of becoming the next Pope but current one survived a big scare.

    Jayamangaka Gatha is for the blessing of the Entire World not only Ceylon.

    War of Ukraine is an antithesis to Dhamma.

    Karaneeya Metta Sutta is the first Sutta one should recite.

    If you are Buddhist and over 50 years, one should become a Vegetarian Buddhist which I generally renamed as Eggotarians (eat unfertilized eggs) Clan of Buddhists in Ceylon.
     
    If you do that one can say that one becomes a True Buddhist and spreading Metta to all the Living Beings.

    Monks should go for "Vegetarian Dhana".

    That is only the beginning to stop this subtle betrayal and sacrificing poor animals including pigs, cattle and goats.
     
    I gather Chinese are even harvesting salamanders for meat
     
    MaO Se Tung action in full action.
     
    He is the one who destroyed all the Buddhist Temples and the next target is in Ceylon by Xi Je Ping in the name of modern (big Constructions) development.

    People have forgotten during Coronavirus pandemic thousands of Chinese were buried in open places and they were visible on Google Maps
    They covered the site with a huge construction and the guys who built this structure were also murdered and disposed
    That is how dictators work in old and modern history
     
    There was a Belgian King who who murdered millions of Congo Africans. 
    Germans during the second world war used Africans as biological media to grow lethal viruses.
     
    Zelensky guy instituted with the help of CIA over 32 laboratories in Ukraine to find viruses to kill President Putin and ethnic Russians.
     
    Sadam Hussein did not develop them even though he worked in a similar laboratory in USA. 
     
    After that they decided to export this to a foreign country and that is how China Huan became a subsidiary.

    I do not think Junior J.F.K. will be provided with real DATA.
     
    There is one Heart Specialist in Colombo who had a full "Vegetarian Wedding" for his daughter. 
     
    I forget his name. 
     
    He came after Dr. Walupillai.

    1. In Kandy opposite the BPS they made a Missionary Hospital to promote Christianity
     
    This is near a Buddhist Girl's School.

    I was taken there as a kid.  As a kid I could feel that the doctors there were poorly trained. On my retirement, one of my Catholic friends wanted me to raise it's standards but I gave up after one week. There main aim is to promote Christianity through Medical Practice.

    They have NO belief in medicine they dispense.
     
    2. Number two is to enter Sasana and introduce moles.

    Kiribathgoda Baththara Mulla is number 1.

    Number two is the homosexual Mahamewna Saffron Guy

    Antidote is Do Not donate money to these guys.

    Let the Catholic Church to fund them.

     
    3. Translate Pali Verses into Sinhala and distort the contents and the meaning.

    Antidote is to read Dhammapda.
     
    The Dhammpada is out of production. 
     
    Donate some money to BPS to print new copies.
     
    I bought all of them and posted to my so called friends in Ceylon.

    Just grasp one or two verses that suits one's heart's content.

     
    4. Dalada Wadena Nilame is the most corrupt Guy.
    He only wanted money and the current Dalada Exposition is part f this design.
     
    Do not get caught to this Exposition Dalada to hoodwink the Buddhist in entirety
     
    Go and worship but do not contribute in money.
    There are lot of temples in remote areas where Samaneras or apprentice monks are without a square meal.
     
    I think it would do the opposite but would UNITE the Buddhist against Rogue Politicians.
     
    It would UNITE the Misguided Buddhists with the Guided Buddhists.
     
    There was a branch of BPS at the rear side of the Maligawa, before he became the big guy.
     
    First thing he did was to close this print outlet of the BPS.

    I made a vow not to visit Maligawa until he is eliminated from this post.

    5. Meditation has become a big business.
     
    There is a book by me coming soon.

    Dr. Steven Greer is in this game.

     
    6. I am ambivalent of Wesak Celebrations.

    As a kid I can remember one of my less bright uncles made a Wesak Lantern with Baby Lanterns.
     
    We could not take it out intact from the main door. 
     
    We had to separate them and hang them in different locations.
     
    For me, it was an experiment in physics.

    Do not be a megalomaniac.

    A few buckets and a few coconut oil lamps would do during Wesak.

    "Olu Bukko Wigadama" should be stopped.

    The buckets will burn showing the "Uncertainty Principle" of Buddhism.

    Oils would burn out but the light of Dhamma shines

    7. Wearing a Cross is Christian but do not wear any symbol of Dhamma.

    Dhamma is for your Brain.

    Digest the meaning.

    There are many other distortion and vagaries.

    Be mindful of every action.

    I hope you become a down to earth Dhamma Guy.

    Be very simple and transparent.

    Non intervention is the beginning.

    Politics of CIA and RAW are always for intervention.

    They got a good ally.

    That is NPP/JVP Combo.

    BEWARE.

    Mental Age, Physical Age and Credibility Gap of Classification based on Tests that cannot be Validated Scientifically

     04-10-2010

    Mental Age, Physical Age and Credibility Gap of Classification based on Tests that cannot be Validated Scientifically

    Children are different and their development physically and mentally are different and the variability can be immense.

    The academic tests done are not assessed according to the age or sex even retrospectively. The test is done on a single day the age difference of the population is 12 months.

    A child who is one year younger is tested with a child who is one year older.

    Sex difference value is at least 2 years favouring girls

    The mental age variability may be as high as 5 years.

    This vary even for the mother language which is is almost automatically acquired.

    Girls acquire language quicker than boys.

    This is the function of the dominant but automatic side of the brain.

    For example to swallow food or water one needs not have to teach even a dog.

    This is not so for the second language which is the function of the creative side of the brain.

    There is a time to introduce a second language.

    Otherwise it becomes a translation of word by word process and that is not the way to learn a second language. 

    The style of the language is never acquired.

    I could not master French at the age of 55.

    This is what has happened to good old English. 

    Every country imitate its its native (Stepmother Version of English) version. 

    English is an international and universal language.

    One need not be puritan but should not vandalize it.

    The effect of the trainer or teacher is not taken in my analysis.

    Parental and social effects are also dominantly operating.

    Girls lag behind mathematics till their advanced level age and the leveling off occurs automatically.

    By then some boys are 2 to 5 years ahead.

    This why biys are clever in computer techniques.

    That does not mean boys are smarter but is just the pattern.

    Learning acquiring knowledge and skills is a pattern based not rote memory based.

    One should employ the tradition of Buddhist monks

    The monks fearing distortion handed down the teachings by rote memory and the writing down was done years later. 

    By that time distortions have already taken place.

    Simply there are two editions. We are still arguing about the sectors but very few practice the essence, the universal compassion.

    This country has become the opposite.

    Hate is propagated and encouraged in the name of fragile law of existence.

    This is somewhat seen with computer competency, too but nobody has done a long term study (wider availability of computer skills is only less than a decade and one cannot see the pattern of learning in such a short time).

    10 or 15 year period is such a short time in academic functions and their assessment.

    So test designed on a static moment of time is bound to be not a true assessment of the child’s dynamic potential.

    Children are dynamic.

    A test based on static nature has no validity. 

    With or without a test some improve some go down and some drop out.
    what I am against is the labeling or appointment as a leader in academic skills (party politics does not apply here).

    Learning is a continuous process up to one’s death.

    The 5th year Scholarship has all the inherent defects which convicts 90% of some creative innocent children into thinking that they are not worth the mettle and is a national crime.

    I had very few wishes and scrapping this test was one of my first priority if am given the mantle of education reforms.

    One of the other wishes has gone by the wayside and into thin air which I stated 6 years ago and I wish not repeat it here.

    Such an amount of mounting stupidity in the system and at higher echelon having a intellectual discussion is almost impossible.

    When dons are talking of virginity and their availability or non-availability for competence in academic activities is hilarious.

    What little I know people who are engaged in healthy sex activities (men in particular) are forward in their academic activities. Less being said about this is better except for proposing to appoint a Professor of Virginity for all academic institution including all national schools is ripe in this Banana Republic. The criteria of eligibility except for having a Big Bunch, I cannot elaborate for my own sanity but I wish to sit at the Interview Board of Selections since, I can still distinguish big from a small one.

    This test which has variability of factor 12x2x5 x X-factor is over 250 folds.

    This is like saying there are 250 colours and which is superior. 

    Children are all colourful in their own ways and every colour is beautiful for their parents.

    The problem is when you make them only black and white.

    That is what this test does. 

    It is infuriating.

    Where are those American trained psychologists who are selling education piece by piece? 

    It should be scrapped as soon as possible and I do not think even our grandchildren will not be spared to this ignominious (putting all others who fail to ignoramus) adventure by our education system, if things remain as it is without a revision 90% of our children are doomed.

    There is another point I am totally against, the area basis selection of students to the Universities.

    This is a violation of fundamental right of each student who sit a competitive examination.

    If the government cannot rectify the difference and disparity in education and in the school system, they should pay some compensation for those students who are between the area basis marks and and above and not getting selected due to no fault of their capabilities but due to wrong government policy.

    Let that be a healthy sum so that the particular student is able to go abroad and continue his/her education which he/she deserves.

    Why only rich people send their children abroad?

    University entry should be on first come first basis.

    It should not be based on political decisions of proportionate representation.

    It is wrong.

    Why at least one student not contesting the education department on fundamental rights issue is amazing.

    I wish a lawyer should represent this case without a fee from this student.

    If I am a lawyer I would have done that by now.

    As a doctor I see only the psychological effets.

    New Wave of Linux-Multibooting Capability and its Culpability

    03-10-2010 

    New Wave of Linux-Multibooting Capability 

    Most of the Linux distributions are making a culpable offense by not recognizing other Linux that come from various backgrounds

    In the beginning the LiLo had problems with booting other Linux distributions.
    Then came GRUB it solved most of the booting problems by booting from any partition unlike Windows which has to start from the first sector.

    Linux guys have not put this weakness of Microsoft to light.

    Now is the time to highlight why we give priority to Microsoft.

    It is unfair in legal sense and open market economy.

    It also should learn how to boot from any sector of choice other than Master Boot Record.

    Nobody should give the copyright inheritance of the first sector to any Linux or Microsoft distribution.

    It should be with the customer or the user.

    It is a monopoly.

    Why computer wizards did not expose this weakness to light is my grouse.

    They only aggravate the situ by only recognizing windows and dos sometimes and invariably gave Microsoft the first place.

    This is a culpable mistake Linux developers perpetuate by not taking the starting block.

    Why give the head start to Microsoft?

    I have found only three distributions doing it right

    They are PCLinux (the new distributions now have a problem not including other format options – other types of disk formatting including DOS), Mephis, Debian, Suse , Mandriva, Redhat and Fedora.

    Redhat had the best GRUB including RAIDs .

    Still SuSe has the best partition tool, even though it restrict itself to 15 partitions.

    Why I do not know?

    All the other Live and installable CDs I checked had problem recognizing other Linux distributions.

    But they invariable recognized Microsoft by default or is it fear induced by Microsoft by its global propaganda or is it both.

    Why not recognize its sisters and brothers breathing over the neck to have a good start.

    Most pertinent question is why Microsoft cannot see with their eyes open wide Linux or other partitions.

    They are totally blind to independence an market forces.

    Where is universal  brotherhood?

    Where is universal comradeship?

    There are two reasons.

    1. One is boot loader they use is LiLo.

    2. The other is that they do not write a script (copy of the booting sequence in the header files of the root partition).

    They all write on the M.B.R while giving priority to Microsoft almost by default or deceit.

    Ubuntu do this, all Ubuntu derivatives including attractive Mint do this culpable offense.

    It is time to wake up and put this right.

    Suse recognizes only 15 partitions.

    There used to be over 60 partitions those days before the RAID and volumes came into existence.

    I used to have at least 8 (2 Windows) distributions bootable on my hard disk barely 80 GB.

    Those days Linux were not fat and heavy and some of them could stay on 2 GiB partition.

    I used to modify boot sector by various means to get all running without a problem with GRUB as the boot loader.

    Now the hard disks are over 300GB or 500GB we must go back to all traditions and have at least 30 partitions recognizable.

    Then I can boot Microsoft, Apple Mac and Open Free BSD as part-timers with Linux preferably my own assembly called God Bless You All (G.B.Y.A) (thanks to all the guys including Puppy Linux) and I will throw a party, the all mighty God has directed me up to the grave for rest after the party.

    Recovery Is Possible or Impossible and cohabitation is a must in the coffin for all of us at the end.

    Toilet Paper Catching Fire

     22-01-2011

    Toilet Paper Catching Fire

    In my book Vegetarian SACA, I am just finishing, I have given an account of Capsaicin or ingredient in Chillies that prevents old age Arthritis.

    Capsaicin

    Capsaicin is the primary bioactive substance in red chili peppers, which produces the pungent flavor.

    There is a story circulating in Colombo Diplomatic Circles that a certain UNO Officer investigating or perhaps observing war crimes being enacted in his subjective presence was given a hot meal of Nai Miris (Cobra Chillies) as his taste.

    The entree went like this.

    He was told it was a Ceylonese top class delicacy that war heroes on both sides of the divide partake before their final assault.

    Once you partake a little, they do not feel any other pain even due to gross injuries and it is also a mood elevating and quite similar to Onions for Indians.

    He was quite take up by the introduction, instead of tasting a little he avail himself of a liberal quantity as it were a Dhana Festival in a temple and he had to rush to the toilet.

    Whatever, he did in the toilet did not allay his misery and he decided to pull a fag inside the toilet.

    Moment he triggered the lighter there was a big bang and accidentally he lit the toilet roll too.

    The flash of fire, smoke and the big bang alerted the security thinking that there was a bomb.

    Surprisingly the young diplomat emerged without any significant injury or burns and in his flight and fright the burning sensation due to Nai Miris disappeared, instantaneously.

    But he started running towards the back entrance and the fire exit.

    The security officer thought he was a terrorist and followed suit.

    He shouted stop.

    I am UNO and BunKi Moon Man he said in his flight.

    Eventually the security caught up with him.

    When inquired he said there is a bomb in the toilet.

    By that time one of the environmentalist emerged from the crowd and said his capsule worked wonders!

    Everybody was puzzled.

    Then he said he put a capsule of biogas making strain into the toilet before the meeting to test whether UNO officers consuming enormous natural resources of the friendly countries could produce biogas during a meeting.

    And their shit or the scat can produce enough was his test finding with one capsule.

    Now he is trying to patent his discovery to solve the energy crisis of today.