Star Light (5) Company

 Star Light (5) Company

100% more performance.

500% faster storage.

100% more memory.

100% faster memory.

50% more pixels.

50% longer battery life.

100% more touch.

100% faster USB-C

I am glad this comany has a procut line taht cater for most of the top range of Linux distributions except Debain Gnome.

Its Mini PC is aroung 600 dollars which is an excellent stategy.

I am cyurrently promting Mini PCs.

The product line is pretty good much better than Chinesw Lenova.

I think my vision for 10% penetration of LINUX on Desktop PC and Mini Comuters before I kick the bucket would be achived without a problem.

Paddy Marketing Board and Coal Marketing Board

Below is piece in one of my books not related to paddy or coal raised may moons ago.

Paddy Marketing Board and Coal Marketing Board

This is another word I would like to add to English, if it is not there already, in existence.

This time in the Scientific World.

We had an Engineering Exhibition in the University, I do not know what was being exhibited there but my gut feeling says, that they are all big events for public consumption and certainly not miniature exhibits of biological nature. I am pretty sure they did not talk about biophysics and nano-technology.

I have been against the coal power project form its inception. I have many reasons including acid rain and I have stated that Coal Marketing Board will be as bad as the Paddy Marketing Board of yesteryear and its corruption scale would be immense unlike the paddy seeds.

Suffice is to say that most of the coal would wind up in undesirable places and the scale of corruption will be covered by black soot.

How black soot will effect our children's chest physiology and sporting outcomes are a different kettle of fish. I have voiced these concerns with scientific data as a yesteryear pediatrician but they would be pushed under the carpet of politics.

One pertinent question our energy planners did not address is that these coal power plants are operational 24 hours a day and the interruption of nocturnal terrestrial cooling effect that is necessary for air circulation and water condensation and the night rain pattern that we used enjoy would be disturbed drastically due to constantly warm stagnant air currents. This inherent circulation and re-circulation in opposite direction invariably purified the air of soot, dirt and chemicals.

The adverse effect of coal burning is phenomenal.

As long as the rain is there, even with infrequent interval with somewhat disturbed patterns then, there is going to be some reclamation.

But think of the scenario for some reason or the other, if the rain fails for a period of two years with drought. Then we have to use more and more coal power to generate power.

In fact, it sets in a vicious cycle.

The conditions conducive for catastrophic and unpredictable events would ensue.

When, the nocturnal cooling effect is negated for a prolonged period of time, the pollution of clinical scale sets in.

This is already happening in China and India.

Is Wikipeda is Biased?

Is Wikipedia Biased?

My honest analysis is YES as far as politics is concerned. 

Strangely AI does not come into play in the comment below.

I think one of the conditions where AI would be helpful (certainly not accurate) biases of Public Media Platforms.

The authors found that "Wikipedia articles are more slanted towards Democratic views than are Britannica articles, as well as more biased", particularly those focusing on civil rights, corporations, and government. 

 

As far as Linux is concerned, my current interest, it does not represent an accurate view of the Global Impact on Linux.

That is another reason for me writing a book on Linux. 

 

I visit Wikipedia less and less and it has lost its potential over time.

GPU Brands and Quality

I am not an expert on Graphic Cards.

I have been doing some work for my Book on Linux Essentials.

What is stated are from that research.

 

I am am Intel and NVIDIA addict from 1980s and I have used only those brands.

I have burned several RAMs and only one Graphic Card during my Windows days and NONE after going fully on Linux.

DO NOT blame the manufacturer but Microsoft Windows which is a very bad choice to begin with. 

They are only interested in profits and not after sale service.

One way to overcome this is to go for at least 3 year warranty.

1. ZOTAC GPU

Comparatively cheap and supposed to be having cooling problems. 

This also may be due to fixing them in an Old Unit not fully dusted. The fans get clogged with dust and cobwebs. Warm atmosphere makes spiders to come in side. 

Thankfully I have not had any problem with ants. I slide, both the front and back panel once year and inspect. 

I do updates only once in 3 years and wait for the old generation to go down in prices. 

Only CPU, I used to worry about and go for the best available.

 

I am a computer addict.

There are over 20 models to choose.

2. NVIDIA 

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)

CUDA the core I.C. Unit.

For high frame rate for second games

GeForce RTX tops the list

Very expensive.

Probably now built in Taiwan and not in America 

3. AMD Redeon

64 MP Multi Processing

Well below NVIDIA fps rate

Comes from UK

Still considerably expensive due to pound factor.

4. Intel 

Xess

Core are in Xe series base level of 32 going up to 128.

Cheapest

Lowest fps rate

I have only used them.

So I cannot be considered an expert in telling a newbie what to choose.

Points of interest

1. Number of pixel for unit

Old 1080p

Modern 1440p and probably above

2. How many core or Processing units

CUDA in NVDIA

64MP in Raedon

Xess in Intel 

3. Video RAM VRAM

8GB for 1080p

16GB for 1440p

32GB and above for Ray Tracing (I still do not understand this feature)

I am no longer a PC gamer now.

I am a Linux guy not a Windows guy.

I started with Atari and Commodore.

I downloaded Batocera Linux  image and played a Commodore game just a few hours ago.

Not only the nostalgia, the pace of the game was easy for a guy nearing 80.

The modern games are to fast, even for kids. If one plays these games as an addict, one would get RSI or Repetitive Stress Injury. This name comes from the stress injury (RSI) seen in career typists. 

I think our generation of doctors in 1980s coined this for Medical Secretaries. Word processing was coming in for Medical fraternity, then.

The name had changed to Repetitive Strain Injury. 

Keyboard is the major culprit.

I only use one finger in typing and two fingers the most and I have never had this problem. 

I am using this one finger method to type this post in a cheap Chinese Xomia cellphone.

Technological innovation is bewildering and my worry is AI taking over our FREEDOM.

Unfortunately, this is happening in China right at this moment and workers are treated like slaves during the time of Beilby Proteus.

BEWARE.

Next IMF Boss and my selection

May 27, 2011

Next IMF Boss and My Selection

Moment I sent one of my dreams to Maha Brahma, strangely enough I stop dreaming altogether.

I know Maha Brahma is as lazy as me on holidays and he probably has cast a spell on me.

“Not to have good dreams on my account”.

I sleep well these days in spite of the mosquitoes and very hot weather.
I forget that we are on industrial action and voided our heads (Departmental Heads) from all extraneous headship headaches.

That is the reason I am sleeping well.

So if you sleep bad resign from your administrative work and buy a good pillow, will you?

It gives you good dose of sleep, I can assure you.
 

Unfortunately not for the politicians who generally have no work except constant jabbering.

So I will write something on “I wish I could have dreamt”

I wish to dream myself as the next head of IMF.

Even better, I wish I am the head (now I am headless) in the selection board for selecting next IMF boss.

My selection criteria are as follows.

1. He is Caucasian

2. He is White or African Brown and White mixture (Obama type) and never Chinese yellow.

3. He thinks he is clever

4. He has no idea about how to help needy countries like Ceylon.

Stop interfering with US-AIDS

5. He should have terrorist type of attitude to human relationship especially of the Third World (Bun Ki Moon type with round face and no smile) countries and Middle East. (That is Bun Ki Moon type without a false smile-special vagary of his archetype).

6. He should be a aspiring leader and member of a labour organization of his own country or has held a ministerial post without a portfolio.

7. He should be 70 plus

There is one exception
He should have a very small phallus (penis) or wishes him castrated while on the job and have some artificial spongy substance installed inside for him to squeeze when dealing with a big problem like white flags of Wesak of Ceylon.

Castrated organs should be sent to WHO for live freezing and could be auctioned for transplantation (highest bidder from the third world), if he dies on the job while chasing behind a maid for childhood (Peek a Boo) fun in a hotel by a heart attack.

I am pretty sure he will not want his organs back but prefers organs from a younger guy who died from an accident (while driving his car) instead of his own.
Now he can afford it with the big perks alone.

Now what is for me.
I wish I am the one entrusted with castrating him and looking at his testicles first hand being a pathologist, I like round things and nodes and tumours.

But to have my own friction with the IMF, I will put lead balls (or pellets excavated from Vanni) very heavy instead of sponge.

My justification.

He will sit and work all day and night and won’t chase maids on vacation.

It is very difficult to run with heavy objects dangling!

I wish this would have come as dream.
 

Maha Brahma I am sorry I cannot send this for your interpretation.

This is not a dream but a wishful thinking and a honest aspiration!

If my experiment works well which I have no doubt, I would like to share my experience with the WHO and UNO, if there are any sensible ones still employed there.

PorteuX

This blog post has a piece to say who was Beilby Porteus. He was bishop who fought the British against the slave trade in the West Indies.

Regarding the this distributions which I have tested in the past in 32 bit version shows how with minimum of resources one can run a functioning distribution. I tested the new  version of Chimera Gnome it is 1.6GB. What it means is evry distribution has its favorite application but Proteus provides the same functionality with one third of the resources. 

I think Chimera is BSD based (I stand to correction), if it is so thank YOU BSD. BSD was the one who broke the back of Booting Monopoly of Microsoft Windows. 

I used it to erase the traces of Microsoft in my laptop which I bought cheap in Singapore. It has figure of 8 boot virus still but I know how to live with it. My GUT FEELING is Microsoft itself used this virus to ruin the life of guys and girls pirated Microsoft Copyrights. In actual fact Microsoft own your computer and has a backdoor to spy on the user. Worse part is they share this information (this encryption ploy is to hoodwink the user) with security agencies. By the way, Apple guys also share your information. 

They are legally bound.

Linux can track the guys who is spying on. One need not use Parrot OS or Kali Linux or Tails. 

Debian can do that and I have used Debian for that purpose, in the past.

I am not a paranoid guy. 

Paranoia is a disease only the security guys with special training have. It cannot be treated but never marry one of these guys or girls.

I am telling YOU as a doctor in full retirement.

I use Linux as a hobby.

PorteuX

PorteuX is a Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux, inspired by Slax and Porteus. The project's latest snapshot is PorteuX 1.9 which fixes a number of issues, adds CUPS supports to GTK3, and updates the kernel to version 6.13.1. The release announcement offers the details: "Fixed x265 encoding not working; fixed procps applications not displaying their own versions; fixed minor Xfce 4.20 issues that haven't been released upstream; improved support to some network devices; improved 0050-multilib-lite stripping; improved GCC build flags to include additional optimizations; added GPT compatibility to the Linux installer; added Docker support; added CUPS support to GTK+ 3; moved expat package from 002-gui to 001-core to fix network when booting only with 001-core; removed from 002-gui: fuse; removed from 002-xtra: mp4v2; updated Linux kernel to 6.13.1; updated NVIDIA driver to 570.86.16; updated Cinnamon to 6.4.6 (current only); updated GNOME to 47.3 (current only)...." Download (pkglist): porteux-v1.9-current-cinnamon-6.4.6-x86_64.iso (500MB), porteux-v1.9-current-gnome-47.3-x86_64.iso (511MB), porteux-v1.9-current-kde-6.10.0-x86_64.iso (573MB), porteux-v1.9-current-lxde-0.10.1-x86_64.iso (477MB), porteux-v1.9-current-lxqt-2.1.0-x86_64.iso (499MB), porteux-v1.9-current-mate-1.28.2-x86_64.iso (485MB), porteux-v1.9-current-xfce-4.20-x86_64.iso (480MB).

  

SAM Linux - 2007

Current Version is based on Proteus.

It is only 680MB and a CD version.

Tested it on Box and it has OpenOffice 4.1 of Apache which I was trying to install on Debian which I could not.

 It has a Virtual Box builder.

Really Good distributions.

 Old version

My live CD craze started with SAM 2007 and it went up to SAM 2009.

It is a derivative of PCLinuxOS and is based on Xfce.

My attempt at testing 100 live CDs would not have taken place,  if I did not come across SAM-2007 almost by accident.

 

All the credit goes to SAM and the Xfce. 

This was long before the my discovery of PCLinux.

It's last edition based on PCLinux was on August, 2009.

I waited long to I see the new edition in 2010 that is not to be yet and that will be a brand new edition and not based on PCLinux.

Unfortunately it is not going to be before I finish the 100.

SAM 2007 was the best live CD for me for quite a long time with games and lot of web utilities and that was the CD I used to demonstrate Linux (how easy to mount a live CD and configure internet cards).

I will edit this page when a new edition is on the horizon.

 

Vinux

This was very elegant distribution during 32 bit imte which I used.

I hope it would get revived.

Vinux

Vinux was an Ubuntu-derived distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users. By default Vinux provides two screen readers, Braille display support and a friendly community. When booting the live Vinux image, the users are greeted by the Orca screen reader that enables them to navigate the graphical Unity desktop using keyboard commands. Additionally, Brltty provides grade 1 and 2 Braille output via Orca.

Batocera Game Iso Image

For better options one should Install Batocera in your computer and configure it to your taste but read the BATOCERA online manual for details. 

Batocera Game Iso Image can be written not only to a USB stick but even into a SD card mounted on a USB SD Card mounter.

Batocera compressed gz image is 3.5. 

This is 41 st version. 

I had 37 version.

It expands to over 9.1GB

Extraction is very slow. It took a hell of a long time and I am currently making a bootable USB.

I had USB prepared it did not boot with new updated Debian image.

It does not has ESP part, I believe.

batocera.linux is a Linux distro for retro game lovers. You can play retro games from Atari, Super Nintendo, SEGA, Dreamcast, some GameBoy Advance games, and a lot more. However, you need to own the games in order to play them.

You do not need to install the OS by partitioning your hard drive, you just need a USB stick and you can boot directly from it to play the games you own. 

It also comes with Kodi Media Center integrated, so that you can switch to watching movies when you get bored with games.

 

 There things to keep in mind before choosing a Linux distribution for gaming purposes are:

    1. The distribution should be easy to use.
    2. The software tools that you need to get started should be readily available and easy to install (check out our Linux gaming guide to explore more about it).
    3. The distribution should be resource-friendly.
1. Pop!_OS
2. Ubuntu
3. Kubuntu
4. Linux Mint
5. Manjaro Linux
6. Garuda Linux

Here are Linux distributions specially crafted for gaming
7. Drauger OS
8. Bazzite
9. Batocera
10. Nobara
11. Lakka OS (convert old computer to retro gaming console)

12. Honorable mention: SteamOS (Outdated)

Batocera Compatible computer gadgets  are as follows.
1. Desktop PC
 

2. Intel apple based computers
 

3. Laptops
 

4. Steam Deck
 

5. Rasberry Pi
 

6. Odroid
 

7. GPI case
 

8. RG
 

9. Powkiddy
 

10. Gameforce
 

11. PS
 

12. Beelink
 

13. Khadas
 

14. Orange Pi
 

15. Amlogic
 

16. Unico
 

17. Netbox
 

18. Capcom 

19. Ardino

20. Nitendo