Richard Quest and Fake News

Let me have my own quotes to begin with

About Data Plots in Air

Computers are faster than airlines but I am afraid to fly on a plane on autopilot.

Pilots on the cockpit gives me comfort.

I wanted to become a pilot but I changed to medicine which was a better choice by far. 

I thought, I would be flying all over the world in retirement. I think it is a bad idea.

One should fly when young on budget air when one is able to beat the rush at the airport. Flying from Brisbane to Melbourne was a pain to me but visiting Philip Island is one in a lifetime experience to see penguins.

By the way, penguin is the mascot of Linux

I used to like Richard Quest's whacky presentations.

I thought he was a Yokersireman due to his thick gargled voice.

I am wrong.

He is Jewish man and he adopted British way of subtle quotes.

He is a Russian Jew by descent.

British never say what they really mean.

They are always stiff upper lip.

That is why I left UK.

RQ had to leave BBC all because of his witty Jewish expressions.

I am not sure why he left CNN.

CNN was much freezer during Richard Quest's time but over time it became partisan with democratic bent, just like Wikipedia.

Richard was a homosexual and CNN and Democrats promoted homosexuality and third gende or Woke Culture.

Donald always pretended that he stood against the wishes of the World Economic Forum and IMF.

In other words Davos mentality.

I do not think Donald Trump is against Jewish Interests.

In fact, he is controlled by Jewish Interests.

All Jews are by nature money minded.

RQ is a born capitalist.

He is global man but not bad as the neocolonialist guys of the Biden camp.

 

There was no nemesis for USA until now.

But BRICS is breaking the ice and Western hegemony.

Using Ukraine America tried to break the back of Russia and failed but billions of American money went down the drain.

Even in the nanometer chip industry America is far behind. Russia is behind in chip technology but combined strength of Russia and China cannot be beaten in the long run.

American plan is to start a war in Taiwan.

Will that succeed?

Or is it impending Third World War?

With Oreshnic, Russia is ready.

Air Travel and Data Travel

Data Travel Faster

1. End to End

2. Point to point 

3. Hope and hope

I am a computer guy.

Computers are faster than airlines but I am afraid to fly on an airline that fly autopilot.

Remember that Maylasian 370 flight.

Seeing pilots on the cockpit gives me comfort.

I could have become a pilot but I choose medicine.

1. Hop and Cob

Change Flights 

Passenger model

2. Point to Point

Long Air haul 

Business model

I think travelling from point to point except for entertainment is not worthwhile with leg vein thrombosis as an accompaniment.

I love break in journey at Singapore when I travel to Australia.

Shine the Light of Wisdom

Shine the Light of Wisdom

Flame of one lamp can shine thousands other lamps full of oil. 

Be yourself a shining light to others.

This s a verse in Dhammpada translated into English

My Oil Lamp Simile and Physics

There are three components;

1. Lamp made out of dried mud (Mati Pahana and Vilakku in Tamil)

2. Oil

3. Wick

The three in combination makes the flame or life.

In physics only 5% is physical matter, the rest 95% is dark matter or non-light force of our Universe which makes our Universe to expand and recede from us faster than the speed of light.

In other words, every moment we tend to have less of this world. 

Our world is shrinking physically, every minute.

The red light shift of our spectrum is explained by this theory of expansion (and theory of receding).

I am not interested in Einstein Theory of physics but of course, outside of his physics.

If we can master this energy (this is also called Free Energy) space travel is chicken feed, since it is faster than the speed of light, that is why it is receding from us. 

Of course we have to Shape Shift (in alien technology) when we achieve this speed since our matter body will incinerate into quarks and guon and not atoms. 

My names for this are charms and enchant.

Our concept the Universe is limited by our own limited vision but our imagination can run riot. 

The Real Universe in my belief is not limited and is much more than that.

Mind and Dhamma

Nirvana is explained as extinguishing the flame of Life but the oil, the wick and the lamp in physical form remains.

There is a problem here, if one assumes mind as a form of energy.

Energy cannot be destroyed but transformed.

It is the "State of Flux" or "Uncertainty Principle" of mine.

There is book coming on Uncertainty Principle.

Dhamma also has a similar principle which I have not comprehended, yet.

 

The phrases below that I hijacked from the Web and they are not mine.

Suppose an oil-lamp is burning;

Its oil is impermanent and subject to change

The flickering flame is not only a source of light but also a source of life.

 

Kerosene Oil Lamp

Now come to Kerosene Oil lamp which has killed so many lives including children in Ceylon and India. 

Lot in Ceylon have tried to make it safer device but spill of oil leads to bigger fires. We should band this device gradually and introduce a electronic lamp. Many use cellphone as a torch but it needs constant charging which contribute to global warming, let me not discuss that here.

When I travel, I carry a tiny diode head lamp and a diode thumb lamp. In case the plane encounters a massive turbulence (this happened to me twice, one recently).

Richard Quest has a lengthy explanation on this saga. Quest is also an Aviation Correspondent for CNN and extensively covered the story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014. Quest later wrote the book, The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane, published by Penguin Random House on 8 March2016.

Kerosene oil lamps

Most kerosene oil lamps are designed with a chimney, a burner, a collar, wick, a shade, and a shade collar.

Kerosene oil lamps feature chimneys that are quite fragile and must occasionally be replaced

Chimney.

Burner

Collar

Wick

Shade

Shade Holder.

Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF201

 My contribution is very simple. I could not afford American Kindle to read my own books published at Amazon Books. I had several Android tablets of Taiwan origin (Asian) at that time with Kit Kat of Jelly Bean as the drive.I was very supportive of Android because itewas Linux derivative with commercial tag. It was called G---something.

I suggested that  ASUS makes a Unit that incorporate detachable keyboard so that one can take it off when on the move. I also had Netbook with SuSE installe w2hich was not detachable. Sure enough, ASUS responded with many derivatives.

WiKiPedia Reproduction and Facts were not checked by me
 

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF201 or Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet from the Asus Transformer Pad series. It is the world's first Android tablet computer with a quad-core processor, and a successor to the dual-core Asus Eee Pad Transformer. It runs Android 4.1. The Transformer Prime was announced by Asus on 9 November 2011. It was released in Taiwan on 1 December 2011, and in Canada and the United States during the week of 19 December 2011.
 

Features

The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a tablet computer with a 10.1" IPS+ multi-touch screen with a resolution of 1280x800 and an Nvidia Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip (SoC). It has an 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi module and a microSD card reader.

The optional docking keyboard features full QWERTY keys, touch pad, one USB 2.0 port and one Secure Digital (SD) card reader as well as an additional battery that increases overall battery life from 12 to 18 hours. There is also a sleeve which protects the tablet when not in use. This has similarities with the iPad 2 Smart Cover, but folds in an origami like fashion.
Software

The Transformer Prime shipped with Android 3.2 Honeycomb. Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich update was released on 11 January 2012 for the Transformer Prime.[5] It was then updated to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean on 27 September 2012.

The tablet has been noted for its graphics performance in games optimized for the Tegra 3, with the water in Riptide GP prompting a description of "awesome".       By contrast, file transfer speeds for writing were one of the slowest in tablets tested.  A review unit was rooted in December 2011. Users of the device intending to install a custom ROM themselves were disappointed in January 2012 to discover a locked and encrypted bootloader.  The manufacturer promptly announced work on a tool to unlock the bootloader, the use of which will void the warranty and preclude use of DRM content purchased via services such as Google Videos.  In a comparison with the original Transformer by the Android Police blog, the Prime was preferred. Two "minor" downsides were quoted: the speakers and the loss of a USB port.

Hasbro lawsuit

On 22 December 2011, toy maker Hasbro filed a lawsuit against Asus for trademark violation. Hasbro requested that Asus change the name of the Prime, claiming that the name "Transformer Prime" is using its Transformers franchise to sell tablets. Failing the name change, they are requesting that Asus not be allowed to release the Prime, and that they pay punitive damages.  Asus said that the Prime's rollout would not be affected. However, a US judge denied Hasbro's request to block sales late May 2012, citing that "the tablets actually do transform".
 

GPS and WiFi problems

On 30 December 2011, news started to emerge that hardware problems exist in the Transformer Prime with its GPS and WiFi ability. It was suggested in user forums that the problem is a result of the spun aluminum back panel effectively blocking GPS signals, poorly contacting Pogo pin connectors causing further signal loss, and in at least some units, faulty printed circuit boards. The former issue was later corroborated by Asus themselves in a response letter discussing the issue. Asus responded by saying "The ASUS Transformer Prime is made from a metallic unibody design, so the material may affect the performance of the GPS when receiving signals from satellites" they went on to say "this product is not a professional GPS device". Most notably, they then proceeded to remove the GPS ability from the official list of Transformer Prime specs on their US website. ASUS now offers a free GPS dongle shipped to all customers who purchased the Transformer Prime, saying it "may help improve signal reception and optimize the user experience" available until 31 July 2012 (PST).

At CES 2012, the manufacturer announced the successor to the Transformer Prime, the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity (previously known as the TF700T), less than a month after the original product launch, to launch Q2 2012. This new model includes a Tegra 3 T33 processor clocked at 1.6 GHz (as opposed to the Prime's T30), and an upgraded 1,920×1,200-pixel-resolution screen, more than doubling the resolution of the prior model. The display was upgraded to a Super IPS+ panel for ultra bright outdoor readability with 178° wide viewing angles.     In response to the signal problems, it includes a new back-panel design with the upper part made of plastic to enhance Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS performance. The front camera was boosted from 1.2 megapixels to 2 megapixels. It has improved graphics performance with a 12-core GPU.

Caldera Linux

Caldera Linux

Web site: (not active)
Origin: USA
Category: Workstation, Server
Desktop environment: GNOME, KDE
Architecture: x86
Based on: LST Power Linux
Wikipedia: Caldera OpenLinux
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 3.1.1 | June 1, 2002

Caldera OpenLinux – a based on LST Power Linux, a Slackware-derived distribution that had been maintained by Linux Support Team since 1993 and the first to come with a Linux 2.0 kernel. 

It was developed by Caldera Systems (now SCO Group) since 1998.

Caldera Systems created a full featured GUI system administration tool called Caldera Open Administration System (COAS). 

The tool was a unified, easy to use administration tool with a modular design. With its scalability and broad scope abilities.

Source: wikipedia.org; 

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;

 

Caldera Linux is one of the there distributions, I used from a book.

The other two were Red Hat and Debian,.

I could not (did not know how to ) boot Debian and Red Hat.

Later I bought book on Red Hat Linux and I could not boot Red Hat 7 but managed to boot Red Hat 8 with 2 CDs.

Then I migrated to Fedora . They were workstation based.

But my real love were Madrake Linux and Suse Linux with KDE desktop.

It is strange I do not like KDE and now settled down with Debian Gnome which is absolutely a fantastic distribution. 

I have come a long way and almost finished downloading most of the distributions, including 

Vinux,

PureOS 

BunsenLab Boron

All these can be run on BOX utility of Debian Gnome.is a virtual session.

I am going to try again whether I can boot DSL on a USB. 

It failed in the past. 

It is a CD distribution and has not got ESP boot part in a alive session. 

Yes, I could not boot it using a USB.

Damn Small Linux

This is one of the distributions I used in the past in addition to Knoppix. 

Modern version is good and it has my favorite Puppy Linux.

It is not a USB Image but CD Image.

Damn Small Linux

Web site: damnsmalllinux.org
Origin: USA
Category:  Desktop, Mini Distribution

Desktop environment: Fluxbo, JWM

 Architecture: x86
Based on:  Knoppix

 Wikipedia:  Damn Small Linux

 Media:  Live CD

 The last version | Released: 2024 Alpha | February 1,2024

 Zobacz po polsku: Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux (DSL) – a small, business card size computer operating system based on Knoppix. It was designed to run graphical environment and applications on old PC machines with 486 Pentium processors and very little memory.

DSL was originally created and maintained by John Andrews. For five years the community included Robert Shingledecker who created the MyDSL system, DSL Control Panel and other features. After that, Robert quit the project and continues his work on Tiny Core Linux which he created in April 2008.

Beside its small size, DSL features complete desktop and a set of applications for any purpose, such as:
– Mulitmedia: XMMS
– Net: AxyFTP client, Dillo, Netrik and Firefox web browsers, Naim client of AIM, ICQ, IRC, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server,
– Office: Siag spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spellcheck, Ted word-processor, text editors: Beaver, Vim, and Nano, Xpdf, calculator
– Graphics: mtPaint raster graphics editor, xzgv image viewer
– System: DFM and emelFM file managers, VNCviwer Remote Desktop Connection client, tools for system monitoring, USB support
– Window Managers: JWM and Fluxbox

The last stable version of DSL 4.4.10 was released in 2008.
After 3 years of stagnation, new, testing versions 4.11 rc1 and rc2 showed up as the last ones.

After next 12 years of breake, in February 1, 2024 a new, antiX based version of DSL 2024 Alpha was released. 

Mosquito and Political Crisis

Mosquito and Political Crisis

Double Crisis.

Falling from frying pan to the fire.

One is unpredictable, "Weather Gods".

The other the predictable "Food Crisis". 

The prices of food would hit the ceiling.

Yes, when crisis hits it comes in multiples.

On top of the Financial Crisis, in matter of 10 days, the Paddy Fields have become Muddy Fields. 

Floods will have devastating effect on our economy.

1. Paddy Fields sawn already, got washed away in matter of hours.

2. Seed Paddy is in short supply.

3. No Buffer Stocks

4. Short supply of Fertilizers for rice (liquid, solid and minerals).

5. It is the Maha Season or the Heavy Season where Buffer Stocks are replenished.

6. Dry season is on the horizon and the stock may diminish further.

7. We might have to use Rapid Cultivars and 3 Paddy seasons instead of the usual two seasons to make up for the losses.

a) We might have to get Japanese Help.

They are the experts on Paddy Cultivation and they have a vast variety of seeds.

b) In addition, we have to go for stunt variety of coconuts with high yields. 

Malaysia would not help us.

We have to invest on Coconut Research.

c) True for Rubber Research,too. 

d) I do not know what is the impact of rain on Tea Industry.

e) Our cinnamon, cardamon and coves won't make up for the loses. 

I won't talk about saffron.

I am not a guy who can talk about agriculture.

Mosquito Menace is my field.

Instead, I would spend my time on mosquitoes.

I have a big Text Book on mosquitoes and for some unknown reason, I have put that topic on the back burner for a very long time.

To begin with our toilets / cesspits are the breeding grounds for all types of mosquitoes. 

Remedy is to keep the commode closed after use and zeal the outlet pipe with a tight rubber band wrapped around to prevent the mosquitoes escaping from the cesspit.

My usual remedy was to breed Guppy Fish in my cement fish tanks and release them periodically, to the small streams and water puddles. 

Guppy fish can survive on adverse circumstances but detergents (poison the gills) used in our washing machines kill them all, in one go.

We spend lot of time on Dengue mosquitoes but there are many other types of mosquitoes in Ceylon. 

I have lost the count and there are so many varieties already breeding.

It used to be the malaria that devastated the dry zone. 

We have manged to eliminate malaria mosquitoes but India (imported malaria) again, may introduce malaria.

Malaria mosquitoes (Anopheles) do not breed above 2500 miles.

Japanese B Encephalitis is dangerous and our pigs are the reservoir.

By the way, the big type of mosquitoes do not carry disease but do cut down on other types of smaller mosquitoes, by eating up their larvae.

There are Culex and Aedis mosquitoes that carry seasonal diseases.

The breading times of larvae are generally speaking of 10 to 14 days.

In the mid 1960 we had a very simple method to overcome this problem.

It is not DDT or Malathion.

The big rains help to wash away the larvae but during the dry season stagnant puddles of water in the dry zone become the synonym of the drought.

The mosquitoes start breeding again on these puddles.

One way to counteract this menace is to open the flood gates (10 to 14 days depending on the types of mosquitoes prevalent in the area) of the rivers.

This flushes out the larvae on the flood planes.

Every 10 to 14 days was our strategy.

This worked very well in mid 1960s.

However, the big mosquitoes which feeds on animals and cattle (not dogs) are a good safeguard to eliminate Culex fatigans and Aedis albopictus larvae.

Without my big book on mosquitoes, I cannot memorize their names.

I left the book in Ceylon.

It is out of print for over  40 years.

Pigs are Our Cousins

 
Pigs are Our Cousins

These are little things that will be prohibited to teach in schools in Ceylon, soon.
Pigs are very similar to humans in genome study.
They are communal species ( not like in pig farms).
They look after their young in the wild.
There is hierarchy dominated by mums like in the elephant family.
They are not ferocious as depicted in the wild boar clan.
They keep clean if left to their own devises.
Pig’s diseases are similar to human diseases especially cardiovascular risks.
Pigs become chubby like our politicians.
They are an intelligent species to tolerate (not the pig eaters) humans and their survival in a increasingly hostile planet where elephants with big brain fail is a dilemma.
Their intelligence and brain size are similar to the comparison of dolphins to humans.
Pigs diverted from wild boar probably million years ago.

Why god created pigs and hate ham is open to question for some religions.

The miniature Wuzhishan pig is extensively inbred and individuals are genetically similar.
Its small size makes it easy to handle and useful for medical research. The team looked at genes and protein domains that pigs and humans share. These are important targets for drugs. The researchers found the physiology of the two is 84 per cent similar at the genetic level.
The studies identified 112 positions in the genome where pig protein has the same amino acid that is implicated in a human disease.
This supports the use of pig in studies on human diseases. Some of the protein aberrations that pigs share with humans are associated with obesity, diabetes, dyslexia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
This understanding of the genetic origins of modern pigs is important for their breeding and to find new ways to deal with old and emerging diseases.

Failure of Political Systems

Failure of Political Systems

 

My desired intention was to retire from blog  activity at 2020 here but Coronavirus induced incarceration and boredom has made me jump that target by 10.

The human race is fast losing it empathy and that empathy is loaded with emotion and partisan.

The Floyd story was hijacked by the media and for me (every) life matters and I have extended that to the animal kingdom, simply because our elephants both wild and domesticated are ill treated on daily basis.

I used to hate cats and pour buckets of water when they fight and disturb the neighborhood especially at night but come Coronavirus, I am very sympathetic to them.

Except one cat all of them have realized I mean no harm and the numbers of them (including those visiting the rooftop but the Ceylon Civets take care of them for me on the rooftop) staying in our safe zone has increased.

The stray dogs who regularly follow me for treats rarely see me due to forced incarceration.

The Coronavirus scenario has morphed into an immigration strategy by right wing radicals world over and unfortunately conservative Australians have taken over that discrimination baton to their hands.

Indian who have earned their emigration status hard are banned  from entering having got trapped at home in their holiday.
They have lost their loved ones and their jobs too and erasing their emigration status is inhumane.

How is WHO responding to this new immigration mafia?

I was offered resident status in UK but I never wanted it as a right.
I only want my passport to be accepted at any point free and fairly not immigration status.

The fairness never works in almost all the Western countries and my personal experience with New Zealand was horrible.

I used to blast the migration officers in New Zealand when they.crossed my free access pathway and always tell them you are going to hear from my lawyer not on immigration claims but violation my fundamental right for free pass.

My gut feeling of the Coronavirus is whatever the potential of vaccines the virus will wipe out a considerable number of the labour force.

For India and China millions dying is not a population problem.

The remaining stock will bounce back in a generation.

If you take a hypothetical country with white supremacy and very low population mass, that country will not survive a prolong viral onslaught.

The money cannot bring the life back and stockpiling vaccines doses may have to be thrown away as ineffective when a nasty double or triple mutants emerge in rapid succession.

The shortsighted but anticipated global effectiveness of the vaccine may be a red herring.

This equation will apply to New Zealand too and their will be labour shortages including doctors and engineers.

India will not send their trained staff and may even have strong anti-immigration policy in a decade's time.

The vaccine shortage and monetary strategy misfired and India will be 10 times wiser in the near future.

Any regime that neglect locals and cater for money of foreign visitors will be thrown out rapidly.

Ceylon will be a classic example.

America has to be much wiser to come out unscathed.

Coming back to the current topic and when I say failure of Federal Systems, I mean governments (not the division of labour where each component integrates to create a grand wholesome or a common goal in management technology).

Japanese 5S system works on this basis from  American Graham Denin's brainchild of management.

Unfortunately Americans never used his management philosophy but Japanese with their own style after Second World War II debacle, revived the modern industry and became world leaders in HiFi systems. and cars

SONY
JVC
HITACHI
SANYO
TOYOTA
 

Some of the household names of noteworthy names.

But when this type of model is devised in politics to delegate regional autonomy it fails.

It fails miserably.

Without a central organizational network, the system fails.

British war machine and Commonwealth was a showpiece but it broke down eventually.

Iron fist of Idi Amin or Mao Se Tung never works.

It is true for Russia and now it is specially so, to Chinese political system.

But credit should go to UK for its perseverance to keep the Commonwealth under one umbrella.

Then the local power hungry guys wanted to taste this power without UK involvement and dismantled the evolved system to make a mockery of the system.

Ceylon is a classic example and J.R.J.'s failed hybrid of parliamentary system and a hegemonic central authority vested on a Francophile presidential system failed.
But we are still grappling with that problem for the last 40 years without a feasible solution.

It is now more of the same with added incentive to become a self acclaimed dictator.

India chose a semi-federal system and it failed.

Of course the Great India fractured into four  with independence.

They used RAW to divide Ceylon, in the same inclination, fearing Ceylon might overtake even Singapore strategy, if remained United.

My personal view is even if we remained integrated, we would not have achieved much.

Simply because scientific and management style was not within our inbred philosophy and for a considerable time period we never  got scientifically and politically mature.

India created LTTE from grassroots level but could not control it when it went overboard with some EU countries giving all the support.

EU policy is cooperation but for a small country disintegration was their policy.

Thanks to India Tamils are still suffering in this country and most went to Western countries looking for better pastures as economic refugees.

India never gives citizenship to Tamils from Ceylon except Estate Tamils of Indian origin.

It shows their double standard and finally we had to go behind China for security reasons.

That is the exchange of ginger for chilies.

Both not palatable when raw.

We need other spices to make them taste better and tolerable.

Come to Coronavirus with center and periphery pulling in opposite directions, it is spreading like wildfire in India.

It is true for America with a much more bizarre Federal System and Coronavirus played havoc there,too.

I am not going to say humankind has found a suitable political system.

NO.

With the genetic or inherent power greed mankind will never find a system tolerable and equitable.

They love to see division and skin colour and African origin have become a basis of violence and polarization..

They forget that the white man originated from black man from Ethiopia in the distant past.

Our historian and priests have erased the dotted lines that connect us to the reality of human evolution.

So Coronavirus coming to wipe the human race is welcome, only if the remaining guys connect the dotted lines and create a plausible connections and dish out Quran and Bible not as absolutes but as obsolete.

Very unlikely.

But Coronavirus has shown the fallibility of the human race.

I have created a hypothesis that this is an alien agenda coming from a "not so friendly alien clan" from Zeta or Xreta reticularis galaxy.

They have been masquerading, as Tall Whites of Scandinavian Origin for a very long time.

They are shape shifters who will integrate with the local tribes when in danger but emerge free again when (viral crisis now ) the crisis is over.

These guys cannot stand viruses and their immune system cannot mount a protective resistance.

We are the guinea pigs.

Hope this piece will take you out from Corona Fatigue.

I have all the symptoms in me due to housebound incarceration.

Kanawa

Bonawa

Renewa

Vena Karanna Deyak Nae Ne!