Sunday, April 27, 2025

Most Unpopular Party in Power with a Poular Vote

Most Unpopular Party in Power with a Popular Vote
It has happened within 6 months.

Perhaps this may become the "Title of a book", when I finish the five books I am currently working on but not related politics.

Politic is antithetic to me for very long time, though I was very much involved in getting Ma Ra out of power and getting Maru Sira and Ranil in who, hijacked the political aspiration of the populace and even created the "Easter Bombing Saga", the much talked and hyped Political Saga.
I have no (Sutra Puncha is his grass root name) respect or egard for Ranil.
He has cleverly placed Anura (becoming the political fool in no time) on top and continued acting on his CIA/MCC plan as planned.
It started in 2019, long time before the coronavirus epidemic. The epidemic slightly delayed the onslaught on Buddhist majority.

I hear already 3 had died in Kandy related to problems of managing the long queues. It is supposed to a Stinking Mess upto Kadgannawa on the Kandy Colmobe Road without proper sanitation measures.
This is like Ganges River Saga but they wash all the dirt to the river.
Our Magaweli River must be a stinking Mess and I pity the people washing clothes downstream.
I have a book on Rivers on Ceylon at Amazon and have highlighted these problems long before.
You are free to read them.

My current Obsession is Linux.

My understanding is somebody (may be Sugath)  has given the big rope of, if  "Dalada Exposition" is inacted, he would get a landslide victory in the Provincial Council Elections.

"High hopes" and there victory should be scuttled.
 
A very long dead rope!
 
These guys like "Chintana Likes" think the real life of ordinary peopleis as in a Hindi Film.
Sadly mistaken. 
They have no political wisdom. 
They are NPP stooges.

Some of the other amateurish acts of NPP,  I have posted here in a different piece but I won't repeat them here. They are vividly dashed out by YouTube artists.

Feeling like a king (becoming the head of the country) is a disease and Donald Trump and Zelensky have manifest effects of this syndrome.

It is difficult to treat this megalomania problem like any other major psychological problems and it last till they die.
 
The YouTube guys who "whole heartedly" supported them are showing dwindling of their income and the few YouTube showing "anti" are progressing on their viability, if not profits.
It is a dicey industry.

Very soon they (JVP/NPP) will become victim of their own Creation of Mushrooming YouTube channels.

This is the very reason Modi quickly came in got his 7 or 9 papers signed well before the decline in the NPP/JVP popularity.

"Indian Conspiracy" is bound to fail this time round, too, since, they did not hatch the plot according to their plan themselves but bought into the plan that Ranil hatched. 

Anrua is doing the bidding for Ranil almost in total blindlness.

I feel pity for his son who is working in the Sri-Lankan Airway which is suffering from financial difficulties. I did take a ticket to Air Lanka and even the Ceylon Tea was pretty bad. Clenliness was below par due to lot of Indian travellers.
 
Ranil now has a guy to blame and say I am the "Clean Man". That is how he started politics but killed JVP guys at Batalanda, on the sly.

I think Ma Ra would have a sigh of relief at least, "I am not the worst guy or as bad as Anura is".

At least he defeated the L.T.T.E. and this man has got trapped by the LTTE, Thanks to the Indian Intervention.

JVP started with anti-Indian slogan and I was third year (mature) student in the University then, and I used to ask "How can you defeat Army with "Gal Katas"?.

Of course, in 1988-89 I was 4th in their kill list of the Indian RAW and DJVP.
My crime was working in an international organization called IMMI. 
At that time Indian were anti-american and now they are good American allies.

Duplicity in Action

Indian are ALWAYS double dealers and when Anura is in real trouble they will ditch him.
 
This preamble  is to talk about the City called Kandy.

I need more visitire to this site since I am going to "switch it off" for the time being.

I have book on "Kandy" at Amazon and please read it for details,written on a lighter vein with some additional sarcasm.

I have listed all the problems.
It is a small city.

When I was a kid it had only 3 doctors.

One was Dr. Nihal Karunarantne (Rich G.P) who was one of my family doctors.
He has written an excellent book on Kandy and its rich traditions.
Professor Anuradha has done a classical book on rich "Kandy Traditions*.

Unlike Indians we had some erudite and powerful writers in English.

Indians of course destroy Queens English by localization of it to their accent.

Their was a guy called Gupta who once wrote Buddha as a known rapist. 
That book was freely available in Ceylon.

My book was how these traditions and good things have declined drastically. 

I take a leave during Perehara and go to Singapore another small city of Asia but relatively well managed but expensive.
Now I do not stay overnight in Singapore when I travel abroad.
 
It was R.78,00 (note no additional zero) for a return ticket, then. 
By the way, I have never gone to India which I considered a waste of my time. 
I remember, "One Overnight", I stayed in Bombay with a flight cancellation to England.
There were Malaria mosquitoes at the Airport. 
Even today, Malaria is imported from India and very soon we will have Malaria in Ceylon but Chloroquine resistant variety.

I used to go to Singapore almost every other weekend to buy things necessary for "Navaloke Hospital" now rebranded and run by Indians.

I am long way off shoot but add more things about Kandy city later once the "Dalada Exposition" is over.
 
There supposed to be election there to elect a new guy so I should keep my mouth shut until that is over.

 

 




Impression Utility

Impression Utility

Impression is a good USB image writer which downloads and writes the image directly to USB or DVD. 

I have not tried it before.

I am trying to write Manjaro Gnome Image which I got an incomplete image  on Debian Gnome base which boots but does not recognize my partition table.

I would report on my progress here, soon. 

By the way, Reborn OS supports Brave  Browser but I have no space in my little NUC to install it.

But I have it in my my MX Linux.

Image writing is 77% now.

Update on Reborn OS

Update on Reborn OS

I got it right only on the fourth attempt of installation. In fact, I did it for the fifth time with cosmic and enlightenment desktop on top of genome.

One can use three package system and I installed Gnome synaptic to get my Gnome utilities. Sandboxing consume lot of memory.

My first advice if you try ARCH Linux try BlueStar Linux which is most beautiful KDE Desktop and easy to Install. Endeavour OS is good but it has problem with GRUB.

One should try Reborn OS only after that.

First attempt was disaster and it ruined the GRUB Boot Loader.

Second attempt I let the Reborn OS decide the Installation. It installed but it filled up everything and I could not get even 250MB Abiword installed. 

The third attempt was to read all the instructions and to get AbiWord installed. Still I had problems getting other desktops installed, say Cosmic an Cinnamon installed but failed getting the others in pristine condition.

Now a warning do not try the Blend OS coming from India.  The guys in India should read this. Blending applications from Fedora or Suse would cause disaster unless one goes down to the underlying CODE and fix bugs in Fedora and Suse first. They integrate the partition into one single partition with Btrfs and that is a disaster itself. Mind you,  I have tried all of them installing not on Virtual Machines.

I am an academic guy and I do not want to become a fool myself, teaching things, I do not understand like Haskell, Xmond, Wayfire and even Enlightenment Desktop.

1. Reborn OS is one of the best.

2. It has the latest QT6 toolkit

3. It is backward compatible with QT5. 

The problem is with the application developers who do not bug fix their applications before releasing them to the public.

It is not the job of Reborn OS to check bugs in each and every application. It checks conflicts and integrity and do not install them if they do not passReborn OS Test.

4. It does not spoon-feed but while installing report all the problem that may arise from second to second.

Learn to read them and understand them.

6. Do not listen to these YouTube guys who write ready made installation scripts with lot of bugs and tell you how to do and say “go and have a cup of tea”.

7. Stand by when installation is "going on" and respond to each and every query made by it say either Yes or No or remain neutral.

I remain neutral.

8. Do not browse the Internet looking for help while installing, Read them before installing.          These manuals are there to help not teach. 

9. Do not try to be a GURU, since Linux is fast moving and changing and digesting everything even for a guy who used Linux for 30 years but spoiled  by Debian Gnome background checking of everything without telling you anything specific but doing the deamon and cron jobs assiduously.

10, Thank you,  Reborn OS and all the Linux guys who toil day and night without asking anything in return except a cuppa.

11. Reborn Os is a Rolling Release and one has to use it as the daily driver and reports bugs and keep abreast with the community. 

 

Peppermint OS

Peppermint OS 

This was one of my favorite distribution.

It went into hibernation ? after Version 8.

I think it is coming from UK.

Light weight and beautiful and has all the components.

After Emmbantus and is cairo dock I did not revisit these two distributions due many reasons.

I am a Gnome addict.

Currently promoting all ARCH derivatves and I have two instances of Reborn OS which is pretty good for newbie.

Lot of Graphic help and has almost all the desktops,

I think Peppermint OS should introduce other Window Managers and Desktops.

IceWM is very popular.

Except Enlightenment and cinnamon all the other desktops are light weight.

I have given their space usage in a different piece here.

 

Yes, I am Reborn Again with Reborn OS

Yes, I am Reborn Again with Reborn OS

Both Suse Linux including Tumbleweed and Current Suse Desktop and Redhat (Fedora by the way) are a pain to Install and get my required desktops and application.

I am going to use Reborn OS natural fallback Linux when I get fed up and bored with Gnome of Debian

If you want to get another type of desktop in Debian one has to burn an iso OS of that type desktop which there are many in their web site or use the First DVD of their DVD collection (not Resource DVD)

It is different with Reborn.

1. Boot the Live iso Imgae of Xfce Desktop.

2. Connect to the Internet either WiFi or Ethernet. 

3. Select the desktop Your Choice.

4. Configure your hard disk.

5. Install

6. Make sure you say Yes or No to the prompt in the terminal.

If you do not respond it assume it as Yes but it waits along time to install if YOU do not respond in the time allowed for you.

7. Now I have Gnome of Reborn and Plasma Desktop.

I do not have to bun a DVD or write the image  on a USB.

It saves time and money.

THANK You Reborn OS. 

8. There are many ARCH based images and each one has its own specification.

Reborn OS is graphic intensive for the user.

Others are mostly text based Installers. 

Yes it is finishing installation before I finish this piece

I forget to say one very important thing.

It configure the GRUB effortlessly.

Mind you Redhat and Suse have different INIT systems and that their problem and not mine.

 Instillation is over I am booting my NUC.