Another First by Debian Team

By the way most of the packages were updated on live mode and it took over 20 minutes to get the 4000 odd files.

With the earlier kernel I could never get Debinn Education installed in my NUC.

I was only interested in Medical stuff like statistics and basic science.

Today I managed to get Medical Sciences but was hesitant not to click Science.

14GB /root not 22 as usual and had 24GB home.

It is going on all right after the third attempt.

 

Only 4213 files which included Debian Junior.

Thank YOU to Debian Team.

Installer takes little longer.

 Installation failed dute to overlaod'

 

I deleted Emmabantus 6 Edition.

Separate piece on Emmabantus coming.

Emmabantus 6-Edition

I managed to find Emmabantus Edition 6 with some difficulty.

I installed it and erased it within two days.

I do not like XFCE Desktop.

I installed Gnome but it takes hell of a lot of time to mount.

It is graphic Intensive at boot up.

It has a GRUB Utility read up and GRUB file was unusually lengthy and many duplicate instances. It was not the last instance.

Boot file with at least 4 distributions running if is messed up I cannot boot.

I used to manually configure the boot file and SystemD those days and they were not that lengthy in the early days.

Update to inordinate time and broke twice.

Kernel was 30 odd but current kernel I think is 42 or 43.

It has money utilities but getting Scribus was difficult. This new Flatpak and SNAP have nasty bugs. Does not know which file to install.

All these put me off but Emmabantus was my workhorse long time ago.

It comes from France and I want to have both English and French to polish my French but it wants to remain in one language mode.

If I remember right, it was possible to switch from English to French.

With France in crisis now using Emmabantus was considered a risk since African guys hate French.

Another Reason I Hate Indians in Ceylon

Another Reason I Hate Indians in Ceylon

 

This is something I fail to make public.

I think this happened in 1994 soon after returning from New Zealand. 

I was involved in UNIX Networking of the entire network of hospitals. 

However, I was only involved in the local hospital's DATA, especially getting the names and aliases filed, in one folder with identification sticker for each patent and his or her aliases. 

This had to be done manually and the secretary's job was to type the Sticker Label in each clinical older. 

I was there only for two years by 9 months, all the DATA on patients attended were saved in a server.

 

This is something we should do in CEYLON to public money. 

It is difficult but with proper training it could be done.

So when I joined Navaloka Hospital it was all in a total mess. 

They were only interested in keeping financial records and even there lot of mistakes of double payments and non payment of certain items.

 

So I did a pilot project in the laboratory on laboratory reports. 

Even this was difficult since processors included different locations and different individuals. 

For payment to be made they needed my initials. 

 

They were making mistakes even in Blood Grouping. 

I hired a lady doctor who had worked in Blood Bank in General Hospital and made her to record all according to the procedure I designed.

It did work all right and ID had to be checked with passport or National Identity Number.

 

We have well organized protocol unlike in India. This Anura guy is trying to destroy our technology by duplicating with Indian ID technology which is far less diligent and is in experimental mode.

 

I bought the first Coulter Machine as part of very expensive upgrading and automation of all the equipment.

Target was to hit 2000 reports a day without human errors, which we achieved without difficulty.

 

With my Quality Control Procedure which extended even into the kitchen Navaloka Hospital won the Quality Award in in 1995.

Then nothing more to do I decided to quit and join the University. 

By the way, I was paid a "Summa Salary".

Of course this unit was manger by a Biochemistry Professor who was related somebody in the Navaloka Family.

I did a follow up study and when I visited Navaloka may be 3 years later, I found the Unit was handed over to an Indian Company selling Cheap Indian Equipment and worse still and Indian (most likely due to regular breakdowns) guy was running the place. 

I went in when the guy was not there.

The equipment bought before were from Germany or USA.

 

I never stepped foot on Navaloka Hospital except for a VISA medical for my son.

Linux in Sinhala-Hanthana Linux

 

Linux in Sinhala-Hanthana Linux included (by Dr.Asoka Dissanayake (Medical) on 2011-02-21 12:09:10 GMT from Sri Lanka)
I have waited over a decade to see a Linux version in Sinhala and finally it has arrived,
Our own Anurahdha who was an expert in Linux and especially Debian initialed it well over a decade ago and he produced an experimental version named Sinhala Linux(I still have a copy).
Then after 1994 tsunami he was drawn into presidential task force (had nothing going on at that time) to steer all web applications and e-commerce and the Sinhala project was push to a back burner.
I have been testing Live CDs (over 150 now, except Ubuntu) for the last 18 months and when I tested Debian 6 I accidentally discovered Sinhala Installation Capability which was a pleasant surprise. I downloaded all the Debian CDs and some DVDs for testing and they we pretty good.
Immediately blogged this fact at parafox and asokaplus (using them for promoting Linux 100) my rambling spaces in the web.

I am trying to distribute these Debian CDs / DVDs after thorough testing
But I personally prefer to install them in English which is second nature to me and activate the Sinhala capability afterward since the Sinhala terminology is somewhat GREEK to me.

Mind you Debian is not for the weak minded and certainly not for a newbie or a novice.
Linux in Sinhala-Hanthana Linux
And today I find Hanthana (I live down the Hanthana Range- on the other side of the University) Linux 3.6 GB DVD released which is Fedora 14.
It takes 3 to 10 days to download a DVD in Sri-Lanka and very few will bother to download it.
Now I have tested all Fedora 14 releases and Fubuntu (installed only Fubuntu for further testing) and all Fedora CDs freeze in installation (tried on several of my computers) but did not bother to see Sinhala capability,
In fact because of this nuance in Fedore 14 I decided to download all the 6 (5 CDs and one netboot) Fedora CDs for posterity.

It has some problem with the Grub file too.

I cut my teeth with Redhat 8 and 9.

Debian I learned many moons later.

Then again Fedora 3 was the first Linux to allow Sinhala font in Open Office and later Mnadrake.
I wonder whether the introduction of Sinhala font into a an experimental Linux distribution is a wise decision (hope my reservation prove wrong).
Anyway we have two robust distributions having Sinhala capability.
I hope Ubuntu will pick the trend and run faster than both of them.
I won't pass my judgment just for a little while!

Sleep and Dream habits for Married Couples

 Posted on March 19, 2013

Sleep and Dream habits for Married Couples
My recommendation of Sleep and Dream habits for Married Couples.

This applies only to married couples.
The young lovers should do whatever dreaming they do at lib and they should not read this article which is very obnoxious when infatuated.
I’ll try to be as brief as possible since married people have no time for heavy reading but reflex action only.
My advice to a young couple on sleep and never on dreams (since they are in a dream world which is going to end soon after the honeymoon) in good old days was one should match a couple with synchronized sleep.
Night sleeper who gets up early, late or indifferent.
Day time nipper or of 8 hour 10 or 6 hour sleeper.
Idea was when two of them sleep which is synchronized, they get up together and the home and office work is synchronized.
The advantage is only to the employer and not to the married couple any way.
That is my new finding not disclosed elsewhere.
The old advice do not stand to reality of married life.
 
One should have two erratic sleepers so that when one dreams other one is up and doing home or office chores.
Married life is 24/7 schedule and never 9 to 5.
One has to be working while the other is having nap unlike in office life where everybody has to work whether enough work is there or not.
My recent but not published or disclosed data suggest the only time married people have a respite is in their real dream world.
 
So enjoy them even they are bitter to the opposite sex.
 
After all they are dreams.
 
Have you ever seen a couple who relate their dreams when woken up to the opposite spouse.
In my experience never.
The realty is that the dream is heavily edited to satisfy the opposite spouse.
Usually all the dreams are if not majority are obnoxious ones which even in realty extend from blue murder or downright slanderous.
 
If they truly relate these dreams the marriage won’t last even  three months.
 
Most of the breakup are due to recurrent incidences of these obnoxious dreams.
One should never go to hypnotherapist for help and they (are the worse) will record them and use them to blackmail when his/her income is dwindling or volunteer to supply the information secretly to the defense lawyer of the other side for inappropriate black income.
 
This specially happens in Sri-Lanka.
 
If these dreams recur it is alright to go to a divorce lawyer but never to a hypnotherapist.
 
Who knows one may take undue advantage.
 
One has to bear them, bite the teeth and boldly take them in, one go at a time, like a true and mature married man or woman.
One should not give this information to doctors since they will give you a sleeping pill and inadvertently stop the only entertainment one has at his/her leisure time activity.
 
That is simply disaster.
 
If you want to prolong and succeed in marriage one has to edit every dream to suit the partner and occasionally relate them saying,
I had a lovely dream about You KNOW with all the blah blah.
 
This has worked for me and I do not know about my wife.
All bad dreams are censored by default.
 
Now I write about dreams, nobody trust my dreams except Maha Brahma who never dreams in real life.
His hobby is to listen to my ones and interpret them with wisdom.
If you have any bad dream about your spouse (not your secret lover) please post them under comments.
I may consider sending them to Maha’s perusal and interpretation.
I assure you he never keeps any record of them since I am the virtual registrar.

Sing Song of Linux

 Sing Song of Linux

 I am the wonder Guy

Who made Linux the Big Guy

 Chorus

I am the wonder Guy

Who made Linux the Big Guy

 Chorus

Bono bos and Bonobos

 Chipmunks and Gorillas

Size does not matter

The image size can vary

It is the functionality that matters

It is the durability that lasts

Its viability is the focal point

 

Chorus

 I am the wonder Guy

Who made Linux the Big Guy

 Chorus

I am the wonder Guy

Who made Linux the Big Guy

 Chorus

It rules the server market

PC market is the only worry

Make it ten percent is my only Goal


There are no Fall Guys

But there are lot of simple Guys

Who make the Linux community

A stable entity

Shining a light of Wisdom

To the entire World


 Chorus

I am the wonder Guy

Who made Linux the Big Guy

 Chorus

I am the wonder Guy

Who made Linux the Big Guy


I hope this make a hit with minor alteration to the lyrics

Author Asokaplus

Asokaplus is my private web page promoting Linux and other things.

I think ww.wordpress.com has made it public now.

Web Etiquette

AsokaPlus is my Pseudonym

Web Etiquette and finding a suitable webbing name for blogging and browsing

Web Etiquette and finding a suitable webbing name for blogging and browsing

See below for passwords, a short new entry.

I searched over 100 web pages to find my web entry (accidental) on a blog site and what I discovered was something, I should write here and is important for several reasons.

It is remarkable that several tendencies of the S.M.S. age is evident.

1. Most of them were blogging for fun and only a very few for humor or satire.

The world without humor for me is not worth living and boring.

I like the subtle humour as opposed to crude humor where one has to tickle one's arm pit to initiate the process, almost self induced.

Humour has to be infectious and spontaneous.

The modern age of computing it it is noteworthy of its lack.

The worst of satire in Linux terms is flamming which I am opposed to.

I was brought up in a age of discussion and discrete disagreement and not infighting but that is what one sees today.

2. Second observation I notice was one does not know how to use a pseudonym or what editors call the screen or newspaper adopted name for acting and freelance writing.

The problem with this is that one wants to search for self to see how one fares in the Wild Web as opposed to Wild West of yesteryear is that the pseudonym does not appear when Googling and often to the disappointment to many.

That is the topic here but I should state one more of my observations before getting into that topic.

3. Most of the young ones start blogging after some personal grieve (not death) and disappointment.

Often break up of love affairs.

I often think breakups are good for many to learn real life situation before getting into serious commitments which most of them are not yet ready.

It should be of positive dynamics rather than negative, so to speak.

So blogging is not a bad thing to pass over the tide but I found a serious impediment there.

It is like this, if one is attending a a diabetic clinic for the young and fall in love with a diabetic.

In noway I am going to encourage that.

Two bad genes and you (the two) end up with many diabetic children as parents.

Getting to know another diabetic is a good for one's soul to learn to cope with but not to get married, for heaven sake.

My observation confirms that there was unhealthy pairing.

Two emotionally labile getting together leads to disaster.

Falling from ditch to a very deep pit which is worse than two diabetics getting together where on can treat the other with insulin injection.

This is sure recipe for more disappointments and even suicide.

At that stage what you need is a sympathetic friend (not a lover) and a very good counsellor with adult stature.

Back to pseudonym, coining a suitable pseudonym has to be done with care.

It is often trial and error.

I will come out with a story.

I went abroad for a short holiday and the idea was to buy a laptop without an operating system and to boot it at the airport with a Linux CD while waiting for the plane before check in call.

I actually did that.

When I went to several places knowing that I was foreigner they wanted to sell me (more profit) always with an operating system.

Eventually, it end up almost with a fight but I did not cave in.

For my liking at last I found a very nice charming salesgirl who quoted me  a very reasonable price without an operating system (boss did not want it that way).

I had to show the guy I was not a stupid foreigner and pulled out a Puppy Linux from my front shirt pocket and booted up and in with the Internet and typed Linux and my Christian name.

Presto!

There were 20 of my entries including Gonbas, Gembas and Gambase in Linux.

My friend who was residing in that country too was amazed and he was a computer guy.

He helped me to go to the correct warehouse of course.

Without much a do we closed the deal.

Irony was the word Linux.

It is very little used in the Web and my Christian name was very, very common.

It was all fortuitous but worked for me.

If one has a common name like Sara or David one can still work with it without adding numerals.

I change paradox to parafox and it is the name I use here.

Then I start using not prefix or suffix like in English.

Tailing words combined.

1. Saralive or seralive or sierralove

2. Davidknock, Davidcook or Davidcock and the vagary is almost limitless.

The word is not a English, Name or a English Word and it will hit the top of Google engine in no time.

For French it is very easy.

Just combine se, le, la to make one word.

Presto.

Only nearest word that came near my parafox was in fact French.

I use fox to fox the foxes live, like the Channel 4.

I hope you got the onions and foxes right by now.

Hope, you and your pseudonym, rise to the top in the web of antonymous.

Edited on 02-08-2013

Passwords

I wanted to write about password for sometime and kept postponing it for valid reason

If I bear them here the hackers will use it to decode it.

So I do it free of charge on personnel basis not out in the open.

But one trick is easy to do.

In good old days, before computers and zip codes and bar coeds came in every shop had a  code name with 10 letters.

Each letter represented numbers 1 to 10 in serial order.

Marked price is written in letters and not in numbers.

Same trick to remember the 25 letters in the alphabet/keyboard,

Quick Fox Runs,

12345, 678, 9,0,10,11

The mark price for  1000 = is nuu

The mark price for  1010 = is nn

For example Pig on my back or pin on my back

123, 45, 67, 89010

Password could be pi3on67bac10

One can use any combination of this and one has to remember the catch phrase only once.

Please do not use the above since the hackers may have already put the code in their search engine to crack the password.

But one may use

Runs Fox Quick OR

Back my pin,on

Use your imagination for the catch phrase and use the numbers in reverse order.

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0

I use a different trick for my password and they come from Linux Code and only a Linux guy with lot of determination will crack it to find there is nothing valid in my emails which has not been published already in my blog sites.

Kumarana Munidasa Srimathano

 Kumarana Munidasa Srimathano

 

 

Kumaratunga Munidasa

Kumaratunga Munidasa was born on the 25th of July 1887 in Dickwella, Matara District, Sri Lanka. He was the son of Palavinnage Dona Gimara Muthukumarana (also known as Dona Baba Nona Muthukumarana) (mother) and Abious Kumaranatunga (father). He was born as the 12th son, in a family of 13 children. Munidasa was a famous Sri Lankan poet, linguist, commentator, grammarian, journalist, and writer. He is considered as one of the most prominent Sri Lankan scholars the country has seen in several centuries.

Kumaratunga-Munidasa-Famous-Sri-Lankan-Poet

At the beginning he entered the Buddhist School in Dikwalle. Later he attended the St. Thomas’ College in Matara.  After that he entered the Dikwella Watarukanna Pirivena to learn Sanskrit and Pali in order to become a Buddhist monk. However, due to the dissatisfaction of his family, Kumaratunga Munidasa left Dikwella Watarukanna Pirivena and attended the Government Teachers’ College that was in Colombo in 1905. He graduated in 1907, after 2 years of training.

Kumaratunga Munidasa wrote “Nikaya Sangraha Vivaranaya”, his first book, while he was still is school. He wrote many books in many different languages such as Sinhala, English, Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil, Greek, Malayalam and Latin. Munidasa revived the “Lakminipahana”, one of the oldest Sinhala newspapers, from 1934 to 1936. He also started 2 magazines named Helio and Subasa (Good Language) in 1939, to promote and teach the correct way of using the Sinhala language.

In 1941 Kumaratunga Munidasa founded the “Hela Havula” (Pure Sinhala Fraternity), a Sinhala Literature Organization. The organization consisted of many people who shared Munidasa’s idioms. They frequently engaged in debates and centered about many aspects of literature. Hela Havula is considered as a starting point for many Sri Lankan artists and scholars. The organization is still active and helps many young artists to sharpen their literary skills.

Munidasa always used to point out Country, Language, and Nation as his Triple Gem, and also stressed the importance of Sinhala language, as the emblem of national identity of the Sinhalese People. He was awarded the “Viwarna Swakthi” name as an admiration to his excellent work on the history of Sinhala literature.

Munidasa Kumaratunga passed away on 2nd of March 1944 at the age of 56.
Famous quotes by Kumaratunga Munidasa

    “If a certain language is underdeveloped the land in which that language operates is also underdeveloped”

    “Dangerous are the times for Sri Lanka. If the importing of rice stops, we would have nothing to eat. If importing of materials stops from abroad, we would have nothing to wear. If it was not for the vehicles imported from other countries, we would have no means of travelling. In essence, without the accommodation from abroad, we will not be able to do anything”

Novels written by Munidasa Kumaratunga

    Hathpana
    Heenseraya
    Kiyawana Nuwana
    Magul Keema

Poetry written by Munidasa Kumaratunga

    Kriya Wiwaranaya
    Kumara Gee
    Kumara Rodaya
    Nelawilla
    Piya Samara
    Virith Vekiya
    Vyakarana Vivaranaya

By www.srilankapoems.com