British Lies

Yes, British are confirmed Historical Liars.

King George VI started it.

Edward Meuller was an accessory.

Final link of this distortion is Catholic Priest Pananavitharana the bum sucker of history writing.

Currently the project manager is Raj Soma Deva, a L. T. T. E. activists who gets money from L. T. T. E. through India.

3 Books by Jayaratne Pathiraarachchi disputing these archaeological facts were burned at the behest of diaspora and Buddhist monks.

Ellawala Medananda is in this loop.

This gentleman with enormous courage has read over 30,000 Stone Edits and has published by various means 3000 to 4000 Stone Edits.

 

Ceylon Archaeological Department is in doldrums or permanent or Total Amnesia (The Amnesic Incognito Live System -TAILS).

It is no point waking them from Slumber.

Perradeniya University monk lecturer Haguranketa Seelaratana is one among the top distorters.

Spacesuit and its Occupant

 Posted on February 9, 2011

Spacesuit and its Occupant

Mind this is an introduction for anybody who is running short of an idea to write about in WordPress blogging site.

This is an idea I hit upon by reading a blog writing of a experienced civil pilot not a fighter pilot.

Have you ever thought of the 50 thinks that the spacesuit occupant in space won’t share with his body soul?

You probably have not but I was one who was very much interested in this in my school days and in early days as medical student.

I cannot remember what I wrote then but this is an attempt to revise some of those physiological constraints not in particular order or in any order of merits.

Suffice is to say I get a sickly feeling when I think of space (occupied especially by alien elements).

Imagine yourself trapped in a escalator without illumination (light) and the computer circuit controlling it up and down movement gone haywire and it is going up and down in an erratic fashion. That is a the feeling I get moment I put on a spacesuit for travel.

That is one thing one must consider when paying for, an enormous amount for a single trip in space.

Is it worth the experience and the money?

Probably not but having said that I have tremendously high regard for those guys who trained for years end on to go to space. They are a dedicated lot and give them the due respect they deserve if you happen to meet anyone of them.

They were the human guinea pigs on space.

I often wonder how many times they felt sick and vertiginous even in their sleep.

Probably many many times and uncountable and that is the feeling I get if I am invited to wear a spacesuit and come hither for a go.

I will list the feeling inside my head with little imagination and some understanding of my own physiology if not of another being.

1. I hate the space constraint. 

This is the feeling one gets if one has to stay in a tiny hotel room in Singapore overnight due to some delay, cancellation or transit. I have had that feeling once or twice,  traveling by cheap air flights. 

When you fly on a good aircraft and not on a budget or Mihin (Hemin) Lanka

2. I hate heights. 

Imagine you are in a hotel overnight on the 21st floor room due to flight cancellation. You are well away from a fire exit and there is a blackout and fire drill.  

You don’t have a pen torch.

 If you are one floor above you can think of jumping out and breaking your legs but not on 21st Floor. That is why rooms are cheap as you go above. Please pay a good some and ask for a room down below. It is better even if you go to Colombo taking a pen torch with you with these high rising development projects. 

Born to this earth with feet firmly grounded and ample space to breath pristine air (not now even in Kandy) as an embodiment, getting into a spacesuit is the luxury I do not want to avail myself not even in my next incarnation.

3. Now about the daily routines I enjoy. 

Sleep to begin with. I think I can manage sleep upside down on space inside a spacesuit since there is nothing else I can do there except dreaming coming home. I can do this since I have learned how to sleep standing on an express bus plying from Kandy to Colombo on a Monday morning. I believe all Ceylonese are good at this. Only if you do not have money in your back pocket. There are plenty of pickpockets in this country including politicians who pick our vote without our knowledge. They are called pickvotters or even better pickpotters (stuffing the ballot boxes).
These two are new words, I have coined for the Oxford Dictionary with local elections due now.

4. What about food. 

I won't enjoy the high calorie, high protein dehydrated food fads of space travelers especially they are floating about and not placed on a plate with a well laid out nice table. My worry is not the quality of food but how I am to partake them in a more sociable way. Not empty them to my mouth from paper carton after paper carton.

5. Coming to spirits (if they are allowed like a commercial flight) and drinks. When I suck (not drink them) a little, I want them to stay a while in the mouth and esophagus and stomach and not go flushing down like a vacuum cleaner on full throttle to the colon in one go..

6. After meal I want to brush my teeth as my good dental friends tell me with a tooth brush floating in air and the toothpaste all over the face with me trying to reach as far as it goes to the third molar.

7. That also I can manage but how about a quick spend a penny in the loo with my prostrate pushing hard on the correct track inside but the squirt getting between my spacesuit and the underwear. 

That is my major worry since I will never master my physiology how ever much I train on earth and mid air.

8. Then the master job of course I have decided one last one here and never in the shuttle till I come home and take some constipating medicare one week before the departure. I do not want my smelly secrets floating in air and taking pictures of me in flight.

No thank you.

9. Last but not least I fear the algae and the fungi I have been accustomed on earth and living with me with mutual understanding all along my life for years taking advantage of the flight and growing all over me. In nails, wind pipe, mouth and all of my privates.

10. Last of all I love scratching my skin, just for fun and any other accessible point from my crown to the rump. 

With these fungi floating around and waiting for a breach, I won’t be able enjoy that luxury.

11. As for the rubbish I collect on flight no problem. 

We are trained to drop at any advantage point in the town and the Municipalities never clean them. I just open the window and drop it down when we are centering round Ceylon with a note stating “coming from space shuttle in orbit no valuables dropped but destined for Ceylonese, war heroes included”.

This is why when President Obama invited me for a flight in space, I refused and gave over 100 volunteers from our parliament elected and wanting to get elected. He of course refused or nay parliamentarians after the Health Bill was bailed out.

Customized Linux Distribution

 Customized Linux Distribution

Making Customized Linux Distributions “On the Go” and “In the Cloud”
Posted on October 4, 2011 

Distributions “On the Go” and “In the Cloud”

The idea I am proposing is not anything original. It is something done before on a trial basis.
At least for the record SuSe has done it by way of SuSe Studio. My idea is to support the concept but not necessarily SuSe.

My concept is not bound to one Unix/Linux derivative but Universal. It is the concept where all the Linux Utilities could handshake.
If one is a commercial Linux Enterprise like Redhat or SuSe  they cannot enact what I am going to state.

This is the only way we can give our due respect to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.

This is an extension of FOSS Philosophy and to help Developers who come from various backgrounds to Unite and work as a Powerful Force, specially to save the precious development time.
Like what they did to O.L.P.S, the commercial enterprises like Oracle who has a head start in database warehousing might try to kill this idea.

As a side effect my blog site may be attacked.

The visitors who were less than 24 per day have gone up suddenly and it looks like some zombie type of attack was engineered by somebody  out there but until now it did not materialize.
There are Cyber-terrorist, I cal them, out there.

Concept is simple.
1. Linux Kernel/s are housed in the cloud with on house bug fixing.

2. Live Script is hosted on another cloud with various ways to enhance it versatility.
For example language support for particular language.
It should evolve like the Universal GRUB.

3. X-windows are housed as cloud utilities from Fluxbox to LXDE to Unity to KDE to Gnome.

4. All repositories need to take the tags out of their distributions (their tagging can be kept in their own clouds) and host all applications in the clouds as package utilities.
A Universal Package Manager (UPM for short) should evolve.

5. Script to reach the above  four (4) on a stepwise manner should be designed.
I call it the plugger.
One can call it the Universal Connector (like the electricity plugs of various countries) and it is virtually wired to the utilities through cloud.

6. Once all the required components are assembled an automated procedure should make a customized CD/DVD for testing on a virtual machine in the cloud.
All stages up to this should be virtualized.

7. Any developer community could then use the product to customize final product if necessary and put it out with a Linux Brand name of their choice and maintain it for that community and the customer base.

By this way, it won’t kill the community with over 300 active and 300 inactive distributions.

The reason for the inactivity is often due to one developer does the bulk of the work and rest follow his or her footsteps and when the chief retires due to domestic reasons there is nobody to step in and succeed.
This is the deficiency of the Linux customer architecture which often becomes dormant.
Whereas, in a failing commercial venture like HP, there is somebody to step in till complete bankruptcy is claimed.

Linux do not go bankrupt it goes into hibernation like some animals. My idea is to wake up these beautiful animals from sleep.
The cloud can be the place for them to hibernate untill some metamorphosis of this animal can occur in its sleep mode unlike in real animal world. This metamorphosis is good for Linux.

There a lot of steps missing in my concept but I firmly believe that it can be done and accomplished if the right steps are taken before commercial clouds invade us an blacken the sky like a rain cloud. As a beneficiary I would be able to make my own customized Linux in the cloud at least once a year. My planning are on yearly basis to the grave and not for a century.

But the above concept should outlast me by at least a century with cloud computing on the horizon.
I bet USA/Russia/China cannot do this alone.
U.N.O cannot do. It won’t even try.

But Linux can do it since Linux Guys/Girls do not have racial or national boundaries.
We are all together.
All will be benefited.
Any commercial company can hijack this concept of mine provided they acknowledge that it is coming from a small country called Ceylon which is trying to recover from 30 years of war which  the Commonwealth (it is not common anymore than it used to be) is hell-bent to destroy.
They company also should not send the final product Free to Ceylon or on IMF Loan to us as long as I am alive and well.

They may try to kill my idea after investing the money but not me.Even they kill my idea, lot of nice guys/girls are out their with brains and community spirit.
It will be reborn again in some far corner of this planet.

With cloud computing we are going to be truly global.

American Pie

 Cloning, Maha Brahma and American Pie
Posted on June 10, 2011

Maha Brahma (really his assistant) was bit confused with cloning and I need to send him an email with some facts. Maha is good at making something out of nothing and he never had the pleasure of making something out of something what humans are very good at like making profits.

For example the tea dust costs about Rs.5 to 10/= for a cup of tea but when tea is made into hot cup of tea it costs Rs.50 to 100/= nowadays in the city. This we call value added and not profits.

When Maha is thirsty he makes Wine (one flavour) from nothing and drinks and there is no value added.

It nice for humans to visit heaven when they perfected a spacecraft now that endeavour is in limbo and see how they make things without any value added or taxes and enjoy it in one flavour instead of many.

He was in a hurry and (email chat of course) and I could not dispense all the details. 
We are now doing nothing except industrial action and new entrants-going to be, are doing physicals in army camps, I was itching to let myself go (four weeks of no lectures is not something we are accustomed to) but he was only interested in my dreams and nothing else.

I missed part of my dream also.

I do not know what happened to the clones (two) and what would happen to the original brothers (twins).

My guess is that clones would have killed themselves and twins would have retired to grave digging.
Regard to cloning if one wants best results one has to clone the cells at the time of birth from cord blood and not when one is 60 years old with some underlying cancer brewing and waiting to hit the wall / fit the coffin when cells are old like in the Dolly the sheep and will have multiple deficits.

So if any of the present day leaders including Qaddafi wanting to clone himself, it is too late for the going and must try it his next birth, if he do wish to come back to earth for war games.

We have 50 somatic cell cycles and we spend almost 40 to 42 by the time of one year. From the rest of it, about 5 are spent by puberty and the last of it is all what we have before we drop dead.
In my estimate none of the present leaders qualify for cloning even if they wish.
The know how, was there only for the past 20 years or so and none of the present leaders are under 20.
This applies to the kith and kin of the present day leaders if they are of eligible age for cloning.

I hear very damning information from WiKiLeaks.

America is making a stockpile of war heroes like Saddam and Bin laden and incubating them for the next world order.

They used Saddam and Bin Laden for best of 15 years and when they go awry makes 10 to 20 times the effort to get rid of them.

When it happens in CEYLON, they cry “helter skelter oohh’ and cry foul.

I suppose intended use of our man was not accomplished to their wishes, namely dividing the country to pieces as it was a peace of cake.
In Middle East, they waited over 20 to 30 years and when oil resources started dwindling, they make a NATO strikes to get rid of oil shieks.
This is international “War Games’ played according to their timetable and our time table of ridding of Terror made in India. 

Terror is human rights violation.

There is nothing nothing to beat this duplicity from Bush, to Blair to Obama.
The are all horrible democrats.

I hear very damning information from WiKiLeaks.

America is making a stockpile of war heroes like Saddam and Bin laden and incubating them for the next world order.
They are going to plant them in the Muddle East once the uprisings are over and keep the clones in America for safety and if in case any one of them misbehaves he or she is eliminated and the brainwashed clone is instituted.

That is the next world order coming from America.

They are going to clone IMF leaders, too.

E-governance and white lies

E-governance and white lies
Posted on January 24, 2011

Please note that this is an update for a post on parafox and it is very easy to find a topic in CEYLON to write on daily basis unlike in the West.

But it is very difficult to find a true story and I have decided to write a few of my fantasies related to my work with Apaya and Heaven. 

I have not decided whether to join Apaya or Heaven but like a true diplomatz I prefer to shuttle in between them not knowing whether it is a fantasy or a real lfe situation.

I am bit confused but following is a true story and I am factually correct about E-Governance and downloading speed in CEYLON as a fact.

Uploading is no better.

Comment I wrote for a National Daily but not published due to its banal content.

It is very difficult to differentiate a lie from a the word E-governance in Sri-Lanka.

I prefer E-Governance  for a white lie because it is like WiKi Leakes very difficult to differentiate whether an American (for that matter any European diplomat) diplomat is talking through his Mouth or MOUSE or ASS.

I think they are trained not to talk sense from birth but to lie by all means.

Unlike our diplomats who do not know how to lie like Goerge Washinton in his prime and if they do lie it looks just like plain truth and nobody including Bun Ki Moon belives it a lie or not  a lie.

Whereas our politicians are trained to lie from birth and it is that their birth right.

If one cannot lie he or she is not good enough to be in the parliament or President House. 

Average Buddhists except Colombo 7 elite do not lie as a habit but only on demand by politicians at election meetings and political rallies.

Our national papers for their own survival lie on a regular basis like our George Bush they do not know how to tell the truth in plain English or Sinhala.

We  are now portrayed as the heaven on Earth but if one goes to Batticoloa or North East the plain truth is evident in abundance.

This is just a big joke. i.e. E-Governance in Sri-Lanka is a plain lie but what I state below is truth and nothing but truth.

It takes almost 7 days to download 1.1 GB of Kororoaa of out of 1.5 GB and god only knows how long it takes to finish.

I was down with a miner flu and for three days I managed to download Light House Puppy of 223 MiB through Firefox and in spite of the computer was running all night for three days. 

I am trying to download PocketWriter-Salix and it is stuck at 280 MB currently and Saline was disconnected without completing three times.

Now I am talking about Saline like President Reagon but our Health minister could not say the difference between a truth and a lie.

Our Health Statistics is the Biggest Lie of all which the WHO is very fond of exaggerating.

It is 3 am in the morning and I got up to empty my bladder.

Checked to see K-torrent is working (do the downloads only after midnight).

NO.

I stopped the normal download to read the English daily but Apache at their site is broken.
I have 250 paused downloads for the month of December (for updating current Linux distributions which I do at the end of each year).

K-torrent is inactive.

Firefox download speed is below 5KB per seconds.

I pay over Rs.7000/- to Telecoms and Rs.10,000/- electricity.

If I save three months of these bills and buy a ticket to Singapore I can download all these in the airport lounge for nothing but in triple not double quick time.

It is a shame that a National Paper not highlighting how Buddhists are downloading porn at Nanasalas.

Even we have 10,00,000 NanaSalas without English we cannot progress in IT industry.

All the alphanumeric characters are in English not Sinhala.

Progress does not come from data or rhetoric.

They come through hard work, dedication and concrete actions.

All my downloads are inactive at 3,30AM and these are bare bone facts speaking for themselves.

Incognito Linux and the Visually handicapped

 Incognito Linux and the Visually handicapped
Posted on September 24, 2011
This is something one should take cognizant of. I was looking for a post in the name of incognito in my blogspot but I have posted it as Webbo Amnesia. 

Amnesia is a medical term and I had gone to town with that word and has completely forgotten to highlight the Linux distribution in my post.

My apologies to the guys and girls at Incognito. 

The error of commission and omission should be put to right here.

1. It is a Live CD if one wants to browse anonymously and without leaving any traces to detect.

2. It has vidalia which gives a list of guys logged in at the time of one’s current browsing. 

3. It has ORCAs which is something I should highlight here. Even a blind person can browse the web without any intrusion or obstruction.

4. Web browser is light and no cookies or attempting to remember one’s all actions. 

5. It does not feed back your browsing habit to commercial interests. It is fast because of that fact and i was immediately on my blog entry and reading its first few lines.
I am happy even a blind person can read this entry if he/she accidentally visit my site. There are lot of nice Linux guys/girls out there doing things that are commendable. Helping visually handicapped to be independent is one such thing. 

Thanks a lot to all ORCAs developers out there.
Incognito is an amazing utility which all the aspiring politicians and power hungry ones should worry about. It can boot and erase all the traces of memory in the browser and the computer of use after posting a message out of the country which some dictators like what one finds in China may not like, and the true state of affairs are known to the rest of the world.

Tor is a small utility one can carry in a floppy disk and it will send chills in the spines of some politicians.

Linux can do it and www is for all not for a few powerful and wealthy.
It makes the ground rules simple and open. Be transparent in all public (not private) affairs.
What I gather is that this utility is used by teenagers in the West to hoodwink their parents and reach unwanted sites. 

Well, teens are two steps ahead of their parents and old folks should fast learn “tricks of the trade”.

Use of this utility in bad hands can be deplorable but I will use it only when their is a dire necessity political-wise.

1. Number one feature one I want all the Linux distribution to have is UnetBootIn.

2. Number two is ORCAs.

3.Number three is gParted and partition image.

Incognito has it.
Knoppix has it.
Most of the Ubuntu derivatives including VinuX have it.
Dynabolic should have it and it has it.
The  visually handicapped will enjoy Music with Dynabolic.
In other words all audio visual Linux CD/DVDs should have ORCAs and UnetBootIn.

So he/she can wear the distribution around the neck wherever they go. Who knows I am in my twilight years and I may go blind due to old age and I will have to carry one with me.

Thanks young guys and girls for your wonderful communal spirit.

Fire Hazard Registry and Phoenix

 Posted on May 12, 2011

Fire Hazard Registry and Phoenix

Phoenix born out of ashes?

Is it real?
Posted on May 12, 2011 
 

When Linuxtracker Organization was attacked by the hackers and was emerging from the catastrophe they used this expression from rising from the ashes of Phoenix “to say they are reborn again” with vigor.

I have pasted the mythological story from Wikipedia below but to me fire was not a major concern till I started recording indoor temperatures.

In that period I have seen guppy fish die due to high temperature and saw flowering of some plants never seen in Kandy and its suburbs.

I have not been to the Botanical garden for some time and I am sure some plants there are dying due to warm weather.

The Kandy City was known for mild weather for centuries and it was where many come to escape from warm weather of Colombo.

Not any more.
 

My discovery is that we cannot even make wine in Kandy city now since the yeast the major ingredient in wine and alcohol die above the temperature of 38 Centigrade. And we hit this temperature regularly for the last five years of my recording. I decided to take a stock of fire hazard in our living rooms, especially because there is a guy who live below our house who habitually set fire to whatever he gets hold of, almost on daily basis and I see ashes in my room and bed room, if I keep them open for ventilation.

Besides, I fear sometimes my dog’s fur would catch fire if he is let out of the house.

My fire hazard registry goes like this.

1. Cloths
2. Bedding
3. Books
4. CD/ DVD and their cases
5. Plastic containers (to avoid dust and ashes) buckets
6. Furniture including the bed and tables
7. All the wires that are connected to Internet
8. My shoes
9. Computer utilities, keyboard, mouse and wires connected
10. Empty Cardboard boxes and 

11. Last year’s (remaining) Wesak lanterns.

In actual fact, I have nothing except three items that would stand a minor fire.
 

My inventory was compiled when I was half asleep and the moment I got up,          I decided to collected all the items not useful and would catch fire to their final destiny, the fire itself.

So, I took a leaf out of the guy who does it as a habit.

Set fire to them one by one and it took three hours to finish the lot and I stayed close to the fire till it was safe for the dog. It was simmering even at midnight and I am pretty sure no Phoenix will emerge from the ashes.

Our electric switch board caught fire three times during the last six months once due to lightening and twice due to sudden surge of Electricity from the Board.

The guys come and say the supply is OK and do nothing inside as far as the checking is concerned and leave us to our own devices even at night.

Thank god we do not have little ones in our house except the dog who does not understand electricity, thunder and fire crackers.

So my obsession to fire is well founded.
Not only that I was very happy we lost the Cricket World Cup and I wish we will never win another world Cup till the Global Warming is taken care by our Buddhist Monks seriously. Had we won it our guys would have burnt down the remaining forest in no time by accident or by design to have free entry into CROWN Land and now the President’s Land.

I have made a resolution not to light a lantern for Wesak this time round and I am sure nobody with sane mind would join me in my effort to highlight the global warming and its toll this small country is experiencing now. This does not mean one cannot light electric bulbs instead (with less hazard) but without overloading the system with many bulbs. I hope if their are Buddhists out there who love this land should think of joining me as a gesture worth portraying without causing any harm to the principles laid down in Buddhism and its spirit of universal brotherhood.

Just think of the wastage I.P.L is making during the 20/20 games when some Indians are not having a square meal.
Make it a point to switch off the TV set during Wesak and think of the poor Indians who are struggling to make ends meet.
After all they are our neighbors (poor Indians) in need of spiritual guidance if rich Indians are neglecting them for a song and cricket.
 

We owe India the rich heritage of Buddhism (I have doubts about this claim) and giving them something to ponder about is value added contribution on our part to the poor Indians who need not be poor in wisdom by default.

Fire Risk is there in this country but we do not have a proper fire brigade to cover the entire country and they come many hours after the fire without water and we have to provide them the water.

Fire wins and we lose everything and that is the name of the game.
 

Mythology
A phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spirit with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet.

It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again.

The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self.

In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (literally “sun-city” in Greek). It is said that the bird’s cry is that of a beautiful song.

The Phoenix’s ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one.

In very few stories they are able to change into people (who set fire to the entire world).

  

Nuclear Accidents,Fire Hazards, Electrical Supply and Global Warming
Posted on April 4, 2011 
 

Now that the Cricket World Cup is over, it is time for me to concentrate on more important issues relevant to safety at home and on the road. It is with deep sadness I edit this page that one of my students died and other seriously injured, a motor bike accident. 

I always say more people die on the road than a death toll in a tsunami.
 
Before that I would like to make some passing reference to why we lost.

I should pen it down here since our journalist are the worst stooges of the politicians and won’t make the comments I make below as points of reference in their daily chores. 

I may become very unpopular but I am not a politicians vying for votes rigged or otherwise.
 

First reason is that in Ceylon, we never were united after the war whereas Indians were all behind the Indian Team and Sachin.

Indian papers were critical but were not destructive.

1. In our case one of the government channels run by political stooges raised a claim that Mahela played to the hands of Pakistan deliberately. 

What I understand now is that this was done by players rejected or not selected to the team with political intent.

Of course, Mahela answered the critics with his bat like Ponting and that was the very best of Mahela after his 167 odd runs in his first appearance against India in home soil.

What is important this time is, it is on Indian soil with nobody behind him except his team mates.

2. We were not ready for the world cup and we did not have a regular team up for the finals and poor Sanaga had to fiddle round and use his gut feelings. While playing on the round robin stage he had to select the players in best form from the makeshift team given to him by the selectors. 

There were only  five or six who were worth the mettle and naming them here is not appropriate and others were filling the numbers from 6 or 15.

3. Then come the crunch game and politicians get activated and like after the war they want to reap benefit at the expense of cricketers and bloat their image while failing in their duties at ground and grass root level.

4. Now come the big political maneuver and Randive catapults into World Cup stage and comes home wicketless.

5. I have my praise for Gary Kirsten, graceful South African opener who did all the ground work for the victory after 2008 debacle. There were no politicos influencing him. Similarly the praise should go to Alan Donald the South African fast baller lifting the New Zealand team up to the Semifinals.

The difference here is everything form ground construction to ground preparation to celebrations have to be sanctioned by politicos or their stooges.

Everything is politicized and corrupt.

6. I feel sorry for army man Ajantha and poor but Big Ball Boy Dilhara who was worse than a political stooge. He was the one who could have taken the wicket of Tandukar in a crunch game. Yes, he might give some extras and few no balls but we did not want him to ball full quota of 10 overs. Three overs form him would have been better than full quota of Randive.

This whole episode destroyed both the big boys Dilhara and new find Randive.

Who is to blame I leave it open.
Lesson from Dhoni is that he took the full responsibility of Srisanth’s selection and he managed him accordingly but did not break his backbone like what we Ceylonese do.

We win the war and then break the backbone of soldiers.

That is the way we go up the ladder.

It is cut throat politics, even in sports.

This one for the Indians.

In the built up to the semifinals there is a little consensus among few of the intellectuals that if we win the World Cup, the government will increase the price of petrol and with it all the other commodities and Ceylon should not win.

I also subscribe to this especially as a teaser, something that I enjoy when spirits are high and I was the only one in Ceylon who supported New Zealand on the day. I went on to say to irritate my close friends if we played on a neutral ground we would lose knowing very well New Zealand would not make it through.

This is like a Ceylonese government official who votes for the opposition on the day of the election and goes to work on the next day attired in a blue dress and a red tie.

In my case if somebody volunteered money I would have put a bet for Ceylon to win and support New Zealand in front of the TV.

Here money and win matters but usually it is the Santhosum or political bribes that do the job. In India the commodity prices may not go up but cricket corruption and betting will surge with this win.
Even though, I subscribed to the view that petrol will go up in price after New Year and before New year if we win the World Cup as a teaser for my friends, I was of the strong opinion that our politicians are only sensitive to the voter only before and during election, that they are so insensitive they will increase the prices whether we win or lose.

In that context it is better to support our team irrespective of political realities and that is what we should do come finals.

I am of the strong opinion politicians and religious dignitaries should not get involved in sports. Leave them to sports specialists and the coach and pay them well and on the basis of results like top CEOs and not to political bum suckers.

And come win or lose be prepared to tighten our belts for another 5 or 10 years and the promised land may never come true with global realities and food prices going up by the minute and production not keeping up with the demand from banis, bananas to political bana.

Safety First
That is almost like a lecture in point form but we never correct our mistakes but the one I am going to write below if you do not take notice one might lose everything including life.

It is the fire hazard that we go through in March to May.
There are two factors one is external and other is internal.

External one is global warming and Ceylon included and exaggerated by our Coal Power Plant going into operation soon.

The other is lightening and fire crackers.

I was happy that we lost the Cricket and if we won the fire crackers would have ignited few fires burning even our precious forest reserve, too.

I am the one for banning fire crackers in entirety.

It serves no purpose and many of our dogs die of fear during New year festivals when owners go out on holidays leaving vulnerable dogs to fire crackers and thieves (they poison dogs).

Other one is internal.

That is our Electricity Supply which fluctuate in voltage. 

This risk is increased with thunder that accompany rain.
One computer and two voltage stabilizers busted from the month of January to now.

This not the first time and some time ago I lost almost everything (electrical equipment that included a TV, a tumbler dryer and a washing machine) including 20 odd bulbs in one night and morning due to power surge going above 400.

The has become a perennial problem now.

 If not fire one can get electrocuted.
The only way I have saved few equipment is by using UPS not voltage stabilizers (two of the Ceylonese voltage stabilizers caught fire and there is no alarm. system). 

At least the UPS has the alarm that goes up and we cannot buy any imported voltage stabilizers in Ceylon now.

This New Year I decided to work on reducing fire hazard.

1. I have three or four digital thermometers.
One is on top of the computer, I am working now. 

The other is on top of the switched off computer. 

The temperature difference is 7 degree F and time is mid night.

2. I do not switch on any equipment if the outside temperature is above 88 degree F except the fridge.

3. I use the computer in the night and who is going to go for air conditioning with electricity bill above Rs.6000/=

4. I use UPS. 

Recent ones have better quality internal circuits and integrators.

5. Check all the connectors and replace them with sturdy not cheap ones.

6. Be vigilant and safety first from kitchen to to bed room to living room.

7. No fire crackers.

8. Switch off all the equipment not in use.

9. Emergency lamps with all diodes and keep them charged for an emergency.

10. Keep an eye on the meter and the monthly bill which is going up by the minute.

Organ Transplant

 Friday, January 21, 2011

Organ Transplant
Testicular Question of Transplant
 

The organ transplant is now big money and in vogue and I am perturbed that nobody talks about testicular transplant. We have so many in this country without Good Testicular Function with ball games vogue in male fraternity domain.

I am surprised why politicians are not talking about testicles.
Is it a banned subject among politicians?
Or is it if they talk about it and if real nuts and bolts and if all the secrets about the testicular functions come out in the public domain some guys would lose their seats in the parliament

Is there a fear among politicians revealing their actual self hidden behind political power?

I do not know.

I am not a politician.

But in our medical fraternity we are quite adept and amused by this organ so much so that if we want to be cock sure that somebody is stone dead, we make sure that we squeeze them to our heart content and confirm our judgmental capacity of death and heaven afterward.

There is only organ in the body which has two arteries (you have to guess) but testicle has only one and would like to be in cold compartment in freezing condition until it is call for duty unlike the ovary which is in a warm compartment and function only according to lunar cycles.

Its anatomy is simple but it's associated ductal and tubular systems are so complex that even the heart surgeons who are paid lot of money have not figured out how to preserve them in the first place, let alone transplant them in  live subjects.

If you are young and a budding doc and want to win the Nobel Prize and want to make lot of money, it is high time you invest sometime and figure out a way of transplanting testicles not one but several to some a-virile and aged politicians so that they can get back to active life instead of siting in the Senate House lumbering or waiting for the coronary bypass or eventual heavenward migration with merit acquired in this life.

For me and my generation we were happy ligating the ductal systems so that they are no longer able to procreate that we were more concerned about population explosion rather than procreation. We were willing to remove them at any moment especially if they happened to be of politicians' organs and put some artifact inside so that they can feel better and if they really like squeeze them for pleasure without any pain.

But things are changing people want to live long into next century even if the health is failing by all known parameters. The only limitation is availability of organs or parts of organs which are becoming very expensive now that the war is inactive and casualties are down to minimal levels.

Are we going to sit and wait or invent the wheel or the testicular cycles?

That is my pertinent testicular question.

Without any gesticulations young blood and budding doctors should find a way to transplant real testicles not dud ones like our times. It is going to be real money spinner at a time of stock market downturn. 

I hear lot of surgeons are thinking of committing suicide in USA.

They should not.

They should invest their time on testicular transplantation and become the real heroes or testicular transplanters among the male fraternity before considering going to heaven like Micheal Jackson.

By the way one might win even Nobel Prize for real invention.

If we can cut each to two halves and other half is filled with dud coins we might even make twice the money in one go.

Think about my ploy young blood.

Courts of Law in Ceylon

Courts of Law in Ceylon 

I think (Should be) YouTube Guys and Girls could be persecuted if they propagate false information. 

Please not this was a Futuristic Dream of mine and nobody should sue me  with defamation.

The latest dream as far as I am concerned was futuristic.

Reasons I will give below.

It goes on like this.

We had a long drawn out industrial action.

This time students were on strike, just like in 1988 -1989.

I was getting bored and decided to quit the university for good, which I did. After 6 months of struggling, I managed to get part of the Provident Fund and I wanted to buy a car for my retirement, now that even walking a few paces was a struggle. Incidentally, for administrative reasons, part of the entitlement is frozen as intellectual assets. What often happens is that the salary is such low, all the individuals permanently employed take loans from the university against the Provident Fund as a surety.

Generally, the maximum loan amount is up to 75% of your Provident Fund balance, according to Commission Circular No: 433. The 75% limit is re-calculated to account for all the other loans you may have previously taken and you may be still repaying.

The bottom line is, the university authorities did not wish to part with the balance thinking, if I die before the release of the funds, it is gross University Saving.

They wished I would be dead by natural causes.

This is all about Government Duty Free Car allowed. I went with somebody which I cannot remember probably an in law to drive me home.         We cleared everything and all of them got into the car and they left, leaving me behind with a heavy suitcase.   I thought now that I had signed the papers, they went for a test drive. I could not leave my heavy luggage for safe keeping and after a few minutes of waiting,            I decided to stroll down the alleyway. The luggage was so heavy and after a few minutes I sat down under a tree panting and cursing myself, had I some money,        I would have hired a three wheeler to reach home.

Then after about half an hour they realized, I wasn't in and came in search of me. By that time I had gone bananas and with that commotion, I was woken up.

I must tell you why I was happy.

My present Provident Fund saving is not enough to buy even a three wheeler. I was visibly annoyed with myself for not waking up quickly lest, I had gone to Anuradhapura in a pilgrimage in this new car with total happiness, I would have attained Sovan Status when one gives up worldly belonging, which is a big bonus for my dependents. That is the long and short of my dream but I was intrigued by the heavy luggage.

I sent an email to Maha Brahama and this time there was a long silence before his chat appearance. 

I wasn't least pleased with his attitude to my latest dream.

I asked him was he busy to which he gave a negative response.

Then again he was dragging his feet and asked me, how the industrial action was taking shape.

I told him we are having deliberations in the courts and I am not allowed to divulge anything, since the court determination was pending.

Then he summoned his courage and said that this dream is not futuristic and dull and no point of discussing or interpreting.

I felt something fishy and asked him, this dream is about me,

Isn't it?

He paused and said how did you guess?

Do you really need some interpretation?

Why not, we earthling are going from pillar to post looking for godforsaken astrologers who take us for a ride.

We love to hear of our future, even if it is our funeral and specially the things like salary increment we are going to get.

This one is little bad.

You mean to say we won't get any increment?

No fool it is your final farewell?

Farewell for leaving the University?

No fool your ultimate farewell from this planet.

Or I see!

You were waiting for the people to come and dump you and push the electric button and they were late and you were watching from above.

Heaven, I believe.

Can't tell you that now.

In that case can you tell me what was that heavy stuff in the suitcase.

That was your Kusal-Akusala Kamma Load.

Which is more?

Can't tell that, too.

Can you tell me at least the Ahosi Kammas.

You have finished all your Ahosi Kamma by blogging and all in the suitcase were viable Kammas.

That means no Sovan for me, isn't it?

Can't tell you that, too.

You must stop all blogging and stop doing any Kusala or Akulsala Kamma.

Why?

You are then in Kriya Mode and then only you get to dream good futuristic dreams, not events related to your mundane life.

Or I see.

Less Kusala and less Akusala in your suitcase and more I get to hear good futuristic dreams, from you.

For how long?

That is left to you.

In that case, I have to go on indefinite industrial action.

You won't have any problem with that since the case is in Sri-Lankan courts!

Happy dreaming.

See you soon.

AI Generated Information is below. 

No, a mistake made in a court of law is generally not considered defamation. Statements made in court proceedings are protected by a legal doctrine known as absolute privilege, which prevents people from being sued for defamation for testimony or submissions made during a trial or tribunal. 
 

Here is a breakdown of why this is the case:

    Absolute Privilege: 

The law protects free and open debate in judicial proceedings. 

As long as the statement is made within the context of the court, you cannot be sued for defamation, even if the statement was false or made with malicious intent.
    

Purpose of Court: 

The justice system is designed to handle disputed, false, or mistaken information through cross-examination, evidence, and questioning by judges, not by allowing witnesses to be sued for defamation every time they make a mistake.
    

What if it was a lie? 

If a person deliberately lies in court, it is not considered defamation; it is perjury (a criminal offense), not a civil defamation claim.
    

Mistake vs. Malice: 

An honest mistake in testimony is generally protected. 

Even if the testimony is defamatory in nature, the occasion of a court hearing is privileged. 

When is it Defamation?

Defamation occurs outside of the court process, such as publishing false information in the media, on social media, or to a third party to damage someone's reputation. 

If a statement was made in court that you believe was false and caused harm, the proper remedy is to address it through the court process (e.g., cross-examination or presenting counter-evidence) or by reporting perjury, rather than filing a defamation lawsuit. 

Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers

 Posted on October 21, 2011

Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers
Posted on October 21, 2011 

1. It is a Unix derivative i.e. BSD (Berkeley Systems Distribution) which form the basis for both Mac OS X and the iOS that powers the iPhone.

2. It was hooked to a O.E.M platform (Power PC) till recently.
 

3. BSD is what Darwin is based on.
 

4. Darwin is Apple’s Open Source Unix operating system foundation.
Somebody should revive this, now that Steve Job is no more.

The Darwin kernel is equivalent to the Mac OS X kernel plus the BSD libraries and commands essential to the BSD Commands environment.
 

5  It uses Open Source OpenGL – Standard 3D graphics library
 

6. jEdit  4.3
 

7. Perl  5.10  

Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
 

8. Python  2.6.1  

Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
 

9. Python  3.3  

Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
 

10. Ruby  1.8.7  

Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

Items 6 to 10  are programming languages (now mostly platform independent) which made the backbone of  Linux.
 

11. Audacity   is a Linux derivative

12. Thunderbird is a Linux derivative

13. VLC    

Media Player is a Linux derivative

14. Geogebra  is a Linux derivative

15.TeX
 

No operating system is Pure and I have not used OpenOffice or LibreOffice since they originated from Sun Solaris System, until they all became Open Source.

American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry

 Posted on February 8, 2012

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American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry

Kalama Sutta
Posted on February 8, 2012

American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry

Kalama Sutta
 

If I have not read Kalama Sutta by the age of 16 years, I  may have, to begin with, would have been caught up and swallowed by the Rationalist (almost nonfunctional today in this irrational country called Ceylon) coverts.

There are 13 qualifications, one has to apply if one is an open inquirer.
So read Kalama Sutta before reading this.

I ended up as an independent thinker, never believing anything what the white man said.
We were under 500 years of foreign invader influence, it is probably inbuilt in my system not to believe them and probably many Ceylonese of today have lost that inbuilt defensive quality we had, especially the politicians and political stooges who become prisoners of conscience.

I can dispense with British easily.
In about 6 months in Britain, I realized that, what they say is not what they mean.
That included medical men, too.
This is the ground zero level where most of us end up in Britain.
In the diplomatic level they deliberately lie in a professional manner and unlike the ordinary British who survive on a meager salary, they are paid very well to lie for the country. How better or brazenly one can lie while blazing a blue-collar suit and tie is the standard of British Diplomacy.

They do not mean what they say.

Only people who can beat them in this game are Americans.

Compare the relationship President Bush to PM Blair as an academic exercise.

I have had limited association with the Americans (IMMI in Digana) and it took many years of rational and independent analysis, only after leaving them though, to get the correct  assessment and true picture of what they really meant.

See how Obama came into power with full-scale liberal views and ended up as a stubborn personality and not listening to people power but continuing with what Bush did. Of course, better than what Bush would have figured it out.

He pretended to the whole world that he was different. Unlike British there are some genuine and stupid Americans, too.

Otherwise they would not have elected him in the first place. If they elect him for the second time my above analysis is patently confirmed without any doubt or contention.
Polls as at present prove that I am right at this point of time. Unlike British they pay well for the services. I do not know how one is paid under President Obama.

I am not interested in who should become the next American President, let the stupid and brilliant Americans decide it.

But they are well advised by me to read the Kalama Sutta before voting next time round.
Coming back to America and American politics, they are not a benevolent society. Obama pretended to be benevolent to the masses but he is truly benevolent  to the rich. Chrysler bail out is one object lesson.
They have the capitalist mentality at all levels and success depends on how much one is prepared to get returns for the initial investment.
Good examples are Microsoft and Speculators.
Now that Microsoft is having a nose dive, Apple is trying to get into that niche.
I-pads and educational material that they are planning to copyright are preparing to swallow the stupid Americans in one go.

What hey propagate as the universal truth is a myth by all standards.

More educated one is and more one spends on education, more productive when one is employed. It is a myth.

But no education standards were necessary to get the bail outs. The standard was how bad an American fails in his or her business. 
What ever the voters may say they always win. However, rest of the Americans have to foot the bill. 

In this context, Amazon did an amazing and wonderful thing by introducing Kindle Fire (selling below cost price) and creating http://www.createspace.com, in the big business world of publications. The hold that the publishers have on writers is negated by author publication which I entered willimgly.

They are all out to kill this experiment.

Amazon is a successful business empire.
There is nothing wrong with it.
But at least in education Amazon’s vision is somewhat benevolent.
American politics who ever who becomes the next president, I hope will not kill this endeavour in its early stages.
I hope I have not jumped the gun.
Time will tell what I say now will be right or wrong.
It is tilted towards ipad and Big Apple and not towards Amazon’s effort.
If Apple wins it is a disaster for the entire world of education.

Myths Spread by Psychologists

Monday, August 12, 2019

Myths Spread by Psychologists

This was an old idea of mine 

There are a lot of Myths Spread by Psychologists.

This is an attempt to bring some sense and reality into day to day life.

I may dispute many a myths but my attempts are also not infallible in each and every situation one may encounter. Making right or correct decision at a given moment is a knack which many of us lack.

If we delay acting on a given (it may be right or it may be wrong) problem even for a fraction of a second, the most destructive procrastination sets in.

Then any given solution is the base for next round of further procrastination.

 

But if we keep an open mind and believe in what we intend to do given a difficult problem or a preposition, then solving the problem may come naturally, to anyone.

This is not easy though.

Lot of training actually hinder this ability.

 

That is what we call common sense.

 

Lot of experience also may be a hindrance.

Basically we have several approaches to a given problem.

 

Just think of a Video Game in Play.

One’s approach may be (not comprehensive here)

1. Offensive

2. Defensive

3. Neutral

4. Random

5. Cool (not procrastination)

The best approach is the last which has all the above components assessed in a fraction of a second. 

Only a few has that cool talent.

They are ones who become successful.

 

The COOL people are actually very observant.

But many of us use the useless procrastination approach (usual approach of a politician).

What it does is to kill the attempt at solving a given problem from the very beginning.

Unfortunately many of us use this method since we do not believe that some problems can be addressed, if we care to divert from the common approach.

 

This is what Professor De Bono calls Lateral Thinking.

 

It is not vertical or analytical or direct thinking.

Side track a bit,

Focus on the problem,

Leave behind the past experiences for a moment,

Give attention to the present moment of time

Then in a FLASH

 

A new found solution springs up.

 

Then if we have few others with equal interest and talent get involved in the same problem we get endless stream of solutions which we have never thought of because of the redundant past experience.

 

We call it brain storming and it really works.

 

If one does not use common sense what I say here is superfluous.

We use our past experience to solve a given problem.

Sometime past experience is useful.

Sometimes past experience is a hindrance.

Past experience is sometimes a hindrance to creative and pragmatic solutions.

 

Good example can be taken from politicians.

 

When somebody is opposition for a long period of time and then come to power, he / she makes many mistakes due to past misfortunes.

 

This is what has happened in Ceylon, today with NPP/JVP Combo.

 

They have lost the ability for creative thinking.

Unfortunately this happens when one is power too, and they do not realize what a wonderful thing to be in opposition.

The people in the opposition see the problem realistically but they do not have the muscle to power the solution through.

 

It is the malady of the democracy.

Proliferation of a Desktop Types

 

Friday, December 19, 2025

Proliferation of  a Desktop Types

It is a Big Ask?

Selecting a Desktop, is it a Big Ask?

I have missed 3 big but interesting desktops.

Elive with Enlightenment desktop which is beautiful and customizable. One should contribute some money to this project to keep it running for many more years.

IceWM which Debian Edu uses.

Enlightenment Organization which is a non profitable Organization.

We run as an open source project. People may contribute because they like to or because they are paid - but no one gets more preferred access than anyone else. The intent is to release everything under liberal open source licenses with no restrictions on those using such works except the usual “share alike” clauses found in LGPLv2, BSD etc.

We also receive other types of contributions. Our community files bug reports, does translations, as well as simply providing feedback.

This entire website runs on a machine bought with donations from developers and the community. Donations  are highly appreciated. We have a non-profit Enlightenment foundation based in France, which acts as custodian of such funds until they're needed.

I am not talking about Compiz, Wayland and Tiling Window Managers. 

They are not at all my interests.

Yes selecting is a desktop may be a big ask, due to many reasons. 

Desktop is a Desktop and there is nothing more in it. 

It has no applications and can be compared to a dress one wears. A dress one can wear as one pleases but Desktop is Fixed one cannot change but its front end appearance.

There is a caveat here, each desktop by default has a bundle of applications that goes with it except one big application, LibreOffice which everybody try to bundle.

I prefer desktops that does not bundle LibreOffice.

REBORN OS

On that specification, I really like REBORN OS and its Gnome Desktop.

It is minimal and out of 18.5GB /root partition it leaves me 10GB to add any application I need and 4 in particular.

VLC does to take much space but number of plug in are staggering

Audacity has almost every audio format.

GIMP is fantastic for photo editing.

Blender and blender takes the most space up to 1GB in total. 

LibreOffice is a low priority for me since I use AbiWord for my book writing for ages, in fact from Microsoft Windows era.

 Let me finish with Reborn OS, I installed all of the above and a few more and like Kdenlive and KODI and I have 2.5GB left of my root partition. This is because i have also used big /var and /opt partitions.

Desktops

I have been using Gnome of Debian for ages and I have had no problems at all and i stick with it.

Out of the lot below i only like Cutefish.

I have Plasma Desktop for comparison but rarely use it. The simple reason it takes a lot of time booting. 

I want the start up brisk with line of text telling me what is going on behind before booting. Only Debian Gnome does it.

Gnome distribution is out and it has no Synaptic package manager.

The most beautiful KDE Desktop belongs to ARCH based BlueStar Linux and I have it installed in my NUC.

KDE desktop guys are still struggling and it is still RAW package stage and one cannot install it. 

I found a ARCH based KDE desktop which was sleek like Trinity Desktop but it ruined by hard disk including EFI partition. 

It is called KaOS. 

Please do not use it.

1. Plasma desktop consumed about 500MB.

2. Cutefish which I really like consumed 300MB

3. Cosmic desktop about 500MB

4. KODI about 100 to 200MB

5. Kdenlive may be 500MB or more on top of Dolphin. 

6. Cinnamon only about 50MB since it is built on top of Gnome

I did not try Budgie and MATE

7. DeepIn from China was a pain.

8.  Anduino which is Microsoft emulation of course from China and I hate the most.