Sunday, June 19, 2011

Open Invitation to join me in Promoting Debian 6.0.1 Version of Sinhala and Tamil Linux

Open Invitation to join me in Promoting Debian 6.0.1 Version of Sinhala and Tamil Linux.
 
This is an open invitation to first 100 or so Sinhala and Tamil Debian users to join me and promote Debian.
Please note there in no commercial interest here and a Community Project. Long drawn out industrial action has given me some time to devote for Sinhala and Tamil Linux.
Requirements.

1. You should have a valid email account.

2. You should not be a University Student (I have free access to them) and a Sri-Lankan citizen.

3. Make a comment on this entry with your wish to have a DVD (not CD) image or a DVD.

4. You must tell me the easiest way to reach me by email, by post, by visit to my office (or secretary) or by sharing a Dropbox Folder with the images.

5. First 10 contacts will (probably) will get a free DVD from me if they wish to join me in promoting Sinhala and Tamil Linux and not to make any commercial exploitation of my efforts (no agents). 
One has to contact me direct.

6. Target audience by Web is only 100 (provided that the industrial action is over, if not I will continue).

7. If this is a success, I will post a paper advertisement with a coupon to reach me by post for the next 900 (1000 in all). 
I will announce it here and elsewhere.

8. Linux is 20 years old now and is very stable (especially Debian) and the conference in America, the registration alone is $500/=. 
 
This is my celebration of the 20th anniversary.

9. If you visit parafox, asokaplus (wordpress) and asokafixed (onsugar) there is enough information about Linux which I have posted including lessons over the last 5 years.

10. It looks like mostly Americans visit my site (by statistics).

For ones who wants to share the Dropbox Folder with Linux some work needs to be done to increase my folder to 8 GB. Currently I have other Linux images to share with my Linux friends.
 
I will give complement CD/DVDs to each one (at my cost of posting and packaging) up to first 10 who reach me by email.

1. Forward me your email address.
2. I will send an email through Dropbox inviting you to join me.
3. Then you must register with Dropbox through my invitation.
4. Download Dropbox and install it in your computer.
5. Send me email and I will give permission to share the folder and you have to synchronize with your Dropbox (automatically done by Dropbox) 
6. Burn the iso image to a DVD and enjoy.
7. For Dropbox guys / girls I will have a special treat (I have over 100 images with me now ) and I will drop one after one of recent images (not Debian but other distributions) downloaded in that folder for you to try.
I get over 100 emails a day and I love my privacy very much and the industrial action gave me a window of opportunity to reach out.
Enjoy it when I am free.
God only knows how long?
 
Please make sure you give minimum of bio-data to verify the authenticity and identity.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

DoudouLinux-Update

Debian based Doudou Linux probably originated from France is available in English and is a CD one should have in your possession.
It is cute configured internet automatically and now I am blogging about it.
It has gcompris and many more utilities children under 12 should enjoy.
I should make a correction.
If any adult want to feel bit like a child which I am now, it won't do any harm to your soul.
I am not sure it can be installed but it is certainly a Live CD.
Good work guys and girls.
If it cannot be installed I hope very soon they write a script for install.
Mind you it allows you to make a USB stick.
I have not seen sugar on a stick for some time which is educational and this this is neck ahead of SUGAR.

This piece of blog was done with Doudou Linux booted Live.
Go and downland it free and enjoy with your kids.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Ground Realities and Trying to Change (Changing) Linux Customer Base

It is time for me to have a pause and see the ground realities and customer behavior and business politics.

I am in defense of change (of course not for Sea Change) for good with lot of nice cute gadgets like ipods, tablets and kindle are coming out cheap to the market now.


As far as promoting Sinhala Linux is concerned, there is nobody willing to change the habits.
I could not download Hanthana Linux and it is stuck around 700 odd MiB with only two seeders with the server switched off at night.
In the mean time I have downloaded (at least 30 distributions with updates for testing) all the Debian 6.0.0 series and currently finishing the 6.0.1 with minor bug fixes.
All Gnome, KDE and xFce, LXDE (which I like the most even though missing K3B ) are fine for Sinhala Linux and they are very stable and one should start using them if we want to Keep Sinhala Unicode as a viable option in the Linux Community.

Having said that, as I stated earlier about Hanthana Linux, my reservations are coming true, sadly since Fedora (this is the reason I stopped using it) is undergoing a Sea of Change (I like the change though in a business like manner not for the sake of change-people who do not change and stop innovating new ideas will fail in any business let alone Linux) with even partition types.

I hope Fedora gives option for old tradition of EXT 3 and 4 to old customers.
In the meantime I downloaded all Fedora Editions (all because of Sinhala Support from 13 upwards for posterity) from 13 and above (I am still struggling to finish CD version of KDE, Fedora 13) and an Old Fedora Bible Book with version 6 for completion.

Redhat was my heartthrob and heartbeat those days.

Hanthana Linux is Fedora 14.5 and probably stuck there not knowing what to do next.

What is striking about the Fedora Community is it has produced a distribution called Synergy Alpha 2 where one has the basic packages including LibreOffice and one can add up other packages after installation.
This is the one that one should download and have a feel (mind you no support for old Graphic Cards) and I have put that image in my Dropbox for sharing with Linux Lovers.

Even package management is changing I prefer the Fedora Community to produce a DVD in the range of 1 GiB to 1.5.

In this background Debian is rock solid and its derivative AVLinux 5 which I downloaded yesterday is fabulous with everything one needs including Blender. 

I did not check whether it has Sinhala Capability.

I decided to look at the downloads at distrowatch for the last month.
The customer habits are revealing.

1. For the first time Linux Mint (1) which is Ubuntu / Debian derivative is on top over 2000 (did not change to Unity) downloads.

2. Fedora second (2) over 2000 (sea of change with most numerous seeders all over the world and with very fast download for Fedora 15)

Fedora 16 is coming soon and thank you very much for seeders.

3. Ubunbtu in third (3) place with under 2000 (changed holistically to Unity). 

4. Debian is the fourth (4) the most stable under 1500 downloads.

5. Significantly PCLinux (My Gold Standard for stable Live / Install) over 1000 for the first time in the seventh (7) place.

6. Puppy is at eight (8) place with just under 1000.


7. CentOs a Redhat base at tenth (10) place. 

 8. Mageia and not Mandriva in the first 10 is a significant observation.


What it proves is that the customer base is mature both wanting stable and rolling versions and also ready for change.

Like me they should use both, new version for testing and giving the feedback to the community and use the old version for day to day working and at the end of the year decide what you like the most and install it and retire for Christmas holidays.
I do not advice one of having several computers like me since my electricity bill is sky rocketing in Sri-Lanka and it is one of the miracles of the presently (not pleasantly) powerful (inside only) government.

At the end the customers are the winners unlike Microsoft base which is trying to change to catch up with the trends but failing significantly.

AVLinux-5-Linux Update

The Latest score for AVLinux stands at 2380 and if you a fan of Audio Video Work this one is for you.

AVLinux, Latest Version 5 is a fabulous Debian based Linux distribution for Audio Video productions.
It is at LinuxTracker torrent and took little over one day to download.
Hope few more seeders join in to speed up the show.
It has Blender, Scribus and Inkscape (print productions) and LibreOffice.
What I like most is UnetBootIn.
AVLinux is not in the list of UnetBootIn but read my blog to how to work around this problem.
Good work Guys and Girls.
Enjoy AV Linux.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Mama Mia, Ama Mia and Mage Ammmo

Mama Mia,
Is the only Italian phrase,
I could remeber from 
The very old English Film
With famous Elizebeth Taylor
In action

Ama Mia was
The Japanese Professor emiratus
Who was humble enough
To share my room

Mage Ammo
Is the phrase 
I use
Even though
My mother is no more
When I see the
Price of Piti Kiri
Not Maw Kiri
In super markets


I have lost a phrase
When I see
The Bills of Electricity 
And Telephone now

If this goes on like this
I have to say
Mum Maruno
For posterity!

Dream-06 and its interpretation from Heaven

Only two days I practiced Maha Brhahma's prescription I was getting into dream mode just like switching to a new window panel in Full Monty.

He said don't do Kusala or Akusala and it was easy to practice it because of the industrial action we set ourselves motivated in to go forward with.

It goes like this.
Like in simple scientific laws of physics, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction in pursuit.
If I do some academic work, it becomes Akusala to the Union we represent and it is Kusala to the government in full gear and turbo power.
If I stay at home and have a pipe dream in my armchair dreaming about the miracles that would happen and the exponential salary hike, it is only dreams which we are entitled nowadays.
It is Kusala to my Union and Akusala to the University authorities including UGC.
 
They cancel each other and get into Kriya Mode which is the Dream Cycle in Action.

Mind you U.G.C. is a white elephant created by the yesteryear colossal animal called JRJ and now no more but his look a like is hovering in the upper chambers of power untouched by nobody.
 
So for dreaming virtually anything I get a salary not worth to done in a garb called cloak which every blessed graduates hire for his or her convocation and a photograph afterward.
 
I done in this cloth only once in my life time to honour a Japanese professor who was humble enough to share my room and learn English (from another Japanese who was perfect example of an ambassadorial stuff) in less than six months. 

Worse scenario was, then Vice Chancellor came two hours late from his official residence which was a walking distance. 
Suffice is to say he was very close associate of Mrs.Kumaranatunge and followed her example to the letter by getting late on every occasion.
These are the type of Vice Chancellor that UGC selects and recommend now on political affiliations.

I think very soon somebody (not me, I have an allergy for governments of East and West or Dead Center) will get a Chair or we call it professorship for dreaming for the government in power.

In actual fact the present Ministers does not know how to dream a miracle which I am going let you know in a moment.

I am very bad at dreaming and even if I dream  I cannot remember (that is the very physiological nature of dreams) them for any length of time and Maha Brahma and his fancy for human dreams especially of mine has facilitated a healthy relationship and this adventure will go on until our industrial action is over.
God only knows for how long for sure.

My dream was a miracle dream.
I was selected by a panel from American Judges for a intergalactic mission of goodwill and I was the one taken in to give a brief in "Buddhism in a Nutshell" to the aliens.

We were in flight and within minutes I felt fishy.

They have perfected a new form of energy from antiatom caught and arrested by CERN in France and the name for that energy is called Poseidon (to remember the ship that sunk-it was brought to surface in seconds by this new form of energy) and the metal that the intergalactic ship was made was a new form of metal created by combination of few grains of antiatom and aluminium.
 
This element which is called antiatominium which has the atomic weight below hydrogen (Antiatom take the weight out of the equation but not the metallic strength) has the biological property of healing after injury and when damaged release enough antiatom for the repair process.

I was in a room which looked like Guanthamala Prison.
I was not allowed to see others.

They told me I get bored I will be allowed to look after sick inmates (ship was like a prison anyway with cramped up quarters and food was horrible).
I felt they were doping (it is called doping, or enticing antiatom, a new fission process to make antiatom from atoms) antiatom experiment and we were the human guinea pigs to see the after effects.
So I set about a revolts and to save all human beings from these nasty scientists.
First I designed  a way to make locked rooms open electronically using Linux Password Cracker (LPD for short). For my luck they gave me a computer with a printer like machine to make plastic cards robber resistant and I carried some Flash cards and Flash drives for my amusement.
So in a matter of few hours I made about 100 plastic cards with secret code cracker installed and was under  way opening every cubicle.
To my surprise all the cubicles had animals of food variety but not a single human soul.
I was so annoyed I woke with spicy words following the phrase these Americans......

Interpretation
Maha said the dream was  good one and he enjoyed it.
I asked him is the intergalactic mission possible.

What nonsense he replied.
They promised miracles during election and this look like a plausible scientific miracle dream!

He told me that politician dream during election campaign after heavy liquor but when they wake up from the dream realizes that not a single promise can be delivered like what JayaLalitha promised in Thamil Nadu.

He said this dream is futuristic but nothing scientific in nature and is a political realization of high order.
In your mind's aberration and applying science to unscientific field like politics, you can have dream like this.
What nonsense with coconuts going nuts, there is not even pol or pol arrakku, I told him.
Listen then.
It is a very short interpretation.

1.In future politicians in power spend two years of campaigning on borrowed money from IMF.
2. Next two years they are devising methods to pay the loans they owed and forget the electorate.

3. then the next 2 years they on campaigning.

4. Then a bizarre period of famine follow after failure of rain for few years.
5. Opposition come into power.
6 . Cycle from 1 to 3 repeats.

This is exactly what is happening now know?
No you missed a point.
The part you dreamt about animal is real.

Animals have to be bred in space or intergalactic space and brought in batches, just before and after the election for the G.O.P. party.

What about wine.
There is no alcohol or wine.
Why?
Temperature is above 38 C and all yeast species are killed on earth.
But they make a drink from the animal blood scarified in somewhat of halal method where every drop of blood is extracted from the killed animals in space.
It is called gintone (gin and tonic in short form).
Do you get a kick?
If you are still alive and well there on earth you must ask the elected president.
Why?
They only drink it and I have not yet tasted it.
OK.
OK.



Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Will you eat it, if it is in a dish?

If it has got four legs
And it is not a chair
Will you eat it?
Americans will eat it

If it has got two wings
And it flies
But is not an aeroplane,
Will you eat it?
British will eat it it
If it swims 
And it is not a submarine,
Will you eat it?
Africans will eat it

It has no legs
And wiggles
But not a stick
Or a broom stick
Will you eat it?
Yes the Chinese will eat it
Like noodles


But poor
Cantonese
Or an Indian
Or a  Bangladeshi
Cook
Has to cook it
Before it is dished out
In a royal plate


It looks as if
Even a modern 
Buddhist of Colombo
Or a Buddhist monk
From Anuradhapura
Would not say
No
If it is dished out
Not in royal
But
At a Presidential Buffet
In Colombo

Modified from Prince Phillip's
Uttering in Royal Language

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Dream-05 and its interpretation from Heaven

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 (like in 1988-1989), I was getting bored and decided to quit for good which I did.

After 6 months of struggling I managed to get part of the Provident Fund (half of which was frozen for administration of unknown intellectual assets and authorities did not wish to part with the balance thinking if I die before the release of the funds, it was gross government saving, wished I could be dead by natural causes) and I wanted to buy a car for my retirement now that even walking a few paces was a struggle.

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 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 few minutes of waiting I decided to stroll down the alleyway.

The luggage was too heavy after few minutes I sat down under a tree panting and cursing myself, had I some money I would have hired a three wheeler.


Then after about half and hour they realized I wasn't in and came in search of me. By that time I had gone bananas and with the 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 waking up lest I had gone to Anuradhapura in pilgrimage in this new car with total happiness, I may have even attained some path freedom (Sovan) in my dream.

That is the long and short of my dream but I was intrigued by the heavy luggage.

I sent an email to Maha 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 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.

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 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 luggage 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 related to your life.
Or I see.

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

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.

SwiftLinux-Full-Edition-Linux Extras-14

Comment to a Comment

I agree with almost everything what you say.
But my concern is can Swift Linux take the advantage of the niche (evolutionary term) and the void Microsoft has left for us the Linux community exploit?

Answer is Big Yes.

But we must have a global view.

My approach is having three sizes (even Puppy Legacy 2 has realized this).


1. Very Light (like Peppermint)-below 500MiB

2. Middle Weight (PCLinux is currently number 7 in Distrowatch neck and neck wit Puppy).-1 to 1.4 GiB

3. Gorilla (PCLinuxFullMonty)- 3 GiB and above

I want you to succeed in a business environment and LibreOffice is vital for day to day work. 
I use Abiword for its simplicity but many prefer  big chunk of office as a utility.
 
Please do not be restricted by 700 MiB CD.
 
DVDs are damn cheap even in Sri-Lanka.
Mini Pocket DVD (1.4 GiB) is affordable.
I appreciate your hard work.
Sky is the limit for you.
Good Luck and try torrent too.

Good news is iso files are available for download at SourceForge.
The link is given when one visit the home page of Swift Linux.

I managed to download the Swift Linux regular last night and it boots well and can be installed. I have both Mepis and AntiX (this is pretty good for old computers) with me and except for the fact that it has taken some weight out of Antix it cannot outsmart Antix.
Regards to old computers it does boot with my old IBM Think Pad computer but not with IBM Net Vista which I have installed Mepis for my downloads.
It looks like it has missed some hardware modules when downsizing.
One cannot downsize hardware configuration if one is promoting Swift Linux for old computers.
Bottom line is I will not install it but keep it for testing purposes.

There are over 100 very good light weight distribution including Puppy and Peppermint and it is left to you to decide which one you want to use.

Choice is yours. Visit my Linux 100 for details.

It looks like the home site of the Swift Linux has been attacked few days after this comment and I could not download a single file (Image).
This is why I stated that one should host images with linuxtracker as torrent file or ones own site as torrrents.
Even Linux tracker was attacked in this modern digital age one is not careful.
They said they are rising from the ashes of phoenix and and they surely did.
One mad digital guy / girl with corporate backing can do enormous damage while most of the average guys and girls do wonderful things with digital (code and programming) fingers and code soup.

I once thought writing and blogging on Live CD and Linux are a waste of time but now I realize what a load of image building I have done for them without even knowing any one of them.
Keep up the good work. 

This world has lot of good guys and only a few bad and ugly guys (mean both sex).

I am a fan of Mepis and AntiX.

AntiX is lighter weight version of Mepis with lot of packages and works with low RAM for old computers.
I have been looking for weird form of Linux derivatives and came across Swift linux some time ago.
After about 40 tries (download stream abruptly stops without completing) I mange to get diet Linux and Taylor Swift with  music at start up.

This was 0.0.3 version and I gave up because it was only live and no install.

I could get the other images and then suddenly another version came.
The 0.0.3 but could not  download with similar failure as above.
However my interest did waxed and waned but when I saw Distrowatch including it as a viable option I decided to get the latest version.

It was not there in Distrowatch or Softpedia and typed home of Swift Linux.
Presto1
Big jump the version is 0.1.1 and currently attempting to download.
there vision and goal are both honourable.
When Microsoft leave you high and dry, one need not throw the computer away or buy new one.
Swift will take over swiftly the vacuum left.
they have included Open Office which I have begun to hate now.
Hope they will include LibreOffice in future issues.
Please go and visit their site and I wish them good luck and hope they will leave the image at linuxtracker to prevent my agony of downloading. 

I will come back with a honest report if I am successful downloading it.


Monday, June 13, 2011

MacPup525-Enlighternment Desktop

MacPup 525 is Puppy derivative with enlightenment desktop and very pleasing to the eye.
What I cannot believe is how one puts all these features in 50 MiB.
That is the beauty of Linux and all the derivatives.
It has almost everything lupu 525 has but with eye catching Apple like (even better) desktop and if you want a fashionable outlook this one is for you.
Well done.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Learning the lessons of life and point to point movement instead of jumping for pleasure.

Learning the lessons of life and point to point movement instead of jumping for pleasure.
The weather pattern has changed at least by three (3) months and the migratory birds that come in early April (Indian oriole) are still here. 
The rainfall was just enough to make plants survive, if one does not water them for three days, they are gone for good.

In good old days nobody water plants in Kandy and rest assured there is some inter-monsoonal rain at least once in 10 days to make sure nobody needs an exercise to water plants.
Palm trees especially the arecanut are disappearing fast and what remains is used for pandols. They need moist soil throughout the year for survival.

The rain came at an odd time disturbing the peace of tiny squirrels who came out ill prepared from their nest (because of the rain) and many lost their life to cats waiting for a meal.
They started jumping before actually walking across the tree trunks.
Having lost a large number as prey to cats now the remaining have learned basic lesson of survival.
Follow the trace (I think they leave a tiny bit of urine on tree trunks-urine is a universal marker in the animal world) on tree trunk or branches left by their elders or siblings, amble across instead of jumping and find their ways.
As I have noted earlier there is no undergrowth if a jumping effort fails or trees are far apart for their free movement.
My observation after watching the demise of the tiny ones tells me only way they can survive in my neighbourhood is by using the power lines that stretch from house to house (not telephone lines) and not trees.

They have realized point to point contact is the safest way instated of living in tree tops.
My house they have ample space and providing space for them have cut down on the rat population too.
They are intelligent and fast learners but few young one had to be sacrificed to learn the harsh realities of urban life.
If you love nature please do not have cat at home.

They are vultures, even though we feed them regularly and very lazy too and the rats know it well and come out only when they are asleep.
They are docile and sleep at least 16 hours a day and too lazy to catch rats.
They are good at stealing too from neighbours especially and have learned all the bad habits from humans.

Physics, Ash Plantains (Banana) and Global Warming

Physics, Ash Plantains (Banana) and Global Warming.
I am writing this on a backdrop of a 20 year vilifying investigation of a Polish American doctor's plight to fight American mechanics and silence him.
I am not gone Bananas but some American Scientists and Regulatory Bodies have gone bananas!

They are going to study billion pieces of temperature data to see their accuracy.
They are getting a physicist to study a biological fact (climate issue).
Time and temperature are two dimensional elements and the time is a unidirectional concept and temperature is a perceived or measured concept.
Both are not adequate to study biological effects at random.

What we need is bio-indicators.
For one good bio-indicator of quality of water is tadpoles and frogs.
The Universe is billion bullion years old and earth is of billion years.
Then take a  sample from the last 50 years of supposed to be inaccurate data of temperature and CO2 and making policy decision, especially political but not scientific is ridiculous.
They are spending millions of American money on it and come up at the end of it, with inconclusive evidence for and against a given argument or a premise.
They could have spend it for a tree panting exercise globally and reap benefit in no time and provide at lease some fire wood for the poor.
I always ask a question philosophically of course, when I am at my tether to bring down an argument to a conclusion, if nothing is coming out of it.

Is the money and time well spent?
Problem with this question is, it generates a plethora of publications for and against and at the end of it the answer is again not conclusive.

This is how science works for us today.

This is what I call the uncertainty principle and statistics jargon works around it.

In this world most of the terrestrial animals work best at around 30 to 35 C and yeast die at 38 C.

The range is very narrow and what we need to ask is what is the effect of given temperature and  rainfall on a particular species of plant (we do not need to study animals and all animals live ultimately on plant product called glucose which is a biochemical product and not purely chemical or physical).
When evidence is staring at you, Americans would like to dispute it saying there is no scientific evidence yet to explain.

In my life I have eaten lot of ash plantain cooked of course but very rarely ripe ones.
They do not ripe even if you keep it for a long time.
That is why we use it as a vegetable to cook and a good one too.
Few plausible reasons are that it's skin is very thick and do not produce enough carbide.
Second is the temperature.
Third is its maturation while attached to the plant.
This week I was walking along a Gahala Junction and saw a vegetable vendor selling ash plantain.
It was very peaceful without students.
He was happy to sell, because nobody was buying them.
They were ripe.
He was greedy wanted to sell me everything.
I told him give me the ripe ones, I am going to eat them not cook.
Bottom line, even in Kandy they are ripening.
Why?
One reason alone.
Scorching temperature.
If any American scientist wants any more evidence s/he can come and visit me and my back garden and the rooftop.
I can show him or her over 20 biological specimens and water plants affected by high ambient temperature which I have stopped measuring now.

He should only buy a return ticket and he and his family can come here for eternity on the money wrongly spent on scientific investigation to prove or disprove a political point.
In this case he should be prepared for the mosquitoes whom having a whale of a time because of the warm weather and take few home to show his friends as a proof that he really visited Sri-Lanka and not got this information by Googling for fun.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Dream-04 and its interpretation from Heaven

This dream was not exciting to say the least but it's interpretation by Maha Brahma was exciting.

We were going on a trip to Anuradhapura in a bus load of devotees and I was the bus driver.

We alighted ourselves from the bus for some ripe mangoes along the road side and everybody was busy eating mangoes.

When we returned one had a slight headache and the conductor open the First Aid Box for Panadol and to his surprise there was a little cobra inside the box. 

 

Then we looked around there were many little cobras in the bus and a slight commotion ensued and I was woken up.

Woken up, I looked under my bed and I found my dog sleeping and no cobras.
The I remember, the day before there was a little cobra (second time I saw it) in the hospital premises and everybody was blocking its exit route.
I told them even though it is a small guy, the poison is the same let it ease itself to his own safety from the humans and went on my business (no business these days).

So this was nothing exciting and there was an antecedent incident but I was puzzled, how come inside a First Aid Box and the setting was pious devotional expedition with mango tasting (Mango Friends -Ammba Yahaluwas).
In any case worth an interpretation of high order.
Posted it by email and I got a audio alert from AOL (Any Old Lady) with Maha himself calling.
I do not know how AOL got Maha's voice (really his assistant's and Maha is still on a not-American holiday) but true to American discoveries of the universe and beyond, I too got excited.


Then I discovered Maha was more excited than me having received my email.

I asked him why the hell or heaven he has given his voice to AOL.

He said he did not give it but American Secret Service has cracked the Heavenly Code and he is aware of it but no damage done to heaven since no American in the current century including Secret Service will get to heaven, the the way they are bombing the Middle East and there is some agreement with Hell to make a special American Cell in an island like where Srauss Khan was incarcerated for his pleasures on Earth.

Then he got to his business.

Interpretation.
He said this was a good one.
Why?
In time to come cobras are going to be priceless animals and anybody breeding them get an American Scholarship.
To make anti-venom I believe?
No Stupid.
In time to come Americans will be like the Old Wild West again and everybody who is somebody is a Bank Robber, not with guns but with plastic cards.
I don't get your point.
The Linux hackers in America have perfected a card that can break any PIN number in ten seconds. 
It is like a master key you know?

The card has a microchip with wireless connection to a server and the server in ten seconds cracks a PIN number at random and the robber get away with money or a free transaction to Libya instantly.
Libya?
Yes now Libya is American.
Don't you realize this is futuristic?
Or I see your point.
There is no connection with any cobra there.
Wait. wait, till I come to that point.
If the transaction is not completed in another 5 seconds, a cobra comes and sting the robber.

From where does the cobra come from?
From the till and one can put only two fingers to collect the dollars and no gloves allowed and when you fiddle you actually tickle the cobra's hood.
He has no option but to sting.
That is no problem no.

You go to the nearest American hospital and get the anti-venom saying the sting was from his or her pet cobra.

No it is not that easy to get cobra anti-venom.
There is a hospital protocol.

1. First you have to get Visa Clearance.
2. Then you have to get FIB Clearance
3. Then you have to get Bank Clearance
4. Doctors Clearance
5. Pharmacist Clearance
6. Allergy Clearance
7. Nurses (qualified to give anti venom) Clearance
8. Repeat and repeat of Bank Clearance or Insurance Clearance, whether able to pay the hospital bill.

My goodness this takes time and by that time he will be in deep coma!
Yes, yes.
Then only the hospital can claim benefits for the Emergency Treatment from Obama Health Package Revisited.

What is the price of anti-venom?
It is like liquid gold and only a rich American can buy not a bank robber. 
Oh, I see.
I got to go.
See you soon with my next dream probably not winning the industrial action and I will be seeing day dreams, anyway.








The things I expect but blog Mangers / Adminstrators won't let me do

First of all let me tell some good things about all free blogs

1. Giving a free space in the blog is like giving water (to a stranger who is lost and stranded in the big world) and oxygen without which we cannot live.

Thanks a lot for that in spite of lot of advertising.

2. Secondly what they offer is html page with the code behind and I do not have have to have a html editor of my own.

In fact it is cloud computing.

3. Print industry (daily papers) never give this opportunity of freedom of expression (without vulgarity of course) to a stranger who has a different point of view.
They have some taboos, may be religion, may be race and many more hidden commercial agenda.

4. Like minded people get together spontaneously and one has to encounter opposition too.

5. In a world where people tend to get isolated and segregated this is a good outlet they have.
But remember only 10% use this and nearly 90% in the third world have no access or access which is very slow and poor.

6. For me this open up educational activity and apart from some satire I cannot use this type of activity in academic setup where there is some restriction, pomposity and arrogance.

7. Light humour is essential ingredient for healthy life and in countries where one party dominates and opposition view is surpassed this is the only avenue one has to dissipate inbuilt anger and frustration.


8. Email is a clumsy way to communicate but and is almost one to one and / or one to many where many is abused and junk mail is the result. 

Sometime one need anonymity to express a view that is suppressed and one cannot do that with email.

9. There is spell checker, colour and standard formatting and sometime ability include images which is sufficient for word possessing.

10. It gives comment space and above all it gives statistics which is very encouraging to see how many are with the same or opposite line of thinking.

Now let me tell you things that I would like them to include

1. Blogging is possible with one having all the senses intact for communication. 
Blind person cannot start a blog without some handicap.
I prefer an audio output for them, something similar to skype linked to the blog page.

2. Translation to at least the native language of the writer/s (Sinhala and Tamil). 
This will prevent abuse which I have seen in religious and racial nature at a different site.

3. There should be editorial control if something of that nature happens. At least there should be random checking and reference to comments and avoid political nature of the contents.

4. What I want very much is the ability to rearrange the content into either chapters or categories. 

Blogging is a random process and little thought is given at first. With comments and time it grows into some identifiable themes. 
When the contents are mature they should be put into themes with some identification tags or designs.

5. They should introduce cross-reference capability with links to private (one's own publications within the site and outside the site) and public (external links) publications with similar categories or items.

6. Then the blog site should thinks if it is bringing more interactivity to the site and should make print form available for reading (the less unfortunate who does not have access to Internet) at leisure.
In other word web form should transform into print form including braille and books for light reading.

In other word make it available universally until everybody who is somebody has an Android and Internet connection or Kindle.

More than ninety percent (90%)of the readers read mediocre news papers because of this lack of internet facility.

7. I will add to this when new ideas are perceived.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Cloning, Maha Brahma and American Pie

Maha Brahma (really his assistant) was bit confused with cloning and I need to send him a 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 vine (one flavour) from nothing and drinks and there is no value adding.
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 him 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 of my dreams and nothing else.
I missed part of my dream also.
I do not know what happened to the clones (two) and what happen to the originals brothers (twins).
My guess is that clones would have kill 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 it is too late for the going and must try 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.
They know how, was there only over 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 the 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 happen in Sri-Lanka, 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 of cake to eat.
In Middle East, they waited over 20 to 30 years and when oil resource is 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.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Ymlf-04-Chinese Linux-Not in my favour

This is probably an Ubuntu Linux remastered by Chinese without reading an English Textbook on Linux.

It takes a long time to boot and hangs up after mouse configuration unable to configure graphic and the rest.

I  did not find this problem with version (3) three.

Ctrl + Alt-----> F1 to F8 has been fiddled with and one does not know how to get to bash shell to exit.

It looks they have fiddled too much with Ubuntu (which itself has fiddled with original Linux to some extent and have taken away root function) and I want recommend this to to a newbie.

Let the Chinese fiddle with it and learn the basic of English and Linux for a while.
Chinese language is a Graphic language and they do not understand characters and words as such that we use in English.

They have to learn the character and word language features before putting out an English version.
How the Chinese version fare I have no idea.
It boots to Chinese and to get English one has to press  F2.
At boot time Linux uses F1 to F8 for various instructions and graphic is usually reserved for  Ctrl +Alt ---> F7 (F8)and that is missing in this distribution.

Trying to emulate windows is another mistake.
There are many other distribution and Ubuntu derivatives one can try.
This one is out of my favour.

Dream-03 and its interpretation from Heaven

Well, it is long time since I had a good dream to send to Maha Brahma (assistant in charge) for interpretation.
This time it is down to earth.
Unlike few decades ago it was going for birth day parties and wedding, now the trend is different.
I happen to go for funerals more often than not.
I do not know that the dream has any relationship to the funeral I went last but what I dreamt was of two grave diggers who were twins.
They were employed by the Kandy municipality.
Now that most of the bodies are cremated, they have very little  digging to do and the ash left is only less than 4 Kgs, many of it can be sprayed under the remaining trees round the Kanatta (Mahaiyyawa) but that is also taken away for rituals by the relatives, their income is getting lower by the day.
One day they decided to go and do a different type of digging.
Dig some ancient treasures in the Paduwas Nuwara.
They set foot from Kandy to Kurunegala and stayed in a place for preparation.
One of them went out to get all the necessary items including jasmine flowers, lemon and chicken etc leaving the other to look after the grave digging equipment they treasured very much (even grave digging equipment is not safe nowadays).
When he returned to the resting place he found a guy looked similar to him in his bed and his twin in the other bed.
So when he entered the room all three were looking at each other puzzled as if they (all three) had seen a ghost and there was some commotion and I was woken up before the dream finished.

Maha was bit puzzled that I did not send him an email earlier than this.
What is the problem with you.
You are not sleeping well?
No Sir.
I sleep very well because of the industrial action and get up late too and forget most of the dreams by the time i get up.
So when you do academic work you dream a lot?
Yes.
Shall I settle the dispute?
No Sir.
If you do that I don't have time even to send an email.
On the contrary, our politician sleep a lot in between the elections and it is good for them to have a wake up call now and then, now that the honeymoon is over.
Now then how did the dream end?
Actually there were four of them.
What you saw was exact isotopes of the twin brothers.
The brother who remained was under the bed and he was frightened when those two guys walked into the room.
Were they ghosts.
No.
How come?
They had gone for a medical check up and doctors cloned them in case any one of them (normal guys) come for heart transplant or organ transplant.
Why?
Now that the war is over and refuges are not there price of transplant organs have gone up like the fish.
The nurses by mistake had given an overdose of hormones and they have rapidly grown up to full size and escaped from the hospital and ended up at the resting place.
I can understand logic now that stem cells experiments are going on at hectic pace but what is the interpretation?
I cannot give a time schedule lest you get into trouble.

Interpretation.
If I say in future, politicians who go for higher posts clone themselves before the election.
In case if they die during the campaign, the clone will come and represent the dead one.
While in office they keep them as a safety valve in case something happens during the term of office.
But the real reason is, now that the term of re-election time is indefinite cloning is essential for self propagation and continuation of development policies.

Doc is it really possible to clone Gods.

Why not?

That is why gods live for eons and your boss Maha has many clones, in case something happens.

Have you clone yourself?
No.

You better do that soon; There are many dogs here aspiring to take up your post.

Is it costly?
No.
We need only a few stem cells.

OK, I will seriously consider that possibility but I have to ask my boos Maha Brahma.
I got to go do you have any more questions.

I hear Mr. Praba also had a look a like clone in case something happens to him.
Is it true?
Did he clone himself?

No, No. 
It was only a rumour he never wanted him cloned less the clone will kill him.
Can that happen?
Yes.

All clones have to be kept in secret location and a weekly dose of amnesia injection (treatment) should be given to maintain them in good shape.
Then when the real one dies an antidote of anti-amnesia injection is given by the panel of advisers surrounding the boss and the advisers take him to task and do what they please most.

If the first clone does not listen to the advisers, they dispose him or her and get another clone.

If they escape from interment he or she will certainly get rid of the real one.

Didn't I tell you your dreams are always futuristic.

Dream well and I will see you soon.

Don't forget to clone yourself but in heaven they do not kill each other unlike on earth. 
Do they?

Nope, see you soon.

SlimPup-lupu-5.25

SlimPup which is a derivative of Puppy lupu 525 has lot of video and udieo auditing capability including Flv and MP4 and over 40 odd formats.
The list of video file types are over 100 and I never believed that there are so many.
Video editing is such a pain in the neck if you have some video clips that you are unable to see then you better try Puppy Slim and see.
One should have two CD/DVD Roms.
One for booting one for writing.
Puppy takes only 4% of 1 GiB RAM of one's desktop one has all the RAM available for your conversions and work.
Good Luck with your try.

What if rains fails for 2 years: Are we (Sri-Lankans) ready?

What if rains fails for 2 years.

Are we (Sri-Lankans) ready?
The simple answer to this is Big No.
On the contrary we are all making this scenario possible on a daily basis.
One a daily basis everyone of us is contributing to felling trees.
The illegal felling of trees is rampant and often big political guns giving cover to the undesirable in the name of development.
In the name of development and road development the government has activated the engine of unsustainable growth.
Are we restoring and renovating tanks in case the rain fails for two seasons.

No.
The will build play grounds as if we have won the right to hold the Commonwealth games.
We have on record that we have converted an ancient tank into a cricket ground.
Additionally we are polluting our rivers and tanks (Renal problem in North and North East).
Can we designate 10 places in this country where water can be drunk straight from the stream?

No.
Can we designate 10 places where water can be taken for mineral water industry without treatment?

No.
Then what about the mineral water bottles?

If one does a secret survey without the knowledge of the company involved, they are just coming from tap water in tinted plastic bottles.

Mineral water is a big industry with minimum capital

that is why I never taste mineral water.
I do not mind foreigners drinking from mineral water bottles since in their blessed countries the pollution is 100 times compared to here.
Britishers took the pain to cultivate in our highland and made sure every river in its origin is polluted.

Our annual pilgrimage to Adams Peak does the rest.
Now come to my original premise, if rain fails for two years.

In this statement it does not mean total (100%) failure but substantial failure which may amount to 90% of the normal where rivers will dry up except in its origin.

For example if one looks at the Mahavali (Now I call it Mada Vally) River down below the diversion one should be able to understand and visualize the scene.

Every year from Teldeniya onwards the river goes dry part of the year.
One does not need to do any elaborate survey but just looking at the latest ariel view of Google is enough.

We not have a satellite of our own and if one wants to spend money spend some pennies and get a picture from Indian sources.
But my preposition is related to the effect of two important safety barriers we have with rain.
1. It (rain) cools our atmosphere so that we do not need a fan to coll ourselves.
2. The rain takes away the dirt and toxic fumes.
3. Toxic fumes include that are coming from Coal Power units running at full speed so that we can watch I.P.L cricket to entertain us in the not so cool afternoon.
4. I guess one or two players will succumb with heat stroke.
5. The smog will cover the the sky and will interfere with the photosynthesis of rain forest resident local varieties of plants.
They will flower prematurely and wilt away expecting for the rain to come.

(perennial varieties).
6. There is no germination of seeds.
7. Only few plants like cocoa and pipal trees will survive.
8. Then we can worship all the pipal trees but rain gods who were residing on tree tops have vanished to Africa to look after African resistant varieties.
9. Now we have drilled oil out of Northern Sri-Lanka and  Paisalie money is not a problem but transparency is.
10. We will spend all that money from gas and petrel to import bottle water for the politician and astrologers who are playing cricket in their back garden before the cabinet meeting (with few attending)  to refresh themselves with the world affairs.

11.No problem with rights of the people who want water to drink.

They are given either bottle of arrack or bottle of petrel to cash in with drinking water.

12. Government goons are selling the water bottles and take back both arrack and petrel and reinvest on water imported from abroad.

This is not hypothetical but real in time to come even without rain failing.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Linux-Sytem Rescue-Gentoo

This is something one should have for an emergency.
It is Gentoo based.
Little over 300 MiB and has 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
Boots up fast.
has Pdf reader and gparted and partimage.
Even though I use Debian's gParted for my work and partitioning this is one I will use one day in an emergency.


One feature that may be handy is it allows one to configure graphic card. With so many different graphic cards this feature it is a welcome change and it gives you a very eye pleasing graphic face to work with.

Even though I almost hate for Gentoo not including a install script in its Live DVDs and have never tries Gentoo except CD version some years back including KiWi, Gentoo has a great tradition of delivering an eye candy graphic face and multimedia capability which include XBMC.
I have used Sabayon (the dream we believe in), Russian based Calculate linux has some problem with configuring Graphic cards.