Me and my humble beginning of Linux

I cannot believe that I am posting this from an elegant  Nokia (pioneer of cellphones or it was called a brick those days) cellphone and not from a dumb and dark terminal of a PC with a standard keyboard.

1. Linus Torvalds's Linux is three decades old.

2. I entered it 20 years ago, 10 years after him.

3. Thanks to the loads of books at that time including Redhat 8.

4. My first book "Using Linux,  5th Edition" by four authors, namely Jack Tackett, Steve Burnett, Rob Napier and Jeff Tranter started  the spin.

Now I am good at spinning a Googly like Mulathiran.

Cricket was my only obsession then and now total disinterest, thanks to Indian IPL, terminated by Coronavirus.

5. No waning of my interest in Linux.

Since I am winding up my blog here  by mid July, it is fitting tribute to Google for allowing me to post Linux 100 here.

6. This piece, is for those guys/girls who have learnt only a few Linux commands and did not read a book at all, but posting as WEB GURUs (really bogus guys/girls) to read how Linux community including Ubuntu Community developed the Linux enthusiasm globally.

Read my books on Linux which even describe partitioning using Partition Magic under Windows hood to begin with.

7. Thanks to Emmabantus for extending its outreach to even Africa.

8. Thanks to MultSystem from France for helping me to carry all my favourite Linux in a USB stick or SATA disk.

Of course I am still struggling with my French accent but persevering.

9. Now to nitty gritty of Linux.

10. It is truly multiuser, multitasking with full implementation of  ITP/TC protocols, which windows could not implement or handle, then.

11. I started with dumb terminal using and editing fsdisk (Caldera) and cfsdisk (Debian) and particularly Partition Droid of Redhat.

I hate dumb terminals and thanks to X-Windows for Graphic interface that I love.

12. The book had 3 CDs and it all started with this book.

13. Of course, I used Knoppix and Pendrive Linux (humble beginning on a 100 MB USB with Puppy Linux booting) extensively from Knoppix 3.9 to 7 to 8.2 on USB sticks.

I still could not download Knoppix 9 English version due to bungling of MobiTel and Dialog.

14. As a dog lover, Puppy Linux  is my ultimate favourite including FATPup in 64 bit version.

15. There were no CDs then Internet and Floppy Disks were the installation methods.

16. Linux is text based and not resource hungry and my son's first computer had only 4MB RAM and could not find another 2MB RAM extension then.

I used Debian 6 with six or seven CDs to boot it dual with Windows 95 which I hate to this day.

The book recommended 16 MB but ideally 32 MB RAM.

I still have that PC in my bedroom as a souvenir.

Windows destroyed  three or four hard disks of my office computer, with the then Dean who was a friend of mine over my shoulder.

To begin with over 40 floppies to install, taking full 8 hours.

17. Partitioning the disk either using partition magic or fdisk or partition droid was the first step.

18. It needed 64 MB  Swap and 128 MB for root files.
Rest of the MBs of a 1 GB space of my hard disk was for user partitions including home partition.

Now my SD card booted with Peppermint Linux has 32 GB (bought in Singapore).

19. It was LILO boot menu and but it became easy with with the GRUB boot loader.

20. I am into BSD using ZFS partitioning on tank structure routine on my Window's Laptop devoid of Windows but booting well to BSD only alone or Linux multiples if I desire.

21. I have Endless OS on a SATA disk but it won't dual boot with Linux.

22. I think that winds up 20 years of perseverance but not one night on 10 or less Linux commands to fiddle with in the web.
Linux has over 60,000 utilities in it's repositories but mastering a few will get your job at hand done especially with a server clouds now in operation.

I am fully retired now but with an eagle eye on what is going on.

23. What is annoying with Windows is that the operating system once installed is bare of any useful software and one has to install piece by piece often paying money.

Linux distributions have multitude of applications already installed with the first boot. 

I rarely need anymore except Abiword that is deleted due to popular LibreOffice.

24. What I like most is to run my PC over decade without losing a single file (in spite of this ability I make copies and copies of my books on preparation ) in my PC.
It is a different story with the laptop, I test and erase numerous distributions but boot with USB, often with Knoppix.

I do not format my home partition and it's files remain with same home name over and over again and the password is rarely changed a bit as a precaution.

This strategy was useful when I was busy working with lot of responsibilities  including  conducting examination under a strict protocol.

25. Other odd thing that stand out with virtual keyboard is that they have already forgotten how to use F1 to F12 function key layout.

It used to be F1 to F8 then.

26. If you need the latest in Linux subscribe to Linux Magazine and Linux Voice that comes from Germany not USA.

Poisoning Kids in Ceylon by unscrupulous Private Vendors

I was obsessed with BSD kernel and computer vendors, that I forgot to warn how guys importing sugar substituted with harmful ingredients or substances that damage the kidneys (when.taken over time) were in.wide prevalent in Ceylon.

DO NOT USE White Sugar.

They look clean but looks are deceptive in general.

The ugly looking red sugar is much better.

Only.use the dirty looking unrefined cane sugar.

That will save the kidneys and also tastes better.

All you have to do is to make a cup of tea and let it cool down  for a few minutes.

Now taste it.

From top to the bottom.

It tastes horrible the top layer.

In the middle it is awful with a strange sugary taste.

The bottom layer of the tea is sugary but not real sugar.

All three layers are contaminated with a granular stuff that does not breakdown with sucrase.

These granular stuff get deposited in the kidneys and over time damage the kidneys.

This is worse than aflatoxin which is broken down or metabolized in the liver.

The liver breaks down substances and what cannot be broken down is excreted raw by the kidneys.

This stuff is not biological but as bad as heavy metals that causes kidney disease in farmers.

The.government has a very simple and soothing explanation.

DO NOT believe.

I.have stopped adding sugar to tea over an year or more due to this nasty taste, it was one of my old time classmates who alerted to this poison much later in time scale.

Sugar is not bad for you.and your brain but what is dispensed  without proper regulatory control in Ceylon will shorten your life and may be even with dementia by Chinese margarines.

Stop using margarine for cakes (granular stuff and odd number of fatty acid containing margarines, a double whammy) but use only butter.

We are eating poisons on daily basis including arsenic in red rice and lead as paints.

Thanks to Endless OS

Thanks to Endless OS my Laptop is running  Endless OS seamlessly having erased the Microsoft's secret boot script hidden within the UEFI and it's modification written  in the ESP partition.

Booting was effortlessly easy with BIOS and I never changed the  BIOS setting of my computers.

The GRUB file is a simple command file of few MBs (one MB is more than enough) that boots the operating systems, what used to be called duel hooting.

Now the UEFI sits above the GRUB file and prevents booting an alternative distribution.

UEFI can be placed in only a 100 MB.

It is a very small bit of a terrabyte hard disk or of an external disk BUT it terrorises the Linux booting system.

Even BSD is fighting shy of the UEFI and won't boot unless one is connected to the Internet.

The mighty Big Dog, Debian also won't erase the UEFI bit but gives a crowning alliance to it.

Even Fat Dog of Puppy Linux my favourite, FatPUP does not touch the hard disk of a Microsoft Laptop but faithfully boots it from a tiny USB stick.

Five years ago using BSD over Internet I erased everything that has to do with Microsoft ( I used to call it Micro=Shaft) and booted Debian and it worked till 3 weeks ago.

I booted Ubuntu 20-10 and it reverted my booting options to Microsoft boot menu.

I tried everything including Mageia, the community distribution of Mandrake my heartthrob when I was new to Linux.

Finally I got hold of Endless OS DVD that I downloaded in 2018 but never installed in any of my hardware.

It is somewhat similar to Elementary OS which allows one to make a bootable USB.

I did not try Elementary OS on Laptop due to its small number of applications.

Little while ago I tried Elementary OS but it did not boot on my laptop.
Its version 5 is coming and hope it will have drivers for laptops at least 5 years old.

It just booted up and erased everything and booted my laptop with Endless OS.

On further investigation I found Endless of uses FAT 16 and old grub boot loader on a small FAT partition.

Debian GRUB is now loaded on a Ex4 partition and that is why it cannot bypass Microsoft's UEFI which is is probably in s FAT 32 piece.

However Endless OS, even though.slow in execution of applications has the boldness to overcome the Microsoft's hegemony in.style.

Number one it does not care for the UEFI.

It erased the UEFI and make an ESP boot partition in FAT 16 and also a tiny GRUB boot loader on a One MB partition.

Number two it does not care one has an Internet Connection.

Which is irresistible for me.

I just prefer booting from a bootable iso and add anything I miss later from the software repositories with over 60,000 applications which Microsoft can never match.

Number three it can be booted on a External SATA drive.

The lean part is it is slow compared to Linux, simply because it does not swap pages with swap partition.

Even if one has 8GB RAM that swapping pages is amazingly fast and save RAM for current work.

It took.a lot of time to upload a LibreOffice but it has saving options for many formats.
My favourite AbiWord is not found.

The LibreOffice popularity has killed an excellent command line office package doing things which LyX can do.

It does let my load it to a USB.

It does not recognize or share booting with Linux distributions.

That is my biggest grouse.

Linux has so many heavy.weight and light weight desktops and finally coming to terms with booting files from an Android phone, especially photos.

I have a special concerned about 64 bits.

There are lot of computers in Africa and India which boots 32 bit computers.

I am.in.total agreement with Linux tsar the one only Textstar before he retired.
Those computes still have shelf value doing lot of academic work in.India and Africa.

This is where Ubuntu  and its Cannonical  has left a big vacuum.

In the same vein as Endless OS, 32 bit Endless OS is a valuable resource for schools in poor countries, where they have not seen a working or refurbished computer for ages.

It might be thinking BIG with enormous applications in store and ignoring Linux is a not a simple ploy.

It might backfire in the long run.

I can.get BSD sort my problem in a few hours with Internet running and I have data package upgraded.

Linux guys (not me by the way, I support it's endeavour) will find lot of loopholes in no.time if not flame wars of old time.
With a Lockdown or total Shutdown in Kandy and without Dialog Internet Data, I managed to revive my Laptop accidentally erased.

So Thank You very much Endless OS.

It is amazingly easy to boot and install not like Linux but boot the system, not on to a desktop but to a Cellphone  or Tablet Like interface.

It allows its home partitioned to.be resized without affecting the functionality.

The tank partitioned of.BSD are fixed and won't allow resizing.

Mind you partition type is ZFS not.Ex4.

Utilities are minimal but option of adding Endless amount of Software is possible.

I.could not make a bootable USB but booting was done with DVD of 1.8 GB.

I could not write its image to a 16 GB USB.

I did not try to install it on my PC with BIOS.

I will try it's newer version when I have added data to my Winckle or Broadband.

OEM Guys and Poor Customers

This is in response to guys in the Internet who solicit a fix or fixes to the global and gullible customers.

If you ever fallen to the media hype, do not blame anybody but thyself.

OEM guys built the hype.

The next big thing on the horizon type.

Then they pocket out the big profits from the gullible and global customers.

Most of these guys have made their own mistakes in purchasing the wrong stuff.

Then as an escape route write big pieces in the Internet, not peer reviewed as such.

My advice is simple.

If you have a PC or Laptop that has outgrown your needs, give it for recycling.

Do not give it to your Granny or Aunty.

All items in this world are disposable and computers,too.

If they are doing the fundamental work but not 3 D games, keep them and use them for basic work, till  they are ready for the attic.

It is not the hardware at fault but the Windows software.

Dish Windows Out and use Linux and the Linux looks after the hardware  for decades.

That is of course if you have an attic, which I do not.

I had 13 computers (13 is a lucky mathematical number for me) fully functional while I was testing Network architecture at home.

I am a doc not a computer guy and acquired this skill in New Zealand when they went to Unix in the hospital network administration and  I saw all the pitfalls entailed , firsthand with even Unix which was platform based then.

This was even before Windows 95.

I wanted to buy a computer as the last in my shopping  list before leaving NZ and the good vendor there and my wife discouraged that effort and instead I bought an Atari game console.

The entire faculty had 8 computers then and only three could access, the Internet.

So at my pace I acquired my skills on hardware.

All of them, IBM computers with solid framework.

Cheap secondhand purchases (bought a server also for Linux testing with 128  IBM dedicated RAM and could not find another RAM for upgrades, for my office room).

So if you buy cheap or secondhand stuff once the time is out the recycling is the only way out and Ceylon does not have a policy on this important principle.

Mind you, I tried an Apple Globe, that came secondhand from Japan.

All in Japanese and no instruction book.

I booted it with a CD or USB stick with multiple Linux distributions before buying it.

I erased  the hard disk and installed Redhat 5 and it was very slow.

What a mishap I have to deal with as a Linux guy.

I think I was using Redhat 8, three or four years of uptime in Linux then, in my PC before Fedořa came in for a kill in my interest in Redhat altogether.

Within three months I lost interest in Apple, and it was a display piece far out of my reach.

I did not try BSD on it but surely it would have booted it.

As for hardware CD ROM jammed once and I could not take the CD out with its open and closed button not working.

I had to.fiddle with the CD ROM.

I tried booting Debian (3CD set) instead of Redhat (6 CD set I had misplaced somewhere but I found it one year later) and with it's  limited RAM it won't boot Debian but Debian CD warned me of its faults.

I gave it to a guy who was interested in hardware but not Linux.

He could not find an Apple bootable CD in Ceylon.

That was its life journey from Japan to Ceylon to JUNK.

Mind you, our politicians are good even importing hospital refuse including bed linen from Europe and one of them became fabulously rich.

One of them now owns a TV channel in Ceylon and ran as a presidential candidate to cover up his tax returns.

This is a country for rogues, all one has to do is to give a thumping donation to another rouge on saffron clothes and all his bad deeds are cancelled and conveniently forgiven and forgotten for good.

Thanks to Coronavirus it has put an end to these shoddy deeds.

Only cricket board is left to swindle left, right and center and we can hold even IPL in Ceylon for Indians with or without Coronavirus.

I do not buy a brand new stuff when they come to the market especially the computers.

I assemble my own to my own taste and having waited for  a few years, especially untill the prices are showing a downward trend.

By the way, the first computer for my son with 4 MiB RAM is right in front of my bed as a souvenir.

So when the time was right, I dismantled the entire network leaving only two 32 bit computers with data in them (only one with window duel booting).

Since they were secondhand stuff for testing, I did not have any special affection or affliction except the RAM total which I pull out immediately.

I keep all the RAM and a few good DVD writers and gave the rest to my vendor who has become a life long friend.

I have this connection with the pet fish vendor,too who is a very good paddy farmer.

In fact, I germinated about 20 paddy seeds, today, he gave me for experimentation.

The heavy monsoon rain pouring down might wash away the seeds to the drain,  I believe.

Then, I went for a gaming PC and a handy window box for my wife saying it is a widow box soon with Windows rapid upgrading cycles.

What it means is they are putting out untested stuff to gullible users to deal with their entire life.

This PC has multiple Linux distributions and I installed Debian 10 on the SSD two days ago.

Working fine.

I use SSD for operating system  and the  data chunks are  on IDE.

Rapid and frequent writing on SSD will shorten its shelf's value but not running or trading the system files.

Laptop is defunct due to No Data on my Wincle and Broadband.

I am incarcerated not by default but by Coronavirus paranoia and I cannot go out and pay money for extra data to download TrueOS.

Blockdown or Lockdown is operational now even in Kandy.

Berkeley Software Distribution and My OEM Laptop Hijacked by Microsoft

 Berkeley Software Distribution and My OEM Laptop Hijacked by Microsoft

 

You have to put up.with this piece which is technical but I will put it in simple English but mixed with few jargon words of computer science.

I wanted to call it " a stop" to Internet and its protocols but still, mostly I believe guys  visit my blog space, I decided to continue it bit longer but it will come to a stop eventually like a dramatic divorce case of Bill Gate but simmering it for years before, like his hopeless operating system in the name Windows.

The machines do not have emotions or brains but are dedicated to doing a particular process, like vending machines distributing soft drinks (it is software or a dedicated program in computer science).

Now my laptop has no operating system running since I accidentally erased my BSD dedicated ESP boot plan.

I was bored due to Coronavirus incarceration and decided to boot Ubuntu 20 version as a supplementary version to Debian.

It reverted my laptop to Microsoft pirated U.E.F.I. and it says there is no operating system, in spite me installing two, Debian 9 and 10 versions.

Even Debian finds shy of touching U.E.F.I.

Why?

I do not know.

? Litigation by Bill Gate cronies?

But TrueOS a BSD version does it in a flash and takes over the computer under its umbrella.

TrueOS is totally.destructive in the hands of a newbie.

To complicate the matter I pulled out the Ethernet Wire and burned it (a few broken parts and I do not have a crimpler to connect the working lengths).

I decided to go WiFi and pulled the Ethernet  wire of the router.

My bed room is 80 feet Ethernet wire distance away and pulling in a costly wire is not healthy at my age with thunderstorms day and night.

TCP/IP and router protocol will be at the end of this piece.

I used my Dialog data in a few hours downloading Knoppix which stopped exactly at 30% of download,  not once but twice due to Our Internet Master Ad-Monster interfering with my download well pass midnight.

He may have had a paranoia that I was downloading PORN.

Now coming to BSD and TrueOS are actually internet protocols dedicated Operating Systems and one need an active Internet Connection for installing live.

It was five years ago I boot loaded the laptop with BSD using Ethernet connection wire but now it can do that by WiFi and it detected all my carriers but with the data blocked by Dialog (they only want money nothing but no service supercharge or temporary extension), I have to eat a humble pie or is it a lie like Boris Johnson in UK.

Mind you our Water Bill is more than the Internet Bill with a broken pipe leaking for one month or so without our notice.

Thankfully they did not disconnect the water unlike Telecoms.

Mind you, I have stopped answering the land phone or giving any calls.

Only one news, Coronavirus and Coronavirus comes through it.

Now to the technical stuff.

BSD is platform independent unlike Unix and is a Internet Protocol dedicated system.

If internet is out it is out of service.

1. BSD is platform or computer independent.
It does not matter what operating system you use, an expensive Apple or inexpensive supercharged Linux.

2. It is Internet protocol dedicated.

3. It uses Virtual Memory handsomely.

4. Its software programs are super fast unlike Microsoft.

5. But its learning curve is deep if you are using the Black Terminal.

6. It has a graphic Vi Editor for Ex terminal editor of Unix.

I hate black terminal to soothing graphic terminals.

Linux has soothing Desktops and Plasma is my current favourite.

BSD has only one Lumina desktop which is a  bad start for me.

7. Its handling of ESP is pretty good and erases the UEFI of Microsoft's OEM ploy in seconds without any fear or favour.

8. Its software bundle is lean and fits into a CD not.a DVD.
The rest of the software is in the Internet, now popularly and affectionately known as the cloud.

9. Its server version is slim.

10. It is FREE or freely distributable.

No copyright charges like Apple.

11. It is Unix variant and not Linux variant.

It has teething problems with Linux.

12. It has all the big programming languages like Perl, Ruby, the  Anaconda version, venerable  the Python.

I am still looking for a Python.programing book, nearly three years.

I will stop at this. the next number is my favourite mathematical number 13.

Like Java Beans the operating system should be platform independent.

Hardware manufacturers should not have roadblocks.

It is OK for Apple, since it supervises its own hardware.

Microsoft does not put money on O.E.M. or hardware development but secretly insinuate U.E.F.I.

Its surface tab is a failure in front of Androids.

T.C.P. and I.P.

When I wrote a book about Internet  many moons ago it had 6 (SIX) or so Engineering protocols and of looks like they are merging some of them.and making 4 layers.

1. Data Link Layer with uniform standards or protocols.

2. T.C.P. or the Transfer protocol.

3. I.P. or the dedicated IP address protocol

4. System or hardware based Application protocols providing services.

What happened to the topmost layers?

Eaten up by the Cloud servers or the D.o.D (Department of Defense) protocols of Facebook and Twitter.

I think the CIA has outsourced top two layers  of its services to Facebook and Twitter and earn money in the process.

What a profitable plan?

I always believed in this strategy and that is why I stopped using them long time ago.

One Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox are putting restrictions on users and are waiting to suck in dollars and pounds.

Me telling, Good Bye to Internet after 20 years is easy.

IT protocols were owned by big companies in the beginning and the Internet blossomed as an educational.platform.

BSD from California Berkeley did a yeoman service in the beginnings for services to available in.the universities worldwide.

It has gone through the full circle and back to big companies.

Now money only speaks and big companies have a stranglehold on millions of minions.

That is called development and in Ceylon a software is used by Army to snooze on us.

I have nicknamed this software as the proboscis the mosquito use it to suck our living blood.

Interestingly, the name of the software start with a P.

There is an appropriate slang or vulgar word starting with P in Sinhala.

What a coincidence?

Plight of Indians

I feel sorry for the Indians.

Their masters wanted them to be the global.work force and won't have simple travel insurance, leave alone medical.insurance.

For the ruling class they are the "Vote Bank" and soon forgotten, till the next general election.

It is true for Ceylon, too.


The Coronavirus exposed the global human falliability.

This piece is not about that but about Tuberculosis.

Even the majestic Wholly Mammoth, I believe succumbed to this disease.

Unlike Coronavirus, the tuberculous infection effects all organs except teeth.

In the elephant it is the tusks that escape tuberculous destruction.

Viral infections especially measles lower the innate immunity and exposes the vulnerable kids to the tuberculous pandemic.

Now the Coronavirus pandemic raises the possibility of this tuberculous pandemic in India, Ceylon and African subcontinent due to poorly tailored vaccination programs.

BCG vaccination has gone into oblivion in some countries, including America and Europe.

Most of the domestic and lower paid immigrants coming from to developing countries will spread tuberculosis all over the world albeit after a little lull.

These immigrants are partially immune to tuberculosis but Coronavirus hit exposes them.to pneumonia caused by tuberculosis.

It takes six to eight weeks of Koch's postulate to confirm tuberculosis which none of these countries have laboratories equipped with media to grow but PCR technology now we have may be useful with some modifications.

There are many tuberculosis variants species.specific to fish to elephants to dogs to cat family.

There are also anonymous mycobacteria, too.

One of my teachers in bacteriology (virology was non.existent then) who developed a PhD thesis in anonymous tuberculosis (probably animal variant crossing species like Chinese animal Coronavirus) may have been a culprit.

His thesis was rejected fearing loss of chance to go abroad (Indians and Ceylonese never return after foreign sojourns).
He said these university guys are psychopaths and became a psychiatrist in Australia.

With his five children I never saw him but I am told his kids are doing better than his father.

Incidentally, his house was sold to our Wijeevira and police was after him thinking he was a JVP guy.

That put his entire family off of Ceylonese Origin.

When all intellectuals leave this.country mediocre guys take the rein including our cricket.

The credible gap.of WHO wide open now.

Shoddy Telecom Service Carriers of Ceylon and Knoppix V9 Version

Coronavirus brings boredom to home, I decided to download  Knoppix Version 9.

It is a classic DVD with ton of applications and a very very beautiful desktop which Microsoft Windows will never be able match in spite of its global commercial  hype.

The Coronavirus had hit Microsoft developers, too.

Knoppix is 4.3 GiB image but compressed tightly.

Unfortunately, I pulled out the entire 80 feet long and old Ethernet wire that connected to my PC over the roof.

It was damaged and I will not rewire it again but decided to Go Broadband in Ceylon Style.

It was a very big mistake.

At night at 30% of the image downloaded it FROZE twice.

One was Dialog Wincle  and the other was Dialog Broadband.

I used to get all the DVDs with my Linux Magazine but I stopped subscribing since in my.retirement, Linux takes a second place to Android phones in my priority and especially Nokia my favourite.

The cellphone saves lot of electricity bill which.the PC consumed to read an email.

In fact, nobody uses emails  which is very cheap compared to video conferencing which.is in.vogue currently till another application hits the market.

The HiFi video games bores me. compared.to simple games including solitaire card games.

Luckily I have large number of USB sticks with multiple Linux distributions installed in them and there was hardly any development during Coronavirus pandemic  except Kernel 5 development to which I have no contribution.

It will be out soon and I won' t buy a new gadget to test the Kernel.

I will leave it to Linus Torvalds.

Mind you, Apple is coming our with a new chip and it is banned for Chinese use  and the China' s goal to dominate the industry is in doldrums for the time being.

That is good and I hate cheap  Chinese duplicate that only last one year or less.

Only discarded cheap.stuff of China comes from Singapore outlets.

Do not buy cheap stuff and go through  the consequences.

This applies to.Korea, too.

China should work on democracy and not  flooding.the global.markets with imitation stuff and Australia and EU applying pressure on China is pretty good.

Unfortunately, Boris Johnson's dream of Brexit and enticing China to export cheap products to.UK will not come true (to fill UK with Cheap China products).

The poor Chinese workers' wellbeing is neglected in UK.

That is how UK democracy works.

President Putin is fully geared to take a credible lead in the Coronavirus Vaccine with Latin America in the grips of becoming the Communist's administrators nightmare!

Coming to downloads both for no reason the threads stopped the downloading in early phase not even 30% downloaded.

Why?

Guys and Girls are downloading PORN in Ceylon daily but this flow is not for an ardent  Linux guy who loves to test a new image in.evolution.

The server is frozen at a particular MIB or GiB.

Arbitrary decision.of the server administrator in Ceylon to save bandwidth to gullible users of PORN including priests who do not want laymen and women with Dhana to come to temples but FREE internet.

Mind you I have paid over Rs.5000/= for the broadband and did not download a single file till I tried Knoppix V9.

I am going to take the Broadband gadget and crash it on the floor of the Dialog Center in Kandy in broad daylight.

Thankfully, the Coronavirus pandemic prevents me doing that for the time being.

Good on them, the Coronavirus.

They are sucking every penny or cent from the poor users.

About Telecom no better  and  my call bill over Rs5000/= plus taxes and it's ringing tone had a irritating Buzz as an insect is piecing my ear.

I went and bought a new receiver thinking.the old one was.faulty but it magnified the BUZZ or the irritation in my ear.

Their ploy is to entice the guys and girls with fiberoptics along  with a fat bill but won't service the land lines.

The previous receiver had three  AAA batteries to record the caller and flash capability.

The current receiver with no batteries, and the Telecoms should provide the default  power supply of the line.

I have told all my friends after the new year celebrations, I will not call to put down on my TAX bill on calls and this BUZZ was a blessing in disguise that I terminate the call, with a triple message of KANAWA, BONAWA and RENEWA and nothing else to SAY.

Of course, the last word I do not pronounce but get the listener or the caller to guess.

Mind you, I had a Rs.150,000/= bill paid and my son had downloaded  over one hundred  thousand downloads, in a month with its PEO TV service.

They are SUCKERs and I told my son many months later the fat bill I paid.

They should have warned but never did.

My son got the message in good stead.

Like Kevin TV is his life but programs are very poor now with loads of advertisement which he deletes by reflex action.

Lot of AAA batteries consumed but I bought him rechargeable batteries and two rechargers.

With power down with.thunderstorms  I do not have to water my plants but had a rainwater bath not from gutters but straight from the sky.

Mind you, it not safe with lightening.

They will hit you before the rain and Chun Pan guys should be mindful of the lightening.

Why I hate Microsoft and Bill Gate

 Why I hate Microsoft and Bill Gate

Windows is a shoddy operating system and resource hungry where my first computer with 2 MiB RAM could not handle Win 95 but I used Debian 6 with over 6CDs could do a better job then.
Later I migrated to Redhat since there were many books written from Redhat 7 onwards.

Then ofcourse, Caldera, Debian and Mandriva and still later Knoppix took me to New Heights in Linux.

About Mr. Bill Gate I have nothing personal to say and his divorce probably is good for both.

Hanging onto a breaking relationship is nerve racking to any human being.

I hope both do some productive work on their own volition.

My grouse with him is his ploy with manufacturers to insinuate OEM hardware with  BOGUS MEFI (it was named Unified Framework but I used M for Microsoft here for his personal.Babe) or framework interface was an atrocious business plan to stifle Linux users.

I do not have to take permission from Bill Gate to use open source Linux in my laptop initially installed with Microsoft Windows.

It does not let me use legacy BIOS and still have a UEFI script hidden in the memory or within the hardware architecture of the OEM portion.

Simple method to overcome this ploy is to stick a SD of at least 32 GiB and install the boot loader there.

UEFI won't let you use legacy GRUB to boot multiple Linux distributions.

I have now tried Linux ESP partition to bypass UEFI blocking mechanism.

If OEM guys says no boot medium even after having installed a Linux.distribution, this is what you have to do.

1. Download BSD TRUE OS DVD, Debian DVD 1 and Genome Partition (GPT) iso CD.

2. Install TRUE OS and it virtually takes over the Disk Drive of your laptop.

3. Unfortunately it does not let you boot any other distribution.

4. Boot GPT partition disk.
Delete the tank partition of BSD leaving only the ESP partition which the TRUE OS had created.

Then.partition the disk.with Ex-4 or BTRS partitions.

5. Mount Debian DVD and install.

You.have the option of using the unused part of the hard disk but remember to.mount ESP partition (but do not format the  ESP lest partition.details are erased).

There is a very simple solution, if the Microsoft Media is not bootable.

1. Buy a mounted SATA disk and attach it to the Laptop.
One terabyte is cheap now.
I sometime go.to.Singapore and do my usual shopping and see offers for about a week and by all.the stuff one third the price in Ceylon.
Now Coronavirus has put a stop to it.

Coming.back to the external SATA disk one partition it they way one likes it.

Ultimately install a Linux distribution to boot from.while attached to the laptop.

The GRUG boot loader will detect the distributions unbootable from the laptop and boot them via the external disk.

One can.use a SD card or USB but installing  a distribution in a tightly packed USB is slow and may break down.in.the middle  of the installation.

That problem one does not encounter with a one terabyte external disk.

I have used my innovative methods to erase OEM blocking ploy with BSD and then to install Debian thereafter.

Unfortunately even Ubuntu gives up and succumb to UEFI ploy and it destroyed my booting options.

Only BSD does erase everything and install ESP partition.

Not even Debian can handle it.

Internet, Service Sector and Chun Pan

I think that the current government's thinking and psychosis is that once the people are given Chun Pan or Bread Service, eveythimg falling to place.

I am trying to download Knoppox V9 English version and it take 12 hours with amazingly fast Internet.

All Internet service providers are hopelessly SLOW.

There is total Inertia of the Government Sector hiding behind the Coranavirus Pandemic.

It's management failure is showing with the ( I call it ) fourth surge.

One was hidden during the parliamentary election.

In other words, election was held in the thick of an epidemic.

Thankfully we did not go as bad as India but the current surge is unpredictable and going in that direction.

I have written about it enough but the Service Inertia is the current topic in this piece.

I am waiting to get my National Identity Card for over one year and it looks like it will never come.

I suppose one should leave a small slit at my funeral site to POKE it IN when it finally arrives.

It is not a POKER game for me but the government is very good with its POKER FACE.

I want to be a piece of statistics after my demise not only during elections.

I suppose they should hold the provincial council elections and make the pandemic ever progressing towards our funeral sites.

The Government Service has become a bloody joke except for the service of Grama Niladharis.

Samurdhi Niladharis are utter POLITICAL waste of both in human and in economic terms.

By the way, everybody hates the Samurdhi Niladharis.

They do not have the versatility of Grama Niladharis.

Postal service is doing a reasonable job with all the attended risks, to the postmen who deliver the service.

It has become a boom time for Pizza Hut with home deliveries and expanded scope of delicacies.

But one cannot survive only on Pizza.

Kos and Polus are rare entities, now but there is no one to cook them, if they arrive at the doorstep.

Fish monger has become a pest especially because we have become eggo vegetarians.

Without eggs we will have vitamin deficiencies if not Bari Bari or berryberi syndrome.

The government is in total Bari Bari Role except for selling prime national assets.

It is China Time and China Town in Ceylon now.

Police of course take the brunt of the current situation but army gets the credit and air force gets field training shuttling bigwigs.

They are ALWAYS in the air (of course it is an air borne virus with all the risks attended cramped into the cockpit) fearing mass gathering and Coranavirus exposure.

USB Booting Linux

Please go to source forge and  download Multisystem DVD and boot multiple Linux distribution in your USB.

It prepares it's files in a flash.

Most Linux distribution except Debian support this utility.
For Debian way out is to use Peppermint or PCLinux and use USB image creator.

USB capacity should be minimum 8GiB.

Currently I am using my laptop to download  BSD and Knoppix V9 English version.

Dongle or Tingle takes over 6 hours to download Knoppix V9.

It is amazingly fast in Ceylon.
It is on French but press F2 to get English as instructions for preparing the USB.
I usually go to sleep but with thunderstorms blackouts are real possibility.
Unlike the PC the battery save my time.

I paid over Rs.5000/= for Dialog and it's Broadband WiFi is never an activated and I have gone to Hutch.

I believe (I may be wrong)Indian AirTel gives it bandwidth to Hutch to cover Ceylon.

So if MobiTel and Dialog cannot provide which service somebody else fills the space.

Read my article on space dimension here and it is all physics which these money guys and girls will not understand.

They are now fighting for space or airspace now.

Money is the reason!

There were few lines on Linux by few guys who use Linux rarely or experimentally.

This comes from a guy who used Puppy Linux from a USB stick of only 100 MiB many moons ago.

The addiction that it caused me was total and I have not yet recovered.

For some good reason Debian my favourite Linux Distribution does not support USB in general.

Linux guys are hard+born and do not want to stay on 10 or so commands and Vim VimP are for hard-born guys not the light hearted.

I started with Knoppix CD and it was used initially by some dental practitioners to keep their patient data (I have a copy of that CD in my archive but never used it. I am a medical guy who worked in the Dental Faculty and helped in developing the Linux Samba Network instead of Windows) compact.

Last Linux from Karl Knopp that comes from Germany is 9 and it is in German and I am waiting for its English Edition.

This Coranavirus in Germany, I believe hampered English translation.

By the way, Knoppix 8.6 in We English is fine for me.

It's beauty is, it detects 32 bits and 64 bit machines automatically.

Coming to Puppy that comes from Australia, I call him Barry Cooler (forgets his name visit my pieces on puppy Linux in here) who is a dog lover.

His name is Barry Kauler (2003 to 2013).

He retired in 2013 and Wof Wof came into existence.

It was in 32 bits and was a small and there was a BionicPup developed by a follower.

Ultimately it came in 64 bit.
They are Ubuntu based.

All are pretty good.

I have not used Ubuntu (Debian derivative) for sometime and it had good USB support.

Peppermint is light and cool.

I have have thrown away Red hat and Fedora hat for good due to their commercial bent.

Same is true for Sussie but was a great KDE desktop.

But Debian's KDE plasma is elegant and consumes less memory.

But Linux 5 kernel from Linus will rule the globe when it finally comes out.

Because of my heavy work commitments I gave up following latest except Debian, Knoppix and Puppy.

Thanks to all the guys who use Linux and all the developers who put many human hours.
I am bit like Star of PCLinux who retired after 64 bit came in (he did not want to spend his free time on developing Kernel for UEFI support of Microsoft OEM guys) but I persevered with new machines.

I not going to buy a fancy new machine and kernel 5 developments.

Just leave it to Linus in America.

Buddha,Buddha Sassana Pocchi and Buddha Sassana Paddikkama or Spittoon

Let me start with Apoptosis to begin with.

When a leaf comes to the end of its working period, it falls off under the tree and disappears into elements and startimg again the cycle again.

This cell cycle is finite (unlike Samsara) and only 50 cycles.

But it goes on almost endlessly in the living plants.

The cycle repeats not with the same pipal tree (Bo tree is essentially a parasitic tree that won't let any other tree goes under it but a Na tree can be a parasite on a parasite) but a different tree which has left a seed or sapling nearby, waiting for an opportunity to arise.
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Plant ecosystem is a grandiose being.
It inhabit this planet in spite of the global warming scenario and constantly changing and adapting.

It needs four elements, the earth, the water (the most important), the air and the heat (not fire) or the energy.

The energy element is the driving force where it constantly fire the engine that starts from our sun's sunstroms.

Energy does not remain static but changes to another subtle form constantly.

Now Buddha is gone but he has left a theme of four elements.

Suffering.
The cause of sufferings due to constant change.
The path to end of suffering
And "the end of suffering" is to end the 50 cell cycles of an animal being (not plant beings).

I have named most of my plant pots with a name.

One of them is named Buddha Sassana Pocchi or pot with a reason.

I have replanted a single paddy seed in a Pocchi or POT, of a special kind of paddy seed, as a part of my unique seed paddy experiment.

It is looked after with some reverence, hence the attached name.

My effort is to find a paddy seed that resist high temperatures and grow like a grass seed with minimal of support and without a muddy field but on a terrestrial point.

If I am successful in this task or endeavour before I kick the bucket, with end of my 50th cell cycle, it will appear in a book form.

Now the This Buddha Sassana Pocchi is the Dhamma that Buddha had left for us to fathom, for endless life cycles or Samsara.

It has four elements and nothing more.

The Paddikkama or the Spittoon is the The numerous TV channels in Ceylon, that dish out various form of concocted new elements beyond the original forms addressed by Buddha himself.

These Channels make money by buying donations from New Guys/Girls who enwrapped their claims to Dhamma ecstasy.

It is a money spinner for guys who bought these bandwidths damn cheap, 2 decades ago.

They are dispensing their own copyrighted messages.

These guys built up, 'not so credible images* for them to Travel to America to dish out their editions of pseudo-dhamma for money (means air ticket, the temple-like hotels and the food to go with) ad nauseatum!

The gullible American guys and girls take these sermons without any caution but with utmost respect.

That is where the problems rise.
Critical analysis is not forthcoming from American new converts.

In my opinion yhey are to be discarded like spit or sputum, now that Coranavirus is rollicking in USA.

The Paddicuma or Spittoom is the right receptacle for these bogus claims of Dhamma.

There is no other choise.

Failure of Federal Systems

Failure of Federal Systems

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How is WHO responding to this new immigration mafia?

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

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

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

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

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

The remaining stock will bounce back in a generation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ceylon will be a classic example.

America has to be much wiser to come out unscathed.

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

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

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

SONY
JVC
HITACHI
SANYO
TOYOTA
 

Some of the household names of noteworthy names.

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

It fails miserably.

Without a central organizational network, the system fails.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

India chose a semi-federal system and it failed.

Of course the Great India fractured into four  with independence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That is the exchange of ginger for chilies.

Both not palatable when raw.

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

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

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

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

NO.

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

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

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

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

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

Very unlikely.

But Coronavirus has shown the fallibility of the human race.

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

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

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

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

We are the guinea pigs.

Hope this piece will take you out from Corona Fatigue.

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

Kanawa

Bonawa

Renewa

Vena Karanna Deyak Nae Ne!

Human Failures, Human Fragility, Human Error and General Failure of the Federal Systems

I am going to have a SWIPE at every aspect or corner of human endeavour, including military in Myanmar and Ceylon and more particularly the Medical Profession, both Public and Private.

The Ceylon Medical Council's role and attitude is to mass produce under prepared graduates, perhaps as an export commodity (Read my piece here on CMC).

Our indigenous Veda Ralas are no better than Wanniye Atthoes of Bintenna promoting their Panis or Penix (all sucrose from sugar grass or cane sugar) where Bee Honey is non existent except at Bintenna.

Mind you, Bee Honey is an essential component of traditional medicine to overcome the bitterness of Gulis and Kasayas.

Let me take the military first.

We have the biggest army per capita population and they have a defense academy with a Medical Faculty.

Why?

For export, nothing but.

What military needs is a few dental surgeons who can detect officers faking illness.

I know even an officer fears a dental surgeons with armory of tools that an average dental surgeon will have in their possession but rarely or never use (They use this armor as a defensive tactics to deter malingerers, including, the three armed forces).

I as a medical person has an aversion to drillers the dental surgeons use fearing they piece my cribriform plate and enter my brain from a vulnerable entry point.

I have personally diagnosed a meningitis case in UK, of a young man under 15, who was fiddling with a knife, saying he could swallow it without injuring his mouth but hit the cribriform plate and the English GP failed to open the mouth and examine, dripping CSF from his mouth and waited till he was paralysed on one side to call an emergency admission to the hospital where I worked as a paid locum.

I had a SWIPE at that medical guy, knowing that I would never become a permanent Resident Physician  in UK.

There were many other incidents like MRCP guy failing to diagnosis a rollicking appendicitis and a surgeon who missed a intussusceptum in spite me saying it in my bald hand writing, in the (nothing but intussusceptum) bed head ticket.

Army needs a medical officer only once, during the initial medical screening before recruiting a guy and only a dental surgeon afterwards.

So having a Medical Faculty under army is a colossal wastage of resources when one need in Coronavirus is an astute PHI (not the entire army taking over the Public Health) with previous exposure to AIDS patients, ideally a prostitute (very difficult to consult a prostitute for origin of the infection and one may even, find a sitting British Cabinet Minister in the process)

By the way, history repeats itself in UK.

As a young man emerging as a doctor John Profumos resignation, sex scandals and prostitution in Soho are still vivid in my memory.

There was UK conservative PM who was a paedophile while in office.

That may be a reason for my aversion to all politics here and abroad.

I went to Soho once and found that place was infested with male homosexuals which I hated then and now but looking back LGBT can change governments in USA and I did not realize that both male and female homosexuality was a vogue in evolution and a cabinet minister resigning then, not getting a promotion, "as is now" in nowadays, just a formality, (It was a human error, then in my part).

I visited Raymond parlour twice and that was of course a bit of eyewash for porn industry.

I have many reasons to add when a guy asks me why I did not settle abroad, either in UK or down under New Zealand.

This country Ceylon is no different and evolving fast with Chinese prostitutes riding high (not Hong Kong Chinese with English dialect) with pure Chinese dialect.

These Chinese prison convicts erecting building here and in a future day when they collapse the political guys who signed the deeds have long gone into extinction.

Have anybody done a survey of their projects collapsing?

At the time of the emergence of Coronavirus several buildings in China collapsed and were visible from aerial surveys and China has built buildings covering buildings and their cemeteries.

I think Coronavirus patients were forced to work on these projects and some of their bodies are buried deep under these collapsed buildings.

In autocratic countries *Truth Never Comes Out * is clear and evident.

Now I believe in humans there is no need for dialect when money and sex are exchanged even in this Buddhist enclave where priests are confirmed homosexuals no different whether they are male or female.

Some meditation centres in this country have lost credence since international criminals with no proper passport credentials live and evade arrest.

They live in meditation ecstasy induced by ICE.

The Chinese culture is well known on probing plants with ecstacy components.

They are in a different piece (feel good hormones).

Down under New Zealand where I terminated my foreign surjohns was no different for homosexuality and 'it is a norm" but not an abnormality or sexual deviation.

I missed a case ( my colleague,too) of deed, deep large rectal abscess.
His presentation was hip and knee pains, (now I know referred rectal pain).

I forget to consider him a homosexual and I did not put my finger in through his arsxx.

If you do not put your finger in one has to put one's foot in was a standard medical quip.

Of course it burst through his back and he had several deep cuts on his back and could not put his face up.for six weeks ( I left New Zealand before his full recovery).

In a different vein I believe Coronavirus spreads fast in a culture where homosexuality is promoted.

It is an enterovirus to begin with in China but now has transformed fully to a fully fledged respiratory mode of spread.

UK and USA are good examples and France may be bit lagging  behind but catching up fast due to soccer, certainly not due to.cricket (except Ceylon of course).

Current surge of Coronavirus is also due, thanks to the military buses used for transporting contacts, instead of using proper ambulance services looked after by allied health officials.

I have a funny feeling that our medical guys, girls and allied sciences guys would have loved this scenario unfolding, where the contact and first exposure was those of navy, military guys and police in particular taking the burden of contacting their civilians relations or kith and kin.

We say that "Donkey should not do the dogs barking to alert the danger of Coronavirus spread in this country".

Stupid Education Minister opening the schools in a hurry added salt to the injury.

The whole public service failed in this country by succumbing to to the military overtures.

They should have quoted the misadventures in Myanmar as an example.

Anyway, too late for excuses.

What one need is a central agency of public and private health officials putting their heads together in a pandemic.
This was not allowed to evolve.

Army jumped the gun of glory.

Doctors started well with the initial initiative and the medical guy was grafted and shunted out in quick succession, in military style of action, with a pseudo promotion.

The WHO with shoddy deals with China abrogated it's responsibility 2 years ago.

President Biden should not support WHO but should support the global development of a  viable, preferably an oral vaccine like Poliomyelitis, if we are to turn round the corner.

Not an intramuscular injection which all the kids fear.

India with a Federal Government failed.

Mind you Indian Subcontinent was divided into four with independence, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir and India to begin with.

I think Kashmir was where Buddha's clan lived but not a single Buddhist left there now, thanks to Muslim Invaders.

White House, Federal Agency and 52 States in America failed to stem the tide but my thanks to Donald Trump for invigorating American Industry.

He woke up the industry to re-engineer the Ventilator industry and computer generated antigens for vaccination protocols.

I do not think Biden should get the credit but he is doing awfully well until a mishap in vaccination program, an year from now do speak a different story.

This is all evolving and nobody can be sure of the outcome.

My gut feeling is we won't be able hamstring this Smart Virus with many crowns on its head.

A bleak but real scenario!

All current kings, queens and dictators (Brazil in particular) have to bow low to this King Virus with mutations, left, right and center.

Forget (leave it to Ceylon) the PPE but UK an industrial country cannot manufacture a ventilator.

What an advance society?

The European Union is nothing but s farce originated from Belgium kings of yore who vandalized most (Germans having a hand) of Africa and also allowed the spread of AIDS in Africa and world over.

The Coronavirus making havoc in Africa much worse than Forest Fever or Ebola or AIDS.

One line for Private Medical institutions in Ceylon and the vocabulary of Public Health does not exist even for money in their record books and they shun vaccinations.

Where is that medical guy who wanted a private medical school for his kith and kin in Negambo or nearby?

They somehow circumvent the patients' priority based  on money and most institution do not follow public health protocols in the waiting rooms that stretched over 24 hours.

When I was doing administrative work in the private sector I used to get over 100 complaints a day (mind you I introduced it covering even the kitchen facilities).

Human failure, Human error, Leading the Title comes from that experience.

We in Ceylon tried to introduce under aegis of RAW a Federal Administration to the North, in a tiny country like ours.

If that became a success, Tamils in Jaffna would have been inundated by Coronavirus if Thlaimanmar or Park's Straight was open to free traffic from India, including ICE and hashish.

Mind you in the height of LTTE activities, with the window of opportunity given to us by LTTE (they escorted us to a safe region) we visited bordering Walikanda and it's Hospital.

To my horror million's worth of anesthetic and surgical instruments were lying idle.

They failed to train anaesthetists, then and even now there is a shortfall.

Mind you, medical guys recently passed out now are both avoiding public health and emergency care appointments.

Safety First initiative in practice.

There will be a drop in registration for Medical and Dental practice.
I wanted them to be curtailed due to money spent training a guy or girl and losing them to a Western country.

Over 30 guys recruited and sent to Japan for training, from the Dental School did not come back and  I told, the then dean and he shrugged his shoulders in affirmative.
Two under my care never returned from overseas training but I did not spend much time with them anyway, knowing the outcome.

Not a healthy scenario in the defense academy but the new tecruits will jump at the overseas appointments with our army giving security to them abroad.

What a luxury?

That is why Aurvedic guys are having a rosy time in Ceylon, now.

At least Coranavirus had no barriers to religion, ethnicity or language or geography.

Now we have a "not so level playing guy" at the helm and smoothening this guy's work at heart and lung is an amazingly difficult task.

I think Coranavirus is a terrible blessing in disguise and even many Gods (including Western God of Unity) in India are currently succumbing.

If they had Provincial Councils and devolved  Medical Services the fate of India would have followed the Northern Provinces by default but not their own design or objective.

That is an opinion of mine, in spite of many reservations I have for our health industry both public and private.

The training is hopelessly inadequate.

Slowly but surely human fragility is insinuating the the health industry.

Time has come to be honest and be integrated rather than separated which Muslims want us to be and Tamils should not swallow the bitter pill.

They want global Islam nothing but and using Tamils language as their platform currently but write from right to left in Arabic which is alien to Hindu and Sanscript scripts.

This piece does not reflect the numerous honest guys and girls who do their best under trying conditions be that may be medical or non-medical service industry.

But they are in the minority when money and power speak and strangle the system.

Mind you I have not registered myself for 20 years and a simple civilian guy now with courage to speak out not in death bed like Canadian defense minister and Armstrong  in his 80s (removing the the truth covering layers or untruth).

The truth of Coronavirus will come out a century or two later.

By then, the damage is done and global survival from  climate change is in its downward trend.

That speaks volumes and the planet cannot take the strain of population explosion and a remedy is on the horizon.

What a master stroke?

Debian 10.9.0- Buster Download and Instal on USB

This is posted by WiFi from a mobile broadband.
I do not want to name the service provider but I use Internet well past midnight, especially when I download a Linux image over 4.5 GiB.

Being a holiday or Back Poya day, I thought of using my dongle to download the iso image to my laptop which was given long Coranavirus respite.

I am using Debian KDE plasma and it does not show me the download speed but my rough calculation is 250 MiB in one hour.

So it is roughly 8 hour waiting to see the first of the 3 DVDs.
Luckily after midnight the download went up smoothly.

I hope I can install that in a USB stick.
Of course I have to erase the previous Debian 10.0.0 iso in the USB.

I have two Debian images installed in laptop after erasing the Microsoft Windows.

I could not erase Microsoft using Linux but used BSD for that purpose.

The Microsoft UEFI SCAM with OEM guys I have bypassed using my own techniques long before ESP partitioning was available.

This broadband is a Big Joke.

I warn you never to use Internet access and facilities while installing.

Pull out the Ethernet Wire even when the service provider says, it is lighteningly fast.

It is only a service gimmick and dongle or winkle is a farce.

I pulled out the Ethernet Wire nearly 80 feet long running over our roof which was defective due to over 12 years of exposure to elements ( I burned it leaving a small piece to check its internals but I do not have a crumpler to plug connecting pieces).

It, the Ethernet Wire did serve me well with my PC, now temporarily retired, with superb download speeds with over 300 Linux distribution downloads, now all retired except the Debian.

The cellphone has killed the Linux and Pine is still not available in Ceylon and the nifty new distribution for cellphone's, based on Ubuntu is one year away.

Well Debian is coming out with its 11 series  and I am not going to buy a new PC or laptop to install and test it.

But young guys should support Linus now in America and the New Desktop is going to beat both Apple and Microsoft.

Long Live Linux and it's community.

This wish goes to Ubuntu, too.

Running Update on Installation.

1. Use your laptop and make sure the battery is fully charged.

2. But connect the power plug for security.

3. Go to Debian site and download the 32 (obsolete) or  64 iso DVD for AMD, AMR or whatever.

4. There are 3 DVDs but I use only the first DVD.

5. Image is compressed and extract it to a download folder

6. Write the image to a DVD.
I usually prepare two DVDs.

One for me and one for friends who request me installing it and demonstration.

Ome is kept in my archive of Linux images.

7. Run the DVD.
You must set your BIOS or boot options to CD (USB first in my case).

8. Use the graphic installation don't try to be smart.

9. Use your language selection French or English or Greek.

No Sinhala or Tamil by the way.

10. Confirm root and user password.

11. When asked for installation say yes to use the entire disk or USB.

I partition the hard disk to over 12 or more  partitions  and that process is painful.

12. It uses ESP (UEFI boot option) and 6 more partition including SWAP space.

My USB is 16 GiB and over 9 GiB is my home partition.

It has 3.7 Python.
Linux kernel is 4.19.0.16, the latest STABLE.

Base installation is fast.

But I asked for all desktops on Tasktel request.

Use one or two desktops if you want a fast installation.

There are over 2000 files if you ask for all desktops and it takes few hours, if you ask for all.

I go to sleep and when I wake up it is all ready to use.

I kept my old 10.0.0.0 and 10 plus copies in my laptop and boot the USB for showoffs.

Event Horizon and Expanding Universe

I haven't written something on New Physics for sometime.

I may edit this if new insight creeps into my physics mind.

We were obsessed with Coranavirus and George Floyd's case and we were taxing our brain on menial, subtle and emotional things that lead to the global depressive attitude and amnesia.

Diverting it with global warming and putative counteractive measures is scientifically obtruse, since we have gone beyond the point of recovery or redemption because of our inherent greed and stupidity.

This entry on physics will put you in different  perspective and a totally bizarre introspection.

Of course it is my perspective in physics and attacking current theoretical physics into non existence is my intention.

I believe Americans never walked on moon with the antecuated technology in 1968.

It was a drama created on cinema to divert the attention of the world of astrocities in Vietnam.

Well done America on television screen in black and white.

America has produced beautiful films in colour but using black and white pictures was a bit of stain on the film industry of America even in 1960s.

We know that our universe is expanding or retrieving from us, thanks to Edwin Hubble and his discovery of red-shift of light.

Now my title expanding universe and the event horizon are not complementary but exactly opposite scenarios.

Event horizon is the theoretical extension of the visible universe to us and our instruments.
To believe universe does not exist beyond that observation point is a wrong theoretical premise which physics should answer with conviction.

What we cannot observe does not exist is a wrong premise like believe in non existing gods (of course I believe universe is infested with many bizarre biological agents including aliens, other than humans).

With the expanding universe, a bit of our galaxy is hurrying away from us in every nanosecond.

This will end and we will have no matter or space left for us to hold onto, in the present point of our existence..

Nothing existing scenario at the point of me standing now including me due to biological reasons but physical reasons or physics should theoretically be present or existing, if extinction has not supervened my theoretical perspective.

In other words the event horizon cease to exist.

What next, then?

Now one has to go back to my previous discussion where I explore space or empty space of our imagination cannot exist but some energy occupying every available space, come into play here.

The event horizon we lost  theoretically a moment ago is taken over by another Galaxy or Universe which we cannot see now will occupy this space and create another event horizon for another alien species to theorise it (like me doing it now).

How come my "New Physics" stand up to answer the question well before that event  has occurred (not open for our imagination just now).

The mind supreme is in action.

Keep probing, is how science expands its horizon by asking the right question at the right time.

See you when I have another brain wave.

I had a good sleep after this question entered my mind in half sleep state 24 hours ago.

Generally with my memory failing, I forget the last question I was probing instantaneously.

If you are grappling with a problem, "just sleep on it" is a management principle that works wonders for you.

Lala Land, Happy Land, Koseta Land and Land Rovers

This is about Lala Land in Ceylon.

My definition of this is forest land encroached by hashish growers with doctored deeds, not the Lala Land or Dysney Land or Happy Land biscuits or amusement parks in Ceylon with entry fee of Rs.100/= but limited safety measures or records.

The Coronavirus had hit even Ganja industry with tourists that come for hashish, not coming to Ceylon.

Ceylon, and some cities in India, Pakistan and Thailand are in this triangle of interest.

With American troops leaving Afghanistan new trade routes will open with China providing facilities for money laundering off shore.

It is going to be paradise for interested parties.

The Kos-eta Land is where our farmers dry the paddy with jack seeds and the South East monsoon heralding it's onslaught soon, they will become seed paddy with only two days of rain.

Then our paddy mafia belonging to a consort of ex- big guy is now raising it's ugly head.

The new year gone, the price of rice would go up invariably.

Happy Land is not Singapore or Thailand but a biscuit type in Ceylon in which the quality has gone down appreciably.

Even the type of delicious coconut cooky is down in quality with the coconut land  devastated by land development activities and prices of a coconut now is more than the price of pound of bread.

If we do not have Prima Wheat, we will be starving and the cheap margarine substitutes coming from China is killing our Bread industry.

While all this is happening children of top guys are driving Land Rovers in their racing practices, in the wild forest looking for hunting animals.

The elephants coming to roost in bordering villages is a natural evolution of land destruction and and we might see more Land Rovers going through the forest land than elephants inhabiting their prime land.

I sometime see the Coronavirus is a little respite for the forest to recover from land encroachment in the name of ecotourism.

Global warming summit is just a political showpiece without concrete grass root actions.

President Biden has more problems under his watch barely 100 days gone by.

America is deeply divided than ever before and the media are adding it's weight to the problem and to the partisan approach.