Sri-Lanka Internet-Download Speed

 An Old Piece for Reflection

Sri-Lanka Internet-Download Speed

 

I must report to you my elation of fast download speed was very short lived. It lasted little over two hours.

 
Most likely server script blocking customer service was out of order for a while. 

 
It is currently ZERO for my download.

 
It took half an hour to download 580 kB file (1 MiB when installed) of Gparted.
 

It is a joke to talk about Data Super High Way .

I will keep what is below for posterity.

I decided to Install Debian due to many reasons.

It took nearly 4 hours to finish, for 1.8 GiB of resourceful DVD with live updates from a repository in USA.

Si-Lankan servers are very poor and Singapore is much worse (there is no reliable Linux community base there).

Then, our Telecom has a habit of slowing the speed to 5 KB/sec, once one has downloaded 20 GiB, (an arbitrary limit) within a month.

I pay a huge bill sometimes more than for electricity.

I have cut down my downloads due to slow speed and particularly to cut down on my electricity bill.

Having said that I was downloading Linux images for upgrading and on the 29^th the speed was very very slow, I could not even download the tiny torrent link file of SkoleLinux, a Debian Derivative (dedicated for school work).

I thought this was due to me exceeding the 20 GiB.

I have to wait for the next month to get my usual download speed.

I had to stop downloading Emmabuntus, a French derivative specially dedicated to schools in Africa.

Just little while ago, I activated the torrent to see that it is running at over 100 KB/sec.

I had a thought for a while.

A miracle?

Couldn't be?

But my gut feeling is that the ruling party is using its final thrust with the Internet propaganda and we have got a little bonus till January 8^th.

I hope Telecoms take a giant leap (in other countries including Singapore download speed is in Giga bites and Terra bites), come next year and speed up our Super Slow Internet Highway.

I do not think it does cost as much as, the down to earth, building a Speedy Motor Highway.

If they use tiny fraction of the money that were wasted for motor ways, it can make a big change in the IT industry.

Monday, December 29, 2014

Good Bye, to my Old Flame PCLinux-KDE

Good Bye, to my Old Flame PCLinux-KDE

Please bear with me for the unkind words.

PCLinux was my old flame.

I entered into Linux Live with a CD, I found in a stall selling pirated copies of multimedia including Microsoft Windows 98, with PCLinux xfce desktop.

I have been using Redhat, Mandriva, Fedora and with lot of pain Debian (that experience with Debian come good even now, namely expert or text based installation, with adequate warning) and Live CD was a new and welcome experience.

Why take the trouble to install.

 

Test it first.

Try Live, and then use it if it suits and agrees with your taste.

That is what I do NOW, since I need to test my old hardware, which are working well except the excessive consumption of electricity (I have discarded all 13 of them in one go).

I have dismantled 7 of the 13 old computers and two computers irreparably damaged due to Power Outage (which is common in Sri-Lanka and UPS batteries do not last long and are of poor quality).

Now I use only three computers, one for my wife (32 bits) and two for me (one 32 bits and one 64 bits rarely used).

 

I am bit like Textstar of PCLinux, who took a long hard look at 64 bit before retiring from active work.

? Why Change?

I hate KDE (there is KaOS a lighter version which I have not tried regularly to give you any recommendation) due its bulk and excessive resource hunger when in use.

That is why I use Peppermint, the best currently available light weight, Ubuntu derivative, cloud enhanced, and a Google based distribution.

As I said I have already gone back to the versatile Debian Linux and I am currently working on it with a SkolLinux theme behind my LibreOffice 3 application (it is currently on 4.3.3).

Debian is stable (there is also testing unstable version) and won't change to new versions by default (Texstar Wisdom) and use stable applications and probably have removed all utilities with fringe benefits by conviction.

Now I  come to PCLINUX without Texstar Wisdom.

It loads all the latest WiFi blue tooth, USB SATA ultra ports without testing the current but MY OLD hardware (deamons).

It is coming from America and like an average American thinks that all global citizens have;

1. Everybody has an email.
   
   
2. Everybody has a private jet.
   
   
3. Every body has a private holiday villa (Americans never use their holiday wisely, always it becomes a working holiday).
   
   
4. No wonder they are the sickest and global leaders of proprietary drugs use (in addition to hashish, OTC) them for mundane medical issues, like cholesterol.
   
   
5. The average income of a citizen is 5 million dollars a year.
   
   
   Let me explain, the Sri-Lankan context.
   
   
   a. Old guy above 55 (regularly go to temple to browse the Internet FREE, often to browse porn on Nena Sala) now well into retirement never wants to pay for any service. 
   
   
   His pension is not enough for 10 days.
   
   
   b. Does not have an email but uses his son's email. 
   
   
   c. Never returns a call from his mobile and often at 10 am in the morning it is switched off.
   
   
   d. Mobile is exclusively for Private and Selfish (survival instinct) Work.
   
   
   e. Never send a greeting card to a friend to say he or she already exists on this planet.
    
   Only browse and never answer or say OK or return kind regards or Cheers (he/she is unhappy and wants others to be the same).

f. His existence is for a better life NEXT birth but judiciously postpone his retirement (in other words become veritable pest like our politicians) from this planet gracefully.

Never want to bite the dust except his/her enemies.

Thee are many others issues like, over 40% children are under nourished and leave school at about (too competitive for an average child) 13 to 14 years.

They are easy prey to drug lords (who are Ministers of the ruling class) and become three wheeler drivers peddling drugs, often to young students in the universities.

I think with election campaign in full swing and floods in many parts of the country, few lines on, those issues are relevant.

1. Coming back to PCLiux KDE, only 10% in this country uses Internet.


2. Most of the MPs have a laptop but does not know how to use it but sell it on the black market.
 

3. We use pirated copies of operating system even in the universities.

4. Only 32 (thirty two) in the entire country of 24 million, uses Linux as a regular desktop according to Distrowatch Counter Statistics for the last five years (of achieving the miracle IT Status).


5. Many use old computers discarded from USA/UK/Canada, poorly refurbished.


6. ALL the software copies are pirated or used by foreign residents (duplicate the foreign users identity, authentication here).


7. They want the cheapest but the most modern utilities (coming from the background of FREE TEXTBOOKS) without any cost. 
 
They do not respect copyright law or use Open Software as an alternative.


8. They pawn parents' gold and jewellery for a smart phone or a second hand laptop.


9. Most of the visitors to my Linux 100 are foreigners including, USA, Russia and Ukraine. 


Very few Sri-Lankans visit my site but they are for my political satire (not Linux).
 
I have removed the political stuff. 
 

Often editors of the national papers who run short of ideas for editorials.


10. Editors of the national papers are stooges of the ruling elite and write only items that pleases the rulers, never for Yatath Vasiya (the subjects).


11. On that scenario PCLinux has failed me.


My RAM is 1 GiB and many has less RAM on a refurbished computer (mine too but well maintained due to use of Linux) often discarded from USA (just like in some African countries).


My Hardware is old.
 
PCLinux KDE;


It boots up very slowly.


It freezes without any warning (both mouse and keyboard).


It looks for non-existent  WiFi.


It looks for non-existent  Sata USB (I connect SATA it only when I need).


It does not configure the Ethernet and Internet is disabled.


So I will continue not use it with my previous experience of burning irreplaceable graphic cards.


It has a pleasing theme with a non functional desktop probably due to excessive use of RAM and resources.


Worse of all, after one our of patient waiting to FREE the RAM, I could not restart. 


For my luck, while waiting for it to recover and release the RAM, I picked my mail to see Linux Magazine, February issue had arrived.


Hang PCLinux, I have to read it before even I have my regular cup of coffee.


It is my current flame, anyway!


Lot of nice articles and an issue I had been pondering while (Flash of ADOBE in its final lap with HTML 5 in USE) installing Debian, Flash or gnash?


While, I was reading the Magazine and sipping the coffee, electricity went off and my agony of restarting it off from the PCLinux KDE was solved by our exorbitant BUT poor Electricity Board.


I sometime think it is a better alternative to wait for the electricity to FAIL, than to PRESS the off button of my OLD computer.


Doing that will effect the BIOS, Graphic Card and sometimes the RAM with irreparable damage.


So Good Bye to my Old Flame (no flame wars intended) PCLinux but a Happy New, (2015) Year, all the same.


I must tell you, I won't download and test or use LXDE or KDE mini (there is hardly any utilities to use in them).

 

Why I say NO to all cellphones and to SIM Cards?

I have to say the Carrier I have mentioned here is HUTCH.

I went there toady and only one woman was working and doing what I thought was browsing and doing her own cellphone answering rather than attending to the customer needs.

I had to wait one hour to get the SIM card de-registered which could have been done yesterday by giving me a call after my messenger had visited them to report the fraud and stealing my card.
I have never let a sick patient waiting one hour, most likely only in 10 minutes of waiting to see me.

I said I am doctor (retired part was not implied).

They just lost a customer and I won't update or put money on their coffers.

While I was waiting a mother with a kid in hand paid over Rs.2500/= with default fee.

My expression of anger and disgruntle was for the woman to realize that she had come to the wrong service.

I said the Muslim man must be running a dispensary and did not say he may have been downloading pornography.

I sent SMS to my messenger guy saying that I blasted the woman (mildly in my terms) in the reception for keeping an old guy waiting barring of course getting the Coronavirus from a bystander at the small cubicle with cramped up seat arrangement.

What a service by HUTCH?

If I was a PHI I would have given the orders to close the shop immediately.

I won't be surprised if we get the lambda variant soon.


I send the guy in person to lodge a complaint on my behalf, since I gave the cellphone as a gift and asked him to return the HUTCH SIM card after the data is finished, which he did not do but allowed it to be piroted by a Muslim Guy who is a crafty manipulator.

He is using my card, probably for phonography.

HUTCH has failed to investigate the complaint made by the GUY who allowed the SIM in my name to be piroted by a Muslim Guy.

Failing to investigate is an offense and I will give them 72 hours.

They could have given me a call to my voice mail given by them, at least to verify the veracity of the complaint.

The stupid guy did not tell me that this relatively unknown Muslim guy is using my data linked cellphone number for ages.

This stupid guy is using the cellphone  number given to the Muslim guy instead.

He will eventually get caught when this Muslim guy do another imposter act.

This is all aiding and abetting in Law terminology and I will visit Hutch not in kindness but to tell them it is appalling to say the least.

Thankfully I have other carriers to do my work and I DID NOT upload any money to the voice card for a long time.

All cellphones and social media are engineered to monitor citizens.

I need not say they are CIA, MI5 or KGB but a cotorie of software developed in a tiny country smaller than Ceylon.

The broad name is Pegasus but it is an assortment of software with different filters and hierarchy.

Now this piece is about SIMs.

SIMs store all your personal data not the cellphone.

The carrier records all your transactions to nanoseconds.

Cellphone is only the frontend and the backend is the SIM run by the carrier which by law has to give or handover it's recorded contents to Intelligent Officers.

All these are recorded permanently in a Server Farm in an unknown USA location away from human habitation.

May be installed underground to avoid nuclear disaster.

We do not need ground level spies now and all Telecom services are the Network of spies.

Our land phone is dead but I do not bother to activate it.

Today's story is related to one of my DATA SIMs of a particular (HUTCH) carrier.

I have many cellphones and one carrier gives 5 SIMs and if you go to three companies you got 15 SIMs.

I still have a Singapore SIM with my last passport number.

Singapore has a robust surveillance system and it is like China but the system is capitalist.

China has entered this surveillance business with 5G or video surveillance.

5G only scans densely populated 300 meter perimeter and needs lots and lots of poles or towers and that is the beginning of the end of our trees in the Rainforest.

Trees thankfully interfere with 5G technology.

On this ground alone, I am TOTALLY  against 5G and Telecom Industry.

If you are TRUE environmentalist you should not use a cellphone

The Telecom Towers interfere with navigation of our bees and that is why we do not see bees in this city now.

I gave one of my old cellphones with 3 G technology to a guy who had no idea of technology and NO email facility.

His life depends on his old cellphone.

He is practically a messenger boy who acts daily, "on call based" (line of duty) work load.

I told him cellphone is a minicomputer and I will teach him some basic stuff but wait for while to get an email.

I have him the cellphone with some DATA and asked him to go to a free WiFi Zone and browse the Internet and Self Learn.

He did not do that.

I told him where one can gets the best free WiFi.

The other  SIM had voice and I put it into a spare cellphone and forgot about the  whole thing for ages.

Yesterday I was fishing through the SIMs and found one without data.

I did not update data deliberately since I told him to return the SIM once the data is over, since it bears my personnel data.

Yesterday I reminded him that I need my SIM.

He went into a panic mode and said he does not have it.

He has a different telephone number of the same carrier.

I was very annoyed and asked him to call back with the first number which I remembered as the voice SIM and by exclusion the one, I gave him was the other number.

I gave him the second number and asked him to call it and I was listening to the background ringing tone.

He said it is not working.

But I old him I can hear the ringing tone and somebody is using it with my credentials and I told him to go to him and get back my SIM in two days.

He did not ring back today.

In summary this is what happened.

This guy has lost his national ID and has not applied for a replacement.

So he cannot get a new SIM.

He had accidentally met a crafty Muslim guy who knew how to impersonate using the cellphone numbers of others.

He had given his SIM to this innocent and STUPID guy and took my SIM for his personal use.

In fact, this Muslim guy is impersonating me and probably running a dispensary in my name.

He may be downloading all the phonographic stuff in my name.

If the police caught him in his act and confiscate the phone they will come to my home for investigations.

I have poked my finger into all the holes in male and female patients have in examination needs and phonography is, for me, anatomy and physiology virtualized for aberrant human consumption.

Sex is less than five minutes of act and after that one slumps into light sleep.

There is no after play but only fore play.

The foreplay is the deliberate enticement of vulnerable guys and girls by psychopaths including within the Royal Entourage and their Cohorts.

Wasting 3 hours in foreplay for a 5 minutes job at the end is an addiction.

What is the role of the TV and Films?

As a young adult I believed that watching films is an addiction.

I hit the film on the first day and my professor also hits on the first day occupying an ODC seat.

I had to be in First Class by default, rarely ODC when my professor is not in attendance.

He has noticed me coming first day and one day casually asked me how is the film (on the next day).

That is how I managed to enter into his world of fantasy and later I worked for him on short term basis.

His love was forensic investigation (but a renal pathologist) in films but general pathology investigations is, his bread and butter, in real life.

When he was almost in death bed, he requested me to bring fictional books, not available locally from UK.

Last book I could not deliver.

He was gone.

Like my professor I was a film addict but without any particular (sex excluded by default) context.

Just a life long addiction.

Mind you I downloaded over 300 films in less than a year until I disconnected the Ethernet wire for good.

Mostly piroted films and were made into a different format to escape Copy Right Law.

I have discarded all of them but I have about ten in my possession now.

God Father (all the books I have), Italian Job, a few alien films and Jean Hackman's classic (after Sean Connery retired I stopped watching James Bond 007 films), The French Connection.

So Films is an addiction and I researched for scientific papers for proof.

The film industry deliberately delete or pay the researchers to lie saying there is no addiction.

I had not gone to a cinema in UK all my life there and when I decided to call it a day and return home, for once, I went to Odean Cinema in London to watch a film, the name I forget.

I came out before it was over but during the interval look for all the magazines and literature and found a single article which showed it enticed children to addiction.

That was enough for me and never gone for a film until Jurassic Park in New Zealand with the entire family.

If you have to watch a film secretly, without the entire family, that is a sure sign of addiction coming to your life.

My current addiction is emails.

Coming back to the SIM story;

I have not registered with the Medical Council for 20 years and he cannot use my real name by any legal mean.

I told him I will go to the police to report my cellphone was lost and police will come after him and the other guy in due course.

Find him and recover the SIM in 10 days and return it back to me.

See what a lot of trouble I have to go through by being a Good Samaritan.

Never help a Ceylonese Guy is my moto now.

I will have some reflections of another young  guy whom I tried to teach some basics in Linux.

He could not grasp it and I gave up.

One day he called me with excitement and jubiliation to say he hacked the President's Web Page.

I told him off  and stopped communicating with him immediately and completely.

Fullstop.

I have to do it only once.

None of the guys I helped did not become crooks.

Most of them are crooks.

Endless OS- a bit of Update

Since Endless OS has taken over full control of the hard disk of the my Laptop, I have one option left.

Remove it stick it on a external case and install a new hard disk and additional RAM and boot BSD there for a change.

I hope Endless OS would boot from external case.

Failing which I will use Gparted to format it.

Endless OS is a Debian based Linux distribution with endless supply of free software.

It is based in USA and has a torrent file very difficult to find but with direct download is easily traced to its mirrors.

I am currently downloading it by torrent and has only 10 peers and no seeders.

Finding a download mirror site was bit difficult.

It simulate a cellphone architecture or a tablet.

It has done away with the traditional hierarchical file system which is good for guy who has never used Linux.

All the files are under OStree root file architecture and are arranged according to the way applications are downloaded and not in an alphabetical order.

Bit annoying for me coming from Linux base but once I figured it out it is like face of a smart phone started liking it.

It is in fact, modified Gnome face and in some ways similar to Gnomes application arrangement but not in an alphabetical order.

Applications activation is slow but once opened works smoothly.

Downloading was very slow and coming from a Ceylonese background of slow Internet it was not a problem.

It takes over your hard disk like BSD and no way of dual booting and one cannot erase it and install another Linux distribution.

One time installation and adding up application on top of it.

Dual or Treble booting is a general standard of mine.

Thankfully it got me out of Number 8 BIOS virus.

Additionally the Laptop had Windows and I erased Windows but BIOS continued to look for windows operating system.

I used BSD to erase the BIOS and install ESP partition for booting.

Even Debian could not erase the Microsoft favoured booting option.

Number 8 boot virus of Microsoft, the final irritation that I have to overcome and it is pure Linux now.

It can be installed into a PC but downloading applications (one needs) is bit complicated and slow.

One need to configure the Internet connection like in a cellphone but no SIM is required.

The Dongle or Wincle WiFi connection is all one needs.
.
With a Ethernet connection it is bit simple.

 

By the way, no Ethernet in Australia.

It is slow but I managed to download Deluge and Transmission client and downloaded  Free BSD and Gparted.

It is a novel cellphone experience  using Linux Utilities.

I have already got AbiWord and LibreOffice installed.
 

I was getting annoyed with Google's application store.

Endless OS without an application store of its own fetches the application and delivers it without me searching for it.

Its application arrangement is bit similar to Elementary OS.

Thank you Endless OS and I beginning to enjoy using it like a cellphone but cellphone does not have Abiword for me.

Problem of Eight and Endless OS

I have encountered a novel irritation which I tentatively diagnosed as a BIOS virus.

This script interferes with my Laptop which I installed Debian 10 and Emmabantus which are two excellent distributions.

Debian is limited with some old packages missing particularly AbiWord my workhorse.

Emmabantus is padded with 5 GB of extra packages(Debian 25 with all the desktops) but only two desktop types.

I love all the desktops and try them at various occasions.

Coming to Problem of Eight at the time of booting and entering of password which had numbers it sends a stream of eights which the backspace cannot erase.

During typing of words in AbiWord and Libre Office a never ending serious of  8 keep on auto typing which I could not erase with backspace finger typing.

I tested my mouse working OK but changed the mouse.

I wanted to add a USB typewriter but no room left.

I could not test the keys of the Laptop but I use keys very softly except Ctr and C.

I got annoyed with file checking utility at boot time which Ubuntu introduced and type CTR + C and this probably was recorded in memory as 8.

That is my guess.

Debian does it gently and Debian also could not abort the never ending 8.

To abort it I type Ctr and C.

I think the operating system assigned an arbitrary number 8 anticipating my keyboard routine without a command function.

I had to reinstall my installation.

Mind you I have to use BSD or TrueOS to erase Windows BIOS obstruction.

I was up all night and solved the problem in 7 hours.

The bottom line is let your operating system to do its file checking for your owm good and sip a cup of tea.

I now know it does finish the file checking routine before our electric kettle boils water for two cups of tea.

My tea contains 600 mg of caffeine and is not a cup but a jug.

Let your system do it own self checking and wait patiently.

I want it to be fast and I am basically impatient and impulsive and want to be faster than a computer.

In actual fact my brain is faster and I do not want AI to know that.

If AI knows they will make me a slave or guinea pig.

I got to be little brainier than a computer or an AI.

I think modern games use this impatience in young guys to trap them in a game mania

I love games and wish success of Steam Deck.

Pensive mood solves even very difficult problem.

Even after reinstalling this Figure of Eight 8 bug started recreating it's annoyance.

Even BSD could not erase the number 8.

Finally I installed Endless OS which takes over the hard disk of the laptop but I could erase the 8 fast enough and installed it without a password and got into Internet and signed to Gmail.

Endless OS by nature simulate the Laptop Screen as a Cellphone screen and has Endless number or Free Software.

It is Debian based and takes over the hard disk and no dual booting.

Thankfully it has AbiWord and I have already installed Libre Office.

I am installing 100 odd games including Pingus and Tux racer.

Unfortunately the download speed with Dialog WiFi is very slow.

I have to say Good Bye to Debian and Emmabantus and they fear touching a Microsoft BIOS data

I am convinced now Microsoft once installed its own your computer and won't let you install alternative Linux distribution.

Thank You Endless OS for erasing the Microsoft BIOS data for me.

Even BSD seem to gear Microsoft Strategy.

This is why I hate Microsoft.

I am installing Steam 1 in my Linux expecting to update to Steam 3 next year.

Anyway my laptop is back to its own self due to Endless OS.

Amazing Cloud Pattern

I did not sleep all night.
That is because I have reversed my sleep pattern to night duty mode.
There are mosquitoes in the night.
I keep up to kill them of they reach my domain,
I did not spray insecticides or mosquitoes repellent.
All my life I was and I am waging a war but it am losing the war but winning only small battles.

I decided to eat something and had a peep at the lilies and wanted go my sleep.
The sun was not out and was at a tangent and just by reflection I wanted to look the sky predict it will or will not rain.

With regards 15 years of experience I quite good at it better than BBC global weather report.

This may have happened before which I did not bother to find because of my laid out attitude.

I should go back to my observation mode or cloud watching for fun.

They amazing pattern I cannot explain in simple physics but would like to add to two or three factors.
High Air Pollution
Global Warming
Unknown factors which birds know by instinct but I don't know.
Let me leave at that.
The cirrus pattern of clouds are in high atmosphere where dust particles are scattered or spread in a warm sunny days.
They never crisscross.

Today I so three cirrus pattern crisscrossing each other which am artist cannot reproduced in a canvas.

I immediately went for my camera and took two section one the normal pattern to the west and the abnormal or unusual pattern to the east before sun comes up and interfere with lens reflections on top.

My second cheap camera battery was dead for comparison sake.

Two lens will record the same event in two different ways.
Diffraction or similar physics term regarding the lens aberrations.

Finally I used all my new and old cellphones to record the cloud pattern.
None of them have a good result and cellphone camera will never give the quality of a camera.
So buy as camera instead of a cellphone if you love photography.
Camera industry will be killed by the cellphones and quality camera price will sky rocket and cellphone prices will plummet on due course.

Pick is yours and timing is important.
I bought the camera damn cheap in Singapore when cellphone was in vogue.

Mimosa Pudica Flower

Even this thorny weed has a beautiful flower.
This plant even though treated as a weed nourishes the soil by binding nitrogen.

Five concepts of Economics applied to Addictions

Alcohol
Natural extracts
Yes, coffee and coriander
Vegetarianism
Decline in meat industry
Economy of artificial drugs and it's emergence in the less developed countries.
Stranglehold
Potential
Pitfalls
Politics
Morality
The Bad,  the Ugly and the Evil
Peril
Devil incarnation

The God, the Devil and the Man dressed up for Evil, Reincarnation and Masterly inactivity (simultaneously)

What a paradox?

Five principles of Economics applied to Science and Research

The emergence of Coronavirus had a damping effect on research protocols.

Since it emerged from an unrestrained laboratory in China

Do scientific community have answers to uncertainty principle?

Are they groping in the dark?

What is the way forward to resuscitate it's blind and economicc wisdom?

Is the money well spent?

Five concepts of economics applied to politics

Politics is the last but worst hit industry.
Lies
Procrastination
Hesitancy in making decisions at the right time during the pandemic

Fallout

Window of opportunity for the Third Force.

Will it come out of the doldrums?

Five concepts of economics applied to Sports

Game plan established.

Lot of money to left without a project

Linux come to rescue.

Apple and Microsoft in panic mode.

Steam Deck, Dock and Dump (Money) strategy to revive the sagging Linux game industry.

One has to put money to get some returns.

Would it be a success recovering from a pandemic?

Yes probably.

But No on long term basis.

The economy has been hit so hard the stimulus money would disappear into thin air.

Why is this paradox?

Five concepts economics applied to meditation

Uncertainty as the base.

Speculation for the need for an escape route.

Realization of Void and the panic button is pressed.

Buying and selling technique applied.

Collapse of the established methodology in meditation with the arrival of the pandemic establishing certainty of the uncertainty principle.

Are we free to decide our own future?

Or are we trapped in a vicious cycle?

Money, Logic and the Bubble

Can a bubble exist in space?

Bubble concept and self isolation of a nation or a couple of nations based on financial interests disregarding common sense.

They fallacy of germ free environment.

Apply the five concepts of economics.

Uncertainty Principle

This is not about Buddhism but Economics.
Buddha' s Economics of Singalovada Sutta I will brief you at the end.

This is dedicated to one whom I befriended in my late years of retirement.

He has a long name but I call him Mana Wadu (means carpenter -wood or metal does not matter-:of mind).

I used to go for my daily loaf and some Wine but sit with them for a tea (25 a Cup) never alcohol since  I hate attack which smells awful.

He sits with his friends at the Bank of Ceylon till 2.30 P.M. and looks at the spinning wheel in the video display and makes his assessment and bets.

I come at 2.45 P.M. and pull them for cup of tea which I never sip (awful taste) but some   sweets and yoghut drink (not for gastritis which I never had) as a base for my stomach since I DO NOT have rice as a my lunch.

They bar which I go opens at half past four (only once I went to the Kandy Bar but it did not have my favourite Wine).

I always have a book in my hand and if I come early, I sit there and flips the papers of my book and ponders over the next topic to blog.

So I asked my senior friend teach me economics and he was a Graduate of Economics couple of years senior to me of the same University.

We never met as undergraduates, since he had a day time job somewhere not a teacher, probably a bank or a bookkeeping somewhere.

I was not bothered to ask and he had given up a teaching job and trying to prolong his job and probably passed out after me.

He finally ended up as Senior Accountant in Government Service and had lot of good contacts.

He had a very old cellphone and a typical government servant's handbag.

His footwear and cloths were archiach and a bachelor.

I gave him my notebook for 20% cut rate and told him to dress nice and present himself smart at any point of contact point.

That is the way about business dealers.

The business dealers do not have brains but they talk and present as super smart I told him.

Otherwise one is treated as an old cogger.

I go for my alcoholic chocolates daily and he always gets one free from me but never offered alcoholic stuff to him.

Mind you by this time I had insight that I was a mild but smart alcoholic and chocolate with sprits was my attempt at weaning myself.

It takes time but insight to say to yourself an alcoholic is the way forward.

All my life I was never been able to wean a guy from alcohol or cigarettes.

I stopped smoking at 33 and I knew I have the mental skill to drop alcohol just like I stopped eating rice (different reasons).

We had a another guy who was an oragami specialist and he too joins with his daughter.

I thought it was nice for me to invest on a another skill but never progressed since it taxes on your finger skills trained for tiny surgical skills for infants.

But common theme is lovely discussion and some lovely chocolates.

This guy had an absence attack and he did not tell me but after probing I knew what had happened and told him take some aspirin EOD, every other day and do not worry and do not consult a doctor but me.

The bottom line is all the money of this guy was plundered by his elder brother and his extended family and grandchildren.

He used to take some chocolate for the grandchildren and one of them scalped the netbook I gave him.

By the way he did not take aspirin (because my nice and simple ways, he did not believe my advice and I told him the lapse episode will come within a year if you do not take aspirin).

Sure enough he had a lapse and he was taken to hospital (I ask the oragami friend to follow his progress) and he was made a life time sick guy by the doctors.

I never saw him again and this was long time before Coronavirus pandemic.

By the way he never answered my telephone calls (I believe confiscated by the elder brother).

I never got the chance to learn or master economics from this guy but with some probing I got the key concepts into coherent assembly which is given below.

Uncertainty
Speculation
Panic
Buying and Selling
Certain Collapse

Next Cycle starts with Recovery.

Printing money makes no difference to this cycle.

It is not based on logic but on simple speculation.

Simple term for this is industrial gossip.

Now Ceylon politics also thrive on gossip but one cannot be a good a Finance Minister by gossip mongering.

When the economy collapses wise guys start buying BUT idiots start selling his last silver.

China is buying and we in Ceylon is selling at cut rate level.

It is all cutthroat transactions nothing but.

Communists have become ultra-capitalists and that is the paradox of communism.

Top Chinese have billions (building palaces in London) and bottom has minions and a cellphone to browse the world in virtual reality.

It is an illusion of grandiosity.

Does not matter one is capitalistic or communist, the greed and selfishness rule the world.

Now a word about neo-capitalists in space not the philanthropists  of Microsoft.

Unless human kind master the space and have a strategy to communicate with galactic civilizations with higher intelligence and simple economic values we are frogs in a deep well and the third extinction is well on its way to destroy the current ecosystem.

It has happened before and more than likely to repeat itself with vengeance.

Criscrossing Cirrus Clouds

It is rare to see Cirrus Clouds Crisscrossing.

Nokia and AbiWord

I have three Nokia cellphones and all of them have Android 11.

I have been using Android 4.3 Kit Kat.

Google' forward march is incredible BUT I won't buy a New Nokia cellphones to test it and give constructive criticism.

Simple because Goole has chosen the wrong concept of imitating Microsoft' s glossy and bulky imitation.

Google' has its own cellphone now with not so modern architecture (hardware side in going through a rough patch due to graphic cards heating up an cooking or frying the system and battery life has not improved accordingly).

My advice is hang on to the old cellphone and wait and see policy.
The same advice I dish out to Steam Console.

Drum and Dump approach.

I am writer and none of the cellphones have a built in light weight word processor like AbiWord.

AbiWord has gone into hibernation and no updates for few years.

Nokia should collaborate with AbiWord and develop it to be its standalone word processor before somebody rich buys it and kill AbiWord for good.

AbiWord is light and its collaborative open system with cloud capability has great potential on Android ecosystem.

Google' with its own words document has to be in the cloud and not a standalone system

Unfortunately all Linux derivatives except Puppy Linux do not support AniWord and gone for Libre office, which is on version seven and trying to emulate Microsoft.

Problem with them ate they have to support all international languages from Chinese to Arabic to (unfortunately No Sinhala after Anuradha left and Hantana Linux a Fedora fork has failed us- should have been Debian which Anuradha did some early work) to French, German and English and updates come after long delay and enormously BULKY for the cellphone architecture.

If Nokia takes my advice and embrace AbiWord it is win-win end result.

Thankfully I am old and would not plunge into this area except finish my books first with AbiWord and use Libre Office to give finishing touches.

I support both AbiWord and Libre Office.

I started with Open Office and Redhead bought it to kill it but failed and that is why I hate Redhat and Centos operating systems.
Centos derivative with a glossy name (the name did not register in my mind) has a uphill task to overcome.

It is like Mandriva, Mandrake and Mafia trend and Magia had cr of its age after long dormancy.

I have not  tested them since I disconnected my Ethernet Wire due to rats munching it.

Same thing happened to my CNet satellite TV cable.

The company went bust in the first five years in Ceylon.

The overhead were high then.

But with Coronavirus economic downturn that will eventually come and will last long, nobody wants to part with the money NOT SO hard earned.

How come that money neither can save life nor buy happiness.

That is the bottom line.

Cellphones also will bust due to overproduction and so many companies competing in a saturated environment.

Collapse will come from China and the domino effect for cellphones will be catastrophic.
Rich guys have two or more cellphones but over farmers in the remote area cannot use them since the infrastructure is slow to develop (I mean aerials) and 5G is going to be a FLOP.

5 G covers flat land up to only 300 meters.

It is far better to buy or fine a pirated DVD.

Full WiFi (software conversion is poor and expensive) connectivity is a dream.

That is why I say use the Radio Signal and Radio and Direct Signal Transfer.

Of course a primitive aerials construction by our farmers might solve the booster of weak Radio signal.

We did it and it worked OK and Rediffusion I'm our time busted within am year.

I am physics guy in thinking and I am thinking about how to communicate with our nearest galaxy  and aliens (not the batten land Mars).

Let China wastes it resources in Mars before it busts.

Amazing Patterns in Nature

Guess what is this?

Latex Binding Capacity and Coronavirus Prevention Strategy

My bone of contention is Coronavirus is artificial and does not have a biological mother with bonding capacity and it needs a vehicle like adenovirus to provide a biological hydrogen bonding capacity.

ACE receptor is the biological receptor for adenovirus and has served it's biological role in evolution.

The evolution has surprises for us and whether that surprise belongs to rRNA causing havoc is my survey target.

Like an antibody I need a biological agent to prove my theory in evolution (not complicated) but simple and realistic.

All plants which have secretary agents prevent the bark from being pieced and insects boring into the stem and harming the core of the stem.

Whether the plant is big or small (at rRNA level) is immaterial,here.

Rubber is a good example of it's milk or latex strategy in the biological system.

My discussion here is latex of Koss or Jack Tree which we destroyed for commercial purposes.

Artocarpus heterophillis is the first named tree (by British authors of yesteryear) in the Peradeniya Botanical Garden, as you enter.

Peradeniya garden has gone into commercial endeavours and neglected local research.

My theory here is for them to engage in and disprove.

I combine rubber sponge as a vehicle to take jack latex or Kohalla in combination and mop all the  hospital beds or other nursing surfaces and see whether one can collect the Coronavirus virus load to 50% capacity without the aid of adenovirus ACE receptors.

The presumption here is the ACE is saturated and there are plenty of Coronavirus particles lying around waiting for a passerby to get attached.

Now my comparison of Coronavirus is to plastics which is artificial not natural.

Plastics and rubber makes a good combination binder in commercial capacity to wrap all  game consoles to be drop proof when playing a game one handed, eating a Waraka Madulla (the juicy soft wrapping of Koss Ata or Jack seeds) with the other (in Colombo high rising complexes).

Now if the free Coronavirus is not bound to the sponge rubber with jack latex it is my sure proof of artificial ingredient being in my sample of testing.

The contamination assured.

I must remind you that, Chinese do Wet Market Research without any contamination at all, by wearing rubber gloves and with this Bat Woman leading the research protocols, we are fully assured  global protection and NO global contamination.

If we prove that jack latex can be used to remove rRNA  (Our Kussi Ammas or housemaids can be trained as an export commodity to do that in China and Korea) by 50% efficiency, provided that it is a natural biological entity seen in the wild in abundance, it will be our top export commodity (not the virus but the housemaids).

We can promote our coconut oil industry as a subsidiary  to remove extra or stuck up Kohalla.

It is a boost for both coconut and jack of trades industry.

The rubber for the sponge is imported to establish global or foreign connections.

The problem is we have to start planting coconut and jack trees for this industry, *The Kohalla Industry* to come off the ground.

No problem at all, the Coronavirus will last at least another 50 years (like we have morgaged our assets for 100 year terms to China, this is only a half of that time, by that time I have kicked off from this planet to be born in another galaxy where they have perfected virus free communities).

While this is happening our University Researchers should test all the trees left after vandalisation by politicians to discover more potent and potential  latex varieties to mop the balance 50% of the rRNA.

I do not believe the detergents reduce the virus load except virus particles are displaced to another place to be modified with more virulent emerging (at drop of a hat).

My attempt is to reduce the virus load by burning mopped up virus since the rubber mop with jack latex embedded is easy to burn releasing simple biological agents not plastic related dioxines.

Any good ideas, to ponder?

I am waiting anxiously.

Global Water Pollution Tax and Mud Tax

Water pollution is a very real problem.

Focussing only on air pollution is not a scientific approach.

Life on.earth depends on water.

90% of this earth is covered with water but not even %1 is drinkable.

That is also after treatment with chlorine that is carcinogenic by nature of its oxidation potential.

Toxic oxygen is carcinogenic.

The whole industrial mechanisms are polluting both water and air.

Mankind has gone bonkers.

The Chinese bashing is my latest vogue.

It is an extension of Ceylon bashing.

The city I was born I have left in disgust.

That was the best and prudent decision in all my life.

It is the most air polluted city in this country according to the scientific investigations.

It holds an annual festival under cover of religious convention which ends with a water cutting ceremony.

It is ritualistic and elevate water to a highest degree and does exact the opposite to create major water pollution during the rest of the year.

That is the paradox.

It was a blessing  that Coronavirus made it to.be only a ceremonial occasion last year.

Instead of keeping it at a low profile, there is an attempt to revive it while (Coronavirus is still spreading) under cover of bogus vaccination success (needs 70% or over coverage but less than 1% coverage currently).

Vaccination only the paraders is a damn stupid idea.

What about the spectators not vaccinated?

A Supper Spreader event is on the offing.

I propose band this festival and instead introduce Water Tax and Mud Tax.

I have scientific reasons.

I boycott this pagaentry on elephant welfare angle.

Elephants belongs to the jungle.

Let us protect the jungle they live and let all the captured elephants released to their full freedom.

That is what the democracy in politics means.

They are not for display and they should be protected as the national pride, since the elephant party is dead due to its own internal conflicts and splits.

Instead of elephants the Duty Free Pajaeros (carry the casket,too) given to the MPs can be used (paraded) with the historical casket carrying Karanduwa inside the vehicle (with the roof removed).

Now that the PM (fully vaccinated, I believe) is coming to this city to celebrate this event we can get all the MPs to parade (they hijacked the vaccine meant for first responders without any shame or Leajjah are fully vaccinated) off their Pajaeros for a change, since after the election we did not see them except on TV.

We can give them a WHO or Sinhala who in right Royal manner.

The people, my gut reaction is, will boycott the parade by default, if MPs are paraded instead of the elephants.

Coming to Global Water Tax, all Chinese goods sold to America, like Carbon Tax should be tagged with a Water Tax and a Mud Tax.

This will make level playing field for all industrial countries also polluting the water.

For example Thames river on cannot have a dip.

In.Ceylon one cannot have a dip in Mahaveli or Kalany rivers since all the domestic and industrial waste are washed to them.

For that matter, all the rivers numbering100 are polluted year round.

To this Water Tax we must add Mud Index to take China into account.

Their development madness drive the development into flood zones and recent flooding in China (Japan included)is a classic example of encroaching on flood zones by development.

The development encourages mud and land slides.

Many.points of the river should be tested for proof of Mud Index to supplement Water Tax.

If Mud Index is High double or trible the Water Tax is my global.proposal.

That will make people to realise drinking water from a tap is a hazard.

In Ceylon they should ban ecotourism and building hotel complexes near river basin or flood zones.

All the hotel refuse and in my city hospital refuse,too are directed to the river without treatment.

I firmly believe Coronavirus is an Enterovirus and it can enter our water resources since we wash our backs daily with our hands, once or twice.

The Coronavirus is going to stay with us for eternity.

Water cutting ceremony is a BIG waste if we do not protect our rivers from pollution form indudtry and domestic refuse outputs.

We will soon reach Chinese level of pollution eventually even we boycott all the Chinese goods on proposed Water and Mud Tax.

This Tax mine of course is a wishful thinking which WHO will never endorse.

Productivity Laptops, Tablets Cellphones

Let me say, I love to have a Steam Deck as a companion.

Simply, it is Linux based PC and portable, the games (I was an addict for life but not now) that comes with it would have been a big bonus during Coronavirus lockdown.

The pandemic is a master stroke in nature I never saw it coming as a medical man.

It is a tsunami in multiple waves in which recovery is going to be very slow and incomplete.

The economic impact is much worse and even if I had extra money I would not have bought it a Steam Deck.

But some people have managed to save money as a little bonus during lockdown and may be inclined to go techies.

Steamed Valve is prudent to ask for pre-orders but many of them would not purchase it eventually.

If they mass produce it might lead to a big flop.

I have all the items I need collected over 10 years and the tablet is the oldest (bought 10 years ago) which is being used now for playing bridge and few other games the SIM of it is disabled by default.

This tablet went into complete freeze mode  and did not want to investigate fully charged it and removed the SIM.

When you do that it goes into default factory  mode which was my experience with TV.

Then about a year later I put a SIM with enough data and kept it plugged to the the TV.
One day I realized it has come to life.
Year 2017.
Android 6.
Memory 2 GB.

I immediately downloaded all my.favorite applications and once finish my data removed the SIM.

NP internet and no viruses.
No.breakdowns.

I.learned all this from a cheap Chinese AMPE tablet with KitKat 4.3.

I have to replace the battery once and its second battery is dead and I won't bother to.buy a new one.

I hacked it enough to learn about Androids.

I have few other old cellphones (GreenTel) which I use when on travelling abroad and fully updated bur rarely used.

I do not hand to go looking.for batteries.

Having several cheap phones is an advantage.

If one is lost no.problem but they do not breakdown if not used daily.

It save money  on SIM use.

Heavy work is always done on.the PC.

The cellphone is the latest buy (one year old) and it is a solid Nokia with updated Android version 11.

I knew our money is going to depreciate but certainly not  to the extent of.over 200 per dollar.

I cashed some saved dollars to buy one extra cellphone for extra security.

Using a single cellphone and heavy use of it is a liability on battery, accidental falls and spills of coffee.

Your cheapest one should be the one used for calls.and no.images to battery life.

The better one at your bedside and for the Internet and few games when bored.

Thank you Google for back up and regular updates.

But my workhorse is my laptop which I bought in Singapore 5 years ago when I realized many portable gadgets will hit the market and the one CEO woman of HP decided to stop production of laptops.

This is where Chinese jumped the bandwagon to produce cheap IBM computers.

I rarely use the PC now but which is updated to latest Debian.

I have to wait till October for Ubuntu 21-10.

I have not seen any new  Lenova laptops in Ceylon with severe import restrictions in place to report their performances.

If you have money do not wait for Android 12 which will not even come to Ceylon for ages.

Buy any phone left in the stock before they  go out of stock.

I advise you get rid of your wedding ring (which has no user value) and buy a good cellphone which brand you buy simply does not matter at all.

By the way, the gold has gone up in price.

The price of petrol will remain high.

High rising building going to a big flop.

Growing manioc will never make you rich but plant some Jack (remember Koss Mama or Arthur V Dieus) Trees for the future grandchildren.

Now we have *My Loss Mamas* in power and in debt.

Colour matching in nature

If not for the shining eyes I would have missed this guy.
Do not think.that only chamellion can do the trick.

Hiding Place

Finally I found the hiding place of the tree frog.
Just under the fish tank.