Saturday, February 22, 2025

Did our Ceylonese Dog solved the problem of the Russian President?

Did our Ceylonese dog solved the problem of the Russian President? 

Unlike on earth Paranoia is absent in heaven. 

Paranoia precludes dementia in humans. 

Maha wants to find the genomic piece of paranoia in these two dogs and transplant the piece into his divine plotters.

It is win win situation.

He gets his competitors wrapped up in delusion of grandiosity. 

I get a scheme to make a fast buck by copyrighting this genomic sequence while having a free ride to Russia. Russia has banned Ceylonese from traveling to Russia unless he or she has some blood relationship to a real Russian. I did so, by offering to solve the dog problem of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Did our Ceylonese dog solved the problem of the Russian President?

Yes, he did.

How?

It very simple logic.

He was made to deliver the food to the dogs.

The plates were kept outside and the Russian dog has to step outside from the kennel and eat. Until he eats our Ceylonese dog does not touch his food. Every day, the plate is kept further away from the his kennel and more towards the American dog’s kennel until they were facing each other.

It is all sign language in practice.

The dog handlers job is to prompt the name of his dog. 

In about three months both Russian dog and the American dogs realized they had a name of their own.          

I suppose our Ceylonese dog should get a Nobel Prize for this feat, since no Ceylonese has being nominated so far. The bonus for me is when the award ceremony is held in Stockholm Sweden, I get a chance to accompany the dog as a handler. 

I have refused to become a dog handler after the demise of our dog Zimba.    I would not say anything about Zimba until, I meet him in heaven. Until then, all my passwords for NUC computer would have some element of his name attached as a souvenir.

Coming to the present predicament, even though the dogs had dementia none of the dogs lost their natural ways. American dog had American habits, Ceylonese Paraya dog had stray dog habits. Only exception was the Russian dog. He had lost the canny ability to learn a foreign language, in 10 days, if left alone in the foreign airport. This was a real asset for the Russian President and now he has lost it. 

He was looking for some remedy.

Our president with my initiation send a message to Russian embassy that we could solve using one of our own dogs. The only caveat was we had to get permission form Chinese authorities. 

Russians did not have any objections.

This how it was accomplished.

A strain of Wuhan virus was the intermediary.

Our Paraya dog has to be taken to China for 10 days and was kept with a Chinese special dog. They gain in function part of the virus is changed to the gene for Chinese language. Within 10 days our Ceylonese dog gain the ability to converse in sign language of Chinese.  Then he was taken to Russia and was kept with the Russian dog. Within 10 days the Russian dog acquires Chinese capability. 

For Russians this was real asset. 

However, much they trust Chinese diplomats having a Russian dog who could see the real intent of Chinese, at least in sign language was an asset that Russia would not have dreamt of.

What about the American dog, who lost his ability in English?

It is simple Ceylonese dog is kept with the American dog for ten day he acquires the typical Ceylonese English of American descent.

I am left with two problems.

I cannot get the Russian dog to comprehend Russian but he is well versed with English.

I cannot get the Ceylonese dog to comprehend English. 

He can comprehend only Sinhala language.

They have lost the parts of the genome of language comprehension which is closely linked to the dementia portion. 

Loss of language ability is part of the syndrome of dementia anyway.

So I have decided to send Ceylonese dogs to heaven, so Maha Brahama Assistant who is a Pedigree dog can use his genomic material to change his rival God’s genes, so that they become demented and won’t be a challenge to his regime in heaven. 

I have no regret letting this Ceylonese dog succumb to a natural death due to food scarcity already evident in Ceylon.

But before that event happening, I have to help President Donald Trump to get my dogs to help in CDC investigation in detail. This would take at least a few years and Junior John F. Kennedy would be happy to accept him as a gift from Ceylon.

NuTyX

NuTyX 
This is a hopeless distribution and if you are not a French Guy/Girl do not touch it.
It is trying to reinvent Linux by introducing another package manager. 
French are funny by all means.
Let me remind YOU few facts.
There was a lively distribution called Mandrake.
It became Mandriva due to legal dispute with the name.
I cut my teeth of Linux with Mandrake.
It had Globe Trotter which could not catch the imagination of the people. It was ahead of time and I think modern Mini PCs are a direct derivative of Globe Trotter. I could no lay hands on it, since I did not have money. I have left UK by then.
It started with Mandrake 7  but my guess is I used Mandrake 9 or 10.
The modern, Calamara Installer (distribution independent) is the refined version of Mandrake Installer.
I think a French guy who can read this and UNDERSTAND ENGLISH should revive the Globe Trotter Project with a new catchy name to avoid legal problems. Say "Imagination Run Riot" or similar phrase in French.
 
l'imagination se déchaîne is the AI translation!
 
NuTyX is a very flexible, complete GNU / Linux distribution for advanced or motivated users.

Numerous concepts of the distribution are original and therefore exist only on NuTyX.

For example, it has its own CARDS package manager.

You can choose to use the ports system, compile and install your packages from their sources, they will be integrated natively in the system, their management will be transparent.

In addition to the traditional ISOs available, an installation script can install NuTyX from another distribution.
 
Features

    Own CLI/GUI Package Manager
    Simple script to install from another Linux OS
    Testing and Rolling releases
    KDE Plasma 5 Desktop Environment
    GNOME Desktop Environment
    LXQt Desktop Environment
    Budgie Desktop Environment
    Cinnamon Desktop Environment

Mandrake Linux 7.0

Mandrake Linux 7.0

by  MandrakeSoft
Publication date  2000-05

Topics Linux, Linux Mandrake, CD, Operating System

Language  English

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Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux

Web site: mandriva.com/en/linux/ (not active)
Origin: France
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce
Architecture: x86, x86_64
Based on: Independent, Red Hat
Wikipedia: Mandriva Linux
Media: Live CD/DVD, Install DVD
The last version | Released: 2012 Alpha 2 | November 6, 2012
Zobacz po polsku Zobacz po polsku: Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux (previously: Mandrake Linux) – an independent Linux distribution, originally forked from Red Hat Linux.

The system features the most popular desktop environments, a set of pre-installed application for daily usage, and integrated its own graphical configuration utilities tool ‘Mandriva Control Center’.

Mandriva Linux uses ‘urpmi’ package manager, which allows installation of packages by automatically installing all the needed dependencies, from various media, including network/Internet, CD/DVD and local disk. Urpmi has a graphical front-end called ‘pmdrake’, which is integrated into the Mandriva Control Center.
The RPM package management system is also available in the system to perform operation on the packages.

Mandriva Linux was started in 1998 under the name of Mandrake Linux.
The first release was based on Red Hat Linux 5.1, used the K Desktop Environment 1, and was released in July 1998.
In February 2005, MandrakeSoft merged with Brazil’s company called Conectiva to the new Mandriva S.A. In May 2015 Mandriva SA has been closed.

The last stable version of Mandriva Linux 2011 was released in August 2011.

Derivatives:
– Most Mandriva Linux developers went to Mandriva fork called Mageia.
– ROSA is a fork of Mandriva created by former Mandriva developers too.
– OpenMandriva Lx has been built on the top of ROSA as its fork.
– PCLinuxOS initially derived from Mandrake.
– Unity Linux (discontinued) is a Mandriva based distribution.

DemoLinux

September 23, 2011
Demo Linux and the Nostalgia
It was a very pleasant experience to boot the Demo Linux that I downloaded 2 days ago.
It did not boot up with my Think Centre but did boot up with the NetVista without a problem an even detected the USB ports and the paraphernalia attached to the computer.
It had KDE, Gnome and surprisingly Star Office 2 (which I had never used before).
Most of the utilities were Debian based and it did not have office package not even Abiword but there were 10 or more text editors including LyX, Latex derivative and Quanta 2 the web editor, too.
There were hundred of utilities and games and demo did not need a password to boot.
It was very quick to boot and had all the text stating what was happenings behind the scene.
With tablets coming to scene, the humble beginning of Linux and now almost 95% of utilities including Androids using Linux is an amazing feat of the last 20 years.
But thank goes to Live CD List web site for keeping an archive CD there for downloading.
Now I am going to download version 2 too.
I used version 3 for testing.
Now that distromania is defunct I hope Live CD List keep some copies of old Linux for the future generation to see as a historical fact.
Without history mankind does not exist even in the digital age!
It reminded me of the Live Suse CD I used before I migrated from Redhat and Debian to Suse.

DemoLinux

Web site: www.demolinux.org
Origin: France
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: Gnome, KDE
Architecture: x86
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia: DemoLinux
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 3.0.1 | January 20, 2002

DemoLinux – one of the first Live CD Linux distributions, and was created to make it possible to use Linux without having to install it on the hard disk. 

It is the first Linux Live CD making possible to use the system in graphic mode and without any stage of configuration.

Version 1 was based on Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux), versions 2 and 3 used a mechanism independent of the distribution and were distributed mainly on a Debian basis.

Version 3.0 now introduces the Xvesa X server, replacing the framebuffer used before, which depended on VESA 2.0 cards. We now handle PCI sound cards, Lucent winmodems, Reiserfs version 3.5.x, certain USB peripherals and several other 2.2.18 kernel devices. As for version 2.0, DemoLinux 3 heavily uses a transparent compression schema that allows to store (sotre) over a gigabyte of applications, including GNOME and KDE and the StarOffice office suite.

To try out DemoLinux, you need a PC equipped with a CD-ROM and at least 32 MB of RAM for simple graphics interfaces, 64 for advanced graphics interfaces, 128 to use StarOffice.

DemoLinux project was composed of 3 people, all based at the Paris VII University of Paris: 

Vincent Balat, 

Roberto Di Cosmo and 

Jean-Vincent Loddo.

The project was under development between 2000 and 2002.

Demo Linux and the Nostalgia

September 23, 2011

Demo Linux and the Nostalgia
It was a very pleasant experience to boot the Demo Linux that I downloaded 2 days ago.
It did not boot up with my ThinkCentre but did boot up with the NetVista without a problem an even detected the USB ports and the paraphernalia attached to the computer.
It had KDE, Gnome and surprisingly StarOffice 2 (which I had never used before).
Most of the utilities were Debian based and it did not have office package not even AbiWord but there were 10 or more text editors including LyX, Latex derivative and Quanta 2 the web editor too.
 

There were hundred of utilities and games and demo did not need a password to boot.
It was very quick to boot and had all the text stating what was happenings behind the scene.
With tablets coming to scene, the humble beginning of Linux and now almost 95% of utilities including Androids using Linux is an amazing feat of the last 20 years.
But thank goes to Live CD List web site for keeping an archive CD there for downloading.
Now I am going to download version 2.
I used version 3 for testing.
Now that distromania is defunct I hope Live CD List keep some copies of old Linux for the future generation to see as a historical fact.


Without history mankind does not exist even in the digital age!


It reminded me of the Live Suse CD I used before I migrated from Redhat and Debian to Suse.

Leonard Hayflick and 50 Cell Cycle

 Reproduction

Leonard Hayflick and 50 Cell Cycle 

LimitEponyms have long been a feature of medicine and science. The textbooks are dotted with eponymous syndromes and diseases, with laws and constants, all flattering the memory of their inventors or discoverers. But there is only one eponymous limit in biomedicine: the Hayflick Limit, the number of times (about 50) that normal human embryonic cells can divide before they succumb to senescence.Leonard Hayflick, professor of anatomy at the University of California at San Francisco, advanced the concept 50 years ago. The Hayflick Limit, he contended, was both an explanation for the phenomenon of ageing and a demolition of the wishful view (of some) that the human lifespan need have no upper limit. But although he correctly identified the cell nucleus as the location of the responsible mechanism, it fell to others to discern the structures involved. It was biologists Nobel Prize winners Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider who showed how the cell keeps a tally of the number of times it has divided during its progress towards the Hayflick Limit. The ends of chromosomes carry structures called telomeres. Every time a cell divides the telomeres become shorter, this loss being the basis of what Hayflick described not as a clock (the process is not dependent on measuring time) but as a counting device, a “replicometer”.

Now 83 years old, Hayflick no longer has his own laboratory, but is still closely involved with ageing. He writes, lectures, does consultancy work, and, in a satisfying manifestation of natural justice, reckons that the ageing process is treating him well. “I think I'm pretty much ahead of the game for two reasons”, he says. 

“First of all I've absolutely no chronic medical problems that I'm aware of. And, perhaps more important, my mother is about to celebrate her 105th birthday.” 

The genes, if not the telomeres, are on his side.

Life expectancy in most developed countries is, and has for many years, been creeping upwards: some 25 years over the past century. Much of this is the consequence of success at dealing with our traditional killer, infectious diseases. 

But the rate of increase, Hayflick contends, will diminish as we approach what he believes to be our natural average lifespan of around 92 years. 

America's thriving anti-ageing movement annoys him greatly. “The invention of ways to increase human longevity is the world's second oldest profession, or maybe even the first. Individuals are going to the bank at this moment with enormous sums of money gained by persuading people that they've found either a way to extend your life or to make you immortal.” To imagine that the current rate of life expectancy increase will continue indefinitely is as absurd as extrapolating the diminishing time taken to run a mile and concluding that it will sooner or later be done in one second. “Everything in the Universe changes or ages with time, and to think that you can reverse it is nonsense.” When asked how he responds to the idea in principle of finding some way to postpone death indefinitely, he responds with dry humour that any such development would be expensive, and therefore available only to the rich and powerful. “I don't know how many rich and powerful friends you have, but some of the ones I have I certainly don't want to live another decade or two beyond normal.”

Hayflick's career has not been without struggle. That he looks back with no regrets surely reflects that he emerged from his two major disputes so triumphantly. The first concerned the discovery that bears his name. Ageing research generated little interest in the USA when he first entered it. It had been dogma for 60 years that the eventual death of normal human cells in culture was not due to some inherent property, but caused by ignorance of the proper conditions under which to culture them. It took what Hayflick describes as “10 or 15 painful years” for the scientific community to accept what he'd discovered. “To torpedo a half century old belief is not easy even in science.”

The other and potentially more damaging dispute was with the US Government. 

 The conflict began in the early 1960s when Hayflick was working at the University of Pennsylvania's Wistar Institute. 

He developed a cell line dubbed WI-38. 

Because it was living material it couldn't then be patented, so the vaccine companies to which it was freely distributed (it had proved to be exceptionally good for growing viruses) were earning a commercial return while the institution and the individuals who had created it were not. 
Hayflick set up his own company to distribute WI-38 and to hold payments for packaging and shipping until ownership was settled. 
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which had previously supported the distribution, then accused Hayflick of stealing government property. 
He in turn filed a lawsuit against the NIH. 
After 6 years the action was settled out of court on terms that allowed Hayflick to continue distributing WI-38. 
The subsequent passage of the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act specifically allowed researchers at universities to apply for patents on federally funded inventions.

“What I had done was embraced as policy by the US Government”, says Hayflick, who seems to look back on the saga less in sorrow than in glee. 
“Had my ideas not prevailed there would be no biotechnology industry.” 

It was, after all, mostly scientists who'd developed new techniques and materials while supported by public funds who went on to set up the small companies which created that industry. “I consider it one of my most important achievements.” 

As a researcher, Hayflick has shaped form as well as content.

Dementia Update

 Dementia Update

I do not think dementia is an invariable accompaniment of old age but part of the Total End Organ Failure that is determined by Cell Cycle Events and the inability to Heal or Repair, lost cells.

Healing and Repair are inherent processes which we are born with. It cannot be upgraded.

One is free to share this with kith and kin.

This piece is in development stage. If one modifies the contents one is responsible (copyright) for his or her own vagaries. I am a scientific man and nothing is granted as real or fully understood. Do not take any concept as acceptable until proven otherwise. 

Just apply cause and effect principle as the driving force with Kalama Sutta as the safeguard for any diversion in focus of attention. 

Let me take the putative causes first.

1. Lack of proper sleep. It is in reality disturbance of diurnal melatonin secretion.

Early to rise and early to bed is the bottom line.

2. Alcohol consumption on regular basis as a energizing tonic.

Alcohol is a universal cell poison including neurons.

3. Over use of cellphone that effect on and off switch of brain frequencies. It is much complicated than that. The new term plasticity of brain is a misnomer. Living under giant Telecom Towers even affect grassing cattle. Computers and television screens are included in this frequency modulation effect.

4. Too much attention to Meditation and physical inactivity. It means self imposed lack of physical exercise.

Walking meditation is probably better than sitting meditation.

5. Fifth is most abundant and damaging.      Strict conformity to a bizarre religious dogmatism that can cause Third World War.

Currently it is in active mode.

6. Some medicinal derivatives, especially cholesterol lowering drugs. Drug companies are hiding these facts and I have documented this elsewhere in detail.

7.Ayahuasca consumption with Spiritual Upliftment (in fact a grand delusion). It is a drug. Drug induced delusional states are as worse as dementia.

8. Consumption of beef.

This is related to Amyloid Proteins which are not broken down to amino acids and deposited in brain in nano quantities to begin with. Their ongoing assimilation to bigger molecules is automatic and do not need catalytic activity of enzymes.

9. Certain viruses cause brain damage. Savages in Papua New Guinea known for cannibalism who eat brains of the victims harbour  these viruses. Kuru, a prion disease, is the disease that affected the people of Papua New Guinea. It is not a virus, but an infectious protein. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a disease that was first found in cattle. It is related to a disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It is directly related to eating beef of cattle that suffered from BSE. This virus was generally named as Mad Cow Disease Virus. Mrs. Thatcher in 1980s as the PM in UK suppressed this Scientific Information deliberately, to safeguard British beef industry. I was in UK during this period and left UK never to return.

Ready made Remedies

1. Avoid above putative causes and have 8 or 9 hour sleep rhythm. Power snooze (nap) of one (1) hour on the desk is mandatory at least for university students and school children.

In practice 4 hours of Deep Sleep is enough and Lord Buddha was a good exponent of this strategy and he used his waking hours to the benefit of mankind.

By the way, he walked length and breath of India.

Sleep less and work more for your fellow beings. Do not work like Ceylonese Civil Servants. They take a big lunch and maintain a prolong absence from the desk as if they are busy with some urgent work.

Better skip lunch.

Memory which I have not discussed here is established in these 4 hours of Deep Sleep.

Breaking Sleep and overnight cramming is bad.  I never had this habit and slept well the day before the examination. It was bit difficult at first but one has to cultivate it gradually.

2. Use plenty of Pol Sambol (kernel) and coconut oil for food. Coconut fat has medium change fatty acids and are readily metabolized. Coconut does not contribute to obesity. Besides, the ketone bodies provide ready made energy even for dementia patients.

It is a fact.

Coconut water (has an excess of potassium) is iso-osmotic and provides electrolytes in a suitable package.

3. Missing one meal out of three (single good meal strategy) with a good breakfast. Hunter gatherer survived on one meal.

A good banana and a good cup of Ceylon Tea (not coffee) for breakfast are adequate.

Too much Tea effects your sleep.

4. Regular Exercise at least twice a week.

5. Lots of fruits and vegetables with antioxidants including cashew nuts. Cashew is a mild aphrodisiac which one of our previous president demanded on Sri-Lankan airline flights.

I prohibit this delicacy to presidents and prime ministers.

Bottom line is, the temporary loss of memory is an early sign of Dementia and that is the time for one to act and not later.

This transient memory loss comes after 30 years and certainly after 45 years and is probably related to prolonging (lag) of late cell cycles in a strict 50 Cell Cycles events in biology.

Astroglia has some role in this.

To learn about the cell cycle read my book on three demented dogs, coming after the Ceylon Elections. This is the summary of the 1st chapter on Three Dogs with Dementia funded by none other than Maha Brahma, himself.

Humour (not political satire) is the best Medicine and this is what we lack during our extended Election Campaign.

By the way, I sleep well in my retirement.

There is some relationship (brain activity) of calcium metabolism which I do not understand in memory channels or networks. I think vitamin D has some relationship which we do not lack in Ceylon (probably early morning hours, later in the day there are more UV light damage). In the West taking Vitamin D supplement is mandatory. There is special Vitamin supplement for those who are over 50.

Vitamin B1 and B6 are vital for brain function and Hemoglobin level is also important. In my case,      I have too much of it from early days of my life probably related to sports activity. 

I do not think I have an understanding renal tumour.

Friday, February 21, 2025

Food and Wines, in England, New Zealand and Australia

I would go from now to the past. 
I intend to introduce this in my book "Vegetarian Saga" as an addendum.
Regarding wine, I now shun all types of alcohol, since all spirits contribute to dementia (read my pieces here on dogs and dementia, for in depth analysis) and loss of memory. Even though, I can remember the spelling, I tend to miss the appropriate word without a Dictionary and Thesaurus, by the side of me. My vocabulary has gone up tremendously but American words like filibustering and gubernatorial are alien and not to my liking at all. 
Internet Dictionary with AI support is horrible.
Australia has a biwildering collection of wines. We were to select a wine as a gift and we could not do that for about 2 hours. I was a beer drinker in Ceylon and my favorite was Gin and Tonic before a billard game at the Faculty Club at Peradeniya Golf Club (it is no more due to Children Hospital). 
I stop drinking beer in UK and gradually learned to pick good wines that came from France. British are beer drinkers by all counts. Regarding New Zealand, in 1990s they had the worst collection of wines.

Let me jump to bread, butter and milk. 
I tasted the best bread in New Zealand, Greymouth over the weekend. It may be that the Irish Baker was an expert in his trade. I have never tested such delicious bread in all my life. 
I do not like sweet tasting cakes except perhaps chocolate cakes. 
Australia has wide variety of pastry. But nothing to beat Singaporean croissants, cinnamon rolls and cheese cakes, I enjoyed in Singapore for 10 days when they opened a new City Hall. They were expensive and fabulous but after 1PM the prices came down to one Singapore dollar per piece, for each item left unsold. It ended abruptly and I was there for only 3 weeks. In my living memory Singaporeans take the gold for bread and pastry. 
I have not bean to France but always ask for French bread and croissants whenever I had to be in a Hotel in UK. I do not think British can make good French bread. 
They call it baguette in France that is all I can remember in my French lessions in Ceylon. La pain is the name for bread and Ceylonese Pan and Patties come from that vocabulary, I believe. 
The French name for bakery is boulangerre.
This is all about wine, bread and pastries.
No entry for milk and butter and they taste the same but nothing to beat Manchester Milk.
British Fish and Chips were the best in UK in the 1980s but one cannot find good fish and chip joints in UK, currently.
By they way, I left Ceylon in late 1970s when we were starving in Ceylon (not really only bread was in short supply). 
I think we have come a full circle and people are starving in Ceylon. 
I of course, left Ceylon well in advance having sensed the impending catastrophe.
This was true in late 1970s.
Come to think about it, in my previous lives I may have treated my fellow beings with good food, unlike Ranil and his clan.

How to Prevent Dementia?

How to Prevent Dementia?
 
I do not think dementia is an invariable accompaniment of Old Age but part of the Total End Organ Failure  that is determined by Cell Cycle Events and the inability to Heal or Repair, lost cells.
  
Healing and Repair are inherent processes which we are born with (it cannot be upgraded).
 
One is free to share this with kith and kin.

This piece is in development stage.

If one modifies the contents one is responsible (copyright) for his or her own vagaries.

I am a scientific man and nothing is granted (do not take any concept as acceptable until proven otherwise) as real or fully understood.

Apply cause and effect principle as the driving force with Kalama Sutta as the safeguard for any diversion in focus of attention.

Let me take the putative causes first.

1. Lack of proper sleep (in reality disturbance of diurnal melatonin secretion).

Early to rise and early to bed is bottom line.

2. Alcohol consumption on regular basis as a energizing tonic. 
 
Alcohol is a universal cell poison including neurons.

3. Over use of cellphone that effect on and off switch of brain frequencies. 
It is much complicated than this (plasticity of brain is a misnomer).

Living under giant Telecom Towers even affect grassing cattle.

Computers and Television Screens are included in this frequency modulation effect.

4. Too much attention to Meditation and physical inactivity (means lack of physical exercise). 
Walking meditation is probably better than sitting meditation.

I have documented cases.

5. Fifth is most abundant and damaging.

Strict conformity to a bizarre religious dogmatism that can cause Third World War.

Currently it is in active mode.

6. Some medicinal derivatives, especially cholesterol lowering drugs. 

Drug companies are hiding these facts and I have documented this elsewhere in detail.

7. Ayahuasca consumption with Spiritual upliftment (in fact a grand delusion). Delusional states are as worse as dementia.

8. Consumption of beef. 
This is related to Amyloid Proteins which are not broken down to amino acids and deposited in brain in nano quantities to begin with.
Their ongoing assimilation to bigger molecules is automatic and do not need catalytic activity of enzymes.

Read the next item.

8. Certain viruses cause brain damage. Savages in Papua New Guinea known for cannibalism who eat brains of the victims harbour (long names which I have forgotten) these viruses.

This virus was generally named as Mad Cow Disease Virus.

Mrs. Thatcher in 1980s as the PM in UK suppressed this Scientific Information deliberately.

I was in UK during this period and left UK never to return.


Ready made Remedies 

1. Avoid above putative causes and have 8 or 9 hour sleep rhythm.

Power snooze (nap) of one (1) hour on the desk is mandatory at least for university students and school children.

In practice 4 hours of Deep Sleep is enough and Lord Buddha was a good exponent of this strategy and he used his waking hours to the benefit of mankind.
By the way, he walked length and breath of India. 
Sleep less and work more for your fellow beings. 

Do not work like Ceylonese Civil Servants. 
8 hours with big lunch and prolong absence from the desk on working hours.

Better skip lunch.
 
Memory which I have NOT discussed here is established in these 4 hours of Deep Sleep. 
Breaking Sleep and overnight cramming is BAD. 
I never had this habit and slept well the day before the examination (bit difficult at first but one has to cultivate it gradually)

2. Use plenty of pol sambol (kernel) or coconut oil for food.
Coconut fat has medium change fatty acids and are readily metabolized. 
Do not contribute to obesity.
 
Besides, the ketone bodies provide ready made energy even for dementia patients.

It is a fact.

Coconut water (has an excess of potassium) is iso-osmottic and provides electrolytes in a suitable package.

3. Missing one meal out of three (single good meal strategy) with a good breakfast. Hunter gatherer survived on one meal.

A good banana and a good cup of Ceylon Tea (not coffee) for breakfast are adequate.

Too much Tea effects your SLEEP.

4. Regular Exercise at least twice a week.

5. Lots of Fruits and Vegetables with antioxidants including Cashew Nuts.

Cashew is a mild aphrodisiac which one of our previous Residents demanded in Sri-Lankan Airline.
 
I prohibit this delicacy to Presidents and Prime Ministers.

Bottom line is, the temporary loss of memory is an early sign of Dementia and that is the time for one to act and not later.

This transient memory loss comes after 30 years and certainly after 45 years and is probably related to prolonging (lag) of late cell cycles in a strict 50 Cell Cycles Events in Biology. 
Astroglia has some role in this.
 
To learn about the cell cycle read my book on three demented dogs, coming after the Ceylon Elections.

This is the summary of the 1st chapter on Three Dogs with Dementia funded by none other than Maha Brahma, himself.

Humour (not political satire) is the best Medicine and this is what we lack during our extended Election Campaign.

By the way, I sleep well in my retirement.

There is some relationship (brain activity) of calcium metabolism which I do not understand in memory channels or networks. 
I think vitamin D has some relationship which we do not lack in Ceylon (probably early morning hours, later in the day there are more UV light damage).
In the West taking Vitamin D supplement is mandatory.
There is special Vitamin supplement for those who are over 50.

Vitamin B1 and B6 are vital for brain function and Hemoglobin level is also important.

In my case, I have too much of it from early days of my life probably related to sports activity. 
I do not think I have an understanding real tumour.

From Me to Mr. Bill

 From Me to Mr. Bill

This is an old blog post (2011) of mine in asokaplus www.wordpress.com, which I would like to post again.

This is my adaptation from an Email, I received.

I am currently studying birds and bill is appropriate for pecking.

Dear Mr.Bill
This letter is from so and so to so and so.
I bought a computer recently and unfortunately I found the following problems.
1. When I connect to the Internet and opened the e-mail and whenever I type my name I get a CAGE called password and a number of asterisks ****** .
I leave the asterisks and type my password in the rest of the fields.
As soon as I type letters appear as true to form and nothing else happens afterward.
I do not know how to solve this problem.
I checked with the hardware vendor (Kandy) and he checked the keyboard and said it has no problems.
I got a brain wave and opened the email with the word password and asterisks ***** but that did not work.

2. When I click the "Shut down" button I am unable to do anything else afterwards with the computer.
I thought the computers work 24 hours without a break and without any complaints.
Please let me know how to solve this problem.

3. However, there is a button called "Start" but there is no button called "Stop" when I want to go to the loo.
I request you to solve this problem.

4. I find there is a 'Run' button in the menu ( I don't want to have runs after a meal-diarrhoea- especially the type of meal called "On the go", I have in my office).
One of my friends told me I should do a run in the evening after sitting long hours in front of the TV screen learning new computer techniques and concepts.

5. Click and Run is dangerous even in Kandy with so many "Bills on the Beat" with  AK45s in their hands.
I don't like to run.
Please change it to "Sit and Wait".

In fact, I do this when I have a problem with my computer.
I believe even the ordinary citizens do the same thing ("Sit and Wait Patiently") nowadays especially when they come to Colombo for some work.

6. I would prefer a "Bicycle" with a click of a button instead of a "Pizza" available in the system.
With petrol going up that is good for my health and my purse.
As I find only "Re-cycle" and that is a gross oversight by the computer wizards of America.

7. By the way for people who have money and a scooter another option called "Re-scooter" is desirable.
Unfortunately I do not own a scooter.

8. The 'Find' button is not working properly.
My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot to find the the key with this "Find" button but it was not possible.
Is it due to a bug?

9. Every night my sleep is disturbed since the Cat come looking for the "Mouse" at odd hours in the night.

I propose you should make a game called Cat, Mouse and the Dog and ask the Disneyland to train all the domestic cats , dogs and mice to play this game without killing each other like the humans do.
We humans can learn from this game a few earthly visions.

10. My child likes to learn the Microsoft Word now. 
It is better one should develop the Grammar and the Sentence Structure since our children are very poor in English as a language.

How We Lost the Electronic Stores-USA

Guy like me who was a gadget maniac has posted the true reasons for disappearance of Gadget Stores.
1. Online Stores
2.  Cellphone 
3. Price Level
The items were 10 times expensive and the seller had a big margin of profits.
I need to add another fact.
Outsourcing production facilities to Taiwan.
With low cost wage structure in Asia, American could not complete.
This is the same problem President Donald Trump would face in his America First initiative.
Is Elon Musk going to use AI technology to counter?
NO.
China already has DeepSeek in their possession.

Tamils and Chetti and Singala Origins

Thu, Feb 20, 2025 

Tamils and Chetti and Singala Origins

I can remember Rukmanie Devi and Edi Jayamanne. She came to Ceylon and my mother wanted to see her live (not performance). It was a stampede and I never went see a film until the Western Films started coming to Ceylon.

Nada is my batch mate and is a Forensic Guy who would not utter anything, without checking historical facts

Only highlighting and capitalization in this piece is my editing.

Kasinathan Nadesan
  
To my knowledge they came from Chettinadu in Madurai district, Tamils and Hindus. 
Also we had Telungus including last king of Kandy. 
But these Telungus came from Tamil Nadu, spoke Tamil and Hindus. 
Telungus, ie Nayakas  later became all the well known Singala Nayakas, bandara nayakas and mahanayakas who called themselves as high caste singalese. 
They accordingly changed their religions and languages for convenience and worst some of them became utter racist, against Tamils. 
Many still don't bother to learn the true history of Ceylon, thinking its people are very authentic. Sinhale is one such nonsense. 
If not for Buddha and King Ashoka and the Portuguease, the story would have been entirely different. 





Thursday, February 20, 2025

Another Dream

Another Dream

I think  need to record this before I forget.

I will post it to Maha Brahma by email and report on his reply, later.

Place in in Ceylon is about 10 miles away from our residence.

I had a very bad feeling as it were we were evicted from our pricey possession by evil means (may not be by new JVP/NPP combo) and we had to shift to a less desirable home. 

I guess they deliberately overvalued the land so that we could not pay the due taxes and so they could evict us on the long run. 

I think this is Ranil's ploy. He overlays the road with cement (only the entrance and the rest of the road is not motor-able), and puts a big picture of him adoring, rather destroying the natural beauty of the place.

The new Ranil Taxes are overseen by the A.K.D.'s new regime. 

We could not pay and the eviction notice served.

Our home has 7 level to accommodate the small space of 6 to 8 perch.

The rooftop garden is at the 7th level.

New land was slightly bigger but paddy fields on both sides. 

That was not a problem except for encephalitis mosquitoes.

It was an old mansion with probably ghost residing, before we landed there.

What annoyed me most was it had only two levels and no rooftop garden (with orchids).

The landlord probably would have been an old Nilaame who had gone bankrupt due to current I.M.F. taxes imposed on them (same plight as ours)  and left it to run down.

He may have died without a will.

How we possessed it or most likely became tenants, I have no clue, at all.

The paint of the door was peeling off and the guys were painting them without scraping the old paint with white paint.

I hate white paint it reminds me of funerals in Ceylon.

Perhaps, I would have been dead and this futuristic dream may have been my funeral. 

Only Maha Brahma with his divine vision would know.

Worse scenario was that the roof of my bed room was taken off while I was sleeping under, in broad day light (my regular day time nap after retirement) and they were about to land parts of the roof on my rooftop garden destroying all my orchids, collected over 20 years.

Enough to annoy me even in my sleep.

With that anger I was woken up.

I will complete this when I heard from Maha and my Google Gmail is not working, since I installed a new Linux called Wlinux.


Maha Brahma Interpretation

I got a return of post reply with the usual saying, Lone Time No SEE!

I said, I was working on a few books and I sleep well without mosquitoes in Australia and there were no dreams, as a result.

Besides, I did not have to dream, apples, pears, oranges, plums and grapes which were my favorites in the 80s in UK. 

Of course, I dream of Mangoes, Soursop, Dragon fruits and Ambum and Ambul Kehel (type of bananas in Ceylon about 10 or 20 with some genetically engineered varieties). 

I never got constipated in Ceylon, in spite of sweating a lot but first problem in Australia was constipation due to relative lack of humidity.

Is about me?

Little bit but mostly about Ceylon.

Your orchids on the rooftop is no more.

Awful.

They bloomed only once and that Rawla (bearded man), they next door neighbor plundered the remains.

I know he secretly climbs to our roof from the rear annex.

Did he joined the JVP?

No, he did not contest. I guess he was threatened by the grass roots.

Who is the current guy from NPP.

He is not from Kandy but a University guy who failed his final examination but has got his degree confirmed.

Or, I see!

Anything is possible with NPP in power.

Now what about Ceylon?

Catastrophe?

YES.

Is it during the current regime?

I am not supposed to be political. 

There is no politics in heaven.

OK.

It is like this.

Weather fails.

No rain.

No paddy harvest.

No imports.

No petrel.

No three wheeler imports.

No rice imports.

Famine.

Virus more powerful than coronavirus.

Land given to China, India and America.

What about Russia.

All Food Aid comes from them.

They have a surplus and Odessa is in there hands. 

What about Americas?

Hell on earth with 95% addicted to ICE.

What happened to Republican and Democrats?

There are no parties and only anarchy.

It is two much for me to digest.

Am I in heaven with Zimba?

I am not supposed to say and he vanished in a flash.

 

 


My Global Vision for Computers

 My Global Vision for Computers 

Now that I have expressed my global views, in general, if I do not write few lines on computer world, it is unfair by my standards.

This whole world is taken over by few companies and President Putin cannot overview the impact, only the Linux World can keep it's head up.    

We cannot trust China and it has it's own Kline OP system I will never try.

A waste of my precise time.

Having said that Ubuntu has abrogated it's responsibility and that void is filled by Emmabantus in style. I have just made two bootable USBs one on Emmabantus and the other on Ubuntu.

I have multiple copies of MultSystem with multiple Linux distributions run on 64GB USB sticks, the standard not USB-3s. Now Emmabantus took twice the time of Ubuntu and it shows the paucity of software in Ubuntu. Now Emmabantus did not use a single copyrighted application. 

That is my bone of contention in Ceylon where Pseudo-Buddhists who use pirated copies.

Unfortunately the USB made by Ubuntu software did not boot. That is why I did copying it with Emmabantus and it boots quickly unlike the DVD on the ROM. Emmabantus has everything I need including USB writer and USB image writer which works perfectly well in Emmabantus including MultiSystem (new versions does not support MultiSystem).

Mind you I hate the noise of DVD ROMs.

If Laptop makers are sensible they should discontinue the inbuilt DVD and dish out a detached DVD ROM with each Laptop, if the customer needs. That saves space for my Vision that will come later in this piece.

Not only noise it consume lot of energy.

That job can be done easily with a USB Stick and 4MB RAM. If any of your gadgets has less than 4GB RAM either dish it out or upgrade to 4GB RAM.

If you are not a game player 4GB RAM is more than enough. 

In Linux one need lot of RAM only in installing but they always reserve 1 GB for system and hardware and in, installation Linux use 3 GB by default.

There is no crash like in Windows.

Windows take all the RAM and that is why it crashes often ad hoc. TPM or Total Play or Pay module or is it something else that expects minimum of 4GB RAM.

That is the only swipe I will make at the expense of stupid Window Users.

Now coming to my Vision.

I hate a big computer either desktop or a standalone mode.

It takes space.

What I need is a solid input device (modified keyboard) and a big monitor. Only one company has taken this to heart and working on it and I wish them success but I won't buy one since I have my computers working only on Linux. This keyboard probably will only support Windows and I hope they make Linux one to save on the cost to begin with.

This keyboard should put the motherboard under it's keys. 

One reference to Linux Developers and they use keyboard shortcuts day in and day out.

The function keys  F-1 to F-12 can be accommodated for their use in principle.

I use Ctr, Alt, Del and F2 only and other function keys are literally a waste.

My proposed  Keyboard Computer can use them for good use. 

As I said earlier the DVD is dispensed with and all booting should be done with bootable USBs and quality of USBs should go up but the price should come down. USB port should be in front not in side like in Laptops and I hate fiddling to find a port in my old age.

Some words about gender.

All these gadgets are made by male guys who want money and a yacht to sail at sea. They do not care a damn except for cellphones that are made for women only and a man with a big finger cannot use a tiny phone in hand.

Whereas Keyboard with Motherboard enclosed can be used by a man with big hands and big fingers. Hang, the virtual keyboards which interfere with typing perpetually.

I forgot to mention the keyboard should have a bay in the middle to mount the cellphone or tablet  in a mobile mode.

That's all one need a cellphone and a flexible rubber keyboard that one can wrap round the head with a side cap as a portable helmet on a rainy day. 

I hope you got the image or the vision and keyboard should come out of age and incorporate more ports for microphone head sets, cameras, various USB sticks and WiFi DVD ROMs.

Combining digital software and analogue gadgets might cause little problems but make one bigger in size for the man to stay on the table top typing and a small one for me and ladies to carry to the pantry.

Ladies are the ones good at thrashing light weight ones and who knows if one spills coffee on it one can use it as a doormat. Even though, I use some skepticism and satire a lot here, what I say, I mean in my heart of hearts. 

Again no plastics for environmental reason and rubber is a plant product and it will support our rubber industry directly.

All what I need is a flexible rubber keyboard in my hand and a big monitor at the foot end of my bed which I can see at age of 80 without a problem.

If I get annoyed I can thrash it on the floor to see how it works (good or bad) and if not working use it as a doormat.

Transition of Big Form Factor to Small Form Factor

 Transition of Big Form Factor to Small Form Factor

It's all about Energy and Economics.

Let me dish out a fact, first.

Do not Use Chinese DeepIn Linux.

It destroyed one of the last two IDE HDD I have. I mounted IDE on an external case and installed DeepIn.

It booted once and did not boot again.

I tried to format the IDE and I couldn't.

It won't mount and it could be a ploy by Chinese to destroy old hardware and computers using a backend tools, unknowingly so that the user has to buy a new one.

It perhaps may be due to DeepIn's faulty GRUB.

Either way, I lost one IDE even though I am going to depreciate all IDE hardware including CD/DVD drives.

My first PC of 10GB cannot be mounted Microsoft's Windows 95 destroyed it's boot record.

It looks like Chinese are taking a leaf out American Bill Gate and employing it's counter mechanisms against the American hegemony.

The other IDE of 80GB is mounted on an nice aircraft quality  aluminum external case and it has MultiSytem installed with many Linux distributions installed.

That is an entry point to to the transition of technology.

My gut feeling is Intel will discontinue Ryzen and Radeon in gradual steps. If you are an Intel fan it is time to buy them now since there is a glut of graphic cards. 

This warning is to the game players.

You should design your own game box provided you have space in your living room.

Time to design a VM Box too.

VM is graphic intensive.

This is true for AMD and NVIDIA or New Video, too.

I had a 512MB NV card and mounted it on my old PC. It looks like the integrated graphic card of my ACER motherboard is better and have better pixel density but I prefer lesser density of NV card since all the pictures and fonts are bigger at boot time and there is no eye strain at boot time.

I can adjust them to my needs if I desire.

I have not studied FPS, IK Resolution and Pixel density in real physiological (not in physics) terms but suffice is to say our brain can register at best 256 colours and 36 FPS at best and any advance in physics and physical dimensions of the gadget is converted to an illusion in the brain.

By the way, all digital games are an illusion of some sort. 

I forgot an important point of integration of CPU and Graphic cards and heat generation in use.

Both CPU and new generation of graphic cards generate enormous amount of heat. Choosing a proper cooling mechanism is of paramount importance and adding a few extra fans is (if the motherboard allows you) prudent.

The second point is the buss speed (may not be the correct term) of CPU should tally with the RAM speed of Graphic cards.

If not compatible these incompatibilities will effect one's gaming experience.

I leave it at that.

The buss speed of my 100 Herz per second and was not compatible with 128 of IBM server and next generation of 133 Herz per second.

I have about 20 odd RAM cards in my attic.

Consider my new NUC has 8GB RAM.

Coming to small form factor, I believe Intel, AMD and NVIDIA will investigate and invest on cost of production and profit margin on the long run.

They will turn to small form factor invariably.

Mass production of them will be easy and FABs are in real demand. 

The war of computer technology of America and China has already begun. Taiwan’s silicone industry may even initiate the Third World War and it is  not certainly by Russia.

Considering all these I bought a NUC of Intel.

Thank you Intel.

I have no money to go for AMD.

I have mounted 360GB internal and 360GB external SATA disks with my favorite Linux Distributions (unfortunately one at a time in one SATA).

Without games it is enough, till I kick the bucket.

I am thinking of buying another (one at home one on the move or fly) NUC. Low noise and mobility are important to me in  old age. 

Instead of an old USB, if I can carry my operating system in a 1 terabyte SATA is good enough for me. I do not need these NVMe SATA disk with huge capacity which even NAS sever will envy.

I forgot another point our politicians do not care about. 

We in Ceylon will buy (that include Universities and I thank God I am no longer work for universities and a free software advocate and freelancer) big form factor computers going cheap to replace our ageing infrastructure with water cooling systems that cost lot more on running (with Power Cuts to deal with) costs.

They cannot even think of small form factor, low cost and low energy bills.