With a massive campaign they could not muster 3% that Australian Labour party achieved.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Evaluation of Election Results, The Closing Beat
With a massive campaign they could not muster 3% that Australian Labour party achieved.
Pacha Hunters one Month Old
iDeal OS
The main goals of iDeal OS are privacy and security: you can surf, shop, trade and bank online with complete peace of mind, without annoying ads, tracking, logging, bugs, viruses or unwanted disclosure of personal information.
iDeal OS is available in two different editions:
- Emerald Edition is designed to give you the best applications for your everyday computing needs.
A friendly desktop experience for everyone.
- Diamond Edition turns your computer into a powerful digital workstation with a wide range of professional tools for your business.
Empowering entrepreneurs, freelancers, programmers, web designers, content creators, artists, YouTubers, etc.
Blend OS a Big Failure
Blend OS a Big Failure
Yes, Blend OS is a big failure.
It looks like it is a one man show and not a collaborative project.
I am a guy who has used Linux over 30 years and still critical of Linux.
If I take for example Ubuntu is trying to reinvent the wheel with Rust.
Whereas, Linux Light tries to keep the Ubuntu base active but lacks loot of modern utilities.
In that spectrum Blend OS comes nowhere.
I discarded Redhat long ago and Suse a few years later.
Reason being their corporate mentality and using the community as a sucker base. Redhat is still loitering at 9.5 or so and that is the end result. What annoys me is their redundant file systems.
I am slowly moving to ARCH base where only one application for one purpose and rolling release to accommodate new technology.
Linus is moving tremendously fast and I cannot keep pace.
If one wants a robust distribution I think one should try Reborn OS.
If you wants a beautiful distribution try Endeavor OS or BlueStar Linux.
But the distribution that moving very fast is Manjaro in spite of a bit of controversy among the core staff.
I have settled down with Debian Gnome, Reborn OS, BlueStar and not to forget MX Linux which is an excellent distribution.
In this scenario I tested to see how Bled OS does.
It does not do anything it claims but the guy who try to use it has to do the own donkey work.
First thing I look at is the software depot and it directs me to GitHub.
That finishes my encounter with Blend OS.
I had bit of an antipathy towards IDEAL which is based on Manjaro.
I am going to try it now.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
What if one loses a Pendrive or a U.S.B Hard Disk?
Friday, April 29, 2011
What if one loses a Pendrive or a U.S.B Hard Disk?
Nothing much you can do about it if you are a Microsoft user.
If you are paranoid and buy some expensive stuff with password protection and or use encryption before saving, you can say, alright I lost it but there is no use for the petty thief.
In a world where everybody is getting very selfish and living in self contained compartments, if you accidentally lose one, the one who finds the gadget may not go all out to find the owner.
Best way to protect your data is to not to carry in a portable medium.
Cloud Linux and saving in a cloud is a good option and that is why I used to support it very enthusiastically but even there, there are some major problems when a hacker attacks a servers or a server farm.
So there is no full proof method to save data.
Other option is to be somebody like me who make life principles very simple and have very little substance to hide or boast about except my Linux Images stored all over the place.
If I lose them no problem the Linux tracker will have almost all my Images except the very old ones and it is a matter of sitting down and painfully downloading them again on a portal which is painfully slow in the 3rd world.
When I come to think about it it is time for people with common interests to get together and to Form Citizens Bureaus and possess servers of their own and maintain them on a voluntary basis with trust as the bond and the friendship as the driving force.
This is a wishful thinking of the futuristic world, "I am dreaming of" but I may not live long enough to see that eventuality.
It is in fact, a force in need.
Everybody getting paranoid and everybody has something to hide or use the knowledge he or she possesses for capital gain in this present world of greed and profit
But no common decency.
WiKiLeaks was something that had to emerge and I only saw the good side of WiKiLeaks.
We saw the panic side of it.
Bad Americans diplomacy and duplicity.
We see a similar round of duplicity when BunKi Moon decides to make his own world of wisdom, just to make sure his job is secure for another two years but throw the U.N.O. credentials and caution to the wind.
Transparency is only a word but not a practice proclaimed at high level.
We cannot expect it to get better or established at grass root level.
In this this context looking after ones data is one's own prerogative.
If for common decency if one wants to save your family photos and a paltry sum of money from a hacker at large, I have a solution for you.
Go Linux.
You can have a Linux distribution in a Pendrive or in your USB hard disk with boot time protection with password.
One can save one's common decency.
I have not tested this as a possible scenario in my live CD/DVD encounter and in future this is something I am going to promote or test as a virtue of Linux.
So I expect the Linux developers to think seriously about it including UNetBooIn.
Even Knoppix has now introduced root password facility not as a default but one can enforce it after installing it in a hard disk.
That is a good thing that is emerging for simple guys like us who sometime has to make political statement of some sort in a country where democracy is owned by a single party.
One race or one religion or one government is enforcing scrutiny on dissenters.
If these political guys or police get hold of a tiny statement in a Pendrive or a hard disk as evidence, is it violation of privacy or arbitrary use of force?
If the prosecution produce the data in a court of law there is no defense.
This is where even Polippix and Incognito have a place when police states emerge in the pretext of law and order and disciplined society where simple justice and common sense and decency may disappear forever.
I think Linux Developers should give us the utilities to protect common decency.
That is the political will to change the bad practices of all kinds.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Water Logic
Water Logic
Most of the information fed into this book is based on observations, some casual and some smart but simple scientific observations, which I have made over the past 20 years. If I did not make my observations for this year (2011) with almost drought in some parts of the country and equally bad floods and typhoons effecting the South of the country, this book would end up with unresolved conflict of interests and erros on basic scientific tenets.
My observations
The observations are as good as gold and they are a good base for my water logic to end this book.
One must take one important factor into consideration.
This is the year with full commission of the Coal Power.
Most of my predictions in the past predictions were made on scientific grounds and have come true.
My gut feeling says with one observations I have now, I need not wait for another 5 years, a long period in human terms to make feasible predictions and appropriate correction, if there are any.
This year's observations are good enough to base physical and biological predictions.
One observation was of paramount importance.
This time the Indian Oriole did not go back.
I believe, I spotted a young one probably born here, Indian Oriole to be precise, well before the approaching winter, in Northern India.
That simple observation is enough for me to base my predictions.
Why the Indian Oriole did not go back?
It is no secret they move out in winter to escape bad weather as well as food scarcity.
But they invariably return to their base for breeding.
But not this time round.
Why?
1. The warm air currents heralding the Summer did not arrive from the North.
2. Warm air current remained almost constant throughout the year in Kandy and suburbs.
3. Birds were confused (at least one pair) to make a move.
4. Birds made a decision to base their breeding here.
5. That is the beginning of a new niche.
It was our COAL POWER BOOM.
We were generating coal power (both oil and coal) electricity to make the short fall of rain and the lack of capacity of the water reservoirs.
The bird migrate towards the warm air atmosphere.
Our hills are not tall enough to cool the warm air generated by the 24 hour Coal Power generation.
They remained almost stagnant not circulating except upward movement and there was no lateral movement and air currents.
There was no need for them to migrate back with constant warm air in the atmosphere. They remained here and some of them even bred here, I believe.
That is of course the good news.
This time inter-monsoonal rain did not come in its regular 10 to 14 day cycles.
I think, they do not come in that pattern for number of years due to global warming.
They humidity of air remained high.
When the rain came it was unusually heavy.
There were flash floods.
This is very easy to explain.
With warm air, the volume of water vapor remaining in air to form clouds increased appropriately.
The delay or really the prolongation of short spells (10-14 day cycles in the past) to almost six (6) weeks, the interval between inter-monsoonal rain increased the amount or the volume of water vapor in the atmosphere to form clouds.
When the rain did come in about 6 to 8 weeks cycles they were unusually heavy.
All the necessary conditions were there for flash floods.
It did not rain.
Now what is the contribution of coal power?
It hindered the natural cooling of air currents over our comparatively shorter hill (they are not Himalyas) side.
It is only about 6000 to 8000 feet ascent.
The rain clouds bypassed Ceylon and landed on Indian subcontinent unleashing flash floods with never known rain in some part of India.
This is another time we collaborated with India.
They should congratulate our energy planners for introducing Coal Power for the windfall of water to India.
Only other time we collaborated was at the last Cricket World Cup.
With the help of politicians meddling with cricket we helped India to win.
We were generous.
Why?
It is far better to make almost 1.5 billion Indians happy instead of 20 million here.
That is our Buddhist benevolence.
Instead of worshiping the millions of gods they believe in, the Indians should turn towards Ceylon and make Namaskaras to our politicians and the energy planners who advice them for the windfall of the rains they got.
If we did not generate coal power we would have had the normal inter-monsoonal rains in shorter spells (humidity and saturation were enough to form rain clouds) of time and the rain would have landed here instead of in India.
One must not forget that Ceylon is a small island only of 140 miles across and at high speed of wind currents in upper atmosphere even big rain clouds can pass across in half an hour and reach mainland of India in 4 hours to precipitate as rain.
We are even generous to donate our rain clouds to poor Indian farmers.
So make sure the excess grains you produce sell back to Ceylon and make a profit in times of our needs.
1. Increase the the rate of global warming.
2. Pollute our air we breath.
3. Interrupt our inter-monsoonal rain.
4. Donate rain clouds to Indian farmers.
5. Get the grain from India in return to feed our masses.
6. Divert Indian migrating Oriole to Ceylon and make them breed here.
7. Develop a pattern of species extinction by interfering with upper air currents and to make them breed here so that the brood will not have enough grain to feed themselves.
Only sure recipe I know of, for cooling our atmosphere is the rain that comes during inter-monsoonal spells and it cools the air while taking away the soot and all the poisons in the air with it.
All these information mentioned above are copyrighted and if any scientist use them, at least have the curtsy's to acknowledge them as coming from simple observations of a doctor almost in retirement.
If I do not give solutions to the above problems our farmers may become angry with me.
They will prevent some of the maladies.
But global warming is a global issue.
We have to wait till year 2020 when America is ready to accept it as its own liability and culpability.
1. Give up the 100% electricity dream.
2. Give up Coal power.
3. Revisit the wisdom of our old kings, water was the only asset we had and only asset we are going to have.
All the above can be achieved or disposed of without two third majority in the parliament.
1. Institute an ongoing study of how the air currents above our head in Ceylon behave.
2. Determine the factors that influence the air currents.
3. Till them generate Coal Power only during day time starting at 10 AM and stop producing it at 4 PM. when our shops close.
4. Use Hydroelectric power generation in the night.
The items 2 and 3 will simulate Natural Cooling Cycle (N.C.C) and minimize the effect of thermal power on natural cooling at night.
It will not bring 10 to 14 day cycles of yesteryear but at least minimize flash floods and heavy precipitation.
5. Come to a policy of 70% electricity sufficiency and declare zones of no electricity at all (not even gas/oil generated) covering at least 30% of the country's designated rain forest.
7. Energy Tax or Global Warming TAX (GWT-Gonnu-WannanTa AthaDheemaX) for every mile on gas/oil and not for electric cars.
8. The most ambitious project is to make Piduruthala-Gala tallest mountain range in Asia, even taller than the Himalaya by declaring a project to make it taller in 6 years.
This is my miracle dream.
It can be done by putting all the rubbish advertisement that are intended for the next round of elections.
The papers should be pasted over Piduruthla-Gala (ROCK) commencing this Christmas, 2011.
When the end of the world come true in 2012 or after we can climb up and watch it up to the heaven from there.
Everyone who voted for this two third majority government except Tamils (they should continue to go to Kataragama as usual) should make a pilgrimage to Piduruthala-Gala and paste the paper over it with a water resistant paste.
By the time of the next elections come, it will be taller than the Himalaya and we will trap all the rain clouds.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Kurumegala is a city I want to forget
Kurumegala is a city I want to forget
Long long time ago, I was living near Kunenegala and it was famous for Mangoes and T.B. Illngaratne (from Galagedera).
The place was Weuda and and I attended the Girls Primary School nearby. I wanted to visit there and donate some books before coming here but could not. Cleaning up the Roof Top Garden took a toll.
It goes back to my early University day as a seconded officer.
Girls and boys who came from schools from Kurunnegala were known from school days cheating and copying.
In fact, I caught a few of them in their first examination but "only warned them" and said that next time YOU are going home.
That is number one.
Number, too was I had to cover a hospital for one week and a guy not a doctor was running the place.
I left Kurunegala never to return.
The third was this Dayasiri Guy and Mahinda Rajapakasa Combo cheating in elections in this district.
Of course, I got activated to evict this gang fearing they would get established in Kandy.
What we replaced with "Maithree and Ranil" was a disaster.
Yes with NPP/JVP in, we now in Kandy are from "pan to the the fire".
ALT Linux
ALT Linux
Russians are Listening to my Gnome Push
Thank YOU.
I did not like MATE desktop but once installed it in my OLD Laptop and gave up due to lack of applications.
Gnome has ton of applications and is on versions 48, now.
Maria Fokanova has announced the release of ALT Linux 11.0 "Workstation", an independently-developed Linux distribution with RPM package management and (newly) GNOME as the default desktop: "Update 11 of ALT Workstation operating system is available. The new distribution release is based on Platform 11 (p11 'Salvia' stable branch). The build is available for the x86_64 and AArch64 architectures, using the 6.12 (LTS) Linux kernel. System environment: GCC 14 compiler suite; systemd 255.18; glibc 2.38; glib2 2.82. The new distribution retains the ability to boot ALT Workstation in LiveCD mode. The LiveCD uses Nouveau drivers, while the installed system defaults to NVIDIA drivers. Key features of the release on Platform 11: redesigned system theme; switched from MATE to GNOME desktop environment; numerous new GNOME-compliant applications; updated documentation. The most significant change in Workstation is transition to the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME components: GTK 4.16, Libadwaita 1.6, GNOME Shell 47.4.
Sabayon-27
Posted on June 26, 2010
Sabayon-27
Linux100-Sabayon-27
If one is fed up of Suse and Mandriva (I am fed up with both of them, both while being heavy and make a point to omit good utility packages that are in the commercial versions), this one is for you.
It has shed some of its weight from 3.5 GB to 1.7 and the slimmer versions provides what Suse and Mandriva keep as commercial packages.
It has XBOX (Multimedia) for which I give 250 points and it’s score is over 1500 (out of 3000 odd points which I give for an all inclusive heavy distributions).
Sabayon (Slakware) and Monomax (Ubuntu) are almost similar but I prefer Sabayon for its comparatively light weight strategy.
If they added blender I would have given extra bonus points!
It lives with it’s promise the dream we believe on!
However, it should promote the Live CD much more vigorously than the heavy DVD version.
If a distribution cannot put its act together with 1.5 GB it is not worth the downloading time in this part of the world (Ceylon).
Our downloading is pretty slow and servers hang up in the night!
Guys switch off the Server (Our Telecom) and go to sleep and that is the time unfortunately I download the Linux distributions for testing.
Cherry Tomatoes
At the beginning of the year when I decided to blog on a topic at random I decided to use a plant (plant for my life) as a topic, if I run short an idea and get bored.
I could write only a few and there were many topics that came at random, I had to put that ides on a back burner for sometime, especially because of the World Cup Cricket and I had enough new Linux distribution downloaded to write about.
Never ever I though I will write about cherry tomatoes.
I have very little time for gardening and what I call my gardening is not really gardening.
It can be rephrased as “garden patch watching”, in other words it is a little patch of garden left to elements and let it grow everything and anything in that area.
The little patch allowed to elements and go wild.
My interventions are if the spell is very dry (which is now) and no rain make sure I water them late at midnight and over weekends if nasty growths that hinder community growth are found pull them out, immediately.
My seeders (not Linux seeders) are the birds.
I am very fortunate that we live in the pathway of bird migration (winter birds) and the type of birds were little bit more this year than that of the last year.
Left over rice and food is thrown all over and they do come very early as early as 4 am in the morning an as late as 5 to 6 pm.
I some time get up with them singing (but lazy to get up and see who is coming and who is not coming) but make a mental note of the various sing songs they mix the aerial ambiance (like the common cuckoo).
Few months ago, I saw a tomato plant on the wall side of the foot steps leading to rear of the house (a very few walk up that path, except me to feed the fish in a little pond/tank) and growing in a crevice.
It started growing slowly and then quickly crossed the narrow foot path (its spread was over the foot steps) and even the dog did walk gently over it. My dog loves plants and their smell and have the habit of sniffing the leaves and discriminating them from the civet's foot steps at night.
Tomato is a tropical plant and love dry and warm climate and my intention was to watch it as a bio-indicator (mind you tomatoes are very very cheap nowadays).
It started flowering and bearing beautiful tiny fruits.
Very soon they were garnishing the dinner table (without telling anybody I picked a few washed and kept them on the dinner table).
Now it is very dry and no rain for a few days and it is drying up with reaming fruits all over the place and when the rain comes they will germinate and few will be taken to various places by ants and to the back garden.
The spread is left to nature and I want to see how many of them survive.
As a small insurance I took a few of them and spread among plants of the roof top garden.
Believe it or not I have a young pipal (Bo) tree on the rooftop which I have treated with absolute disdain (unlike many Buddhists) for the last three years except watering it when it is near to its final hour.
Irony is in this Buddhist county I cannot find a place to replant it (in this Kandy city-ritualistically Buddhist) but our Buddhist go to India to warship the sacred pipal tree.
I am using it as a bio-indicator and if it dies, I am pretty sure there will be a significant drought in this country.
This tree also thanks to the birds who visit us.
When our coal power plant is in full swing, surely we will lose some more birds including migrant and I won't have seeders except Linux guys who seed me with Linux derivatives and not living seeds or plants..
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Expensive Aircrafts Becoming Obsolete
Tuxedo OS and Pop OS
Good Old Days Resource Usage
Good Old Days Resource Usage
Monday, May 12, 2025
Red Alert of Nuclear War and Victory Parade in Russia
Red Alert of Nuclear War and Victory Parade in Russia
I make a note about Ceylon. We failed to represent Ceylon and have somebody representing Ceylon in Russia in Victory Parade. If not for Russian army we would be speaking German today. This is what happens when guys who do not understand World History for that matter even our own Ceylonese History become bogus leaders.
The moment the Ukraine war is over the Military Industrial Complex of America with the help of Israelite started another war in Asia.
They have to empty the old War Cabinet which is filled with useless armaments but there is a big difference.
China come to the forefront in aid of Pakistan. They are testing their own weapon in active war against their major rival in the region, India. India has no allies except Israelites but only western weapons which they have to pay in dollars and franks.
India and China has had wars in the past.
I think 3 times.
Ceylon was a neutral country and no more after Anura.
Our stupid President Anura has signed unnamed and unlimited agreements with India and becoming partisan in wars we are not involved in.
On that ground alone he should be removed from the Post of Presidency within two years.
Lest, he will invariably take Ceylon to total destruction.
I do not know what will happen to Modi but there seem to be an undercurrent to remove him by American War Machine.
Vice President Vance says America is not involved.
I do not believe him but who can believe Americans and their direct proxy Israelite.
President Trump is already trapped by guys ex.president (who was the biggest war monger) has left in the MIC.
His dream to win the Nobel Peace Prize for peace is already scuttled.
The whole world becomes poorer even before recovering from the Coronavirus Saga.
Moving to Russia after 3 years Ruusai has help its Victory Parade without much pomp.
With nuclear arms and Oreshnik he is ready to face America and Germany.
Idea is to draw Russia to Indian side.
I hope President Putin won't take the bait and dead rope.
I have no sympathy for India breaking into many pieces for all what they have done to Ceylon from Indira Gandhi to Modi.
It was Pakistanis who help us to defeat L.T.T.E.
This Anura Guy does not know our own recent history and is backing India blindly.
He is a disgrace to Ceylonese non-aligned principles of the past.
It is difficult to be neutral and that what our Buddhist Outlook teaches us.
He is cardboard Buddhist by all means.
This month of Wesak we should practice non alliance and global peace.
U.N.O is a puppet organization and it cannot bring peace to this world.
I am always against war anywhere on this planet earth.
Nuclear catastrophe and total destruction of this planet is on the card.
Limited nuclear strike is the biggest mirage of all times.
Mutually Assured Destrution is looming.
Madness of M.A.D.
I think the Victory Parade finished without an incident.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
The Paddy Field, the ecosystem and the sick man
The Paddy Field, the ecosystem and the sick man
The Paddy Field, the ecosystem and the sick man.
I never bothered to work out the ecosystem built around the paddy field.
My first impression is that they are vanishing fast due to wrong agricultural practice and use of uncensored variety of chemicals and fertilizers.
I used to release my excess load of guppy fish to the streams and paddy fields but have stopped doing that since, my gut feeling is that they would not survive.
I dismiss paddy as a highly customized and manipulated plant for commercial use and has no value to nature except pollution and more pollution.
It is not a natural plant in a giant ecosystem.
I natural pant does not need any human intervention.
My neighbourhood is a good example of what is happenning to the paddy fields.
There was a stretch of paddy land between the road and the railway line.
Now there is line of newly built houses where most of the paddy fields were.
It an offence to fill up paddy fields and built houses according to the law but with Chinthanaya holding its forte, every little law related to paddy cultivation was violated over the last 10 years.
In actual fact over the last 25 years.
If you neglect a paddy field it does not regenerate its ecosystem and blossom into a water garden with water lilies all over the place.
If there is no water it goes into a utterly useless wasteland.
One cannot make it to a proper and viable vegetable garden.
The in between land is worse, they become breeding ground for various mosquitoes not only dengue.
When we moved into our present location, the mosquito menace was immense.
We could not sleep without mosquito nets.
Then we went abroad for few years and when we returned, I made a resolve to make our current location 80% mosquito free.
I have listed them elsewhere from education to simple techniques (no need any repetition here) and we have achieved it.
Suffice is to say, the filling up of the paddy lands did help a lot but now we are left with dengue.
Dengue mosquitoes thrive on urban on semi-urban environment.
My bone of contention was and is even toady is that most of the mosquitoes breed in the cesspit.
Coming back to the paddy lands that are presently cultivated, there are only two left.
One looked after by a woman.
The other looked after by a man who worked in the university.
I was very friendly with him and he followed a somewhat scientific approach and the woman followed the traditional method.
The paddy land of the woman is above the paddy land of the man and it gets the water first but this clever guy always beats her and always cultivate paddy a few weeks before the woman.
This I have observed and was very careful not to raise my eyes and pose a question knowing there was subtle competition.
The other subtle point is the guy gets the benefit of the fertilizer seepage towards the latter half of the growth and it is almost free.
These are little things one has to observe but no detective work should be carried out.
Mind your business attitude.
This week I noticed she for the first time beat the guy up well and truly.
So I paused a bit and went into pensive mode.
I pretended to be observing the two king fishers on the power line.
There were two almost flightless birds (who nest on marshland left by uncultivated paddy lands) on the paddy field that has being prepared.
I came home and decided list the animals.
The fish (hardly any), crabs, king fisher trail was obvious.
Water snakes, frogs, toads and insects were in the other trail.
Mind you all the toads and frogs visit my fish tanks not civets.
I do not interfere.
This is something I missed in my little piece.
But then I remembered this guy telling me that there are little mice that damage the plant when young and also when the seeding begins.
The fact, I did not know that this was the mouse or the rat that spread leptospirosis.
I did not see him for few weeks.
Is he down with leptospirosis?
Is he having kidney ailment?