Dialog is simply the best Service Provider in Ceylon

Let me finish with  MibiTel.
Ever since Maru Sira and his rice (not a mango friend like TB Illangaratne) brother infiltrated the TeleCom and  MobiTel, the decline in quality and service is pretty obvious.
My first Dongle was from MobiTel.
For some reason it stopped booting wireless connection from my old laptop (not the current one with Star Linux installed in it).
I reported it and wanted to buy a new one.
This Dudley guy who has no knowledge of cellphones discontinued it.
I had already gone to Dialog for Broad Band internet connectivity and ditching MobiTel was almost instantaneous.
However I kept the SIM as  my secondary Google sign in cellphone with that SIM.
I tried to sign in with Google with this SIM and Google realized the problem and wanted me to change the cellphone.
I obliged with Dialog and immediately signed into Gmail.
After nearly 40 years I ditched MobiTel for good and kept the land phone for PEO TV, having paid Rs.10,0000/= in arrears.

I have one dialog voice mail and others are on two 4G Wingles and on Mobile WiFi Unit.

I had a Huawei Mobile WiFi and stuck another MobiTel SIM in it and for only two days it had fast service and it trikled down to 4 to 8 KB per second.
I put that back to its original box.
By the way, I am going to put all my cellphones to hibernation so that CIA cannot snooze on me.

I use my PC on Linux which if CIA tried to penetrate I will have a log file to prove and login history.

I think with Star Linux Russians are pretty safe.
Star Linux is not my workhorse but it has all the utilities in one place.

Arch Ultimate Plasma Edition

January, 5, 2023

Arch Ultimate Plasma Edition

 

Arch Ultimate Plasma. Edition is a sleek distribution.
I am not a fan of Arch, simply because it drives me nuts when installing.
It's live session is very long due to its persistence on checking everything before booting.
 

It is simply paranoia in psychiatric terminology.

 

Arch has improved a lot especially Manjaro Linux and Reborn OS.
 

I am going to keep it until I finish my book on Linux Fundamentals, since at boot time it goes through all the naming fiasco of hooking, udev to dbus to POSIX to kernel which is boring for an old guy who used Linux over 20 years.
 

Linux is only 30 years old.
It has a long life time.
 

However, I recommend it to a guy or girl who really wants to dig into internals of Linux.
 

Not for these YouTube guys who brag about their prowess on a dark terminal which is an antithesis to me.

Linux should fit in a 2GB stick and anything above is bloat ware!.

Now little warning.
These guys Zorin and PoP OS leave behind a script and one cannot clean erase the USB for reuse.

 

I have over 25 USB sticks with bootable Linux on them only Ubuntu and Sparky Linux I have two copies.
I love the animated graphic of Ubuntu front face when booting.
I love nature and Ubuntu developers coming from South Africa love nature.
Good on you.

Sparky Linux I have media edition and game over editions.

No more gamer editions.

 

I begin to hate Sparky Linux but is version 7 is based on Trixe
 

I support Linux gamers but not Steam OS of Valve.
It is long time before I write about Linux and my workhorses are Debian and Emmabantus.

 

I have given up using Emmbanuts with version 5 which does not like to live with other Linux distribution, as was in the past.

I have an affinity for Star Linux from Russia but it is NOT frequently updated.
 

They have done a wonderful job of having sessions for desktop, tablet and cellphone.

Unlike Americans Russians are smart on table desktop and in the battle field.
Ask an American about Linux, they only know of Microsoft's capitalistic crave.
 

I hate Microsoft from the time I entered Linux.

It is simply aristocratic lady in Kandy who hides her age behind a glossy sari.
 

That is my best description of Linux.
I have only one experience with Apple Globe with a faulty disk, I never used it beyond Redhat 6.5, certainly not Redhat 7.
 

I have ditched SuSe and Redhat for good long years.

MobiTel and Telecom SUCKS

What happening in Telecom and MobiTel is SORDID.

Unlike in the banks these teller guys who collect the money don't put the money to the credit of the customer same day.
 

They collect the money and give loans from that money to the guys in the underworld or Pathalaya.

This was done under the direction of Ma Ra Ya now deposed.

These guys are still in service and  the  New Lokka is impotent to deal with these guys.

The same thing happens in the Water Board and Electricity Board.

I am aware of one bookshop in Kandy, the manager did the same thing.

This guy died of a cancer and I hope all these guys who cheat  get protracted cancers in their retirement, including all the big shots out of power.

Steam OS, Telecom Service Providers and Alien Saga

Let me finish with "Alien Saga".
It is my new book going through the final touches.
Aliens in other worlds are not capitalists.
They use Free Dark Energy for flights and Free Wireless for communication.
Their civilizations are an antithesis to Capitalistic Worlds.
This applies to Russia which is fast becoming a Capitalistic and making money on oil and gases.
In my life I won't see free energy and I won't be born again in failed state Ceylon.
I may be born in a type 3 civilization and the last two years of my life, I would go on to state 5 Jhana state for that misadventure.
Yes 2 years of solitary meditation and I will beat that Tibetan monk.

Coming back to Steam Deck and OS is a failed enterprise of Valve.
Two reasons.
They took money from gullible waiting list guys and failed to deliver goods in time.
Even if you got the deck one has to pay for Internet Connectivity.
It is far better to get a console with few games not dependent on online Connectivity.
Second is Linux is Free Software and there are enough substitutes already there to play games in Linux.
Sparky Linux Game Over is only one of them.
In a few years Steam Deck is a failure and my interest on using Steam OS had waned  already and  I would be talking about China and AI in space.

Coming to Ceylon service providers are either expensive or the service is poor.
MobiTel Service is horrible.
They cannot provide even cordless phone and our land phone out of service.
PEO service sucks.
I use Dialog TV and they discontinued service when I did not pay within 2 weeks.
I have six SIMs (one is on a Broad band unit) I spend over Rs.6000/= a month, mainly downloading Linux images not Porn.
As a medical guy I have seen all HOLES in my working life.
I have changed myself to  data packages and no voice mails at all.
I sleep 8 hours.
I use 8 hours for Activity of Daily Living (ADL) and
8 hours for creativity -now (all my life I  did not have proper sleep).
I sleep well but only handicap is I do not have Dreams.

Today I am going to Dialog to buy another Dongle.
Simply because on a Dongle wireless connection is more robust than on a mobile cellphone.

99% of the guys who use a cellphone does not know that it is a handheld computer.

It was built by CIA to track criminals and CIA is tracking everybody on this planet (except Russian spies)now and criminals have a good time in Ceylon and Russia.

My MobiTel SIM on a Huawei Mobile Unit was active for 48 hours and I used up Rs.500/= of data.

I won't replenish it's data.

Best Thing for me -2022-was Intel NUC

Dream Come True

Yes best thing that happened to me in 2022 was Intel NUC.

I wanted a clutter and wire free Table Top and quiet PC with low power capacity.
All in one place but no games in spite of 8GB RAM.

All the fun I had spoiled by PoP OS and PCLinux.

My advice for newbies is to, not to try them.

They cannot dual boot and figure out how ESP partition works.
This applies to Zorin, too.

Ubuntu has the best ESP workout and Debian has got it's act right but not Emmabantus.

Mind you I use Emmabantus in my writing mode to use AbiWord.

I wanted to update my OLP PC and tried both PCLinux and PoP OS and they ruined my GRUB boot record.

When I was testing BSD it took over my first hard disk formated it and I did not know this fact but I still could boot the second hard disk.

All my old DATA is in this disk including old Linux images for 32 bit computers.

It was only Gnome's GParted that alerted me that it is formatted to XFS partition.
Any way I got Debian and Astra Linux already installed but without a boot GRUB.
PoP OS and PCLinux could not touch them.
I am nor installing Emmabantus.
Problem was I did not have Emma's image.
I have erased them to collect empty USBs, having installed it in a MultiSystem USB.
MultiSystem USB could not boot Emma.
I just made a Emma USB using my Iso Store.

I am fully retired and none of this put me on Panic Mode.

Moderna Vaccine abreaction has destroyed my Panic Center in the brain.
That is a bonus from this vaccine.
My advice is never take any of these vaccines which the WHO had Violated all safety Protocols.
I think this guy who is trying to hide under Global Warming, like CDC guy should be sacked along with all neocolonials of Biden administration.

Politics is bane for me and I want the CNN and Fox News who cover up these political guys killed by their own sordid deeds.

Try Al Jazeera instead.

Now I must say Emmabantus got PoP OS booting and my old NVedia card cannot rise up to PoP OS needs.

Astra Linux is booting OK but I have two Emmas in the two hard disks.
One boots automatically.

Now it is 3 AM and I won't try any fancy things for this year 2023.

Happy New Year to all who visits my page.
No more blogging for sometime.

NUC Base

I did not use my NUC Base as a portable device.
Instead of I used my external disk with Linux in them to boot.
That means I have to chose each device on boot up and GRUB did not have all devices recognized.
What I did was opened the NUC removed the SSD inside and put a SSD without a GRUB and reinstalled Debian and Emma.
Emma recognized all the distributions in three SSDs.
Finally I disconnected the two external SSDs.
If I want to boot Star Linux or Sparky Linux I would stick the external disk and pick and choose  the distribution I want from GRUB Menu.
NUC Base is quiet and no games.
I have only 4GB RAM 4.
Removing the SSD was difficult with finger.
Nothing to hold on to.
I used a pair pincers to slip it out.
Top enclosure has SATA power cord and data cord.
There is no room to manipulate my fingers and use my hand to slip out without pulling out data and power cords.
It has no ports for new NVMe cards with high capacity high energy use.
 

My requirements are minimal and if you have lot of stuff choose a NUC with better CPU and motherboard.

Otherwise you would be disappointed.

Wait till prices come down.

We are back to power cuts in Ceylon.

I was making a USB stick with multiple Linux Options when the power cut mode came into operation.

I am using Linux MiltiSysyem Utility.

By the way, Emmabantus had MultiSystem as an application, which another plus point of Emma.

Luckily UPS lasts more than 20 minutes and I  safely exited.
I bought it for Rs.45,00/= and it is now Rs.15,000/=.
I should have bought another one.
I have another UPS which back up 10 minutes.

This NUC boots up any USB stick with a distribution except BSD.

On a different top why all the guys in the West dick with Russian paranoia?
I am intrigued by YouTube guys not talking about Russian Linux distributions.
Star has Mobile, Tablet and Desktop mode which is very good approach for a Laptop.
If you can stick the cellphone mobile mode is good to unload excess data and photos to the NUC or PC.
Russian unlike American are practice minded.
Only down side is one user per computer which is capitalistic mind set.
One cannot make your PC a Family Unit.
I have overcome it by using multiple distributions.
I tried various method to dual boot with Star Linux and failed with my old Laptop but not with NUC.
This is old due to old BIOS not supporting dual boooting.
I actually used BSD on a DVD to erase BIOS dictates.
BSD full version (not the USB mode) does not boot from my Laptop.

By the way, Star Linux is Debian based and it has introduced Russian Fly Desktop to Debian.
Developers from outside Russia should make a note of it's innovative approach.

I have found another problem with Linux Mint.
It's GRUB boot detection is hopeless.
It could not detect Sparky Linux and Russian Star Linux in one of my external SATA disk.

I am installing Ubuntu 22.10 again to get the GRUB configuration correct and to detect all my external drives.
I am on a relaxed mode but did not erase Mint.

My choice of Linux distributions.

Let me start with PoP OS and PCLinux both USB sticks boot up with my Laptop but did not bother to install since both are scarred of Windows hegemony.
Number 1 is Debian.
Number 2 Emmabantus.
Number 3 is old edition of Debian.
Number 4 Sparky Linux especially  Game Over edition.
Number 5 Mint Cinnamon desktop followed by Mate desktop.
Number 6 is Star Linux.
Number 7 Arch Linux BlueStar edition.
I did not like the Arch MX Edition.

Update on Russian Star Linux on my old Laptop

Star Linux is only One User Linux installation.
It takes over the hard disk and won't let you boot with other Linux distributions.
Good thing about it is it erases all traces of BIOS script of Microsoft Windows.
Hard disk is only 120GB SATA and Linux, for example Ubuntu uses only 60GB and I can have at least 2 Linux distributions.
What I did was removed it stuck it to an external disk and using my new Intel NUC installed Emmabantus.
It booted OK with NUC but windows said no bootable disk since it has no traces of windows.
I am reinstalling AstraLinux.
It uses 20GB for the root and 2GB SWAP and then only I realized I had only 1GB RAM (Adata).
So my laptop is not game ready and one needs 4GB of RAM, ideally 8GB.
It has only one slot
My NUC had 4GB RAM and two slots(type 4 not 5).
Star Linux let you select new kernel but I used generic 15.10..
It's desktop is called Fly and only yesterday I did a little review or look at its configuration.
I am banking on Star Linux to detect my Emmabantus when configuring GRUB.
I want AbiWord and see only Emma supports it.
Besides Emma has the Apple like desktop.
It did not boot and the Windows bootstrap interfere with booting.
Went back  removed first few partitions and allowed Astra to do the honours.
Failing which I will use BSD CD to destroy everything and install TANK partition.
I have done this many times before.
Worse I still have disk with Endless OS.
I do not panic now.

Astra Linux has enormous amount of packages and data base but no AbiWord.

Russian Astra Linux Saved me From Endless OS

Russian Astra Linux Saved me From Endless OS

I would cut the story short.

My Old Laptop BIOS was taken over by Microsoft Script and I could not dual boot with Linux.

Long time ago I used BSD and erased it but BSD did not have lot of software.

After trial error I found Endless OS could do the same.

Once Endless OS takes over it does not let me boot from CD or USB.

I removed the SSD, put a spare one and let Astra Linux do the honours.

Astra Linux let me dual boot with Debian and Emmabantus. 

Thank you Russian developers.

I have a new start this year!

Russian Calculate Linux has become active.

Russian Calculate Linux has become active.

Probably after my comment Russians have become active and Calculate Linux based on Debian Unstable Branch has many desktops.

I am downloading cinnamon desktop.

Its download speed is super fast.
It does not boot with my NUC but boots live on my PC.
Beautiful distribution.

Updating Your Linux PC with Daily Power Cuts

 Updating Your Linux PC with Daily Power Cuts

It is nearly 5 AM in the morning and I decided to Update 338 packages which I purposely delayed.

I am not a guy who go for daily update.

I use few utilities and if they work OK, why bother.

Most of the updates were for LibreOffice Firefox and X System and System V Init and GRUB boot loader.

It took nearly 45 minutes.

Downloading.

Installing.

Configuring.

Thankfully there were no power outages and it is almost over.

Be careful when updating in Ceylon. 

Mind you unlike in Windows not rebooting and I could get to the Internet and blog this while update was on.

Mind You I did use Dialog WiFi with a Ethernet Jack fearing pure wireless may be slow.

Data transfer is fast with Ethernet which Linux is good at.

Wireless work with Linux I am cautious.

By the way, it went into dark mode,which I am not going to change to save current usage.

My NUC is using about 15 Watts.

That is lovely.

K3B and December 31

Let me start with the BAD News.
The Iso Image of Free BSD was defective and did not match.
So I did not write it on. DVD.
The Ubuntu 21.10 took a long time to write but was not happy ending the session.
Yet it booted but could not drive into install mode.
Endless OS and Debian 15.1.6 writing went OK.
I will boot Debian now.

Pardus Gnome not Impressive

Pardus Gnome not Impressive

I downloaded Pardus Gnome and was very disappointed.

 

I has virtually killed the Debian's Gnome feel and good looks. 

 

Trying to reinvent the wheel is not a good idea.

American Politics

 The book Alien Saga is coming out soon

This is a Satire Piece not real!

Joe Biden is a similar Guy who has signed off on Ukraine War!

Military Industrial Complex (MIC) which  Rockefeller brothers help to  create has taken over America and its world affairs!

 American Politics

When the Truman term ended in 1953, General Eisenhower, the golfing President entered office. The General knew exactly how to fight battles and win wars.

Just command someone to do it while he went golfing.

Eisenhower's cabinet contained two of the most evil men in the world since WWII - the Dulles brothers. Kissinger, Dick Cheney, David Eddington, Karl Rove and Elliot Abrams come pretty close in matching them in evil. One brother was the Secretary of State and the other one was Director of the CIA.

And then there was Nelson Rockefeller he was no stranger to secrecy and the intelligence agencies and Eisenhower had already assigned him chairmanship of the President's Advisory Committee on Government Reorganization.            In addition Rockefeller was appointed the head of the Operations Coordinating Board responsible for integrating the implementation of national security policies - the OCB included the Under Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the President's Special Assistant for Psychological Warfare. The ET phenomenon had been well analyzed by the military by then. The report that Nelson Rockefeller saw was devastating, it basically predicted the end of world as he knew it. Nelson Rockefeller was reputedly a 'liberal', eastern republican, not like the narrow minded ones from the south. However, Nelson also believed in the 'American Way' and the superiority of 'Western Civilization'. He was proud of his white, Anglo Saxon heritage, American capitalism and his Christian upbringing. He was also an internationalist who believed in spreading these American/European values across the world through evangelizing.

The other earthly races were the white man's burden and he would show them the right way to live.

But these ETs were going to spoil all that.

They appeared to be far more advanced and superior.

They even talked in terms of peace and brotherhood.

If the world at large found out about these superior beings, why would they bother with what he and America had to say?

It would be the end of American and Anglo Saxon domination.

It may even be the end of capitalism.

With cheap, unlimited energy sources like the ETs promised, the third world would advance at a rapid pace.

All poverty and want would be eliminated.

Within a couple of decades, they would catch up with the West.

With free energy and technological progress, the countries with the highest population would be the most powerful.

China and India would be dominant with the US a distant third.

Christian beliefs and dogmas were also at risk.

This would never do.

The ETs had to be outwitted and defeated.

The world was to be united against the ETs under the leadership of America and its allies.

Of course with clean, free energy, there would be no pollution, no climate change, no global warming, no poverty, no starvation but these were not the problems of the 50s and 60s in America nor considerations for the 'free market' republicans who wanted the market to fix all these problems.

Truman and his team had done a good job keeping the ET information from the public but now it was time to take it further underground, not only would the public not know about, it would be hidden from all elected officials as well.

Nobody but those within military/intelligence complex who were already involved with ETs would have that information and any others would get to know only by invitation from those already in it.

This group would be financed completely off the books, by black budgets from the CIA and other agencies or from friends in the know in private industry (banking, defense and energy/oil companies) or even self financed by illegal activities when necessary.

The ultimate cover up had begun.

The private industry partners in this black project were  very likely led by Nelson's brother David Rockefeller. Together with other European banking families, US defense contractors and energy interests, the two Rockefeller brothers (or at least Nelson alone) would help the US intelligence communities (CIA/NSA/NRO etc) manage the operation.

The golfing president signed off on it and essentially signed himself out of the loop without quite understanding what he had done.

Newspapers and YouTube

Newspapers and YouTube

 It looks like, all Sri-Lankan papers have gone into a BIG slump.

Equally, YouTube is almost dead in Ceylon.

Either the public have lost interest due to economic hits or they do not believe in news circulating.

I do not want to name them two of the political papers have  NOT updated their web papers for over six months.

This is a very bad sign for a working democracy.

Globally speaking,

Both BBC / CNN are outlets for the democratic party and Biden.

Fox news is for the Republicans.

What is really happening in Ukraine is not a mystery but a meat grinder for poor and ill trained recruits.

It is estimated over 150,000 ( probably 30 to 50,000 foreign recruits mainly Polish) Ukrainian backers and 30 to 500,00 gone missing in action).

The numbers are colossal but nobody seems to go for negotiations and there is callous disregard for human life.

It is Christmas and Nobody in the Vatican has the backbone to speak out,

Is it fear?

Is it the connivance to one of the parties?

These are the answers the global citizen like me expects from real people from real politicains.

None left in UK and USA.

Manhood

Manhood

The man can climb

The highest mountain

On this planet Earth

Yet, he cannot fly

Like a bird

In desperation

He created

A flying object

Called aero-plane

Which runs on fuel

Polluting

The entire planet

He has landed

On the Moon

On the first attempt

Without making

A single mistake

Yet the scientific projection

Is and was

That man cannot penetrate

The Van Allen Belt

Without radiation sickness

Which is lethal

In less than five minutes

Only thing

A man is good at

Is lying even

To mother and his or her

Fellow beings

My only hope

During the Christmas Celebrations

Do not lie

If your pocket is empty

And do not buy on credit

Which you cannot afford

With your own earning

Let the politicians lie

Saying

That they will

Bring rice and gold

From Moon or heaven

When the price of oil

Filling a tank

Going up

  And skyrocketing

Day by day

 

Motherhood

Motherhood

If I do not say,

Anything about

Motherhood

If not Womanhood

My mother would

Be unhappy and

God only knows

Where she is now

I am happy to say

My mother never

Encouraged Falsehood

Yet, she lied to me

When my dog died

On the road by accident

I never saw the dead dog

  And the event was pushed

Under the carpet

 

That was my gut feeling

What I know is

Mothers lie

For their children

Instantly and perennially

In this

Country of Ceylon

I would relate

One story for posterity

An aristocratic mother

And her son

Who lived

In a rented house

To end this piece

There was a sweet

Old gentleman

On the street of Kandy

He had a lovely

Collection of books

Collected patiently

In years of his life

He gave those books

To the son

Of the aristocratic woman

And one by one

He sold them

For petty cash

When this old gentlemen

Wanted the books back

To be donated to

The Temple of the Tooth

He absconded

I confronted the mother

In their own house

In Kandy

And told her

I  have

The record of the books

And planning to take

Legal action

They disappeared

To their base

Probably in Matale

I could not and did not

Want to trace them

Back to their hometown

Problem in Ceylon is

Everybody in this blessed land

When requested

Gives a wrong address

And a wrong telephone number

I have one of my friends

Who lost a large sum of money

To a guy who pretended to buy

A plot of land belonging to him

And got a large loan

With a bogus claim 

Without any security or surety

He is still trying to trace the Guy

The recent Shaft

And Shafter incident

Is nothing more

But an aberration

Of trying to frame a guy

And the act going awry

 

NuTyX Linux from France

NuTyX Linux from France

I downloaded the 2 GB Enlightenment Desktop.

It boots up and did not mess up with my NUC BIOS.

I was annoyed it did not have Ceylon or Sri-Lanka in it's list.

It is a French Development say multi-linugual and Ceylon or Sri-Lanka was not included.

French are supposed to be diplomatic!

If you are a Ceylonese do not USE it.

These Guys thinks Ceylon is part of India.

Font selection of the Desktop was huge which was good for a old guy like me but not for a newbie.

Desktop has no aesthetic value if you compare it to DeepIn or Star Linux from Russia.

It has a long way to go.

This only a brief test report and I won't use at all in my life. 

They are trying to come out with large selection of desktops and none can beat Plasma 5 of Debian. 

It is far better for them to select only one desktop preferably Plasma and add tits and bits from France.

But Good Luck for future development.

 

One Night of TROUBLE with Linux

23-12-2022

This was posted in 2015, seven years on we are not better.

This is partly due to Corona Virus  Pandemic Effect and bashing Russians for EU's and America's own fault lines.

Ukraine WAR is an antithesis now and people are in the dark in most of Europe.

Linux may not recover at all, Linus Torvalds is in America.

In the Rush to post before Christmas and New year Holidays Developers make lot of mistakes.

It is similar to how Steam OS was STAGE managed.

Nobody has a Steam OS to test drive.

I am talking about the DECK.

Where as lot of other play stations with equal merit have surfaced.

My advice enjoy the holidays and try these new ones in 3 months time when most of the bugs are fixed.

One Night of TROUBLE with Linux

I was trying to upgrade my computer with Linux derivatives and take an early Christmas Break.

I list the Linux Nuances not on any order of merit here.

All these are Human Errors and can be rectified.

I believe all the Linux developers are DOING a great JOB but by rushing to put out the distribution before Christmas leave behind some ugly nuances.

They should be excused for minor lapses.

1. Peppermint FRONT end is DARK and UGLY.

I get a headache after few minutes of work.

2. LibreOffice has no Thesaurus in Linux.

3. Ubuntu 14.04 takes four hours,mind you it is not their fault;

(my Internet speed is down to 5 KB / per second by default action by the service provider; I Pay over Rs.8000 per month and get only 20 GB of downloads which I finish in one day of downloads and the rest of the month GO snail space even to read my email.

This they CALL a Five Star Service.

I hope during the Christmas holiday at least, they allow a leeway.

But at the end of the installation delete them which also takes a bit of time.

Why can't they Install first in English and give the USER to download his or her language afterwards?

4. Knoppix 7.6 is beautiful on a Live Session But has a major glitch.

I downloaded the English version and Installed it to reiserfs partition.

It is not in English but probably in Danish.

I tried to convert it to English at boot time but it boots so fast that touching the Del Key or F2 has no effect.

5. Boot loaders are finicky, especially Knoppix but it gives the option of not installing it and configure manually.

6. None of them detect the UEFI based Window's 8 in my second hard drive.

I deliberately shifted its UEFI partition.

7. DVD booting of Pinguy, and Knoppix were halted abruptly due to sectors not written properly on the boot disk.

They were burned by K3B on Peppermint.

One disk did not finish writing on it.

I am not a novice to Linux and I have gone through these nuances many a times, I can tolerate all this in one night of Linux Dance BUT what I cannot tolerate is our Telecom restricting my access to Internet at 5 KB per second.

It is killing me softly.

I take my hat off for all the developers.

I am making these comments before Microsoft guys trying to bash (not the bash script) your back with critical comments.

If YOU hear these comments from a Microsoft Guy / Girl please ignore them and have a PATCH ready by January.

Mind you Microsoft takes one year to patch their faults by that time they release a new edition for which you have to PAY.

Only foolish guys PAY for their own faults and make Microsoft Rich by many a Miles.

You Guys/Girls need a holiday and you richly deserve a holiday.

In any case I am going into recess any time from now and if you do not hear from me please do not assume I am dead and gone with the wind.

I will be back with all cylinders firing at top level.

Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year  2023.

Warning for Linux Guys and Girls

Warning for Linux Guys and Girls

 1. AV Linux is pretty Good.

2. I have tested after long lapse Arch (ARCH becoming user friendly) based Blue-Star Linux and it is very pleasing.

3. Manjaro I have not tested but if arch based Blue-Star is good, I have no reservations on Manjaro.

4. MX Linux on the top is not my favorite.

5. Kali I never use.

The bottom  line is unlike Windows and Mac Os there are plenty of Linux distributions to choose.

Be choosy about commercial distributions like Redhat, Suse and even Zorin!

You become their prey.

Test a few and only master one for your long term use.

 

I have few reservation for Live Linux distributions.

The new developer guys leave a nasty script in your USB stick that cannot be erased for re-use of the USB for another purpose.

Not only that it interferes with my NUC BIOS which accept any USB stick to boot and ignore the master boot record in my S.S.D (there is no problem with my old PC, which has a master boot record).

 I am guy who test these distributions and provide a healthy feed back.

I recommend one to use only Ubuntu Linux and a few of Ubuntu derivatives and Mint,

Sparky Linux both Media and Game Over are good but one must have a good understanding of how Linux works to use Sparky Linux.

Emmabantus and Debian are my work horses.

If you are happy with your standard Linux distribution do not change during Christmas.

There are hackers all round this time of the year.

Enjoy the Christmas spirit with chocolates, wine and spirits and not Linux.

The rest like PoP OS, Zorin, MX Linux, PCLinux, Endless OS and few others do the bad things to your hard disk, SSD and USB disks.

After the Coronavirus pandemic Linux has not taken great strides in the computer world except a few additions of hardware to the kernel. 

The Debian's advice is not to throw away the Old BULL (the old distribution).

My advice is to look after your OLD DOG but do not bring a new Puppy!

Read my piece here on "No Dog / Puppy at Christmas".

Beware! 

Be prudent.

No Dog for Christmas

This is a post I cut and paste once in every three years.

No Dog for Christmas

I should rephrase it no “Puppy as a gift”for Christmas.

If you really love puppies please download Puppy Linux. The creator of this Linux distribution is a real dog lover. Not only that Puppy Linux is Puppy size but is loaded with utilities.

I can have at least a list of more than 20 or more reasons of but on top are two real life stories. This happened more than 40 years ago and 10 years ago, in the United Kingdom and Ceylon respectively. 

 

I was heavily involved with Neonatal Paediatric care then. I was on weekend off and listening to some music. Terry Vogan was my favourite Irish announcer on radio. Terry announced the tragic death of a baby few days old mauled to death by the owners pet dog. The day the happy family brought the baby home. Dogs are dogs and they can become extremely jealous. The police came an shot the dog but the baby did not survive. The bottom line is the dogs can be extremely jealous of a new comer.

This happened about10days before Christmas and that was the only Christmas that I could not blend with the Christmas spirit in UK.

All throughout the festive season the message was relayed "No Puppy as a pet, if one cannot care for".

Underline theme was that baby care is full time job and dog care is no different. The bone of contention here is, the doctor/s could have visited the house and made some investigations of the suitability of the house for a newborn baby with an adult dog.

The second incident was, one of my 80 old professor’s forearm was torn to pieces and needed over 40 stitches. He was terrified and the dog, his own, was not killed but transferred to a suitable foster home. He was living alone and he could not care for the dog at old age.  

We never investigated the reason for the attack but looked after the professor.

So my recommendations are;

One has to be 40 to 45years old, to properly care for a dog who lives till the owner is 60 plus and showing all the signs of old age disabilities. This the crisis period in life, the children are teens and won't listen to you. The dog is an outlet to divert ones attention from growing but rebellious kids.

The paradox is the children also use the dog as a “Punching Bag”to let their frustration out.     

For a single man or women, the success or failure in career is immaterial, it is a good companion.

If not successful in career, to brag about the dog, not the career in office is a good option.  

A dog lives 15 to 20 years and for a single man/woman walking the dog for the last 15years of one's life is a good antidote for intermittent exogenous depression certainly not for the endogenous depression, for which one needs proper treatment under supervision.

Besides, the dog ages fast and it is a preview of ones old age chronic illnesses, including 

arthritis, 

cataract,

 diabetes,

 obesity, 

gout and 

many more. 

Mind you dog care is more expensive than medical care in USA/UK and France.

Best advice is not have a dog at all if you do not have Money and Time!

Please do not be enticed by the Christmas films involving dogs but enjoy the film instead.