Brain Train and NOT Trained Brain

Brain Train and NOT Trained Brain

There are only Ten (10) Steps, when a Human enters the Heaven as a Heavenly Being.

1. Bowel Wash

First the attendant Gods  clean the bowel with a bowel wash.

2. Hand Wash and Body Wash

        A through hand wash and body wash as one enters the Surgical Theater.

3. Bowel Content Incineration

All Food items left in the bowel are washed out during this stage are incinerated.

4. Head Wash

Most of these items are done by the funeral directors, aren't they?

Yes the Gods, still prefer a follow up clean.

5. Brain Wash

This stage is washing the brain of rubbish that are put on you by the psychologists.

Under hypnosis a psychologist on earth will tell you that one swallows 3 to 10 spiders a night on an average. 

This type of false propaganda has to be washed out completely.

6. Brain Drain

this is the technique to get all redundant information like

Positive thinking

Creative Brain

Logical Brain

Lateral Brain

One uses only 10% of the Brain and the lot.

Then Gods drain all the psychological theories put on our brains by management trainers on earth.       They are all rubbish and has no validity on heaven.   

This is the most difficult part of the clean up process.

Then I told attendant God that we spend enormous amount of money for these training programs.

That is not my problem.

But if you can avoid these American Programs,  it is so much the better, if you consider entering heaven.

You mean to say lot of Americans will never sight the heaven.

TRUE my dear.

What about their MBAs and Emotional Intelligent Training, they teach in Harvard.

They are useless in heaven.

7. Brain Train

Then the Gods train us to think.

After the above seven, first step in Moment Meditation is administered by default.

I was very good at present moment meditation training and since I was very short of memory, especially of the past. But I am very bad at Metta Meditation since, I do not have any enemies in heaven. 

I need at least noisy mosquitoes.

In my past lives, I have had only a few friends and that was a long time ago.

That is why I am very bad at Metta Meditation.

That is why I asked you to tell me how to practice Metta to enemies.

8. Moment Meditation

I do it myself.

9. Metta Meditation

I (means the attend an God) actually delegate this part to earthlings who come here. But when I saw the nice aura around your vertex, I was naturally inquisitive.

10. Brain Train Control Room

This is only for earthly beings.

Then when we get those Trained Brained Guys (T.B.G) from earth come here and  asked me for a big favors in heaven, I put them in a Train and put one of the earthly guys to the control room and I take a break.

These clever guys on earth must get to very good places in heaven, won't they?

NO.

What?

They drive themselves to HELL.

HELL!

Yes.

Don't you realize that one needs very little brain to enter heaven.

You only need a big brain to hoodwink another big brain.

That is necessary only on earth.

Not in heaven.

Don't be too brainy when you enter heaven and he disappeared.

Diffrence Between Dream and a PLOT

Ignore the Typos, this piece is in evolution and not fully edited.

 

I am running short of ideas and also dreams.

I am writing a book on "Dreams and Biorhythms".

I myself is the subject for some episodes.

This is the reason for, not having good dream plots to write.

 

I will relate a recent one, along the line that dreams do not have any significance and therefore Maha Brahma with his own wisdom should be the one to judge the merits of the dreams. 

 

The assumption is Gods never have dreams and they live in reality.

 

When I pose the dream to Maha Brahma for interpretation, he gets supper charged.

 

I wanted to Title of this piece as Donald and Robert Williams, since I believe my friend and the classmate is alive and well. 

I decided against it. 

 

To get to the PLOT (not yet finished) Part of the piece one has to read to the end. 

 

It might take a little time because it is fictional but not realistic.

 

I want to get out of the political obsession of late due to Elections in Ceylon. 

It is becoming boring already.

If my friend Donald, if you read this make a comment (Pseudo Donalds are not entertained, in the comment section) below  either from Australia of from USA.

 

 A decade ago, I went in search of YOU, randomly and failed.

The Dream

Strange!

This dream was related to only my Christian friends.

 

The location is not properly determined but I assume it is Ceylon.

 

1. It is a related to Sweets and Robert the elder brother of my friend was the chief character.

He was casually seated on a bench in front of a sweet house.

 

2. The second character was one of my  junior colleagues in the University. 

He likes to avoid me soon after, he was awarded the post of professor, in his field of expertise.

Simply, because I come out with crack from nowhere, basically satire related to Ceylonese politics. 

He is smart and not timid but has a sense of shyness that probably comes from his childhood upbringing (I may be wrong and I do not make snap opinions on any living character).

 

This guy was also going towards for his daily evening bread.

 

3. From nowhere, I come to the seen.

I have already bought something of insignificance and the Sweet vendor has given me a Big Cake as a compliment and I had handed it over to  Robert for safe keeping.

 

Having seen my University friend, I went into Free Mode (with my friends brother, I was cordial and with lot of reservation, since he was about 6 years older) or the Machan Mode.

 

Once he purchased his needs, I thought of buying something for his daughter whom I have never seen.

 

We went to the portion where sweets were dished out.

 

I bought large amount of sweets and realized that I did not have enough cash in my front pocket and in my purse had lot of cards but no money.

 

The embarrassing scene, for me to borrow money has arisen.

 

As a habit I never borrow money (not being able to pay back in my retirement was evident).

 

I woke up immediately.

Interpretation by Maha Brahma

 

Of course through, email exchange.

Maha was very happy.

For nearly two years in Australia, I haven't had a good dream to report to him.

 

He said, it is good and bad.

1. Your friend's brother has passed away.

Sorry.

 

How old was he?

80 plus.

 

That is not right he could have gone to 90.

That is how it goes and I have no control.

 

What is that big cake?

You have attended his Dhana Ceremony.

It is the Big Priest who got the Big Cake and not Robert. 

 

There was no alcohol?

No problem Church has ample supply.

 

How?

They have stockpiled alcohol, knowing very well NPP is coming to power.

 

I did not stockpiled alcohol in advance. 

I have given up drinks for good.

I know.

 

What about the  sweets I could not enjoy with my University friend.

No problem, YOU will get enough of them in Australia.

But, on my behalf, ask your friend to come to Australia. The food prices including sweets will sky rocket by April.

OK.

 

By he way, look after your blood sugar .

I will.

 

I have a one last question?

What happened to my friend Donald?

I won't tell you. 

You have to find him yourself, if YOU a true friend of him.

 

He is a Jaffna Guy and he is not in Ceylon.

I know. 

He is alive and it your job to find him before YOU kick the bucket.

He disappeared in a flash.. 

 

Lesson here is, see your friends in person.

Emails have become redundant.

 

Plot in Evolution

One has to wait for its evolution.

 

 

 

King Cobra-Naja Naja

 

King Cobra-Naja Naja

Posted on April 30, 2011 | Comments Off on King Cobra-Naja Naja

This is not something to alarm you but to point out how man has neglected the use of cobra venom for therapeutic use.

In addition there is a paucity of knowledge how venom evolved in animals and how some animals are resistant the smaller doses of venom.
I teach that it is the venom that is produced in our body after the bite that kills us not the cobra venom (to illustrate the fact that cytotoxins have multitude of actions).
For example bradykinin that causes pain is the product of our own tissues.

Snake venom is a modified saliva and we really do not know whether these are produced in evolution for digestion of the prey or to immobilize or anesthetize (humane to the dying prey). None of the points I have raised have been addressed conclusively and potential for the use of the modified venom molecule for treatment of leukaemia or cancer cells or as antithrombotic activity have not been discussed in scientific journal adequately..
Why?
The answer is simple.
Once they discovered that antivenom as a cure, everybody forgot about the biological role and what system they act and why, when where and how they modify the homoeostatic mechanisms.
Moment the commercial activity of preparation of antivenom starts the scientific investigation of biological nature takes a back stage.
That is very unfortunate.
There lot we can learn from these cytotoxins.

Coming back to cobra (baby cobra-are as poisonous as the adult), I killed a young cobra with a ruler when I was as young as the tiny cobra who was under my bed.

When that little fellow made his hood and kissed the death I fell heroic and also very sad.
Then in another incident when I jumped over huge cobra in a big compound and looked around to see he was as frighted as I was and showed his hood with a warning and quietly slipped away to his safety, I wondered why fear an animal who is on his routine search of his food or prey.

I still say the jumped I made that day worth an Olympic record if somebody made an accurate measure on that day. Unfortunately I missed an Olympic record since officials were not there to record it. That would have changed my life completely but the day that completely changed my mind was another ordinary day.
I was walking along a stream with the intention of catching guppies and I had a stone in my hand (we used to play marbles those days unlike today’s kids) and I saw a water snake (harmless creature) quickly swimming across in fear.

I took an aim in a moment of irresponsible stroke of mind of ill will and thought, threw the stone at the poor creature and it landed right on his neck.

It was like a bulls eye shot but the agony of the creature who succumbed in a long drawn out 5 minutes of death dance made an impact in my mind never to hurt (reflecting my killing in fear of the young cobra) an animal in either fear or sport.

Then on one night (2 am in the morning) in darkness a Ceylon krait landed on my right shoulder and I brushed it with my left hand gently and put the light in a flash to see creature landing on cement flow with a thud and my dog charging at it, I was man thinking of three lives my dog, myself and the poor creature who ventured at night.
Mind you Ceylon krait is the deadliest of Sri-Lankan venomous snakes.

I watched the creature and it quickly disappeared into crevice wide open due to rotten timber of the bathroom door.

I did not have any cement to seal and went to the kitchen an took some American flour (who says American flour has no place in this country) and sealed the hole with the dough hastily made since the price of flour was very cheap (cheaper than the cement) then.

Suffice is to say I flushed the hole with water before I did that and slept on the settee fearing few more in my bedroom.

After three days it emerged (none elsewhere) from the kitchen floor cracked and we caught it and released it to safety.

Of course I had to cement both holes in the bathroom end and the kitchen end.

The key point here is that animals fear us more than we fear them in this modern world where are we are encroaching on their habitat with blatant disregard to biodiversity.

Brain Myths, the Malady of Democracy

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Brain Myths, the Malady of Democracy

 

There are a lot of myths spread by Psychologists.

This is an attempt to bring some sense and reality into day to day life.

I may dispute many a myths but my attempts are also not infallible in each and every situation, one may encounter.

Making right or correct decision at a given moment is a knack which many of us lack.

If we delay acting on a given (it may be right or it may be wrong) problem even for a fraction of a second, the most destructive procrastination sets in.

Then any given solution is the base for next round of further procrastination.

But if we keep an open mind and believe in what we intend to do, given a difficult problem or a preposition, solution for the problem may come naturally.

This is not easy, though.

Lot of training actually hinder this ability.

That is what we call common sense.

Lot of experience also may be a hindrance.

Basically we have several approaches to a given problem.

Just think of a Game (Video Game)

One’s approach may be (not comprehensive here)

1. Offensive

2. Defensive

3. Neutral

4. Random or Calculated Response 

5. Cool (not procrastination)

The best approach is the last which has all the above components assessed in a fraction of a second. 

Only a few has that cool talent.

They are ones who become successful.

The COOL people are actually very observant.

But many of us use the useless procrastination approach (usual approach of the politician).

What it does is to kill the attempt at solving a given problem from the very beginning.

Unfortunately many of us use this method since we do not believe that some problems can be addressed, if we care to divert from the common approach.

This is what Professor De Bono calls Lateral Thinking.

It is not vertical or analytical or direct thinking.

Side track a bit,

Focus on the problem,

Leave behind the past experiences for a moment,

Give attention to the present moment of time

Then in a FLASH,

A new found solution springs up.

Then if we have few others with equal interest and talent get involved in the same problem, we get endless stream of solutions which we have never thought of because of the redundant past experiences.

We call it brain storming and it really works.

If one does not use common sense what I say here is superfluous.

We use our past experience to solve a given problem.

Sometime past experience is useful.

Sometimes past experience is a hindrance.

Past experience sometimes is the most destructive hindrance to creative and pragmatic solutions.

Good example can be taken from politicians.

When somebody is opposition for a long period of time and then come to power, he / she makes many mistakes due to past misfortunes.

They have lost the ability for creative thinking.

Unfortunately this happens when one is power too, and they do not realize what a wonderful thing to be in opposition.

The people in the opposition see the problem realistically but they do not have the muscle to power the solution through.

It is the malady of the democracy.

Did you ever thought of, who would come to your funeral (Party)?

 Posted on November 14, 2011

Did you ever thought of ,who would come to your funeral (Party)?

I have never given thought to this question but a reason observation have made me to sharpen my observation.

I will come to that later.

But rest assured all the following will be there at your funeral.

1. Almost all your enemies without any exception since they are happy to see you are out of sight. 

They of course like to see your loved one in distress.

This is similar to the God Father Story and one of its funerals and how the rivalry is taken up by the next of kins.

2. All your creditors (you have not settled your debts) will be there to see who are the next of kins to get back the money.

In this context your banker including the Central Bank representative will be there for sure.

3.  A monk, a priest, a rabbi, mullah even if you a  robber baron.

This is the only sure thing in this world.

4. All your neighbors come even though you have been there in the locality only during the last few months of your worldly stay. 

This is to make sure that any one of their kith and kin bid farewell at least the quorum (in numbers) is satisfied in the next funeral.

5. Your local politician will come but because now there are no local representation the number has diminished.

In any case, you are dead now there is no more of your vote left.

Why the hell one should attend?

The 6 and 10 of the list are your supposed to be friends (but many of them will find an excuse not to come).

Real Story

Now to the story which I should bare free now that the 3 months Dhana Ceremony was over.

This was the funeral of a don who had passed away.

He was one of my teachers.

I had close association with him when alive.

There was no official representative from the university, even though like a fool he left his village and come to live near the academic environment.
This was a pity.

What was shocking was none of his children came who were supposed to be professional.

It is no point having  doctorate or PhD, if simple ethics are forgotten for good.

The bottom line is if there are many in one’s funeral most of them are one’s worthwhile enemies and please don’t look down from heaven and count the numbers.

Ten (10) Plus points about Linux Distributions when in USE

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

 Ten (10) Plus points about Linux Distributions when in Use

It is time I should write some important things about Linux that you may not read in books but only experience with regular use.

Even though most of the proprietary guys do not provide the necessary drivers for Linux or support Linux, the modules that are used in new kernels are robust and reliable and never fail. 

They look after the hardware without breaking them down, even if you use the system 24 /7 schedule unlike Microsoft counterparts.

Linux kernel is made to run 24 / 7 schedule without braking down (except normal maintenance). 

The maintenance jobs are done in the early hours of the day (they are called CRON Jobs) when system is not in use but when idling with power on. 

One of the biggest mistakes Linux newbies do is to switch off the computer in the night. 

Unfortunately running 24 hours is not practiced in our university setup since by evening and over weekends servers are switched off and junk that should have been removed automatically get collected, overnight and over the weekend.

1. One is able to run your computer 24 / 7 schedule is its strongest point and its strength.  

No need for restarts every time a minor configuration change is made unlike in windows. These changes are done in real time and no delay is contemplated, the moment a command is activated.

2. Linux look after the time scheduling to nanoseconds. 

For example if one is using K-torrents for downloading several files, it shares time allotment with the files. Faster files get a bigger share and slower files get a smaller share and the full band width is used. One can limit the upload and download speeds if the computer is used in a network.

3. Looks after the hardware and the processor well and if there are problems they are reported at boot time (one should be able to read these messages at boot time which are displayed for a fraction of a second). 

Once a major problem is detected the Linux has the canny habit of switching off instantaneously.

Once after a lightening and power outage (it ran through even the UPS battery) one of my computers had some electrical burns. The system never ran more than few seconds after this power outage, not even for me to read the boot menu. 

Only, after three days, I realized the problem but it had been telling me that the cooling had gone wrong on the first few seconds which I was not able to read fast enough. This problem was solved with the help of a young guy but I was all the time thinking of a boot virus since I fixed a second hand SATA hard disk 3 days before to up the capacity. 

Linux boot and grub file have a good warning systems, if one is careful to read them at boot time.

Not only that Linux is a work horse it looks after minor injuries to the horse.

4. What I really like about Linux is it looks after CD ROMs and CD/DVD writers well. It usually run on default setup but at write time it tests both the CD/DVD and uses the best and safe formula and writes in incremental or decremental speed. 

It does not start writing even if there is a minor fault in the CD or DVD.       

It does not do any job blindly, it assesses the processes and resources even to mini seconds.

5. It is really a multitasking Operating System unlike Windows and work with other computers in a network and synchronize work.

6. It is multi-user operating system.

Ubuntu lacks this due to changes to the desktop system and that is one of my reasons not favouring it in spite of the wider user experience. It is always runs on root and never lets one to use a user account.

I do not use Ubuntu at all except testing its new versions. 

 

I won't waste my time testing its 12.10 version.12.10 in fact is hopeless.

7. It records (keeps a history) and everything is measured to nanoseconds.

8. It uses RAM efficiently and when things are not favorable uses SWAP partition (not swap file as in Windows) to swap files and data. 

This is why it is much efficient than Windows.

One has to allocate a SWAP partition when installing. I have at least two.

9. It is secure from attack if the firewall is properly configured and it is almost free of viruses.

10. It keeps everything in a designated place and file structure is stable even though rigid and your data is in (need to be partitioned accordingly) a /home partition. I can upgrade or reinstall the system without any changes to the /home (data) partition. 

That was one reason I really liked it when I was testing many distributions in the early days of my Linux adventure.

I have never lost a file for 10 years. Would you believe it. Only problem is now I am short of short term memory and I forget with what name I have named a file. 

I have downloaded over two (200) hundred images and made mistakes in only 3 out of the fist 100 and nothing after that. It is almost zero after I started using K-torrent. 

I used PCLinux in my early days including Big Daddy.

I currently use Transmission of (Gnome) Debian.

If you want a work horse to do your jobs. 

It is always Linux.

My Theory - Binary Star

 My Theory - Binary Star

I have an outrageous theory for our Solar System.

Before that let me dish out our limitation of colour sense.

We can distinguish only  3 colours clearly using rods and cones of our retina. 

In my case, I cannot see some colours properly from a young age.

It is getting worse with age.

I realized this when I was playing snooker.
No problem with billiards since only two colours white and red are used.

The computer can distinguish millions of colour shades and for "Simplicity Sake" the computer used 256 colour shades of colours in our monitor dispensation

Good example of colour compression is used in mpeg file format of video streaming, where redundant analog colours are shed to make the file light not bulky.

The name PNG or Portable Network File came into existence without sacrificing the quality of the image.

I am out of touch with Microsoft and Apple Software.

I only use GIMP for my photographic work.

The bottom line is analog files are heavy and we can shed lot of bulk when sharing image files in the internet.

The Cosmos is Big and we can see visually only about 5% of the matter.

Rest of the Universe is Dark and beyond our grasp.

To identify hidden matter we have to use other energy components of our energy spectrum using instruments mounted on a Satellite Probe.

That is the reality.

The man does not want to be blinded by his visual limitations.

My outlandish theory is that we were a Binary Star System and the other star died and disappeared into darkness, long time ago.

It remains as a dark body outside our visible planets and gives the stability to our solar system.

Mind you, it is not a dark hole but a physical body without visible light source but with powerful gravitational force.

My reasoning are simple.

Binary division is common in cells and biological world.

There is nothing to prevent binary division in physical world or in the cosmos.

It is a simple mathematical logic.
They do not have to be equal in size.
 

In Spiral Galaxies there are two arms one bright with young stars and another arm with old stars.

In between, there is a Globular or Elliptical body and a bar body or dark matter in the center.

I am using this analogy to our solar system.

The postulated dark body is bigger of the two original star. 

An enormous amount of Energy was dissipated in this event.

Stars fading an dying is normal in the cosmos.

Like the bar body in a spiral galaxy this Hidden Dead Star gives stability to our Solar System.

Lot of our explorer satellites get lost or veer away from its course. 

My postulation is that we fail to take account of the gravitational pull of this Old Star Unseen. 

The experimental satellites were lost probably were pulled up by this mass with powerful gravitational pull.

Like a good brother it does not let any matter escapes from our solar system.  

Our cosmos is receding at a tremendous pace and this guy is trying to stop our solar system losing its components.

This is a working theory.

Worth probing.

This will be one of my questions in my philosophy book.

Philosophy book will be my last in this life.

Moon Theory

Moon Theory

I have my own theory.

This is not as outlandish as the theory of Binary Star (dead star gives the stability) origin of our solar system.

It is all related to the meteorite hit/s of the past, certainly longer than 65 millions years.

This hypothesis is based on the idea of the non existing part of the Gondwanaland  and the relative lack of land mass below India and Ceylon.

The "Theory is", the great impact that the meteorite had caused to the landmass (Gondwanaland) to carve out a moon for our Earth.

In other words earth came first.

The Moon came second.
 

The moon is not spherical but caved in (on the not visible side).

The gravitational stability was created due to this "cave in" and the spinning of the moon synchronized with the earth due to this impact (that caused caving on the non visible opposite side). 

It is also possible much of the moon mass  was burned away or extinguished!

Additionally I DO NOT believe America landed on the moon on the first attempt.

Landing would have been difficult due to this "caving" on the surface.

Additionally the shadows created by "caving in" may even hinder perfect visibility.

The craters on the moon would have been due to succession or series of meteorite hits. 

Because of lack of atmosphere and no weathering effect these craters are still visible on the other side of the moon.

The effects of the meteorite hits would have amplified the caving effects (that was already present) at the time of its origin due to a massive meteorite hit.

Even though, the crust or material is the same moon's age is equivalent to 4.5 billion years minus the time when the meteorite hit the earth. 

Assuming, it happened 3 billion years ago the age of the moon is only 1.5 billion years.

So any meteorite hits on the earth before 1.5 billion years ago would have no corresponding craters on the moon, if the moon was also hit by same the meteorite shower..

On earth due to weathering effect craters are NOT visible.

This hypothesis is plausible.

But the moon landing was an American Hoax!

Americans without the help of Stanly Kubrick are very good producing fantastic films.

I come to the age of realizing fictional films watching is a waste of my time and they nowhere near Truth or Reality.
 

2000 Odessy is one example.
 

Philosophically speaking Truth or Absolute Truth is hard to fathom.

For 2500 years we believed in Creator God and believing moon landing is a similar fallacy.

Tell me the benefit of landing a manned object (Russians did land an unmanned object, a decade ago) on the moon with an object 3 times as heavy as the Russian unmanned object (without men on board)?

The rocket had to be bigger and the total expenditure probably 5 times, the cost of Russians.

Russians are clever but Americans are stupid economically speaking, if not technologically.

Russians have spend the saved money on missiles (to protect the mother land) with AI technology which the Americans are far behind in manufacturing and the Americans have lost the battle on earth (in Ukraine).

That is the bottom line of thinking of Russians.

Save the mother land at any cost!

Civilization Without Military, Kings, Priests or Religion

Civilization Without Military, Kings, Priests or Religion

History is all cock and bull story.

Each new civilization erases the previous civilization often by burning their bony remains.

I tend to believe Ceylon had 3 civilizations.

I won't elaborate all three types for fear of recrimination.

I believe that  the civilization I describe below had even come to Ceylon.
Our archaeologists deliberately have destroyed their artifacts.

Instead, I will describe the Harappan and Mohenjo Jaro civilization.

It was in existence in parallel with Sumerians in the west and they traded with Sumerians.

They evolved 3500 years BC and were the bronze age people.

They had left seals or baked tablets and bronze artifacts.

Their alphabet or language is somewhat similar to Sumerians.

Their real name is unknown but the name given by the modern historians in relation to the current village names.

Therefore, I name them as Indus Valley Civilization.

Hindus refer to them as Sarasvathi Civilization.

They were the first to make baked bricks.

If they did not baked the bricks this civilization could have come to existence, peaked and disappeared leaving no trace for us to talk about.

Features of this civilization are.

1. No army or military.
Practiced loving kindness.

2. No priests or religion of note.
This establishes my view that one need NO religion to bring moral or civil values.

Religion in human history is a modern phenomenon or late development.

No places of worship were recorded.

3. No king or hierarchy to exert control over the civil population.

The principles that probably governed them were;

No killing and no military.
No stealing and no penal code.
No adultery and therefore  harmony.
No lying to its members.

4. They loved the mother nature both animals and plants.

5. Practiced good sanitation.

Why the decline?

1. Environmental catastrophe.
Floods
Droughts
Fires

2. Over population.

3. Pandemics including malaria.

4. Pre-aryans destroyed them
Later Aryans did the finishing touch.

5. Deforestation due to brick baking.

Becoming a Publisher Using Linux Utilities

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Becoming a Publisher Using Linux Utilities

I have had a crash course of writing.
Four books after two year lapse and ideas not opinions flowing at a tremendous speed.

I have almost stopped blogging and if I do not sit down and write them, the very next day,     I have forgotten all.

I use forgetting as a method of encouraging new ideas.

Ruminating on the same old opinion is not a good thing for a writer.
One gets bogged down mentally or mental block ensues.

I was down with myocarditis on the first dose of vaccination but thankfully my mental faculties remained intact and that made me to go through the rest I needed, since there is no treatment for myocarditis which may even end up in death.

Initially it was fear but then reality dawned on me that Uncertainty Principle in stock market will fit in nicely with life events as well.

It was not fatigue that made me to go into hibernation.
Having worked 24/7 schedule all my life as a medical person, I needed a long rest, especially because the demise of our dog Zimba put me down low.

He was wonderful companion and I may not write a book about him which was more personal agony than glory.

In fact, I finishing a book about three Ceylonese -afterlife- Dogs and all three now are in Heaven and one as the Maha Brahma's Assistant.

It is strange that I always end up with a Rebirth Episode and that does not spare dogs.

This book would be published soon when I go back to Ceylon for a break. It was hectic holiday and I could not finish the book.

I have for the past 20 years, dissociated with medical activities and I pretend that I am a PhD Guy (of course I have research work to my credit) and not a proper medical guy. Having worked my last years in the University, that ploy worked very well for me and gave me time for blogging, if not writing.

The corona virus pandemic was the correct antidote and I stopped drinking and loitering in the city, aimlessly in book shops, the coffee shops and the tea shops which were mushrooming in a tiny city of Kandy for foreign tourists.

Unfortunately my classmates are either living on medical drugs and are deprived of alcohol due to their medication or have become alcoholic addicts.

I hate the cellphone (gossip channel) and have almost switched off the land phone for good.

The telephone only brings bad news, never good and the rest is gossip.

That made me to write pretty or petty books on alcohol, publishing of books, fact files void of fat, mother nature and about 30 unique guys, I have met in my life including guys doing gem business, union activities, loafing, mountaineering, fishing, vendors, farmers, jokers, petty office assistants, librarians, sportsmen and many more.

Unlike the young days my memory is failing and I have to jot down ideas, in a tiny note book, which I found in New Zealand 30:years ago. and never used but kept it like a souvenir.

I did not bring this book to Australia and I am going back to collect it and enlarge upon the ideas jotted down.

It has all the passwords recorded for posterity.

It has come handy and me forgetting PIN numbers of all the bank accounts made me to write down all the lengthy passwords for my email, except one email (which I remember well due to frequent use), I have forgotten all the other passwords.

I cannot log into CreateSpace account with one email which I have many books published.

Even though, I can some how get to my email by circuitous methods, I cannot get to the bookshelf of mine at CreateSpace.

Finally, I got round of that hurdle and here I am publishing again.

I begin to hate digital books with ugly black and white typeface.

For a long time I used Google's fonts with color to add colour to my blog pieces.

I have resisted buying a Kindle and my tablet battery has gone dead and it cannot be replaced.

I have collected quite a number of Nokia cellphones and a tiny  cellphone (this I have disposed) for calls for Taxi or sending SMS and had a problem with responding to the Amazon's text messages for verification of my book page.

I have many SIM cards (15 in number, I guess a CIA guy do not have that many) for my various activities and have to use at least two of them to coordinate my writings.

The keyboard is a problem and cursor point of the mouse jumps recklessly to unwanted places and editing correction to this entry took more than an hour.

Thank You Amazon, the spell checker did a good job highlighting the mistakes.

Life is getting complicated and paranoid in this modern age,

The pandemic has made lot of guy/girls becoming paranoid.

It is not an evolutionary trend but a bizarre  malady of  modern age!

Pendrive Linux My Love

 There is a current Debian MultiBootLinux Utility to perform this simple job. 

It is a Python Utility. It works on Linux and I do not know about other non-Linux operating systems.

UnetBootIn has GONE DORMANT.

Reproduction of a Very Old Piece

Pendrive Linux My Love
The name Pendrive Linux has disappeared from the web scene but the www.PendriveLinux.com is there if you need some help for mounting any Linux distribution.
Long ago, I went in web search for 100 Linux distributions, my only aspiration (inspiration too) and last thing I wanted in my possession was to have a Linux booted from a 1 GB Flash Drive.

Flash Drives were expensive then and our download speed was hopeless  and only thing I wanted to bring home was a Mandriva  Globe Trotter and a Mandriva Pendrive Linux when I went  abroad on a different assignment.

By that time I had (with some trial and error) got a Puppy Linux on a Flash Drive but all the efforts of preparing a Pendrive Linux were not successful.
 

Then of course in one of my friends room abroad, I got my Pendrive Linux loaded well pass midnight and I still have it and it is still working.
All these were done on a Windows computer with Gemu (Gnome emulation) executive EXE file on board.

It was a huge achievement for me then.

But I ended up buying a Laptop without Linux for one third of the price then with hard bargaining and almost fighting with the dealer.
Doing this on a Linux was painfully long process for a busy person like me and I never tried it on Linux having got few of my favorite Linux distribution in few of the Flash Drives. 

The again everything on FAT partitions and  not on Linux partitions with /boot, /root, /home and root permissions.
My bad experience with vendors abroad got me into firm resolve to promote Linux Globally but not in this country (Ceylon) where they use pirated copies as a rule (which I detest as a simple Buddhist) and it is the Banana Republic's futuristic motto (Bana is daily sermon and Na is not following or listening but not the slippery plantain we eat to avoid constipation  by listening to the Bana of the politician who do not practice virtues but the voter has to do that on daily basis.

I am glad to see most of the visitors to this site are from abroad and many from USA and they get Linux and healthy dose of anti-capitalistic views which even Obama is pursuing for betterment of the down trodden masses.

My venture into Linux 100 was bumpy but and I am in a better position to talk about Linux and Cloud Computing.

All what you need is a CD/DVD and a Pendrive to be be cloud ready  a savvy or newbie guy/girl and not Android Craze or HP WebOS.

However the distribution I talk about need to shed some fat (client) and become thin clients.
 

Follow Me.

STEPS.
What one's needs are  CD/DVD and two (2) Flash Drives and little free time and one need not do that in one go.

1. Download CloudUSB DVD (1.2 GB).

2. Download your favorite CD/DVD of Linux distribution and copy as an Iso file not as bootable Live CD/DVD.

3. Find a  computer (ideally with USB booting to test your work) DVD writer.

4. Boot Up CloudUSB.

5. Use Boot DVD / USB creator; click and follow instructions.

6. Now you have a USB stick to clone many Pendrives.

7. Boot the Flash Drive with CoudUSB.

8. Go to UnetBooiIn click and follow instructions.

9. Load your favorite Linux CD/DVD containing Iso file into the DVD/CD ROM.

10. Plug in your Second USB Drive

11. Give the path of the CD/DVD Rom as to where the Iso file is.
Wait a while and in the second USB drive you have a new Live distribution of your choice.

12. Then register your company and start selling your products (Live Linux Distributions on a stick). 

But do not jack the price up like our Buddhist monks who sell Bana on a pirated copy of Microsoft CD.

I have not given the finer details which vary from distribution to distribution and why I used CloudUSB is that it promote Cloud computing in style including Ubuntu One and Dropbox  and it has all the utilities (FAT Client though).

In my case I use Ping Eee which has more laptop friendly utilities.

Puppy Linux Studio

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
 

Puppy Studio
Even though, I used PCLinux as my gold standard (it has some problem with its new partition tool-not recognizing some partition types) for live CDs for its versatility and the availability of many versions at disposal, the record for most number of CDs downloaded goes unquestionably to Puppy Linux (I have, more than 20).
Puppy Linux Studio is the latest I downloaded.
It has lite version which is 288MB.
The full version is 376 MB.

It is pretty good and has taken most of the useful packages from TeenPup and LeagcyPup.

Both over 650MB.

Puppy less than 200 is always in my front pocket even when I travel abroad.

I rarely carry a heavy Laptop.

 Even though I carry a flash drive (pen drive) I rarely use it for any problem solving.
Puppy is enough and it is amazing in doing simple and complex things.

Why carry a laptop when one can avoid it.

Before I buy something I load Puppy and see whether everything works before paying in foreign currency. If Puppy fails I do not buy that f0r sure however much the market hype.

As far as I am concerned I categorize (like any other Live) Live CDs based on Puppy MBs.
Is it less than 200 MB?
I love the ones below 200.

NimbleX is one of them. 

NimbleX has become bit fatter recently but still less than 500MB.

The next category is 200 to 500 MB (little less or more).
CRUX, Peppermint and many more out there now.
What annoys me is why try to compress into 700MB CD which is impossible unless one use compression used by Knoppix.

If it goes beyond 700 MB might as well double it to 1500 and go for a decent DVD like Mint rather than no man's land.
There is another problem with trying to compress into 700MB.
Unless one has 1GB RAM, live session is slow and painful.
Many people do not have more than 512MB RAM.
Many of the old machines can be revitalized with 500MB input.
I am glad to see Linux distributions are catering for these machines.

Having said that with or without your own machine all Puppies are adorable.

I will be with you on Pendrive Linux soon.

Linux History

Linux History

Chronology

1991:

The Linux kernel is publicly announced on 25 August by 21-year-old

Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds.

1992:

The Linux kernel is re-licensed under the GNU GPL. The first Linux

distributions are created.

1993:

Over 100 developers work on the Linux kernel. With their assistance, the kernel is adapted to the GNU environment, which creates a large

spectrum of application types for Linux. The oldest currently (as of 2015)

existing Linux distribution, Slackware, is released for the first time. Later

that same year, the Debian project is established. Today it is the largest

distribution community.

1994:

Torvalds judges all components of the kernel to be fully matured: he releases version 1.0 of Linux.

The XFree86 project contributes a graphical user interface (GUI).

Commercial Linux distribution makers Red Hat and SUSE publish version 1.0 of their Linux distributions.

1995:

Linux is ported to the DEC Alpha and the Sun SPARC systems. Over the following years, it is ported to an ever-greater number of platforms.

1996:

Version 2.0 of the Linux kernel is released. The kernel can now serve several processors at the same time using symmetric multi-processing (SMP), and thereby becomes a serious alternative for many companies.

1998:

Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq, and Oracle announce their support for Linux.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar were first published as an essay (later as a book), resulting in Netscape publicly releasing the source code to its Netscape Communicator web browser suite. Netscape’s actions and crediting of the essay brings Linux’s open source development model to the attention of the popular technical press. 

In addition, a group of programmers began developing the graphical user interface KDE.

1999:

A group of developers began work on the graphical environment GNOME, destined to become a free replacement for KDE, which at the time depended on the then proprietary, Qt GUI toolkit. 

During this year, IBM announced an extensive project for the support of Linux.

2000:

Dell announces that it is now the No. 2 provider of Linux-based systems worldwide and the first major manufacturer to offer Linux across its full product line.

2002:

2004:

The media reported, “Microsoft killed Dell Linux.”

The XFree86 team splits up and joins with the existing X standards body to form the X.Org Foundation, which results in a substantially faster development of the X server for Linux.

2005:

The project openSUSE begins free distribution from Novell’s community. In addition, the project OpenOffice.org introduces version 2.0 which then started supporting OASIS Open Document Standards.

2006:

2007:

Oracle releases its own distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 

Novell and Microsoft announce cooperation for better interoperability and mutual patent protection.

Dell starts distributing laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed.

2009:

Red Hats market capitalization equals Suns, interpreted as a symbolic moment for the “Linux-based economy.”

2011:

Version 3.0 of the Linux kernel is released.

2012:

The aggregate Linux server market revenue exceeds that of the rest of the UNIX market.

2013:

Google’s Linux-based Android claims 75% of the Smartphone market share, in terms of the number of phones shipped.

2014:

Ubuntu claims 22,000,000 users.

2015:

Version 4.0 of the Linux kernel is released.

 

I have posted here the Debian releases which were missed by the Statistics of Ubuntu version distributions for France.

My belief is Ubuntu sources deliberately suppressed the information of Debian.

2021 Linux kernel 5.10 L.T.S

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mageia 8 (DVD) Linux 5.10 (Release 28 February 2021, end of life 31 august 2022)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

Mageia 8 (DVD) Linux 5.10 (Release 28 February 2021, end of life 31 august 2022)

Please do not confuse Debian Version with Kernel version.

Debian Version 11 in August 2021

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Debian Version 12 in June 2023

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Myths, Mirage and Marriage

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Myths, Mirage and Marriage

 It is said married life with kids (not without) prolong one´s life of existence.

I reproduce here posted in asokaplus at wordpress where no one visits.

I cannot remember when I posted this or whenever had I written this, being a married man.

All the same it is worth repeating with some editing and formatting.

The 3Ms here have common ancestry.

None of can be achievable and each one of them is shrouded in mystery.

For example one who is lost and disorientated in desert sand would not know for certain whether he is arriving at a water hole or not.

Myths of can be expanded to any direction or dimension one who is seeking the miracle go to any extent to believe what in reality is not achievable and where the reality is the major casualty.

Some common practices and beliefs merge into day to day life sometimes almost imperceptible to reality.

Marriage is an institution that has gained such a reputable credence that writing anything against is amounting to desecration and sacrilegious.

That is the myth I am going to expose and explode.

There is no intention of disrupting any healthy harmony that may exists in any relationship or institution.

Healthy relationships can exist and lasting friendships can be developed without this institution existing its power over individuals but when something is institutionalized and when it is bound to the common law and practices and finely tuned with ethical and moral practices of a culture aforesaid myth and mirage also will get entangled with it.

Idea here is to disentangle certain myths associated with marriage.

1. Marriage is a perfect union

2. Marriage works because of give and take

3. Marriage is a stable institution

4. There is freedom in marriage

5. It does not grow old but remain live

6. It gives security

7. It has common goals

8. It makes life complete

9. Without this institution human relationships cannot be developed

10. Everyone must commit to this institution at one stage of his or her life

This list can go on but suffice is to disentangle the entangled myths.

These arguments are not for one who is already entangled since with the wedlock there is a legal deadlock.

This is for one who leaps into deep water without addressing his or her own issues.

The first casualty in war is truth.

Similarly the first casualty in marriage is freedom.

If you love freedom and lot of hobbies thinks twice before taking the plunge.

1. The first casualty is your hobbies.

2. The second casualty is your friends.
If you have lot of friends and love their company think twice.

3. Third casualty is one’s finance (unless both are bankers with good investment funds for life like the Murdoch).
If you cannot manage finances alone two of you will not mange it better.

4. Fourth myth is the stability and security.
There are no institutions in this world which is stable and secure.
Even the best banks can bust. 

The Uncertainty Principle rules.

In marriage finances would bust first, especially when the kids come home.

5. It makes life complete is the biggest myth of all.
It makes simple life more complicated in marriage life and you never complete the set targets or your obligations, even if you live beyond 100 years.

That is why I have set my target at 80. 

Living beyond 80 is a burden to this planet.

6. In marriage more you give in more you have to give and less you have to take. 

One never get a chance to take in, if you are the giver.
It is like putting water into a bucket with hole in the bottom.

7. Marriage does not get old.
It is not true it is the institution that gets older by the minute.
Moment you tie your nuptials and finishes the honeymoon it is old enough to be called a marriage.

That is why we have so many marriage jubilees from its inception. 

This is written with the impending royal wedding in mind.
You know what happened to Diana.

As long as you are a commoner please do not do what royals do.

Remain a commoner for life and you may advise the royals (couples) in trouble.

Better still you become a divorce lawyer.

Hope the royal couple reads this one day after the honeymoon (too late by then).

I wish Good Luck to them all the same.