Sunday, May 4, 2025
We haven't got a program to get our diaspora back to Ceylon
Labour Wins with a Considerable Swing
My Daily Browser
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Tribute to Antony Green- Computer Guy in Politics
Finish Testing ARCH Linux
Gnanath Obeysekara the Pompous Academic
Friday, May 2, 2025
Indika Totawaththa and His Interpretation of Dhamma
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Russian have taken My Gnome Promotion to Heart
ALT Linux
I think Russian developed should take a leaf out of ARCH Reborn OS and provide online install and to pick one of the 10 favourite desktops.
I am installing it Now.
It was almost a disaster.
It takes over the entire monitor and picking options was difficult.
1.Press F2 for English or Russian (they have dropped Portuguese language).
2. Accepting and ticking the Free Software Declaration was difficult. Finally I found it on the bottom middle of the panel.
I would go for Gnome which I know and not the ALT Panel desktop.
3. Next come the Locality and finding Australia was difficult from the left hand corner menu.
4. Then the application selection.
I clicked all but ALT service client.
5. Setup for me is custom and not a workstation.
6. Thanks God again that the partition table was clear and on the left hand side.
With full screen it was easy on my eyes.
It got my partition 24 WRONG as NTFS.
It is Ext4 and /var.
It did not have /boot option but many derivatives of /var.
I think it is going to destroy 5 of my partition. I clicked wrong option by accident.
It needed 26GB and I had only 20GB.
I could not resize it to 26GB.
I went down to 11.1GB for applications.
I think one should not try this distribution if you are newbie.
No recovery option and now the installation is on.
Yes, just like Redahat I will erase it within 20 minutes of my installation but keep the USB in my Archive.
Already transferred (not written to a USB) the Iso Image to a spare USB.
The wallpaper is not Gnome but traditional MATE and yellowish.
I know my partition table by heart.
7. It's package system is RPM of Redhat which I hate.
Installation is painfully SLOW.
It installs the base system first.
Then go for applications second.
Application installation is also very slow but bit faster than the base system.
I think it has picked up lot of ALT stuff and may have spying or snooping ingredients.
BEWARE.
It is for Russians by Russians and probably violate Free Software and Freedom Concepts.
After all it is a communist country just like China and that is why despise DeepIn Linux which many moons ago destroyed one of my external rotating disk for good.
The only one I had after disposing the rest to iron foundry.
No cancel or delete partition options.
SAD.
Yes, Russians are still "Bum Sucking Windows Utilities".
That is no Brainer for an ardent Linux supporter and convict.
Perhaps I might install it in my laptop on my first journey to Russia so that I can use ALT and Sysipus repository.
Good Bye ALT on Gnome and Panel Option.
Thankfully Gnome recovered my System at boot up and no damage done by ALT Linux.
I cut and paste the image on a 16GB USB for future review.
Erasing the USB used for testing.
Russian have taken My Gnome Promotion to Heart
Big Thank You to Russian Developers.
LINUX is GLOBAL and has no political affiliation or division in its COMMUNITY.
Thank GOD, I did not publish my book on "Linux Essentials".
An account ALT Linux would be written there.
I used Mate Desktop on my OLD Laptop long time ago and was not impressed.
Gnome has more than 50,000 packages and it supports Snapcraft, too.
Just yesterday, I got Brave Browser installed in my Gnome using Snaps.
Thank YOU again.
I am downloading it (6GB) and run live and if satisfied might install it in my NUC.
My visit to Russia is suspended indefinitely. I hear Russian have demoted Ceylonese in their VISA scheme. They very well remeber our JVP leader and his disruptive politics in "Lumumba University".
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."
ALT Linux
I did not like its MATE Desktop.
ALT Linux was founded in 2001 by a merge of two large Russian free software projects. By the year 2008 it became a large organization developing and deploying free software, writing documentation and technical literature, supporting users, and developing custom products. ALT Linux produces different types of distributions for various purposes. There are desktop distributions for home and office computers and for corporate servers, universal distributions that include a wide variety of development tools and documentation, certified products, distributions specialized for educational institutions, and distributions for low-powered computers. ALT Linux has its own development infrastructure and repository called Sisyphus, which provides the base for all the different editions of ALT Linux.
ALT Linux 2.4 Master
by ALT Linux Team
Publication date 2004-09-19
Topics alt, Linux, 2.4, master, distribution, Iso
Language Russian
Item Size 4.6G
This is quite a whopper of an upload, featuring ALT Linux 2.4 Master in its full 8 CD glory. The install CD is still available at ALT's FTP, but I can't find the other 7 anywhere.
ALT Linux is a Russian Linux distribution created by the merging of two Russian projects working on Linux in 2001; with the distribution itself ultimately starting as a fork of Mandrake Linux before becoming its own thing. As you can see, this release is from September 2004 and it has a truckload of stuff, which I can't even begin to list in any sort of detail here. I will let you know that the default installation comes with the KDE 3.2.3 and GNOME 2.6.2 desktops running on top of kernel 2.4.26, however. Additionally, the initial install only uses the install CD; you will have to fiddle around with Synaptic (the package manager used here) post-install to get the other 7 CDs added so that you can install whatever you want from them. I hope you enjoy!
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It had 4 versions
1. Developer
2. Gamer
3. Installer
4. Miscellaneous
I am downloading iGamer for my Archive.
MATE
MATE is named after the South American plant yerba mate (tea made out of it). The name is stylized in all capital letters to follow the nomenclature of other Free Software desktop environments like KDE and LXDE.
It is light weight and lacks in software applications.
DuckduckGO and Bodhi Linux
December 26, 2011
Why one should use DuckduckGO
Bodhi Supports it.
DuckduckGO has a trendy support of the Linux community.
With cloud computing in full swing soon, the emergence of DuckDuckGO is a healthy attribute.
Bodhi and lot of Debian derivatives which port light weight Midori as a browser by default support DuckDuckGO including Puppy Linux.
By the way Bodhi enlightenment desktop has produced and excellent distribution come this Christmas.
It is light weight and has beautiful desktop effects.
Bodhi supports Sinhala too.
Bodhi has enlightenment desktop.
Below is the information reproduced directly from DuckDuckGO home page.
It has a strong Privacy Policy.
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that is based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and uses information from crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia) with the aim of augmenting traditional results and improving relevance.
The search engine philosophy emphasizes privacy and does not record user information.
At other search engines, when you do a search and then click on a link, your search terms are sent to that site you clicked on (in the HTTP referer header).
We call this sharing of personal information “search leakage.”
For example, when you search for something private, you are sharing that private search not only with your search engine, but also with all the sites that you clicked on (for that search).
In addition, when you visit any site, your computer automatically sends information about it to that site (including your User agent and IP address).
This information can often be used to identify you directly.
So when you do that private search, not only can those other sites know your search terms, but they can also know that you searched it. It is this combination of available information about you that raises privacy concerns.
DuckDuckGo prevents search leakage by default.
Instead, when you click on a link on our site, we route (redirect) that request in such a way so that it does not send your search terms to other sites. The other sites will still know that you visited them, but they will not know what search you entered beforehand.
At some other search engines (including us), you can also use an encrypted version (HTTPS), which as a byproduct doesn’t usually send your search terms to sites. However, it is slower to connect to these versions and if you click on a site that also uses HTTPS then your search is sent. Nevertheless, the encrypted version does protect your search from being leaked onto the computers it travels on between you and us.
At DuckDuckGo, our encrypted version goes even further and automatically changes links from a number of major Web sites to point to the encrypted versions of those sites. It is modeled after (and uses code from) the HTTPS Everywhere FireFox add-on.
These sites include Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon to name a few.
Another way to prevent search leakage is by using something called a POST request, which has the effect of not showing your search in your browser and, as a consequence, does not send it to other sites. You can turn on POST requests on our settings page, but it has its own issues. POST requests usually break browser back buttons, and they make it impossible for you to easily share your search by copying and pasting it out of your Web browser’s address bar.
Finally, if you want to prevent sites from knowing you visited them at all, you can use a proxy like Tor.
DuckDuckGo actually operates a Tor exit enclave, which means you can get end to end anonymous and encrypted searching using Tor & DDG together.
You can enter !proxy domain into DuckDuckGo as well, and we will route you through a proxy, e.g. !proxy breadpig.com. This feature is part of our !bang syntax. Unfortunately, proxies can also be slow, and free proxies (like the one we use) are funded by arguably excessive advertising.
Because of these drawbacks in HTTPS, POST and proxies we decided to take the redirect approach to combat search leakage. However, we leave the choice up to you.
You can deviate from the default on our settings page by toggling the redirect or address bar settings.
You can also use our encrypted version.
Other search engines save your search history.
Usually your searches are saved along with the date and time of the search, some information about your computer (e.g. your IP address, User agent and often a unique identifier stored in a browser cookie), and if you are logged in, your account information (e.g. name and email address).
With only the timestamp and computer information, your searches can often be traced directly to you. With the additional account information, they are associated directly with you.
Also, note that with this information your searches can be tied together. This means someone can see everything you’ve been searching, not just one isolated search. You can usually find out a lot about a person from their search history.
It’s sort of creepy that people at search engines can see all this info about you, but that is not the main concern. The main concern is when they either a) release it to the public or b) give it to law enforcement.
Why would they release it to the public?
AOL famously released supposedly anonymous search terms for research purposes, except they didn’t do a good job of making them completely anonymous, and they were ultimately sued over it.
In fact, almost every attempt to anonymize data has similarly been later found out to be much less anonymous than initially thought.
The other way to release it to the public is by accident. Search engines could lose data, or get hacked, or accidentally expose data due to security holes or incompetence, all of which has happened with personal information on the Internet.
Why would search engines give your search history to law enforcement?
Simply because law enforcement asked for it, usually as part of a legal investigation.
If you read privacy policies and terms of service carefully you will notice that they say they can give your information on court order.
This makes sense because they may be legally obligated to do so. However, search engines are not legally obligated to collect personal information in the first place. They do it on their own volition.
The bottom line is if search engines have your information, it could get out, even if they have the best intentions. And this information (your search history) can be pretty personal.
For these reasons, DuckDuckGo takes the approach to not collect any personal information.
The decisions of whether and how to comply with law enforcement requests, whether and how to anonymize data, and how to best protect your information from hackers are out of our hands. Your search history is safe with us because it cannot be tied to you in any way.
JVP/NPP Combo is an Economic. Cultural and Social Pest (parasite) of Body Politics of Ceylon
JVP/NPP Combo is an Economic. Cultural and Social Pest (parasite) of Body Politics of Ceylon
This parasitic worm has to be removed from our body politics.
It got the blessing of Ranil/Indian and CIA master plan but that is besides the point.
They build it cader on jealousy and cast system and now ir has permiated the vety Buddhist (Niragmikya and Samavasikaya of Magngala/Aruni/Maithree Clan or Biden Trojan)
Niragamika theme on this Month of Wesak has the most devastating Cultural Impact.
Yes, it should be discarded like the Kata Kela or the first spit of the mourning, lest we won't be able to for a considerable lenght of time in our history and heritage.
Kata Kela comes from a Dhammapada Verse which JVP guys have never read and I have a copy in front of me even in Australia and it always accompany me on foreign voyage.
It contains Truth not the Chethiyas a Boru of Anua/Arunu and Modi clan.
Yes Modi has a major Hate Muslim Theme (they are 30% and growing in India) but the underlying theme is to destroy reemergence of Buddhism in India. Yes it is happening lot of Hindus are in their heart are real Buddhists in their practice of religion and not anti-Bhuddhist like Modi Clan.
I call majority of Indians stupid.
That is why they cannot understand Buddhism in its core but War Mongering against the Muslims.
India never helped us (really propagated their agenda and undermined our sovereignty) but Pakistan Air Force helped us a lot and in their need we should take the side of Pakistan not India.
Our Stupid President has become a stooge of Indian politics.
360 degree turn and Wijeweera started with Indian expansion in his five lectures to ruin our YOUTH.
The intention of these to highlight the economic impact (I have a piece here in detail) of their Destruction.
I was involved in replacing three (3) Transformers in our locality in a shorter space of less than two months. After the last reinstall the Lady Engineer told me it is the last in stock, you better protect it and YES, I became a real anti-JVP- crusade from then onwards and never hesitated to educate the Three Wheeler Drivers (first by boycotting and not hiring the JVP sympathizer 3WDs).
Last time they used Three Wheeler Drivers for this campaign.
So do not hire these 3WDS guys who a cultural pest and worm in our body politics.
I am telling it as a doctor and our body politics is sicken by their propaganda but our MINDS should be clear at the polling station.
Buddhism is for our Mind and not for our body that putrefy.
Minds remains (reborn again) to take a root in another body and another life.
Despise these Niragamikayos.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Conspiracy to Change the Constitution- 3Cs
Conspiracy to Change the Constitution
1. Conspiracy
Illegal attempt to change something legal.System change and "Aragalaya" is illegal.
The legal luminary from Colombo Law College failed to take action or arrest (not a single case raised against it) the progress of this SAGA.
2. Why Change?
It is spearheaded by CIA and ably aided by Modi of India using Tamil diaspora.
Everything necessary for safeguarding rights of all citizens, religions and languages are
"Kiri Hattiya Perallanna Haddenne, Anura and Haruni are main accessories.
This is what JVP and NPP have always done.
Doing things against the legal government (madness by itself by their "gim bands") is ther forte and thing that is a heroic.
Wijeweera was excelled from "Lumumba University".
Please ask President Putin of Russia.
He will give all the details.
Study this as political exercise.
3. Constitution
It was a collective effort done with foresight.
Unfortunately JVP came in and LTTE took the effort to divide the country with Indian RAW's help.
Ceylon is a Sovereign Country which is inviolable.
Our constitution is better than what is in America and we have avoided to dictator coming to power. JRJ tried but failed.
Anura wants to become a dictator (Ranil wants to be a dictator before he kick the bucket and he has placed Anura to see the impact, how it evolves).
"Balalun Lava Koss-Ata Bema Thamai Den Wenne"
That is why they are clamouring to change it.
However a referendum is necessary and we have to defeat at that level, if ever with 2/3rd majority they change the constitution.
We are going through critical (period) danger and Cardinals are hard at work and Conspiring in the Vatican.
30-04-1975 - 50 Year Anniversary of Vietnam War
My Entry into Dhamma
My Entry into Dhamma
This is the month of Wesak.
One must reflect on the month of April with a sharp mind and scrutiny.
It was all to confuse the mine of 70% of the average Buddhist.
In my living memory we never had elections before the Weask Poya.
It is a categorical statement and disaster well planed in advance like the "Aragalya-System Change" by the Ranil Clan or CIA plot.
Modi has become cat paw of American Plan.
Two military bases in Sigiriya and Mihintale and Modi showed how to use it by using a helicopter to take him from Mihintale and land on Tamil Nadu just violating our sovereign protocol.
That is why say he treats Ceylon like another Provincial Council of India. I am ashamed of retinue of Colombo lawyers not raising their eyelids at least.
This guy who is distorting the history of Ceylon is in the plot.
With that background let me sate my entry into Dhamma (not Buddhism).
Dhamma is all about Mind and I have two books at Amazon, one should read if one wants to delve deeper.
But an average person should read Dhmmapada.
There 423 verses at least read two of them that suits one's personality.
It is not like JRJ who recited two verses at UNO and made this country living hell for Tamils in 1983.
Thankfully I was not in this country when that event happened and as collateral I could have been dead. This is besides, the point RAW tried to kill me in 1988/89 in Digana when 138 bodies were dumped in the hospital nearby. I have never been to this hospital to witness it but gave a call to the resident doctor.
I was man of science in that not medicine but physics but medicine was my career.
I even contest current state of physics.
Matter physics is only 5% and dark matter and dark force are 95%.
It is called Free Energy and we do not know how to tap into this enormous force.
There nothing called space or void but all part of the energy spectrum some visible and not visible.
1. I had no interest in Buddhism until well into fifties.
2. It was my son who made me to think about Dhamma.
He says do not do merits (pin) nor demerits (pav).
3. That made me to think
On reflection this has come from outside and most likely from previous birth.
4. That is the entry point to Dhamma and Mind Consortium.
5. On reflection our dog who lived just under 15 years was an acessary.
We never had a fight in our family when this guy was there.
That is another story.
6. I have done extensive pediatrics in UK (again I was deprived of doing pediatrics by various sources in Ceylon) and i had some introduction from Professor Gomes.
7. Tie points in 5 and 6 put together, our dog probably was a kid who died at young age (Kamma in action) and born as dog.
I say our dog is now in heaven and he is our Guardian Angle.
8. B.P.S. and Bhikku Bodhi
He was the real entry point to deep Dhamma.
My first question from him was "is there any evidence for atomic theory in Buddhism".
I had not grasped the word Dhamma (absolute truth) when I met him.
By the way, Dhamma is not an academic exercise (this an answer to Indika Totawatta) but mind control (I would come to that later).
He picked his book a translation into English from Abhidhamma and said read this and see if it is there (I think the Pali word I was looking was Vibhajja or Division which I thought was related to atomic theory).
I was proved wrong and I dished out Kalama Sutta and Brahmajala Sutta from the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy.
This is how it ended up and I have still not understood Dhamma, yet.
I gave up reading the Abhidhamma after 3 months and one of my classmates is trying to teach Abhidhaamma to Middle School Children in the Temple and I told him "please don't but let children be children" (I was an old time pediatrician).
Of course, I left Ceylon and he is toiling in Ceylon under Anura and the Clan who is all out to destroy Buddhist Traditions in Ceylon.
In Summary
Dhamma is for the Mind
Ekayana Maggo!
Only Way.
Proper Meditation under guidance is that way.
Vibhanga Sutta
Vibhajja : (abs. of Vibhajati) having divided or analyzed.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
30 or More Linux Distributions I would like to Use
30 or More Linux Distributions I would like to Use.
This is besides the 25 odd Puppy Linux derivatives.
I am currrntly downloading all the Linux distributions I have used or tested over last six months.
All of them takes about 100 GB of my HOME Folder and My NTFS Partition.
I do not run them over two days like the YouTube guys who test one or two Linux distributions over a Microsoft Base or Oracle Virtual machine or say Linux SUCKS.
My asnser to them is they are Microsoft (or microshaft succkers to make them plume for a few minutes) suckers.
That is all.
However, I had an obsesion on Gnome but to make evrything sweet I have a pieces here to say most beautiful Linux distributions and most of them are KDE based.
Yes, KDE has role oin Linux as much as Elive Linux which is commercial just like Elemnary os and Zorin.
I have special antipathy against Zorin OS which comes from United kigdom.
It only offeres the Base ISO which I have never (I can just imagine what their base is) downloaded otr tested. Their approch also SUCKS.
Do not get caught to them..
Growing Grass Under My Feet
Posted on January 30, 2011
Growing Grass Under My Feet
Growing Grass Under My Feet
It is high time that we calculate the CO2 foot imprint of every living human being on this planet before it is too late.
It is one of the most important mathematical exercise that we can undertake now.
It may be easy to do that on an animal say a cow but it may be an extremely difficult proposition for even a forest dweller of today.
Since he carries his cellphone and at least a box of matches or a lighter to the deep jungle, his carbon footprint cannot be even remotely compared to a pre-historic man.
Where ever he set foot even the deep-sea bottom he leaves behind a lot of CO2 footprints.
What we can do is to calculate it for an average American and then compare with a Chinese, Indian and a hypothetical man who lives for 60 years.
On the alternative we can calculate for a bull or cow and extrapolate that to a sedentary American man.
American Man eats 3 to 4 cows by the time he is 45 and probably 5 by the time he says good-bye having consumed every possible advantage and resources available on this planet earth.
Then we calculate for a hypothetical bionic man who needs energy for all his activities including his air travel from say New York to New Delhi and all over the globe in one year to schedule, a typical American company owner.
Then we have to figure out how many Americans live hand to mouth existence with minimum of a car ownership.
The equations will go like this
1. 5 bulls x USA (poor American)=USA (poor)
2. USA x USA (Wealthy American) roughly equivalent to 25 bulls
3. Total Bull consumption = A x USA X USA (Wealthy) + B x USA (poor)
A= Total Rich Americans
B= Total Poor Americans
4. Now, 3 has to be divided by (American census-minus rich Americans)
5. Now, 3 has to be divided by (American census-minus poor Americans)
4 and 5 gives the ratio of consumption in nearest approximation to current American Standards
The results 4 and 5 should be multiplied to get a total figure.
This figure should be now divided by the total current human population.
My estimate even without going into nitty-gritty of the equation is like this.
1. An average American (poor) will have a figure of 1000
2. A rich American will be 1000 x 1000
3. Average Chinese is 100
4. Rich Chinese will 100 x 100
5. An average Indian will be 10
6. Rich Indian 1000 x 10000 (much more than that of a rich American)
Indians are very greedy and they want to swallow Ceylon for breakfast.
That is the Modi's PLAN.
The total CO2 foot print of China comes first.
America comes second.
And India comes 3rd even though the population come only second to China since after many years of open policies some Indian still live and breath air and do not produce much CO2 since their meals are going down including onions.
This is what India call it 21st century progress and send rocket to the space and moon and still find a way to fail in Cricket World Cup including completing of venues.
While China is barely able to feed its masses India has failed to make a square meal for the poor whereas a poor American eats 100 times equivalent to a poor Indian.
Mind you a rich Indian with a Maharaja Image (and Guys in the Maharaja Corporation in Ceylon)) produces much CO2 footprint than an American.
This equation has nothing to do with the bank balance or capital of an individual except it’s somewhat close relationship with the affluence.
There are some rich people who do an enormous amount of work to decrease our impact on the planet and I appreciate their efforts.
This is an indirect complement to them.
I want an American Scientist to disprove my equation and discovery and publish a relevant article in the prestigious magazine, American Scientist.
While all this happening I grow grass under my feet to cushion the CO2 foot prints of mine with my urine added to make it’s growth luxurious unlike our banana growers.