"Provided you are lucky and don't have to rebuild the grub to make the boot options menu appear like i did (in case you want dual boot), there is a 99% percent chance that you will install it in about 15 minutes in total likeness of Windows installation. Then you can do too a bit of desktop customization."
We all have to thank the webmaster or the succession of webmasters at infoworld.com for the continuity of their database. After all, it has now proven its usefulness. I found what i was looking for. The prophetic words of Torvalds that never became reality.
Except for some. I never knew until today what Torvalds said 8-9 years ago, that "he thinks Linux on the desktop is at least five years, maybe 10 years, away".
But since last year's spring i had it with Windows. It couldn't be contained anymore in a gigantic 22 GB partition. It wanted to download SP1 after it already had all the updates overfilling the partition that still had some 2 GB free space. I lost a long email i was writing for a couple of hours because i didn't hit in time the postpone updates button or whatever it's called for the 5th time in a raw while i was writing it.
Don't get me wrong. I have enough space on my hard drive, in fact close to TB. But as somebody who wrote his first programs in 64 KB total memory for Z80 processors, this is in the area of insanely big.
I read so many times in zdnet.com comparison articles between Windows and many flavors on Linux that i thought i was already familiar with and it's going to be piece of cake, i will install it in no time and go with it and some day i'll even have the opportunity to start learning scripting languages for Linux.
So i ordered an Ubuntu CD from an online store and installed it as a second boot while keeping Windows. For non IT professionals that means there is a menu at boot time that lets you choose between the two.
But i ran into first trouble right away, the menu wasn't showing at the beginning the same as it does now with Fedora because the video mode on the monitor was not compatible with what grub was doing at boot time, in absentia of a video driver. (A minor bug that was preventing for showing the dual boot menu. And i lost, i don't know, a half day or more trying to fix it with help from the forums, i had to learn the different Linux directories, can't remember exactly what i've done but in Fedora now i go to etc/default/grub and add a line GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console, then rebuild the grub with the command $ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg then the menu shows on the screen).
But even if the menu is not showing on the screen, in 5 seconds it picks the default option which is booting Linux. So you don't have dual boot anymore and loose 5 seconds boot time but your computer will still boot.)
Why multiple boot? I once said in a different post on this blog about the advantages of partitioning and multiple boot. You can even have dual Windows boot with the same version of Windows, provided you keep your data like email and documents on different partitions separate from Windows. You can mess up Windows how much you want and you will after installing and uninstalling a number of applications no matter what. Then you can move all your data on a different data partition and go and install a fresh Windows of the same version and all your applications on the other specially reserved partition and point all your apps's storing options to the data on the data partition, like by example the store folder in Live Mail and voila! In no time you're back in business... Windows at the second installation on a different partition will even build automatically a menu for you like Linux does at install letting you choose between the two so you can have a smooth transition... No time meaning a busy afternoon or two... And having to learn the very basics of partitioning and using the option at installation which is half hour learning time for the daring non IT professional...
With dual Linux-Windows you cannot share your email but you can everything else. I will write about later when writing about the plethora of free, verified applications on Linux.
Then the partitioning on Linux. I will pass over it because partitioning as i came to realize lately it's more an art then an exact science. There are so many types and possible combinations that you will never finish optimizing your computer for not so much gain.
Right now i'm using 128 MB for boot, 1024 for swap, 1024 for tmp, 4086 var, 8092 root and the rest untill 18 GB (I had at the beginning of the hard drive two partitions for operating systems, one of 22 with Windows now and one of 18 for the second OS, at first they were 20/20 but i gave it more room for Windows thinking i will get away before if overfilled again) for home.
So i ended up with about 4 GB free out of the 18 for the home partition for data and the other partitions are 1/10 to half occupied and lots of room for years of updates and applications as opposed to Windows that overfilled a 22 GB partition in one year and a half with the automatic updates option always on and with most basic applications.
But Fedora and Ubuntu give you the option of automatically installing themselves alongside Windows or alone with nothing much to do except choosing the locales, a root password, and create a (few) user profile(s), very much like Windows.
(I forgot to tell why i ended up with Fedora over Ubuntu. Out of paranoia. And because i couldn't learn to profile a new application with AppArmor, the security application that comes with Ubuntu. Cause this is what you have to do. In Fedora, my current understanding is that Selinux that is enabled here by default, takes care of newly installed applications automatically. And then out of paranoia too i learned a bit of IP tables. But there is a firewall program in Fedora which is enabled by default.)
Provided you are lucky and don't have to rebuild the grub to make the boot options menu appear like i did (in case you want dual boot), there is a 99% percent chance that you will install it in about 15 minutes in total likeness of Windows installation. Then you can do too a bit of desktop customization.
Then again out of paranoia, i chose to go withe the XFCE spin of Fedora because gnome3 has some social networking built in and inseparable from its windows manager. After, i furtherly downgraded it by uninstalling a list of softwares mostly social networking that have minds of their own and want to connect by themselves to the internet. I don't understand why or maybe i do but now i do everything i need with the browser (Firefox) and this way i have only one security nightmare that i chose not to think about anymore. They might be still others i'm not aware of. After all most applications nowadays jump on the internet without asking permission or even notifying you.
A major problem with Linux in the past was the video drivers. On a 7 years old computer with no graphics card like mine, if i choose to go with the built in quasi universal Nouveau driver (built by reverse engineering of the nVidia drivers as nVidia doesn't give away the source code for them), i loose about 30 percent of performance over downloading and installing manually the nVidia driver. Because it's proprietary and cannot be distributed by Red Hat Linux. With Ubuntu things are smoother because it automatically installs the appropriate driver that chooses itself from its enabled repositories, i think. So with Fedora you can choose again to do nothing about it if you are not into gaming or other heavy graphics. But then if you are, things can get a bit complicated but there's help on forums.
Now let's talk a bit about the benefits. A much leaner OS. Overall it feels about twice faster as i can say after the last few year of heavy using for storing photographs and blogging and social networking. (Never had problems with security but i have two custom firewalls, one on the DSL gateway and one on Linux and Selinux enabled by default on Linux. But never had any known ones on a Windows XP computer with no other security than the the gateway's firewall for years (now i have Security Essentials on that one too)).
Free Office-like application - LibreOffice.
Free Photoshop-like application - Gimp (not that i use it, don't have it installed).
Free AutoCad-like application (currently don't use it, don't have it installed).
And every major application for Windows you can think of. And more. Available from Fedora repositories and installable with a click or a command after a secure download.
And you can share your data with Windows since all above apps can import/export data from and to Windows partitions and formats if you choose so.
So you still think Torvalds was wrong?
http://fedoraproject.org
http://www.ubuntu.com
http://www.debian.org
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Windows
Last time when my Windows (7) crashed it was when it overfilled my 20 GB partition with SP1, about 1 year ago. It downloaded it and then increased my partition occupancy by 1 to 2 GB. Although i had all updates contained in SP1 already on my computer as i had my automatic updates turned on. Since i wasn't expecting anything like that, i knew i had about 1 GB free on my partition it definitely pissed me off and i started seriously thinking on migrating to Linux. Not that i love Linus Torvalds or any in the community so much. Seriously. I think they're OK and they're doing a good job trying to put up a competition to Microsoft, for free.
But now this morning something crossed my mind. I used to run Windows at idle in about 350 MB out of my 2 GB. Those are Windows processes only on a pretty typical if not outdated hardware.
So out of my 20 GB of Windows code on my hard drive, i'm using about 0.15%. Now we know those dlls have many copies in there as 7 and other Windows versions keeps all the dll versions for reversing updates, and all the downloads for some reason if not for reference in case of lawsuits, saving at each restore point, i don't know, i think overall there's 4-5 identical copies of each piece of code in there.
But my computer most of the time doesn't use not even 10% of those 50-100 processes in those 350MB of memory i just mentioned as they don't do anything most of the time. Most of the time there's 4 or 5 processes running, one probably manages memory, the video driver, network manager, windows manager and the one that actually does something. That one is probably the browser, but of course, the most overlooked and active and ubiquitous is the free and famous Flash from Adobe, formerly from Macromedia, that runs inside the browser, that uses about 90% of the processor time compared to all other processes and, of course, annoys us the most and most of us don't even know it exists. We can only feel its presence on the flashing commercials on the screens. Now flash washes some if its sins by powering youtube, and who of us would give that one up!
Some people write emails or input data. That doesn't even scratches the back of the enormous power of today's computers. Most of the load occurs when scrolling up and down or moving windows on the screen when the system has to redraw the window with everything on it so many times per second.
Why that loads it so much? That is another mis(t)ery. I once wrote a piece of code, a stereo spectrum analyser based on a fast Fourier transform, similar to the one in iTunes (the optional animated bars in top of it). Not using any of the graphic libraries, just API calls as i remember, for initialisations and drawing a line. It was calculating the fast Fourier transform in ten points for each channel in a loop about ten times a second redrawing anything at the same pace in a resizeable window, with colours to chose and scale. It was all 44K, but i think that's because you cannot write in Windows programs with API calls much shorter that that. It is still out there iguess on softpedia anyone to see. I will put a link. It is still buggy as i abandoned it but it works enough to show it's working. But the point is i once launched it ten times on the screen and it was working on each window and it wouldn't even "move" the processor. And that was a 400 MHz computer.
The irrational use and reuse of libraries at Windows got them to the point that there's probably more than 90% overhead on most of their software from the programming point of view, those discussed above are separate issues, but they should at least have taken care and brushed up the graphical part of it, especially since this is all it is, a graphical OS with other vague capabilities, and on top it's called Windows!
So a whole industry that builds hardware, memory, hard drives, motherboards, monitors, modems, routers, fiber optics, etc, i'm too mad to think of now, that works efficiently just to piss the crap out of everybody. I mean to run Flash.
And they didn't even took enough care to design those as to be IMPOSSIBLE to get viruses or malware or whatever it's called now. Or maybe they had their reasons. IBM designed the first PC and put if out there for every manufacturer. Once out there it never changed, only improved.
Now after all the technological wonders they really achieved as far as speed and performance, we have to migrate our personal data to cloud as it is not safe and portable on our own devices.
So let's summarize for Windows:
Efficiency of hard drive occupancy: 0.015%
Efficiency of RAM memory real use: 10%
Efficiency as using the processor (competing against flash): 1-10%
Overhead in irrational use/reuse of libraries? probably over 90%
Overhead of needles machine code instructions in most used code: probably 90%
Efficiency of running Flash: up to 90% on older hardware
Built in by design malware protection: little
Efficiency as saving us time as being maintenance free: it depends on everybody's perception.
Efficiency of being worry free?
Efficiency of keeping our data safe?
Efficiency in pissing everybody off?
Efficiency in spying?
Now isn't this the most impressive technological blunder of all human enterprises ever?
Now i remember this conversation with the manager of a small software division i worked for, and he convinced me about the necessity of using object oriented programming as being a technique of reusing code. Anyways i had to agree with him cause he was the boss.
That might be true for small and custom projects when you have readily available libraries, but now looking at Windows through a historical prospective, i think it would have been rational to write and rewrite everything from scratch, because we are not interested in that type of efficiency and economy and using can programming when talking about software that repeats that overhead continuously and as we speak on hundreds of millions of computers.
But now this morning something crossed my mind. I used to run Windows at idle in about 350 MB out of my 2 GB. Those are Windows processes only on a pretty typical if not outdated hardware.
So out of my 20 GB of Windows code on my hard drive, i'm using about 0.15%. Now we know those dlls have many copies in there as 7 and other Windows versions keeps all the dll versions for reversing updates, and all the downloads for some reason if not for reference in case of lawsuits, saving at each restore point, i don't know, i think overall there's 4-5 identical copies of each piece of code in there.
But my computer most of the time doesn't use not even 10% of those 50-100 processes in those 350MB of memory i just mentioned as they don't do anything most of the time. Most of the time there's 4 or 5 processes running, one probably manages memory, the video driver, network manager, windows manager and the one that actually does something. That one is probably the browser, but of course, the most overlooked and active and ubiquitous is the free and famous Flash from Adobe, formerly from Macromedia, that runs inside the browser, that uses about 90% of the processor time compared to all other processes and, of course, annoys us the most and most of us don't even know it exists. We can only feel its presence on the flashing commercials on the screens. Now flash washes some if its sins by powering youtube, and who of us would give that one up!
Some people write emails or input data. That doesn't even scratches the back of the enormous power of today's computers. Most of the load occurs when scrolling up and down or moving windows on the screen when the system has to redraw the window with everything on it so many times per second.
Why that loads it so much? That is another mis(t)ery. I once wrote a piece of code, a stereo spectrum analyser based on a fast Fourier transform, similar to the one in iTunes (the optional animated bars in top of it). Not using any of the graphic libraries, just API calls as i remember, for initialisations and drawing a line. It was calculating the fast Fourier transform in ten points for each channel in a loop about ten times a second redrawing anything at the same pace in a resizeable window, with colours to chose and scale. It was all 44K, but i think that's because you cannot write in Windows programs with API calls much shorter that that. It is still out there iguess on softpedia anyone to see. I will put a link. It is still buggy as i abandoned it but it works enough to show it's working. But the point is i once launched it ten times on the screen and it was working on each window and it wouldn't even "move" the processor. And that was a 400 MHz computer.
The irrational use and reuse of libraries at Windows got them to the point that there's probably more than 90% overhead on most of their software from the programming point of view, those discussed above are separate issues, but they should at least have taken care and brushed up the graphical part of it, especially since this is all it is, a graphical OS with other vague capabilities, and on top it's called Windows!
So a whole industry that builds hardware, memory, hard drives, motherboards, monitors, modems, routers, fiber optics, etc, i'm too mad to think of now, that works efficiently just to piss the crap out of everybody. I mean to run Flash.
And they didn't even took enough care to design those as to be IMPOSSIBLE to get viruses or malware or whatever it's called now. Or maybe they had their reasons. IBM designed the first PC and put if out there for every manufacturer. Once out there it never changed, only improved.
Now after all the technological wonders they really achieved as far as speed and performance, we have to migrate our personal data to cloud as it is not safe and portable on our own devices.
So let's summarize for Windows:
Efficiency of hard drive occupancy: 0.015%
Efficiency of RAM memory real use: 10%
Efficiency as using the processor (competing against flash): 1-10%
Overhead in irrational use/reuse of libraries? probably over 90%
Overhead of needles machine code instructions in most used code: probably 90%
Efficiency of running Flash: up to 90% on older hardware
Built in by design malware protection: little
Efficiency as saving us time as being maintenance free: it depends on everybody's perception.
Efficiency of being worry free?
Efficiency of keeping our data safe?
Efficiency in pissing everybody off?
Efficiency in spying?
Now isn't this the most impressive technological blunder of all human enterprises ever?
Now i remember this conversation with the manager of a small software division i worked for, and he convinced me about the necessity of using object oriented programming as being a technique of reusing code. Anyways i had to agree with him cause he was the boss.
That might be true for small and custom projects when you have readily available libraries, but now looking at Windows through a historical prospective, i think it would have been rational to write and rewrite everything from scratch, because we are not interested in that type of efficiency and economy and using can programming when talking about software that repeats that overhead continuously and as we speak on hundreds of millions of computers.
Sunday, June 8, 2025
June 8
11:23 Can anybody please stop the show?
1:20 I can't tell how frustrated i am with Windows, other operating systems.
Back in the days of the mini computers and PCs i used 40 MB hard drives. That is the size of 10 jpg pictures on a phone or one song in wav format. On one of those i made a salary app for a few thousands employees.
One the same hard drive i also had the development environment (FoxBASE) with much room left for games.
At some point i also had data for 6 different clients with an accounting app.
It is true, the operating system (the quick and dirty pre-Windows QDOS) it was Bill Gates first hit, which was actually not done by Microsoft but was sort of a hack done done by a guy from other Seattle company and sold with 40 dollars a copy while the existing CP/M on still on 8 bit only was sold with 200 dollars a copy) was on command line only (no windows) but the app had screens with data fields to navigate, input and check data. But it was easier and faster to work with than it is with Windows.
That quick and dirty imitation (hack) of CP/M ran on Windows until the XP version on it but the API calls copied from CP/M remain to this day, due to needed backwards compatibility. Yes, it became bloated because they kept adding on top of that, never trying to re-write the whole thing. For that, they would need to pay...
Did any government agency or scientific organization ever got involved with this critical area of our lives and society or was it all left all to a hacker and a ninja like businessman like Bill Gates?
For managing files i had an almost graphic set of utilities named PC Tools made by Central Point Software, and of course, Norton commander.
I used CP/M to make a (real time) app for centralizing balance sheets of different production departments of a company in 1990 Romania, using Turbo Pascal on a Romanian 8 bit computer (yes, Cub means cube in Romanian, Z is from Zenu Zilog, with floppy disks only). Which later i used on a PC in Delphi graphic version at Qadramed.
(I remember on 8 bits CP/M did not have integers large enough for those numbers so i built a "custom" data type made of alphanumeric characters with procedures for adding and subtracting but it was still extraordinarily fast, given the fact turbo Pascal was close to C language).
Now i have on an originally 225 dollars PC with 500 Gigs of flash memory, which is what, 10000 times more, with Windows only occupying a few gigs, and Windows became the useless part around a browser (Chrome) which was developed by google using the free (volunteer made) Chromium.
With it, i can watch movies on Netflix and Prime and youtube.
What frustrates me the most this morning (actually was last night when i got home). I cannot easily go back and see what i've done. With all the sophistication of an 8 core processor and this huge, unused amount of memory, i cannot go back in time and see what i've done on it.
Windows has all kinda of logs with every tiny event (don't know if position of mouse is traced, but clicks surely), that are used internally.
The browser has a history of the visited sites, but some are missing, could not figure why. Then i installed an extension which is a bit better.
I know for a fact that each site and video you see (including/especially pictures) is downloaded on your PC or phone (the phone nowadays is nothing but a PC with a tiny display) or whatever and kept for a while. Do you remember that "clear cache, cookies and browser history" action recommended when your PC becomes slow? That thing called cache is actually that space on your hard drive or flash where all the viewed stuff is temporarily saved.
The reason is, if you go back within minutes or navigate back and forth within a site, the PC does not have to download it again. Even youtube videos are saved.
It's got limit settings, however, is not easily available to see if you are searching by example for a video you just watched that disappeared from online. I tried this morning for hours and could do nothing (especially because i've watched bunch of other videos after which may overwrite the limited size of cache).
So yes, we own this things but are slaves to them and the sites we visit, because we don't know and especially we don't have the software to use them at their real power and capabilities.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Goodbye Windows
Yesterday i tried and chose the option to boot Windows. Because i had a dual Windows and Fedora computer and hadn't done it in a long time. Windows on a set of partitions and Fedora on a different set. After, i spent two hours downloading and installing Windows updates. I mean watch the computer while downloading and installing 138 updates. About 4 times more time than Fedora 17. Then that i tried and launched whatever version of Explorer is the last one for Windows 7 and tried to see my blog in Explorer. But i ran into the problem of having to re-zoom each site cause by default i think Explorer does not remember the last zoom you used for a site.
Then i had sort of a revelation, fueled by and developed in the waiting time. Since most of the employers nowadays let programmers chose whether to use Windows or Linux and some force you to use Linux, i realized. Linux is more productive in an office environment. You get more things done. Is that simple. I couldn't possibly write 277 posts in one year on my blog while pampering Windows and falling in a trance every time seeing the animation at boot time.
Then, i used a partitioning program, cleaned those partitions and installed Fedora as the second boot. Yes, Fedora 17, for the second time. I spoke before of the advantages. By doing so instead of plainly re-installing you can have a clean install and a very smooth transitioning. You can always choose the old one at boot time. You can share data while transitioning. You can pick only what you need from the mess left behind.
But this time for me it was just for experimenting. What i was anxious about is i could not imagine how you can have on a hard drive two / partitions, two /boot, two /home, etc. and not confuse the two OS.
Here's how it's done. At installation, (i used the live CD), the installer sees only the Linux partitions you just formatted on the free chosen space. The others belonging to the older installation are at that moment just some unmounted partitions on a hard drive. It will also find the other Fedora loader on the other boot partition and add it to the grub boot menu, with a slightly different name (and maybe a warning, i can't remember). After booting one of the two, each will see only its own partitions and the other's will be just unmounted devs with the option to mount them and transfer whatever data you need.
Actually, nothing to do but install the second instance of Fedora.
Actually, i never tried and chose the other, older Fedora from the boot menu. I just did now, after i wrote the first paragraphs, to make sure it works. What happens is because of some minor problem, instead of Fedora animated logo at boot time, i get to see the some messages scrolling while the boot happens. Boot time is the same, it's working the same. With file manager i'm seeing the newer partitions, with their corresponding sizes but not named, as unmounted. But i'm not going to try to fix that one, i don't need it anymore.
1/6/13 5:32 PM PDT. Just fixed the "minor" problem. Manually added the newest kernel entry from the older grub.cfg into the newer grub.cfg. Now i can boot them both with no problem. Two identical OSs on a same computer!
1/6/13 11:12 PM PDT. Thought maybe i should write what i think is exciting about this. Although i accidentally discovered the possibility while trying to learn partitioning with an XP installation disk long time ago, when i installed XP twice (LOL) by mistake and got a menu at boot time asking me which one to boot, i never thought of the advantages until a few month ago.
Any OS, including Fedora, although not nearly as much as Windows, degrades irreversibly in time. Although there are numerous softwares out there that claim that can restore your system as it was when you first installed it (bought it for the most people), the problem is too vast and complex to be solved like this.
Every time you install and un-install software, or work with sizable amounts of data, the hard disk gets fragmented, the registry file gets corrupted and remnants of the older softwares haunt your hard drive. When nowadays on an average computer you have hundreds of thousands of of files, it is very hard for any cleaning software to automatically undo the mess.
And then there's the updates. Every time you update a package, the newer files pile up in top of the others, often leaving your computer with several versions of the same packages, of course, the older ones being useless, but hard to remove due to the precision and the know how required to only delete the useless not the usable or the current version.
And then there's the internet temporary files. Every time you open a site, scores of files are being saved on your hard drive and depending on your browser's settings they are being rolled out like in a first in last out basis. If you don't use administrative measures like i am keeping all of them on a separate partition, they will populate every empty space of your hard drive contributing to the fragmentation.
And on a Windows computer with no separate partitions no matter how big the hard drive is, the mess is unimaginable.
And i am not pretending here to finish the list of problems that add to the cluttering of an OS in time.
That's why among administrators the concept of a clean install has been born. What that means? It means you save whatever data you need, wipe clean the hard drive and install it anew, then the programs and then try to restore everything you added up into a workable status by putting the data back little by little. But this is a very time consuming process, and although you will have a faster computer, you will never have it the same way as it was before you cleaned it.
(Actually that's what i believe cloud computing would be so successful, because it keeps your data away from your own messy computer.)
So why all this talk in this post? Because what i've stumbled upon could bring a totally new prospective into maintaining a computer.
Supposedly you or the manufacturer reserved some space for this purpose when first installing the OS. Supposedly you have all your data separated from the programs in a different partition or partitions (not absolutely necessary).
All you have to do is install for the second time your OS into the reserved space with the programs and try and pick the data from the other partition without deleting nothing on as needed basis while still keeping the option of booting the computer with the old system that might be slow but you are so familiar with. The transition will be much smoother and you can delete the old partition(s) when you feel you don't need them anymore or when you think you need that space for anything else including repeating the above cycle.
And above all, no emotions from the possibility of loosing data while totally and truly renewing your computer.
As an example, what i just did, i installed Fedora 17 and the updates and all the programs for the second times on some free space on the hard drive, creating some sort of a mirroring of the old system, then copied the username directory from the old installation /home into the new /home partition, and voila, all the familiar icons popped on the desktop, and i was ready to go in about 2 hours in total, and this while keeping the option of booting the old system. Everything was done mostly automatically by the Fedora installer (except choosing the free space and partition types and sizes, from the live CD, with only a one time manually editing of the grub.cfg file, as mentioned above.
Then i had sort of a revelation, fueled by and developed in the waiting time. Since most of the employers nowadays let programmers chose whether to use Windows or Linux and some force you to use Linux, i realized. Linux is more productive in an office environment. You get more things done. Is that simple. I couldn't possibly write 277 posts in one year on my blog while pampering Windows and falling in a trance every time seeing the animation at boot time.
Then, i used a partitioning program, cleaned those partitions and installed Fedora as the second boot. Yes, Fedora 17, for the second time. I spoke before of the advantages. By doing so instead of plainly re-installing you can have a clean install and a very smooth transitioning. You can always choose the old one at boot time. You can share data while transitioning. You can pick only what you need from the mess left behind.
But this time for me it was just for experimenting. What i was anxious about is i could not imagine how you can have on a hard drive two / partitions, two /boot, two /home, etc. and not confuse the two OS.
Here's how it's done. At installation, (i used the live CD), the installer sees only the Linux partitions you just formatted on the free chosen space. The others belonging to the older installation are at that moment just some unmounted partitions on a hard drive. It will also find the other Fedora loader on the other boot partition and add it to the grub boot menu, with a slightly different name (and maybe a warning, i can't remember). After booting one of the two, each will see only its own partitions and the other's will be just unmounted devs with the option to mount them and transfer whatever data you need.
Actually, nothing to do but install the second instance of Fedora.
Actually, i never tried and chose the other, older Fedora from the boot menu. I just did now, after i wrote the first paragraphs, to make sure it works. What happens is because of some minor problem, instead of Fedora animated logo at boot time, i get to see the some messages scrolling while the boot happens. Boot time is the same, it's working the same. With file manager i'm seeing the newer partitions, with their corresponding sizes but not named, as unmounted. But i'm not going to try to fix that one, i don't need it anymore.
1/6/13 5:32 PM PDT. Just fixed the "minor" problem. Manually added the newest kernel entry from the older grub.cfg into the newer grub.cfg. Now i can boot them both with no problem. Two identical OSs on a same computer!
1/6/13 11:12 PM PDT. Thought maybe i should write what i think is exciting about this. Although i accidentally discovered the possibility while trying to learn partitioning with an XP installation disk long time ago, when i installed XP twice (LOL) by mistake and got a menu at boot time asking me which one to boot, i never thought of the advantages until a few month ago.
Any OS, including Fedora, although not nearly as much as Windows, degrades irreversibly in time. Although there are numerous softwares out there that claim that can restore your system as it was when you first installed it (bought it for the most people), the problem is too vast and complex to be solved like this.
Every time you install and un-install software, or work with sizable amounts of data, the hard disk gets fragmented, the registry file gets corrupted and remnants of the older softwares haunt your hard drive. When nowadays on an average computer you have hundreds of thousands of of files, it is very hard for any cleaning software to automatically undo the mess.
And then there's the updates. Every time you update a package, the newer files pile up in top of the others, often leaving your computer with several versions of the same packages, of course, the older ones being useless, but hard to remove due to the precision and the know how required to only delete the useless not the usable or the current version.
And then there's the internet temporary files. Every time you open a site, scores of files are being saved on your hard drive and depending on your browser's settings they are being rolled out like in a first in last out basis. If you don't use administrative measures like i am keeping all of them on a separate partition, they will populate every empty space of your hard drive contributing to the fragmentation.
And on a Windows computer with no separate partitions no matter how big the hard drive is, the mess is unimaginable.
And i am not pretending here to finish the list of problems that add to the cluttering of an OS in time.
That's why among administrators the concept of a clean install has been born. What that means? It means you save whatever data you need, wipe clean the hard drive and install it anew, then the programs and then try to restore everything you added up into a workable status by putting the data back little by little. But this is a very time consuming process, and although you will have a faster computer, you will never have it the same way as it was before you cleaned it.
(Actually that's what i believe cloud computing would be so successful, because it keeps your data away from your own messy computer.)
So why all this talk in this post? Because what i've stumbled upon could bring a totally new prospective into maintaining a computer.
Supposedly you or the manufacturer reserved some space for this purpose when first installing the OS. Supposedly you have all your data separated from the programs in a different partition or partitions (not absolutely necessary).
All you have to do is install for the second time your OS into the reserved space with the programs and try and pick the data from the other partition without deleting nothing on as needed basis while still keeping the option of booting the computer with the old system that might be slow but you are so familiar with. The transition will be much smoother and you can delete the old partition(s) when you feel you don't need them anymore or when you think you need that space for anything else including repeating the above cycle.
And above all, no emotions from the possibility of loosing data while totally and truly renewing your computer.
As an example, what i just did, i installed Fedora 17 and the updates and all the programs for the second times on some free space on the hard drive, creating some sort of a mirroring of the old system, then copied the username directory from the old installation /home into the new /home partition, and voila, all the familiar icons popped on the desktop, and i was ready to go in about 2 hours in total, and this while keeping the option of booting the old system. Everything was done mostly automatically by the Fedora installer (except choosing the free space and partition types and sizes, from the live CD, with only a one time manually editing of the grub.cfg file, as mentioned above.
Saturday, December 23, 2023
December 24
Most wonderful time of the year...12:03 It's past midnight December 24. I am trying to upload a video and google won't let me. I am searching for a song with earphones on and upstairs never stop squeaking, like in the past weeks. Angela is trying to sleep and she hit the wall three times already and they still won't stop.
I knew it must come from a different time. Too young to know of the Carpenters more than a couple of songs. Tantalizing on the radio, most playful yet elegant voice sounding like a celebration, excelling on lower notes and flying on high. They are playing her a lot on the radio these days making me always ask myself who she was. Lost almost one hour searching and when i found her and started to type of course they started the squeak again upstairs and Angela hit the wall for the fourth time. However i don't understand the lyrics of the song. What do they mean "Everybody knows a turkey"?
8:50 Windows. What a stupid generic name. How many times i thought i was stupid trying to use it and now after decades of using Linux and Chrome i see it wasn't me, it was Windows. If one could calculate how much we heated the planet trying to fix Windows problem, multiplied by the billions of users. Not only by heating our own brains but whole time spent in front of the computer that in the day was using hundreds of watts of electricity.
I had this idea to try and look and see when the Sun is exactly perpendicular to any of the faces of the pyramids. It looks like thee are no online references about it. That doesn't mean somebody hasn't done it yet. It seems basic when talking about some of the biggest objects on Earth that are aligned so precisely North-South and are built with such a geometric near perfection shape. However it is not on any online searchable articles.
But i ran into something else. At its peak of use, and even after being abandoned, the Great Pyramid had faces covered with high quality limestone which they said it shone in the Sun and projecting sunlight on certain days on certain deity statues in temples at a distance. But can anybody imagine that it was also seen from space, maybe from light years away, like a cosmic lighthouse, as the Earth was turning, especially with the gold pyramidion on top?
For that i knew i could use Stellarium which is planetary software i used in the past to see the alignment of one of the shafts with Polaris. So there i went, jumped out of bed and tried to start Stellarium. First problem. Could not switch time to local time near pyramids. An old glitch of Stellarium. I searched on forums but then i realized i had an old version of Stellarium. So it was not updated automatically. What do you expect. Stellarium is a free software trying to run on a clumsy operating system which is Windows.
Windows is extraordinarily unfriendly with apps not made by Microsoft. So i had to go and manually download the exe file with the newest version and the download was extraordinarily slow. I did not realize what was happening, kept trying and started 5 different downloads that were now going even slower. In the end i realized of course, deleted those, started a new one, and i had to open again and again the file explorer to see the progress of download which of course was not showing in real time.
Finally it finished i started that exe and re-installed the app. Now i was asking myself if stupid Windows deleted the old files and went on that drive and checked and i still don't know, however i did a manual disk cleanup that cleared half gig from it. I bet Windows is another reason behind the decline of use of PCs.
After doing all these i am already tired and not in the mood anymore. Especially that the guys upstairs awoke and the room filled with smoke.
There are changes in handling the Stellarium after maybe 5 years of new versions. Have to get used to it. However i found out one thing. The Sun becomes perpendicular on two of the faces of the pyramids, maybe three, for a few minutes, every day.
Why is this important. Because at that time and around it it may have been possible the pyramid start to resonate on the light frequency it was build to resonate beginning with the pyramidion and initiate a quantum vortex without need for any other source of energy. Maybe drawing energy through resonance from Sun, like in Asimov's book (not talking about the puny amounts captured passively by solar panels nowadays).
And the Sphinx looks like George Washington.
No wonder the main god in Ancient Egypt was Ra or Ramses or Rama, Amaterasu, whatever, the Sun God.
And thought of one more reason they build the two others. After hundreds of years, it was not aligning precisely anymore with something, maybe in space, maybe in time, because of variations in Earths orbit.
And yes one of those times is in the morning around 9.
And another question i cannot find an answer on the web right now. Is Mercydes logo a clock showing always 8:20? (And i remembered how it all started, with me staring at the clock on the wall while still in bed). I think i'll figure it later.
11:30 Mudras, o yoga a mâinilor folosită mereu de politicieni. Teoria mea mai veche că privind persoane in diferite posturi putem fi influențați. Yoni mudra (nu risc să pun link, încercați să căutați singuri pe google yoni). La fel și linga. Semnul ok (Thumbs up).
3:10 I guess all the freemasons are left with since the beginning of the world are their Sun God and the ability to synch with (other) humans, to screw them. And play victims.
3:45 Not funny. There has not been one single day lately to not get laundry vapor when i step outside though i never hear the washer, only the constant hum of drier. And i think i figured why i never hear them talking upstairs, except a phrase or two learned phonetically when they go or come. The man doesn't speak either English or Spanish as he poses, he speaks only Hungarian and Romanian.
4:15 What should i say now? Meru Christmas?
4:21 Black hole Sun. Not serviceable. I can only imagine what's in there.
However there was at least one guy who dared and then filmed.
5:10 O guess google had enough time to "process" this video i uploaded almost 24 hours ago. By processing they mean downgrading it to the lowest resolution possible.
8:00 They left the blinds cracked upstairs so i went in the yard further away and could see one younger guy, dark hair and complexion, Filipino like, moving, intentionally shifting weight from one foot to another, like a maniac, to maximize the noise. It's been like that for hours so we will just live cause we can't take it no more. Not the guys we saw moving here or "going daily to work".
At times he drags the table and chairs senseless over and over. I am nauseated by the dust. Angela kept yelling and hitting the walls for the last our with no results.
The room is also nicely decorated so if i call the cops our will look worse.
The moment we decided to go he stopped. I remember the old man and the last one were usually leaving the moment we decided to go.
8:30 I think it may be him. Of the Marcos family. When i get back i will start searching cause i'm pretty sure the're all Japanese.
12:30 We went to Spirit Mountain and managed to stay there one hour with 30 dollars. On my way back i was able to think and i think i found a major flaw to string theory. We are in the quantum (discrete) world and string according to their own theory seem to vibrate in analogous mode. I see sin like waves there...
Unless... unless sub particle world is again analogous. Yeah i know they have discrete vibration mode but that is because strings vibrate in fractions of length... Or we have again dualism like in case of light.
Monday, September 19, 2022
September 19
5:18 Oricât am căutat, nu am găsit nici o știre în New York Times despre România, după 24 August. În schimb am găsit știrea respectivă pe un site unguresc, care citează New York Times.
11:24
Don't know if the holes in the gates' "attic"are made for birds but i guess nobody would stop them from nesting there.
3:15 Russians' dilemma.
4:35 What do you know. They never finished working at this building. I came from my walk was really hot, AC is not working for reasons of dust, was sitting at the computer in underwear, but there is too much light outside for someone to see me. A couple of them passed by the sliding windows. Then in retaliation they brought a diesel generator not far from the door, for charging the batteries at their tools and a compressor next to it and the exhaust is making its way here, giving me a headache. In other words, the are now playing Holy Mexicans gassing the "gay". Though they are all Japanese.
4:59 Maximum dust. I really don't understand, i thought i saw all windows and sliding doors finished in the back. Now they pulled another old one?
At the building D they stripped siding from around windows and cut siding under a couple of windows exposing 6 inches of insulation under each. Are they going to tape the Forte flashing on the insulation? Hammering, vibration already brought the painful dust inside though i heated coconut oil a couple of hours ago.
6:05 Breaking all patterns, after Kay another storm is sweeping through Northern California. I don't think it will make its way here, pressure is said to be increasing by tomorrow.
6:09 They just finished outside for the day, the disguised Japanese Olympic swimmer came, stopped his bike with a backfire and started its work.
6:56 Ok my phone was completely discharged when i tried to take a better picture. They left insulation exposed at the first windows and a pile of garbage, boards full of insulation dust from all windows between buildings.
They did that at our bedroom window, they left it like that over the weekend. It will be a few more days of hell. I put the coconut oil on lowest setting on continuous heating and can still feel the stings.
7:55 Și din banii restituiți de la
(Câteva ore mai târziu. Eram beat când am scris asta și am uitat. Nu se poate fiindcă guvernele sunt tot ei.)
8:11 The dust today here is overwhelming so i came up with a little strategy, i grabbed four beef patios (a bit brown, just bought from WinCo) and the electric pan and went outside on the patio to do those hoping the beef fat will interfere with the dust. Exactly wen i was supposed to go back outside (the sliding door is blocked with the AC) on the main door to flip them, the woman upstairs went and started her motorcycle but didn't leave, waited until i got out and the white car from the garages slid between me and her like protecting her and then she left. Similar episodes during all my walks.
Monday, June 9, 2025
June 9
12:25 AM Cum obții lista celor care nu virează reținerile la stat. Simplu. Iei lista celor care virează și o scazi din total.
10:05 Just because i said yesterday was a record temperature in Portland not seen since 1955, other things about Viktor Orban, etc..?
10:10 Vorbeam de marea evaziune și au trântit și ei ceva, cu un titlu macabru.
Ministerul Cercetării e finanțat de la Bugetul de Stat iar bugetul e aprobat de Parlament prin Legea Bugetului de Stat de la începutul fiecărui an. Unealta parlamentarului e mâna care o ridică sus când votează Legea Bugetului.
Am încercat să accesez normal link-ul de pe blog (dreapta) cu bugetele ministerelor, să văd cât au cei de la cercetare, dar... nu merge! O întrebare google lămurește. E comasat cu Ministerul Educației, sunt 60 de miliarde, iar salariile profesorilor din toată țara sunt sunt 23 miliarde (am găsit pe 2023 când bugetul a fost 49, mai caut). Deci jumătate se duc pe apa sâmbetei sub cupola "învățământ".
12:25 PM
Site-ul Ministerului Finanțelor nu merge punct. Site-ul ANAF e în mentenanță. Site-ul Camerei Deputaților nu-mi mai intră de mult timp. Nu știu unde să mai caut Legea Bugetului de Stat, cu anexele pe Ministere.
Legea se mai găsește pe site-uri private dar... contra cost!
1:10 PM Ok am găsit Anexa 3 la Legea Bugetului de Stat cu cheltuielile pe ministere pe site-ul Senatului, am modificat și link-ul permanent. Cheltuielile nu se pot vedea pe primele pagini, trebuie defilat mai jost până apare un tabel vertical. Site-ul este foarte lent, la fel ca cel al Ministerului de Finanțe (când mergea). Ok ia să ridic eu acum pe drive și Ministerul Educației și să listez din nou ce am.
3:00 I wrote yesterday about the history of Windows and how some quick solution became something that is run across 80 percent of the computers today. As i said, Windows derived from an earlier, more expensive operating system called CP/M designed for microcomputers, that were basically a computer on a chip, made by Xilog or Motorolla for early Apples.
The existing operating system made for bigger mainframe computer at the time was Unix. Why Unix did not catch with microcomputers.
Now i found that Apple DOS also had similarities with CP/M. In fact there is not much room for variations when we talk about a number of basic functions needed to operate a computer that you can hardly call a computer, with a word length of 8 bits and addresses memories of the order of 64k (as opposed to today's computers that use words of 64 bits with GB size memories like there is no room for variations generally when talking about operating systems, cause they all have to accomplish the same tasks on the same resources.
(A computer's memory is like a matrix with word length as number of colons and the number of lines being the size of it).
However as the size of hardware grew for microcomputers, Apple reinvented self and went to a Unix microkernel while Windows stayed with API32.
On the other hand, Linus Torvalds, a computer student from Sweden build a Unix based OS compatible with non Apple hardware Windows runs onto he called Linux. Linux was at first used mainly on servers because of its stability over Windows but then it turned to desktop, with Chrome OS and a number of versions like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. and to phones with Android. And most important, was/is free, with volunteers from around the world maintaining its kernel.
As yet another coincidence, here comes a news today saying Apple did a major change to its operating system yet i fail to see it among the lines of the news. As for much expected AI thing, we still have to wait. And i think we first we have to wait for a more robust OI that is not patched all the time, being it Apple, Linux or Windows to start thinking about that.
8:50 Could it be the dalits or untouchables of India are immigrants from Australia?
"At this point, the notion of 'untouchability' first developed. We can see upper castes in the Nilgiri hills, particularly the Badaga Gowdas and Todas, persecuting the lower caste Kurumbas, considering them polluted sorcerers and scammers."
"in almost all tested Dravidian groups, which earlier studies confused for high Steppe Aryan ancestry. Furthermore, the date of endogamy for the Komati caste (a wealthy merchant caste from Andhra) is proposed to be >4k years before present, so we can safely say that there was some form of caste endogamy in the Mature Indus Valley Civilization."
According to the Indo-European theory, there should be some correspondence not only between the languages of Europe and those of India, of which we can mention Romanian as having a large number of Sanskrit words, but also at social levels and i think i found one in the paragraph above.
It is said within Dacian society (while Dacian or Dacia term itself seem to derive from Sanskrit daksa, meaning dextro, or righteous) there was a separation in at least three castes of which one was the comati (defined by all historian as the commoners), another was the pileati, or nobles and the third was the priests.
10:05 Just because i said yesterday was a record temperature in Portland not seen since 1955, other things about Viktor Orban, etc..?
10:10 Vorbeam de marea evaziune și au trântit și ei ceva, cu un titlu macabru.
Ministerul Cercetării e finanțat de la Bugetul de Stat iar bugetul e aprobat de Parlament prin Legea Bugetului de Stat de la începutul fiecărui an. Unealta parlamentarului e mâna care o ridică sus când votează Legea Bugetului.
Am încercat să accesez normal link-ul de pe blog (dreapta) cu bugetele ministerelor, să văd cât au cei de la cercetare, dar... nu merge! O întrebare google lămurește. E comasat cu Ministerul Educației, sunt 60 de miliarde, iar salariile profesorilor din toată țara sunt sunt 23 miliarde (am găsit pe 2023 când bugetul a fost 49, mai caut). Deci jumătate se duc pe apa sâmbetei sub cupola "învățământ".
12:25 PM
Site-ul Ministerului Finanțelor nu merge punct. Site-ul ANAF e în mentenanță. Site-ul Camerei Deputaților nu-mi mai intră de mult timp. Nu știu unde să mai caut Legea Bugetului de Stat, cu anexele pe Ministere.
Legea se mai găsește pe site-uri private dar... contra cost!
1:10 PM Ok am găsit Anexa 3 la Legea Bugetului de Stat cu cheltuielile pe ministere pe site-ul Senatului, am modificat și link-ul permanent. Cheltuielile nu se pot vedea pe primele pagini, trebuie defilat mai jost până apare un tabel vertical. Site-ul este foarte lent, la fel ca cel al Ministerului de Finanțe (când mergea). Ok ia să ridic eu acum pe drive și Ministerul Educației și să listez din nou ce am.
3:00 I wrote yesterday about the history of Windows and how some quick solution became something that is run across 80 percent of the computers today. As i said, Windows derived from an earlier, more expensive operating system called CP/M designed for microcomputers, that were basically a computer on a chip, made by Xilog or Motorolla for early Apples.
The existing operating system made for bigger mainframe computer at the time was Unix. Why Unix did not catch with microcomputers.
Now i found that Apple DOS also had similarities with CP/M. In fact there is not much room for variations when we talk about a number of basic functions needed to operate a computer that you can hardly call a computer, with a word length of 8 bits and addresses memories of the order of 64k (as opposed to today's computers that use words of 64 bits with GB size memories like there is no room for variations generally when talking about operating systems, cause they all have to accomplish the same tasks on the same resources.
(A computer's memory is like a matrix with word length as number of colons and the number of lines being the size of it).
However as the size of hardware grew for microcomputers, Apple reinvented self and went to a Unix microkernel while Windows stayed with API32.
On the other hand, Linus Torvalds, a computer student from Sweden build a Unix based OS compatible with non Apple hardware Windows runs onto he called Linux. Linux was at first used mainly on servers because of its stability over Windows but then it turned to desktop, with Chrome OS and a number of versions like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. and to phones with Android. And most important, was/is free, with volunteers from around the world maintaining its kernel.
As yet another coincidence, here comes a news today saying Apple did a major change to its operating system yet i fail to see it among the lines of the news. As for much expected AI thing, we still have to wait. And i think we first we have to wait for a more robust OI that is not patched all the time, being it Apple, Linux or Windows to start thinking about that.
8:50 Could it be the dalits or untouchables of India are immigrants from Australia?
"At this point, the notion of 'untouchability' first developed. We can see upper castes in the Nilgiri hills, particularly the Badaga Gowdas and Todas, persecuting the lower caste Kurumbas, considering them polluted sorcerers and scammers."
"in almost all tested Dravidian groups, which earlier studies confused for high Steppe Aryan ancestry. Furthermore, the date of endogamy for the Komati caste (a wealthy merchant caste from Andhra) is proposed to be >4k years before present, so we can safely say that there was some form of caste endogamy in the Mature Indus Valley Civilization."
According to the Indo-European theory, there should be some correspondence not only between the languages of Europe and those of India, of which we can mention Romanian as having a large number of Sanskrit words, but also at social levels and i think i found one in the paragraph above.
It is said within Dacian society (while Dacian or Dacia term itself seem to derive from Sanskrit daksa, meaning dextro, or righteous) there was a separation in at least three castes of which one was the comati (defined by all historian as the commoners), another was the pileati, or nobles and the third was the priests.
...
Could it be Buddhism which came in conflict with Brahmanism which in the end was rejected from Ancient religious mainstream India an attempt of the untouchables foreigners to institutionalize their beliefs and especially that of illusion (of perception) in order to gain social status?
Could it be Buddhism which came in conflict with Brahmanism which in the end was rejected from Ancient religious mainstream India an attempt of the untouchables foreigners to institutionalize their beliefs and especially that of illusion (of perception) in order to gain social status?
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
June 10
7:00 AM The world of illusion. A bit of semantic confusion between Austria and (ancient) Australia i wrote about last night. For that, a fake or illusory on demand event fabricated by "Austrian" authorities (like we so so many recently in the US), with the attacker dead, so nothing can be proved.
Austria's name itself in English is totally wrong, it pretends it comes from Osterreich, which means country of the east in German while in English Austral means from south.
4:35 PM Nu aș vrea să vă sâcâi prea mult dar în timp ce făceam mâncare mă gândeam. Cred că problema cea mai mare a României nu e deficitul. Adică e deficitul, dar cum l-au calculat? Ca să calculezi deficitul la jumătatea anului trebuie să ai cheltuielile bugetare centralizate de la fiecare minister în parte iar suma totală o împarți la PIB. (PIB-ul de la jumătatea anului bineînțeles).
Deci cine a calculat deficitul știe aceste cheltuieli și PIB-ul în timp real. Putem să le vedem și noi sau mergem pe încredere? Sau măcar deîmpărțitul și împărțitorul sau avem de-a face cu o singură ecuație cu două necunoscute pe care nici un matematician nu a rezolvat-o încă (Iohannis avea a scuză, el era profesor de fizică).
Mda aceeași chestie. Am încercat o rețetă nouă de spanac, adus din grădină. Faptul că îl fac eu de la a la z, văd toate ingredientele, cum le prepar, mă face când mănânc să mă gândesc la cum l-am făcut, uneori stresant, când faci o rețetă pentru prima dată, și simt gustul separat al ingredientelor și nu am o experiență culinară satisfăcătoare (nu îmi place).
Singurul lucru care îl fac eu (în afară de cafea) și îmi place neconditiționat este omleta cu brocoli, cred că am pus undeva rețeta. Și salata beouf dar nu am mai făcut demult.
10:55 Still theoretical. Hope we'll se it working some day, soon enough. News first seen here (coincidence).
11:40 I started the other day to write a bit of the OS history. The real one, containing information only. The motivation behind it was the extreme frustration generated by one yet Windows major screw up.
Let me explain. I told the story of the music stick i have in my car right now. I found on a site and downloaded a whole collection of over 6000 songs (files) containing first 100 Billboard hits of every years starting with 60s. Had to download every year manually in the form of a zip file and then unzip it on my flash drive.
After, i copied the over 6000 mp3 files on a stick and that i moved in the car. But the files with the music remained on the computer as well and after listening in the car, i started to want to play them on this computer, hooked to the speakers via Bluetooth (while i do my stuff of course) instead of listening to radio synched to my activities.
But not long after i started playing some music using of course the built in Windows Media Player, i noticed jitters and hiccups in the songs. Especially when i was starting the browser to navigate in sites.
It so happens i know what this means. Though my system has 8 cores that run up to i forgot, 4 GHz each, it is not fast enough to play a song and open sites in the same time!
I won't skip many other technical details and go to the problem. Programs, applications or processes how they are called nowadays have execution priorities. That is some are executed before others. I would think WMP runs every second or so sending music to a buffer, while the browser does much more work, and it sometimes interferes with the player.
So thoughtless so rude so unprofessional of their part. They set the priority for the player the same as that for the browser or other programs and they clash, which means though i have a formidable hardware, i cannot listen to music and run a browser in the same time.
I know there are several workarounds to address this problem but they all mean changing priority for the WMP process and one way is through the task manager. You start the task manager pressing simultaneously CTRL/ALT/DEL and then click on the Details vertical tab and go to WMP process, right click and then change the priority to f...g realtime.
However. It only last one session of WMP. If you close the window and start it again, it does it again.
One way to make this setting persistent is modifying the command line in the shortcut. Cause of course the shortcut should contain the command line to start the task, right? Like at Linux, right?
However. After with some pain i copied on the desktop a working shortcut for WMP, what do i see under Target tab? A couple of lines, none being the command line though i found online instructions on how to modify the command line on a shortcut. After loosing more than one hour today all the frustration i still cannot make it work cause i will not go and change priority every time i want to play music, right?
How many times similar things happened to me since that unfortunate day in 1996 when i bought my first Windows computer to this day? Countless. Which made me to sometimes in 2012 to switch to Fedora, a version of Linux. Yeah with Fedora i wasted much more time than i would have by simply continuing to run Windows, but it was so much faster and neater and less fussy and without a million useless options in any situation and i could also understand how an OS should work and felt not that much bullied by Windows as being the only option.
But then i bough a laptop with Chrome OS that was again Linux and now i bought this super micro PC with Windows on it that seemed to finally run mostly because of the hardware but every once in a while like today i remember the Windows pain.
Austria's name itself in English is totally wrong, it pretends it comes from Osterreich, which means country of the east in German while in English Austral means from south.
4:35 PM Nu aș vrea să vă sâcâi prea mult dar în timp ce făceam mâncare mă gândeam. Cred că problema cea mai mare a României nu e deficitul. Adică e deficitul, dar cum l-au calculat? Ca să calculezi deficitul la jumătatea anului trebuie să ai cheltuielile bugetare centralizate de la fiecare minister în parte iar suma totală o împarți la PIB. (PIB-ul de la jumătatea anului bineînțeles).
Deci cine a calculat deficitul știe aceste cheltuieli și PIB-ul în timp real. Putem să le vedem și noi sau mergem pe încredere? Sau măcar deîmpărțitul și împărțitorul sau avem de-a face cu o singură ecuație cu două necunoscute pe care nici un matematician nu a rezolvat-o încă (Iohannis avea a scuză, el era profesor de fizică).
Mda aceeași chestie. Am încercat o rețetă nouă de spanac, adus din grădină. Faptul că îl fac eu de la a la z, văd toate ingredientele, cum le prepar, mă face când mănânc să mă gândesc la cum l-am făcut, uneori stresant, când faci o rețetă pentru prima dată, și simt gustul separat al ingredientelor și nu am o experiență culinară satisfăcătoare (nu îmi place).
Singurul lucru care îl fac eu (în afară de cafea) și îmi place neconditiționat este omleta cu brocoli, cred că am pus undeva rețeta. Și salata beouf dar nu am mai făcut demult.
10:55 Still theoretical. Hope we'll se it working some day, soon enough. News first seen here (coincidence).
11:40 I started the other day to write a bit of the OS history. The real one, containing information only. The motivation behind it was the extreme frustration generated by one yet Windows major screw up.
Let me explain. I told the story of the music stick i have in my car right now. I found on a site and downloaded a whole collection of over 6000 songs (files) containing first 100 Billboard hits of every years starting with 60s. Had to download every year manually in the form of a zip file and then unzip it on my flash drive.
After, i copied the over 6000 mp3 files on a stick and that i moved in the car. But the files with the music remained on the computer as well and after listening in the car, i started to want to play them on this computer, hooked to the speakers via Bluetooth (while i do my stuff of course) instead of listening to radio synched to my activities.
But not long after i started playing some music using of course the built in Windows Media Player, i noticed jitters and hiccups in the songs. Especially when i was starting the browser to navigate in sites.
It so happens i know what this means. Though my system has 8 cores that run up to i forgot, 4 GHz each, it is not fast enough to play a song and open sites in the same time!
I won't skip many other technical details and go to the problem. Programs, applications or processes how they are called nowadays have execution priorities. That is some are executed before others. I would think WMP runs every second or so sending music to a buffer, while the browser does much more work, and it sometimes interferes with the player.
So thoughtless so rude so unprofessional of their part. They set the priority for the player the same as that for the browser or other programs and they clash, which means though i have a formidable hardware, i cannot listen to music and run a browser in the same time.
I know there are several workarounds to address this problem but they all mean changing priority for the WMP process and one way is through the task manager. You start the task manager pressing simultaneously CTRL/ALT/DEL and then click on the Details vertical tab and go to WMP process, right click and then change the priority to f...g realtime.
However. It only last one session of WMP. If you close the window and start it again, it does it again.
One way to make this setting persistent is modifying the command line in the shortcut. Cause of course the shortcut should contain the command line to start the task, right? Like at Linux, right?
However. After with some pain i copied on the desktop a working shortcut for WMP, what do i see under Target tab? A couple of lines, none being the command line though i found online instructions on how to modify the command line on a shortcut. After loosing more than one hour today all the frustration i still cannot make it work cause i will not go and change priority every time i want to play music, right?
How many times similar things happened to me since that unfortunate day in 1996 when i bought my first Windows computer to this day? Countless. Which made me to sometimes in 2012 to switch to Fedora, a version of Linux. Yeah with Fedora i wasted much more time than i would have by simply continuing to run Windows, but it was so much faster and neater and less fussy and without a million useless options in any situation and i could also understand how an OS should work and felt not that much bullied by Windows as being the only option.
But then i bough a laptop with Chrome OS that was again Linux and now i bought this super micro PC with Windows on it that seemed to finally run mostly because of the hardware but every once in a while like today i remember the Windows pain.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Hosts File
Most of the computers are linked to the internet through some sort of router. It's the box between the plug in the wall and your computer. Or for wireless, it's the box with antennas. If you go in the address bar in your browser and type 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 (see your router's manual, if don't have it you can find on the web by typing the name of the brand and the words manual and pdf) and hit enter you're gonna see your router's page.
First thing you're gonna discover is you need to change the generic password which is very easy to crack (LOL more than easy, it's a generic password, there's nothing to crack!). Second you're gonna discover that your router's firewall is on the lowest setting. Simply set your router's firewall on a higher setting (through a few clicks) (highest might give the beginner some problems) and you're gonna get rid of many on-line problems enhancing yours and everybody's security.
I say everybody's because there are too many unprotected computers out there that are used by hackers to attack others (being herded in the so-called bot-nets). Hackers send and install programs in a large number of unprotected computers that sit there and do nothing most of the time until they decide to use it against a provider like it recently happened, when they unleash hundreds of thousands of those herded unprotected computers towards a target, and their owners will probably never know.
There are a couple more things you can do besides adding a strong password. No, three. Disable remote access on your router. Disabe UPnP. Enable NAT. The're under the advanced setting page, it's all clicks. A five minute job that could save you and all of us a lot of trouble.
But a few days ago i (re)discovered on a page in my router a log containing the name of the sites i've been visiting. To my surprise, for each useful and legitimate site, they were other ten that i didn't know about. And those were about the same or similar on all different useful sites. Like doubleclick.net, etc. You can also see those sites names in the bar in the bottom of your browser, briefly, when useful sites are loading. Try and access a major news site and look at the left bottom of your browser (i have Firefox) and see for yourself.
Then i remembered there is another page in my router where i can add sites that i wanted to block. So i added a few like doubleclick.net in there, and then suddenly i realized my computer became much faster in loading sites. As for the other useful sites, now instead of seeing so many flash advertisements i see a message in those rectangles like "Firefox can't find the server" then the name of that site. It feels so good when i see those.
However, at least on my router it is difficult to work with the block list. First, it does not accept wildcards (asterisks). That means if you have multiple web sites that have the word doubleclick in them, you have to enter them all, you cannot add only one *.doubleclick.net entry for all. Other routers might be easier to work with. Second, the visited sites list on my router does not accept select and copy commands. I have to manually enter them in the block list. Then you have to kinda guess which are the offending sites in that list and you risk blocking one that is useful. Then i kept searching on the web and found out about the hosts file.
The hosts file can contain a list of sites to be blocked within your OS, be it Windows or Linux. All i had to do was go to http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt, and copy and paste the content of the file onto my hosts file located in etc/hosts. According to the table above, on Windows the hosts file is in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\. It is named only hosts, it does not have an extension. At least on Windows XP where i tried, you have to first right click on the hosts file name (in windows explorer), go properties/advanced and uncheck the read only box before being able to edit the file. In Windows 10 is more complicated, because of user account control that simply won't let you edit the file but there is a workaround. You can copy the original hosts file (the one type "file", without the .txt extension) to desktop or documents or wherever, populate it with the file above (copy and paste will do it) then copy it back to the location that is the same as for XP above, when you will be prompted for an administrator password.
To verify that it works, i added before the first site in the list in hosts file the line "127.0.0.1 www.google.com", then saved the file, restarted the browser and voila! It blocked google too. So i know it works. Then i removed that line, of course. Can't live without google, can you! Enjoy!
First thing you're gonna discover is you need to change the generic password which is very easy to crack (LOL more than easy, it's a generic password, there's nothing to crack!). Second you're gonna discover that your router's firewall is on the lowest setting. Simply set your router's firewall on a higher setting (through a few clicks) (highest might give the beginner some problems) and you're gonna get rid of many on-line problems enhancing yours and everybody's security.
I say everybody's because there are too many unprotected computers out there that are used by hackers to attack others (being herded in the so-called bot-nets). Hackers send and install programs in a large number of unprotected computers that sit there and do nothing most of the time until they decide to use it against a provider like it recently happened, when they unleash hundreds of thousands of those herded unprotected computers towards a target, and their owners will probably never know.
There are a couple more things you can do besides adding a strong password. No, three. Disable remote access on your router. Disabe UPnP. Enable NAT. The're under the advanced setting page, it's all clicks. A five minute job that could save you and all of us a lot of trouble.
But a few days ago i (re)discovered on a page in my router a log containing the name of the sites i've been visiting. To my surprise, for each useful and legitimate site, they were other ten that i didn't know about. And those were about the same or similar on all different useful sites. Like doubleclick.net, etc. You can also see those sites names in the bar in the bottom of your browser, briefly, when useful sites are loading. Try and access a major news site and look at the left bottom of your browser (i have Firefox) and see for yourself.
Then i remembered there is another page in my router where i can add sites that i wanted to block. So i added a few like doubleclick.net in there, and then suddenly i realized my computer became much faster in loading sites. As for the other useful sites, now instead of seeing so many flash advertisements i see a message in those rectangles like "Firefox can't find the server" then the name of that site. It feels so good when i see those.
However, at least on my router it is difficult to work with the block list. First, it does not accept wildcards (asterisks). That means if you have multiple web sites that have the word doubleclick in them, you have to enter them all, you cannot add only one *.doubleclick.net entry for all. Other routers might be easier to work with. Second, the visited sites list on my router does not accept select and copy commands. I have to manually enter them in the block list. Then you have to kinda guess which are the offending sites in that list and you risk blocking one that is useful. Then i kept searching on the web and found out about the hosts file.
The hosts file can contain a list of sites to be blocked within your OS, be it Windows or Linux. All i had to do was go to http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt, and copy and paste the content of the file onto my hosts file located in etc/hosts. According to the table above, on Windows the hosts file is in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\. It is named only hosts, it does not have an extension. At least on Windows XP where i tried, you have to first right click on the hosts file name (in windows explorer), go properties/advanced and uncheck the read only box before being able to edit the file. In Windows 10 is more complicated, because of user account control that simply won't let you edit the file but there is a workaround. You can copy the original hosts file (the one type "file", without the .txt extension) to desktop or documents or wherever, populate it with the file above (copy and paste will do it) then copy it back to the location that is the same as for XP above, when you will be prompted for an administrator password.
To verify that it works, i added before the first site in the list in hosts file the line "127.0.0.1 www.google.com", then saved the file, restarted the browser and voila! It blocked google too. So i know it works. Then i removed that line, of course. Can't live without google, can you! Enjoy!
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
The Invisible Dark Screen
The ninja are trained to be subtle enough to do things to you that are not even perceived. Provide you with an incredible high while taking your minds (let your brain be eaten by parasites that produce dopamine). Masked in ordinary things, with a slightly different rate, or occurrence or location.
Every time i went with my nose real close to a window screen i felt the smell of mold. How is that possible, manny would ask. Windows screen are outside, exposed to wind and sun, and look clean.
It is possible and i'm going to prove it to you. Not only that, but it can be used as intermediary buffer, between you and the ninja.
I usually start my searches with what i know about a subject. I knew windows screens, the kinda i have here at the apartment are made of of a woven fiberglass yarn that is coated with PVC. No matter how much i tried right now, (got tired after first hour of searches, right after "i came to terms" that is, actual, real search terms after i became familiar with the subject), i can't find a better magnification.
What happens is glass, (ordinary glass, not quartz of optical) is opaque to Sun's disinfecting UV. If the PVC coat gets damaged, then all kinda stuff will get inside the woven yarn. And grow in there and get ready for the next jump. Inside and onto you.
Windows screens are really another major health hazard i identified in American homes.
I wash them regularly (used to every 6 months, now every month) with a micro-fiber cloth, water and a drop of detergent. Water comes dirty mostly due to dust that settles onto it that also harbors a whole biology.
Prior to re-painting of all buildings (by SAGE team) the screens upstairs where so dirty, they turned red-brown (due to redwood chips, got pictures, somewhere). Two years after power washing, they now already started to look different then mine, that i keep as clean as possible. But when i washed them last night, disturbing and breathing the dust, i thought i felt the distinctive smell of cat. When they got warmed by the worm water that i used. Today i know i got reinfected, big time.
So don't be shy as i was before i became desperate enough, removed them from windows and washed them with a sponge and the showerhead in the tub. First time i did that here the water came black.
That was before i realized you can wash them on the window. They won't break, even after many washes. That fiberglass is quite tough, a similar type is used for reinforcing wall repairs. If you don't believe me, go to Home Depot, buy a piece and try to break it. Or try to walk through a door screen, as i did in Lake Oswego.
Can wash them even from inside with warm water and detergent, water will fall like rain does, through the holes left in window's frame. But easiest is form outside, with windows closed. At least for ground level. Detergent will leave some foam, it will be gone and dried in half hour.
But they won't last long clean, at most a couple of weeks. Careless design, cheap poorly chosen method of fabrication, they're a dirt trap. A bad idea.
In the image the mesh seem to be made of a continuous string, but it's many tiny woven fiberglass strings.
Every time i went with my nose real close to a window screen i felt the smell of mold. How is that possible, manny would ask. Windows screen are outside, exposed to wind and sun, and look clean.
It is possible and i'm going to prove it to you. Not only that, but it can be used as intermediary buffer, between you and the ninja.
I usually start my searches with what i know about a subject. I knew windows screens, the kinda i have here at the apartment are made of of a woven fiberglass yarn that is coated with PVC. No matter how much i tried right now, (got tired after first hour of searches, right after "i came to terms" that is, actual, real search terms after i became familiar with the subject), i can't find a better magnification.
What happens is glass, (ordinary glass, not quartz of optical) is opaque to Sun's disinfecting UV. If the PVC coat gets damaged, then all kinda stuff will get inside the woven yarn. And grow in there and get ready for the next jump. Inside and onto you.
Windows screens are really another major health hazard i identified in American homes.
I wash them regularly (used to every 6 months, now every month) with a micro-fiber cloth, water and a drop of detergent. Water comes dirty mostly due to dust that settles onto it that also harbors a whole biology.
Prior to re-painting of all buildings (by SAGE team) the screens upstairs where so dirty, they turned red-brown (due to redwood chips, got pictures, somewhere). Two years after power washing, they now already started to look different then mine, that i keep as clean as possible. But when i washed them last night, disturbing and breathing the dust, i thought i felt the distinctive smell of cat. When they got warmed by the worm water that i used. Today i know i got reinfected, big time.
So don't be shy as i was before i became desperate enough, removed them from windows and washed them with a sponge and the showerhead in the tub. First time i did that here the water came black.
That was before i realized you can wash them on the window. They won't break, even after many washes. That fiberglass is quite tough, a similar type is used for reinforcing wall repairs. If you don't believe me, go to Home Depot, buy a piece and try to break it. Or try to walk through a door screen, as i did in Lake Oswego.
Can wash them even from inside with warm water and detergent, water will fall like rain does, through the holes left in window's frame. But easiest is form outside, with windows closed. At least for ground level. Detergent will leave some foam, it will be gone and dried in half hour.
But they won't last long clean, at most a couple of weeks. Careless design, cheap poorly chosen method of fabrication, they're a dirt trap. A bad idea.
In the image the mesh seem to be made of a continuous string, but it's many tiny woven fiberglass strings.
Sunday, September 25, 2022
September 25
4:12 The real reason i left tonight was Angela opened the bedroom's window (can't convince her not to) and i woke up in dust around 7 PM. After driving two hours and having a few drinks i was still feeling pain at Indian Head. In fact i felt it even when i got back.
I went to dust the wall around that AC where i didn't dare in the past cause there's always someone there guarding it, the window with the AC is open as the patio sliding doors, (i know it doesn't make much sense with the AC running, last winter they had a fan in that window running all the time, at times even with the window closed and one day i felt the wall next to our bedroom hot which prompted me to buy that infrared camera for the phone) and two dogs started to bark one upstairs and one downstairs though i wasn't making any noise, moving that soft brush up and down the wall, and there was a guy on the patio (like most of the times) thin, older, sitting there on a chair in the dark (not smoking this time so i won't see the cigarette or feel the smoke) and started to ask me what i'm doing, i said i'm dusting the building and he said thank you and that was when i went off and told him i'm not doing it for him but for myself and in the end he said this was not my apartment, "it's their apartment" and he will go and talk to the management.
I just went to dust the wall around that AC where i didn't dare in the past cause there's always someone there guarding it, the window with the AC is open as the patio sliding doors, i know it doesn't make much sense with the AC running, last winter they had a fan in that window running all the time, at times even with the window closed and one day i felt the wall next to our bedroom hot which prompted me to buy that infrared camera for the phone though the wall went back cold in the same day right after i wrote here) and two dogs started to bark though i wasn't making any noise, moving that soft brush up and down the wall, and there was a guy on the patio (like most of the times) thin, older, sitting there on a chair in the dark (not smoking this time so i won't see the cigarette or feel the smoke) and started to ask me what i'm doing, i said i'm dusting the building and he said thank you and that was when i went off and told him i'm not doing it for him but for myself and in the end he said this was not my apartment, "it's their apartment" and he will go and talk to the management.
Could not see his face because it was dark and i asked him if he was waiting for me and he said no, but i'm sure he was cause i said earlier aloud that i wanted to do it. Now i have to go and take a shower because i got dust all over me and it stings.
Now after this contact for some reason i started to have the feeling that these guys are actually watching us all the time, and some of them, maybe the old woman that could be his mother who snores day and night could be speaking Romanian and understand in real time what we're saying (with the help of some amplifier or even an enhanced hearing aid). There are also at least two younger guys who show from time to time but they might be changing, that they're not the same all the time.
By looking at this image right now i cannot understand the configuration of that AC, but it could be it is installed in a way just to blow dust.
5:11 But when i got the camera (which i returned to Amazon for reason the thermal image was a bit off respect to normal image) i saw other things. One was none of the apartments upstairs in the building was heated. The windows and especially the big glass sliding doors showed lots of heat loss because of loss of insulating gas in between being 40+ years old, probably doubling the electricity bill which could be the reason they're doing the windows right now, right now meaning it will take them more than six months, in the rhythm they are working. (I can confirm the newer windows are much better insulators because they keep a much lower temperature inside then before even in hottest days. The wall at apartment 1 where the guy with the van with the barrels lives this time was much hotter than it should have been).
He confirmed the apartment upstairs wasn't heated, when i went upstairs and talked to "him", after he knocked at my door to ask me about the leaking of "his" motorcycle, again raising our bill. But by the thermal image none of them upstairs were, which to my knowledge were inhabited, by "the same people", for years, which confirms my suspicion they are all inhabited by the same person who changes costumes, hairdos and sexes, the female ninja that goes by the name Frankie Adams. One of the buildings next to ours (caught in two separate images cause it's very long) was showing a very low occupancy rate which i suspect is the same for all buildings here, though the parking lot is always full. (Probably like all apartments in all Portland area, after they raised the prices to unprecedented levels no one can afford them).
Could it be they didn't clean the building and surrounding ones after installing the windows unlike the buildings A, B and C which were cleaned and are further away, leaving all that junk in between, because i published those thermal images, 2 or 3 months before they started to replace windows? The painful dust? Retaliation?
8:16 After sleeping a few hours, i had a revelation. After the emperor of Japan Na(ru_hit)to, son of Hiro-hito leading the team who unnecessarily gutted these buildings, making tons of dust and leaving them dirty whom i saw though in broad daylight, who else could have been in the dark here last night at 4 AM guarding the emperor's dust?
The snoring old woman? The two younger guys? Try to imagine her without makeup, acting confused and tell me if you recognized her. Reason? No hero cop would dare intervene with Secret Service deployed nearby. If i made a wrong move, as mad as i was last night, i would have been arrested or killed.
8:50 Distanța dintre stâlpi este 30 metri iar timpul e pe video. 80 metri în 4 secunde. 20 m/s este 72 km/h. Se vede însă clar că "șoferul" care de fapt era remote, a forțat volanul în virajul acela nu prea strâns ca să intre în derapaj. Cred că are legătură cu video-ul pe care l-am postat despre fabricarea motoarelor BMW. Dacă aceasta este o înscenare (cascadorie de film) și cred că este, vă puteți imagina cine controlează Clujul, Bucureștiul, România și cât de terminali suntem. Tipul ăsta a stat tot timpul cu fața în jos, cât a trecut mașina lui google cu mulți ochi, oare de ce?
Mă gândeam. Au construit Casa Poporului ca pe o fortăreață imensă, care se poate apăra de furia mulțimii cu câțiva oameni cu tulumbe sau la nevoie, ceva mitraliere în timp ce ei se evacuează pe un tunel care duce la Budapesta. Însă nu e nevoie de așa ceva. Tot ce trebuie să faceți este să deschideți ochii și să recunoașteți iluzia în care ne-am născut, am trăit și ei vor dispare ca iepurele unui iluzionist, la loc în joben, iar la urmă și jobenul și iluzionistul. Pentru că ei sunt atât de puțini.
10:51 I ate something, the walk upstairs started and now (s)he's trying to start the motorcycle. To vibrate the building a little too.
11:06 Din când în când apar știri cu titlu sperietoare care-i face pe români să se gândească de două ori când vor să cumpere unele alimente esențiale cum e peștele. În afară de antitoxină, care iată, nu se găsește în România (ar fi nevoie doar de câteva doze, pentru că sunt foarte rare aceste cazuri, dacă sunt, fiindcă bănuiesc că nu au nici teste), dar există tratamente ca de exemplu banalul cărbune medicinal, și nu neapărat injectat în soluție intraperitonial ci luat chiar oral (mai bine decât lăsat așa să moară). După 24 de ore de post de exemplu, nu mai există nimic viu în intestin, dar dacă persoana se poate hrăni și intestinul deci nu e complet paralizat încă, dați-i domle niște cărbune. Combinația de suc de grapefruit și unt de migdale. Grapefruit are un inhibitor de enzimă ce nu permite dezvoltarea bacteriilor în intestin iar migdalele ucid bacteriile din intestin.
3:05 She came back about an hour ago and i started to feel the pain again and woke up. I'm eating which means she's squeaking.
4:22 Very little is published on the web about human electric charge but i know one thing. Dust is positively charged and i feel relief from pain when i walk and rub my feet against the carpet, which charges me positively also. So probably the conclusion is i'm more negatively charged or positively but closer to neutral, probably more than Angela, and that is the reason i get the painful charged dust and she doesn't. Could there be a gender difference? Could it be because i sleep on a metal sofa and the floor under is wet? (She just started a load of laundry, after about two weeks). The vapor from the drier leaking in the basement will wet the floor under the couch, bringing the potential to near zero. I remember now what Dan Costan was saying sarcastically 27 years ago. "Think positive!"
10:42 Was out of soluble so Angela bought from WinCo some Folgers soluble, could not find the usual brands so we didn't know the taste, but i remember i once bought Folgers and there was not much difference from others. Made some and put in the thermos and we both had a sip in the parking lot at Ilani before entering, and i think it tasted like marijuana, then went to restroom.
But when we entered. For some unknown rationale, at Ilani after 8 they ask you for an ID when i get inside. We got in line while a group of Japanese trying to look and act Chinese went right in front of us. But my guess is this is the reason. Every time we got there we got to stay in line next to celebrities.
Everybody inside the casino looked mad tonight. There was this smiling blond guy that had a black T-shirt saying "Shut up and run" with white letters right in my face right after i uploaded a recording. Inside i was scratching an itch in my elbow pit where i got bitten by something, twice. Both Smash Burgers and Jet Li were closed at 9 so we bought some tacos from our coupons (player's card). When we got out searching for the car a Tribal Police truck was going in the parking lot slowly by our side matching speed so we switched lanes. About 100 huge SUVs with huge headlights passed me both on the right and left when i was driving speed limit +10. When we got home the whole building was smelling the the same as the coffee. Found the familiar mole hole at the corner of the building and after pouring some borax and covering within 10 minutes the smell dissipated. Under the sink it smells like a dead animal. The fiberboard on bottom that is made with dust saw and animal glue (collagen) from hides and hoofs from slaughterhouses, got contaminated from a leak past week with water from doing dishes and now it smells like a dead animal. Could this be the reason i lost collagen everywhere (had this thick scar from surgery on my left elbow since i was a kid and now it melted) and not i got to eat bone broth because there will always be tiny leaks in there and that thing trains the type of bacteria that eats collagen (new idea!). If i put chlorine (bleach 6%) in a jar and close the doors, is ok for a while, but will never dry.
Right before the merge with 84 there is still a bumper on the narrow left shoulder, since last week. Right before i passed it i got distracted by a fast moving motorcycle. Several other debris, including a garbage bin after the bridge. The person two cars before me was going slow on the bridge and i got passed on those narrow lanes by a series of huge SUVs. Both trips back and forth are getting more and more difficult every time i go because there are many people that are out to get me. I wasn't afraid until last August when they hit me from behind and now there are many people driving very close behind me, besides those who pass me on both sides at high speed.
12:33 No matter how much i search i can't find a direct reference to building fiberboard in the past with animal adhesives though it was done on a massive scale. Because raw materials were cheap. Internet does not remember it. All i could find during modern times was this and this. Ironically they are advertised as non-toxic alternatives to formaldehyde. But they are not immune to bacteria when they get wet or even only moist and that bacteria will jump on you and eat you alive (slowly).
I went to dust the wall around that AC where i didn't dare in the past cause there's always someone there guarding it, the window with the AC is open as the patio sliding doors, (i know it doesn't make much sense with the AC running, last winter they had a fan in that window running all the time, at times even with the window closed and one day i felt the wall next to our bedroom hot which prompted me to buy that infrared camera for the phone) and two dogs started to bark one upstairs and one downstairs though i wasn't making any noise, moving that soft brush up and down the wall, and there was a guy on the patio (like most of the times) thin, older, sitting there on a chair in the dark (not smoking this time so i won't see the cigarette or feel the smoke) and started to ask me what i'm doing, i said i'm dusting the building and he said thank you and that was when i went off and told him i'm not doing it for him but for myself and in the end he said this was not my apartment, "it's their apartment" and he will go and talk to the management.
I just went to dust the wall around that AC where i didn't dare in the past cause there's always someone there guarding it, the window with the AC is open as the patio sliding doors, i know it doesn't make much sense with the AC running, last winter they had a fan in that window running all the time, at times even with the window closed and one day i felt the wall next to our bedroom hot which prompted me to buy that infrared camera for the phone though the wall went back cold in the same day right after i wrote here) and two dogs started to bark though i wasn't making any noise, moving that soft brush up and down the wall, and there was a guy on the patio (like most of the times) thin, older, sitting there on a chair in the dark (not smoking this time so i won't see the cigarette or feel the smoke) and started to ask me what i'm doing, i said i'm dusting the building and he said thank you and that was when i went off and told him i'm not doing it for him but for myself and in the end he said this was not my apartment, "it's their apartment" and he will go and talk to the management.
Could not see his face because it was dark and i asked him if he was waiting for me and he said no, but i'm sure he was cause i said earlier aloud that i wanted to do it. Now i have to go and take a shower because i got dust all over me and it stings.
Now after this contact for some reason i started to have the feeling that these guys are actually watching us all the time, and some of them, maybe the old woman that could be his mother who snores day and night could be speaking Romanian and understand in real time what we're saying (with the help of some amplifier or even an enhanced hearing aid). There are also at least two younger guys who show from time to time but they might be changing, that they're not the same all the time.
By looking at this image right now i cannot understand the configuration of that AC, but it could be it is installed in a way just to blow dust.
5:11 But when i got the camera (which i returned to Amazon for reason the thermal image was a bit off respect to normal image) i saw other things. One was none of the apartments upstairs in the building was heated. The windows and especially the big glass sliding doors showed lots of heat loss because of loss of insulating gas in between being 40+ years old, probably doubling the electricity bill which could be the reason they're doing the windows right now, right now meaning it will take them more than six months, in the rhythm they are working. (I can confirm the newer windows are much better insulators because they keep a much lower temperature inside then before even in hottest days. The wall at apartment 1 where the guy with the van with the barrels lives this time was much hotter than it should have been).
He confirmed the apartment upstairs wasn't heated, when i went upstairs and talked to "him", after he knocked at my door to ask me about the leaking of "his" motorcycle, again raising our bill. But by the thermal image none of them upstairs were, which to my knowledge were inhabited, by "the same people", for years, which confirms my suspicion they are all inhabited by the same person who changes costumes, hairdos and sexes, the female ninja that goes by the name Frankie Adams. One of the buildings next to ours (caught in two separate images cause it's very long) was showing a very low occupancy rate which i suspect is the same for all buildings here, though the parking lot is always full. (Probably like all apartments in all Portland area, after they raised the prices to unprecedented levels no one can afford them).
Could it be they didn't clean the building and surrounding ones after installing the windows unlike the buildings A, B and C which were cleaned and are further away, leaving all that junk in between, because i published those thermal images, 2 or 3 months before they started to replace windows? The painful dust? Retaliation?
8:16 After sleeping a few hours, i had a revelation. After the emperor of Japan Na(ru_hit)to, son of Hiro-hito leading the team who unnecessarily gutted these buildings, making tons of dust and leaving them dirty whom i saw though in broad daylight, who else could have been in the dark here last night at 4 AM guarding the emperor's dust?
The snoring old woman? The two younger guys? Try to imagine her without makeup, acting confused and tell me if you recognized her. Reason? No hero cop would dare intervene with Secret Service deployed nearby. If i made a wrong move, as mad as i was last night, i would have been arrested or killed.
8:50 Distanța dintre stâlpi este 30 metri iar timpul e pe video. 80 metri în 4 secunde. 20 m/s este 72 km/h. Se vede însă clar că "șoferul" care de fapt era remote, a forțat volanul în virajul acela nu prea strâns ca să intre în derapaj. Cred că are legătură cu video-ul pe care l-am postat despre fabricarea motoarelor BMW. Dacă aceasta este o înscenare (cascadorie de film) și cred că este, vă puteți imagina cine controlează Clujul, Bucureștiul, România și cât de terminali suntem. Tipul ăsta a stat tot timpul cu fața în jos, cât a trecut mașina lui google cu mulți ochi, oare de ce?
Mă gândeam. Au construit Casa Poporului ca pe o fortăreață imensă, care se poate apăra de furia mulțimii cu câțiva oameni cu tulumbe sau la nevoie, ceva mitraliere în timp ce ei se evacuează pe un tunel care duce la Budapesta. Însă nu e nevoie de așa ceva. Tot ce trebuie să faceți este să deschideți ochii și să recunoașteți iluzia în care ne-am născut, am trăit și ei vor dispare ca iepurele unui iluzionist, la loc în joben, iar la urmă și jobenul și iluzionistul. Pentru că ei sunt atât de puțini.
10:51 I ate something, the walk upstairs started and now (s)he's trying to start the motorcycle. To vibrate the building a little too.
11:06 Din când în când apar știri cu titlu sperietoare care-i face pe români să se gândească de două ori când vor să cumpere unele alimente esențiale cum e peștele. În afară de antitoxină, care iată, nu se găsește în România (ar fi nevoie doar de câteva doze, pentru că sunt foarte rare aceste cazuri, dacă sunt, fiindcă bănuiesc că nu au nici teste), dar există tratamente ca de exemplu banalul cărbune medicinal, și nu neapărat injectat în soluție intraperitonial ci luat chiar oral (mai bine decât lăsat așa să moară). După 24 de ore de post de exemplu, nu mai există nimic viu în intestin, dar dacă persoana se poate hrăni și intestinul deci nu e complet paralizat încă, dați-i domle niște cărbune. Combinația de suc de grapefruit și unt de migdale. Grapefruit are un inhibitor de enzimă ce nu permite dezvoltarea bacteriilor în intestin iar migdalele ucid bacteriile din intestin.
3:05 She came back about an hour ago and i started to feel the pain again and woke up. I'm eating which means she's squeaking.
4:22 Very little is published on the web about human electric charge but i know one thing. Dust is positively charged and i feel relief from pain when i walk and rub my feet against the carpet, which charges me positively also. So probably the conclusion is i'm more negatively charged or positively but closer to neutral, probably more than Angela, and that is the reason i get the painful charged dust and she doesn't. Could there be a gender difference? Could it be because i sleep on a metal sofa and the floor under is wet? (She just started a load of laundry, after about two weeks). The vapor from the drier leaking in the basement will wet the floor under the couch, bringing the potential to near zero. I remember now what Dan Costan was saying sarcastically 27 years ago. "Think positive!"
10:42 Was out of soluble so Angela bought from WinCo some Folgers soluble, could not find the usual brands so we didn't know the taste, but i remember i once bought Folgers and there was not much difference from others. Made some and put in the thermos and we both had a sip in the parking lot at Ilani before entering, and i think it tasted like marijuana, then went to restroom.
But when we entered. For some unknown rationale, at Ilani after 8 they ask you for an ID when i get inside. We got in line while a group of Japanese trying to look and act Chinese went right in front of us. But my guess is this is the reason. Every time we got there we got to stay in line next to celebrities.
Everybody inside the casino looked mad tonight. There was this smiling blond guy that had a black T-shirt saying "Shut up and run" with white letters right in my face right after i uploaded a recording. Inside i was scratching an itch in my elbow pit where i got bitten by something, twice. Both Smash Burgers and Jet Li were closed at 9 so we bought some tacos from our coupons (player's card). When we got out searching for the car a Tribal Police truck was going in the parking lot slowly by our side matching speed so we switched lanes. About 100 huge SUVs with huge headlights passed me both on the right and left when i was driving speed limit +10. When we got home the whole building was smelling the the same as the coffee. Found the familiar mole hole at the corner of the building and after pouring some borax and covering within 10 minutes the smell dissipated. Under the sink it smells like a dead animal. The fiberboard on bottom that is made with dust saw and animal glue (collagen) from hides and hoofs from slaughterhouses, got contaminated from a leak past week with water from doing dishes and now it smells like a dead animal. Could this be the reason i lost collagen everywhere (had this thick scar from surgery on my left elbow since i was a kid and now it melted) and not i got to eat bone broth because there will always be tiny leaks in there and that thing trains the type of bacteria that eats collagen (new idea!). If i put chlorine (bleach 6%) in a jar and close the doors, is ok for a while, but will never dry.
Right before the merge with 84 there is still a bumper on the narrow left shoulder, since last week. Right before i passed it i got distracted by a fast moving motorcycle. Several other debris, including a garbage bin after the bridge. The person two cars before me was going slow on the bridge and i got passed on those narrow lanes by a series of huge SUVs. Both trips back and forth are getting more and more difficult every time i go because there are many people that are out to get me. I wasn't afraid until last August when they hit me from behind and now there are many people driving very close behind me, besides those who pass me on both sides at high speed.
12:33 No matter how much i search i can't find a direct reference to building fiberboard in the past with animal adhesives though it was done on a massive scale. Because raw materials were cheap. Internet does not remember it. All i could find during modern times was this and this. Ironically they are advertised as non-toxic alternatives to formaldehyde. But they are not immune to bacteria when they get wet or even only moist and that bacteria will jump on you and eat you alive (slowly).