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.

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.

...

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?

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.

June 7

8:40 AM Enough of this (noise). Giuffre, Jeffrey. Epstein–Barr virus. Three Hungarian actors plus Trump, Musk and now Vance are involved in one of the most anti-semitic acts i have ever seen, all integrated in the greater show. And Viktor Orban claims he is a Jew? Elton John


10:15 Viktor Orban, nici nu știi, cât de mic începi să fii... 5'9"? I really don't think so... (Is that his shirt?)

When we were colleagues at AVX, "Nelu Ciorbă", the master of the swing shift used to call be "bad boy". For what, i don't know. But you want to know the irony? The irony is the man who sings this song also worked there, towards the end of my job.   

11:30 Buddha's Sermon of the Seven Suns. Records are made to be broken.

June 6

1:00 AM Ăștia au trecut la treabă și acum se iau și de contabilul singuratic! Ce aspirații poți să ai dacă pui în portofel 119 de miliarde și te păcălești singur că ai pus 199? Păi ce altceva e Ministerul de Finanțe decât contabilitatea țării? Singura chestie e că sunt mincinoși.

Oamenii nu sunt niște cifre, ci niște vaci bune de muls de 65% din venit! În SUA impozitele și contribuțiile sunt fix la jumătate! Și ăștia bagă la apărare 13%, nu 5% cât ar vrea Nicușor! 3,2 trilioane la pensii și îngrijiri medicale seniori!

Ce e Legea Bugetului altceva decât cifre? 

(Și totuși, cum calculezi deficitul (o cifră), fără bilanț contabil sau fără o balanță venituri-cheltuieli centralizată (de) pe ministere?. Ceva ce tot românul ar vrea să vadă publicat undeva, poate chiar în Monitorul Oficial?)

Nu, o țară nu e un SRL, o țară e un sac fără fund care nu are nevoie de bilanț contabil ci doar de politicieni să dea din clanță și de câte ori vorbesc, țara mai pierde niște milioane. Și ei vorbesc, tot timpul. Și acum se bagă, să le ia apărarea, Mihai Radu. Un crop care arată mai mult ca un buzz_gore bulicios.

Și au trecut 5 zile de când din_escu nu a spus unde a știut de operațiunea Pânza de Păianjen cu o zi înainte!

6:12 Dacă Japonia deține 1.1 trilioane în obligațiuni, atunci cine deține restul de până la 36? Câte investiții directe și cât pământ și imobile au cumpărat japonezii de 50 de ani de când exportă Toyote în SUA (Și Honde și Nissane și Subaru și Mazde și Acure și Lex_US și Infinity și Mitsubishi și toată lista).

6:30 Căutam vârsta lui Andrei Dumitrescu, să-i găsesc asemănarea, și am dat peste altceva.

3:30 Friday market high. As i said, it is customary for the market to end high on Fridays and continue on Monday (on "news" from weekend). Today was on strong job reports, "Musk temporarily making up with Trump", other bunch of lies.

But there is something i need to share. For almost four hours, Tesla shares traded at 300.5 ± 1.5, that is less then 0.5% variation. How is that possible, in a free market, that is not controlled with AI driven, high speed, high frequency (thousands of times per second) trade algorithms? (should ban those, they are discriminatory against small ordinary traders who can't afford them).

Then it all went out of range of those capabilities, with the usual high volume trade (bottom chart) at the end (end beginning) of the session. But it was enough to drag the whole market up all day.

Another weird thing, the big selloff (red in the bottom chart) until i woke up yesterday after my morning sleep.

4:35 I wrote these days (last time this morning) about the enormity of taxes for Romanian employees, that together with the sales tax (TVA or VAT) amount to a burden of 65% of their income.

Today i saw this news, that came after i mentioned that in the US Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid amount to 2 trillion, quoting from memory. However, i was kinda wrong, the three combined amount to a staggering 3.2 trillion (1.6 trillions SS, 1 trillion Medicare and rest Medicaid), of which Medicaid is partly funded by states. After i wrote that, i see this news.

No amount or reviews of SS and Medicare income could possibly make a dent in that amount.

Which got me mad enough to do the same calculation for the US. Total wages of an US employee in one year amount to 63,795. Multiplied by the number of employees, 163.9 million, we get... 10.45 trillion.

The contribution for Social Security and Medicare on payroll slips combined is...

So roughly half of it comes from other sources... 

BTW just remembered something. If we divide the total amount paid to Medicare from budget (about one trillion, see table below) partly financed from that deficit, to the number of recipients (abut 68 million) and months in a year, we get an amount of over one thousand (a month) competitive to pay any private insurance, not just average, while with Medicare it is difficult to find a doctor because of bill slashing and have to go to an "advantage" plan for prescriptions...

This big fraud only could count for almost one trillion cause i don't believe Medicare pays more than 20% of that amount to cover bills... A bit more than the amount still paid by the recipients.

However they now unleashed the DOGE to scare the recipients.