Want to keep Windows out of your privacy? Still want the Windows ease of doing things and the familiarity?
Then this is for you…
NeoKylin Linux – Chinese
Astra Linux – Russian
NeoKylin or just Kylin in China, is developed by “China Standard Software,” located in Shanghai. It is also, with idiosyncrasies attributed to the Chinese, a very stable OS…
Scientific/Manufacturing Enterprise RusBitTech has developed, for the use of the Russian Government a very very stable Linux and yes, I have been working with it for weeks…. Astra Linux…
To review them would be worthless and not what I am about. But, to tell you that I have mixed and matched the two systems and complied a stable OS for permanent usage. Is what I care about. I found that the Chinese system was restrictive in its use, yet very innovative under the hood. I found the Russian system, which seemed to be based on Red Star Linux, weaker under the hood, but WM per Fly, was super and excellent. Plus the Russians had added some very important programs that just caught my inner Geek…
Both OS’s have a common and a special edition. The common edition is what I am dealing with. Very complete and very easy to install. I give the edge to the Russian system for ease of install. I can see why these countries have developed the respective OS’s and as the future unfolds, these OS’s will get better and better…
They can be daily drivers right now though… And no doubt the special editions are vastly superior…
Linux has come a long ways and it now has literally anything in software to replace Windows software. Then there is always WINE and use that Windows software anyway…
Snapshot of my desktop; Look familiar?
Its is almost an exact XP Clone, and many people could not tell the difference, until you open a terminal. Then Linux stands out in full force…
I am not talking about just a theme. I am talking about right to the core of the system, it is Windows XP on steroids. Fast, powerful and safe to use in the World Wide Web…
It was inevitable…
Both Russia and China have had serious issues with hacking by Microsoft and the US government. Using a software based in the US is like using steel wool as toilet paper. Not very smart and hurts like hell. Both countries have been pushed to this by sanctions, US policies and US spying…
I for one am glad and have increased my learning curve to a much higher degree. These OS’s are some very stable systems ad I have decided to keep them both and watch them grow into full fledged, adult Linux OS’s…
A coup d’etat is in full swing. Are you paying attention?
All this is happening while you sleep…
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The borders are closing and not the way you think….
Immigrants will always get in. The borders are closing going out. That is what all this rigmarole is about…
America is having a brain drain. The wealth is leaving, the intelligence is leaving and they are trying to stop it. Just look around…. It has been going on for many years now. It started in earnest under Obama, the writing on the wall was obvious during Bush’s era. Obama just accelerated it. Don’t fall for the governmental bull, just listen to the people who actually live in other countries. You may have to expand your searches beyond the MSM and that might hurt your intellect…
Did I insult someone, Good! You need to think for yourself and that my friend is exactly what is wrong. We have lost the ability to be independent…
Time to wake up and toss off the governmental blanket of warmth and comfort…. The long term repercussions are a terrible thing to behold. Short term pain, will be offset by the long term gain…
Finally, American society begins to mature, which isn’t simply shown in just the rejection of the stream of lies Western journalists are broadcasting, but also in the ongoing fight against corporate media bias.
This has been noted in a SurveyUSA poll, which asked 1,207 registered voters back in February about their opinion on certain press outlets. It’s curious that just 17% of voters had a very favorable opinion of CNN, while no more than 14% of voters had a favorable opinion of The New York Times. The Washington Post and MSNBC similarly were only very favorably viewed by less than 15% of voters. Another finding that, to a certain degree, allowed Trump to secure his victory was that Fox News was the outlet with the highest favorability in the poll, but only at 21%.
Boza and I walked and walked yesterday. We got snowed big time as we walked and viability was very poor all day. The lower valley road had been plowed and the sides were three foot deep. Straight up, like the Cliffs of Dover. A little mouse had fallen off this cliff and was stuck in the road. Boza smelled him and I saw him. He was trying to climb the wall of snow and ice. He was a cute thing and much different than the house mice we deal with all the time…
It panicked and tried to burrow down into the snow, as Boza sniffed at him and I dug down under him, snow and all and picked him or her up.I saw it poke its head out of its temporary home and look at me. It stayed calm and I looked from which way it came. I saw that it had come from the river side of the road and I sat him down in the snow on that side. It looked at me for a few seconds and then turned and hopped away…
Then I thought about taking a picture and got the best I could. He decided that since fate was fortunate, he would not hang around to test it…
The reason he could not get out of the road is because the sides of the road are literally solid ice. Plowed, compacted, sight melting and deep freeze. I am sure it looked like Mount Everest to the little guy…
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Hopefully Svetochka will come around the 25th of February. Bear and Boza are wiggling their butt’s and dancing at that news…
Doggy
Bear
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I am seeing some bad signs from Trump and his administration! Looks like sell out time. But I expected it; for he will and his family will be assassinated if he does not. That is the American way. I realize that people do know this deep down inside them, or at least the ones who have a brain left. It just is, we do not like to face reality and the reality is that, America is the most corrupt and divisive country in the world. Power corrupts and it has been said well in the past…
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Now he had a handle on what is going on. It has always gone on and always will, until, we the people change things and keep a handle on it ourselves…
That will not happen, for amongst those that mean well, are new ones who will corrupt…
Fact Jack… And it is beyond my control, beyond your control and beyond all of our control. Does not mean I do not care! It just means that I have watched power corrupt friends, family and acquaintances. I have reached the point of becoming very tired of people who do not care. We have a world full of these people, they all sellout, they all sell their souls and they all would bury their family for a dollar…
What you gonna do?
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I realized as humans on this earth we are lost…
The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That’s why it’s getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish! – Ashwin Sanghi
I can only hope that I get a bunch of goldfish reading the blog…. And or maybe in charge of the world governments…
This song makes me want to cry. “You may think I am crazy” – But I do really wish that we could live in a world that did not have oil, no wars, no hate, no pressure. Imagine a world that we help each other and live in peace. Hard to do isn’t it?
That devil gene is hell on us humans…
Imagine there’s no Heaven.
Imagine there’s no Countries.
Imagine all the People
Living for Today….
I look at the roof of our Tiny Russian Village home and see a dream of a bank of solar cells. I imagine no electricity by a meter. The only power I would need is available in plentiful supply, right above my head. Right above your head…
Something that struck me as important; The only animals on earth that ever paid for living here are humans. Animals do not pay a thing, unless humans get hold of them. Then they pay, with their life, with captivity and with existence a a species. Animals unlike the human animal that we are, live in balance with nature. They do not rent a home and or buy a home. They do not sell what is not theirs in the first place. They do not try to kill for pleasure. They simply live on the earth and earth supplies what is needed. The numbers of a given species is balanced into the whole equation…
Then along came man – woman and then the “iPhone…”
In between was some horrific inhuman acts of barbarism and we learned not a damn thing from all that…
I have compiled a version of the new Russian based Linux. Called Astra and it is simply the “Cat’s Meow”…
It is what I am running on now and it is stable, fast and is far from being done. I decided that using Windows was a fail fail proposition and what better Linux to use then the one that the Russian Gov. is developing…
Nuff said; It is Debian based and really the “Cat’s Meow!”
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Vova and went to the Big Village. He had some very important paper work that could not wait and if it did not get done, he would be in trouble. One thing he had to do is renew his firearms license. Guns are big in Russia and most everyone I know has a weapon. Hunting is big time here, you just have to be registered. But they are well armed in Russia and that is something you do not realize, coming from America. Russians have that same freedom, just that they do not openly brag about weapon ownership. Smart is what I call that…
Vova was happy, Russia just increased the pension amount and he has ended up with almost a thousand rubles more a month. That made Vova smile…
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It was a rough trip, we almost made it back. The Niva of his is buried in the valley, but we were close to home. Now it is snowing this morning and I hope we find the Niva in all the new snow. Sometimes it is seriously “winter” here in the Tiny Russian Village… 😉
Vova needs to go back Wednesday, but scuttlebutt’s, it may not happen…
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Therefore, today is a read a book day, as the snow piles up two feet or more deep in front of the door. Boza has done his doggy business and is sleeping soundly. I have to fill the bird feeders and not put anything on the ground today. They will not find the food on the ground. But they like their feeders and I will put out some salo for the jay birds…
Image cut today from the Google Search Engine. Not sure how long it will last, but Google loves WtR right now and I will keep on doing what I am doing. Almost 6000 posts in over 10 years of blogging. Ups and downs, actually many more downs than up. But, like I say, “Take one step at a time and keep on plucking away.”
The bottom line is: If you want to know about Russia?
You will find it somewhere on this blog…
Oh and yes it is snowing, serious snow. Like a foot in the last hour snow. Like Boza and I tried to walk and we could not walk, snow!
I went to bed; weather said, “-10 and tomorrow -4”, they lied and my weather station lied. Boza woke me up at 4 a.m.and it was -20 at that time and as I write this article, it is now -21…
Boza went outside and shivered. Then he decided to try to walk and do doggy business. In about two minutes, he passed me going home, as I followed him down the mountain and was waiting for me at the door of the home. I yelled at him, “What? Your pants on fire?” As I turned around and trudged back up the hill…
Guess he had better things to do?
Yes he did, he wanted food and his couch to sleep on again. Thus, he just had to do doggy business, which by the way is easy for him, he has his coat on at all times. Me, I have to bundle up and get ready for freezing weather. Oh, well! I also get woke up…
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The weather has been wonderful. Only -3 or -4 during the day and sun shining. It was wonderful and made for long good walks with Boza. Then something happened…
Old Man Winter got grouchy again…
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Images are self explanatory and I have to get ready to go with Vova to the Big Village. He has decided to try to get his Niva down the mountain, to the plowed part and we will ride off into the sunset!
Most likely we will get down the mountain. Gravity has a way of helping. But trying to get back up the mountain is another thing or two. It is snowing right now and I just do not know? I will go, for Vova cannot be let loose on the Big Village alone!
We are heathens from the country you know?
Just Tiny Russian Villagers, from a Tiny Russian Village
We almost got plowed out yesterday. But something happened (?) and the tractor turned around and left. We simply have a mess down below in the valley, but there has been a huge parking area made. I guess we do not rate good enough to get fully plowed… 🙁
Two feeders, one little seeds
One sunflower seeds
Guys ice fishing at the river
Just walking around
tractor
Father Pavel
Today,I will walk out to the bus stop and go to the Big Village. I will find a frozen pizza and some Diet Pepsi. Sometimes you have cravings and these are what I have been craving. Just the way life is. Kinda hard to find pizza in the Tiny Russian Village…
I will walk Boza several times, feed the Birdbrains, feed Boza and after a second cup of coffee, take off through the snow. Actually they plowed enough and Father Pavel had guys shovel a fair path to the other side of the river. The road on the other side is great and this walk to the Big Village will be easy. Though it is snowing right now outside, so before we get snowed in again. I better get going…
I had hope that we would be plowed and very easy to get around, but hope sometimes makes for disappointment. I was disappointed that they had to stop…
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Looks like Svetochka will come to the Tiny Russian Village around the 25th of February. She has to get through her getting well time from her surgery and then she will come to play in the village. Boza and I miss her very much and we look forward to her coming. She cannot carry much weight for six months and she will be coming lightly loaded to the village. I hope that they have everything plowed good at that time, so that her and Boza can walk and walk and walk.They are two peas in a pod, those two… 😉
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Father Pavel stopped by yesterday, just to say “Hi!” and find out if everything is okay? He was in a good mood and he had three guys with him to shovel snow. The church has been shoveled out from the three feet of snow and looks good up there. I need to get some pictures of the monastery…
Father Pavel is why we got plowed as much as we did. He tries to persuade people to keep access to the monastery, but it is hard, it snows a lot. Just as it is snowing right now and if we blink our eyes, the plowed roads will be snowed in again. It is endless and a vicious cycle out here in the Tiny Russian Village…
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I am running my compiled Linux and it has shown to be extremely stable and able to do anything Windows does. The security of Linux as an OS is just very peaceful and allows you to enjoy the internet much more. I ended up using Arch Linux as a base and GTK window manager, with Manjaro as a desktop. It works good. I installed Arch Linux base form and compiled from there…. It is rock solid in performance, now I need to find what I will dual boot with, or even triple or more boot. I see some interesting Linux distro’s that have been developed since I use to dwell heavily in Linux. Linux is actually very fun and there are flavors now that allow non users to easily install. I use Arch as a base, because it has much more control for the user to explore. Arch needs more hands on through terminal usage and scares many newbies…
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I always smile when I see the picture above. The world of isolation is actually opposite of what the image shows and that is the point of the image. I hate to see the hole that the West is digging for itself and at the same time, I am so glad that I escaped the chaotic world of the Western Empire…
It dawned on me:
The issue is morals. Once the moral base has been lost and that is an easy thing to allow to happen. Trying to get back a moral base is almost impossible. Too many people love immorality and they will grasp anything that gives them pleasure in the moment of need. Selling our souls is what I call it. It is a hard thing to break. All sins and bad habits all come from this simple issue…
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. – Gustave Flaubert
I am far from a person who can look down his nose at others. But I am a person who can pass on what he has done in life and that knowledge may help you from going down the same road. Killing a human, much less the scores of humans I have killed in my past, is a heavy burden to bear. Many guys from war, never survive the coming home issue. Sometimes I understand what drove them to early demise, Killing is a terrible thing to do…
Do not know what to say about America; But America needs to recover the morals it has lost, at the very least, gain morals to counter the immorality that has gone amuck. This is nothing new, it is just now the percent of populace that has sold their soul is exceeding the ones who still have held on to theirs…
I know, I once sold my soul, not understanding that I did and then fought like hell to get it back. But from the moment you sell out, there is a never ending struggle to keep your soul for the rest of your life…
The question (actually two questions in one,) I have is, “What happens when we die, do we ever find peace?”
Until then, I will search for that peace and enjoy what I have and not what I think by social abnormalities I should be having…
Days of tending the fire and finally last night, the weather started to turn to the better. It has been bitterly cold and I have had to check on the fire every hour all day long. The wood stove is old and has its limits. We need a new one, but cost is prohibitive. I will again in the summer, try to rebuild it and make it more efficient this time. I have an idea to add many bricks to the whole thing and thus, give more mass to help heat the home. Last night I was able to sleep all night without worry and woke up at 1:30 a.m. with it just -6 outside. What a blessing…
Therefore, tomorrow it will be -4 and I will walk to the main highway and go to the Big Village. I have plenty of food and such, just have been cooped up and need a break from life. Besides, I am thinking of getting a cheap frozen pizza and cooking it in our oven. Sounds yummy…
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Cold and very cold is a perception that you do not understand, until you experience them next to each other. I walked out this morning with Boza and it was warm. It is all mental I realize, but it was so pleasant and I was happy. I found that as we walked, I was overdressed. For the last three days I have had to be very careful when going out. The cold will catch you unaware and bite you hard. When your nose drips and if freezes on your nose, You know it is cold… 😉
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Interesting emails that I have to clean up in the morning time…
I use to be called a “Commie Fag” and called every name in the book. Now I am called a “Nazi Scum Fag” and that just shows me the MSM at work in the western world. During this last election, the term Nazi has become the calling sound of the democratic party. Really kinda sad and very sick in many ways. The so called supporters of gays, transgenders and many other quirky groups, is and has become the exact thing and tune they spout constantly. I see serious lack of mental capacity mixed in a huge portion of the American populace, much less the places in Europe who are crazier than dancing pink elephants. There is some serious psychognosis in the minds of western people right now…
I talk about looking in the mirror. We really need to as we condemn people all over the world for alternate views upon life. maybe we are the ones with a strange view at times. We lost the moral highroad many many years ago…
I am taking a break today…. Might walk to highway and get on a bus to the Big Village?
Then again, Maybe not!
Tiny Russian Village is cold and I have lots of work to do. Had to keep a fire going for three days straight now and very little sleep between that and Boza needing to walk and do doggy business. It will warm up today…. Tomorrow I will post some thoughts and pictures…. Svetochka is doing good after her surgery and for that I am very very thankful. Today is a thinking day for me…
