Hello
It's summertime. A time for peaceful vacations.
Not for me.
I am really angered by the manners of some people (mostly caucasians).
The other day, I went to one of the TPG office (Transport publique de Geneve), with my wife to buy a monthly subscription.
I was really surprised by the office lady bad manners. She behaved badly...; I asked her if the office could do the subscription or if I have to go to somewhere else, she told me yes. So I wait for my turn.
Came for me the go; No hello; The lady just complaining to her colleague: "She wants to go to eat (it was 11 am)" as she started to close up her desk, really surprising;Then, I asked her for a subscrition, she seemed not to hear nor understand what I was talking about (she was doing this for other persons just before my roundturn).
I repeated my request. Not looking at me, she told me if I was sent here to do it. Well, I was surprised by that kind of question ... Then after a time, she daigned to bark: "do you have the necessary papers ?", without any precision. My wife told me to show my Id card. Her face changed by seing the Id card ... Your guesses. She became a just a little more amable ...
My questions are:
- Are most people believe that by looking at my face or gait, I am one of those shunned "demandeurs d'asile" or worst "sans papiers" ?
This episode reminds me some thirty years back: Offen, I went to kiosks, near my workplaces, just looking at magazines (without touching them), most of the times the tenants were ladies, often they just barked at me something like: " Je travaille moi !!".
Now, I am really asking to myself if hate genetically transmitted ...
My wife told me that I am too agressive. Me ??? Come on.
Others would tell me, let it down. Well for me it's a daily hell to live here, amongst those kinkies. Fed up !
A note for myself.
1) Intro
I use mainly the Eeepc 701 as my daily "work". It has Easy Peasy installed.
So, in order to keep up with the mainstream, I tried to install the latest version from Ubuntu.
All new OS are installed on USB disk. I let the Xandros untouched, just in case ...
The new installation is to be done on the USB disk from Lacie (500GB).
As the little disk has a main partition NTFS with backup sofware for Windows, I decide to use the "small "partition" dedicated to file sharing (fat 32 GB).
2) Caveats:
The installation of Ubuntu 10.04 went well on Eeepc, but the USB disk wasn't able to boot into the new OS. Grub2 just gave me: grub rescue prompt.
On reboots, the USB disk was sometimes not even been recognized.
I tried to boot this disk on my other netbooks (Ecafe, Acer Aspire One), nop, not recognized ...
On my Acer Aspire Desktop tower, the SB disk won't boot neither.
3) Install with the Acer Aspire Desktop tower:
The USB Disk does boot into Ubuntu 10.04. But only if the grub2 is installed on its partition (not the disk mbr).
4) Acer Aspire netbook:
Only the Acer Aspire netbook is able to boot the USB disk, without any modifications.
5) Take time to check the reasons why USB disk not being accepted on Eeepc and Ecafe.
Lost Xperia mobile phone - Geneva - Switzerland. How I have found it back. After the Easter feast.
Hello,
This week was a sweating moment for me.
On Tuesday morning, I have lost my Sony Ericksson Xperia phone somewhere in Geneva City. I was using the public transport to go to my physician's cabinet.
I was aware of the lost only in the afternoon. Panics ...
I trackback all the steps to the places where I have been. Nothing ...
I went to my swiss operator to block my sim card; I got a new sim card with the same phone number. I wasn't sure that my account would really be blocked on the phone itself.
I went to the Police station to declare the lost; I was advised to wait a couple of days before making the declaration and I should call the "lost & found" objects service.
My mind was exploding, with all the lost photos, all my email access and the subscription price running till 2011 ... Really bad.
Well after two calls in the next two days, Hourrah !!!
A good anonymous samaritain has brought it to the "Lost & Found" objects service... UNBELIEVABLE .
The People who live in Geneva are not so bad ... Thank you.
ref: scot@etat-de-geneve.ch
I stay aghast ...
I just realize today the immense human disaster.
Four days after the earthquake disaster (Jan 12 2010) in this region and still no clear international relief coordination.
Hello
My last posting, for 2009.
My thought for the two Swiss citizens kept as hostages in Lybia.
I am wondering why no "friendly" governments, have intervened upto now.
I don't want to blame anybody, at this time, as the social and economical situations are catastrophical.
To be too critical, can cause me troubles.Freedom of speech ? I doubt ...
One can get troubles, even in a Democracy, by cunning ways, the ways of hudlums, sly. I am well placed to tell such "craps"
I want the guys who have led us to such a catastrophics situation, be judged as criminals. (Not to blame anybody ... Hummm) ...
The situations, as far as I understand, are mostly related to Economical matters. Petty.
Shortsighted. Take the maximum profits and run away as quick as you can.
In the name of freedom, we are killing and starving People, in subtile ways; We are looting whole countries , too weak to defend themselves. We are turning a great number of People into beggars, gansters. Is that the promises of freedom ?
Consume and shutup! If I can't, then kill myself, because I will be a burden for the society. Only the fittest are welcomed... In the name of the Race ... a bloody race promised to plunder ...
In the name of national security and interests, human beings are disposable as garbages.
In the name of God ....
I am living in an environment filled with sly, cunning cotery, the civilized world. The later are too smart to do the dirty jobs themselves.
For my own sake, after more than thirty years, working,paying my taxes, raised my family, few respects I do get back. Even after spending my time to do things for my community.
What do I get back, as a return on investment ? Blame, harassment, hainous gestures, sneers, contempt. Go home, shink. Very few People do show their amicability, for that I say thank you.
What really disturbs me, is the behavior of some "connaissances", for more than twenty years, quite suddenly turn their back. Reasons ? Because I got unbroiled with some of their own friends ? Or something else, unknown to me ?
My own family turn their back.
Because of my economical "failure" ? A shame ?
Somewhere, my existence is denied.
But I am here, I have done my lot, abiding to the laws, no one will deter me from existing.
May be, I should consider to go someplace, alone. You are kidding ? some will voice it ! We must know where you are, be sure that is really you !!! because you might be a national security risk !!!
By the way, did you pay your bills ? where are your moneys ???
If fighting to exist must be, then I will do.
The political and economical "forces", need scapegoats in order to prosper.
Freedom is used as decoy thing. Freedom for "them".
That's the message I hand to the damned.
The "Them" do not need it, as they are already been fulfilled. More ???
Did I vow not to blame anybody ? Well "them" have infected me ...
Happy Christmas to the damned of the society. Be free in your head. Peace to you.
Hello,
To those that I love and trust.
Nothing really changed with the twenty first century men.
Distrust, greed, hate, jealousy etc... on one side.
Love, care, empathy etc... on the other side.
Every one has both ...
To be deployed with careness ...
Cheers
Understanding Galois Theory. For children minded ....
Hello,
Some months ago, I came across a pocket book.
The book title is: " Quand la science a dit ... C'est impossible ".
The book is written by scientists whose audience is the ordinary people, i.e laymen.
I was attracted by a particular subject: Galois Theory made easy, whose title is: "Il est impossible de résoudre ou le mystère des équations algébriques", by Gilles Dowek.
Oh dear, in about 22 pages, everything is sorted out in my head.
As a technically trained, I was not supposed to understand everything in Mathemathics. Not required to do the job.
Really a problem during my early freshman years.
Trainers kept telling me why I wanted to reinvent the wheel, just used it, as it is. I wasted plenty times to try to understand and do the proofs.
As a technically trained, it was not required to prove formulae. They are known to be true. Granted.
In my jobs, I used group theories ... Without fully understanding their hidden beauty .
1) Intro
I am running Debian 5 on Eeepc 701 (ram 2gb) external USB drive (40GB) FUJITSU MHV2040AS .
Tricky business.
I have used my "old" Acer Aspire Desktop to install the Debian 5. It has a Cdrom/Dvd player to boot the Debian DVD, taken from a specialized Linux mag.
At first I used an USB hard disk (160GB). The USB drive's grub wouldn't boot the Debian kernel, despite the install fared well.
Second, I used another USB hard drive (40gb). This drive's grub does boot the Debian.
At this writing time, I use the 40gb USB hard drive on Eeepc.
Missing: Ethernet module atl2. Cf. below.
nb. There is a better way to do:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install
2) Install:
The installation is simple as usual via the PC Desktop.
The "bad" is really the grub part.
I install the grub on the USB hdd itself.
In order to make Eeepc compatible, mainly the Ethernet outlet, googling is a must. From the Desktop, of course or from my Eeepc Easy Peasy setup.
Download and put the module on the Debian 5 partition.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/atl2-modules-2.6.26-2-686/download
Change the /boot/grub/menu.lst to make it use UUID.
Change /etc/fstab to make it use the UUID.
nb. sudo blkid
Boot the Debian on the Eeepc.
And do:
#dpkg -i atl2-modules-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26+2.0.5-6+lenny1_i386.deb
Be sure the uname command gives the right kernel version. (in fact, I have updated the Debian to 5.0.1).
#modprobe atl2
3) Conclusions:
From my point of view, it seems that the newer versions of Linux miss the backward compatibility at the hardware level. I spent some time to sort out the grub.
I am working with the Eeepc mostly.
I have the choice of OS's:
- Xandros
- Pclinuxos
- Easy Peasy
- Ubuntu remix 9.04
- Debian 5.0.1
The Debian on USB drive is quite fluid, nice to use.
4) Appendix:
menu.lst:
## ## End Default Options ##
