Yesterday was a day which falls under the category of "Unforgettable days" in my life. Every body wishes to have a promotion in some way during the life time. So all of our family members got their promotions yesterday.PersonThenNowD
After couple of months silence, I thought of doing a blog post. My life has being an active and dynamic one since I've born! :-). It has come to this state passing various stages. Once I turned back and look at my life, I don't have any regrets! I've done almost all the good, bad, fun, adventure stuff that a ...
If you were dreaming of meeting Apache (World's No 1 web server) big shots Greg Stein, Justin and our own Sri Lankan Apache contributors, this will be the best opportunity for it. Apache Asia Road Show is a 3 day event with 2 days Conference and a single day hackerthon. Hurry!!! reserve your seat now before it too late.
This is not a spam. :). Yes I'm selling my house. Here's the details.Location: Ampara, Sri Lanka.Directions: 1.3 KM from Ampara Town, 1KM to Ampara Base Hospital. ( Located in a Residential area)Description : 3 rooms, 2 bathrooms (one attached to master bedroom), Living room, Dining hall, Kitchen. Full ceiling, fans in every room, 24 hour water supply, electricity, overhead ...
Life has many patterns. And we always like patterns. For example, many people love to have a phone number with some kind of a number pattern. (688688, 566566, etc). We can pay some extra cash and get a vehicle registration number with a pattern, like PP-1111. In another hand, some numbers have some value to it, like "Lucky 7", "Hero ...
Couple of years ago, using Apple iPods with GNU/Linux was not an entertaining experience for most of people. But now the FOSS world is more promising on that and also in many other apps on cross platform interoperability. Earlier, My wife asks me and I used to sync the movies, music vids, mp3 to her iPod using gtkpod. I had ...
Yesterday I lost another "one of my legendary characters". I have few favourite entertainers, namely; Bruce Lee, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michel Joseph Jackson, Dr. Dre, Eminem and few others. But among them, there are very few who I call " A
By now we know and believe Velupillai and Other terrorist leaders are killed by our Armed Forces or they have suicide. We knew this will end soon. I like to give my sincere gratitude to our Three forces, Police, Civil security forces and Mr. President for scarifying their life for the future of Sri Lanka and for our lives.I salute ...
As at today, the war is officially over but rescue missions are still undergoing in Sri Lanka to securely rescue Tamil civilians trapped in LTTE barbarians. This is the final few days of Prabhakaran and his followers. So I'll not talk about him or LTTE here now.We saw hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from LTTE to safe zone controlled ...
This post is dedicated to all "Tamil Eelam" fans...Velupillai and his friends started an Ealam war before I born. But I couldn't stay away from it by saying "I'm not a part of this war". We all in Sri Lanka suffered from this war, and still there is a little more to suffer. I came to know by reading the ...
Today I came Kandy for 5 days stay due to some functions lined up to attend. My office provided me a HSPA dongle to keep my self online during the stay. Nah.. it's not about the dongle. ;-). I wanted to share the Internet connection with another computer at home. I only had a crossover cable with me, which I ...
Today I installed Mandriva One 2009, a distribution which comes with a Linux Kernel, GNU software and many other custom made and free software. I installed this as a virtual machine, to test it and to see how Mandriva Directory Server performs on her own man's lap. ;-). So I started to install the packages requred for it, and while ...
I was working on a Centralized authentication system in the past couple of days. I was comparing Mandriva Directory Server with Fedora Directory Server and testing them in various levels. I thought of make the work available online so any one else in the world can benefit from this. This will not be a step-by-step guide sort of a thing, ...
Last week I met Anuradha at Kandy and we talked about various stuff. At one time, Anuradha mentioned about this sms alerting method and how we can use that tools in our working environment. So I thought of trying it out (not in an operational server but in a testing server).There are several ways to get an alert on your ...
Children are the future of the world. We must protect them and guide them to make the world a better place for every species. We must teach them good habits and develop a good mind set on them. If we don't guide them on the right track, future of this world is not going to be a very nice one.!Elders ...
I started to blog in Sinhala. "Sinhala" is my first language. I thought it would be nice if I keep a separate blog for Sinhala postings. And there in that blog, I will talk about the life, imotions, etc. Less or no technical stuff. And I will write this blog as usual, in English.My Sinhala Blog is : htpp://anuradha-life.blogspot.comCheers!
- GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics -Is any one there who got this error message when trying to configure your touchpad using gsynaptics? "Yeh I had that message"... I installed Debian lenny by saying "See you later" for my neat, one year and three months old Ubuntu installation. after ...
Last weekend I had an opportunity to visit the World's one and only Tea Museum, Ceylon Tea Museum. The museum is located in Hantana, 3KM drive from the beautiful “world's heritage city” Kandy. The museum building itself is an abundant tea factory (built in 1925)
Getting a tattoo was on my wishlist for a long time. Yes, from my childhood. I was unable to get it done due to many reasons. In a way, I am happy that I did not get a tattoo those days as I was not aware of the body arts, tattoo tradition and cultural roots of this process. I would ...
Most of us wish to have a simple life with less stress. And we create products and services to make people's life easy. But if we think carefully there is a complex side to most of the simple solutions we have today. The simplicity we enjoy today have it's massive complexity underneath and it's unknown to many of those who ...
