Archive for April, 2006
Switch to Ubuntu
About 3 weeks back I successfully made a switch over to Linux Desktop and my pick was Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger). I would love to share few things in this step I took coz I feel it might help you at some point. This is more an extended version of the post I made about [...]
Ubuntu 6.06 BETA
Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) BETA has been released. This Beta Release has introduced the new Desktop CD, which can be used both to try Ubuntu 'live' and to install the system. Installation can be perfomed using the new graphical installer on the Desktop CD rather than the traditional installer on the install CD.
The new [...]
Nightwatchman’s double
Aussie paceman Jason Gillespie became the first nightwatchman to score a double century in Test Cricket when he scored 201 in the final Test Match against Bangladesh. Aussies won the Test as well as the series 2-0 and Gillespie was the awarded both Man of the Match and Man of the Series awards. Gillespie, the [...]
Award for SAHANA
The SAHANA Project has received Software Industry Good Samaritans award at the Sand Hill Group's Software 2006 conference.
Sahana's Free and Open Source (FOSS) project was quickly built over a 2-3 week period around the time of the tsunami in Asia to help coordinate the relief effort in Sri Lanka. Sahana's FOSS project facilitates online [...]
The Magic Word – Ubuntu
Finally, finally I have broken the spell of 'M$ Desktop' with the magic word Ubuntu. Ubuntu with a strong motive 'Linux for Human Beings' has been quite popular for being the perfect distro for a Linux Desktop. As you all are aware I have been stuck to the M$ Desktop for quite a few reasons [...]
+0530 in effect
From today onwards Sri Lankan timezone is back to where it was 10 years back and that is +0530 GMT. Talking about changing the zone three times within a short span of 10 years is not gonna help us at all IMO. But I rather think adopting quickly to the new timezone will prove very [...]
port 25
Microsoft to open port 25 to its Open Source Labs?
Read here
Web Standards – high priority
If you guys were reading my blog (not via RSS feeds) within the last couple of weeks you might have noticed that I have revamped the look and feel of my blog. Its a complete new layout to make it XHTML compliant. Earlier tables were used to design the structure of a webpage which is [...]
Resetting back to +0530
Couple of weeks back I heard that the President has announced about reverting back Sri Lankan time to +0530GMT from the 14th of April 2006. I'm already confused with the calculations about scheduling my time and read few articles on the newspaper regarding it where Arthur C Clark has urged to reconsider about it.
For [...]
Finding missing pieces
I'm currently following the Unix/Linux Fundamentals, Network & Systems Administration Course at the UCSC (University of Colombo School of Computing). My Linux knowledge is like a jigzaw puzzle as I know quite a bit here and there but with a lot of missing pieces. My initial goal is to find the missing pieces and solve [...]
