The Exile Returns
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 17/05/2011
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Yipee! Got a new job; got a new job! 
I’ll be in touch with different set of articles,… how could it be like being a JIRA administrator. During last few months I had nothing special to blog. I don’t do politics, rarely gossip, and I’m a tech-blogger.
Road Accident
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 14/11/2010
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A rare mongoose hit my bike’s front wheel few minutes ago while I was riding, just near the entrance of the general cemetery. The shock felt like a severe hit, but luckily that guy survived. I turned back to see any injuries, but the engine’s scream made him run away, even though injured.
This shocked me, because, nowadays we don’t see these animals much around. When I was a kid, it was very common to see them running here and there. But today, a mongoose is a rare sight. I think they’re under extinction.
Although he has survived, I feel bad. May be the poor guy might die within a week. If things are going to happen like this again and again, I give up driving/riding. 
Installing Maverick
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 22/10/2010
My 3-year old laptop’s DVD drive no longer works correctly, so I had to find an alternative method to install the fresh out of the oven Maverick Meerkat.
So it’s USB. First I tried unetbootin but it seemed not installing the bootloader properly. Since I’m not familiar with GRUB2 it would’ve been extra workaround for me.
Fortunately there was a handy tool provided with Ubuntu itself. It’s usb-creator. A similar tool can be seen in Fedora too.
Anyway, it looks like unetbootin is no longer effective with later distros.
—-
Sameera Shaakunthala
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I’m back!
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 01/10/2010
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September was of course not a good time for me. After finishing my internship I was expecting to write some damn good blog articles, but fate was against me this time.
Early in the last month our home router seemed to be malfunctioning. We handed it over to claim the warranties, and till then no Internet… I almost felt like a woodcutter lost his ax. Today we got it back and now everything works very well!
But, during last three weeks,
- I missed few career opportunities.
- I was not able to talk to my friend overseas (to whom I help to do a telecommunication project).
- I was not able to visit my favorite social media sites.
- I was not able to continuously stay in touch with SBU.
And now… when reading and reading stuff that I’ve missed during past weeks,
Feel like I belong to history!
However, I’m back!
Javascript, Chrome and Firefox
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 01/10/2010
As you may have already experienced, Javascript on Chrome works faster than on Firefox. But today I’ve experienced the other way when using them on a virtual machine.
It was a virtual machine (VirtualBox) running Windows XP and on that Firefox seemed to be working faster and smootly than Chrome.
Especially when browsing sites that have rich Javascript content Chrome took longer to respond. Also it took longer to switch between tabs. Although switching appeared to happen immediately, it took time to render the page content even the page is completely loaded.
I’m very interested in exploring such stuff. May be couple of googlings will take me to the answer, but in the meantime I just blog it. 
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Sameera Shaakunthala
Sent using my Sony Ericsson mobile phone
Meerkat
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 01/10/2010
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It’s cool to see that Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is scheduled to release on 2010.10.10. In every 6 months a new Ubuntu is born. Usually it’s April and October. This time it’s three tens in a row.
Yes, it’s 10.10 and I can’t even wait for the experience! Tomorrow I’ll be downloading the RC from SchoolNet.
Till the release version, see a countdown,
Vote for Sri Lankan Telecentre Projects!!
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 28/06/2010
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eIndia 2010 is the India’s largest ICT event, which is to be held on 4-6 August 2010. As part of this programme, there’s an award ceremony which covers six categories; e-gov, digital learning, e-health, e-agriculture, telecenter and municipal IT.
Under the telecentre category, there are three submissions from Nenasala‘s of Sri Lanka, for the Innovative Grassroots Telecentre Initiative of the Year award. They are,
- Nenasala: Rural Knowledge Centres – Submission from ICTA
- Digital Local Language Content Competition – Submission from
Nenasala ICTC, Haldummulla. - Fishing Lanka - Submission from Weligama Nenasala.
- Lak Aruna Telecentre – ( Lak Aruna Foundation – ICTA, e-Society Project)
Please visit http://www.eindia.net.in/2010/awards/ and submit your vote. You don’t need to register, but you’ll need to provide your email address. One person, one vote.
Guys, you know what to do…
Vote Nenasala — Vote Sri Lanka!!
2. Digital Local Language Content Competition – submission from
Nenasala ICTC, Haldummulla
3. Fishing Lanka – submission from Weligama Nenasala.
Blogger Custom Domain and SLTnet
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 27/05/2010
I have noticed that Google blogger blogs are not accessible with SLTnet if they are configured to use custom domain. For example, http://blog.shaakunthala.com is not accessible with SLTnet at the moment.
This is not due to a misconfiguration of DNS, but a technical failure of SLTnet.
By default, http://ghs.google.com:80 should provide a ‘Not Found’ page. But with SLTnet connections, you’ll see a browser error like, ‘Unable to Connect’. This is the issue.
I have already informed SLTnet about this issue and waiting for their reply, and I’m writing this small note for bloggers, by the meantime do not mess up your DNS configuration.
Barbecue..!
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 02/05/2010
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අප්රේල් 30 වෙනිදා ගල්කිස්සේ බීච් පාටියේදී, පිළිස්සූ කුකුළු මස් ආහාරයට ගත් ශාකුන්තල තෙමේ, එයින් ඇති වූ බලවත් අජීර්ණ තත්වය හේතුවෙන් පසු දින එලොව යන්නට ඔන්න මෙන්න තිබී යන්තම් සුවය ලැබූ වගයි෴
අයේමත් බාබකිව් කන්නෙ නෑ නෑ නෑ… නෑමයි….!!!!!!!!!!
බ්ලොග් මැරතන් ඉවරායි….
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 25/04/2010
බ්ලොග් මැරතන් නම් ඉවරයි. ඒත්… බොහොම සාටර් වැඩක් කොරලා තියෙනවා එක කණ්ඩායමක්…… ලාංකීය සිතුවිලි (http://blog.inetlanka.com).
මේ අයට මගෙ සිංහල බ්ලොග් එකෙනුත් ලින්ක් එකක් දීල තිබුණ පහුගිය කාලේ…. එයාලා චෝදනා කරන විධියට සිංහල බ්ලොග්කරුවන්ගෙ සංසදයට ඒ අයත් එක්ක අවුලක් තිබුණනම් මට මගේ බ්ලොග් එකෙන් ලින්ක් දෙන්න හේතුවක් නැහැනේ…. කරගෙන යන වැඩේඩ සහය දීමක් විධියට මගෙ බ්ලොග් එකෙනුත් ලින්ක් එකක් දුන්නා….
ඒත් මුං එන්නෙම කෑ පතේ මළපහ කරන්න නේ…. ඒක ඉතිං ඒ අයගෙ හැටි වෙන්න ඇති. අපි මක් කරන්නද?
මෙන්න සිංහල බ්ලොග්කරුවන්ගේ සංසදයේ නිළ නිවේදනය….
ආ…. මගෙ බ්ලොග් එකෙන් ඒ අයට දීපු ලින්ක් එක ඉවත් කළා මේ හැසිරීමට විරෝධතාවක් වශයෙන් …
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