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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 [...]
FOSS in Action
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 24/06/2009
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Today, for the first time I have been able to successfully complete a school assignment with no use of proprietary software. It was a DVD cover for our Digital Fine Arts final project and yeah I did it completely using The GIMP which came in-built with Ubuntu.
LAMPP, what happened?
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 18/06/2009
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Yesterday evening I and one of my friends were testing a software project. It is a web application and he has tested it with XAMPP on Winows. He wanted to try it out on Apache/ Linux too. So he came to me (I’m a one of famous Linux-only guy around the campus ) and asked [...]
Fedora 11 ආවා!
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 11/06/2009
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As you may already know, Fedora 11 Leonidas edition has been released. I downloaded the DVD image (i386). With Imageshack torrent service it took just one hour and twenty two minutes to fetch. Then I downloaded it. After downloading, the first thing you have to do is to check the image integrity. You need to [...]
Create a ‘Locked Folder’ in Windows
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 05/05/2009
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Here is a tip for those who use Windows as their primary OS. This is about making a folder that is visible but not accessible within Windows environment. You’ll see the folder, but won’t be able to access it or delete/ rename. What you need is a Linux live CD which has ntfs-3g driver included [...]
Windows 7 සහ ලිනක්ස්
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 21/04/2009
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I’ve just watched a Windows 7 screencast… OMG! වින්දොරේ හතේ දැන් කොන්පිගරේසොං වැඩියි… සෙටප් කරගන්න අමාරු වගේ… උබුන්ටු කොච්චර සිම්පල්ද? මින්ට් ඊටත් වඩා කූල්…. ෆෙදොරේ වලත් කොන්පිගරේසොං ටිකක් අමාරු වුනාට වින්දොරේ සෙවොං තරං අමාරු නෑ මයෙ හිතේ….
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