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Sri Lanka: A country free of terrorism

May 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Ending 30 years of war, Sri Lanka’s tamil tiger terrorists lay down their arms today. We as Sri Lankans dreamed about this day for a long time. Finally our war heroes defeated tamil tigers and rescued thousands of people from terrorists. This is known an world’s largest rescue operation carried out by an army.

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Stress Test

March 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Via http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/.

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Nothing is Original

January 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized


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Getting Started with libusb on Ubuntu

November 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized, linux

What is libusb?
libusb is a library which user level applications can used to access USB devices without worrying about the underlying operating system. Or we can see it as a high-level API which wraps low-level kernel interactions with USB modules and provide developer with the facility to implement device driver for a USB device from [...]

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Unix Timeline

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Unix Timeline Image

Unix History

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Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I recently read this interview with Richard Stallman about cloud computing. In my personal beliefs, I think he has a point. By storing our personal data on other’s computers is a privacy problem and also we’ll lose control over our data. For example, we delete some personal data we uploaded to remote web server, how [...]

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Writing simple Web Service and Client using WSF/PHP

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Implementing Echo Service
Let’s write a simple web service using WSO2 WSF/PHP. This service will echo the incoming request to client. It will get the request payload from client and send it back to the client as the response. Example request and response:
Request:

<echo>
Hello World
</echo>

Response

<echo>
Hello World
</echo>

To write a Web Service using WSF/PHP you have to [...]

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Beauty of Python Part 3: Eval & Exec

September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Eval
Eval function is a way of iteracting with the python interpreter from within a program. ‘eval’ function evaluates a string as if it were a Python expression. You can pass a literal, simple expressions, or use built-in functions as argument string.
But eval has security issues. If you pass string from untursted source, you may get [...]

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Google is Going to Kill Firefox

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Did you think what will happen to Firefox if Google Chrome become a hit. Read more about it on Samisa’s blog post ‘Google The KILLER’.

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Best Free Wallpapers(High Resolution)

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

50 Remarkable Nature Wallpapers
“When it comes to beauty nothing can beat the beauty of nature. Although we, designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything, nature often manages to provide us with beautiful eye-catching perspectives we would never have explored otherwise. We have collected hundreds of wallpapers already (see links below). In this post we would [...]

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