tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208970242024-03-09T01:18:18.454+05:30Kunchana's way to OPENkunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-54314000811186221462009-12-13T21:10:00.002+05:302019-10-09T10:28:41.226+05:30Thanking All the People Helped Me to Complete my BSc<iframe src="//rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?o=1&p=13&l=ez&f=ifr&linkID=acf4516d61f21d18a3dcef7794e902d4&t=tuskytux-20&tracking_id=tuskytux-20" width="468" height="60" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">7 years of harsh period of my life is came to end on 18th od November 2009 at BMICH, It was my Convocation. I got my Bachelor of Science degree from <a href="http://www.ou.ac.lk/">Open University of Sri Lanka</a>. I did my degree while working in government sector as a management assistant. It is very hard think to do a degree and working simultaneously. But I managed to to it in 7 damn years.<br />
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I like to personally thank few people at OUSL, Dr. Jayantha wattewidana, He is a lecturer at department of zoology, very kind and cool person. and Dr. Rohan Fernando, one of the good geologist in Sri Lanka, lecturer at department of physics and very helpful guys. And Mr. Prasad Senadeera, he also one of a lecturers at department of Botany, he helped me in various ways. And I would like to thanks all the people who helped me to complete my degree.. Thanks again..<br />
</div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-10673567218954704082009-11-20T23:54:00.005+05:302009-11-21T00:19:51.640+05:30FOSSed on Wheels Trincomalee<div style="text-align: justify;">FOSSed on wheels Trincomalee<br /><br />The FOSSed on Wheels, the successful series of Free and Open Source Software awareness program happened on the 14th and 15th of September at the Governor's office in Trincomalee. It was a very successful two day event. This time the targeted audience is Government officers in the Northern provincial council. There were about 100 officers participated. This was mainly organised by the <a href="http://www.foss.lk/">FOSS.LK</a> and <a href="http://www.linux.lk/">LKLUG</a> with the collaboration of <a href="http://www.opensource.lk/">LSF</a>, <a href="http://www.icta.lk/">ICTA</a> and <a href="http://wso2.com/">WSO2</a><br /><br /><br />We got the amazing feedback from the Northern provincial council.<br /><br /><br />Here is some photo galleries of them.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=153404&id=145059200927" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=153404&id=145059200927</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.np.gov.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118:foss-conference-commenced-at-npc-head-quarters" target="_blank">http://www.np.gov.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118:foss-conference-commenced-at-npc-head-quarters</a><br /></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-60780807217169309422008-07-08T21:23:00.002+05:302019-10-10T00:44:28.462+05:30Geeky Events After a Geek's Wedding<div style="text-align: justify;">Another Free and Open Source couple, Bud and Kanchana got married last week. The wedding took place in Mount Lavinia Hotel on 20th july. Suprisingly lots of rare geeks joined the wedding. We had a nice time there. But Suchetha and I were in a hurry to jump out from the wedding coz we had a GNU/linux workshop to carry on in Ampara. We left the wedding a little earlier after a hurried lunch.<br />
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It was around 1430 hrs when we left Colombo. had to pick up Mr. Neil from the Ministry of education. Mr. Neil is director of IT in ministry of education. He is the guy who organized the FOSS awareness events on behalf of the minstry. After a nice ride we reached Ampara around 0100 hrs.<br />
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The workshop took place in the computer resource center in Kawantissa Vidyalaya, Ampara. All the participants were teachers and CRC managers in the eastern province. Suchetha and I taught them GNU/Linux almost 5 days. There were few teachers in the event who were very keen to learn GNU/Linux. Just after the event we drew our heads to Budugehinna M.V at Kekirawa for another training program. The trining was a success. <br />
</div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-66484891829119433332007-12-18T22:13:00.000+05:302007-12-18T22:15:54.112+05:30Gunadasa Mathota Arachchi, the great musician!<div style="text-align: justify;">My father is a great musician I've ever seen. He has the ability to turn pieces of words into beautiful songs. Lots of beautifull melodies have been created by him. He has contributed toward the music community in Ampara and created lots of musicians who have become luminaries. I'm really proud of my father. He was appointed as a music teacher in 1972 to Walagampura Maha Vidyalaya in Ampara and started his teaching career. He got through the national examination of music in 1973. He had admission to the Teacher's Training School in Giragama for his proffetional education. After the completion his training he was appointed to Rajagalathenna Maha Vidyalaya and after a few years transfered to Bandaranaike Balika Vidyalaya in Ampara as a music teacher. He extended his service to the other institutions apart from school teaching. He was music instructor for National Youth Council and he was also the senior lecturer of the distance education center of teachers in Ampara.<br /><br />He passed the examination for recruitment of principals in 1989 and started to work as a principal in 2002. First he worked at Hingurana Maha Vidyala then at Muwangala Maha Vidyalaya. After completing his service as principlal for 5 years he retired on 09th October 2007. Now he is relaxing in his later part of life.<br /><br />I wish him a long life !!</div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-89195288179328200672007-11-26T23:08:00.000+05:302009-05-10T07:04:13.154+05:30The Team Linux in Unawatuna<div style="text-align: justify;">We had another one day GNU/linux training camp on 14th October 2007 at Amarasuriya teachers trainng school in unawatuna. It actually proved to be a success with excellent organization, the place being an ancient Wallawa by the Galle Matara road in Unawatuna. Bikku Mettawihari had arranged everything for the program. <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-59052699810204958212007-10-21T21:19:00.000+05:302009-05-10T07:04:13.154+05:30GNU/Linux Teaching Camp in Rartnapura<div style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We had planned a sudden GNU/Linux teaching camp in Ruwanpura National Teacher's Training College last 6th and 7th. Suchetha and I left Colombo about 2000 hrs. we got to the place around 2330 hrs. When we got there Bikku Mettavihari and a few guyz had already got down to the business. They'd put Ubuntu and Edubuntu into 45 computers. Thanx to organizers, what a cosy place to stay overnight, we found!<br /><br />The event was a success. Nearly 150 trainee teachers took part in it. I was to do a presentation on Introduction to GNU/Linux. That crazy guy Suchetha snatched off half of my time. The whole day we taught GNU/Linux. The day ended nicely with a few discussions with cute ladies. In the eveining we enjoyed a few movies, beers and had a chat. The second day was a success too.</span></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-35631507197601884692007-10-08T22:38:00.000+05:302009-05-10T07:03:47.686+05:30The Software Freedom Day 2007<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: courier new;">Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world organise events on the third Saturday in September. The most recent event involved over 200 teams from all over the world.<br /><br />We had lots of plans in this SFD. There was many FOSS events around the country. Colombo,Kandy and downsouth events were big events among them. Dassa and I took over the organizing part of Matara event. We planned that event with collaboration of university of Ruhuna. The head, department of computer science Mr. Aruna gave a big help giving their resources to the event.<br /><br />We have planned to go to Matara in the 13th evening. Collected our money from LSF in the morning. But we had one big prob. There was Tsunami warning all over the country. We had to change our plans due to the Tsunami warning. Then we decided to go to Matara early in the 14th morning. We took a cab 6 in the morning and left colombo. Reached Matara at about 11. the street promotion was going on at that time. They had prepared a nice place for us to crash that night down. The university circuit bungalow. Its located in a nice place facing the sea. What a beutiful view. Then we decided to go out for lunch. We went to chuti akka's place and had our lunch. After a litle talk we left there and had a little walk in matara town. I had to meet some one there and we wait few hours. Visited the temple in the town which is located few yards toward the sea. Suchetha came from colombo and had dinner and beers, came back to the lab.<br /><br />The event was very successful. There were about 500 heads. After the event we left Matara at about 5.30. We had to be in Excel World coz there was closing ceremony taking place there. We were there just in time. was a nice karoke. Suchetha and Dassa shout for few tracks. <br /><br /></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-26633016428392489792007-09-01T18:02:00.000+05:302007-09-01T18:24:06.106+05:30The Lord Works In Mysterious WayzThis i'm gonna talking about a little old thing but for me its really interesting. I<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/RtldmCtU2kI/AAAAAAAAACU/EMne27h6khM/s1600-h/220px-BluesBrothers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 163px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/RtldmCtU2kI/AAAAAAAAACU/EMne27h6khM/s320/220px-BluesBrothers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105214560744561218" border="0" /></a> was a little free after ma exams and i was hunting some movies to watch. The best chap who can recommend a movie is <a href="http://raramimu.blogspot.com/">Suchetha</a>. I borrowed a few movies from him and The Blues Brothers and Blues brothers 2000 is two of the movies. Those two movies are among the most exiting and funful movies I've ever watched. The Blues Brothers was directed by John Landis and Blues Brothers 2000 was also directed by him.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br />"They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God".It is a story about the Blues band Blues Brothers. Dan Akroid and John Belushi playing main roles in <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/Rtld-StU2lI/AAAAAAAAACc/J9rIrbvcttY/s1600-h/300px-Bluesbrothersjail.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 143px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/Rtld-StU2lI/AAAAAAAAACc/J9rIrbvcttY/s320/300px-Bluesbrothersjail.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105214977356388946" border="0" /></a>it. Jake Blues (John Belushi) out from the prison after three years, put together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised. They did lots of things to put their band and save their home,full of action, comedy & Music. The most attracting feature is the songs they play. If you watch this movie I'm pretty sure you'll never take yo eyez off from the screen until it is over.<br /><br /><br /></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-29591302902778038042007-04-04T22:14:00.001+05:302007-04-04T22:35:58.088+05:30FOSSed on Wheels in Kandy<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/RhPW2vq8vdI/AAAAAAAAABU/SUULIYcEx6A/s1600-h/IMG_0958.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 188px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/RhPW2vq8vdI/AAAAAAAAABU/SUULIYcEx6A/s320/IMG_0958.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049615843210345938" border="0" /></a>A few weeks ago I got a nice chance to take part in the FOSSed on Wheels in Kandy last 3rd and 4th which I was looking forward to for a longtime. That was the first FOSS event of the new year. I thought all our FOSS buddies would be able to join the event. Unfortunately most of our geeks were busy at that moment. It was a two days event. That event was organized by the foss community supported by the few geeks of the University of Peradeniya. The program was carried on in the Kandyan Art Gallery.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The day before the event I reached Colombo and in the morning I went to the university. And in the evening at abt 1400 I went to the TLC where I was gonna crash that night. But Suchetha was not there.. after a few hours he came back and we went to bring some beers. Its was time for dinner. Sushe and me got down to the Splash and had a BBQ. Got back to TLC. Gayal and Raj came to crash with us.<br /><br />Early in the morning we got ready for the journey. It was abt 0500 when we depart. We reached the venu within a few hours. The program was about to begin. In the meantime I went out for a moment.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/RhPYT_q8veI/AAAAAAAAABc/Mj8Zj10uIk4/s1600-h/IMG_0959.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 184px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/RhPYT_q8veI/AAAAAAAAABc/Mj8Zj10uIk4/s320/IMG_0959.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049617445233147362" border="0" /></a> you know guyz, google would pay everything. Came back after lunch. The event was cool and well organized. After the event our guyz had a few drinks and fun. The second day the event went on well and it was the one of the best and well organized events we participated in.<br /><br />We packed our bags to return to Colombo. We just got down at Mifan's place on our way. His house is located in the middle of a jungle in the University park at Peradeniya. His mum and dad treated us well. we came back to Colombo at about 2200. It was time for our dinner. we again got down to the Splash for our dinner. we had a good time there.<br /><br /></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-1172160847032481632007-02-22T21:43:00.000+05:302009-05-10T07:04:13.154+05:30Linux, Bluetooth & GPRS<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/Rd3LXquJ5BI/AAAAAAAAAAc/EpDcDEQQr20/s1600-h/jhe061.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 196px;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/Rd3LXquJ5BI/AAAAAAAAAAc/EpDcDEQQr20/s320/jhe061.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034403565935387666" border="0" /></a>Hey guyz..! after a long time .. howzi going? yep I was bussy with ma studies and work. Dudring the past dayz I tried to be connected with the internet using GPRS and Bluetooth. Has anyone tried to be connected with the internet using yer mobile phone as a dial up modem? Dassa and Anu have experiences in that and I got lots of advice from those guyz. Lots of googling and after a few dayz hacking I could do that successfully. I found a few scripts and I edited those scripts as neceasary.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/Rd3JeKuJ4_I/AAAAAAAAAAM/tAS_1trHnSo/s1600-h/Debian.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 185px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/Rd3JeKuJ4_I/AAAAAAAAAAM/tAS_1trHnSo/s320/Debian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034401478581281778" border="0" /></a>I have Motorola L6 mobile phone with bluetooth. My system Is Debian GNU/linux, kernel 2.6.x. And I have a box with Intel Pentium IV 2.6 GHz and 256 MB RAM. I'll show how I could manipulate the script for better work.<br /><br /><br />Step 1: Make sure the Bluetooth connection between system and phone is working well.<br /><br />* Switch on the bluetooth of the phone and run 'hcitool scan' on root terminal to ensure that the Bluetooth system is up and running. This should find the Bluetooth address of the phone. The address of my phone is 00:16:75:50:DE:1F<br /><br />* Run 'sdptool browse <phone-bluetooth-address>' to find which channels are being used for each of the services. The important entry for using the phone as modem is the one labelled 'Service Name: Dial-up Networking, For me, Channel 1.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >debian:~# sdptool browse 00:16:75:50:DE:1F<br /><br />"Service Name: Dial-up Networking Gateway<br />Service Description: Dial-up Networking Gateway<br />Service Provider: Motorola<br />Service RecHandle: 0x10001<br />Service Class ID List:<br />"Dialup Networking" (0x1103)<br />Protocol Descriptor List:<br />"L2CAP" (0x0100)<br />"RFCOMM" (0x0003)<br />Channel: 1"</span><br /><br /><br />* Set up RFCOMM device. /dev/rfcomm0 is the default bluetooth modem device. So I edited /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf to ensure that /dev/rfcomm0 connects Channel 1. I edited the /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf as follows.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >vim /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.confg<br /><br /><br /> rfcomm0 {<br /> bind yes ;<br /> device 00:16:75:50:DE:1F ;<br /> channel 1 ;<br /> comment "mot Dial-up Networking Service -- for PPP" ;<br /><br /> }</span><br /><br /><br /> Tip : Whenever u change the configuration file restart the bluetooth survice each time.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">/etc/bluez-utils restart</span></span><br /><br />Step 2 : Make the PPP (Point-tp-Point Protocol) sub-system. for that first I made the peer specification. and I named it mot. "vim /etc/ppp/peers/mot" ma peer specification as follws.<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/mot"<br /> /dev/rfcomm0 115200<br /> defaultroute<br /> crtscts<br /> lcp-echo-failure 0<br /> #=======<br /> /dev/rfcomm0 115200<br /> connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat-gprs'<br /> crtscts<br /> modem -detach<br /> noccp<br /> defaultroute<br /> usepeerdns<br /> noauth<br /> ipcp-accept-remote<br /> ipcp-accept-local<br /> noipdefault<br /></span><br />Then I created a chatscript mentioned in the peer specification and I named in the same way as peer specification (mot) "vim /etc/chatscript/mot. thats script like this.<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" > # This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.3.10.<br /> # Please do not delete any of the comments. pppconfig needs them.<br /> #<br /> # ispauth chat<br /> # abortstring<br /><br /> ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED<br /> # modeminit<br /> '' ATZ<br /> # ispnumber<br /> OK-AT-OK "ATDT*99***1#"<br /><br /> # ispconnect<br /> CONNECT ''<br /> # prelogin<br /> <br /> # ispname<br /> #login: xxxxxx<br /> # isppassword<br /> #password: yyyyyy<br /> # postlogin<br /><br /> '' \d\c<br /> # end of pppconfig stuff<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">" *99***1# " is the dial up number which is provided by the survice provider<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Finally I wrote a script what I called chat-gprs which is also mentioned in the peer specification. "vim /etc/ppp/chat-gprs<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" > '' ATZ OK<br /><br /> #AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","www.plusgsm.pl"<br /> AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","wap"<br /> OK "ATD*99***1#"<br /> CONNECT ''</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /><br />Now I finished ma Scripts. So lets check out those scripts are weather working or not.???<br /><br />Okay... I gonna check ma connection. First I had to make a bluetooth connection with phone and system. here the commands.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >debian:~# hcitool cc 00:16:75:50:DE:1F<br />debian:~# hcitool auth 00:16:75:50:DE:1F</span><br /><br />When authenticate the connection it ask PIN. Most probably the default PIN is 1234.<br /><br />Then run the comand "pon mot" to up the dialup connection. If you want to disconnect just run the command "poff mot". It is almost certainly a wise move to monitor /var/log/syslog run "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in a separate terminal to check that all the right things are happening.<br /><br />Yeahhhhh......! Its working.....................!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></phone-bluetooth-address></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-1172159793797621562007-02-22T21:25:00.000+05:302007-02-22T21:58:22.641+05:30AR got married...!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3001/2106/1600/203617/100_0720.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 163px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3001/2106/320/660332/100_0720.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Today is rather a special day for our LUGers coz one of our old members AR got married. Early in the morning I reached Linux Center at about 0500. Dassa and his</span><a style="font-family: courier new;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3001/2106/1600/399642/100_0732.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 115px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3001/2106/320/923389/100_0732.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> wife came to LC and we drove our selves to Suchetha's place. we reached there at about 0800. Took a shower and got ready to go to the wedding.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">It was already started when we reached there. He was on the Poruwa and Poruwa ceremony was going on. Ahh what a nice couple. The wedding was rather traditional. You </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3001/2106/1600/976053/DSC03117.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 110px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3001/2106/320/910188/DSC03117.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:courier new;">know guyzz, Anuradha is a person who appreciate the Sinhalese culture all the time. Couple was wearing National</span><span style="font-family:courier new;"> dress. We had a nice time there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">The most outstanding moment is their going away. they were</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3001/2106/1600/418292/DSC03120.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 155px; height: 116px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3001/2106/320/844814/DSC03120.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:courier new;"> wearing a traditional dresses and gone away in a bullock</span><span style="font-family:courier new;"> cart. I wish them all the success and bright future....!<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">(Pics by Suchetha and Anuradha D)<br /></span><br /></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-1167760242171488512007-01-02T23:13:00.000+05:302007-01-02T23:20:42.203+05:30Busy.... Damn it<div style="text-align: justify;">Last October one of ma best friends, Dassa got married. And took his wedding at the Earls Regency hotel on october 12. We set off from Ampara the previous morning. That evening we had a nice shopping. And one of ma good friends, Rishani who is living in Kandy joined with us. The following morning we went to dassa's wedding. what a nice time there. after that we directly drove our selves to colombo. at about 2230 hrs we reached there then we caught a bus to Dassa's home and we crashed there that night.On the 14th night we joined his homecoming at Fingara club. And the following day we came back home.<br /><span class="" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_JustifyFull" title="Justify Full" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 13);ButtonMouseDown(this);"></span><br />I was badly busy with ma work and studies last few months. in november i had ma final exams. i have few subjects to rush up. apart from that things I had to finish ma article for Soba Viyamana. Soba Viyamana is an Environmental Education magazine published by the Society for Environmental Protection. This is the one and only digest magazine on environmental protection. Im one of the editors of the magazine. The 4th volume of the magazine was issued last week. I wrote to it about Turtles & Tortoises in Sri Lanka. I really appreciate that work and I think it is a great service we are rendering to our next generation. I have to say a word about Dr. Rohana Dayaratne who is the founder of The Society for Environmental Protection and this magazine is one of his concepts. Now he is working at the general hospital Badulla as a consultant doctor.<br /><br />we have a sudden Linux work shop on 4th last month in Ampara. Suchetha and a few of UCSC guyz suddenly came here within 24 hrs notification. it was sataurday and I was free. i joined with them and we did the wokshop well. after the workshop we went straight back home and then again went for an open bath. we went to channel near the Kondawatuwana tank and had a very nice and funful bath. Then we had to find some stuff for SUCH but unfortunately we couldnt find that for him. They left here after dinner.</div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-1159291269292424342006-09-26T22:31:00.000+05:302009-05-10T07:04:13.154+05:30FOSS School in A'Pura & Pollonnaruwa<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/01-08-06_1037.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 193px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/01-08-06_1037.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Last month I was too busy. I had few CATs and Practical <span style="font-family:arial;">sessions. I had an overload of studies & office work. Thaz why I couldn't update my blog.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">T</span><span style="font-family:arial;">he first week of the month was very funful & I had a nice </span><span style="font-family:arial;">trip with Suchetha & Bikku Mettavihari. I had to work with those guyz for FOSS</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> school program at Anuradhapura and P</span><span style="font-family:arial;">olonnaruwa.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >First Day</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">July 31st night I started ma journey. First I caught a bus to colombo, early in the morning at abt 0400 I reached colombo & drop a line to Suche and told him, "get yo ass up". I reached TLC at</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/01-08-06_1727.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 200px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/01-08-06_1727.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">about 0445 and got a quick wash and got ready to journey. First Suchetha & I went to Narada Center to take Bikku Mettavihari and we woke him up. Then we started our journey to </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Polonnaruwa. Our destination was Girithalegama Maha Vidyalaya. During our journey we distributed some books on </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Buddhism to tourist hotels. BMV had brought lots of books to </span><span style="font-family:arial;">distribute. At about 1300 we reached our destination. There was a computer lab with about 20 computers & there was an</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> unknown OS called ?????. we installed all </span><span style="font-family:arial;">machines with Red Hat Entreprise Linux 04. A guy, Mr. Amilaka who is a teacher helps us to finish our work & there were few school geeks who also</span><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/03-08-06_0757.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 182px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/03-08-06_0757.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> help us. Having finished our business there we reserved a room in Wood side restuarent & got back to book distribution work on our way to Anuradhapura. At about 2000 we reached Anuradhapura. found a place to crash and dumped BMV into a temple and we went to dinner. It was a big dinner with a few bottles of beer.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Second Day</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">we got up early in the morning. got ready to go to Provincial IT center @ Anuradhapura. unfortunately we had a prob with battery of our van. however we started it an drove to A'pura city. Took something to eat and found a place to charge the battery. Took sometime and when we arrived at the place BMV had already started the work. The IT center guyz were absolutely Microsoft guyz. we wanted them to wsitch to Linux. BMV said it was verry dificult. but finally we did it. hope still they have been using linux. Installed about 40 computers with RHEL 04. Worked untill late afternoon & finished our work then again did our distribution work. late evening drop BMV to the </span><span style="font-family:arial;">nearest temple & we had our dinner at the usual place. spent the night at the ususal place.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Third Day</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We had ample time for our program then we had a quick visit to the ruins. we took 15 min for the visit. then we reached the PITC. Start our program. There was about 40 teachers. it was a very successfull program. Suchetha was the teacher. My role was the demonstrator. hey guyz you </span><span style="font-family:arial;">know....? BMV had his lunch & had a good sleep on the chair. LOL.... we finish our programm about 1730. We went straight to Polonnaruwa. we'd already booked a room in Wood side restaurant. Dropped BMV to a temple and we went to the restaurant.There was no beer shop near the rest. we took pains to find one and got some beer & had a nice meal.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Fourth Day</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It was a friday. we got up early again. went to Girithalegama MV. when we were going by van we saw BMV walking toward the school. had good crowd with few cute ladies from Teachers Training School. There was few little geeks there. They took over ma job. I was free. had a nice walk around the school. Finally we finished our School Linux program in A'pura & Pollonnaruwa. We start to go back to colombo. Suche & I had a plan to drop in a Night club. we reached colombo at about 2300. Dropped BMV into the Nadara Center and went to Zanziba. Two more Suche's friends joinned up. Mihi.. a cute girl and a guy I can't remember his name. We had tequilla. mmmm had a good time. I was the cherry.. what a good time. Music, drinks and everything.... was there at about 0230 we took our way to TLC on the way drop Mihi @ her place.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The day was Sunday.. in the morning I went to University & came back at 1400. Suche & I planned to go to the Majestic cinema to watch a nice movie. On our way to cinema we had a nasty experience. We were driving toward Kohuwala junction when a Pajaro without a number plate suddenly appeared from a by road. It belonged to BLOODY VIP security survice and it was full of DAMN thugs. They signaled us to slowdown as we were driving fast but anyway we couldn't do so and we went past the vehicle. Then the angry thugs followed us and overtook our van & blocked the way. So we had to stop. Then the thugs who were armed with guns came toward us and scolded us using the filthy language. Thats the way of the politics of our country. Somehow we went to Movie "Superman Return" ...what a nice movie. A few of Suchetha's friends joined us too. After the movei we went to Hotshot, had a strong coffee and played pool with few friends. After that Suche, I and one of his friend went to Hotel Intercontinental. there was a nice pizza place.. we had big jug of beer and huge two pizza.</span><br /><br /></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-1151603545461876092006-06-29T22:32:00.000+05:302006-07-03T22:29:11.676+05:30Sis"s wedding<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/pic%2001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 179px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/pic%2001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Last month was a very important month to me 'coz my sis got married. last 18th was her wedding day. I was busy with the activities & so I missed my Geology final <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/pic%2002.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/pic%2002.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>exam.To me that was a highly emotional moment as she is my one and only sister. That day she looked very beutiful on her bridal dress.<br /><br />On the 17th morning Lushan came here from Colombo. he is my very best friend living in Ratmalana. We had lots of work.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/pic%2006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 175px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/pic%2006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> Most of our relatives came down here. In the morning we had to finish some work and in the evening we went to the wedding hall for some arrangements.<br /><br />On the 18th morning we got up early. had to prepare for the wedding. at about 0610 she stepped out of hom<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/Pic%2009.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/Pic%2009.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>e & set off to the wedding hall. Around 0855 the Poruwa ceremony was performed. We had lots of fun. We enjoyed the festivities. Most of my friends and my relatives participated in the festival.Around 1330 she left the wedding hall & we said good bye to her & her groom.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/Pic%2010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/Pic%2010.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />On the 19th morning Lushan went back home. Dassa & I had Some work to do. We had to get reaady for the home comming on 20th.<br /><br />On the 20th morning we got up early as well. we stepped out of home aroung 0700. there was a nice home coming ceremony we enjoyed alot.<br /><br /></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-1146505635849508052006-05-01T23:15:00.000+05:302007-01-02T23:31:29.630+05:30A Trip with The Team Linux<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:180%;">T</span>ime was about 1700 at that rainy day suddenly Hoposaio called me and ask me to participate in the Linux promotion program last 23rd at Ambalantota Theraputta vidyalaya. I was confused. I got only few more hours. Oh what to do?...I thought to go there because Suche told me there is no one to participate in that program. Then I called him at about 2000 hrs and confirmed. there were another three more guyz ready to go with us.. the BSD guy was with a nipple ring (Janaka), Mifan Nana & Late Mahesh.(there is a nice little story behind him).</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >First Day</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family:verdana;">I started my journey at about 0500 hrs. I caught a bus to Matara. at about 1400 hrs I reached Matara.. then I visited Chuti Akka... I dropped a line to Suchetha's way & he asked me to come to Galle. Then I started ma Journey to Galle.. I caught a damn slow bus.. at about 2000 hrs. I reached the Galle town.... Im in ma possition Guyz... few minutes left. They came to pick me up & they got another amazing Job... Hoposai had to deliver something to Chooty or one he called Tina..(It could be white chocolate) 'n got a kiss.. what a bloody unfair thing, he got a kiss, we got nothing......!cmon Chooty gimme a kiss too!..... after few minutes we reached the Suche's father's official residence in Galle.. what a cool place.. that is the place where we stay two nights. We got a wash & nice dinner.. start show time... Suche fell to sleep.. we watched a movie which Suche recomended us to watch. He said it is amazing....what an amazement! you would feel that kinda amazing feeling if you happened to watch that movie..it is mmmm.... Serenity.. we went to sleep at about 0100 hrs & had to wake up at 0300 hrs. everyone said the journey to Ambalanthota would take four hours or more .</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Second day</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family:verdana;">we started our journey to Ambalantota at about 0400 hrs. we had to pick up Mahesh at Unawatuna junction.. he was late (alwayz he is bloody late guy) we had spent about 10 minutes passing that place and had to turn back to pick him up. What happened next was we were little bit foul mouthed. We reached our destination at about 0600 hrs. and we found the place & hung our banners... did few more arrangements... opened our stall with a big noise. A big crowd came to see our stall. We did it very nicely..happy & thrilled.. in the evening we packed our everything & went to the Nanasala. two of our guyz were already working there. We put dual booting system for all machines with Kubuntu & Ubuntu GNU/Linux with Microsoft bloody OS. We proceeded at about 1900 hrs... we took our dinner on the way at Matara. Then we drove to Galle but on the way we changed our decision & went to Polhena beach.. had fun.... more fun... time was 2300 hrs.. we left the beach and drove to Galle. that night two of our dudez fell to sleep early.. I & Suche stay few more hours with nice chat & beer. We got a plan to go to Unawatuna beach next day.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Third day</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family:verdana;">We were to get up early but we got up late. at about 1000 hrs. we went to Unawatuna. LATE was there. we directly got down to the sea & had a bath.. it was one of the best moments I've ever had. we left the beach at about 1200 hrs. & went to LATE's place and had fresh water bath. after good tea we said good bye & left.. we had a drive inside the Galle fort. what a nice place....... then we returned to Colombo. We reached Colombo at about 1630 hrs. I caught my bus to Ampara at 1830hrs. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family:verdana;">This trip was a most interesting & fantastic journey, indeed. the secret affairs of our guyz were disclosed on this journey..</span></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-1143829031090870532006-04-01T00:14:00.000+06:002006-05-26T01:40:35.836+05:30The Real Struggle<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/My%20Destop.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 212px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/My%20Destop.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;">During the Last couple of months I was struggling with ma exams and FOSSed works. I'd Plant Breeding Exam last 13th but missed Plant Physiology on 14th. FOSSed made me miss it.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">FOSSed................. FOSSed...................F</span><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/Lamp.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 132px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/Lamp.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">OSSed !</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">The FOSSed was started on 13th Monday. Last Sunday Suchetha, Ven. Mettavihari & I visited the Exel world for a few a</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">rrange</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">ments. Few of our dudes were down there. Oh ! nothing to arrange. After a small talk & a walk we returned to the TLC.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">We w</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">ere overloade</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">d with a hell of work that night. no sleep, no sleep, </span><br /></div> <span style="font-family:verdana;"> no sleep.........................</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">@ about 0</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">500 I went to sleep.............<br /></span><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/Crowd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 136px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/Crowd.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">The time was 0600 Ven. Mettavihari kicked & woke me up</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">....... C'mon</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> guy</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">s its high time..... hurriedly we reached the venue by Suche's cart</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> (no clutch)..</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">........ no one there. still closed.......... damn! .............</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">At about 0900 The FOSSed was started.<br /><br /></span><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/Geek%20everywhere.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 160px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/320/Geek%20everywhere.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Oh....... what a big crowd</span></span></div> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Second day..... it was started about 0830. but I & Dassa was late. we had to go to his department. ...The Apache </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">guy came......</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> ( Brian Behlendorf)</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">At the end of the day... we had ...fun ....fun ...fun... fun.... fun... fun.....</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">We played bowlin</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">g........................ Oh my finger....... had a funny time with </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">ma buddies.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Final</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">ly w</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">e finished the FOSSed successfully</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">. @ the end of </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">the last day of FOSSed </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">we had fun </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">time & had a splendid dinner.</span> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/Man%20with%20BSD.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/Man%20with%20BSD.2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Last month I started with ma Geology practical. I had a nice time in Kandy after 99. Met a few new friends & </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/Sahana%20with%20us.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/Sahana%20with%20us.2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">had a</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> fun</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> in hostel. After the Practical we had the field visit to Ran</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">denigala. We had fun & got knowledge too. We were gu</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">ided by Dr. Rohan Fernando who is an excellent character. After the field visit I had an overload of work. Had to </span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">prepare Practical reco</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">rds.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/What%20a%20Crowd.1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 145px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/What%20a%20Crowd.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20897024.post-1137103309498400052006-01-13T03:28:00.000+06:002007-09-16T14:12:31.448+05:30I want a blog.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/RuzsTfjmA_I/AAAAAAAAADI/GGDpAlmhifk/s1600-h/me1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 173px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hDWVQfbK8x0/RuzsTfjmA_I/AAAAAAAAADI/GGDpAlmhifk/s320/me1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110719496791131122" border="0" /></a>Country : Sri Lanka<br />Province : Eastern<br />City : Ampara<br />Unit Location : /root<br />Time : 0200<br />Physical status : Sleepy<br />Mental status : Crazy<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/us.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/us.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Today I see most of my buddies have their own blogs. When I see those I thought it's a nice way to let know all of my friends and relatives around the world, about me. So here I am starting my own gossip site.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/guitar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/guitar.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Even though I'm in the field of Natural Sciences (Level 5, Bachelor of Science, <a href="http://www.ou.ac.lk/">OUSL</a>) my interest for IT is huge. And I am highly impressed with <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</a>/<a href="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux</a><a href="http://www.kernel.org/">,</a> that gave me the extra strength to move in the IT field as well.<br /><br />So, from where to start or what to include in this blog, is not in my mind yet, but this would be a good kick-start of my blogging.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/ufrs.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/ufrs.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Life with GNU/Linux.</span><br /></span><br />After I heard and came to know about the philosophy of Open Source, and Linux I sat and thought about it for a while. Then realized that, it is the way how computer systems can be developed in a better way. in a case of all the brains put their effort to achieve a common goal, the open source concept is very useful in many ways. So I started to love it. Millions of minds can't be wrong!<br /><br />So I became a member of the <a href="http://www.linux.lk/">Lanka Linux User Group</a> and took part in some events organized by them during the past year. The biggest event that I could attend was the FOSS event 2005.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/1600/party.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3001/2106/200/party.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I have a set of crazy friends. And we do lots of crazy things too (Apart from studies and job)<br /><br />Catch ya later ....<br /><br /><br /></div>kunchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511752461876607971noreply@blogger.com3