So,you are here...
Hello there...wellcome to umanga's little dwelling in world-wide-web.
This is where he is trying to expose some aspects of his life to the travellers in cyberspace. If you want to know what kind of life form he is, click 'More of him'.
Take a look at umanga's blog to see more dynamic view of his life...
His quote for the site and blog was taken from a famouse Zen quote:
look to the master ,follow the master , walk with the master , see through the master , become the master...
Umanga thinks the image of the cube suits well for the site because he belives that everything is interconnected.Also he is mostly hourned and thankfull to you for visiting his site...
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Maven Jetty Plugin JNDI JDBC / DBCP configurationYesterday,I literary spent almost 5 hours just to get JNDI DBCP working properly with maven jetty plugin.
Previously I used tomcat6 ,but I noticed that using maven/jetty I can save lot of deployment time during development. So same as lots of other guys struggled with this problem ...it gave me a ...Clean FTP library for Java - FTP4JRecently I was been assigned to write a FTP layer for a project at work.It needed to be supported all the funky FTP stuff like active,passive mode all kind of proxies like FTP,HTTP,SOCKS...etc.
At first I was little worried cause even in Apache Commons Net, it doesn't support clear architecture ...Buddhism - The ultimate truth of realityRecently I've been reading about science behind Buddhism and ultimate reality.I thought it would be nice to blog some of few facts that I understood so far.
It is clear that recent researches and studies of modern science have revealed many great parallelisms between Buddhism and science. Especially with Quantum physics, ...Ubuntu is dying , Debian Lenny is the Future!I used Debian Etch for a long time even though several unstable versions of Lenny has been relased.So I thought to give it a shot for new Debian Lenny.So i downloaded Lenny Beta 2 DVD and the installation was smooth and easy.
Lenny comes with Gnome 2.22 and built in compiz ...Beryl with flgrx + AIGLX in Debian Etch
I have suffered over months to get Beryl working on my Toshiba Satellite with ATI Radeon x700.I found out that this was an issue every ATI mobility x700 users encountered.(Click here if you don’t know what beryl is)
Now finally, I managed to get it working with new ATI proprietary ‘flgrx’ ...Disabling touchpad in linux
Most of the time the “Fn” + “key”s are not functioning in Linux.(Well.. its not working for me, even though I have installed Omnibook module for Toshiba laptops ).So the touch pad is always turned on and it’s a real headache if you are doing lot of coding stuff.
I found ...Linux Kernel 2.6.23As you may probably know, the linux kernel 2.6.23 has been released.This kernel features a new process scheduler- CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) and many more features. Checkout http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_23. So I thought to give it a shot.I downloaded it and configured the kernel for my Toshiba Satellite M40 with a Centrino ...FOSS-ed On Wheels Ratnapura @ Ruwanpura National Collage of Education (RNCOE)
Last Saturday, I had this great opportunity to give my support to ‘Linux Traning workshop at Ratnapura’ .Event was held at Ruwanpura National College of Education , targeting IT teachers in Ratnapura area.
We (Sagara and Me) started the journey from Colombo at 4.00am and got on to the Ambilipitiya ...Last King of ScotlandFew weeks back, I watched the movie Last king of Scotland. It has won several awards including “Best Actor (Idi Amin-Forest Whitkaer)” in Academy Awards 2007, Golden Globe Awards…etc. At the begging I thought its more like the other films based on racism like “Hotel Rwanda” and “Shooting Dogs” , ...Transformers
Ok the truth is I couldn’t wait to watch it, since I watched the trailer in Yahoo Movies. I remember got a ‘Japanese Transformer’ comic book when I was a kid and I’ve played with several Transformer toys (of course when I was a kid… :) ).
So.. Right after a week ...
