2010 Dec 25 at 22:48 » Tagged as: coursera , lcd , swap , hp , toast , macbook

Blank screen disease is something that plagues not just Macbooks but other computers as well. Recent...

2010 Nov 28 at 02:24 » Tagged as: nosql

Sat Nov 27 20:57:48 exception in initAndListen std::exception: dbpath (/data/db/) does not exist, te...

2010 Nov 18 at 02:11 » Tagged as: repmgr , motherboard , toast

Having chosen an AMD Phenom II as the processor, it's time to choose a motherboard. There are enough...

2010 Nov 15 at 05:56 » Tagged as: cpu , toast

Intel's Core i7 processors, packed with upto six cores, and two threads per core, provide enormous p...

2010 Nov 7 at 10:36 » Tagged as: copyleft , plagarism

Yesterday's Lakbima newspaper carries an article saying copyleft is a figment of daya dissanayake's ...

2010 Nov 5 at 02:31 » Tagged as: cups , macbook , motherboard , religion , toast

Just a few weeks back I mentioned that I had three computers. It never pays to boast because now I a...

2010 Nov 3 at 03:55 » Tagged as: gae , motherboard , toast , x11

On October fourth, nearly a month ago, I tweeted about a toasted Asus P5B SE mother board and about ...

2010 Oct 4 at 16:22 » Tagged as: django , motherboard , toast

The other day, I mentioned that I have three computers. Now I am down to too. The mobo on one of the...

2010 Sept 30 at 14:08 » Tagged as: deadinedue , lame

The Colombo Stock Exchange is open from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM each day. Then why did the CDAX online tr...

2010 Sept 28 at 12:45 » Tagged as: unboxing

Unboxing a Core i7 Macbook Pro. It's not mine but my father (I've sworn not to by another mac). He g...

2010 Sept 23 at 01:17 » Tagged as: scrabble , security , wordpress

Once upon a long ago it didn't matter whether your site was www.raditha.com or just plain old radith...

2010 Sept 17 at 09:39 » Tagged as: unboxing , twitter

The first ever tweetup in Sri Lanka was held nearly a month ago. So why the hell am I writing about ...

2010 July 23 at 05:26 » Tagged as: disqus , bootstrap , macbook , motherboard , toast

Dell is in a lot of hot water for shipping lousy hardware. One wonders why the same fate has not bef...

2010 July 7 at 11:51 » Tagged as: millenium , cloud

CDNs exists because it's widely believed that they help speed up website load times by distributing ...

2010 July 2 at 11:14 » Tagged as: nosql , broadband , cloud

CloudFront, built upon Amazon S3 is a useful cloud hosting solution because there are no monthly com...

2010 June 13 at 15:31 » Tagged as: unboxing , twitter

When twitter's @anywhere came out many geeks (yours truely included) thought of ways of adding it to...

2010 June 12 at 16:31 » Tagged as: guar , javascript , virtualization

Amazon recently announced that S3 support has been enabled in the AWS management console. Sounds gre...

2010 June 11 at 13:42 » Tagged as: unboxing , fuse , security

This is a footnote to yesterday's post about using fuse based encrypted filesystems on linux. Once y...

2010 June 10 at 13:00 » Tagged as: perl , steganography , centos , fuse , security , virtualization

Six years ago, I had a post with this exact same title. At the time it was about making a crypto loo...

2010 May 7 at 13:27 » Tagged as: javafx , xml

Did you just upgrade Firefox only to find that your favorite extension is not compatible with the ne...