http://www.raditha.com/blog/ en-us e4c5@raditha.com 2008-09-06T00:48:03+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001463.html The other day, staff at a company that I occaisionaly act as a consult for, were complaining about not having any mail. You would think that might make anyone happy but unfortunately they weren't. When I checked their mail server... 1463@/blog/ 2008-09-06T00:48:03+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001462.html Last december, I lost some important images thanks to the Compact Flash card on my Nikon D70S becoming corrupt. That time though, only a small number of files had disappeared from the listing or had gremlins in their file names.... 1462@/blog/ 2008-09-04T03:44:17+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001461.html When I moved from Fedora to Debian it wasn't long before I started regretting that decision. Now I am back on Fedora 9 but this time there are no regrets even though Fedora is as annoying as ever. One of... 1461@/blog/ 2008-09-03T13:28:54+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001460.html Dialog Telekom, once the #1 teleco in the country has been reduced to a sad state, they are now occupying the role of court jester , making mistakes at every opportunity adapting the wrong technology, hiring idiots to man their... 1460@/blog/ 2008-09-02T16:26:25+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001458.html I moved away from Fedora a few weeks ago after becoming increasingly annoyed with it's messy upgrade process. The distro that I chose was Debian. Here in Sri Lanka we have adage that goes like 'giving up ginger to get... 1458@/blog/ 2008-09-01T16:18:07+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001457.html We know of PPPoE and POE which are crucial to Wimax implementations that use Alvarian outdoor antennae, but have you ever heard of JoPPP? that's short for Junk over PPP, which is what is passed back and forth over the... 1457@/blog/ 2008-08-30T13:19:40+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001456.html Lanka Bell Wimax has been slower than Dialog but last evening it disappeared all together. Fell off the face of the earth. A connection would be established but you cannot use it, nothing can be pinged, sshed, telneted or fingered.... 1456@/blog/ 2008-08-28T12:45:02+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001450.html Another side effect of using the unstable repo to install FF3 was that it messed up my apache. Debian does advice against using the unstable repo. That means it really isn't suited for anyone who wants to use the latest... 1450@/blog/ 2008-08-15T06:59:24+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001452.html I am so fed up with Dialog Broadband's pathetic service that I decided to switch to Lanka Bell instead. Lanka Bell has recently announced WiMax services and already they have signed up more than 250 customers. Dialog on the other... 1452@/blog/ 2008-08-09T02:19:11+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001449.html Installing Firefox 3 (Iceweasel 3, if you want to call it that) on Debian turned out to be a very painfull task. Memories fade but I don't recall things being that difficult on Fedora. The trouble didn't end when the... 1449@/blog/ 2008-08-08T06:43:20+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001448.html The other day I ran into a problem where the screen on the macbook suddenly appeared to power down. It was just black. It stayed the same even after a restart. It appears as if the computer is in sleep... 1448@/blog/ 2008-08-07T10:47:05+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001444.html Sure windows sucks but apple seems to suck even more. The back-light on the Macbook LCD shutting down (gives the impression that the computer is asleep) will not go away. There are thousands of 'me too' posts on the web... 1444@/blog/ 2008-08-06T07:40:34+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001443.html A few months earlier, my father's Macbook refused to boot up, it wouldn't produce anything except a blank screen. It wasn't something that could be fixed by the usual remedies such as resetting the PVRAM. It was a major hardware... 1443@/blog/ 2008-08-04T05:05:42+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001441.html All right, All right, the title should be Iceweasel on Debian. Call a rose by any other name and it would be just as hard to install on Debian. I think I am beginning to regret giving up Fedora. Iceweasel... 1441@/blog/ 2008-07-29T11:31:42+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001438.html Thought I would play around with SSHFS, which allows you to mount a folder on a remote computer locally using SSH. Obviously that would be much more convenient than using SFTP and would be a hell-ova-lot safer than using No... 1438@/blog/ 2008-07-25T07:12:47+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001439.html On saturday, i was playing at being a plumber. Not because I wanted to save a few bucks but my regular plumber was not available because his own house had been flooded. No his pipelines didn't explode. There was a... 1439@/blog/ 2008-07-23T04:34:05+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001434.html Fedora insists on not shipping Sun Java because it didn't fall into the open source definition of free. Something that can be downloaded free of charge isn't free. Even if the source code is shipped free of charge, that still... 1434@/blog/ 2008-07-18T06:07:53+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001433.html The webserver and the web browser aren't the only things that caused trouble. Alsa also played it's part. Sound on Fedora has always been one big headache. They kept making too many changes too often. We had to change from... 1433@/blog/ 2008-07-16T05:44:49+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001429.html It's been a couple of weeks since I switched to Debian after being a loyal Fedora/Redhat user for many, many years ago. It hasn't been smooth sailing all together. There were few teething problems here and their. First up I... 1429@/blog/ 2008-07-14T11:00:52+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001427.html Each of the bedrooms, the sitting room the TV lobby and of course my study are all wired with cat 6 cabling. There are 8 access points in all which includes the gate (for an IP camera, which I am... 1427@/blog/ 2008-07-11T09:59:31+00:00