Kalinga’s Blog Note

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For the past few day I have been getting SPAM emails about a web browser call xAurora saying its a 100% Sri Lankan made and using Win32 Assembly, after using this some how I got to know this is just a skin or a so call UI for the Internet Explore HTML Engine.

so after some investigations and doing some discussion on SBU about this we came a cross that this is not even made in Sri Lanka but this is totally some thing else and they are just faking it saying its Sri Lankan.

Few points we came up with

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1. xAurora is Windows Internet Explore component based and it use Internet Explore HTML Engine.

2. With out Internet Explore components you cant run xAuroara on Linux using wine even tho they claim it on there web site saying it runs on Linux with wine.

3. xAurora is simply a copy of Maxthon (myIE2)

4. ICTA Sri Lanka never funded xAurora in anyway.

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Recently (Aug - 2008) me and few friends went to Kandy and was looking for a place to stay in Kandy, thought that Queen’s Hotel Kandy is a good place to stay, since its a 3 Star rated hotel.

but i was disappointed how bad condition the rooms are in this so call “3 Star” Queen’s Hotel Kandy,

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When i got my PS2 some time back was thinking how to use this to Play MP3/DivX etc files and convert it in to a Media Center, so i start to read and find out how to do this with a Slim SP2, then i found there is a player call SMS for PS2, but found that you need to have your PS2 MOD’ed  (MOD Chip) so you can boot CD-R, if not the PS2 will not allow you to boot from any backup CD’s

so lets see how you can turn your PS2 SLIM in to a Media Center,

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[සිංහලෙන් කියවන්න]

Today I’m taking about Virtualbox software and using it to install other OS on top of Windows Vista. this can be use full for people who use deferent OS for testing and presontations. the best part is this is a Free software, given Free for personal usage. Virtualbox was originaly done by Innotek, a German software company and now Sun Microsystems devolop this as an Open Source project.

Virtualbox curruntly run on Windows, Linux, MAC OS and (Open)Solaris and you can install lot of Guest OS’s, here you will find the full list.

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(සිංහලෙන් කියවන්න)

Here’s how to upgrade to kubuntu 8.04.

Its fairly simple, first Open (Start –> System) “adept Manager”

now click “Fetch Updates”

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