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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