Canon Power Shot A460 on (K)ubuntu

After migrating to Kubuntu, one problem I faced was downloading the pictures to my PC from the camera (Canon Power Shot A460). Did some googling but could not find a simple understandable solution. Rather I found a lot of Canon camera users face this problem, When I plug the camera PC does not detect it.

I found a cool simple solution for this, digiKam/KDE3 !
All you need to do is just install it and go to the menu, Camera> Add Camera and press the button 'Auto Ditect' while your camera is plugged. It will ditect the camera and there is a lot of cool features that you'll try after that.

Lonely Hills - Buluthota

Decided to explore the lonely hills of Buluthota during the holidays of week 50. Sri Lanka is considered as a flat island with most of its surface is between 30 and 200 meters above sea level (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Sri_Lanka), center is a highland surrounded by ridges and valleys.
Buluthota is a loneny small (compared to the center) situated in the south west of the center. One border of the Sinharaja rain forest is this mountain range. Even though this is a very nice part of the country due to lack of development of the infrastructure still this area is not famous among the tourists.

~ Sudu Redi Horu ~

Jayalath Manorathne @ the end of the paly, Pic. by: Imesh Gunaratne

Truly amazing !
It was a nice plan for the Sunday evening and the John de Silva Memorial theater was full.
I'm not going to criticize anything here because it not my job, but this is how I enjoyed it.
Liveness of the play was there till the end, all the actors/actresses performed really well but Rodney & Manorathne was the best among the best. Music was perfect for the scenes, I guess that was another amazing job by Nawarathne Gamage. I enjoyed the individual scenes very well but not the flow of scenes, I guess I have go for more plays and learn to feel it the correct way. Play was build up on "Sadesha Kaawya" and some of the poems reminded me the grade 11 sinhala literature book.
I guess this would be really cool if the audience was true stage play lovers. John de Silva is also not a perfect theater to highlight the full outcome of the play, there were no AC and some of the lights were not switched off during the play. Parking was really a headache, If it is John de Silva be there before 30+ minutes to make the parking easy.

Install Java runtime on ubuntu

I wanted to install JRE and the browser plugin to make some Java made sites work in my PC. As a habit first I go for the Adept GUI and console will always be the second option. Adept downloaded the required files (all of them) and just after starting the installation Adept got stuck, when I press the 'show details' button there was a license agreement which needs to be accepted by pressing an OK button. Focussing the OK button (which displayed on a text area) was failed, tried pressing tab, enter, F12, etc etc ...
I gave it up @ the moment and, my Adeept GUI mode was not usable anymore. Received the error, "There was an error committing changes, bla bla".
Executing the below command solved the issue,
sudo apt-get -f install (again the license agreement shown up, but tab, enter did the job in console)

Pain of Payne ...

Even after reading some 'bad' reviews, went to see Max with office buddies. There were only few ppl @ Liberty cinema.
From the beginning it was out of the track. IMDB says its a 5.9/10 but mine is <5.
I was expecting the John Moore's action in 'Behind Enemy Lines', but I have to say this stays a big step behind. Honestly I was expecting much more from the guy with the big blade, unfortunately BB took him out. Is Mr. Moore trying to clone 'Bourne'?

The main point 'the drug' why do they take that, if it is so painful? The s...l...o...w - m..o..t..i..o..n of shooting @ Max with a machine gun... why is that so slow (even I may shot him down without looking @ him).. and all 3 (or 4) bullets hit the same drug container which was far away from Max.

The Hero

Words can't express anything more ... just see ...

They all talk the same language...

Read the original news article @ DailyMirror.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=30476

When they do it, it is "War on terror", when we do it "we violate human rights..."

Another way of interpreting....

MT Logic

The ultimate car stereo system made in PRC mute itself when I receive a call. Amazing, anyway this should be enabled (not enabled by default) you may read the 100+ page manual to find it out.

Its cool!

The TRUE "big step"

The true big step is, Kubuntu migration. (Yes I just migrated to Kubuntu).
So far so good!

I have to thank dummy for his help to set this up specially the modem.
Also TONS of thanks to Anuradha for his post (http://anuradha.sayura.net/2008/04/mobitel-3g-with-huawei-e220-on-debian.html) on configuring Huawei E220 HSDPA USB modem on Linux with a Mobitel connection.

The "Big Step"

Finally, I started a blog !
A BIG STEP for me.