December 2008
11 posts
a good year...
2008 just ended leaving a lot of memories. When i look back, this year has been a quite an important one to me in so many ways. Made a few very close friendships, Learned a quite a lot of lessons in life and started to look at things quite differently, and got to do lot of things i have been wanting to do for a long time during this past year. As a result, I’m entering this new year, the...
SL Radio channels on mplayer
Lots of Sri Lankan online radio stations seem to require Windows Media Player plugin or some other plugin when you try to access them over the Internet. Went through a couple of those radio channels finding out which urls that can be used with mplayer. Below are the findings, hope they will come to some use. I currently only listen to YesFM, and YesFM only. YesFM -> http://174.133.224.53/yesfm...
tiny sparkles...
City on the Christmas Eve...
This is an experiment. I’m checking out making videos using photos, on Picasa3. These are some of the blurry photos i captured around the City on the Christmas Eve. Got Copped once for taking photos of the City, but didn’t feel bad at all. Photos are too blurry in many cases, and way too amateurish, guess i have to improve a lot more. Camera actually has a special mode for night...
vim stuff
note to self I keep forgetting this, and i want to kick my self hard so i won’t!!! Even then I’m not sure i won’t forget this! To append some common text to all the lines in a text file with vi/vim, below can be used. :%s/$/some text \t = Tab Space
golden reflections...
sea and sun...
green and white...
Frustration...!
I burn stuff..whenever my computer doesn’t work, or when the electricity is not there so i can’t turn on the computer, that’s what i do. I find it very hard to keep my mind from wondering into things that i don’t want it to, when im home with nothing to do. Today was such a day!! Woke up around 10.30 to find out that the jerks in CEB have done it yet again, and called on a...
Counter-Strike 1.6 on Wine
I wanted to play this game Counter-Strike, for some time now..and yesterday i got some free time to try this out. Actually it was pretty easy to get it to work on my Fedora9 with Wine. Only thing i had to do manually was to copy this msvbvm60.dll from a M$ Windows machine to .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ The graphics get a bit jerky when the game is starting up, and once it loads up its quite...
The truth stands out clear..: They called it...
The truth stands out clear..: They called it incredible India