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Innovation Surfaces From Microsoft

A very exciting technology that Microsoft calls “Microsoft Surface” was unveiled at the All Things Digital conference by Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer. It’s a “coffee table” that not only is a multi touch interface but it can also recognize what’s kept on it.

Although multi-touch interfaces like the ones that Jeff Han from Perceptive [...]

Is Your Domain Spammy?

I was just checking the DNS report for Kavinda.Net today and noticed I had not set my SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records!
This means that spammers can easily send out E-mail that looks like it came from my domain. If you are receiving delivery failure notices for a message that you didn’t send, it’s likely that [...]

Kadawatha ADSL

It looks like Sri Lanka Telecom has decided to provide its ADSL service to the residents of the Kadawatha area from the 10th of February 2007.
How do I know this? The www.slt.lk site provides a form where you could submit a phone number and find out if the ADSL service is available for that number. Today [...]

Deploying ClickOnce on Multiple Environments

The Problem:
There is a ClickOnce application that is deployed in several environments; say for example a staging environment and a production environment. You want to install each environments application on your PC; you install the staging app by going to https://staging.url, then you install the production app by visiting https://production.url. The staging application gets replaced [...]

Library on One Disc

Guys at the University of Central Florida are on the verge of fine-tuning a technology that could possibly store a capacity of at least 1,000 GB and high-definition quality onto a single disc or, perhaps, a small cube! Technology has improved quite a bit when you think that in 1956 it took equipment the size [...]

Magnetic hard disks

Know what this is?

Its one of the first magnetic hard disks made, this IBM 350 disk storage unit was able to store 5 megabytes of data and was a major part of the IBM 305 RAMAC, an electronic general purpose data processing machine system that was launched in 1956.
The 305 RAMAC was one of the last vacuum tube [...]

Overweight Kerberos tokens

Does your active directory user account belong to too many groups?  What I mean by “too many groups” here varies, but the limit is approximately 120 groups if you’re on Windows 2000 (SP2) or Windows Server 2003 and even less if you’re still on Windows 2000 (original released version).
Why you belong to that many groups is [...]

Shopping for some ideas?

Check out the “IDEAS Stock Exchange!”. Rite-Solutions use a mock stock market called “Mutual Fun” for coming up with ideas and also to get a better idea of where company should be heading. Basically its like a stock exchange, but the stock in this case is an idea. Employees can propose ideas, any idea.. These [...]

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Email from Dr. Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Well guys it looks like the part about “Can the sweeping powers of a VISA officer decide the future of Sri Lankan scientific programs?” on the post MURALI: Robot for landmine detection was actually true and in fact has happened to Dr. Thrishantha.
How do I know? Well, on the 2nd of May I received a short email from the [...]