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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Goodbye Blogger.com
I'm not managing this blog anymore, all content has been moved to warunadesilva.com, I'm maintaining one single website for all my blogs, projects and to put details about my other interests. Thank you for reading, Adios
Friday, October 16, 2009
HighWire
Today I came across a new Phd program launched by Lancaster University, UK. It has tag-line which says "Creating Innovative people for radical change". According to the university they have gone beyond traditional multi-disciplinary programs seeking creative fusion between three key discipline. They describe it as a cross-disciplinary users centric program. Even though I'm not sure whether I got the idea correctly, three disciplines are Computer Science, Design and Management. University is damn serious about this course, they have build a new 10M Pound building call HighWire specifically for this.
Is this the new direction education moving in new millennium? I believe YES. All those years as we know Phds are more about theoretical side, that may not 100% correct, but I think that is correct for majority of Phds. Professors say Pdh is about depth. This program is surely radical approach to conventional doctorates. I believe it would become a success. Today's world need more people with multidisciplinary knowledge to innovative new technologies and push human race forward as it as been for many millenniums.
take a look at it, http://highwire.lancaster.ac.uk/
Is this the new direction education moving in new millennium? I believe YES. All those years as we know Phds are more about theoretical side, that may not 100% correct, but I think that is correct for majority of Phds. Professors say Pdh is about depth. This program is surely radical approach to conventional doctorates. I believe it would become a success. Today's world need more people with multidisciplinary knowledge to innovative new technologies and push human race forward as it as been for many millenniums.
take a look at it, http://highwire.lancaster.ac.uk/
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Installing Asterisk in "Jaunty Jacklope"
Last week I was trying to install Asterisk in "Jaunty Jacklope" Ubuntu 9.04, but turns out be not a straightforward task, I had to spend several hours Googling and experimenting before getting it up and running.
Actually the problem is not with Asterisk, but with the Zaptel driver, which comes from Jim Dixon's open computer telephony project (Zapata Telephony) named after Mexican revolutionary Emilinao Zapata. Asterisk uses zaptel was various reasons. Such as timing source for various operations, mixing conferences, for zaptel interface cards etc. Now digium develop zaptel driver. If you also want to Install asterisk in Jaunty Jacklope follow this steps, this should also work for any Linux distribution with kernel version 2.6.28. Before installing Asterisk its important to have Linux kernel source installed in /usr/src
Installing Asterisk is straightforward. Download the latest asterisk version from official web site. Or latest code can be checkout from SVN sever. If you choose to do that this how to do it
#cd /usr/src # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk asterisk # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk dahdi-linux # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/tools/trunk dahdi-tools # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/libpri/branches/1.4 libpri
for information available in asterisk website
--$tar xvzf asterisk.xx.xx.tar.gz (only if you download tar ball)
--$cd asterisk
--$./configure
--$make
--$sudo make install
You can also install samples, which can also be helpful
--$sudo make samples
Installing zaptel driver.
But due some reason that I really don’t know. It turns out that latest stable version cannot with be compile against 2.6.28 kernel. After Googling few ours I found out that downloading latest SVN snapshot form Digium web site rather than installing the stable version might work, and it worked out for me.
Here is how I did it.
You might need these packages if you have not already installed them
apt-get install subversion
apt-get install build-essential libnewt-dev libusb-dev
$cd /usr/src
$sudo su
#svn co --revision 4636 http://svn.digium.com/svn/zaptel/branches/1.4
#mv 1.4 zaptel
#cd zpatel
#./install_prereq test
#./install_prereq install
#./configure
#make
#make install
#make config
#modprobe zaptel
#modprobe wctdm24xxp
Here is a good video about Asterisk and how configure it.
Actually the problem is not with Asterisk, but with the Zaptel driver, which comes from Jim Dixon's open computer telephony project (Zapata Telephony) named after Mexican revolutionary Emilinao Zapata. Asterisk uses zaptel was various reasons. Such as timing source for various operations, mixing conferences, for zaptel interface cards etc. Now digium develop zaptel driver. If you also want to Install asterisk in Jaunty Jacklope follow this steps, this should also work for any Linux distribution with kernel version 2.6.28. Before installing Asterisk its important to have Linux kernel source installed in /usr/src
Installing Asterisk is straightforward. Download the latest asterisk version from official web site. Or latest code can be checkout from SVN sever. If you choose to do that this how to do it
#cd /usr/src # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk asterisk # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk dahdi-linux # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/tools/trunk dahdi-tools # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/libpri/branches/1.4 libpri
for information available in asterisk website
--$tar xvzf asterisk.xx.xx.tar.gz (only if you download tar ball)
--$cd asterisk
--$./configure
--$make
--$sudo make install
You can also install samples, which can also be helpful
--$sudo make samples
Installing zaptel driver.
But due some reason that I really don’t know. It turns out that latest stable version cannot with be compile against 2.6.28 kernel. After Googling few ours I found out that downloading latest SVN snapshot form Digium web site rather than installing the stable version might work, and it worked out for me.
Here is how I did it.
You might need these packages if you have not already installed them
apt-get install subversion
apt-get install build-essential libnewt-dev libusb-dev
$cd /usr/src
$sudo su
#svn co --revision 4636 http://svn.digium.com/svn/zaptel/branches/1.4
#mv 1.4 zaptel
#cd zpatel
#./install_prereq test
#./install_prereq install
#./configure
#make
#make install
#make config
#modprobe zaptel
#modprobe wctdm24xxp
Here is a good video about Asterisk and how configure it.
Monday, June 1, 2009
After 16 months
It has been close to one and half years, since last post which is about Richard Stallman's event at SLIIT. Looking back at the time, I couldn't realize why didn't I post after that, mmm..... may be I was too lazy, may be not, there are some unpublished posts. One about installing Linux on my old Acer laptop which is not working now, and about Fedora Sinhala, one about transforming Linux look-n-feel to OS X. but they never saw daylight. And I also started writing another blog in Wordpress which I completely dedicated to FOSS GIS related things. Managing two blogs hard, and project that I worked is finished, so I might not completely focus on FOSS GIS stuff which I did for last 18 months. I have interest in learning mobile and ubiquitous computing. Therefore I thought it's better to restart this blog, and merge wordpress blog to this. Anyway I conclude hoping that this time I would be able to pull my self back to blogging. Adios!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Richard Stallman event in SLIIT
Last week was very busy week organizing Richard Stallman event @ SLIIT. I never thought we could have Colombo's main event @ SLIIT, but many thanks to Dr. Shahani and Himira for giving us the event. We had to change the dates of the event due another event @ SLIIT on 17th, but finally it look like we pulled this off quit well. It was a massive crowed. I think largest crowed ever, for a FOSS event in Sri Lanka. It was a house full event. There was about more than 800 people in the auditorium few of them standing behind.
RMS came around 11.00, and our chairman Prof. Sam Karunaratne, Dr.Faiz Marikkar, other lectures and, some lectures from other universities waiting to welcome him.
His speech was one of best speeches I ever heard, even though I couldn't here it completely. Full with humours, widoms, and inspiration. He explains about, free software and, why it is important for the better society. Then he did St. IGNUcius (from church of EMACS) show. crowed loved it. He said "I Bless your computer my child". :-). RMS gave away some stickers to the audience @ the end of the event. He also gave, five batches for the organizing committee.
I got one as well. Ven. Metthavihari and Chamath managed to clear the ubuntu CD from the custom's which Canonical had couriered. They came before RMS finishes his speech. There were about 600 cds, but there were vanished within few seconds.
After his speech seems like most of our students who didn't admire Free Software, started admiring it. Funny things happen to me as well. I lost my phone, and found it. It was on the podium under the bag of RMS. Finally Many thanks to every one who helped to organize the event.
In the evening Me, Niroshan, Nidika and Udara event to UoC for the geekout, but came early since RMS had to leave early.
RMS came around 11.00, and our chairman Prof. Sam Karunaratne, Dr.Faiz Marikkar, other lectures and, some lectures from other universities waiting to welcome him.
His speech was one of best speeches I ever heard, even though I couldn't here it completely. Full with humours, widoms, and inspiration. He explains about, free software and, why it is important for the better society. Then he did St. IGNUcius (from church of EMACS) show. crowed loved it. He said "I Bless your computer my child". :-). RMS gave away some stickers to the audience @ the end of the event. He also gave, five batches for the organizing committee.
I got one as well. Ven. Metthavihari and Chamath managed to clear the ubuntu CD from the custom's which Canonical had couriered. They came before RMS finishes his speech. There were about 600 cds, but there were vanished within few seconds.
After his speech seems like most of our students who didn't admire Free Software, started admiring it. Funny things happen to me as well. I lost my phone, and found it. It was on the podium under the bag of RMS. Finally Many thanks to every one who helped to organize the event.
In the evening Me, Niroshan, Nidika and Udara event to UoC for the geekout, but came early since RMS had to leave early.
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