Defence Vs Tamilnet

The absence of a web site to provide accurate information on defence, has paved the way for many adverse elements to distort the facts and provide false information to the world, tarnishing the image of the country. The duty of the armed forces of any country is to defend the nation's interests. Thus, the website will extend this service through the World Wide Web aligning its effort with the nation's vision, to bring peace and prosperity to the motherland.

The new website will be a gateway for the news exclusively on defence.

The new web site will provide the latest news and views exclusively on national defence around the clock. Further, it provides an open forum for discussion among interested parties on national defence through its "point of view" column. Defence.lk invites all those who yearn, the Motherland to be free form terrorism to join hands with its Herculean effort.

Defence web >>> www.defence.lk

Happy New Year.........

Cheers for the power cut

If I look back 4 or 5 months time, I was really disturbed with the performance in my final year research. Not even had a clue on how to start the work. After such an embarrassing start, cant imagine how successful I am. Its like a bad nightmare, came to a cheerful ending.
Yesterday I was at my final step of the research. With months of continues effort its like a deadlock situation (better to say a starvation!). At the ultimate step, but no idea where to go next, and what to do then. I found a method to solve a problem in touching pairs of Offline handwritten characters, which consists of an algorithm to separate connected characters at junctions, and again merging them to isolate the unwanted connection. After that, no sign on how to separate them into meaningful characters. Suddenly I found my self Hey Man u just finished ur work, nothing to do other than this. The funniest thing was, I realized I already finished in the research, because of the power cut in the university premises.
Power Cut & End of the Research Hugh?????? U ppl definitely think this person is nuts! Which bugger will say a relationship between the power failure and the Research work. Do u know what happened. Because of the power cut, I didnt have to start my research at the place that I was stopped. So had ample time to think what to do next, without moving in a faulty direction (cause I already started on doing some coding on another, which I guess a kind of a foolish way). No power, no coding, so I went to sleep. When I woke up, time was 3.30Pm afternoon; I was really upset cause I wasted 4 hours without doing a thing. Suddenly I realized, hey nothing to do, Im at the end of my research, I was really happy.

Cheers for the power cut.

Special Batch 01 is Online

The Computer Special Batch 01 is Online at the following
URL. Check it out. You are warmly welcome to comment on it.

Click here to Move : http://scspdn.blogspot.com/

Cup Vs Coffee

I got this nice story from one of my email group, thought it is worth to post and to read, check it out.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.

"While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress".

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups. "Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesnt change."

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So dont let the cups drive you. enjoy the coffee instead.

Do you Believe in ghosts ?

I got this interesting image from one of my friend in the jayathilaka hall. According to his confirmation, the location is Yala National Park, and people who are there in the background, as my friend said one of his seniors from the faculty.
Check out the bottom image, can you spot something creepy at the top right hand corner of the image. Now go to the top image. You can see the zoomed ghostly depiction at the top image. Guess what is it.

Do I believe ghost? thats what came to my mind soon after I spot on this. What about you ppl? Do you believe ghosts or spirits or whatever spine chilling? Honestly, I believe the supernaturalism; I believe there is something paranormal to our 3-D world. Something, which will go beyond the dimensions that we know.
Ghosts and Spirits are perhaps one of the most common of all unexplained phenomena, second only to sightings of UFO's. The concept of the dead rising from their graves to haunt the living world has lived on in folklore and tales for generations, and it seems now only too obvious that such stories are in no way false.
So, the topic is very interesting I guess, I checked the web to find out something about the phenomena behind on this. Check this out.

Paranormal Phenomena
In some cases a ghost will not appear visibly, but will instead engage in activities such as manipulating objects and throwing things around - books off shelves etc. This type of ghost is known as a poltergeist. In some more drastic cases, a ghost will take possession of a human being and speak through the person's body, although this is highly rare.
Ghost related phenomena can occur anywhere, and in many different forms. A ghost "sighting" usually involves an Apparition of some kind, whereas in other cases a ghost is suspected because of a feeling of dread in a building or location, cold spots, strange marks and noises occuring and so on.
To date, spirits and ghosts have remained one of the most chilling aspects of the unexplained.

Ahh, Interesting isnt it, so be careful, ghosts are all around you guys, think twice before doing things.

Check more info: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Congrats Indika (Dewaniya)......

Hey people, we have our first Virtusian from the computer special batch. Congrats Dewaniya (Indika). I know this was one of ur dream to join Virtusa. And im really glad to hear u got the opportunity from the first interview u had (just forget about the ITC, SSI ), now is the real challenge. To be at the industry and to face the real world projects. Hey just stop cramming everything. Hey ppl, do u know something? Our dewaniya is the only one who had 6 days of total dedication of work (Cram) for the virtusa interview, hey its true, Im not kidding
By the way Wish u all the best for ur future as one of room mate (at least try to wash ur cloths and bed sheets at virtusa, OK). I think this may be the time to find out ur soul mate. OK. Hey ppl , do u have any proposals? Specially from Polz

Mid Semeter Exam Ends..............

After some days time im back on to my blog. Lots of works these days. Not only in my academics but also CSUP society , Instructor job at ITC (IRQUE), Asst instructor job at ITC, lecturing at American college. Lots of involvements. Even a day is not enough. Had my final mid semester exam on Linear Programming, one of Mathematical subject at the faculty. Sooooooooo much difficult. Had lot of hopes on it , at least to get an A-. Still have time. We ll see.
Today we had a meeting at ITC at about 12.15. Lots of discussions on the IRQUE project and the Asst Instructor work I just mentioned the ITC staff about the project work and also the difficulties with bla bla bla… u know what im saying.

Guns Vs Wives

#10. You can trade an old 44 for a new 22.
#9. You can keep one gun at home and have anotherfor when you're on the road.
#8. If you admire a friend's gun and tell him so, he will probably let you try it out a few times.
#7. Your primary gun doesn't mind if you keepanother gun for a backup.
#6. Your gun will stay with you even if you run out of ammo.
#5. A gun doesn't take up a lot of closet space.
#4. Guns function normally every day of the month.
#3. A gun doesn't ask , "Do these new grips make me look fat?"
#2. A gun doesn't mind if you go to sleep after you use it.

And the number one reason a gun is better than a wife . . . .
#1. YOU CAN BUY A SILENCER FOR A GUN.

Terrorism

I heard a rumor about one of precarious LTTE Terrorist (Thami Chelwam) yesterday; the news reported the death of him due to a bomb attack probably by another Terrorist (Karuna) team. I was really thrilled on the story but the sad news is, it was just a gossip.

Im not really a person who is oppose with Tamil people but I hate terrorist specially LTTEs (and the sri lankans politician as well). Is there any other country who is said to be sinhala. I dont think. Take Arab, they have the Muslims, take India , they have the Hindustanis, take American , they have the white people. Take Tamilnadu, they have the Tamil people. Do any country other than sir lanka have Sinhalease? So, do u agree to give a part of Sri Lanka to Tamil terrorist?

Cheers Sri Lankan Cricket

Yesterday the awesome Sri Lankan Cricket team struck against the World Champion Ausies. The master blaster Sana slogs for maximum 114 of only 94 balls. Its really glad to see the team is back on track. Throughout the day, all the ppl gathered around the Jayathilaka cafeteria TV, they cheered for the Sri Lankan victory. I also had no work till 2pm just hang on to the TV, afterward I had to be at American College till 6pm on lecturing for the Diploma Class. At that time also I just stick in to the web to see how the Ausies going to followed on to get the mighty total runs of 309 put on the score by Sri Lankans. Funny thing was, when I was at American college, I saw one of minor staff guy who is eagerly listen to a pocket radio and I just asked him the cricket score, after that every 30min time he came to my class room and informed me the match status of the sri lankan team. Cheers Sri Lanka.

Researchers Develop Quantum Processor

A computer chip based on the esoteric science of quantum mechanics has been created by researchers at the University of Michigan. The chip might well pave the way for a new generation of supercomputers. Employing the same semiconductor-fabrication techniques used to create common computer chips, the Michigan team was able to trap a single atom within an integrated chip and control it using electrical signals.
Two Places at Once
As of yet, the technology is not applicable to typical desktop PCs or servers, but quantum computers are said to be promising because they can solve complicated problems using massively parallel computing. That is accomplished by the quirky nature of quantum mechanics, said Christopher Monroe, a physics professor and the principal investigator and co-author of the paper "Ion Trap in a Semiconductor Chip." He explained that that chips can process multiple inputs at the same time in the same device. "With quantum mechanics, an object can be in two places at the same time, as long as you don't look at it," he said. The quantum computer architecture can store quantum bits (qubits) of information, where each qubit can hold the numbers one or zero, or even both digits simultaneously. When a qubit is added to a quantum system, the computing power doubles. Thus, the quantum machine can crunch numbers at a rate that is exponentially faster than conventional processors, said Monroe.
New Spin on Semiconductors
Electrically charged atoms (ions) for such quantum computers are stored in traps in order to isolate the qubits, a process that is essential for the system to work. The challenge is that current ion traps can hold only a few atoms, or qubits, and are not easily scaled, making it difficult to create a quantum chip that can store thousands or more atomic ions. A string of such atoms, in theory, could store thousands of bits of information. In the chip created at Michigan, which is the size of a postage stamp, the ion is confined in a trap while electric fields are applied. Laser light puts a spin on the ion's free electron, enabling it to flip it between the one or zero quantum states. The spin of the electron dictates the value of the qubit. For example, an up-spin can represent a one, or a down-spin can represent a zero -- or the qubit can occupy both states simultaneously.
Applications for Cryptography
The quantum processor is made of gallium arsenide in a layered structure and etched with electrodes using the same type of lithography process as those used to create today's computer chips. Each electrode is connected to a separate voltage supply, and these various electrical voltages control the ion by moving as it hovers in a space carved out of the chip. The next step is to build a bigger chip with many more electrodes, so that it can store more ions. There still is a lot of work to be done to learn how to control lots of ions in one of these chips. It won't be nearly as easy as it was with conventional computer chips, but at least we know what to do in principle, Monroe said. "This type of integrated chip structure is significant because it demonstrates a way to scale the quantum computer to bigger systems," Monroe said. "It has applications for processing very large [data sets] such as in cryptography, for example, and there is a lot of interest in this by the government."

Happy New Year...........

Happy New Year all my friends who r there with me in the past few years and hope ur back-up all the way through this year too. Bit of late to pierce in, had lot of workings specially with my research. Quite a busy these days with all the things.
Now only I know how much of effort has to be done on a research.I remember that in the past how we work on projects. Specially Software Engineering course work project, Indra Traders Stock Maintenance system (Group 13), work of Mr. Dawin (Chandima,nick name MPhil in Typewriting) with pola, nice time with you ppl. The 3rd Year Project, take only 2 weeks to finish a 1 year project work amazing isnt it, got A grade for it too(Hard work OK).
Hey but it is not the case in this research. We have to work hard all throughout the year to come up with a solution. I think this is because, we know the finals solution, but dont know to find correct path to go there.
In my research I came up with a nice solution to find character junctions (to locate connected character junctions) and implemented it in java. It is working quite well. Still at the 50% mark of the work. So my next intention is to uncover, how to merge character segments after segmenting them at a particular junction point. Lot of issues to consider, how to name the segments at the junction? Will the algorithm give the correct number of segments at the junction? Etc. Have to find first-rate solutions for these problems, within a narrow instance of time.

First RMI Application....

What a start for the day. I just finished my first RMI Application. I love this Java thing. If I look several months back, hated on programming. Now things getting better and better. Going to be some fun with Java. Going to love this thing (hey don’t worry nim ur place is secured….). Still to do some work on CORBA. Have to find a research paper on this CORBA Trader System for my Seminar presentation. I don’t know where to start. We’ll see.,……….

Todays Thought....

It’s really a hard working day. If I say hard working, won’t suggest I’m going to speak about my academics. Sure “Nim (my ever loving)” won’t agree with me definitely in this matter…..No one would believe, but without a doubt, I believe +ve thinking and inner capabilities rally round humans to craft success in their life.

String BlogName= “Sam’s Open Maze” ; // Initialization

Mmm…Where to start, First I express my appreciation to Mano (One of my great friend) who inspired me on this Crazzzy blogging. I spent days to create my OWN blog. Here it is. If I say something honestly, I still don’t understand how other guys compose their blog such a nice manner. Hope to dig into this blog thing more later.