I am a newbie to Hadoop programming and in order to play around with it, I set up Hortonworks, and what better way than trying out the examples given in the Hortonworks website? Easy as it seems… But, To be honest, the (few) tutorials on the examples are a huge pain in the ***. Somehow trying high and low, I was able to...

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Photo - All Rights Reserved. © Buwaneka Saranga | 2012 Cold and numb the winds have turnedWith no mercy, my life just spurnedPeople passing byWith not a look of concernThis life of mine has had nothing,Nothing but hurt.The wounds of time unopened and oldBut you cut it open  When you knew I wasn't strong to withholdNow the blood from my veins uphold, All the...

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I don’t usually share my feelings with people. It suffocates you a great deal, yet I still keep away. Why? Because, in most cases, it’s every man for himself. Most of them will call you up, when there’s a slightly diverse status update or a tweet or some form of feeling unleashed, just to know if you botched things up. When you approach...

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I ran into the blue screen of death a couple of times on my machine for no apparent reason. I don’t even recall installing any new software or drivers. And all of a sudden running into the bsod made me panic because of the important files I was having on my machine.  The stop error code/message(s) that I got was : "driver_irql_not_less_or_equal" error ...

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I came across this article where my friend had written about me, and honestly, I had totally forgotten that it was just two years ago. It was when the new Rotaract Club was formed for the year 2012 at my University, Informatics Institute of Technology. I just felt like sharing it here, on my own blog, because something like that, I feel, should...

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In commemoration of the all new Firefox Australis launch that was globally awaited by all on the 29th of April 2014, the Mozilla Sri Lankan Community also hosted the celebration of this aforementioned launch on 10th of May this year. In addition to it, the launch party also marked the re-establishment of the Mozilla Sri Lankan Community. I was also part of the...

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This is small cover of Broken Hearted, sung by Carly Rose, if I'm not mistaken, at X-factor. This is purely done because I love to sing and you should also have in mind that its an amateur's take at singing it. Check it out here : ...

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I was very moved by "Dance with my father" by Luther Vandross. This is my take at singing it. It's nothing like the original but its an amateur's attempt at it. Here is the link : ...

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I am a free bird, with shattered wings. Let me live and taste the springs. I pleaded. Only silence answered. With broken wings, I’m flying Facing death, Yet still trying. On hope, I’m still relying. Don’t want to believe, I’m slowly dying. Crushed dreams. Silent screams. In the midst of time I’m falling apart. Rescue me, That’s all I ask An eternity still...

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Okay, so I came across a situation where I needed to migrate my wordpress site from local to server (in my case which was running on Ubuntu). Everything was working fine until I came across many issues after setting up the site on the server. I had made some changes to the permalinks and now , suddenly, everything just turned into a mess....

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Tell me one person who hasn't watched or heard of Godfather. I'll persuade him to do so (not strictly speaking, so...don't redirect anyone to me). WHY? Because Al-Pacino is one hell of an actor and his acting has moved me so much so, that he is one of my favorite actors of all time! But this blog post isn't about Al Pacino, but...

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Many a time, when trying to enable USB Debugging, our devices may not actually get discovered whatever you try to do. So here is how I was able to fix the issues I faced with USB Debugging. How to enable USB Debugging option on your device Follow these steps: 1. On your device, in the Developer options, enable "USB Debugging" Where you actually...

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Starting Android development might mean taking a new leap into a new area for many. But Android can be very interesting to work on. Only at the end of completing an app, would someone wish that they knew about some essential android information at the very start! These are a few tips can help you on your first Android venture. So here goes:...

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