Monday, January 6, 2014

Homage to the Buddah (ithi piso bagawa arahan samma sambuddo vijjacharana sampanno sugatho lokavidhu anuththaro pooreesadhamma saarathee saththa daewa manussaanan buddho baghawaathee.)

This prayer is one of the many prayers that is there to pay homage to the lord Buddah. I just wanted post this here since a search in English for the same prayer in Google yielded zero results. so to help someone out and as a small SEO experiment. here we go.


ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා අරහං සම්මා සම්බුද්ධෝ විජ්ජාචරණ සම්පන්නෝ සුගතෝ ලෝකවිඳු අනුත්තරෝ පුරිසධම්මසාරථි සත්ථා දේවමනුස්සානං බුද්ධෝ භගවාති.

ithi piso bagawa arahan samma sambuddo vijjacharana sampanno sugatho lokavidhu anuththaro pooreesadhamma saarathee saththa daewa manussaanan buddho baghawaathee.


ඒ භාග්‍යවත් බුඳුරජාණනන් වහන්සේ , සියලු පුජාවන් ලැබීමට සුදුසුවීම් ආදි කාරණයෙන් අරහත් නම් වන සේක. සියල්ල තමාගේ ඥානයෙන්ම මනා කොට දත් සේක. පඥාවෙන් හා සිල් ආදි වර්ණ ධර්ම වලින් සම්පුර්ණ වන සේක . යහපත් ගමනින් හා යහපත් වචනයෙන් යුක්ත වන සේක. ලෝකය දන්නා සේක. අන් අයට හික්මවන්නට නොහැකි අය හික්මවිමෙහි සියල්ලටම වඩා සමර්ථ සේක.දෙව් මිනිසුන් ඇතුලු සියල්ලටම ගුරුවරයෙක් වු සේක. සත්‍ය අවබෝධ කල සේක. සියලු පව් නැසු සේක.
Meaning in English
Such, indeed, is that blessed one exaled, omniscient, Endowed with knowledge and virtue, Auspicious, know of worlds, a guide in comparable for the training of individuals teacher of gods and humans, enlightened ,and Holy.

the meanings of the words in sinhalese-

1. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා අරහං - අප භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ, සසර පෙර පුරුදු සමගම, සියලු කෙලෙසුන් දුරු කළ හෙයින්ද, සියලු පාපයන්ගෙන් මිදුන හෙයින්ද,රහසින්වත් පව් නොකළ හෙයින්ද, සියලු ලෝ වැසියන්ගේ, උතුම් ආමිෂ පූජාවන්, අති උතුම් ප්‍රතිපත්ති පූජාවන්, සියල්ලටම සුදුසු වන හෙයින්ද, අරහං නම් වන සේක.

2. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා සම්මා සම්බුද්ධෝ - අප භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ,කෙටියෙන්ම කියනවනම්, පඤ්ච උපාදානස්කන්ධයම දුක බවද, පඤ්ච උපාදානස්කන්ධ දුක හට ගැනීමද, පඤ්ච උපාදානස්කන්ධ දුක නැති කිරීමද, පඤ්ච උපාදානස්කන්ධ දුක නැති කරන මගද යන, මධ්‍යම ප්‍රතිපදාව නැමති, චතුරාර්‍ය සත්‍යය ධර්මය,කිසිවෙකුගේ උපකාරයකින් තොරව, තමන් වහන්සේ විසින්ම, අවබෝධ කළ හෙයින්, සම්මා සම්බුද්ධ නම් වන සේක.

3. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා විජ්ජා චරණ සම්පන්නෝ - අප භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ, නාම රූප ධර්මයන්හි තිලකුණු, මනා නුවණින් දැකීම, පෙර විසූ භවයන් දැකීම ආදී, ඥානයන් අටකින්ද, පාතිමොක්ඛ සංවර ශීලය, ඉන්ද්‍රිය සංවර ශීලය, ආදී චරණ ධර්ම පහළොවකින්ද, සමන්විත වන හෙයින්, විජ්ජාචරණ සම්පන්න නම් වන සේක.

4. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා සුගතෝ - අප භග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ, කාමසුකල්ලිකානු යෝගය, අත්තකිලමතානු යෝගය යන, අන්ත දෙකටම නොබැඳි අත්හැර,මධ්‍යම ප්‍රතිපදාව භාවිතා කර ගෙන, පරම සත්‍ය දුටු සිතකින් යුක්තව, දුටු දුටුවන් පහදින ගමනින් යුක්තව, ඇසු ඇසුවන් පහදින වදනින් යුක්තව, සසර කතරේ අතරමං නොවී, නිවන් අවබෝධයටම පැමිණි හෙයින්, සුගත නම් වන සේක.

5. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා ලෝක විදූ - අප භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ, සියලු ලෝකයන්හි සියලු දේ පිළිබඳව, ලෞකික වශයෙන්ද, ලෝකෝත්තර වශයෙන්ද, සම්මුතික වශයෙන්ද, පරමාර්ථ වශයෙන්ද, සියල්ල දන්නා නුවණින්,සමන්විත වන හෙයින්, ලෝක විදූ නම් වන සේක.

6. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා අනුත්තරෝ පුරිසදම්ම සාරථී - අප භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ, දෙවි බඹුන්ටද හික්මවිය නොහැකි, අති චණ්ඩ අධිමාන කෛරාටික,නොහික්මුණු තැනැත්තන්, නැවත වෙනස් නොවන පරිදි, මනා සේ හික්මවා,ධර්මයෙහි පිහිටුවා, යහමගට ගැනීමෙහි, අග්‍රෝත්මයාණන් වහන්සේ වන හෙයින්,අනුත්තරෝ පුරිසදම්ම සාරථී නම් වන සේක.

7. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා සත්ථා දේව මනුස්සානං - අප භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ,නුගත්, උගත්, බුද්ධිමත්, නුවණැති මෙලොව මිනිසුනටද, දෙව් ලොව දෙවි වරුන්ටද, බඹ ලොව බ්‍රහ්මයන්ටද, ජාති, ජරා, ව්‍යාධි, මරණ වලින් මිදී, නිවන් සුව අවබෝධය පිණිස, අවවාද අනුශාසනා කරන, එකම ශාස්තෘවරයාණන් වහන්සේ වන හෙයින්, සත්තා දේව මනුස්සානං වන සේක.

8. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා බුද්ධෝ - අප භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ, භයංකර වූ සසර දුකද, සසර දුක හට ගැනීමද, සසර දුක නැති කිරීමද, සසර දුක නැති කරන මගද යන, මධ්‍යම ප්‍රතිපදාව නැමති, චතුරාර්‍ය සත්‍යය ධර්මය, වට තුනකින් දොලොස් අයුරකින්, මනාව අවබෝධ කොට, අන්‍යන්ගේ අවබෝධය පිණිසද,දේශනා කළ හෙයින්, බුද්ධ නම් වන සේක.

9. ඉතිපිසෝ භගවා භගවා - අප භාග්‍යවතුන් වහන්සේ, අන්‍ය ශාස්තෘවරු හැමදෙනා මෙන් නොව, අප්‍රමාණ වූ සම්‍යක් ශීලයකින්ද, අප්‍රමාණ වූ සම්‍යක් සමාධියකින්ද, අප්‍රමාණ වූ සම්‍යක් ප්‍රඥාවකින්ද, කියා, ගයා, ලියා නිම කළ නොහැකි,අප්‍රමාණ වූ බුදු ගුණයන්ගෙන්, සම්න්විත වන හෙයින්ද, සසර ගත සියලු සත්වයන් හට, සම්බුදු සරණ පිණිසද, සදහම් සරණ පිණිසද, සඟ සරණ පිණිසද, සිව් වනක් පිරිසම ඇති කළ නිසා, සියලු ලෝ වැසියන් විසින්ම, ගරු කිරීමට සුදුසු වන හෙයින්, භගවා නම් වන සේක.


please find the full list of prayers in pali from this link.



credits to http://priyani.mohanjith.net/blog/2009/06/බුදු-ගුණ/ and
http://buddhisthomage.blogspot.ch/2009/07/homage-to-buddha.html sites for content to this post.




Tuesday, September 10, 2013

CoopMobile Great cheap phones! after your contract runs out you are stuck with no choice for new phones!!!

Well I got my self a new Galaxy S2 back in the days because these guys were offering a great package. 30 CHF per month and 100-150 CHF upfront.

Back then it was great because every other mobile operator were offering much expensive options such as 200-350 upfront and 100+ CHF packages. Well the CoopMobile deal was crazy and I'm sure most of the people jumped aboard.

And now my contract has completed its 24 month period and without any notice they (coopmobile) have extended my contract for another 12 months.

It is fine being with them for another 12 months or 24 months since the network is pretty much Orange and CoopMobile offers all what Orange offers EXCEPT the vast range of phones and mainly the choices as a customer would have when it comes to choosing phone or tablets.

CoopMobile range of phones comes down to about 5 or 6 phones that only apple fan boys would like.

Orange offers hundreds of phones for you to choose from. Well they could be a bit more expensive but they are catching up to being competitive.

So my advise would be to subscribe to CoopMobile. And when your contract runs out promptly give notice to them before like two months as a precaution to terminate the contract unless you find a good deal to renew.

Otherwise you would be stuck like me for another 12 months with a phone that doesnt last on battery even for a half a day, paying dead money in an effort to not pay their early termination fee and what not.


Thursday, September 5, 2013

Poorest VoIP quality from Dellmont, Betamax and Fonarea brands. List of 80+ re-branded VoIP labels you got to beware of.


Worlds most pathetic and unacceptable levels of VoIP quality from Betamax, Dellmont and Fonarea brands.

sites like progx.ch shows a partial list of their brands, but still they don't include the full list. I have included the list at the end of this post.

I have tried dozens of these brands and found out that they are the worst in the industry.

Although they offer the cheapest rates in the industry they also turn out to offer the worst quality you could get out of a voip phone call.

To make worst even worst, they charge for the call even before the other party answers. and when somebody complains all they have to say is that its not their problem but the VoIP minute suppliers problem.

Try to stick with a good brand name although the rates are few cents more. You will save your money and headaches.

Do not switch to another brand to find a better connection, all their brands are using the same infrastructure and even the usernames are not usable among their brands because they are going through a one centralised database system.

think of it as a franchise where people buys the betamax and fonarea voip whitelabel and try to make some money.

You could easily figure out one of their sites by checking out the similarities of their rate lists. they look the same all across all of their brands,



here is a list of Dellmont relabelled brands. happens to be 80+ brands known as of 05/09/2013 (september 5th 2013) ( this is a rough list that I extracted from google and it is not a complete list.)


Monday, May 20, 2013

Sri Lankan Style spicy Calamari Curry (Dallo Maaluwa)









Ingredients


Chilli powder : 3 Teaspoons
turmeric  : 1/4 Teaspoon
Roasted curry power : 1 1/2 teaspoon
black pepper : 3/4 teaspoons
chilli flakes - 1 teaspoons
 1 medium sized Onion
4 garlic cloves
1/4 inch piece of ginger
 small piece of cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon fenugreek
1/4 teaspoon cumin seed.
2 pieces of goraka (gambooge)
few curry leaves
green chilli or belle peper (small piece)
2 pinches of sugar.

Method.

Cut calamari into half a inch size rings

season with salt and perper, turmeric, chilli powder and add the goraka

chop the onion,green chilli,ginger,garlic and curry leaves

keep a pan or a pot on the stove.
pour one tablespoon of oil.
when the oil gets hot put the cumin seeds and fry for few minutes.
add the chilli flakes and put in the chopped ingredients except the calamari

fry until the onions are translucent.

adjust the heat to low.
add the calamari mixture and leave for 10 minutes. make sure to turn the calamari so they cook evenly.

do not leave them for too long since calamari tends to harden if left for too long.

add the sugar after taking off the stove and give it a stir.

could be served with rice or naan.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Android app that shows your connected cell tower location and other available towers with signal levels

Ever wondered why your phone reception level jumps up and down? well the wondering is over because with this app you could see the available cell towers nearby on a map and the connected cell tower.

With this nifty android app you could know which network performs or has the best network coverage in your area.


Say if you are wondering around looking for the best signal, you could use this app to find out in which direction the signal is coming from ( it shows the connected towers direction) all you have to do is follow the compass red arrow till you get a good signal.


the location of all the towers is pretty impressive too. I know and I have tried in the past to get hold of the same sort of app for Apple IOS devices called "Signal" and now "Signal 2". but the problem is they all work on jailbroken devices.



 


you could find out about all the features and download the app from the android play store at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3.opensignal&hl=en 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Orange CH Switzerland Delivery tracking number scam

I'm writing this blog post to have some opinions from want to be/existing customer of Orange, Switzerland who have ordered a product from them and never received a tracking / Delivery number although they have received an email confirming that they will be sending the tracking / delivery number right after.

Here is a excerpt from the email that I received


Having waited about a week, I rang them up in search of an answer to my problem, but all they give out to you is "Sir we are not authorized to give out a tracking number and we dont give one out usually" when I asked but I received an email and again I'm sorry sir is all they got to say.

Now for a comparison I ordered a phone (upgrade) from Sunrise four days ago and guess what I got my phone today. rite the next day they shipped it out and emailed me the tracking number.

Thats what I call service. I thought Orange networks as a reputed player in the worldwide communications business would be a good multinational company.

I have seen the same from many exapats from forums such as englishforum.ch so I'm not alone here.

If you would like to address them directly about this issue please let me know so we could setup an online petition or something in hope it will reach the marketing personal high up in their management.


Friday, November 30, 2012

Aging laptop taking ages to boot? Acer Aspire 5735 SATA II with SSD OCZ Vertex 4

Well theres a easy solution to bring back your laptop from the dead. If your laptop has SATA II (Thats like a 3 year old laptop or little more) the best is to get your self a Solid state hard drive. These drives doesnt have any mechanical components that spins, rattles or grinds as your laptop does its thing. All this mechanical  wizardry behind the scenes adds lot of times thus making us wait in misery.

So the solution, a SSD (Solid State Drive) does it magic using memory chips, high capacity memory chips a little bit like your system ram or memory. No problem at all, its silent, super fast since it has absolutely no moving parts.

OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SATA III 


My Acer Aspire 5735 (core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz SATA II) took ages to boot and if I had two three programs running it would takes ages to bring up what I wanted.

So I upgraded and believe me it only takes 35 seconds to boot windows with all start up apps. I know its little bit hard to believe but you got to believe it. I'll post a video later on to prove it.

Here is the Video as promised -


From 0:20 it starts to boot after the OS Selection and its full responsive after 0:45 so thats 25 Seconds to boot.

Windows index Before upgrading ( Notice the Hard drive index 5.4)

AS SSD Acer Aspire 5735 SATA II OSZ Vertex 4 128GB Windows Experience Index after SSD
AS SSD Acer Aspire 5735 SATA II OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Windows Experience before after SSD


And after it transforms to 7.6 (average is from 7-8 for Disk Data Transfer rate)

AS SSD Acer Aspire 5735 SATA II OSZ Vertex 4 128GB Windows Experience Index after SSD
AS SSD Acer Aspire 5735 SATA II OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Windows Experience Index after SSD

I'll just post a AS SSD Benchmark just for the techhies out there, the normal for a normal Hard Disk Drive HDD is about 70-80 MB/s ( My old Hitachi 250 GB Drive at least)

AS SSD Acer Aspire 5735 SATA II OSZ Vertex 4 128GB Benchmark
AS SSD Acer Aspire 5735 SATA II OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Benchmark
the SSD manages to a whopping eye watering 260 MB/s. Thats a substantial performance difference thats well worth the money. ( I had to spend about 120 USD for the OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Drive.) But its available from Amazon for much less. Buy it from the link below.

OCZ Technology 128GB Vertex 4 Series SATA 6.0 GB/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) With Industry's Highest 120K IOPS And 5-Year Warranty - VTX4-25SAT3-128G

so there you go, no heading back to noisy and irritating mechanical hard disk drives anymore. This is the new  way forward for performance in storage media.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

City and Guilds 2330 Level 3 Certificate in Electrotechnical Technology

I've got a bunch of past papers and study material for City and Guilds  2330 Level 3 Certificate in Electrotechnical Technology unit. anyone interested leave a comment after this post.



Monday, August 27, 2012

Watch geo blocked content from streaming services like - Netflix, Vudu, Hulu, ITV Player, BBC Iplayer and many more


Netflix, vudu, hulu, ITV Player, BBC Iplayer

Watch all your favourite movie streaming services such as Netflix, vudu, hulu, ITV Player, BBC Iplayer just as you would see them in US or the UK with overplay's SMART DNS service.

the service automatically unblocks your connection so that you can watch the service. the smartdns technology converts your ip address to a US or UK address behind the scenes and achieves flawless video streaming transparently. 

Configuring the service to work on your device ( PC, MAC or a media player ) only takes few steps.

Change the DNS settings in your network setup. you could also select the country you want to watch the content at.

smartdns


use this link HERE to access the service


Here what overplay.net got to say,

OverPlay smartdns is a groundbreaking innovation designed to provide the ultimate in high speed access to websites that are restricted from your location, without the need for a VPN tunnel!


Twitter and Facebook from China, Hulu or iPlayer from your office - anywhere your internet access is filtered, smartdns can help!
Using innovative technology, developed to complement OverPlay's range of high-speed VPN servers, access to smartdns is included free of charge in all our subscription packages. Once enabled, you'll never have to worry about enabling a VPN connection in order to access your favorite sites again, just access them as normal and smartdns will do the magic for you. Not only that, you'll often find a healthy speed increase too - facebook photos load faster, stream in HD where previously it wasn't possible, it all just works!
Setup is incredibly simple. Just enable the smartdns service, and then change the DNS server setting on your Computer. Reboot your computer and that's all!
Don't worry if you're not sure how to change your DNS server settings, we even provide a utility to perform this change for you!
  • Windows users can access the tool here.
  • The OSX version isn't too far away but we have detailed instructions for some of the many
    platforms available 
    here.


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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Facebook TimeLine - Check who has taken you off their list of friends secretly


Ever wondered why you dont get to hear from that person on your Facebook wall anymore ? And then you might wonder maybe they stopped using or didnt get on to Facebooking for a while?

Well here's a way to know if someone taken you off their friends list or in facebook vocab "Unfriend" you for some reason.



This neat trick involves in using the new facebook timeline which is soon to be live on everyones facebook profiles. But for now it remains as beta still you can add it as if you were developing an app with facebook developer network.

When you hear the words "app" and  "developer network" you might think oh no I know nothing about apps and developing but don't be put down by the big words. Its just going through some buttons named "next" and "finish" to complete the process and you are good to go. And after magically the Timeline tryout message will pop up in your facebook profile page automatically.

Check out the full guide on how to enable the TimeLine feature at Redmond Pie site and their other post on how to check who has un-friended you here

Friday, September 16, 2011

Cook yourself free breakfast rite in your hotel room with an iron and a coffee maker.



When you are sidetracked in a hotel room and you got cravings for a nice hot and a simple breakfast, fear no more an iron and a coffee maker can be there for your rescue.

Well any descent hotel should have those stuff available for their guests so guess how easy it is to cook them up in no time. Yummy bacon and half boiled (well sort of ) eggs or even fried eggs is not a problem.

check out the full video of Natalie Tran from Lonely Planet demonstrating this lifesaving and money-saving cooking hacks.

Note: Dont forget to remove all traces of your little cooking adventure off the desks, coffee maker, Iron and the wash room sink.
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