Last month windows crashed on my machine and I recover it using the recovery DVD. After that windows gave me an extra option to fry eggs. Now if I am using my machine on day, I can use this facility. (I am using WINDOWS VISTA)

If I am working in day its heating up to almost 50-60 degree though I didn't pressure it. Also starting time of windows after I type my password is about 5min average. Another fault I have on my machine is that it works without my commands........ I mean that it is shown that the RAM 70% and CPU 50% after started and stabilized. So I thought it would be great if I can use either windows 7 or UBUNTU 9.10.

As a start up I install UBUNTU. What it shows amazes me................... that my battery is broken. Now my battery can store max 14.2Wh charge though the original battery can store max 47.2Wh. Now its been one and half years since I bought this machine. Can somebody tell me is it the lifetime of the battery????

Any way I thought I should buy a battery to remain cool other parts.

Prices: Compaq presario V3000 battery 4400mAh

ebay- $37+$15

hp-$120

hp-$112 for extended battery 8800mAh

Anyway I will see whether I can buy it in Unity cheaper than web.

Making my Future

As I am a Learner a goal that I achieved lately is approving my Google Summer of Code project DERBY test and fix of Apache Software Foundation. So I am improving my coding knowledge on databases and its functionality. Try my best to complete it in success.

Apache Derby- fixing bugs

For fixing bugs I first choice DERBY-3892 because it has become a major problem for the Derby development and it’s about a delay when because of the query hangs, so I did a analysis on it and here is the report I made out(this is a copy of what I send to mailing list),
Rows Insertion time(s) Querying time(s)
100 2.281 2.346
1000 3.31 3.388
1500 4.497 4.575
2000 7.717 7.807
5000 16.064 16.143
10000 23.711 23.797
20000 37.76 37.926
50000 91.748 92.086
100000 185.492 185.98

I check the two insertion separately (Messaged User,Values )

When only data inserted to Messaged_user(insert to values table removed from
the code) table only it took 80.926s to insertion and 80.992s for querying.

When only data inserted to Values(insert to Messaged_User table removed from
the code) table only it took 77.054s to insertion and 77.16s for querying.

sum of the two in separate insertions=157.98s
sum of the two in separate querying=157.98s

Thats 30s different from what i got when the two insertions are in same
coding.
I try another time with two insertion at the same time. Amazingly i got
141.721s for insertion and 142.21s for querying. Try for another gave
161.523s for insertion and 162.014s for querying.

So i decided that bug must be on the "insertion"
Next i include the Statement class for execution inside the loop
Insted of,
PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement
("INSERT INTO Messaged_Users VALUES (?, ?, DEFAULT,
DEFAULT)");
for (i=0; i<100000; i++) {
ps.setString(1, ""+i);
ps.setString(2, "User" + i);
ps.executeUpdate();
}
I used,
Statement stmt=con.createStatement();
for (i=0; i<100000; i++) {
stmt.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO Users VALUES ('"+i+"',
'Eranda')");
}
As a test, But I waited 15s for over the insertion and querying and stop
the process.
For further information about DERBY-3892
visit-https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3892

My Attitude on Open Source:

Sri Lanka is a 3rd world country that is suffering from poverty. So the people cannot spend much money on software for their applications. As a solution we can use open source software. As a programmer contribution to a world class software design is a dream for me. Now I have a chance for making my dream a truth with the Open Source. Because in Open Source software we can get source code out of it and make modification on it so that much more reliable. It make the product a good one as because more experts on dfferent areas contributing their knowledge on it. Also a student like me can read the source code and learn how the things inside of a software works.

All that things make my first choice "Open Source" software rather than going for pirate copy of software. In my machine i use Ubuntu for all the programming works, Apache tomcat 6.016, Glassfish, and newly i introduce my machine Apache Derby. Last year I use Red Hat and Fedora for "C-compiling". So one of my future ambition is to work on a such project.

Chance for contributing open source software projects

Links for e-learning

Here you can find some e-books for learning
http://www.flazx.com/

Software

Today we do our work eisier with softwares.

No matter who you are... try some programming on your own.