Wednesday, January 01, 2020
Swarna Swara 2019 Adelaide Australia (ස්චර්ණ ස්චර 2019 ඇඩිලේඩ් ඔස්ටේලියාව)
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Denuwara Manike Train - Sri Lanka (දෙනුවර මැණිකේ දුම්රිය - ශ්රී ලංකාව)
Train consists of 2 Air Conditioned first class compartments with adjustable seats, adjustable arm rests, individual tables, television screens, audio jack ports, foot rests, cup holders, seat back pockets, 240 volts power outlets for some seats. 2 second class compartments with adjustable seats, adjustable arm rests, individual tables, foot rests, cup holders, seat back pockets, openable windows, 3 third class compartments, a restaurant car with disabled toilet facilities and 2 identical engines in the front and back with fully air conditioned driver and guard rooms. All compartments are having train information display screens, music, fans, luggage holders and toilets with sinks.
Denuwara Manike has a spacious disabled toilet in the restaurant compartment. Normally the door of this is locked and the restaurant staff got a key for this. It is having automatic door and hand rails for easy access. Good size sink and a mirror is also available. There is a small cubicle with a mirror and a sink near the disabled toilet for public use.
These types of trains are called DMUs which stands for Diesel Multiple Units. This S14 type powerset was manufactured by China Railway Rollingstock Corporation and was purchased for 1845 million rupees. Each of the two 11-cylinder engines can supply 1500 kilowatts to the train through AC – DC power transmission system and they are connected using the train’s electricity system. They are numbered as engine 971 and engine 972 by Sri Lanka railways department. In an engine failure, the train can reach its destination with one operating engine.
For the first time in Sri Lanka this train has a camera system and a Blackbox similar to aircraft Blackbox and records and stores all the operational data with the front camera view. The train information display screen, on this train is made out of LED panel which will display train running information in all 3 languages Sinhala, Tamil and English. It will display information such as train name, number, start and end station names, speed, next stopping station. Engines also got fuel tanks capable of storing 3500 litres of Diesel. Maximum possible speed of the train is 120 kilometres per hour. In the daily run between Colombo and Badulla it reaches 90 kilometres per hour in some sections of the route. To make the ride extra smooth, these carriages are fitted with air suspension system rather than the conventional suspension systems.
Train’s braking system is made by a German company named Knorr-Bremse, who are renowned for manufacturing reliable braking systems especially suited for hill country trains.
Since the train got 2 engines in the front and back, it doesn’t have an observation compartment.
Full route fair for first class is 1700 Sri Lankan rupees, second class is 1000 rupees and 700 rupees for third class. This train will only accept passengers who have booked tickets prior, so you cannot just buy a ticket from a railway station and get in. Tickets can be booked from most of the major railway stations like Colombo Fort, Maradhana, Badulla, Ella, Kandy, Hatton, Mathara, Galle, Anuradhapura, Jaffna. For more information visit Sri Lanka Railways website www.railway.gov.lk.
In the video you can see,
- Denuwara Manike train passing Uduwara reservoir.
- Train parked at Badulla station.
- Denuwara Manike going to Badulla yard to rest for the night.
- Train passing the famous nine arches bridge.
- Denuwara Manike passing the highest point in Sri Lanka railway line. This place is about 1898 metres or 6227 feet above mean sea level.
- Train passing iron bridges and tunnels.
Saturday, September 07, 2019
Kids Ride on Toy Car
Friday, July 19, 2019
Little Crystal Creek Falls, Crystal Creek, Queensland, Australia
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1 | Parking Availability | Adequate |
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2 | Wheelchair Access | Main Viewpoint – No Secondary Viewpoint – No Picnic Areas – Yes |
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3 | Accessibility | Easy walk till the bridge and then stairs, total walk for about 15 minutes from car park. |
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4 | Facilities | Covered Sitting Areas – No Toilets – Yes Barbecue – Yes Garbage Bins – Yes |
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5 | Scenery | Waterfall Stream Bridge |
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Hope you will enjoy the video.
Map
Friday, July 12, 2019
CRM Exception message: Principal user (Id=GUID, type=8) is missing prvReadComplexControl privilege (Id=GUID)
Sunday, February 03, 2019
Unable to Enlist in the Transaction
I recently received an error while trying to run a SSIS package in Visual Studio. The full error is seen as below.
Error: The SSIS Runtime has failed to enlist the OLE DB connection in a distributed transaction with error 0x8004D024 "The transaction manager has disabled its support for remote/network transactions.".
This error is happening when a component with transactions try to connect and manipulate data on a remote server.
To avoid this error, two things can be done.
* Remove the transaction handling from the component. – This should be done only if the transactions are not required or as a temporary measure.
You can do this by selecting the properties of the component, also check the package properties to make sure transactions are not enabled at the package level.
For an explanation of the options please visit the URL.
* Configure the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC).
For a component to work correctly with transactions, below two things are required.
1. Running Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) Service
This service should be running on the database server the component connects to and on the machine where the package is running. This will coordinate the work between two machines / servers.
This can be checked and started by going to Windows Services.
2. Properly configuring the security of DTC.
To make the DTC service work properly, it should be given permission as required. This can be done by opening the Component Services window. In the component services window, navigate to Component Services –> Computers –> My Computer –> Distributed Transaction Coordinator. Right click Local DTC and click on Properties to open properties window.
If you are intending to run any workloads with transactions via any external servers you should enable “Network DTC Access”.
Depending on the situation you should allow Inbound, Outbound or both transaction manager communication options.
For complete list of explanations on each property please refer the following URL.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Enable Disk Clean-up
It seems in Windows Server latest versions the good old disk clean up tool is not enabled by default. If you just want it back you can run the below commands in a command prompt to copy the required files.
Copy C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_c9392808773cd7da\cleanmgr.exe C:\Windows\System32\
Copy C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_b9cb6194b257cc63\cleanmgr.exe.mui C:\Windows\System32\en-US\
Then create a shortcut pointing to the Disk Clean up tool found in the following path.
C:\Windows\System32\CleanMgr.exe
I did try this on Windows Server 2008 R2 and hope it works as it is or with slight changes on other versions of Windows as well.
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