How-to help stuff!
Synopsis: The culprit is the username and password. Just use “internet” as both the username and password for connecting A few days ago, I was looking around for a wireless internet connection. I searched for various options and ended up choosing Tata Indicom as my service provider. I already had my hands on Reliance and BSNL. So I chose Tata. When I went to the Tata Indicom Centre near my place, they had a modem kept for demo. So, to [...]
I have always wanted this option on my Ubuntu machine for a very long time… Looks like finally I got it working! For e.g., I have a FM mobile and would like to hear to the fm on my laptop. How do we go about it? So, basically we have to transfer the microphone input to the speaker! For this, you will need an aux-in (3.5mm) stereo cable i.e., 3.5mm audio jack on both side. This may also vary depending [...]
Long back, I had written a post on vim editor tips titled “Some VIM editor tips“. Today, I would like to some more insight into the vim’s configuration file and what you can do with the same. VIM in itself is a very powerful text editing software. It has a range of features that can aid you in writing! By default, vim does not come with any configurations. That is, it looks plain. VIM can be configured using the .vimrc [...]
It all started with the need to print address labels that had to be stuck on the A4 size mailing covers. We had to send InCTF ’11 posters to colleges and universities around India as a part of campaigning. I somehow got the university list in a spreadsheet (unfortunately, I got the .xlsx format when requested). Anyways, i wanted to get this list printed somehow. Manually copying each address into a table in the OpenOffice Writer and then printing ain’t [...]
Today morning as I was walking to the college, I was remembering those days when DOS games like Dangerous Dave and Prince were the best in town (They still are in my opinion). I still remember booting MSDOS from floppy, black screen no mouse or speakers and playing games like Dave was a bliss! Looking back, I think Dave was the first game that I played. Suddenly after many years, I was reminded of those cute games – Dave and [...]
I have been wanting to write a post on “How to download Movies, Books, TV Series from the net“. I hope this will help many. I am sure that many of you watch English series. For instance, some of my favorites are White Collar, How Heroes, Castle, Bones, FRIENDS, I Met Your Mother and in Regional languages, CID, Sasural Genda Phool, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, Indian Idol and many other (Though I really do not get time to watch all of [...]
I have been thinking about this for a long time… I always ask and wonder for myself, “How do I get a fancy progress bar in the terminal (i.e., using C/C++ code)???” I got this thought when I was coding for my huffman lab program. I was thinking “If we input a large file > 200 kb, It would take a long time to encode. So instead of giving the user a thought that the program has “hung”, we can [...]
