Not needed much of Introduction, Warren Buffet, also known as the Wizard of Omaha is one of the most successful investors. His way of investing has earned him billions and has inspired tons of people. As I was surfing, these bits of advice by Buffet caught my eye. Certainly, these quotes explains why he made … Continue reading »
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Installing TinyOS in Ubuntu 11.10
Studying WSN and experimenting with it can be fun, but the initial step to install TinyOS is a pain. TinyOS is an open source, component based operating system most widely used for Wireless Sensor Networks. Try these steps to install tinyos and get started with wireless sensor networking. Here, I have tried installing tinyos-2.1.1, you … Continue reading »
Configuring proxy settings in Ubuntu
To configure proxy settings in Ubuntu, we need to change the apt.conf file. Open the terminal and go to the root folder. cd /etc/apt cd gedit apt.conf When the configure file opens make the changes according to the requirement. For no proxy: Acquire::http::proxy “false”; Without username and password: Acquire::http::proxy “http://proxyserver:port/”; Acquire::ftp::proxy “ftp://proxyserver:port/”; Acquire::https::proxy “https://proxyserver:port/”; With … Continue reading »
Making a boot-able Pendrive
Thanks to Startup Disk Creator in Ubuntu, which makes it so easy to create a boot-able pen-drive but when it comes to Windows it’s not that straight forward. There a couple of softwares like Makebootable, UNetbootin but the Command prompt is the most convenient if only you remember the command. For me it has always been … Continue reading »
A twitter page for me
Creating your own page for facebook or having a self created wallpaper is always fun and inspiring. This feeling inspired me to create one for me. If you next check my twitter profile, you are going to see one of those wallpapers created by myself with a bit of photoshop. Have a look!!!! https://twitter.com/iroushan A … Continue reading »
Remembering the byNames
The Internet is a great place to do new and fun things. Unless you leave all the crap behind and find something fun to do, there are a lot of things to get involve in. One of them would be this name cloud which has the nickname of most of my friends in college. No Photoshop, … Continue reading »
Shortcuts in Mozilla !!!
Surfing consumes a lot of time. It gets even lengthy when we start clicking the mouse for simple commands. So, a professional (geek, never mind) who is addicted to the Net would rather approach a professional way, with the shortcut keys. So, In this post, Shortcut Keys for Mozilla Firefox: Ctrl + Enter: Quickly complete … Continue reading »
