LokPal Vs JokePal

Arvind Kejriwal Comments LokPal in the current form as JokePal

LokPal Vs JokePal

Cartoon - exe files in linux

exe files in linux

Who is going to win the toss? BJP or Congress?

5 State Elections Who is going to win the toss? BJP or Congress?

BJP or Congress - Modi or Rahul

C.N.R Rao, BharatRatna, Funding to Research, Education & Science

Mr. C.N.R. Rao conferred with India's highest Civilian award "Bharat Ratna"

C.N.R. Rao conferred to Bharat Ratna Award

In the nation where cricket is religion & Sachin is god...

God of Cricket

The world may wonder why this nation and the citizens of this nation is so emotional & so excited about sachin's Retirement from international cricket.  But, they don't know the impact he made into our hearts.  Sachin is, not the only cricket legend of this country, we have cricketers like Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Patodi, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble so and so... But, he is different thats what make him more popular than others.  He made Indian Cricket's history into two "Before Sachin" & "After Sachin".  He changed cricket as a religion and many of us to the followers of this religion.  We proud to say we are sachin maniacs.

We are so passionate about Sachin during our childhood, Do you want to know how much?

1.  We do watch even practice sessions if it is sachin.
2.  We do switch off the TV, if sachin is out,  regardless the importace of the match.  Some of us even cry when sachin out & the players who involved in the dismisal of sachin will become our life time enemies.
3.  In my village many are strive hard to bought their own TV.  Only for the sake of watch cricket.  Yes, obviously for sachin.
4.  We do have many fights between the different gangs of devotees of other cricket players.
5.  We may played with the coconut wooden log as a bat & trunk of a tree or lines drawn on a school wall with char coal as stump.  But, Whenever we have bat in our hands each and every one of us in the team thinks & imagine themself as sachin only.
6.  Almost 9-10 persons of our team is always filled with batsmen only(regardless how good we are really good in batting :P).
7.  The person who have TeleVision and allows us to watch cricket match in his home is a VIP for us.
8.  We bought bubble-gums again and again only to get a sachin cricket card and will become instant celebrity.

My childhood is too joyous and happy, and obviously cricket is one of the reason behind that.  We are in cricket on-ground and off-ground, not only my school playing hours filled with cricket, the class time, lunch time, intervals, chit-chat, week end, leisure time everything filled with cricket only.

Many players came and went both in cricket and in our hearts, but sachin only came into cricket and our heart, he will never go out of both.  Can you imagine any single person in this world history who played a game for 24 continuous years (Exception for politicians, they do have more years in politics than an average humanbeing's life time, that is different).  This 24 years are such a glorious years of Indian(world) cricket, his performance & fitness is always in consistant.  Not a single black mark about him.  Whenever there is a question about his performance he always returned with an answer out of his bat.  Each time one of the indian cricketer got retired from international cricket, the critics starts whistling about retirement of sachin, and we start to pray that should not happen as soon. He never answers his enemies, critics by speech, but with his bat.  He never speaks much, but the world always spoke about him a lot.

All these things happend and he still remains that simple & lovely human being, thats why we call him as god of cricket, and follow cricket as our religion.  You are great, you are so so great sachin, hats off to you...

Many people have the complaint that the (greatness of) sachin shadows other games in india.  But, we the Die hard fans of Sachin will tell "hmm.. well, It's ok if it is sachin".

Sachin gonna play his 200-th as well as final test match

Cricket God Sachin gonna play his 200-th as well as final test match tomorrow at his home ground... U made this country proud 

Sachin - 200

External Affairs minister lead team will go to CHOGM meeting at srilanka

A team headed by Mr. #salmankurshid will attend common wealth summit #CHOGM at srilnaka..

CHOGM meeting 2013

After 17 years fodder scam verdict is announced by the CBI court

After 17 years fodder scam verdict is announced by the CBI court

Lalu-ji-vs-fodder-scam-verdict

Onion prize roars like anything-priced at par with petrol... (Sep-2013)

After #Amitkumar and #Bajrang (at world wrestling championship 2013), now its #onion ;) #cartoon

Onion prize roars like anything-priced at par with petrol... (Sep-2013)

INR posts huge recovery, sensex rallys 727 points in single day

INR posts a huge recovery against USD.

Sensex rose 727 points in single day.

INR-vs-USD and Sensex rally

Microsoft bought Nokia - A cartoon

Microsoft bought Nokia - A carton

Microsoft bought nokia

Mr. Manmohan Singh & his Magic Lamp - Food security Bill and Coal Allocation files -

Food security Bill and Coal Allocation files - Mr. Manmohan Singh & his Magic Lamp.

PM's Magic Lamp

Multimedia keys not working with VLC media player, How to map/bind these keys with VLC in BOSS GNU/Linux (a debian based distro)?

Nowadays many of keyboards comes with multimedia keys like play/pause, next & previous button, volume
up, down etc...  Almost all the linux media players like totem movie player, banshee so and so are fully compatible with these multimedia keys.  But, sadly most of us's favorite player VLC not supports :(.

There are two ways to make your vlc player to respond to your multimedia keys.

Method 1:
In linux, there are two sets of hotkeys (aka shortcuts)
      i)  Application specific hotkeys - Applicable/work only with the specific application
      ii)  Global hotkeys - Common to bunch of  applications say multimedia applications, internet application.
Steps:

 a) First remove the multimedia keys from global settings.

 

 Applications
           \-> System tools
                       \-> Preference
                                  \-> system settings  ------>>
         

-> keyboard
         \-> shortcuts tab
                   \-> Sound and Media
                        |
           <<---------
Now click on the multimedia keys like Play/Pause, Next, Previous then back space to disable these global hot keys.
   





   b)  Second set these multimedia hot keys in VLC media player hot key preference.

        VLC -> Tools -> Preferences ->
                                               \-> hot keys ---->

Now double click on the Play/Pause, Next, Previous global part and the it will prompt for the hot key to that action.  press the corresponding multimedia key to set.

Now restart the vlc, thats all your multimedia keys will start work with VLC media player.

Note:  As we removed the multimedia hotkeys from the global keyboard settings, after this the same keys only work with VLC but not with other multimedia applications like banshee, totem etc.

Method 2:

Install the packages named hotkeys from your repository and restart the linux box.
     $sudo apt-get install hotkeys
     $sudo init 6


Note: I am using BOSS GNU/Linux which is a debian based destro specially made for Indian Environment.  The steps specified in the first method is specific to BOSS GNU/Linux.  The keyboard setting of your distribution might be some where else.

How to download your online data from google, twitter, facebook?

   We people are living in the age of information both ours own and the public data.  We people are completely dependent on internet and the services provided by the giants like google, yahoo, facebook, dropbox, twitter, flickr so and so...

  Privacy of people and their online data becomes talk of the world(! town..), many online service providers(especially social networking media) give provision to their users to download their data.  We will see how to download data from google, facebook & twitter.

1.  Google



  By google's takeout , one can download his online data of google services like drive, g+, blogger, contacts, youtube etc (Ref the image about complete services).

  Once you go to the google's takeout homepage you are prompted to enter your username and password(yes! your gmail account).  After login you will see a webpage like the one in right side, either you can select all the services or few particular services.

Note:  Sadly google not provides the google reader data :(






2.   Facebook

• Login into your facebook account (or click here to go to settings directly.)
• Click on the wrench symbol(on right top) and select account settings.
• 
  
• Select General tab, click on the Downlaod a copy of your Facebook data link.
• Click on the Start my archive button.

3.  Twitter

• Login into your twitter account (or click here to go settings directly).
• goto settings (click wrench symbol on right top & select settings) 
• scroll down & click on Request your archive  

  Once the archive is ready, download link will be sent to your email registered with twitter.
   

After Mr. Dsubbarao now it is Mr. Raghuram Rajan the governor of RBI

After Mr. #DSubbarao, Mr. #Raghuramrajan will be the new governor (savoir of Indian Rupee) of #RBI

Mr. Raghuram Rajan new governor of RBI

Political Parties Vs RTI

Political Parties Vs RTI

Political Parties Vs RTI

Rupee is under complete control.. :)

See Rupees' value is under complete control... :)

Indian Rupee Vs US Dollar

Cartoon - UPA approved to split Andhra Pradesh into two states to form Telungana...

One day this also may happen...

3 per 3 state... ;)

3 per 3 state... ;)

How to remove libreoffice configuration/settings in debian based linux to fix the settings change problems?

Some times we do accidentally change the some settings of the libreoffice and endup with
1. weird/awakward views of our documents
2. problems in exporting our documents from one format to another say .odt to .doc
3. Alignment issues etc.,

So, If you don't know how to revert the settings/configuration you changed, or forget what changes you made.. there is one simple way to revert to the default settings.  i.e removing the configuration data of that particular user to libreoffice.

One can find this libreoffice configuration/settings file at the following path in debian based linux like ubuntu, BOSS GNU/Linux etc.
/home//.config/libreoffice/  <-- b="">Inside this you have directory named user.  Just remove(or cut & paste to some other place) this directory and launch the Libreoffice application again.  

Note:
.config is hidden file so you first enable your file browser to see the hidden files by the short cut CTRL+h. 

How to insert a table in your blogpost without much work?

Almost all of the bloggers(blogspot users, I don't know about wordpress features) face this while they writing some blog posts.  Many time we like to include a table in the blogpost, Due to the extra coding work (we need to write table creating html code manually) we don't do it.  Table is a very simple feature to add, but i don't know why google didn't added this to the blogger... :(.  Hope they will soon make us one.

  So, lets come to the point.  It is pretty much easy to insert a table with contents.  There is a web(site) [Tableizer]url which gives u this table creation as a service.  And the things is you are allowed to modify the table's view like colour, font, font size etc.

How to:
1.  Use your office suite's spread sheet application (ms excel, libreoffice calc etc).  Yes, am not kidding just input the  contents then copy that.

2. Goto this Tableizer url and paste it at the given box.  Click -> Tableize it.  Thats all.

3.  Copy the shown visual table(or the html code) and paste it into your post.

For example I want to create a 3x3 table with input 1..9 like this.

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

Open libreoffice -> calc -> input 1,2,3 in first row, 4,5,6 in second row, 7,8,9 in third row.  Copy that 3x3 cells with the content, now follow steps 2 & 3.  The resultant table is shown below.

1	2	3
4	5	6
7	8	9

you are done... :)

How to type copyright symbol, trademark symbol etc in linux?

 As our qwerty keyboard can't accommodate all the available characters, symbols we end up with the keyboard(layout) that have the main and most widely used symbols, characters(with shift, alt key combinations).  But, in my opinion our keyboard should at least add symbols like Copyright  ©, Registered  ®, Trademark symbol ™.

Usually we do get/input these symbols from:

1. From a text editor program or from office suite(from insert symbols) like libreoffice, MS office etc.

2. From internet web pages by searching terms like "copyright symbol", "Trade mark symbol"

But, it is not possible to go every time into those application or to search with google to get/input these symbols.  So, Here is a easy way to input these symbols with your standard English keyboard layout (qwerty layout).  You have to enable some already available keyboard settings(Compose key) but not enabled by default .

So, with the help of compose key we can achieve this in our standard key board itself.

Compose key: A excerpt from wikipedia
"A compose key, available on some computer keyboards, is a special kind of modifier key designated to signal the software to interpret the following (usually two) keystrokes as a combination in order to produce a character not found directly on the keyboard. For example, striking Compose followed by ~ and then n can produce character ñ, whereas striking Compose followed by O and then C can produce the symbol ©, the copyright symbol). "

How to enable
1. In  BOSS linux(or any linux which have menu like Applications, System)
System -> preferences -> keyboard settings -> Layout settings -> options -> Compose key positions
In Ubuntu
Settings -> Keyboard -> Layout settings -> Options -> Compose key positions

2. Select your desired compose key.
   You can select any listed key(ctrl, win, capslock etc) as your compose key.  But, as we are using Linux, It is recommended to use the win(dows) key as compose key.

3.  Save the settings thats all you are done.

There are many symbols and the key combinations to produce it.  I here list few most often used symbols and its compose key combinations.  I assume win(dows) key  as the compose key.

Symbol Name	Symbol	composekey combination
Copyright	©	win+o then c
Trademark	™	win+t then m
Registered symbol	®	win+o then r
Quarter	¼	Win+1 then 4
Half	½	Win+1 then 2
3 quarters	¾	Win+3 then 4
Euro	€	win+e then =
Yen	¥	win+y then =
Pound	£	win+l then -
cent	¢	win+c then |
degree	°	win+o then o

Note:  This is for the debian based linux machines(like Ubuntu, BOSS Linux etc) which employs gnome desktop environment.  If your machine is not a debian based one or it uses other desktop environment systems(like kde, xfce etc), you have to fine where the keyboard setting is available and need to enable the settings as above.

How to create a Linux repository for the intranet/local machines?

1. Copy the whole repository of a particular linux distro(BOSS Gnu/linux, ubunutu) into a harddisk(external/internal), either by debmirror command or request/contact to the repository maintainers.
 1.1 Copy the repository using debmirror
   $debmirror -a -d -s --method= -h --root= --no-source --progress --ignore-release-gpg 
   switch a - architecture, d - distro etc..  Note: For more information read man pages of debmirror

ex: 
$debmirror -a i386 -d savir -s main,main/debian-installer --method=http -h packages.bosslinux.in --root=boss --no-source --progress --ignore-release-gpg /home/test/repository


2. install apache2 web server using
 $sudo apt-get install apache2

3. Either copy the whole content distro copy "/home/test/repository" to "/var//www" directory, or give a link to /home/test/repository in /var/www

4. find the ip address of the machine(where you do all the above procedures. i.e machine in which you keep the local/intranet repository/server) using
 $sudo ifconfig

5. add the following line as first entry in the  /etc/apt/sources.list file of all the linux machines that connected to the intranet as follows
 deb http:///boss savir main contrib non-free

6. Try apt-get update from the client machines if it updates fine, everything is fine.  Your local intranet repository is setup successfully.

How to know/follow an original account of a celebrity in twitter?

  Are you sure that you are following the original account of a celebrity in the twitter..?
May be the question is strange to you...(for some people may be not).  But, in reality it is true.  Yes, it is true, in twitter there are hundreds of fake account for every celebrity from Amitabh bachan to Amisha patel, Rajinikanth to Rakki sawant, Sachin tendulkar to Shilpa shetty.  It is a kind of identity theft.

  So, how to find the real/original celebrity account in twitter..?

  A long back twitter introduced a feature "Verified account".  It ensures the identity of the twitter account holder.  So, before follow any celebrity in twitter, ensure the account is a verified one or not(Some exceptions are there, Still there are few celebrity[in terms of my/your opinion] either don't have twitter account or their twitter account is not yet verified.. ).

  So, how a verified twitter account look like?
  All the verified accounts have a white color tick mark in side a small blue color GEAR(Wheel with teeths) like this,

Verified twitter account of A. R. Rahman

 How to find these verified account and follow it..?  Just search the celebrity name in the twitter which returns all the related results, now select only people.  Find the account with the symbol.

For your convenience i list some Indian celebrities verified twitter accounts, Just click and follow.

@sachin_rt
@ashwinravi99
@pitrodasam
@FarOutAkhtar
@narendramodi
@PMOIndia
@ShashiTharoor
@anandmahindra
@arrahman
@aamir_khan

Note: Few web sites/services are there there that scans you account, and provide you a detailed report about your follower/following.  One such nice website is
http://thetwitcleaner.com/ - Don't worry about your username and password it just going use twitter's OAuth.   But, you have to authorize the app to access your account.

Must have apps for Android smartphone(List-1)

There are thousands of Apps available in Google's play.  Here i am going to list few most important,  useful & productive apps(yes, you have your own right to differ with me about these apps).  One more important thing these are free apps.


Aldiko - epub reader

  Are you a voracious reader..? If your answer is yes, then you must install this app.   Aldiko is the app that keeps your reading appitite alive in digital age.  Aldiko's GUI is designed elegantly, navigation is smooth, let user to set his own preference in terms of color, font size etc..
  You can either use the free epub books or you can buy online also.  Moreover Aldiko even let you to use your pdf files also.  So, you import your pdf files to Aldiko for reading.

Gesture search - Awesome app from google

 It is searching application within your mobile, but interestingly without typing the phrase to search instead by drawing(gesture) it.  While you start drawing it shows you suggestions :).  As like in google search which shows suggestions by ajax.

  Nowadays our android smart phones becomes more and more rich in terms of features, applications, settings etc.  We often change our mobile(not all, not me but, many of us), as soon as a new model hit the market.  We can't keepup ourselves with its speed of change.  It lets one to find anything within the mobile contact name, application name, settings anything.

 This tiny app is a very very useful one, interestingly it is a adaptive one.  Means by continuous usage it will adapt with your drawing pattern and gives you the exact result what you are searching.

Google translate - Language translation(not translitration) application from google.


  Have support to almost all major languages.  You can translate from any language to any other language.   Important thing is it supports text input, voice input even a image input also(not to all languages).  You can get the text output & audio output.   You just need to select the from language & to language thats all.



Imdb - movie database app from Imdb.com

 Many times you end with the question, who is the hero of the movie?  how many academy awards that movie got? What is that famous dialogue in that movie? etc etc.. Every time you need to go wikipedia, imdb or rottentomatos websites, instead go with this app.  This app will keeps you restless in terms of movies, TV Series.  If you are a movie manic and if you want to be upto date in details of World cinema, TV series, yes it is for you only.

Yahoo mail - Official yahoomail app from yahoo



 As its name implies, It is the official mobile mail app by yahoo.  GUI design is nice as gmail mobile app comes by default in android mobiles, for yahoomail we have go with app.




Will let you know other must have apps in another post soon... :)

Thamizh wikipedia reaches 60th position among all the languages and 2nd in india in terms of number of articles... :)

  Hope almost all of us(especially whose life&survival quite depends on google, wiki) know very well about english wikipedia.   How may of us know about the wikipedia in our mother tongue..? 

For thamizh we have http://ta.wikipedia.org

Some more details:
Thamizh is the 18-th most spoken language in the world (terms of no. of speakers)(have doubt..? or want proof..? google it..)

Total no.of articles in thamizh wikipedia is about 51,500

Thamizh wikipedia is@60-th position with all other languages(based on no.of articles) and 2nd in india(hindi holds 1-st position, telugu at 3-rd position) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

Good news is anyone can edit(either as a registered user or anonamouly) articles in thamizh(any language-ofcourse if you know the language) wikipedia.  So, give a try.

Wikipedia is the 5th most accessed website in the world, running only by the funds from public, maintained by a non-profit organization, since its starting not showed a single commercial advertisement, and never in the future. 

Note:  All the details/statistics furnished above are as on 13-2-2013.

Jargons/Acronyms/Abbreviations/Lingo used in net/chat forums mailing lists etc..

  IMO, Sure you have been in a occasion when your friend or some one use a new slang/jargon and you been in no idea about what he/she is speaking...(LOL) aren't you..?  Here are some Lingo for being a better netizen.. :-P :) :D.  Wanna better netizen..? DIY..

DIY - Do It Yourself
HTH - Hope This Help(s)
IIRC - If I Recall/Recollect Correctly
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
LOL - Laughing Out Loud or Laugh Out Loud
OMG - Oh My God
OP - Original Poster?
OT - Off Topic
OTOH - On The Other Hand
PFA - Please Find Attached
PS - Post Script
PFA - Please Find Attach(ed)ment
ROFL - Rolling On the Floor Laughing

Note: This is not complete  set of all Lingo used in Internet.. there are hundreds.  So, this page is always in Beta version not complete.  Will update (patch/fix) as i stumbled into a new one..  But, sure not often ;-)

  HTH :)

Facebook's New Voice message feature to android phones... :)

Feel boring of typing in Facebook chat..? Feel difficult to type with your Android smartphone in Facebook?  Here comes the solution... :).  Yes now you can speak and send the information in chat as voice message...

Just few days back Facebook added voice message.  What you need to do..?

1.  Update your android mobile's facebook application.
2.  Go to chat/message in your facebook app.
3.  Click on the "+" symbol, then select the mic symbol
4.  Hold the record button, while you speaking your message then release it.  Done..

Now you can see a small GUI with Play symbol and time line.  Thats it.. your voice message is sent..