How to find the saved Wireless passwords in Windows 7

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Ever found yourself in a situation when you need to provide someone or yourself the WEP, WPA, WPA2-PSK password of the wifi network you are using or have used it previously and you are left wondering: “How do I find the wireless password saved in Windows?“. By default Windows saves the wireless password when you choose “connect automatically”. All these keys along with the wireless network settings are stored in Windows. If in a case you need to see the passwords specific to a network, you can fetch it back from Windows in following simple steps. [Read more…]

eCrypt Me: The easy way to secure emailing

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There are a number of people who are not satisfied with the security provided by popular web-based email service providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. List is growing as the fear is not imaginary keeping the recent events of hacking. Though these hacking events are not frequent but what about the constant monitoring and unauthorized scanning of your mails by the service provider itself? [Read more…]

How to solve: No Wireless Network Detected in Ubuntu 11.10

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One of the most common problem one faces after a fresh install of Ubuntu is the loss of Wireless Network. And believe me that is the biggest pain for a normal user. The problem double-folds if the wireless adapter is broadcom (do not know what is your wireless adapter? click here). Some of the general problems are showing no wireless adapter, showing wireless adapter but detecting no wireless networks etc. [Read more…]

Make Windows default OS in dual boot with Ubuntu: The easy Way

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When you install Ubuntu (or any other Linux OS), it makes Ubuntu the default operating system. So if you want to use Windows, you have to select it manually within 10 sec otherwise it boots into Ubuntu directly.

But what if you are not a regular Ubuntu user (Why so?) and use Windows most of the time? It irritates you that you have to wait at each boot to select Windows. If you are facing such problems then you might want to make Windows your default operating system so that it boots into Windows by default. [Read more…]

My computer is a girl. Find out what gender is your computer.

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My girlfriend always complains that I love my computer more than her. And I always reply, “Baby, its only a machine”. On that she often comments that if ever machines have gender my computer would be a girl. Turns out, she is right. Yes, My computer is a girl.

I found out this wonderful post which describes how can you find out the gender of your computer. [Read more…]

How To Install Gnome 3 in Ubuntu 11.10

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April 2011 saw a change in Ubuntu where it launched Unity instead of Gnome as its default desktop environment. That did not went down well with many users who wanted to use the newly launched Gnome 3 in Ubuntu. Ubuntu 11.04 did not provide support to Gnome 3 officially. Enthusiast users did find a way to install Gnome 3 though but it resulted in breaking the Unity environment completely which means that a user could have used either Unity or Gnome 3 not both. [Read more…]

How To Solve: apt-get install Error in Ubuntu

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Problem:

An Ubuntu user often comes across an error (shown below the paragraph) while try to install an application using apt-get in the terminal, using synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center. This simple error may trouble a beginner Ubuntu User. The error looks something like this:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? [Read more…]

Hello World is No More: RIP Dennis Ritchie

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Seems like October 2011 is a sad month for tech world. We have lost 3 visionaries who have changed the world by their innovation. First it was Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc then Robert Galvin, Motorola’s cellphone pioneer and now Dennis Ritchie, author of C programming language and co-author of Unix Operating System has died.

If you have ever learned a programming language your first line printed would have been “Hello World” which was Dennis Ritchie’s trademark (if I can say that) when he wrote C language. I found no better to way to pay tribute to Dennis Ritchie than this:

#include
#include
main( )
{
printf(“Hello World No More \n RIP Dennis Ritchie”);
}

 

I just pray that this month doesn’t bring any other bad news. :(