How to detect fake Facebook profiles

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Facebook used to be a safe place but not any more. There are so many spammers and scammers that create fake Facebook profile for a number of purposes including spamming, scams, marketing, hacking etc. Some of these profiles are created by people pretending to another person or trying to be anonymous while some of these are auto generated for marketing and spamming purposes. A study find out that most of the fake profiles are female and thus has more chances of acceptance. If you get a new friend request from an unknown person please do check, before accepting the request, whether it is a genuine profile or not. Just because the new profile has mutual friends does not mean that it is a real profile. [Read more…]

How to fix: Android Samsung Galaxy S2 not recognized on Linux

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Problem:

I was facing problems connecting my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Ubuntu, which is particularly annoying bearing in mind the total lack of support by Samsung for Linux (even Kies is of no use). Strange enough, it works flawlessly on Windows 7, where it recognises it instantly and I can transfer files between my phone and computer.
When I plug it into my Linux machine, it is recognised and I can see the contents of the root of /sdcard and the SD card but I cannot access the contents of any file or folder as all the folders are empty.
When I connect my phone to USB there is no “mount USB” option but just MTP application in the home screen. [Read more…]

How to solve: Dell AC Power Adapter Type Not Recognized

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My AC power adapter charger for Dell Inspiron N4010 went into smokes two days back and I went to shop for a good (read cheap) alternate of it. After fiddling around a bit I settled for a “itworks” Universal Power Adapter (for 60 Euro sigh!). It comes with 12 plugs to use it with all the major laptop manufacturers and two type of power cords one for each North America and Europe. The below photograph is a not of my universal power adapter 😛

I went back and happily plugged the adapter into my laptop and switched it on. To my dismay, at boot time, it gave a warning message something like “AC Power Adapter type not recognized”. When I chose to ignore the warning and booted into the operating system, I saw the strange things with the battery icon. Despite of the adapter plugged in it was showing only 5% of battery left.

It took me some minutes to recognize my mistake, a blooper actually. This happens when you think you are too smart to ignore small details and turns out to be a fool.

As I said the Universal Power Adapter had a number of plugs for different manufacturers and it was numbered accordingly. In most foolish way I was using a plug meant for HP which somehow got fit into the socket. When I saw that and change it to the correct one the problem was solved.

Are you using the correct plug? Check it.

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