Archive for the ‘miscellaneous’ Category

 

the one thing bing.com is useful for : backgrounds

May 14th, 2011

714 wonderful backgrounds! Yes, in my personal opinion, bing.com is only useful in supplying fresh backgrounds, which are breath taking. These breath taking set of wallpapers, when set to change randomly on your desktop, makes the look and feel more exquisite. Download the file(see below). The script and the images are inside the tar file. [...]

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what compiz does to your desktop

April 30th, 2011

Have a great screenshot like this one? Post a comment with the link and I’ll display it here.

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CPU scaling governors and you

August 5th, 2010

What is your CPU being governed by? Should it be governed by it? Why? How? Here’s an outlook on the various CPU frequency governors, namely conservative, ondemand, powersave, userspace, and performance, that steps up and steps down the CPU: conservative Pros: very much alike the ondemand governor gracefully increases the stepping, unlike ondemand which sets [...]

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Upgrade WordPress, eh?

January 25th, 2010

Here’s what most, or at least all of you are doing: your upgrading your WordPress blog back-end from time to time as and when releases are out. Most of the articles about this tell you how to upgrade. Well, this one doesn’t. Here are five reasons why not to upgrade WordPress! Your present theme(which you [...]

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NON-Standards Compliant C++ with Mumbai University

September 29th, 2009

Mumbai University fails to keep up with the ever-evolving C++ syntax. Making Turbo C/C++ as their prescribed IDE, Turbo C/C++ is ancient and will not compile with the present syntax of C++. Here is the simplest example: #include <iostream.h> #include <conio.h> void main() { cout << "Hello"; } The above code, when compiled with g++ [...]

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