6 tips for your Google+

Google has finally found a way out by rolling to their dedicated Google community with a highly competent social networking site to the current biggies like ‘Facebook and Twitter’. This community that they intend to develop has been named Google+.

ArmStrong Number

An Armstrong number of three digits is an integer such that the sum of the cubes of its digits is equal to the number itself. For example, 371 is an Armstrong number since 3**3 + 7**3 + 1**3 = 371.


Write a program to find all Armstrong number in the range of 0 and 999.

Reading Comprehension 1 Answers

Here are the answers of this week's reading comprehension questions. To check the questions, click here.
In case of any doubts, feel free to contact me at nardz07@gmail.com

Linux Commands

Here is a list of basic linux commands. This list of linux commands is not complete as there are many more linux commands available. However, it should make a good start for a beginner or intermediate linux administrator / linux user.

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§  alias - create names or abbreviations for commands

§  apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions

§  at [man page] - queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution

A few Gate Books For CSE Students

Preparing for the Computer Science paper of the GATE? Here is all the material that we, at DummyLearns scraped through the internet, and uploaded, just for you.

Our package for you is divided into three parts:

1. The GATE Preparation books
2. The GATE oriented PPTs
3. The previous year GATE papers

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1. Drag the icon to the address bar, or
2. Right click > Copy link location > Paste in address bar.

Automatic Replies in Gmail

So here I was, applying for some internship posts via email, when I got replies from each of them within seconds informing me that they are not in Office, and would attend to my messages as sson as they found the time for it. This intrigued me in the following respects, which I have discussed in detail below:

1. Is it possible to set automatic replies for certain durations (vacations)
2. Is it possible to set automatic reply to certain senders, or for certain purposes

Reading Comprehension Part 1

Read the following sentences and try to choose the best definition for the italicized word by searching for context clues in the sentence. Answers coming next post...

Ungala Yaarum Ketkala - Trailer

The blackout against SOPA and PIPA

18th Jan 2012 - Blackout Day

This new year, the US legislature brought two acts to be added into the law books - The STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT (SOPA) and The PROTECT IP ACT (PIPA). However these acts met with mighty opposition from internet users all around the world, with giants like 

Tweaking Linux To meet User Needs

Till recently I was using Fedora 15 - "Lovelock" as my alternate OS, which usually is always a Linux flavor. Now, at present I am using Ubuntu 11.10 - "Oneiric Ocelot" on my system. One thing one must realize, is that Linux distributions run in a very different manner from Windows. They do not (yet) support executable facility, so the installation of many a software is not as easy or automatic as in windows. Also, a general OS install of Linux distributions is very general. It does not do much more than install the kernel and other must haves in order to run a system. They do, however provide repositories for the easy installation of many open source softwares that are popular, or open source alternatives to commercial softwares.

Fedora 15: 























Ubuntu 11.10:

In this post, I will entail the different softwares that I feel one MUST have in their system, and how to go about installing them - in fedora 15 and in ubuntu 11.10. Please note, that this is simply a comparitive study.

31 Useful Ubuntu 11.10 Unity Keyboard/Mouse Shortcuts

In my opinion, the overall Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 experience is so much better and involving if you know some essential Ubuntu Unity keyboard and Mouse shortcuts. So here are a bunch of very basic yet useful Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 (Unity) keyboard shortcuts. Thanks to askubuntu for the list.

Aptitude Answers 3

Here are the answers to the last week's aptitude questions. Read more for the answers. Refer here for the corresponding questions!!!

QT - An introduction

Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI) (in which cases Qt is classified as a widget toolkit), and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command-line tools and consoles for servers. It is produced by Nokia.

Qt is most notably used in Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop Elements, OPIE, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Aptitude Questions 3

Aptitude questions to sharpen your minds... every week. Enjoy this week's questions. Answers coming friday!

Aptitude answers 2

Here are the answers to the last week's aptitude questions. Read more for the answers. Refer here for the corresponding questions!!!

Aptitude Questions 2

Aptitude questions to sharpen your minds... every week. Enjoy this week's questions. Answers coming friday!

Aptitude Answers 1

Here are the answers to the last week's aptitude questions. Read more for the answers. Refer here for the corresponding questions!!!

Keyboard Shortcuts

Here's an attempt at listing out all the keyboard shortcuts that are available for different applications over various platforms. Feel free to comment in the ones I've missed out.:

Aptitude Questions 1

Aptitude questions to sharpen your minds... every week. Enjoy this week's questions. Answers coming friday!

Validation in windows application in C#

Whenever we create an application, some forms need specific entries. For example, phone numbers must be all numeric, whilst email ID must have a @ symbol followed somewhere by a . symbol. For these purposes, no automatic validators are provided for windows applications. Hence, we must manually give validations to these fields.

There are many logical routes to valication. The following is the validation code that I follow. Hope it helps you too. In case of any doubts or suggestions, kindly feel free to comment or mail me at nardz07@gmail.com.