Nov
26
How to create working copy of your HDD
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Interesting here is that you can create this image while working on your computer and avoid the use of Bootable cd and text based utilities.
The tool needed can be found here and good tutorial how to use it here.
Oct
9
Even emergencies are not everyday event (except probably for firefighters or people with similar profession) for the people, but sooner or later they happen.
curbly blog gives several advices in their:
How To Be Prepared in a Blackout (or other emergency).
What you may need is:
- plan
- water
- food
- matches
- flashlight
- some cash
- telephone
Sep
26
How to make Safety Pin From A Paperclip!
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A tip from Metacafe about making safety pin if you have only pliers and paper clip.
Make Safty Pin From A Paperclip! – Watch the best video clips here
Sep
22
How to check where your Windows connects
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If your system is running slowly and you are concerned if it is connecting to some web sites the tip from Digital Inspiration will be very useful to you:
1. Type cmd in your Windows Run box.
2. Type “netstat -b 5 > activity.txt” and press enter. After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C.
3. Type “activity.txt” on the command line to open the log file in notepad (or your default text editor)
Then you will see all connections made from your computer to other servers.
TIP: When running the command better close you web browser and other programs connecting to internet known to you. Wait around a minute and start the test. This will reduce your false positives.
Sep
18
Open directory in terminal from Nautilus
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Many users still do it the old fashion style.
- Open terminal
- CD to the directory
Now the shortcut:
- Right click desired folder in Nautilus and choose Open in terminal
It is simpler and saves some typing. Requires that nautilus-open-terminal package is installed.
Sep
14
Make you stolen car traceable…
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Here is video of how to create inexpensive car tracking system.
It cheap an ingenious simple.
You will need old but functioning cell phone or prepaid phone, car charger, creativity and probably some long wires.
You connect cell phone to the car battery via car charger and hide it on place where it will have connection to cell towers.
Then when you car is stolen you can give cell phone IMEA number to authorities and with the help of your cell phone provider they can easily trace current car location.
Sep
13
Here is the instructional video:
Sep
13
How to increase your MPG?
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In the era of increasing gas prices everybody are interested how to increase their MPG (miles per gallon – used in USA) or respectively decrease gas consumption l/km (Used in Europe and most of the world).
This is not a simple task and it is mostly a function of how car is driven. Here are some tips.
- Take a look at car consumption that manufacturer put in your manual. Usually this is the optimum value you can reach – so inform yourself about it before you buy the car.
- Try carrying as less as possible “useless” stuff in your car – heavier your car is more it will consume
- Avoid putting stuff on the rooftop such as car-tops if you do not need them.
- If you have 2 cars try to use them appropriately – do not use SUV for your shopping when you can do it with your hatchback (SUV consumes usually 2+ l/100km more than compact class car)
- Maintain your car according to manufacturer instructions – inflate your tires to nominal pressure, change your oil regularly,replace your air filter, maintain your ignition system (change spark plugs and cables) etc.
- Do not use A/C when you can open your window
- Do not drive on highway with full open windows – This will break car aerodynamics (true for 60km/h+)
- Do not speed – most of the cars are manufactured to be fuel efficient at the speed around the speed limit and if you drive faster you consumption increases.
- …..
Some of those “tricks” are common sense, but thinking about them when driving will allow you to safe money….
Sep
11
How to recognise telemarketing fraud?
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In addition to be annoying and time consuming some of telemarketers are real crooks. According to fraud.org here are six signs to recognise fraudent telemarketer and best action is to say thank you and hang up.
- Demanding that you act immediately or else miss out on this great opportunity….
- Promising that you can win money, make money, or borrow money easily…
- Refusing to send written information prior to your purchase or donation
- Trying to scare you into buying something
- Insisting you wire money or a courier will come by to pick up your payment
- Refusing to stop calling after you ask them to stop.
If you recognize one of those signs better say “NO, THANK YOU” and hangup.
Sep
6
How to add Google repository in CentOS
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Google is adding more apps to his Linux repository.
They also have script to setup repositories, but unfortunately it does not recognize CentOS and yum enabled distribution. I’ve added this code to check if yum is installed:
# Check if yum is installed RHEL v5 and CentOS 4.x and 5
if [ '/bin/rpm -q yum' ]; then
PACKAGEMANAGER=yum
Resulting script is here:
NOTE: After downloading the file just rename it from .txt to .sh and run with the shell:
bash google-repo-setup_CentOS.sh
Currently you can find there only picasa and google desktop