Anas Ismail Khan

pokemon.alexonsager.net hosts a tool that allows you two fuse any two Pokemons together. 😀

The site has been ‘shutdown for maintainence.’ This{#mfa11} is all that’s visible of it right now..

Linux and Windows, two of the most widely used OS’, and ‘which one is better’ is highly debatable. Now both have their own pros and cons, and well, experience can be a bit different and frustrating, when switching from one to the other.

Well, a common problem usually faced, especially by those who go for a dual-boot, is that Windows cant read/write/access Linux partions, while on the other hand, Linux can Windows’. But there are a variety of tools available that do enable you to access Linux partitions through Windows. Some only offer the read feature, while some even let you write changes to the disk.

After trying a whole bunch of them, the best i could find was the ParagonExtFS. This one works on all 3, i.e. XP, 7 and 8, and it has no confusing UI to deal with. Just a simple mount feature, just as in Linux, and thats it. Now you can Explore, view and edit Linux files through the Windows Explorer.

You can download ParagonExtFs from here. Yes you have to register, but well doesn’t exactly matter. Just fill in the form with whatever’s required and click submit.

Now, check your email, i.e. the address you provided while filling in the form, for an email from eservice@paragon-software, that contains the download link.

Installing and operating is relatively easy, once installed, just run it, and a box will popup carrying a list of partitions; Linux ones marked yellow. Select a partition and mount it; specify a drive letter and thats it. Now you can explore the partition normally through the windows explorer.

Celestia is a 3D simulator of the Solar System. It’s pretty amazing actually. You can move about, lock onto planets, land on their surface. It’s not exactly limited to the solar system, more like the Universe, i.e. as much of it is known to mankind. You can even move out and visit other galaxies, systems, e.t.c. 

It also has a “TLC Feature 😀 ” that enables you to speed up or slow down time, or even stop it, or reverse it. That;s not all, it has a lot of features and is definitely worth trying.

Installing it in Ubuntu is relatively easy, simply fire up a terminal(CTRL + Alt + T), and paste the following code:
sudo apt-get install celestia-gnome

The answer to this totally depends on how long, since when, and to what extent has the person been blind.

If a person has been blind since birth, they’d just have auditory dreams, i.e. all dark, with just voices. but if a person used to be able to see, but lost his sight later, they’d dream just like normal  people do i.e. in color, or perhaps, as they get used to being blind, their dreams might reduce to auditory ones, and if they arent completely blind, but cannot exactly dream very well either, and have been this way for a long time,  their dreams too would be all blurry and obscure, just like their vision.

I never exactly met a blind person to ask, but well, after researching a bit, and well, applying a bit of common-sense, stated above is what i believe.

I’ve got this ‘hobby’ of collecting Operating Systems’ images; mind only stable or lost ones.

A screenshot, of the folder where I store them distros.

The news-feed, a constantly updating, “feed” of stories from pages or people you’ve subscribed to, or those who are part of your friend list.
The Mobile App had this notifier feature that would inform you of any recent activity, new stories, that have to be displayed on the news-feed.

The  “New Stories”  notifier from ‘Facebook for Android’

Now Facebook brings the same feature to its Web version, though things work a li’l differently here, yet I assure you, it does work, infact, better. So, this new feature is nicely integrated into the new “bar” introduced along with the graph search, and whenever there’s some recent activity (that’s too noble to be displayed in the ticker and thus is included in the news feed), It’ll display a small counter next to the Home button/link on the top-left part of the bar.

The notifier from the ‘web version’ of Facebook. See the 2? yeah thats the ‘counter.’

The Nokia Lumia 1020, that’s said to be available on AT&T by the 26th of July, makes even the best of DSLR’s look inferior, it’s own rear-camera being  41MP with a max resolution of 7712 x 5360. Lenses: Zeiss, Flash is Xenon for still-captures, while there’s an LED one for Videos, their quality being 1080p, 30fps.

So well, let’s move to the rest of the specifications; Starting with Display. Screen-size is 4.5″, 15:9 aspect ratio, AMOLED Gorrilla Glass. Processor’s a 1.5GHz Dual-core snapdragon; slight disappointment for those expecting a quad-core. RAM 2GB, and Storage capacity 32GB, and front-camera is 1.2MP; another dissappointment.

Well, quite a charm, and i’d love to get my hands on one. Who cares if it aint quad-core eh? It’s 41MP, and well, 2GB of RAM aint bad either. + its not-being-a-quad-core makes it comparatively more-affordable, seeing as the same model with a quad-core wont exactly go cheap.

Cygwin is to Windows, what Wine is to Linux..

Another known issue, no biggie. What happens is that when the person tries to mount a windows partition on Ubuntu, they get this huge error saying that “the metadata kept in Windows cache refused to mount…” “the partition is in an unsafe state”  “not permitted” e.t.c.

Well, dont panic, the solution is present in the last few lines of the ‘error message,’ only, not everyone realizes that, and often, it just doesnt work, (that goes for Windows 8 users.)

The reason behind it being the fact that your ‘Windows’ might be in an hibernating state, a proper shut-down ought to do the trick, but windows 8 users might continue to get this error even after a shut-down. This is due to the fact that Windows 8 comes with a fast startup  feature that really does speed up, by not shutting down completely. So you might be clicking on the shutdown button, but what really happens is that the Windows goes into a hibernating state.

So, here’s what you gotta do. Login to Windows ,  and either disable the fast startup and shut-down properly, or you can do a normal restart, seeing as the Fast Startup doesnt apply to restarts.

To disable the fast startup feature, press start, to go to the start screen, and search(settings) for “Power Options.” Click on “Change settings that are currently unavailable” (administrator access required) and under Shutdown settings, ‘un-check’ the ‘Turn on fast startup’ button.

Thats it. Save changes and Shut-down.. or restart.