See Your Folks

Let’s face it, Nowadays we’re always too busy to visit our folks. I’m guilty of the same crime 🙁 I stumbled on to “See You Folks” today. Put together by 4 guys under 24 hours with the goal to raise awareness about death. Give it your parent’s location, age and average visits and you’ll know how many more times you’ll get to visit your parent before they are gone for good....

2013-07-23 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

What is my Gnome Shell version?

What version of the GNOME Shell am I running? You can quickly find out your GNOME Shell version be running “gnome-shell -version” danesh@r2d2:~$ gnome-shell --version<br /> GNOME Shell 3.8.2 This is also an indicator to which version of GNOME you are running.

2013-06-18 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Clean Install of Windows 8 with an Upgrade Disc

I lost my hard drive and was trying to install Windows 8 from a Windows USB boot disk. When came time to activate I was greeted with “Code: 0xC004F061 your key can only be used for an upgrade”. I bought the upgrade license during the launch sale but din’t know about this restriction. Microsoft’s solution was to first install Windows 7 and then run the Upgrade assistant again to upgrade to Windows 8. That would take too long! Some Googling later and a solution was found. A simple registry hack. Here’s how, “Windows + r " and type “regedit” to bring up the registry. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/ Double click on “MediabootInstall” Change the value from “1” to “0”. Exit the registry. Hit the “Windows” key and search for “cmd” . Right click and select “Run as Administrator”. Type slmgr /rearm and hit press enter. Wait for confirmation. Reboot. Try to active again. Should work now. Picture Guide below. ...

2013-06-13 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Archlinux: Can’t find ifconfig

Archlinux dropped support for ifconfig “net-tools” sometime back. [announcement] To get the ip address use “ip” tool instead. ip addr show dev [device name] ip addr show dev enp2s0 If you really want ifconfig back then grab the “net-tools from the AUR.

2013-06-10 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Malaysiakini mirrors

Malaysia’s independent news provider Malaysia accessible through http://www.malaysiakini.com and http://m.malaysiakini.com/en might be down (.i.e blocked by our ISP) for many of you. Try these alternatives. Alternatives; http://www.mkini.co/ - Mirror https://twitter.com/malaysiakini - Twitter @malaysiakini https://www.facebook.com/MalaysiaKini - Facebook You can’t block the internet!! Get that through your thick skulls … This list will be updated as more mirrors show up so check back often. Update: http://www.malaysiakini.com/ https://www.malaysiakini.com/ http://m.malaysiakini.com/ http://www.mkini.co/ https://www.facebook.com/MalaysiaKini https://twitter.com/malaysiakini...

2013-05-02 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan