TTL (Time To Live) is a timer value included in packets sent over networks that tells the recipient how long to hold or use the packet before discarding and expiring the data (packet). TTL values are different for different Operating Systems. So, you can determine the OS based on the TTL value. You can get the TTL value by pinging an address. Here is the output got by pinging “subinsb.com” on my system :
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Use uTorrent Without Installing (Portable uTorrent)
Torrents are the most common thing computer users hear of. There are torrent downloading, torrent sharing and many others. Torrent has become a business in the WWW. Due to the increase in demand of torrents, there should be torrent clients that downloads the files of a torrent. The most popular of them is uTorrent – A Windows package. uTorrent is widely used by computer enthusiasts. uTorrent is widely used because of it’s lightness, simple usage and limitless options. But, you have to install uTorrentto use it’s features. What if, your friend needs a download from torrent and he doesn’t have a torrent client. He don’t know how to install a torrent client. In this case, the only way is to use a Portable Torrent Client. Since uTorrent is light weight and easy to use, it’s the best torrent client to give to anyone.
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In the recent post, I mentioned about OpenShift, a PaaS Service that offers Free Hosting. You can update your application using GIT. OpenShift also provides SSHing into your application. You may have heard of FTP protocol which allows you to transfer files through web. Most hosting companies use FTP protocol to update client apps. OpenShift unlike AppFog have FTP support, but in a different manner.
It has SFTP support ie SSH File Transfer Protocol. SFTP is a FTP like protocol that allows to transfer files via SSH sessions. Most FTP clients support SFTP. FTP client FileZilla supports SFTP which means that you can use FileZilla for updating site hosted on OpenShift. You can download FileZilla from here available for Linux, Mac & Windows.
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This trick can be accomplished with the use of some small commands in Terminal. The RAM memory increase can’t be noted in the System Monitor application.So, Let’s begin.
Create a file of 512 MB (The 512 indicates the RAM memory to be added):... [READ MORE]
Wine 1.6 is released with 10,000 changes
What’s New ?
- New User Interface
- Networking capabilities
- Support for Windows Transparency
- Graphics improved
- JoyStick Installing
- Mono package for .NET applications support
- Support of new softwares and games.
- Improved Input validation
- Mac Driver
- Direct3D
and more. Wine Team officially said that the new Wine version more than 10,000 changes.
Revert back to normal resolution after running a fullscreen app in Wine
But you could if you run a simple file in terminal. Here is how you could do it.
Create a file named normal.sh in your Desktop with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash
xrandr -s 0
Save it on a place where you can open it easily. Make the file Executable to run it in a terminal. See this post to see how you could make a file executable.
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How to make your Windows 8 PC speak out Time at Every Hour
This small tutorial will make your PC speak out the time every hour. This will help especially if you’re a programer. Because programmers usually lose track of time.
Dim speaks, speech
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