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This guy made a very funny review of Ubuntu… he thought it was just like windows… He could not find Internet Explorer? … and “Notepad word processor”. I’m sure that everyone that knows what Ubuntu is.. will find this hilarious!

In case you don’t know what ubuntu is.. go to www.ubuntu.com

In today’s world, there are a lot of computer freaks / nerds / geeks etc… are you one of them? Continue reading and you will know.

There are a few symptoms (changes) in you that will show you that you are (becoming) a geek. In this blog post today I will cover some of these symptoms (changes).

1. The famous 404 Error: - I think that every person that has been browsing the internet for sometime has seen the famous 404 Error. But, if you are (becoming) a geek.. wherever you see that number you should think something like 404 - Not Found. For example let’s say that you see a sign with 404 on it, you should, without hesitation think 404 - Not Found.. but it should come spontaneous.

2. Blogs - You read blogs such as hackaday.com or engadget.com, mydigitallife.info and such blogs on daily or regular basis, and you are always wanting to know what’s the latest when it comes to computers and technology.

3. Chatting and Talking - Sometimes when you are bored and you are either chatting or talking with your friends you go something like Console.WriteLine(”Hello”); or System.out.println(”Hello”); or if for example someone says BRB you go something like do { Console.WriteLine(”… Waiting …”); } while (waitingForYou == true);

Well… there are tons of other symptoms that will let you know that you are (becoming) a geek, but for now I’m only going to discuss those 3

Note: This blog post is kinda funny… but it can be true

Well, I was browsing the internet (as always) and I came across a sort of funny/sad/ironic bug in Windows Vista.

Well, when you update your computer, sometimes it requires a restart.. but you can set it to remind you in, for example 10 minutes, 4 hours.. etc..

But, if you set it to remind you in 4 hours (I don’t know about other times) it will remind you again after 10 minutes!

See screenshots attached, and take note of the time!

And you press Postpone… but look what happens after 10 minutes

Original Source: CodeCall Programming Forum

A great update from Gmail! - Now you can send SMS from the online chat.. without having to download any software.

To enable it, you have to Open Gmail and go to the Labs Page (from Settings), scroll a little bit down, and you will see something like this:

And from there you just select Enable and then just apply the changes, after that you can click on a contact and send an SMS from there… pretty simple!

ImageShack is providing you free (or you can upgrade and pay) Torrent Drives. If you have slow torrent downloads then just upload your .torrent files here, and start downloading the torrent! Then once ImageShack downloads it, you will be a provided with a direct link and you will download at full speed from the ImageShack servers.

Normally I download torrents at 300kb/s, but using this service the torrent was downloaded in a few minutes and then I downloaded from the ImageShack servers with 10MBit/s.

Here is a link for the ImageShack Torrent Drive

I would like to inform you that now I have a store where you can request (receive via mail, or download as eBook) free Books! Yes, free books!

There are tons of IT/Tech related books so have a look and download / request as much as you want!

Visit Here!

I, personally, have wanted this since I bought my laptop (that came with Vista). And I’m sure a lot of people out there want this cool effect too… You want to keep the transparency of the window even when a window is maximized.

Well, the fix is simple. Just download this software VistaGlazz. It’s very simple to use. First patch, and then apply the hack.

Have fun!

I decided to show off some of my all-time personal favorite wallpapers. I hope you like them.. if you have some cool ones, please post the link in the comments. I might include them in my next Random Wallpapers Post!

Please note that I did not create them. Credits go to their authors!

Hope you like them!

There are 3 types of routing strategies.

1. Hot potato
The message is delivered to the shortest output queue

2. Pre-Determined
In this mode the message itself contains information on how the message should be routed

3. Directory
Routing table: This finds the shortest way possible to arrive to destination
Here the router decides how to forward packets based on a routing table where for a specific destination it will first try the first preference  followed by the second if unsuccessful etc….

A Protocol is a set of rules / instructions

1. Transmission Rate (Flow Control)

Hardware – RTS ¦ CTS
-> Tx (Transmitter) needs to send data so sends a RTS (Request) signal to Rx (Receiver)
-> When Rx is not busy it sends CTS signal to Tx
-> Tx sends packets of data, followed by another RTS signal to Rx

Software – XON ¦ XOFF
-> Tx starts sending data
-> When Rx’s buffer is full the Rx sends an XOFF signal to Tx
-> Tx receives XOFF signal it stops sending
-> When Rx buffer is empty, Rx sends XON signal to Tx
-> Tx starts again

2. Transmission Type (Serial, Parallel, Simplex, Half Duplex, Full Duplex)

Simplex -> One way
Half Duplex -> Two Way, not at them same time
Full Duplex -> Two Way, at the same time

3. Transmission Flow (Asynchronous, Synchronous)

Asynchronous -> Used when data is transmitted at a regular intervals without synchronizing the transmitter with the receiver
Synchronous -> Used between two devices that are continuously sending data to each other in a synchronized fashion, in timed intervals.

4. Error control and compression techniques

-> Parity Check
-> BCC
-> CRC