Hi. This is just a quick post about a trick to kill a not responding program without even having to find it's process id using terminal / system monitor. Just run ALT+F2 to launch "Run Application" (similar to WINDOWS+R in Windows) and type in "xkill" (without the quotation marks) and your mouse pointer / cursor will turn into an X pointer instead of arrow and just click on any program window that you want to kill. That's all. :)



P/S: Please be aware that when killing the program, all windows belongs to the process will be killed i.e multiple Google Chrome windows opened will be all closed.

Buying a used iPhone / iPad / iPod touch / Apple Watch? You better check whether the Activation Lock has been disabled so that you don't face problem later. Visit this SITE and enter the IMEI or Serial Number.

Hi,

I am not a fan of using Phpmyadmin to run simple commands in mysql. Sometimes, things can be seen better using command line interface since they are less cluttered. So, here's how to login to mysql using command line. I assume you already have at least one database already constructed in MySQL.

Just run mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -h HOSTNAMEORIP DATABASENAME

Please note that there is no space between the argument / parameter -p and the password. So, if your mysql user is root, your password is iamgroot, your hostname is localhost and your database name is justadatabase, the command is: mysql -u root -piamgroot -h localhost justadatabase . Refer diagram below:



That's all. Please remember, when entering any command, include semicolon at the end as shown below:

Hi. Past two days I have had the opportunity to try Kali Linux 2.0 (Sana) in my Parallels and when I tried to do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade as well as apt-get dist-upgrade, the connection is really slow. I was getting about 15KB/s download speed and my Internet connection speed is actually about 3-5MB/s. Which means, my download speed should be 250-600 KB/s. This is really frustrating.

I tried investigating the problem. At first, I thought this has to be something wrong with the repository. So i changed the repo to a different mirror. Even on the nearest mirror to my country, the connection still looks shitty. Never mind, let's try another one. Still not working. The day goes on and finally i ended up trying 5 different mirrors with no luck. Holy crap, i said to myself, this has to be something i overlooked. I changed the DNS to Google public DNS too but still, that didn't make anything better.

I opened up Iceweasel (a Firefox clone that is preinstalled in Kali - Firefox can't be included for some licensing issue they said) and try to run speed test by going to speedtest.net. Oh crap, I don't even have Flash plugin installed. Should I install it? Hell no, I won't do that. Flash is dead. Killed by series of non-stop emerging vulnerabilities. I should download Chrome and observe the speed test using it.

While downloading Google Chrome deb file, i noticed that the download speed won't go pass 40 KB/s. WHATT?? And now I am sure that this has something to do with my connection speed. So, I try to download some random stuff using my Chrome in Mac OS X and there it is. THE DOWNLOAD SPEED IS FINE! ~500 KB/s as usual.

Now I know that my Internet connection speed is fine and Kali Linux repos mirrors are fine, but something is capping my bandwidth in Kali Linux. Is it Parallels? So I shut down the virtual machine and checked the settings. There it is. After changing some setting in Network section, my capped connection speed problem solved. Because I don't find the solution via googling around, I posted the solution here.

Problematic settings

This is the problematic settings. The NIC Type is set to Realtek RTL8029AS and type is Wi-fi. I believed other settings below those two matters.

Correct settings

And this is the correct settings that solved the problem for me. NIC Type is Virtio network adapter and type is shared network.

PS: I've tried playing around with the settings a bit and i found that changing the type to bridged, wi-fi and so on doesn't matter. The only problem is NIC Type and you have to choose that right.

This is not really a review but I would like to say a few words about this custom ROM. Please note that I just got my hands on this phone 3 days ago and this is the first custom ROM installed in my OnePlus One.

The installation went very smooth. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed TWRP custom recovery (I really love this one and been using it since 4 years ago), flashed the latest OnePlus One firmware dated 15th May 2015, flashed the ROM zip file, and finally flashed the TK Mini Modular GApps. No hiccup along the process.

This is a nightly build and by that I am aware that this ROM might have some bugs that will soon be fixed. Before that, I'll just have to live with that. The ROM is quite smooth. I end up using the new Trebuchet launcher instead of my all time favourite Google Now Launcher this time and after 3 days, I am still using it and never think of replacing it for the mean time.

There are some bugs that is bothering me.

• Proximity sensor 

Well, actually that's over since the OnePlus One is launched. But this newer model is quite more interesting. Yesterday, I managed to watch the first ever VR product launch of a smartphone and that's very impressive. OnePlus surely got balls to do that and now gsmarena.com already updated the  detail specifications of the phone.


The only drawback of this phone is it  does not have NFC. Some are not happy with this but I'm fine with that. For those who are gonna brag around about that, I think you should be grateful enough cause you'll never get a better phone for the same price ($389  for 64GB model). Be sure to check up the OnePlus website for product info. Bye.

Enjoy!

While browsing Reddit this morning, I stumbled upon this cool website that provide a huge collection of cheatsheets for almost anything - programming languages and operating systems. I think this might come in handy for some people like me, or not me. Well, I don't know but f**k it, I'm going to share it anyway.

You can visit the website HERE. Some of the cheat sheets are written there and some others that needs more explanations are linked to some selected websites such as tutorialspoint.com and a few other websites. Just see it for yourself cause I don't plan on writing too long about this.


There a more list of languages available at the bottom sorted alphabetically. You'll have to visit the website for more content.

Quoted from the About page of the website:

“Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a young project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.

Background. The rough idea behind ToS;DR emerged during the 2011 Chaos Communication Camp near Berlin, with people from Unhosted a movement to create web apps that give users control over their valuable user data and privacy. Since June 2012, Hugo Roy (@hugoroyd) has taken the lead for the project, and started the legal analysis. Ultimately, all the work is transparent and the discussions happen in public. Our work is funded by non-profits organisations and individual donations and gets released as free software and open data.

Please bear in mind that the project is still in the early phase and that most data is subject to important changes. More information about our classification.

What does “ToS;DR” mean? the name is inspired by internet acronym TL;DR which stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read" and is often used on blogs and emails when a block of text is just really long and that people are too lazy to read the whole stuff. It was intended more as a code name than as a real name. But it seems that people like it (do you?)

This website simplify the terms and let you know the whole point of the terms and service in simple way. This image might tell you more:

It has been a long time again since I wrote the last post. Well, time is not a friend of mine. Too many things happens and I don't really have the heart and enough time to post here. And I don't have time for a long cliche introduction either. So, this is it. This is a script i found on the Internet. I believe it belongs to Samy. His site has some interesting stuff. Be sure to take a peek.

It's a Perl script. be sure you have all that it takes to run the script. Google is your friend.



P/S: Source: samy.pl