Windows

We’ve all heard of the power of Gimp (gnu image manipulator program) to be able to do almost what photoshop does, but it has a relatively higher learning curve and is a gtk based program and not native to windows, so you might not get the best performance, however a newer program called paint.net built on microsoft’s .net architecture, looks really promising

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Here’s an interesting page listing all possible XP hacks and edits and easy solutions for everyday screw ups with XP.

Read: Troubleshooting Windows XP, Tweaks and Fixes for Windows XP

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This is a quick guide on How to enable connection to the Internet that is always ON, for users with DataOne BSNL Broadband and Huwaie MT882 Modem

My problem was: I always used the “dial-to-connect” method for accessing net. and now since my PC would wake up from hibernation, dialing to connect would be a problem, so I needed the net to always ON. but somehow every time I chose the option “always on” while creating a new connection in the Connection Wizard of XP, it said ‘Your Internet is already configured..’ some crap like that, while it was not, because I couldn’t access the net.

I always had both the USB cable and the Ethernet cable plugged in. Had no idea through which my PC used.

So this time I decided to yank out the USB and use just the Ethernet, since anyway there is no support via PPPoA on Linux. (I dual boot)

Go to http://192.168.1.1 in your browser and login with the

username : admin

password : admin

Click on WAN settings to your left.

Here the ’PVC-0′ settings have to be altered a bit.

WAN TYPE should be set to > “PPP”

Connection Type, set to > “PPPoE”

Encap > “LLC”

Default Route > “Enabled”

Username > yourusername@dataone

Password > yourpassword

Use DNS > “Enabled”

Max Idle Time checked to > “Always On”

Click on Save and Reboot and wait for your modem to completely reboot and of course the page displaying “Wait modem rebooting in x minutes” should lead you back to the WAN settings / modem page.

I wrote this little tutorial because as far as I know there isn’t one explicitly explaining the same for newbies. Hope it helps

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I waited to download VB 6 for about 1month only to compile this script that wakes up the pc from hibernation. It does its job well, but it had very little options. This morning looking for wake from hibernation for ubuntu, did i stumble on this nifty little tool - WOSB (Abbrevation for Wake up from Stand By)

Here is a quick screenshot…

As you can see, it can schedule wake up events from standby, hibernate and monitor off modes and run a program as well. This is particularly useful for me, because i have to schedule my downloads between 2am and 8 am.

Although i still haven’t solution for connecting to net after wake up from hibernation because I dial to connect. ;/

So here is the usage guide. Download WOSB from here. and Here is a user experience post Happy power saving!

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Clipboard managers are one of my “must have” softwares. The windows clipboard is useful but, if you copy anything, the current contents of the clipboard is lost. This is especially annoying in advanced text editing or code editing, where you accidentally overwrite the clipboard, and is a huge inconvenience. Linux users use Klipper and other utilities which allow them to paste from a small number of text files in a clipboard buffer. There are a few alternatives, though.

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