Look at the pic given below. And decide for yourself.
Thursday 18 December 2014
Monday 15 December 2014
How to increase sensitivity of s pen on galaxy note 3 and note 3 neo
I recently purchased a Galaxy Note 3 Neo and though I am yet to explore it completely I am completely floored by it.
But one thing that depressed me was that the stylus or the famous s pen was not as sensitive as it is on note 2. So I decided to tweak the pen myself.
The following is what you need to do.
1. Take the stylus out.
2. Pry open the small button just above the tip.
3. You will find two circular potentiometers there. The one towards the tip needs to be rotated anti clockwise to increase sensitivity and vice versa.
But one thing that depressed me was that the stylus or the famous s pen was not as sensitive as it is on note 2. So I decided to tweak the pen myself.
The following is what you need to do.
1. Take the stylus out.
2. Pry open the small button just above the tip.
3. You will find two circular potentiometers there. The one towards the tip needs to be rotated anti clockwise to increase sensitivity and vice versa.
Above is a pic of the things I required to make this work.
But in fact all you need is a sharp and extremely small screw driver.
4. Once you are done with it you will have a much increased/decreased sensitive s-pen.
Enjoy.
Sunday 14 December 2014
Plague Inc.
I just now played the game PLAGUE Inc. The most nefarious game I ever played. It is about designing and spreading a disease so as to destroy the entire human race. Couldn't kill everyone at the first go. But will try to make better diseases and try to kill more n more people.
It was though fun.
Friday 24 October 2014
Out of FB n Whatsapp n into twitter...
Check out shubham chakraborty (@chakrabortyshuv): https://twitter.com/chakrabortyshuv?s=09
Saturday 4 October 2014
Hell in Distress
A simple story.
Once there was a library. There were many magazines which were subscribed and readers could read them.
One day a reader got hold of PLAYBOY magazine and he protested and said that this magazine should not be there in the library.
So the librarian decided to remove ALL TYPES OF MAGAZINES from the library.
No Science Reporter, No Youth Today, No India Today not Business Weekly nothing.
All magazines were removed.
Do you think the librarian did the correct thing by removing all magazines when only the required one was to be restricted????
Something similar happened this year at Ghaziabad Kali Bari where the GKB Samitee members took a decision of not allowing GIRLS ABOVE 12 years age from PARTICIPATING / PERFORMING ON-STAGE because some Tom DIck or Harry objected to the DANCE performance of ABOVE 12 YEARS GIRLS during Saraswati Puja day earlier this year.
In the month of August me and five friends of mine from Sanjay nagar Ghaziabad, decided to do a small play which we wanted to perform on stage during Durga Puja celebrations at Kali Bari Mandir at Sanjay Nagar, Ghaziabad.
Unfortunately after we had taken requisite permission and time slot of ten minutes on Saptami, we were suddenly told that we can't do this as we had two GIRLS in the play over the age of 12 years.
Now someone in the commitee took a rather regressive and anti feministic step of restricting dance performance of girls to an age of below 12 years.
First of all I am always against such steps as they are regressive and anti women. Anyways we went on to argue that our play was just about 10 minutes in length and there was no songs or dance involved. But to no avail. Who ever in his infinite wisdom took this decision was way too adamant and probably lost his common sense for good.
But the funniest and most frustrating part was that this infinitely stupid rule applies only to GIRLS OF SANJAY NAGAR and not everyone else. So all the performers being called from outside were exempted from this rule. Good for them.
Someone, whoever is the infinitely wise being, who took the decision about not allowing girls from taking part forgot that he was to define it as DANCE and not PERFORMANCE.
I couldn't believe my ears that PERFORMANCE and DANCE are synonymous.
Ahhhhh.....
Anyways, my brother had written the script and directed it. We performed it in Debashri's home and videoed it. But by the end we had grown so frustrated that we decided not to even show it on projector as someone said from the committee that even projection may not be allowed as it had a girl in it.
I am just wondering if people like them ever were to come to power in centre India will be Talibanised without the need of Talibans setting their feet on our nation.
Here is the video. Watch it and decide for yourself what was so wrong in this. We have performed it without proper costumes. So the stuff is stripped down.
Thanks for watching and reading.
Once there was a library. There were many magazines which were subscribed and readers could read them.
One day a reader got hold of PLAYBOY magazine and he protested and said that this magazine should not be there in the library.
So the librarian decided to remove ALL TYPES OF MAGAZINES from the library.
No Science Reporter, No Youth Today, No India Today not Business Weekly nothing.
All magazines were removed.
Do you think the librarian did the correct thing by removing all magazines when only the required one was to be restricted????
Something similar happened this year at Ghaziabad Kali Bari where the GKB Samitee members took a decision of not allowing GIRLS ABOVE 12 years age from PARTICIPATING / PERFORMING ON-STAGE because some Tom DIck or Harry objected to the DANCE performance of ABOVE 12 YEARS GIRLS during Saraswati Puja day earlier this year.
In the month of August me and five friends of mine from Sanjay nagar Ghaziabad, decided to do a small play which we wanted to perform on stage during Durga Puja celebrations at Kali Bari Mandir at Sanjay Nagar, Ghaziabad.
Unfortunately after we had taken requisite permission and time slot of ten minutes on Saptami, we were suddenly told that we can't do this as we had two GIRLS in the play over the age of 12 years.
Now someone in the commitee took a rather regressive and anti feministic step of restricting dance performance of girls to an age of below 12 years.
First of all I am always against such steps as they are regressive and anti women. Anyways we went on to argue that our play was just about 10 minutes in length and there was no songs or dance involved. But to no avail. Who ever in his infinite wisdom took this decision was way too adamant and probably lost his common sense for good.
But the funniest and most frustrating part was that this infinitely stupid rule applies only to GIRLS OF SANJAY NAGAR and not everyone else. So all the performers being called from outside were exempted from this rule. Good for them.
Someone, whoever is the infinitely wise being, who took the decision about not allowing girls from taking part forgot that he was to define it as DANCE and not PERFORMANCE.
I couldn't believe my ears that PERFORMANCE and DANCE are synonymous.
Ahhhhh.....
Anyways, my brother had written the script and directed it. We performed it in Debashri's home and videoed it. But by the end we had grown so frustrated that we decided not to even show it on projector as someone said from the committee that even projection may not be allowed as it had a girl in it.
I am just wondering if people like them ever were to come to power in centre India will be Talibanised without the need of Talibans setting their feet on our nation.
Here is the video. Watch it and decide for yourself what was so wrong in this. We have performed it without proper costumes. So the stuff is stripped down.
Thanks for watching and reading.
Monday 11 August 2014
One of the most disappointing days of my life.....Godrej U Sonic ....
In the year 2006 I worked on a project in which I created a machine which used extremely low amount of detergent to clean clothes. The machine worked on Ultrasonic Waves. Later Prof JV Rao of NITRA (Where I was doing this project) told me to discontinue this project as he could not see much scope of the work. So he asked me to submit a project report.
I was naive and hence I did as told.
Later I found out that many people have done their research on that machine after I left working on it. And they were doing their PhD under JV Rao only.
Next I found out that he was trying to sell the technology to a few washing machine companies.
And now 8 years later I saw an advertisement GODREJ U SONIC.
Exactly the same thing that I made in 2006.
I can't describe to you my disappointment, my anger, frustration......
I am feeling defeated. Lost.
I was naive and hence I did as told.
Later I found out that many people have done their research on that machine after I left working on it. And they were doing their PhD under JV Rao only.
Next I found out that he was trying to sell the technology to a few washing machine companies.
And now 8 years later I saw an advertisement GODREJ U SONIC.
Exactly the same thing that I made in 2006.
I can't describe to you my disappointment, my anger, frustration......
I am feeling defeated. Lost.
Monday 4 August 2014
Village
There was a time when i used to die to come to my village. My friends and relatives were all here. My grand parents and others were my favs.
Today as i am writing this blog i am doing so because i am not habitual of crying and the heavy heart is required to be opened up to someone.
No one is here.
My grand parents are long gone.
So are my friends. Some married off some left the village. Some have vanished into thin air.
I stood at the center of my village n found a creepy feeling creep up to me. So much has changed. Walls have come up where trees used to be there. The pond has shrunk to half its size. The age old tree giving shade to the shiva idol has been cut down to be sold in the market.
The field where we used to play hardly resembles its own self now.
This is not the village i knew and loved.
Not my village any more.
Friday 30 May 2014
When Love goes Berserk...
Love is really the most important and powerful emotion. It is love and its cousin passion which is driving the entire world; both living and non-living. And when love goes crazy some really crazy stuff can be expected. I experienced it first hand......................... as a spectator.
I am a light sleeper. A squeal of a mouse is enough to wake me up. And this quality has increased in me ever since my son was born. Since he wakes up at night and my wife is a sound sleeper so my brain has got tuned to be always in an alert state.
Anyways, that night it was around 1:40 am when I heard a grunt. A distant grunt. And followed by some heavy footsteps.
Arjun Albert, my son, was sleeping peacefully. I looked at his peaceful face. He looked so cute. But when he is awake, he is a complete don. The entire household revolves around him; literally. My string of thoughts was interrupted by another grunt. This time it was pretty near. And it immediately was followed by a series of heavy footsteps, some more grunts, more heavy steps, running......
My first reaction was that the sounds was coming from the next door neighbour's home which was occupied by a newly married couple. I was smiling initially when I was struck by the thought. But now I knew it was a love of different kind at work.
I peeped through the partially open window. In front of me was a dark, massive figure. A bull. And then another one. A small one. Another smaller one. and 5-6 more. Then I saw a COW...... sitting on the road. And all the bulls engaged in fight. No body was shouting. Just grunts. Horns locked. The two most massive ones were engaged in a duel. In the middle of the road, two massive bulls were engaged in a fight for the cow who had no idea why in the middle of night these bulls have got crazy. Anyways it was nightmare for me. See I am a hyperactive person, when it comes to safety. And I knew if this fiight moves sideways and they ram into the wall of our room it will fall like a pack of cards. I have no regards for GDA's construction. They use cement in sand rather than sand in cement.
As I watched the massive ones kept pushing each other forward or backwards. And I was praying vehemently that this fight should not move sideways.And my prayer was hardly over when I heard a loud noise. I rushed to my kitchen to see what had happened as the sound emanated from there. I was shocked to see the two massive figures almost inside our veranda. The newly constructed veranda wall had partially collapsed. I froze in fear. The bulls were not ready to give up. Then they moved on to the road again, much to my relief, and the next thing I saw was the neighbour's car (Maruti 800 old model) being pushed out of our lane. By the time i realized what was happening i heard commotion from the other side of the street, near my bed room. As i reached there and peeped out again I saw that sensing a possible escape route the cow dashed out of the street from the other side followed by 7-9 smaller bulls running after her.
With my street and home now safe and a collapsed wall, which I can only take care of the next day, I decided to sleep.
The next day, the actual picture dawned on us. Two cars, one auto, four walls and a couple of cycles had been extensively damaged in the previous night's fight for love.
I am a light sleeper. A squeal of a mouse is enough to wake me up. And this quality has increased in me ever since my son was born. Since he wakes up at night and my wife is a sound sleeper so my brain has got tuned to be always in an alert state.
Anyways, that night it was around 1:40 am when I heard a grunt. A distant grunt. And followed by some heavy footsteps.
Arjun Albert, my son, was sleeping peacefully. I looked at his peaceful face. He looked so cute. But when he is awake, he is a complete don. The entire household revolves around him; literally. My string of thoughts was interrupted by another grunt. This time it was pretty near. And it immediately was followed by a series of heavy footsteps, some more grunts, more heavy steps, running......
My first reaction was that the sounds was coming from the next door neighbour's home which was occupied by a newly married couple. I was smiling initially when I was struck by the thought. But now I knew it was a love of different kind at work.
I peeped through the partially open window. In front of me was a dark, massive figure. A bull. And then another one. A small one. Another smaller one. and 5-6 more. Then I saw a COW...... sitting on the road. And all the bulls engaged in fight. No body was shouting. Just grunts. Horns locked. The two most massive ones were engaged in a duel. In the middle of the road, two massive bulls were engaged in a fight for the cow who had no idea why in the middle of night these bulls have got crazy. Anyways it was nightmare for me. See I am a hyperactive person, when it comes to safety. And I knew if this fiight moves sideways and they ram into the wall of our room it will fall like a pack of cards. I have no regards for GDA's construction. They use cement in sand rather than sand in cement.
As I watched the massive ones kept pushing each other forward or backwards. And I was praying vehemently that this fight should not move sideways.And my prayer was hardly over when I heard a loud noise. I rushed to my kitchen to see what had happened as the sound emanated from there. I was shocked to see the two massive figures almost inside our veranda. The newly constructed veranda wall had partially collapsed. I froze in fear. The bulls were not ready to give up. Then they moved on to the road again, much to my relief, and the next thing I saw was the neighbour's car (Maruti 800 old model) being pushed out of our lane. By the time i realized what was happening i heard commotion from the other side of the street, near my bed room. As i reached there and peeped out again I saw that sensing a possible escape route the cow dashed out of the street from the other side followed by 7-9 smaller bulls running after her.
With my street and home now safe and a collapsed wall, which I can only take care of the next day, I decided to sleep.
The next day, the actual picture dawned on us. Two cars, one auto, four walls and a couple of cycles had been extensively damaged in the previous night's fight for love.
Monday 24 March 2014
The missing link
This real story is about 8 years old. In the August of 2005 I recieved a parcel from my then-best-friend AA. Found a small letter attached with it which said the following.
Dear Shubhu
I am fine here. My studies are going on fine.
Occasionally I do also get to talk to Vivek over the phone when he calls me at my hostel posing as my cousin brother(ha ha ha !).
Anyways, his birthday is nearing and I wanted to gift him something. SO I am sending you this parcel. Please hand it over to him. I AM TWO HEARTS OF CLAY.
AA
PS: Parcel khol mat liyo varna tera sar phod dungi.
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Now the letter was all fine except the line (which I have highlighted). I didn;t understand what she meant by "I am hearts of clay".
I couldn't figure out the meaning of the sentence. As requested I handed over the parcel to AA's boyfriend Vivek. But the phrase continued to haunt me.
For more than 4 months I kept thinking time and again the meaning of the sentence but couldn't figure out. The sentence didn't seem to make any sense even contextually. It was frustrating.
November end AA returned home and came to meet me. Even before she could greet me I placed the letter in front of her with the sentence underlined. "I am two hearts of clay"??? I asked and explanation. What dos it mean??? And she read it and laughed. The she wrote something and gave the paper back to me.
It read, "I AM SENDING TWO HEARTS OF CLAY".
The packet contained two clay hearts as gifts.
Dear Shubhu
I am fine here. My studies are going on fine.
Occasionally I do also get to talk to Vivek over the phone when he calls me at my hostel posing as my cousin brother(ha ha ha !).
Anyways, his birthday is nearing and I wanted to gift him something. SO I am sending you this parcel. Please hand it over to him. I AM TWO HEARTS OF CLAY.
AA
PS: Parcel khol mat liyo varna tera sar phod dungi.
\
Now the letter was all fine except the line (which I have highlighted). I didn;t understand what she meant by "I am hearts of clay".
I couldn't figure out the meaning of the sentence. As requested I handed over the parcel to AA's boyfriend Vivek. But the phrase continued to haunt me.
For more than 4 months I kept thinking time and again the meaning of the sentence but couldn't figure out. The sentence didn't seem to make any sense even contextually. It was frustrating.
November end AA returned home and came to meet me. Even before she could greet me I placed the letter in front of her with the sentence underlined. "I am two hearts of clay"??? I asked and explanation. What dos it mean??? And she read it and laughed. The she wrote something and gave the paper back to me.
It read, "I AM SENDING TWO HEARTS OF CLAY".
The packet contained two clay hearts as gifts.
Friday 21 March 2014
My BMI Problem - Part II
In the last post I posted about the problem I am faced with. It has been around three days now and I can see a slight reduction in my weight. From 95 kg it has come down to 92 kg. So In about 4 days I have reduced approximately 2-3 kgs. That is fairly good.
My game plan.
I have understood two reasons for my condition.
1. Extremely Sedentary life style
2. High Calorie food - Carbs.
So I have started to do the following.
1. Contrary to popular concepts starving or too mush reduction of diet will never lead to a permanent reduction of weight. The moment the body understands that it is starving it switches from burning reserve fat to burning muscles. That can be dangerous to both muscles and kidneys. So I decided to eat the same level to keep myself from starving but instead of carbs and fats I have decided to replace them with high fiber and protein food. So wheat (rotis) and rice are nearly out (being born in a BONG family you can never really give up rice) and replaced with oats. The following I have done.
Breakfast - Before (2 + 2 rotis and veg / eggs) Now(skimmed milk + oats and some veg/eggs)
Lunch (Not much change has happened as my wife and mother both are against giving up rice altogether so I have reduced the quantity of rice to half and increased the consumption of dal, veggies, fish and other stuff which are less on carbs.)
Dinner - Before (4/5 rotis and veg/eggs) Now (2 rotis and veg/eggs)
2. Also I have added walking (brisk) to my schedule. So that I may be able to burn off whatever calories I am adding. (Free hand exercise is still not added as the pain is still there)
I hope this will work.
I am not a gym person. Went to gym twice in the last 6 years and ran away from there too. It is not my cup of tea.
Jogging and running is also nearly out of question because of my extremely pathetic stamina as well as laziness.
So I hope my game plan will work. Lets see.
My game plan.
I have understood two reasons for my condition.
1. Extremely Sedentary life style
2. High Calorie food - Carbs.
So I have started to do the following.
1. Contrary to popular concepts starving or too mush reduction of diet will never lead to a permanent reduction of weight. The moment the body understands that it is starving it switches from burning reserve fat to burning muscles. That can be dangerous to both muscles and kidneys. So I decided to eat the same level to keep myself from starving but instead of carbs and fats I have decided to replace them with high fiber and protein food. So wheat (rotis) and rice are nearly out (being born in a BONG family you can never really give up rice) and replaced with oats. The following I have done.
Breakfast - Before (2 + 2 rotis and veg / eggs) Now(skimmed milk + oats and some veg/eggs)
Lunch (Not much change has happened as my wife and mother both are against giving up rice altogether so I have reduced the quantity of rice to half and increased the consumption of dal, veggies, fish and other stuff which are less on carbs.)
Dinner - Before (4/5 rotis and veg/eggs) Now (2 rotis and veg/eggs)
2. Also I have added walking (brisk) to my schedule. So that I may be able to burn off whatever calories I am adding. (Free hand exercise is still not added as the pain is still there)
I hope this will work.
I am not a gym person. Went to gym twice in the last 6 years and ran away from there too. It is not my cup of tea.
Jogging and running is also nearly out of question because of my extremely pathetic stamina as well as laziness.
So I hope my game plan will work. Lets see.
Tuesday 18 March 2014
My BMI problem
I don't know about others but I definitely work on the principle of Rocket. Unless my a** is on fire I usually don't move(read work). And this became even more clear with the new trouble that I am faced with.
I am not a typical fat person. No way. But what I do have is a huge pot belly which has become so huge that it literally hangs out nowadays. In fact a good friend of mine once joked, "shubham's belly walks ahead of him."
And I never really took care to reduce it or control my eating habits at all. But as it was to be God has had some other plans for me. Since last to last saturday I was having a bad backache which limited my mobility to the extent that I had to remain confined to the bed for longer periods.
A recent x-ray confirmed my worst fears. The lower spine Lumbar L5-6 hsa developed a small gap. This is due to the fact that I am massively overweight as well as i have a very sedentary life style.
The following are the stats right now.
Height - 1.7 m
Weight - 95 kg
BMI - >32.5
Age - 31.7 years
Waist - > 44 inches
Body Fat > 29 %
Now that was alarming for me. Doctors said that if this continues for another couple of years then I am looking at the possibility of a slip disc.
So that means I have everything against me right now and I need to address this problem rightaway. So here is the game plan that I am following right now.
My target is to give myself a gift on the birthday. And the gift will be Weight < 80 kg; Waist < 38 inches; and no backaches.
For this to happen I have started to monitor my weight and waist on a daily basis. I will update as often as I can. And that too on FB. I hope my friends will keep reminding me of the fact that this is very important for me to stay alive, fit and healthy.
I am not a typical fat person. No way. But what I do have is a huge pot belly which has become so huge that it literally hangs out nowadays. In fact a good friend of mine once joked, "shubham's belly walks ahead of him."
And I never really took care to reduce it or control my eating habits at all. But as it was to be God has had some other plans for me. Since last to last saturday I was having a bad backache which limited my mobility to the extent that I had to remain confined to the bed for longer periods.
A recent x-ray confirmed my worst fears. The lower spine Lumbar L5-6 hsa developed a small gap. This is due to the fact that I am massively overweight as well as i have a very sedentary life style.
The following are the stats right now.
Height - 1.7 m
Weight - 95 kg
BMI - >32.5
Age - 31.7 years
Waist - > 44 inches
Body Fat > 29 %
Now that was alarming for me. Doctors said that if this continues for another couple of years then I am looking at the possibility of a slip disc.
So that means I have everything against me right now and I need to address this problem rightaway. So here is the game plan that I am following right now.
My target is to give myself a gift on the birthday. And the gift will be Weight < 80 kg; Waist < 38 inches; and no backaches.
For this to happen I have started to monitor my weight and waist on a daily basis. I will update as often as I can. And that too on FB. I hope my friends will keep reminding me of the fact that this is very important for me to stay alive, fit and healthy.
Monday 3 March 2014
Installing Whatsapp on Linux/ UBUNTU Laptop / PC / Computer
Hi there.
Finally I was able to install whatsapp on my laptop. This I had to do because my smartphone broke down and I couldn't help stop using whatsapp. So had to find a way out.
Here I am sharing with you the method to do the same.
I have done this on UBUNTU 12.04 LTS.
To run Whatsapp you need android. So let us first install android emulator. The following steps should be followed as is. Open up the terminal. Then type in the terminal the following
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jdk icedtea6-plugin
Then type the following.
wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r20-linux.tgz
Wait for the download to complete. Then type the following.
tar -xvzf android-sdk_r20-linux.tgz
Then type the following
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Once he download is finished type the following.
cd ~/android-sdk-linux/tools
Followed by
./android
The Android Virtual Device configuration set up will open up.
If the AVD manager doesn't open up then try the following command.
./android avd
If an AVD has been successfully created, you will see the following confirmation.
You can check the list of available AVDs as follows.
To launch Android emulator with the AVD that you have created, highlight the AVD on AVD Manager, and click on “Start” button on the right sidebar.
Alternatively, you can start Android emulator directly from command line as follows. In this case, specify “@[your_avd_name]” as an argument to the emulator.
Booting up Android emulator may be slow (even taking minutes) depending on your hardware. Once Android emulator is successfully launched, you will see an running instance of Android device.
- See more at: http://linuxicle.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-run-android-emulator-on-ubuntu.html#sthash.tGRleQ1e.dpuf
In the "tools" under "Manage AVDs" set up a new AVD. Then start up the avd and wait for the emulator to open up. Once done you will have your android up and running. Thereafter visit the play store through your emulated android and download and install whatsapp as you will do on your smartphone. And enjoy!!!
If an AVD has been successfully created, you will see the following confirmation.
You can check the list of available AVDs as follows.
To launch Android emulator with the AVD that you have created, highlight the AVD on AVD Manager, and click on “Start” button on the right sidebar.
Alternatively, you can start Android emulator directly from command line as follows. In this case, specify “@[your_avd_name]” as an argument to the emulator.
Booting up Android emulator may be slow (even taking minutes) depending on your hardware. Once Android emulator is successfully launched, you will see an running instance of Android device.
- See more at: http://linuxicle.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-run-android-emulator-on-ubuntu.html#sthash.tGRleQ1e.dpuf
If an AVD has been successfully created, you will see the following confirmation.
You can check the list of available AVDs as follows.
To launch Android emulator with the AVD that you have created, highlight the AVD on AVD Manager, and click on “Start” button on the right sidebar.
Alternatively, you can start Android emulator directly from command line as follows. In this case, specify “@[your_avd_name]” as an argument to the emulator.
Booting up Android emulator may be slow (even taking minutes) depending on your hardware. Once Android emulator is successfully launched, you will see an running instance of Android device.
- See more at: http://linuxicle.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-run-android-emulator-on-ubuntu.html#sthash.tGRleQ1e.dpuf
Finally I was able to install whatsapp on my laptop. This I had to do because my smartphone broke down and I couldn't help stop using whatsapp. So had to find a way out.
Here I am sharing with you the method to do the same.
I have done this on UBUNTU 12.04 LTS.
To run Whatsapp you need android. So let us first install android emulator. The following steps should be followed as is. Open up the terminal. Then type in the terminal the following
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jdk icedtea6-plugin
Then type the following.
wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r20-linux.tgz
Wait for the download to complete. Then type the following.
tar -xvzf android-sdk_r20-linux.tgz
Then type the following
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Once he download is finished type the following.
cd ~/android-sdk-linux/tools
Followed by
./android
The Android Virtual Device configuration set up will open up.
If the AVD manager doesn't open up then try the following command.
./android avd
Go to “Tools” > “Manage AVDs” on Android SDK Manager’s menu. It will open up AVD Manager.
Click on “Add” button to create a new AVD. An example configuration of a new AVD is shown below.
Click on “Add” button to create a new AVD. An example configuration of a new AVD is shown below.
If an AVD has been successfully created, you will see the following confirmation.
You can check the list of available AVDs as follows.
~/android-sdk/android list avds
Available Android Virtual Devices:
Name: my_avd
Path: /home/xmodulo/.android/avd/my_avd.avd
Target: Android 4.2 (API level 17)
ABI: armeabi-v7a
Skin: 800x1280
Sdcard: 1G
To launch Android emulator with the AVD that you have created, highlight the AVD on AVD Manager, and click on “Start” button on the right sidebar.
Alternatively, you can start Android emulator directly from command line as follows. In this case, specify “@[your_avd_name]” as an argument to the emulator.
emulator @my_avd
Booting up Android emulator may be slow (even taking minutes) depending on your hardware. Once Android emulator is successfully launched, you will see an running instance of Android device.
Go
to “Tools” > “Manage AVDs” on Android SDK Manager’s menu. It will
open up AVD Manager.
Click on “Add” button to create a new AVD. An example configuration of a
new AVD is shown below. - See more at:
http://linuxicle.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-run-android-emulator-on-ubuntu.html#sthash.tGRleQ1e.dpuf
Go to “Tools” > “Manage AVDs” on Android SDK Manager’s menu. It will open up AVD Manager.
Click on “Add” button to create a new AVD. An example configuration of a new AVD is shown below.
Click on “Add” button to create a new AVD. An example configuration of a new AVD is shown below.
If an AVD has been successfully created, you will see the following confirmation.
You can check the list of available AVDs as follows.
~/android-sdk/android list avds
Available Android Virtual Devices:
Name: my_avd
Path: /home/xmodulo/.android/avd/my_avd.avd
Target: Android 4.2 (API level 17)
ABI: armeabi-v7a
Skin: 800x1280
Sdcard: 1G
To launch Android emulator with the AVD that you have created, highlight the AVD on AVD Manager, and click on “Start” button on the right sidebar.
Alternatively, you can start Android emulator directly from command line as follows. In this case, specify “@[your_avd_name]” as an argument to the emulator.
emulator @my_avd
Booting up Android emulator may be slow (even taking minutes) depending on your hardware. Once Android emulator is successfully launched, you will see an running instance of Android device.
Go to “Tools” > “Manage AVDs” on Android SDK Manager’s menu. It will open up AVD Manager.
Click on “Add” button to create a new AVD. An example configuration of a new AVD is shown below.
Click on “Add” button to create a new AVD. An example configuration of a new AVD is shown below.
If an AVD has been successfully created, you will see the following confirmation.
You can check the list of available AVDs as follows.
~/android-sdk/android list avds
Available Android Virtual Devices:
Name: my_avd
Path: /home/xmodulo/.android/avd/my_avd.avd
Target: Android 4.2 (API level 17)
ABI: armeabi-v7a
Skin: 800x1280
Sdcard: 1G
To launch Android emulator with the AVD that you have created, highlight the AVD on AVD Manager, and click on “Start” button on the right sidebar.
Alternatively, you can start Android emulator directly from command line as follows. In this case, specify “@[your_avd_name]” as an argument to the emulator.
emulator @my_avd
Booting up Android emulator may be slow (even taking minutes) depending on your hardware. Once Android emulator is successfully launched, you will see an running instance of Android device.
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
Thursday 13 February 2014
Understanding Husbands - A Rare Species
"Understanding husbands", that rarest of rare species which is supposed to listen to his wife and wife's paternal family, and also listen to his own parents and still balance both with elan. Why is it that most husbands fall in two major categories: (a) inclined towards wife or (b) inclined towards parents?
Why the middle category of Understanding Husbands is a rarest of rare category?
Here is the reason.
It is much easier to take sides than be neutral. Let us take a simple (seemingly hypothetical) case study.
It is 02nd of October, Saturday. Husband has a holiday. Next day is Sunday. So two back to back holidays.
Wife: Let us go to my parent's place as my parents have planned a trip to Haridwar.
Mother (of Husband): Let us go to Agra togethar. We have never visited that place together.
Now how would husbands react? The easy path is taken by two types of husbands.
The husbands inclined to wives would go with wife and neglect the parent's diktat. It is obviously easier to quell fight at one place than both.
The husbands inclined to parents would simply say a no to wife's proposal. Again it is easier to quell the wife's voice.
99% of husbands fall in the above two categories, at least till his parents are alive.
it is the 1% husbands who stand out for being neutral. And the problem is he can't decide what to do? He can neither upset his wife nor his parents because they both are valid at their points. So now what? A stalemate condition. It is this situation which is the most difficult thing to handle. And that is why most husbands choose sides rather than remaining neutral.
There can be quite a few possibilities that the neutral husbands can take. Either he decides against going in either of places. Justice done to both sides. Problem is he will be battered by both sides. Wife and Mother both will batter him.
Other possibility is to postpone one trip to next week but then he will be battered again as egos tend to flare up when in-laws are concerned. So that creates further problems.
The above is a simple example that I have quoted. there are much more complex situations where te neutral husbands are always at the receiveing ends from both sides. hence husbands donot like being neutral coz that is too much to ask for. Hence they take sides and therefore UNDERSTANDING HUSBANDS hardly exist.
Why the middle category of Understanding Husbands is a rarest of rare category?
Here is the reason.
It is much easier to take sides than be neutral. Let us take a simple (seemingly hypothetical) case study.
It is 02nd of October, Saturday. Husband has a holiday. Next day is Sunday. So two back to back holidays.
Wife: Let us go to my parent's place as my parents have planned a trip to Haridwar.
Mother (of Husband): Let us go to Agra togethar. We have never visited that place together.
Now how would husbands react? The easy path is taken by two types of husbands.
The husbands inclined to wives would go with wife and neglect the parent's diktat. It is obviously easier to quell fight at one place than both.
The husbands inclined to parents would simply say a no to wife's proposal. Again it is easier to quell the wife's voice.
99% of husbands fall in the above two categories, at least till his parents are alive.
it is the 1% husbands who stand out for being neutral. And the problem is he can't decide what to do? He can neither upset his wife nor his parents because they both are valid at their points. So now what? A stalemate condition. It is this situation which is the most difficult thing to handle. And that is why most husbands choose sides rather than remaining neutral.
There can be quite a few possibilities that the neutral husbands can take. Either he decides against going in either of places. Justice done to both sides. Problem is he will be battered by both sides. Wife and Mother both will batter him.
Other possibility is to postpone one trip to next week but then he will be battered again as egos tend to flare up when in-laws are concerned. So that creates further problems.
The above is a simple example that I have quoted. there are much more complex situations where te neutral husbands are always at the receiveing ends from both sides. hence husbands donot like being neutral coz that is too much to ask for. Hence they take sides and therefore UNDERSTANDING HUSBANDS hardly exist.
Tuesday 4 February 2014
A Case of Chinese Whisper !!!
Once upon a time, there was a king who one fine morning went to toilet. There while doing his job, he found a beautiful feather of a bird which he didn't recognize. So he brought it along with him. At his home he told his wife, "See I got this feather. I found it where I was doing my job. But I couldn't figure out which bird it belonged to. So i brought it here. Can you shed any light on it? But ya please don't tell it to anyone."
After a few days the queen told her friend. "See I am going to tell you something that you must promise you will not tell anyone. That day my husband, the king, shitted out a feather of a bird. I was shocked to see it."
That friend after a few days told one of her friends "See what i am going to tell you you must not tell anyone. The kings shitted out a bird the other day."
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This went on some time and finally the king heard that "one fine day the king went to shit and hundreds of birds flocked in and out of his crack. Since then this has been a recurrent happening".
The king fainted.
After a few days the queen told her friend. "See I am going to tell you something that you must promise you will not tell anyone. That day my husband, the king, shitted out a feather of a bird. I was shocked to see it."
That friend after a few days told one of her friends "See what i am going to tell you you must not tell anyone. The kings shitted out a bird the other day."
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This went on some time and finally the king heard that "one fine day the king went to shit and hundreds of birds flocked in and out of his crack. Since then this has been a recurrent happening".
The king fainted.
Sunday 12 January 2014
I am BACK
ITS been AGES that I was GONE
but NOW i AM back FOR good.
DEAR all YOU will HEAR stories FROM me. LOTS of THEM.
Sunday 5 January 2014
Vacations Over
Come 06-Jan-2014 and our schools open after the winter vacations. These vacations have been really hard for me specially because of my health issues. But anyways I had been waiting for the vacations to get over. I generally can't do much work sitting at home. For me constant work environment is the only way to do some work. Any vacation or holiday and I am as good as dead for that period of time.
Did nothing in this vacations except for getting Physiotherapy done on my lower back which was troubling me for some time. No other productive work whatsoever.
Sometimes I feel like shouting my heart out--- I HATE VACATIONS. But then I dare not for I love them too as they give me a break from the stupid routine. So I am kinda messed up as of now trying to decide for myself, whether I love vacations or hate them.
God knows.
Did nothing in this vacations except for getting Physiotherapy done on my lower back which was troubling me for some time. No other productive work whatsoever.
Sometimes I feel like shouting my heart out--- I HATE VACATIONS. But then I dare not for I love them too as they give me a break from the stupid routine. So I am kinda messed up as of now trying to decide for myself, whether I love vacations or hate them.
God knows.
Wednesday 1 January 2014
Happy New Year 2014 -- A To-DO list
Happy New Year 2014 to you all.
2013 had been in general a good year. 2014 will be better.
Hope to keep writing all through the year.
2013 had been in general a good year. 2014 will be better.
Hope to keep writing all through the year.
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