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Posts tagged Open Source
BMI Calculator: My First Android App
Sep 1st
Okay, after Oracle went after google for patent rights i got interested in android more than ever so decided to jump right in and program something. Following is my first app:
BMI Calculator
Purpose
- Calculates BMI (Body Mass Index).
Features
- Support multiple unit systems
- Bells and Whistles:
- Changing Unit System automatically changes the units inside Height and Weight field labels
- Gender Spinner data is read from @arrays/gender_list. This was not needed, just did it to learn how one can read XML and attach an adapter to it.
- Gender Spinner’s Prompt reads from @strings/select_gender. This was needed and done.
- Height and Weight EditText allows 6 characters, single line and decimal
- Hitting Calculate More >
SSH: Tips And Tricks You Need
Aug 24th
SSH is one of the most widely used protocols for connecting to remote shells. While there are numerous SSH clients the most-used still remains OpenSSH’s ssh. There is a plethora of tips and tricks that can be used to make your experience even better than it already is. Read on to discover some of the best tweaks to your favorite SSH client.
Adding A Keep-Alive A keep-alive is a small piece of data transmitted between a client and a server to ensure that the connection is still open or to keep the connection open. Many protocols implement this as a way of cleaning More >
OpenVPN and Windows
Aug 22nd
Today it was the second time i was asked by a friend to help him in fixing his openvpn on windows 7 and to tell you the truth it was exactly same problem that i had fixed before, before he had to reinstall windows that is. Being clumsy i didn’t make notes in the past on how i fixed it and wasted a lot of time after which i came to a solution. So here are some tips for people who are using OpenVPN on windows to avoid issues that i come across frequency:
- Create a shortcut icon of Open VPN GUI More >
Packaging software with RPM, Part 1: Building and distributing packages
Jan 15th
The principal benefit of open source software is, as its name implies, access to the inner workings of an application. Given the source, you can study how an application works; change, improve, and extend its operation; borrow and repurpose code (per the limits of the application’s license); and port the application to novel and emergent platforms.
50 Posts reached
Dec 4th
I just noticed after posting about “Chrome OS” when i went to Dashboard that now my blog has reached 50 posts. Yay!!!
I don’t think all of the posts might actually be useful to everyone (actually 5,8 are about my routine life just like this post) but i am trying my best, keep giving me feedback and i will add more useful posts on the specific topics.
Monitoring Apache with mod_status
Dec 3rd
I was put into a situation at office where i had to check if apache was crashing or not, hits on vhosts, and etc, so i enabled mod_status and went ahead with it. Here is an excerpt from an article that helped me getting started: (more…)
