Linux And Friends

Don’t Forget To Schedule Your Mammogram

A mammogram is the most effective way to detect breast cancer and increases the chances of a cure by 95% in case of early diagnosis. Every woman over 40 should get the exam on a regular basis.

The following advertisement titled “Honk” is a fun video exhorting all women to schedule a breast mammogram. Watch the video with your computer speakers turned ON for full enjoyment.

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5 Free LaTeX Editors For Windows

If you want to create documents in LaTeX, it will be useful if you have a full fledged editor which is designed for creating documents using LaTeX.

There are a couple of choices before you. The following are 5 very popular LaTeX editors available for Windows.

Some of these free LaTeX editors are cross platform as well.

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A Cool Spokeless Bicycle Built By Yale Students

All bicycle wheels have spokes , right ? You can’t even think of a bicycle wheel without any spokes.  At least that is what I believed in till I read about the spoke less bicycle. This bicycle is the brain child of a few Yale University students (9 in all, and Mechanical majors too). This bicycle sports a back wheel without any spokes. Check it out yourselves.

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ReminderFox – Firefox Add-on for ToDo And Reminders

ReminderFox is a Firefox add-on that helps you in task management. Nowadays, most people are spending all their computer time in front of a web browser. So why not let the web browser itself manage your tasks instead of relying on a different software ?

This is where ReminderFox add-on comes into the picture.

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Hexxagon – A Fun Game

Hexxagon is a retro classic game where you try to take over all the spaces on the board, and you do this by leaping into the spaces next to your opponent’s pieces. You control a red jewel and your opponent a blue globule. This cool game can be played between you and the AI (Computer); or you can play this game with your friend because it has a two player mode as well.

This game has given me hours of fun. Enjoy playing Hexxagon…

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20 Years of Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing software developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems.

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How To Master Your Emotions

As human beings, we are all affected by emotions. I am sure every one of us have had to face emotions like anger, hurt, guilt, regret, sadness, dejection and so on. Many times, we are overwhelmed by these emotions thus making us less useful to us and people around us. Learning to master these emotions will help us to gain more control of the situations we face and thus sustain balance in our lives.

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Determine The Current Runlevel In Linux

There are different ways of finding the current runlevel in Linux. Two of them are as follows :

Using who command

$ who -r

You can also use the option --runlevel instead of -r.

runlevel command

Linux has a command called runlevel which also prints the current runlevel.

$ runlevel

How To: TrueCrypt Setup On Ubuntu Linux

TrueCrypt is an open source software that helps you set up and maintain an on-the-fly encrypted volume. On the fly encryption means data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.

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Infographic : Satellites Orbiting Earth

This infographic depicts the number of  man-made satellites orbiting Earth as of this writing. The satellites are segregated country wise and are further divided into three groups namely -

1. Orbiting functional satellites
2. Orbiting dysfunctional satellites, and
3. Space debris greater than 10cm size.

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