Ekendra - Nearly Everything that I Latch On

One of the main discouraging things for me to use Ubuntu, the great Linux-based OS, in my Toshiba Satellite laptop was the inability to adjust brightness (discouraged to go Ubuntu, read this.) It has been pain in ass for over months, no matter how much I try to be Ubuntu centric, the brightness of the Satellite L740 kicked me away.

Microsoft has just released preliminary information regarding their Surface tablet which is supposed to be “Windows 8 having its own hardware device” as pointed by Steve Ballmer in the recent Microsoft’s announcement. Two different variations of Microsoft Surface Tablets namely Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro based on the OS have submerged.

For those of us who are over concerned with the privacy and tracking issues with the Google giant, there has been many alternatives search engines that don’t track user activities. DuckDuckGo is a crowd-sourced search engine highlighting that they don’t record user activities. In their own words, “We don’t track or bubble you!” Now, if you use DDG frequently you can have your own personalized DuckDuckGo homepage using ...

SLC Result 2068  The result of School Leaving Certificate (SLC) for 2068 is going to be published soon according to the Office of Controller of Examinations (OCE) which is responsible for conducting SLC – the exam still considered to be an iron gate for school students. We will update this article as SLC result information is obtained so that you don’t have worry ...

World IPv6 Launch Badge World IPv6 launch day (June 6, 2012) has finally arrived. Many industry leaders have agreed to redefine the global internet on this occassion. The world will certainly be a better place with IPv6, the new Internet Protocol addressing mechanism which can be allocated to every single sand particle on the Earth. Today, all major industry players are deploying their IPv6 version of their websites which you can browse ...

LEACH, Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy, is an application-specific protocol architecture for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). It has become one of the bases for developing new architecture protocols or modifying the existing one in WSN. It is an adaptive and self-organizing protocol that minimizes the energy consumption in WSN.

I was shocked to see that eBooksclub.org aka library.nu shut down all of  a sudden. It had been my library for years and the next morning, it was gone, gone for ever. This sudden disappearing of a popular virtual library has created a highly interactive discussions in many forums and blogs (including Reddit and Aljazeera – links at bottom of this article).

Been to Bangkok, should try to visit Ayutthaya – an important historical place in Thailand. Ayutthaya, phonetically Ayodhya, is like Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Budhha in Nepal. I recently visited Ayutthaya (last early september), also called Ayudhya, for the holy grail of living. Here are some photographs from Ayutthaya shot by me and my group.

Here is a pretty list of amazing rules. Are they still legal? (Also Read: 42 Amazing Facts) Amazing US Laws: In Philadelphia, you can’t put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760. In Texas, it’s against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.

Engineering Professional Practice: Sample Case and a solution Case: A client came to a designer’s and asked to design a multistoried building. The soil type is found not suitable for that type of structure. The designer hesitated to design a building. The revealed his/her intention as that he/she actually is not going to build that structure but he/she wanted to collect fund from outside sources on behalf of that design and ...