Oct 14
Must read notice: Geekish Post….Only for geeks 
Do you need to write your first thesis paper or do you want your publication published in a famous journal?
So LaTeX is for you. LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting based on Donald E. Knuth’s TeX typesetting language or certain extensions. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
Well, definitely *NIX systems have built-in latex support, but in windows you need to set it up for yourself. As few monthes ago I have started writting my first thesis paper using latex and for some reason I have used windows system, I need to setup latex environment in windows. Definitely a annoying, time consuming task, So I have decided to share it 
I am going to describe it step by step, please follow these steps as described, its important. I am assuming you have Windows XP or later versions and you have administrative privilege.
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Tagged with: emacs • latex • miktext • thesis writing • Windows
May 25
Some file storage sites give you a download link which use to expire after a definite time , like 1 hour or 24 hour. MiHD.net is one like them. They allow you to download files hosted on their server without any limitations, but the download link will be functional for 6 hours or other certain time. Not only these file hosting servers, often many sites from where you can download movie or songs, impose this kind of time limitation to balancing load.
But surely you can overcome this limitation.
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Tagged with: download • download limit • Download Manager • download time limit • tips
May 18
Have you checked this? write www.google.com and google.com in your browser’s address bar, then hit Enter. Both will work. same as true for Yahoo!, Wordpress.com and other leading sites. Again there are some sites which won’t work without ‘www‘, like www.buet.ac.bd will work but buet.ac.bd won’t work.
So what’s the reason behind this?
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Tagged with: apache redirection • Browser • internet • no-www • Tips n Tricks • www
May 17
Firefox 3.0 RC1 has been released yesterday [16 May, 2008]. It is different from Firefox 2.0 in many ways.
- More secured
- More personal
- Easier to use
- Improved performance
Read the full list of features here. Download it from FTP or HTTP mirror, or directly from here.
Tagged with: Browser • firefox • mozilla • Open Source
May 17
There is no nice or 100% effective fast way to verify an ISO image of any OS [normally *INX based OS] without installing. But there are several ways one can test the ISO image. If the test(s) are successful, there is a high (to me which is almost 100% ) probability, that the ISO is perfect to be burned in a CD or DVD which one is desirable.
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Tagged with: boot • ISO • Linux • Open Source • os • vmware player
May 13
Joseph Scott from Wordpress.com has developed a new Facebook app called WordPress.com Facebook App which can publish your Wordpress.com blogs directly to Facebook when you have an account with Facebook.
With this app, you can post via Facebook to your blog. Your posts will appear both in Facebook and in your blog. Your friends will be notified by the mini-feed when there is a new post. You can view the stats of your blog directly in Facebook and can explore other friends blogs having the same app installed in their Facebook account.
To install the app, just point your browser to http://apps.facebook.com/wordpress-com/.
So lets start now……………….
Tagged with: blogging • social networking • wordpress.com. facebook
May 09
Few days ago, in windows, I need to list all the file names in one of drive having about 1200+ songs. They were in different directory in the drive. You know, If I ware a fool, I would write all the files one after one in a text file. But I am smart as well as you are. So I Google for a suitable tool and found out an amazing free tool.
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Tagged with: directory print • free stuffs • Software • utility • Windows
