Brilliant free antivirus softwares
For all those who use PC anitivirus is one thing which is very basic, and mandatory. Who would want to loose a system to virus, be is a geek or all the old granny's and I have always believed, why pay when you get it for free. Of course there are a lot of free antivirus softwares available and everybody has their favourites. I too have a list of favourites. I have compiled a list in order of my favourite. MSE is available only to free registered windows OS.
base 10 to base 36 convertor
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Legends Of Diwali
Wishing you all, your families and friends a shubh dipawali and a prosperous new year. God Bless you all. No exceptions.
Just like every year, I am wishing my family friends and mates. But do we know why do we wish on diwali and new year? Yes I know its a new year. Buy why? I recently received a very goo email from one of my ex-colleague (Thanks Ketan sir). I would like to share the contents of the email and that will answer the question above. A lot of us may be knowing some of the stories below. I am hoping somebody would come back to say that I knew all of these stories.
Legends Of Diwali
Diwali, the festival of lights, celebrates the abundance of autumn
harvest and is dedicated to various gods and goddesses. The festival
also marks an important date in the Indian calendar, as the North
Indian kingdom of Avadha has celebrated this as the last day of Lord
Rama's long exile of fourteen years. As the citizens of Ayodhya
eagerly awaited their beloved prince's return, they lit thousands of
lamps to guide his flying vimana to their city. The darkest night of
the year gave way to a glorious morning as Rama returned with his wife
and brothers to his ancestral kingdom of Avadha.
Diwali also celebrates the gracious nature of the three goddesses,
Lakshmi, Kali and Saraswati. Dhanteras (two days before Diwali) is
dedicated to Lakshmi, whose blessings are essential for a prosperous,
fruitful and peaceful life. Kali-Chudash (the day before Diwali) is
dedicated to Maha Kali whose strength we seek to maintain the wealth
we have. Strength, physical, mental and spiritual, is essential for
all of us to lead a happy life. Diwali itself is dedicated to goddess
Saraswati. Knowledge is the ultimate wealth, for it cannot be stolen
from you; it is also the ultimate strength, for it often defeats brute
force.
The Legends
Goddess Lakshmi : The Goddess of wealth, Lakshmi was incarnated on the
new moon day (amaavasyaa) of the Kartik month during the churning of
the ocean (samudra-manthan), hence the association of Diwali with
Lakshmi.
Vishnu Rescued Lakshmi: On this very day, Lord Vishnu in his fifth
incarnation as Vaman-avtaara rescued Lakshmi from the prison of King
Bali and this is another reason of worshipping Ma Larkshmi on Diwali.
Krishna Killed Narakaasur: On the day preceding Diwali, Lord Krishna
killed the demon king Narakaasur and rescued 16,000 women from his
captivity. The celebration of this freedom went on for two days
including the Diwali day as a victory festival.
The Return of the Pandavas: According to the great epic 'Mahabharata',
it was 'Kartik Amavashya' when the Pandavas appeared from their 12
years of banishment as a result of their defeat in the hands of the
Kauravas at the game of dice (gambling). The subjects who loved the
Pandavas celebrated the day by lighting the earthen lamps.
The Victory of Rama: According to the epic 'Ramayana', it was the new
moon day of Kartik when Lord Ram, Ma Sita and Lakshman returned to
Ayodhya after vanquishing Ravana and conquering Lanka. The citizens of
Ayodhya decorated the entire city with the earthen lamps and
illuminated it like never before.
Coronation of Vikramaditya: One of the greatest Hindu King
Vikramaditya was coronated on the Diwali day, hence Diwali became a
historical event as well.
Laptop speaker stopped working after using headphones
Something very weird happened yesterday. I was listening to some songs on my laptop in the office using my earplugs. That’s fine nothing wrong here. I then wanted to see a video on Youtube at home. THE SPEAKERS STOPPED WORKING. Had I done something wrong? was the sound card corrupted? Why did I not renew the warranty? Why did this have to happen only after the warranty had expired? These were some of the thoughts playing in my mind. I tried everything. Even RESTARTED the laptop. NO LUCK. It would work fine when I inserted the headphone / earplugs. But as soon as they came out … no sound. I tried everything, updated the drivers, restored to a previous point et al. No luck what so ever. The last thing I wanted to do was to reinstall the OS. Common, there should be a simpler solution. Then, I got frustrated (I was angry as well, but could not bang my laptop on the floor). WALLA. Never heard of that. I then googled and found out that I was not the only person who solved the issue in this way. But this is really a weird solution. All’s well that ends well. Cheers.
Panchang mahurat
In India we belive a Lot in good work begining in good mahurat. In the current world of everyting available online, I thought that the panchang should also be available online. I found ot these two linke whcih proved to be very helpful to me.
The following gives the sunrise - sunset times based on the geographical location you are in.
And the following link will give you the mahurats according to the day panchang.
http://www.astrogyan.com/panchang/language-eng
Cheers,
Janak
Make Phone Calls in Gmail
It’s free after all, as long as you’re calling someone in the United States or Canada, and the promise of international calls billed as low as 2¢ a minute doesn’t hurt, either. So here’s how to do it: Log into your Gmail account, and under the Chat section on the left side you’ll notice a new option that says Call phone. Click on it Upon clicking it, a traditional phone dial pad will pop up. You’ll need to install the Google Chat and Video plug-in for your browser before you can make a call, but there's a link provided right in the call interface and it doesn't take too long to set up. After you've set that up, make sure you’ve got a microphone hooked up to your computer, input a number for someone you’d like to call and hit the Call button. It rings, acts and sounds exactly like a regular phone call, and the best part is: it’s free!! Head over to your Gmail account and check it out today!!
Archiving in GMail
Archiving
One of the first concepts that you have to get used to with Gmail is that of "Archiving". The overall power of Gmail is in its message management, searching and archival capabilities. In order to really leverage this, you need to get past the "I have to delete everything because I don't have enough storage space" mindset. With 1GB of storage, the average email user will have enough storage space to hold several years worth of emails. Yes, there will always be emails that you simply don't want to keep. Don't fret, despite some speculation, you can always delete any message you want. You aren't required to retain every email you ever received or sent.
OK, so what's Archiving? Archiving a message simply tells Gmail to remove the message from your Inbox screen and keep it in your "All Mail" screen. Simple enough, but what does this mean? When you receive an email, it first goes into your inbox. You can read it, reply to it, forward it, etc. You can apply a label to it (more on labels later), you can trash it, or you can report it as Spam. Pretty typical functions. All emails will remain in your inbox until you specifically "Archive" them. Archiving simply removes the message from your inbox screen.
But what happens to it? Don't worry, all messages are always accessible through the "All Mail" screen. Archiving simply cleans up your inbox. Once a message has been archived, should you ever want to, you can easily move it back to the inbox, but there really isn't a need for that.
C# Generic List – Copy by value
Yesterday I came across an interesting issue. We have a source for our product information. This product are then published onto two websites with different tenant id. Now if we process 116K items two times, we are looking for ways to improve the performance. So what we did was we selected those SKU onlys once and updated them into a list twice with different tenant id each time. Here's the code to explain it.
More coming soon ...