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Let me paste here some details of the PGSSP course offered by IIIT-H for the working professionals in Hyderabad, and on the future route that one may wish to take (either a MTech, MS, or PhD). I had written this to one friend who was interested in PhD, but I feel that the same should give anyone (a working professional, looking for a part-time course) a good idea about the PGSSP programme, and a later MTech/MS, as well. [Disclaimer: The information and the opinion presented here are based on my personal opinion and experience. While I have tried to be as correct and unbiased as possible, the following can not be taken as the ultimate or the final word or information for the part-time courses offered by IIIT Hyderabad. For official information, please go to iiit.ac.in and also enquire from IIIT-H's admission office before taking any decision. ] Q. The offer says that u have to enroll in few courses max of two per semester. Does this course offer a degree of Master? If...

Useful commands and howtos at your finger tips linux | unix | dos | windows | mac jdk | regex |... 1. How to find files and operate some command on that file list Example (a) Find all files updated within the last 11 minutes, and copy them to another directory: find . -mmin 11 -exec cp '{}' /home/temp/ \; 2. How to read a file line by line through a unix/linux shell script http://www.bashguru.com/2010/05/how-to-read-file-line-by-line-in-shell.html 3. How to extract only the file names after you have figured out which files from the ls -ltr listing Assume filelist.txt contains the ls- ltr output redirected cat filelist.lst -rw-r-----  1 oraxxxx emsxxxx     2119 Dec  5 02:50 sid_ora_5565.trc -rw-r-----  1 oraxxxx emsxxxx    11591 Dec  5 02:50 sid_ora_24464_TEST.trm -rw-r-----  1 oraxxxx emsxxxx   469796 Dec  5 02:50 sid_ora_5565_TEST.trc -rw-r-----  1 oraxxxx emsxxxx ...

I recently bought a domain for myself at bhaskarghosh.in , and created my first wordpress driven blog cum site there. I have been, since then, fighting with my wits, to stop duplicatability of efforts and naturally of posts and resources. But, I can simply not leave the beautiful look and feel of Google's Blogger, even when wordpress.org gives me much more control. Please visit my new blog. I am not stopping my love for first house, but I have decided to share it with a new home. Musical Poet bhaskarghosh.in

Ever missed events on Facebook, because there is no app that reminds you of your Facebook events? Almost all Android phones are very well integrated with Google Calendar. So if we sync up the Facebook events with Google Calendar, our problem is solved!!! Go to Facebook events Select Export events Facebook pops up a dialog where it displays an URL. Copy that URL. Now go to Google Calendar. Add a new Calendar (Select Add by URL) Paste the URL copied earlier... And BANG! All Facebook events are imported and always synced with the Google's Calendar! Courtesy: How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar  

Having trouble to install the latest Mozilla Firefox release on Ubuntu! The official repository is late incorporating the beta releases? Well, do not worry! Where there's a will, there's a way! Lets install it from the Ubuntuzilla repository! Add the repository to the sources.list file echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null Then add the key sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29 Yes, we need to update the repository sudo apt-get update Coll! Almost done dude! Go on and install the latest builds of your choice! sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build     See this page for more details: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page#Installation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update: 3rd April 2011 Courtesy: https://he...

Have issues with sending or receiving sms-es?? Tip: Your message center number might be empty or wrong! Solution: Very simple :)  Dial *#*#4636#*#*. You will get a menu, from that select Phone Information You will find a setting "SMSC"  Refresh it. It is most likely to retrieve the message center number from your operator. (Or call your operator, and get the message center number, and then update in this field) Then the problem should be resolved! Happy messaging! [Courtesy: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/tech-issues-bug-reports-suggestions/10135-how-do-you-change-sms-message-center-numbers.html]

Two Ways: Default Mail App: Add a new account -> Select Other (POP/IMAP) -> Enter your email id/password (please enter complete email id, like abc@yahoo.co.in or abc.ymail.com etc.) Click "Manual Setup" Select IMAP, and enter  imap.mail.yahoo.com as the IMAP Server. You can select SSL or None. Click Next - > In next screen, enter smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com as the SMTP server. You can select SSL or None Click Next. Enter your account name (as you wish) and click Finish. [Courtesy:  http://www.omgandroid.com/how-to-set-up-yahoo-mail-on-android/  ] YMail App from Yahoo But it does not allow to add more than one Yahoo Mail accounts. Has anybody tried on that yet?? Then comment please... Cheers :)