Abhishek Rawal

What is WordPress used for?

I have no to little knowledge about wordpress. I have written 10-15 tutorials & projects in paper & now I am all set to create blog...

Magnetic Door Locks. How Does It Work ?

I would like to know the construction & working(in detail) of magnetic door locks. Few questions : - The magnets in locks are temperory magnets or...

GooglePlayDownloader : An App To Download APK From PlayStore

You heard it right. #-Link-Snipped-# developed by few awesome devs which will let you download any app's apk directly on PC. Source : #-Link-Snipped-# Go compile...

Any way to opt out of CE activity e-mails ?

As much I enjoy CE, I hate the fact that it drops me an e-mail upon my each activity.Yeah, I could put CE alias in spam,...

Jio 4G Internet access is dropping during on-going call ?

Hello CEans, Have you ever noticed that if you're accessing internet on LTE and if there is any incoming call, the internet connection is interrupted ?...

LinuxAcademy : Worth spending 20$ per month ?

Today, on searching the paid online trainings/certifications for Docker & Kubernetes, I found this awesome website named linuxacademy. Surely, from interface perspective, it looks...

Why only Jio provides VoLTE ?

Has anyone ever thought, why Jio is the only operator capable of providing VoLTE but the other operators are unable to provide VoLTE ?

Is It Illegal To Use Spotify In India ?

Spotify is not available in India. However, somehow I tried Spotify client on my Linux desktop and it's now working fine. Funny thing is I am...

Any OpenSource RDBMS That Supports 'Partitioning' & 'Transactions' ??

I am looking for an opensource RDBMS alternative of OracleDB that supports Partitioning & Transactions. If there's any, kindly suggest one.

New Look For Github Repo Has Been Introduced.

Quoting from official blog : Repositories on GitHub are about to get a brand new look. The new design improves navigation and simplifies page layout, all...

Steam Is Now Priced In INR, And It's Not Mere USD To INR Conversion.

A week ago, All Indian steam users received the mail regarding pricing in INR. Ofcourse we were excited, because it is not mere USD to INR...

How To Setup Blog/OwnCloud/ChatServer/MailClient At Extremely Cheap Cost.

What you need : - Raspberry Pi / Raspberry Pi 2 / Cubieboard2 / Cubietruck - Sdcard to install ArkOS in it. - Another desktop/Laptop to...

How To Port Forward My RPi IP ?

I have purchased domain, and changed nameservers to namecheap free ddns. 'Till now everything is cool, I have configured ddclient to automate the task of dynamic...

Anyone Willing To Help ?

I have successfully setup ArkOS on RaspberryPi and I am looking to purchase domain name. I found some awesome deals from namecheap.com but unfortunately my bank...

How Can Adding Trackers Rejuvenate a Torrent?

So there was one torrent which has just 1 seeders and 1 leechers, and the download speed was pathetic! 2 Kbps ? 7 kbps ? So,...

Sublime Text 3 For AVR Development

Been working on hobby AVR project since couple of days, I was looking for a nice plugin for Atom or Sublime Text 3, and after lurking...

Upgrading RAM. Query Regarding CAS Latency.

I am planning to upgrade soDIMM Laptop DDR3 RAM. AFAIK, lesser the CAS latency, better the Response. But why CAS latency are mentioned as 6-7-8-9-10-11, 10-10-10-11,...

Laptop Skins Damages The Original Body Of Laptop ?

I am planning to purchase a cool laptop skin/decal. I would like to know from anyone who have ever used it before, that whether using it...

How Long Does It Take For Your System To Boot?

After few days of tweaking, I have finally managed to lower the boot time of my system to ~14s from ~26s. I know 14s is still...

Why Flipkart Is Forcing To Use App ?

I couldn't understand, why Flipkart is trying to force their users to use Mobile App only for purchase. What are the reasons ? Flipkart should understand...

Finally I Have Ditched Google In Android

I am now using AOSP latest build 5.1.1_r13 LMY48J, with not a single google proprietary bits and some of my personal tweaks. No Play service, No...

Chromium/Chrome Browser Going All Material!

I am currently on Developer branch of Chrome, and I like how things are changing. The little little tweaks and changes making this browser even better....

Best Book (Or Online Tutorial) To Learn Make, C Optimizations, GlibC & GDB In Detail.

As title says, I would like to learn more about it in detail. I am going through man pages and whatever I can grab from internet....

Simplest Way To Know The Size Of Repo Using Git Before Cloning It.

I wanna know size of <a href="https://github.com/Xilinx/gcc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">GitHub - Xilinx/gcc: Upstream gcc + xilinx branches</a> before I sta...

Disable 'Spy Features' From Windows 10

I always have mentioned that, just because an OS has major market share in desktop, it ain't good. It's just million people are stupid as fuck....

Enable DRI3 For AMD Radeon's Xorg Drivers.

On 17th of March, DRI3 support was added to xf86-video-ati. However, to enable DRI3, you have to edit xorg.conf in order to enable it. Commit link...

Your Opinion On PornBan In India.

So, Indian government has subtly (no longer subtle! LOL) banned 857 adult websites, the youths are united (funny, we will only unite for maggi, torrents and...

What Best Song Lyrics You Have Ever Heard?

I know almost everyone of you like to listen songs and music. So, which is your best song lyrics you ever heard ? Please don't link...

KPlasma Mobile OS Prototype

One more opensource mobile OS is in heavy development, Plasma Mobile from KDE team which has delivered us an awesome desktop environment. ​

OpenGL 4.1 Enabled For AMD RadeonSI

Just five hours ago, GL4.1 has been enabled in AMD RadeonSI driver. Compiled latest Mesa-git and yay! I am happy bunny now :3 Source : <a...

Encrypting Ext4 Partitions Without Re-formatting It. How ?

After Google pushed <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/639262/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ext4 encryption patches [LWN.net]</a>, I was kinda excited to imp...

How To Block A Connected Device To Access Internet From Router.

Hello CrazyEngineers, To my network usually 4-6 devices are connected, my mum's device, dad's, mine, my laptop, raspi and desktop. Now, there is neighbour girl who...

My System Is Getting Closer To Skynet

Arnie's T-800 terminator is running on Linux Kernel 4.1.15-1.1381 I hacked Skynet's database and got the source code to lil bit inferior version of Linux Kernel...

Is It Possible To Use More Than One Version Of GCC ?

I have currently enabled testing and multilib testing repo and thus my GCC is updated to 5.1.0 Problem is some of programs can't be compiled with...

Steam Summer Sale Begins

Steam Summer Sale has started today and there will be massive discount on almost all games. Grab 'em all. Hail Gaben. <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/" target="_blank" rel...

Backing Up Entire System & Restoring.

Usually I just tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt /then I just copy backup tar in my other drive or external drive. Re-install bare Ar...

BSNL EVDO - Speed / FUP / Plans Etc.

I am currently using BSNL broadband, however the speed is dead slow. I saw EVDO plans and it is surprisingly cheap and faster with no FUP....

Krita's Kickstarter Goes Live!

Quoting Krita's History The origin of Krita can be traced to Matthias Ettrichâ&#128;&#153;s at the #-Link-Snipped-#. Matthias wanted to show the ease with which it was...

Looking For TTF-OFFICE-2007 Fonts.

Funny freaking world we live in. I have to submit my project report which only accepts .docx as per GTU guidelines. Peasants! Okay enough of rage....

How Many Of You Use Workspace/Virtual-Desktops ?

I am big big fan of Workspace/Virtual-desktop feature. Since the day I jumped on Linux ship my major attention was Workspace. It literally saves lot of...

NES ROMs Are Illegal ?

Now a days I am playing NES and Gameboy games in my machine using emulators. It's quite hard to find the ROMs of games without using...

All Steam Games (Past,Present,Future - every game!) Will Be Free For Mesa Developers!

Valve, the company behind Steam is giving out all steam library games to Mesa developers who have 25 or more patches in past 5 years. Valve...

GNOME 3.16 Screenshot Tour

Finally Gnome 3.16 is moved from 'testing' to 'All' in Arch repository. Gnome DE is turning out to be more and more awesome with some major...

How Many Of You Still Edit Xorg.conf Manually ?

I would really like to know, how many people still live with the old habit of manually creating and editing #-Link-Snipped-# Most modern distros don't require...

Need Help From Anyone Who Is Living Outside Of India

As Mega.co.nz is banned in India, I am unable to download these awesome icon sets which is uploaded there. If anyone can help me out please...

Any Steam Gamers Out Here Wanna Join ?

It would be awesome if few (if not all) CEans gather and make group in Steam named "CrazyEngineers" and game together. Is there anyone out here...

Which Was The last Game You 'Legally' Purchased ?

I know we Indians usually don't purchase digital copy of game because of simple logic "Why to pay when torrents are providing us for free?" Still,...

How To Clone Only Single Folder Using GIT ?

Consider the repo directory as : /Main /Parent1 /Child /Child2 /Parent2 /Child /Child2 I only want to clone /Child2 of /Parent2 (i.e /M...

How To Permanently Store GIT Credentials ?

Everytime I push or commit change in github, I have to manually add github username and password. I did configured first time github credentials but I...

Get 2 GB Free Google Drive Storage.

Complete normal security checkup #-Link-Snipped-# and get 2 GB of free Google Drive storage. You'll receive storage around 28th february 2015. Source : #-Link-Snipped-#

Can 'Hibernate' Affect The Battery Life & HDD Life ?

I am not shutting down my laptop since last two days. I am just hibernating it. I have compiled my kernel from sources and added #-Link-Snipped-#...

GIT Cheat-Sheet (Terminal Way)

GIT is an epic distributed version control tool out there, no shit (Linus developed it!) But there are too many commands and memorizing all of 'em...

Ubuntu : Optimized Free Graphics Drivers.

Ubuntu doesn't really deliver post release update of new mesa driver code to its users which is really sad as the Graphics drivers are progressing very...

Is There Any Laptop That Supports (Read 'Functions Well') Coreboot Fully?

I am looking for a laptop in which I am planning to flash Coreboot over UEFI. Never was an admirer of UEFI crap. Coreboot looks awesome....

Sublime Text 3 : Update Check Notorious Pop-up. Help!!

I get this pop-up : I want to disable it, so I added following lines in user pref : But still that update thingy is popping....

BPG Is Out : Outperforms JPEG In Terms Of Quality & Filesize!

BPG abbreviated as Better Portable Graphics is new image format with sole purpose to replace JPEG. Here's the BPG/JPEG Comparison : <a href="https://bellard.org/bpg/lena.html" tar...

New Biomimetic Robots From NUS Researchers Offer Solutions In Ocean Engineering

A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore are working on developing underwater robots that look just like the living creatures and also have...

Small Help Required In Transferring Files.

I am trying to install Raspberry Pi cross-compiler in my machine. Successfully done first part. Yippie!! But still I am unable to compile programs. After research...

Unable To Load X-Server In Raspberry Pi Connected Via SSH. Help ?

I am getting following output when i try loading X server on my system connected via SSH. Help me iterate this problem. Work's pending. Thanks.

Amazon Giving 40 Paid Apps For Free.

On this day of Christmas, Amazon is giving 40 paid apps for free. Visit Amazon.com download its app (Amazon Store) install it, login with your account...

Disabling Double Ticks On WhatsApp. (Yep,Both Blue & Black Tick)

Everyone has love and hate relationship with Whatsapp, so do I. I love how WhatsApp helps connect to your relatives and totally hate how it fucks...

Purchasing Hardware From Sparkfun In India : Query.

Is there anyone from India who have purchased hardware from Sparkfun store ? I have following questions : - How much did it take to deliver...

Quantum OS : Linux Distro With Material Design Based On QT5.

Material Design is not just for Android device anymore. Quantum OS is using Material design guidelines to design the Quantum OS. The desktop is written using...

QT App Development. Anyone ?

Is there any CEan who knows QT development ? I want to develop a QT based app for RPi which includes nothing but joystick like interface...

Is It Possible To Obtain Image Hex Value From Wallpaper/Picture ?

I like the new theme by OpenSuse Harlequin. Is it possible to obtain Hex value from the image ? ​I would like to obtain image hex...

BSNL Blocked My Favourite Torrent Site : TPB. So What I Did ?

Did any other ISP have blocked thepiratebay.se ? Well, mine is. And my ISP is BSNL. There should be way to enjoy TPB freedom. So guess...

Steam Sales Has Started : You Surely Don't Wanna Miss This.

Steam Exploration Sale has begun ! 😁 ​ I am quite sure you don't want to miss this out. For sake of humanity just buy one...

Moto G 1st Gen Users : Did You Receive Android 5.0 Updates ?

Is there any Moto G 1st Gen users received Android 5.0 update today ? I did contact Motorola customer service & heard that soak test has...

How To Disable VSync For GLXGears In AMD Graphics Card ?

I wanted to test fps in my Radeon graphics card using glxgears. Using: fgl_glxgears Using vanilla glxgears : You can see in both output, the fps...

Buy Custom Vinyl Stickers In India? Where?

I would like to purchase few linux stickers for my laptop. Something like : #-Link-Snipped-# The shipping charge is at peak. So, it would be better...

Need Your Review Of Browsers.

I am in a quest of testing all of the browsers available in the world. If you've ever tested some browsers that are not well known...

GDB Cheatsheets Collection.

Here's the uploaded four cheatsheet for GDB. PS : I am not aware of its source so am not pushing it into 'Downloads' section.

Google PlayStore & Google Play Service Updated To Material Design

Recently, the Google Playstore has been updated to version 5.0.31 with all new material design & new icon. Check the screenshots :

Internet Related Problem, Please Take A Look & If Possible, Help!

I have noticed that when I download anything from torrent, speed reaches as per my BB plan (ULD 512 kbps). But whenever I download any file...

Need Help In Identifying Whether Problem Is In Router Or ISP.

Traceroute from one modem+router : traceroute to www.google.com (74.125.236.147), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.126 ms 1.572 ms 1.999 ms 2 117.19...

Which Xposed Module Are You Using That Doesn't Conflict With CM11 ?

Calling out all the CEans to list the Xposed modules they're using in Stock or CM11. Also, I would love to know whether the respective module...

Chromebook Acer C720 ?

Anyone has ever used Chromebook Acer C720 (2 GB, Haswell architecture model). I am planning to buy one. My main task is to code (in C,...

Privacy In The Internet Is Gone : Agree Or Disagree ?

After reading news of leaked pics of some reputed female actress of Hollywood which were hacked from Apple iCloud makes me wonder, how much these companies...

CE Achievements!

We should take this idea of 'Achievements' from Kickass. Like : #-Link-Snipped-# What say ? Points are cool in Profile stats, but Achievements are dope.

Tutorials Required For Creating Icon (In Inkscape Or GIMP)

I am doing my last year project which is based on Rove/Robot. I am not going to halt the project even after my Bachelor's is complete,...

Console OS : Run Android On Any PC. (No, It's Not Just Another Emulator)

Console OS is not an emulator like Bluestacks or Genymotion. It runs natively on Windows PC and supports Windows 8.1 secure boot which even Androidx86 team...

LinuxCon (Aug 20-Aug 22) : Chi City!

Link to schedule : #-Link-Snipped-# ​ You're interested in which topic talks ? Share! Discuss!

Push Bullet Application To Transfer Data From Android To Desktop Or Vice-Versa, Wirelessly.

1) 2) Adding File 3) 4) Sending File .... 5) Pushbuller App UI 6) Received file 7) You can even get notification directly to desktop

Elementary OS 0.3 Freya Screenshot Tour

Elementary OS 0.3 Freya (Formerly known as Isis) is an Ubuntu based distribution (sadly! - It should be arch based). So, what makes eOS better than...

Plasma Dash Motor Needed To Outrun Earthlings! In India (Local Stores or Online)

I am looking for couple of plasma motors (#-Link-Snipped-#) to purchase in India. Couldn't find any in local stores at ahmedabad, maybe I could find one...

HTML5 versus GTK versus QT(QML)

Which one looks better ? html5 - GTK - QT/QML ?

Build-Root For Raspberry Pi

Fork of buildroot for Raspberry Pi from heaven! 😁 If you don't know what is buildroot, read from here : <a href="https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html" target="_blank...

How To Password Protect WiFi Connection ? Noob here.

I bought Asus DSL N10E, Wireless Router. I have set up it with NO security. Can anyone teach me how to secure it with password (WPA/WPA2...

Hobbit : The Battle Of Five Armies, coming This December!

Can you name five armies ? Well some of us book readers knows what's going to happen 😉

Google Play Store Updated To 4.9.13 Brings Change In UI.

So Google Play Store update has been rolled out, the new version of Play store 4.9.13 looks very nice. Good job, Design team 👍

Looking For An Inspirational Book.

'sup CEans, I am looking for an inspirational book. Any suggestion on awesome titles ?

Which ROM You Prefer : Odexed or Deodexed ?

So since most of devs chooses deodexed ROM as offerings, I would like to know which one do you prefer ? And why ? Let's discuss/debate...

Jolla Sailfish Will Arrive in India Within A Month!

Pretty much bored with Windows & iOS ? (Well Android is not boring at all, so I will deduct its names) Here arrives Jolla Sailfish Phone...

Questioning God & Religion ? This Song you MUST Listen!!

Every person should listen to this song or atleast read its lyrics , atleast once. Lyrics : #-Link-Snipped-# It takes balls to talk about religion ....

Linux Developers WorkSpaces

Linus Torvalds : ​Greg Kroah-Hartman : ​Steve Rostedt : ​

Query About C11 & C89 Standards.

I would like to know whether anyone has done any kind of project in newest standard C11 ? Even though it is latest standard I have...

Cash Rules : Here's The Proof

How To Install Mozjpeg 2.0, Improved JPEG Encoding Library.

Recently Mozilla announced its JPEG encoding library with following improvements as quoted from Mozilla blog itself The major feature in this release is trellis quantization, which...

Antares : Linux Kernel Like Build-System For ARM (STM32), MSP430, AVR, etc.

Quoting from Gihub itself ANTARES is an all-in-one buildsystem, aimed at baremetal targets. It is designed to be portable across a lot of MCUs and adding...

Getting Started With Raspberry Pi ? Here's Small Tutorial!

​Source : #-Link-Snipped-#

Small Help Required

For some reason I am unable to open these websites : #-Link-Snipped-# #-Link-Snipped-# #-Link-Snipped-# Please hit "Skip this Ad" On top right & download option will...

What Happens When You Uninstall WhatsApp?

In this article, we will take a deeper look at what happens when you uninstall WhatsApp from you mobile. We’ll answer all the common questions around...

Weird Animals/Insects You Never Knew About.

​

BSNL BB Plan - What Does 'Promotional Basis' Mean ?

There are couple of plans introduced by BSNL which are termed as 'Promotional basis for 90 days'. I would like to know, what does 'promotional basis'...

Cronjobs Generator

Too damn ignorant to write cronjobs ? Well, here is an automated online tool to generate cronjob for you. #-Link-Snipped-#

Jolla Launcher For Your Android Devices ( 4.2+ Only)

An XDA member 'riyono' ported Jolla launcher for Android 4.2+ devices from original source of an XDA member 'Arnob' who ported it for Android 4.3+ devices....

ARM's 64-bit Juno, An Open Platform Development Board.

ARM Juno development board is the first of its kind with 64-bit ARM processor supporting ARMv8 instruction set. The development board is shipped with six 64-bit...

The Witcher Battle Arena : MOBA For Android & iOS!

TWBA is MOBA like game for Mobile OS Android, iOS & Windows developed by ProjektRed. Teaser : ​Will you buy this legendary game ? I know...

Show-Off Your Android Home Screen.

Requesting all CEans to post their Android's Home Screen. Do mention launcher's name & icon theme too. Rolling the dice first : ​ Launcher Name :...

India's Performance In FIFA 2014!

This is ridiculous, watch it : My reaction :

Android L Screenshot Tour (Dev Preview)

Following are the screenshots of Google's upcoming iteration, Android L. Pictures are blatantly copied from Anandtech, all credits go to them. Applaud 'em. ​

Google I/O 2014 - Keynote

Android Developers, you prolly shouldn't miss this - ​Couple pictures to keep you more interested in this conference - ​

Barbeque Grill Which Runs Ubuntu OS.

Reddit user aperson posted couple of awesome pics of the barbeque grill that runs Ubuntu OS. PS : Barbeque Grill is used as case. You don't...

Tizen-SunXi Mobile OS Arrives For AllWinner SoCs

A few days ago at the Tizen Developer Conference 2014, developers presented new projects such as #-Link-Snipped-#, <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/samsung-announces...

GNOME Shell 3.14 To Feature New Notification System

The GNOME developers are busy developing a new notification system which will replace the current implementation of the notification tray in their upcoming stable release of...

Home Automation : Spill Out Some Ideas

If you're planning to automate your home, what features you'd like to have ? What you'd like to automate in your home ? What features you...

Mozilla's PlayCanvas - A Browser Based Gaming Engine Goes OpenSource

For more than three years Mozilla has been developing a JavaScript tailored, WebGL utilizing browser based gaming engine called PlayCanvas. PlayCanvas is a JavaScript library engin...

Hello Klick - A Physical Button For Android To Perform Assigned Task.

#-Link-Snipped-# is a physical button which is inserted into audio jack 3.5 mm of your Android smartphone.Once inserted, using #-Link-Snipped-# you can assign code to the...

Google Android 4.4.3 Released, Includes New Dialer & Major Bug Fixes.

After tons of rumors, the new version of Android Kitkat 4.4.3 is finally released. In addition to major bug fixes, the latest update includes the fresh...

Google Chrome 35 Drops Support For NPAPI Architecture Based Third Party Plugins

A few days ago, new stable iteration of Google Chrome 35 and Chromium 35 was released that included many new features such as migration from GTK...

Responsive Design Of CE Ain't Responsive In Midori Browser. (Requesting Fix)

I am using Midori Web browser, I have tested all other heavy websites from Flipkart, ZDnet, Phoronix, etc. Each & every website is appearing properly, except...

(Discussion) Clang Versus GCC : Better Compiler ?

This thread is open for discussion for anyone who have interest in discussion related Clang & GCC. Clang is replacement to GCC, so you might be...

Unlocking Your Android Phone Using NFC

This is fun project, sad part is I don't have a device with NFC. But you can DIY if you got one with NFC. Quite better...

GitHub Opensources It's Editor 'Atom' Under MIT License.

Github's text editor 'Atom' is now open for public, free & fully hackable (opensource). For MAC users downloads are available in official website #-Link-Snipped-# , for...

(Collection) Best Free Media Players Available.

I am dedicating this thread for all media players that are available in internet for free whether it is closed source or opensource. I would like...

Symbian OS IS NOT Dead !

Alright, it is dead at this moment. As iOS & Android took over Symbian, the development for Symbian was stopped & so its tool were also...

Make Your Ubuntu Unity Theme Look Prettier With Numix.

#-Link-Snipped-#, recently updated their Numix GTK Theme PPA and the Unity Launcher looks GREAT! Check the difference from image below. I can't believe I installed Ubuntu...

HTML5 Test For Your Browser (Post Your Results)

Do HTML5 testing for your browser : #-Link-Snipped-# and post the result alongwith your hardware configuration. Let's see which browser beats whom with 1000 fish. CEans,...

C Library For Controlling GPIO Pins In Raspberry Pi

We can control GPIO pins out of box using Python. But, since I am not that fond of python (tbh I don't know Python), I am...

Overclocking versus Overvolting in Raspberry Pi. Which one is more dangerous ? Why ?

I would like to know which parameter is more dangerous, OC'ing or OV'ing ? I would love to know reason behind the answer.

Flash Versus HTML5 For Youtube.

I am using html5 for video streaming, and my experience with it is pretty impressive. I have found html5 more responsive & better than Flash. Most...

What's Your Overclocking Config For Raspberry Pi ?

Currently, I am in quest to check the OC'ing capability of Raspberry Pi. I been testing few random settings. I have even added heat-sink on RPi...

Theo De Raadt forks openSSL as code is beyond repair.

Theo De Raadt, founder of openBSD forked openSSL which contains heartbleed security bug. Theo with his openBSD team found that openSSL is not possible to repair....

Ubuntu 14.10 [News/Features/Updates/Changes]

This is dedicated thread for Ubuntu 14.10 (codename not selected at this moment). I will try to keep ya'll updated to the upcoming features/changes/proposed-changes of 14.10....

A Look At Upcoming KDE 5 Framework Based 'KDE Plasma Next'. Beautiful!

First Beta of KDE Framework 5 is released. The final release is planned for June. Plasma Next that is built on QT5 is the first transition...

Comparison, Drawback & Advantages of FPGA versus ASIC.

Title says it all. I would like to know difference, drawbacks & advantages of ASIC versus FPGA in detail. Yup, I know few basic that is...

List Of Reputed College Providing M.Tech In E.C. In Embedded Systems Course.

I am looking for list of reputed colleges in India that provides Embedded Systems Course in M.Tech on basis of GATE Score. I recently checked Nirma...

How To Disable Nepomuk & Akonadi Server Permanently ?

How can I disable Nepomuk permanently ? I never use PIM apps, so Akonadi server is useless & it is consuming around 100 MB of memory,...

Ubuntu Touch Swipe Multi-tasking [Video]

Multi-tasking on Ubuntu Phone is very nicely done. May be it's my personal opinion, but multi-tasking using swipes (Ubuntu Touch) is better than multi-tasking using buttons...

VLC 2.2 'WeatherWax' Brings Add-On Manager

In testing branch of version 2.2 of VLC codenamed 'WeatherWax', the new feature 'Add On Manager' is being merged. This add-on manager will let you download...

Chrome OS Style Desktop Enviroment : Budgie Desktop (Evolve OS)

Budgie Desktop has reached to version 2.0 recently. Budgie, the Mutter based desktop environment looks similar to that of ChromeOS that is shipped only in Chromebooks....

Download Paid Apps For Free From Amazon Appstore.

It's Amazon's Appstore birthday! So what ? Grab the app from Amazon.com : #-Link-Snipped-# Create A/C in Amazon, if you don't have & download paid apps...

Check Disk Space Used By Files Directly From Terminal Using 'NCDU'.

NCDU abbreviated as NCurses Disk Usage is a disk usage analyzer tool written entirely in C, most probably used when you don't have access to graphical...

Where Do You Live ? ;)

Tell us in comments below where do you live from map below 😉 Image credit : Dedoimedo.com ​I have four homes in this world - Arch...

Facebook Releases PHP Based Language Known As 'HACK'

Facebook recently announced a scripting language that is based on Php and powered with their home tool <a href="https://hhvm.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer...

Popcorn Time : The OpenSource Movie Streaming App That Scares The Shit Outta Hollywood.

Popcorn Time is the opensource application which streams the torrent pirated movies. It is based on YIFY API. Recently, due to legal issues & too much...

Will This End Microsoft Gaming Era ?

Valve's CEO Gabe Newell ditched Windows 8 & announced support for Steam on Linux last year. Following to that, he also announced SteamOS which is fork...

Create GIF Image From Video File.

Creating GIF Image from video file is quite simple. What we will do ? We will use screencast application like Kazam to record the on-desktop video....

Good Old Games (GOG) Recently Announced Support For Linux Platform.

<a href="https://www.gog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">GOG.com</a> formerly known as Good Old Games (owned by CD Projekt RED - The company behind super d...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Sneak Peek At Upcoming Features

Hardly one month is remaining for the most awaited LTS release of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. In past few weeks, many long requested features were fixed,...

Backdoor Found in Samsung Galaxy Devices!

<a href="https://www.replicant.us/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Replicant</a> developer found the backdoor in Samsung Galaxy Devices which can't be removed e...

Mir Display Server & Systemd Will be Shipped As Default In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

During latest Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), Mark Shuttleworth announced that Mir display server & <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/ubuntu-will-switch-to-systemd-aba...

Code Navigation Website : XRefs

XRefs is a website from where you can navigate source code of Linux Kernels, Bootloaders, Android Kernel, Android Framework, OpenStack, Paas, CloudStack, Django, Python ,etc. You....

Is There Any Performance Difference Between PCIe 1.x ,PCIe 2.x & PCIe 3.x ?

PCIe 1.x offers BW of 8 GBps PCIe 2.x offers BW of 16 GBps PCIe 3.x offers BW of 32 GBps I would like to know...

Ubuntu 13.10 User, Please See This.

If anyone of you are using Ubuntu 13.10 then kindly show me the screenshot of Settings -> Universal Access. Thanks. It's urgent.

Anyone Know History Of Power Button ?

Do you know history of Power button ? ​ The power button symbol found on every computer has a history steeped in code. The symbol is...

Modular Open Hardware Era : How You See Future Of Electronics Devices ?

I am following <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/phonebloks-watch-the-video.70643">Phonebloks : Watch The Video.</a> from very long time. The most exciting project of...

Ubuntu Community Survey 2014

Official survey from Canonical's Ubuntu. It will hardly take few minutes, If you use Ubuntu or care about Ubuntu then kindly take this survey. This survey...

OpenSource Dukto LAN File Transfer Tool Lets You Transfer Files W/O Configuring Anything.

Dukto is an opensource tool which will help user to transfer files within servers & clients without configuring anything via LAN. Compile it yourself, source code...

Samsung Galaxy Y, Ace I, Pocket & Mini I Will Get Android ICS Official Support.

Samsung Galaxy Y, Ace I, Pocket, Mini I are the android devices which were deferred to Android update of 4.0+ due to the chipset used within...

Happy Birthday Raspberry Pi

I know I know, RPi went on sale on 29th of Feb 2012. But since 2014 ain't leap year, we will celebrate it today! Happy birthday...

What Does It Mean By 'Dedicated Core For Special Features' & How Does It Works ?

Read latest comment by @#-Link-Snipped-# in article : #-Link-Snipped-# about dedicated core for special features like camera, natural lang processing etc. I would like to know,...

JavaScript Developers Needed For An OpenSource Project.

Numix Project Team, who started out as GTK based icon-theme & gtk-theme are now planning to make their own Linux distribution. The new distribution stack is...

KDE Plasma NEXT Gets New Wallpaper & Theme Manager

The KDE developers have recently presented their work on latest development of new wallpapers & themes manager of KDE. This new manager will be arriving with...

Best Book/Tutorial Available In Market/Internet Resp. For GDB.

To be precise, I am learning programming of AVRs since last 3-4 days (exciting it is), I want to learn to use GDB for tracing my...

GTU (Gujarat Technical University) Will Allow Students To Design Their Own Course! #Happy

According to news by Ahmedabad Mirror, From Next semester onwards Engineering students (Diploma & Bachelors) will be able to study the subjects of their liking in...

Canonical Confirms Arrival Of VLC, Spinlet, Mapbox & Other Third Party Apps For Ubuntu Touch

In the recent post on Insights Ubuntu, Canonical announced some of its new partners who have decided to develop their applications for Ubuntu Touch. These third...

Outernet Plans To Bring Free Internet For All

Outernet is a new project which aims to bring FREE internet for every single inhabitant on planet Earth. Internet has now become an indispensable part of...

Sailfish OS Will Be Available For Android Devices!

Jolla Engineer, Harri Hakulinen confirmed that Sailfish OS will be available for Android devices. #-Link-Snipped-# I hope soon there will be freedom of choice of OS...

Ubuntu Will Switch To Systemd Abandoning Their Own init System Upstart

Canonical & Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu will migrate to systemd, moving on from their own Upstart init system. Upstart init daemon was written...

New Search Functionality Codenamed 'Baloo' Likely To Arrive In Upcoming KDE Releases.

KDE Development team is currently working on improving the on-desktop search functionality, Nepomuk; which will be included in the upcoming KDE releases. The iteration of Networked...

Wine 1.7.12 Brings Windows Media Player Interface Support

WineHQ team has announced the new development release version 1.7.12 with Windows Media Player interface support & 89 total bug-fixes. Along with the inclusion of Windows...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Wants An Android Phone From Apple

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc. wants his company to develop an Android phone, reports Wired Magazine. Do you agree?

GNOME Music App : Simple & Attractive

GNOME Music App for GNOME DE, is still under development. It's still under development & thus many features are still not added & not working. It's...

Clementine OS, Resurrection Of PearOS : Mac OS X Clone.

Clementine OS is a new Ubuntu based distribution which will be developed on top of famous PearOS that aims to provide user experience similar to that...

Ubuntu Developers Planning To Develop Their Own File-Manager For Ubuntu 14.10

Ubuntu is planning to develop its own file manager which will be introduced with their QT5 powered Unity8 desktop environment from Ubuntu 14.10 onwards. Ubuntu is...

FOSDEM'14 Special : Building Tizen Device At Home.

Leon Anavi, the professional opensource software engineers and regular contributor to QtTizen & Tizen project, is one of the speakers at FOSDEM'14 conference which is taking...

Chrome App Launcher & AURA UI Finally Arrives In Google Chrome For Linux.

Recently, Google Chrome Dev Channel stacks for Linux were updated adding AURA UI stack & Chrome App Launcher to the latest unstable build. AURA, the graphical...

MATE Desktop LiveCD ISO Based On ArchLinux Officially Released

Recently, MATE development team released LiveCD ISO based on ArchLinux that boots full MATE desktop environment, allowing potential users to try MATE without installing it in...

Ubuntu Web Browser In 14.04 Dev Branch

I have showcased Ubuntu Web Browser in Ubuntu 14.04 which shows convergence in video below. It's just 2 minute long, take a look.

Google Glass Will Be Available With Prescription Lens.

Google recently announced a partnership with a vision care giant VSP Global to offer prescription lenses for its Android powered glasses. The main goal behind this...

Boot Repair Tool Likely To Be Added By Default In Ubuntu 14.04

With the inclusion of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot system security in Microsoft's Windows 8, booting Linux based distributions is still a major headache...

ChipShip's Smart Glass To Compete With Google's Glass.

The Taiwanese company Chipship has announced plan of releasing Smart Glass which will be competing Google Glass. And from the proposed specifications, it is killing Google...

Latest Unity7 Update in Ubuntu 14.04 Features Anti-aliased Windows & Full GTK3+ Theming Support.

Currently the default Ubuntu desktop is shipped with Unity7, even though Canonical developers are working on upcoming major iteration Unity8 (a.k.a Unity Next) which is based...

Sable Complete All-in-one Ubuntu Linux Pre-installed PC Released By System76.

System76, the computer manufacturer well-known and highly appreciated for their support of opensource software has released new Sable Complete All-in-one PC with Ubuntu Linux pre-i...

Client Side Decorations In Gnome : Every Pixel Counts.

I am not going to write what's already been mentioned in Gnome's blog. I will simply post pictures which is enough to give you hint on...

Kingdom Come Deliverance: First CryEngine Game Planned For Linux

Czech Republic located game studio, #-Link-Snipped-# has funded a Kickstarter game Kingdom Come Deliverance; which is powered by Crytek's CryEngine3. CryEngine 3 is the latest vers...

Widget To Add 'Total Views' Per Post Under Article For Blogspot

I would like to add the widget which mentions the 'total number of views' per article for Blogspot. Can anyone name it ?

Oculus Rift : Will You Buy It ?

Is there any CEan out here who is as fond of Oculus Rift as I am ? This hardware is in my wishlist fo' sure! ​Write...

Sailfish OS Ported To Nexus4

Jolla once revealed that Sailfish OS will be available for Android devices, to entice developers to comeup with native apps for Sailfish OS. One months back,...

Facts About X Versus Wayland Display Server.

We have heard lot of shit about X & Wayland. most of the news revolving around community is rumour/lies. Here's the article to clear out the...

All Steam Games (Past,Present,Future - every game!) Will Be Free For Debian Developers!

Valve, the company behind <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Welcome to Steam</a> will be making all of their games (past,...

(KDE) Homerun Launcher : Ubuntu Unity Dash Like Experience In KDE

Quoting from homepage Homerun is a fullscreen launcher with content organized in tabs. A tab is composed of several "sources". A source can provide one or...

Conky Theme : Slick-Conky

​- Blatantly copied Upspeed Downspeed graph code from Styajit Sahoo's Conky Now theme - Used lua script of VinDSL BG Hack - Other modifications are solely...

Rounded-Dark Plank Theme

​Rounded-Dark theme I have created which suits the best for circled-icons, the source-code is available at GitHub : #-Link-Snipped-# You'll need plank dock(comes pre-installed in #...

Retiring From CE. Adios.

I was searching for term 'Indian Engineers Forum' like couple of years ago & found CE. There were many other forums which appeared before CE in...

Ubuntu Will Ditch Six Month Release Cycle, "Pseudo-rolling Release" Is The Next Upcoming Change.

We know that every six month i.e in April & October, new release cycle is released. Canonical recently announced two major & exciting features that's coming...

Blizzard's Heroes Of The Storm Versus Valve's DoTa2 : Who Will Survive?

I recently watched gameplay of MOBA style Blizzard's game - Heroes Of The Storm, and it looks outstanding. The game mechanics are lot lot different than...

CES 2014 : List Of Electronics Gadgets That Will Be Teased.

Here's the collected list of technology/gadgets which is expected to be teased in the World's largest trade show, Consumer Electronics Show 2014 that will be held...

Maker Fest 2014 @NID,Ahmedabad.

Maker Fest is an all-ages showcase and celebration of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, a place to meet and interact with likeminded top-notch innovators from different wa...

Happy Birthday Linus Torvalds, The Father Of Linux.

Many many happy returns of the day to the legend who accidentally created Linux, Linus Torvalds. Without you we wouldn't have seen Android, Unix based distros...

Steam Holiday Sales : Best Game Offers.

Gamers, Valve's steam is celebrating 'Steam Holiday Sales' for Christmas holidays. Grab your favourite game at cheapest price & discount so huge that you will regret...

Nemo Breaks Default Functionailty & Enables Desktop Icons In Pantheon-DE

By default, in Pantheon Desktop Environment, the desktop icons are disabled. Infact, you can't even right click on desktop in Pantheon-DE. Recently, I installed Nemo File...

Name & Vote Your Favourite File Manager.

I would like all CEans that are using Linux based OS to please vote & name in comment below their favourite file manager, and give few...

KitKat 4.4 Launcher For Low End Devices Like Galaxy Y, Galaxy Ace, HTC Sense, S Advance ,etc.

I have found one nice Kitkat 4.4 launcher from XDA developers, named as Google Launcher HD. Supported devices : Samsung - Galaxy Y, Galaxy Y Duos,...

Operating System For Gamers : SteamOS, Beta 1.0 Codenamed 'Alchemist' Is Out.

I was quite surprised that VoiCEans didn't covered the revolutionary move by Valve, the resurrector of PC gaming, the Operating system for gaming - SteamOS! Well...

Balaji Wafers : In How Many States It's Sold ?

We have CEans from every corner for India,So I would like to know whether Balaji Wafers is easily available in your state or not ? If...

Nautilus Next : New GNOME Files App MockUp.

GNOME Interface & UX designer at Red hat & GNOME, Allan day posted set of mockups for GNOME Files App, Nautilus recently on this <a href="https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/11...

SELinux Policy Guide.

This article is so well written that I gotta share : <a href="https://opensource.com/business/13/11/selinux-policy-guide" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Your vi...

Need Few Suggestions & Help For Website.

1) I would like to know, how your article are ndexed in Yahoo,Bing or Google search engine ? 2) I tried chkme.com & when I entered...

Hobbit 2 : Are You Excited ?

One week after Hobbit 2 is releasing, are you excited ? Book was marvellous, Let's see how much a movie can cover. ​IS there any CEan...

Can using keywords like 'Hack' get you banned from host provider & google adsense ?

Using words like 'hack' ,'hacking' can get your website banned by host provider and google adsense ? So a website related to 'ethical hacking' containing word...

Is It Possible To Set Timer/Counter In Microcontroller Externally By Using Some Physical Device ?

I would like to know whether it is possible to set timer/counter using external hardware? how ? What I want is : I tweak the external...

How to calculate time for food in the Pressure cooker ?

Consider the capacity of Pressure cooker to be 5Kg. I have kept 1Kg potatoes in it which I would like to cook. I know that I...

See Mac Supports Windows.

Steven Vaughan Nicholas share this in G+ Funny but true 😛 Best use of Mac, I guess.

Valve Joined Linux Foundation.

Finally, Valve has joined Linux Foundation.2014 will be the exciting year for Linux users. Hardcore game are coming. Infact, I feel Half-Life 3 is coming the...

Kano : A Computer Anyone Can Make.

A computer & coding kit for all ages using RaspberryPi. This is nice Kickstarter Project : #-Link-Snipped-#

OpenHardware : Improv. (This Development Board Is Awesome)

Aaron Siego (KDE Hacker) recently announced an OpenHardware development board <a href="https://makeplaylive.com/#/home" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MakePlayL...

Electric Field Intensity Vs. Electric Field Density - Differences?

In this article, I will talk about the basic concepts of Electric Field, its intensity, density and the differences between these two. A lot of new...

Opamp With One Terminal With AC Input & Other With DC Input.

As we know, opamp amplifies both ac & dc input signals. I would like to know what could be the resultant output if one terminal is...

Error In Installing 64-bit OS in VMware.

I am using 64 bit system, I have installed latest VMware & while I mount image & try to install any 64-bit, it gives me error...

Why Repeaters Cannot Be Used In Analog Communication System ?

Repeaters are basically regenerators of input signals.It is used in DCOM system to maintain it's stock amplitude which reduces due to attenuation when long distance from...

How Do Inkjet Circuits Work ?

A new technology is developed which will make circuit printing easy as pie, it uses Inkjet printers to print the circuits. No more etching! The equipments...

Best Web Hosting Provider For Solo Domain ?

I would like to know few good web-hosting service providers for one domain which is not too costly, have 99.99% uptime & gives unlimited storage. One...

Tech Blog : Wanna Join ?

Myself & @#-Link-Snipped-# have decided to team up for a tech blog. He'll writing articles on C/C++ tutorials & I will be covering Linux related Tweaks/HowTos...

Create QR codes Using Qreator.

Qreator is an Opensource application which lets you create youn QR codes to encode different type of information in just one click. Currently supporting : -...

Evolution Of Google Nexus.

Evolution Of Google Nexus. Courtesy : Gadgetlove.com

Will Ubuntu Derivatives Die After Ubuntu Drops Xorg & Ships With Mir As Default Display Server ?

Since sooner (14.04) or later (14.10) Ubuntu is going to ship with XMir & then obviously they will drop maintaining the xorg packages for Xbuntu &...

How to create awesome PPT for seminar

I read <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/how-to-present-yourself-in-seminar.38144">How To Present Yourself In Seminar</a>such a dope thread. But question arises that...

Expecting help For : Conky Config.

All right, I am quite sure that again my thread will go virgin; though Imma try few more times before I give up on asking queries...

Does Mac OS X & Windows Use PAE Kernels ?

I would like to know that whether OS X & Windows still runs on PAE Kernels ?

Aligning AppIndicator. How ?

I want to align appindicators in the order as I like in Ubuntu. Anyone of you know it how ? Couldn't find way in gconf-editor. There...

Hard Disk Failure Error. What Could Be The Reason ?

Around six months back, I posted <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/pc-freezes-at-boot-screen-help.61797">PC freezes at Boot screen ! HELP!!</a>. I couldn't find sol...

Bye Bye Analog Controller, Valve's Steam Controller Kills You All!

After 3 big announcement by Valve - SteamOS - Steambox - Steam Controller Latter one looked bit of disappointing announcement at first, but it's not. Checkout...

LynxOS RTOS Is OpenSource ?

In short, LynxOS RTOS is Opensource or not ? I couldn't find any license documentation. Would like to know about Opensource Linux RTOS. Anyone have idea...

C Bible : Is there Any difference between these two books ?

Book 1 : #-Link-Snipped-# Book 2 : #-Link-Snipped-# Book 1 costs 135 INR & Book 2, 2795 INR. I have read entire book illegal way by...

TEDx Talk : Jim Zemlin. (A Must Watch For Everyone & especially Developers)

Spare your 18 minutes (or atleast first 8 minutes) & view this TED talk, You're going to learn a lot after watching this video. There is...

Use Sublime text 3 Editor As Arduino IDE (To edit & upload Arduino sketch into Arduinos)

I found Arduino IDE not a good tool to edit arduino sketches & upload it in Arduino, especially in my Linux system(Editor kinda sucks & it's...

arkOS : An Anti-Cloud Server Management Distribution For Raspberry Pi.

The initiative of <a href="https://citizenweb.is/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Home | The CitizenWeb Project</a> Project & Jacob Cook, arkOS is Arch-Linux ba...

Valve 300 Steam Machine Prototype Hardware Specifications Announced

As promised, the 300 Steam Machines Prototype that Valve will be sending to its 300 superlucky eligible users later this year, is finally all set to...

Why Most Of The Latest Gnome Applications Specifically Written In Vala ?

Since I came to know that most latest gnome applications are written in Vala, My urge of learning it has increased at it's peak. As far...

Smart Launcher : Have Ubuntu Unity Experience On Android Phone.

'Smart launcher' is very attractive launcher for Android phones which will give you Ubuntu touch's Unity experience. Smart launcher is consuming very low amount of resources...

OpenSource Flash/SWF Player Landed Into Latest Firefox Nightly Builds.

Mozilla have merged their Opensource Flash/SWF player 'Shumway' in the latest nightly builds of Firefox web browser. Mozilla's Shumway is an open web-native SWF (Adobe flash)...

Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Desktop Won't Be Shipped With XMir As Default Display Server.

XMir is an implementation of X11 running on top of Mir display server providing compatibility layer for desktop environments and applications designed for X11 to run...

Linux Kernel Map [Picture]

Found a good image of Linux Kernel mapping in one post of Google+, forgot to copy the link (apologies for that) ​👍

Suggest Me Good laptop Which Matches My Requirement.

I am planning to buy laptop. I hate this secure boot crap, yeah it is possible to disable UEFI secure boot in x86-64 system but not...