Showing posts with label howto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label howto. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

How to use external HDD or a Pen drive across the major OS' like Windows, OS X and Ubuntu without formatting ?

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This post arises from my initial struggles of using a MAC ( At the time of writing I have managed to blow up my macbook pro and back to  linux system and an occasional Windows user). I always had a ntfs partition on my HDD's and also my pen drive because one fine day I realized that the FAT32 file system which is so popular can't handle files of sizes greater than 4 GB. Yes i know that's atrocious in this age of blue ray and HD videos. So I converted all my disks to NTFS. All was hunky dory till I met my nemesis.

I got my MAC and transferred loads of file from windows and linux to my new sweetheart. After I decided I needed to create backups of some photos and other mundane stuff and to my utter shock I couldn't write anything on my HDD. I panicked thinking my HDD's are dead and with that my data gone. But I again plugged in my HDD to the old faithful Linux system lying in the corner. and to my surprise it was working just fine. I went back to my mac (yes I am ungrateful but you got to admit mac looks cool and the hardware is the best optimized for the software) and fired up my browser and looked at the issue. NTFS being a windows proprietary file formatting system was despised by Apple and Apple used something called HFS file system . And we all know that Linux also uses ext4 file journalling system. And HFS file systems were not supported on windows . I was sad at the turn of events and then saw complicated solutions to enable ntfs mounting on MAC and they were highly unstable.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

how to create a strong password that you can easily remember?



"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months." ~Clifford Stoll

Information technology  has impacted more than anything else around, in the current century. Now, you can  share your thoughts without barrier and censorship, get in touch with lik- minded people and  follow your interest through these available  technological toys and sharing forum.
Same, has create a new ground and opportunity,  for few people to exploit these technology for there own malicious benefits (cyber crime) . The few things, these unethical hacker do is to guess or steel your password for identity thefts on social media or take advantage of this information hack to make monetary transaction.

So to prevent us scenario, it would be best to make strong password and keep changing it regularly (at-least twice a year) . It might be easy to create a strong one , but how to remember it can be difficult task.
While making your password always keep the following point in your mind.

Friday, May 3, 2013

How to make money on internet?

This flow chart explain it all.Apart , Google addsence  there are many other resource you can exploit to make more money.