Back to blogging after a 2yr sabbatical

Yup you heard the headline right - Jason is back to full fledged blogging after a 2+yr sabbatical. Things on the technology front have changed drastically but fret not I am going to start from what's relevant for all of you.

The last 2yrs has been a mixed bag of affairs on all fronts - got a new job, shifted roles in the new job, completed my masters, started a few new hobbies and rested some for good.... importantly found some new friends and lost complete touch of yet a few friends who were near and dear.

How have you folks been? I have been getting mails from quite a few of you with either tech queries or a plain 'hi.. how are things going?'. I hope I have answered all your mails, if not - I apologize.

As for now, I look forward to resurrect this blog like a phoenix from the ashes!!

So stay tuned!!

--> Continue Reading 'Back to blogging after a 2yr sabbatical'

Alternative Website for Karnataka SSLC Results :: Results Announced at 1 PM ::

Class 10th [SSLC] results of Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board will be announced at 1PM today. Some websites are laready claiming that it is announced already which is untrue.

You can check for yourself as soon as results are announced online at www.kar.nic.in - But it seems that the results aren't available on the site.

Here are other alternative sites where SSLC results will be announced.

• http://www.kar.nic.in/sslc
• http://www.sslc.kar.nic.in

www.examresults.net
www.karnatakaeducation.net
http://results.KarnatakaEducation.net. 


You can also get your results via SMS by sending RESULT KAR12 along with their registration number to 56263. Example: RESULT KAR12 111222.


All the very Best for your results!!!

The official website of the SSLC Board is at this link  http://www.kseeb.org

--> Continue Reading 'Alternative Website for Karnataka SSLC Results :: Results Announced at 1 PM ::'

Windows 8 Activation Key Serial Available for Free Download

Though we - the loyal customers need to wait a couple of months before we get the legal copies of Windows 8. The Windows 8 Activation crack is already available online for Free download. It has been barely a couple of weeks since Microsoft made available the RTM version of Windows 8 to the OEMs and lo we have the activation crack already available for Windows 8.

The Windows 8 Activation crack is available on a Chinese Forum(Link cannot be revealed due to piracy concerns). The Windows 8 Ultimate activation crack has been built on the OEM version of Lenovo's Windows 8 OEM DVD. The DVD ISO of Windows 8 along with the newly available crack is already leaked at the forum. Anyone who uses the leaked .ISO, along with the OEM-SLP product key of Windows 8, coupled along with the activation certificates can be obtained through the boot.wim - helps you run Windows 8Ultimate Final version.

The new activation crack uses a very simple technique of exploiting the "OEM Activation 4.3", which happens to be an updated volume license activation system by Microsoft that was earlier available from 2009 with Windows 7 and known infamously as "Activation 2.0". Looks like Microsoft hasn't learned from the mistakes coz, Activation 2.0 was previously the easy module break into Windows 7 way back in 2009 when Win 7 hit the stores.

The new crack which has been successfully been built on a Windows 8 volume license means that anyone who uses this cracked version can install Windows 8 on numerous machines without any limitations as such.

--> Continue Reading 'Windows 8 Activation Key Serial Available for Free Download'

How to Reset or Refresh Trial period of Windows 8 PC without the installation media

In Windows 8, Microsoft has introduced two very nice and useful features which will reset the trial period. Reset PC and Refresh PC are two new features that help you overcome all Windows 8 issues by refreshing settings or resetting all of it. These features allow you make your Windows 8 PC settings to their defaults, or reset Windows 8 to factory settings (as it was during the original settings) by deleting data and installed apps.

Here is a detailed step by step procedure of how you can reset / refresh your Windows 8 PC and also reset the Trial period.


Step 1: Simply launch Metro >> Control Panel or PC settings. You can easily do this by simultaneously pressing Windows + I keys followed by Enter key.

Step 2: In the left pane, click on General option to see Reset your PC and Refresh your PC options. Click on Get Started button under Reset your PC or Refresh your PC. With this option you will not be asked to insert the installation or recovery media message this time around.

Hope this step-by-step procedure to Reset Windows 8 PC helped you overcome the trial period.

--> Continue Reading 'How to Reset or Refresh Trial period of Windows 8 PC without the installation media'

Get 2nd PUC results on SMS for May 2012

The Karnataka 2nd PU results for 2012 can be checked on the internet by following : Get 2nd PUC results on SMS for May 2012


But did you know that you can also check your results from your mobile by sending a simple SMS as given below:


Karnataka SSLC (Class 10) Results 2012
SMS - KAR10REGISTRATION NUMBER - Send it to 56263


Karnataka II PUC (Class 12) Results 2012
SMS - KAR12REGISTRATION NUMBER - Send it to 56263


This is very useful for students since many a times the websites are down due to many folks accessing the website at the same time.

--> Continue Reading 'Get 2nd PUC results on SMS for May 2012'

2nd PUC CET Results 2012 only on karresults.nic.in

Karnataka State Education Board has scheduled the 2nd PUC CET 2012 Results by name wise, marks wise on their main official site.

Every time in Karnataka Pre University Course (PUC) exams happen in March and Common Entrance Test (CET) in month of May and around 3 to 5 lakh students from entire state appear in the state level examination.

Your 2nd PUC Results 2012 of Karnataka Examination will be announced in mid May 2012. You can get it from below direct url by entering your roll no and clicking on submit button once it is published.

Below are the websites where you can get the 2nd PU results from:

http://karresults.nic.in/

http://pue.kar.nic.in

--> Continue Reading '2nd PUC CET Results 2012 only on karresults.nic.in'

How to easily Uninstall Internet Explorer 9 when the uninstall program fails

Internet Explorer (IE) still continues to be one of the world's most used browser for several years now. Though in the recent times it has begun to get quite a lot of competition from Firefox and lately from Google Chrome.

With Windows 7 getting into the market and having a pretty strong presence users now have a very easy task of upgrading their browsers to Internet Explorer 9(IE 9) but just running the upgrade utility.

Microsoft says that users can very easily downgrade to their old browser version of IE anytime they want by simply uninstalling IE9 -  how this can be done is by navigating to Control Panel >> Programs and Features >> click on View installed updates option where you will see an entry for Internet Explorer 9. Right click and select the uninstall option. This should easily remove the IE 9 version from your PC and restore the earlier version of the Internet Explorer browser.

But many a times users get an error while trying to uninstall IE9 by following the simple method mentioned above or at times are not able to find the Internet Explorer 9 entry in the installed updates list. If that is the case, the you can easily follow the simple steps explained below to remove Internet Explorer 9 from your PC.

Step 1: Type CMD in Start menu search box and simultaneously press Ctrl + Shift + Enter keys(This is used to launch the elevated prompt). Click Yes when you get the User Account Control (UAC) prompt. The other way of doing this is by going to Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> right-click on Command Prompt entry and then click Run as administrator - this will also open the elevated prompt.

Step 2: In the command prompt, copy and paste the below command and then press enter key to execute the command.
FORFILES /P %WINDIR%\servicing\Packages /M Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-*9.*.mum /c "cmd /c echo Uninstalling package @fname && start /w pkgmgr /up:@fname /norestart"

Step 3: You are done almost!! Just reboot your computer to completely uninstall Internet Explorer 9 from your PC.

Hope this helped - if it did let me know!!

--> Continue Reading 'How to easily Uninstall Internet Explorer 9 when the uninstall program fails'

Why do you think thermal runaway reactions are dangerous on an industrial scale?

Thermal runaway reactions are always said to be dangerous on an industrial scale since the reactions go faster in an industry where they tend to reach higher temperatures. As you would already know that Exothermic reactions tend to release quite a large amount of heat, so when the reaction mixture gets very warm, a very very hot exothermic reaction begins. 

When you use industrial floor scales, it wouldn't take long to measure how and for how long the reaction needs to run to completion, so although it begins to get very very hot, it's soon over at the speed it started off with. When we see no more heat is being generated by the industrial reaction, and when it'll start cooling once the reaction is over. Did you know that for around 30 years manufacturers of some of the top of the line industrial weighing equipment with the best quality, accuracy, advanced technology and durability have always struggled to sustain it. 

When you have got a large volume of raw materials reacting, and that too in an exothermic reaction, it then begins to get hot, and finally it can quickly spiral abd get out of control. What happens is that the heat generated from the reaction can't escape, the reaction goes quicker, which then leads it to release even more heat, which speeds up the reaction even more. So that is how you have a thermal runaway reaction - in such a reaction even vessels cold melt, or explode. 

The raw material or even the product might boil away and be lost. At times it might catch fire and lead to very very dangerous situations. So that leads to the conclusion that exothermic reactions have to be run with plenty of coolant available which will help to keep the reaction at a manageable temperature. But on the other hand Nuclear power stations is another example where you don't want it to get too hot.

--> Continue Reading 'Why do you think thermal runaway reactions are dangerous on an industrial scale?'

ICSE Results to be declared today on www.cisce.org

ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Examination) will be declaring the results of ICSE (Class 10) 2010 and ISC (Class 12) 2010 today (19th May 2010) at about 15:00 hrs or 3:00 pm IST on the website www.cisce.org. As expected the www.cisce.org website is down from this morning signalling that the results are getting uploaded and changes are being made to the website to announce the ICSE results.

As a matter of fact 1,567 ICSE schools across India and about 35,000 students from the city are anxiously waiting for the ICSE results from the board today. Many students are expected to be affected once the results are out since the ICSE results have a direct impact on their future life path. The ICSE 2010 exams were conducted in the month of March 2010 across schools in India and abroad affiliated to the ICSE board.

One may recall that last year round there were a couple of problems faced by the students and also the ICSE authorities due to heavy web traffic and eventually the website crashed. Once the ICSE website crashed the students were scrambled to get to know their results. Hopefully we feel that this year the ICSE board authorities have taken into consideration the problem of heavy web traffic and would be publishing the ICSE 2010 results simultaneously on various websites. The complete list of alternative websites where the ICSE results will be available is here.

The ICSE results like last year can also be checked using the ICSE SMS facility. For getting your results on SMS follow these simple instructions:

Type your index number and send as an sms to any of these numbers from your mobile phone:

56388

524524

56263

51818

Also you can search on Google for the ICSE results by using keywords like ICSE results, ICSE results 2010, 2010 ICSE, ICSE 2010 results, ICSE results website.

Wishing all the students the very best!!

Other websites and useful links for ICSE results:

• How to check ICSE and ISC Results Online easily ::
• A complete list of websites ::ICSE / ISC (10 and 12) Results for 2008 :: Dates Announced
• ICSE Class 10 results date announced :: List of Websites to check ICSE Results Online

--> Continue Reading 'ICSE Results to be declared today on www.cisce.org'

Finally we have a Steam client for Mac for FREE from Valve

Valve has finally managed today to rather officially give us the Steam client for Mac. This is simply some superb news for Mac users since they get the 'free to play' Portal game and also a vast library of 63 games too for the Mac platform.

Valve says that in order to celebrate the Mac launch, it will be giving away free copies of Portal to anyone who downloads Steam between today and May 24, 2010. Here is the direct link to download your Steam for Mac. For all the existing steam users who don't still have a copy of the game yet they can simply click on the install button on the game's Store page to get it now!!.

Steam being pushed into the Mac platform will surely open loads of opportunities for Valve. Valve can now easily expand the current customer base for its games distribution service. This announcement is significant since most of the hardcore gamers on Mac used to play all the steam titles only by using Windows OS via Bootcamp, but that's not needed anymore.

Here's this week's titles which are available on Steam Play:

• And Yet It Moves
• Atlantis Sky Patrol
• Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
• Bob Came in Pieces
• Bookworm Deluxe
• Braid
• Brainpipe
• Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
• Chuzzle Deluxe
• City of Heroes: Architect Edition
• Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
• Cooking Dash
• Diaper Dash
• The Dig
• Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
• DinerTown Detective Agency
• DinerTown Tycoon
• Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
• Escape Rosecliff Island
• Fairway Solitaire
• Fitness Dash
• Football Manager 10
• Galcon Fusion
• Gemini Lost
• Guns of Icarus
• Hotel Dash Suite Success
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• KrissX
• Loom
• Luxor
• Luxor 3
• Luxor: Mahjong
• Machinarium
• Mahjong Roadshow
• Max and the Magic Marker
• My Tribe
• The Nightshift Code
• Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye
• Parking Dash
• Peggle Deluxe
• Peggle Nights
• Portal
• Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
• Quantz
• Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
• Tales of Monkey Island Season 1
• Toki Tori
• Torchlight
• Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
• Unwell Mel
• Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal
• Wandering Willows
• Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
• World of Goo
• Zenerchi
• Zuma Deluxe

--> Continue Reading 'Finally we have a Steam client for Mac for FREE from Valve'