Installing Ubuntu 12.04 on Windows Machine.

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux flavor. Release 12.04 have support till April 2017. Here are steps on how to install it on your window machine. Official website links are provided for help.

Ubuntu can be installed in 3 ways. 

dmidecode : Finding everything about your hardware.

Only one command in terminal and all the Hardware related information is dumped in human readable format on your terminal.

I was wondering how can I found the Model number and product number of my laptop from terminal. Searching over the Internet fetch me this command.

What is more important ? Question or Answer ?

I found this question on Quora and this amazing answer in form of comic strip.

I Downloaded all the images and formed a PDF.

Random scripts : Linux

1. setup a simple reminder to appear on your screen at a specific time

   $ echo 'xmessage "Hello"'|at 19:00

Few funny commands in Linux.

1. Did it ever happened to you that instead of typing 'ls' for listing the files in a directory , you type 'sl' in hurry and got the no-so-pleasant error saying that 

"The program 'sl' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install sl

Have you ever tried what 'sl' is? No? ok then try it now. Install the 'sl' command by typing

Mars Orbiter Mission and 450 Crores - A middle finger to all the Criticism

After seeing many posts/status on Facebook and questions on Quora regarding the MOM (Mars Orbiter mission) , I thought of collecting some facts (only interesting enough out of hundred plus) here for all of those who says its a waste of INR 450 Crores. 





it is a tight slap on the face of stupid public who spend the same amount on watching movies like Krishh and Robot with fake scientists doing fake things and criticize the real scientists for doing the REAL things.

Linux : How to copy/remove all files from a tree of directories.

Sometimes we face a situation when there are a huge or rather say a deep tree of directories. All these directories in turn contains directories and files and at the leaf node i.e. in the innermost directory there are some files.
Now you want to copy all files at one place or say you want to perform some action on all these or some selected files.