Samsung Galaxy Note buyers in India will get a free pair of Sennheiser headphones

I stumbled across an article on IBNLive that discusses the Pocket. At the end of said article they talk about the Galaxy Note: “Samsung also announced an exciting consumer promotion on its premium Galaxy Note. Any consumer buying a Galaxy Note between today and May 31, 2012 can avail free Sennheiser headphones, download free music and games, download full version of Angry Birds Space free and get a free flip cover.” Anyway, if you’re in India, and are thinking of buying a Galaxy Note, now you have more reason to snatch one up. And if you don’t need the accessories, then don’t bother picking them up, since you’ll probably just throw them awa...

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Samsung Galaxy S3 --> London Olympics Official Phone

Reports have been appearing online that the Samsung Galaxy S III - to be unveiled in London on 3 May - will be the official handset of the 2012 Olympic Games. They point to the location of the Unpacked launch event and its timing (delayed from the universally expected date of February this year). Pocket-lint has also had some indications that the new handset could well be stacked with exclusive Olympics content. In June last year, during Samsung's Olympic campaign press conference, we were told by David Song, then managing director of UK and Ireland, that the company would be launching a special-edition Olympic Games handset - one that would be able to view live streams of the action. "We are going to launch a smartphone that all the UK...

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Google Dive release gets delayed

A couple weeks ago we exclusively broke the news about Google Drive’s release date and that everyone will get 5GB of storage for free. Well, according to our tipster we are on track for the free 5GB of free storage but the release date has been pushed back a week and we should now see an open enrollment on the 24th of April. Once Google Drive launches, users will gain instant usability across many devices including Android, iOS, Windows and Mac. How the process will work on a Mac is still unknown at this point. Just in case you wanted further evidence, The Next Web is also reporting the same thing, claiming to have an inside source as well. They recently reported something similar to what we heard, a launch next Tuesday or Wednesday, leaning...

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djbdns (TinyDns) not starting in Kloxo (Solved / fixed)

After switching from named to tinyDNS in kloxo. The djbdns is not working. # /etc/init.d/djbdns restart Stopping Djbdns: Starting Djbdns: # /etc/init.d/djbdns status tinydns is stopped Also tried to stop and start but still no luck.  #service djbdns stop Stopping Djbdns: # service djbdns start Starting Djbdns: service djbdns status tinydns is stopped Check if the ip is entered correctly in the following file. # echo "xxx.xxx.x.xx" >> /var/tinydns/env/IP; chattr +i /var/tinydns/env/IP # cat /var/tinydns/env/IP   xxx.xxx.x.xx Also check if the path is correct in the files /usr/local/lxlabs/kloxo/file/djbdns.init and /etc/init.d/djbdns. Open each file and check the line Qmailtcp=/usr/local/bin/tcpserver In my case the location...

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Installing LAMP on Linux --> The easy way

What is LAMP? Its actually a short form the expansion of LAMP is L --> Linux A --> Apache M --> Mysql P --> Php {{ P can be perl or python too }} These are the basic things which are needed for a web server to work. The steps for installation are for red hat flavoured Linux systems or servers. Login as root to the server where LAMP is to be installed. APACHE # yum install httpd httpd-devel # /etc/init.d/httpd start Now the apache will be installed and its running. You can verify the installation by giving the command. # telnet localhost 80 which should give the output silimilar to this -------------------------------------------------------------- telnet localhost 80 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape...

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Playing With ISO File

An ISO file, often called an ISO image is an "image" of an entire CD, DVD, or BD. The entire contents of a disc can be perfectly represented in a single ISO file. An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system. When using an ISO file you have three options: Copy it to a CD/DVD Mount it to a 'Virtual CD/DVD Drive' Extract the contents of it to your hard-drive In this post, i will show how to create an iso of a CD/DVD rom and also to burn a CD/DVD using an ISO image in linux. CREATE AN ISO OF A CD OR DVD. Insert the CD or DVD whose image is to be taken. Do not mount the CD/DVD. You can check if its already mounted using...

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