MangalMan's Perspective.

I have been so frustrated not being able to download from the rapidshare site for so long. Various tricks were working before the major update by rapidshare people. But after the update nothing worked.The damn cat and dog thing was so evil.It was a evil trick to ward off the free users. Make there experience so worst that they won't try there hand at it any more and buy the premium account.But no more guys there seems to be a way to get around the catchpa and the download limit thing as for now.There is a program called cryptloader.New update of this program does the magic

"CryptLoad is a free software that can download from RapidShare as a free user as if they were a premium user. There is no need to wait to continue downloading the next file and also there is no need to enter the confusing CAPTCHA codes as it is recognized and entered automatically."

quoting Raymond's blog.

Download CryptLoad form here

People still use Internet Explorer heavily to surf the net.So i think this is useful.This runonce thing appears first time you try surfing internet using Internet explorer and also every time You change the setting of your internet explorer browser from tools>Internet Options >Advance Tab.The real reason behind Runonce page is to let you customize some settings like choosing default search provider,Enabling or disabling auto phishing filter and so on.

If one does not complete the runonce customization page it will load every time until you do that and regardless of what your IE homepage is set to.Which can be annoying at times.The tool i have created solves this problem.Just download unzip to a folder and double click NoRunOnceIE.exe



I just created this taking cues from http://raymond.cc/blog.
Download RunOnceRemover

Minimum requirment:-A gprs enabled mobile with mero mobile sim card

This is not a post about how to enable internet in mero mobile.You go look here for that.This post is about sharing some knowledge about mero mobile internet.

Mero mobile is private mobile service provider in Nepal.It's network is considered good quality wise but a bit expensive then the government mobile service provider Nepal telecom.Ok lets get started now

Did you know that you can still be surfing the wap sites even if you have few paisa in your account as long as your account is not suspended? Is it something mero mobile people don't know or is it something they cannot control i don't know and i don't want to know as long as it serves me well.

It seems that anything less than 5kb opens.If it exceeds 5kb while you don't have money transfer of data stops with some messege.Mig33 messenger works well in these condition very well with some occassional connection error messages.Chat sessions continue smoothly.This messenger supports msn/yahoo/google and you can send email from it too.

This also means free sms to mero mobile.As you can send sms in the form of email in mero mobile network.How do you do it? Well you send email to +977980#######@sms.spicenepal.com which your friend or whoever you wish get as a sms.Just replace the # with the intended numbers.

Also get yourself a opera mini browser.Disable the pictures to minimize the data transfer many of the site can be opened from there.

Downloads can not go ahead with out the money though so i would suggest a 50 rupees recharge to down these stuffs first.

I have always wanted to try linux for a change. I came to know about ubuntu from my friend Shital. He told me that ubuntu comes free. They even ship it free yes you heard me right totally free. I asked him to get me some and some he did. Back then Ubuntu used to come as 2 cds. First one was leveled live cd and second was installation cd. I did not have any idea about which way is up back then. So tentatively inserted the live cd on to my cd player and let it boot. Because it was the first time ever i was getting something other that XP run in my box i was completely at sea.Fiddled around with the menus and nothing more. After few months of inactivity i thought what the hell and i installed it. I duel booted both the ubuntu and XP. But i never got the hang of this thing called ubuntu. After few days I wiped the partition out using partition magic. And that was it then. I did not know nor did i wanted to know how to fix the grub thing though and ended up wiping the whole Hard disk and reinstalling XP again. To be fair this adventure ended due to my lack of interest to learn.

This time around I have a Hard disk that is disintegrating by the day and I got hold of a new Ubuntu 7.10 cd in my hand.A perfect recipe i guess but there was a little problem. With the time my box has grown a few years old lost its youth days. I wondered if i could get this new one linux distro to mate my old pal box. Some Viagra yeah that was the answer to my problem a dose of viagra but can u buy one with empty pocket? Viagra in this case would be increment of memory in the slot. I have a 256Mb of ram but the cd says

"To use the live Cd, you must have a PC with at least 384MB of RAM. To install Ubuntu, you should have at least 4 GB of disk space."

I put the cd in and booted but this led to nowhere blank screen for 10 minutes and i got impatient and pressed the reset button. Tried it again and again after few more trials a finally got into the ubuntu desktop.Tried to install but everything was so slow.I then turned to google for the help(had to switch back to my XP installed hard disk).Typed in "installing ubuntu in a low ram machine" and hit the jackpot. The first article talked about how creating a swap partition in the pen drive would solve this porblem. Well i will try to explain what i did to get the ubuntu running.

First of all I booted from the CD and then inserted my pendrive into the usb port. Soon my pendrive was shown in the desktop.

Then i pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to the command line environment.

After that i become root by typing "sudo su -" without quote and with space.

You can type "free" without quote to view your memory and "mount" to view which drives are mounted.

Then I create a 200MB file on the USB stick:(Here MangalMan is the name of my drive change it to your drives name)

cd /media/MangalMan

dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=1M count=200

After that I turn this file into swap by typing

mkswap swap

And finally activate it by typing

swapon swap

here if you type "free" again you will notice addition of swap space.

I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get back to the Desktop and then double clicked the install icon the installation went without a hitch this time.Now I am using Ubuntu as operating system these days. There are limitations because of my low ram. I can't change the visual effect to aesthetically pleasing one that is perfectly all right for me though. Next in my priority is to get my existing modem to work with Ubuntu system. I have made it work with my netodragon (smlink chipset) but the connection gets disrupted way too often. I don't think this is because of the drivers rather it might be because my ISP does not like ubuntu to be connected to their server.