Akshay Jain

Create text graphs using Excel “Rept” function

Akshay Jain — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:20:03 +0000

I had some data and I needed some visually appealing way to see which values are bigger and which are smaller. Here, is what the below mentioned code will finally generate: You can easily do this using “REPT()” function in MS Excel. It basically repeats a certain string a given number of times. It takes [...]

Gandalf : Y=X^(Balrog)

Akshay Jain — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:11:28 +0000

Credit: Petersengraph

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Masters in Economics Entrance

Akshay Jain — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:35:24 +0000

For all those who are preparing for Entrance Exams for pursuing Masters in Economics (M.Sc. Quantitative Economics) for ISI Delhi Or Kolkata can read a nice blog on the same. The author of that blog cleared the entrance of ISI,DSE,IGIDR,JNU. Here you go: ISI M.Sc. Quant Eco If you face any problem / doubt in DSE,ISI,JNU,IGIDR,MBE [...]

Opera Mail Database maintainance: remove ghost entries

Akshay Jain — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:21:35 +0000

I deleted a lot of my emails and I think my Mail Database for Opera had become very fragmented. I even found some ghost entries in my trash which I was unable to delete (tried all means) which pointed to the fact that I need to optimise my database. I remember having seen that “Opera [...]

MTNL-Delhi doubles broadband speeds

Akshay Jain — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:02:40 +0000

While there has been no official announcement on the same, some of my friends using MTNL 256kbps unlimited plan have reported that they are getting download speeds of 60KBps instead of 30KBps which they used to get earlier. I called up customer care to confirm and they have told that they will be upgrading the [...]

Cheat Sheet for Rock-Paper-Scissor-Lizard-Spock

Akshay Jain — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:55:20 +0000

Here is a nice cheat sheet/guide to practically playing the famous game of Rock-Paper-Scissor but with a little twist. In this there are five elements (this was demonstrated by Sheldon in Episode 8, Season 2 of Big Bang Theory). I found it confusing at that time but wanted to actually play this game. So, here [...]

CAT 2009 server crash on the first day. Papers to be rescheduled.

Akshay Jain — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:36:27 +0000

Latest news coming in: In many cities the entrants have not been able to take the entrance test and have been told that they would have to reappear later sometime. Common Admission Test (2009) for admission to elite Management Institutes in India like IIM etc. was to be held online for the first time. About [...]

PowerMenu in Windows 7

Akshay Jain — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:53:55 +0000

Ok, I have been trying to figure out why PowerMenu wasnt working for me in Windows 7 for months now. One of my favourite applications. I can see it running perfectly fine in the system tray but the options of “transparency”, “always on top” and my favourite “Priority” werent coming at all when I right [...]

PHPLD: Make all links nofollow

Akshay Jain — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:47:25 +0000

Although, PHPLD offers nice option in its panel to make all submitted links nofollow but I have found that many template designers dont use proper PHPLD formatting technique due to which the nofollow doesnt actually work with many templates. The admin panel method is to change the following option in Admin Panel> System > Edit settings [...]

PHPLD: Automatically remove spam submissions

Akshay Jain — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:26:09 +0000

Long time and I am back blogging!! Firstly, I have discovered that the PHPLD captcha can be broken easily and there are numerous bots which are taking benefit of this vulnerability to post spam all around the net. A really good way to prevent automated submissions is to use reCaptcha mod available at http://phpld.frozenminds.com/recaptcha. This is [...]