Ghanshyam Verma

Time to bring back uber in NEWS!

2016-06-22T13:05:00.000+05:30

Well, it hasn't been long since uber was in news for delhi rape case.

The current incident has left me wondering if its ill practice on part of uber or it's driver.

yesterday (June 21st, 2016), a friend of mine booked uber for his friends for a humble distance of 3.74 kms. Considering late night he was obviously charged 1.6x surge over actual fare, no complains, as this is mentioned while booking itself and the receipt too contains this surge.

Here are receipts he got on mail and app.

No complains for this part, but what followed left me and my friend dazzled. The driver asked for twice the amount stating a red zone booking. Okay! a first, but if it is a norm why wasn't it shown while booking. Also, if its a red zone booking is it in addition to 1.6x surge? Also, if doubling the fare for red zone is part of uber policy, why didn't it show up on the receipt. You hand us proper receipt and we'll willingly pay the stated amount. This leaves us with two questions, is uber trying to evade taxes by not showing entire amount on its receipts? Or, was it one off incident where it's driver stole money stating some shitty reasons.

Below, is a recording of our conversation with the driver.

toh bhaiya red zone me chal raha tha toh receipt pe kyu nai aaya, drivers apne mood se red zone ka charge karenge kya!!

WELL, UBER AND ITS INFAMOUS DRIVERS!

Give us a reason why should we recommend uber to any acquaintances. Or, why should not we take the matter to consumer courts.

And, if uber is not at fault and it was ill practice on part of driver, we believe uber will take strict action against the driver and cancel his registration.

CUDA installation on centOS 7

2016-05-20T14:01:00.002+05:30

well! tried, tried and tried...and if you havn't yet been able to install CUDA on your favourite EL 'coz of some dumb dependencies, this post is for your.

In my case dkms troubled me. It stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. More about dkms could be read on its project page.

Well if this or any other package troubles you, the best places to find them are either rpmforge or epel community.

here is how you enable rpmForge repository in centOS 7.x (64 bit):

$ wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el7.rf.x86_64.rpm
$ rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el7.rf.x86_64.rpm

here is how you enable epel repository on centOS 7.x (64 bit):

$ wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-6.noarch.rpm
$ rpm -ivh epel-release-7-6.noarch.rpm

However, as most EL(s) including centOS borrow their packages from fedora project, you may be lucky to have epel pre-enabled. (fedora acts more like beta release of ELs and only stable packages gets to be part of ELs - may be this is why most of the times fedora has newer packages compared to currently available ELs).

Now, dkms - - well once you have rpmforge enabled, all you have to do is punch in command written below.

$ yum --enablerepo rpmforge install dkms

Once done goto CUDA download website, and select your disto, and follow the steps there. here, is a screen shot of my selection for centOS 7.

Once CUDA installation is complete, you should get screen as follows:

Jab Basanti Jabbar se boli, "Menu Shopping kara de!"

2015-10-27T11:07:00.000+05:30

watch this video on youtube. click here!

'gather up your friends and start your own firm' lullaby!

2015-03-24T12:04:00.003+05:30

(To be sung with the theme from the Beverly Hillbillies)

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Ted, A poor college kid, barely kept his family fed. But then one day he was talking to a recruiter who said, "they'll pay big bucks if ya work on a computer"..

UNIX, that is....Windows 10....Workstations...C++...VB

Well, the first thing ya know ol' Ted's an engineer. The kinfolk said "Ted, move away from here". They said "Bangalore is the place you oughta be" so he bought some donuts and he moved to Kormangla...

Intel, that is....dry heat... no amusement parks.....

On his first day at work, they stuck him in a cube. Fed him lots of donuts and sat him at a tube. They said "your project's late, but we know just what to do Instead of 40 hours, we'll work you 52!"

OT, that is ...unpaid...mandatory.....

The weeks rolled by and things were looking bad. Schedules started slipping and some managers were mad. They called another meeting and decided on a fix. the answer's very simple..."we'll work him sixty-six!"

Tired, that is.. stressed out.. no social life....

Months turned into years and his hair was turning gray. Ted worked very hard while his life just slipped away Waiting to retire when he turned 64, instead he got a call and escorted out the door.

Laid off, that is...de-briefed...unemployed.

Now the moral of the story is, do what you are told companies will use you and discard you when you're old So gather up your friends and start your own firm, Beat the competition, watch old bosses squirm.

Millionaires that is.....Bill Gates...Steve Jobs...

Ya'll come back now, ya hear.

There! Now get back to work!

( This song is believed to be in public domain. If you feel it belongs to you, please let me know the details. I will remove or provide a link as requested.)

Hill Climb Racing: faster finish cheat!

2015-03-23T16:01:00.000+05:30

Well isn't it annoying how after playing for so long you are left with 5 digit scores on each level. No matter what you try, that junky keep flipping. And those hard earned coins are never enough - you need upgradations on your vehicles, at times the vehicle you were driving all alone isn't suitable for current level. And, ofcourse you have to unlock new levels as well.

Here is a easy and fast way to earn coins. (ofcourse, there are cheats/cracked version of games available -- but do you really trust those third party cracked game files)

Here is what you can do during game play:

1. earn coins! (yeah but that's what is the toughest part. If you had been earning enough coins you would not be here reading this article. Well there is some pain involved at the beginning.)

2. earn coins just enough to open 'MOON' stage.

3. Once on this level, let your vehicle rock and roll. You will notice those single insane air times get you more coins than what you had been earning so far. 10-12 such air times each game and soon you will have coins enough to buy new vehicles, stages and upgrades.

10000 and counting, did you actually ever earn these many coins in initial stages even after riding for long. :D

83450 coins at 707m: fast isn't it! 10 such games and have a new stage/vehicle. No need to use those cracked game files and absolutely no need to pay for coins.

Happy rolling!

M.Tech admissions into Central Universities/Institutes beyond IITs/NITs/IIITs

2015-03-18T15:55:00.000+05:30

GATE scores are finally out! This post is specially for those who could not perform as expected. Well if your score isn't enough to get you into IITs/IISc/NITs/IIITs, there is still hope that you might get into a Central(Government of India) University/Institute. Ofcourse, to be on safer side I would advise to apply to state universities/counsellings. However, below is the list of Central Universities/Institutes which you should not miss. Being centrally funded they do offer facilities no less than any NIT, and being out of focus most of them are left with vacant seats.

Existing Central Universities:

1. Rajeev Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh (http://www.rgu.ac.in/) : Courses - M.Tech (CSE).

2. Tezpur university, Assam (http://www.tezu.ernet.in/) : Departments - Computer Science & Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electronics and comm.Engineering, Energy, Food Engineering and Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering.

3. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (http://jmi.ac.in/)

4. JawaharLal Nehru University, Delhi (http://www.jnu.ac.in/)

5. Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Madhya Pradesh (http://www.dhsgsu.ac.in/ ) : M.tech (Applied Geology)

6. North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya (http://www.nehu.ac.in/): Various M. Tech programs, check website for details.

7. Pondicherry University (http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/ ): Check website for list of courses and admission procedure. Also, as this university conducts its own examination, you need not be GATE qualified to get admit.

8. Indian Maritime University, Tamil Nadu (http://www.imu.nic.in/ ): Only Maritime related M.Tech programs. Check website for details.

9. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (http://www.uohyd.ac.in/ ): Various programs. Check website for details.

10. Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh (http://www.amu.ac.in/ ): Various programs. Check website for details.

11. Banaras Hindu University (http://bhu.ac.in/ ): It should not be in this list. IT-BHU has been upgraded to IIT-BHU.

National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training & Research(s), Under MHRD (Govt. of India):

12. NITTTR, Bhopal – National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training & Research- (http://www.nitttrbpl.ac.in/ ): Various M.Tech Courses. Check website for details. Institute has a dedicated corporate relation cell, which ensures if students want to join industry instead of academics after course completion, they get sufficient exposure both in terms of training and placement opportunities.

13. NITTTR, Chandigarh – National institute of Technical Teacher’s Training & Research – (http://www.nitttrchd.ac.in/ ): Various M.Tech courses. Check website for details. Most seats are reserved for candidates with experience. However, a certain number of seats are open for freshers too.

Newly Opened Central Universities:

14. Central University Of Bihar (http://www.cub.ac.in/): Courses - M.Tech (CSE)

15. Central University of Punjab (http://cup.ac.in/ ): M.Tech (CS&T and Cyber Security)

16. Central University of Rajasthan (http://www.curaj.ac.in/ ): M.Tech (CSE)

17. Central University of Jharkhand (http://cuj.ac.in/ ): M.Tech (Mobile Computing)

#ModiObama's Coffee pe Charcha!

2015-01-28T12:52:00.002+05:30

The hyped 'Chai Pe Charcha' of President Obama and PM Modi was actually 'Coffee Pe Charcha'.

Dean: Student 'yackk!-Tivity'!!! (KITS, Ramtek)

2015-01-25T14:56:00.001+05:30

(share if you liked it!)

What If Boys had Periods! #StagePlayExcerpt

2015-01-16T15:52:00.002+05:30

Excerpts from the stage play "Chidiya ki kahani' which was staged at NITTTR campus on the occasion of 20th State Youth Festival (Madhya Pradesh) by a art group from Ujjain.

watch this video on youtube. click here!

(share if you liked it.)

If Rajnikanth was on facebook!

2015-01-15T12:44:00.001+05:30

The Super Star Rajnikanth briefly appeared on twitter last year. And, 'twitter got into headlines'.
Not too far in past a friend of mine 'Prateek' designed this meme to show how Rajnikanth's facebook wall may look like. ;) :P

(click on the pic to enlarge.)

Share if you liked it! :)

Story of 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari!'

2015-01-06T12:46:00.001+05:30

Happy New Year!!

2014-12-31T12:32:00.003+05:30

watch this video on youtube! click here.

#YOGA with NITTTR ke RAMDEVkant Baba!

2014-12-11T10:52:00.002+05:30

To watch this video on youtube, click here!

Scooter parking @ NITTTR

2014-11-24T15:04:00.003+05:30

This is called precision! or whoever wrote this notice definitely rides a 'bike'!

though I'm still trying to figure out if scooter was parked to mock the board or the board was placed after the rider left his 'scooter' there.

perhaps this guy knows how to find loopholes in the system. only restricted vehicle is 'scooter'. so,

you can park your bikes/cars/vans or anything that isn't scooter.

Don't just Stare, Stand Up and Dare! ----> What will you do if you see a girl being harassed?

2014-05-27T16:39:00.000+05:30

watch it on youtube. click here!

video credit: Bindass

Girl's Logic: Don't Call me OUTRAGEOUS! m just Confused!

2014-05-24T02:33:00.000+05:30

Dare you question their intelligence (you are doomed) :

Atleast there is one place where they prove how dumb you are compared to them:

And wait you can't call them illogical, and if u do (use vocab they understand)/ and if someone else called them OUTRAGEOUS you got to come up with a counter reason to prove they are not:

Now some girl talk (U probably ll have to hear a lot of these, stories of friend of friend of friend which she heard from her friend's friend. And they seem so logical when speaking to each other -- atleast the one not narrating stories or both in some cases. Nevermind!) :

One Color to rule them all, One color to paint them all! #Blue

2014-05-17T02:00:00.000+05:30

Before:

After:

Involve me in something and I ll make sure its painted blue!!

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75 Years of the Batman!!

2014-03-30T23:40:00.000+05:30

Batman is the proof you don’t need superpowers to be a superhero!!
read more about the Batman here.

welcome popup : goapti.in

2014-03-29T10:54:00.001+05:30

goapti.in 's new look.

do visit for weekly aptitude test!

graphics teaser - goapti.in

2014-03-25T12:29:00.000+05:30

A complete over haul under way!

Keep visiting goapti.in for challenging aptitude tests.

goapti.in : new look teaser.

2014-03-24T21:59:00.000+05:30

keep visiting goapti.in, for weekly aptitude test! A complete over-hauled site dedicated to aptitude in-making and will be revealed soon.

how to manually install WordPress on a web based server?

2014-03-15T00:32:00.001+05:30

We do have a lot of paid and free web hosting (php+mysql) services which provide inbuilt applications to auto install most of the popular scripts. However, just in case if you want to explore manual method for fun, follow this short tutorial. To begin playing with wordpress and other similar CMSs you may also consider hosting them on your local system using WAMP/LAMP or XAMPP.

To illustrate the procedures in this tutorial i have used www.my3gb.com -a free web host service.

1. To begin with create a account on www.my3gb.com. Its free and simple and takes less than 2 minutes.

2. After you are done with registration, login into the site (www.my3gb.com) using your username and password.

3. After you have successfully logged in, you will be redirected to control panel, if you aren’t, click on “control panel” at right top.

4. Now, you will see a page as shown below.

5. Now open “create/delete MySQL database” from the set of icons on control panel. this will redirect a new page as shown below.

on this page you will find different sections viz: “create Database”, “Create User”, “Assign Privileges”. Follow the steps in sequence, and create a new database (on my3gb you can create upto 2 databases when using free account); next create a user and assign it privileges (leave default selected, unless you want to disable certain queries). keep a note of the values entered on this page, as you will be using the same values for connecting your frontend with database.

6. Now, go to “file manager”.

once there click “Upload files” and choose wordpress# archive file (wordpress.zip) from your hard disk.

#you will find wordpress archive at www.wordpress.org. (Download latest/suitable/compatible version from wordpress site onto your hard disk.)

once uploaded, up pack the files from the zip. and you are ready to go! (just few steps left and wordpress will guide you through it. easy isnt it!).
Now, follow your site’s URL on control panel’s home page, which should look something like below --

7. After clicking the above URL, you will be redirected to a page as shown below --

So, click on the ‘Create a Configuration File’, and you will be redirected to a new page as follows --
8.
Click Let’s go!
Isn’t it as simple as some of your windows installations, where all you need to do is ‘next-next-ok-agree-finish’!
9. On this stage wordpress will ask you to fill up a little form,

If you remember the values entered in step 5 above, feed them here. simple!
10. wordpress will show following dialog, click install and finish the setup.

11. now, wordpress will show a sample message, and will ask you to set password and some other details, fill up and click next.

12. success!

13. login with user name and password, which you entered in step 11.

it will take you to your dashboard.

14. If you remember your URL, feed it in your address bar, it will take u to your site’s home page(which will look some what like below depicted image). type ‘your_url/wp-admin’ in address bar and it will take you back to dash board/admin login page. look around dash board, experiment, and you will discover the true potential of this open source CMS. you can design your site, blog, gallery or what ever else you can think of using wordpress.
happy posting!

(p.s. – keep visiting, I ll be posting more cool stuff from ‘how to customize your wordpress site’ to ‘how to develop your own themes and pluggings for wordpress and other CMS’. If you want any specific tutorial, feel free to contact me through any medium- links to my social profiles are available on right sidebar. cheers and take care!)

despicable me - valentine's edition!!

2014-02-15T11:35:00.003+05:30

An incredible comic by Bill Watterson - Imgur

2013-11-11T21:50:00.001+05:30

view original post here

invisible car prank

2013-11-11T01:40:00.003+05:30