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You cannot use Windows inbuild ad-hoc network to share your laptop/desktop internet connection with your android mobile through WiFi. Android will not detect your WiFi network although there are methods to do so. There are some special soft wares which makes this task a breeze like Connectify, Virtual Router etc. Virtual Router is free and open-source program that can wirelessly share any internet connection (WiFi, LAN, Cable Modem, Dial-up, Cellular, etc.) with any WiFi device (Laptop, Smart Phone, iPod Touch, iPhone, Android Phone, Zune, Net-book, wireless printer, etc.) secured using WPA2. Go to Network and Sharing Center Change Adapter Settings Right click on the connection you want to share Select Sharing tab Check the "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection" Also, select your Home networking connection Start Virtual Router and enter desired Network Name and Password Choose the connection you just shared from ...

Django comes with a built in web server that should only be used in development. Integrating django and apache is a bit messy. Apart from Django and Apache itself, libapache2-mod-wsgi is needed to run django with apache2. There are four steps involved. Creating a wsgi file that enables wsgi handler . Creating a conf file in sites-available directory of apache Enabling the site and reloading apache configuration Adding a host entry that points to localhost for the site Detailed Steps First to create a mysite.wsgi file in any directory of your choice with following code [python] import os import sys sys.path = ['/var/www/mysite'] + sys.path # change the path to project directory os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings' import django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler() [/python] Then create mysite.conf file in /etc/apache2/sites-available directory and write following code [xml] <VirtualHost *.80> WSGIScriptAlias / /home/user/mys...

MDMA is a mobile network monitoring application. It shows information such as QoS, detailed signal information. I like to use MDMA rather than Huawei dashboards. It’s lightweight and much faster than Huawei Dashboards. MDMA 1.1.0.0 requires you to have connection entry ‘ MDMA ’ by default otherwise you get an error. [caption id="attachment_95" align="aligncenter" width="470"] Cannot find phone book entry error[/caption] Setting up a connection entry for MDMA Go to Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center [caption id="attachment_96" align="aligncenter" width="280"] Open Network & Sharing folder[/caption] Create a copy of existing connection. [caption id="attachment_97" align="aligncenter" width="411"] Create a copy of existing connection[/caption] Rename it to MDMA [caption id="attachment_98" align="aligncenter" width="416"] Renaming...

Join messages are very annoying while hanging out in IRC. Its best to disable them. [caption id="attachment_84" align="aligncenter" width="1056"] Annoying join messages in IRC channels[/caption] To do this just go to Settings | Preferences | Chatting | Advanced and Check the Hide join and part messages option as shown below. [caption id="attachment_85" align="aligncenter" width="693"] Check the Hide join and part messages[/caption] You can also set this for individual channels by right clicking on channel name and choosing Hide join/part messages from settings option. [caption id="attachment_86" align="aligncenter" width="477"] Applying for individual channels[/caption]

Linux Mint 14 has a Network Manager that allows to set proxy settings but unfortunately that do not get applied to system level. [caption id="attachment_71" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Setting Network Proxy Preference in Linux Mint[/caption] To configure apt follow the following steps Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ Create a file called “30proxy” using a text editor like vi Add the following lines Acquire::http::proxy “http://username:password@host:port/”; Acquire::https::proxy “http://username:password@host:port/”; Acquire::ftp::proxy “http://username:password@host:port/”; [caption id="attachment_75" align="aligncenter" width="665"] Configuring apt to use network proxy[/caption] To configure bash in order to use curl, wget etc behind proxy Add following line in ~/.bashrc export http_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/ export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/ Don't forget to replace username and pass...

If you don't know code completion in Aptana Studio 3/ Eclipse for CodeIgniter 2 is very easy. Only thing required is to put following code in any new file in CodeIgniter project directory. It’s just a class in which all the codeigniter library clasees are initialized. You can even add support for custom classes by initializing it as shown. [php] <?php class _ { function _() { // any classes you want included in autocompletion $this->load = new CI_Loader(); $this->config = new CI_Config(); $this->email = new CI_Email(); $this->encrypt = new CI_Encrypt(); $this->pagination = new CI_Pagination; $this->session = new CI_Session(); $this->driver = new CI_Driver(); $this->benchmark = new CI_Benchmark(); $this->typography = new CI_Typography(); $this->form_validation = new CI_Form_validation(); $this->profiler = new CI_Profiler...