Author: Nayar

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Go to sleep Akismet, Stop Forum Spam is coming

Akismet is activated on my MyBB forum. It comes by default. But still there are load and loads of spammers signing up and posting on my forum.

There is not an option of deleting all the posts of spammers at once which sucks. I decided to give Stop Forum Spam a try.
Let’s hope it does the job better
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eSATA port can accomodate USB devices

My mom made a great discovery on my laptop today. I had go to prayers and my mom wanted to use the laptop in which there was no mouse connected. She took the USB mouse and tried to connect it first in the ethernet port then the eSATA port. It worked!

When i returned home and saw this, my heart nearly stopped to see that. I thought the port was broken. But the mouse was working fine. *sigh 🙂
Conclusion:
1. eSATA ports on your laptop can accomodate USB devices to make them run faster especially external storage devices. 
2. Most discoveries are made by mistakes
3. Don’t underestimate your mom! 😀
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Installing Ms Office on Ubuntu

I inserted a CD of Microsoft Office 2007 on Kubuntu and ran setup.exe through Wine. 

Seeing if the programs have been installed correctly
Launching Ms Word: This pop-up showed and it froze there
Launching Ms Excel: This appeared and it frozed
Launched Ms Outlook: It froze just after the wizard finished
Launched Ms Picture Manager: I could access the menus in this one. But couldn’t open any pictures from my drive
Conclusion:-
Ms Office is unusable on Linux right now. But it could work in a near future. There is hope 🙂
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My Favorite Game comes to Linux: Seven Kingdom

I spent my most of my childhood times doing mainly these 3 things:-
1. Playing Lego
2. Cycling
3. Playing Seven Kingdoms!
Seven Kingdoms is a Real-time Strategy (RTS) game. You are a king and and you have to build your empire so as to conquor the world.
However, the game has a slight issue. It can’t go in Full Screen mode or even maximize it. It would only play at a resolution of 824 x 645. It kinda spoils all the fun as you can scroll freely around.
And when you go in the main menu, it says “Quit to Windows” which is quite funny xP
To install it on Ubuntu or its derivatives, type this in the terminal:-

sudo apt-get install 7kaa

Please support the project at 7kfans.com
Enjoy!!!