Interactive List of the Best

Id like your help with this post. Im going to post some of my favorite things for travelers, the homeless, or just anyone, and I am going to post some categories and items that I need suggestions on. If you have a real favorite item, and I mean an unequivocal ten on a scale of one to ten, respond with it in the comments, or drop me an email, and I will revise the post, unless I disagree. Tell everyone what makes it a really good product. We can have more than one best in a given area, for instance, a best quality, and a best deal. Id like to get a core list for homeless perfection.



Best All-Around Personal Care Product: Generic KY Jelly - There are lots of good reasons to make things slick, a waterless shave, a hair tamer, and of course there is the original use. No one ever felt cheated of their two bucks for a tube of sex gel.



Best Razor: There is no comparable disposable razor to the Mach 3 triple blade, but it is pricey at two bucks each, and it is only the first two or three shaves with each razor that are really good. For my money, I like the Gillette Good News razor with lubricating strip. It is a very high quality double blade, most shaves are bloodless, and at thirtyfive to fourtyfive cents each I feel okay about discarding them after two or three shaves, thus I am always shaving with a sharp razor, and life is good.



Best Portable Propane Stove: The worst is any of them that balance a single burner on top of a 16 ounce propane bottle. I used these stoves for years before I realized how annoying and dangerous they are. One little bump, an uneven surface, a badly balanced pan and over it goes, causing scalds and wasting food. I hate them. By contrast, Coleman makes a dandy two burner stove that folds up like a briefcase and takes up very little room in the car. It is usually sold for around $60, but the link I have provided is for a Walmart clearance that has them down to $35. Target and Kmart and Walmart continously knock off copycats that are just as good and sell them for under forty bucks. You are just looking for a two burner, briefcase style, propane stove.



Trial Sizes: The best place to look for your hygiene needs is the trial size aisle or end cap at your local supermarket or drug store. Youll find all sorts of neat items, containers, travel toothbrushes, mouthwashes, picks, floss, shampoo, combs, brushes, razors, creams, lotions, antiseptics, astringents, analgesics, cold medicines, bandages, caffeine stimulants, and much more for pennies. It is a sort of mobile lifestyle treasure spot. Look for it.



Best Hot Water Bottle:



Best Hand Warmer: The EZ Heat Reusable Handwarmer is a real star. I had one of these many years ago and had not known where to find another until this reader suggestion. Click the metal disk for instant heat lasting more than half an hour, and boil it to reset. Enjoy the residual heat on both sides of the cycle. Oh! I so love this product. The best seven bucks youve ever spent. Do a quick Google search and you will find scads of sites selling them.



Best Road Blanket:



Best Car Cover: Were looking for one that is not very translucent, has good tie down points, and allows you to get into and out of the car fairly easily after it is installed.



Help me out here. Tell me your best tips. Only tens. No nines.

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Special Forces 2011 If You Liked Act of Valor You Will Like This

I pulled this off Netflix, and I was a bit surprised.  No, not U.S. Special Forces, but a French commando unit sent into the tribal areas of Pakistan to free a French journalist (and relative of a French politician) from the Taliban.  This film has nearly all the strengths of Act of Valor: an exciting action film; a work of fiction, but fiction not too terribly far removed from real events; brave but human heroes; and bad guys who would have been close to unbelievably evil -- until the Taliban came along, who behave in ways that are practically cardboard cutout monsters.  And yet even the chief warlord here has his moments when brief glints of humanity intrude, before the monstrousness returns. 

Like Act of Valor, the film is exciting not just for the action sequences, but the exotic locales.  It was actually filmed partly in Pakistan and partly in Tajikistan, which is close enough to Afghanistan to do a convincing body double.  Unlike Act of Valor, these are all obviously professional actors, doing a more credible job of acting than our special ops guys did of acting in Act of Valor.  (And as I said when reviewing Act of Valor -- who cares?  Im sure our special ops guys, or French special ops guys, do a better job of acting than vice versa.)

The reviews of Special Forces are overwhelmingly negative -- and I am pretty sure that politics has a lot to do with it.  Unfortunately, it is subtitled, and as one of the few even half-fair reviews pointed out:

But the films U.S. commercial prospects are dim, given the widespread American aversion to subtitles, and its formulaic charms are unlikely to impress the art-house crowd.

The film is rated R for its violence, and the rating seems appropriate.  To its credit, a scene where someone is executed in al-Qaeda fashion is off-screen, and merely suggested.

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One Of Those Reminders of the Advantages of Ubuntu Linux

I am posting from the Linux box right now, a Compaq NC6000 built around 2002 or 2003, so quite ancient.  Under Windows, the maximum resolution for the displays, either on the laptop or an external monitor is 1024x768.  I never thought much about it.  Under Ubuntu Linux, the laptop will let me go to 1920x1080 on the external monitor.  This has to be entirely a function of superior device drivers.

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Fundamentals of GIS

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HEC Announces Ranking of Pakistani Universities

Top 10 Universities in Pakistan:

1. Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
2. Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
3. Aga Khan University, Karachi
4. University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
5. University of The Punjab, Lahore
6. National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
7. Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University
8. University of Health Sciences, Lahore
9. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)
10 Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore

Category wise Ranking:

Agriculture/Veterinary

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
KPK Agriculture University, Peshawar
Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam

Art & Design

National College of Arts, Lahore
Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture, Karachi

Computer Sciences & IT

COMSAT Institute of Information Tech Islamabad
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences , Islamabad
Qurtaba University D.I.Khan
Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences, Quetta
City University, Peshawar

Engineering & Technology

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Science, Islamabad
National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad
Ghulam Institute of Engineering and Technology , Swabi
University of Engineering and Technology , Taxila
Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad

Business Education

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
Iqra University, Karachi
Sukkur Institute of Business Administration
National College of Business Administration & Economics, Lahore

Medical

Aga Khan University, Karachi
University of Health Sciences, Lahore
Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi
Isra University, Hyderabad
Khyber Medical University, Peshawar

General Universities (Large)

University of the Punjab, Lahore
University of Karachi, Karachi
Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
University of Peshawar, Peshawar
International Islamic University, Islamabad

General Universities (Other)

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Government College University, Lahore
Gomal University, DI Khan
Kohat University of Science and Technology
The University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir

Source: Propakistani.pk

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Cannot have the same name of Javascript function on 3 differents pages!

Today I have spent 5 hours to find out the bug on my websites. My page structure is something like this : main page has 3 boxes - man, woman, animal. On the main page, I use jquery to fetch the information from man.php, woman.php, animal.php and display them onto the 3 boxes. Each of 3 pages (man.php, woman.php, animal.php) have a javascript function :
function showresponddiv(messagedivid){
        jQuery.get("showRespLive.php, function(data2) {
            $(#dialog .poptext).append(data2);
        });
};

The bug was when a user click on an information in the box of man by onclick="javascript:showresponddiv(this.id)", supposedly it should call the function showresponddiv() on man.php, but it fail to do so. It will call the function showresponddiv() on other page like woman.php or animal.php. Why? It is because I use jquery to show them 3 pages together into 1 main page. So actually the function showresponddiv() was declare 3 times on the main page.

To fix the bug, just change the name of the functions to showresponddiv2() and showresponddiv3().

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Upload images and get the URL of the image

As each day there are lots of new users joining the world of blogging, is necessary to discuss about some basic topics that bring up some recurring questions such as how we could get the URL of an image?

On the Internet there are many both free as well as paid web hosting where we can host images, but since we use Blogger then there is nothing better than using the same hosting service that Google gives us and that is Picasa.

The fastest way to upload an image is by going to the Blogger post editor. From your Blogger Dashboard, go to your blog, then click on the New post button. And preferably from the Edit HTML tab, click on the image icon.

A pop-up window will open, then click on the Choose files button, browse for your image(s), double click or click on Open and then hit Add selected.

When you have uploaded you will see that in the post editor shows the code of the image.

That code is the URL of the image. Youll see two URLs (Web addresses):

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhPOjPHpZImwdVZp1un8IWHzEN7i6mFv_A2LjuETMWrJDbzJjLF7pC_hD8d7Np4wNc8dJF1RXzhyi5DLSFvgMwV3xtXbnDmlm_Zvh6P9DNQLB7GcAkDmWbLL4NFMBFJy5erbboLkjJSnM/s1600/Bliss-Windows-XP.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhPOjPHpZImwdVZp1un8IWHzEN7i6mFv_A2LjuETMWrJDbzJjLF7pC_hD8d7Np4wNc8dJF1RXzhyi5DLSFvgMwV3xtXbnDmlm_Zvh6P9DNQLB7GcAkDmWbLL4NFMBFJy5erbboLkjJSnM/s320/Bliss-Windows-XP.png" /></a>

The first is the URL of the image that you need to take. It is not necessary to publish this entry where you uploaded the picture, you could as well not publish it, leave it as a draft or delete it, the image will be saved anyway on PicasaWeb (unless when you removed the draft, you have also selected the image to remove). You could also upload image directly from Picasa. Just login to PicasaWeb, select the album where you want to host the image, and click on Add photos.

Select the image from your computer and upload it.

After we have uploaded, click on OK.

There you will see the thumbnail, along with other photos, if there are more.

If you want to get the URL of the image from Picasa then click on the image to open in full size.
With the right mouse button click on the picture and select option depending on the browser you use...

If using Google Chrome, then select Copy Image URL:

If you are using Mozilla Firefox select Copy Image Location:

If you are using Opera select Copy Image URL:

If you are using Safari select Copy Image Address:

If you are using Internet Explorer (I hope not), first select Properties, a window will open, there you will find the Address section from where you can select the URL of the image and copy it:

Having selected any of these options youll have in the clipboard the URL of the image. Simple isnt it?

Remember that all images you upload on Blogger are stored in your Picasa account, so if you find an image previously uploaded to your blog, go to your Picasa account, select the album containing the name of your blog and there find the picture you need. The procedure to obtain the URL of the image is the same as explained above.

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Linux A list of common commands and usually charged on LPI

Below is a short list of commands used Unix-like systems. To information about each one of them you can see the corresponding man page on your system or visist sites like tldm or tab focus.
A little note is that most of these commands are charged on the LPI exams. So much attention to the use and syntax of each.

bg: leaves a process running in the background.
chattr: change attributes of files and directories. It is not related to access permission.
chfn: change the output of the finger.
chkconfing: configure automatic startup of daemons.
clear: clears the screen.
cmp: comparison between two binary files.
cut: snippet shows particular row / column a file.
date: view / modify the system date and time.
depmod: check the dependence of determiando módufo.
df: space occupied / available storage devices mounted.
diff: comparison between two text files.
saying: lookup tool for servers DNS.
dirname: get the directory name.
dmesg: displays messages from system startup.
dnsdomainname: Shows the domain name system.
du: shows floor space within the current directory.
echo: displays messages.
edquota: edit settings disk quota.
expand, then replaces TABs by single spaces.
find: do a search on the system.
finger: details about the system users.
fg: bacvkground takes a process and leaves in the foreground.
fmt: Sad to format the certain number of characters per line.
free: shows memory space.
grep: find a sequence of characters.
groupadd: Adds a group in the system.
groupdel: remove a system group.
groups: shows the name of the registered groups.
halt: shortcut to turn off the system immediately.
head: displays the initial lines of a file.
hexdump: shown binary files in hex.
Host: tool for DNS lookup.
hostname: display / change the computer name.
id: returns information about the user.
insmod: load kernel modules without checking dependencies.
join: concatenates file-based fields.
kmod: load modules automatically by demand.
last: shows the history of logins and logouts into the system.
lastlog: shows the last login to the system .
less: paging files or standard input.
ldconfig: creates necessary links and cache the libraries found in the system.
logname: Shows the login.
ln: create links in the system.
logger: allows scripts to add entries to the / var / log.
lpc: against the print queue.
lpq: Shows the status of the print queue.
lpr: sends a file to the print queue.
lprm: removes a job from the print queue.
lsattr: displays attributes of files and directories: No is related to access permission.
lsmod: lists the modules loaded by the kernel.
mesg: allows communication through talk.
modconf: interface to facilitate the loading of modules.
modinfo: displays information about a particular module, including configuration options.
modprobe: load checking kernel modules dependencies.
more: paging files or standard input.
netstat: shows connections, routing statistics and so on.
newgroup: changes the identification of a particular user group.
nl: numbers the lines of a file. Equivalent cat-b.
nohup: start a program and play for background if the user logs out.
passwd: change the password of a user.
paste: concatenate files side by side.
ping: sends ICMP packets to another network host.
pwd: shows the current directory.
quota: monitoring and control of quotas.
quotacheck: usage statistics of disk quotas.
reboot: shortcut to restart the system immediately.
repquota: generating reports about quotas.
rmmod: remove modules loaded by the kernel.
runlevel : shows the previous and current runlevel.
seq: print a sequence of numbers.
shutdown: shutdown and restart the computer immediately or at all program.
sort: organizing the contents of files or standard input to the program.
su: allows a "Rapid users. "
sg: allows a "fast" group.
sync: writes data into ram instead of disk cache, leaving it to do so in the event of system downtime.
tail: linahs shows the end of a file. inverse of the head command.
talk: start a conversation with another user logged.
tee: read an entry and redirects to one or more output.
telinit: modifies the current system runlevel.
time: shows the time spent for execution of a process system.
touch: creates empty files and change the date / time of existing files.
tr: modify or delete characters.
uname: Returns the system name and version.
unexpand: then replaces TABs by single spaces.
uniq: displays a text file by deleting lines repeated sequences.
uptime : shows how long the system is turned on.
useradd: Adds a user on the system.
userdel: Removes a users system.
users: shows the name of the registered users.
vigr: an open section of the appropriate vi to edit the file / etc / group.
w: shows who is logged into the system and what they are doing.
wall: sends a message to all users logged into the system.
wc: count of words, bytes and lines of a file or standard input.
Which: shows the location a binary file that is in the PATH system.
who: shows logged into the system in question.
whoami: shows your user.

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How to Increase the Life of Laptop its Battery

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Here are the most working tips and tricks to extend the life and you might need to use some or all of them to optimize the performance computers or Laptop’s.

1. Optimize your Laptop to achieve better performance and to save power. Use some utilities to tweak operating system settings or do it by yourself to optimize computer performance.



2. Optimum battery life could be achieved by cleaning its contacts with a cotton swab and a bit of rubbing alcohol to pass power effectively. Set your screen brightness at a lower level. 

Note: Before doing this turn off the power of your Laptop and unplug it from wall outlet.

Image via Wikipedia3. Schedule updates; Install the latest antivirus software including spyware & malware detection and their removal tools. Make sure your Laptop or notebook is not running on battery power when Anti-virus definitions updates, virus scans, Disk cleanup, Disk Defragmentation.

4. Standby or Sleep your Laptop mode if you are leaving it for a short period of time, to cut down the power usage. Hibernate it if you plan to go outside for a while.

5. Cool down your computer which makes your computer or Laptop, work efficiently and it will also enhance battery life.

6. Turn off your network or Internet connections when you dont need it. It will definitely increase the battery life.

7. Disk Cleanup about once a week, clean up your hard drive with Microsoft Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter.

8. Proper Storage is needed if you are planning to go out on a trip or vacation for a week or more try to store your Laptop in a cool dry place, while putting it battery charge at 50%. It will give you the better performance after your come back home or office.

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Beware of making money online on scam websites

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In this new millennium millions of website claiming easy to make money online. Offering peoples to get rich in a month and get paid thousands of Dollars without leaving your home, just sit & work on the internet enabled computers.

There are so many fraudulent companies which are engaging peoples, those who are willing to make money online. Offering them easy jobs like Ad-posting, Form filling, Emails reading, Writing spam articles, Bogus surveys, etc. Later ask people to register on their website by paying a little registration fees (that little bucks make them rich). After all paying nothing after the job has been done, by arguing work has not been done in time or not properly.

Try to get advice from family members, friends, co-workers before involving in such an online jobs like "make money at home", "earn money without leaving home" & many more like these eye catching phrases. People often confused after visiting their stunning websites which includes Demo videos how would you do it & earn a lot of money without leaving home. Do some little research before applying and paying them on the search engine by finding about scams. It will give you the best idea to pay or not to pay.

Trying to get rich online is not an easy task but need special attention and focus. You need website to sell your products or services online. If you have a website then you need to know how to attract the visitor to raise traffic to your online business, website/store to get more sales.

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A Brief History of HTML

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is one of the languages ​​used in creating web pages. HTML is a derivative or the development of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). HTML itself was developed by Tim Berners-Lee when he was working at CERN which was first popularized by the Mosaic browser developed at NCSA. During the early 1990s, HTML continues to experience very rapid progress.

But this new development of HTML formally issued in 1995 which was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). HTML2 developed is derived from the HTML + in 1993. HTML3 which was also released in 1995 has much better capabilities than previous versions. Is the result of a cultivated by the World Wide Web Consortiums (W3C) and then generate HTML3.2 in 1996. And finally terbitlah HTML4 and HTML4.1 in late 1997 and 1998. HTML is a plain text that is designed to not depend on any operating system.

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