Dreamspark - How to download windows OS free, legally.

First of all I'm not here to promote windows product but to share knowledge about free product that every University student can get.

Dreams park as it says it is wonderful service, where any University Student can get paid products and Services for free. Here I have a Dreams park standard account if you're University provide Dreams Park Premium you can get more than I list here including Windows 10. So check most Important paid services that we can get free here.

• Windows Embedded pro 8.1 
• Windows Embedded Compact 2013
• Windows Embedded Compact 7
• Windows Embedded Standard 7

These are free windows operating System you can get here. Normally One of there Windows OS worth around 100$ But you can get Genuine OS for free if you have a dreams park account. Other than these products you can find out these products also in the dreams park standard account. 

• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio Community 2015
• Xamarin for Students
• XNA Game Studio 4
• Kodu Game Lab
• Microsoft Mathematics 4
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
• Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011
• And Many More.

Here are some Servers you can get for free in Dreams park

• SQL Server 2014
• SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1
• Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft OneNote

Other than these thing below are my favorite services are which provide through the dreams park. 

Plural sight

Pluralsight is a paid Online Course learning Environment. In there you can find out plenty of courses for latest technological stuff. Of course most of them are Microsoft technology though. Pluralsight offers many ethical hacking courses. If you interested in security you might know there are very few effective courses offer for free. So if you have dreamspark account you can have access the pluralsight knowledge base for free. Otherwise you have to pay 24$ per month or 299$ annual. 

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft cloud service where you can deploy Your web app or Cloud base development etc. Yes you can get free trial for 30 days but with dreamspark account Students will receive a 6 month, $100/month account. If you are interested in cloud development this is your golden Chance. 

Windows Store Developer Account

If you are interested in developing App for windows store, you sure will need a dev account in Microsoft Dev site. If you use normal methodology creating the account will cost you around $19. But you can create the account for free with dreams park account. 

GitHub Student Developer Pack

If you are used version control you maybe familiar with Github. Also you may know that you can create only public repositories only if you have free github account. Otherwise you have to pay. But with GitHub Student Developer Pack you can create private repositories also. You only need Scanned image of your University ID (Both sides). 

You can also see below Training & Certification options in the Dreams park Standard version.

• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Microsoft Certifications
• Free MS Press eBooks

You will find many more services and products if you have a premium account. If you don't read this https://www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Subscription.aspx to check whether your faculty is eligible or not to apply Premium version. If you are eligible, it's your lucky day. 

To have Dreams park standard you just need a scanned image of your University ID (Both side). Then you can apply it here. They will inform you with email whether you are eligible or not within few days.

Best Online Learning resources

Hello There.

You may already heard that you can learn anything online?
WHAT?? You didn't know.
So Now you know.
Easiest way to find online resources is googling.
Today I'm going to tell you about some great online sources I've found.

    1. Khan Academy

I love khan academy. If there I'm going to learn something online this is the first place I look. This is an interactive learning environment. Here we get point as far as we study. They give us badges, avatars :D . Skill improvement meters etc. Here I always want to learn something more because it give us rewards. Here you can learn Math, Science, Economics and finance, Arts and humanities, computing, Test prep, Partner content etc. Check this out and this is a lovely environment to learn.

    2. Coursera

This is also a good learning environment, plus here you can get a certificate for 49$ if you want.
75% of Courses in Coursera is free. But Sometimes you may find courses bundles like below. For whole package you have to paid. But If you check the course content and search for individual course, you will see that that it's free ;)

 3. Microsoft Virtual Academy

As Microsoft should be this is a This is virtual environment for IT, and Computer Science related areas. And the best thing about it, it's FREE :D . Here also you can earn points while you learning and  you can see where is you position in the world, reign and the country. try it out. It always nice to have competition ;)


 4. edx.org

This is also good site as Coursera. Here also most of courses are free. This site provide courses under these topics;

Architecture, Art & Culture, Biology & Life Sciences, Business & Management, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Data Analysis & Statistics, Design, Economics & Finance, Education & Teacher Training, Electronics, Energy & Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Ethic, Food & Nutrition, Health & Safety, History, Humanities, Language, Law, Literature, Math, Medicine, Music, Philosophy & Ethics, Physics, Science and Social Sciences.

In this site most of courses produced by respective universities in the world. So there is chance of exposing to the global village.

5. Udemy

Udemy is also a wonderful sites that provide online courses. Here you can filter free courses without checking each and every course. this site provides courses under these subjects;

Development, Business, IT & Software, Office Productivity, Personal Development, Design, Marketing, Lifestyle, Photography, Health & Fitness, Teacher Training, Music, Academics, Language, Test Prep.

In this courses, you can know how many hours you have to spend for the course. So if you are busy person, you get the chance to choose what is most relevant course for you.

6. MIT OpenCourseWare

This is also a wonderful online course provider site. As it says all of it's course materials provided by the MIT. So you get the wonderful chance to expose to MIT culture. AND this is not only for tech subjects here are the subjects you can learn in this site;

Business, Energy, Engineering, Fine Arts, Health and Medicine, Humanities, athematics, Science, Social Science, Society, Teaching and Education

Create a bootable disk in Ubuntu (14.04)

There will be situations that you wanted to create bootable usb in Ubuntu. So here we going to discuss how to create bootable disk using Ubuntu. Here we are going to discuss how to create Ubuntu bootable usb and windows bootable usb.

Creating Ubuntu Bootable Disk

creating Ubuntu bootable usb in Ubuntu is pretty easy. Click on your Dash(start menu in unity environment calls as Dash) button (or press windows key) then type "Startup Disk creator" (you may don't need to type this entirely :) ). 

Then select the "Startup disk creator"
If you don't have Startup disk creator, run below command to install it. 

sudo apt-get install usb-creator-gtk

Then you will get below window.

To select your ISO (windows iso won't be working yet) by clicking other button under "Source disc image" and browse and select your ISO. If you have connected Your usb like mine it will be prompt under "Disk to use" like above. If there is multiple usb connected to you computer you have to select a one from them. As you can see you can Erase a selected usb using "Erase Disk" button. After you Fulfill requirements you can click "Make Startup Disk" button to start the process.

            Creating Windows Bootable Disk

To create windows bootable usb in Ubuntu you will need extra software called winusb. 

Press Ctrl + Alt + T to get the terminal and type below commands to install winusb.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colingille/freshlight
sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/utopic/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/colingille-freshlight-utopic.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install winusb

then press Dash (or window key) and type "winusb". Then click on winusb.

After that you will you will get below window. 

If you are using Windows ISO to create the bootable usb select folder button under "From a disk image(iso)" and browse your windows iso. Then select Target device from below. If you don't know what is meant by "/dev/sdb" it is how Linux name it's disk drives. If you have doubt that you haven't choose right one. you can check it as follow. Press Dash button and type "disks" then select disks.
You will get below window.

See the highlighted area then you will see device name in linux.

After choosing correct device, press install WinUsb dialog box. Then winusb will format the usb and create  bootable usb drive.

How to check you Chrome browser is safe?

The biggest complain we can hear from others while browsing is getting ads. Sometime this may cause by malicious software infected the chrome. So today we are going to show how to check your browser (Chrome) safe or infected if is how to heal it? This application will scan and remove software that may cause problems with Chrome, such as crashes, unusual startup pages or toolbars, unexpected ads you can't get rid of, or otherwise changing your browsing experience.

Google have issue beta version of software. It's name is Software Removal Tool.

Then press Download Now and press Accept and Install. Then run it after downloading.

If you don't have any problems you will get above window. Then press continue.

This is a beta version. So the author has no liability for any inconvenience would occur.
Disclaimer note ;) 

How to get route table in linux

A routing table is a set of rules, often viewed in table format, that is used to determine where data packets traveling over an Internet Protocol (IP) network will be directed. There are several ways to get the route table in Linux. So open your terminal pressing Ctrl + Alt + T

* route

$ route -n
( here -n for to get numerical values instead of symbolic values)

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask            Flags  Metric Ref    Use   Iface
0.0.0.0         10.64.64.64     0.0.0.0                    UG     0          0        0     ppp0
10.64.64.64     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255    UH     0          0        0     ppp0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0        U        0          0        0     eth0

* ip

$ ip route list

default via 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0  proto static
10.64.64.64 dev ppp0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.125.56.254
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.1

* netstat

$ netstat -rn

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask            Flags   MSS    Window  irtt Iface
0.0.0.0         10.64.64.64      0.0.0.0                   UG        0 0          0           ppp0
10.64.64.64     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255    UH        0 0          0           ppp0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0          U         0 0          0           eth0

* direct path

or you can just copy and paste below path

$ /sbin/route

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask            Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default          10.64.64.64     0.0.0.0                   UG    0      0        0 ppp0
10.64.64.64     *               255.255.255.255       UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0            U     0      0        0 eth0


(here you can see some symbolic values in the table )

Get Windows 10 for free

Microsoft giving a free offer for windows 8 and windows 7 user. As Microsoft says windows 10 worth 119$, but they are going to give it free for windows 8 and 7 users. To have this offer you should have up-to-date updated, your OS. another words, should have latest updates. Then Microsoft will give you "Get windows 10" app through the update. If you got the app check below right corner.

If you can see window button you have chance to enjoy free full version of windows. You can see reserve button there (you can't see it in mine, because I had already reserved it.)

The app provide functionality to check whether the computer meets the system requirements need. So you can check whether its worth to have the windows 10 update.

After you successfully reserved your copy, you can see below window in the "Windows Update" window

So your reservation is done. If you don't see "Get windows 10" app that means you have to update your operating system. Here what I mean by genuine is can your windows version can update without any errors ;) . Anyway The update is going to release on 29th July. This Free edition offer valid till, 29th July. After that you can download your copy. Copy will weight 3GB.  

How to stop facebook app requests

Facebook game request may be headache to some people. 

If you want stop game requests follow these instructions.

Go settings

Go to Apps   section

Then find Apps, Websites and Plugins. then press Edit 

Then click  Disable Platform. 

But one thing you must remember. This will remove all apps too.
All apps you used to play games or used for open ID.
As usual Disclaimer Note

W3School in Sinhala

As Mine you may be also w3school fan for learning web technologies.

W3school is one of best reference for web related technologies.

But problem is did you know that you can use w3school in you language.

Actually I didn't till very frequent.

W3school has every language in Google translate.

That means if you Language in Google translate, you can use W3school in you mother language.in 

So lets check it out.

The Language button in right upper corner as the image.

Click it

Then click select language.

you will get a window like below.

Then select your language to translate the web page into.

My language is Sinhala 

So my w3school looks like this.

A blog to read: WSO2 CEO's blog

Since I have mock Interview  in WSO2, I checked the background about the WSO2. Then I found out CEO of WSO2, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana's blog.
It was an interesting blog.

http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/

It was not complete techie blog.
There we can see the important things that we should add to our life.
I think, if we use few minutes of our time that we normally use to waste in social media take to read good blog like this will help to improve our knowledge.

How to add user in ubuntu 14.04

    Have you try to create new user in ubuntu? To do that you have to log as root user (super user). By default, the Root account password is locked in Ubuntu and you will not able to login as Root directly or use the su command to become the Root user. The root user doesn't have a password set. The steps to enable the root account is very simple. But it is not recommended because it may cause very serious trouble to your system because login as Root means you can do anything

type below command

sudo passwd root

Issue this command to enable root login on Ubuntu 14.04. You will prompted for a new Unix password. Second password for confirmation

Then type below command to change your login as root. After that you will prompt to provide the password

su root

Then we are ready to add a new user. Type below command

adduser username

add user name  to username field.
Then you will prompt to provide details about the new user.
You can fill them or you can skip it by pressing Enter

If your new user should have the ability to execute commands with root (administrative) privileges, you will need to give the new user access to sudo. We can do this by using the visudo command, which opens the appropriate configuration file in your editor. This is the safest way to make these changes.

If you are currently signed in as the root user, type

visudo

Search for the line that looks like this

root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Below this line, copy the format you see here, changing only the word "root" to reference the new user that you would like to give sudo privileges to

root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
newuser ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

You should add a new line like this for each user that should be given full sudo privileges. When you are finished, you can save and close the file by hitting CTRL-X, followed by "Y", and then hit "ENTER" to confirm.

Now, your new user is able to execute commands with administrative privileges.

if you want to exit from root to normal login you can type simply

exit

or

su username

Anyway you can create users using sudo command as usual but I here create users, by login as the root because in ubuntu we don't do it generally.

The Best Way To Download Games Free - Beginner's Guide to Download

We all love to play Computer Games. Aren't we?

But what is the problem?

Money to buy genuine products

But isn't there another way to have the pleasure of playing latest games?

Yes there is
But I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
Using it or not is under reader ethical beliefs.

So back to the Topic.
The name of our savior is the
http://oceanofgames.com/

Why you should use ocean of games instead normal torrents?
Because it gives you direct download of any game's ISO file
If you are using University wifi or other public wifi you may know that
Torrent downloads are blocked in there.
So Ocean of Games is the best choice even if you download from your connection.
Enough chit chat lets download a game.

you can surf the site through the menus in the site,
 but best way is to search through the "Search"  box

on the right upper corner.

Then You will get the below type window
As you can see it also gives related games also.
Then select the game you want

Then you can see Overview of the game including screen shot and system requirements etc.

Reading those details you can decide whether you want to download the game 

or 

move on to another game.

If you are ready to download it,

Click the below download link.

Also there will be other bug fixers you need to have if there is a one.
Also you can see a video link you may want watch if face a trouble.
Then you will get below window and wait few seconds till

You get this windows

Then click download now button to download the game.

As you can see after the download complete,

the file is a ISO image.

In windows 8 you can view it as normal file

But if you using another windows version,

Use PowerISO or other image extractor to extract it.