Detecting Time Leaks in Personal Life

 

Surprised at the title? Does it look very familiar like "Detecting Memory Leaks in your Application" ?

Most of us are so engrossed with our Professional life and personal life. We keep thinking/saying that we don't have enough time to spend with family and at home or even for ourselves. I was of the same opinion until I realized how a daily technology (like a cellphone or a TV) can kill our time so unknowingly. I think can be classified as Technology Clutter and once in a while we need to cleanup the clutter to be more organized. 

What was happening? My cellphone (which we are supposed to use for calls) was only being used to play games and be social online (which is highly antisocial -> ignoring people next to you and looking for people online)

What did I do to resolve this? Without much sermons, I'm going straight to action taken by me. 

• First step: I stopped playing Candy crush: Agreed we need to have fun, but this was just taking over my time, the game, the requests, the failed attempts etc. I got some hours back instantly.
• Next step: Thrilled with so much time, I went for the kill. I uninstalled Facebook from my phone. This was the next Time killer app.
• Some more: Uninstalled variety of Apps which keep sending unwanted notifications and hogging your phone's battery life and your unwanted attention. This include Facebook Messenger, Google Inbox (I have gmail), Twitter, Instagram, some more apps which keep running.

After this first round of cleanup, I have lot of time and started spending more time at home with my daughter as well and some more personal time (writing blogs, hacking things like Windows IoT on Rapberry Pi 2).

I'm targeting the next round of detecting the Time Leaks soon..

Any suggestions for me? How do you deal with this? Feel free to leave your valuable comments and critique :)

Windows 10 IoT: Workaround for getting stuck at "Welcome Please wait screen" (for the build 10152)

For those of you getting stuck at the blue screen mentioning please wait, I found a workaround..

I was seeing the same issue.. Did couple of reboots and waited for some hours... I decided it was enough.. and did the steps below

• Navigate to the Raspberry pi2 Windows 10 Web UI : http::/IPADDRESS:8080
• Login with the Administrator. (Dont forget the default password is p@ssw0rd and change it using Powershell)
• Click Apps on the left pane
• You will see the app as DefaultApp*
• Choose an App which says IoTCoreDefaultApp*. Click Set As Default
• It will prompt you for reboot. Click yes
• .. and then it hung..
• Manually rebooted and got the Welcome screen.. with Language options etc.
• Choose your language.
• Choose Next and you are all set

Although I'm not sure if this completes the setup etc. Seems like everything is working for me.

Installing Windows 10 IoT build 10152

After 2 builds, we are now seeing another fresh build #10152.

I was waiting for this one with huge expectations on Wifi and Bluetooth but not sure. Release notes are here http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/ReleaseNotes.htm

This time the Windows 10 Team have made the installation a bit easier.

Let walk through the Installation process which is very straightforward. 

• Download the latest build 10152 from here https://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/Downloads.htm
• You will get a ISO file. 
• Extract it/Mount it to get a MSI file of around 600 MB. 
• Double-click on it to start the install on your windows PC (preferably Windows 10 although not required as we now have all the required files needed to extract packaged in). 
• Couple of click and it should be installed. 

•  Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft IoT\ to find the installed files.

Lets get started with flashing the new image to the Micro SD card

• Start the IoTCoreImageHelper.exe

• Choose your SD card.
• Click on Browse. Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft IoT\FFU\RaspberryPi2\ and choose flash.ffu
• And click Flash.
• You should see a command prompt window running DISM to do the flashing. 
• The command window closes once its complete. 
• Remove the SD card and plug into you RPI2 to get started 

Enjoy J

Recipe: Tomato Basil Soup

Preparation time - 35 to 45 minutes





















Ingredients:


1. Tomatoes - 5 large (on the vine tomatoes) -Diced
2. Onions - Half of Big onion - Finely Chopped
3. Green Pepper - Half - Finely Chopped
4. Carrot (Optional) - 1 Finely chopped
5. Basil - 5 to 8 leaves - Finely chopped
6. Cilantro/Coriander leaves  - For Garnish
7. Garlic - 1 Clove  - Finely Chopped
8. Green Chilli - 1 (Optional) - Finely Chopped
9. Spring onions (white part only) - Chopped
10. Chilli powder - 1/2 Spoon
11. Turmeric powder - 1 pinch
12. Dhaniya Powder - 1 1/2 spoons
13. Milk  or Sour Cream - 5 spoons
14. Butter - 1 Spoon
15. Corn Flour - 2 spoons
16. Cumin - 2 spoons
17. Vegetable Oil - 4 spoons
18. Salt - 1 to 2 spoons
19. Bread slice - 1


Procedure:


• Heat a pan. Add 1 spoon of vegetable oil.
• Add the Cumin seeds. Immediately add the Garlic, Green Chilli. Saute them for 10-20 seconds
• Add the Finely chopped onions, carrot and Green pepper. Saute for 2  minutes.
• Add a pinch of salt.
• Transfer the contents to a blender. Blend for 2 minutes.


• Heat the pan again.
• Add 1 spoon of Vegetable Oil.
• Add the chopped tomatoes and cook for 2 to 4 minutes.
• Transfer the tomatoes to the blender to add with existing contents.
• Add the dhaniya powder.
• Blend for  5 minutes.


• Heat the pan and add another 2 spoons of oil.
• Pour the puree in the pan.
• Add Turmeric powder. Add chilli powder.  Add salt (as per need)
• Cook for 8 to 10 minutes until the color changes
• Mix 2 spoons of Corn flour in 1 cup of water. Add in to the boiling soup. Boil for 5 mins
• Add the finely chopped spring onions and basil.
• Add the butter. Add the sour cream or milk.
• Add 1 or 2 cups of water to get desired consistency.
• Allow Boil for 10 minutes (cover if needed) . Meanwhile prepare bread crumbs.


• Prepare Bread crumbs -
• Cut the bread slice into 9 to 16 pieces
• Heat a skillet to high flame for 5 mins.
• Lower the flame. Add 1/2 spoon of butter
• Add the bread pieces and toast to golden brown on low flame.


• Serve in a bowl.
• Garnish with Coriander leaves and toasted bread crumbs. 

Microsoft and Linux: How can both win!

Microsoft Windows is most used Operating system in the world. But the latest buzz is Windows is losing it stronghold. As per this news, Windows market share dives below 90% for first time. But who are the gainers? The statistics show that MAC and Linux are growing.

So what will happen if 50% percent of users switch over to MAC or Linux ? Yes, I agree it is not going to happen overnight but I can foresee it happening. More than moving to MAC, most of them will consider moving to Linux pretty soon. So, gone are the days when Microsoft was not worried about Linux. Yes they are worried and this result of this were some notable deals (Linspire , Novell, Xandros ..) Of course some may not be still active, but the truth is Microsoft sees the potential. Some more news also suggests that Microsoft is increasing focus on Windows and Linux interoperability.

Why can't Microsoft offer a free Open Source OS (which can be Linux) to users are not too interested in paying money? Rather, why can't Microsoft Launch its own open source Microsoft Linux Distribution? MS has the money. MS has the talent and resources. Moreover, Microsoft engineers can contribute to the Open Source Linux (of course, let them not do any development on Windows OS, let them not have any access to Windows source code). Moreover, Windows can still get something out of open source Linux and MS can still continue to improve their Windows OS.

Yes. I agree that they do business and they are here to make money and can't be doing free service. Hence, it may not sound logical for Microsoft to make Linux OS & applications for now. But it is very small investment for Microsoft at this point of time and after 10 or 15 years, the benefits will be huge.

The Windows OS with 90% shares, can only increase to 100% . That's a 10 % change but incase of Linux OS with .8 % share (that too with multiple distributions) can also grow to 100%, which is upto 99 %. Which has more potential? If it grows, it will eat up only Microsoft's share.

At least, the tremendous confidence of 90% windows users will still be with Microsoft and if some them want they can switch over to Microsoft Linux. I'm sure if the product is good the user is ready to pay it (particularly if he is loyal Microsoft Customer). After 20 years, we might see another type of competition, Microsoft Linux Vs. Red Hat Linux. How does that sound?

But I know for sure Ubuntu will be the winner! :)

What is this website by the way!!!!!