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  1. mathrisk

    Naming reasons for TE IDs and your choice of Strangest IDs

    I got masters degree in Maths and 'The Matrix' was my fav movie. I came up with 'mathrix' at first, which later become 'mathrisk'. The same id I used in LAN (DC++ and gaming) during hostel days.
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    Tracing the tangled tracks of humankind's evolutionary journey

    Evolution is slow, too damn slow - on scale compared to average lifetime of most animals. (not on cosmic level of course) I fail to imagine, how actually it all happened !! Like some fish someday decided, they would start living on the land. How DNA mutation happened to change their body to...
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    Tracing the tangled tracks of humankind's evolutionary journey

    This is a bestseller on the topic. https://www.amazon.in/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0099590085/
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    Rate the Last Movie You Saw...

    Birdbox (netflix) - 4/10 : it's like "seeing" version of 'A quiet place'(Unlike making a noise, here if one "sees" that thing, they will die) . Nothing much, predictable story, dull. Avoidable.
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    Beware: TATASKY subscribers while re-locating your connection

    Do the service person (or the people on the other side of the call) get benefited from the useless service that gets activated ? Any commission may be !!
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    My XandrA again here

    Wow ... cool setup. Nice to see such machines in show off section, which has become a rare occasion these days.
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    Old School

    Another 'old-school' here. :D Besides email accounts, this is the oldest profile in any site which I am still using. Other active accounts in Facebook, reddit - joined in 2009. Previously was active on Orkut, digg, delicious, some yahoo sites etc. - most doesn't exists anymore.
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    Live IP Camera monitoring using RPi

    Yeah I suppose so. To enable live streaming over internet, they need to have some server somewhere (if not doing port forwarding thingy).
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    English TV series discussion

    Started How to get Away with Murder : fast paced, decent show Mentalist : something I watch with my wife, one case per episode, thriller. So-so, mostly watch-able, boring at times.
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    Netrun broadband Hyderabad - 200mbps at Rs.999/month! (No FUP)

    Why does Hyderabad only have such insane plans (from all ISPs), while rest of India paying in multiples of those prices? /yeah, of course I am jealous :D :p
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    Live IP Camera monitoring using RPi

    The camera I own, also have the live monitoring over the internet. But I am worried about security part of it - as I don't know how that streaming works. Can someone peek into stream? (I intended by buy the Mi Home 360 cam, but at the time I needed urgently , Mi cam was oos, got the next best...
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    Ola cars tracking system - Amazing - How do they do it ?

    Google maps have API's, pay as you use. https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/ Not just Ola, many other service providers uses it, like Swiggy has also have live tracking.
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    Live IP Camera monitoring using RPi

    My requirement is to live monitor (video+audio) my house from internet. Hardware I have - a Raspberry Pi 2, a WiFi IP Camera. Broadband connection - Airtel vFiber 100mbps (Router Huawei hg8145v) Can this be done? If so do I need any more hardware ? If yes, how can I stream it securely over the...
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    Rate the Last Movie You Saw...

    Alpha (2018) - visually decent. Rest okayish. 5/10
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    anyone tried amazon exchange on laptop?

    I have recently exchanged an old laptop in FK - a Dell Latitude i5 2nd gen, for 8K. It was bought from Olx an year ago, for 10K. It had problem from the beginning - a bad decision from my side. But since it wasn't much used, I had kept it. But recently when I started using it, I knew that it's...
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    Ubuntu Fan thread

    Oh this is not going good. :( Tried Manjaro via liveUSB - but the boot screen got stuck (same as this). I can login via CLI though. So didn't proceed with the installation. Hoped at least Elementary will work. But to surprise, neither elementary booting this time. Some issue with AMD...
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    Planning to buy new Speakers

    Might consider - Swans M10, a 2.1 system, pretty decent performance.
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    Ubuntu Fan thread

    Win10 is lagging too much now. Read somewhere once all the updates are applied, it'd smooth a bit. Elementary is now 2nd on my list. I will try Manjaro today. Let's see how this goes. :) I am using Ubuntu 16.04 in my desktop having same 4gigs (with i5-4th gen). With 8/9 tabs in FF & 4/5 in...
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    The "Everyday" show-off thread !

    It's with Vega 8.
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    Ubuntu Fan thread

    I have already tried Elementary Juno via LiveUSB last night. My trackpad was not usable. Let me try other distros then. It's not that I am looking something similar to Windows. I have been using default Ubuntu unity for last few years and I am okay with it. Just wanted to try something...