How to Activate 3G in Vodafone SIM Prepaid

Activating 3G in Vodafone is very simple.First insert the Vodafone SIM card in 3G enabled  mobile phone.You have to send single SMS to activate the Vodafone 3G on your mobile number.

The procedure is ACT 3G to 111 (For Postpaid users) and 144 (For Prepaid users) .The process for activation of 3G will be completed in maximum 24 hours.
You will get confirmation message from Vodafone when 3G service is activated.

You have to change the Network mode into UMTS or HSDPA in-order to use the High Speed Vodafone 3G service.

How To Install Software in Linux

You already know that due to its open source nature, Linux comes in many colour, shapes and flavors. In fact, you too can distribute your own customized version of Linux. Different versions of Linux may offer you different benefits, but, often they pose problems due to lack of unified standard, or too many good of them. In any computing system, the best way to install an application is to compile them in the particular hardware environment where it is intended to run. But it is not possible always since you may not have required compilers and other development environment installed in your computer. Hence there remains only option to use precompiled binaries, the easily installable, and ready to run executable files to install applications. Different Linux distribution handles application installations differently. RedHat uses RPMs whereas Debian uses deb packages. Further, Linux applications are written on equally many different SDK and development environments such as GTK, QT or WxWindows and hence needed some specific files and libraries pre-installed in the system intended to run. In MS Windows platform, applications are bundled with all the dependent files and therefore they are installed along with their all required dependent dll files. That is why, in MS Windows, application installation is always a few click affair. Linux users had always wanted Linux application installation, a few mouse click affair like its windows counterpart. In Linux, till a while ago, application installation was quite a nightmare for everyone since it needs to address file dependency issues, version conflicts and all that. But, thanks to today’s advanced auto installers that do everything automatically for you, and in some cases, they seem better and easier than their counterpart in MS Windows.

How to install PHP Pecl GeoIP on Linux

If you are a webmaster and want to include php GeoIP functions in your code. Then you have to install Pecl GeoIP extension on your server. After installing this extension you can get geo data of any IP-address using geoip_record_by_name function. To install this extention follow these steps

For Debian/Ubuntu
Run following command as root user

apt-get install libgeoip-dev php5-dev php5-pear
pecl install geoip

then simply add extension=geoip.so in php.ini using nano or vi command
For Redhat/Centos
Run following command as root user

yum install  GeoIP-devel
pecl install geoip

then simply add extension=geoip.so in php.ini using nano or vi command

Install windows games and applications on Linux

Most of users don’t use Linux because they can not install their favorite games and application on Linux. In my previous post about Linux alternatives to windows software programs you can find alternative of your favorites software in Linux. If you are unable to find any alternative or you don’t like alternative software then you can use winehq to install windows applications and game in Linux. In this article I will guide you how to install wine on Linux (Ubuntu)
To install wine on Ubuntu run following command in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

sudo apt-get update

apt-get install wine

Generate a List of Installed Programs in Windows

If you need to reinstall Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP for any reason, you may want a list of the programs you have installed on your system so you can easily know what programs you need to reinstall once you have installed Windows again.
NOTE: This procedure shows you how to generate a list of installed programs only. The license keys and serial numbers for the programs are not included in the list. To generate a list of license keys and serials numbers for your installed programs, see our post, Recover License Keys for Installed Software.

To generate the list of installed programs, open the Command Prompt as Administrator. To do this in Windows 7 or Windows Vista, enter “cmd” (without the quotes) in the Search Programs and Files box on the Start menu. The cmd.exe program should automatically be highlighted in the Programs section of the results. Press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open cmd.exe as Administrator.

Install the Moonlight Plugin for Firefox in Linux

Since 2007, Microsoft Silverlight has been an option for developers looking to create and present rich content on the Web.  It’s used for games, videos, embedded players, and more.  Unfortunately for Linux users, there is no official Linux version of Silverlight.
However, Novell and others are working on a Linux port, called Moonlight.  Moonlight is in constant development (and Silverlight seems to reach a new version every year or so), so maintaining and up-to-date installation, especially via your distribution’s package manager, isn’t always easy.

If you use Ubuntu, for instance, there is are plugins available for Mozilla-based browsers, but it is only at version 2.3, while Silverlight is currently at version 4, and even Moonlight itself is releasing preview versions of version 4 for Linux.
What to do?  Simple.  Get it from the source.
Note: if you are running a version of Firefox prior to version 4, and don’t mind running an older version of Moonlight, you can install it with the following command (in Ubuntu):
sudo apt-get install moonlight-plugin-mozilla
This will add a couple of requirements, and should procede as shown: