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Hyper Terminal for Windows 7

January 5th, 2012 No comments

Hyper Terminal is a communication program that came free with Windows XP Operating System.   Hyper Terminal is usually used to send and receive characters over the serial port or USB serial devices. It is not included in Windows Vista / Windows 7 operating system but most of the people still use hyper terminal to control their serial devices. One of the alternatives is to use the good old Hyper Terminal Program that came with Windows XP.

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Dr. Umar Saif declared Top Young Innovator

August 23rd, 2011 No comments

We certainly could do with some good news at a time when everything seems to be doom and gloom.And Dr. Umar Saif has provided us with the opportunity to celebrate. MIT has named Umar Saif as one of the world’s top young innovators for 2011.

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[HOW-TO] – The /etc/init.d Directory Explained

July 20th, 2011 No comments

If you use Linux you most likely have heard of the init.d directory. But what exactly does this directory do? It ultimately does one thing but it does that one thing for your entire system, so init.d is very important. The init.d directory contains a number of start/stop scripts for various services on your system. Everything from acpid to x11-common is controlled from this directory. Of course it’s not exactly that simple.

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[HOW-TO] – Restarting Linux network service

July 20th, 2011 No comments

RedHat Linux commands to reload or restart network (login as root user):

# service network restart
OR
# /etc/init.d/network restart

To start Linux network service:
# service network start

To stop Linux network service:
# service network stop

Debian / Ubuntu Linux commands to reload or restart network:
# /etc/init.d/networking restart

To start Linux network service:
# /etc/init.d/networking start

To stop Linux network service:
# /etc/init.d/networking stop

Ubuntu Linux user use sudo command with above Debian Linux command:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

To start Linux network service:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking start

To stop Linux network service:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop


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