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100 Essential Skills for Geeks

As Geeks we are expected to have a certain set of skills that the majority of the population does not possess. This list is by no means complete, but I think it is a good sample of the skills required to be a true geek. I won’t pretend to have all the skills listed here. I even had to Google a few of them. Like all good Geeks you should be able to utilize resources to accomplish any of these things. Knowing where to look for the knowledge is as good as having it so give yourself points if you are certain that you could Google the knowledge necessary for a skill. Properly secure a wireless router. Crack the WEP key on a wireless router. Leech Wifi from your neighbor. Screw with Wifi leeches. Setup and use a VPN. Work from home or a coffee shop as effectively as you do at the office. Wire your own home with Ethernet cable. Turn a web camera into security camera. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point. Understand what “There’s no Plac...

How to: Install Windows 7 using bootable pen drive

Some of you may be wondering why you would ever need a bootable pen drive or some of you may even don't get what exactly this post is all about. For those who do not understand what does the word 'boot' mean - "It's a process your computer follows every time it is turned on or restarted. The process is basically looking for the operating system in the memory" and when we say 'bootable' pen drive, it means your computer starts looking for the operating system (Windows in our case) in your pen drive. Now for all those desperate and frustrated fellows who want to install Windows 7 in their system but aren't able to do so because of the hardware limitations (or any other reason), here's the procedure: This is the tutorial for installing Windows 7 using a bootable pen drive but I believe you can install any Operating system in your computer using this procedure: Pre-requisites: 1. A pen drive (4 GB minimum) 2. Windows 7 .ISO fil...