According to a website, cold showers can stimulate the nervous system, the part responsible for fight or flight response. Cold water shocks the system for a stress response.
Microsoft Word tips
Here are some Microsoft Word tips that I found to be useful
Extending life the smartphone battery
One morning, I was commenting to an iPhone user that his battery is nearly flat. He is trying to prolong the battery life by not charging overnight, reducing the charge cycles. The battery is currently a third party replacement as…
Running with Android Oreo Part 2
I was curious about Android 8.1’s Neural Network API, so I upgraded my from Oxygen OS 5.02 to OmniRom. After 2 days on it, I realized that the apps must be able to support the API and I wasn’t even…
Running with Android Oreo
I finally upgraded the OnePlus 3T to Android Oreo or Oxygen OS 5.01. There are changes under the hood, the most visible ones are:
OnePlus 3T and DM_Verity
I was editing the OnePlus 3T build.prop file when I encountered the DM-verity warning. This is part of the verified boot process. More details can be read here. There were several posts to use the following to turn off and…
Notable security vulnerabilities for 2018
In continuation of the 2017 post on vulnerabilities, the new year started with a big security bang.
End of the year retrospection
End of the year always put one in a retrospection mood. You think about the year passed, the what ifs, what could have etc. I was browsing some posts when I came across this.
2017 in review
2017 was a horrible year for me. The year opened with a bang when somebody’s car rear-ended me on the last few days of 2016. 9 months later, another driver repeated the same feat. Luckily, no one was injured.
Dell Server, importing new disks into a RAID volume.
I was caught flat-footed when trying to import a used disk into a mirror set. One of the disks in the mirror set was removed for disaster recovery trials.