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Skype is a software for instant voice and textual messaging. It is also useful for video calling, ordinary voice conference, screen sharing conference, group conference etc. It can be used for office and personal purpose, interviews etc.

Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass) is a CSS pre-processor, have .scss and .sass formats, and is similar to CSS3. Compass is a CSS authoring framework and is open source. For both compass and Sass we need to install ruby which is an object-oriented, reflective, dynamic, general-purpose programming language.

If you run into a problem with your microphone not working in Skype in Ubuntu 15.04 on a Lenovo B40-70 laptop then this solution would work perfectly fine for you. Even if your laptop or ubuntu versions don't match and you have same symptom then this fix could very likely work for you

In Drupal there is a lot of interesting modules. One of interesting module is the quiz.module. It is a framework for create interactive quizzes for your visitors. Also it allows for the creation of questions of different types, and to collect the questions into quizzes.

Recently, we came across an error - "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server" while trying to run a new virtual host on our Ubuntu 14.04 machine. The first step to troubleshoot this type of issue would be to check at your Apache error logs as this specific type status can be thrown due to many reasons. Since we have Apache 2.4.7 installed on our system, each virtual host file should have the .conf extension. We corrected the extension also. But the issue was still there. However this information lead us to think on it further and finally we found the reason for the issue.

Those who are working on php/achache/msql environment, I feel it is always easier to download and install xampp on your machine compared to separate installation of php/mysql/apache.I. Given below the steps for that.

Installing Drupal 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 machine is pretty simple. Here is a quick and easy way to setup a Drupal 7 fresh installation. All those new Drupal developers who would want to do a local Drupal setup, please read on.

Elance tracker helps individuals to track the time they have worked and this is automatically populates to work time sheet in elance. And this time sheet is automatically submitted to the client. So if you are working on elance projects some times it is necessary to track time through elance tracker. If incase you came up an error "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: adobeair (>= 1:2.6.0.0) in Ubuntu 12.04" while installing Elance tracker, you may follow the below steps to resolve it.

The following is the shell script that will shutdown all computers in the network. This script will be really help full for system administrators who need not want to check all systems, whether all the systems in the office has been shutdown properly when the employees leave the office. The script will check all the active ips in the network and write the those ips to a file. It also login to each system and execute the shutdown command. The things that are to be done before running the script is to 'Make sure your public-key has been added in the authorized_keys file in .ssh folder of root'. This allows the script to login to each system by the method of public-key authentication rather than prompting for password. And also the 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' will avoid all prompts during ssh.

Quite often we feel the need for comparing wages in different countries when one is engaging with a global talent pool. We face this need when we evaluate the costs of setting up a development centre in Australia or when we are discussing with a potential hire who is then based out of India. In such scenarios, purchasing power parity is a useful concept to make wage comparisons across different countries meaningful. It might be a slightly crude approach but it can be useful when you are looking for ball parks or quick evaluations.

If you are a GNU Linux user it is very likely that you would already know about the command top that allows you to see the memory and processor usage by each process in your system. However you would see multiple processes for applications like Chromium or Firefox for each of the tabs that are open in them. Similarly you could see apache run multiple processes if you have it configured to do so. What if you want to see the total memory usage for each application and not by each process. Here is a small bash script to help you do the same.

If you have been using Skype on Ubuntu and you have been unable to login to Skype recently then it is only that the old version of Skype for Linux is no longer supported on Skype servers. You can solve this problem by purging the existing skype installation on your system and then re-installing the latest version of Skype from skype.com Do the following to fix this problem

As the main intention of testing is to ensure the quality of the final product, understanding of various testing types is crucial for a tester. In this article we will see the main difference between two testing types- retesting and regression testing.

This is a white paper on guesstimation of per employee revenue in the SME space in the Indian IT industry. This was prepared during the process of evaluation of our billing rates to compare our rates with the market standards.