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Configure Jumbo Packets for all your devices including Windows/Linux/Mac OS X on your network

Summary This article focus on how to setup Jumbo packets on all your various devices in your network. This includes Windows 10+, Linux, Mac OS X+. What is Jumbo packet or Jumbo Frame? A jumbo frame is an Ethernet frame with a payload greater than the standard maximum transmission unit (MTU) of 1,500 bytes. Jumbo frames are used on local area networks that support at least 1 Gbps and can be as large as 9,000 bytes.

Converted Wordpress.com Hosted Blog to Hugo Static Blog :-)

Summary Thanks to Hugo Static Site generator written in GoLang and Mainroad Theme, I was able to port over my personal blog MyThinkPond as a static generated website. Before and After Here is a screenshot of the belore site: MyThinkPond under Wordpress hosting Here is a screenshot of the belore site: MyThinkPond under Wordpress hosting I think it’s a move in the right direction. Putting me in complete control of the content, images and all artifacts that goes into bundling the site.

Mind Map: A Method To x100 Your Productivity | Robin Sharma

Based on this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/cshVfS2LXm0 By Robin Sharma on “A Method To x100 Your Productivity”. Great video on how to improve your productivity by hundred fold. Mind map provided below for the busy folks. Cheers! Today's Inspirational Quote <img src="/img/2017/09/avvaiyar.jpg" alt="avvaiyar" width="50" align="left" class="imgframe" > ** Tamil **: கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கட்காதது உலகளவு. ** English Pronounciation **: Katrathu Kaiman Alavu Kallathathu Ulagalavu ** English Translation **: Known is a drop, unknown is an ocean.

Tech Companies Give Back Moment (repost)

We now exist an interesting interstitial moment, one defined by big corporations producing much of the innovation and some of the world’s richest companies – Apple, Amazon, Uber, Facebook – trying to solve big hairy problems. These are the problems that startups would have once solved but because they are so expensive – I’m talking about commercial VR, self-driving trucks, gene editing, and the like – there are no startups capitalized to tackle them.

How to create jaw dropping Data Visualizations on the web with D3.js?

Story telling using great visualizations. Thus article goes into the details of creating great visuals leveraging D3 JavaScript library. It introduces the user into concepts provided by the D3 library. Some of the steps includes: Refreshing previous concepts of D3.js A glance at advanced concepts: Scales, Axes and Reading data from external sources Building basic charts and code reusability Line Chart Area Chart Chart as a modular structure Case Study Visualizing Game of Thrones Social Network – Force Directed Graph in action!

The origin of complex life (snowball earth) (repost)

Life on Earth goes back at least two billion years, but it was only in the last half-billion that it would have been visible to the naked eye. One of the enduring questions among biologists is how life made the jump from microbes to the multicellular plants and animals who rule the planet today. Now, scientists have analyzed chemical traces of life in rocks that are up to a billion years old, and they discovered how a dramatic ice age may have led to the multicellular tipping point.