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How to change language from Chinese to English on WeChat for PC

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Image Source WeChat (Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018, with over 1 billion monthly active users. WeChat has been described as China's "app for everything" and a "super app" because of its wide range of functions. WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, sharing of photographs and videos, and location sharing. The default language on WeChat for PC is Chinese. I tried to download WeChat for PC from many websites; however, it always gave me a Chinese language version of the software. It is difficult to use WeChat for PC in the Chinese language for non-native speakers. However, it is very easy to change the language on WeChat for PC. I have outlined the steps involved in changing the language that are d...

How to generate a DoS/DDoS attack

Create a mininet network connected with the floodlight controller. Create two terminals in the mininet using xterm command lets say: xterm h1 h2 flooMake one host h2 as a server receiving UDP traffic using (host1: 10.0.0.1) iperf -s -u Make the host h1 as the client sending flooding traffic (host2: 10.0.0.2) iperf -c 10.0.0.1 -b 30M -l 1200 In order to parallely send packets to the server use the following command: (host2: 10.0.0.2) iperf -c 10.0.0.1 -b 30M -l 1200 -P 6 The above command add the number of iperf tx form attacker using threads. In this way,it sends packet in parallel to the server. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46431999/dos-attack-using-iperf-in-the-network

Guidelines for the Canadian Immigration Process

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Guidelines for the Canadian Immigration Process Note this process has been transcribed from a video on youtube posted by Abid Khan on his Facebook profile. More detailed discussion and guidelines can be found on the video link given below. https://www.facebook.com/abidcro/videos/10157986362540255/?d=n Provincial Nomination/ Federal Nomination: Canada has 10 Provinces and 3 territories, every province has a separate offer along with the federal one. The steps to follow for Canadian immigration are as follows: 1. Calculate your Score using CRS calculator https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp It needs your basic details as input and will calculate the points The cutoff criteria for the federal invitation is normally in a range of 450-470 which is very high 2. Take IELTS Exam IELTS (General Training) is a must requirement, if you have not passed the IELTS exam, you are not eligible to apply for express entry. There is an online tutor on youtu...

Coronavirus: From Chaos to Calm

Having observed all the circumstances from a haphazardous situation to a controlled situation. Now, when I see the situation around the globe, I feel like I am watching a recap of a serial. The whole world was watching knew, it was coming. Even they had enough time to prepare; however, they missed that particular time spam. This is the time for China to tell how they have attained such immense capabilities to drive things intelligently.

My Experience Publishing with IEEE Internet of Things Journal

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Recently, I have published an article with the IEEE, Internet of Things Journal. For the article submission in this journal, the author needs to create a submission account. The link is given in the following. https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot After the initial submission, all the correspondence will be handled by the corresponding author. As my supervisor was the corresponding author, he used to notify me of any email that is received from the journal. My paper took three revisions until the final acceptance. Once the article is accepted, the IEEE copyright form is uploaded on the IEEE IoTJ submission system. This form can be filled by the submitting author. Once the copyright form is submitted, the author's copy of the manuscript will be online after a couple of days. The next correspondence is handled by the IEEE gateway account which handles the production process. The IEEE production team emails the link and user credentials to log-in to the IEEE Gateway acco...

Spending Spring Festival 2020 at Nanjing University and Fears of Coronavirus

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春节快乐   It is 24 th of January, 2020 and is the Spring Festival Eve at Nanjing University. Recently, Coronavirus has been outbroken in many parts of China. It is an epidemic virus that is spreading like a wind where many new cases have been identified on a regular basis. Every day, we hear news of cases being detected in different parts of the country. I have been not much concerned previously, however, a friend of mine was discussing the severity of the situation when I told her that I have been to Shanghai recently. It was after that when I started to watch-out social media and news specifically concerning to the Coronavirus. Now, I feel scared, it is not only me, everyone in China is gravely concerned. The virus has been first identified in the Wuhan province of China where the maximum number of cases has been identified. Most of the other cases have been identified mostly in the eastern parts of China. Random cases in Japan, USA, Macau, Hong K...

Painful Luxuries: Stop Single-Use Plastic

I was traveling from shanghai Pudong airport to the London Heathrow on Virgin Atlantic airline in the economy class in August 2019. As expected, the staff was hospitable and welcoming. I ordered Mulsim meal while booking the ticket so the air hostess always used to serve me first before the other passengers. With every meal, there was something to drink like juice, plain water. The cutlery was always new with a spoon, fork, glass, and the meal box. The glass which I drink was only used for once and was dumped in the flexible basked in front of the seat which couldn't hold enough things so I used to pinch the glass to dumb in the basket. It was a kind of privilege to be treated like this. Further, when I stayed in a hotel in London where every day the staff provided me with new disposable plastic utensils. However in a world when we are worried about the massive plastic pollution, hotels and airlines are one of the simple examples where it has been used as a luxury. How could it ...