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FB-369, Faculty Building, CARS Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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PC - CARS 2
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Update 1 Professional - 64 bit
Hardware
Model - HP Pavilion 20 - b102in
Processor - i3-3220
RAM - 4GB, HDD - 500GB, USB 3.0
Wi-Fi - Realtek Ralink RT5390R 802.11 b/g/n
Ethernet - Realtek GBE PCIe
Webcam - 1 MP
Multi-Card Reader
Graphics - Intel HD Graphics 2500

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Video Editing
Image Editing
CAD Modeling
Programming
Technical Reading, Writing
EPS - Technical Document
Security
File Utilities
Network Utilities

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Geographical
Dictionary
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Video Editing

Video Editing
Cutting, Joining, Transcoding ...
Avidemux - 2.6.7 - 64 bit
VirtualDub - 1.9.11
Full fledged editing
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Codecs
x264 - vfw - Version dated: Oct 5, 2013
xvid - 1.3.2

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Image Editing

Image Editing

Gimp - 2.8.8 - 64 bit

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CAD Modeling

CAD Modeling

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014 SP1 Update 3

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Programming

Programming

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3

MATLAB 2013b - 64 bit - Network Install

Visual Studio Professional 2008 - 32bit
opencv - 2.1 - 32 bit

These versions for (2) and (3) was purposefully installed for
executing motion capture code for collecting motion data of
fingers. . Any other combination fails the compilation of that
code.

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Technical Reading, Writing

Technical Reading, Writing

LaTeX
MikTex - 2.9 - Updated till Dec 01, 2013
TexStudio - 2.7.0
Document, Spreadsheet ...
Microsoft Office 2013
pdf, djvu
Adobe Acrobat IX Extended
WinDjview - 2.0.2

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EPS - Technical Document

EPS - Technical Document

Draw eps Figures

ipe 7.1.5
Edit MATLAB figure or any other: Convert pdf to ipe
pdftoipe - command line tool

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Security

Security

Antivirus
Windows Defender built-in Windows 8.1
Registry Cleaning, Optimizing ...
Stay away from these. These may harm your Windows in
irrecoverable manner.

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File Utilities

File Utilities
Extract rar, zip, 7z ..., Compress ...
7zip - 64 bit
Make ISO from a set of files
Magic ISO - 5.4
Advanced Text Editor
Notepad ++ - 6.5.2
Check Disk Usage with details of files/folders
WinDirStat - 1.1.2

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Network Utilities

Network Utilities
Web Browser
Mozilla Firefox - 29.0
Google Chrome
File Sharing
DC++ - 0.831
DC Hub Server - PtokaX - 0.5.0.1
Dropbox
Video Chat
Skype - Desktop Version

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Geographical

Geographical

Maps, Weather
Google Earth
Maps - Windows 8.1 App
Weather - Windows 8.1 App

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Dictionary

Dictionary

Wordweb - 6

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Run Wi-Fi Access Point for LAB
DC++ Hub Server
Networking
Connect to no-proxy without browser troubles
Match time in Windows and Linux
Operate Arduino board with ATMEGA
Media Players

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Run Wi-Fi Access Point for LAB

Run Wi-Fi Access Point for LAB

Batch Scripts
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wifi-AP-start.bat - to start access point
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wifi-AP-setup.bat - to set up access point
Note
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Files are placed in Software(F:)\Windows\Scripts\
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Run as administrator for executing scripts.
3
To change/view password for access point, edit file
wifi-AP-setup.bat with notepad/notepad++.
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You can change name of the access point as well.

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DC++ Hub Server

DC++ Hub Server

Run DC Hub
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PtokaX Set to start automatically in this user account.
2
On creating new account in windows, add a shortcut to
the executable in Startup folder.
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Software is located in Software(F:)\Windows\Network
Utilities\Connect on LAN \

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Networking

Networking
Connect to ssh server
putty
Connect to sftp server - to access files on cc server
winscp
Can use this to access/upload webpage files on webhome
server for homepage: http://home.iitk.ac.in/ user
Remote Desktop to PC runing Linux
TurboVNC - 1.2

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Connect to no-proxy without browser troubles

Connect to no-proxy without browser troubles

script
Use the script No-Proxy.py.
Login with cc id.
Shortcut to this file is placed in Startup folder on
desktop.
Everytime, you login to this account, a cmd pop will
ask you for username and password.
Advantage: It connects automatically, if you leave the
window open. No need to refresh the browser.

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Match time in Windows and Linux

Match time in Windows and Linux

On Installing linux, you may see time offset by 5.5 hours.

Open registry editor. Type regedit in start screen.
Browse to HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
Create a new DWord entry with name
RealTimeIsUniversal and value = 1.
To save time, a .reg file is already created and saved in
F:\Windows\System Utilities . Just double click on it.

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Operate Arduino board with ATMEGA

Operate Arduino board with ATMEGA

Drivers, IDE
Arduino 1.0.5
Drivers and programming interface (ide) are installed.

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Media Players

Media Players

Video
VLC - 2.1.0
Audio
Clemetine 1.2.0

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