Health Insurance Tips

 

Health Insurance is unavoidable for common people.  Please consider below points before buying any health insurance.

Don't get trapped in marketing jargon, everyone has different needs please go with what you want.  If you are the who think its a expense.  Please put the equal amount your premium in index stocks.  I am sure you will get your money back.  

1. Room Rent Cap:  Ensure no room rent cap or you might end up in paying more.
   
   
2. City Coverage: Based on your location check the number of hospitals covered around your place. 
   
   
3. ICU Cap: Ensure no ICU cap.
   
   
4. Disease Sub Limit: Please aware is there any disease sub limit set.
   
   
5. Policy Limit: Ensure policy limit.
   
   
6. Consumables: Now many insurance provides consumables without additional cost.
   
   
7. Network Hospitals: Ensure your insurance provider covers maximum hospitals, ensure its not tight up with specific hospitals and also ensure zone A and zone B are covered.
   
   
8. Claim Settlement Ratio: Ensure CSR rating is good
   
   
9. Renewability:  Ensure good lifetime renewable policy
   
   
10. Waiting Period:  Very important to check this most of the policies have ~2 to 3 years wait time.
    
    
11. Addons/ Riders: Check for the possible riders that comes with additional cost
    
    
12. Fine Print:  Please read the fine print document that explains all the details about the policy
    
    
13. Sufficient Cover: Based on your family, be careful to take sufficient cover
    
    
14. Medical History: Please be truthful while declaring medical history, if they found false info your policy might void
    
    
15. Age:  Earlier the best, even if you have a corporate policy still it is advisable to take health   insurance.  If you are 40 > please take it asap.

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Article: Saheed March 04, 2024  No comment

Update Fedora 39 over command line

 Fedora 39 includes several new features and improvements, including:

• The latest GNOME 45 desktop environment, with stylish new widgets, a brand new Image Viewer app, and many other refinements.
• The Linux kernel 6.5, with support for the latest hardware and security features.
• The Firefox 110 web browser, with improved performance and security.
• The LibreOffice 7.5 office suite, with new features and bug fixes.
• The Python 3.11 programming language, with new features and performance improvements.

Step 1: Update Fedora 38 (Required)

Before moving to the new version, it’s important to update your Fedora 38 system packages to most latest and most compatible versions.

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

Step 2: Install the DNF-plugin-system-upgrade Package on Fedora

Once the system upgrade is completed, you can install the dnf-plugin-system-upgrade plugin, which is a command-line tool for upgrading Fedora systems to a new major release.

sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade

Step 3: Download Fedora 39 Release

Now it’s time to use the system-upgrade command to download the Fedora 39 release.

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39

If you encounter conflicts during the upgrade, consider adding the --allowerasing option to your upgrade command, which will enable DNF to remove packages that could be causing conflicts during the upgrade.

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 --allowerasing

After the package download is complete, restart your system to begin the final installation process.

sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

Step 4: Verify Fedora 39 Release

Once the upgrade to Fedora 39 is done, and you log in, you’ll see some changes in the user interface.

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Article: Saheed November 24, 2023  No comment

Install Chrome OS/ MPLAB X/ XPRESS IDE in your old laptop

Prerequisite: 

• Any old laptop/ desktop with minimum 4GB RAM with 128GB Hard disk
• Any working windows machine for making USB bootable image (UEFI Support)
• 8 or 16 GB Pen drive (To create bootable image)

Files Required:

Create a folder chromeOS in your computer and download the files below.

• ChromeOS: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/serving-builds?deviceCategory=ChromeOS
• Linux Mint: https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php 
• Rufus:  https://rufus.ie/en/
• Bruch:  https://github.com/sebanc/brunch/releases

Note: (Chrome OS - Select latest build (Download only RAMMUS version)

Step 1 (Create Bootable Pen Drive):

• Insert pen drive 
• Open Rufus and select linux mint iso file to crate bootable image (refer below video)

Step 2 (Unzip Bruch):

• Unzip the bruch and rename it as chromeOS (refer below video)

Step 2 (Unzip ChromeOS):

• Unzip the downloaded chromeOS file
• Rename the file as rammus.bin and move the bin file to the above chromeOS folder (refer below video)

Step 3 (Save Command.txt for reference):

• Create text file and copy the below commands and move it to chromeOS folder this will be executed later

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pv
sudo apt-get install cgpt
sudo bash chromeos-install.sh -src rammus.bin -dst /dev/sda

Step 4 (Move chromeOS folder to pendrive):

• Copy the chromeOS folder to pendrive (refer below video)

Step 5 (Booting Linux to install Chrome):

• Select pen drive from your computer boot menu
• Once the linux mint is up (Connect to WIFI or Ethernet)
• Go to terminal and change directory to your chromeOS folder /cdrom/chromeOS$
• Run the above commands one by one
• Exit and shutdown the linux once all the commands are executed
• Now Disconnect USB and restart your PC
• Chrome OS is now ready to use (login with your google account)

Step 6 (Enable Linux Developer Mode in Chrome OS):

• Go to Setting by pressing window/ control key
• Select Advanced >> Developers >> Enable Linux Developer Environment
• Note: Please ensure to enable CPU Virtualization from your BIOS
• Enable Linux file sharing from MyFiles explorer (To access files from linux terminal)
• Go to penguin terminal ($ cd /mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/Downloads)

Step 7 (Installing MPLAB X):

• Execute this command before running the installer ($sudo xhost +si:localuser:root)
• Download linux version of MPLAB X IDE Here
• Unzip the file and provide execute permission ($sudo chmod +777 MPLABxxx.sh)
• Run the installer - follow the onscreen instructions  ($sudo sh ./MPLAxxxx.sh)
• Once the installation completes, IDE/ IPE will get launched

Note:  For 64bit machines, you may need to run the below commands to connect any tools.

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
• sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libext6:i386 libxext6:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libexpat1:i386

FYI: libX11 ---> libx11 (lower case "x")

• MPLAB X installed successfully in Chrome OS in old 4GB lenovo's laptop 
• When you connect any tool e.g. PICKIT4 just select connect to Linux from notification bar.

Using MPLAB XPress Cloud IDE in ChromeOS with PICKIT4:

Open https://www.mplab-xpresside.microchip.com/

Execute this command before running Bridge App ($sudo xhost +si:localuser:root)

Download bridge app from project properties - (Refer Xpress help)

Provide execute permission to java (./jre/bin/java) 

Edit run.sh Line No: 4 with (-DJava.awt.headless=true)
e.g. .\jre\bin\java.exe -jar -DJava.awt.headless=true xpress-bridge-app-v3.50.jar

Now change directory to brideapp folder and run the bridge app $sudo sh ./run.sh

Done Xpress is ready to use PICKIT4

Debug your project - Done

Credits: Technical Support  (Video)

 

 

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Article: Saheed October 14, 2022  No comment