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Here is the link to Microsoft's tutorial on how to integrate ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Tutorial: Azure AD SSO integration with ArcGIS Enterprise https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/arcgisenterprise-tutorial Tutorial: Azure Active Directory integration with ArcGIS Online https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/arcgis-tutorial ArcGIS Portal: Configure a SAML-compliant identity provider with a portal https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/administer/windows/configuring-a-saml-compliant-identity-provider-with-your-portal.htm Video: Securing Organization-Specific Logins with Azure AD & ArcGIS

PowerShell commands to Check TLS 1.2 status of Windows 11 computer x64 Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319' -Name 'SchUseStrongCrypto' x86 Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319' -Name 'SchUseStrongCrypto' If the returned value is “1”, then the key exists and has a value of “1” being it’s enabled. Enable TLS 1.2 using PowerShell commands. You may need to run PowerShell as an Administrator. x64 Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319' -Name 'SchUseStrongCrypto' -Type DWord -Value '1' x86 Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319' -Name 'SchUseStrongCrypto' -Type DWord -Value '1' Reference :  Check-or-Enable-TLS-1.2-with-PowerShell How to Enable TLS 1.2 on Windows? How to enable TLS 1.2 - Microsoft How to enable TLS 1.2 on clients - Microsoft

 This explanation video has been published by Science Magazine. The presentation is easy to follow and great for the people who try to grasp the concept of how SAR works and what are the potential fields of application.

Here are the commands for installing Git in Ubuntu. These commands should work on any Ubuntu version, including 21.10, 20.04, and 18,04. Install Git with basic functionalities sudo apt-get install git Install Git with all available functionalities sudo apt-get install git-all Confirm that Git has been installed git --version

Starting with the audacity of youth, Shahbag Movement (the Movement) is nothing but the outburst of a long-pending dissatisfaction of the people of a country for fair trial against war-crimes. The Movement is not for revenge, and it is not against any particular religious-believe. The Movement is to confirm the justice for the crimes against humanity which has been delayed for more than four decades. The Movement is to bring-back the spirit of 1971 war of independence. The Movement is to re-write the history of Bangladesh. The demand of Shahbag Movement is very clear and simple - ‘ ensure capital punishment for the war-criminals of 1971 ’. At the same time, ‘the war-criminals should not be allowed to be organized with political, financial or social establishments’. And the ‘people’ of the country has endorsed the demands. The Movement is not going to say how the demands will be full-filled, but it has already established the points. Now, it is the responsibility of the represen...

Night Lights of Bibiyana Gas Field Bibiyana Gas Plant, which is producing more than 30% gas of Bangladesh at present, is one of the remarkable features in the night lights of North-Eastern Bangladesh. It appears that the Bibiyana Gas Plant's light is brighter than that of Sunamganj, one of the districts under Sylhet Division. It is also visible in the night light map of Bangladesh as well. Bibiyana is expected to be larger than the initial estimates . Chevron, the operator of the gas plant, is going to invest additional 500 million dollars which is said to the single largest foreign investment in Bangladesh . The original image was taken by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite in any day between April 2012 and October 2012, and has been copied from NASA's Earth Observatory website ( Night Lights 2012 - Flat map ). This map has been created by annotating the original image in Google Earth (with international boarders) an...

সত্য বলতে, হাতের লেখা ‘ সুন্দর ’ বা ভালো করা মোটেও কোন কঠিন কাজ নয়। হাতের লেখা ‘ সুন্দর ’ করতে মূল তঃ যে তিনটি বিষয় প্রয়োজন সেগুলো হলো : ১ . ‘ সুন্দর ’ করে লেখার বিষয়ে নিজের আগ্রহ বা ইচ্ছে থাকা, ২. হাতের লেখা ‘ সুন্দর ’ করার সঠিক ও সহজ কৌশল বা উপায় জানা, ও ৩. নিয়মিত হাতের লেখার চর্চা করা। হাতের লেখার মাধ্যমে বোঝা যায়, মানুষের মনোযোগ, স্থিরতা ও চিন্তা করার ক্ষমতা।   ‘ সুন্দর ’ হাতের লেখার প্রশংসা সবাই করে। আর হাতের লেখা ‘ সুন্দর ’ হলে পরীক্ষায়ও ভালো নম্বর পাওয়া যায়। নীচের পরামর্শগুলো অনুসরণ করলে হাতের লেখা অবশ্যই ‘ সুন্দর ’ হবে। ·          প্রতিটি অক্ষর বা বর্ণ স্পস্ট হতে হবে, যাতে আলাদা-আলাদা ভাবে বোঝা যায় যে, ঠিক কোন অক্ষর লেখা হয়েছে। বাংলা লেখার ক্ষেত্রে, মাত্রা র সঠিক ব্যবহার করতে হবে। ইংরেজির ক্ষেত্রে ‘ ক্যপিটাল ’ ও ‘ স্মল ’ লেটার সঠিকভাবে লিখতে হবে। ·          লেখার স্টাইল বা ধরণ (যেমন, সোজা/খাড়া বা বাঁকা/কাত) যে রকমই হোক না কেন, অক্ষরগুলোর আকার ও আকৃতি একই রকম হতে...

Have you ever tried an online photo editor? I have just used one today and I had great experience with pixlr.com. It is just like the online version of Adobe Photoshop! No sigh-up or anything is required! Here is the link to the editor. http://pixlr.com/editor/ If yo uare interested about any other online photo editors, try this link!

So exiting! Now it is possible to translate any language in Bangla or vice-versa using "Google translate"!!! Here is the link to Google translate  http://translate.google.com/ .

Background Someday in early 2008, I was traveling in an SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) from Dhaka to Moulavi Bazar (in Bangladesh) for a field visit. One of my colleagues, who was a Geophysicist, was also accompanying me in the trip. It was about 7-8 hours journey and we were talking most of the times. Discussion topics were diverse and one of the topics was alternative energy. At that point of time oil price was in its pick, probably about 150 US$ per barrel. All of the windows of the car were closed as because the AC was on. However, for some reason, the driver opened an window while the car was moving at about 80 km per hour. So, a huge blow of fresh air entered in to the car and splashed in to my face. Suddenly I realized that our car is generating huge amount of friction with the air! In other words, if I was out of the car and sitting or standing somewhere in the same spot of the road, I might not feel that much of air speed. But while the car was moving at a certain speed it wa...

Few days back my wife taught our daughter, who is about 25 months old by now, that “PET” (a Bangla word) in English is “ belly ”. Today my wife questioned our daughter again to understand whether she can still remember the English term for “PET”. Unfortunately my daughter forgot the exact English word but she replied promptly that it is “SHAPLA”! (Probably because, she was taught earlier that the English term for “SHAPLA” is “ lilly ”!) What a correlation!

APA (stands for American Psychologocal Association) is one of the most commonly used to cite references, particularly in social sciences. A comprehensive APA formatting and style guide could be found in the following link. APA Formatting and Style Guide The guide has been published by Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL). In this guide I have found good examples of the general format of APA research papers, in text citations, endnotes/footnotes and the reference page. This guide has been revised according to the 6th edition of the APA manual. To learn more about APA style you can visit it's website at http://www.apastyle.org/

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS Finally Google is going to through the biggest challenge to Microsoft! Yes, Google is introducing a new Operating System (OS) which will be available at free of cost! Although we have to wait about a year from now for it. As promised, the OS will be speedy, simple and secure! Follow the above link for details about announcement.

vYew - the name is quite unusual (sounds line view) but this is a cool site which provides live web conferencing service at free of cost! Although, you can’t have more than 20 collaborators at a time with the free subscription. I have found this site quite interesting and useful. You can watch an introductory video of the service in YouTube… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXDG8q51vI&feature=related To learn more about the service and registration process, visit its website … http://vyew.com/

I got questions from some of my friends about GPS. Then I thought it would be good to share some information about my own GPS to all of you. I have a Garmin handheld GPS which I have been using for about four years. I found it quite useful during my personal and official trips in home and abroad. During my trip in Durham, UK, the GPS helped me to find out my hotel (a small cottage) in a very windy, cold and dark night. The area was basically out side the main town and less densely populated. Without the help of my GPS it would be very difficult for me to find the place at that night! For those who are not familiar with the term - GPS stands for Global Positioning System. GPS can help you to understand your location anywhere in the world using signal from number of satellites. Now a days GPS is being used for variety of purposes, including personal and vehicle navigation, mapping, fishing, trekking, etc. Garmin is the pioneer in handheld GPS. The model I have got is eTrex Legend HC...

One of my friends once asked me about how to download video from YouTube. At that point, I didn't know the answer. But I have learnt it recently and thought it would be good to share that with you! To download a video from YouTube , what you have to do is to visit the following website. Then select "Download Videos" option, put the link of the YouTube Video, choose an output format. You will also need to provide your email address. A link of the converted will be delivered to your email address and you can then download the file! http://www.zamzar.com/ Hope it will work for you!

I was amazed to read an article in Jugantor on 2nd February 2009. According to the article, electricity could be generated from Pathar-Kuchi, an indigenous plant of Bangladesh. I don't know the scientific name of the plant. It was claimed that substantial amount of electricity could be generated with the technology proposed by Dr. Kamrul Amal Khan, Chairman of the Department of Physics of Jagannath University and three of his associates. They explained in a seminar in Dhaka that 60-100 megawatt electricity could be generated from Pathar-Kuchi produced only from one acre of land. Click here to view the full article.

While I was visiting the website of OmicronLab to download a Bangla Typing Software, Avro Keyboard, I have found an interesting map showing the visitors of the site. The map clearly shows that Bangla Speaking community (both from Bangladesh and India) is present in every part of the world! Throughout 2008, there were over 1.6 lakh (0.16 million) visitors in the site. People from 172 countries visited the site. About half of the visitors came from outside Bangladesh or India. If you consider visitors by country then India is the top (about 48,000). More than 34,000 visitors were from Bangladesh. United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, Italy, Japan, Germany, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia are in the top list of the visitors. You can find details about the visitors in the following link http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://omicronlab.com

In the last page of Prothom Alo today (6 Jan 2009), an article has been published on "Neel Shaluk". The author (Sourav Mahmud) wrote a nice introduction of the flower and put a picture which was captured from Boga Lake, Bandarban. While traveling to Kuakata in September 2008, I took a picture of the same flower from a road side water-body somewhere in between Mohipur and Kuakata. The flower is really beatiful.

I'm a voter of Dhaka-12 Constituency. As a geographer, I was looking the physical boundary of the Constituency. Finally, I found it in the website of Bangladesh Election Commission. If you are interested to see your constituency map, see the following blog... Constituency Maps of Bangladesh