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Accessing Internet Without use of mac address anywhere

I have been noticing one thing from a long time that many internet providers ( like ION in manipal ) use mac addresses to limit other people from accessing their network but they dont actually have a proper knowledge of it, so here is the way to make any computer whose mac address in not there with the service provider to use the internet and you dont have to change any mac addresses or anything, well the steps are right below
1) Find any one using Internet on the particular ISP
2) See his connection details like his IP, Subnet, gateway ( or default route ), primary DNS, Secondery DNS
3) Now in your OS set a custom IP say you saw the persons IP as 10.49.3.23 so set your IP as say 10.49.4.203 and enter other details that you found like subnet as 255.255.0.0, gateway or default route as 10.49.0.1, primary DNS as 61.1.128.65 and secondary DNS as 218.248.47.30
4) now connect to the network and enjoy ( you might have to login and there are multiple logins allowed so you can use any of your friends username and password to login )
5) And you might want to check out this if you are on ION

Now to know how it works, if you want to know how it works then continue reading else there is no need to read further
By taking mac addresses they assign you IPs using DHCP based on the mac that they have so if you assign it yourself you have no need to use DHCP and everything works just fine
Enjoy!!!!

Note:- If you get IP conflict change your IP and try again

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Dell XPS 1530

Finally after waiting for a long time my Dell XPS 1530 arrived yesterday and it really rockss, i was supposed to get it on 3rd July but continuous delay were caused by curfew in Indore and some other factors.

The Config is
Processor : Intel C2D T8100 - 2.1GHz
RAM : 3GB 667MHz Dual Channel
Graphics Card : GeForce 8600GT 256 MB
Screen : 15.4" WXGA+ ( 1440x900 )
WiFI card : Intel 4965 802.11n
OS : Windows Vista Home Preminum ( removed after an hour )


It looks gr8 far better then what i previously owned, HP 6515b which was given by my college MIT, Manipal.
As soon as i received my Dell first think i did was to run Windows Performance Index and the score came out to be 5.0 with 5.0 being the lowest score because of my 3GB RAM!!!

I tried some Windows Media Centre and then it was time to say vista good bye and say hello to Fedora 9, the install went without a hitch but when i booted i that my mouse was not working, a quick search on forums and i had the solution add i8042.nomux=1 as a kernel parameter and every thing was working, WiFi, LAN all worked out of the box, some yum install and my new notebook was ready to rock and roll

so here they are x144 and x121

PS - i will be heading back to manipal on 16th, waiting for a really rocking sem……….

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iPhone3G or Openmoko Freerunner

We all have been listening ( reading ) a lot about the new iPhone 3G and how it is different, better and well cheaper from the first generation iPhone and a question came to my mind with Airtel and Vodafone planning to launch iPhone what will happen to Openmoko how many people know about it and well its available in India at a price of around RS. 20,000 by IDA system its really a great Phone to own actually Openmoko Freerunner is the second phone which will run Openmoko software and is similar to the first Neo 1973 its specification are

* Processor -- Samsung S3C2442 500MHz
* RAM -- 128MB
* Flash -- 256MB
* Display -- 2.8-inch diagonal 640 x 480 VGA Color TFT LCD
* Graphics -- SMedia 3362-based 3D graphics acceleration
* Accelerometers -- 2 x 3D accelerometers
* Audio -- "high-quality" audio codec
* USB -- 1 x version 1.1, switchable between client and host modes
* Cellular -- 2.5G tri-band GPRS/GSM (900MHz or 850MHz, depending on region)
* WiFi -- 802.11b/g WiFi
* Bluetooth -- version 2.0
* GPS -- AGPS (assisted global positioning system) receiver

Which is really great Freerunner does not have 3G but well in India at present there is no 3G and i dont think it will be there anytime this year as frequency allocation has not taken place add to that only planning is going on which will take a lot of time so remove all the 3G factor from iPhone 3G …….
Another thing Openmoko Freerunner is a complete Open Source Phone you can download the whole source code and change it according to your wish and well about the applications there will be plenty of applications available for it at no cost
So while many of people around me will go for iPhone 3G ( without 3G ) i am going to FREE MY PHONE!!!!!!

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Firefox 3 is here!!!!!!!

So Finally after a delay of about 1.5 hours Firefox 3 is here and the download link is here World Record here we come

PS - No matter how many people download it will anyway be a world record coz its the first time a record of this type is being done

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MinWin and Windows 7 - You got it all wrong

Somedays ago when i was traveling to Bangalore from Manipal in the Bus i read a tweet about MinWin from Aditya and day after that he tweeted this “aditya: @Ankur MinWin exists in Vista too. I’m still not buying the ‘modular OS’ theory, and from I’ve seen, W7 keeps me happy about buying a Mac :)” now i know he is a big mac fanboy but that made me think how many people are thinking that MinWin is a part of Windows 7 ( when ever it comes ) well its not, just see this and notice

Now, this is an internal only - you won’t see us productizing this - but you could imagine this being used as the basis for products in the future. This is the Windows 7 source code base, and it’s about 25 megs on disk. Compare that to the four gigs on disk that the full Windows Vista takes up. We don’t have a graphics subsystem other than text in this particular build

I also noticed this in Wikipedia

A minimalistic variation of the Windows kernel, known as MinWin, was being developed for use in Windows 7

Come on people try to understand this MinWin in not something made exclusively for Windows 7, rather The code from Windows 7 Kernel was taken and slimmed down to make MinWin, so Windows 7 will be like addition of more crap over Vista
Now who will tell them them and them
Anyways i am Happy with my Fedora 9 Laptop……..

PS - Aditya i have nothing against you buddy

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Hello Planet Fedora

Hi everyone!
This is my first post on Planet Fedora so i think i should introduce myself
My name is Ankur Shrivastava, i am doing my BE-IT, I have been running linux since 2004-2005 and Fedora is what i really love, anyway you will be seeing me around……….

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Help Firefox 3 set a World Record

Make a Pledge to download Firefox 3 and set a Guinness World Record of most software downloads in a single day i.e. 24 hrs. You can register here. You will receive an email notification about the Download Day.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Set a world record enjoy a better web!!!!!!!!!

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Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 9

I have been using Fedora 9 from a long time and it really kick’s ass but i was facing the problem that my Touchpad was not working with it but the i found the solution here
Here is how to do it

The easiest was will be to install the package http://atrpms.net/dist/f9/synaptics/
or you can do it manually here

edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Added the following to the ServerLayout Section
InputDevice “TouchPad” “CorePointer”

add a new section:
Section “InputDevice”
Driver “synaptics”
Identifier “TouchPad”
Option “SendCoreEvents”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
Option “TapButton1″ “1″
Option “TapButton2″ “2″
EndSection

all done logout and login again and everything should be working fine

Update: found the rpm package here

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Indimeme : Techmeme for….. well India

There is a bust of so many copy sites lateley, there is a copy of digg, there is a copy of flickr, there is a copy of every god damn site and now there is Indimeme, which appreantly is a copy of Techmeme but i wont actually call it a copy, they say that Indimeme is a meme tracker site, which indexes Indian blogs and gives a sneak peak of the hottest stories from the Indian blogosphere.
This is something that i have been looking for a while now and well we have it here anyway Indimeme still has a lot to do and am looking forward to it

PS - Exams suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Creating a Simple Chat Application with Python

Creating application with Python is very simple, here is a simple chat application made by using the socket module, it has 2 parts First Server and Second client, you run the server first and then connect the client to it, here is the code

Here is the Server Code

#!/usr/bin/env python

while 1:
print "Waiting for connection"
tcpcli, addr = tcpsoc.accept()
print "connected from:", addr
while 1:
data = tcpcli.recv(1024)
if not data : break
print data
data1 = raw_input(">>")
if data1 == "q;t": break
tcpcli.send(data1)
tcpcli.close()
tcpsoc.close()


Here is the client code

#!/usr/bin/env python

while 1:
data = raw_input("msg>>")
if not data : break
tcpsoc.send(data)
data = tcpsoc.recv(1024)
if not data: break
print data
tcpsoc.close()

the code above might not be properly intended so you can download the code from http://fb.ankurs.com/tcp_server.py and http://fb.ankurs.com/tcp_client.py
enjoy!!!

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