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Ankur Shrivastava
College Student, Linux Enthusiast, Tech freak, Python Lover
Homepage: http://ankurs.com
Posts by Ankur Shrivastava
Happy Diwali !!!!!!!!!!
Nov 9th
So a happy diwali to all of you and well this diwali was kind of nice with me being the DJ at the party, i dont want to go into the details but somehow i happened to be the DJ and i was strugling because of lack of songs but Sahil and some seniors came to my rescue, and every thing went fine without me being beaten up by the crowd but anyway it a lot of fun and well this was the day before the Diwali actually Diwali is celebrated one day earlier in South India so well it was strange celebrating Diwali one day earlier. here are some pics
People were really dancing on what ever music i was playing
there was some great celebration with huge fireworks
So here comes 20 !!!!!!!
Nov 7th
wow i have installed GNU/Linux on 20 peoples Laptops and most of them are happy with it here is the names….
1) Shantanu – Ubuntu 7.04
2) Shankar – Ubuntu 7.04
3) Sahil – Ubunut 7.04
4) Ashish – Linux Mint 3.0
5) Merin – Linux Mint 3.1
6) Mayank – Linux Mint 3.1
7) Vishal – Linux Mint 3.1
8 ) Anirban – Linux Mint 3.1
9) Sohil – Ubuntu 7.04
10) Karan – Ubuntu 7.04
11) Varun – Ubuntu 7.04
12) Ravi – Ubuntu 7.04
13) Anubhav – Linux Mint 3.1
14) Verin – Linux Mint 3.1
15) Ankit – Linux Mint 3.1
16) Saurabh – Linux Mint 3.1
17) Sudhanshu – Linux Mint 3.1
18) Kunal – Ubuntu 7.04 / Fedora 7
19) Dhanjay -openSUSE 10.3
20) Varun – Ubuntu 7.04
and well i am using OpenSUSE 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.10
Enabling 3D effects in Ubuntu 7.10 on ATI x 1250
Nov 3rd
So after a long time of SUSE use i went back to my Ubuntu install when i was reminded by Sohil about the 3D effects which were working on Ubuntu 7.04 with the new ATI 8.42.3 drivers and well it was like a challenge for me to enable those in my install. So here i present you the way to enable those in your Ubuntu 7.10 fresh install with the ATI 8.42.3 drivers, just install the xserver-xgl package sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl and reboot enjoy
Mandriva:- An Open Letter to Steve Ballmer
Nov 1st
I found this on the Mandriva Blog today a must read :–
Dear Steve,
Hi, this is François, from Mandriva.
I’m sure we’re way too small for you to know me. You know, we’re one of these tiny Linux company working hard for our place on the market. We produce a Linux Distro, Mandriva Linux. The last edition, Mandriva 2008 was seen as a pretty good version and we’re proud of it. You should give it a spin, I’m sure you’d like it. We also happen to be one of the Linux companies that did not sign an agreement with your company (nobody’s perfect).
We recently closed a deal with the Nigerian Government. Maybe you heard about it, Steve. They were looking for an affordable hardware+software solution for their schools. The initial batch was 17,000 machines. We had a good answer to their need: the Classmate PC from Intel, with a customized Mandriva Linux solution. We presented the solution to the local government, they liked the machine, they liked our system, they liked what we offered them, the fact that it was open, that we could customize it for their country and so on.
Then your people entered the game and the deal got more competitive. I would not say it got dirty, but someone could have said that. They fought and fought the deal, but still the customer was happy to get CMPC and Mandriva.
So we closed the deal, we got the order, we qualified the software, we got the machine shipped. In other word, we did our job. I understand the machine are being delivered right now.
And then, today, we hear from the customer a totally different story: “we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterward.”
Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone. How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.
Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one. You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win too.
cheers
François
PS: a message to our friends in Nigeria: it’s still time to do the right thing and make the right choice, you will get lots of support for it and excellent services!
Any comments????????
Whatever happened to Tape Worm
Oct 24th
It all started with the IEEE workshop in the end of September when it was decided that 5 people abhimanu (shabby), Shankar, Me ( Ankur /OS ), Nikhil and Shantanu will be there in my team and then after few class everything was over, we never decided on what exactly are we going to make and then suddenly on 9th out of nowere i came with an idea of making a bot while talking with ankit and then it all started and i found that i was the only one working on it and the team mates were nowere to be seen, so with little mutual help from ankit we started with it, the fact that ankit was also going to participate in that helped us, we selected the designs got the material ( some insane trips to Udupi ) and acctually made it in 2 days. I used 4 pepsi can for the design so i got to drink 4 pepsi’s 
and a lot of Tape thus TAPE WORM was born, ankit went for some strange name of UGLY DUCKLING which actually sounded cool at that time.
But it was all same in the end, we participated and enjoyed a lot, there were some 40 teams and only 8 made it to the second round ( with huge question marks on a lot of people’s face ) and we didnt but well we were so close to almost making it, anyway i am ready for the next time ……………..
Problem with Gtalk in Kopete
Oct 16th
some people have trouble connecting to Gtalk on Kopete here is hoe to do it.
Open Kopete go to Settings>>configure>>accounts
Add a new Jabber account.
Enter your complete Google Mail address and corresponding password.
go to the Connection page of the dialog.
check “Use protocol encryption (SSL)” checkbox
check “Allow plain-text password authentication” checkbox
check “override default server information” checkbox
and set server to “talk.google.com port 5223
If you are behind a firewall and can’t connect to the 5223 port you can use the 443 port (standard SSL port).
there you are all set to connect and enjoy
NOTE :- if you recive some sort of SSL errors just install the qca-tls package by ‘sudo apt-get install qca-tls’ in debian/Ubuntu
Using Wifi in Ubuntu on HP 6515b (broadcom)
Oct 8th
so after the install the thing that is left is the WiFi support so here it goes
first disable the bcm43xx driver
sudo rmmod bcm43xx
then black list the driver by adding “balcklist bcm43xx” in
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
then download diswrapper-utils-1.9 deb file and install it offline or if you have a LAN connection, For the next step you should have a copy of the windows driver on HDD or flash drive and type
sudo ndiswrapper -i /the location of windows driver/bcmwl5.inf
now check if driver is there or not
sudo ndiswrapper -l
you should get a output like
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
then type
sudo ndiswrapper -m
to write wlan0 to ndiswrapper, then you need to start ndiswrapper type
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
Now you just need to enable ndiswrapper to start on boot, for that add “ndiswrapper” in /etc/modules
sudo gedit /etc/modules
all done enjoy
Ankur Shrivastava
Using Ubuntu on HP 6515b ( ATI X1250 )
Oct 7th
So there are a lot of people having trouble installing Linux ( Ubuntu ) on those ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 or any other ATI card here is the solution ( i have given this example with ubuntu but it can be used with any other Linux distro ) first go to ATI’s site and download the driver then all we have to do is boot into your linux distro and just install the drivers, for that we will first need a copy of the drivers on HDD or flash drive, and then just cd into that directory and type
sh ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run
where ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run is the name of the driver file with me, it will start the install procedure just follow that and after the install just configure your resolution with
aticonfig --resolution=0,1280x800
as my resolution was 1280×800 your can be 1024×786 or some other just type what ever it is.
after this we just need to start the X server again type startx and enjoy every thing in graphical mode.
Note:- if you used a Live CD you will have to install the drivers 2 times first for the live CD and then for your system, enjoy!!!
Ankur Shrivastava
Search For Maya Begins
Oct 6th
Maya the mystery which can engulf any one of us without our knowing, which can make us do a lot of unexpected things, which can make a lot of different things happen to us….. Now the search for that MAYA has begun and let us find a maya here in Manipal and prove SAB MOHA MAYA HAI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope for the best
PS :- Hehehehehehehehehehehehe
