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Ankur Shrivastava
College Student, Linux Enthusiast, Tech freak, Python Lover
Homepage: http://ankurs.com
Posts by Ankur Shrivastava
Dell XPS 1530
Jul 12th
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……….
iPhone3G or Openmoko Freerunner
Jun 29th
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!!!!!!
Firefox 3 is here!!!!!!!
Jun 18th
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
MinWin and Windows 7 – You got it all wrong
Jun 16th
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
Hello Planet Fedora
Jun 6th
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……….
Help Firefox 3 set a World Record
Jun 1st
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!!!!!!!!!
Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 9
May 30th
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
Indimeme : Techmeme for….. well India
May 20th
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Creating a Simple Chat Application with Python
May 1st
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
from socket import *
from time import time, ctime
IP = ''
PORT = 23456
ADS = (IP, PORT)
tcpsoc = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
tcpsoc.bind(ADS)
tcpsoc.listen(5)
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
from socket import *
IP = ''
PORT = 23456
ADS = (IP, PORT)
tcpsoc = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
tcpsoc.connect(ADS)
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!!!
Installing Ndiswrapper on Ubuntu 8.04
Apr 27th
I installed Ubuntu 8.04 today and faced this problem of WiFi again but ths time even installing ndiswrapper diddnt worked so had to find a way to make WiFi work on boot and here it is
For this First You need to install ndiswrapper, no need for net coz the packages are included in the CD / DVD of Ubuntu just go to System>>Administration>>software sources then uncheck all downloadable from internet, Third party and Update repo’s only select Installable from CD-ROM/DVD. Now open a Add/Remove from Applications>>Add/Remove.. there select all avaliable appliactions in show, now seach for ndis you will see Windows Wireless Drivers select it and click Apply changes it will ask you for the CD insert the CD and it will get installed, now you just have to install the drivers of your card for this open System>>Administration>>Windows Wireless Drivers and install the windows wireless drivers ( bcmwl5.inf for hp6515b bcm4312) now follow these steps, type
sudo -i now you must be as root then type
nano /etc/rc.local the file should read
rmmod ndiswrapper
rmmod ssb
modprobe ndiswrapper
exit 0
all done now just reboot and enjoy your Linux……..
