Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Accessing any site blocked by sonic wall!!!

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

They talk about security and block what ever site they wish to block but i think i found a flaw, a very big flaw when i was configuring my connection it allows you to access any site and its very simple Just change your preferred DNS form the one provided and ...

iPhone3G or Openmoko Freerunner

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

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 ...

Creating a Simple Chat Application with Python

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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 ...

Moved to a fully hosted http://ankurs.com

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Finally i have moved to a fully hosted Wordpress 2.5 blog from my previous warofwords.wordpress.com blog and it rocks!!!! Hosting is provided by Racked Hosting and the plan is very big for my needs so i am sharing it with Sohil who is going to bring a blog at http://weirdspectrum.com/ soon, ...

Making Xml dump of MySQL

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Yesterday when i was trying/searching for a way to generate XML file from PHP so as to use it in Project 11, i came across a way to make a direct database/table dump from mysql and its damn easy all you have to do is type mysqldump -u username -p --xml ...

PAMP — Apache, MySql, Php on your Phone

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

PAMP, an S60 Powered Apache Web Server with PHP and MySQL is available for the S60 3rd edition phones, imagine running a WEB Server on your phone, i saw a few days ago and as i had a supported phone Nokia E61i i was well happy. The supported phone ...

Fedora 8 Install Fest in MIT Manipal

Monday, January 28th, 2008

For the First time in History of Manipal a Linux ( Fedora 8 ) Install Fest took place on the Campus, it was organized by Linux user Group Manipal. It was Basically a 2 Day Fest, on 24th a Pre-Install Fest / Meet was there where participants were Informed about ...

OLPC in India

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Above pic is form the OLPC deployment in India in Khaira, i found it when i was reading Venkatesh Hariharan's blog he says It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm with which the teacher, students and parents had embraced this project. Definitely one of the more fun things that I did ...

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Happy new year 2008 to all of you, well i have been busy most of the time with a lot of stuff and there was a lack of bandwidth so was not able to blog but there are some good things like this yes KDE 4.0 is coming and i still ...

Fedora 8 on HP 6515b

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Well i have installed Fedora 8 now and well i was facing the usual problems, install proceeded well in text mode without any problems but on booting after the ATI driver install i was presented with a console login that is no xserver started and then started the problem with ...