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OLPC in India
Jan 5th
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 in 2007 and something that I look forward to in 2008
well OLPC looks a promising project and well well Intel has left the project now due to some “philosophical differences” i know they joined it because AMD was there, whatever but i wont have much impact………….
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!
Jan 2nd
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 think that i will stick with Gnome when most of my friends are saying they will go for KDE, now why is that i still dont know (maybe because it reminds me of Windows or because i am used to of interface of Gnome) whatever the reason be i plan to use it for some time and then return back to Gnome. Ok now things that i have been doing lately
tried learning PHP but left it on Day one, i know it not that hard to learn PHP and its really gr8 if you know it but still i left it for Python which i find really easy (well as of now) and hope to make something out of it, work for the automated script of Fedora 8 in complete and for Ubuntu 7.10 major portion in complete, i tried making a feed aggregator which will display all feed on a web page so as to make a blogroll but left it after i faced some problems with blogspots atom feeds and now i am using Planet for it, work on Ubuntu and Fedora repositories is almost complete with ubuntu giving strange problems sometime, i received invite from QIk but its not working for me will find a way to make it work sometime, i have also watched a large number of Episodes of different shows and well around 15 movies, well thats almost all of it now i still have around 11 days before i go back to Manipal, i hope 2008 will be a gr8 year for me and you
Happy New Year to all again, now i will go and watch a movie
Ankur Shrivastava
Fedora 8 on HP 6515b
Dec 5th
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 WiFi, ndiswrapper wont install it took me no time to find that the kernel version was different of the rpm package of ndiswrapper that i had, so i went about every were searching for it but was not able to find what i was looking for so finally i had to go for compiling of ndiswrapper from source.This done i was left with a text only system i mean i can always start xserver by typing startx after logging in but i wont boot on startup, so i was think a way to get gdm to start on system startup and there i was searching for the rc scripts i remember reading about them in Slack Book, after adding gdm to the rc.local file i was now happily using Laptop with Fedora
ok so lets come to the point how exactly did i solved these problems for installing ATI driver i have already explained it earlier here and here , so now moving to ndiswrapper
you need to download the source code (the .tar.gz file) from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net well from any other computer if you have net access only by WiFi, after u have the tar.gz file copy it to any folder like your home folder ( /home/<username>/ ) now simply right click on it and select extract here, now you have a directory with all the files of source code but to compile the source you will need to install some more software from the DVD for this go to Add/Remove Software in the Applications menu, enter your root password when it will open it will give you error saying something like Repository could not be updated so go to repositories in that and let the tick be there only in front of Install Media remove that tick from every other option, here select Development then tick Development Tools (remove them after compiling if you wont use them), after that go to Search tab and select All packages, there search for ‘Kernel headers’ you will find a package with name of Kernel-headers – 2.6.23.1-42 select that, click apply it will ask you for the DVD insert it and packages will be installed, now you can happily compile your ndiswrapper source
For compiling open up a Terminal from Applications >> System Tools >> Terminal type ‘ su ‘ , enter your password now type
cd /home/<user name>/<name of ndiswrapper directory>/
now when in the ndiswraper directory type
make uninstall
to remove any previous non working installs of ndiswrapper, after that type
make
here you if you see a error then you probably dont have the correct/complete source or are missing a required package, if it proceeds without a error which it will then you just need to install ndiswrapper type
make install
your work is now over you just need to install the windows driver by the method which i have described here all done now let us proceed to the xserver problem
For this just login as root ( which i wont prefer but is best for this time ) and type ‘ startx ‘ at the prompt after logging in then go to /etc/ in the file browser there right click on ‘ inittab ‘ file and select open with “Text Editor” in the file there will be some thing written as
id:3:initdefault:
change that to
id:5:initdefault:
and save the file, reboot and you will be greeted by a nice Fedora Infinity Screen enjoy!!!!
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
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
Bring it on!!!!!!
Sep 30th
So well i am back again and i am writing this post from my new HP 6515b laptop which i was provided by my college, and to tell you its not what i was expecting, now ubuntu is giving me trouble connecting to wifi after i some how booted into X enviorment using the 8.37.6 drivers, more on that on a next post.
So comming to the laptop part the config is here
Processor : AMD Turion 64 TL-56 1.84 GHZ
HDD : 80GB SATA
Graphics card : ATI x1250 ( integrated )
Screen : 14.1 (1280×800)
RAM : 1GB DDR2
rest is same with all i guess and this well i forgot this has got Windows Vista Buisness with it and aero works kind of ok with it but it eats up a hell lot of ram which really makes things slow so for playing games you will have to disable some eyecandy, by the mention of games you must have got it by now that late night (early morning) gamming has really started over here and well i am not actively into it, but people living near me are wow that leaves me with a supurb idea so bye for now
Ankur Shrivastava
A Trip
Sep 4th
Originally uploaded by Ankur Shrivastava.
This really was fun, whole description coming up
shortly more photos on Flickr
