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	<title>Uncertain Binary Thoughts &#187; Special</title>
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		<title>Removing windows viruses from pen drives/HDD</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2009/06/removing-windows-viruses-from-pen-driveshdd/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2009/06/removing-windows-viruses-from-pen-driveshdd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[last week i gave my 250GB HDD to one of my friend and when i got it back it was filled with viruses, it was that virus which creates .exe inside every , since there were a lot of folders in the HDD ( it was 200GB full ) it was practically impossible for me&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>last week i gave my 250GB HDD to one of my friend and when i got it back it was filled with viruses, it was that virus which creates <folder>.exe inside every <folder>, since there were a lot of folders in the HDD ( it was 200GB full ) it was practically impossible for me to go and delete every virus in there, so i decided to make a simple script to remove these viruses here it is</p>
<p><script src="http://gist.github.com/123522.js"></script></p>
<p>Download <a href="http://gist.github.com/raw/123522/158dc4ed71fb8fe86250125eacfd9fd90b3ba2f9/rmvirus.pl">here</a></p>
<p>PS &#8211; please be careful if you have windows programs they can also get deleted </p>
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		<title>Get updates of completed torrents via SMS</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2009/04/get-updates-of-completed-torrents-via-sms/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2009/04/get-updates-of-completed-torrents-via-sms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fedora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ktorrent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torrent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday when i was giving DBUS a look and thinking about all the cool things possible with it, one of my friend came asking how can he control his torrents from anywhere and i thought controlling is ok, do you want SMS updates??, i fired up qdbusviewer and there it was a simple way&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This Sunday when i was giving <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">DBUS</a> a look and thinking about all the cool things possible with it, one of my friend came asking how can he control his torrents from anywhere and i thought controlling is ok, do you want SMS updates??, i fired up qdbusviewer and there it was a simple way to get sms notifications of finished torrents using well twitter and ktorrent, so here are the steps<br />
1) setup your cell phone to recieve SMS updates in twitter,<br />
2) get one more twitter account lets say ktorrent, follow ktorrent and turn device updates on,<br />
3) now save the script below say as torrenttwit.py<br />
4) now enter this ktorrent account username and password in the script below,<br />
5) start ktorrent if not already started, now run the script by typing &#8220;python torrenttwit.py&#8221;</p>
<pre>import dbus,base64,urllib2,urllib
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop

DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
username="username"
password="password"

def tweet(msg):
        request = urllib2.Request('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json')
        request.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username,password))[:-1])
        request.add_data(urllib.urlencode({'status': msg.encode('utf-8')}))
        opener = urllib2.build_opener()
        req= opener.open(request)

s = dbus.SessionBus()
kt = s.get_object("org.ktorrent.ktorrent","/core")

def update(k):
        torrent = s.get_object("org.ktorrent.ktorrent","/torrent/"+k)
        name = torrent.get_dbus_method("name","org.ktorrent.torrent")
        tweet("ktorrent: finished " +name())

kt.connect_to_signal("finished",update)

import gobject
loop = gobject.MainLoop()
loop.run()
</pre>
<p>you are done, now whenever a torrent finishes the script will twit and you will receive an SMS update<br />
enjoy</p>
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		<title>ION proxy login problem</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2009/02/ion-proxy-login-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2009/02/ion-proxy-login-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fedora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[login]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manipal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[problem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proxy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[a few days ago ION (WiFi provider in Manipal University) started an ISA based proxy using NTLM authentication, which according to them was a client install!!! some people were facing problem with it, like their browsers were asking for authentication (login) again and again, and repositories were not working on Linux. So here is a&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a few days ago ION (WiFi provider in Manipal University) started an ISA based proxy using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM">NTLM</a> authentication, which according to them was a client install!!! some people were facing problem with it, like their browsers were asking for authentication (login) again and again, and repositories were not working on Linux.<br />
So here is a simple screencast with solution for this problem it works great in Linux (esp. Fedora) i have also included configuring yum here, if someone wants to use apt-get (debian/ubuntu) they can do</p>
<p><code> export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:5865 </code></p>
<p>Ok coming to the main point, go and download <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntlmaps/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntlmaps/</a> and then watch the video <a href="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mov1.ogv">here</a><br />
People on windows can install python from <a href="http://python.org/ftp/python/2.6.1/python-2.6.1.msi">here</a> and then follow the steps<br />
<a href="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mov1.ogv">ION proxy problem solved</a><br />
Note:- If You face any problem please post back here&#8230;.<br />
PS:- every thing in Text form coming soon&#8230; (i am lazy)</p>
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		<title>My Conky config</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/11/my-conky-config/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/11/my-conky-config/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Special]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amarok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conky as its description says &#8221; It is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. &#8221; which well describes all that is there, and there are many different ways to configure it, well to be presise there are 250+ objects so the configuration options are limitless above is&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Conky as its description says &#8221; It is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. &#8221; which well describes all that is there, and there are many different ways to configure it, well to be presise there are 250+ objects so the configuration options are limitless</p>
<div id="attachment_431" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/conky.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-431" title="conky" src="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/conky-300x187.png" alt="My Desktop With Conky running " width="300" height="187" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">my Desktop</p></div>
<p>above is the image of my Desktop running conky and i have 2 file one &#8221; .conkyrc &#8221; and other &#8221; .conky/ammarok &#8221; in my home folder (i.e /home/ankur/) the files are<br />
&#8221; <a href="http://files.ankurs.com/conkyrc">.conkyrc</a> rename the file to <strong><em>.conkyrc</em></strong> &#8221;<br />
and &#8221; <strong><em><a href="http://files.ankurs.com/amarok">.conky/amarok</a></em></strong>&#8221; which is a amaroK info display script by eirc</p>
<p>you need to place amarok in ~/.conky/amarok make a folder .conky if it does not exist, also make ~/.conky/amarok executable, simply type &#8221; chmod +x ~/.conky/amarok &#8221; enjoy!!!</p>
<p>PS &#8211; If you dont have conky simply do yum install conky or sudo apt-get install conky </p>
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		<title>Ion Auto Login for Windows XP/ Vista</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/09/ion-auto-login-for-windows-xp-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/09/ion-auto-login-for-windows-xp-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Special]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[exe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ion Auto Login ( IAL ) script written in python has been updated to a exe, that means it will run directly from your windows just by clicking ialv1.exe. To change the username and password delete the ial.info file, if you face any problem please comment on this post download here size 2.3MB Linux and&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ion Auto Login ( IAL ) script written in python has been updated to a exe, that means it will run directly from your windows just by clicking ialv1.exe. To change the username and password delete the ial.info file, if you face any problem please comment on this post<br />
download <a href="http://genobz.googlepages.com/IALv1m.exe2">here</a> size 2.3MB<br />
Linux and Mac users can download <a href="http://fb.ankurs.com/ialv1.py">this</a> and execute it by typing python ialv1.py<br />
Enjoy!!!!<br />
PS &#8211; 1 known problem if no connection it there it goes into an infinite loop to come out press Ctrl + Pause or Ctrl + Break</p>
<p>UPDATE &#8212; the link now points to updates made by GenobZ ( Prakhar ) which makes it more efficient&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; the old link is <a href="http://files.ankurs.com/ialv1.zip">here</a></p>
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		<title>ION Auto Login Script in Python Version 1</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/09/ion-auto-login-script-in-python-version-1/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/09/ion-auto-login-script-in-python-version-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterdays efforts i have now made a complete working Python IAL (ION Auto Login) script which can store your password and checks for login in every 1 Min and continues till you stop it, here is the Code iimport urllib, urllib2, time, cPickle class ialv1: interval = 0 username = "" password = ""&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After yesterdays efforts i have now made a complete working Python IAL (ION Auto Login) script which can store your password and checks for login in every 1 Min and continues till you stop it, here is the Code</p>
<pre><code>
iimport urllib, urllib2, time, cPickle

class ialv1:
        interval = 0
        username = ""
        password = ""
        def __init__(self):
                try:
                        f = file('ial.info')
                        list = cPickle.load(f)
                        self.username, self.password = list
                        f.close()
                except:
                        print "Welcome to I-ON Auto login Script\nMade by Ankur Shrivastava\n"
                        self.username = raw_input("Enter Your Username: ")
                        self.password = raw_input("Enter Your Password: ")
                        list = [self.username,self.password]
                        f = file('ial.info','w')
                        cPickle.dump(list,f)
                        f.close()

        def check(self):
                data = {"loginID":self.username,"loginpassword":self.password,"flag":"0","popcheck":"0","submit":"Sign In"}
                value = urllib.urlencode(data)
                request = urllib2.Request("http://192.168.150.2:8080/clntAuth/clntAuth_main.jsp",value)
                bol =1
                while (bol ==1):
                        try:
                                open = urllib2.urlopen(request)
                                print "Logged In"
                                bol = 2
                        except:
                                print "Server Gone Crazy\ntrying again...."

if __name__ == "__main__":
        i = ialv1()
        while (1):
                i.check()
                time.sleep(60)

</code></pre>
<p>You can Download it <a href="http://fb.ankurs.com/ialv1.py">here</a><br />
I Love Python!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>Ion Auto Login script in Python</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/09/ion-auto-login-script-python/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/09/ion-auto-login-script-python/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i was just thinking about making the very famous IAL script of DJ in python and here is it and its damn simple import urllib, urllib2, time username = "Your username" password = "Your Password" interval = 10 data = {"loginID":username,"loginpassword":password,"flag":"0","popcheck":"0","submit":"Sign In"} value = urllib.urlencode(data) request = urllib2.Request("http://192.168.150.2:8080/clntAuth/clntAuth_main.jsp",value) print "Logging In\nMade by Ankur - http://ankurs.com"&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i was just thinking about making the very famous IAL script of DJ in python and here is it and its damn simple</p>
<pre><code>import urllib, urllib2, time
username = "Your username"
password = "Your Password"
interval = 10
data = {"loginID":username,"loginpassword":password,"flag":"0","popcheck":"0","submit":"Sign In"}
value = urllib.urlencode(data)
request = urllib2.Request("http://192.168.150.2:8080/clntAuth/clntAuth_main.jsp",value)
print "Logging In\nMade by Ankur - http://ankurs.com"
while (1):
        open = urllib2.urlopen(request)
        responce = open.read()
        for i in range (1,interval):
                print (interval-i),"min Till Next Login"
                time.sleep(60)
        print "Logging In\nMade by Ankur - http://ankurs.com"
</code></pre>
<p>or <a href="http://fb.ankurs.com/ial.py">downlaod</a><br />
run it by typing <code>python ial.py</code><br />
it uses urllib, urllib2 and time which are the default module, you have to change the username and password to your username and password, changing the interval changes the time interval in which auto login takes place. enjoy!!<br />
PS &#8211; current it does no check if your connection is active or not, will add that soon</p>
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		<title>iPhone on Vodafone in India</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/08/iphone-on-vodafone-in-india/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/08/iphone-on-vodafone-in-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fedora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3g]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vodafone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The price of 31k for iPhone in India has been confirmed i recieved the following mail Hello Ankur, Thank you for registering for your Apple iPhone 3GTM with us. We are delighted to announce that the iPhone 3G will be available in India from August 22, 2008 It will be available in 8GB &#38; 16GB&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The price of 31k for iPhone in India has been confirmed i recieved the following mail</p>
<blockquote>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top">Hello                    Ankur,</td>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top">Thank                    you for registering for your Apple iPhone 3G<sup>TM</sup> with us.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><img alt="" width="1" height="22" /></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top">We                    are delighted to announce that the iPhone 3G will be available                    in India from August 22, 2008<br />
It will be available in 8GB &amp; 16GB models, priced at Rs                    31,000 and Rs 36,100 respectively.</td>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top"><strong>Be                    the first to get the iPhone</strong></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top">We                    have received a large number of registrations. As there are                    limited stocks, make sure that you get yours first, by paying                    an advance of Rs 10,000 to confirm your booking.</td>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top"><strong>Where                    can you make this advance payment?</strong></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top">The                    iPhone 3G will be available at select Vodafone Stores. All you                    need to do is drop in at any select Vodafone Store between August                    20 and 21 and make the advance payment by cash or credit card.                    Don´t forget to show the iPhone booking SMS, which you would                    have received from us, when you visit the Vodafone Store to                    pay the advance. To find a Vodafone Store near you, <a style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" href="http://www.vodafone.in/vodafone/mailer/newsletter/proactivelinks.asp?s=56619&amp;sources=kar_iphone120808_lnk01&amp;linkname=http://www.vodafone.in/iphone/Pages/iPhone_details.aspx?cid=kar" target="_blank">click                    here</a></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top"><strong>Get                    an appointment now. No queues for you.</strong></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;" align="left" valign="top">Once                    you pay the advance, we will immediately give you an appointment                    date and time, starting<br />
August 22 when you can come and experience a full demonstration                    and collect your iPhone, all ready to use with your contacts                    and settings, by paying the balance amount.</td>
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<p>At a Price of 31k and 36k i dont think there will be a large number of users going for i, <span class="entry-content">here Vodafone seems to India what Rogers was to Canada, anyway one more reason for not going the i way!!!!!</span></p>
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		<title>Accessing Internet Without use of mac address anywhere</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/07/accessing-internet-without-use-of-mac-address-anywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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<br />
1) Find any one using Internet on the particular ISP<br />
2) See his connection details like his IP, Subnet, gateway ( or default route ), primary DNS, Secondery DNS<br />
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<br />
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 )<br />
5) And you might want to check out <a href="http://djkaos.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/i-on-automatic-login-script-v2/">this</a> if you are on ION</p>
<p>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<br />
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<br />
Enjoy!!!!</p>
<p>Note:- If you get IP conflict change your IP and try again</p>
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		<title>Dell XPS 1530</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/07/dell-xps-1530/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/07/dell-xps-1530/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/10072008002.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-384" title="Fedora 9 on Dell XPS M1530" src="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/10072008002-300x225.jpg" alt="Fedora 9 on Dell XPS M1530" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><code>The Config is<br />
Processor : Intel C2D T8100 - 2.1GHz<br />
RAM : 3GB 667MHz Dual Channel<br />
Graphics Card : GeForce 8600GT 256 MB<br />
Screen : 15.4" WXGA+ ( 1440x900 )<br />
WiFI card :  Intel 4965 802.11n<br />
OS : Windows Vista Home Preminum ( removed after an hour )<br />
</code></p>
<p>It looks gr8 far better then what i previously owned, HP 6515b which was given by my college MIT, Manipal.<br />
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!!!<br />
<a href='http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/09072008001.jpg'><img src="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/09072008001-300x225.jpg" alt="Vista Index of 5.0 for my laptop" title="Vista Index" width="300" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-385" /></a><br />
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 <code>i8042.nomux=1 </code> 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</p>
<p><a href='http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/10072008.jpg'><img src="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/10072008-300x225.jpg" alt="Dell XPS 1530 Vs HP 6515b" title="Dell XPS 1530 Vs HP 6515b" width="300" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-386" /></a><br />
so here they are x144 and x121</p>
<p>PS &#8211; i will be heading back to manipal on 16th, waiting for a really rocking sem&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>iPhone3G or Openmoko Freerunner</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/06/iphone3g-or-openmoko-freerunner/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/06/iphone3g-or-openmoko-freerunner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-382" title="openmoko and iPhone" src="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/openmoko-300x274.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="274" /></p>
<p>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 <a href="http://airtel.in/iphone3g">Airtel</a> and <a href="http://vodafone.in/existingusers/iphone/pages/book-iPhone.aspx">Vodafone</a> 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 <a href="http://idasystems.net/freerunner">IDA system</a> 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<br />
<code><br />
* Processor -- Samsung S3C2442 500MHz<br />
* RAM -- 128MB<br />
* Flash -- 256MB<br />
* Display -- 2.8-inch diagonal 640 x 480 VGA Color TFT LCD<br />
* Graphics -- SMedia 3362-based 3D graphics acceleration<br />
* Accelerometers -- 2 x 3D accelerometers<br />
* Audio -- "high-quality" audio codec<br />
* USB -- 1 x version 1.1, switchable between client and host modes<br />
* Cellular -- 2.5G tri-band GPRS/GSM (900MHz or 850MHz, depending on region)<br />
* WiFi -- 802.11b/g WiFi<br />
* Bluetooth -- version 2.0<br />
* GPS -- AGPS (assisted global positioning system) receiver<br />
</code><br />
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 &#8230;&#8230;.<br />
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<br />
So while many of people around me will go for iPhone 3G ( without 3G ) i am going to FREE MY PHONE!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>Firefox 3 is here!!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/06/firefox-3-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; 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]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/screenshot.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-379" title="Firefox 3" src="http://ankurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/screenshot-300x187.png" alt="" width="300" height="187" /></a><br />
So Finally after a delay of about 1.5 hours Firefox 3 is here and the download link is <a href="http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/">here</a> World Record here we come</p>
<p>PS &#8211; 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</p>
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		<title>Help Firefox 3 set a World Record</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/06/help-firefox-3-ser-a-world-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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!!!!!!!!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="Download Day 2008" src="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/sites/all/themes/spreadfirefox_RCS/images/download-day/buttons/en-US/dday_badge_fox.png" border="0" alt="Download Day 2008" /></p>
<p>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.<br />
<a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/">http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/<br />
</a><br />
Set a world record enjoy a better web!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>Creating a Simple Chat Application with Python</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/05/creating-a-simple-chat-application-with-python/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/05/creating-a-simple-chat-application-with-python/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 *&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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</p>
<p>Here is the Server Code<br />
<code><br />
#!/usr/bin/env python</p>
<p>from socket import *<br />
from time import time, ctime</p>
<p>IP = ''<br />
PORT = 23456<br />
ADS = (IP, PORT)</p>
<p>tcpsoc = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)<br />
tcpsoc.bind(ADS)<br />
tcpsoc.listen(5)</p>
<p>while 1:<br />
	print "Waiting for connection"<br />
	tcpcli, addr = tcpsoc.accept()<br />
	print "connected from:", addr<br />
	while 1:<br />
		data = tcpcli.recv(1024)<br />
		if not data : break<br />
		print data<br />
		data1 = raw_input(">>")<br />
		if data1 == "q;t": break<br />
		tcpcli.send(data1)<br />
	tcpcli.close()<br />
tcpsoc.close()<br />
</code></p>
<p>Here is the client code<br />
<code><br />
#!/usr/bin/env python</p>
<p>from socket import *</p>
<p>IP = ''<br />
PORT = 23456<br />
ADS = (IP, PORT)</p>
<p>tcpsoc = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)<br />
tcpsoc.connect(ADS)</p>
<p>while 1:<br />
	data = raw_input("msg>>")<br />
	if not data : break<br />
	tcpsoc.send(data)<br />
	data = tcpsoc.recv(1024)<br />
	if not data: break<br />
	print data<br />
tcpsoc.close()<br />
</code><br />
the code above might not be properly intended so you can download the code from <a href="http://fb.ankurs.com/tcp_server.py">http://fb.ankurs.com/tcp_server.py</a> and <a href="http://fb.ankurs.com/tcp_client.py">http://fb.ankurs.com/tcp_client.py</a><br />
enjoy!!!</p>
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		<title>Manipal Bloggers Meet</title>
		<link>http://ankurs.com/2008/04/manipal-bloggers-meet/</link>
		<comments>http://ankurs.com/2008/04/manipal-bloggers-meet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankur Shrivastava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So am at the Manipal Bloggers meet with 4 of my friends and well the updates are coming up on twitter so check my twitter feeds http://ankurs.com/twitter And also check out Manipal Blog feed agregator http://planet.ankurs.com]]></description>
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<p>So am at the Manipal Bloggers meet with 4 of my friends and well the updates are coming up on twitter so check my twitter feeds <a href="http://ankurs.com/twitter">http://ankurs.com/twitter </a>And also check out Manipal Blog feed agregator <a href="http://planet.ankurs.com">http://planet.ankurs.com</a></p>
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