Archive for the ‘Stuff’ Category

Changing your mac address on Linux

Friday, August 15th, 2008

I have seen a lot of people saying that "you can never change your mac its in the hardware, you dont have access to it", but well you can easily change you mac on Linux with a simple command Ifconfig. Which is mainly used to configure the kernel-resident network ...

MinWin and Windows 7 - You got it all wrong

Monday, June 16th, 2008

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 ...

Indimeme : Techmeme for….. well India

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

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 ...

Installing Ndiswrapper on Ubuntu 8.04

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

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 ...

Shell History Memo

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

[ankur@x121 ankur]# history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 360 sh 144 yum 67 poweroff 62 nautilus 41 nano 26 mysql 23 python 18 ssh 18 exit 12 kill PS :- I have a lot of shell scripts made for my daily tasks!!!!!!!

Ice Age 3 : Dawn Of Dinosaurs

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Ice Age was the movie which was/is love a large number of people and well yes there is going to be a 3rd part to it Dawn Of Dinosaurs which from the teaser looks gr8 but it will be July 2009 and that is a hell lot of time that i ...

Planet is now Online

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Me moving to a proper hosted blog also means that everything is on a proper server, So the good news is that Planet Manipal is now online , that means it will get automatically updated every 4 hours and i wont have to Update it manually which will make it ...

Time Waster : cubo.cc

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Remember the pair of eyes on the screen that followed the mouse pointer? This is a more advanced version of the same thing except that this is a actual face, well one thing the effects/expressions are nice check it here http://cubo.cc

Planet Manipal Fixed

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Planet had a very bad habit of replacing the title of your post by your nickname or the image description of the image that is there in your post , finally i got a way to make planet not do that and well it was damn  easy just switching the ...

Configuring WiFi with Ndiswrapper on Debian

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Note :- If you want the way to make ndiswrapper work just skip the first paragraph its total crap Well as i have a Broadcom BCM4312 on my HP 6515b laptop, i face a lot of problems with WiFi and the only solution that i know of is using ndiswrapper with ...