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MAC LOOK ON LINUx

2011-04-14T08:08:00.001-07:00

Bluetooth peripheral device driver not found

2010-11-14T07:14:00.000-08:00

Download the 'Windows Mobile Device Center' ( current version is 6.1 ) which you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/microsoft/device-center-download.mspx
this works for both Vista and Windows 7. I've tried it on both.

- Install the downloaded software but it may not look like it worked on Windows 7 PCs. Vista automatically configured the settings on the bluetooth devices but for those who have Windows 7, here are the things you should do:

- Go to 'Device Manager' from 'Control Panel' -Or- just right-click on Computer Icon and choose 'Properties' and then click on 'Device Manager'.

- You'll see an 'Unknown Device' named 'Bluetooth Peripheral Device'

- Right-Click it and click on "Update Driver Software" -Or- anyway you find it easy to bring up the Update driver window.

- Click "Browse My Computer for Driver Software" button.

- Click "Let Me Pick from a List of Device Drivers on my computer".

- Select 'Bluetooth Radio' from the list if it asked you to select and then in the next window, it will show a list of drivers with Company Names in one list and Drivers in another. In the Company List choose 'Microsoft Corporation', not only Microsoft.

- From the drivers list there may be one or more drivers with the name "Windows Mobile-Based Device Support" with different driver versions. Select one or the latest.

- Ignore any warnings and keep pressing next and then Finish at last. If all goes well, the last screen will show the message that device driver is successfully installed.

Now, after manually updating the driver for your bluetooth device, in 'Device Manager' when you click on 'Bluetooth Radios', it should display one more item which will say 'Windows Mobile-based device support'.

There are few more things that you want to pay attention to. If you have already added the device in your 'bluetooth device list' that didn't work, then remove the device and add it again. After you add it, you might need to restart the computer if it gave you a connection problem error message.

uif to iso

2010-10-03T12:32:00.001-07:00

this is a very nice utility to use to convert uif2iso.zip

2010-10-03T12:04:00.000-07:00

How to Manage CD Images in Linux

One of the most popular and commonly encountered types of disk images is a CD/DVD image. In simple terms, a CD/DVD-image is an exact digital replica of a CD/DVD, whereby all of the data is stored in one file to completely preserve the data structure and integrity of the CD/DVD. CD/DVD images are essential for retaining copy-protection data and multi-track data/audio.

Images of CD-ROMs are usually .ISO files, referring to the ISO 9660 file system commonly used on such disks. The .ISO format is the most common format for software disk images. Other common disk image formats include: .BIN/.CUE, .IMG, .MDF/.MDS[2], .DAA, .UIF, and .CCD/.IMG/.SUB[5].

.ISO Files

Creating an .iso file is the easiest way to create an image from a CD and mount it into the linux filesystem. Just insert the CD into your CD-drive and copy all data from the device file to any file:

# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/to/the/image.iso

To mount it, you have to ensure that the loopback device driver (in kernel "make menuconfig" "Device Drivers -> Block devices -> Loopback device support") is enabled as module or built-in, what should be the case in all standard kernels.

Now just enter this command as root to mount your .iso file:

# mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/the/image.iso /path/to/mountpoint

The only advantage of creating an .iso file instead of copying the data manually from the mounted CD is that the bootable block of the CD is also copied to the image. So the .iso format is great for purposes like holding a collection of distribution CDs. But e.g. PlayStation CDs consist normally of more than one track, so an .iso image wouldn't work here.

Burning an .iso file works with the following command:

# cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 /path/to/the/image.iso

.BIN / .CUE / .TOC Files

The advantage of .bin/.cue image files is that it is a "RAW" copy of the CD. What this means is that every bit (including header and error correction) is copied to the image file. Generation of such a RAW CD copy can easily be done with cdrdao:

# cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile /path/to/image.bin --device ATAPI:0,1,0 --driver generic-mmc-raw /path/to/image.toc

IDE users should use --device ATAPI:0,0,0 (for the first drive, ATAPI:0,1,0 for the second), SCSI users only need to give out the device number (--device 0,3,0). It is also possible to point directly to the device path: --device /dev/cdroms/cdrom1.

Some programs need exactly this information, but formatted in a .cue file. The program bin2iso can be used to get such a .cue file from the image.

# bin2iso /path/to/image.cue -c /path/to/image.bin

The disadvantage of the .bin/.cue format is that it can't be mounted onto the linux filesystem with standard kernels. You need the kernelmodule and program of the cdemu project.

Burning a CD of a .bin file works this way:

# cdrdao write --device ATAPI:0,1,0 /path/to/image.toc

Some of the Proxies which can be useful

2010-09-27T08:11:00.000-07:00

How many times have we been frustated to find a website blocked page facing us on our institutional network,proxies are a sound way to circumvent these limitations and help explore those which have become scapegoats though these allow students to see scrupulous elements but well its discretion which has to be exercised for the benefit.

following are some anonymous proxies you might find useful

www.School99.org
www.gon25.com
www.rtpvc.com
www.cadx.org
www.Ajooo.com
https://vecschool.org
for secured and private browsing
https://fecollege.net/

on most of these proxies you will be asked to enter a captch code when you first use this
site.Its only 3-4 letters written in large writing on the front
page.Once you are inside just type in the address of the website you want
to unblock and click BROWSE.

again browse safe and use it for good :)

new ideas for engg projects

2010-07-22T02:53:00.000-07:00

compiler designing
road sample testing for content
weather forecasting with array of sensors
color sensors to identify different colors
putting all city services on 1 website

giving ultimate look to fedora

2010-07-13T09:31:00.000-07:00

Compiz requires direct rendering to work

so please don't bother posting saying compiz doesn't work unless you have direct rendering working .

To test

Code:
glxinfo |grep direct
The result should be

Code:
[root@localhost]# glxinfo |grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
[root@localhost]#
Instructions for F11, F12 & F13

1. Install the compiz-fusion-release rpm

Code:
su
yum -y erase *compiz*
rpm -ivh http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/compiz-fusion-release-1-8.noarch.rpm
If this fails try

Code:
su
yum -y erase *compiz*
yum -y install wget
wget http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/compiz-fusion-release-1-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh compiz-fusion-release-1-8.noarch.rpm
rm -f compiz-fusion-release-1-8.noarch.rpm
2. Install compiz-fusion ( you will need to delete the old compiz configuration files /home/username/.gconf/apps/compiz ) (For F12 use the yum commands in post #2 as I have changed the packaging scheme to match fedora)

For a Gnome compiz install

Code:
su
yum -y --noplugins install compiz-gnome fusion-icon-gtk compiz-bcop ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-gconf compiz-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins-extra
For a KDE compiz install

Code:
su
yum -y --noplugins install compiz-kde fusion-icon-qt compiz-bcop ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-kconfig compiz-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins-extra
For both KDE & gnome

Code:
su
yum -y --noplugins install compiz-kde compiz-gnome fusion-icon-all compiz-bcop ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-gconf compizconfig-backend-kconfig compiz-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins-extra
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xorg.conf options for the intel, nv, radeon & radeonhd drivers ( should help graphics lag and CPU load )

add to the device section

Code:
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
compiz-check utility

Code:
wget http://blogage.de/files/9124/download -O compiz-check
chmod +x compiz-check
./compiz-check

thanks to leigh123linux for the whole documentation
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=173317

system->preferences->compizconfig settings manager

try using ..
windows preview for that windows 7 feature to get preview of window from the taskbar itself

PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN

2010-06-22T15:52:00.000-07:00

You may be aware of that after IT now India moving towards Biotechnology.
According to one research India will emerge as a super power in IT & Medical
research by 2025.

Q. Who is the Co-founder of Sun Microsystems? (The company which is sweeping the
Internet with its brainchild Java)
A. Vinod Khosla
Q. Who is the Creator of Pentium Chip? (Needs no introduction, 90% of the today's
computers run on it)
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest person on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji,
CEO, Wipro. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th position now.
Q. who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV and MPEG4
A. Arun Netravali has been President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail? (Hotmail is world's No. 1 web based
email program)
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who was the Testing Director of Windows 2000?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika

We are known as the Indian Mafia (or Internet Mafia?).
We are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than
the whites and the natives. We are the success story in America.
Let the world know what we stand for.
   There are 3.22 Million Indians in America.!"
   38% of Doctors in America are Indians.!"
   12% of Scientists in America are Indians.!"
   36% of NASA employees are Indians.!"
   34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians!"
   28% of IBM employees are Indians!"
   17% of INTEL employees are Indians!"
   13% of XEROX employees are Indians.!"

Some of these facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a
German Magazine which deals with WORLD
HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.
A. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
B. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
C. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than
   10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The
   University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest
   achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
D. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most
   suitable language for computer software reported in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
E. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father
   of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast
   regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
F. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development,
   India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the
   early 17th Century.
G. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The Very word
   Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also
   derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
H. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds
   of years before the astronomer Smart.; Time taken by earth to orbit the sun:
   (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
I. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of
   what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century
   long before the European mathematicians.
J. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India; Quadratic equations were by
   Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; The largest numbers the Greeks and the
   Romans used were 106 (10 to the power of 6) whereas Hindus used numbers as big
   as 1053(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during
   the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number isTera 1012(10 to the
   power of 12).
K. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the
   only source for diamonds to the world.
L. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion in the world
   scientific community that the pioneer of Wireless communication was Prof.
   Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
M. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
N. According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called
   'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta
   Maurya's time.
O. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
P. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his
   time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs,
   fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of
   anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were
   used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion,
   metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
Q. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago,
   Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley(Indus Valley Civilization)
R. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

QUOTES ABOUT INDIA

A. Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,
   without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
B. Mark Twain said: India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human
   speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand
   mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most constructive materials in the
   history of man are treasured up in India only.
C. French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth
   where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days
   when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
D. Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered and
   dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single
   soldier across her border. All the above is just the TIP of the iceberg, the list
   could be endless.

.........

ITS JUST SO MUCH TO BE WRITTEN JUST NOT ENOUGH TIME

BE PROUD TO BE INDIAN

JAI HIND!

install ms reader in linux with wine 1.1.x

2010-06-21T00:45:00.000-07:00

for my novelwormey itch i tried a few solutions to the lack of Microsoft Reader on Linux, since i couldnt find a .lit reader apart from option of converting my collections to pdf formate not to tell it wud have had been cumbersome but well for a lazy person like me too heavy :P

today, I finally managed to make Microsoft Reader work on Linux with Wine 1.1.x. I had to use a couple of hours doing so, but at the end, it was worth it. So here is the fast and clean way of installing Microsoft Reader on Linux, what you need is:
Have a Linux installation (obviously) – I’m on fedora but this should work with ubuntu or other flavors too (guessing,if u find problem do comment).
The following software installed: wine, msttcorefonts, cabextract – You can install it with the usual:
```
 sudo yum -y install wine msttcorefonts cabextract 
```
IE for Linux – this is a pre-requisite of Microsoft Reader on Wine.

Install ie4linux using the instructions here. Ignore the wine version warning.

or just do this

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

You may have to run the script multiple times if it crashes, but you’ll get ie6 installed eventually.so dont loose heart and keep trying.

You might need mfc42.cab – in which case, just follow the link on the page, and copy the cab to the folder used by ies4linux, which was/home/vivek/.ies4linux/downloads

Download the MSReaderSetup.exe file from the Microsoft site using your regular browser and save it somewhere.
Run the installer .exe via double-clicking, or right clicking, or via command-line
The reader should install. The first time, try running it via command-line after going to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Reader and typing ./msreader.exe
If you get an msvcirt.dll error, download the dll from here and extract the dll to your ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 folder.
in my case for wine 1.1.32 it worked by extracting msvcirt.dll to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Reader folder
so,which ever suits you try that though i feel second is appropriate
Now running the .exe again should work, and you should also be able to run it after searching for it by ALT+F2.
At this point, you should be able to open a .lit file by double-clicking it.Voila!! we are done :)
enjoy ebook experiance !!!!!
If you encouter any issues or had to follow a different path, do share in the comments to help out others.

GPS- grand problem solver ;)

2010-06-13T13:00:00.000-07:00

if u thought this post is going to be about "NOT GPS"(global positioning system),sorry gave a wrong idea :) but yes infact gps is a grand problem solver currently integrating a gps reciever with linux ,found out just how much we can integrate it into our mainstream lives we see around us many developments be it a simple guiding instrument for our travel or be it as other way round to track an object on travel.
well gps is so,the limitation is only our imagination.now coming to meat of it y m i writing it in first place well in my case for no obvious reason just wanted so i did n took part in endeavor to share knowledge.
currently have written a script which can fetch data from gps device in NEMA standards collect coordinates, velocity, motion etc etc passing onto another machine n finally making a cgi to collect map from google to project the point n warious info we collected earlier.
sounds boring like what is this guy trying to do.just trying to collect info about an object,but hey my idea was to tell about what i m doing not much it is but what i just thought(time while thinking to write this post) :) was that we are currently tracking objects how about controlling them thinking of a scenario when a person wants to do his own study of topology for a feature and height map just over a small region unlike sattelites doing it why not make out own topology mapper just a trickle thought and its amazing what all we can do with this technology which has been in existence for over decades.gps as the title suggests can be a real problem solver whereever kinematics comes in(not that am enlisting just kinematics there are so many areas it can be employed).

vodafone deactivation of service message

2010-04-19T08:01:00.000-07:00

guys the vodafone though has a novel idea of informing us with our balance after a call or sms sent ,but for those who face problem and knocks on thousand doors for switching it off
it's simple
send:

Npcn
to
111

voila!! done :)