With Arky I was creating a map of the Mozilla l10n teams world wide and decided to use Leaflet.js. He send across a CSV data sheet which contained the geo-tagged teams and other information. Wrote a Python script to generate markers corresponding to Leaflet.js (Yes, my JS skills suck). When we laid the markers on [...]
Archive for the ‘Hacks’ Category
Getting a Huawei EC159 USB Modem working on Ubuntu 11.04
The EC159 just like any USB modem gets detected as a USB mass storage or virtual CD-ROM when connected to Linux boxes. Yes, usb-modeswitch should take care of this and make it available as a GSM Modem. Unfortunately, the usb-modeswitch configuration skips this particular device, and that’s what I felt. I decided to run usb-modeswitch [...]
Data, Visualizations and Evidences.
Yesterday marked a month since I moved to Bangalore. Flooded with interesting assignments from both work places. The first two weeks went into hard-core scraping and data conversion. Taking down/mirroring couple of National Informatics Center’s servers etc. Incidentally, we started doing some analytics and couple of them are showcased here. Third week of my life [...]
Gestures and your mouse!
Took sometime off from Android hacking and drowned into OpenCV and Python. This time it was pretty interesting. We were headed to build a virtual reality stuff. Control the mouse with gestures. Jemshid and Nithin gave the math and we started some research. Nijad was taking a lot into it. Bunked few classes! Will pull [...]
SMSFloods V1.0 is out!
Announcing release of SMSFloods, a complete SMS Spamming to envy your friends. This is version 1.0. Download Symbian Second edition application from here and start using! If you are using Symbian Third edition, you might want to sign the app using your IMEI. Get the app from here and follow the procedures: 1. Go to [...]
Experimenting PyS60 on my Nokia 6600
Another lazy day, and did not take very long for me realize this was the 5th day of the study holidays. Had enough fun, sleep and hacks. This would add to it. Was exchanging few email conversations with Arky and don’t know from where in the world, the thought about his Nokia N70 struck me. [...]
Report Class for LaTeX: Highly modified
Finally, posting it here. Went through lot troubles to get the stuff in place. As I really did not understand what each clause in the class file meant, most of the time was spend messing up the page layout and features. Thankful to Department of Communication Technology, Aalborg University, for sharing the IES report class, [...]
More hacks on PyQt.
These days finding a lot of time hacking PyQt. Will have more to update. Pretty soon!
ICS Ubuntu, Simplified.
We have a good WiFi enabled Internet campus. Unfortunately, one of the Ubuntu Lucid installations in a Dell Inspiron did not detect the WiFi controller. The last resort was to get an ethernet cable with Internet connection to activate the driver. We asked google and found out perhaps the best solutions to do ICS (Internet [...]
My first bug report on Ubuntu Lucid
Last day while me and Arky were fixing Ubuntu Lucid into some computers to be used by blind people, it came into our notice a very simple bug. These people depend on Orca Screen reader to make their way into computing. Unfortunately, at times, Orca crashes and they require to restart the X server to [...]