Arbit crap

ATM + Windows = :|

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:52:00 +0000

I happened to notice this at the ATM - Windows 2000 :|

Note: Frozen screen

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Owl at the CC canteen

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:39:00 +0000

Excuse me for the frequent blog posts :D

New Phone + Airtel mobile office + wvdial

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:46:00 +0000

So in the last one week I got a new phone ( Nokia 7210c Supernova) to develop / test the J2ME app that I am making as a part of Google Summer Of Code. The phone is a relatively basic model with Edge, J2ME ( :) ) and bluetooth. Me being what I am .. was fiddling around with the phone and some of the Airtel services. The basic Airtel GPRS service called Airtel live provides internet access through a proxy => Apps which don't support proxy fail ( >90% ). I went searching for ways to have Airtel Mobile Office activated after considerble amount of searching I was able to activate the mobile office by dailing *567*1# and following the instructions that followed, If the settings don't arrive in a day repeat the instructions in the SMS that follows the number dial, note that it costs 30 paise per 50kB on Airtel Prepaid.

This was followed by the installation of jmIrc and MidpSSH for that occasional itch to do something weird while on the move. People who know the rough amount of data that is sent during IRC will know that you can chat for ~1 hour with the 50 kB data transfer :) . After this the usual Opera mini , Google maps were tried and of course setting configuring the phones mailbox to send mail through my gmail account.

Today morning I had the weird urge to connect to the internet through my phone over bluetooth :D. The KDE4 bluetooth apps are as not the best ones out there :) , so I ended up installing blueman . Paired my phone and then selected the Dial Up Networking ( DUN ) in the device manager window, it asks for the root pass and walah you have a /dev/rfcomm0 ( There are other ways of binding the rfcomm through command line but GUI sometimes is simpler :) ). This was followed by searching for settings to connect to the internet , here are the things I did to get the internet working through the phone.

1) Install wvdial
2) edit /etc/wvdial.conf


[Dialer GPRS]
Modem = /dev/rfcomm0
Baud = 115200
Dial Command = ATDT
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","airtelgprs.com";
FlowControl = None
Username= internet
Password= internet
Phone = *99***1#

The username and pass can be anything ( they are not validated )

3) As root run wvdial GPRS

4) Tadaa you are connected to the internets

Code highlighting courtesy : http://lukabloga.blogspot.com/2008/10/to-test-new-highlighting.html

More food adventures

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:51:00 +0000

Trying out blogging from phone. At Rave Moti with Surya & Mani. :-)

Hardware hack + trip to city

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:43:00 +0000

It was the evening when Uncle suddenly asked whether we should go to the city and get some electronic components for a project (;)). It had just stoped raining .. The weather was perfect. We called up the taxi guy and off we went in search of hardware. The trip took us to a well known hardware place / galli in Kanpur where one can mostly find the Chinese fakes of Ipods, Cellphones , etc. We searched for an hour to get a decent sized LCD to interface with the beagle board , which was a fail.

Later we got a micro SD card and went in search of any exotic ( read as strange ) hardware we can get our hands on. We bought a couple of tiny switches ( ~ 1cm x 5mm) and my eyes fell on some sim unlocker mods , the vendor was more than happy to explain to me how the sim unlocker mod worked , turns out that the thing does a good old Man In The Middle ( MITM ). I asked the guy about the information path through which the guys in a small city like Kanpur get hold of cool ( The kid in me calls it cool :P ) hardware mods and hacks , his reply "I go to China once every 3 months", L0L. We quickly jotted down the guys mobile number in case we needed a few more components in the coming months.

This was followed by a good dinner and then 8 hours ( Which brought about the next day and one sleepless night ) of failed attempts in getting the Atmega32 to recognize the new micro SD card. After having gone through all the registers and command set info manually , I gave up at ~6 AM and opened the Wikipedia page to for look at any interesting info on the things.

Turns out that the SD spec says that SPI mode for SD cards is must whereas the microSD spec says that it is optional and the damn Taiwan folks who made the card I bought yesterday decided to not have it.. Bleh!

Breakfast is at 8 AM - with a burn out brain and 90 minutes to burn - I write this post

Summer - GSoC - Phun!

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:17:00 +0000

I got into Google Summer of Code program with the proposal "J2ME client with multiple transport back end support supporting submission of form data for data collection on field." for Sahana. If you know me, you would probably know that I don't spend 3 months in completing a project :D. 3 months of free time + 4500$ = Hopefully I will get to travel a lot this summer (If only the summers in India were a bit milder) + catch up with some embedded phun!, making a avr32 board hopefully by the end of the summer. Bah! 3 months is a lot of free time :D.

Cooo....

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:02:00 +0000

It's been a long time since I went out of Kanpur..So I hitched a ride on a lab vehicle going to the RDSO office in Lucknow. People were preparing for a derailment test with a real engine, some coaches etc. /me got to get onto a real running Diesel engine of the Indian Railways (Every Kids dream :D)

Arch Linux + Nvidia CUDA == awesomeness

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:02:00 +0000

I resume blogging after a long time and after moving the blog everywhere..I am back to blogger.

It has been a week without classes and among other things I have been working with, I tried my hand at figuring out how to work with Nvidia CUDA. The supported ubuntu 8.04 was a major blow. Installation on ARCH linux was a breeze. Ended up setting up a pseudo cluster with 2 nodes and 2 kick a** GPUs.

1) Install Archlinux
2) Install nvidia drivers in the repo ( Which are new unlike ubuntu)
3) Install CUDA with yaourt
4) Install Open MPI with yaourt
5) NFS mount the dir on the other machine
6) Enable key based login on ssh and do a ssh-keygen in your home ( Note the NFS mounting before)
7) cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub > .ssh/authorized_keys
8) Done :)

/etc/init.d/semester restart

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:57:00 +0000

Ola people...Life is great so ..awesome summer project...a new laptop and to top it all off next sem I am going to be living in the yet to be finished hall 9....To the people not acquainted with the location of the hall....It is far away from the academic area....far far far far away...To add to the happiness my time table for the next sem is perfect.

Here are some pics of the hall before we get there

That's all folks.

Yet another post....

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:21:00 +0000

This is going to be a short post.I need to study. :D

As most of you who read the blog might have already guessed, it is the time for another exam, It also happens to be a time for the farewell parties. We all have all all kind of moments in life. The last week has been a week which involved me realizing the truth about many people, People started appearign differently...All the people out here aint all that good (I realized it the hard way) After a couple of nighouts spent in completing my lab reports and presentations for the ME(Mechanical Engineering) and MME (Cant spell this :) ), I took a 14 hour sleep yesterday and today things started to lighten up. We had a farewell party organized by out physics society. It went quite well. At the end when the supposedly heavy refreshments began (It was good...it had unlimited ice cream...most of which ended up being my dinner :D) a prof comes sees me ...stares at me for a while..I try to avoid him....he smiles comes up to me and says..."You are registered in my Thermal Physics course right".....shakes my hand ... "Nice to finally meet you"....What do I say...It aint my fault that the class is at 8 in the morning....yeah I think the prof understands that. Anyway the icecream was good.....life seems to be back to normal..but I the worse is yet to come..my exams start in a week.

This is praneeth signing of to study.... :D

3 scans...I am either a medical miracle or a goofup.

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:33:00 +0000

Have nothing better to do...

Another sem starts of pretty well at least thats what I think.The midsems were a walk in the park(I have not yet received all my scores :)). Something interesting does keep happening around here...especially when I am around.

Last week I had a minor stomach ache,with great reluctance I went to the Health Center(HC) to get a check up ( I know it was a bad idea...cant help it). The doc asked me to get an ultrasound scan. After a hilarious series of events(I don't want google to index my page with the event so I ain't typing it) I got my scan results ....A stone 0.5 cm in diameter at CBD.I was surprised ....showed the report to the HC doc...who upon seeing the report asked me to get admitted..being what I am I didnt believe in the reports...with the help of a few of my friends I convinced the doc that I would get admitted the next day.

The next day I went to a local hospital and consulted a gastroenterologist....asked him to confirm the stone...so I had to take one more scan and roughly 60 ml of blood for various tests...as I was getting my second scan I told the radiologist about my stone..She was suprised.."A stone...get me the reports" Showed her the reports...she gets another doc ....they go on a search for the stone in my stomach...to their surprise and to mine the stone was missing...The doc patiently told me..."Son....this is a bit weird...can you come again tomorrow morning on an empty stomach..we want to confirm the findings"..(btw I was on a fast for 3/4ths of a day for 3 days)....One more scan and the reports( both blood and the ultrasound) confirmed that I was in perfect health.

In the mean while my exams were coming closer...this time somehow I didnt feel its pain..I was some how prepared(I did pay more attention in the classes)..the exams went well...pretty well :D.

A new begining.

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:05:00 +0000

The year in short..

A long time since I last wrote a post...so this is going to be a big one.2006 was one year I guess I will wish to forget.Well it started out with my semester 2....we lost robocon. My sleep cycle was ruined again and of course I got wonderful grades to top it all. The summer vacation was wasted in a crappy project in the campus.Semester seemed to have started off great....I quit from the robocon team and the from being the webmaster of the Electronics club......(people who are wondering as to why I had quit......the reasons are PURELY academic;)... got great scores in the first midsem.. ...then the decline started.......still cant account for the time though.The semester ended with me getting a 6.3 . For the first time in my entire stay at IIT Kanpur I spent my holidays completely at home.....did some reading on cryptography...and decided again that I am gonna do great the next semester.

The D day was great...Went to the city with a couple of seniors at around 5 PM.....Got high on coffee and icecream(trust me coffee and icecream can get you high) at barista (note to people never have Dark temptation and a cold coffee together it is a potential mixture for a tragedy).
We were later joined by another group of seniors and we made our way to a restaurant situated in a rather oddly crowded mall.Had a great dinner ...came back to hall 5 (aint my hall) watched a korean movie at clueless's room.....movie was great.....then 2007 came knocking at the door.....we went to the fete and the countdown began some fancy fireworks went off....people started wishing....and thus the year started...Watched another movie for a while and at 4:00 AM came back to my hall.......read up on Tao Chi for a while..(yeah it was the korean movie and no sleep that did this ) slept at around 4:45 and suprisingly woke up at 9:30 was lying on the bed too lazy to wake up for around an hour.Then I got on to a comp ( I still dont own a comp of my own...as a matter of fact never did in my life) and started writing this crap.....

And yeah I almost forgot Happy new year....and may the chi be with you :D

A post for a friend of mine

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:10:00 +0000

www.guitarmasterclass.net

Mid sem 2 ---

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:52:00 +0000

Well it is again that time of the semester when one can see the junta going crazy. After carefully reviewing my syllabi I came to a conclusion that it aint difficult...the thing is people(not all of them..but includes me I guess :) ) waste so much time during the sem and study practically the whole syllabus in a week (Some times in a day or 2)....Even if the exams went really bad one feels the relief after the exams...I maybe incoherent....I didnt sleep for >24 hrs ....

^^^^^^^^

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:29:00 +0000

Well I have too much to write. Let me see...I am having my vacations. Suddenly the world outside of IIT Kanpur seems to be a big mess. Well the train ride was depressing enough. I am sick and tierd of looking at stupid people living a meaningless life. I turned on the TV and all I see in news are stupid politicians who dont have any clue as to what they are speaking,I dont know what people see in them and choose them as leaders(Bloody freaks).Well people back at campus arent better either more than half the freaks are power crazy. Suddenly it seems as though that money is the only thing people care about. Well you might believe that money can give you all the stuff you want....try making me laugh with your money.Well I am freaked out.I feel like giving up everything and going to some lonely mountains,but I dont think people will allow me to do that,for now all I can say is for the next few weeks I am going to freakier than ever.

1 down 2 to go.....

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:17:00 +0000

Well ...as you might have realized that there has been no post for a long time this is due to the fact that I was studying(Yep Studying),Well atleast the effort seems to have payed off...I did my midsems pretty well( I hope so...havent got my results yet).With another month to go for the 2nd midsem I am planning to start studying again(In the sense that I will do all my assignments on time).There have been some developments recently....We at the Hall 3 cc have been able to utilize the sun Sparcs to the maximum....We are trying alll sorts of crazy stuff on them...I think I can now say a bit confidently "Give me any comp with access to the internet and I will make everything run on it (Well nearly everything which the com p can support)"I am starting to like my Optics course(Though it is the course in which I am presently expecting the least marks) Had I not spoilt my last sem I would have been able to rock in the course...but I think I covered most of it so lets see what is in store for me in Mid sem 2 and the far off end sem(Judgement days :))..I am off now to try my hand at gentoo installation. :D

Back to classes.........

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:05:00 +0000

This semester has been great so far....I have attended most of the classes(All except 2)Most of my assignments are being completed before due date and I am able to understand most of the classes...with chemistry being an exception.....The class is absolutely boring....Well it so happens that I did learn something in that class too...I along with a few of my friends have been sucessfull in counting the no of tubelights,fans,switch boards,spot lights etc in the L-7 [:)].

Here are some funny videos that I found on the internet.

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:25:00 +0000

I dont agree with the one above though.

Change of title and blah blah

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:08:00 +0000

Dont ask me why I changed the title....I simply did it...The last few days have been fun....I have been going around bangalore.I feel strange after leaving the campus...3 months of holidays is too much.I am waiting for the semester to start.The holidays so far have been great.The photo below is the timetable for the courses in the next semester.

Thus it begins.......

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:21:00 +0000

My holidays beging from today from 21:40 hrs. I dont know what I am going to do....No hi speed internet and no lan access.....It will be a test for my survival skills...more about the trip soon.(Maybe a month later :) )

Continued....
Apparently I am not so cut of from the internet.

Then first part of my journey was horrible...I ended up reaching the station at 10:00 PM when the scheduled departure of the train was at 9:40PM thanks to Surya I some how made it.....One thing I learnt from the incident....Have trust in INDIAN RAILWAYS they are always late.

So I board the first train to Bhopal...
There was this little kid sleeping in
my berth and their parents didnot have a ticket..being a night animal I thought why not let her sleep and I gave up my berth partially sleeping the whole way till Jhansi where my berth became empty...but unfortunately the indian railways donot make berths for tall people..so I barely got to sleep.The trip was not comfortable but it did teach me a lesson or two about what Indian life is...and how people are.

At Bhopal I waited for 2 hours and my train arrives on time.
Get into the train to find my seat occupied again..I managed to find a berth and sleep through the day...again in the night I gave my berth to some dude who had a waiting list of 1 and didnot have a seat....

Finally I reach my house...parents are shocked to see my long hair :).

to be continued......

I reach home...
I dont know whether my mom thinks I am thin(I am surely not),she is asking me to eat 3 times a day.I am sick of eating..Thw way I am going by the time I reach IIT Kanpur I will be double of what I am :).
Today I was browsing through the tv and I happened to watch a tamil made Predator dubbed in telugu...It was a comedy...The alien was so damn funny and an angel saves everyone by killing the predator.....talk about indianization.:)

to be continued......

Well..
After a weeks stay at my home...I am in hyderabad.....3/4 of the time I was hanging around with my friends......normal gaming and movie watching......did another linux installation on my friends laptop.....everything normal.....My Biological clock got reset to its normal timing.......After a weeks stay here today I am off to bangalore....

to be continued.....

Too lazy to continue :)

Fedora core 5 rules

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:30:00 +0000

It is 6:00 in the morning..I was supposed to have slept 6 hours back but a linux installation kept me up all night.It is the most freaky installation I have ever done.Used a combination of a CD and a DVD to install Fedora core 5.After a series of reinstalls(3 times) and a minor problem with the mouse it started working.The Os rules so far...

A special thanks to some guys proxy password which we got....

Life after hurricane SPI

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Sat, 27 May 2006 17:41:00 +0000

Life after hurricane SPI is pretty bad and it does take some days for a person to emotionally normal.Thanks to a few special friends and the a apparently busy robotics project I am semi stable.Today my friend - Suryajith and myself went on a photo shooting spree took loads of photos. I actually woke up at 5:00 Am(People who know me well enough will get suprised) and today another strange thing happened--after 2 months I had breakfast,lunch and dinner in a single day.More on what happened after hurricane SPI soon.

More photos here

2nd Sem SPI :(

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Thu, 25 May 2006 19:12:00 +0000

My 2nd semester SPI was a shocker.It is my fault....... I shouldnt have expected much when I attended very few classes.Some day it was to happen and I think a bad spi now will remind me to set my priorities right.Well it is over and I can't do nothing about it.....Next sem people are going to see the crazy side of praneeth.

A photo I modified using matlab....looks funny

praneeth in lecture hall --- A rarity

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Sat, 13 May 2006 10:26:00 +0000

As the title suggests.............

In love with nature

noreply@blogger.com (Praneeth Bodduluri) — Wed, 03 May 2006 07:57:00 +0000

I am feeling strange these days.......maybe i changed..I am starting to like IIT Kanpurs morning environment...Maybe because I never saw IITK in the morning....A few days ago we (that is me along with some of my friends) jumped the IITK boundary to go to this strange stream. It felt great especially after the exam.....I am beginning to appreciate nature I guess.....or maybe I am becomming more strange.

The complete album is here