1,2,3 switch Android source branch

If you have Android source repo, here are the simple 3 steps to switch to Android releases branch :

1. repo init -b gingerbread-release
   
2. repo start gingerbread-release –all
3. repo checkout gingerbread-release

Aditri @ Pre-Primary graduation

Aditri’s real difficult question

Today, my six years old lovely daughter asked me a real difficult question. Here it goes :

We were having family lunch at home, with parents, Soma and Aditri. Today we cooked dal paturi and my mother was remembering that she learned cooking paturi from her mother (I believe, my didima, maternal-grandma used to cook world’s best paturi and bora). Aditri, the ever curious, immediately asked her grandma, “Tham (she calls my mother, Tham), where is your mother”. So my mother said, “my mother is no more, she is with god now”. And … Aditri asked next question, “Why is she with god now? Will my mother also go to god someday?”. My mother replied, “No … why will she go? She will always be with you”. Aditri asked again – “How about when I grow old?”.

We didn’t had any answer.

I know, she is growing old and getting matured and intelligent, day by day.

Love you Aditri, your mamma, baba will always be there with you.

Nothing wrong when I “Think Different”

Just finished reading the amazing biography, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson which taught me that there is nothing wrong, when I “Think Different.

Think Different : 

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

 

Tribute to this crazy, arrogant, manipulative, creative genius named Steve Jobs, one of them, whom I admire.

Xoom-ing

I have finally decided to retire my Kindle2 and buy a Tablet. The timing could not have been better as online retailers started to sell Motorola Xoom in discounted price. So it’s Xoom-ing time.

I am yet to root and hack into the device, till then, let me enjoy Motorola’s superior design, power of Tegra2 and openness of Android.

11/11/11 what is in it?

I will not live when 11/11/(30)11 will come. Hope my legacy will be remembered during that time.

Historic day for Indian democracy .. Parliament passes resolution on Lokpal Bill

Parliament passes resolution on Lokpal Bill. Historic day for Indian democracy.
“On a motion moved by Pranab Mukherjee, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha passed a resolution conveying the sense of the House on the Lokpal Bill.”

Stay hungry stay foolish

Inspiring : As said by Steve -

• You cant connect the dots by looking forward, you can only connect them by looking backward.
• You got to find what you love.

&

• Stay hungry stay foolish.

Voicing my support for JANLOKPAL

I am emotionally charged to be part of “India Against Corruption” movement. We are sick and tired of the news of corruptions happening all around us. The shameless politicians (some with criminal records) are making our great country a banana-republic. I don’t want to witness another 2G-scam, CWG-scam, mining-scam, ISRO-scam. It is the time to raise against the corrupt public administration, legislature and individuals who are making mockery of our great nation, India and our great constitution. Dr Manmohan Singh ‘s speech in the parliament on JAN LOKPAL is full of monotone.  I am wondering why a person like his stature wants to save the corrupt politicians by not including PM and all legislatures under the Lokpal?

As of today, The government’s Lokpal Bill has kept the Prime Minister and the judiciary as well as conduct of MPs in Parliament out of the ambit of the anti-corruption watchdog. The PM, however, will come under the purview of Lokpal after he demits office … ref: TOI , Govt draft of Lokpal.

I want to say, Dr Singh, you are one of my idol, but, I am disappointed by your statements you have made in parliament about Anna‘s fast against corruption. Your independence day speech in the context of handling of corruption is full of monotone and disappointing. As stated by you in independence-day speech, “the government has no magic wand to deal with the growing corruption in the country“, we all agree that there is no magic-bullet to solve the corruption problem, but, we all want to hear that you and all legislature are not shy against coming under the purview of Lokpal as stated in JAN-LOKPAL draft. Let our country be corruption free.
References :

• What is Lokpal Bill?
• India against corruption.
• Govt draft of Lokpal Bill.
• Draft of Jan Lokpal Bill.

 

 

perplexed by Aditri’s talks 180611

Aditri is growing fast. She told Soma today “আমাকে একটু বোঝার চেষ্টা কর মাম্মা”.

TataSky HD STB software update in 4 steps

1. When the STB is on, switch off from the power-source.
2. Switch on the STB directly from power-source.
3. Press “back” button twice from remote when “please wait initializing” message comes to the screen.
4. Immediately, press 2465 from remote and software will start downloading. (keep the STB on till it reboots twice)

Use the above instructions in your own risk. I am not responsible if you make your STB a brick.

Celebrating 20 years of freedom – The LINUX

Celebrating 20 years of freedom : Linux kernel 3.x announced.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=55922c9d1b84b89cb946c777fddccb3247e7df2c

I think, I started with Slackware .99pl11 Alpha 1994 ( http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php )

Back to the days of reading Minix code

After long time, I am again back to OS classics (my CS favorite) and reading Minix code in depth.

$ git clone git://git.minix3.org/minix

Enjoying!!

Fast forwarding the time

“freedom to invent” & “leap of faith” - are the mantras. Pray for me …

Actual text : time-to-move-on-again - Time to move on? 1995, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2011. Towards a bigger dream. “freedom to invent” & “leap of faith” - are the mantras of today’s decision. Pray for me … I will succeed.

Unsettled with lots of thoughts

A temporary feeling of being unsettled. I am thinking way too abstract. Working towards sustainable growth and building Brick By Brick. There are feelings that I should move out of my comfort zone and i make my own destiny. I am meticulous, I am creative, I am born lucky. I will succeed.

Remembering March 19, last year

Looking back towards the harrowing days - Anniversary of friction with an ultra-stupid, presumptuous individuals and perplexed audience. Found a team of super committed individuals drawn towards long fight and definitive win. Looking back with amazement and thinking how the time passed.

• Did the ultra-stupid changed? – Off course no! Happy with a whip. (S)
• Did the escapist moved out of comfort zone? - Off course no! More rusted. Happy with gyan-session. (K)
• Did the traitor survived? – FO. A greedy never survives. (P)
• Did the negotiator/spokesperson realized? – No clue. Rusted, no takers … god bless. (S)
• And finally the renegade? – Don’t care. Born to be apostate. (S)
• Finally, what about imbecile hypocrite? – Scorched. (S)

Enough crypto here? There are lots of people who has the LUKS key. WOW!!

Token of Love

Good time with kids – Aditri & Atreyi

Six steps to make Windows 7 install-disk (usb-key)

1) Create NTFS partition in usb-key and make it active(primary) partition -
# cfdisk /dev/sdb

2) Create NTFS file-system the partition -
# mkfs.ntfs -f /dev/sdb1

3) Mount Windows iso and usb-key -
# mount -o loop win7.iso /mnt/iso
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

4) Copy over all files -
# cp -av /mnt/iso/* /mnt/usb/

5) Write Windows 7 MBR on usb-key -
# ms-sys -7 /dev/sdb

6) Keep a copy of the same as img -
# dd if=/dev/sdb of=/win7.img

What am I doing? Gifted myself a laptop.

I have bought a monster laptop (Acer Aspire 4820TG TimelineX) with awesome specification.

• Quad core Intel Core i5-430M CPU
• Intel HM55
• 4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 RAM
• 500GB SATA HDD
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 GPU with 1GB graphics memory
• Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 3
• Multi DVD/RW, SD/MMC, HDMI

AND ….

• 8+ hours of battery (6cell)

More review posts later…

* I am contributing my Linux HOWTO in wiki – https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_TimelineX