Infinity Unbound

HashMap loop in java

2008-07-15T10:14:00.000+05:45

This is how you loop through the Key Value pairs in a HashmapIterator iter = values.keySet().iterator(); while (iter.hasNext()) { String key = iter.next(); String value = values.get(key); System.out.println("Key ="+key+"\n Value"+value) }Here, I have implicitly assumed that values is a HashMap but as you know it can be of any Object that you like. I just used it for

Viewing firefox status bar in full screen

2008-07-04T15:19:00.002+05:45

Using firefox in full screen is rather cool but I was missing the status bar which gives a lot of information about the link whenever I hover or whatever is being done by the browser. After digging up a few places, I came to this link in mozilla's sitehttp://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Editing+configuration+filesabout editing configuration files and in particular userChrome.css Used to change

My Links

2008-07-04T14:48:00.003+05:45

I just added a links section there on the sidebar so that you can see what I'm bookmarking lately. Most of them might end up being incorporated on the front page. If they are any bit useful to you, tell me. I might not have read them(or sometimes might want to read them again, so that might be useful to go over.)If you are a fellow programming, hacking enthusiast, I'll be glad to share some links

A simple mjpeg streamer for python

2008-07-03T18:25:00.003+05:45

I've been working with networking stuffs lately, like XML, parsing and lately streaming. Originally, I wanted to do this for my Android project which is still slightly veiled in secrecy. It will be open sourced completely though, when it matures. So, I wrote this application in an effort to understand the networking behind it and get it to work on Android. Frankly, I am not so good with Java and

Out with Ads, In with analytics

2008-07-03T12:44:00.006+05:45

Finally, I got rid of the annoying ads and included Google Analytics instead. I hope it helps me track users better (HEHE, evil laugh). Nah, I just want to see my traffic from a fairly trusted source. Since I've started updating the blog again, I want to see how many people are coming.And yeah, the ads won't EVER come back on this site. PROMISE!!!I wonder if that news belonged to twitter than

Thank You Firefox.

2008-07-03T12:18:00.005+05:45

Yep, it's official. And I've grabbed my copy of the thank you letter that Mozilla is giving away.I actually like the way this has been handled by Mozilla with all the hype about Firefox 3 that was circulating. Albeit, I felt it was a bit cheesy to go around downloading, or asking someone else to download for a while but it was fun. I had the download link on my desktop for every one to see.So,

positServer online

2008-07-02T02:45:00.003+05:45

"Release early, release often"These were the words that sparked the open source revolution.I'm finally trying to follow this by releasing my positServer application under GPLv3 on googlecode. It's rather half baked right now and I intend to use it mostly for backup purposes. Hehe, it's hard to screw up when your backup server is the mighty Google Inc.http://code.google.com/p/positserver/source/

Sending Binary files over xml rpc

2008-06-30T09:08:00.007+05:45

I'm posting this because I finally figured how to send files(pictures in particular) over xmlrpc. It took me a while to figure it out since I was mostly concerned with saving the files into database but here it is.#!/usr/bin/env pythonfrom twisted.web import xmlrpc, serverimport osclass PositRPC(xmlrpc.XMLRPC): def xmlrpc_savefile(self, file): datum = file.data

Locking screen from command line

2008-06-29T20:53:00.004+05:45

I use gnome and so far I've been happy with my Ctrl+Alt+L shortcut in gnome. It used to lock up the screen when I was away from the desktop. However, recently, I've started to use XFCE and sometimes ratpoison, which didn't have this shortcut.Anyways, the simpler way to lock your screen is from command line and it seems to work everywhere I've tried so far.$xscreensaver-command -lockI just kept in

Code Highlighting in Blogger

2008-06-27T10:33:00.006+05:45

Don't you just love syntax highlighting that we've become so used to these days? Be it the venerable emacs editor or the new and upcoming Notepad++es, we love our syntax highlighting editors. But the codes on our sites still do suffer this problem of being black and white. I solved this problem for our college's hfoss wiki by installing the GeSHi CodeTag Extension for mediawiki but while looking

Follow me on Twitter

2008-06-27T08:25:00.006+05:45

After facebook, I haven't really got around to most of the social networking things, but after reading about it (a lot) and seeing some really famous people actively using it, I decided to give it a try.Guess what, I'm loving it. So, if you are interested in following me, do follow me atwww.twitter.com/prasannagautamOr if you want me to be notified of your tweets, do post in here so that I can

Implementing xmlrpc database server in twisted

2008-06-27T07:50:00.013+05:45

A while back, for my POSIT project (for google android), I wrote a small application in python that sent out some data from the server's repository and saved to the database. I never really got around the saving part because I couldn't get the database to send pictures back and forth. In part, I went back to working on the phone itself and my studies because I was being a little too unfocused in

Firefox 3 on debian etch

2008-06-20T06:01:00.005+05:45

First, some updates:These days, I've been busy doing my summer research (finally learning to document properly) and working part/full time for the computing center here as the system administrator (well, assisting the system administrator to be correct).OK, the release of firefox 3 was big and I participated heavily and encouraged everyone to participate by downloading the browser within the 24

What? a Beowulf in room?

2008-05-26T05:32:00.000+05:45

I recently got 4 SUN ultrasparc 5 boxes from the compsci lab. The most interesting thing is that when I got them, basically 1 by 1, I had no idea what I was going to do with them. For a while, I tried assigning them static IPs and ran rtorrent through them. I wanted to put a web interface for it too. Then I turned them off for a substantial amount of time because playing around with them was

How to run sugar on ubuntu- the easy way

2008-03-22T13:29:00.002+05:45

Are you finding yourself lazy to go through the installing, git-pull update procedure for your ubuntu system to work on the olpc sugar interface? There's an easier way to do it$sudo apt-get install sugar-emulator sugar-activitiesThis should do it.If you still want to do it the old way... go for ithttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild\:)

todos

2008-01-20T01:40:00.001+05:45

Hey, it's been 19 days since new year and I haven't made all the resolutions yet so I decided to make them now. I don't make resolutions often but keeping them here might actually force myself to stick to them0. Improve gradesI admit they are really really important, it just can't be over stated. So, it obviously goes on the first.1. Learn regular expressions From experience, I know that learning

Busybox on Android

2008-01-19T05:36:00.001+05:45

As good as android is, it does lack some of the rather interesting linux tools that could be of a great use like busybox. Its good to have a command line interface to play around often to get information that click around in gui which makes things a bit too slow sometimes.While I did try to compile the busybox binary and loading onto the phone, that didn't quite work. So I got one from here. http

How to make your window Full Screen in gnome?

2008-01-15T13:20:00.001+05:45

I have often had this problem of getting quite seriously distracted while coding and I always like to use as much screen real state to work on but then again, there are other applications that need it too and it can be a lot of distraction with gmail messages popping up and all sorts of nasty stuff happening. One option is to just go into some other desktop manager but I kind of like solving the

Checking integrity of cdrom drives

2008-01-09T11:32:00.000+05:45

I had this problem for a while, so I wanted to take a look at it... how do i check the integrity of the drive.I did this... to find that it was quite okay... the same can be done with md5sum but sha1sum is better sometimes$ sha1sum KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso | grep cdc0e9181d9dd2f2fc71aa9c59391001c46afa3ecdc0e9181d9dd2f2fc71aa9c59391001c46afa3e *KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.isobut

Releasing my theme

2007-04-05T23:41:00.000+05:45

After getting some requests for showing the code, I'm giving this three column theme...further instructions arriving in future posts... :Dfirst of all, back up ur file by downloading the template at the Edit HTML tab..then upload this filehttp://prasannagautam.googlepages.com/template-35346556.xml

Can Newton's 2nd Law be Violated on Earth?

2007-03-31T16:33:00.000+05:45

from PhysOrg.comAstrophysicists have found evidence that a corrected version of Newton’s 2nd Law (which deals with the acceleration of mass) works well on the grand scale of the universe. These modifications to Newtonian physics are known as “modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). “Newton offers a foundation for classical mechanics in the relationship of force, mass and accelerations,” Alex

Wine

2007-03-31T10:02:00.000+05:45

Ehh.. it didn't take a lot of time to rediscover wine after I made a huge switch to ubuntu last month. After all, there isn't any reason now to keep running windows. I've managed to run the following softwares so far:1. Adobe Photoshop 72. Macromedia Flash 83. Macromedia Dreamweaver 84. Winrar5. Flashgetbut there was a little problem with Picasa 2.6!... Basically I couldn't use the web upload

Back Again

2007-03-01T00:50:00.000+05:45

Yep, its been quite some time that I've posted anything here... but that's about to change...

Seeing tongue

2007-02-03T21:11:00.000+05:45

Old Photos

2006-12-17T07:48:00.000+05:45

The oldest known color photograph: 1872 Before the Autochrome process was perfected in France, this photograph of a landscape in Southern France was taken. No, it is not hand-tinted. This is a color-photograph. (Note: It was published in a Time/Life Book entitled "Color" in 1972, "courtesey of George Eastman House, Paulus Lesser.") You are looking at the birth of color photography

Indian Army going hi-tech to build modern warfare

2006-12-01T07:28:00.000+05:45

Fakir Balaji (IANS)Bangalore, November 25, 2006The 1.1 million-strong Indian Army is going hi-tech to turn its troops into fighting machines of the 21 century, complete with the latest multi-function weaponry and uniforms with sensors to monitor their health parameters."We have put in place an action plan to modernise the armed forces in all dimensions. A project, code-named F-INSAS (Future

Nasa to Moon and Beyond

2006-12-01T07:27:00.000+05:45

Move to new planet, says Hawking

2006-12-01T07:03:00.000+05:45

Prof Hawking is in "no hurry to die" The human race must move to a star outside our solar system to protect the future of the species, physicist Professor Stephen Hawking

Apple iPhone: how to create hype 101 PDF Print E-mail

2006-11-28T22:22:00.000+05:45

Ya yah... I've been posting too much news these days...By Stan Beer Monday, 27 November 2006The buzz that is starting to build around one of Apple's most anticipated pieces of vaporware resembles the atmosphere at a rock concert before the big act appears. It is now at the stage where if Apple doesn't unveil an iPhone on or before MacWorld Expo 2007 next January, fans will tear the house down.

Let us test Darwin, teacher says

2006-11-28T22:12:00.000+05:45

DNA by design? Officially the teaching packs are frowned on Science teaching materials deemed "not appropriate" by the government should be allowed in class, Education

French MPs dump Windows for Linux

2006-11-26T22:30:00.000+05:45

Everything from OS to email By Christophe Guillemin Published: Friday 24 November 2006 After the gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture, it's the French

New Idea

2006-11-25T08:51:00.000+05:45

Well, after working on this blog for a while, I've decided to make it free for my friends to add content as well and model it as a customized news site that really matter to us... You can think of it as an aggregator of the news on the internet over custom tastes. It is no more just a personal blog site but a collection of information... hopefully true to its name infinity unbound..I'd prefer to

AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS

2006-11-24T08:15:00.000+05:45

this is one of those texts that defined Microsoft.... By William Henry Gates III February 3, 1976 An Open Letter to Hobbyists To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby

Visual Development on Linux

2006-11-24T07:45:00.000+05:45

Many people are not aware that programming on Linux, if you are fond of your mouse, is very enjoyable. If you are fond of your command line, it is also very enjoyable as well. The _CHOICE_ is up to you. A lot of visual development IDEs are available. I have been noticing, posts on Digg and other places, that people think

this was made in MS-Paint

2006-11-23T21:44:00.000+05:45

This guy made this pic using MS Painthttp://www.deviantart.com/view/17908194/

Freedom!!

2006-11-23T00:39:00.000+05:45

Kerala logs Microsoft out of schools

2006-11-22T22:02:00.000+05:45

An old news I just read today.. really happy.. we need a govt which can do this...George Iype in KochiSeptember 02, 2006The Communist Party of India (Marxists)-led government in Kerala headed byChief Minister V S Achuthanandan is not just against American cola majors --Coca-Cola and PepsiCo -- alone.Nearly three weeks after the Achuthanandan government banned the sale andmanufacture of Coca-Cola

The Hacker Manifesto

2006-11-20T07:44:00.000+05:45

A rather inspirational piece of text that never ceases to inspire..by+++The Mentor+++Written January 8, 1986Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...Damn kids. They're all alike.But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker?

Java GPLed

2006-11-13T21:00:00.000+05:45

Not too long ago Sun CEO Scott Mcnealy made a comment that he saw no point in giving away java in GPL and in response to the FSF evangelist openly recommend us not to use Java because they felt it's too easy to get trapped in a proprietary sansar.I know RMS once said FSF cannot recommend OpenOffice "on ethical grounds". It severely depend on Sun JRE. The solution would be to improve GNU

Changes

2006-10-26T00:19:00.000+05:45

Finally, this thing really looks like a blog... I made a couple of revamps mostly from hectro's place's codes and using the minimum style look. I removed a lot of the ads as well. It's really funny how this blog began and how it developed. I've finally decided what to do with this blog... I'll explain that in detail later...

How Hubble killed god

2006-10-23T21:41:00.000+05:45

Interesting stuff I saw on the internet!!March 9, 2004: NASA releases a single image taken by the Hubble Space telescope that proves a fatal blow to the concept of God, but despite the compelling evidence, many simply don’t comprehend the significance of the image. According to many interpreters of the Bible and the Book of Genesis, there is proof that the Earth and Universe is only 6,000 years

Jhilimili jhilimili

2006-10-23T00:22:00.000+05:45

Wow!!! Tihar seems to be here.. Dipawali.. is it over already? nah it isn't and I'm reaping all the benefits off this great time of the year...It's 12:30 well after midnight and as always, I'm not asleep, lots of thanks to Nescafe (Do I get some money for free advertising?). I rarely miss sleep but today we have the often cacophonisc and repetitive sounds of deusi and bhailo. I won't say

Bonafide blogger

2006-10-18T06:12:00.000+05:45

I was gasping at my creations, looking pleased and possibly with a smile on my face... "Wow!!! I've never written that much all my life" well writing for money or good grades, I might have, for good colle I will, but for just plain writing would be plain laughable. A blog is just that. I must admit that I wasn't too selfless though.... I wanted to earn money from this blog as well. However,

New Blog

2006-10-17T07:30:00.001+05:45

I'll be starting a new blog on book reviews.....http://me-studies.blogspot.comwell, I have a pretty eclectic taste... so reviewing on a single blog for books seems to be a good idea

Technology!!!!!!!

2006-10-17T06:58:00.001+05:45

I believe the first tenet of the modern maths and sciences falling under "rationalism" is objectivity. You have to be objective.... Numbers aren't like humans... wow!!! this must've been one of the greatest inventions man has ever done after inventing numbers(forming the base of maths).. you may say that first they invented numbers and then went into a world without numbers... into abstract

Blogs: the Human side of Internet

2006-10-15T22:57:00.000+05:45

Wow! It’s been about a year since I've heard the word blog, ironically in a blog site. Back then, it seemed totally absurd idea of sharing your intimate information publicly with the world. However, after moving away from dialup it seems the roads to information super highway is opening up although the speeds are still really low compared to other countries but the question is what makes these

"What next?"

2006-10-14T20:24:00.000+05:45

Probably the most important question we ask to ourselves might be "What am I going to do with my life?" well it just might be the most frequent and still the hardest to answer... Nobody knows what the future beholds... I don't.. yet I can make it the way I want to... The way I think.. you just go to such a point only if you have an ardent desire to be there.. i.e, if you deserve it. Its funny to

Google Invasion

2006-10-10T22:14:00.000+05:45

There has been a lot of interest over where google is going? Is 'the internet' going to be just 'the google'? Well the recent effort to buy YouTube seems like yet another plan for total global domination by google..Well someday we might divide the evolution of computing in 3 eras:1. The IBM era: Hardware was the king.. Mainframe the temple... well this led to this super-giant's downfall...2. The

NASA Invests in Private Sector Space Flight with SpaceX, Rocketplane-Kistler

2006-10-10T00:20:00.000+05:45

This seems to be interesting.. have a look NASA is making an unprecedented investment in commercial space transportation services with the hope of creating a competitive market for supply flights to the International Space Station (ISS).Two industry partners will receive a combined total of approximately $500 million to help fund the development of reliable,

yea!!!

2006-10-09T22:27:00.000+05:45

Another blog....Finally something is going smoothly...It's a pretty cool stuff with this ad sense thing. Like making money and all.. Well that's cool. However, I was missing the point here... A blog is meant to have some actual blogs not just fantastic ads that nobody will click... Well I've decided that now I seriously need a web site and few more blogs.. I'll use this one for posting some of my

The Ads are here...

2006-10-03T20:17:00.000+05:45

The Ads are here...Wow!!!! my turn to make a cent or two. I'm glad that google is giving us people such an opportunity to earn money out of it's ad sense thing. Well I don't get it, isn't it supposed to give relevant ads? Never mind, well finally I have enough motive to write full pages about. Well it's really cool to see your own blog and know that your efforts might just get you paid.Anyways,

Introduction

1996-09-26T00:13:00.000+05:45

Welcome to "infinity unbound" blog!!!