Nishanth' tech rambles

saw this script and literally fell in love with it ;).. just changed the interpreter to /usr/bin/python, ./imap.py -a -e --server "IMAPSERVER:993" -u "MyID" -f "INBOX/OPENSOURCE/Linux-OMAP" and bingo give my password and it saves the entire folder as INBOX.OPENSOURCE.Linux-OMAP.mbox -> search in vi for ^From: and bingo you can copy entire patch files for git am to use.. ;) meanwhile you can easily split the mbox to maildir (multiple files) using mbox2maildir [Update] I thought it was a good idea, instead of trusting msexchange wordwrapping everything around... I am pretty darn irritated and switched to using mutt instead :(.. except I am DUMB.. i could have used the 'e' and saved what i see where ever i wanted it to be... :(... mutt is pretty darn easy!! all i needed to do was setup a ~/.muttrc as follows: set realname='Name' set from="Name <MAILID@SOME.COM>" set imap_user="ID" set imap_pass=Password set folder...

I have a windows laptop and a ubuntu desktop sitting next to each other and i would like to use my keyboard and mouse accross both without switching accross... here is the solution: SYNERGY !!! step 1 - ubuntu: sudo apt-get install synergy vim ~/.synergy.conf section: screens winlaptop: linuxserver: end section: links winlaptop: right = linuxserver linuxserver: left = winlaptop end Winlaptop is the name of my windows machine -> ipconfig /all should show the HOSTNAME for the same. linuxlaptop is the name of my machine without all the .x.y.z suffix.. Note the left and right depends on where your laptop and desktop sits.. suite which ever you want.. you can have multiple boxes if you like too... just sync them up in the config above.. next you need to get synergy start up when your login happens, you can do it multiple ways -> the one i did was to setup a short cut in my desktop for use when i want it.. - the short cut is to "synergys --config synergy....

> it is interesting why you write at the end of the email? > is this an email style? There are three styles of email replies that I follow: a) Follow bottom posting -> this is used by most linux opensource community : http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/etiquette.php#e3 b) For internal emails with respect to a topic, I retain top posting - since it can get forwarded to others who have no clue about the previous discussions, as bottom posting will remove the previous mail context. c) Mix of both - esp in internal email discussions -> this is when there is multiple responses -> in which case, I copy the contents of the email and paste it again in body of my reply to it. This allows: i) for people interested in the discussion to get the exact context of my reply without having to refer to the mailchain below to remember what they said.. ii) for people who get the email forwarded to get a context of the email by reading the previous chain.. general style I follow for...

Tired of setting up and switching ports in minicom and want something simple? welcome to picocom setup a script such as ~/bin/ttyUSB0 picocom -f n -p n -b 115200 -i -r -l /dev/ttyUSB0 and next time, just run ttyUSB0 and viola u have a terminal.. ctrl+a followed by ctrl+q quits..

With the recent merge of mtdparts patch for beagleboard u-boot Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Jan 30 2009 - 19:16:17) Loading u-boot.bin from nand U-Boot 2009.03-00325-gf75a729 (Apr 09 2009 - 13:36:05) OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND DRAM: 256 MB NAND: 256 MiB In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Board revision C Die ID #0a8600030000000004013f780600a00e OMAP3 beagleboard.org # you can now do cool things without having to remember the offsets of which partition was where.... (lets say you want to copy the kernel to nand flash) Step1: setup the partitions OMAP3 beagleboard.org # mtdparts default Step 2: erase the nand flash for kernel partition OMAP3 beagleboard.org # nand erase kernel NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000 Erasing at 0x660000 -- 100% complete. OK Step 3: copy the kernel from RAM to the kernel partition in nand flash: OMAP3 beagleboard.org # nand write 0x80000000 kernel NAND write: device 0 offset 0x280000, si...

The following instructions are for 2.6.28 linux omap pm branch + tidspbridge Few links: * http://gitorious.org/projects/tidspbridge/repos/mainline - TIDSP Bridge codebase * http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-omap/list/?q=DSP - pending patches on linux-omap mailing list * http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-omap-pm.git;a=summary - kevin's tree for Power management Steps: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-omap-pm.git cd linux-omap-pm git checkout -b pm-2.6.28 --track origin/pm-2.6.28 git checkout -b tidspbridge git pull git://gitorious.org/tidspbridge/mainline.git tidspbridge-pm-2.6.28 make omap_3430sdp_defconfig for powermanagement: make CONFIG_OMAP_PM_SRF=y CONFIG_MPU_BRIDGE=m or y which ever is your preference.. enable BRIDGE_DVFS as y make uImage;make modules and bingo you should have arch/arm/mach-omap2/dspbridge.ko and arch/arm/mach-omap2/dspbridge.ko if you have dspbridge as a a module ;)... insmod dspbridge.ko ...