http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress Bits and Bytes of Life Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:39:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now a days I don’t spend time on downloading, installing and testing linux distributions since I am busy with other stuff. I often hear about Moblin distribution specialized for Netbooks. It has a unique User interface designed keeping in mind that Netbook screen estate is small and 16:9 aspect ratio. The hardware requirement is worth [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/12/22/moblin-2-1-on-sony-vaio-laptop/ Recently I faced a problem of transferring files between my Laptop and Media Center Machine at home. My setup is like this: I use to store all my media files (Photos, Videos, Audio collections of family) in Media Center Machine which is powered by Ubuntu 9.10. My laptop which also runs on Ubuntu 9.10 is [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/11/24/howto-remote-wake-up-of-ubuntu-linux-machine/ Google’s intention to store the world’s data in its own server results in another linux variant which is called Chrome OS. It is based on Chromium Open Source OS actively developed by Google. Yesterday it was open sourced at very very premature level for communities contribution. Today I have successfully downloaded, built and installed Google Chromium [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/11/21/built-and-run-google-chromium-os-on-virtualbox/ Just now before got the invitation mail from Google to test Wave. I have just updated my ultra simple wave profile. I have sent invitation to my circle of friends, soon I hope we can catch up a lot in Wave. Here are my two screenshots for your viewing pleasure. ]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/10/31/got-google-wave-invitation/ Recently I watched Google Wave key note address, which runs for 100 mins approx. It describes all the features in Google Wave product which has been released in Preview status. 1,00,000 users have been invited to test it. I am expecting my invitation. Before going through my understanding from this video, let me give snippet [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/10/04/my-understanding-of-google-wave/ Android Dev Phone 1 shipped with version 1.0 system image. After wards the Android went through two more releases 1.5 & 1.6.  Since Android Dev Phones are not locked with any Service Provider, there is no OTA update (update through Mobile network) available. Since Dev Phone is manufactured by HTC, they provide support for upgrade. [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/10/04/how-to-upgrade-android-dev-phone-1-to-sdk-1-6/ Come on guys, at last Google has fitting competitor, Microsoft. Microsoft’s Bing is really doing very well. At last Microsoft has come out with decent serarch engine (they call it is as decision engine), leaving the crappy MSN search / Live search.  I tested it for last couple of weeks. Here are my observations on this [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/06/16/rocking-bing-decision-engine/ This HOWTO talks about how to change the default fonts in Android mobile. The system fonts are available in /system/fonts directory. DroidSans.ttf is the main font used in most of the applications. Overwriting the fonts in this directory with your fonts will change the fonts in the Android mobile. This involves two steps. One is to [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/04/25/how-to-change-fonts-in-android/ What about the Tamil font support in Android? I just analyzed the stuff behind this. Tamil like any indic language needs complex script support, which is most important for complex characters in indian languages. This is provided by Pango library in linux systems. Most of the latest Linux desktop/server has Pango library installed by default. Android [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/04/25/tamil-font-support-in-android/ Any hacker needs full access to the system files to play with the system. Andoid /system partition is read-only by default. Here is an HOWTO to mount it in read-write mode. It is assumed that you have installed android SDK in your workstation. We use adb tool in tools directory of SDK. 1. Identifying the /system [...]]]> http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/04/25/mounting-system-partition-in-read-write-mode-in-android/