http://www.maxinbjohn.info Life, Fun and Free Software Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:46:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Year 2008... In one fine morning, I received a mail from my manager in Sony, informing that, I will be visiting Sony Headquarters, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. I will be visiting japan along with the list of people given below: 1. Satheesh-san (Senior manager) 2. Sonali-san (Senior Engineer) 3. Saneesh-san (Engineer) blah... blah.. Stay will be arranged ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2010/03/09/dont-you-have-mother-and-sisters-moron/ Yesterday night, before sleeping, I thought about the Oscar award night. Watching Hollywood movies was one of my hobbies and I almost never missed a chance for that. My father , who was also a fan of movies, used to take me to watch English Movies in "Priya", the first ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2010/03/09/oscar-hollywood-and-my-memory-lane/ I was sort of happy with my Debian lenny installation in my laptop. However, the time taken for booting the machine was slightly higher (specially when I set the wlan on dhcp). So, for a change, I have switched to Opensuse 11.2 today. Till now , everything goes well. Opensuse 11.2 ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2009/12/20/customizing-the-opensuse-11-2-on-my-compaq-presario-laptop/ Wooooww.. I am still intoxicated by the charm of Foss.in/2009. I can't believe that it is over. It was , by far, the best  FOSS event that I have ever attended. The reason why I felt it most attractive was it put the "zip on the mouth" and provided you with two ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2009/12/06/the-best-foss-event-ever-foss-in2009/ I have started my journey from Bangalore to Kozhikode on October 23.  The purpose of my journey was to conduct a workshop on Tathva-09, the three-day annual techno-management festival of the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C). A week before this, Vivek (my friend from GEC who is currently doing in ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2009/12/06/user-2-hacker-workshop-at-nit-calicut/ Today, I got a mail from Greg Kroah-Hartman !!! from Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> to linux-usb@vger.kernel.org cc Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>, "Maxin B. John" <maxinbjohn@gmail.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> date Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM subject [PATCH 056/142] USB: serial: Spelling correction in Motorola USB Phone driver hide details 7:25 PM (24 minutes ago) From: Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com> Spelling correction in Motorola USB Phone driver Changed: * ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2009/09/23/first-silly-silly-silly-official-kernel-patch/ SystemTap GUI is an application for easy use of the SystemTap tool in Linux. This is an Integrated Development Environment for the SystemTap scripting language. This will perform data visualization and analysis of the probed data from running Kernel. Further details are available here: http://stapgui.sourceforge.net/ The present state of Systemtap GUI server ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2009/08/18/systemtap-gui-contribution-i/ I have downloaded the GNU ARM cross toolchain for A1600 from http://ezxdev.org/qtopia/sdk/old/arm-linux-ezx.tar.bz2 Thanks to Antonio Ospite (AO2) of #openezx I have downloaded and cross compiled inetutils-1.6.tar.gz (mainly for telnetd) , busybox-1.14.3.tar.bz2 (for httpd and other useful commands) and util-linux-2.12r.tar.gz (for dmesg). Cross compiled these packages using the ARM cross tool ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2009/08/16/fun-with-motorola-a1600-part-iii/ I have installed zmplayer on A1600. Now I can play whatever formats that you can throw into a mobile ... without any format converters.. It can play .dat, .mpeg, .avi and even .vob files . See zmplayer in action: http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2009/08/16/fun-with-motorola-a1600-part-ii/ 3 months ago I bought one Motorola A1600 mobile. There were three reasons behind that decision: One of the reason was my Sony Ericsson  K300 stopped working after 3 years of faithful work. It was a great mobile and almost all my J2ME experiments were done on it. I think it ... http://www.maxinbjohn.info/2009/08/15/fun-with-motorola-a1600-part-i/