HOWTO: Setup BSNL Data Card in Linux

Here’s how you can configure a BSNL CDMA data modem to work in Linux. The device I have is a HUAWEI EC325 meant for the 144 Kb/s connection, but this guide should work fine for other BSNL devices as well (2 Mb/s device, for eg.)
Let’s start off by installing the software. We’ll be needing wvdial [...]

Distro Dilemma

It’s official now… I’ve had enough of Debian and am gonna switch – sometime next week probably. Not that I have anything against Debian – it’s a wonderful distro – but the human mind yearns for change every now and then. Can’t help it!
The thing I care most about is the user interface and eye [...]

The WampServer Story

Ever heard of LAMP? That’s Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Getting a LAMP server up and running in Debian is a piece o’ cake. No compiling from source and the like. Just select the correct packages and lo! You have a working LAMP server! (configuring Apache was a nightmare but that’s not the point [...]

Process management with HTOP

Today I’ll introduce you to a sleek way of killing non-responsive apps in Linux. Of course, you could press Ctrl-Alt-Del and kill it from the TaskManager. But it’s always better to know more than one way of doing things. We wanna become experts one day, remember?
Command-line junkies out there should be familiar with [...]

Awesome patches for W700

Alright. First things first.
I don’t take any responsibility for what you do to your W700i. Flashing the phone software will void its warranty. So try anything given on this (or the linked) page(s) at your own risk.
With that out of the way, let me get to good stuff. The other day I was wondering [...]