Mashing Twitter and FSO

06Dec09

I really love Twitter and it didn’t make any sense to me to shell out a rupee for every tweet sent through my Airtel Mobile. Moreover, I am on one of those monthly booster packs which allows you to send 22000 text messages for free. I simply had to exploit this by setting up my […]

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Tags: dbus, freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, gta02, neo, neo1973, openmoko, Python, scripts, snippet, twitter

Konsole monitoring with twitter and python

17Oct09

This happens to me all the time, especially when running programs that takes hours to complete. Start the code Go out for some tea or movie. When you come back, you find that the program had decided to piss you off by crashing 2 seconds after you went away from the keyboard. The amount of […]

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Tags: airtel, kde, konsole, notification, Python, scripts, Tips, twitter

Nai Sekar, your not-so-friendly translation bot..

25Jul09

Recently I had to make use of Google’s translation engine to translate phrases at work. Given the lazy big bum I am, I found using the Google’s web UI a bit tiresome to use. I thought “heck, why not write a little jabber bot to make things a bit easier..”. (Agreed, writing a bot is […]

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Give your boss the illusion of managing you… with pidgin and dbus

30Jun09

Oh yeah!. With the power of DBus and libpurple APIs it is possible to give your boss the illusion of managing you. Just run the following script (under WTFPL). Tested with jabber accounts in a live office environment . #!/usr/bin/env python # By Sudharshan S, released under WTFPL import dbus import gobject import time class […]

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Tags: comicstrip, dbus, dilbert, im, moronity, pidgin, pointyhairedboss, purple, Python, snippet, wally, wtfpl

Yet another Brainfuck interpreter

09Apr09

Brainfuck is one of those turing complete languages that has no apparent use in the real world. But hey, being very very simple with a limited grammar, writing an interpreter should be easy. So here it is, under WTFPL. The code works (I hope so) with the examples from the Wikipedia article. #include <stdio.h> #include […]

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Tags: brainfuck, c, compilers, esoteric, interepreter, programming, snippet, wtfpl

No GTA03 in 2009 :(

05Apr09

2-3 back came a sad and shocking news (atleast to me) that Openmoko has sacked/let go of 50% of its work force and has ceased all developments for GTA03. Furthermore Openmoko has stopped funding FSO. Both of which were grim developments to hear. On a brighter note, FSO has started work on the Vala/C implemention […]

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Tags: cornucopia, freerunner, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, gta03, odeviced, openmoko, vala

SHR, fsod and certain other things.

23Nov08

SHR (Stable Hybrid Release) released images recently and boy, did they do an awesome job at it. By far, SHR and Debian are some of the images that uses the FSO daemons by default. So turns out to be a great testing ground for the FSO APIs. And after a long while, I also got […]

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Tags: chitlapakkam, freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, fsod, neo1973, openmoko, openstreetmap, osm, tambaram

fsod status

20Oct08

Its been a while since I blogged about odeviced. In my earlier posts I had mentioned the possibility of integrating odeviced and others (which do not exist at the moment) into a single daemon for avoiding too much fracture. I have pushed some code that does this, converting odeviced into a Device subsystem that is […]

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Tags: FOSS, freerunner, freesmartphone.org, fso, fsod, linux, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko, Python, vala

Fun @ Shaastra

05Oct08

Four words. Shaastra ’08 was frigging awesome. I was there a couple of days and had fun meeting people (shres, madhusudhan and many others). Also got to speak about FSO framework (slides later) as part of the FOSS sub-conference. Lots of food, some awesome talks and a wonderful atmosphere made the event memorable. Too bad, […]

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Tags: FOSS, freesmartphone.org, fso, iit, linux, shaastra

Summer ends but the insanity continues.

12Sep08

In Chennai we have three seasons, summer (nov-march), f***ing hot summer (april – june), a mildly wet but still hot summer (july-oct). In case you are wondering where I am pointlessly heading to, I was talking about the Google Summer of Code 2008 which ended successfully for me ; the code which I submitted was […]

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Tags: freerunner, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, ilugc, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko, sfd, summer