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Get turn-by-turn voice navigation for Google maps in India on Android

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:43:19 +0000

By default, for some unknown reason, Google has disabled turn by turn navigation on Android for most countries including India. However a member of XDA-Developers by the handle Brut.all hacked Google Maps and enabled turn by turn navigation for all the countries.

Installation is fairly easy as well:

[Solved] MD5 mismatch! error on clockworkmod

Deepak Mittal — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:11:25 +0000

I encountered "MD5 mismatch!" error while trying to restore a nandroid backup from clockworkmod. It means the md5sum stored in the file nandroid.md5 isn't same as generated md5sum.

The fix is quite trivial. You can simply regenrate the md5 by copying the backup folder to your computer and executing the following in terminal.

World’s cheapest tablet – Aakash to be sold for $35. Specifications released.

Deepak Mittal — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:24:29 +0000

Finally the much awaited tablet for the Indian masses - Aakash will be available in retail stores by the end of November for Rs. 2,999 ($60). However, around 10 million government subsidised tablets would be sold to students at only Rs. 1750 ($35).

The technical specifications of the tablet are:

OS - Android 2.2 froyo...

Ubuntu 12.04 named Precise Pangolin

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:32:59 +0000

Scheduled to release on 13th October, 2011, Oneiric Ocelot is just around the corner. Mark Shuttleworth just named the Ubuntu 12.04 on his blog; it's called Precise Pangolin.

[HowTo] Update Nexus S from 2.3.4 (GRJ22) to 2.3.6 (GRK39F) manually

Deepak Mittal — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:31:37 +0000

Google finally fixed the tethering bug with earlier released 2.3.6 build GRK39C and released a new OTA update for Nexus S. You can either wait for the OTA or you can manually update the phone. Here are the step by step instructions to update Nexus S to 2.3.6 (GRK39F) from 2.3.4 (GRJ22).

[Solved] “fedora-release conflicts with epel-release-5-4.noarch” on Fedora 15

Deepak Mittal — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:53:00 +0000

I encountered the error "fedora-release conflicts with epel-release-5-4.noarch" on Fedora 15 when trying to add and enable EPEL repository.

You can fix the error by manually extracting the rpm file and copying files in corresponding directories. Click on "Read More" for full instructions.

[HowTo] Install latest node.js on Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:00:58 +0000

Node.js is an implementation of javascript engine which can be run on server side.

The nodejs package offered by default Ubuntu PPAs is quite old. To install latest nodejs on Ubuntu, go through the following steps:

[HowTo] Use SSHFS to mount remote directories via SSH

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:54:19 +0000

Using SCP to copy files and folders to a remote server is often not very convenient. I feel copying and pasting something is best done by mouse. SSHFS is one such utility. It mounts a remote server's filesystem over SSH.

To install SSHFS on Ubuntu, do the following:

Stay focused with StayFocusd

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:55:55 +0000

StayFocusd is a chrome-extension which allows users to control and restrict access to time-consuming website. Its harder to cheat StayFocusd and everytime you visit a blocked site, you're reminded of your work.

StayFocusd is a must have chrome-extension to boost your productivity.

[Solved] Unable to enumerate USB device (Disabling ehci_hcd)

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:24:17 +0000

Some hardware just don’t work with ehci_hcd on Karmic Koala. My memory stick from transcend refused to work no matter what I did. After plugging the device nothing happened, doing dmesg showed me the following error: Apr 18 10:59:04 dpac-laptop kernel: [73668.388060] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 Apr [...]