minor shockwave at perumbavoor
Its been a long time since i`ve last blogged; and its sad that i`m writing out a post on such short notice after a really long time.
I was sitting in my room, blog-surfing when i heard this really loud noise from behind. It was also accompanied with a strange and strong vibrating sensation. It passed as quickly as it had come; i rushed downstairs to ask mom `n dad about it. However, they had`nt experienced any sort of vibration on the ground floor; they had just heard loud noises.
I came back to the room to see a twitter update of an old chum, who lived nearby reporting the same. As time passed, more and more tweets from people who lived near me began to come up. We still had`nt got any formal confirmation or any news report confirming the same.
It was about 40-50 minutes later that the news was confirmed. We had a minor earthquake at perumbavoor. The epicentre was at mazhuvanoor; and i had gotten the news from www.manoramanews.com.
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More updates on this post will come up soon.
EV-DO on ubuntu 9.04
Using an EV-DO internet connection on your ubuntu was never that hard, but then again, its boring repeating the same steps on every new installation of ubuntu(unless you have a script to automate it; i.e.). Usually you have to mount the USB modem(type usbfs, just in case you`r wondering) and manually create a symbolic link /dev/modem which points to /dev/USBtty0 so that wvdialconf recognizes your usb device as the modem to be used.
However, In Ubuntu 9.04 i was surprised that mounting and creation of the symbolic link had taken place automatically.
So, all i had to do was run :-
$ wvdialconf
This resulted in the creation of a wvdial.conf file in the /etc directory which could be edited and used for saving the username and password.
However connecting using ‘wvdial’ still caused a problem; it just would`nt connect. Figuring out the solution was`nt hard though – There was a line which read :-
Modem – /dev/USBSL0
All i had to do was change it to
Modem – /dev/USBttyS0
and whoallah! Connected to cyberspace! 
But the speed sucks! And i have no clue WHY!
Wanna know how bad the speed was…?
I was on a brand new Vista using IE…. i had better browsing speeds there. No kidding!
