Avinash Joshi

Synopsis: The culprit is the username and password. Just use “internet” as both the username and password for connecting A few days ago, I was looking around for a wireless internet connection. I searched for various options and ended up choosing Tata Indicom as my service provider. I already had my hands on Reliance and BSNL. So I chose Tata. When I went to the Tata Indicom Centre near my place, they had a modem kept for demo. So, to [...]

I have always wanted this option on my Ubuntu machine for a very long time… Looks like finally I got it working! For e.g., I have a FM mobile and would like to hear to the fm on my laptop. How do we go about it? So, basically we have to transfer the microphone input to the speaker! For this, you will need an aux-in (3.5mm) stereo cable i.e., 3.5mm audio jack on both side. This may also vary depending [...]

Long back, I had written a post on vim editor tips titled “Some VIM editor tips“. Today, I would like to some more insight into the vim’s configuration file and what you can do with the same. VIM in itself is a very powerful text editing software. It has a range of features that can aid you in writing! By default, vim does not come with any configurations. That is, it looks plain. VIM can be configured using the .vimrc [...]

Few weeks ago, I wrote a basic application for a micro blogging website like twitter. This was written as a part of the service for InCTF contest. I have uploaded the software in bitbucket for everyone to download and try. The name of the software is blob. You can see a demo at http://avinashjoshi.co.in/blob You can download the source in two ways: 1. HTTP Download: https://bitbucket.org/avinashjoshi/blob/downloads 2. Mercurial Repo: hg clone https://bitbucket.org/avinashjoshi/blob You can also report issues and request for [...]

It all started with the need to print address labels that had to be stuck on the A4 size mailing covers. We had to send InCTF ’11 posters to colleges and universities around India as a part of campaigning. I somehow got the university list in a spreadsheet (unfortunately, I got the .xlsx format when requested). Anyways, i wanted to get this list printed somehow. Manually copying each address into a table in the OpenOffice Writer and then printing ain’t [...]

Amrita University & TIFAC CORE proudly present InCTF ’11 National Level “Capture the Flag” Ethical Hacking contest InCTF’11 is from February to March 2011 and is focused exclusively on the student community. You can participate from your own university and no travel is required. No prior exposure or experience in cyber security needed to participate. What you need to do? 1. Form a team (max five members from your college) 2. Approach a faculty/mentor and request him/her to mentor your [...]

Today morning as I was walking to the college, I was remembering those days when DOS games like Dangerous Dave and Prince were the best in town (They still are in my opinion). I still remember booting MSDOS from floppy, black screen no mouse or speakers and playing games like Dave was a bliss! Looking back, I think Dave was the first game that I played. Suddenly after many years, I was reminded of those cute games – Dave and [...]

Do you want to automatically log into ubuntu or any other GNU/Linux desktop and still have the screen locked for safety? May be to speed up the login in a way? Or so that you don’t have to wait until the desktop is setup? Here is what you can Do: 1. Go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications and add the following: Name: Lock Screen Command: gnome-screensaver-command -l 2. Go to System > Administration > Login Screen and Have [...]

This is a very common question that I come across. Yesterday, I had to change my MAC address temporarily to get internet access on my laptop (More details cannot be disclosed) I really do not have much idea on how to change a MAC address on window. May be you can google, download a tool for the same. You are really not sure if the software you downloaded is a trojan, virus or some kind of a malware! If you [...]

I have been wanting to write a post on “How to download Movies, Books, TV Series from the net“. I hope this will help many. I am sure that many of you watch English series. For instance, some of my favorites are White Collar, How Heroes, Castle, Bones, FRIENDS, I Met Your Mother and in Regional languages, CID, Sasural Genda Phool, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, Indian Idol and many other (Though I really do not get time to watch all of [...]