Author: Nayar

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CSE 1010e

Was helping my sister for her CSE 1010e test. WTF is this module about? So much theory for nothing concrete? Why the need to learn these nonsense?

On the website, it says still says bring 3.5″ floppy so you can be taught Windows 2000

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4. What is the difference between a compiler and an interpreter? What role would these tools have in programming with natural languages? — source

Why would you force an entire university population to learn this and vomit this in exams then forget? Just an exam for the sake of an exam.

Exam preparation question:

A server is a special type of computer that is used to provide services to other computers. In which type of computer, does a server fall into? Suggest some examples of servers.

Hmm. No f***in idea. Didn’t know a server was special.

9. What is the Front Side Bus? How can it be used to overclock a computer?

Why force people to learn? A 5 year old kid who is interested in doing it will be interested to know this. Why force the poor souls to learn?

The best for the last:

10. USB, pen drives and flash drives

(a) Have similar storage capacity like a floppy
(b) Can store less data than a standard floppy
(c) All mean the same device that can store lesser data than a standard floppy
(d) All mean the same device that can store more data than a standard floppy
(e) Are different storage devices that can store more data than a standard floppy
— source

Can you answer this?

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty is my favorite FPS game. Think it is the only FPS I “enjoy”. I had played like 25% of Far Cry due to its beautiful scenery. Then it became dark and zombie-like. Stopped playing. Tried Far Cry 2 to test my laptop graphics. Awesome! But still, too difficult on easy mode. I get bored.

Team Work

What I like about Call of Duty franchise is that you are never alone. It is strongly focused on Team-work. You see your team mates, they talk to you. You work together. It is much less scary than other FPS games where you are running along in a dark jungle or building full of zombies.

Recruit mode is really recruit

I’m not a pro gamer. I play on the lowest difficulty available. I can easily walk with 10 enemies in front of me and they will not shoot me. I take my time to kill them. Point is, I do not have to “stress” in order to complete a mission. Autosaves happen very often and exactly just before a difficult moment. No need to try same event like a hundred times again and again before getting it right.

Vehicles

You get opportunity to ride helicopters, boats, vans all in a seamless manner. e.g. you just finished a mission in a building and at the top, you find a helicopter, you just board in and start flying. No need to wait for a loading screen or something. It’s a seamless transition.

Conclusion

If you need to relax and play a game, Call of Duty recruit mode is awesome. I really don’t want to try the expert level for now. I just need to enjoy 🙂

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New Mobile: Alcatel One Touch Pop D3

After more than 2 years of suffering with my LG Optimus L5, which is made by the evil himself, i finally bought another mobile. You might be thinking it must be the latest trendy one. But no. It is among the cheapest phone on the market right now. I bought it for Rs 3048. I’m totally satisfied with it.

Auto brightness
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Yep. It has a light sensor integrated.

Camera
From the lock screen, i can just swipe left and the camera opens in less than 2-3 seconds. The camera quality is very usable. It is 5MP actually and also has a front VGA camera which can be used for video calls. Can’t be used for selfies though (not a fan of selfies anyways).
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720p video recording
The rear camera can record codes videos by 1280x720p which is not bad at this price.

Dual Core 1.3GHz, 500MB
Moving from a 800MHz CPU in my old LG Optimus L5, i find this phone to be a breeze. Browsing the Web, launching apps, multi tasking is no issue. I remind you again that i was previously using the most crappy phone ever made. The RAM seems OK with Facebook, Gmail, whatsapp, KDE Connect, music running in the background while doing other stuffs in the foreground.

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Lots of built in apps
The phone comes with a huge amount of bundlewares. They are not bad actually but i uninstalled most of them and disabled those that couldn’t be uninstalled. Thanks Android for adding the disable feature.

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Charging light
When connected through USB, a small LED is lit. Can’t find a setting to disable it. Have to keep the mobile upside down at during charging.

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Face unlock

I saw it got the Face unlock capability. Didn’t want to risk trying it for fear that i might not get back in :3

Verdict:
If you need a phone without anything fancy that is usable without slimming your wallet, I’d recommend this phone. 🙂

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Cheap $2 WiFi adapter to work on Raspberry Pi (mt7601)

Raspberry Pi mt7601 WiFi
Had this WiFi adapter since more than 9 months. Raspbian couldn’t recognize it. Further reading shows that the driver is not included in the kernel and might never be too.

I came across this project on Github but again, could not get it to compile.

Googling more, came across this post. Running the code below solved it 😀


$ wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/80256631/mt7601-3.18.7-755.tar.gz
$ tar xzf mt7601-3.18.7-755.tar.gz
$ ./install.sh

Now I can complete my project about controlling a toy car by a phone’s gyroscope using REST API