GPRS setting in Blackberry with Nepal Telecom(NTC)

Telcom companies (Telcos) generally provide their own data services in blackberry sets, after certain agreement with Blackberry Manufacturer Company, Research In Motion(RIM). So the default browser, i.e hotspot browser that exists in the set doesn’t work with other Telco’s GPRS services.

Here are few tips to make Nepal Telecom GPRS services work in Blackberry sets:

• Blackberry applications are managed via Blackberry Desktop Manager Software. So first download and install the application in your PC.
• http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/desktop/
• Download opera mini browser for blackberry from

  http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/blackberry/#active

• Open blackberry software manager in your PC

  

• Connect Blackberry set to your PC with data cable
• Go to applications. Browse for the Opera Mini setup file for blackberry, downloaded in step #2 .
• Click install, apply.
• Restart your set, it gets installed.
• As usual, APN settings need to be configured in the set.
• For this, Go to Options => Advanced => TCP/IP
• Enter APN as ntnet, check Enable APN settings. Leaver username, password blank(default)
• Restart Blackberry set and enjoy web surfing with Opera mini

Forgot Ubuntu Linux root password ?

It may often happen that we forgot the root password in Ubuntu System. But no worries, with these few steps, we can reset root password.

• Reboot in ‘recovery mode’ of Ubuntu , which is usually second option in boot list
• You will see Recovery menu. Scroll down to select Drop to root shell prompt menu.
• Now you will be provided with root shell prompt
• View all the users of the system

     # ls /home

• To reset the password type
  # passwd username
• Now password is reset. Exit and select resume normal boot

Note: You may often encounter problem as “Authentication token manipulation error” while changing password. This is because your file system may not be mounted for read/write properly.

In this case, remount the file system using command
# mount -o remount,rw /
in root shell prompt.

Change order of Ubuntu in dual boot System

Many of the users loving Ubuntu OS, also wants to have Windows OS also run in their computer.
Ubuntu being user friendly OS, supports windows flavored OS on the top of it. But it is clever enough to set itself as a default OS while loading. The GRUB boot manager that’s installed with Ubuntu is more than happy to leave it the default OS. We can easily change this with some help.

We can change it from editing /etc/default/grub configuration if you are a bit advanced users. There is an entry for GRUB_DEFAULT. By default, its value is 0, which indicates first OS to be booted in the list.
If we want windows flavored OS to be booted first, we change the value.

But for Ubuntu beginners, there’s a great GUI-based tool in Ubuntu’s repositories: StartUp-Manager.

Fire up a terminal, and enter the following command to install StartUp-Manager.
# sudo apt-get install startupmanager

Enter your password, hit ‘Y’ at the prompt, and let it install.

Once that’s finished, go to System > Administration > StartUp-Manager

A very beginner friendly screen pop-up from which you can easily change Default Operating System.

Life in Eastern Nepal

Being born and grown up inside Kathmandu Valley, I hadn’t experience life outside Ktm Valley before. But after being enrolled in a government job as a telecom engineer, I got chance to visit several places, villages, mountains, Terai regions of Eastern Nepal.

Here are some of the thing that I loved staying in Terai, particulary near my resident (Biratnagar) -

• School girls riding bicycle in their skirts
• A mother riding bicycle with her around 3 years son on back saddle
• A father giving lift to her 10 grade daughter to school
• Clean, less polluted environments due to rickshaw as a main transportation medium