My father is not an avid internet user and he doesn’t understand or care for things like adblocker. I did install adblocker on his PC but many news sites and blog don’t allow you access if you have adblocker enabled. He keeps calling me all the time with problems that he is unable to access a webpage so I just disabled adblocker for him. That came with different baggage of problems altogether. He kept complaining me about the junk and popups he gets on different websites and I had to somehow fix this. So I decided to fix the problem for all devices at my home with a very small hack. After finishing my setup I thought of putting up the setup on my blog. So here’s how it goes. Continue reading
Category Archives: Programming
Understanding Linux Week 4 : “Everything is a file” in Linux
If you use linux then at some point or the other you must have heard that in Linux “Everything is a file”. If you haven’t heard it already then don’t worry, you’ll get to know it very soon. I have been exploring Linux Filesystem lately and this blog is a result of that exploration. Continue reading
Understanding Linux: Week 3: Inodes
So finally I got some time to continue my linux series. This one is not going to be an interesting one but we’ll have to get some basics clear before we get into the complex stuff.
This article deals with inodes in linux filesystem. What they are and why they are important? Continue reading
GSoC Blog : First 10 days.
So I started my GSoC (Google Summer of Code) work on May 30. It’s been a fun experience so far and this blog is about what I did so far and where I am headed right now, the problems faced, the good and the bad. Continue reading
In quest of the perfect ROM for my OnePlus 2
Oxygen OS was great till OnePlus stopped maintaining it for OnePlus 2. They keep pushing regular updates for OnePlus 3 and 3T but it seems they have completely forgotten OP2. The only updates they do for OP2 is security patches and that too after delay of months. Android Noughat seems to be completely out of sight in the near future.
In short, I need to shift to some different ROM for my OP2. Continue reading