Rooting your Samsung galaxy ace

So have been playing around with ROMing and modding phone for most of the weekend. Here are the important posts to read to mod your Galaxy Ace. http://theunlockr.com/2012/11/22/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-ace-s5830/ You will need to download the root file from the following link http://www.droidforums.net/forum/android-forum/210957-universal-gingerbread-root-unroot-2-3-3-2-3-7-a.html#post2130907 Successfull done on my wife’s phone!

March 5, 2013 · 1 min · 47 words · Me

The shift!

Looks like life something needs to be thought about in new color, one of those time when I can see it happen. I do read what I wrote earlier, and yet again I can see this is a point I will come back to. On to the next.

February 27, 2013 · 1 min · 48 words · Me

Exporting MySQL tables and databases

Here are the ways you can export tables and databases, each of them have their advantages and disadvantages depending on the task at hand. We will list out each with examples and discuss them. We will assume that the database name is D and table name is T. Going native with SQL and generating an csv from the MySQL console Assuming that you are already logged into your mysql console using say mysql -u -p replace with your username replace with your database You can use the following command to generate an csv of pretty much any SQL....

January 9, 2013 · 2 min · 319 words · Me

Gotcha with exporting MySQL tables for windows

I encountered some interesting issues when pulling out CSV from my MySQL databases. The core issue was the csv generated was not seemingly compatible with the various spreadsheet readers in Windows. After having a closer look at the file, it turns out to be an encoding issue clearly. As the database was Latin1 encoded, the carriage return was handled as r [shows up as ^M on VI] in some text blobs....

January 9, 2013 · 1 min · 137 words · Me

Lessons in perception management

One of my recent experiments with myself has lead me to the conclusion that actual objective work done is not as important as perception management. On the contrary, people who do perception management get some work done sometimes. This recent run had enough data points for me to validate my own skills, but taught me that work has no co-relation with the final perceived result. Some clear pointers when perception management drives your organization...

October 10, 2012 · 1 min · 204 words · Me