MTS MBlaze ubuntu setup

Bought an MTS MBlaze and set it up on Ubuntu Precise (12.04). I tried the autorun.sh script provided with the USB, in its flash storage. They described this in a How-to-install.txt. Script didn't work.

So, I tried using it through the detected CDMA connection. Enabled networking, manually edited the connections and set username:internet@internet.mtsindia.in and password : MTS. This didn't work either. The MTS network was detected but it could not be connected to. DuckDuckGo'ed the problem and found a soution.

Here, I followed exactly these steps:

• Issue at terminal:
  sudo apt-get install wvdial
• Issue at terminal:
  sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data
• Edit /etc/wvdial.conf and add this to it:
  

  [Dialer mts]
  Stupid Mode = 1
  Inherits = Modem0
  Password = mts
  Username = internet@internet.mtsindia.in
  Phone = #777
  [Modem0]
  Init1 = ATZ
  SetVolume = 0
  Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
  Baud = 115200
  FlowControl = Hardware (CRTSCTS)
  Dial Command = ATDT
  

• Save the file (make sure you edit it as root).
• Issue@Terminal:
  sudo wvdial mts

wvdial then starts the connection and you can start browsing.

wvDial is a point-to-point protocol dialer [P2P Protocol]. It is used to establish a direct connection between nodes.
About usb-modeswitch, it is needed in Linux. The USB modem comes with on-board drivers for windows, and when plugged in, the drivers are installed (normal for flash storage devices). If the drivers are already installed the USB modem comes up.
In Linux, this usb-modeswitch tool is needed to switch flash-storage to usbserial.

Room Allocation : Results

Allotted Rooms

5	Deepankar Chaudhary	Nachiketa Prakash	VACANT
6	Aman goswami	Bhupesh Negi	Panaj singh
7	Sharukh Khan	Salman Khan	Aamir Khan
8	Aseem Raina	Navodit Mehta	VACANT
9	Rajvardhan Kavi	Siddharth Negi	VACANT
10	bharat kumar sati	VACANT	VACANT
11	PARANTAP JOSHI	ANIRUDH TRIPATHI	Harshit Joshi
12	Jiteen Bhandari	VACANT	VACANT
13	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
14	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
15	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
16	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
17	atul prakash	kamlesh pratap pandey	VACANT
18	Shivam Mamgain	naveen chauhan	vivek kumar
19	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
20	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
21	rohit joshi	VACANT	VACANT
22	Anurag Dudeja	uday pratap	VACANT
23	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
24	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
25	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
26	TUSHAR JOSHI	BIRENDRA VIKRAM SINGH	VACANT
27	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
28	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
29	Trinayan Bhatt	VACANT	VACANT
30	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
31	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
32	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
33	Rohan Zutshi	Kartikey Mamgain	Ayush Bhandari
34	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
35	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
36	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
37	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
38	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
39	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
40	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
41	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
42	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
43	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
44	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
45	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
46	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
47	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
48	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
49	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
50	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
51	Somesh Lohani	Hitesh Lohani	Anmol Ratna Pant
52	SANCHIT GOEL	HARSH BANSAL	ABHISHEK SOI
53	Mayank Saxena	ROHIT RAKSHIT	SHUBHAM CHAUBEY
54	YASH BHANDARI	VACANT	VACANT
55	Ayush Sharma	Suyash Pandey	GAURAV CHAND
56	Prakamya Joshi	Umang Kumar	VACANT
57	Aman pandey	siddarth bist	Abhishek Chandra
58	Angelina jolie	Megan Fox	SATYAVRAT SARAN
59	AJAY RAWAT	VACANT	VACANT
60	SHANTANU VERMA	AJAY JOSHI	VACANT
61	VIJAY ARORA	VACANT	VACANT
62	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
63	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
64	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
65	Aditya Kumar	Saurabh Thakur	VACANT
66	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
67	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
68	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
69	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
70	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
71	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
72	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
73	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
74	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
75	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
76	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
77	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
78	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
79	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
80	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
81	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
82	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
83	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
84	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
85	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
86	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
87	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
88	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
89	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
90	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
91	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
92	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
93	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
94	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
95	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
96	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
97	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
98	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
99	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
N-1	Karan kanwal	Rajendra Singh Mer	VACANT
N-2	vaibhav bijola	VACANT	VACANT
N-3	Prateek	VACANT	VACANT
N-4	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
N-5	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
N-6	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
N-7	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
N-8	Prince Kumar	Himanshu Sindhwani	VACANT
N-9	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
N-10	Akhilesh Yadav	Vijay Kumar	VACANT
N-11	Shankar Batra	Akash Gangwar	Kishore Kumar
N-12	Ankush kumar singhal	shivi bansal	VACANT

Tagore Hostel : Room Allocation started

Tagore Room Allocation

The 81 days long Summer Vacation is now coming to an end. 21st August, 2014 is the Registration Day. Happy, that boring holidays are getting over. Angry, that our Batch has been alloted the same Hostel, Tagore (rumours or truth, vo to abhi pata nahi). With the Fine(st) facilities and the Best Mess, Tagore Hostel is one of the worst places to reside. So, what could could be more intimidating than the fear to spend another year in Tagore...
I guess, Starting an Online Room Allocation Website and ditching the rumours aside would be a cool prank.

Developing the Site

I needed something for students to trust the site, 'Office of Registrar, Pantnagar' anyone??...To make students believe, I had to imitate the front-end very closely. Saving the entire webpage through chrome isn't difficult.
Here's the difficult part. Developing the back-end with PHP and MySQL. Actually, it wasn't tough either. What annoyed me the most, was to think of an idea to make sure that every guy allocates a room only once, given I had no way to check if he has already done that (there was no way for me to identify unique visitors). The Solution was an obfuscated use of Cookies and Databases. I won't go into detail, but the code had loopholes. And I could only hide them by making the users trust the site, or else the plan fails.

Plan

is simple. Gain user trust at the first page, request their IDs and Passwords, albeit passwords had no importance. Even if you entered an invalid one, there was no way for me to check. The IDs were required to make sure students allocate room only once. Besides this, there were other loopholes too. One was inadvertent. The user could use the back button of browser and allocate rooms as many times he likes. Fortunately, I figured it out when Neeraj started doing it, and had that resolved.

As I told, there was no way to check the entered passwords, some students figured that out, and the site was soon declared "FARZI". But, still it wasn't clear to most. It was only after Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie Allocated a room for themselves (with Satya, :D), people declared it fake.
I didn't use student IDs to fill the Allocated_Rooms table, Instead I used their names provided (when requested) at Room-selection-page. This idea makes the site more engaging,,,whos-with-whom?? kind of thing.

Result

Awesome, yeah! Pretty Awesome. The site was online for only 4.5 hours (after that it got disabled by the host becoz of the CPU usage limit.

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TheQuestion

If we entered the correct passwords at the site, Were they saved in Db?
The answer is : ABSOLUUUUUTELY
But I don't have them anymore, I deleted the table from the Database.You may check (or even change) your passwords if you are skeptical. Besides, the table had a lot invalid IDs (many entered by myself) and invalid passwords too. I won't go all the way through checking what ones are correct.

Sab Simtate hue aur Maff-iya mangte hue

Jis kisi ko, meri taraf se thes pahuchi ho....usse..me...maaffi
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bhala kyu maangu?? :P .
I mean I helped you change "SYST", something you don't consider important.