http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog a blog to help me gather my thoughts Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:08:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's all thanks to Bakyt Niyazov I'm visiting Phnom Penh, Cambodia for a few weeks. I obtained a Select Wireless RW-200 with an Excell 3G account for $48/month. It did not work with Ubuntu 10.04's NetworkManager, so I did a $ lsusb and received: Bus 004 Device 002: ID ... http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=161 this linux command line utility for testing sound system really cracks me up: speaker-test -c 2 -t wav source http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=160 I used a 4gb flash drive and choose 2gb for persistence: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/put-xubuntu-10-04-on-a-flash-drive-with-windows/ apt-get remove network-manager wget -q http://drbl.sourceforge.net/GPG-KEY-DRBL -O- | sudo apt-key add - apt-get install drbl /opt/drbl/sbin/drblsrv-offline -r install all the recommended packages apt-cache show linux-image `uname -r` | grep Filename wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ plus the filename above. For me this meant my command was: /opt/drbl/sbin/drblsrv-offline -k linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic_2.6.32-21.32_i386.deb and ... http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=159 Freemind seems to be the premiere *free* app to beat. I'm not sure if MS's OneNote is mind-mapping software or accomplishes the same task, but at least Christopher Dawson thinks it's the best mind-mapping software. Web-based ones are appealing (platform independant and your work is saved in the cloud): evernote (Christopher Dawson's ... http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=158 This is what I have so far. I'm stealing the idea from Kurt Pfeifle. lpstat -o | egrep `date -d "1 minutes ago" "+ %I:%M:"` http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=157 You can either go to:System>Admistration>Software Sources>Other Software>Addand put in something like (for example for thunderbird 3):ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppaorppa:chromium-daily/ppaOr you can use the cli tool add-apt-repository followed by the ppa.Thanks Ricky of Digitizor. http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=155 THIS POST IS A WORK IN PROGRESS -Be Careful! LTSP is confusing because you actually have to keep up at least 2 working linux file systems. Your server file system is under root, just like you'd expect. But the image for your clients is (ubuntu's default) within /opt/ltsp/i386 or /opt/ltsp/amd64 (or ... http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=149 I'm using the standard ~/.lirc (added from the mythbuntu control center "Windows Media Center Remotes" option(I have a MCE 1039)) but I added a few tweeks. Btw, I ran irw to discover that my number keys are referred to as SEVEN instead of 7. # LIRCRC Auto Generated by Mythbuntu Lirc ... http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=154 #!/bin/bash ## use pdftk to break up a single pdf into single pages, and to rename ## page according to the items on a csv file ## ## ## NOTE: clean up and alphabetize the csv file. ## ... http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=153 I finally figured out why I can't email some of my mailing lists in Thunderbird 2: it's the damn spaces... Thank you DanRaisch from the mozillazine forums... http://bolt.beetlebolt.com/blog/?p=148