If you get an email from a friend asking you to go to skillpages.com DO NOT follow the link. Immediately delete the email.
If you go anywhere near their site and try to register, a Java app loads up and will dump all your contacts in Outlook (you poor Windows users) and flood your contacts with spam messages. If you're on a corporate Exchange system it will try sending emails to EVERYBODY in your global address list.
Again...skillpages.com is run by spammers. Stay away from them.
Picked up a used Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 on Ebay for a good price. I want to root it to load DroidWall, etc.
You can find a great tool to do this with called SuperOneClick (it'll root a lot of different Android devices) at http://shortfuse.org/.
I've had so much problems with getting this to work.
The last round of challenges was that it kept stopping at "Shell rooting device...- Step #5". No explanation. Nothing. Just hangs.
Finally figured out the problem. There are two files in a directory called Exploits. If you extract these files with your AV running, they will get deleted! So...turn off your AV. Download. Extract. Run and you should be happy.
Lots of information here too - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
Playing with kpcli.
kpcli is a "KeePass Command Line Interface (CLI) / interactive shell. Use this program to access and manage your KeePass 1.x database from a Unix-like command line."
Want to see if I can get it working on FreeBSD 9.0.
Prerequisites
# portmaster devel/p5-Clone
# portmaster security/p5-Crypt-Rijndael
# portmaster textproc/p5-Sort-Naturally
# portmaster devel/p5-Term-ReadKey
# portmaster shells/p5-Term-ShellUI
# perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::KeePass'
$ ./kpcli-1.2.pl
KeePass CLI (kpcli-1.2) v1.2 is ready for operation.
Type 'help' for a description of available commands.
Type 'help
* Please install Term::ReadLine::Gnu for better functionality!
kpcli-1.2:/>
YIPPEE!! IT WORKS!
The kernel on Arch Linux has been updated to 3.2. Now I get nothing but errors when trying to install the kernel modules and the patch says it's already been applied.
Fix:
$ wget http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/vmware8linux32fix.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf vmware8linux32fix.tar.gz
# rm /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/.patch
# ./patch-modules_3.1.0.sh
...
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only'
Built vsock module
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
VM communication interface socket family done
Blocking file system done
Virtual ethernet done
VMware Authentication Daemon done
Shared Memory Available done
All done, you can now run VMWare WorkStation.
Modules sources backup can be found in the '/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-workstation8.0.1-2012-01-19-08:44:31-backup' directory
Saw that Ubuntu was going to be switching to Lightdm for a login manager. Thought I'd give it a try with Arch and Xmonad.
When I followed the instructions here it started but I wasn't given an xmonad option.
I start xmonad from in ~/.xinitrc
Create a file /usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop
Put in the file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Xmonad
Comment=Tiling window manager
Exec=/usr/bin/xmonad
Type=XSession
Log out and you should see the option in there now.
Cleaning up my office at home and have some old PCs to get rid of. Usually I fire up DBAN live CD to wipe any hard disks before disposal. Unfortunately, one of my PCs refuses to run DBAN properly. Don't want to spend a bunch of time on this so I Googled and found this article.
Fire up a Knoppix Live CD, open a terminal and run the following:
# shred -n 5 -vz /dev/sda
-n 5: Overwrite 5 times instead of the default (25 times)
-v : Show progress
-z : Add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding
Thanks. Works great.
Was watching TV last night and saw another commercial for quibids.com. I'm amazed at the simplicity of the scam. 60 cents per bid. It's awesome.
They mention in the commercial somebody buying a car (Toyota Corolla) for $1,800.00. Wow. What a deal. Then you do the math.
180,000 x .60 = $108,000!! Nice profit for the company there. Now I know that they offer deals if you buy lots of bids up front but even if you get it down to 40 cents/bid they're still making a crap load of cash.
Maybe I should start up one of these sites?
Shaw is finally offering their Gateway product in Penticton. Yippee!
I've filled out their form at least twice before but never heard anything back. After my previous horrible experience with their shitty lack of caring about their long term customers, I decided once more to fill out the application AGAIN!
Here's some of my history with Shaw.
I've been a loyal customer for about 15 years. Always pay my bill. Never really changed anything or demanded anything special from them in all that time.
Several months ago, near the end of the Canada Post strike, I switched to their Plan Personalizer thingy. After the technician came out, my only TV that seemed to be working right was the one connected to our PVR (that I've paid over $800 for!!). I called and was told that I needed a digital box for the other TVs. Why wasn't I told this before? The Shaw representative said they'd ship me out two digital boxes as soon as the postal strike ended. Wow. Guess what? I GOT NOTHING!
Back to the last few days:
I actually got a return call from Shaw!! The representative asked if I was still interested in the Gateway product. I said of course. I also explained (for the 10th time to various Shaw representatives) how I've been paying $20/month for about 4 years for my previous PVR. And yet they can't offer me any deals for being a long time loyal customer who got totally screwed on his PVR price. The girl went on to say that if I switched to Shaw phone, that I could get 3 whole months free of telephone service. I told her I really wasn't interested and wasn't really impressed with the supposed deal.
So now we get down to the Gateway product piss off. You have to pay $17/month for the Gateway (PVR) unit plus one "Total Home Portal" (for a second TV). Now comes the kicker. It can't be put on your current Shaw bill! It has to be direct billed to a flippin' credit card. WHY THE F*** would I want to do that?
For crying out loud Shaw, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND STOP TREATING YOUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS LIKE SHIT! I shouldn't have to leave you every six months to get treated like you give a rats ass about me.
I don't really want to do it but I think I'll be calling Telus in the next few days.
For the record, I like Shaw. Their Tech support guys are pretty good and helpful. It's their corporate guys that are pissing me off.
Playing with some software that needs to get out through a proxy.
$ git config --global http.proxy http://myproxy.domain.com:1234
$ git config --get http.proxy
http://myproxy.domain.com:1234
I posted this on the Archlinux forum. Hoping somebody else will have an idea of what the hell is going on with my wireless:
I've recently purchased a new Lenovo Thinkpad T420s.
I have a Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N running the latest version of DD-WRT.
The wireless router has been working fine for over a year. I've had other laptops attach. The kids ipods, iphones, etc all work great with it.
I can successfully connect to the router without any problems. If I do minimal activities (like ping google.ca) then the router works fine. As soon as I try to visit any web pages the router completely hangs. I actually have to unplug and plug it back in.
