You speak a language in order to join the group that speaks that language.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1898948,00.html
Friday, May 22, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Command line Internet
I was looking for command line tools for internet usage. I got a twitter client working in linux command line...and I had the old trusty lynx. But I needed to be able to do more.
So I was messing around looking for command line google search tools and pine and other stuff like that. Then I decided to try another txt browser Elinks. And it rules! Google searches are better...it has mouse support...I can do most things in gmail.
I am very happy with it so far.
So I was messing around looking for command line google search tools and pine and other stuff like that. Then I decided to try another txt browser Elinks. And it rules! Google searches are better...it has mouse support...I can do most things in gmail.
I am very happy with it so far.
Matena paroli
Ok...first... how could I say the singularity is unevenly distributed. hrmm. I must have been tired or sick when I wrote that.
The world is changing very quickly...
This morning my wife and I had an interesting discussion after seeing a news program about an inventor trying to make walking support exoskeletons for the disabled.
I see this as a continuation of OSS and creative commons and the like. I sure hope I am right. Open Source Giant Robots! w00t!
The world is changing very quickly...
This morning my wife and I had an interesting discussion after seeing a news program about an inventor trying to make walking support exoskeletons for the disabled.
I see this as a continuation of OSS and creative commons and the like. I sure hope I am right. Open Source Giant Robots! w00t!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Singularity
The Singularity is already here...it's just unevenly distributed.
Type I.
Incentive to change is lacking in some.
Garage labs and yard shed factories will change things from the bottom up.
Let's begin.
Type I.
Incentive to change is lacking in some.
Garage labs and yard shed factories will change things from the bottom up.
Let's begin.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
MUD
I have set up a multi-user dungeon or MUD at telnet://leganto.org:2525 .
If you are unable to open telnet from this link, you will need to download a telnet client and put in the address leganto.org and the port of 2525 manually.
This MUD is one of my projects for teaching and practicing Esperanto. Overtime, there will be a learning section as well as gaming sections. Anyone interested in contributing should contact me via email. Bonvenon al Esperanton-MUD!
-Leganto
If you are unable to open telnet from this link, you will need to download a telnet client and put in the address leganto.org and the port of 2525 manually.
This MUD is one of my projects for teaching and practicing Esperanto. Overtime, there will be a learning section as well as gaming sections. Anyone interested in contributing should contact me via email. Bonvenon al Esperanton-MUD!
-Leganto
Thursday, June 12, 2008
asus 900
I have wanted a sub notebook computer for a long time now. The first computer I ever owned was a Tandy 1110HD laptop. It was very small, but booted fast into dos or deskmate. I could flip it open turn it on and start editing text files so fast it was unbelievable.
Since then, I have been trying to have a similar experience on a more up to date system. I think someone finally has gotten it right.
When I first heard about the Asus EEEPC, it tickled the gadget area of my brain. I looked the specs and reviews over. I was impressed with what people were doing with them. But...the low resolution was holding me back. So when I heard about the 900. I knew I had to have one.
Very shortly after that, they announced the 901 and 1000. But the 9 inch screen hit the sweet spot. It suddenly put a check mark on every line of my requirements list.
Linux? Check. Tiny portable? Check. Wired and wireless networking? Check. Lots of IO ports? Check. High-enough resolution for comfortable web viewing? Check.
I had to buy it. I ordered it on a Thursday from Newegg. And even though that was one of the fastest processing and shipping of an order I have ever seen, I could hardly stand the wait.
I don't think I have been so impatient for a delivery in my life. I was very excited about my new computer.
It finally came the following Monday. That was a tough day at work.
Unboxed. Setup with no problem. Got it up on my wireless network as soon as I put both mac addresses in my routers filters. Speedy. Small. Just works. Didn't like the Easy Desktop interface so much...but I knew there were tutorials out there to fix that sort of thing. I started making a list of the capabilites I wanted for it...and the software/hardware I would need to do it.
The first thing I did after initial test drive was install Google Docs offline and del.icio.us add-on for Firefox. The Google Docs offline install went pretty well...I enabled it twice...it seemed I missed something the first time. But it works like a charm so far. Del.icio.us installed perfectly.
My plan is to use the 900 for work and for my writing projects. So I needed a fully functional desktop environment, the ability to access windows networks, remote desktop, Cisco vpn, and usb-serial for consoling into cisco switches and routers. I might even put Audacity and a podcatcher on here to take a few more functions off my work-provided laptop.
Advanced Mode
I went to http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde and used the Easy Method to switch to advanced desktop mode. Now it looks like a real desktop. I was able to customize background, icons, colors, key shortcuts, and launcher icons. Very nice.
Remote Desktop
I initially had some trouble with remote desktop. The Remote Desktop Sharing-Connect to Desktop app would segfault as soon as I connected to a windows server. And it had problems in higher resolution settings. I couldn't type anything in unless I made the window smaller.
I looked around on eeeuser.com a little and found the solution...add a repository and update rdesktop from deb. No more segfaults. And I can start it from the command line with "rdesktop -f x.x.x.x" to go into full screen mode.
VPN client
Next up was vpn access. I went back to eeeuser.com for the info. Added repository and installed vpnc with no problem. I was going to install the kde gui frontend...but it scared me when it told me how much stuff it was going to uninstall...some of it was stuff I planned to use. And I am not scared of a command-line...so I decided to forgo the guit.
Next up you have to configure your cisco .pcf files to a format usable by vpnc. Luckily some kind soul made a perl script that does this. It's called pf2vpnc.pl and is pretty easy to find. It actually comes with some downloads..or you can google for it like I did.
Run the perl script against the pcf and it creates a conf file. Then move the conf file into /etc/vpnc. If you don't move it....vpnc will complain that it can't find the conf. You may need to "sudo -i" to get access.
At the cli, type in "vpnc filename" don't put the .conf extension though.
To end your session, don't just kill the process. Use "vpnc-disconnnect". If you just kill the process it will mess up your routing.
USB-Serial
Once again, the awesome community at eeeuser.com helped me out here. A quick search came up with good pointers on how to get this going.
I went to Best Buy and got a dynex usb-serial adapter. Plugged it in and ran "dmesg".
dmesg tells me that it found the adapter and attached it to ttyUSB0 and that it is using Prolific PL2303 driver. The "lsusb" command tells me similar information.
Next... "apt-get install minicom" or use synaptic package manager to get a terminal program called minicom.
Run minicom from a command line. Do ctrl-a then z to get configuration screen. Then press O. Arrow down to Serial Port Setup and enter. Press A and enter /dev/ttyUSB0.
Press E and set to 9600 8N1 and turn off all flow control. (This may vary depending on what you are connecting to.) Then go back to Modem and Dialing. Remove the init and reset string, if you don't do this..the program will send weird crap to your console when you connect and disconnect...it probably wouldn't hurt anything...but at the least it's annoying. So go ahead and get that modem string stuff out of there. Save setup as dfl. That saves your settings as default.
Now....whenever you open up minicom...it will open up on port /dev/ttyUSB0 with settings compatible to cisco equipment. Then just hit enter to get a prompt.
There is a package to install Audacity, and it works just fine with built in mic. I would suggest using a plug-in mic for any real use. The built-in sounds really scratchy.
I will mess around with Podcatchers later.
-Leganto
Since then, I have been trying to have a similar experience on a more up to date system. I think someone finally has gotten it right.
When I first heard about the Asus EEEPC, it tickled the gadget area of my brain. I looked the specs and reviews over. I was impressed with what people were doing with them. But...the low resolution was holding me back. So when I heard about the 900. I knew I had to have one.
Very shortly after that, they announced the 901 and 1000. But the 9 inch screen hit the sweet spot. It suddenly put a check mark on every line of my requirements list.
Linux? Check. Tiny portable? Check. Wired and wireless networking? Check. Lots of IO ports? Check. High-enough resolution for comfortable web viewing? Check.
I had to buy it. I ordered it on a Thursday from Newegg. And even though that was one of the fastest processing and shipping of an order I have ever seen, I could hardly stand the wait.
I don't think I have been so impatient for a delivery in my life. I was very excited about my new computer.
It finally came the following Monday. That was a tough day at work.
Unboxed. Setup with no problem. Got it up on my wireless network as soon as I put both mac addresses in my routers filters. Speedy. Small. Just works. Didn't like the Easy Desktop interface so much...but I knew there were tutorials out there to fix that sort of thing. I started making a list of the capabilites I wanted for it...and the software/hardware I would need to do it.
The first thing I did after initial test drive was install Google Docs offline and del.icio.us add-on for Firefox. The Google Docs offline install went pretty well...I enabled it twice...it seemed I missed something the first time. But it works like a charm so far. Del.icio.us installed perfectly.
My plan is to use the 900 for work and for my writing projects. So I needed a fully functional desktop environment, the ability to access windows networks, remote desktop, Cisco vpn, and usb-serial for consoling into cisco switches and routers. I might even put Audacity and a podcatcher on here to take a few more functions off my work-provided laptop.
Advanced Mode
I went to http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde and used the Easy Method to switch to advanced desktop mode. Now it looks like a real desktop. I was able to customize background, icons, colors, key shortcuts, and launcher icons. Very nice.
Remote Desktop
I initially had some trouble with remote desktop. The Remote Desktop Sharing-Connect to Desktop app would segfault as soon as I connected to a windows server. And it had problems in higher resolution settings. I couldn't type anything in unless I made the window smaller.
I looked around on eeeuser.com a little and found the solution...add a repository and update rdesktop from deb. No more segfaults. And I can start it from the command line with "rdesktop -f x.x.x.x" to go into full screen mode.
VPN client
Next up was vpn access. I went back to eeeuser.com for the info. Added repository and installed vpnc with no problem. I was going to install the kde gui frontend...but it scared me when it told me how much stuff it was going to uninstall...some of it was stuff I planned to use. And I am not scared of a command-line...so I decided to forgo the guit.
Next up you have to configure your cisco .pcf files to a format usable by vpnc. Luckily some kind soul made a perl script that does this. It's called pf2vpnc.pl and is pretty easy to find. It actually comes with some downloads..or you can google for it like I did.
Run the perl script against the pcf and it creates a conf file. Then move the conf file into /etc/vpnc. If you don't move it....vpnc will complain that it can't find the conf. You may need to "sudo -i" to get access.
At the cli, type in "vpnc filename" don't put the .conf extension though.
To end your session, don't just kill the process. Use "vpnc-disconnnect". If you just kill the process it will mess up your routing.
USB-Serial
Once again, the awesome community at eeeuser.com helped me out here. A quick search came up with good pointers on how to get this going.
I went to Best Buy and got a dynex usb-serial adapter. Plugged it in and ran "dmesg".
dmesg tells me that it found the adapter and attached it to ttyUSB0 and that it is using Prolific PL2303 driver. The "lsusb" command tells me similar information.
Next... "apt-get install minicom" or use synaptic package manager to get a terminal program called minicom.
Run minicom from a command line. Do ctrl-a then z to get configuration screen. Then press O. Arrow down to Serial Port Setup and enter. Press A and enter /dev/ttyUSB0.
Press E and set to 9600 8N1 and turn off all flow control. (This may vary depending on what you are connecting to.) Then go back to Modem and Dialing. Remove the init and reset string, if you don't do this..the program will send weird crap to your console when you connect and disconnect...it probably wouldn't hurt anything...but at the least it's annoying. So go ahead and get that modem string stuff out of there. Save setup as dfl. That saves your settings as default.
Now....whenever you open up minicom...it will open up on port /dev/ttyUSB0 with settings compatible to cisco equipment. Then just hit enter to get a prompt.
There is a package to install Audacity, and it works just fine with built in mic. I would suggest using a plug-in mic for any real use. The built-in sounds really scratchy.
I will mess around with Podcatchers later.
-Leganto
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