Hope his old man goes better ...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdhBreuFBa0&hl=en&fs=1]
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Just thought I would let people know that I have borrowed the source from http://pixelcity.com/s/ (as it was broke 20090818) so that I can continue to look at a fast loading Slashdot for my iPhone. For more information visit http://www.pixelcity.com/slashdot/ - Thanks for the sweet (but very hacky) code :).
The URL:
I made a couple of very small changes:
- Put cooperlees.com in the title.
- Changed the useragent sent via curl to be the Safari useragent string (so it gets the Slashdot returned that a normal Safari browser would get).
- Also wgetting all the images - They are copyright to their original creator.
Get source here.
APNIC (apnic.net) - The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre is holding APNIC 28 in Beijing this month. Along with this the NRO NC (Number Resource Organization Number Council) elections are being held this month. I have nominated myself as I would love to represent the APNIC region and assist the Internet through these tough tme (IPv4 sortage etc.).
If your organisation is a APNIC member please vote for me. Please also feel free to email me any view or points you would like me to make or address to the council.
Voting instructions are as follows:
Online voting for the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number
Council (NC) election opens 12 August 2009. Voting is only open
to Members of APNIC until 9:00 UTC+8 (Beijing time), 26 August 2009.
APNIC Member organizations can cast one vote each using MyAPNIC.
Online voting is available to APNIC Member Corporate Contacts
and Member Contacts with voting rights. By default, all
Corporate Contacts have voting rights, and can assign voting
rights to other contacts. Proxy votes, however, are not permitted
for the NC election.
MyAPNIC (https://myapnic.net/)
Full details of the election, including profiles of the candidates
and alternative voting methods are available at:
How do I vote (http://meetings.apnic.net/28/elections)
If you have any questions or need further assistance, contact:
helpdesk@apnic.net
Just thought I would pass on that my Ubuntu Iphone teathersing Shell Script has passed 1000 downloads.
Feels good to have people all over the world use your script 🙂
Hope everyone that has downloaded it has enjoyed it as much as I have in the car on the way to work.
The iPhone in 'Tethering Mode'
To see my super high tech counter visit:
http://us.cooperlees.com/ to see the current count 🙂
If you would like to use your iPhone 3.0 with your bluetooth capable Ubuntu 9.04 PC then uit.sh (Ubuntu Iphone Thethering) is for you. This script installs all required conf, allows you to enable and disable your iphone tethering and even uninstall the conf if you no longer need it. I do expect NetworkManager to eventually support this out of the box.
Thanks to http://xn--9bi.net/2009/06/17/tether...o-ubuntu-9-04/ blog post which assisted me in knowning what configuration was needed.
Usage:
-- Ubuntu iPhone Tethering (uit) Version 0.1 - Cooper Lees <me@cooperlees.com> --
Usage: ./uit.sh options
- This script will install, uninstall, enable and disable iPhone tethering with iPhone 3.0 Software.
- It has been tested on a upto date (patched) box as of 20090623.
- !! Be careful, this script will ask for your password to get root privledges to your system!
OPTIONS:
-h Show this message
-i Install required configuration
-u Uninstall required configuration
-c Connect Tethering
-d Disconnect Tethering
-m [] Set iPhone's MAC Address (to /home/USERNAME/.uitrc)
-v Verbose
Install Guide:
Avaliable from: http://us.cooperlees.com/download.php?F=uit.sh.gz
- Inital installation requires an active Internet Connection to get required dependancies through apt-get. Current dependancies = 'bluez-compat'
- Only the install requires you to sudo the script, other areas apropriately sudo where required.
Install Process:
- Open terminal
- wget http://us.cooperlees.com/download.php?F=uit.sh.gz
- gunzip uit.sh.gz
- chmod 755 uit.sh
- [OPTIONAL] Move the script into your sbin - 'sudo mv uit.sh /usr/sbin' (This will allow it to be in your PATH)
- Run 'sudo uit.sh -i' (You will need to have your iphone in discoverable mode with Bluetooth on)
- You will be notified if it all sucessfully installs.
Connect Process:
- Ensure Bluetooth is on and paired with your system (use the GNOME Bluetooth tool to pair). Also make sure Internet Tethering is on.
- uit.sh -c
- Once connected you will see the iPhone come up with a blue bar stating 'Internet Tethering' is activated.
Disconnect Process:
One command will disconnect from the iphone tethering - You should see the blue notification text dissapear.
- uit.sh -d
Uninstall Process:
- uit.sh -u
- This will remove conf from files and also make backup of files modified.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I am. Finding the bluetooth a little slow. But still very handy and good. Thanks Apple.
<zfs nerd post>
At home (on this server) I have a Zpool consisting of 3 disks in a RAIDZ1 group. I needed more disc space, so 1 by 1 I changed my 3 x 500G drives to 1tb drives. This would of been pretty much no down time (except for an export and import of the pool) if my hardware had hot swapable drive - The cheap Dell SC430 doesen't do that unfortunately.
It took around 8 hours each for the first two discs - But the last one took over 20 hours! No idea why - My system was idle with just the resilvering taking place. If you have had experiences with this leave me a comment with how long this process took you.
SO my pool 'dump' went from
dump                  921G   37K  112G    1%   /dump
to
dump                  1.8T   37K  1.1T    1%   /dump
If you want to ever do this process, ZFS (once all the discs are the same size) just sees that and grows. All you need to do is replace your discs 1 by and and let them rebuild. No mucking around moving data. The best part is your Data is still avaliable, during the whole process, all be it slow to access but if you need a something you can get it. 🙂
</zfs nerd post>
Not 100% sure if it's 100% legit but dam it's cool !
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLoANg6nNY&hl=en&fs=1]
Look at this performance! Windows actually flying for a change!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&w=480&h=295]
hahaha - Best way to introduce to the parents ...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGznE2u5es&w=425&h=344]