Initially, I wrote this script to give me frequent feedback on the signal strength. This is useful when adjusting antennas to that sweet spot that give stronger signals; especially if you’re testing some homemade tinfoil parabolic reflectors! 😉 If you have a portable wireless device, like a netbook, you can ssh into your (wireless) desktop… Continue reading Script: Wireless Strength Polling/Logging/Graphing
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DIY Wireless Booster
To access the Internet on my desktop computer, I must use wireless. Unfortunately, it’s about as far away from the access point as possible: opposite corners of the house and different floors. And the wireless card I’ve got in my desktop is a little old and pretty cheap. Basically, I’ve had to battle with a… Continue reading DIY Wireless Booster
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and Tablets
I just had to mention this: The latest version of Ubuntu finally supports input hotplugging. What this means is that you can plug in your tablet at any point and start taking advantage of its pressure sensitivity, etc. Previously, it would only work correctly if Ubuntu (the X server part of it) started with the… Continue reading Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and Tablets
open-with for the command-line
Update 2008/11/18: Use xargs 😛 Here’s a bash script that you can pipe output into and tell it to run a specific program with the output as arguments. I’ve named it open-with and placed it in my personal script directory: /home/steve/bin/. Look within the script at a couple of the examples for how to use… Continue reading open-with for the command-line
python treeview toggle
Had this post sitting around. Seems finished. May be helpful to someone. /me waves Wand of Publish +1 I was confused when I was playing around with this basic concept: adding a toggle widget to the treeview in pygtk. The reason for this is an inconsistency in the api model – or at least how… Continue reading python treeview toggle
Creating a DVD Slideshow in Linux
For my brother’s wedding, about a week ago, my sister wanted to do a slideshow for them. She’s done this before and she’s known for spending lots of time making very nice, emotional slideshows with carefully chosen pictures and music. Previously, she would count in her head while manually switch the slides with a traditional… Continue reading Creating a DVD Slideshow in Linux
Playing Video from your Linux PC on your Wii
Maybe you’ve watched youtube videos on your Wii using the Internet Channel or the promo videos on the Nintendo Channel and you thought it would be cool to watch other videos from your (Linux) PC. I know I did. But I wasn’t sure if it would be possible in a reasonable quality. Since then, I’ve… Continue reading Playing Video from your Linux PC on your Wii
Hacking the Printer
Look into my eyes, Brother (MFC420-CN)… repeat after me, “I still have ink left.” This ink never runs out! I have a Brother MFC420-CN (multifunction printer) and it religiously cleans its heads as long as it is plugged in. This combined with the facts that it will not print unless it has ink and the… Continue reading Hacking the Printer
How to open a folder with the default file-manager in mono/C#
using System.Diagnostics; … Process.Start (“file:///home/”); Did a bit of IRC channel ping-pong today. Went over to #f-spot to ask a user-related question about f-spot, and got pulled in by curiosity on a totally unrelated topic: opening a folder with the default file-manager. Initiated some discussion on #mono and discovered this was, in fact, not trivial… Continue reading How to open a folder with the default file-manager in mono/C#
Faking MAC Address in Linux
I’m house-sitting for my brother, and I brought my computer over so I didn’t die of boredom, alone, in a house for a week. The problem is the Internet over here is hooked up directly to the modem, and the Internet provider will only provide an Internet address (IP address) to the ethernet card that… Continue reading Faking MAC Address in Linux