I added a little /E /Y and off it went.

Lucky me, I got my hands on a Telekom Speedport W701v, which has (apart from USB and draft-N) all features I could wish for in a router. WLAN, SIP telephony and … well that’s it actually, but it’s [...]]]> I wrecked my trusty Asus WL-500GP while experimenting with different WLAN
hardware and so it was time for a new router.

Lucky me, I got my hands on a Telekom Speedport W701v, which has (apart from
USB and draft-N) all features I could wish for in a router. WLAN, SIP telephony
and … well that’s it actually, but it’s all I really need every day anyway.

So I plug it in, fire the webinterface up and… IT CANNOT BE USED WITHOUT DSL.
At least I didn’t find a way to hook it up to my cable modem and let it use DHCP to
connect.

Well, I’ve got to admit that this doesn’t mean that I am *sure* that there is
no way to do it but the interface is _so bad_ that even if there was, I
couldn’t find it and I *do* usually get my gadgets to work, just ask anyone who
knows me. I mean c’mon!

Just another brick in the wall between me and the german Telekom. It’s a sturdy one
by now.

I knew I could put OpenWRT on there, but I really wanted to use the VoIP
capabilities and such began the googling which eventually lead here:

http://wiki.ip-phone-forum.de/skript:speedport2fritz.

The Speedport W701v is an AVM OEM product and very similar to the Fritzbox
7170. It’s actually similar enough that one can swap out the firmware, barring
some hardware drivers, and the crafty, layz people of the internet sat down and
wrote scripts to automate the procedure, complete with a menuconfig-style
curses gui for image configuration. Sometimes I just want to hug the internets.

The scripts are a convoluted maze of cross-calling cloc-monsters, so paranoid me
stuck them in a virtual machine and let them run wild.

I’m quite happy with the machine now.

I have moved beyond the mouse! - I use awesome the tiling window manager with the fitting but hard-to-google name. - I use vimperator (as of today with 90% less LAAAAAG) the vim of the browsers (uzbl is not quite there)

One last thing that has led my hand to the touchpad was [...]]]> Last on for today, I promise.

I have moved beyond the mouse!
- I use awesome the tiling window manager with the fitting but hard-to-google name.
- I use vimperator (as of today with 90% less LAAAAAG) the vim of the browsers (uzbl is not quite there)

One last thing that has led my hand to the touchpad was pasting the clipboard.
Not that I couldn’t have found out the right keys to press, no, but habit is a
hard-to-kick habit… and a two-fingered tap is just not that much trouble.

Today I was tired of it though. Not the tapping itself but the ‘getting the
mouse pointer in the right window’. So I looked it up and it is ‘Shift-Insert’.
Simple as that.

Copy URL from vimperator with ;y<hint> then wget “<Shift-Insert>” to download
the file, all without rodential interference.

Enjoy.

That event led me to an issue I’ve been putting off for some time now. I own a Sandisk Sansa MP3 player and all in all [...]]]> Today the shops were open for business despite it being a Sunday and I grasped
the opportunity to buy a mp3-cassette adapter so I won’t have to endure
ad-infested radio on my morning-commute.

That event led me to an issue I’ve been putting off for some time now.
I own a Sandisk Sansa MP3 player and all in all I’m very pleased with it.

The only thing it does not do is play files according to their location in the
filesystem on the player, everything needs to be properly tagged to be useful.

Some files are not. Now in the past I’ve used exfalso to tag my music, but
today I wanted a quick and dirty command line fix for things and so I’ve
leveraged the power of the bash and mp3info to do my bidding.

Like so:

find . -iname "*.mp3" | while read mp3 ; do
    artist=$(mp3info -p "%a" "$mp3")
    title=$(mp3info -p "%t" "$mp3")
    if [ -z "$artist" -o -z "$title" ]; then
        echo "No Artist or Title on: $mp3"
    fi
done

The fixing was also done with mp3info.
Fix artist for all files in a folder:
- mp3info -a “Farin Urlaub” *.mp3

Fix title with a little help from a shell:
- for x in *; do t=$(basename “$x” “.mp3″ |awk -F’-’ ‘{print $3}’); mp3info -t “$t” $x; done

You get the idea…

I’ll try it out tomorrow morning.

G’night

Actually we went to the Frankfurt Book Fair and walked around there for a couple of hours but it was so crowded that I couldn’t really enjoy the experience.

Books just don’t work like that, I didn’t even go to look at the shiny new ebook readers.

Never mind that now, we had found a [...]]]> Yesterday I went to the cinema.

Actually we went to the Frankfurt Book Fair and walked around there for a
couple of hours but it was so crowded that I couldn’t really enjoy the
experience.

Books just don’t work like that, I didn’t even go to look at the shiny new
ebook readers.

Never mind that now, we had found a cinema in Frankfurt which shows original
versions of current movies. Exclusively originals. I like.

So we went there and watched District 9
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9)

I liked it. A lot.

I thought the xenophobia theme came on a little strong but I liked the overall
tone of the movie. I liked the fact that it didn’t take place in the US of A
(Wikipedia says the story is inspired by historical events in South Africa…).
Now some people cannot see the merit of explicit violence in movies but I think
it fit right in there. The Wikus character was great, because he wasn’t really
likable, egoistic, a bureaucrat, a liar, just a human.

I want to see more SciFi like that.

It’s an Eeepc 901 with a teeeeny SSD on which lives a Debian GNU/Linux with an unstable/experimental flavor to it.

I also like to surf the web. I do it all the time when I’m sitting in front of my machine.

Every now and then [...]]]> So I run a bleeding edge operating system on my one and only home computer.

It’s an Eeepc 901 with a teeeeny SSD on which lives a Debian GNU/Linux with an
unstable/experimental flavor to it.

I also like to surf the web. I do it all the time when I’m sitting in front of
my machine.

Every now and then I run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get -t
experimental upgrade.

OK, people who know me would say I do that far to often and in fact i type
that string out compulsively once or twice an hour.

In itself all of these facts might seem banal but mix them together and they
form a highly explosive mixture!

The frequent and heavy I/O operations from the apt operations, induced by my
upgradeitis, clash with the flurry of fsyncs firefox (or rather the
underlying sqlite) uses to assure the safety and integrity of my precious
browsing history. All of this is then delegated to the poor ext3 filesystem on
the slooooow SSD in my 901 and results in an unbearably slow user-experience.

Then I did this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1103926

Now all is good

(Yeah I know, my data will be lost if I FSU but I’m a big boy now…)

The fact in itself is unimpressive but lo and behold there was a web page there at slashd9t.org, who would have thought a crafty spammer had gone through all that trouble to… WAIT A MINUTE.

Big and proud they caught my eye the crest and name of my very own internet provider. [...]]]> Today I made a typo.

The fact in itself is unimpressive but lo and behold there was a web page there at slashd9t.org, who would have thought a crafty spammer had gone through all that trouble to… WAIT A MINUTE.

Big and proud they caught my eye the crest and name of my very own internet provider. The bastards had redirected my failed DNS request to a bloody search page!

I don’t want that. OpenDNS apparently does something similar which annoys me even more, since I wanted to switch there on a whim.

I found this page describing how to circumvent internet censorship by changing your DNS server: http://www.ccc.de/censorship/dns-howto/.

I’ll accept that as a welcome side-effect.

Meh again…

there once was a time, when I was using rxvt to do my daily terminal work, which is more or less all my work. As I tend to have quite a couple of terminals open at any one time and am quick to spawn new ones on a whim to do some temporary work, [...]]]> Hello world,

there once was a time, when I was using rxvt to do my daily terminal work, which is more or less all my work. As I tend to have quite a couple of terminals open at any one time and am quick to spawn new ones on a whim to do some temporary work, I liked the idea of the urxvtd daemon and urxvtc client to speed up terminal spawning.

I don’t know when exactly, but some day vim broke. I couldn’t get it working under rxvt any more.

My main problem are arrow keys (Yeah I know, who uses arrow keys in vim anyways).

They produce garbage along with ctrl-<arrow key>.

Everything works fine in plain old xterm.

I gave the whole thing another go today because I wanted to have click-able links but nooooo, nothing works.

I fiddled and googled for an hour or so but eventually gave up. Highlighting the link and pressing ‘P’ in vimperator just isn’t that much of a hassle.

Meh…

Let me start from the beginning:

It was a beautiful day, I had just fixed all my troubles with OpenVPN and heartbeat and all that was left was a little scripting, so I whipped out vim and started to python my way through things when I [...]]]> While doing some work at work I walked into a trap.

Let me start from the beginning:

It was a beautiful day, I had just fixed all my troubles with OpenVPN and heartbeat and all that was left was a little scripting, so I whipped out vim and started to python my way through things when I remebered a thought from a little while ago…

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to press <TAB> and have stuff autocompleted? Why yes it would.

Half an hour later I had caught up to what vim7 can do:

• OmniComplete (not only) for python!
• SuperTab for … everything!
• autoclose brackets and stuff!
• autocomplpop (word of the day!)

Not perfect, but a nice start.