…as if I expected it to run some other operating system ;-)
Read this for a (partial) description of all available user commands (accessible from a Telnet session).
Disclaimer: use your brain!
…as if I expected it to run some other operating system ;-)
Read this for a (partial) description of all available user commands (accessible from a Telnet session).
Disclaimer: use your brain!
Yep! The Mauritius Telecom guys came to my house today to install the Livebox… Here are my first impressions:
Installing the Sagem XG760N USB Wi-Fi adapter in Kubuntu/Ubuntu Linux
The Sagem XG760N USB Wi-Fi adapter comes with a CD-ROM containing Windows drivers. But, for once, a Linux driver is readily available and is not too difficult to install. The adapter, in fact, is a rebranded ZyDAS device with contains a ZD1211 chipset. ZyDAS has an opensource driver and some nice guys have enhanced it. The latest version is currently Release 83.
Here are the steps to follow:
sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo aptitude install build-essential
and a kernel module called zd1211b will be installed in /lib/modules/
Add this (for example using sudo vi/gedit/kate) to /etc/network/interfaces:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up modprobe zd1211b
post-down rmmod zd1211b
wireless-mode Managed
wireless-key restricted xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
… and you’re done! Wi-Fi rules ;-)
19 July : an update
Yesterday, when I returned home from work, I noticed that my set-top box was not working anymore (so no Video on Demand and no TNT until the problem is solved). According to me, the external power transformer has died and need to be replaced. I’ve had to call the My.T hotline four times before I managed to convince them that a technician needs to come to my house to solve the problem :-(
Please note that the Livebox is still working (so Wi-Fi still rules ;-) ) but I’ve noticed that instead of having a (more or less) sustained rate of 256kbit/s when downloading something from a server outside Mauritius, the rate varies from 40 to around 200kbit/s and this is so painful… The technician (who will normally come tomorrow) will also look into this…
…is really not simple as the actual history file (history.dat) is encoded using the MORK format which is very tough to parse.
The MORK format was invented ages ago by David McCusker and he explained his rationale on his website but the relevant pages seem to have disappeared…
Fortunately, it is possible to export history.dat to a text file but this is a manual process.
One first possibility is to export all URLs which have been accessed from Firefox itself. To do that:
Unfortunately, we only get the URLs. To get more information, we can use a perl script written by Jamie Zawinski.
perl mork.pl history.dat > history.txt
and history.txt will contain lines like
1078333826 1 http://www.jwz.org/hacks/
where the first number is a ctime (number of seconds since Jan 1 1970 GMT) and the second number is how many times this URL was visited.
I use this command to know what are the websites I regulary visit:
cat history.txt |
awk ‘{ if ($3 ~ /^http/) print $2 “\t” $3 }’ |
sort -nr |
head -20
and here is the result:
618 https://www.noulakaz.net/
488 http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/
371 https://www.noulakaz.net/…
202 http://www1.koptalkinsider.com/forums/…
184 https://www.noulakaz.net/…
178 http://www.google.com/
121 https://www.noulakaz.net/…
96 http://mail.google.com/mail/html/loading.html
68 http://mail.google.com/mail/…
60 http://mail.google.com/mail/…
29 https://www.noulakaz.net/…
25 https://www.noulakaz.net/…
21 https://www.noulakaz.net/…
19 https://www.noulakaz.net/…
18 https://www.noulakaz.net/…
17 http://www.macosxhints.com/…
16 http://www.apple.com/
13 http://www.macosxhints.com/…
12 http://www.macosxhints.com/…
12 http://mail.google.com/mail/…
I’ve simplified the URLs for security purposes (I presume :-) ).
I can conclude that I am a big fan of (i) my weblog, (ii) Liverpool FC, (iii) Google and (iv) Apple…