One of the cool things about living in Southampton is this Southampton Open Wireless Network or SOWN for short, basically an open/free wireless network run by University students, and perhaps even me when I get back from Norway next month.
I’m thinking of setting up a node at my new flat. Maybe it’ll draw in some nerds to the area?
I’m going to Norway at the end of the week to work on the GlacsWeb sensor network project. Very exciting, basically I’ll be helping out to recover last year’s sensors that are 70 or 80 metres under a glacier in Briksdalsbreen and then helping to put some new ones down (in a nutshell!) There’s a lot more detail to it.
I’m getting a laptop soon, so I thought I’d jot down some ideas for work/home interoperability. If that is a word.
As usual, I found that there’s already about 100 programs that do this sort of thing. I’ll just wait till I actually get the laptop.
M-/
Completes the token (in emacs) or the directory in bash.
less whatever.tar.gz
This actually lists the files in the compressed archive!
The gallery is back (kind of) until Nick (who’s now in charge of the gallery) fixes it up good and proper. Enjoy. Pics of the latest Cube/Academy nights will be on there soonish, Nick has those at the moment too!
I’m well into bloc party – Silent Alarm at the moment, some kind of mad indie rock stuff, resonably accessible to all!
It sounds pretty cool, the lead singers voice may annoy you though. Sounds a lot like Damon or whatever his name is from Blur. More musical reviews here soon.
7/10 at the moment, but it’s probably going to move up to 8/10.
Where’s the gallery I hear you scream?
It’s gone for a while. The pics are still around somewhere though.
Run this:
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables --user=root &
Then:
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpwd') WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Unfortunately, the info on the mysql site seems to be a bit wrong!
List connections in a useful manner:
netstat -a -tcp
echo ${!file_list} will echo $$file_list, so say $something = john and $cat = ‘something’, echo ${!cat} would be something, gettit?