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 getting a laptop soon, so I thought I’d jot down some ideas for work/home interoperability. If that is a word.
Cron job or something that tries to ping servers LAN address, if it can then mount server shares If ping fails then have a go at creating ssh tunnel and mount the shares 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!
And here’s some useful keystrokes for emacs
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.
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!
Hi, welcome to the new site. It’s a work in progress at the moment. It’s also what’s known as a blog, which means web log. I hope you find the site a bit better than the old one, although no doubt you’ll all moan. Remember, I pay £20 a month to have this crap :p