SOWN

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?
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Cool ideas for laptop

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.
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Linux / emacs stuff

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
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Gallery

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!
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Bloc party

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.
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Gallery

Where’s the gallery I hear you scream? It’s gone for a while. The pics are still around somewhere though.
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Rescuing lost mysql root password

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!
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New weblog

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
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