Sat, 28 Feb 2009

mozilla ubiquity commands for debian

I'm an avid user of mozilla ubiquity but I couldn't find any commands related to debian to replace those of yubnub. So, prodded by zack I've produced some like bts or pts.
The command feed is located at ubiquity-commands (don't be scared by the "this-code-can-be-evil" subscription page) with the actual code maintained under ubiquity-commands.git.
Note that there's *much* room for improvement so it would be nice to have a common set of commands for the various debian web resources.

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Thu, 26 Feb 2009

you don't control your hardware, proprietary drivers do (rant)


Trying to associate with 00:1c:58:10:1d:30 (SSID='ALMAWIFI' freq=2417 MHz)
Associated with 00:1c:58:10:15:b0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WTF?

In other words, my broadcom card won't let me choose the access point to connect to, instead the driver picks one for you (my guess: the one with the best signal) except that autentication on that AP doesn't work.
I'm fine with machines trying by default to be smarter than me, I'm less fine when there's no way to convince said machine to do something supposedly not smart.

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009

in anticipo


tanto per essere chiari:





from http://www.eatdrinksnort.com/valentines-day-2008/1/

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