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Hardy Heron and Bluetooth
Written by Frank Sfalanga
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
I've had this USB bluetooth adapter for over a year. It's a Trendnet TBW-105UB . I was using Ubuntu 7.04 and at the time I thought it'd be nice to be able to connect to my cell phone (Motorola Razr v3c) so I could transfer pictures and music.
It never happened. I spent quite a bit of time on it but eventually just gave up. Ubuntu wasn't quite there yet for this pariticular functionality I guess. For the few times I had to send a picture I took with my cellphone camera - I just sent it using the MMS capabilities - to my home email address.
I recently converted a computer from 32bit Windows Vista® (can you believe they actually sell 64 bit systems with 32 bit Vista?) to 64 bit Ubuntu GNU/Linux - I decided to back up all the Vista® data from the Ubuntu side using K3b - works great, of course!
I've never in my life used this thing called "LightScribe". This laptop is LightScribe® capable (has the hardware). Because I'm not a Windows® user I just figured it wouldn't work in GNU/Linux. It's totally proprietary - so why should it work - and - why should I use it?
Anyway, aside from the obvious moral issues of using proprietary stuff in GNU/Linux let me say it works! Even with the only available 32 bit version of LightScribe® for GNU/Linux.
Here are the steps I used to get LightScribe® working on AMD_64 Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) ...
The binary will automatically download the *.TiVo file - convert it to .mpeg - decompress and spit the file into separate audio and video - recombine them and format them as an .iso file. It then burns them to DVD for you! FIre and forget - come back later and BOOM there's a DVD ready to play on your television set.
Example:
concord@s170:~/.tivo2dvd$ tivo2dvd -a 192.168.1.103 -m 4501952161 "The War" # Accessing show list from Tivo
This DD-WRT stuff is all kinda new to me. I know lots of you have been re-flashing your wireless routers and access points with Linux (OpenWRT or DD-WRT or others) for a while now. Finally, I too have a success story.
First a little history for the uninitiated. Apparently, back in the day, a company called Linksys decided to save some development time/effort by not re-inventing the wheel - they started selling Linksys wireless router/gateway devices running a customized and tiny version of Linux which they had tweaked for their specific hardware. Those first devices were the Linksys model WRT-54. The nature of the GPL license meant they had to share the source code and it's modifications with the GNU/Linux community.
Over the years we have moved from system to system and along the way we have lost some of our content. We've been making an effort to find some of it and make it available on the web again. Here is a presentation that Stephan Schonberg did back in 2001 before we were using any kind of CMS system. Consequently it is in a bunch of seperate HTML files, so I just linked to it directly.
This is bascially a
primer for vi. Even if you're not new to vi, you will probally find
something. It covers the basics needed to edit files on your system
using one of the most widely available editors on UNIX/Linux systems.
It a very complex beast, but with a basic understanding and memorizing
a few commands it becomes a valuable tool.
I recently purchased a Sprint PC-5740 . The card's compatibility doesn't list Linux, but I felt like giving it a try anyway. A quick search through google brought me to Ken Kinder's EVDO PC-5740 page. You'll find quite a bit of information at Ken's site, but it didn't exactly depict my findings, so I'll document my personal findinds here.
I stumbled across this little utility called the DMCA Bot Killer. I think it's a pretty decent idea. Basically it generates links to files that the DMCA bots would find interesting. "DMCA bots?", you say. Same thing I said. I had no idea, but apparently those that enjoy the reach and protection of the DMCA have written bots to scour the internet for their "property". Obviously theirs bots are not perfect and identify some legit sofware as piracy. Go read about it here: http://www.cbserviceslondon.com/Anti-DMCA/
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