It's cold and wet outside Mr Cat
Currently debating whether I should go see Pan's Labyrinth. On the one hand it looks like an amazing film. On the other hand I am tired and it's wet outside. Cinemas do have chocolate though.
New Record/I'll be moving soon
So I've just set a new record. This will have been the longest I've lived in one place in Brighton. At a measly 13 months that's pretty poor. However true to form it's time for the near annual moving fiasco. This time it's due to the landlord trying to put up our rent, which given the size of the place is pretty ridiculous.
The upshot of this is that I will currently be without a fixed abode from the 25th of December. Have to see what I'll do next, but it's likely that I'll be living on my own in the new year.
The upshot of this is that I will currently be without a fixed abode from the 25th of December. Have to see what I'll do next, but it's likely that I'll be living on my own in the new year.
Howto disable powersaving on a Belkin usb wireless card under ubuntu
So after our windows box broke at work, we installed Ubuntu Linux and everything was good. Particularly as it made installing java easy (just had to enable the universe/multiverse packages and everything was there).
The only issue was occasionally the wireless on the box would stop. Bit annoying when the box was meant to be run as a server, but it just required unplugging and re-plugging the USB wireless adapter and things would work ok again. Given the machine is only a few feet away this is no big deal.
Finally today it just got annoying and I decided to fix it. I knew it was probably the power-saving mode kicking in, but could not see how to disable it (iwconfig didn't help either). With a bit of googling I was pointed in the direction of the iwpriv command and found the following worked:
sudo iwpriv rausb0 psm 0
So I thought I'd just share that with the world - in case anyone finds it useful.
The only issue was occasionally the wireless on the box would stop. Bit annoying when the box was meant to be run as a server, but it just required unplugging and re-plugging the USB wireless adapter and things would work ok again. Given the machine is only a few feet away this is no big deal.
Finally today it just got annoying and I decided to fix it. I knew it was probably the power-saving mode kicking in, but could not see how to disable it (iwconfig didn't help either). With a bit of googling I was pointed in the direction of the iwpriv command and found the following worked:
sudo iwpriv rausb0 psm 0
So I thought I'd just share that with the world - in case anyone finds it useful.
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In principle though I could have set that up to log your session id the moment you view the page and _possibly_ (depending on how kennon has things setup) do nefarious things (e.g. temporarily logging in under your account).