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Using a Liveradio Cube with WPA (solved)

Thu, 19 May 2011 22:17:44 +0000

The Liveradio Cube is a inexpensive Internet Radio with WIFI capabilities. Having it working on my home network has been quite tricky. This thread pointed to using WPA.

How to configure the Airport Express for WPA (and not WPA/WPA2):

1. In airport utility choose manual setup.
2. Under the Wireless tab select ’802.11b/g compatible’ for ‘radio mode’.
3. Click option button and select ‘WPA personal’ in Wireless security: NOT the wpa/wpa2 one!! Set your password to 13 characters.
4. ‘Update’ and reboot the Airport.

Classici sotto l’ombrellone

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:55:37 +0000

Su Liber Liber sono disponibili i classici Iliade (nella traduzione di Vincenzo Monti) e Odissea (nella traduzione di Ippolito Pindemonte) in formato .txt.

Questi gli script calibre per convertire in formato .mobi, compatibile con Amazon Kindle:

ebook-convert iliade.txt iliade.mobi \
    --input-encoding=iso8859-1 \
    --output-profile=kindle \
    --single-line-paras \
    --authors=Omero \
    --title=Iliade \
    --isbn=978-88-17-12969-0 \
    --chapter="//h:p[re:test(., 'LIBRO ')]"

ebook-convert odissea.txt odissea.mobi \
    --input-encoding=iso8859-1 \
    --output-profile=kindle \
    --single-line-paras \
    --authors=Omero \
    --title=Odissea \
    --isbn=978-88-17-02071-8 \
    --chapter="//h:p[re:test(., 'LIBRO ')]"

Bonus:

ebook-convert principe.txt principe.mobi \
    --input-encoding=iso8859-1 \
    --output-profile=kindle \
    --authors="Niccolo Machiavelli" \
    --title="Il Principe"  \
    --chapter="//h:p[re:test(., 'Cap.')]/following-sibling::*[1]"

Acer Aspire 5315 fan issue on Ubuntu (solved)

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:03:47 +0000

There is a (well known) (design) problem with the Acer Aspire 5315 preventing the fan to work properly and eventually shutting down the computer to protect from overheating.

Solution comes from here and here:

install mempat binary
and acer_fancontrol script

into /usr/bin.

You have to find out the correct memory address for mmap().

For the 5315 wit 1.5G RAM PATCH_ADDRESS=x5F6BCEAF.

Add acer_fancontrol to /etc/rc.local and restart.

Remote encrypted backup using gpg and rsync

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:38:55 +0000

Bare bones script to encrypt and copy all .pdf, .xls and .csv files in current directory to a remote server using rsync (I recommend rsync.net)

#! /bin/bash
R_USER=""
R_HOST=""
BASENAME=`basename "$PWD"`

echo "Your destination:"

read GPG_DEST

find . -iname '*[pdf|xls|csv]' -exec echo '{}' \; | while read f
do
    if [ ! -f "$f".gpg ]; then
        gpg -e -r $GPG_DEST "$f"
    fi
done

rsync -r --exclude=*.pdf --exclude=*.xls --exclude=*.csv --include=*.pdf.gpg . "$R_USER@$R_HOST:Documents/$BASENAME"