Felix' Blog » Fedora http://fetzig.org About open source, education and random other Stuff Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:33:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 FOSDEM Photobomb http://fetzig.org/2010/02/07/fosdem-photobomb/ http://fetzig.org/2010/02/07/fosdem-photobomb/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:39:57 +0000 Felix Kaechele http://fetzig.org/?p=100 Just noticed that one of my geeky people-discussing-important-stuff was photobombed by a guy on a coffee dispenser.

See for yourself:

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FUDCon Toronto 2009

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I also made a RPM of disper for the lazy:

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I found a blog entry by Harald Hoyer that offers a Python script to simplify the whole process of adding the phone as a modem. However that script isn’t up to date anymore. Unfortunately NM doesn’t trust HAL to determine the capabilities of the phone anymore (thus allowing this nice Python hack-script) but rather additionally asks udev for it’s opinion. This will result in the following error message in the debug log of NM:

NetworkManager: <info> (rfcomm0): found serial port (udev: hal:GSM)
NetworkManager: <info> (rfcomm0): ignoring due to lack of probed mobile broadband capabilties

I worked around this by setting all rfcomm* ports to be “probed” modems via an udev rule. I know that this probably is not the nicest way to do this but hey, it works. Furthermore I updated the script to the new Python 2.6 popen functions.

Here is what I came up with:

dialup-bluetooth.py
90-rfcomm-nm.rules

The udev rule belongs in /etc/udev/rules.d. The python script can be put anywhere you want but keep in mind that it must be run as root.

Have fun browsing the web on the go! :)

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It’s been a pretty tough day today. First there was the preliminary “Abitur” (kinda like A-level) computer science exam at school today which was pretty exhausting since it took me the full 4,25 hours to complete. Second I had sports lessons after that :-) Third I had a performance at music school today. We have a annual performance which this year happened to be today (right after both “Vorabitur” exams) and I failed performing the song “Fever” by Michael Bublé since I only had like 4 days to learn it by heart (well not really since I had to study for the exams). So THAT was actually not music that made me happy.
However hearing ELO before writing the exam made me happy and lifted my mood.

So to actually answer your question: Here is the music which makes me happy:

This are just some I randomly came up with. There are probably so much more but I’m really interested in what Planet comes up with.

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