I need a nickname. My name is far too common, I share it with a manager at work and there is at least one other person called Kevin. I even share my name with a famous director. So, I need something unique and geeky, yet easy to say and is memorable.
So, denizens of the net, digitally baptise me.
After much faffing about, I now have email retrieval on my phone. Sending doesn’t work yet which is a bit of a pain but not a huge deal.
I also have 600 minutes and 500 texts to burn through each month so if you want a chat gimmie your number and I’ll call/text you (no international stuff, UK only).
Found an awesome application for my N95. ExtGPS lets you take the gps data received by the phone and pipe it to another device over bluetooth to use.
Instructions for Linux (shamelessly ripped from the site, Instructions for Os X and Windows also available)
05 November 2007, 20:17 - ExtGPS
Posted by Jarno Heikkinen: To make our series complete, here are the instructions how to setup ExtGPS for Linux applications, using Bluetooth serial port.Unlike the other howtos, this one is command line based. Probably suits better for Linux enthusiasts
Make sure ExtGPS is up and running and your phone is discoverable. In the following dumps, aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff should be your phone’s Bluetooth MAC address.
Perform a scan for “Serial Port” services:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sdptool search SP Inquiring ... Searching for SP on aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ... Service Name: Symarctic ExtGPS Service Description: Share phone's built-in GPS ... Service Provider: Symarctic Solutions Service RecHandle: 0x10016 Service Class ID List: "Serial Port" (0x1101) Protocol Descriptor List: "L2CAP" (0x0100) "RFCOMM" (0x0003) Channel: 5 Language Base Attr List: code_ISO639: 0x656e encoding: 0x6a base_offset: 0x100 (... continues with other services...)Create /dev/rfcommX device for ExtGPS, by “rfcomm bind” command. Note the parameters, “1″ is the id for /dev/ entry, mac address and the last one is RFCOMM channel ID from service, in my case it’s channel 5 (chanel no. 5 ?):
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo rfcomm bind 1 aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff 5When application connects to /dev/rfcomm1, it’s opened to ExtGPS. You can test the connection, e.g.:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /dev/rfcomm1After this, the connection icon on ExtGPS should be green and device name shown next to it. If the satellite icon is also green (meaning a fix), you should now see raw GPS NMEA data on your terminal. Issuing Ctrl-C should break the connection, turning the connection icon back to red.
I also found a utility called JoikuSpot which links the 3g network to wifi letting you use your phone as a mobile broadband modem. Very sweet.
Where’s my goggles, I wanna go gargoyle…
“mmm lentily…Mmm numb tongue =P”
Number isn’t in my phone book. Some people are really strange.
Anyone know how to clear Apache’s cache with a standard user account? I’m trying to test stuff out but I keep getting a cached copy of the pages so I can’t see changes.
Edit: This post getting posted fixed the problem, things are shiny now.
For all that push content onto my server for mirroring and for folk that download from the mirror the location has changed. It is now on http://files.kevinisageek.org/mirror. Update links etc.
I am really bad at this indecisiveness. Back to Wordpress, update feeds etc.
The theme is the same as the pivot one, managed to hack it up enough to play well with Wordpress. Wasn’t too difficult. The footer style is subject to change.
For a bloody long time I have been wanting to get my own mail server that I have 100% control of set up. None of the guides I followed were any use to me. A couple of weeks ago, Pig Monkey wrote a series of guides on configuring a web and email server. His guide on email setup seemed to explain the process better so I gave it a shot.
Short story is I now have a functioning web server, w00t! Bad news is that due to my ip address, some email servers won’t accept mail from me and I need to make use of some form of relay that will be accepted. The crappy news is that most of the free relays I could use would also be in use by spammers and they would get blackholed pretty quickly. I could pay for a relay service but I am a cheapskate. Seems I’m gonna be stuck with 3rd party email services for the near future. At least now I know what to do.
Shortly after Episode 17 was released, Avagdu released episodes 18 and 19 of his video series. I just never got around to updating this till now. Oops.
