Dammit, I forgot my 10.04 cd. Guess I'll have to finish this later.
Using VirtualBox to put a 10.04 in my W7 because right now Firefox in Windows is what is needed to make my stuffs work.
Showing posts with label vm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vm. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Sahana: Eden opensource
This is the project that the GHC10 hackathon was about, and it's still pretty cool. They even have a preconfigured VM for you to install if you want to not have to bother messing with your main machine/install.
By the way, the required registration process for a VMWare download is a nuisance so I'm going with VirtualBox. Shiny. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Btw until the GHC10 blog accumulator stops accumulating, I won't be using the ghc10 tag on this blog! Because I don't want my every meandering thought showing up on the blogstream, lol.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Clear internet vs. Ubuntu: round 1
Basic research turns up that many other people have had this problem (duh) and there are even some working solutions.
Solutions:
1. Run Ubuntu. Make a virtual machine to run Windows.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=4c54d9928910267a2e0566113d05a89b&t=1243159&page=2
Downsides: resource-intensive to run, time-intensive to set up.
2. use the Clear "hotspot" (i.e. it makes wifi from 4G for you) ...turn it on and it works. elegant.
downside: heavy to carry, so only an at-home solution. Gotta buy (or rent) the hotspot from Clear.
3. fiddle with ndiswrapper forever (no one has gotten this working yet, I think)
4. Something something Moblin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin (I don't understand this one and I don't think that the person discussing it actually got it to work)
5. Something something VMware (see 4 for commentary)
[interjection: OMG SO MANY EGOTISTICAL and ignorant post=newbs]
[sorry about that, it's just driving me a little mad]
It seems clear that Clear modems work fine with *NIX boxen, both through wifi and ethernet. (Clear's website FAQ states that their modems work with the Linux OS, and the forums sometimes list a modem as an easy alternate-route solution to the problem)
6. wvdial http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843973
Yes, this is a long thread.
Yes, this addresses a specific provider in the UK (and my problem addresses a problem with a provider primarily in Chicago)
I would like to take a moment to laugh at this statement. "I general I try to avoid software which might break my system."
Yes, me too. I always try to not break my system. But everything we use in this life is subject to rm, so try to not be too paranoid. If we didn't ignore the warning labels, we wouldn't be geeks. geeks/scientists/intelligent/human?)
As a side note, I think it's kinda cool that the IIT network added my MAC address to their approved list in such a way that I don't have to re-register my comp (running ubuntu on the school wireless for the first time, but ran Vista while logged on previously)
7. According to various people posting at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843973&page=3
it seems that NM 0.7 (anmd possibly more current versions, although those were probably not yet developed when this thread was established) may be able to fix this problem as a more or less plug and play kind of solution, and (if things go wrong) will restore previous settings when it's uninstalled.
http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/
(As everyone has discovered before me) "plug and play" is bullshit. Rather, it's what happens after a whole bunch of geeks work out ways to make things work, probably by typing green text into little black boxes. If you are a geek, plug and play is a convenience on your way to trying to solve your own black box problems, not an expectation.
It's also kinda amusing that the terminal box is a black box, i.e. contains non-understood inside bots. Hopefully that's generally not true... also, more recent versions of Ubuntu have the terminal box transparent purple by default. :p Pretty, but less humorous.
Mostly unrealted: vnstat is a cool little thingie with which you can monitor your internet usage. (useful if you have a company-imposed cap on your usage)
Pages 7-15 seem to be newbs either giving thanks for the fix, or asking for clarification on something that tripped them up.
8. Gnome-PPP
Just don't ask.
Apparently "Three" is a pretty big internet provider across the pond. Always good to know these things, I guess.
9. umtsmon
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843973&page=12
I don't care I don't care I don't care
People keep mentioning setserial.
Right. research done. Conclusion: I don't know why people use emoticons of someone playing a guitar.
Other (possibly useful, but not to me) links
http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2008/10/09/huawei-e169-3g-modem-on-ubuntu-804/
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1046813
http://www.linuxwimax.org/ (awesome!!)
http://crazyaboutubuntu.wordpress.com/huawei-e169g-hsdpa-usb-stick-on-ubuntu/
Cool glossary chart of sysadmin terminology http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
There may be a part 2 when/if I make a solution for myself.
Solutions:
1. Run Ubuntu. Make a virtual machine to run Windows.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=4c54d9928910267a2e0566113d05a89b&t=1243159&page=2
Downsides: resource-intensive to run, time-intensive to set up.
2. use the Clear "hotspot" (i.e. it makes wifi from 4G for you) ...turn it on and it works. elegant.
downside: heavy to carry, so only an at-home solution. Gotta buy (or rent) the hotspot from Clear.
3. fiddle with ndiswrapper forever (no one has gotten this working yet, I think)
4. Something something Moblin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin (I don't understand this one and I don't think that the person discussing it actually got it to work)
5. Something something VMware (see 4 for commentary)
[interjection: OMG SO MANY EGOTISTICAL and ignorant post=newbs]
[sorry about that, it's just driving me a little mad]
It seems clear that Clear modems work fine with *NIX boxen, both through wifi and ethernet. (Clear's website FAQ states that their modems work with the Linux OS, and the forums sometimes list a modem as an easy alternate-route solution to the problem)
6. wvdial http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843973
Yes, this is a long thread.
Yes, this addresses a specific provider in the UK (and my problem addresses a problem with a provider primarily in Chicago)
I would like to take a moment to laugh at this statement. "I general I try to avoid software which might break my system."
Yes, me too. I always try to not break my system. But everything we use in this life is subject to rm, so try to not be too paranoid. If we didn't ignore the warning labels, we wouldn't be geeks. geeks/scientists/intelligent/human?)
As a side note, I think it's kinda cool that the IIT network added my MAC address to their approved list in such a way that I don't have to re-register my comp (running ubuntu on the school wireless for the first time, but ran Vista while logged on previously)
7. According to various people posting at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843973&page=3
it seems that NM 0.7 (anmd possibly more current versions, although those were probably not yet developed when this thread was established) may be able to fix this problem as a more or less plug and play kind of solution, and (if things go wrong) will restore previous settings when it's uninstalled.
http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/
(As everyone has discovered before me) "plug and play" is bullshit. Rather, it's what happens after a whole bunch of geeks work out ways to make things work, probably by typing green text into little black boxes. If you are a geek, plug and play is a convenience on your way to trying to solve your own black box problems, not an expectation.
It's also kinda amusing that the terminal box is a black box, i.e. contains non-understood inside bots. Hopefully that's generally not true... also, more recent versions of Ubuntu have the terminal box transparent purple by default. :p Pretty, but less humorous.
Mostly unrealted: vnstat is a cool little thingie with which you can monitor your internet usage. (useful if you have a company-imposed cap on your usage)
Pages 7-15 seem to be newbs either giving thanks for the fix, or asking for clarification on something that tripped them up.
8. Gnome-PPP
Just don't ask.
Apparently "Three" is a pretty big internet provider across the pond. Always good to know these things, I guess.
9. umtsmon
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843973&page=12
I don't care I don't care I don't care
People keep mentioning setserial.
Right. research done. Conclusion: I don't know why people use emoticons of someone playing a guitar.
Other (possibly useful, but not to me) links
http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2008/10/09/huawei-e169-3g-modem-on-ubuntu-804/
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1046813
http://www.linuxwimax.org/ (awesome!!)
http://crazyaboutubuntu.wordpress.com/huawei-e169g-hsdpa-usb-stick-on-ubuntu/
Cool glossary chart of sysadmin terminology http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
There may be a part 2 when/if I make a solution for myself.
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