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With modems sleep can help a lot ….

Posted on by sandklef

Just been at a customer trying to fix a problem with a really old wavecom modem that seem to malfunction after detaching from the gsm layer. This worked fine:

detach gprs

attach gprs

start pppd

… and this failed in a script:

detach gprs

detach gsm

attach gsm

attach gprs

start pppd

But worked when executing the commands (bash functions that wrapped the various chat scripts) one by one …. strange. Not really. Timing problems, as usual!
OK, so we added a small sleep (1 second I think) after attaching to gprs. Et voila. it worked again.

…. modems modems modems. Can’t live with or without them ;)

New GNU stuff September 2007

Posted on by sandklef

This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as
announced during September 2007 on the mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-prog

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GNU Proxyknife 1.7 / 2007-09-24

GNU Proxyknife is a utility to validate free
proxies for users behind firewall with strict
limits.

http://www.gnu.org/software/proxyknife/proxyknife.html

Archimedes 0.7.0 / 2007-09-23

Archimedes is the GNU package for 2D semiconductor
device simulations. Archimedes is released under
GPL 3 license.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/archimedes/

glpk 4.22 / 2007-09-19

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended
for solving large-scale linear programming (LP),
mixed integer linear programming (MIP), and
other related problems.

http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

Diction 1.11 / 2007-09-18

Diction identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases.
Style analyses surface characteristics of a document.

http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html

GNU Source-highlight 2.8 / 2007-09-18

This program, given a source file, produces a
document with syntax highlighting.

http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite

Aeneas 1.1 / 2007-09-17

Aeneas is a Monte Carlo simulator which is able to
simulate particles on 3D tetrahedra meshes.

http://www.gnu.org/software/aeneas/

Archimedes 0.1.4 / 2007-09-15

Archimedes is the GNU package for 2D semiconductor
device simulations. Archimedes is released under
GPL 3 license.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/archimedes/

Archimedes 0.1.3 / 2007-09-15

Archimedes is the GNU package for 2D semiconductor
device simulations. Archimedes is released under
GPL 3 license.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/archimedes/

GNU Scientific Library 1.10 / 2007-09-14

GSL provides a large collection of well-tested
routines for numerical computing in C.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

Aeneas 1.0 / 2007-09-14

Aeneas is a Monte Carlo simulator which is able to
simulate particles on 3D tetrahedra meshes.

http://www.gnu.org/software/aeneas/

Archimedes 0.1.2 / 2007-09-14

Archimedes is the GNU package for 2D semiconductor
device simulations. Archimedes is released under
GPL 3 license.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/archimedes/

GNU ghostscript 8.60.0 / 2007-09-13

Interpreter for the PostScript language and the
PDF file format. A set of C procedures that implement
the graphics capabilities. A wide variety of output
drivers for various file formats and printers.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/

Archimedes 0.1.1 / 2007-09-11

Archimedes is the GNU package for 2D semiconductor
device simulations. Archimedes is released under
GPL 3 license.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/archimedes/

GNU Texinfo 4.11 / 2007-09-10

Texinfo is the official documentation format of the
GNU project.

http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

GnuPG 2.0.7 / 2007-09-10

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU’s tool for
secure communication and data storage.

http://www.gnupg.org/

Archimedes 0.1.0 / 2007-09-10

Archimedes is the GNU package for 2D semiconductor
device simulations. Archimedes is released under
GPL 3 license.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/archimedes/

Archimedes 0.0.9 / 2007-09-09

Archimedes is the GNU package for 2D semiconductor
device simulations. Archimedes is released under
GPL 3 license.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/archimedes/

GnuTLS 2.0.0 / 2007-09-04

GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard
network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS),
for use by network applications.

http://www.gnutls.org/

RefTeX 4.33 / 2007-09-02

RefTeX is a specialized package for support of labels,
references, citations, and the index in LaTeX.

http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/reftex.html

gpaint 0.3.2 / 2007-09-02

A small-scale painting program for GNOME.

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gpaint/

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If you have any comments or questions regarding this
compilation, contact Henrik Sandklef

Sandklef GNU Labs avstyrker OOXML

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Sandklef GNU Labs avstyrker OOXML

Jag försöte hitta remissen på www.sis.se. Efter en halvtimme gav jag upp. Istället ringde jag upp sis och bad om hjälp. Inte ens de kunde hitta den. Intressant. Efter att (den mycket trevliga) damen i telefonen bett om hjälp från en kollega, vilket tog ca 5 minuter hittade vi rätt. Men inte lyckades vi ladda ned svars-blanketten. Istället skickas den per epost.

You know you're a geek when ….

Posted on by sandklef

you, while waiting for the grep command to finish, write a script like this:

#!/bin/sh
clear
export COLS=$(tput cols)
export ROWS=$(tput lines)
while(true)
do
XPOS=$(( $RANDOM % $COLS ))
YPOS=$(( $RANDOM % $ROWS ))
CHAR=$(( $(( $RANDOM % 143 )) + 33 ))
tput cup $YPOS $XPOS
export NCHAR=$(printf "%o" $CHAR)
echo -n -e "\\$NCHAR"
done

Top 10, #5: Sonic Youth / Daydream nation 1988

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Before I listened to this album (on LP) I had not heard Sonic Youth at all.
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation

  1. Teen Age Riot
  2. Silver Rocket
  3. The Sprawl
  4. ‘Cross The Breeze
  5. Eric’s Trip
  6. Total Trash
  7. Hey Joni
  8. Providence
  9. Candle
  10. 10 Kissability
  11. Trilogy: a) The Wonder b) Hyperstation c) Eliminator Jr.
    Teen Age Riot: The album starts off with Teen age riot, which is a really good song. I liked it.

    Silver rocket: At at the second track I realised that Sonic Youth is my kind of band. Silver rocket is pure magic. Electrifying. Fast. Hard. It had (and still has) everything.

    The sprawl.‘Cross The Breeze


    Eric’s Trip:     Wow a third singer. A completely different type of song. Man, this is so damn good.

    Hey Joni: By that time I was really into Joni Mitchell (listen to the album ‘or the roses’ and you’ll understand why) so I loved the name of the song. When listening to the song I thought it was the best song ever made by man. Still I think it qualifies.

    Providence


    Candle:     By the time I got to the previous track I really thought this was a very good album. When having heard Candle I know for sure. This is one of the best albums I’ve ever heard and Sonic Youth is one of the best bands ever. This song is so damn good.