Thursday, May 31, 2007

Linux - wireless at ipw3945

For some time, after upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty 7.04, my wireless wasn't working. After some research, it came out, that the kill switch is turned on, and it's needed this switch to be turned off, for the wireless to work. I tried different commands and things, but every time I was just close to making it work. These griefs were ended by an user in the ubuntuforums, named 'goranpop', who suggested, that two simple commands would give life to my wireless (here's the thread).
The computer is Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro v3505, the wireless driver is ipw3945abg, and the commands are (as a root):
modprobe fsam7400
echo 1 > /proc/driver/wireless/radio

This turned the kill switch (and the led) off, turning me into a content user of Ubuntu Linux.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Music - Voda (Water)

This is a link from www.youtube.com to the bulgarian song in Eurovision 2007, placed among top five: http://www.youtube.com/...
Here's what the song means:


Here's the text:
Bulgarian
More, malka mome, yi..
More, more pee, iy

More Mitra pee na rekata, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
More, na rekata, do gorata, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
More, yozdol ide, ludo mlado, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
More, ludo mlado, konche vodi, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le

More, more pee
More, more, iy
Mitre le
Eno ho.. ho.. ho..
A.. a.. a..

More, ludo mlado, konche yazdi, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
More, konche yazdi, moma lyubi, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
Tara-du-da day-du-dara dara-du-da, Mitre le

Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey, hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da

Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey, hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da

English translation

See this young lass there, eeeeee!
See this young lass sing, eee!

See young Mitra singing by the river, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass,
See young Mitra there, yond’ the forest, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass,
There’s a young lad coming from the village, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass,
Walking by his side’s a wild young pony, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass,
See him walking there, hear him singing, eeee!

See the young lad riding his wild pony, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass
See him riding, holding tight his lassie, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass

Traduction en Francais

Regarde cette jeune fille Mitra
Qui chante
Qui chante au bord de la riviere,
Ehi Mitra qui chante au bord de la riviere pres de la foret..
Voila qui arrive un jeune garcon avec son cheval

Et Mitra chante de joie

Car ce jeune garcon qui vient sur son cheval aime la fille Mitra
Tara du da day du dara
Tara du day Mitre le
Tara du da day..

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Linux - the file .conkyrc

Here's how my current .conkyrc looks like, using the conkyrc setup (but a bit tweaked) from http://ubuntugeek.com

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft no

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 30.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
font arial
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color grey

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color}
${color orange}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine
Uptime: $uptime Battery time: ${battery_time}
Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes

${color orange}CPU ${hr 2}$color
${freq}MHz Load: ${loadavg} Temp.(C): ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ffffff}
NAME PID CPU% MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

${color orange}MEMORY & DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM: $memperc% ${membar 6}$color
Swap: $swapperc% ${swapbar 6}$color
Used: ${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}

${color orange}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth0}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${color orange}LOGGING ${hr 2}$color
${execi 30 tail -n3 /var/log/messages | fold -w50}

${color orange}FORTUNE ${hr 2}$color
${execi 60 fortune -s -e| fold -w50 -s}

==================================================
And another .conkyrc file:
background yes
double_buffer yes
use_spacer yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans:size=9
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 30.0
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
default_color grey
own_window_colour brown
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_borders no
draw_outline yes
stippled_borders no
border_margin 0
border_width 1
alignment bottom_left
minimum_size 1262
gap_x 9
gap_y 9
uppercase yes

TEXT
${color darkgrey}Uptime:${color white}$uptime ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}Battery time:${color white}${battery_time} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}Temp.(C):${color white}${acpitemp} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}System load (1m., 5m., 15m.):${color white}${loadavg} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey} Date:${color white}${time %e %m %G} ${color}|${color}
${color}

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