Pricey’s Blog

This weekend… be there. ‘nuf said

A couple of years ago when I got this phone, I had a long play, working out what I could do with it. One of the things I ‘accomplished’ was connecting to the internet, using the motorola phone tools disc provided on a windows xp machine.

Now though I wanted to do the same, but with no windows install, I wasn’t holding my breath.

It was amazed at how surprisingly “simple” it was though…

I plugged the phone in with a usb cable, (made sure it was set to data/fax in its settings rather than memory card) then checked it was recognised in dmesg. Next, I…

sudo apt-get install wvdial

sudo wvdialconf

And finally edited /etc/wvdial.conf, adding “Stupid Mode = 1″ to the end, the wap phone number, user and password as appropriate.

To start up a connection, all I had to do was

sudo wvdial

Sure, wap is really slow, but with with minutes going to waste on my cheapo contract, I like to make the most of it!

P.s. Apologies for the poor gimping.

Incase you weren’t aware, irc.ubuntu.com points to irc.freenode.net Freenode upgraded their services package today to one called ‘atheme’ which has brought about a load of cool new features. Biggest thing to be aware of is:

Migrated accounts will have the password previously associated to the master nick. ie if you had a group of 7 nicks, with different passwords linked together, they are all now one big account, with a single password… taken from the master nick.

Please do read http://blog.freenode.net/?p=80 for a list of lots of other changes (especially so if you manage channels), and pop into #freenode or message a staffer who is on /stats p if you’ve got more questions.

The ‘Europe, Middle East & African’ regional membership approval board has set the date and time for its first meeting: Tuesday 27th May, 20:00 utc

Candidates and more information can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA

See you then!

For Google cache…

To get all msgs in a msgs window, but without changing anything else…

• /set use_msgs_window on
• /set autocreate_query_level DCCMSGS

And whilst in the status window…

• /window level ALL -MSGS

Finally, so that the msgs window knows what server you want to do things to when you /msg etc. in the msgs window, where ‘freenode’ is the name of the chatnet, do:

• /window server freenode

That should do it… *touch wood* Don’t forget to /save !

So this random page is back… and wordpress 2.5 is shiny!!