Bluetooth Tethering your Ubuntu Jaunty netbook to iPhone running 3.0

Having access to an iPhone running the latest firmware, I was anxious
to get my netbook running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

It's easy once you install blueman from Synaptic package manager. For
whatever reason, the default Gnome bluetooth manager won't get the job
done.

Open up Bluetooth Manager from "System Preferences". Set your iPhone's
bluetooth to be discoverable.
The iPhone will show up in the list (if not, hit the 'Search' button).
Once it does, click on 'Bond'. 'Bond' will cause your iPhone to tell
you your netbook is trying to pair with it (It actually says 'Netbook
would like to pair with your iPhone', charmingly anthropomorphic).
You want that, so click 'Pair'.
Your iPhone will tell you to confirm that the same passkey is being
displayed in Blueman on your netbook. Confirm this on your netbook
too.
Once this is done, right click on the iPhone in Blueman. Under
'Network access', select 'Network access point'.
That's it, you're tethered. Your connection will show up in Network
Manager as 'bnep0'.

Netbook kernel redux (Virtualbox)

Right after you upgrade your kernel, Virtualbox is going to complain
that it can't load its corresponding kernel module.
Make sure you *also* install the corresponding Linux kernel headers
package and then reinstall Virtualbox.

Netbook kernel

This might seem a bit obvious, but until I installed the updates on
the husbinator's EeePC, I didn't know a netbook specific version of
the Linux kernel was available.
To get it on to your netbook, follow this link - http://array.org/ubuntu/setup.html

I installed it on the Lenovo S10. Haven't seen a *massive* jump in
performance like the Dothan-based Eee, but its a bit snappier.

Hold off on the latest Lenovo S10 BIOS update

Liliputing says hold off on S10 BIOS update v90.. may cause bricks,
ulcers http://is.gd/B2x9

It's not worth rushing into this one to clear up a little fan noise.

When all else fails ... (Unison)

Blow away *all* of the archive-files. Including those on the remote
end. I'd forgotten that Unison leaves files in ~/.unison on the remote
side as well. I couldn't get past the 'inconsistent state' error until
I read the article below.

See http://blog.philippheckel.com/2008/10/25/unison-and-multiple-hosts-warning-inconsistent-state/

S10 Bios 59

I had upgraded the BIOS on Cupcake to version 59 (available from the
Lenovo forums) to alleviate the off and on fan problem. If you've got
an S10, you know it's annoying and distracti-WHIRRRRRRR

I'll be rolling back though, probably to 58. The CPU temp idles at
55C. It ratchets up to 60 when web surfing.

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Sent from my iPhone

Midnightblue.net

While I'm working on my website, just so there's some content, I set up a redirect like so -

<?php

header("Location: http://lifeatmidnight.blogspot.com");

?>

Compiz on Jaunty...

I upgraded the netbook to from Intrepid (8.10) to Jaunty (9.04). Gnome-session stopped launching Compiz. It runs fine if you launch it from the terminal, and picks up that it needs the intel Xorg driver.

When compiz, or metacity don't launch, you have no window decorations, you can't change context, and you can't move between desktops (obviously). I just added compiz manually back via the gnome-session-manager. Aside from that weird quirk, Jaunty is great. Network-manager sucks with the Broadcomm 802.11g card a whole lot less, instead of about five minutes of hit-or-miss WPA2 authentication, it now logs on first try.

Permission issues in Leopard web sharing

Midnightblue.net is down right now, so I needed to set up a staging server on Caffeine (the MacBook Pro) in order to hack away on the redesign. It needs one, I've got x number of domains, and a few different subject areas I need to break down and link to.

I did an archive and install of Leopard recently so I went to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf , enabled php5, and assumed that would pretty much be the extent of things after I enabled Web Sharing.

Not so much... Leopard doesn't copy 'username'.conf to /etc/apache2/users , so apache doesn't know that the Sites folder in the user's home directory is supposed to be visible too.

Caffeine:extra kristy$ ls /etc/apache2/users

Caffeine:extra kristy$

I found that information here at Apple, so my next step was to look in the "Previous Systems" folder that the Archive and Install left behind, and 'kristy.conf' was in /etc/apache2. It's pretty simple in case you have to create that file from scratch, looks like this-

<Directory "/Users/kristy/Sites/">

Options Indexes MultiViews

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

My next step is to set up syncing of the website files via Unison to Cupcake (the Lenovo S10) and get its staging server launched. It's a strange quirk that this tiny little laptop has a 160Gig hard drive, and plenty of room to store anything I might be working on.

Picking up new skills

I'm auditing the Stanford iPhone Development course. It's been a while
since I did any coding.. So this has been fun so far.

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Sent from my iPhone

Buttonhole rose test run

Buttonhole rose test run
Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac

I need to get some pearl-headed pins, but I think I'm on my way here.

Buttonhole rose test run

Buttonhole rose test run
Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac

I need to get some pearl-headed pins, but I think I'm on my way here.