Year: 2006

Happy 25th, Vladimir! I’ve already told you all the wishes anyway…

Album location: /photos/2006/2006-04-08_Hazard_birthday/

Yet another of those tiny things that I wish I discovered a billion years ago – GNU grep supports color.  Yup, that’s right.  You can actually have your matches nicely highlighted in the results.  All you have to do to use this beauty is run grep --color instead of just grep. (Hint: an alias might be in order.)

I was eating my regular Green Burger (no, it’s not vegetarian) at Goodies today, when I noticed something WiFi related on the receipt. I looked closely and found out that there was a free WiFi access.

So, I powered up my notebook and decided to check it out. It got the IP address just fine, but nothing else worked. I tried to access a couple of sites with the browser – nope. Pinging a few IPs, including my own server did work either.

I looked back at the receipt and saw a randomly generated username and password printed on. At first I thought that these are for the PCs which are available to anyone at Goodies, but now I wasn’t so sure anymore. Probably they could be used to login to a proxy server or something like that.

IP settings showed 192.168.1.1 as a default gateway. So I tried that address in my browser and guess what – it worked. But I saw something totally different from what I was expecting. What I saw was a login screen to a 3Com wireless access point. It wasn’t asking for any username, and it printed ‘Default is admin‘ near the password field.

Sure enough, I typed it in and, o-oh, it worked. I got fully administrative rights to their acess point. I looked around here and there andn found an option that was saying something along the lines of ‘Allow all internal PCs access the Internet’. I enabled it and the web started working. Oh, my…

Complete self-service I call it – not only you have to get your own food, but you also have to configure your Internet access on your own.

Since I purchased my notebook and mentioned that I installed Fedora Linux 5 on it, I’ve been getting a lot of quesitons from people everywhere. One of the most frequent questions is “Does hybernate work?”.

You have to understand that this is my first notebook. At least in this century. So I am not very updated on the terminology and technologies involved. Trying to find out what ‘hybernate’ really is showed that different people mean different things.

Continue reading Hybernate. Don’t suspend.