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wifi on amtrak

i haven’t been able to get too much info, but i can definitely tell you that the wireless devices aboard the downeaster maine to beantown are cradlepoint hardware

facts i’ve proven about them:
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2 –>both of these ips are considered default by this page: http://www.marinetelecom.net/Cradlepoint-MBR1000.htm (which also suggests the last six of the mac address in lower case as login password)
also the internal router page had something about a local chat that i couldn’t figure out with my jlime jornada 690 (was 680e that has been chip-upgraded)
routing doesnt appear consistent: what is my ip said 173.114.72.107 but an nmap scan said nothing open and a traceroute -n showed my first hop beyond the 0.1 being 68.28.121.85 which seemed strange to me. i dont claim to un derstand high level routing so i suppose its possible but just stuck out as strange

guesses:
everything i’ve seen points to EVDO technology
potentially changed default passwds
ESSIDs follow pattern of “Downeaster 3” and “Downeaster 12” (only ones i saw)…3 was running on channel 9

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phpMyProxy – Simple, Straightforward and works

When a routing issue in our datacenter arose today, as a temporary solution i whipped out a proxy install that was so basic i couldn’t mess it up (and i definitely was doing “unsupported” tweaks to the files). To embelish on the routing issue a little more: a local isp moved some equippment into the datacenter, now on the same level in the same pool as our servers, their clients could not reach our servers when entering the routes from very specific directions. a temp solution is now in place and they aren’t sure when the permanent solution will work…don’t blame me….nothing changed on my end.

http://www.drunkensailor.org/proxy/

www.phpmyproxy.com – i did have to register for the initial link, but since it’s open source here’s a link to my version’s tarball…(so much lighter!!!)

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naked and famous

I cant explain glacial motion
Or why los angeles dont drop into the ocean
I cant unfold the layers of mystery
Or piece together the tragedy of history
cuz those lucky suckers they dont have to work
Big 3 d billboards and big 30 foot smurfs
And everybody wants to be naked and famous
Everybody wanna be just like me Im naked and famous

I met a poet said she didnt like the smell of it
Then took her clothes off in a restaurant for the hell of it
I met a dj who lived in seclusion reality and sobriety were her only delusions

And those lucky bastards they dont have to work
Big 3 d billboards and big 30 foot smurfs
And everybody wants to be naked and famous
Everybody wanna be just like me Im naked and famous

Woo uh hoo hoo hoo
Wow ah hoo hoo hoo

Well dont get a nosebleed dont get upset
We cant be naked and famous just yet
Theres a big gold dollar sign on the sunset strip
And you can send your friend a postcard it aint worth the trip

Everybody wants to be naked and famous

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CUPS useful commands

to add a MFC-8220 printer to CUPS v1.1.20 connected to a linksys print server via commandline:

#/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p xxxbrotherA -m BR8220_2_GPL.ppd -v lpd://192.168.xxx.5/P1 -E
***replace “xxx” with appropriate subnet
***get the PPD from openprinting.org http://openprinting.org/foomatic-db/db/source/PPD/Brother/BR8220_2_GPL.ppd

to list all currently installed printers:

# lpstat -v

to list all supported models:

# lpinfo -m

to test a PPD file for validity and compatility:

# cupstestppd /path/to/ppd

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ndiswrapper with linux kernel 2.6.29.2

made the all too fatal yet all to common mistake of updating to slackware current fully and lost the ability to compile some of my favorite (virtualbox) and most used (ndiswrapper) software due too stricter code residing in the kernel. so all that aside, i HAVE to use ndiswrapper with mylow power lp-phy usb-like mini pci card…it sucks in short.

so with ndiswrapper not compiling i was giving up hope until i found this post –> read through to the last post by slh.. in it he shows a patch fix (which is pretty striaght forward to apply manually) and i have included below:

fix C syntax error and field name in conditional netdev ops struct,
triggering on kernel >= 2.6.29 and CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER=y.

— a/driver/wrapndis.c
+++ b/driver/wrapndis.c
@@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops ndis_
.ndo_set_mac_address = ndis_set_mac_address,
.ndo_get_stats = ndis_get_stats,
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
– .poll_controller = ndis_poll_controller;
+ .ndo_poll_controller = ndis_poll_controller,
#endif
};
#endif

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gmail through sendmail

first read this for a base understanding of the whys and hows

then read this for more specific instructions

i ignored everything about fetchmail as i was only interested in sending abilities, but carrying the step further should be no problem. i also recoomend building a secondary gmail account just in case the hashed file was to be compromised