This was all in vogue a few years ago to allow people to quickly join your guest network, but there was precious little information on how it all worked. You were expected to just bang your SSID and Password into a site and get a pretty picture back. Yeah, right; that sounds like a clever . . . → Read More: Generate QR Codes for WiFi networks
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Here is a small little ditty of bash to mull over for this Thursday’s (2013/08/01) group meet: (Lots of preamble to set the scene 🙂 ) #!/bin/bash # Copyright 2013 Martin Lomas # # License: # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU . . . → Read More: Trivial Replace Repeated Lines (fortune quotes reformat) The script below grabs the latest design from TeeFury and creates a file you can easily place on your desktop, a bit like this example. Comments are invited on ways to improve this script (as it doesn’t always work due to the RegEx) and follow general best practice. For the script to work you’ll need . . . → Read More: TeeFury on your desktop So… Confusingly there are 11, 13, or 14 ‘channels’ for the commonly used WiFi on 2.4GHz, yet not all of those channels should be used with the latest WiFi devices… A brief summary is: The WiFi channel numbers must be treated as ‘spot frequencies’ rather than sacrosanct self-contained ‘channels’. The channels 1 to 13 are . . . → Read More: What WiFi Channel? Sorry, if you don’t know what dd or mbr are, you need to do some more reading up first 😉
Some self-explanatory code snippets seen elsewhere as a good reminder for old-style partition tables: # To save the MBR to a file (contains the partition table also): dd if=/dev/sdX of=sdX-mbr-full bs=512 count=1 # To . . . → Read More: dd your mbr |
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