January 2010
6 posts
Re%3A iPhone tether on Ubuntu
Scratch that. I figured out how to tether via Bluetooth on Ubuntu. Firstly, install blueman from here. Blueman is a Bluetooth manager replacement for Gnome that is about 30 billion times better than the default. Next, make sure your computer is discoverable, and pair FROM THE iPHONE. That’s the important step that I failed at when I tried this before. Once your computer is paired, you can...
iPhone tether on Ubuntu
This is a note for my own reminder. It’s also sort of a cheap hack. iPhone 3.0 has the ability to tether to a computer over Bluetooth or USB. The task is made extremely simple on Windows and Mac, but I haven’t really figured out a way to take advantage of the iPhone’s tethering feature on Ubuntu. Maybe some day it will be integrated into NetworkManager, but in the mean time,...
Re%3A Sleep
So I stopped taking melatonin and drinking coffee last Friday. I went to bed at reasonable times this weekend, and woke up without the aid of an alarm clock at around 7-8. It felt pretty good. Last night, I couldn’t sleep and lay awake restlessly until about 2:00am. But I woke up easily at 7:30am feeling pretty good. I know it usually takes a lot longer than a single day to change your...
Sleep and robots
I’ve been having sleep related troubles for a few weeks. If I leave my eyes open in the dark, strange imaginary apparitions cast themselves about the room from within my sleepy mind. I find it difficult to wake up in the morning, and I’m tired all day long. I take 6mg melatonin almost every night, and I have been for over 2 years. I try to go to sleep between 10:30-11pm every night,...
About
This is my attempt at a blog. I hold a very new BS degree in Computer Engineering from UCSB, complete with that new degree smell everyone loves. As you might have predicted, my interests include Linux, programming, hardware design, and science of all kinds. You can follow me (up to a point) on Twitter, see my Facebook, or view my bookmarks.
Push notification hack
There’s an app in the iPhone app store called Prowl which is like a Growl client for the iPhone. For those of you who don’t know, Growl is a program for Mac OSX (and Windows too, apparently) that pops up notifications on your screen about various things of interest. Most Mac apps that wish to notify you of something probably use Growl. For example, your IM program can pop up a...
November 2009
1 post
4 tags
Dropbox and automatic scripts
A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10. While at work, I needed to SSH to my home computer, but I had forgotten to install SSH server. I happened to be renewing my love for Dropbox at the time and I decided to write a program that would monitor a Dropbox directory on my computer for scripts, and execute them. That way I can run arbitrary commands remotely, even if I forgot to install SSH. There...
August 2009
2 posts
3 tags
360
I think I’m going pack up my XBox 360, or take it to work. We used to have one there, but someone took it back home. Without it, we’ve resorted to juggling during our break times. Lame, or awesome? If I don’t pack it up or move it, it’s just going to tempt me. I’ve tried limiting myself to only playing on the weekends, but not after 11:00pm. That worked fine, but I...
Hello world!
Ah I finally did something about making a blog. I have been wanting to for a while. The problem was that I never realistically expected myself to post to a blog consistently. When I went to India this summer, I wanted to record my experiences somehow. I thought that I should start small with a Twitter account (here). After all, Twitter is just a micro-blogging service. Well, that didn’t...