Ushering 2009 . . .
I feel like doing a long post but I just can’t get my fingers to type them out of my mind just yet. A lot had happened in 2008. Life lessons learnt, made new friends; lost none. Realised that I really really reallllllllllllllly need a vacation. Anyways, happy new year and happy holidays to anyone who’s reading this. May God bless you.
Salam :)
– hk
Renaming net device aliases (wlan* ath* eth*)
I’m putting this up since I’m too lazy to really blog and I always tend to forget how to do this particular thing whenever I got a new net device to replace the old one :P
Whenever linux detects a new network adapter; USB wifi or cardbus or expresscard; it’ll auto assign a network interface alias to the device according to their respective chipset (ex: ath0 ath1 wlan0 wlan0 eth1 eth2 etc etc) so you might just get annoying when u plugged in a new network device and your linux system assigned wlan99 to it (wonder if there’s such person with that much network adapters to work with). Easiest way is to just unplugged the device then edit / remove the old devices record (or as you Windows users call it, “registry”) by doing:
# vim /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
and remove / edit away the old devices and rename the latest device entry back to wlan0 or ath0 or eth1. Plug the new device back in and kernel should detect and give it a new alias according to what you’ve set it in 70-persistent-net.rules file.
Cheers :)
– hk
paranoia?
All these while, when the guys (we) are gonna chill out after midnight, we’d be going to either OldTown Yap Kwan Seng or FAB in Subang since both has free Wi-Fi, opens 24hours and aren’t some fast food chain. So today, when we arrived at OldTown Kopitiam Yap Kwan Seng, the waiter told us “Sorry, Manager said no wireless access after 3AM“; which is NOT cool at all considering there’s pretty less people after 3am and it’s not like we’re only gonna order 1 drink and use Wi-Fi till the next morning =\ That’s sooo -1 for you Mr Yap Kwan Seng OldTown Kopitiam Manager.
Sexier than Vista?
* Teh current system setup on my Presario V3204AU *
* Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS (Primary Operating System)
* Windows XP Service Pack 3 (Running via VMWare Player)
\- 8GiB Primary IDE Hard Disk
- 20GiB Secondary IDE Hard Disk
A new beginning?
My sincere congratulations goes to Mr Barack Hussein Obama, the new President of The United States of America.
Cheers :)
– aphesz
