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Pourquoi pas décorer son bureau?!! si vous êtes des utilisateurs d’une distribution linux, ou des funs de notre Cute tux, voila une maquette que vous pouvez monter vous même, faut juste avoir un ciseau et de la colle et un ti peux du temps libre.

PS: je l’ai pas encore fait car j’ai pas trouvé d la colle chez moi ^^

The idea comes from this xkcd comic.

1429 أطيب التمنيات بمناسبة السنة الهجرية الجديدة
Bonne et Joyeuse Année 1429
Happy New Year 1429

وبهذه المناسبة يسعدنا إصدار هذه النسخة الجديدة للموقع. ونرجو أن يلقى نفس الإعجاب الذي لقيه الموقع القديم أو أكثر

Et à l’occasion de ce grand événement nous somme heureux de lancer cette nouvelle version de notre blog. Et nous espérons que vous allez l’apprécier autant que l’ancien blog ou bien plus.

And with this great event we are happy to launch this new version of our blog. We hope you will enjoy it as much as the old one, or even more.

Like many Moroccans, I have an ADSL Internet provided by Maroc Telecom, and like many human beings, I’m not a very big Micro$oft Windoz fan.

Question: So! How can I switch to Linux and keep my self connected?

In this post, I’m going to show you how I hacked my Sagem F@st 800 to get it work with my Linux Mint (an Ubuntu based distribution, thus a Debian based one)
I tried to make it as easy and lazy as I could and this is the step by step How-To that really really works, enjoy !

1- You will need some extra stuff for this hack. So you have to put your Sagem F@st 800 aside and go buy a Wireless ADSL2+ Router from your Hi Tech store.
I’m doing my test on a laptop which has a wireless card. If it’s not your case, you have also to buy a USB wireless adapter for your old laptop or PC.

2- The cheapest wireless ADSL2+ router I found was an EDIMAX AR-7084gA, So I hardly did the sacrifice and bought it taking the risk that It may not work as good as an expensive 3Com or a Linksys.

3- We will try the wireless configuration way, so there’s no need for the installation CD and the RJ45 cable

4- Connect the EDIMAX to the RJ11 phone cable and your PC/laptop to the EDIMAX detected default wireless network. If you have some troubles connecting, press the reset button on the back of the router for more than 5 seconds to restore its default manufacture parameters.

5- After connecting to the local wireless network, go to the best browser in the Internet history (Firefox of course) and ask for the 192.168.2.1 address:
User Name: Admin
Password: 1234

6- You’re now connected to the EDIMAX web administration interface. To make it easy for all student readers (including the teacher that I am), I will use the Wizard in the “Quick Start” section to set Maroc Telecom parameters

7- Before, EDIMAX will ask you to change the default “1234″ Admin password

8- … and the appropriate timezone (like I was making the test from my personal sailing boat somewhere in the pacific, i chose Fiji for my location, but you rather choose the appropriate one, Greenwich if you’re in Morocco)

9- For the connection type, choose PPPoE/PPPoA

10- Enter your menara user name and password. Then 8 for VPI and 35 one for VCI and finally PPPoE LLC in the last combobox (Dont ask me what those things mean; Howa ana 3arif biguibolna al asami di mnine o_O ?!!!)

11- Save your changes (EDIMAX will ask you before that to reopen your session with the new Admin password)

12- Now, we can make a test to check the Internet connection. For that, open a new Firefox tab and ask for the web site: http://agafix.blogspot.com.
If you get something weird and crazy, congratulation, it works !

13- Check you gmail account (It’s been a while that you were off line no ?!)

I let you make a trip to the others web admin sections and play with it as you like. If you made some catastrophic configuration and you were not be able to reach your favorite http://agafix.blogspot.com, just press the reset button again for more than 5 seconds and repeat the steps above.

In my case, the reflex settings I did were:

14- Activating the Firewall and the MAC filter

15- Setting my DynDns account config
etc etc…

The last ultimate and the most important step: Take you Sagem F@st 800… and throw it out the window (^_~)

If not, you can keep it for some contemporary art work (^_^)

That key is just on the way. Whenever you want to use one of its neighbors (Tab, Shift, A, Q), there’s a good chance you’re gonna press that stupid key instead.

Lately I found out that I was not along, and others like me started a war against it.

So I joined them:

Life is much better now (^_^)

For further reading:

• http://capsoff.blogspot.com
• http://capsoff.org
• http://groups.google.com/group/capsoff

[Edit:] If you care about your keyboard and you are using Linux (Under X) you can disable the caps key by creating a .xmodmap file in your home directory with the following:

remove Lock = Caps_Lock

and insert this line xmodmap ~/.xmodmap into your ~/.bash_profile

This Tip was from this page: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs

I was jumping like a little child when I read this gearth blog post this morning.
FTA:
New high resolution:

Europe, Middle East and Africa:

• France: Le Havre, Dunkerque
• Poland: Poznan
• Russia: Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Vladikavkaz, Volzhskiy, Barnaul
• Ukraine: Rivne, Odesa
• Morocco: Agadir
• Nigeria: Abuja

Here are some shots:

[Edit] The high resolution images are not now available yet in the maps version.

When Mitsubishi doesn’t make Lancers, which I will never have the opportunity to drive except on my little brother’s console:

Or doesn’t make futuristic trucks:

They develop hallucinating technologies, such as smart resizing:

The erase option at the end of the video is the one that impressed me the most.
So, it wasn’t a bluff in Prison Break, when a specialist from “The Company” simply erased secret agent Paul Kellerman from their videos when they decided to cut him off.I wonder when other science fiction cinema tricks will become a reality. Like when, knowing there is not enough pixels to do it, they zoom into someone’s eye to get his iris prints.

NB: My example
Before

After

Whenever I want to do that, it’s always the same scenario:

1. open the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file w/ an editor
2. go to the line containing the host key
3. remove it
4. save

I just found the proper way to do it:

$ ssh-keygen -R remotehost
/home/kakashi/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/kakashi/.ssh/known_hosts.old