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Comment on telnet http proxy by man

man — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:47:22 +0000

just use ‘echo -n’

Comment on Asus Eee PC 900 Easy Peasy Wifi Toggle Hack by Jacob's blog Mk. II » Upgrade season

Jacob's blog Mk. II » Upgrade season — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:30:35 +0000

[...] to have been fixed — except the inability to turn the WiFi on! Another user put together a fix in February, but unincorporated by the maintainers. I find this bug just as staggering to find [...]

Comment on telnet http proxy by kotczarny

kotczarny — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:26:09 +0000

you can also do:
echo -n “user:pass” | base64

Comment on telnet http proxy by Martin Allert

Martin Allert — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:23:24 +0000

There is a far less complex way to get this base64 encoding. Just type in the shell:

printf “USER:PASS” | openssl base64

You can’t use echo, because echo would add a \n at the end of the string thus leading openssl to encode one more character.

Comment on Asus Eee PC 900 Easy Peasy Wifi Toggle Hack by admin

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:02:42 +0000

Hey Jacob,
Unfortunately I had to scrap my netbook due to borked hardware. Have you tried ubuntu’s official netbook distro?
http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook

If it were around when I had my Asus I would have probably gone with it.

Good luck!

Comment on Asus Eee PC 900 Easy Peasy Wifi Toggle Hack by Jacob's blog Mk. II » Got an Eee? Forget Easy Peasy

Jacob's blog Mk. II » Got an Eee? Forget Easy Peasy — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:57:01 +0000

[...] broke WiFi again. Fortunately, there’s a user-contributed fix available, like the other times this has happened! Unfortunately, the maintainers aren’t adopting it, also just like the other [...]

Comment on WTF Dell? by heather

heather — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:53:56 +0000

Got the same impersonal email around 3 o’clock this morning. I understand static customer service letters, but this is cold. You are 100% right that something should be offered to compensate!

Comment on WTF Dell? by jason

jason — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:58:13 +0000

Hey Lees! I think companies really miss the idea of “being cool” to their customers. It’s a lost opportunity to turn an unpleasant situation into something positive.

I had another thought. Since Dell is a ‘build to order’ type of service, why not interact with me at every step of the way? I’d love to see a daily progress report of MY dell’s birth. Maybe a picture of the dude who installed the memory module giving a thumbs up. Take the Build-a-bear approach and all of a sudden the business of building computers takes a turn into the land of boutique.

Ahh, when I’m king of the world…

Comment on WTF Dell? by Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:48:06 +0000

As someone who used to manage an online customer service team, I agree with you 1000%. Our email program was set up to do mail merge with customer names for good reason. The rest of the reply leaves alot to be desired, too. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on WTF Dell? by OOJ

OOJ — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:05:01 +0000

Mmmm…. coffee…..