February 1, 2011 by Vincent
My school (Avans) has been using Eduroam for a while now. However, I haven’t been able to get it working. Mostly because I was lazy and they had a legacy support option which was using MAC address whitelisting, which was a lot easier to set up. But this option hasn’t been working great lately so I sat down and tried to get Eduroam working.
I use Archlinux on my laptop, which has an awesome tool for managing networks using only a commandline tool and some configuration files called netcfg. Netcfg can use the well known wpa_supplicant to authenticate with a protected network. To connect to an Eduroam you need a working config file. The following one worked for me at Avans.
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid="eduroam"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=TTLS
identity="<>@avans.nl"
anonymous_identity="anonymous@avans.nl"
password="<>"
priority=2
phase2="auth=PAP"
}
Good luck with it!
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October 23, 2009 by Vincent
I already showed you that I switched from Firefox to Uzbl. Uzbl has no tabs out of the box, so I had to come up with something else. Somebody made a tabbing plug-in for Uzbl, but somebody else pointed me to the tabbing layout for XMonad. But I don’t want my browser full-screen. I have 22″ monitors with a resolution of 1680 * 1050 so full screen is a little much. Fortunately XMonad has something for that as well. namely the ComboP layout.
ComboP is a way to combine multiple layouts in one workspace. I now have a portion of the workspace tabbed so that is where I can have multiple uzbl windows. On the other portion I have two terminals. One for Weechat and one for Mutt. These are situated in a tall layout that doesn’t resize so they will always have 50% of the available vertical space.
This would be useless to have on every workspace, I just want it on the one I have reserved for my browsing. So I went to look for another module and found it. It’s called PerWorkspace. It gives you the ability to set a layout for just one workspace and to have just one layout on a workspace, and multiple on all the others. It does make your layoutHook look like a mess.
Here is my layoutHook line, don’t forget the imports!:
,layoutHook = avoidStruts $ onWorkspace "www" (named "Tabbed" (windowNavigation (combineTwo (TwoPane 0.03 0.5) (tabbed shrinkText tabConfig) (Mirror (tiled))))) $ tiled ||| named "HintedTall" (hintedTile XMonad.Layout.HintedTile.Tall) ||| noBorders Full
I think this is a great example of what Xmonad can do. You can mold and craft it into anything you want and it will do it for you. I just love my setup at the moment. If only there was a good cli-feed reader that could synchronize with Google Reader…
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August 20, 2009 by Vincent
For those who remember, I’ve switched from Opera to Firefox a while ago. I like the way Firefox gives you the ability to extend the browser to your liking. But Firefox didn’t give me the right base. I want a simple browser that in itself does virtually nothing but browse and can be extended through plugins. And then Uzbl came around the corner.
Uzbl is a project that aims to be a browser that follows the UNIX Philosophy, and I like it. On top of that, it’s real easy to extend the browser using scripts. Uzbl is built on top of Webkit, so it is standards compliant and it passes the acid3 test with flying colors. Off course, it is still alpha/beta so it’s not ultra stable but stable enough for me. And have I mentioned it is way lighter then Firefox? It starts in a snap and it uses a lot less memory.
My config can be found here and my scripts can be found here. Let me know if you have suggestions for my scripts!
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August 6, 2008 by Vincent
I was bored a couple of days ago. I installed xmonad and everything worked like it schould. So I started browsing the ArchLinux wiki searching for something new to install. I heard about zsh-completion being wonderfull but I never understould what zsh was. Zsh is a shell, an alternative to bash. I never had problems with bash but I never founf it really good. I liked it’s completion but I heard zsh’s completion was better.
Zsh is in ArchLinux’ extra repository. You can change from shell using the usermod command. You just do
usermod -s /bin/zsh USERNAME
You have to login and logout to activate the shell. Basic configuration is done in .zshrc. It works like .bashrc with some other commands. My .zshrc is bits and pieces from other people and form my .bashrc. You can find my .zshrc on my git branch. Gentoo’s documentation on zsh is rather good.
Since I now have succesfully installed and configured zsh I am looking for a new project, anyone tips? And also, i would love to see your .zshrc
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June 19, 2008 by Vincent
I am a neatfreak. Not in real life but on my computer. Everything must be in the right folder with the right name. I don’t like clutter on my desktop. I hate it. But i have a reasonably large video and music collection. But it’s difficult to keep it neat with three seperate hard drives. I used to have a /data folder with in that folder 3 different folders linked to the different disks. I had one disks for Animé and Music, one disk for TV-shows and one for Movies. But I don’t have that much Anime and Music so I have a lot of unused space on that disk. But I can’t put other stuff on there and still keep it organised. I was interested in raid but raid 1 is a waste of space, raid 5 is nice but for good performance you need a raid card, and raid 0 is too insecure.
And then I discoverd Lvm. Lvm stands for Logical Volume Manager. What it does is it combines hard drives and partitions (physical volumes) into a large volume group. Within this volume group you can make partitions that cover multiple hard drives.
So what I did was combine all my drives into one large 2.16 TB partition. And I love it. If your interested as well, use this howto. It’s all you need. And this is what I love about linux. I like to finetune my system. And this was so much easier than I thought but remember, ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA.
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June 13, 2008 by Vincent
A new version of Opera has been released yesterday. Version 9.50. There are some nice changes. First of all, they claim everything is faster. I haven’t tested that but I believe them.
Second, they have a new feature called quickfind. You type in a word that you remember from a page that you have visited and it looks it up. For example, if you type in “discovers linux” it finds my site 
. I really like this feature. For example, you have been reading a forum thread about something, but you can’t remember the link, you just type in the topic title en Opera finds the page.
Third and best feature is Opera link. Opera link is a way to synchronize your bookmarks and speed dial between your computers. But not only that, it syncs it to your mobile phone as well. You just create a my.opera.com account, log in in your browser and thats all.
Another thing I found out yesterday is that I passed my final exams at my school. So that means I graduated High School. Finally, two years over do but it happened. I’m going to do computer science next year and I’m looking forward to it. That also means I’m into the market for a new laptop. I’m thinking about the Dell XPS m1530 but if anyone has got any suggestions, I would love to hear it.
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