JLinX – Blog

“Nichts auf dieser Welt, das sich zu haben lohnt, fällt einem in den Schoß” – Bob Kelso, Scrubs

Recently I got my self a CUL from busware.de to control FS20 devices with the Fhem server from Rudolf König. While I had not trubbles flashing the CUL with culfw on Ubuntu, I ran into trubbles using the device with the Fhem server running FreeBSD.

Running dmesg and looking at /var/log/messages on FreeBSD we find out that the CUL is recognized as Unknown USB device and registered as ugen2.2. (Using ugen2.2 in Fhem doesn’t work for me.) A solution is to manually load the umodem module (kldload /boot/kernel/umodem.ko), unplug the CUL and plug it back in. The device is than available as /dev/cuaU0 and can be used in Fhem.

Automatically loading the module on startup can be achieved by adding umodem_load=”YES” to your /boot/loader.conf file.

 

 

“God helps those who help themselves”

I was a huge fan of the Windows LiveWrite back in my Windows days. I could not find an alternative when I converted to an Apple Fanboy and switched to Evernote to log my web experiences . Now I’d like to give MarsEdit a shot. We will see what comes next…

I’m a huge fan of Dropbox ever since I started using it. Today I decided to  to upgrade my free account to an 50 GB paid account. Unfortunately  I encountered problems using paypal as the payment method. Starting to google for a solution I quickly found out that it is now possible to get up to 10 GB of free space with referrals.I also found a way to cheat on Dropbox to get the free space with a little effort of time here. This is the instructions…

1. Make sure you’ve made yourself a “Dropbox Guru” by checking the 5 or 6 tasks on the web interface. You should get an extra 250MB for this (and probably already have).
2. Work out how many lots of referrals (in 250MB chunks) you need to take you to 10GB. Let’s say you need x…
3. Set up x trashmail accounts that will forward 1 message for 1 day
4. Send a referral to each of these trashmail accounts from your regular Dropbox login
5. Check the referrals page on the web interface of your regular Dropbox login – all the trashmail accounts should show “invited” or something like that
6. Sign out of your regular Dropbox account online
7. Set up an account and password for each of your x trashmail accounts, ensuring to use the referral links that got forwarded to your normal email from trashmail. Suggest making the password the same for each one to save your grey cells
8. You should now be able to log back into your regular account and check you referral status. All the trashmail accounts should now show “account created” or similar.
9. Download VirtualBox and install it
10. Download the latest Ubuntu ISO image (700MB)
11. Run VirtualBox and load up the Ubuntu ISO. Follow instructions here from the ever dependable Lifehacker
12. As Ubuntu loads, be sure just to run from the ISO – you don’t want to install it
13. Open Firefox in the Virtual Ubuntu
14. Navigate to and download the Ubuntu version of Dropbox (strangely it is a 2 step process: you download the file from the web and install, then go into Applications then Internet and click on Dropbox to complete)
15. Choose the Dropbox prompt “I already have an account” and sign in with your first trashmail account
16. As soon as it has signed in, your master computer (i.e. not the virtual machine should show you a notification that your storage has increased)
17. Close the Ubuntu virtual machine window
18. Delete the virtual machine on the VirtualBox management window
19. Start again for the next trashmail account with steps 11 to 18 (it is important to delete the Ubuntu virtual machine and start again as Dropbox knows it’s the same install)
20. Once you’ve done this x times, you should have maxed out your Dropbox account up to 10GB.

Have Fun!

“Engineers are retarded. They are half some kind of brain damaged that allows them not to have social skills so that they can concentrate long enough to write code. But this is a disease… That’s why I had to quit… It just makes you retarding…”- Jim Reekes