USB tethering ZTE V9 with Ubuntu 11.04

No Problems experience here. 

• Plug in the USB connection
• Hit 'back' to get out of the data storage screen
• Go to settings > Wireless & networks > Tethering & portable hotspot > USB tethering
• Network manager will now auto connect

The bonus here is that the tablet will be charged from the USB port while you are surfing using your laptop and you can surf the web on the tablet while tethered.

lsusb

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Reclaiming space taken by plugpacks

I was pissed off the other day with the plug pack from my WD USB hard drive taking up so much space.  This time it was not the body of the plugpack, but rather the adapter for the multiple clip-on plug for various countries.

The 'ears' on this device were much wider than expected and needed to be lopped.

Taking a pair of side-cutters to it, did the trick.

If I collect enough, I will make a necklace just like Dolpf from Universal Solider.

I'm all ears.

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Disable the Libreoffice Spash Screen for good!

LibreOffice is the best, heaps better than paying for crappy Microsoft Products, but the splash screen gets in the way when it loads.

There are a few ways to defeat this, one involves having LibreOffice quickstarter running on startup. No, sorry that would be a unnecessary memory hog and something I would expect from a M$ product.

Here is the best way to prevent the splash from being visible.

In Linux, sudo gedit the file /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc

and change Logo=1 to Logo=0
Save the file.






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FetchTV Ethernet ports open

These are the ports open on the FetchTV box.

Port 80,111 and 8000

Not much chop from port 80 in Firefox





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FetchTV Box Filesystem is XFS

Examining the hard drive of the FetchTV box is a easy, just unplug the SATA cable and connect it to a USB to SATA adapter.
The hard drive can be powered from the FetchTV box directly with it's internal SATA cable disconnected with no problems.

The file system is one partition containing a XFS file system, it is no problem to mount this drive using Ubuntu..

There is three directories on the drive; DATASTORE, PVOD and PVR.  The root directory contains some interesting large files such as logs and settings.

In the DATASTORE directory there is some configuration files including the ISP specific config, all in plain text and easy to mod.  Will post these files soon...

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