Comments on: Life without the Internet http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rex Rollman http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46524 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:07:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46524 Hey, now you can live like Richard Stallman!

]]> By: chrisl http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46521 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:51:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46521 aircrack is your friend ;)
….. ok, ok, don’t look at me that way XD

hm how about carrying your virtual machines on usb to the work, and doing all the apt-get, pacman and prt-get you need there?

]]> By: zenfunk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46517 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:08:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46517 I think you are completely right.
I did a bit of googling and well, it seem as if you plug in your cellphone via USB in sync mode, most of them get recognzed as a modem. Networkmanager jsut sees it pop up and tries to connect to that.
Without nm you just run dmesg to see where it is located and then you can connect to it via pppd. A script might automate that on a cli based laptop.

]]> By: anon http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46509 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:26:22 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46509 I’m pretty sure NetworkManager doesn’t automate it, it makes the connection to the phone. NetworkManager isn;t a wrapper, it is a userspace network handler.

]]> By: zenfunk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46506 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:00:27 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46506 Well, ‘m sure that the automation of the process isn’t something that could be done on the cli right now. But setting it up manually should work somehow.

]]> By: anon http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46501 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:33:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46501 needs the hideously large networkmanager

plus I’m not sure is kmandla has a phone they could tether

]]> By: zenfunk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46497 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:16:28 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46497 I once hooked up my windows mobile phone in sync mode to my ubuntu laptop. It immediately recognized it as a modem and boom – internet connection established. I was completely blown away.
Under a native environment (read: Windows XP) this needs the install of the 50 MB+ active sync program. In Ubuntu it was allready built in – fantastic job.

I wonder if cell phone tethering wouldn’t be a viable alternative for your modest blogging needs.

]]> By: CorkyAgain http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46494 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:46:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46494 Think of all the apps you no longer need when you don’t have an Internet connection!

Browsers are such resource hogs. ;)

]]> By: CorkyAgain http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46493 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:44:09 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46493 kmandla, always pushing the boundaries of minimalism.

Going without a GUI wasn’t spartan enough for you, eh?

]]> By: ScannerDarkly http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/life-without-the-internet/#comment-46492 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:58:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=5238#comment-46492 Yeah, well I wonder what K’s work computer is running!

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