Goodbye 85.214.89.182 (g00se.org)

It's the last day of my good old vServer for g00se.org.
Tonight they will come and cut him off.

To keep him in memory old.g00se.org points to his former home adress.

Windows 7: Share your internet uplink via wireless ad-hoc network (ICS)

Scenario
You have one windows 7 device with a direct internet connection like UMTS and you won't to share the connection via an ad-hoc wireless network with another device. In my case it is a XDA neo.
Everything happens in the Network and Sharing center.

1. Properties section of the network device with the uplink:
   under sharing active ICS and re-connect the device to internet
   
2. Create a new ad-hoc network (use encryption!)
   
3. Join with another device the network
4. Set the wireless ad-hoc network location to "Home"
5. Disconnect from the ad-hoc network and rejoin (device with uplink)

The internet sharing should now work.

Ubuntu-vm-builder default login

Today I created a ubuntu virtual machines with ubuntu-vm-builder. When I tried to login nothing worked. I searched the web and found only the parameter --username, --password and --name. But I can't recreate two VM using an UMTS uplink :(.

I booted one machine (ubuntu jaunty VM) and used the password reset procedure to get a running root shell. In the passwd I found a user ubuntu. I rebooted and used ubuntu:ubuntu as credentials.
Default username: ubuntu
Default password: ubuntu

Thanks to NO documentation and man pages for ubuntu-vm-builder... Addon:
The packet is named python-vm-builder. See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder.

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Power consumption of the internet

Nice article....

SIP client for Windows (using ekiga SIP service)

After long time of crawling the web, I have found a solution to use the ekiga.net SIP service from Windows. Many of my friends use skype, but it is an annoying part of software. So I started using ekiga and ekiga.net as provider.

Microsoft itselfs provides a SIP client (netmeeting). The developer of Ekiga provides a nice howto.

Getting DBUS Messages from Networkmanager (Python)

I had some spare time and so I started playing with DBUS. I was annoyed that after NetworkManager established a connection I always start the same programs like ekiga, pidgin, firefox and evolution. So I wrote a small python program that start software if the NetworkManager singals an open connection via DBUS. The NetworkManager DBUS-API is available. The hardest part was to find the docs.

#!/usr/bin/python
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
import gobject
import dbus
import subprocess

def signal_deviceNowActive(data=None):
  if data is not None and data[dbus.String("State")] == 2 :
    subprocess.Popen("ps -C pidgin    || pidgin &", shell=True)
    subprocess.Popen("ps -C ekiga     || ekiga &", shell=True)
    subprocess.Popen("ps -C evolution || evolution &", shell=True)

print "init loop"

DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)

loop = gobject.MainLoop();

print "init dbus"

dbus.SystemBus().add_signal_receiver(signal_deviceNowActive, signal_name=None, dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active")

print "start loop"

loop.run() //UPDATE: thanks for your comment