From: Don Armstrong Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:50:50 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'master' of ssh://linnode.donarmstrong.com/sites/donarmstrong/don X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=don.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=989c1944bc7873d3adeb60a98c69b9e1e65c03c3;hp=ee026dc70db2d032a654cabe5256f0b35359bbab Merge branch 'master' of ssh://linnode.donarmstrong.com/sites/donarmstrong/don --- diff --git a/posts/why_i_love_unix.mdwn b/posts/why_i_love_unix.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ad179e --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/why_i_love_unix.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta title="YA Reason why I ♥ UNIX"]] + + +Trying to do some work for the +[Mystery Hunt](http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle) which starts on Friday at +noon, and the wireless at MIT keeps deauthenticating me for reason 1. +(Which apparently is the dreaded "unknown reason for +deauthentication".) Reassociating makes everything work again. Fast, +hack solution: + + while sleep 1s; do + if iwconfig wireless |grep -q "ESSID:off"; then + iwconfig wireless essid "MIT GUEST"; + echo "reset wireless"; + fi; + done; + +and I'm back at work with relatively continuous network connectivity.