Setting up Ricochet in Linux

NOTE: The follow instructions are meant for the Linux CLI, and should be run with sudo or as root.

  1. Install wvdial

    Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install wvdial
Fedora/RHEL: yum install wvdial

  2. Edit /etc/wvdial.conf and replace its content with:

    [Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Baud = 460800
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0

[Dialer ricochet]
Username = *
Password = *
Phone = 3333
Inherits = Dialer Defaults

  3. Replace /dev/ttyACM0 with the device your modem connected to:

    user@host:~$ dmesg | grep cdc_acm
cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM1: USB ACM device

    Take the device name and prepend dev, so you get:

    Modem = /dev/ttyACM1

  4. Start wvdial

    wvdial ricochet &
Posted July 20, 2007 in Documentation, Linux, Richcet, Wireless

Convert Google Reader subscriptions (OPML) to HTML

I've created a simple Python script to convert Google Reader’s OPML to HTML.

Link: http://github.com/silas/graveyard/tree/master/python-opml2html/

Posted July 16, 2007 in Google Reader, OPML, Programming, Python