OK so far a while now when I go some places my new Asus machine with xubuntu on it either failed to connect to wifi or connected at 4 to 6 Mb/sec and then did not connect to the Internet. This most often happened at places using what I call a concierge Internet. Likely I call it that because I first encountered it in hotels. When logging in one encounters a page of legalese and must accept the terms before proceeding to the Internet.
The first solution suggested by Evan Carroll of Houston Linux Users Group which will now be called here Awesome person 3 was that since I was running xubuntu 14.04 in the year of 2017 that I upgrade to the currently supported version. That took a while and version support is a subject for another blog post.
OK so I was updated to 16.04 and many things were a bit visually different but the connection problems persisted. It should be noted that the wifi "worked" as did the Internet access at greater than ninety percent of the places I go. Some with the concierge, some not password protected and some password protected "worked" and connected to the Internet including my three wifi networks at home. I am a strong believer in redundancy.
So maybe a word for wifi and/or Internet not working at all locations will be wifiN.
So, next was an upgrade to my driver by compiling it from source to the newest version at a HLUG Wednesday night meeting after downloading it from Github by Awesome person 3. Likely I updated xubuntu again after that or maybe just because I am me I was still again in a wifiN state.
Next I moved from a well established group that promotes civic minded technology in Houston to focusing on my own startup for promoting strictly Open, Open, Open, civic technologies in the Greater Houston area. I took a membership at Station Houston because it is an Awesome space with Awesome leadership and Awesome members. I knew this was a wifiN location and budgeted a month to concentrated time slicing to make it a not wifiN location aka wifiNN.
So awesome person five connected me with awesome person seven who spent about an hour determining this was a known issue, updating my driver while connected via LAN and leaving a breadcrumb trail in my terminal.
Next time I updated xubuntu I was wifiN. I love it when things do not work and give me an opportunity to learn. There was a quick break room conversation with awesome person seven where I gleaned some keywords to search on but if I was to do that in my Awesome new space I had to log in on the dark side. Slack post ensued and here are some excerpts:
8:20
8:22
8:24
8:29
8:30
In short there was that Medium blog post above that solves the main part of the problem and continues to work after the next update so for now I will say I am in a wifiNNt state.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
Biggio's Brisket Trifecta
OK so their pictures are likely better than mine:
Biggio's Sports Bar
But here are some pictures of the food we had:
Chopped Brisket
Brisket Sausage Hot Dog
Salad, say what ?
Brisket Tacos
And it was all great. The only negative for me is that everything has an aire of sophistication.
Biggio's Sports Bar
But here are some pictures of the food we had:
Chopped Brisket
Brisket Sausage Hot Dog
Salad, say what ?
Brisket Tacos
And it was all great. The only negative for me is that everything has an aire of sophistication.
Friday, January 27, 2017
A Convoluted Post On Our Convoluted Task
But before all of that here is this:
I was posting in another thread when I heard what sounded like knocking on my house. My neighbor sometimes will do that but not usually at eleven at night. Usually because she has something nice to eat she wants to share. At this time of night I thought maybe she was in trouble so I went out and slipped on my sandals to go see. Down the street in front of a neighbors house a woman was beating on the back window of a car in front of a neighbors house. Her son lives across the way and I could see he was out walking his dog so I clapped to get his attention. He waved because often at this time of night I will just make a noise like a squirrel to get his attention and say hello. I motioned him to the front and he came out and saw what was going on and took a triple take so I motioned him down that way thinking perhaps a child had locked Mom out of the car. It turned out it was a woman who thought that was her husbands car and who knows what else was in her mind. He told her to leave that that was not her husbands car but she went at it again and he repeated then started to to call as if the police but actually the cars owner. Last we saw she headed off to the next block, barefooted. It is currently 50 degrees. I put the other text in a blog post about our housing and homeless New Hope thing.
I am not a fan of the SRO idea at all. There needs to be a place for people who are single and will make the right decision to move into a monthly low rent situation. Those situations change though to couples in a one bedroom then possibly a family in a two bedroom and then to home ownership possibly with Avenue CDC but also any of these various stages can be permanent. I know, I am being idealistic. There is nothing at any of these stages to stop a person that needs mental health treatment or is just plain bad from being in any of those situations.
Some will remember that the Salvation Army ended up in our midst because the situations we now face were not wanted in the block north of Market Square. Star of Hope was also convinced to move out of downtown as it developed. The YMCA downtown had nightly and weekly rentals. The DeGeorge did as well as did the building just west of the old post office at the base of Washington. There were also two what were then called transient hotels politely. It was illegal not to have a few dollars and a drivers license and before any major event there was a police sweep to arrest those who did not have those two things. After the event they were processed back out. I managed to have all of those as I lived in my car working day labor until I made enough to afford the DeGeorge then the one by the post office then the Y but I injured my back muscles. I was a vet so I was treated at the VA and not being a drunk as only drunks were taken by the SOH and the Sally. I was at the Y and decide on Sunday to walk to First Methodist even though I could not bend to put on my shoes. I somehow missed FMC and went to First Baptist Church where a young man recognized me as having been at Mainstream, a Christian night club over Club Bojangles. He said I should come to Mainstream so I met Merle Shade who ran it and I lived there sleeping on the floor and returning to work as driver for Peakload then returning to TAMU the next semester.
We are faced with a monumental task and even though the Sally has blown it big time and this facility is not right for us and may not be right at all I hope we can find ways to be kind and loving of all ages and all economic situations and to treat those who need physical ot mental help. As individuals, faith based orgs, other ords, businesses and governments this is the task before us. Poorly stated but I hope I got a little bit of it across and that also these three pieces of history will be considered and that we will get to know folks around us so less of this type of thing happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Mossler
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Grisly-Ice-Box-Murders-7251178.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll
I was posting in another thread when I heard what sounded like knocking on my house. My neighbor sometimes will do that but not usually at eleven at night. Usually because she has something nice to eat she wants to share. At this time of night I thought maybe she was in trouble so I went out and slipped on my sandals to go see. Down the street in front of a neighbors house a woman was beating on the back window of a car in front of a neighbors house. Her son lives across the way and I could see he was out walking his dog so I clapped to get his attention. He waved because often at this time of night I will just make a noise like a squirrel to get his attention and say hello. I motioned him to the front and he came out and saw what was going on and took a triple take so I motioned him down that way thinking perhaps a child had locked Mom out of the car. It turned out it was a woman who thought that was her husbands car and who knows what else was in her mind. He told her to leave that that was not her husbands car but she went at it again and he repeated then started to to call as if the police but actually the cars owner. Last we saw she headed off to the next block, barefooted. It is currently 50 degrees. I put the other text in a blog post about our housing and homeless New Hope thing.
I am not a fan of the SRO idea at all. There needs to be a place for people who are single and will make the right decision to move into a monthly low rent situation. Those situations change though to couples in a one bedroom then possibly a family in a two bedroom and then to home ownership possibly with Avenue CDC but also any of these various stages can be permanent. I know, I am being idealistic. There is nothing at any of these stages to stop a person that needs mental health treatment or is just plain bad from being in any of those situations.
Some will remember that the Salvation Army ended up in our midst because the situations we now face were not wanted in the block north of Market Square. Star of Hope was also convinced to move out of downtown as it developed. The YMCA downtown had nightly and weekly rentals. The DeGeorge did as well as did the building just west of the old post office at the base of Washington. There were also two what were then called transient hotels politely. It was illegal not to have a few dollars and a drivers license and before any major event there was a police sweep to arrest those who did not have those two things. After the event they were processed back out. I managed to have all of those as I lived in my car working day labor until I made enough to afford the DeGeorge then the one by the post office then the Y but I injured my back muscles. I was a vet so I was treated at the VA and not being a drunk as only drunks were taken by the SOH and the Sally. I was at the Y and decide on Sunday to walk to First Methodist even though I could not bend to put on my shoes. I somehow missed FMC and went to First Baptist Church where a young man recognized me as having been at Mainstream, a Christian night club over Club Bojangles. He said I should come to Mainstream so I met Merle Shade who ran it and I lived there sleeping on the floor and returning to work as driver for Peakload then returning to TAMU the next semester.
We are faced with a monumental task and even though the Sally has blown it big time and this facility is not right for us and may not be right at all I hope we can find ways to be kind and loving of all ages and all economic situations and to treat those who need physical ot mental help. As individuals, faith based orgs, other ords, businesses and governments this is the task before us. Poorly stated but I hope I got a little bit of it across and that also these three pieces of history will be considered and that we will get to know folks around us so less of this type of thing happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Mossler
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Grisly-Ice-Box-Murders-7251178.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll
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