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Re: Intro: fatmac

Unread post by fatmac » Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:58 pm

Thanks for your comments, I'll take a look at the wiki in the near future, & I'll take it from there.
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Re: Intro: fatmac

Unread post by dkeg » Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:07 pm

rhowaldt wrote:oh i might've misread something :)
this is a good strategy however, thanking people for wanting to contribute to the Wiki without them saying they would :D
+1 on strategy.

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Re: Intro: fatmac

Unread post by fatmac » Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:54 pm

Was on #! forum & someone asked about mtp mounting, & I wrote this for them, taken from my notebook, if this is any good to go anywhere just move it to the relevent place.
I had a go at using mtp to connect my tablet, but it wasn't very succesful, very slow, however, here is what I did :-

apt-get install mtpfs mtp-tools

mtp-detect | grep idVendor => make a note of this - mine was 18d1
mtp-detect | grep idProduct => make a note of this - mine was 70a8

nano /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
(add this & save & quit)
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="70a8", MODE="0666"

mkdir /media/android
chmod a+rwx /media/android

adduser <your-name> fuse
uncomment #allow_other_user in /etc/fuse.conf

nano .bashrc
(add this, save & exit)
alias android-connect='mtpfs -o allow_other /media/android
alias android-disconnect='fusermount -u /media/android

Reboot & it will work (hopefully).
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Re: Intro: fatmac

Unread post by fatmac » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:27 pm

Have just had a look over at the wiki, there are some headings without any info, some of which I may be able to get started.

How do I get access, tried the 'login / create account' but it only wants a login name & passwd, didn't give an option to create an account, & it wouldn't accept my login for here.
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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:34 pm

^ Contact Machinebacon via PM.

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Re: Intro: fatmac

Unread post by rhowaldt » Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:49 pm

thanks fatmac, i have no idea what mtp even is so hard for me to judge the value of that piece of information. maybe somebody else can comment on that. hell, somebody else can also put it on the Wiki if it is indeed good :)

and it would be great if you could help out with making some Wiki articles. thanks again for that man.
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Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:47 am

the mtp works on*most* mobile phones, but not on all Samsung Galaxys :)

@fatmac, I'll enable registration later this day. It is disabled because of vandalising spambots. Will let you know via PM. Thanks.
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Re: Intro: fatmac

Unread post by fatmac » Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:16 pm

@rhowaldt
The name is pretty sure to be derive from the word 'awkward'. However, some evil voices whisper it is just the initials of the names of the people who made the program. We'll leave it up to you to decide which is true.
Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan wrote the program, I made the correction on the wiki, but I see that mis information is being given out again!
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Unread post by rhowaldt » Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:37 pm

@fatmac: yeah i saw your information and added it to the text like this. i like to write the Wiki with a bit of humor. it's obviously more reasonable for the program to be the programmer's initials, so people can use logic to obtain that knowledge, while at the same time having a laugh or at least a smile :)
if they really believe it is an abbreviation of 'awkward', they will either become disillusioned and never read a Wiki again, or appreciate the joke once they find out. i don't care for the first and hope for the latter :)
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Re: Intro: fatmac

Unread post by rvijay » Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:14 am

Thanks fatmac for your encouragement on LQ . I like LinuxBBQ and decided to join here. :)

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