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Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:58 pm
by fatmac
Thanks for your comments, I'll take a look at the wiki in the near future, & I'll take it from there.
I'm happy to help out where I can.
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:07 pm
by dkeg
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.
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:54 pm
by fatmac
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).
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:27 pm
by fatmac
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.
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:34 pm
by ivanovnegro
^ Contact Machinebacon via PM.
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:49 pm
by rhowaldt
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.
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:47 am
by machinebacon
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.
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:16 pm
by fatmac
@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!
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:37 pm
by rhowaldt
@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 :)
Re: Intro: fatmac
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:14 am
by rvijay
Thanks fatmac for your encouragement on LQ . I like LinuxBBQ and decided to join here. :)