Monthly Archive for October, 2014

Script reads public IP address from ADSL router using UnP

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I know of three ways to get the present IP address of an ADLS router:

  • send a request to one of the “whatismyaddress” sites
  • write a script to log into your router and get the address from a status page
  • send a UPnP request to the router

The public IP address is an important thing to know if the router connects using dynamic IP. I use the following script to check my public IP now and then (every ten minutes actually) to detect changes, using UPnP. Another script then signals a dynamic IP name server about this.

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Change Beaglebone display geometry

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I’m not into the GUI on my beaglebone black, only multiuser run level 3. That is, I get a big black terminal on my HDMI display. OK, that’s what I want.

The problem was: the acendents of letters and the underscore ended up below the screen area, makes line editing difficult.

So, I installed fbset, a program to adjust the geometry of the frame buffer screen Continue reading ‘Change Beaglebone display geometry’