Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 09:15 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:51:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 
> > > True, it's been on todo for a while. It's no longer an issue for me
> > > now as I use a Mi-Fi 3G modem, which connects to the computer via WiFi
> > > instead of having a dongle sticking out the side waiting to be knocked
> > > off.  
> > 
> > And how do you power it on the road?  Much more hungry to have 2x
> > wifi going than one usb 3G modem (imho)
> 
> The Mi-Fi is self powered, so the laptop's power requirements are exactly
> the same as when using any other wifi connection.

but more than when just using 3G with you're wifi off I bet...  Not that
I know how much power my wireless card uses.

>  It also has the
> advantage that you can connect more than one computer through it.

and the disadvantage that it's open to hackers... don't get me wrong - I
looked at the mifi and it looks pretty cool ("about the size of eight
stacked credit cards") I'm just saying...

> You can send dbus messages from the command line you just need to know
> what to send to put Evolution offline. Not using Evolution, I
> wouldn't know, but you may not need dbus. At least with Claws, I can just
> run "claws-mail --offline" to put the running instance in offline mode.

unfortunately "evolution --offline" opens a new instance of evolution
and puts _that_ in offline mode...

Time to look at the source.

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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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