Promises of Progress » Hacking http://casper.warming.com/blog Wits - or GTFO Wed, 19 May 2010 11:58:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Random selection http://casper.warming.com/blog/2009/01/14/random-selection/ http://casper.warming.com/blog/2009/01/14/random-selection/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:13:58 +0000 casper http://casper.warming.com/blog/?p=114 Having to complete an online multiple-choice personality test in a hurry, I quickly threw together a piece of javascript, that selects random radio buttons on any page.
If you are in a similar hurry, feel free to bookmark it – and use it on a page with plenty of radio buttons.

randomradio!

Enjoy.

And now I look forward to hearing about the personality profile of the javascript random().

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The short answer is: not without effort.

It appears that the modem is two-in-one devices. A flash memory stick (umass) and a modem (ubsa). Unfortunately once the umass device has been detected, FreeBSD does not look for the serial device. Thus leaving me with a 10MB memory stick.

The solution is apparently to create a custom kernel where umass is disabled, and then load ubsa before umass in the kernel loader.

It find it a bit much to create a custom kernel just for this single purpose, so I’m almost back to square one.

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