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MDMA is a mobile network monitoring application. It shows information such as QoS, detailed signal information. I like to use MDMA rather than Huawei dashboards. It’s lightweight and much faster than Huawei Dashboards. MDMA 1.1.0.0 requires you to have connection entry ‘ MDMA ’ by default otherwise you get an error. [caption id="attachment_95" align="aligncenter" width="470"] Cannot find phone book entry error[/caption] Setting up a connection entry for MDMA Go to Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center [caption id="attachment_96" align="aligncenter" width="280"] Open Network & Sharing folder[/caption] Create a copy of existing connection. [caption id="attachment_97" align="aligncenter" width="411"] Create a copy of existing connection[/caption] Rename it to MDMA [caption id="attachment_98" align="aligncenter" width="416"] Renaming

Join messages are very annoying while hanging out in IRC. Its best to disable them. [caption id="attachment_84" align="aligncenter" width="1056"] Annoying join messages in IRC channels[/caption] To do this just go to Settings | Preferences | Chatting | Advanced and Check the Hide join and part messages option as shown below. [caption id="attachment_85" align="aligncenter" width="693"] Check the Hide join and part messages[/caption] You can also set this for individual channels by right clicking on channel name and choosing Hide join/part messages from settings option. [caption id="attachment_86" align="aligncenter" width="477"] Applying for individual channels[/caption]

Linux Mint 14 has a Network Manager that allows to set proxy settings but unfortunately that do not get applied to system level. [caption id="attachment_71" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Setting Network Proxy Preference in Linux Mint[/caption] To configure apt follow the following steps Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ Create a file called “30proxy” using a text editor like vi Add the following lines Acquire::http::proxy “http://username:password@host:port/”; Acquire::https::proxy “http://username:password@host:port/”; Acquire::ftp::proxy “http://username:password@host:port/”; [caption id="attachment_75" align="aligncenter" width="665"] Configuring apt to use network proxy[/caption] To configure bash in order to use curl, wget etc behind proxy Add following line in ~/.bashrc export http_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/ export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/ Don't forget to replace username and pass