Stubbleblog » google http://www.stubbleblog.com A curious nerd. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:30:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to use a Verizon USB Card with Ubuntu http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2009/12/how-to-use-a-verizon-usb-card-with-ubuntu/ http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2009/12/how-to-use-a-verizon-usb-card-with-ubuntu/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:46:34 +0000 Tony Stubblebine http://www.stubbleblog.com/?p=339 I’ve been having a lot of “Hey, Linux on the desktop is pretty darn good” moments lately. Here’s one from tonight, getting my Verizon USB wireless card to work on my laptop (Dell Studio 17). Getting this same card to work on a Windows Vista netbook was a total chore, so I came at this Linux experience fearing (and expecting) the worst.

After some googling, I settled on this tutorial from ASE Labs. It almost worked. After freezing the laptop, forcing a hard reboot, editing some config files and then running a shell command, my modem worked. Once. This was exactly the experience I was expecting.

Feeling a bit of despair, I tried plan B: right click the Network Manager that sits on the Gnome panel. Hot damn. There’s a wizard for this. The functionality is built right in. So consider this post less of a tutorial and more of an informational post. I just want to tip off the next googler that they don’t have to perform any incantations to get this working.

You need to know this:
username: <yourphonenumber>@vzw3g.com (i.e. 4155551212@vzw3g.com)
password: vzw

Now right click Network manager followed by Edit connections -> Mobile broadband -> Add.

There’s very brief official documentation. The key thing to know is that Ubuntu calls this feature “mobile broadband.” Basically, the only problem with this feature is that it’s not SEO optimized for what I think it should be called.
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/internet/C/connecting-mobile.html

If you want to get really tricky you can even configure your laptop to act as a wireless router so that you can share your internet with people around you.
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/…

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After a bit of looking, Marissa explained that they found an uncontrolled variable. The page with 10 results took .4 seconds to generate. The page with 30 results took .9 seconds.

Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.

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Turns out that Google is about much more than search, although the search sections are pretty useful. I picked the book up mostly for the new section on Google Analytics, which we use and love at Odeo. I’ve read the AdSense and AdWords sections as well. Also great. The core of the book is on search. However, I pick up most of my search tips by watching Sarah. So all I can say definitively, she knew what she was talking about when she wrote the search sections.

Buy it for $15.74 on Amazon

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