The end of the world couldn't tear me away from this.
And if we were the last two people on earth I would be the happiest man.
So drown them all, open the floodgates and drown them all.
They are the cancer and we are the cure.
Let's skip to the last page and see how it ends.
Wake up; promise me you will wake up.
You saved my life and that's all I need.
Just don't leave me now - don't quit on me now.
You are all I have.
The world will never stop unless we make it stop.
The sky will never fall unless we let it fall.
So this is the end.
And the world is ours.
Have you ever thought of your router twitting status updates? E.g. if the connection goes down and comes back you are notified right away in a light-weight fashion.
Never?
Nevermind, here's how to do that:
- Create an account on twitter.
- Create a Basic authentication string with
1 echo -n "$username:$password" | base64- Use the following shell script, substituting
$base64stringwith the string obtained in previous step:1 #!/bin/sh 2 3 TWEET="status=$*" 4 5 CONTENT_LENGTH=`echo -n $TWEET | wc -c` 6 7 MESSAGE=" 8 POST /statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1 9 Host: twitter.com 10 User-Agent: OpenWRT Twitter 11 Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */* 12 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 13 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 14 Content-Length: $CONTENT_LENGTH 15 Authorization: Basic $base64string 16 17 $TWEET" 18 19 echo "$MESSAGE" | telnet twitter.com 80 > /dev/null 2>/dev/null- Save it as /usr/bin/tweet and start using it right away.
- Set up some cron job, make it log something and... follow your router :)
You can follow my router, just in case :)
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