Archive for June, 2019

Find your wifi adapter mac address without ifconfig

Tuesday, June 11th, 2019

In the latest version of Ubuntu (19.04), ifconfig is not installed by default anymore.

If you need to find your wifi mac address while you have no network connection, you cannot install ifconfig so you need a different way to find your wifi mac address:

Do `cat /sys/class/net/<network_connection_name>/address` to display the wifi’s mac address.

On a default installation, <network_connection_name> is most likely wlo1. If it’s not, use tab completion, in all likeliness there are only three files in the net folder: the wired network adapter, the wifi adapter and the loopback address.

Books I’m reading at the moment (May and June 2019)

Saturday, June 1st, 2019

After a long time, I finally finished Fatal Revenant of the series “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant”. That was actually in May.

Needless to say, I started with the next book in that series called Against All Things Ending. That’s the June part.

Apart from that, I’m also almost done with a exam preparation book for the exam called Certified Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP), an exam by CompTIA.

I will need to re-read it and take notes. Realistically I should be ready for the test in a couple of weeks…. keeping fingers crossed.

A new monthly record-high memrise score

Saturday, June 1st, 2019

In May 2019 I accumulated a cool two million points on memrise. A screenshot will follow later. This is the first time I crossed that particular threshold, usually I end a month between 1.5m and 1.8m points.

According to the stats (I’m a premium member for the time being), I spent 31h in May learning – which is probably correct but this is the “learning” stat. A big chunk of those points come from repetitions which are not included in that stat. So the overall time spent on memrise in May was between two and three times that much (31 days multiplied by on average 1.8h).

Actually, the same goes for the streak stat – the streak only counts learning events – but only on the website. If one day you do only repetitions (even if you do 10’000 of them), your streak is gone.
The app on the other hand adds to your streak if you reach your daily goal.

For this reason, my streak on the website if around 270 now but in the app it’s around 1210.

Update 20190611: I promised you a screenshot, here it is:

a cool two million points in one month ^_^