If you go to many places with open wireless access you might find it annoying that every time you have to open the browser to accept the same rules and conditions from that provider before you can have real internet access. It is even worse if you have tabs left open from your last session and they all now point to the same wifi login page!

However, if you are using Linux and you have NetworkManager set as the default network management tool then I have a solution for you, NetworkManager will run the scripts inside the folder “dispatcher.d” whenever the connection status changed for any of the network cards on the machine. Under Fedora the folder is located in “/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/“ and I will assume other Linux distributions will be similar if not the same.

So all you have to do is create a script in that folder that will run whenever the wireless connection is up and the network name (SSID) matches the location that have the open wifi, then the script should automate the process of clicking on the accept button or whatever it takes to get internet access.

I have already made such a script that will allow me to login to Panera Bread and Baltimore County Public Library, but it can be expanded easily to include other locations. The first part of the script should be placed under the “dispatcher.d“ folder and should be accessible by “root“ only (This is a security feature, since NetworkManager will execute all scripts in that folder as root and anyone with access to these files can change their content to do other stuff that might harm your system, so make sure to set the permission to root only). That script will parse the iwconfig output to find the name of the wifi and call the script that matches the name if any.

Here is my main script (07-autologin_openwifi)

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#!/bin/bash
#------------------------------
# By Fahad Alduraibi
# Last update: June 12, 2012
# Version: 1.1
#------------------------------

export LC_ALL=C
LogFile="/var/log/07-WIFI_ACCESS.log"

# The parameters that get passed to the script are:
# $1 = The interface name ( eth0, wlan0 ...etc)
# $2 = Interface status ( "up" or "down" )

# Check if wireless status is up
# I have two wifi cards in my laptop, named "wlan0 and wlan1"
# so I use regular expression "wlan[01]" to match both of them.
if [[ "$1" =~ wlan[01] && $2 == "up" ]]; then

	# Get the network name from "iwconfig" or (can also locate the network based on IP or MAC address if needed)
	ESSID=$(/sbin/iwconfig $1 | grep ESSID | cut -d'"' -f2)

	# Record the date and time for debugging purposes only
	echo "[`date`] ESSID=($ESSID)" >> $LogFile

	# If the wireless name matches then run its python script
	if [[ "$ESSID" == "BCPL-PUBLIC-WIFI" ]]; then
		/usr/bin/python /myscripts/baltimore-county_library_wifi.py 1>> $LogFile 2>&1
	elif [[ "$ESSID" == "PANERA" ]]; then
		/usr/bin/python /myscripts/panera.py 1>> $LogFile 2>&1
	elif [[ "$ESSID" == "Nordstrom_Wi-Fi" ]]; then
		/usr/bin/python /myscripts/nordstrom.py 1>> $LogFile 2>&1
	#elif .... (you can add more open wifi here)
	fi
fi

#if [[ "$1" =~ wlan[01] && $2 == "down" ]]; then
	##If you want to do somehting when the network is down
#fi

As you can see that the above script will call another python script when a name matches which are located in another folder (change it to whatever suits you and don’t forget to set the root only permissions) And here is the script for “baltimore-county_library_wifi.py”

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#------------------------------
# By Fahad Alduraibi
# Last update: June 12, 2012
# Version: 1.0
#------------------------------
import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("1.1.1.1")
conn.request("GET", "/fs/customwebauth/login.html?switch_url=http://1.1.1.1/login.html&wlan=BCPL-PUBLIC-WIFI")
r1 = conn.getresponse()
print r1.status, r1.reason
output1 = r1.read()

headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"}
params = "buttonClicked=4&err_flag=0&err_msg=&info_flag=0&info_msg=&redirect_url=&username=guest&password=guest"
conn.request("POST", "/login.html", params, headers)
r2 = conn.getresponse()
print r2.status, r2.reason
output2 = r2.read()

conn.close()

In this script I used the “httplib” python library which is kind of a low level library since you have to setup all HTTP stuff manually also if one of the URL or its parameters changed in the future the script will not work and will need to be updated. However, in the second script “panera.py” I use the “mechanize” library which act as a web browser and takes care of the low level HTTP details (mechanize might not be among the standard library and you might have to install it) panera.py

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#------------------------------
# By Fahad Alduraibi
# Last update: June 12, 2012
# Version: 1.1
#------------------------------
import mechanize
import sys

br = mechanize.Browser()
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
#br.set_handle_gzip(True)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0')]

testURL = 'http://www.fadvisor.net/blog/'
response = br.open(testURL)

if response.geturl() == testURL:
	print "FAD: You are already logged in to Panera."
	sys.exit()

try:
	forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
except:
	print "FAD: Error in parsing forms, Am I already logged in to Panera?"
	sys.exit()

response.close

form = forms[0]
#print form
#print "----------------------------------- Login"
request = form.click()
response = mechanize.urlopen(request)
forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
response.close()

form = forms[0]
#print form
#print "----------------------------------- Validate"
#print
request = form.click()
response = mechanize.urlopen(request)
forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
response.close()

form = forms[0]
#print form
#print "----------------------------------- ConfirmLogin New"
#print
request = form.click()
response = mechanize.urlopen(request)
forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
response.close()

form = forms[0]
#print form
#print "----------------------------------- ConfirmLogin Validate"
#print
request = form.click()
response = mechanize.urlopen(request)
forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
response.close()

form = forms[0]
#print form
#print "----------------------------------- CompleteLogin New"
#print

request = form.click()
response = mechanize.urlopen(request)
forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
response.close()

form = forms[0]
#print form
#print "----------------------------------- HttpLoginRequest"
#print

request = form.click()
response = br.open(request)
#print response.read()

response.close()
print "--- Panera Done ---"

Panera uses a more complicated process, but mechanize made it much easier to develop the script, and I didn’t hardcode any link or parameters which means the script will work even if they change the URLs, but will still fail if they change the login process.

nordstrom.py

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#------------------------------
# By Fahad Alduraibi
# Last update: June 12, 2012
# Version: 1.0
#------------------------------

import mechanize
import sys

br = mechanize.Browser()
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
#br.set_handle_gzip(True)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0')]

testURL = 'http://www.fadvisor.net/blog/'
response = br.open(testURL)

if response.geturl() == testURL:
	print "FAD: You are already logged in to Nordstrom."
	sys.exit()

try:
	forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
except:
	print "FAD: Error in parsing forms, Am I already logged in?"
	sys.exit()

response.close

form = forms[0]
#print form
#print "----------------------------------- Login"
request = form.click()
response = mechanize.urlopen(request)
forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
response.close()
print "--- Nordstrom Done ---"

You can add other providers as well like starbucks and many other coffee shops, all you need is some network capturing tool like tcpdump or wireshark and some scripting skills. A similar thing can be done under Microsoft Windows Vista and above, since you can create a task under “Task Scheduler” that will trigger based on network event.

Disclaimer: you still have to read and agree to the terms and conditions before you start using such script, and you will be responsible for not complying with them.

NOTE: These cheats do not work anymore

I am going to list here few tricks and cheats that you can use while playing airline manager on facebook. But be careful as some might get you banned from the game. For all of these tricks all you need is Google Chrome browser or Firefox with the Firebug add-on. 1- The BIG Money maker For this cheat to work you need to have cargo planes, so get your pax points up and buy the cargo feature. Once you buy your cargo plane (get one that can carry big load for short distance, it makes more money) start creating its route (again demand is important, distance is not) but stop at the point where you need to sign a contract. As you can see most prices are about $1.0 to $2.5. So pick any of these contracts, lets say the first one, and right click on the “Sign“ button, from the list you will see an item called “Inspect Element” click on that and the browser will open a small box at the bottom of the page showing you some HTML code of that page and the code for the button you right click on is highlighted. See the picture:

Now double click of that highlighted part of the code, and it will allow you to edit. Look for “tcc=x.xxxx” where the x is a the current price of the contract. Simply change that value to whatever your like, the limit that you can set it to is $99,999 per lbs. Don’t set it to high or you will be noticed 8)

Now, click on the same “Sign” button which you modified the code for and you are done. You will be rich in no time ;-) 2- Buying more than 10 aircraft at once (Thanks Luke for this trick) For most aircraft, pax and cargo, the limit that can be bought at once is just 10 (i don’t know why, seems that they like you to click and click more), to get more than that at once, maximum you can get is 99, go to the page for buying the plane you like, like in this picture:

then right click on the drop down box for the “Amount to purchase” and select “Inspect Element”, see the picture:

in the above picture click on the part of code that is highlighted with the second red oval, click on the code to change the number from value=”1“ to value=”99“ or whatever number you like, but 99 is the max, see picture:

You are done, set registration name and click “Buy aircraft”. I am sure you can use the same method to do other tricks and make playing the game easier. But my number one recommendation is to use the Autopilot script ;) that will make you on the top 10 list like me

After upgrading to Fedora 14 I noticed that the built-in mic in my Dell D620 stopped working, after searching here and there I the problem is between ALSA and Pulseaudio, since alsa will show to capture devices “Mic” & “Front Mic” and Pulseaudio will use Mic as the default instead of Front Mic.

So I used “alsamixer” to set the correct capture source and that worked but after a reboot it was set back to Mic. Then I found about “alsactl” which should store the current setting by doing “alsactl store” but that did not work either since I think pulseaudio does not look into that.

Uninstalling pulseaudio as some people suggested solved the Mic problem but caused many other problems when playing many applications that want to play audio (like flash apps such as youtube and video apps…etc), this is an ALSA problem that pulseaudio try to solve AFAIK.

The solution that I found was to use “amixer” which can be run from the command line with the parameters to set “Front Mic” as the capture source. Here is the full command for my device:

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amixer -c 0 cset numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source' 1

To explain the previous command: [-c 0] is to select the first sound card (the only card in my laptop, but if you have two cards they will be 0 and 1) [cset] is to tell amixer that you want to set these settings [numid, iface, and MIXER] are information about your card and what source you want to change the settings for, and here is how I get these information:

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[fad@fad ~\]$ amixer -c0 contents
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'
 ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=2
 : values=on,on
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume'
 ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
 : values=14,14
 | dBscale-min=-46.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
......
......
numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source'
 ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2
 ; Item #0 'Mic'
 ; Item #1 'Front Mic'
 : values=0
......
......

And as you can see in the previous result the part that am looking for is (numid=6,iface=MIXER,name=’Input Source’) and it lists Mic=0 and Front Mic=1 but the selected values=0 which is for Mic and I need to set it to 1

Here is the command again:

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put this command in a script file and make it run whenever you login to your profile (I tried adding it to the rc.local so it will execute with every boot but that didn’t work, since I think the settings is applied during login time for each user)

For KDE users you can put that script (or a link to it) under:

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or through the KDE “System Settings”>”Startup and Shutdown”>”Autostart” Now at each login this command should set the correct input source which pulseaudio will use it.

If you are a Fedora user then you must be using RPM Fusion and if you are not then please do since it provides you with many cool packages that Fedora doesn’t come with (like ATI & nVidia drivers, video and audio codec…etc). After you install RPM Fusion repositories (through their provided rpm packages which you can find about under the ‘Configuration’ in their website) you will be able to use it right away from the command line by using ‘yum’ or if you like the GUI (like I do) then it is PackageKit. However, there is one thing that I don’t like about PackageKit which is dealing with dependencies.PackageKit will only resolve dependencies when you apply the changes not while you are making them (selecting to install or remove a package). I find that annoying since sometimes when I select to remove some packages that I think I don’t need and when I click on apply it will show the list of dependencies of all the selected packages and will not tell you which one of the selected packages is needed by those other packages and the only way to find out is by removing packages one by one. Same thing when installing. However, there is a solution to this problem, it is called Smart, Smart is a package manager that can be used to manage ‘rpm’ packages (and also apt as well). You can install Smart and the GUI from Fedora repos with this command:

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The biggest advantage of using Smart over PackageKit is the way it resolves dependencies. Smart will do that instantly while you are clicking to install a new package or trying to remove one. So for example if you are using Fedora with KDE and wanted to remove all Gnome packages and you clicked for example on ‘gnome-vfs2’ Smart will immediately look for all other packages that depends on this one and if any it will show you a windows of the list of all other packages that will be removed as a result of removing this one, among that list you will find ‘Firefox’, ‘vlc’ and other packages that I actually need, so that means this one is important and i will just hit cancel to keep it. Same thing when for example you want to install and try some application but you find that it needs many other packages to be installed as well.

However, it seems that Fedora and RPMfusion are not giving much attention to Smart and the channels files (channel = repo) are not updated for Fedora 14 (was also the case for F13 when it was released) so I decided to update those packages myself and maybe find a way to send them to Fedora and RPMFusion so they will sign them and add them to their main repositories.

Download the appropriate files for your system or the source if you wanna compile the rpms and sign them yourself (you will need to rerun Smart so it detects the changes):

Update: Since not much attention from Fedora and RPMfusion is giving to Smart and it is not supported anymore I stopped making the rpms for it.

While working on my script Autopilot to enable buying advertisement I started collecting information about the price changes over time, and found out that it is not actually random, but repeats every week. So here is a graph that shows the prices for 1 week and a table that shows the same thing and highlights the cheapest ones.

Note: the table and graph timings are based on the US-Eastern Time (-5) so adjust your times accordingly. Also the listed prices are for the most expensive type of advertisements (Billboards on 20 international airports).

NOTE: The script no longer works, and the development was stopped

After being bored with Airline Manager in Facebook in which you have to keep watching your airplanes when they arrive to send them in another flight, I decided to write my own script to use with greasemonkey in FireFox to do that thing for me. Basically, you will need a computer that is connected to the internet and running for most of the time. Install Firefox and add the Greasemonkey add-on to it, then install my script in greasmonkey and enable it if it is not enabled by default. Now when you visit the flight section of the game under facebook you will see the Auto Pilot control box (shown below) in the left column. Simply set the time that you want the script to repeat the task then click on the button. That’s it, now just watch the script fly the first 10 ready airplanes and the count down will start to trigger the next run.

كثير منا يجد العاب الفيسبوك (Facebook) مملة بعد فترة من اللعب بسبب ان اسلوب اللعب يصبح متكر ورتيب ومن امثلتها لعبه مدير الطيران (Airline manager) اذ يجب عليك متابعه مئات من الطائرات وانتظار وصولها لكي تقوم بارسالها مرة اخرى في رحلة جديدة، فلذك السبب قمت ببرمجة برنامج صغير يعمل في متصفح الفايرفوكس (Firefox) تحت اضافة قريسمونكي (Greasemonkey). فاذا كنت من من يلعب هذه اللعبة وعندك جهاز متصل بالانترنت ويعمل بشكل مستمر فكل ما عليك هو تركيب متصفح الفايرفوكس واضافة القريسمونكي له ثم تحميل برنامجي فيه ومن ثم قم بقتح صفحة اللعبة من الفيسبوك واضغط على رابط الطيران (Flight) و سوف تجد ادوات التحكم ظاهرة في الجهه اليسرى من الصفحة كما تراها في الصورة التالية. قم بتحديد الزمن الذي تريدة لتكرار عملية الطيران ثم اضغط زر (Auto Pilot) فسيقوم البرنامج بارسال اول 10 طائرات جاهزة ثم سيكرر العملية بعد انقضاء العد التنازلي.

Here is an image showing the position on the control box in the page:

هذه الصوره توضح موقع ادوات التحكم في الصفحة:

Download the code from here: https://github.com/fduraibi/Autopilot

Change log:

1.2.14: (July/28/2011)

• Updating the script to work with new AM changes

1.2.13: (July/27/2011)

• Fix fly link.

1.2.12: (July/25/2011)

• Allow more wait time (up to 999 minutes + 999 random minutes), using longer time + random makes it hard to get detected ;)
• Fix: the control box might show up in a weird location and cannot be clicked.
• Fix: Update fly link.
• Fix: Reset the tank max to 999999999 since AM will not accept 1000000000 even it is the max as they say!

1.2.11: (July/21/2011)

• New: Buying advertisement is now possible.
• Redesign the way tasks are being done to prevent some tasks from starting before other finish.
• Added two fields to change the lucky fuel price and the max fuel tank capacity.
• User interface enhancements.
• Better use of CSS to make the code smaller and looks neat.

1.2.10: (July/04/2011)

• Enhanced fly function will not reload for every patch of aircraft.
• New: Lucky Fuel, when the fuel price drops to 50 (which happens once a month) fill the tank.
• New: Options box to tune some of the script features to your liking:
  • Autostart on page load.
  • Change the delay and random delay times.

1.2.9: (Jun/10/2011)

• New: Titlebar for the controlbox which is used to move it.
• Update: Coloring the box to make it look nicer.

1.2.8: (Jun/8/2011)

• New: Fuel Rescue option, if fuel tank is empty the script will buy enough fuel to fly the aircraft, no matter what the price is.
• New: Autopilot Controlbox is movable, and the position will be saved.
• Fix: Pages fetched will use the same protocol as the main page (http or https).
• Update: If for unknow reasons a page won’t load, the script will reload AM
• Removed some unused code.

1.2.7:

• Added Cargo flights.
• Script tested and works under Google Chrome using “tampermonkey” extension.
• Fixed some compatibility with Google Chrome.
• Small fix to allow running on secure Facebook page (https).
• Increasing the delay and random delay between tasks, to help people with slow connections and make the script a bit harder to detect.

1.2.6:

• Server update check of the script is back.
• Added Tooltips to explain the functionality of the controlbox.
• Enhanced fly function (if there are more than 10 aircraft waiting it will fly them in the same run).
• Small changes and fixes here and there.

1.2.5:

• Aircraft fly Fix (Thanks Olla)

1.2.4:

• Fixed the script after the game code was updated.
• Removed the Check4Update function <– since this will be the last update (sorry guys, i would love to keep doing this but I have other stuff to do)
• Included the developer code (all the code that I use for myself including the unused functions, debuging stuff)
  • If you open Firefox Error Console you can see the logs about what the script is doing, very helpful for debugging.
  • Buy airplanes and sell airplanes functions are there but need to be enabled and integrated to the controlbox.
  • Check4Update is still there but disabled, i will remove the file from my server later so the function will not be useful for this script but I kept the code for others to use if someone want to take over.

1.2.3:

• Fuel, now you can auto buy fuel by checking the fuel checkbox and setting the maximum amount needed and the highest price. It will check once every hour. (I found a way to fly the airplanes even with no fuel (negative amount) and was about to include it in the script but thought that would be cheating so I did not.)

1.2.2:

• Added ability to buy catering by selecting the type and amount, so it buys them before flying the airplanes. But you have to make sure that you put the right amount for the selected catering type (minimum and maximum) by following the values giving by the game otherwise it will not buy them. And when the catering finishes it will buy them again in the next round.

1.2.1:

• Added Note taker to keep notes about the game, like airport names, what to buy next…etc.
• Fixed a bug in autoupdate if the version file on the server is not accessible.
• Added a timeout for waiting loops so they will not loop forever in case a page did not load correctly.
• Refresh (reload) the facebook page, including AM page, every 20 iterations to overcome a bug in AM (which i have no control over) that appears after keeping the script running for long time.

1.2.0:

This version went through a restructuring of the code. In the previous versions I was injecting the whole code inside the AM page (AM iframe inside Facebook page to be precise) and because of that I was also storing the script settings as AM cookies. This approach is simple and makes interacting with the page easy, however, it makes it easy for AM admins to detect the script by either adding a function that searches for my functions or the entries in the cookies. In order to solve this problem I changed the way the script works. Now when you open the AM game under Facebook my script will be loaded twice, the first instance will load under Facebook frame and it will inject the AP Control box in that frame, which AM has no access to so they cannot detect it. The second instance will load under AM frame, however, it will not inject anything but rather will remain in Greasemonkey sandbox and that is also hidden from AM cannot be detected. The last thing is the settings which are now being stored in Firefox itself under GM settings using GM functions (GM_getValue & GM_setValue). The two script instances are working separately and cannot communicate with each other since they run under different domains (facebook.com & airlinemanager.activewebs.dk) as this is a security feature enforced by Firefox to prevent malicious websites from accessing other websites functions and variables. To overcome this obstacle I used the GM stored settings which are shared by both instances to communicate. In addition to all of that I added some randomization to the timer so executing the tasks will not happen at the exact intervals.

• Replaced using (eval) which can be harmful with location.assign
• Settings are not stored in AM cookies anymore.
• No code injection in AM page.
• Time randomization.
• Repairs and C-Check have their own check box so you can do one and not the other.
• Auto check for script update every 3 days.
• The timer now loops every 5 seconds instead of every 1 second to reduce the load on the browser.

* Note:

• I recommend removing the stored cookies by the older version (delete all cookies if you are not sure how).
• Even with all of these precautions this automating script can still be detected by AM admin if they want to, even though I don’t expect them to do it but they can detect and close your AM account. (Farmville knows about the automation tools and the users who use them but they did not prevent/block them because it did not harm them, rather it might have increase their users by keeping the lazy ones like me.)
• I expect this version to have many bugs, because I did many changes. Also there are still some changes that I wanted to do but decided to release this first and work later on these changes and whatever bugs you guys find.

1.1.2:

• More enhancement to the C-Check and Repair, it should miss less repairs and checks now. Basically I increased the waiting delay between tasks to give more time for the pages to load before starting the new one. If your internet connection is slow and the script does not work as it should then try increasing the delay by modifying this part of the script “fDelay=5000”, 5000 means 5 seconds, set the value to something suitable for your net speed.
• Repairs and C-Checks will not work after the new AM update (April-08), so in order to keep using the script to fly airplanes uncheck the repair box, and kindly wait for the coming update.

1.1.1:

• Solved the problem of not working under Firefox 3.6.x.
• Removed the dependency on jQuery.
• Fixed a bug that causes the control box not to show if the airline is not AM trusted.
• The C-Check and Repairs are not perfect and it get missed sometimes

1.1.0:

• Major change in how the script works.
• Added the ability to repair airplanes and do C-Check before flying them.
• Save control box settings in AM cookies.
• Will load on all AM pages not just the Flight page.
• Fixed the file name so it will install directly by greasmonkey
• This version does not work with the new Firefox 3.6.x, I am trying to solve this issue.

1.0.0:

• Inisial release.

Disclaimer: The author of this script cannot be held responsible for any thing that might result from using this code, so use it at your own risk.

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