If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0

I just started looking into ustream.tv recently and I was interested in using my laptop to stream from but I had no such luck. When I got the screen that was supposed to show my local camera is merely blank

The fix was easier than I thought but was hard to discover, anyway here is how.
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I was trying to run my web browser (Iceweasel) on my netbook as root through the Konsole but came across the following:

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 KeyError: error cannot open display: 0:0

The fix is simple, just follow the steps below.
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Short and sweet this one

Prerequisites for EeePC:

aptitude install obexftp bluetooth

Find Nokia MAC address:

hcitool scan

Output:

Scanning ...
        00:11:22:33:44:55       -¥-

Gotta admit, finding the right syntax for doing this was an absolute bastard! But all the heartache is over now, so I scripted the shit out of it and then forgot all about. So here’s a point of reference just in case I need to come back to it as I don’t use WEP anymore because it’s simply too hackable.
Rather than just using the usual command ‘iwconfig‘ you have to use it in combination with ‘iwpriv‘, otherwise nothing will work. For more info on the ‘iwpriv‘ command use ‘man iwpriv‘.
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