Monthly Archives: March 2006
all this and a dongle, too!
I finally got my usb wireless nic working in Gentoo. The solution? Emerge the stable packages with a good kernel. It’s always the situation you try last that works. Even though ndiswrapper is far from the best optimal solution for … Continue reading
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a week of wireless
I’ve been playing a lot with wireless this week. I remembered we had a D-Link USB wireless thing at work, so I plugged it in my desktop and played around with it to see if I could get it working. … Continue reading
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windows event logs
Maintaining windows boxes at work is one of the rare joys I get to experience. This bug just hit me again for the second time since I’ve started working here, and I thought I’d throw it out for anyone else … Continue reading
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another ipod convert
That’s right, I’ve joined the masses. I bought an ipod nano (4gb) the other day, and I gotta say, I’m hooked. The thing that I actually like the most about this thing is the firmware. In my opinion, user interfaces … Continue reading
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my new discount amd64 box
I just placed the order on newegg.com. Not a bad deal, methinks. For $250 I got a decent amd64 chip, a slightly older asus mobo, and a gig of ram. I’m actually going to use it as my new windows … Continue reading
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the great thing about blogs …
.. is that everything you write you think is special, and interesting, and definately worth reading. And then you see your hit counter. Maybe Mom was wrong. Maybe I’m not special.
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