Ok, it died twice again, worked 3 times back at home, and died 4 more when out and about. I give up on this mess.. If I need wireless, elsewhere, I’ll make another config file. NetworkManager is too flaky; the system constantly reloads the ipw3945 driver before wpa_supplicant has had a chance to ass...
I’ve heard many things over the years about Ubuntu.. heck, I even passed out a few of their ‘free’ CDs in ’05 (Hoary, 5.04). It worked great.
However, I’ve recently attempted to adopt it on a fledgling Laptop which was just becoming more of a nuisance to try to keep running than was worth the time...
I’ve found yet another oddity. Rather, gcc pointed it out to me, because I wasn’t paying too much attention.
this current patch which should fix RAM resume and suspend problems in 2.6.21.
It modifies the subroutine as follows:
static void tick_resume(int broadcast)
{
struct tick_devic...Linux has been going through many, many changes recently. One of the most impressive has been with the release of 2.6.21. With this release, there has been offered a ‘no tick’ for normal (32 bit) PCs.
What this means is that Linux can now understand: ‘If there’s nothing to do, don’t worry about it...
Since I’ve moved, my roommates have often destroyed the telephone to the point that I don’t want to search for it.
Let’s be honest – who wants to pound on someone else’s door, and perhaps, just perhaps peer through dirty undies to find the phone?
Not me.
This is a good reason to find out who m...
I’ve recently had an odd request. Given an Apache log, can I write a tool to query a database, and find what country a given IP is in.
The first rule is that this client did not wish to use the GeoIP database provided by MaxMind, despite the fact that their API already has this functionality…...