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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
LevelOne WNC-0301 - Followup
Good news!
It seems Ubuntu supports my card (LevelOne WNC-0301 PCI), I clicked on the NetworkManager applet icon the other day, and to my utter surprise, I saw my wireless network listed there :-)
Now I might not have to resort to a 32-bit installation, and lose 1GB of memory! (I got 5GB on my machine, and 32-bit operating systems support only up to 4GB).
There seems to be a problem with the reception, though. And I can't tell if it's the wireless adapter, or the router. I guess I have to set up my old router again, and compare.
It seems Ubuntu supports my card (LevelOne WNC-0301 PCI), I clicked on the NetworkManager applet icon the other day, and to my utter surprise, I saw my wireless network listed there :-)
Now I might not have to resort to a 32-bit installation, and lose 1GB of memory! (I got 5GB on my machine, and 32-bit operating systems support only up to 4GB).
There seems to be a problem with the reception, though. And I can't tell if it's the wireless adapter, or the router. I guess I have to set up my old router again, and compare.
Upgrade to Firefox 3.0.8 - Followup
Weird thing!
I logged out of my account this morning, after I saw the errors. But now, after logging in again, no more problem!
And as far as I can tell, all extensions are working just fine...
I logged out of my account this morning, after I saw the errors. But now, after logging in again, no more problem!
And as far as I can tell, all extensions are working just fine...
Upgrade to Firefox 3.0.8
Well, the latest update to Firefox kind of crapped up!
The message said something about XUL...
It seems to be confined to my account though, other accounts on the same computer seem fine. So it's probably has something to do with all the extensions I have installed on my account. More on that later.
For now, it's back to work!
The message said something about XUL...
It seems to be confined to my account though, other accounts on the same computer seem fine. So it's probably has something to do with all the extensions I have installed on my account. More on that later.
For now, it's back to work!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
More Space!
I bought a 1TB hard drive this week, but didn't have time to install it yet (sooooo much fun at work!).
I'll be moving my /home tree to that drive - it's getting a bit too crowded on my main drive, and it's good to have /home on its own partition anyway! :-)
I'll be moving my /home tree to that drive - it's getting a bit too crowded on my main drive, and it's good to have /home on its own partition anyway! :-)
Monday, February 16, 2009
lots of work!
long week at work... I have a lot of things to do, and only this week to finish as much of them as possible. I'm going on vacation next week (snowboarding... yay!), so I have to close all loose ends here.
anyhow, I installed Windows 7 Beta last night on a virtual machine (using VirtualBox). Looks nice, quick responses, handles nicely, less UAC interruptions than Vista.
It might be that my machine is powerful enough, but it also might be that it is actually better... I'll probably be installing it on my brother's laptop, instead of Vista. We'll see.
anyhow, I installed Windows 7 Beta last night on a virtual machine (using VirtualBox). Looks nice, quick responses, handles nicely, less UAC interruptions than Vista.
It might be that my machine is powerful enough, but it also might be that it is actually better... I'll probably be installing it on my brother's laptop, instead of Vista. We'll see.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Linux Tutorial Videos
The first comment on my blog, by Linux Newbie, directed my attention to this blog:
Linux Tutorial Videos [http://linuxtutorialvideos.blogspot.com/]
There is some good videos there! :-)
Linux Tutorial Videos [http://linuxtutorialvideos.blogspot.com/]
There is some good videos there! :-)
Thursday, February 5, 2009
learning curses!
:)
I think I'll further expand my UNIX-fu by learning how to program with curses.
This should be a really fun back-to-basics challenge :)
I think I'll further expand my UNIX-fu by learning how to program with curses.
This should be a really fun back-to-basics challenge :)
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Windows XP Virtualization
So I have this partition with Windows XP installed on it, which I mainly use to sync and backup my iPhone (yeah yeah... closed, proprietary... but it's still a pretty gadget!), and since it's been going BSOD on me right on boot-up (i.e. I can't even log in!), I've decided that it might be a good idea to try and run it in a more controlled environment.
In the Ubuntu forums, I found this thread a while back, and decided to try it. Now, I have a SATA II drive, and the tutorial said the it might not work woth SATA drives, but I thought what the heck... it's not working anyhow, worst case scenario - it won't work!
The tutorial is for VirtualBox version 1.6, which is pretty old - the current version at the date of writing is 2.1.2, so I downloaded that version. And what do you know! it has support for SATA :)
Most of it went pretty well, except for the part where I had to change the drivers for the disk controller... since I couldn't boot into Windows, so I just skipped that part, and hoped for the best.
Almost everything works fine:
Also, for some reason, Windows seems to think it has USB 1 ports only! when in fact, I don't have any USB 1 ports on my system... only USB2. I'll have to check up on that. Maybe VirtualBox doesn't support it, or I'm doing something wrong.
But for now, I have a working Windows XP installation running in a virtual machine, and I still cannot sync/backup my iPhone (I hope nothing bad happens to my phone while I figure things out)
[edit: forgot the links to VirtualBox]
In the Ubuntu forums, I found this thread a while back, and decided to try it. Now, I have a SATA II drive, and the tutorial said the it might not work woth SATA drives, but I thought what the heck... it's not working anyhow, worst case scenario - it won't work!
The tutorial is for VirtualBox version 1.6, which is pretty old - the current version at the date of writing is 2.1.2, so I downloaded that version. And what do you know! it has support for SATA :)
Most of it went pretty well, except for the part where I had to change the drivers for the disk controller... since I couldn't boot into Windows, so I just skipped that part, and hoped for the best.
Almost everything works fine:
- It boots
- I can log in
- Sound
- Internet access
- VirtualBox extensions work (I'm not going to boot directly into it...)
- USB*
Also, for some reason, Windows seems to think it has USB 1 ports only! when in fact, I don't have any USB 1 ports on my system... only USB2. I'll have to check up on that. Maybe VirtualBox doesn't support it, or I'm doing something wrong.
But for now, I have a working Windows XP installation running in a virtual machine, and I still cannot sync/backup my iPhone (I hope nothing bad happens to my phone while I figure things out)
[edit: forgot the links to VirtualBox]
Follow-up on the wireless network card
After some digging around the net, it seems that I can't use the drivers supplied with the card! These are 32-bit drivers, and I'm using a 64-bit distribution, so there's no way around it.
Searching through the manufacturer's site for a 64-bit version of the drivers, I couldn't find anything (not even for other devices!)...
I heard that Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has support for more network cards, so I figured that upgrading might help. But it didn't seem to matter much - the network card is still non-operational.
So I guess I'll be doing a clean install of the 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 distribution. Then at least I'd be able to use the supplied drivers.
Searching through the manufacturer's site for a 64-bit version of the drivers, I couldn't find anything (not even for other devices!)...
I heard that Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has support for more network cards, so I figured that upgrading might help. But it didn't seem to matter much - the network card is still non-operational.
So I guess I'll be doing a clean install of the 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 distribution. Then at least I'd be able to use the supplied drivers.
Friday, January 16, 2009
LevelOne WNC-0301
bought a new wireless card, which should work using NDISwrapper [click*]... but for some reason it just doesn't agree with my Ubuntu 8.04 installation.
doing a dmesg | grep ndis I found the following:
seems I have to find me some 64-bit drivers!
* this is a rather detailed guide, short version in Ubuntu (8.04):
doing a dmesg | grep ndis I found the following:
[ 45.753384] ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 46.323490] ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:150): kernel is 64-bit, but Windows driver is not 64-bit;bad magic: 010B
[ 46.323495] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:210): couldn't prepare driver 'net8185'
[ 46.323823] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:112): couldn't load driver net8185; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
[ 46.337517] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
seems I have to find me some 64-bit drivers!
* this is a rather detailed guide, short version in Ubuntu (8.04):
- sudo apt-get install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common ndiswapper-utils-1.9
- get drivers for wireless card (you'll be needing the .inf and .sys files)
- sudo ndisgtk and point it to the location of the dirvers
Thursday, January 1, 2009
first post
well, it's a new year... last night, during my third serving of alcohol, I had this idea about creating a blog.
Since I'm sober now, and I still don't think it's a bad idea, I've decided to go for it! :)
Anyhow, a bit about me and what I will/might be blogging about:
I'm a programmer at Amdocs, I knew that I wanted to program when I wrote my first program, many years ago back in school. It was a simle LOGO program, and all it did was to draw a few simple shapes on the screen.
I love using GNU/Linux, so I'll probably be posting most about my experiences with it. I've been using GNU/Linux since 1997, when a friend of mine helped me install Slackware on my 133MHz Pentium with 16MB of RAM!
A week later, I decided that I wanted to try installing it myself. That was when I started using Debian GNU/Linux. Since then, I've tried a few other distributions (Red Hat, Puppy, Mandriva, Gentoo, ... and probably others I don't remember), but I always came back to Debian. And then something wonderful happened... Ubuntu 5.04 - Haory Hedgehog was released! It was Debian-based, so I was right at home, and it felt simple, and looked really pretty! So I've been using it ever since :)
Ok, enough for my first post.
Since I'm sober now, and I still don't think it's a bad idea, I've decided to go for it! :)
Anyhow, a bit about me and what I will/might be blogging about:
I'm a programmer at Amdocs, I knew that I wanted to program when I wrote my first program, many years ago back in school. It was a simle LOGO program, and all it did was to draw a few simple shapes on the screen.
I love using GNU/Linux, so I'll probably be posting most about my experiences with it. I've been using GNU/Linux since 1997, when a friend of mine helped me install Slackware on my 133MHz Pentium with 16MB of RAM!
A week later, I decided that I wanted to try installing it myself. That was when I started using Debian GNU/Linux. Since then, I've tried a few other distributions (Red Hat, Puppy, Mandriva, Gentoo, ... and probably others I don't remember), but I always came back to Debian. And then something wonderful happened... Ubuntu 5.04 - Haory Hedgehog was released! It was Debian-based, so I was right at home, and it felt simple, and looked really pretty! So I've been using it ever since :)
Ok, enough for my first post.
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