What I did on my vacation from reality

August 23, 2008

Random Marine joke

Filed under: Main — cuervo @ 7:06 pm -- Popularity: 1% [?]

Found via a random Google for something like “marine jokes”.

A Marine lieutenant is involved in a car cash. Looks worse than it is, but they have to take off both of his ears.

The lieutenant makes his way up the ranks, and one day, as a general, is put in charge of a Marine Corps Base with several detachments from other branches.

As his first order of business, he starts interviewing from the enlisted pool for his enlisted advisor.

First up is a sailor. The interview goes well, and, as a final question, the Marine asks the sailor “do you notice anything different about me, sailor?” The sailor says “yes, sir. You have no ears.” The general says “thank you, sailor, that will be all.” The sailor excuses himself and returns to his duties.

Next up, an airman. The interview goes even better, and again, the general asks the enlisted man his closing question. The airman responds “yes, sir. You’ve no ears.” The general again responds “thank you, airman, you are dismissed.” The airman takes his leave.

Finally, a Marine gunnery sergeant interviews for the enlisted advisor. The interview goes exceedingly well, and the general is ready to assign the gunny the position, after his famous final question. “What’s different about me, Gunny?” says the general.

“You wear contact lenses, sir.”

“That is completely outstanding, Gunny. How the hell did you know that?”

“Because it’s pretty freaking hard to wear glasses with no freaking ears.”

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Real quick

Filed under: Main — cuervo @ 6:56 pm -- Popularity: 1% [?]

I know, I’m lagging again.

I’ve been semi-flooded with reports that 2.6.27 (not .25) will/does contain real, non-hacky support for the 8187B. Good news for all of us. Now that the pros are involved (thank god, I did NOT want to go back into kernel land), I’m going to step aside and let them handle things. I’m still using Ubuntu 8.04.1, I’m too lazy/busy to compile from kernel.org sources (let’s just say I have a very active job right now), and Ubuntu hasn’t made 2.6.27 available yet (2008-AUG-23), so I’m standing by for that, and, in the meantime, my hack works fine for me, though connections seem to hang from time to time.

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June 29, 2008

Holy shit.

Filed under: Main — cuervo @ 2:56 am -- Popularity: 2% [?]

That sucked.

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May 30, 2008

AFK

Filed under: Main — cuervo @ 6:12 pm -- Popularity: 3% [?]

I’m going away for a few weeks. I won’t be bringing my laptop, and by the time I get back, my inbox and spambox will probably be full as hell.

I will be back; I’m not ignoring your emails, and I’m not gone until after the weekend.

In other news, my Twitter account is mostly unscrewed, with only the Jabber updates still broken. Thanks, guys!

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January 24, 2008

D’oh!

Filed under: Main, meta — cuervo @ 10:00 am -- Popularity: 5% [?]

Yes, I know I’ve been lagging lately. Circumstances beyond my control, and all that. Things should be returning to normal soon.

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October 14, 2007

New laptop, new problems.

Filed under: Geek, Linux, Main, laptop — cuervo @ 1:55 pm -- Popularity: 4% [?]

After I got sufficiently satisfied with Linux on my laptop, I got a new task: putting it on girlface’s Compaq Presario V5000.

It’s ironic, because her sound and video work full-on right off the bat, but her wireless card is funky. It’s a Broadcom of the bcm43xx variety (”Air Force One”, claims lspci). It connects, most of the time, but it drops packets like it’s cool. The ndiswrapper solution doesn’t seem to work at all, and I’ve tried several firmwares with the bcm43xx kernel module. Best guess at the problem: something changed in the bcm43xx source in the kernel. Best guess at a solution: diff, patch.

What’s even more odd is that it worked with the original version of Ubuntu I gave it (6.10 “Edgy”, I believe), but started showing problems as soon as I upgraded it to 7.10 “Gutsy”.

By the way, no, I’m not moving away from Debian. Crossbone, my mailserver/firewall/proxy/etc., still runs Debian unstable. But this is a laptop system, and Ubuntu is fairly mature — aside from which, I didn’t feel like fighting with APT to get my video card working at full capacity, let alone doing it the hard way. Ahh, the good ol’ days.

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September 26, 2007

No more Vista!

Filed under: Code, Geek, Linux, Main, laptop — cuervo @ 2:49 pm -- Popularity: 35% [?]

I got the drivers for the RTL8187B straight from Realtek, who was nice enough to respond to my email. However, when I compiled it and insmodded it under the Ubuntu live CD, it barfed out with an “Unknown RF chip” error.

After a bit of trial and error, I figured out how to get it to work: my card’s USB product ID is 0×8197, and it’s functionally identical to product ID 0×8189. All you have to do is go into rtl8187/r8187_core.c, and around line 2837, change

case 0x8189:

to

case 0x8197:
case 0×8189:

Works like a champ.

That said, why, WHY would you make the onboard NIC in a laptop a USB device? Why?

[EDIT] Drivers are at http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/rtl8187b/. Please read the README there, since I’ve made further changes since writing this post.

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July 18, 2007

Persistent collapsible menus!

Filed under: Geek, Main, Stuff, meta — cuervo @ 3:23 am -- Popularity: 2% [?]

Note sidebar.

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May 21, 2007

Issues.

Filed under: Main, meta — cuervo @ 6:23 pm -- Popularity: 2% [?]

Morph has managed to fuck everything up with the site lately. Everyone say thank you, Morph.

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May 2, 2007

Xbox360 networking stupidity; PSP theme updated

Filed under: Main — cuervo @ 4:30 pm -- Popularity: 2% [?]

So, I think I figured out what the Xbox360’s problem was: it can’t deal with more than a class C. I put it on a class B with 192.168.1.50, told it the router was 192.168.0.1, and it barfed horribly. I split it onto a class C with a 192.168.1.1 router, and it worked fine. Fucking stupids.

Also, the PSP theme has been updated, for all zero of you out there reading this on a PSP. (Note: clicking link, assuming you’re allowing cookies, will change the current theme.)

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