I’ve put up the contributed version of the RTL8187B driver I received from a Mister Adams that supposedly works with the 2.6.24 kernel. Note I haven’t tried it yet (I’m not in a hurry to upgrade from 2.6.22, even with that local exploit going around), and the only other person I sent it to reported a kernel panic. Use at your own risk.
Also, I was lucky enough to get called up to be in the Holiday Bowl Parade in San Diego in 2007. This was pretty much the only picture I could find (that’s me in the back):
If anyone else happened to be there and snap a couple, think you could send ‘em my way?
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Sorry, I know I’ve been lagging lately. I broke up with my girlfriend, moved out, and then the friends I’ve been staying with moved. Everything should be returning somewhat to normal soon. (The new place has many neighbors with open wireless. ;-))
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I used to listen to KFI all the time when I lived in Orange County. I’d leave it on 24/7, either using it for background noise while I worked on something, or listening to John and Ken and, uh, “relaxing”.
A while back, on the order of years, I bought a new laptop. The one I wrote the Sharp PC-MM10 Linux-Laptops page for, as a matter of fact. I was bored one day, and I realized I could stream KFI through the wireless net to the little thing. It was cool, and relatively painless.
Then the feed URL changed… (more…)
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moar funny pictures
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Yes, I finally broke down and bought a new laptop, with my <in-joke>fat Marine Corps paycheck</in-joke>.
It’s running Ubuntu Edgy, after a seemingly endless series of forced dist-upgrades from Feisty. I’ll be posting my experiences with it in a seperate section, since I seem to be the first Linux user to have bought the damned thing.
So far: ethernet works out of the box. The wireless card, a Realtek 8187B, needs a quick hack to the driver source, which I’ve detailed here. Sound and the modem are big question marks. I get 1280×800 with Xorg and the fglrx module. Synaptics touchpad works as expected.
More to come.
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Newer versions of Wordpress have integrated widget functionality. (Meh.) At the moment, it’s a bit easier just to hard code everything, but I’ll probably end up twisting my own arm to implement it in my theme.
Also, when I was playing around with the collapsible menus on the sidebar, I got to thinking: is there a rule in Adsense’s TOS about loading the ads, but loading them invisibly (so they’re only displayed if the user wants them there)? I read through the TOS a couple times, but I didn’t see anything. I’ll probably just do some randomness with AJAX so it doesn’t load unless it’s going to be displayed.
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I was going to make some really insightful and witty post last night. Then I forgot what the hell it was about because I had company.
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UPOC basically lets you set up a profile and message groups and individuals with your cell phone. Most of the stuff coming out of it is “a/s/l?” and “bottom looking for top in <city> tonite! msg me info” (sic).
The first message is a broadcast. The rest are privmsgs.
[Fr:me-joyous]To:USMarineCorp Hello anyone want to chat
[Fr:xcuervo] Hi
[Fr:me-joyous] Hi
[Fr:me-joyous] a/s/l
[Fr:xcuervo] … Never mind.
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