Monthly Archives: April 2007

Bug in 2.6.19 Kernel

By arfore | Published: April 15, 2007
In the process of rebuilding my MythTV box with Gentoo, I found a bug in the 2.6.19 kernel when it comes to using wireless and ndiswrapper for my Linksys WMP54G v.4 PCI card. When you configure the kernel you normally have to only select CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y and CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y. But with the 2.6.19 kernel I discovered via post on a board that you also need to select one of the wireless chipsets as a module, even if you don't plan on using it. If you don't do this then CONFIG_NET_RADIO will still be marked as "n" when the kernel is built even though that isn't what you selected at config time.
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Bad uninstaller, bad!

By arfore | Published: April 14, 2007
So, I hate developers. Wait, let me clarify: I hate developers who can't think through the user experience. When an uninstaller is written it really should remove all file associated with the application. Case in point, recently I moved to a Windows Mobile-based smartphone, so I needed to cross-grade to Missing Sync for Windows Mobile from the PalmOS version.
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Missing Essential Tools

By arfore | Published: April 12, 2007
Why is it that some of the essential tools that are used on a daily basis are missing from OS X? Today I wanted to use wget and found that it was missing.
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If wishes were horses

By arfore | Published: April 12, 2007
Every now and then I will utter a saying that I grew hearing or using that makes my assistants wonder. Today I happened to use the saying If wishes were horses, beggars would ride in reference to one of my assistants wish that the timesheet process here was all done electronically instead of the paper system that we have. She wondered where I get these things from. I thought it was a pretty common saying, but I had never actually investigated where it originated, so I went googling.
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New York City emissions same as small countries

By arfore | Published: April 12, 2007
So according to a study commissioned by Mayor Bloomberg, the greenhouse gas emissions of New York City in 2005 was on par with all of Ireland or Portugal. You have to love it when a city produces as much environmentally destructive elements as an entire country. The most interesting part was the fact that it's mostly from the buildings and not the average citizen. The claim that the mass transit system is what make the citizens less polluting. I wonder how much less the entire U.S. would produce if we took mass transit more seriously?
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