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All posts written in October, 2006

Enabling silc support in gaim for ubuntu edgy eft

Mostly my desktop upgrade from dapper to edgy went well, though there were a few hiccups along the way. The most serious problem was that neither silky nor gaim’s silc plugin were working after the upgrade. So I finally got an account on the ubuntu forums and wrote Silc support in Ubuntu: From [...]

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New versions of ipw2200 and ieee80211 linux drivers

I finally updated the ubuntu kernels on my laptop and checked in on the ipw2200 and ieee80211 driver projects. The ipw2200 driver has a new stable release at version 1.2.0 and the ieee80211 driver is up to version 1.2.15.  In the ipw2200 makefile I made sure that the MONITOR, RADIOTAP, and PROMISCUOUS options were [...]

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Video cards for non-gamers

I’m planning on building a new pc in the next month or so. I usually build a budget box (think $500) to last for 2 years or so. A little while back I decided to see what the graphics card market was like. It’s problematic because most reviews are geared toward gamers [...]

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