So my DWL-G550 arrived today.”D-Link DWL-G550 High-Powered Wireless-G PCI Adapter” (D-Link Systems, Inc.)I threw it into the system and it powered up and loaded the correct Atheros drivers…. (Personal meaning you’re not running a authentication service like RADIUS, EAP or LEAP (which is just another kind of LEAP by Cisco), or 802.1x, but using PSK [Pre-shared Key] or a certificate.Second, now that you have your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf configuration figured out from reading the instructions or from that link I mentioned.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Adventures in BSD
August 24, 2007 – 3:15 am
One of thousands of such nights dealing with problems such as this.Current situation: I’m attempting to set up a custom box that will serve as a general project server. I want wireless working on it so that I can stash it wherever and not worry about it rumbling around, someone spilling something on it, people tripping over it, or any other mishap.A happy server is a hidden server.This is the same problem box where the raid card wasn’t happy.
Unreal estate
August 10, 2007 – 4:20 am
You (the loan originator) have been paid and are not responsible for it anymore.I started reading about this more closely after seeing some petty whining from real estate agents on Yelp about Redfin…. I wish them the best of luck in their efforts as it is a true David vs Goliath challenge considering the profitability of the industry, the lobbying power of the MLS-running real estate companies, and how vehemently they protect their market.It reminds me a lot about how the established telecommunications companies freaked out over VOIP providers and how they wanted to maintain their artificial profit margin after several generations of technology increased efficiency from the 10 cents per minute levels of yesteryear to the 1 to 2 cent levels previous to the arrival of VOIP.Since trunking systems were already in place, the adoption of VOIP into corporate systems was as simple as getting the bandwidth and quality of service right for the voice data.Perhaps something along the same lines will evolve with MLS.
Crime over. World at peace.
August 10, 2007 – 12:04 am
According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the makers of the gaming consoles, game developers, and others in the industry have incurred billions of dollars in losses worldwide due to sales lost to those selling counterfeit and pirated video games.Counterfeiting and piracy is estimated to cost the U.S. economy between $200 billion and $250 billion annually and results in the loss of up to 750,000 jobs according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.From the August 1st press release on the ICE website.A response, characteristic of the hacker mentality outlined many places and occasionally in published works such as “A Hacker Manifesto” (McKenzie Wark)and possibly”The Hacker Ethic” (Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds)was presented in response to the raids:Much like the media slant against hackers in general the act of modding is criminalized in the US. I look at modding as an act of expression and something someone does to expand their own knowledge and use of a system…. Of course XBMC can only be used on a modified Xbox and while it would be possible to build and run such an application on a normal PC the novelty is in the utilization of cheap hardware (the Xbox costs less than $100 these days) and in many cases it’s not only hardware you already own but hardware that already fits properly within a TV room environment making it quite ideal, if it weren’t for the fact that it is illegal to use the free XBMC software with the Xbox hardware you own under the DMCA.said Twistedsymphony It is well known that the statistics put forward by groups such as the RIAA, MPAA, ESA, and BSA (to name a few) are on shaky factual ground.
Cocktail time!
August 7, 2007 – 3:20 pm
It was a lovely day. So lovely that I thought that I would improve things slightly by adding a cocktail for everyone into the weekend enjoyment.I had most of the ingrediants for mojitos, which have been somewhat fashionable to make in bars lately.
Why to buy standardized systems
August 5, 2007 – 1:22 pm
A couple of years ago, I put together a custom system for myself consisting of an ASUS A8V Deluxe mainboard, a brand new AMD64 processor, a large aluminum server case, a Highpoint RR1820A SATA RAID controller capable of supporting 8 drives, a pair of IDE boot disks in their own drive coolers (to be mirrored), and a bunch of supporting fans with a separate fan controller.Not a bad configuration, I thought.I assembled all of the components and made sure everything was working…. This didn’t accomplish anything, but did make me feel a little clever until I booted the system again to discover that it still wouldn’t work with all of those SATA drives.I’ll now post some of the configuration details in the hopes that if someone else is having the same issue as I am, that they will at least be able to know that they are not alone in their plight.*Name : Ian Gorrie*Country : United States[Product Information]*Product Type : Motherboard*Product Model : A8V Deluxe[Motherboard Specification]*Motherboard Revision : A8V DELUXE*Motherboard BIOS Revision : 1018 BETA 1[CPU Specification]*CPU Vendor : AMD*CPU Type : Socket939*CPU Speed : 3800+[Memory Specification]*Memory Capacity : 4G[Problem Description]None of these other details matter as system will boot and operate without issue if my RAID card is not seated.When booting my ASUS A8V Deluxe mainboard system with a Highpoint rr1820a SARA RAID controller in a PCI slot, I have the following conflict.The system freezes upon entering bios configuration or when system boot should occur if the delete key has not been pressed.Interestingly enough, my system booted without issue before building a 1Tbyte array comprising of 6 200G SATA disks in RAID 5 configuration.
External drive booting with OSX
August 4, 2007 – 10:33 am
A bit of scratching my head this morning over why a microdrive wasn’t detected as a valid boot device on my PPC Apple hardware.As it turns out, x86 macs can boot off of USB2 without difficulty.
