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this website might not be dead after all. i’m scheduled to take the RHCE RH300 course and exam in december, so… i have acquired an RHCE book and might be doing more digging than i thought.

this website has officially died. it used to contain all my frustrations throughout my tinkering adventures with fedora, but within the past year it’s been hard to find time to tinker between my job and making websites. and having somewhat of a life.

so, mostly, everything here is outdated, but because i’m a nostalgic freak, it will remain where it is. i don’t believe in deleting memories, even if those memories only serve to remind me that i wasted an entire spring break laying in bed on my laptop screwing with stupid broadcom wireless drivers.

one day… i will get back to tinkering. for now, i’ll be at work, tinkering with every OTHER flavor of linux known to man. sigh.

i finally reformatted. i finally have fedora 11 on my main laptop. i reformatted my web server with cent OS and have been procrastinating getting that back up and running i have a lot of backing up/moving crap around to do. i am about to reformat my eee PC with linux mint (leaving for defcon today so i don’t want it to be obliterated by evil shenanigans). we’ll see how that goes.

SO… in the midst of my reformatting frenzy, i did want to share something that has made gnome even prettier and fun to use. gnome-do. i had never seen it until i started my new job. a coworker referred it to me and now i’m referring it to whoever reads this. i don’t think i’ll ever not use it unless something better comes along.

i won’t be good at explaining it so i recommend trying it out. i’ll be more specific about my fedora 11 install later on, however it might prove to be a moot point if my hard drive dies. i think it’s about to bite the dust.

it’s about that time again. i think i’ll be reformatting soon. i can feel it.

fedora 10. this blog will more than likely come back alive.

in the meantime, i’m finishing up my research on the effects of gender socialization on females in open source. the details can be found at osfemales.short-stack.net.

this article is fantastic. to tweet from the command line, make sure you have wget installed and simply do the following: wget --keep-session-cookies --http-user=youremail --http-password=yourpassw \ --post-data="status=HOORAY!" \ http://twitter.com:80/statuses/update.xml OR! curl -u youremail:yourpassw -d status=HOORAY!" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml thank you, IBM, for distracting me even more tonight. i was not procrastinating nearly enough.

appalachLAN XII is today and i have spent the last 3+ hours reformatting my laptop. twice. i couldn’t make up my mind between 8 and 9… i settled with the one i know best. it seems like every time i reformat, with every kernel update, i have to scour the internet for a new BCM4328 driver. the one that worked this time is R140746. wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R140746.EXE i hope this helps someone. after you download that, do the following: echo "blacklist bcm43xx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
yum install ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper make sure you have a wireless interface set up under your network settings and make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf has an “alias wlan0 ndiswrapper” line somewhere in it. you’ll probably have to reboot. you shouldn’t have to with modprobe but i had to.

i don’t know why i didn’t switch sooner. it just WORKS!

i never tried empathy (see previous post). i got sidetracked. such is life.

BUT… we had AppalachLAN XI yesterday (gaming club) and i had not played quake since before i went strictly linux. if you are not familiar with open source gaming, quake 3 arena runs on linux. WOO! i installed it and low and behold, it did not work.

turns out, if you have pulseaudio running, it does not like to work. i was screwing with it for HOURS and could not figure out what the error message was for. i would post it here, but i forgot to save it and thankfully have not replicated it. :-)

bottom line, if you try to install quake 3 arena (ioquake3.org) on fedora and you get a funky error message, that might be your problem. give it a shot. if all else fails, download open arena. it’s 100% open source and is based on the q3 engine.

i can’t wait to try this when i get home!!! updates to come.

is it possible? i’ve been googling this all night because i love to give myself headaches and am using remote desktop + virtual box + my usual desktop all at one time working on my portfolio. life would be much easier if i could just take a screenshot while i’m within virtual box of my windows desktop but that darn pop up window to save my screenshot keeps coming up in fedora. I WANT TO PASTE IT IN WINDOWS–NOT SAVE IT IN LINUX.