20100705 Fixing the Netgear WPN311 system freezes in Ubuntu

We had this long-time problem with the Netgear WPN311 wireless cards which seemed to go and come back intermittently with each kernel revision: if we used intensively the wireless, the computer would freeze. As in totally frozen (you couldn’t even go back to a console and restart the X or something from there). With Ubuntu [...]

20100306 Breakpoint demolog, day 31: the culprit has been identified and reduced

Sometimes it’s just better to get away from the computer and come back to it a day later or so. While yesterday I didn’t do much in the productive side of things and I spent something like four hours like that, today I managed to identify what the insidious, mysterious problem was in half an [...]

20100305 Breakpoint demolog, days 29-30: back to the insidious bug

I have spent three four hours trying to find out what was wrong when I left this “on hold” a few days ago. I haven’t progressed too much… there’s something silly here but I can’t quite point where and the sound is not being output properly (there are gaps between samples and everything sounds like [...]

20090511 Site update in progress

Dear subscribers, occasional readers and visitors referred by Google who may possibly read this before their lovely short attention span times out: I’m performing a very much needed and as much delayed update in the website. The changes are mostly cosmetic (in the templates), for taking advantage of newer features of WordPress such as tags, [...]

20080717 How to crash Flash Player in few lines

I tried this with the stand-alone Flash Player, versions 9.0.45 and 9.0.124. I was hoping to crash the browser too when executing the malicious code inside a browser but that didn’t work :-/ Anyway this is how you would proceed if you wanted to crash your Flash Player. Or this is what you shouldn’t do [...]