20110126 Using shared network printers in Ubuntu

NOTE: Full credit should go to mrdoob, who found out about this. I’m just documenting it! Our home server is a Mac Mini running Ubuntu (yes, this one) with a RAID external disk for backups, and it’s also got a printer connected to it. We always wondered why did we have to install drivers in [...]

20100911 Misclinklanea, 2

Broadcom open source their wireless drivers. YES! The driver, while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the native mac80211 stack. It supports multiple current chips (BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting additional chips in the future, including mac80211-aware embedded chips. Having working, native drivers [...]

20100707 ArchLinux: looking good

It’s been approximately two years since I changed to using Ubuntu for my desktop needs. Before, I was using Mac OS, but I was getting increasingly annoyed with it and the direction it was heading for, specially since Leopard and was released. I have learnt a lot with Ubuntu, and I think they’re doing a [...]

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 [...]

20100629 Diff’ing with RapidSVN

I thought I had to enter “diff” in the diff tool field, but I was wrong: it didn’t work. Apparently RapidSVN expects a graphical application instead of a text-mode application that runs on a terminal. But fear not! There’s an application for this. It’s called meld. So… sudo apt-get install meld And in RapidSVN → [...]