Life As It Comes 
DWL-G1323 Comments
I’ve tried many different wireless cards on my webserver, trying to find one that works well under Ubuntu 6.06.1. After trying several different cards, the one that I finally got to work reliably was the DWL-G132. What does this mean for you? The site will definitely be down less often and updated more frequently.
Here is a list of the others I tried and why they failed:
- DWL-G122 (recognized under ndiswrapper, but would spontaneously quit)
- Linksys WMP54G (was never recognized under ndiswrapper)
- Belkin Wireless G USB Adapter (was never recognized under ndiswrapper)
Google Talk1 Comment
Google Talk does not yet have a compelling reason for people to make the switch - except maybe the promise of free voice services. I’ve got my Gaim configured to use their server, but I don’t exactly have many buddies at this point. Thoughts?
The Liberal Arts Major Test1 Comment
This article is a little old, but I found it interesting: Go Boilers!
Why I Couldn’t Move to SuseNo Comments
In celebration of the launch of openSUSE.org, I decided last night that I wanted to try out SUSE Linux. I thought for a while about whether to install the new SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta 1 (code name: Prague), but in the end I decided that for my first SUSE experience to be fair and “stable,” I should probably go with 9.3.
Install/Config:
→ A network install worked, but it took FOREVER, much longer than FC4
→ Installing with YaST put a bad taste in my mouth that lingered through my whole SUSE experience
Post Install Updates/Adding New Packages:
→ Extremely tedious; how does anyone make sense of the package views that YaST provides?
→ Adding new software was even worse; add the source, then search manually for software to install, even if it is an update to existing software (like many packages here were)
→ Installing Gnome 2.11.90 completely whigged out my machine when I’ve been using it very stably on Ubuntu Breezy Badger for quite some time
How SUSE Could Have Kept Me:
→ More intuitive package management; if I want to update, let me update, even if its from a different “source”
→ Do not destroy the elegant simplicity of Gnome; there is no reason to have a menu that looks like this (screenshot is of 9.2; 9.3 is slightly less ugly): Applications -> Internet -> Chat -> Gaim with an ugly KDE-esque icon for the “Chat” portion when every other Gnome distribution is happy to not classify the items within the “Internet” sub-menu
→ Use those Ximian guys to make a pretty Gnome once more; isn’t that why Novell bought them? I choose the Gnome desktop for a reason; KDE hurts my eyes
Why I Couldn’t Move to WordpressNo Comments
Wordpress is free software to set up a weblog on your personal website. It’s based on PHP and loves MySQL, which are my respectively my favorite server-side scripting language and open source database. Garrett uses it. I really wanted to like Wordpress, but in the end it left me missing good old MovableType.
Perceived Advantages of Wordpress:
→ Licensed under the GPL
→ Tons of themes
→ The idea of pages managed by the CMS itself appealed to me
→ Lesser known than MovableType; less likely to be attacked
→ Written in PHP, which I know better than Perl
→ Link management
Reasons I Couldn’t Stay:
→ Theming modular templates into one page proved complex and unintuitive
→ Configuration proved ardous and unintuitive as well
→ Themes were poorly written and often required fixing before alterring
→ API limitations frustrated me; things were doable but difficult
Why I’m Back with MovableType:
→ Administration feels right; this is how it should be
→ Though modularity can be better; styling whole pages suits me
→ Vastly more mature and still improving (3.2 beta is sweet)
