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Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:26 |
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Finally, after months of owning an HP zd7000, given to me by my brother, I have been able to get the wireless card to work in Linux. Sweet! The hard part was that the laptop's wireless card is Broadcom. That caused some real problems, because Broadcom has horrible Linux support(as in none), so I needed to use ndiswrapper to run the windows driver. Also I haven't had time to commit to finding a solution, but over the past few months I've been able to work a little here and there on it. |
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Friday, 15 September 2006 13:58 |
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I have been picking up C++ more seriously lately, especially since it is the language we're using in one of my Computer Science classes. It is actually quite exciting to be learning how C++ works. I've done quite a bit more work in C for other classes and on my own. I like C++ a lot more so far, it seems like a much better way to organize, especially the object oriented nature of it. So I've also been trying to research more about programming for the web through CGI. It is extremely easy to run any program as a CGI program, all you need to do is write to standard output and set an HTTP Content-type header and you're gravy. The main tasks that I want to be able to do in C++ for the web are: - Database Access
- Session-like capabilities
- XML parsing
I know there's libraries out there, I just need to figure out how to incorporate everything. If anyone has advice please let me know. |
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:25 |
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So, the motherboard came today for the HTPC, now I've got it assembled and ready to rock. How exciting! The assembly went flawlessly, details are posted on my website under HTPC. Now the challenge is setting up the software and configuring the hardware to work with MythTV. Luckily this past week, I've been experimenting on my personal computer, and already have a base gentoo system complete for this new guy. I configured it on one of my spare hard drives, bzipped it up, copied it over & extracted. Beautiful. Hours have been saved. |
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Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:11 |
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How hard is it to make sure your toilet has completely flushed and that it is not leaking all over the floor? Personally I don't think it's that hard, I wait for the bowl to swirl, and for the tell tale gurgling sound the flush makes as it goes through the pipes. If there's a problem, grab the plunger and get to work. Apparantly my neighbor two stories directly above my ground-floor apartment didn't understand the importance of this. So Sunday night his toilet ran all night. All night. |
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