10 Jul 2002

Wed, 10 Jul 2002

Bryan Mills: New Movable Type Blog!

My friend Bryan Mills has got a new Movable Type Blog. This is getting ridiculous - the number of MT installations is growing by the day. Jeff yesterday, Bryan today, next thing you know my grandmother will have an MT blog. It's cool though. You can look forward to some interesting stuff from Bryan. He's a wizard.

Posted at: 22:20 | permalink

Wireless Lan Is Operational

I finally feel like I've joined the rest of the tech world in celebrating the wireless network. Tonight after considerable effort (it's 4am!) I had everything working. I'm typing this blog entry in mozilla on mandrake linux over the wireless connection just to prove it. Of course, my requirements are a bit bizarre so I can explain why it took me 6 hours of jerking around to get this all together. I was very selective about which pieces I bought including a D-Link AP-1000 and Orinoco Silver and Gold Cards. The D-Link was PC Magazine editor's choice and the Orinoco cards have probably the broadest driver support of any cards. In the end, I still believe that these were good choices.

I followed the instructions for the AP-1000 software, ignoring the note about using it from a wireless card, instead connected over my ethernet network. Took all the defaults and everything was golden.

I setup the Orinoco Silver card in my IBM Workpad z50, installing the drivers over the serial connection with my Windows XP box. The Workpad uses Windows CE 2.11. It worked out of the box on the first try, loading google slowly but surely from the hideous IE variant that they ship with CE. I wish there was another browser available but hey, it runs Mozilla on X on BSD so I'll be looking to go that route soon, but I need to get a microdrive first.

Anyhow, the trouble started when I configured the other Orinoco card on mandrake. The OS recognized the card and installed the proper drivers but it just wouldn't connect. I was able to find a web page where a guy describes essentially commenting out the entire IEEE section in the /etc/pcmcia.opts file. I followed his instructions and voila, it works!

I felt it was a reasonable investment -> about $200 to be able to sit on the deck with my wife and still write some blog entries or whatever.

Posted at: 04:29 | permalink

David Gammel: Knowledge Management Trackback Blog

David Gammel has a new Knowledge Management Trackback Blog. It's got some really interesting stuff. David says, "This page collects and displays the last 200 TrackBack pings sent to the knowledge management category for KMpings. Use this address to add your KM-related TB pings to the page:

http://www.highcontext.com/MT/mt-tb.cgi?tb_id=10

MT users can also add this address to the ping box for any categories they have that are related to KM. Any posts they make in that category will then automatically ping this site. (Must be using MT version 2.21 or later.)"

I wasn't even aware of the category ping. Sigh. The cool new things that people teach me every day. I wish I worked with more people like this. Great work David!

Posted at: 03:45 | permalink

Jeff Zapotoczny: new Movable Type blog

My friend Jeff Zapotoczny has a new Movable Type blog. This wouldn't be notable except that Jeff's actually been at the blog thing for a long time, albeit in a different form. Jeff's a gifted writer and software developer. I'm sure there'll be some wickedly funny stuff showing up here soon.

Posted at: 03:26 | permalink

Back online again

Well, after a lengthy power outage here at home, everything is back online again. Even after the power returned, my main box didn't boot due to...

A Freakin' Floppy Disk

Duh.

Note to self: BUY A UPS!

Posted at: 01:38 | permalink