I finally figured out what was wrong with Ubuntu and my WLAN so I’ve got it up and running now. It was a little bit my fault and a little bit Linux’s fault. I discovered that where I thought it was asking for the name of my network it was actually asking me to select [...]
No not laughing out loud, I’m talking Linux on (my) laptop. OK, so I exaggerated a bit when I said half the hardware wasn’t recognized, but it is a good portion which isn’t. I decided to give a different distro a shot and went with Mandriva. Mandriva seems to work and run better using a [...]
So putting Linux on my laptop has proved to be an interesting and frustrating experience. I now have Ubuntu installed and running but it won’t recognize any wireless networks which kind of defeats the purpose of using a laptop. It also doesn’t recognize about half of the hardware in the computer (which I don’t entirely [...]
I finally got around to uploading some of my old pics from our Europe trip last summer. Head over to Flickr to take a look!
No deep thoughts tonight, just some random musings on recent news storys. . . Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron’s all time home run record the other day in baseball and it was somewhat of a bittersweet moment. On the plus side, it is finally over and the baseball world can now focus on baseball after [...]
