For the record, the username is "driver2" and the password is "all" - I had to sign up to some spamming mail list to get that information. I just hope the driver info I earned is worth it...

By now you should all be using Firefox as your web browser. They've had over 25 million downloads in the last 100 days. But I digress...

I have a few folders on my links bar; Daily and Weekly. The Daily folder has half a dozen links that I check every morning, like Slashdot and the selection of Planets. The Weekly has the same, but I check them once or twice a week.

I used to right-click on these folders and choose "Open in Tabs" and it would open each page in a new tab. I also knew that middle-clicking on a hyperlink opens a new tab in the background with the content of the link (I love reading a news article and opening all the references to read after I've finished the main story). Combine the two, and you get: middle click on the folder and it opens the pages in a new tabs.

Talk about efficiency!

I have a Thinkpad R40 (I repeat this in every related article to help Google out :) running Ubuntu Linux. I've found that it can do everything I need better and faster if I run Linux. It has only been recently that I figured out some of the niceties, like suspending to RAM or bootsplashing GRUB. To be fair, these were things that I could live without up until I started using them; now they're priceless.

I have an internal Atheros 802.11a/b wireless card, which uses the MADWIFI project's driver. This is all bundled with Ubuntu so I didn't need to checkout the source from CVS and manually compile against my kernel headers like I did with Debian. I like that.

Anyways... One of the problems that remained until a few minutes ago was that everytime I suspended and resumed the computer it would not accept a DHCP IP. I could see the access points with iwconfig, and Kismet would work fine. This was a problem, because it meant that coming from the office to home and back again would require a reboot if I wanted to use the wireless networks. This in turn made suspending to RAM pointless, which took me back to square one.

I thought it might be a good idea to force the reloading of the associated modules when I resume from suspend, so I added that to my /etc/network/interfaces configuration file. Now it kinda looks like this:

iface home inet dhcp
    name Wireless (Home)
    pre-up modprobe ath_pci wlan_wep || true
    post-down rmmod ath_pci ath_hal wlan wlan_wep || true
    wireless-essid lambie.org
    wireless-key 784364F2BB5FEB6F860E289D63
    wireless-mode Managed
    wireless-nick "lambie.org"
    # Note: this is powermanagemnt off, not power off
    wireless-power off
    wireless-txpower auto

As you can see, I've added some power management to the bottom also. Hopefully this might help someone out, other than Fitzy, who always benefits from my exploration of our IBM toys :)

Official Microsoft Guide to Leetspeek :)

About 10 minutes ago I did something I haven't done in years. I finished a computer game.

It was Need For Speed Underground 2 on my Xbox. The last time I remember doing this was with Syphon Filter 2 on my PlayStation, which would be about 5 years ago. The closest I've been was with a Star Wars game last year where I got to the last bad guy and couldn't beat him after a dozen tries.

A certain sense of achievement has come over me.