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Tasks
Adphoto
| A | X | Make spreadsheet for cost estimate (2005.06.17 Adphoto) |
| A | C | Set up an iptables rule for an antivirus scanner (Adphoto) |
| B | X | Make signs for Adphoto (2005.06.17 Adphoto) |
| B | X | Retype Mom's form (2005.06.17 Adphoto) |
Planner
| B | X | Test multiple page copy delete (2005.06.17 planner help) |
| B | X | Document planner-multi (2005.06.17 planner doc) |
| B | X | Make autoadd page variable : E-Mail from Alex Polite (2005.06.17 help planner) |
| B | X | Check new update mechanism for planner-mark-task (2005.06.17 planner bug) |
| B | X | Test nested with-planner-update-setup (2005.06.17 planner bug) |
Misc
| A | X | Schedule driving lessons |
| B | X | Reply to tasks-and-skills followup questions : E-Mail from Moray Allan (debian) |
| B | X | Get my wireless card to work |
| B | X | Write Alex the juggler regarding tomorrow (2005.06.17 juggling) |
| B | X | Write announcement for Software Freedom Day plans : SFD Philippines - SFD (2005.06.17 sfd writing) |
| B | X | Read the 50 writing tools (2005.06.17 writing) |
| B | X | Find A1 driving receipt |
Notes
1. Wireless wonders
I struggled with installing the DWL-650 wireless LAN card on my Microsoft Windows XP partition for half an hour before I gave up and booted to Linux. I suppose that if the operating system hadn't been in Japanese, I might've had a shot. What do you expect from Sony recovery CDs for a unit primarily for the Japanese market?
On the other hand, Linux was a breeze with Ubuntu Linux, a slick Debian-based distribution backed by Canonical. My copy came from Jerome Gotangco, Ubuntu documentation guy for the Philippines.
Setting up wireless was just a matter of plugging my DWL-650 in. D-Link really screwed up with that card by using the same model number for cards using completely different chipsets, but Ubuntu automatically found and loaded the module I needed.
Because we don't want the next-door Internet cafe to sponge off our wireless access, we protect our router with a simple MAC address filter list. I couldn't figure out where to find my MAC address in the graphical network configuration tool, but a quick whiz through dmesg turned up the magic numbers I needed to add to my router's filters. After I plugged that into the router's web-based configuration tool, set the ESSID in Ubuntu's friendly network admin interface, and activated the device, I was off and running.
Great stuff, huh? Now if I can just get it to work under stock Debian...
コンピューターは、たちえ緩慢にせよ大きな変化を引き起こした。 Computers caused a great if gradual change.
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