Tonight I finally finished converting our wireless LAN to WPA. Because we only have one access point, I’m using WPA-PSK. I got my ipw2100-based laptop converted to WPA ages ago, after considerable strife but Laura’s laptop has a Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC and had until now proved impossible. This seemed to be down [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
WPA on an AR5212 mini-PCI card under Ubuntu Breezy.
January 24, 2006Systm Review
January 18, 2006Over the last few days I’ve been downloading and watching episodes of Systm, a US-based amateur IT video show. Although not specifically an Open Source or Free Software show, it’s certainly not adverse to talking about FLOSS, with Asterisk, Audacity and MythTV getting coverage. It’s impressive the results an amateur effort can produce with enough [...]
Recent mail problem
January 17, 2006Due to an error I made when migrating this domain from one registrar/DNS service to another, any mail sent to this domain between about 10pm last night and mid-morning today will have bounced. The problem is now resolved though, so if it was important, please e-mail again. Thanks and apologies.
Trust in meeeee……
January 16, 2006March’s(!) edition of PCW contains an advert on page 30 for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 64-bit edition. The text in the advert reads: How does Xerox Global Services manage millions of office devices for its customers? Their largest application requires 99.999*% availability and it runs on new SQL Server 2005 64-bit running on Windows Server [...]
Nice big roasties.
January 15, 2006We spent this afternoon up with my parents and long time family friends, Bob and Mary. It was lovely to see them both as we haven’t done in a long time. Oh, and the usual double helpings of Sunday roast went down a treat. Pin It


