I have a Mini-PCI Prism54 XG-600 card. Currently works in Ubuntu out of the box, but I believe WPA doesn’t work. If there are any developers out there who like messing with wireless drivers and who want to help out the prism54.org project, I would be more than happy to send you my card, free of charge, yours to keep.

Good article highlighting some paradigm differences between Apple and Linux.

Before the flames start
I like the idea of having everything related to a certain app in a folder, like “xmms.app”. Keep it somewhat like a chroot structure, where the xmms.app dir has the usual bin, sbin, share dirs etc, just under that apps name. One big point against this is that it doesn’t matter where the applications files are, because the package manager takes care of them. At the same time, I could see it being very useful in instances where things like shared libraries don’t work out. For example, if I make an app, but I want to use libwhatever because it has a feature I really need, and that feature is not present in the current distribution library, and may not be backward compatible, then it would seem much more organized to keep it directly under the myapp.app directory instead.

And it would still be available to be updated through the package manager for library bug fixes etc. I am not saying I have really thought it out all that much, and am willing to stand behind it, just an interesting idea. Maybe I am saying I like the way PC-BSD does it with PBI.

Found a cool blog with tools for checking the complexity / risk of python code. Take a look. Same blog also has an article on hacking django with bazaar.

When you first use OpenBSD it may seem scary, or foreign to you. This is mainly just because of the BSD utilities and the default shell.

Install the Ports collection

• cd /usr
• ftp ftp.openbsdmirror.org and retrieve ports.tar.gz
• tar xvfz ports.tar.gz in /usr dir

Install Bash Shell

• cd /usr/ports/shells/bash
• make install

Update your users entry

• Run “vipw”
• Change shell to /usr/local/bin/bash

Next post will be on changing your prompt to look more familiar.

Semi Annual Rant
Here is where I rant about how hypersensitivity only serves to destroy a community. Unfortunately, as it falls of deaf ears, this is the most effort I am willing to expend. May common sense and humor continue on.

Oh, and just because something offends you, doesn’t mean it’s wrong. It may be wrong to you, and if it is, reasonably tolerate it.

Partitioning
Bring your system into the circa 1999 era and make your system use LVM to manage partitions. Span across multiple drives, stripe, and resize with ease.

Grocery stores
How about instead of paying cart people, just charge a deposit for the carts. This will save you labor to apply to other places to be more competitive. Entire economy benefits.

UPS
UPS is ahead of the game here. They now let you intercept and reroute packages.

Chipotle
Get more locations.

Podcast
Check out nobody likes onions if you like sarcastic, vulgar, edgy humor.

Disclaimer: Following my instructions will destroy all your data.

Figure out where you should be
If you are trying to resize a partition that is easily unmounted (say /mnt/something etc) then you are good to go. Unmount it. Otherwise, you will want to boot from a live cd with the tool resize2fs.

Figure out how big it should be
Run the command: df -h

Figure out what partitions you actually have
Run the command: fdisk -l

If you don’t see anything, its because you need to be root.

Turn off the journal (this step is ext3 only):
Run the command: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda1
Replace hda1 with the device name of the partition we are resizing.

Check the filesystem:
Run the command: e2fsck -f /dev/hda1

Actually resize it:
Run the command: resize2fs /dev/hda1 2G

2G is the desired size. This could also be 2000M, 2000000K etc if you need more accuracy.

Resize the partition
Run the command: fdisk /dev/hda

First, delete the old partition, noting where it starts and stops. resize2fs will tell you how big the new size is, and multiply that times 4 to get where the partition should end (start position + (resize2fs output * 4) = end position). Also you may need to make it a touch bigger, as if the partition is too small data will be lost! Make sure to write partition data, then reboot.

Turn the journal back on
Run the command: tune2fs -j /dev/sda1

Reboot

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Beryl + Compiz = Love? 

This is great news for everyone, as all the effort can be focused on one offering. Check out the post.

“I hope for good things in the future for all of us.” — Quinn

Blenderart Magazine

New issue was released, this one focusing on space.  Check it out.

I just wanted to say that my prism54 based wireless card now works again in feisty, which makes my life much easier.  Also my radeon 9600 card in my laptop now supports 3d acceleration through the open source drivers, which is very cool.