July 2009
7 posts
Bad Dell!
I’m stunned by a spectacular failure in Dell’s management of my relationship with them.
I just got a call from them. They’re allowed to do this, as I am a customer and have an account with them. But - it was a robocall that mentioned a new “protection service” for my account, then shifted into an apology that there were no live operators available to transfer to....
Crippled wifi hardware →
Matt had some wifi problems, possibly due to a vendor-imposed limitation on the hardware. There’s some nice insight on ways to troubleshoot this sort of thing.
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Catching satellites on ham radio →
Here’s a great introduction by Diana Eng about to how to listen to (and work) amateur radio satellites.
Efficient String Concatenation in Python →
I stumbled across this while doing some midnight hacking last night. Interesting stuff.
Package management - Ubuntu/Fedora →
Linux Magazine compares Package management between Fedora and Ubuntu. Ubuntu looks pretty good. So good that the article uses the word “trounced”.
Nothing amazing to report
Sometimes linux kernel work is pretty rockin’ but a lot of the time it’s just janitorial stuff. I’ve been doing a lot of that sort of work off and on over the last few months, and am finally almost at a milestone - review of a large set of patches which were mostly backports from later kernels, into one of the Ubuntu variants.
The fear at the outset was that there were patches...