Belle de Jour 2
A while back I wrote briefly about the new TV series based on the Belle De Jour blog. Well, it’s about to hit the screens. ITV2 has a run down on the series here
Archive for September 2007
Twitter Updates for 2007-09-17
- @sandy: Was up in Knockhill doing a SMRC race day. Torrential rain, howling wind… lovely. Next weekend will be at Croft for 2 days #
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Twitter Updates for 2007-09-16
- Saddened by the loss of the McRaes #
- Race control have lost all power to their building. We’re sitting happy in the timekeepers cabin
# - Rated at 100A per phase – currently running at 140A per phase Electrician is refusing to work on it live… #
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Software RAID on Windows Professional
I was recently asked if it was possible to get software RAID functionality on Windows Professional. Although Microsoft would like you to believe otherwise, it is possible. By default, Windows 2000 and XP Professional offer RAID0 (Striping), but not any of the other RAID levels. We won’t go into the debate on whether RAID0 is real RAID or not…
The information on how to do it has been around for a few years now, but Microsoft and their followers have managed to flood Googles results with information on alternative versions of Windows. Be prepared to mess with a hex editor and dll files. Read the rest at Shaggy’s software-raid page
My desk
For the curious amongst you. Yes it’s a mess…
This is also my first test a mobile blogging client. Nothing beats a full size qwerty keyboard though.
Chan_Skype
Dead or alive? It’s in a sorry state – it was a bit flaky to start with, and now won’t work at all. They only support Ubuntu Dapper, Skype only provide for Ubuntu Feisty – I see a conflict of support interests. They don’t seem to be interested in replying to any emails enquiring about Feisty support too.
Time to move onto another SIP to Skype solution 
MediaMultiWiki
For a while now it’s been desirable to have one Mediawiki installation, with multiple virtualhost installations using that as a base. There are other ways, but I found this method to suit our situation quite nicely. There are instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_code_layout but they’re old and out of date. A lot of the text has been taken from our documentation, so it may require some imagination.
iSCSI
Lately a Howto has appeared, detailing how to set up iSCSI on Linux. I first set up and used iSCSI almost 2 years ago, back when it was a little known buzzword. Microsoft were still on v1 of their free initiator, UNH had theirs, and linux-iscsi seemed to be the most promising and workable initiator around. Now it’s beginning to compete with FC and Netapp kit, Dell are hedging their bets on VM machines on iSCSI backends, and Open-iSCSI rule the roost.
Dell 1390 Wireless
My parents recently got a Dell Inspiron 6400, and asked for Kubuntu to be installed on it. This is all well and good until it comes to wireless support for this laptop. The 6400 uses the fairly recent Broadcom 4300 chipset, which is apparently well supported with ndiswrapper, but not so with non-ndiswrapper systems.
After some researching, I discovered the bcm43xx fwcutter is supposed to be the best option to get a working firmware file into /lib/firmware/. Unfortunately the bcm43xx-fwcutter package for Ubuntu Feisty has a hardcoded url into for downloading the firmware package. And that URL results in a 404… great.
Further googling reveals Maxxer.it, who has a link to a working wl_apsta.o tarball. Simply extract the tarball, and place the contents into /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/ I’ve put a copy of the tarball on this website for future use…